of course there is that double environmental issue caused by doing so.
Look, we have our current situation of burning fossil fuels and such because it is the simple solution. While the idea of wind power and solar power may appear simple the technology to make them viable solutions is anything but. Hell if it were simple we would have had someone marketing it to us day and night.
This isn't a bash of Apple but perhaps the goal wasn't so much to make the best laptop but something similar in usage to an iMac, just a tad bit more portable and capable? Honestly calling anything with a screen over 15" a laptop seems bizarre to me. Desktop Replacement needs a catchy term to make it more palatable.
What galls me is that people will hold corporations to higher standards than their own government, whether local, state, or federal. Its PC to villify corporations and also no recourse against the public a corporation is easier to blame.
I would make a bet that three-fourths of/. readers could not name their Representative or Senators without using Google. Hell even of the those who could the bulk of them would not know who is on the local school board, who their state representatives are, let alone the name of the county sheriff.
Its far easier to spout off on a message board about the evils of a corporation. Its a whole 'nuther matter to hold your own elected officials accountable or voice your opinion. Most would say "it doesn't matter, they don't listen" yet never adopt the same attitude with a corporation. Why is that? We don't elect corporations yet we hold them many times more accountable for their actions and usually actions which have no impact on ourselves.
Damn people, you have your priorities all backassward and worse you don't even care.
Duopoly is the better term. They exist and they stifle innovation and control prices to a greater extent than most monopolies can. Look to local internet providers. In most areas its usually one or two. Some people are lucky and can pick from many. Yet guess what, the prices and features are nearly always the same and rarely changing.
There are many examples in industry where it appears that there is competition but its not true competition. The players are just big enough to be immune to each other and as such have no reason to change.
Perhaps the biggest thing stifling the genre is the players themselves. Too many pundits blame the games and in particular WOW. Yet WOW is where the bulk of the players and it is there for a reason. A very good number of players don't want a full time job followed by a game that is yet another full time job. I do not mean to equate WOW with being dumbed down or such. WOW isn't dumbed down, what Blizzard has done is added features to make playing the game the focus, not having the learn the inadequacies of the developers and how to compensate. Many games lack the niceities that WOW has because either the developers don't have the time and money to implement them or they are lazy. There of course is a small subgroup of developers who believe that players should not be helped but those games tend to die quickly as a hostile developer group never endears itself for long to any group.
The main problem I have with his writing is that he has the same illusion many others who write like he does, that CRPGs have depth the online ones do not. The only true difference is that in a CRPG you are the only hero around. How can it be expected to have a thousand heroes in one world? I guess you could instance the world but then who would care what you did? I have played MMORPGs where there was a single event that once done could be done by no others. Guess what, its annoying. Why? Because as soon as that event can be played out it will be. The one luxury an online game does not have is ability to time itself to all the players. A CRPG doesn't care, the player controls the time in the game. Someone is going to do the event first and everyone else will be left with either congratulating them or jeering the developers over how unfair it was because it happened when they were not online.
Still the games have to be mostly predictable because it is far easier to code for that. A lot of work has to go into making sure the players cannot do things "unpredictable". Unpredictable means exploitive and abusive. Developers have to make sure what they put in the game is used as intended and if not then the abuse must not adversely affect others. This limits their options. CRPGs don't care because players abusing a system only affect themselves.
Sorry, but very few CRPGs are more advanced that MMORPGs. It might feel as if they are but you are ignoring the fact that its only you there and you can control the flow of the game, how the events occur. That is the freedom you feel that is missing from MMORPGs.
that one word is their license to censor students for whatever they please.
In essence this government agency will apply whatever standard one of their members deems fit. If not their members then people who have influence over them. I will be especially unsurprised if they take action against negative comments about employees of the school system.
Expect the term "hate speech" to be bandied about along with the other PC favorite "intolerance".
If anything we can only hope that the first court to get into the fray smacks these rules down hard. It is a school, we have had it beaten into our heads that religion is not permitted in them because they are a government agency and thus subject to "rulings" about the Constitution. Can we assume that such limits also will curtail what they can do to students who they spy on?
What about students who graduated? What about their parents? What about postings from their friends in other school districts? Shall we go after students based on whose pages they link to? What about pages that link to theirs?
Honestly this type of crap gives me the creeps. Its not like we don't have enough invasions of our privacy by corporate interest we have the Feds with the NSA listening in on calls going to foreign lands now the thought police have started to invade our communities.
the internet is a threat to public education because students and parents can post to the world the fallacies of the system they are part of. bad teachers, bad administrative decisions, and such can be made known to the world and ridiculed for their stupidty. Don't think for a minute that they are looking for threats of violence, they are mostly after threats to their power and authority. They are not accountable enough as it is and now they want to censor anything they deem inappropriate.
Time to remind them they work for us and as such their existance is subject to us as well, not the other way around.
Recently we had a story of a local student facing suit over his posting about his teacher. I figure that if schools cannot get to students on first amendment grounds they may follow the route of defamation of character if any names are mentioned in posting. The suit was eventually dropped but the threat was made known. Post something negative about a teacher and you can expect a bunch of grief.
One other area brought up is that not only would the student have problems but as they are minors it is possible that the parents would have to bear financial responsibility.
I wonder how long before public school students are no longer allowed to post on subjects that are not life threatening but school threatening like vouchers and such?
Apparently not long...
In Chicago, Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
Google news includes this disclaimer at the bottom of the page "The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program."
Yet if sites are excluded then someone had to take action.
While some of us may find WND lacking credibility there are other sites that equally lack creditability in the eyes of many that will be represented.
Who decides?
If Google is trying to pass off Google News as an aggregator of all the news available then they need to take a hands off approach to what is show. If people don't see all sides of an issue, including the uglier sides, how is society ever going to change? If Google is excluding sites then they need to make that policy known. They should provide a list of the sites PURPOSELY excluded and the reason for such.
The real problem is that as soon as groups figure out that sites can be excluded they will act on it. They will find enough "evidence" to get even sites that are generally good excluded. After all, as I wrote elsewhere, one person's hate speech is anothers free speech.
Its like the EU (particulary France) trying to hide the fact that the NAZI party and its supporters still exist. They use the idea of preventing these people from publishing information somehow makes it not exist. Instead it is kept underground where its beyond the public eye. This allows the hate to go unchecked. How is anything to change when its kept hidden. Its the family's dirty little secret. People just nod their head and go on. "Yeah, we know that happens, but if we ignore it it will not affect us". Ignorance does not solve problems.
we are rapidly turning into a nation of "freedom of politically correct speech" which is a sad state of affairs.
I discount most arguments used any side to any argument when they toss out the terms "hate speech" or "racist". Its the old "boy who cried wolf" syndrom. After awhile the people using the terms so compromise them that they no longer have any real effectiveness.
I think the issue with google news is that it is bending to pressure from outside groups to modify its content. Just as they caved into the Chinese they cave into groups who claim that any non-compliance is the same as supporting hate-speech or racism. It is no different than the blackmail some groups use against corporate interest. Either pay us or we will sully your name.
Discussion is only permitted if you agree with the PC stance. Any deviation from the PC stance and you will be villified. If you fight back you will have the extreme examples tossed at you as if they were the majority and not the minority they are. Favorite phrases will include "you don't like Nazis do you" while comparing the target you are defending to them. Along the lines of "its for the children" to thereby attempt to dissuade any potential objection.
If Google News is going to be unbiased then they need to list all views, even those the staff at Google does not agree with. Anything else reduces the value of their service.
Much better than the posted story which is nothing more than an advertisement for Hardware secrets.
When will/. editors review entries to prevent this abuse? If anything, when new hardware is released we all know multiple sites will cover the release. That means, put links to the more popular review sites into the story instead of helping one person get his ad hits.
What happens if you inhale these little suckers? You know it will happen. How do they break down over time and how do they break down in a catastrophic accident? Spill cleanup? Do I just vacumn them?
Lots of promise but all the negatives are curiously missing. This sounds more fantasy than real, the old "patent the idea" and then try to make it work.
AM2 (Anti-Matter 2) was a power source used in the Sten novels by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch. It was anti-matter contained in a non-reactive coating. Very similar idea to what is here. How to move a volatile substance and still retain usuability.
I understand the difference between the two technologies. Perhaps I am being pessimistic but every tech that has come along that betters the environment always seems to come with its own supply of naysayers. Worse, the naysayers rely on the general ignorance of the public to gain traction.
Hey, I am all for fusion power. I have high hopes for it and think it will open many possibilities. Still I am as others going to have to acknowledge that certain elements will use the word "nuclear" as a basis for their FUD campaigns.
First rule is, there is always someone opposed. There will be some doom and gloom environmental group that comes out opposed to fusion. They won't even have to make sense, when they fail to sway public opinion they will use the courts to delay. They will buy a politician or two to stall as well.
Hell, if the environmentals don't get it the rich NIMBYs will.
So while we have overcome another technical hurdle its the legal, disinformation, and fear, hurdles that will be harder to get around
When it reaches the Supreme Court it should face quite a bit of scrutiny and get whacked. I will be very interested to see which side each justice takes. The ones with a more "world view" will probably be lienent on the AG.
As far as control of the government by one party or another. It really does work best when one side controls the Congress and the other controls the Presidency. That way they spend more time trying to screw each other instead of the public. Right now we have too few Democrats and too few Republicans in the Congress. Yeah I worded that right, what we have is way too many politicians.
(ps. neo-con - if only half the people who used the term knew what it means)
Not mid level laptops and especially Apple MAC laptops. I always expected Macs to be better than PC to include what went inside them.
Yes I understand that this replaced two lines from the Power generation but they should have had an option for discreet graphics. There is a pricing hole between these machines and the Pro's that could have been filled nicely with an integrated graphics solution. Hell even the x1400 would have been acceptable and also easily comparable with offerings commoningly found in the Windows world. I think this would have broadened its appeal to the college set, it would have made it a no-brainer for some of the people I know who now are thinking of waiting for round 2.
Right now it looks like my best bet for a OS/X laptop is a returned Pro model. Either that or wait for the second generation systems to appear. There are some great deals to be had in the refurb market and even Amazon has new ones with MIRs.
I do like the port configuration and the mag latching system. Not keen on the glossy screen but since the graphics system already killed it for me thats a wash
As computers advance it only makes sense to use the power that is becoming available.
There is a lot people expect their system to do out of the box. Computers are not going to be confined to one room in a house, they are going to be central to a lot of electronics throughout homes soon. It only make sense, most electronic items these days are very close to computers themselves, just specialized. Look at HD-DVD and Blu-Ray machines.
Hell with the attitude you have why would we have ever wanted more than text based graphics? Let alone more than 640k ram?
So they are guilty because they fail to tell you of what successes they have? So unless an attack is thwarted and made public in a big expose its not occured?
This sounds like the same crap reporting that USA today recently did about the NSA. They ADMITTED that the listed Verizon and BellSouth as giving data to the NSA because neither company replied to their//USA TODAY's// inquiry.
What kind of ignorant logic is that?
I think this program was dropped because it was over the line. Encrypted or not they were analyzing domestic to domestic calls which is wrong. The nice thing is that Congress wasn't controlled by the same party that controlled the White House. That seems to bring out the worst in either party - they get both sides and feel as if they are entitled to run roughshod over anyone else.
Too bad there are very few real Democrats or Republicans in Washington DC now, its nearly a majority of Politicians who are a class unto themselves.
Airport security in the US, under the TSA, is anything but prevention. Its a stupid feel good charade. It would be better let to a machine to make false positives because at least then you know its not being done out of spite or bias as is now.
I have never figured out why my mother (63 years old) gets singled out at the security checkpoints as often as she does. Twice she was stopped because of the dog carrier (small dog - soft carrier) - once because she had to explain that you cannot put the carrier through the x-ray machine with the dog in it.
The real reason to find a way to let a machine make the call is because at least it can be viewed as impartial. It would be about the only way to have security instead of political correct neutered "security" we have now. Then again, in the US at least how can we have airport security if we don't even bother to police our own borders?
When all the governments of the world cease to exist. We maintain specific types of tape drives just because of different agencies we have to deal with. We have some "lowest denominator" type drives just in case. (lots of fun when one file can span a hundred tapes and the dorks that want it only can use that tape type)
We keep end of quarter and end of year tapes till they no longer function, and then we keep them because we are too afraid to rid ourselves of them.
Tapes are actually one of our lower cost forms of insurance. We keep 5 weeks of production data on tape at any one time. This is in addition to mirroring to a high availability system AND a disaster recovery system. Those last two items are for the here and now. The tape is for the "when" which is what no other medium offers efficiently, access to the past in easy to store and durable form.
We put selected documents (invoices, etc) to DvD. Even then the number of DvDs that we store is mind boggling. The density is just not there to store much of anything else except items with less than a years age that may be needed for dispute resolution. Even the upcoming "Blu Ray" and "HD DVD" standards will not offer the storage capacity needed or perhaps the most important element, speed. Today's tape drives can put away data quickly. Combine this with tape libraries that use multiple drives and multi terabyte systems can feasibly be backed up on a daily basis.
The United Nations? Surely you jest. They are the least likely to get into a region and fix the infrastructure let alone have any effect on the socio-political structures in place. If anything they will exaggerate the problem.
This leaves most of the real work to private organizations, the ones who have been doing the bulk of the charitable work in Africa and similar areas. Since most of them do not get government money they need solutions that work and work in conditions less than ideal. This is where enigneered food stuffs come into play.
Claiming water is the best way to hydrate people is like claiming a drowning man is going to be wet. Its a big "DUH" yet completely misses the point. This paticular rice is a solution where the obvious solution isn't practical or available at the time. Dry goods are many times easier to transport and store. What has to be done until the infrastructure is in place is to prevent as many complications as possible. Rice is a great medium. A little of it goes a long way.
The problem with saving many people of the world today is ignorance. While we like to pretend the leaders of these 3rd world countries are ignorant the bulk of the ignorance is here at home in the western world. The very same people who would harp about religious ignorance are the very same ones who fly off the handle at any foods that are engineered. They have little information, rely on innuendo and partial truths, and then use hyperbole and fear to make their point seem valid. Trouble is their ignorance kills people in the countries that can use the help.
Look, we can think good thoughts all we want. We can forever look for a better solution. Unfortunately most of these people don't have the time to wait and good thoughts don't keep them fed and healthy.
Whats next? Claiming that irradiated food is bad? How about the scare tactics that surrounded homoginizing? (sp?)
I think all your weight savings from the components would be lost to the shielding necessary to keep the plane flying through jamming and EMP
If you want to eliminate wires and cables in a military craft then transmit over the internal structure of the plane, or even the skin of it. No need to broadcast anything, which could also give away your location.
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can't get much simpler than burning wood...
of course there is that double environmental issue caused by doing so.
Look, we have our current situation of burning fossil fuels and such because it is the simple solution. While the idea of wind power and solar power may appear simple the technology to make them viable solutions is anything but. Hell if it were simple we would have had someone marketing it to us day and night.
and its all fine and dandy when sold by Apple.
This isn't a bash of Apple but perhaps the goal wasn't so much to make the best laptop but something similar in usage to an iMac, just a tad bit more portable and capable? Honestly calling anything with a screen over 15" a laptop seems bizarre to me. Desktop Replacement needs a catchy term to make it more palatable.
What galls me is that people will hold corporations to higher standards than their own government, whether local, state, or federal. Its PC to villify corporations and also no recourse against the public a corporation is easier to blame.
/. readers could not name their Representative or Senators without using Google. Hell even of the those who could the bulk of them would not know who is on the local school board, who their state representatives are, let alone the name of the county sheriff.
I would make a bet that three-fourths of
Its far easier to spout off on a message board about the evils of a corporation. Its a whole 'nuther matter to hold your own elected officials accountable or voice your opinion. Most would say "it doesn't matter, they don't listen" yet never adopt the same attitude with a corporation. Why is that? We don't elect corporations yet we hold them many times more accountable for their actions and usually actions which have no impact on ourselves.
Damn people, you have your priorities all backassward and worse you don't even care.
Duopoly is the better term. They exist and they stifle innovation and control prices to a greater extent than most monopolies can. Look to local internet providers. In most areas its usually one or two. Some people are lucky and can pick from many. Yet guess what, the prices and features are nearly always the same and rarely changing.
There are many examples in industry where it appears that there is competition but its not true competition. The players are just big enough to be immune to each other and as such have no reason to change.
Perhaps the biggest thing stifling the genre is the players themselves. Too many pundits blame the games and in particular WOW. Yet WOW is where the bulk of the players and it is there for a reason. A very good number of players don't want a full time job followed by a game that is yet another full time job. I do not mean to equate WOW with being dumbed down or such. WOW isn't dumbed down, what Blizzard has done is added features to make playing the game the focus, not having the learn the inadequacies of the developers and how to compensate. Many games lack the niceities that WOW has because either the developers don't have the time and money to implement them or they are lazy. There of course is a small subgroup of developers who believe that players should not be helped but those games tend to die quickly as a hostile developer group never endears itself for long to any group.
The main problem I have with his writing is that he has the same illusion many others who write like he does, that CRPGs have depth the online ones do not. The only true difference is that in a CRPG you are the only hero around. How can it be expected to have a thousand heroes in one world? I guess you could instance the world but then who would care what you did? I have played MMORPGs where there was a single event that once done could be done by no others. Guess what, its annoying. Why? Because as soon as that event can be played out it will be. The one luxury an online game does not have is ability to time itself to all the players. A CRPG doesn't care, the player controls the time in the game. Someone is going to do the event first and everyone else will be left with either congratulating them or jeering the developers over how unfair it was because it happened when they were not online.
Still the games have to be mostly predictable because it is far easier to code for that. A lot of work has to go into making sure the players cannot do things "unpredictable". Unpredictable means exploitive and abusive. Developers have to make sure what they put in the game is used as intended and if not then the abuse must not adversely affect others. This limits their options. CRPGs don't care because players abusing a system only affect themselves.
Sorry, but very few CRPGs are more advanced that MMORPGs. It might feel as if they are but you are ignoring the fact that its only you there and you can control the flow of the game, how the events occur. That is the freedom you feel that is missing from MMORPGs.
that one word is their license to censor students for whatever they please.
In essence this government agency will apply whatever standard one of their members deems fit. If not their members then people who have influence over them. I will be especially unsurprised if they take action against negative comments about employees of the school system.
Expect the term "hate speech" to be bandied about along with the other PC favorite "intolerance".
If anything we can only hope that the first court to get into the fray smacks these rules down hard. It is a school, we have had it beaten into our heads that religion is not permitted in them because they are a government agency and thus subject to "rulings" about the Constitution. Can we assume that such limits also will curtail what they can do to students who they spy on?
What about students who graduated? What about their parents? What about postings from their friends in other school districts? Shall we go after students based on whose pages they link to? What about pages that link to theirs?
Honestly this type of crap gives me the creeps. Its not like we don't have enough invasions of our privacy by corporate interest we have the Feds with the NSA listening in on calls going to foreign lands now the thought police have started to invade our communities.
the internet is a threat to public education because students and parents can post to the world the fallacies of the system they are part of. bad teachers, bad administrative decisions, and such can be made known to the world and ridiculed for their stupidty. Don't think for a minute that they are looking for threats of violence, they are mostly after threats to their power and authority. They are not accountable enough as it is and now they want to censor anything they deem inappropriate.
Time to remind them they work for us and as such their existance is subject to us as well, not the other way around.
Recently we had a story of a local student facing suit over his posting about his teacher. I figure that if schools cannot get to students on first amendment grounds they may follow the route of defamation of character if any names are mentioned in posting. The suit was eventually dropped but the threat was made known. Post something negative about a teacher and you can expect a bunch of grief.
One other area brought up is that not only would the student have problems but as they are minors it is possible that the parents would have to bear financial responsibility.
I wonder how long before public school students are no longer allowed to post on subjects that are not life threatening but school threatening like vouchers and such?
Apparently not long...
In Chicago, Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
Google news includes this disclaimer at the bottom of the page
"The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program."
Yet if sites are excluded then someone had to take action.
While some of us may find WND lacking credibility there are other sites that equally lack creditability in the eyes of many that will be represented.
Who decides?
If Google is trying to pass off Google News as an aggregator of all the news available then they need to take a hands off approach to what is show. If people don't see all sides of an issue, including the uglier sides, how is society ever going to change? If Google is excluding sites then they need to make that policy known. They should provide a list of the sites PURPOSELY excluded and the reason for such.
The real problem is that as soon as groups figure out that sites can be excluded they will act on it. They will find enough "evidence" to get even sites that are generally good excluded. After all, as I wrote elsewhere, one person's hate speech is anothers free speech.
Its like the EU (particulary France) trying to hide the fact that the NAZI party and its supporters still exist. They use the idea of preventing these people from publishing information somehow makes it not exist. Instead it is kept underground where its beyond the public eye. This allows the hate to go unchecked. How is anything to change when its kept hidden. Its the family's dirty little secret. People just nod their head and go on. "Yeah, we know that happens, but if we ignore it it will not affect us". Ignorance does not solve problems.
we are rapidly turning into a nation of "freedom of politically correct speech" which is a sad state of affairs.
I discount most arguments used any side to any argument when they toss out the terms "hate speech" or "racist". Its the old "boy who cried wolf" syndrom. After awhile the people using the terms so compromise them that they no longer have any real effectiveness.
I think the issue with google news is that it is bending to pressure from outside groups to modify its content. Just as they caved into the Chinese they cave into groups who claim that any non-compliance is the same as supporting hate-speech or racism. It is no different than the blackmail some groups use against corporate interest. Either pay us or we will sully your name.
Discussion is only permitted if you agree with the PC stance. Any deviation from the PC stance and you will be villified. If you fight back you will have the extreme examples tossed at you as if they were the majority and not the minority they are. Favorite phrases will include "you don't like Nazis do you" while comparing the target you are defending to them. Along the lines of "its for the children" to thereby attempt to dissuade any potential objection.
If Google News is going to be unbiased then they need to list all views, even those the staff at Google does not agree with. Anything else reduces the value of their service.
One person's hate speech is another persons free speech.
If Google is going to eliminate blogs as new sources when receiving complaints about their content they need to remove all of them.
Its always easy to find extreme examples to justify a position. Its just that too often those extreme examples overshadow all else in the discussion.
does it work on managers?
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?ar t=MTA2NQ==
/. editors review entries to prevent this abuse? If anything, when new hardware is released we all know multiple sites will cover the release. That means, put links to the more popular review sites into the story instead of helping one person get his ad hits.
Much better than the posted story which is nothing more than an advertisement for Hardware secrets.
When will
What happens if you inhale these little suckers? You know it will happen. How do they break down over time and how do they break down in a catastrophic accident? Spill cleanup? Do I just vacumn them?
Lots of promise but all the negatives are curiously missing. This sounds more fantasy than real, the old "patent the idea" and then try to make it work.
AM2 (Anti-Matter 2) was a power source used in the Sten novels by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch. It was anti-matter contained in a non-reactive coating. Very similar idea to what is here. How to move a volatile substance and still retain usuability.
I understand the difference between the two technologies. Perhaps I am being pessimistic but every tech that has come along that betters the environment always seems to come with its own supply of naysayers. Worse, the naysayers rely on the general ignorance of the public to gain traction.
Hey, I am all for fusion power. I have high hopes for it and think it will open many possibilities. Still I am as others going to have to acknowledge that certain elements will use the word "nuclear" as a basis for their FUD campaigns.
Its a mentality of failure at any cost.
First rule is, there is always someone opposed. There will be some doom and gloom environmental group that comes out opposed to fusion. They won't even have to make sense, when they fail to sway public opinion they will use the courts to delay. They will buy a politician or two to stall as well.
Hell, if the environmentals don't get it the rich NIMBYs will.
So while we have overcome another technical hurdle its the legal, disinformation, and fear, hurdles that will be harder to get around
When it reaches the Supreme Court it should face quite a bit of scrutiny and get whacked. I will be very interested to see which side each justice takes. The ones with a more "world view" will probably be lienent on the AG.
As far as control of the government by one party or another. It really does work best when one side controls the Congress and the other controls the Presidency. That way they spend more time trying to screw each other instead of the public. Right now we have too few Democrats and too few Republicans in the Congress. Yeah I worded that right, what we have is way too many politicians.
(ps. neo-con - if only half the people who used the term knew what it means)
Not mid level laptops and especially Apple MAC laptops. I always expected Macs to be better than PC to include what went inside them.
Yes I understand that this replaced two lines from the Power generation but they should have had an option for discreet graphics. There is a pricing hole between these machines and the Pro's that could have been filled nicely with an integrated graphics solution. Hell even the x1400 would have been acceptable and also easily comparable with offerings commoningly found in the Windows world. I think this would have broadened its appeal to the college set, it would have made it a no-brainer for some of the people I know who now are thinking of waiting for round 2.
Right now it looks like my best bet for a OS/X laptop is a returned Pro model. Either that or wait for the second generation systems to appear. There are some great deals to be had in the refurb market and even Amazon has new ones with MIRs.
I do like the port configuration and the mag latching system. Not keen on the glossy screen but since the graphics system already killed it for me thats a wash
As computers advance it only makes sense to use the power that is becoming available.
There is a lot people expect their system to do out of the box. Computers are not going to be confined to one room in a house, they are going to be central to a lot of electronics throughout homes soon. It only make sense, most electronic items these days are very close to computers themselves, just specialized. Look at HD-DVD and Blu-Ray machines.
Hell with the attitude you have why would we have ever wanted more than text based graphics? Let alone more than 640k ram?
So they are guilty because they fail to tell you of what successes they have? So unless an attack is thwarted and made public in a big expose its not occured?
//USA TODAY's// inquiry.
This sounds like the same crap reporting that USA today recently did about the NSA. They ADMITTED that the listed Verizon and BellSouth as giving data to the NSA because neither company replied to their
What kind of ignorant logic is that?
I think this program was dropped because it was over the line. Encrypted or not they were analyzing domestic to domestic calls which is wrong. The nice thing is that Congress wasn't controlled by the same party that controlled the White House. That seems to bring out the worst in either party - they get both sides and feel as if they are entitled to run roughshod over anyone else.
Too bad there are very few real Democrats or Republicans in Washington DC now, its nearly a majority of Politicians who are a class unto themselves.
Airport security in the US, under the TSA, is anything but prevention. Its a stupid feel good charade. It would be better let to a machine to make false positives because at least then you know its not being done out of spite or bias as is now.
I have never figured out why my mother (63 years old) gets singled out at the security checkpoints as often as she does. Twice she was stopped because of the dog carrier (small dog - soft carrier) - once because she had to explain that you cannot put the carrier through the x-ray machine with the dog in it.
The real reason to find a way to let a machine make the call is because at least it can be viewed as impartial. It would be about the only way to have security instead of political correct neutered "security" we have now. Then again, in the US at least how can we have airport security if we don't even bother to police our own borders?
In fact without a fiber connection the drives we have would outrun and scsi connection we have available.
Here is a good page with some information about different offerings from IBM from the last 20 odd years.
http://www.dpts.co.uk/hdm02.htm
When all the governments of the world cease to exist. We maintain specific types of tape drives just because of different agencies we have to deal with. We have some "lowest denominator" type drives just in case. (lots of fun when one file can span a hundred tapes and the dorks that want it only can use that tape type)
We keep end of quarter and end of year tapes till they no longer function, and then we keep them because we are too afraid to rid ourselves of them.
Tapes are actually one of our lower cost forms of insurance. We keep 5 weeks of production data on tape at any one time. This is in addition to mirroring to a high availability system AND a disaster recovery system. Those last two items are for the here and now. The tape is for the "when" which is what no other medium offers efficiently, access to the past in easy to store and durable form.
We put selected documents (invoices, etc) to DvD. Even then the number of DvDs that we store is mind boggling. The density is just not there to store much of anything else except items with less than a years age that may be needed for dispute resolution. Even the upcoming "Blu Ray" and "HD DVD" standards will not offer the storage capacity needed or perhaps the most important element, speed. Today's tape drives can put away data quickly. Combine this with tape libraries that use multiple drives and multi terabyte systems can feasibly be backed up on a daily basis.
The United Nations? Surely you jest. They are the least likely to get into a region and fix the infrastructure let alone have any effect on the socio-political structures in place. If anything they will exaggerate the problem.
This leaves most of the real work to private organizations, the ones who have been doing the bulk of the charitable work in Africa and similar areas. Since most of them do not get government money they need solutions that work and work in conditions less than ideal. This is where enigneered food stuffs come into play.
Claiming water is the best way to hydrate people is like claiming a drowning man is going to be wet. Its a big "DUH" yet completely misses the point. This paticular rice is a solution where the obvious solution isn't practical or available at the time. Dry goods are many times easier to transport and store. What has to be done until the infrastructure is in place is to prevent as many complications as possible. Rice is a great medium. A little of it goes a long way.
The problem with saving many people of the world today is ignorance. While we like to pretend the leaders of these 3rd world countries are ignorant the bulk of the ignorance is here at home in the western world. The very same people who would harp about religious ignorance are the very same ones who fly off the handle at any foods that are engineered. They have little information, rely on innuendo and partial truths, and then use hyperbole and fear to make their point seem valid. Trouble is their ignorance kills people in the countries that can use the help.
Look, we can think good thoughts all we want. We can forever look for a better solution. Unfortunately most of these people don't have the time to wait and good thoughts don't keep them fed and healthy.
Whats next? Claiming that irradiated food is bad? How about the scare tactics that surrounded homoginizing? (sp?)
I think all your weight savings from the components would be lost to the shielding necessary to keep the plane flying through jamming and EMP
If you want to eliminate wires and cables in a military craft then transmit over the internal structure of the plane, or even the skin of it. No need to broadcast anything, which could also give away your location.