Jeez, how you younguns forget! In my day, we had style and diction, and we liked it. None of that fancy-schmancy parsing irregular grammar, just pattern match a few of the worst cases, throw out a few statistics, and wow! Of course, that was when the line printer was state of the art, and you had to cut your printout into sheets to turn your English assignment in, and two or three nroff submissions could bring the PDP 11-44 to its knees...
This incident was apparently a bug. However, the capability is definitely in the software. Once you've taken the update, you have only TiVo's word that is won't be used on anything but PPV and the like.
Because they're trying even harder not to piss off the content producers. See their FAQ:
Who were the initial investors of TiVo Inc.?
Our investors include: America Online. Inc. Institutional Venture Partners, NBC Multimedia, Inc., New Enterprise Associates, DIRECTV, Inc., Sony Corporation, Vulcan Ventures, Inc. and TiVo employees.
Not sure where you got the "don't run windows and don't run linux" bit. I bought Redhat ES from Sun, and it ran fine on a V20z (Opteron). A coworker installed Windows Server, had a few glitches, but found a solution online.
The nano actually allows a car stereo sytem to amplify the sound! What will Apple think of next?
A DRM update to nano and iTunes that DOESN'T let car stereos amplify the sound unless you've paid the performance fee, of course.
So put all those type recordings in a playlist and explicitly reject them using
Match ALL conditions ... ... ...
PLAYLIST is not Don't Play These
Alternately, uncheck those, and make "Match Checked Songs Only" part of the playlists you use.
Doesn't work for party shuffle, but it's a great way to filter what goes on an iPod or shuffle.
PS - Google "smart playlists" for more hints...
What if MS is stalling not because they don't want it to apply to Vista, but so that their competitors on the committee can't implement software only (TNC) solutions? HP, IBM, and Sun all have DoD certified (B2 compliant) versions of their proprietary operating systems. If MS confuses things so that TPC means (only) Intel's hardware and Microsoft's software, they've frozen out AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris until Vista catches up. (Yeah, I know there are B2 versions of NT - you just can't do much with it.).
I work in an aerospace division of a very large corporation. I was talking to a design engineer about the FAA's data retention requirements - he said in most cases, it's the life of the product, plus a little cushion. For us, that's about 40 years. In addition to preserving data, you have to be able to recreate the analysis - so if you used a visicalc spreadsheet to perform an analysis, you have be able to do it again. (I think this is more an "in case we get sued" requirement than an FAA one). I was joking about 40 years being a long time when the coworker said, "Just be glad you don't work for the medical division. They have to keep their design data for the lifespan of the patient. For a neonatal ultrasound product, that's effectively one hundred years!"
So you replace 5 Sun 480's with 4 1.2GHz processors with 9 servers with 4 2.4 GHz Xeons, and deliver mail to 2 million users instead of 1.5 million? Excuse me for not being too excited. Yes, 480's are expensive - wonder what a 4 way dual core V40z would do.
Because it takes 3-5 days to confirm that the latest service pack won't crash a mission critical application? Some Windows computers run more than MS Word, MS Powerpoint, and MS Excel. If the latest service pack takes out a shop floor machine controller, or a CRM client, you're just as bad off as if a virus did it.
Carpal Tunnel, hell! What happens when they start testing for the genetic markers indicating a predisposition to spending all day browsing Slashdot? Activity on Slashdot, Fark, and other forums will fall initially fall, then skyrocket after the Great Purge!
I find it oddly appropriate that the ads served up by Google for the second page were for Anti-psychotic drug ambulance chasers. Even Google could detect that Dubay's meds aren't working.
No, the meat of this story was that an official of the Catholic Church rejects any theories that "explicitly deny to divine providence any truly causal role in the development of life in the universe". Translated, the Church teachings reject the view that God did not create the universe. This is news? If he wanted to poke holes at Intelligent Design and Bush's views, he could have left off the last two sentences...
So the company that stayed with a one button mouse because "users might get confused" releases a multi-button mouse with built in track button and squeezable sides? Worse yet, the side action is programmable? Pretty ironic. What's next, the Danger Mouse, where squeezes will randomly deliver electric shocks?
You're correct. I've never met anyone who wants their phone to do this for free, much less at the nickle a pop or $5/month/service the telcos think folks will spend.
Talk about quoting out of context to generate controversy! The five people who actually read the article having nothing to bitch about. For the rest, here's the ENTIRE answer:
There's enough blame for everyone.
Blame the users who don't secure their systems and applications.
Blame the vendors who write and distribute insecure shovel-ware.
Blame the sleazebags who make their living infecting innocent people with spyware, or sending spam.
Blame Microsoft for producing an operating system that is bloated and has an ineffective permissions model and poor default configurations.
Blame the IT managers who overrule their security practitioners' advice and put their systems at risk in the interest of convenience. Etc.
Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and [the] right to privacy.
If I'm going to spend $38,000 on a Sun V40Z, soon to have 4 dual-core Opterons, 16 GB RAM, dual fast SCSI disks, wouldn't I spend another $500 to keep it busy? If the product really works, it would be cost effective for squeezing a dollop of additional performance out of mid-to-high end "commodity" servers ($5-50K). Not everything is a $2k white box server or desktop. There are a lot of applications (Oracle, Apache, third party app servers) where it is already cost effective to buy the fastest processors and lots of memory. Paying a 10% premium (or less) for better network performance is easy to justify.
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Amend the bill to include "election to public office" to the list of those who have to supply DNA :-)
Jeez, how you younguns forget! In my day, we had style and diction, and we liked it. None of that fancy-schmancy parsing irregular grammar, just pattern match a few of the worst cases, throw out a few statistics, and wow!
Of course, that was when the line printer was state of the art, and you had to cut your printout into sheets to turn your English assignment in, and two or three nroff submissions could bring the PDP 11-44 to its knees...
This incident was apparently a bug. However, the capability is definitely in the software. Once you've taken the update, you have only TiVo's word that is won't be used on anything but PPV and the like.
Not sure where you got the "don't run windows and don't run linux" bit. I bought Redhat ES from Sun, and it ran fine on a V20z (Opteron). A coworker installed Windows Server, had a few glitches, but found a solution online.
Here's a nifty Cost of Living Calculator for the United States. Looks like the data is a little out of date. Anyone seen a more recent one?
After two to three years making it so complex only you understand it, you can pretty much name your price!
Oops, you misspelled "linebacker".
So put all those type recordings in a playlist and explicitly reject them using
...
...
...
Match ALL conditions
PLAYLIST is not Don't Play These
Alternately, uncheck those, and make "Match Checked Songs Only" part of the playlists you use. Doesn't work for party shuffle, but it's a great way to filter what goes on an iPod or shuffle.
PS - Google "smart playlists" for more hints...
What if MS is stalling not because they don't want it to apply to Vista, but so that their competitors on the committee can't implement software only (TNC) solutions? HP, IBM, and Sun all have DoD certified (B2 compliant) versions of their proprietary operating systems. If MS confuses things so that TPC means (only) Intel's hardware and Microsoft's software, they've frozen out AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris until Vista catches up. (Yeah, I know there are B2 versions of NT - you just can't do much with it.).
I work in an aerospace division of a very large corporation. I was talking to a design engineer about the FAA's data retention requirements - he said in most cases, it's the life of the product, plus a little cushion. For us, that's about 40 years. In addition to preserving data, you have to be able to recreate the analysis - so if you used a visicalc spreadsheet to perform an analysis, you have be able to do it again. (I think this is more an "in case we get sued" requirement than an FAA one). I was joking about 40 years being a long time when the coworker said, "Just be glad you don't work for the medical division. They have to keep their design data for the lifespan of the patient. For a neonatal ultrasound product, that's effectively one hundred years!"
Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Sun doesn't have to kill Linux. It has to out-sell commercial Linux providers, such as Red Hat.
So you replace 5 Sun 480's with 4 1.2GHz processors with 9 servers with 4 2.4 GHz Xeons, and deliver mail to 2 million users instead of 1.5 million? Excuse me for not being too excited. Yes, 480's are expensive - wonder what a 4 way dual core V40z would do.
Because it takes 3-5 days to confirm that the latest service pack won't crash a mission critical application? Some Windows computers run more than MS Word, MS Powerpoint, and MS Excel. If the latest service pack takes out a shop floor machine controller, or a CRM client, you're just as bad off as if a virus did it.
To be pedantic, and I am, shouldn't it say that "Yahoo!'s search engine consistently returned fewer results than Google"?
Carpal Tunnel, hell! What happens when they start testing for the genetic markers indicating a predisposition to spending all day browsing Slashdot? Activity on Slashdot, Fark, and other forums will fall initially fall, then skyrocket after the Great Purge!
I find it oddly appropriate that the ads served up by Google for the second page were for Anti-psychotic drug ambulance chasers.
Even Google could detect that Dubay's meds aren't working.
No, the meat of this story was that an official of the Catholic Church rejects any theories that "explicitly deny to divine providence any truly causal role in the development of life in the universe". Translated, the Church teachings reject the view that God did not create the universe. This is news?
If he wanted to poke holes at Intelligent Design and Bush's views, he could have left off the last two sentences...
So the company that stayed with a one button mouse because "users might get confused" releases a multi-button mouse with built in track button and squeezable sides? Worse yet, the side action is programmable? Pretty ironic.
What's next, the Danger Mouse, where squeezes will randomly deliver electric shocks?
You're correct. I've never met anyone who wants their phone to do this for free, much less at the nickle a pop or $5/month/service the telcos think folks will spend.
Of course, Sony's problem is that the Media side of the company is the one making most of the profit.
If I'm going to spend $38,000 on a Sun V40Z, soon to have 4 dual-core Opterons, 16 GB RAM, dual fast SCSI disks, wouldn't I spend another $500 to keep it busy? If the product really works, it would be cost effective for squeezing a dollop of additional performance out of mid-to-high end "commodity" servers ($5-50K). Not everything is a $2k white box server or desktop. There are a lot of applications (Oracle, Apache, third party app servers) where it is already cost effective to buy the fastest processors and lots of memory. Paying a 10% premium (or less) for better network performance is easy to justify.