It may be that many of you in the home market won't miss VGA, but in most corporate offices, VGA is the only common connection supported by the projectors in most conference rooms. While an adapter is an option, I suspect that laptops marketed to businesses will have VGA adapters for longer than the next five years as the refresh cycle for projectors is generally much longer than the refresh cycle for laptops.
And the first marketed IBM microcomputer, the 5100, cost roughly $20,000 in 1975, which is about $80,000 in today's dollars.
The point isn't that it's taking 30 years to get an ROI. The point is that it's currently not mass produced and it gets an ROI at all. Also that eBay, Google, Staples, Wal-Mart and others are buying them. Yes, we need to see if it will move to mass production and become more cost effective and we need to see if the units are reliable over the long haul, but so far this product looks more compelling than most eco-fuel stories I see on Slashdot.
Typewriters have a leg up on computers in that some are used for the entire career of an author, but the sentiment is not for the thing, but the person who owned it. For example, I'm not a Apple fan per se (they make good stuff--I just don't have the bug), but I would appreciate the chance to see and fiddle with any Apple computer used by Douglas Adams to write a HHGTTG novel.
I have to disagree slightly. I don't think persons who would pull the plug would do so to save their margins. They would pull the plug because they can't control the Internet, and this goads them. They have built a perception of their own power into which the Internet doesn't factor. In these cases complaints about lost profits are often a red herring--it's about power.
You do this by endorsing the back of your paycheck. You created the work on assignment for the company--it belongs to them. This is no different that an artist that creates a corporate logo or brand image. Such work is rarely signed. This isn't "selling out". This is earning a living doing what you are good at and enjoy.
You sign what you've created on the job by endorsing the back of your paycheck. You created it for the company--it is theirs. This is the same as an artist that creates a logo for a company. The logo generally goes unsigned. This isn't "selling out" this is earning a living doing what you like.
I was at a major retailer one time, and the line at the checkout was incredible. Turns out all the registers where unresponsive. Turns out the mainframe was down. Turns out they where running software on ancient registers with code that was written before I was born (and I'm not 19). Scary!
Oops, sorry...wrong troll topic.
Seriously. Businesses use the wrong applications of technology all the time, but this litany of "scary" applications of the Windows OS only reinforces that it works well enough for businesses to use it in a many situations. And, because it is a commodity operating system, it is often cheap to deploy, cheap to support, and cheap to upgrade.
Everyone has favorites, and books that kids "must" read, but your children have their own tastes, and finding books that match those is the most important thing when reading for pleasure (as all fiction reading should be).
Enter the librarian. Librarians don't check out your books (that's staff unless the librarian is helping out) and librarians don't just show you how to use the online catalog--librarians do so much more. A good librarian will subtly interview each of your children and perform what is known as "readers advisory." After talking to your children about books they liked and what they liked about these books, your local librarian should be able to give your children several suggestions that make them want to read more.
Take advantage of your local library and the librarians that work there!
But those calculations are all based on UTC/GMT time, not local time. DST and time zones have no impact on Kerberos authentication, otherwise a user in San Jose wouldn't be able to authenticate with DC in New York.
Now, if people think they are just going to change the system time and not mess with fixing DST, that's a different matter, and it will cause Kerberos authentication errors.
Actually, that won't work. NTP is based on UTC/GMT. Local time is calculated on the local system based on time zone and daylight saving time parameters. I have 500 Windows 2000 servers to fix, so Corporate America is definately impacted.
This is a complicated issue as well. Indiana is observing DST for the first time, but Mexico which as observed U.S. standards for DST are -not- changing, so servers in Mexico will need a new "time zone" configuration.
The Windows 2003 patch takes care of these considerations. Hopefully Microsoft buckles and releases the patch (they have one, but it's only available to those with Software Assurance and an Extended Hotfix agreement--think big money).
There are three forthcoming technologies that you should watch that will improve this situation:
TNC - Trusted Network Connect from the Trusted Computing Group (a standards group)
NAC - Network Admission Control from Cisco
NAP - Network Access Protection from Microsoft (which supports TNC)
The basic methodology is to keep the good guys with unhealthy or potentially unhealthy systems locked behind a switch port until they get themselves healthy and/or protected.
How do they do that if they are cut off? Well, they aren't entirely cut off. Systems can get to update site(s) for antivirus, patches, etc.
It isn't quite ready for prime time, and unfortunately will require time for systems to turn over (some level of host support is typical). But once it is available, systems that support it should be healthy before they can receive network traffic from unhealthy legacy systems.
"I bought my PS2 basically as a DVD player that also would play bargain-bin RPGs, e.g. all those PS1 titles I missed out on before. Since then I've bought a few PS2 titles, but most of my playstation library is made up of cheap old PS1 games."
Which is actually a reason for game console makers to not include backward compatibility. The console is general sold near price or even at a loss in order to make money off the far more lucrative games. In other words, the console is an enabler for future and hopefully sustained profits.
While I'm not critical of what you did (I buy only bargain bin computer games myself), from a business perspective your practice is not one the console makers would want to promote.
"The first person to land on Mars, and to live there some specified minimum duration (such as a year), and to return alive owns the entire Red Planet."
Imaging the following newscast: "This just in. Terrorist groups launched an attack earlier today against allied forces. The terrorists are suspected of having bases of operation in France and England. In retaliation U.S. forces launched a full scale, scorched earth initiative against Paris and London. More at Ten."
That would deter the terrorists. Right.
Effective security is 30% prevention, 70% deterrence.
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Windows XP not much different from Windows 98? I couldn't disagree more. That's like saying a car from the 70's isn't much different that one you buy today because both have a steering wheel and a rear view mirror.
Say what you will about Microsoft's business practices or even where it gets its "innovative" ideas, but WinXP is an excellent OS.
It is easy to use, stable (I pound my work and home PCs and both are rock solid), and it works great on a laptop. WinXP uses the NT kernel which even Linus Torvalds has complemented. Win98 crashed quite often, freaked out if any component quit working (such as a modem or sound card), and for its core was stuck on DOS.
While I agree that no real liberties should be taken with the script, you have to consider that the "script" was in about fourteen different versions in various states of revision and written over many years. Each had different bits in different places, conflicting plotlines, and few if any of the scripts were near completion. The whole thing was in serious need of editing and smoothing out.
His favorite way to write was under extreme pressure, such as the editor was in the sitting room and DNA was typing like a mad man handing over each chapter as it was done for review and editing. Each of his books was a combination of DNA's wit and an editor's wringing.
DNA was a funny man and a great writer, but punctual and organized (as a writer at least) he was not.
"..which could well have trumped Apollo 11 in doing so and without risking human lives."
I don't think so. What was so inspiring about the Apollo missions had little to do with science. Landing on the moon was seen as a human triumph, not a scientific one.
What so inspired a generation of young people to become scientists and engineers was the thought that they would be out there today.
Unfortunately, due the economic drain of the Cold War, many unforeseen challenges in human space exploration, and a deplorable lack of a focused and committed approach, we aren't in space.
The American space program is like the 25 year old who puts away some money once and has great plans for himself, but at 50 finds that he didn't keep at it.
Here's to getting off the stick and encouraging the next generation to find an interest in space.
Not necessarily. The ruling does not find Lexmark guilt of attempting to stop the third party cartridge manufacturers, nor does the finding state that printer companies have to fashion their printers to facilitate circumvention.
The ruling is that Lexmark can't hide behind the DMCA by using "encryption" to prevent otherwise legal reverse engineering.
Essentially nothing has changed in the printer market except Lexmarks lost their latest defense against third party printer cartridges (which have been available for years).
Yeah, unless you need to get to something you need from over a year ago, like tax records, or an article you wrote. Files can become corrupted on the hard disk too, and you won't know it until need it. I guess then your up the creek if you don't open all your files every 20 months. Not so simple. Isn't the point of a backup so you can go back in time?
This quality issue is unbelievable. The organizations that license the logos and the technology need to up the standards and start pulling manufacturing rights if they aren't met. This is unacceptable.
"Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States, according to figures for 2002 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry" (emphasis added).
The sales figures I have seen only indicate that sales are less than in the past. The causal connection made by this and other articles indicating that this reduction is a result of piracy is not entirely established. Record companies have blamed the Internet for their poor performance so many times that it has been accepted by many in the media as established fact.
There are many other possibilities to explain the sales reduction. Reduced interest in current, big name artists, increased interest in a splintered set of independent artists, the failure of the industry to adapt to new market formats (much as occurred when cassette tapes became popular), and the alienation of large parts of their customer base all come to mind as possible alternative explanations.
Many "old steel" industries are becoming frustrated that customers are not more like cattle. Tastes tend to change suddenly in ways that large companies have a hard time dealing with and it is easier to blame outside forces that to fix a difficult problem.
Perhaps their numbers won't be off for a fourth year if the recording industry drops its defensive stance and instead recognizes that the market has changed and that they need to adapt. At some point shareholders have to begin asking what else the industry is doing to increase revenue besides suing everyone.
Next they'll ban duct tape. I mean, how else are you going to mount the box cutter to your model rocket.
Oh, but I forget, duct tape is an integral part in our terrorism defense. Now if we can just get the terrorist to put mercaptan in their biological and chemical weapons so we know when to use the duct tape. Surely we can regulate this!
Cables To Go has a cable that'll convert both your PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse to one USB Port for 24 bucks. Other sites sell converts that go the other way.
My IntelliEye mouse is USB, but Microsoft was nice (and smart) enough to ship it with a PS/2 converter, which is good since I plug it into my PS/2 KVM switch. Say what you will about their OSes, Microsoft makes great mice.
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It may be that many of you in the home market won't miss VGA, but in most corporate offices, VGA is the only common connection supported by the projectors in most conference rooms. While an adapter is an option, I suspect that laptops marketed to businesses will have VGA adapters for longer than the next five years as the refresh cycle for projectors is generally much longer than the refresh cycle for laptops.
And the first marketed IBM microcomputer, the 5100, cost roughly $20,000 in 1975, which is about $80,000 in today's dollars.
The point isn't that it's taking 30 years to get an ROI. The point is that it's currently not mass produced and it gets an ROI at all. Also that eBay, Google, Staples, Wal-Mart and others are buying them. Yes, we need to see if it will move to mass production and become more cost effective and we need to see if the units are reliable over the long haul, but so far this product looks more compelling than most eco-fuel stories I see on Slashdot.
Typewriters have a leg up on computers in that some are used for the entire career of an author, but the sentiment is not for the thing, but the person who owned it. For example, I'm not a Apple fan per se (they make good stuff--I just don't have the bug), but I would appreciate the chance to see and fiddle with any Apple computer used by Douglas Adams to write a HHGTTG novel.
I have to disagree slightly. I don't think persons who would pull the plug would do so to save their margins. They would pull the plug because they can't control the Internet, and this goads them. They have built a perception of their own power into which the Internet doesn't factor. In these cases complaints about lost profits are often a red herring--it's about power.
"Should we developers sign our creations?"
You do this by endorsing the back of your paycheck. You created the work on assignment for the company--it belongs to them. This is no different that an artist that creates a corporate logo or brand image. Such work is rarely signed. This isn't "selling out". This is earning a living doing what you are good at and enjoy.
"Should we developers sign our creations?"
You sign what you've created on the job by endorsing the back of your paycheck. You created it for the company--it is theirs. This is the same as an artist that creates a logo for a company. The logo generally goes unsigned. This isn't "selling out" this is earning a living doing what you like.
I was at a major retailer one time, and the line at the checkout was incredible. Turns out all the registers where unresponsive. Turns out the mainframe was down. Turns out they where running software on ancient registers with code that was written before I was born (and I'm not 19). Scary!
Oops, sorry...wrong troll topic.
Seriously. Businesses use the wrong applications of technology all the time, but this litany of "scary" applications of the Windows OS only reinforces that it works well enough for businesses to use it in a many situations. And, because it is a commodity operating system, it is often cheap to deploy, cheap to support, and cheap to upgrade.
Get over it.
Everyone has favorites, and books that kids "must" read, but your children have their own tastes, and finding books that match those is the most important thing when reading for pleasure (as all fiction reading should be).
Enter the librarian. Librarians don't check out your books (that's staff unless the librarian is helping out) and librarians don't just show you how to use the online catalog--librarians do so much more. A good librarian will subtly interview each of your children and perform what is known as "readers advisory." After talking to your children about books they liked and what they liked about these books, your local librarian should be able to give your children several suggestions that make them want to read more.
Take advantage of your local library and the librarians that work there!
But those calculations are all based on UTC/GMT time, not local time. DST and time zones have no impact on Kerberos authentication, otherwise a user in San Jose wouldn't be able to authenticate with DC in New York.
Now, if people think they are just going to change the system time and not mess with fixing DST, that's a different matter, and it will cause Kerberos authentication errors.
Actually, that won't work. NTP is based on UTC/GMT. Local time is calculated on the local system based on time zone and daylight saving time parameters. I have 500 Windows 2000 servers to fix, so Corporate America is definately impacted.
This is a complicated issue as well. Indiana is observing DST for the first time, but Mexico which as observed U.S. standards for DST are -not- changing, so servers in Mexico will need a new "time zone" configuration.
The Windows 2003 patch takes care of these considerations. Hopefully Microsoft buckles and releases the patch (they have one, but it's only available to those with Software Assurance and an Extended Hotfix agreement--think big money).
There are three forthcoming technologies that you should watch that will improve this situation:
TNC - Trusted Network Connect from the Trusted Computing Group (a standards group)
NAC - Network Admission Control from Cisco
NAP - Network Access Protection from Microsoft (which supports TNC)
The basic methodology is to keep the good guys with unhealthy or potentially unhealthy systems locked behind a switch port until they get themselves healthy and/or protected.
How do they do that if they are cut off? Well, they aren't entirely cut off. Systems can get to update site(s) for antivirus, patches, etc.
It isn't quite ready for prime time, and unfortunately will require time for systems to turn over (some level of host support is typical). But once it is available, systems that support it should be healthy before they can receive network traffic from unhealthy legacy systems.
Check it out:
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home
http://tinyurl.com/5ae2j (microsoft.com)
http://tinyurl.com/78al2 (cisco.com)
The problem is that the overhead in deciding which processor to use for which task would likely wipe out any gains.
It would be similar to the problems with SMB, only more complex and pronounced.
Which is actually a reason for game console makers to not include backward compatibility. The console is general sold near price or even at a loss in order to make money off the far more lucrative games. In other words, the console is an enabler for future and hopefully sustained profits.
While I'm not critical of what you did (I buy only bargain bin computer games myself), from a business perspective your practice is not one the console makers would want to promote.
"The first person to land on Mars, and to live there some specified minimum duration (such as a year), and to return alive owns the entire Red Planet."
I grok that proposal.
Imaging the following newscast:
"This just in. Terrorist groups launched an attack earlier today against allied forces. The terrorists are suspected of having bases of operation in France and England. In retaliation U.S. forces launched a full scale, scorched earth initiative against Paris and London. More at Ten."
That would deter the terrorists. Right.
Effective security is 30% prevention, 70% deterrence.
Windows XP not much different from Windows 98? I couldn't disagree more. That's like saying a car from the 70's isn't much different that one you buy today because both have a steering wheel and a rear view mirror.
Say what you will about Microsoft's business practices or even where it gets its "innovative" ideas, but WinXP is an excellent OS.
It is easy to use, stable (I pound my work and home PCs and both are rock solid), and it works great on a laptop. WinXP uses the NT kernel which even Linus Torvalds has complemented. Win98 crashed quite often, freaked out if any component quit working (such as a modem or sound card), and for its core was stuck on DOS.
WinXP vs. Win98? No comparison.
While I agree that no real liberties should be taken with the script, you have to consider that the "script" was in about fourteen different versions in various states of revision and written over many years. Each had different bits in different places, conflicting plotlines, and few if any of the scripts were near completion. The whole thing was in serious need of editing and smoothing out.
His favorite way to write was under extreme pressure, such as the editor was in the sitting room and DNA was typing like a mad man handing over each chapter as it was done for review and editing. Each of his books was a combination of DNA's wit and an editor's wringing.
DNA was a funny man and a great writer, but punctual and organized (as a writer at least) he was not.
"..which could well have trumped Apollo 11 in doing so and without risking human lives."
I don't think so. What was so inspiring about the Apollo missions had little to do with science. Landing on the moon was seen as a human triumph, not a scientific one.
What so inspired a generation of young people to become scientists and engineers was the thought that they would be out there today.
Unfortunately, due the economic drain of the Cold War, many unforeseen challenges in human space exploration, and a deplorable lack of a focused and committed approach, we aren't in space.
The American space program is like the 25 year old who puts away some money once and has great plans for himself, but at 50 finds that he didn't keep at it.
Here's to getting off the stick and encouraging the next generation to find an interest in space.
Not necessarily. The ruling does not find Lexmark guilt of attempting to stop the third party cartridge manufacturers, nor does the finding state that printer companies have to fashion their printers to facilitate circumvention.
The ruling is that Lexmark can't hide behind the DMCA by using "encryption" to prevent otherwise legal reverse engineering.
Essentially nothing has changed in the printer market except Lexmarks lost their latest defense against third party printer cartridges (which have been available for years).
Do you mean after you closed your single application and put another disk in to run a program that would parked your hard drive?
Even then, "instant" took a little time and effort, and there was a cost.
Yeah, unless you need to get to something you need from over a year ago, like tax records, or an article you wrote. Files can become corrupted on the hard disk too, and you won't know it until need it. I guess then your up the creek if you don't open all your files every 20 months. Not so simple. Isn't the point of a backup so you can go back in time?
This quality issue is unbelievable. The organizations that license the logos and the technology need to up the standards and start pulling manufacturing rights if they aren't met. This is unacceptable.
"Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States, according to figures for 2002 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry" (emphasis added).
The sales figures I have seen only indicate that sales are less than in the past. The causal connection made by this and other articles indicating that this reduction is a result of piracy is not entirely established. Record companies have blamed the Internet for their poor performance so many times that it has been accepted by many in the media as established fact.
There are many other possibilities to explain the sales reduction. Reduced interest in current, big name artists, increased interest in a splintered set of independent artists, the failure of the industry to adapt to new market formats (much as occurred when cassette tapes became popular), and the alienation of large parts of their customer base all come to mind as possible alternative explanations.
Many "old steel" industries are becoming frustrated that customers are not more like cattle. Tastes tend to change suddenly in ways that large companies have a hard time dealing with and it is easier to blame outside forces that to fix a difficult problem.
Perhaps their numbers won't be off for a fourth year if the recording industry drops its defensive stance and instead recognizes that the market has changed and that they need to adapt. At some point shareholders have to begin asking what else the industry is doing to increase revenue besides suing everyone.
Next they'll ban duct tape. I mean, how else are you going to mount the box cutter to your model rocket.
Oh, but I forget, duct tape is an integral part in our terrorism defense. Now if we can just get the terrorist to put mercaptan in their biological and chemical weapons so we know when to use the duct tape. Surely we can regulate this!
Cables To Go has a cable that'll convert both your PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse to one USB Port for 24 bucks. Other sites sell converts that go the other way.
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My IntelliEye mouse is USB, but Microsoft was nice (and smart) enough to ship it with a PS/2 converter, which is good since I plug it into my PS/2 KVM switch. Say what you will about their OSes, Microsoft makes great mice.
Because the U.S. Congress decided that libraries have to implement software like Net Nanny or else lose federal funding.
The American Library Associate is fighting the law in the U.S. Supreme Court:
http://www.ala.org/cipa/