IF this is real, it is about using some kind of internal system, and not the finished products that the rest of the world uses.
Here's why:
He talks about clicking on a Windows XP "folder" in Windows Update. That didn't exist until Microsoft Update (not Windows Update), and that wasn't around in 2003.
Also, it says in the Seattle PI article that they asked Gates if he ever got Movie Maker working and it says some bunk about including it in Windows Live. Movie Maker 1 came for free with Windows XP, and Movie Maker 2 came for free with Service Pack 2.
2) You see those three little dots? They mean "something was left out here". So
"There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job."
Might have been:
""There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail critiquing my staff's work, but I don't write garbage like that piece of e-mail. That's my job." Or anything else that you can wedge between those two parts and still have it make some kind of sense.
Does your computer even have a mouse? Are you using some utterly complicated command-line version of Netflix? Come now, this is Slashdot, you should know that nearly any task that can be performed on a command-line will be faster that way than with a GUI, if you know what you are doing. The only exception I can think of would visually-based artistic things like drawing or creating a complicated 3D rendering.
I assure you that if there were a CLI version of Netflix, it would take less time to type:
netflix/add "Die Hard" p=1
than it does to load the GUI page and click on the "send to top" button. And certainly placing items at a specific location on the list would be much faster.
GUI is more intuitive, and that is great, but CLI is faster and more powerful (with a very small number of exceptions).
The automotive industry blames safety equipment as the primary reason for increased weight/decreased fuel economy.
Here's the question: Hasn't technology improved? Shouldn't there be lighter weight materials available? Are they using them? My computer, bicycle, and clothes have all gotten lighter since the 1970s. Why has my car gotten heavier? Even if they have to add, say 500lbs of safety equipment, shouldn't there have been AT LEAST 250lbs of weight savings since then? The idea that a TINY car should gain 500lbs over 11 years in just safety equipment is ridiculous. Especially when the 1997 car already had a few airbags, etc. Many modern safety features are almost purely electronic, requiring only a few sensors and a chip, adding maybe 1lb per system to the vehicle.
Where does the rest of the weight come from?
And why does my 1990 Toyota Celica ST get roughly the same milage as a modern vehicle OF THE SAME WEIGHT? Shouldn't engine + drivetrain technology have improved sometime in the last 19 years?
I also fail to see how the AC can make much of a difference. I don't turn mine on very often, but even when I do I don't see a substantial difference. ACs have become much more efficient these days as well. To answer the comments about AC, I wasn't talking about USING the AC, I was talking about how much it weighs. Anecdotal evidence found by Googling seems to suggest that A/C & related components add 50lbs or more to a vehicle.
I'm sure all of that increase in weight is SAFETY equipment, right? It isn't the fact that even dirt cheap cars come with air conditioning, electric windows, fancy sound systems, etc, right? And none of that weight has to do with the increase in average wheel size, either, right? And none of it has to do with the huge engines they put in cars, either, right?
The safety equipment argument is a load of hogwash pushed by the American auto industry.
A 2008 Chevy Aveo has a curb weight of just over 2300lbs. A 1997 Geo Metro has a curb weight of just over 1800lbs. How much of that 500lb difference (a lot less than 500kg) comes from the fact that the Aveo has a 1.6L I4 while the Metro had a 1.0L I3? Certainly not all of it, but what mileage would the Aveo get if you dropped in a 1.0L engine and took out the air conditioning? I would imagine it would be quite a bit better than the pathetic EPA 24 City 34 Highway it is rated for now.
Um, sorry, but "Network Measurement Tool Detect Reset Packets" is not a proper grammatical structure. It could be "Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets" or "Network Measurement Tool to Detect Reset Packets" or several other things, but right now it has a problem.
Aside from that, it's great the people develop tools like this, but very surprising to see this be Windows-only.
I was shopping for them "a couple of months ago" (in my case, March), and LED light bulbs were easily available at that time. Expensive, but easily available.
Example: C Crane (www.ccrane.com) is among the first few hits on google when you search for "LED Light Bulb". Another early hit, www.theledlight.com has similar output bulbs available also.
The team visited Lake Cheko complete with their own catamaran
Is it really that hard to spell 'cameraman' correctly? C'mon editors! Get on it! I assume this cowardly post was supposed to be funny, but just in case you really are that uninformed, a catamaran is a kind of boat.
Just to contrast the "great, because 10.5 has been so buggy for me" posts:
I've been using 10.5 on two different machines for quite some time now, and I have had not had very many problems at all, and none since the 10.5.2 update.
I concede you are correct that it really is reading comprehension, not math or reasoning skills at fault here.
However, even RTFA-ing twice didn't give you a complete grasp. The article never mentions querying any data centers, just that they want them. They may have called/emailed/mailed to some, or they may have just put it up on the web and hoped.
Additionally, it says that the participants will begin collecting 12 consecutive months of data at the start of the program, "and submit the data by June 1, 2009." That's next year.
Are reasoning and math lost skills, even on a site tagged "news for nerds"?
They are seeking "at least 100 data centers" to participate.
It DOES NOT SAY that they asked 100. They have put out a general request for datacenters of 1000 square feet or more.
So, out of all the data centers in the US that are over 1000 square feet, only 54 have agreed to participate. That is NOT 54/100 or 54%, it is a drop in the bucket, and it does seem to indicate a reluctance to participate. Although it could just as easily be apathy.
I am a bit stymied about why this company has not at least been served cease and desist papers. I don't think that word means what you think it means... Stymied means stuck, unable to make progress. I think you meant something along the lines of bewildered or maybe astonished.
Anyway, I concur with being a bit surprised that Apple hasn't nuked these guys yet. I suspect they are trying to figure out exactly what to do before firing the first shots, so as not to accidentally invalidate their EULA in the process.
Ok, I've seen a couple of posts like this, so I'll post what I know.
Given the admittedly sketchy source of random (but not anonymous) people posting to forums, I've seen about a dozen or so posts from people indicating that they have received their Psystar hackintosh. These forums are primarily on MacRumors, Dailytech, and here on Slashdot.
I guess that was supposed to be funny, but "exherbo" apparently means to weed (as in to remove the weeds from a garden). At least, that was the only definition I could come up with using a short google search, and it certainly makes sense.
On the other hand, since they have all those security cameras already installed, wouldn't it be easier to just come up with some people-tracking software that scans the video output? Do you really think it would be easier to use face-scanning technology from low-quality security cameras than to track a radio-frequency signal?
Even the hugely expensive systems built by the feds aren't all that good. I suspect it is much less expensive AND more reliable to track cell signals.
If they're going to start tracking us everywhere we go using our cell phones, maybe it's time to start turning off my cell phone whenever I go somewhere I might be tracked. Or only turn it on when I need it...
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Read more carefully, the $12,000 included the truck itself.
Shellac 78's appear to be the best archival format.
You can bet on it.Actually glass would be better. And film is still best for video. Find a single hard drive that will be usable in 50-60 years.
Actually, since glass is a fluid, it does NOT make an excellent long-term storage method.
The system can save money for insurers, said Richard Dick, an entrepreneur who built the database system that Ingenix acquired in 2002.
What was his mama thinkin'?
IF this is real, it is about using some kind of internal system, and not the finished products that the rest of the world uses.
Here's why:
He talks about clicking on a Windows XP "folder" in Windows Update. That didn't exist until Microsoft Update (not Windows Update), and that wasn't around in 2003.
Also, it says in the Seattle PI article that they asked Gates if he ever got Movie Maker working and it says some bunk about including it in Windows Live. Movie Maker 1 came for free with Windows XP, and Movie Maker 2 came for free with Service Pack 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
Two things may have happened here:
1) Gizmodo (or the Seattle Pi) is lying.
2) You see those three little dots? They mean "something was left out here". So
"There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail ... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job."
Might have been:
""There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail critiquing my staff's work, but I don't write garbage like that piece of e-mail. That's my job." Or anything else that you can wedge between those two parts and still have it make some kind of sense.
This "leaked memo" is total bunk!
It also claims that they asked Gates and he said (paraphrasing) "Yeah, I wrote stuff like that all the time."
Utter BS.
I dislike MS products about as much as most other people here, but this is just plain made up.
I think I'll archive them in files and as prints... Hang on a sec, there's someone at the door.
I assure you that if there were a CLI version of Netflix, it would take less time to type:
netflix
than it does to load the GUI page and click on the "send to top" button. And certainly placing items at a specific location on the list would be much faster.
GUI is more intuitive, and that is great, but CLI is faster and more powerful (with a very small number of exceptions).
The automotive industry blames safety equipment as the primary reason for increased weight/decreased fuel economy.
Here's the question: Hasn't technology improved? Shouldn't there be lighter weight materials available? Are they using them? My computer, bicycle, and clothes have all gotten lighter since the 1970s. Why has my car gotten heavier? Even if they have to add, say 500lbs of safety equipment, shouldn't there have been AT LEAST 250lbs of weight savings since then? The idea
that a TINY car should gain 500lbs over 11 years in just safety equipment is ridiculous. Especially when the 1997 car already had a few airbags, etc. Many modern safety features are almost purely electronic, requiring only a few sensors and a chip, adding maybe 1lb per system to the vehicle.
Where does the rest of the weight come from?
And why does my 1990 Toyota Celica ST get roughly the same milage as a modern vehicle OF THE SAME WEIGHT? Shouldn't engine + drivetrain technology have improved sometime in the last 19 years?
I'm sure all of that increase in weight is SAFETY equipment, right? It isn't the fact that even dirt cheap cars come with air conditioning, electric windows, fancy sound systems, etc, right? And none of that weight has to do with the increase in average wheel size, either, right? And none of it has to do with the huge engines they put in cars, either, right?
The safety equipment argument is a load of hogwash pushed by the American auto industry.
A 2008 Chevy Aveo has a curb weight of just over 2300lbs. A 1997 Geo Metro has a curb weight of just over 1800lbs. How much of that 500lb difference (a lot less than 500kg) comes from the fact that the Aveo has a 1.6L I4 while the Metro had a 1.0L I3? Certainly not all of it, but what mileage would the Aveo get if you dropped in a 1.0L engine and took out the air conditioning? I would imagine it would be quite a bit better than the pathetic EPA 24 City 34 Highway it is rated for now.
Apparently the entangled photon link they were using to host the webpage couldn't hold up under the strain of Slashdot.
Um, sorry, but "Network Measurement Tool Detect Reset Packets" is not a proper grammatical structure. It could be "Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets" or "Network Measurement Tool to Detect Reset Packets" or several other things, but right now it has a problem.
Aside from that, it's great the people develop tools like this, but very surprising to see this be Windows-only.
Exaggerate much?
I was shopping for them "a couple of months ago" (in my case, March), and LED light bulbs were easily available at that time. Expensive, but easily available.
Example: C Crane (www.ccrane.com) is among the first few hits on google when you search for "LED Light Bulb". Another early hit, www.theledlight.com has similar output bulbs available also.
Is it really that hard to spell 'cameraman' correctly? C'mon editors! Get on it! I assume this cowardly post was supposed to be funny, but just in case you really are that uninformed, a catamaran is a kind of boat.
See wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamaran
BOOOM!!!
What else do we need to know about the Tunguska event?
Ok, maybe it would make a cool short film by some of animation whiz. Preferably starring the squirrel from the Ice Age shorts.
Just to contrast the "great, because 10.5 has been so buggy for me" posts:
I've been using 10.5 on two different machines for quite some time now, and I have had not had very many problems at all, and none since the 10.5.2 update.
I concede you are correct that it really is reading comprehension, not math or reasoning skills at fault here.
However, even RTFA-ing twice didn't give you a complete grasp. The article never mentions querying any data centers, just that they want them. They may have called/emailed/mailed to some, or they may have just put it up on the web and hoped.
Additionally, it says that the participants will begin collecting 12 consecutive months of data at the start of the program, "and submit the data by June 1, 2009." That's next year.
Are reasoning and math lost skills, even on a site tagged "news for nerds"?
They are seeking "at least 100 data centers" to participate.
It DOES NOT SAY that they asked 100. They have put out a general request for datacenters of 1000 square feet or more.
So, out of all the data centers in the US that are over 1000 square feet, only 54 have agreed to participate. That is NOT 54/100 or 54%, it is a drop in the bucket, and it does seem to indicate a reluctance to participate. Although it could just as easily be apathy.
Anyway, I concur with being a bit surprised that Apple hasn't nuked these guys yet. I suspect they are trying to figure out exactly what to do before firing the first shots, so as not to accidentally invalidate their EULA in the process.
Ok, I've seen a couple of posts like this, so I'll post what I know.
Given the admittedly sketchy source of random (but not anonymous) people posting to forums, I've seen about a dozen or so posts from people indicating that they have received their Psystar hackintosh. These forums are primarily on MacRumors, Dailytech, and here on Slashdot.
I guess that was supposed to be funny, but "exherbo" apparently means to weed (as in to remove the weeds from a garden). At least, that was the only definition I could come up with using a short google search, and it certainly makes sense.
Summary of this article should read:
"Hey, something happened. No, we don't know who, what, when, or why. We do know where, but that's it. You got any ideas?"
Should have been submitted as "Ask Slashdot"... Then maybe we might find out what happened, if anything. As is, it is a non-news item.
Even the hugely expensive systems built by the feds aren't all that good. I suspect it is much less expensive AND more reliable to track cell signals.
If they're going to start tracking us everywhere we go using our cell phones, maybe it's time to start turning off my cell phone whenever I go somewhere I might be tracked. Or only turn it on when I need it...
Is the resulting offspring some kind of hand-monster like in Vampire Hunter D?