Don't think it needs to. Google Music already has a subscription all-you-can-eat streaming service and while I haven't used it, my understanding is that it's pretty much a Rhapsody clone, complete with pseudo-radio stations (like the others.)
So we had the 64 bit "story" yesterday, and now an even less believable claim which relies upon the notion that the iPhone is the most common phone platform, used by nearly all music listeners. Somehow I think that, while Pandora and Spotify et al have their commercial threats, this isn't one of them.
Either way, it's kinda sad that this passed through Slashdot's slashvertisement filters.
I dunno, I guess you float when you're likely to maximize interest. "On the upswing" is too early. "Shortly to be passe" is the same as "Still on the upswing but not for much longer". So now's a good time.
By rights, this should be bigger than Facebook. Facebook was something people slack off doing at the office. Twitter is, however, ubiquitous, it's at the office, it's on TV, there are hashtags on cartons of orange juice.
It has the same resolution as my phone, so I wouldn't want to use it for writing any code.
Well in fairness the pixels are quite a bit bigger. The problem with your phone is that the pixels are really tiny and thus you have to use a font that uses a lot of pixels per character to make out any words. As a result, it's difficult to fit much text on the 4" screen.
This device uses much larger pixels, which, while making everything look blockier, has the advantage that you need less pixels to represent each character. As a result you can fit quite a large amount of text on the screen and still have it be readable.
This has been your daily dose of "Take something someone has said a little too literally". Coming up next, "Your using the wrong homophone!"
"Services" encompasses rather a lot of possible avenues. Google and IBM aren't (for the most part) competitors, but their products both constitute "services".
That said, I'm not sure I understand where Dell is heading with this one. IBM had a significant business that wasn't "Putting new PCs in boxes and selling them" when it transitioned away from PCs. Dell... every corporation I've worked for has bought Dell computers, specifically, and outside of warranty and equipment rental services, I'm not sure what they sell on the service side. Put another way - they're moving from the business they're known for and have a high mindshare in to something that they need to build from scratch.
In that context, it might be easier for Michael Dell to invest the money in a new start-up, rather than an existing PC manufacturer.
But I'm an idiot programmer who posts to Slashdot and has no money and no insight into Dell's thinking. So I'm guessing (actually, I pretty much know) I'm wrong, I'm just curious to know what the truth is.
Obamacare is socialist. It is socialist in that it forces people to participate in it against their will
Also it's socialist in that it has the letter 'O' in the name, and also socialist in that it has nothing to do with peanut butter.
Socialist means people working together for the better good. Unions and Cooperatives are two institutions commonly considered socialist, and neither have anything to do with people being forced to participate in something against their will. Please stop using the term to mean "Anything the government does I don't like." It's stupid. It's unhelpful. It does nothing to help communicate ideas. And it does suppress talk of legitimate concepts to conflate working together for the common good with government coercion. "*gasp* You're in favor of open source? But that's socialism! And thus it's evil!" Well, yeah, it's socialism in its purest form. It's also a good thing.
You'd have to suck out a lot of air in counter the mass of whatever it is you're lifting. In practice, I think you'd have a pretty huge airship if you were to, say, have a container with only 90% of an atmosphere, and that's still going to require a very strong container to protect.
In this context corrosion means oxidation and nothing at all else.
If you'd been first to use the word, then you might have been able to get away with this argument, however it would have been pointed out to you that corrode is not generally used as a synonym for oxidation, and you're using an obscure definition.
However, you weren't. I was. I used the word corrode with its usual, widespread, definition.
I would suggest that rather than flame me for using the word as it is usually used - by engineers and everyone else - that you learn to use a dictionary. Generally speaking its the height of stupidity to "correct" someone without checking your facts first. And it's the height of arrogance to flame someone (while pretending they're wrong!) who shows that, actually, you were wrong and they were right.
Basically, you are saying that even though it is easy to verify that the output of RdRand is random
No, he said the opposite, he believes that the output of RdRand is unauditable. FWIW, the threads I've read concerning RdRand suggest that people in the security field do agree with that assessment and the mathematician in me wonders how easy any random number generator can truly be verified as truly random.
As far as reprogramming other instructions go to have secret blackhat backdoors, it's hard to see how reprogramming Mul to give blackhat approved answers is going to be practical in a way that would allow normal applications to run unmolested.
A further problem with all of this is that reprogrammable microcode or even the use of System Management Mode means calls to RdRand could relatively easily be intercepted on a PC an attacker has had physical access to even if Intel's intentions and designs are 100% reasonable. It's a fairly ugly central point of failure.
corÂrode kÉ(TM)ËrÅd/ verb verb: corrode;âf3rd person present: corrodes;âfpast tense: corroded;âfpast participle: corroded;âfgerund or present participle: corroding
1.
destroy or damage (metal, stone, or other materials) slowly by chemical action.
"acid rain poisons fish and corrodes buildings"
synonyms: wear away, eat away (at), gnaw away (at), erode, abrade, consume, destroy More
"acid rain corrodes buildings"
(of metal or other materials) be destroyed or damaged in this way.
"over the years copper tubing corrodes"
synonyms: rust, become rusty, tarnish; More
wear away, disintegrate, crumble, perish, spoil;
oxidize
"the iron had corroded"
2.
destroy or weaken (something) gradually.
"the self-centered climate corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice"
I'm guessing if the SQL is generated programatically, you might get a constant = constant clause, although I'm having difficultly thinking of any sane situation where that would occur.
That's not really how it works. Most of the helium will be at the top, and most of the air at the bottom, but they will mix. In any case, how do you suck out the air in this scenario? If you put oil and water in a glass and tried to draw out the water by sucking it out through a straw, there'd be that bit at the end where you'd almost certainly leave some water there, while sucking up oil.
In terms of alternatives: I think the dangers of hydrogen have been overstated but I don't think there's much likelihood of anyone switching to that in the near future, and there's also its corrosive effects on iron to consider. Vacuums? Until someone can come up with a lightweight container that's able to withstand an atmosphere of air pressure (which is much more than you might think) it's not going to happen.
No, he's not omnipotent, he's just speaking from a position of human decency and explaining what, from the point of view of prefering the world not be full of exclusionist assholes, was wrong with what these people did.
As was obvious, but you, and it appears the moderators who are modding your bizarre little hysterics up higher than his post, have managed to miss it. Perhaps if you spend more of your life around real people, and less in your basement reading Ayn Rand novels for your homeschooling assignment, you might understand this a little better.
FWIW, my last American ballot paper wasn't a meter wide. It was, however, both sides of two sheets of legal-sized paper. Lazy voters here just complete the part of the ballot that selects the President (which is by far the highest profile election on the paper) and submit that. Next laziest vote for Senator and Congressman. Third laziest add votes for State congresspeople. And the rest actually vote for Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, et al, although by that point there's frequently just one candidate, as whatever party is dominant in that area is the only one fielding candidates.
Intelligence agencies have always, always, been mandated to spy on foreigners. (Of course, they've virtually always spied on non-foreigners too in practice.)
Should the CIA and NSA stop spying on Brits, Israelis*, etc? Well, only if MI-6 and Mossad stop spying on Americans. Which they won't.
* OK, I must admit that list is purposely short because I can't remember the names of most of our allies' intelligence agencies. You can fill in the rest though.
Decentralized? Are you kidding me? Look at the USA example:
Federal Government: Bad. Corrupt. Ugly.
State Governments: Awful. Even more corrupt. Really ugly.
County Governments: Ineffectual. Usually barely different from State.
City Governments: Abysmal. A cesspit of corruption.
HOAs: Only legal because we can superficially escape from them - except modern zoning codes have made this harder and harder over the last few decades.
Usually we're reliant upon the higher governments to rein in the excesses of the lower governments - for example, if the States start disenfranchising racial minorities, the Feds have a track record of working, however slowly, to stop them. Cities that start clamping down on self defense rights tend to get slapped by the State.
The reality is that as governments run smaller groups, they lose sight of their responsibility to hold the liberties of individuals sovereign where possible. "Oh, but you don't have to live in Bhurtfuhch City", says a city government politician, "and we don't like weirdos here so..."
It's a terrible thing to admit but the Federal Government in the United States is the best of the worst. It at least understands it has to work equally for a San Francisco leatherman and a Alabama pick-up truck driver.
Wow, people blame Carter for pretty much everything.
Carter was president during the 1970s, predating the Clipper chip by about a decade and a half. Some far-sighted people in the 1970s saw the potential of the Arpanet to change the world, and perhaps a handful of those saw the effect widespread use of strong encryption would have on ubiquitous International unmetered packet-switched data networks, but it certainly wasn't substantial enough to move projects like Clipper forward at that time.
Sorry, but I don't believe any half respectable news organization should link to something just to show "two sides" of a debate. Science is science. The people actually practicing science seem to be largely in agreement about AGW. Asking Slashdot to link to oil-industry funded shills and kooks doesn't help advance knowledge in any way.
What the blazes are you talking about? Seriously? "Gorilla arm"? What? And why would I have to be someone staring at a computer screen all day if I like the idea of a UI where selections are made by looking at something and making some (easy) gesture like a blink?
I'm not getting why you think this UI is so terrible.
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Don't think it needs to. Google Music already has a subscription all-you-can-eat streaming service and while I haven't used it, my understanding is that it's pretty much a Rhapsody clone, complete with pseudo-radio stations (like the others.)
So we had the 64 bit "story" yesterday, and now an even less believable claim which relies upon the notion that the iPhone is the most common phone platform, used by nearly all music listeners. Somehow I think that, while Pandora and Spotify et al have their commercial threats, this isn't one of them.
Either way, it's kinda sad that this passed through Slashdot's slashvertisement filters.
I dunno, I guess you float when you're likely to maximize interest. "On the upswing" is too early. "Shortly to be passe" is the same as "Still on the upswing but not for much longer". So now's a good time.
By rights, this should be bigger than Facebook. Facebook was something people slack off doing at the office. Twitter is, however, ubiquitous, it's at the office, it's on TV, there are hashtags on cartons of orange juice.
I'd say this is the perfect time to do it.
Well in fairness the pixels are quite a bit bigger. The problem with your phone is that the pixels are really tiny and thus you have to use a font that uses a lot of pixels per character to make out any words. As a result, it's difficult to fit much text on the 4" screen.
This device uses much larger pixels, which, while making everything look blockier, has the advantage that you need less pixels to represent each character. As a result you can fit quite a large amount of text on the screen and still have it be readable.
This has been your daily dose of "Take something someone has said a little too literally". Coming up next, "Your using the wrong homophone!"
"Services" encompasses rather a lot of possible avenues. Google and IBM aren't (for the most part) competitors, but their products both constitute "services".
That said, I'm not sure I understand where Dell is heading with this one. IBM had a significant business that wasn't "Putting new PCs in boxes and selling them" when it transitioned away from PCs. Dell... every corporation I've worked for has bought Dell computers, specifically, and outside of warranty and equipment rental services, I'm not sure what they sell on the service side. Put another way - they're moving from the business they're known for and have a high mindshare in to something that they need to build from scratch.
In that context, it might be easier for Michael Dell to invest the money in a new start-up, rather than an existing PC manufacturer.
But I'm an idiot programmer who posts to Slashdot and has no money and no insight into Dell's thinking. So I'm guessing (actually, I pretty much know) I'm wrong, I'm just curious to know what the truth is.
Also it's socialist in that it has the letter 'O' in the name, and also socialist in that it has nothing to do with peanut butter.
Socialist means people working together for the better good. Unions and Cooperatives are two institutions commonly considered socialist, and neither have anything to do with people being forced to participate in something against their will. Please stop using the term to mean "Anything the government does I don't like." It's stupid. It's unhelpful. It does nothing to help communicate ideas. And it does suppress talk of legitimate concepts to conflate working together for the common good with government coercion. "*gasp* You're in favor of open source? But that's socialism! And thus it's evil!" Well, yeah, it's socialism in its purest form. It's also a good thing.
The difference is that the hot air occupies the same space as (a larger amount of) cool air, so the external atmospheric pressure isn't an issue..
You'd have to suck out a lot of air in counter the mass of whatever it is you're lifting. In practice, I think you'd have a pretty huge airship if you were to, say, have a container with only 90% of an atmosphere, and that's still going to require a very strong container to protect.
If you'd been first to use the word, then you might have been able to get away with this argument, however it would have been pointed out to you that corrode is not generally used as a synonym for oxidation, and you're using an obscure definition.
However, you weren't. I was. I used the word corrode with its usual, widespread, definition.
I would suggest that rather than flame me for using the word as it is usually used - by engineers and everyone else - that you learn to use a dictionary. Generally speaking its the height of stupidity to "correct" someone without checking your facts first. And it's the height of arrogance to flame someone (while pretending they're wrong!) who shows that, actually, you were wrong and they were right.
No, he said the opposite, he believes that the output of RdRand is unauditable. FWIW, the threads I've read concerning RdRand suggest that people in the security field do agree with that assessment and the mathematician in me wonders how easy any random number generator can truly be verified as truly random.
As far as reprogramming other instructions go to have secret blackhat backdoors, it's hard to see how reprogramming Mul to give blackhat approved answers is going to be practical in a way that would allow normal applications to run unmolested.
A further problem with all of this is that reprogrammable microcode or even the use of System Management Mode means calls to RdRand could relatively easily be intercepted on a PC an attacker has had physical access to even if Intel's intentions and designs are 100% reasonable. It's a fairly ugly central point of failure.
corÂrode
kÉ(TM)ËrÅd/
verb
verb: corrode;âf3rd person present: corrodes;âfpast tense: corroded;âfpast participle: corroded;âfgerund or present participle: corroding
1.
destroy or damage (metal, stone, or other materials) slowly by chemical action.
"acid rain poisons fish and corrodes buildings"
synonyms: wear away, eat away (at), gnaw away (at), erode, abrade, consume, destroy More
"acid rain corrodes buildings"
(of metal or other materials) be destroyed or damaged in this way.
"over the years copper tubing corrodes"
synonyms: rust, become rusty, tarnish; More
wear away, disintegrate, crumble, perish, spoil;
oxidize
"the iron had corroded"
2.
destroy or weaken (something) gradually.
"the self-centered climate corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice"
I'm guessing if the SQL is generated programatically, you might get a constant = constant clause, although I'm having difficultly thinking of any sane situation where that would occur.
That's not really how it works. Most of the helium will be at the top, and most of the air at the bottom, but they will mix. In any case, how do you suck out the air in this scenario? If you put oil and water in a glass and tried to draw out the water by sucking it out through a straw, there'd be that bit at the end where you'd almost certainly leave some water there, while sucking up oil.
Helium, It's in TFA.
In terms of alternatives: I think the dangers of hydrogen have been overstated but I don't think there's much likelihood of anyone switching to that in the near future, and there's also its corrosive effects on iron to consider. Vacuums? Until someone can come up with a lightweight container that's able to withstand an atmosphere of air pressure (which is much more than you might think) it's not going to happen.
No, he's not omnipotent, he's just speaking from a position of human decency and explaining what, from the point of view of prefering the world not be full of exclusionist assholes, was wrong with what these people did.
As was obvious, but you, and it appears the moderators who are modding your bizarre little hysterics up higher than his post, have managed to miss it. Perhaps if you spend more of your life around real people, and less in your basement reading Ayn Rand novels for your homeschooling assignment, you might understand this a little better.
FWIW, my last American ballot paper wasn't a meter wide. It was, however, both sides of two sheets of legal-sized paper. Lazy voters here just complete the part of the ballot that selects the President (which is by far the highest profile election on the paper) and submit that. Next laziest vote for Senator and Congressman. Third laziest add votes for State congresspeople. And the rest actually vote for Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, et al, although by that point there's frequently just one candidate, as whatever party is dominant in that area is the only one fielding candidates.
Overzealous zoning. Not enforcement.
Zoning in the US is ridiculous, and has ultimately caused more damage to our freedoms, and our national security, than any other government policy.
I see you're an expert in the use of the word "irony".
Intelligence agencies have always, always, been mandated to spy on foreigners. (Of course, they've virtually always spied on non-foreigners too in practice.)
Should the CIA and NSA stop spying on Brits, Israelis*, etc? Well, only if MI-6 and Mossad stop spying on Americans. Which they won't.
* OK, I must admit that list is purposely short because I can't remember the names of most of our allies' intelligence agencies. You can fill in the rest though.
Decentralized? Are you kidding me? Look at the USA example:
Federal Government: Bad. Corrupt. Ugly.
State Governments: Awful. Even more corrupt. Really ugly.
County Governments: Ineffectual. Usually barely different from State.
City Governments: Abysmal. A cesspit of corruption.
HOAs: Only legal because we can superficially escape from them - except modern zoning codes have made this harder and harder over the last few decades.
Usually we're reliant upon the higher governments to rein in the excesses of the lower governments - for example, if the States start disenfranchising racial minorities, the Feds have a track record of working, however slowly, to stop them. Cities that start clamping down on self defense rights tend to get slapped by the State.
The reality is that as governments run smaller groups, they lose sight of their responsibility to hold the liberties of individuals sovereign where possible. "Oh, but you don't have to live in Bhurtfuhch City", says a city government politician, "and we don't like weirdos here so..."
It's a terrible thing to admit but the Federal Government in the United States is the best of the worst. It at least understands it has to work equally for a San Francisco leatherman and a Alabama pick-up truck driver.
Wow, people blame Carter for pretty much everything.
Carter was president during the 1970s, predating the Clipper chip by about a decade and a half. Some far-sighted people in the 1970s saw the potential of the Arpanet to change the world, and perhaps a handful of those saw the effect widespread use of strong encryption would have on ubiquitous International unmetered packet-switched data networks, but it certainly wasn't substantial enough to move projects like Clipper forward at that time.
"Debunkers"? You mean, like, frauds?
Sorry, but I don't believe any half respectable news organization should link to something just to show "two sides" of a debate. Science is science. The people actually practicing science seem to be largely in agreement about AGW. Asking Slashdot to link to oil-industry funded shills and kooks doesn't help advance knowledge in any way.
P Nokia were releasing innovative products during their downfall too. The Internet Tablet wasn't an Apple invention...
Wait, doctors are unionized? I didn't know that!
What the blazes are you talking about? Seriously? "Gorilla arm"? What? And why would I have to be someone staring at a computer screen all day if I like the idea of a UI where selections are made by looking at something and making some (easy) gesture like a blink?
I'm not getting why you think this UI is so terrible.