I bought my wife one at release. She is a big Mac user (iPhone since the iPhone 3, 4th Macbook, 2nd iMac) and although I wasn't sure about it, it seemed like a good present (it's jewelry AND tech.!). She has really tried it out as a USER, but it's a bit too difficult to really get into some of the features. She does like the health monitoring, but it really doesn't work very well at that. It doesn't seem to get her heart rate right much of the time, and it is vastly off base with her steps (it seems to totally not understand an elliptical). The ability to answer the phone is kinda ok...and she does use that occasionally, but with integrated bluetooth in her car, which would be the one time she might really use it, it ends up not being needed.
She wears it only occasionally, and we may sell it.
She does really like the butterflies.
In my totally completely unbiased opinion, I think that everyone should have a basic understanding of how computers actually work, from the ground up. A little bit of basic logic (and how that is implemented in hardware), introduction to low level programming (assembler) and using C to make hardware DO something. From there just keep moving on up until you get to Java. Learning operating system functions and why they are important (handling I/O devices, memory management, process and thread management, etc.). All that stuff helps you understand what you are doing, and potentially give you insight into how to debug it.
Nothing is more frustrating than arguing with someone about some computer bug/problem when their argument/explanation is provably impossible, based on how things actually WORK.
Use use a variant of this script. You may need to run it multiple times (three seems to work) -- we automate that as well (using Symantec/Altiris Deployment Solution), but that part can be done in various ways. It makes the need for Service Packs a non-issue for automated deployments, and much less of an issue for everyone.
The main problem is that if you don't use WSUS the script appears to only install Windows Updates, not Microsoft Updates. I haven't figured out how to make that work...but it mostly doesn't affect us, as we DO use WSUS, and the script retrieves all WSUS approved updates.
As a small business owner I can say that this is a commonly sited but incorrect assumption. For S Corp. or LLCs, hiring a new person would reduce the net income for the company owner, thus reducing the taxable income. Taxing the profit on an individual (business owner) should have no bearing on hiring -- in fact, it acts as an incentive to invest your profits in expansion of the company through hiring or other deductible expenditures.
If you pause the video at around 0:42 you can get a fairly good picture of the guy filming this in the reflection on the screen. I have heard rumor that Apple has sequenced the several seconds that his image appears and have created a pretty good image of the culprit. Monitoring of the various clandestine networks across Asia and the Middle East have uncovered price tags in upwards of six figures for his capture and delivery to Mr. Jobs himself.
For younger kids, you can just use some sort of whitelist. I use spamassassin but there are many ways to implement it. It's obviously not foolproof, but it works pretty damn well. You can even set it up so that your KIDS can edit the whitelist.
As the parent says, ignore the author and get your kids to read this. I recommended it to at least 8 people and they ALL loved it (and this list included both my father and father-in-law, neither of which read much sci-fi). The end drags on a bit, but it's a great adventure...
Holy crap...you wrote my comment...except that I made it through nine (or maybe it was only six?) of these endless bastards. I kept buying the next one thinking, "Ok, something has actually GOT to happen THIS time." But no, NOTHING EVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS...EVER!
This series should be call "The Endless Waste of Time".
I worked for http://worlds.com/ back in the mid 1990s (remember the billboards in
S.F. and other major cities? What a freekin' JOKE), and we had the basic
technology to do this back then. The system included a world builder as
part of the product, although it needed at least another year of work to
become a real product. The backend also allowed for this, you could link
to other servers on different machines. Users of Worlds have been hacking
on it to create their own worlds for years (the server really only tracks
your location -- the textures and such are served up from HTTP servers, so
once you get the server to a location that YOU have created, you can just
distribute your world to your friends and serve up the textures). The problem
was that the management at the time blew their entire wad on marketing (see
above) and other follies, rather in focusing on anything that might be
of USE! It was truely frustrating.
I am impressed by the tenacity of the current president -- Worlds.com has gone
broke twice and is STILL hanging on and appears to be planning something
for this fall (what it is, I have no idea -- I haven't worked there for
over six years).
> Is this bad, unethical, or in any way illegal? What's the big deal? Why the slashdot story?
What are you, a CEO of some big company?
Why yes it's bad, unethical and likely illegal.
It is bad for various reasons, one of the biggest being that you have a market leader effectively performing unqualified tweaks on the timing of various system board components. I'm fairly certain that Asus isn't doing any chip qualification tests on the components they are overclocking.
It's unethical because they are doing that to receive an unfair advantage in the highly competitive (and extremely bogus) MB performance rankings. MBs differ in performance by extremely small amounts, so a 2MHz difference is plenty to differentiate one board from another (and again, I'm not saying that this has any noticable impact on the performance of your system, other than a 1% increase in some dumb benchmark).
It's likely illegal because when Asus says it has a 400MHz system bus they are not telling the truth. That would be false advertising (I mean heck, the number is written right on the MB boxes).
But the REAL point here that is MOST disturbing is that the poster doesn't think any of this is even worth posting. THAT'S what I find most appalling. Since when is lying to gain a competitive advantage OK? It is NEVER OK.
Intuit originally released QuickBooks Pro 2001 with the ability to send invoices via SMTP. This was great, and was one of the reasons I actually upgraded to QB 2001. A year or so later, Intuit pushed out a patch that REMOVED that feature -- you had to instead sign up for the "free" service at Intuit, and send all your invoices through THEM. That was bad enough, but later on, they made it so that you had to PAY for the service.
Intuit is a bunch of bastards. I like their products, but I hate them...
Call me unconventional, but the idea of presenting my bride-to-be with a $5000 chunk of compressed carbon never really crossed my mind. We both decided we'd MUCH rather spend the money on a trip to...say, Hawaii (which is exactly what we did).
That's not to say that my wife doesn't like jewelry (she does), but even she agrees that diamonds are really the most boring gem, regardless of WHAT the ads might say....
Don't let the Diamond cartel dictate what you like, decide for yourself.
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Exactly.
I bought my wife one at release. She is a big Mac user (iPhone since the iPhone 3, 4th Macbook, 2nd iMac) and although I wasn't sure about it, it seemed like a good present (it's jewelry AND tech.!). She has really tried it out as a USER, but it's a bit too difficult to really get into some of the features. She does like the health monitoring, but it really doesn't work very well at that. It doesn't seem to get her heart rate right much of the time, and it is vastly off base with her steps (it seems to totally not understand an elliptical). The ability to answer the phone is kinda ok...and she does use that occasionally, but with integrated bluetooth in her car, which would be the one time she might really use it, it ends up not being needed. She wears it only occasionally, and we may sell it. She does really like the butterflies.
When you see a graph (from the first linked article) that shows 22% as THREE TIMES LARGER than 19% you know you are reading crap...
Oh sure, cover the evidence...
How fitting...
In my totally completely unbiased opinion, I think that everyone should have a basic understanding of how computers actually work, from the ground up. A little bit of basic logic (and how that is implemented in hardware), introduction to low level programming (assembler) and using C to make hardware DO something. From there just keep moving on up until you get to Java. Learning operating system functions and why they are important (handling I/O devices, memory management, process and thread management, etc.). All that stuff helps you understand what you are doing, and potentially give you insight into how to debug it.
Nothing is more frustrating than arguing with someone about some computer bug/problem when their argument/explanation is provably impossible, based on how things actually WORK.
Use use a variant of this script. You may need to run it multiple times (three seems to work) -- we automate that as well (using Symantec/Altiris Deployment Solution), but that part can be done in various ways. It makes the need for Service Packs a non-issue for automated deployments, and much less of an issue for everyone.
The main problem is that if you don't use WSUS the script appears to only install Windows Updates, not Microsoft Updates. I haven't figured out how to make that work...but it mostly doesn't affect us, as we DO use WSUS, and the script retrieves all WSUS approved updates.
As a small business owner I can say that this is a commonly sited but incorrect assumption. For S Corp. or LLCs, hiring a new person would reduce the net income for the company owner, thus reducing the taxable income. Taxing the profit on an individual (business owner) should have no bearing on hiring -- in fact, it acts as an incentive to invest your profits in expansion of the company through hiring or other deductible expenditures.
If you pause the video at around 0:42 you can get a fairly good picture of the guy filming this in the reflection on the screen. I have heard rumor that Apple has sequenced the several seconds that his image appears and have created a pretty good image of the culprit. Monitoring of the various clandestine networks across Asia and the Middle East have uncovered price tags in upwards of six figures for his capture and delivery to Mr. Jobs himself.
Because when you get right down to it, the plot in all 12/13 of the novels can be summarized in about one short story...perfect for a movie.
For younger kids, you can just use some sort of whitelist. I use spamassassin but there are many ways to implement it. It's obviously not foolproof, but it works pretty damn well. You can even set it up so that your KIDS can edit the whitelist.
As the parent says, ignore the author and get your kids to read this. I recommended it to at least 8 people and they ALL loved it (and this list included both my father and father-in-law, neither of which read much sci-fi). The end drags on a bit, but it's a great adventure...
Holy crap...you wrote my comment...except that I made it through nine (or maybe it was only six?) of these endless bastards. I kept buying the next one thinking, "Ok, something has actually GOT to happen THIS time." But no, NOTHING EVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS...EVER!
This series should be call "The Endless Waste of Time".
I worked for http://worlds.com/ back in the mid 1990s (remember the billboards in S.F. and other major cities? What a freekin' JOKE), and we had the basic technology to do this back then. The system included a world builder as part of the product, although it needed at least another year of work to become a real product. The backend also allowed for this, you could link to other servers on different machines. Users of Worlds have been hacking on it to create their own worlds for years (the server really only tracks your location -- the textures and such are served up from HTTP servers, so once you get the server to a location that YOU have created, you can just distribute your world to your friends and serve up the textures). The problem was that the management at the time blew their entire wad on marketing (see above) and other follies, rather in focusing on anything that might be of USE! It was truely frustrating.
I am impressed by the tenacity of the current president -- Worlds.com has gone broke twice and is STILL hanging on and appears to be planning something for this fall (what it is, I have no idea -- I haven't worked there for over six years).
> Vendor benchmarks are always considered untrustworthy, so I don't see what the big deal is.
That logic gets you into trouble...
Politician promises are always considered untrustworthy, so I don't see what the big deal is.
Auto companies are untrustworthy, so you should expect the brakes to fail.
People are untrustworthy, so if you are robbed, it's your fault for carrying cash.
People are killed every day, so I don't see what the big deal with Iraq is.
etc.
Sheesh...wrong is wrong, no matter who is doing it. If you don't fight it, you're part of the problem.
> Is this bad, unethical, or in any way illegal? What's the big deal? Why the slashdot story?
What are you, a CEO of some big company?
Why yes it's bad, unethical and likely illegal.
It is bad for various reasons, one of the biggest being that you have a market leader effectively performing unqualified tweaks on the timing of various system board components. I'm fairly certain that Asus isn't doing any chip qualification tests on the components they are overclocking.
It's unethical because they are doing that to receive an unfair advantage in the highly competitive (and extremely bogus) MB performance rankings. MBs differ in performance by extremely small amounts, so a 2MHz difference is plenty to differentiate one board from another (and again, I'm not saying that this has any noticable impact on the performance of your system, other than a 1% increase in some dumb benchmark).
It's likely illegal because when Asus says it has a 400MHz system bus they are not telling the truth. That would be false advertising (I mean heck, the number is written right on the MB boxes).
But the REAL point here that is MOST disturbing is that the poster doesn't think any of this is even worth posting. THAT'S what I find most appalling. Since when is lying to gain a competitive advantage OK? It is NEVER OK.
Ok, try THIS then.
Intuit originally released QuickBooks Pro 2001 with the ability to send invoices via SMTP. This was great, and was one of the reasons I actually upgraded to QB 2001. A year or so later, Intuit pushed out a patch that REMOVED that feature -- you had to instead sign up for the "free" service at Intuit, and send all your invoices through THEM. That was bad enough, but later on, they made it so that you had to PAY for the service.
Intuit is a bunch of bastards. I like their products, but I hate them...
With RHEL Workstation 3.0 you pay $179.99 to get security updates and fixes for one year. You pay EVERY year.
For Windows XP Pro, you pay $200 for one year and get security updates forever for free.
I would NEVER use RedHat at that price, it's insane!
That's not to say that my wife doesn't like jewelry (she does), but even she agrees that diamonds are really the most boring gem, regardless of WHAT the ads might say....
Don't let the Diamond cartel dictate what you like, decide for yourself.