What if they integrated storage too?
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Now, throw in a couple-o-dozen megs of flash built in and you might actually have something. I could store the device drivers for my peripherals in the very same batteries that run them. No more hunting for driver discs. Oh, that and increase the mAh capacity.
While you shouldn't be running as administrator for day to day use, this is still a problem. Just being an administrator on OS X is not equivalent to being root. It does, however, give you 'sudo su' privileges, which lets you execute tasks as root. Anytime an application needs to change root owned files (which all system files should be), it should be forced to pop up and ask you for your password (same as would happen if you ran 'sudo su root -c cmd' from terminal). The fact that it is possible for an installer to do that without a password is a major problem. At least with the password prompt I am alerted to the fact that something is going on, and if I'm not expecting it I can investigate (the OS X dialog can give you more details on what it's trying to do).
Unless this is functioning as designed, which I doubt, I have no doubt Apple will fix this. No, OS X isn't perfect, but at least it *tries*...
iTunes video sales success to date comes wholly from 4:3 aspect ratio television content, which held less risk for content holders, because consumers already have free access to it on broadcast day.
Let us not forget that most of that prime time programming is already shot and aired for free in 16:9 HD as well. This argument doesn't fly. Why not start offering 16:9 HD programming too?
The SpellingCow demo doesn't seem to work in Safari. Too bad. I wonder if that's because Apple's built in spell check interferes with it? I tried turning Apple's off, but it still doesn't seem to work. Bummer.
> Symmetrical dedicated line DSL with throughput SLAs, rigorous uptime and repair time.
That means they guarantee it'll be fast, it'll work, and if it doesn't, they'll fix it fast.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but I find it amusing to do the math. Also from their site:
99.9% uptime SLA guarantee
Do you realize that works out to 9 hours of down time per year? Or 10 minutes of downtime per week? Or 2 minutes per business day? While 99.9% uptime sounds good, you have to ask yourself if that's acceptable or not. Granted, it probably won't really be out 2 minutes every day, but more likely will be out for a few hours at a whack a couple of times a year.
JERRY: I don't understand, I need a release candidate, do you have a release candidate? MICROSOFT: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of time to finish it. JERRY: But release candidate means you're nearly ready to ship. That's why you have a release candidate. MICROSOFT: I know why we have release candidates. JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, you'd done barring critical bug fixes. See, you know how to call something a release candidate, you just don't know how to *release* the candidate and that's really the most important part of the candidate, the releasing. Anybody can just call another beta a release candidate.
The entire LCD display industry currently operates at a per unit loss, so they have to make it up in volume.
Your statement makes absolutely no sense. The only thing selling at a per unit loss in high volumes will get you is high losses. $0 x 1,000,000 units is still $0. Worse yet, -$10 x 1,000,000 units is -$10,000,000. You tend not to stay in business with that kind of model.
I use my a900 via Bluetooth with my MacBook Pro all the time.
As do I, though you have to unlock it first, it's not hard to do. One thing I did notice is that if you're in a good signal area, you get about twice the speed if you use a USB data cable instead of bluetooth. It seems (sadly) the A900 is a bluetooth 1.x device, and that just doesn't have the same bandwidth. With bluetooth the best I can do is about 400Kbps, but with the USB data cable I can get over 800Kbps. Pretty rockin'...
And you hit the nail on the head. You have to demean yourself and give up all self respect to not get tossed in the slammer, while boosting the already oversized eco of the police. Those of us NOT masochists will always end up being wronged.
Jesus Christ, man. Suck it up. You have to bow to people in power your entire life, that's just the way it goes. You do it with your wife (if you have one), you do it with your boss. You do it with the police and many other people. If you don't, you no doubt will have a miserable life and you're asking for it. There will always be the alpha male, and you're not always it. That's the way of life. People like you who insist on always proving a point are the kinds of people who ruin it for the rest of us.
This is like those advertisements at the end of PBS shows that charge $24.99 for a VHS tape of the show you have just seen. I always wondered who the hell bought that crap.
And now you understand why the content producers are so keen on the broadcast flag. Then it becomes $30 for something you can't tape.
XP boots in about a minute, and Linux never needs to be rebooted.:)
What other applications could this have besides boot time?
I think when most people talk "boot time" they're really taking about "completely off-to-completely functional" time. Sure, boot time isn't that big of a deal because we have sleep modes, hibernate, etc. But wouldn't it be nice if when I snapped closed the lid on my laptop that it physically powered off (drawing zero power) instead of merely going to sleep?
I suspect this is a grossly simplified attempt to honor the Office of Foreign Assets Control'sSpecially Designated Nationals list. I work for a company providing services to the financial industry, and one of our requirements was to flag transactions possibly involving individuals on this list. It's a very difficult problem, to be sure, but you're supposed to try. We've implemented some fairly sophisticated pattern matching routines to try and minimize false hits, but I'm sure some get through. On the other hand, because we only provide services to the financial industry (and we're not the banks themselves) we only raise a red flag when a potential match is found, it's up to the institutions to do something with that information.:-)
Let's see: Calling out unattended to an NTP server every day? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to McAfee/Symtantec/ClamAV/whatever to update your anti-virus? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to update your anti-spyware? Fine. Calling out unattended all the time to run your BitTorrent or P2P client? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to check for OSX/Debian/Windows updates? Fine. But calling out unattended to to make sure you're not a pirate? Gasp! Shock! Horror! OK, so maybe you didn't know it was calling home, per se, but you probably should have guessed.
Does the name "Geek Squad" kind of offend anyone besides me, even just a little bit?
Yes, but probably not for the same reasons. I wear my geek badge with pride. It's my website and my license plates... What offends me is that these folks, from the sounds of it (I have no personal experience), haven't earned the badge. To me, it's a bit like someone calling themselves a doctor when they haven't been to medical school (or even have a Ph.D. of any sort).
What he's saying is that the data should only be on an oracle or whatever database where only reporting applications can run pre-written reporting programs on it, Those program will then return reports to the idiot business people. Those reports will not return a soc. or other identifying info all at the same (and rarely that stuff at all).
You seem to be forgetting about the developers who design these things and the reports that the idiot business people run. Only 2,200 records were compromised? Sounds to me like a sample data file for a developer. I'm a developer and I have real data on my hard drive. Of course, I like to think I'm smarter than downloading sketchy files from a porn site on my work machine. But I'm only human, I may screw up some day, who knows.
As far as I know, they still have to protect their patent, preventing other companies (or ME) from using it..
No, they don't. You only have to protect a patent if you want to retain the rights to profit from it. If they don't defend the patent, they will lose the right to do so in the future, but at the same time that effectively prevents anyone else from filing one by creating a very public and well documented case of prior art.
Hence my statement: "Probably some variation on tearing." However, I say variation because it isn't quite like any tearing I've ever seen before. It's really strange.
The only way I know of to get McAfee for the mac is to buy a.Mac subscription. Which I don't want. I can't even find their Mac Virex (?) software on their website... No thanks, I'll just run ClamAV.
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Now, throw in a couple-o-dozen megs of flash built in and you might actually have something. I could store the device drivers for my peripherals in the very same batteries that run them. No more hunting for driver discs. Oh, that and increase the mAh capacity.
While you shouldn't be running as administrator for day to day use, this is still a problem. Just being an administrator on OS X is not equivalent to being root. It does, however, give you 'sudo su' privileges, which lets you execute tasks as root. Anytime an application needs to change root owned files (which all system files should be), it should be forced to pop up and ask you for your password (same as would happen if you ran 'sudo su root -c cmd' from terminal). The fact that it is possible for an installer to do that without a password is a major problem. At least with the password prompt I am alerted to the fact that something is going on, and if I'm not expecting it I can investigate (the OS X dialog can give you more details on what it's trying to do).
Unless this is functioning as designed, which I doubt, I have no doubt Apple will fix this. No, OS X isn't perfect, but at least it *tries*...
The SpellingCow demo doesn't seem to work in Safari. Too bad. I wonder if that's because Apple's built in spell check interferes with it? I tried turning Apple's off, but it still doesn't seem to work. Bummer.
JERRY: I don't understand, I need a release candidate, do you have a release candidate?
MICROSOFT: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of time to finish it.
JERRY: But release candidate means you're nearly ready to ship. That's why you have a release candidate.
MICROSOFT: I know why we have release candidates.
JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, you'd done barring critical bug fixes. See, you know how to call something a release candidate, you just don't know how to *release* the candidate and that's really the most important part of the candidate, the releasing. Anybody can just call another beta a release candidate.
There is this StartupSound Preferences Panel that allows for more control over the startup sound...
Sorry, guess I didn't catch the humor in it... That's what happens when you read replies out of context, I suppose...
Your statement makes absolutely no sense. The only thing selling at a per unit loss in high volumes will get you is high losses. $0 x 1,000,000 units is still $0. Worse yet, -$10 x 1,000,000 units is -$10,000,000. You tend not to stay in business with that kind of model.
As do I, though you have to unlock it first, it's not hard to do. One thing I did notice is that if you're in a good signal area, you get about twice the speed if you use a USB data cable instead of bluetooth. It seems (sadly) the A900 is a bluetooth 1.x device, and that just doesn't have the same bandwidth. With bluetooth the best I can do is about 400Kbps, but with the USB data cable I can get over 800Kbps. Pretty rockin'...
Jesus Christ, man. Suck it up. You have to bow to people in power your entire life, that's just the way it goes. You do it with your wife (if you have one), you do it with your boss. You do it with the police and many other people. If you don't, you no doubt will have a miserable life and you're asking for it. There will always be the alpha male, and you're not always it. That's the way of life. People like you who insist on always proving a point are the kinds of people who ruin it for the rest of us.
Sure it is, I would gladly pay $85 for a 2.5Gb/s net connection anyway, so if I get phone and tv in there too? Yeah, that's free in my book.
And now you understand why the content producers are so keen on the broadcast flag. Then it becomes $30 for something you can't tape.
It already does that to a limited extent. Doesn't look like Halo 3, but it definately does look quite a bit better than on the old XBOX.
I think when most people talk "boot time" they're really taking about "completely off-to-completely functional" time. Sure, boot time isn't that big of a deal because we have sleep modes, hibernate, etc. But wouldn't it be nice if when I snapped closed the lid on my laptop that it physically powered off (drawing zero power) instead of merely going to sleep?
I suspect this is a grossly simplified attempt to honor the Office of Foreign Assets Control's Specially Designated Nationals list. I work for a company providing services to the financial industry, and one of our requirements was to flag transactions possibly involving individuals on this list. It's a very difficult problem, to be sure, but you're supposed to try. We've implemented some fairly sophisticated pattern matching routines to try and minimize false hits, but I'm sure some get through. On the other hand, because we only provide services to the financial industry (and we're not the banks themselves) we only raise a red flag when a potential match is found, it's up to the institutions to do something with that information. :-)
Let's see: Calling out unattended to an NTP server every day? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to McAfee/Symtantec/ClamAV/whatever to update your anti-virus? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to update your anti-spyware? Fine. Calling out unattended all the time to run your BitTorrent or P2P client? Fine. Calling out unattended every day to check for OSX/Debian/Windows updates? Fine. But calling out unattended to to make sure you're not a pirate? Gasp! Shock! Horror! OK, so maybe you didn't know it was calling home, per se, but you probably should have guessed.
Yes, but probably not for the same reasons. I wear my geek badge with pride. It's my website and my license plates... What offends me is that these folks, from the sounds of it (I have no personal experience), haven't earned the badge. To me, it's a bit like someone calling themselves a doctor when they haven't been to medical school (or even have a Ph.D. of any sort).
Are we sure this time?
You seem to be forgetting about the developers who design these things and the reports that the idiot business people run. Only 2,200 records were compromised? Sounds to me like a sample data file for a developer. I'm a developer and I have real data on my hard drive. Of course, I like to think I'm smarter than downloading sketchy files from a porn site on my work machine. But I'm only human, I may screw up some day, who knows.
That's exactly why it's on Slashdot. :-)
No, they don't. You only have to protect a patent if you want to retain the rights to profit from it. If they don't defend the patent, they will lose the right to do so in the future, but at the same time that effectively prevents anyone else from filing one by creating a very public and well documented case of prior art.
If Apple stole the name from Creative, then Creative stole it from the ancient Greeks...
Hence my statement: "Probably some variation on tearing." However, I say variation because it isn't quite like any tearing I've ever seen before. It's really strange.
The only way I know of to get McAfee for the mac is to buy a .Mac subscription. Which I don't want. I can't even find their Mac Virex (?) software on their website... No thanks, I'll just run ClamAV.