This is all well and good, but before we start heralding this great advance against capitalist pigs we need to watch out. I think decision displays the best of intentions. But what does this mean for future advances in medications for crippling diseases? Those diseases and medications cost INCREDIBLE amounts of money to research. What happens if a company fears that it cannot recoup the money invested in R&D? No more research on these diseases. Longer R&D cycles. Less efficiency. Less incentive. No more new helpful medications. It's a hard decision. Do you want relief immediately, or more effective relief later? Do the ends justify the means? I don't know. But I don't want a stagnation in medical advances because everyone starts to decide they can ignore patents.
Don't we see similiar things happening on TV? Don't we see commercials where celebrities are obviously paid to "love" a product? Don't we watch weight-loss commercials where people claim that the new magical weight loss product was responsible for their 300 lb drop? Does George Foreman love his little grilling trinkets solely because they are "high quality"?
Grass-roots specialists typically charge $25 to $75 for each letter from ordinary citizens and much more for letters from public officials or celebrities, said Nancy Clack of Precision Communications, a political communications company. Apparently this happens regularly. Why aren't getting angry at the angency that makes a business out of these desceptive tactics as well as being angry at Microsoft? YES I agree that it's pretty dirty on account of MS. I agree that it's very misleading. However, I don't agree with the immediate slashdot bias placed on microsoft. It this News for Nerds? Or is it Editorials for Nerds? Mod me down for a trolling if you please.
After all Microsft has sold a version of NT that was claimed as being completely secure in compliance with some high level government standard. That particular configuration was one that had no network attached.
When doing classified processing on ANY box at work, be it NT, 2000, linux, IRIX, etc, it must be physically disconnected from the network and external peripherals. I would imagine that "some high level government standard" requires that for a machine to be "secure" it must not be attached to a network.
Everyone loves to complain about the lack of high speed access in their area, but most people don't actually do anything about it.
I live 15 milies away from the capital of the United States and I can't get cable/DSL. Why? Unforunately because of my location zoning requirements require livable areas to have lots no smaller than two acres. Most other land is agricultural. I can't even get cable TV. It's not profitable. Am I anywhere near the Telco? Nope. What does Verizon tell me? No DSL any time soon, buddy. I can't get broadband because I can't do ANYTHING about it. I'd say most of us that gripe about it simply can't get it at all.
What really steams me is the people who don't think they can 'afford' broadband, or just plain wont pay the extra few pennies for it. These people deserve our wrath and then some
I'd pay. Believe me, I would pay if it was even possible to get ANYthing here.
Consumer broadband is here. Your only excuse for not having it is geographical. Amen.
Yes, linux is an excellent operating system, yes linux has it's purpose, but linux is NOT easy to use (compared to windows). Why would one come to this conclusion? I do not reach it because I myself personally find windows easier to use... But because industries do. Windows is obviously expensive per liscence to physically put onto a computer whereas with linux it is 'free'. Where are the savings? I would imagine they are in ease of use (productivity) and in support. If linux were easy to use, wouldn't it follow that companies would RUSH to switch to linux, given the massive savings? It should.
We here at slashdot seem to have little clue about the "New Star Wars Programme". Granted this is a little off topic, but the vague reference to the "Son of Star Wars Programme" was a good example of general ignorance of what's being researched and developed right now. There is no Star Wars program. There is no NEW star wars program. Nobody in government refers to ANY sort of current missile defense research as "Star Wars". The current anti ballistic missile defense system is being researched on two different fronts: The use of ground launched interceptor missiles... and the use of air based lasers aboard large planes such as 747s. There are no current plans to use orbital systems for any sort of defense other than spying/reconnaisance. The new ABM defense system has NOTHING, i repeat nothing to do with Star Wars. At all. Period. I apologize if this is viewed as a flame/troll.
In contracts I am writing up at the moment, there are standard confidentiality clauses. This means, that for anyone to be released from a confidentiality clause, then teh information has to be legally published.
Doesn't one have to sign into a legally binding contract? A contract doesn't automatically include everyone in the world simply because the contract claims to. I don't see how an inadvertant discoverer of a non-patented/non-copyrighted document gets automagically included in the confidentiality clause.
Just because there is a correlation, it doesn't mean one causes the other (eg games make one smarter/more focused). Perhaps more intelligent people are drawn to gaming, rather than gaming honing one's intelligence and concentration. Maybe gamers have an ability to focus, and thus are able to play games. Just because gamers tend to have these skills doesn't mean that gaming creates/strengthens them.
With the price of AMD Duron CPU's under US$100 even for the 750 MHz versions, trying to make it go even faster is a silly idea unless you're willing to spend the extra money for a decent 300W power supply, a top-quality heatsink/fan, and extra cooling fans inside the system case
Uh, my Duron 800 ($80) runs just fine at 1GHz with a $25 fan, in my old gateway p200 tower with a 300W power supply. Thermal paste is good.:P
I think its been brushed upon but not really stated, but CPE is much more closely related to EE than it is to CS. The fact is, engineers take more math and many more physical sciences than CS people. CPE is very closely related to EE in the fact that CPE is EE but much more focused on the design of transistors and hardware. Of course CPE people must learn software, but it is nowhere near as in depth as CS. CPE and CS people get hired for the same type of jobs, however the focus of the degrees in my opinion is much much different than portrayed here. CPE is engineering. CS is not. The difference between engineering and non engineering degrees is HUGE.
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This is all well and good, but before we start heralding this great advance against capitalist pigs we need to watch out. I think decision displays the best of intentions. But what does this mean for future advances in medications for crippling diseases? Those diseases and medications cost INCREDIBLE amounts of money to research. What happens if a company fears that it cannot recoup the money invested in R&D? No more research on these diseases. Longer R&D cycles. Less efficiency. Less incentive. No more new helpful medications. It's a hard decision. Do you want relief immediately, or more effective relief later? Do the ends justify the means? I don't know. But I don't want a stagnation in medical advances because everyone starts to decide they can ignore patents.
Don't we see similiar things happening on TV? Don't we see commercials where celebrities are obviously paid to "love" a product? Don't we watch weight-loss commercials where people claim that the new magical weight loss product was responsible for their 300 lb drop? Does George Foreman love his little grilling trinkets solely because they are "high quality"?
Grass-roots specialists typically charge $25 to $75 for each letter from ordinary citizens and much more for letters from public officials or celebrities, said Nancy Clack of Precision Communications, a political communications company.
Apparently this happens regularly. Why aren't getting angry at the angency that makes a business out of these desceptive tactics as well as being angry at Microsoft? YES I agree that it's pretty dirty on account of MS. I agree that it's very misleading. However, I don't agree with the immediate slashdot bias placed on microsoft. It this News for Nerds? Or is it Editorials for Nerds? Mod me down for a trolling if you please.
After all Microsft has sold a version of NT that was claimed as being completely secure in compliance with some high level government standard. That particular configuration was one that had no network attached.
When doing classified processing on ANY box at work, be it NT, 2000, linux, IRIX, etc, it must be physically disconnected from the network and external peripherals. I would imagine that "some high level government standard" requires that for a machine to be "secure" it must not be attached to a network.
Everyone loves to complain about the lack of high speed access in their area, but most people don't actually do anything about it.
I live 15 milies away from the capital of the United States and I can't get cable/DSL. Why? Unforunately because of my location zoning requirements require livable areas to have lots no smaller than two acres. Most other land is agricultural. I can't even get cable TV. It's not profitable. Am I anywhere near the Telco? Nope. What does Verizon tell me? No DSL any time soon, buddy. I can't get broadband because I can't do ANYTHING about it. I'd say most of us that gripe about it simply can't get it at all.
What really steams me is the people who don't think they can 'afford' broadband, or just plain wont pay the extra few pennies for it. These people deserve our wrath and then some
I'd pay. Believe me, I would pay if it was even possible to get ANYthing here.
Consumer broadband is here. Your only excuse for not having it is geographical.
Amen.
Yes, linux is an excellent operating system, yes linux has it's purpose, but linux is NOT easy to use (compared to windows). Why would one come to this conclusion? I do not reach it because I myself personally find windows easier to use... But because industries do. Windows is obviously expensive per liscence to physically put onto a computer whereas with linux it is 'free'. Where are the savings? I would imagine they are in ease of use (productivity) and in support. If linux were easy to use, wouldn't it follow that companies would RUSH to switch to linux, given the massive savings? It should.
We here at slashdot seem to have little clue about the "New Star Wars Programme". Granted this is a little off topic, but the vague reference to the "Son of Star Wars Programme" was a good example of general ignorance of what's being researched and developed right now. There is no Star Wars program. There is no NEW star wars program. Nobody in government refers to ANY sort of current missile defense research as "Star Wars". The current anti ballistic missile defense system is being researched on two different fronts: The use of ground launched interceptor missiles... and the use of air based lasers aboard large planes such as 747s. There are no current plans to use orbital systems for any sort of defense other than spying/reconnaisance. The new ABM defense system has NOTHING, i repeat nothing to do with Star Wars. At all. Period. I apologize if this is viewed as a flame/troll.
In contracts I am writing up at the moment, there are standard confidentiality clauses. This means, that for anyone to be released from a confidentiality clause, then teh information has to be legally published.
Doesn't one have to sign into a legally binding contract? A contract doesn't automatically include everyone in the world simply because the contract claims to. I don't see how an inadvertant discoverer of a non-patented/non-copyrighted document gets automagically included in the confidentiality clause.
Just because there is a correlation, it doesn't mean one causes the other (eg games make one smarter/more focused). Perhaps more intelligent people are drawn to gaming, rather than gaming honing one's intelligence and concentration. Maybe gamers have an ability to focus, and thus are able to play games. Just because gamers tend to have these skills doesn't mean that gaming creates/strengthens them.
Uh, my Duron 800 ($80) runs just fine at 1GHz with a $25 fan, in my old gateway p200 tower with a 300W power supply. Thermal paste is good. :P
I think its been brushed upon but not really stated, but CPE is much more closely related to EE than it is to CS. The fact is, engineers take more math and many more physical sciences than CS people. CPE is very closely related to EE in the fact that CPE is EE but much more focused on the design of transistors and hardware. Of course CPE people must learn software, but it is nowhere near as in depth as CS. CPE and CS people get hired for the same type of jobs, however the focus of the degrees in my opinion is much much different than portrayed here. CPE is engineering. CS is not. The difference between engineering and non engineering degrees is HUGE.