Processor Speed: Very fast hamsters on well-oiled wheels Multiple Cores: Many well-oiled wheels On die memory controllers: dangled cheese Cache: water trough next to the wheel L3 Cache: Camelback packs for each hamster Shared L3 Cache: This is where the real innovation comes in and won't be defined as patent is pending.
No one's saying you can't stand up to the government rules. But you need to recall that they are, at the time, rules and by breaking them you will likely have the punishment for doing so applied to your bad self. That's when you are actually allowed to do the most good by having a public trial, getting the media involved, and changing the public's mind. It's a big risk to be arrested by the federal government and most people balk at the opportunity it could present.
Does anyone think it's a bit too socialist to rely on the government to serve your corporate needs? I mean, why not just hire a team of black ops mercs to patrol the venue? At least then it's not using the people's money to pick out likely suspects. I know I'd be intimidated if the A-Team strolled in while I was videotaping a concert. BA Baracus is fierce and Howling Mad is downright scary!
I mean, if we as a nation aren't livid over watching a video of outright condoned and covered-up murder in our name and on our dime, then what are we ever going to be upset by?
I believe some part of us think that we need to condone such behavior because it may be for the greater good, or at least our greater good which is really the point of fighting other governments' people. If we didn't feel murdering wasn't ever necessary, we wouldn't have wars. Whether it is necessary is the question we generally don't ponder long enough.
You probably wouldn't be surprised that most of the things that end up shooting through Congress are over the heads of the politicians. They aren't there to make decisions, they are there to apply them. They get tutored from analysts, lobbyists, consultants, advisers, etc. Politicians aren't experts in most of the things upon which they vote -- the experts are too busy working.
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We have an IT community email list at the university. I always thought that replacing bland emails with the ability to do polls, have realtime discussions, send pictures would have made more sense than linking to surveymonkey, etc.
Did that headline make sense? AOL was a portal application with easy dial-up back in the day (and might still be) -- it was an application that ran on your computer that gave you access to various pieces of information stored on a server -- sort of like the internet today, but all on AOL's servers. Companies and news sites would put their wares on AOLs servers and you could access them through menus or keywords. There was an email system as well for AOL users.
But then the www exploded like the big bang and people found that you didn't need AOL installed to access all these fancy places -- and in fact there were more places to go to outside of AOL.
What's different now is that the "portal applications" are just websites instead of programs. SMTP hasn't changed anything in terms of how AOL was used other than make lots of little (or big) versions of the same thing on the web. Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, etc -- aggregators of services. If you're going to say some open standard is going to change Facebook, that's not quite right. You might end up getting more than one Facebook (like there's more than one email system) that all use standards -- and someone might write an app that ties them altogether with a single sign-on so it doesn't matter which you technically belong to, your login works for all sites in terms of communication, even if you don't have a profile.
But a "new system" would just be another AOL, another Facebook, etc. Someone has to run it.
Used to be, artists wanted to be heard. Nowadays, all these newfangled "artists" just want their pocketbooks expanded real easy like. Not sure who to blame, really. You might call 'em greedy, but you might say good vibrations don't fill an empty stomach, nor put a roof over your head. Might be a time they did. Not this time.
I dunno...used a friend's 4G. Covered the antenna part. He lost a bar. Uncovered it, bar came back. Just, umm, slide your fingers an 8th of an inch apart when you hold the phone if you're concerned.
But it's a good marketing ploy. I'm not paying for a demo -- say less than an hour of playtime. But I'll pay for a good game and expansion packs. I'll also pay very little for a known few hours of playtime (I would have bought the Doom demo -- it was long enough -- if I'd had my own computer back then...I would have paid $5 or $10 for it). None of this will stop hacking, but it may get me to buy more games.
Sell $10 versions of the games on Steam -- readily downloadable, you can play them as soon as you can download. It's like eBooks -- everytime I browse Amazon and see there's an eBook version of a book I *might* want to read, I'm more tempted to just get it. But all I've got is an iPhone right now and I won't read a novel on that.
I think you've accurately missed the point there. Think of it more like they hurriedly wriggle towards open architecture, making things sloppily more precise as they go.
We ditched Google for Faculty and Staff at our university and this was one of the reasons why. Too much information given to a third party and no true liability if some of it were lost or stolen. If you're working on potentially patentable research, and you send it through Google's servers, and some "glitch" lets someone else look at your email...well, you might have lost a patent. And Google doesn't pay. And Google could argue that, well, what do you want for free? At which point, we say, "Nothing, thanks. We'll move our services in-house." Which is what we're doing.
Truthfully, important documents don't belong on email. You can link to a password-protected SSL site from an email (like the certified email at the US Post Office) but attaching critical documents is just not a good idea.
Great...now, when I've finally found a restaurant that doesn't put outside seating in the parking lot, they install moving walkways to the door instead. Why can't I eat outside under a nice tree?
I was talking with one of my friends who works in the oil business. He was going off how the cleaner energy technologies will never really take off while oil is 3-5 times less expensive. And sadly, I have to agree: efforts are, of course, being made but considering the amount of money that could be put towards green energy (or nuclear fission or fusion), it's very half-hearted. Cheaper is better in our society. And that applies to NIMBY projects too. It took about 20 years for people to really come around to attempting to recycle anything on a regular basis. It surprises me not in the least that people are tossing environmental concerns for cash.
I hope, someday, that we will learn that protecting our natural resources are part of the cost of doing business. Right now we're like a bunch of teenagers wondering how trigonometry is ever going to be useful in our lives. So we're being taught, but we're not really taking it in.
It DOES look a lot like a light saber handle, which is their problem. That being said, the headline suggests that LucasFilm is "threatening legal action if it doesn't change its Pro Arctic Laser series". I'm thinking "change" likely means "pay licensing fees".
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Processor Speed: Very fast hamsters on well-oiled wheels
Multiple Cores: Many well-oiled wheels
On die memory controllers: dangled cheese
Cache: water trough next to the wheel
L3 Cache: Camelback packs for each hamster
Shared L3 Cache: This is where the real innovation comes in and won't be defined as patent is pending.
If I could install a brain fungus in 20% of the people that would make them follow through on the plutocratic ideals of my candidate, I would.
No one's saying you can't stand up to the government rules. But you need to recall that they are, at the time, rules and by breaking them you will likely have the punishment for doing so applied to your bad self. That's when you are actually allowed to do the most good by having a public trial, getting the media involved, and changing the public's mind. It's a big risk to be arrested by the federal government and most people balk at the opportunity it could present.
Does anyone think it's a bit too socialist to rely on the government to serve your corporate needs? I mean, why not just hire a team of black ops mercs to patrol the venue? At least then it's not using the people's money to pick out likely suspects. I know I'd be intimidated if the A-Team strolled in while I was videotaping a concert. BA Baracus is fierce and Howling Mad is downright scary!
It's been a trying day. Allow me my diatribes.
We generally make good money and we can fuck up even the best of most businesses.
This is where the term "consultant" is appropriate.
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer
I thought the latest studies showed conclusively that iPhones don't cause cancer.
I'll wait to see if I'm modded Funny or Insightful.
If you don't like the FCC regulations, write your congressperson, get them changed.
I mean, if we as a nation aren't livid over watching a video of outright condoned and covered-up murder in our name and on our dime, then what are we ever going to be upset by?
I believe some part of us think that we need to condone such behavior because it may be for the greater good, or at least our greater good which is really the point of fighting other governments' people. If we didn't feel murdering wasn't ever necessary, we wouldn't have wars. Whether it is necessary is the question we generally don't ponder long enough.
You probably wouldn't be surprised that most of the things that end up shooting through Congress are over the heads of the politicians. They aren't there to make decisions, they are there to apply them. They get tutored from analysts, lobbyists, consultants, advisers, etc. Politicians aren't experts in most of the things upon which they vote -- the experts are too busy working.
We have an IT community email list at the university. I always thought that replacing bland emails with the ability to do polls, have realtime discussions, send pictures would have made more sense than linking to surveymonkey, etc.
Did that headline make sense? AOL was a portal application with easy dial-up back in the day (and might still be) -- it was an application that ran on your computer that gave you access to various pieces of information stored on a server -- sort of like the internet today, but all on AOL's servers. Companies and news sites would put their wares on AOLs servers and you could access them through menus or keywords. There was an email system as well for AOL users.
But then the www exploded like the big bang and people found that you didn't need AOL installed to access all these fancy places -- and in fact there were more places to go to outside of AOL.
What's different now is that the "portal applications" are just websites instead of programs. SMTP hasn't changed anything in terms of how AOL was used other than make lots of little (or big) versions of the same thing on the web. Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, etc -- aggregators of services. If you're going to say some open standard is going to change Facebook, that's not quite right. You might end up getting more than one Facebook (like there's more than one email system) that all use standards -- and someone might write an app that ties them altogether with a single sign-on so it doesn't matter which you technically belong to, your login works for all sites in terms of communication, even if you don't have a profile.
But a "new system" would just be another AOL, another Facebook, etc. Someone has to run it.
Used to be, artists wanted to be heard. Nowadays, all these newfangled "artists" just want their pocketbooks expanded real easy like. Not sure who to blame, really. You might call 'em greedy, but you might say good vibrations don't fill an empty stomach, nor put a roof over your head. Might be a time they did. Not this time.
I dunno...used a friend's 4G. Covered the antenna part. He lost a bar. Uncovered it, bar came back. Just, umm, slide your fingers an 8th of an inch apart when you hold the phone if you're concerned.
God. And all this time I thought that was an upside down double-u.
But it's a good marketing ploy. I'm not paying for a demo -- say less than an hour of playtime. But I'll pay for a good game and expansion packs. I'll also pay very little for a known few hours of playtime (I would have bought the Doom demo -- it was long enough -- if I'd had my own computer back then...I would have paid $5 or $10 for it). None of this will stop hacking, but it may get me to buy more games.
Sell $10 versions of the games on Steam -- readily downloadable, you can play them as soon as you can download. It's like eBooks -- everytime I browse Amazon and see there's an eBook version of a book I *might* want to read, I'm more tempted to just get it. But all I've got is an iPhone right now and I won't read a novel on that.
one may say they passively encourage it.
I think you've accurately missed the point there. Think of it more like they hurriedly wriggle towards open architecture, making things sloppily more precise as they go.
Okay that was funny. :-)
We ditched Google for Faculty and Staff at our university and this was one of the reasons why. Too much information given to a third party and no true liability if some of it were lost or stolen. If you're working on potentially patentable research, and you send it through Google's servers, and some "glitch" lets someone else look at your email...well, you might have lost a patent. And Google doesn't pay. And Google could argue that, well, what do you want for free? At which point, we say, "Nothing, thanks. We'll move our services in-house." Which is what we're doing.
Truthfully, important documents don't belong on email. You can link to a password-protected SSL site from an email (like the certified email at the US Post Office) but attaching critical documents is just not a good idea.
can't easily be resolved with technology and need simple discussion and agreement
See, now here's where Adobe Connect really shines!
Err, Microsoft Office Communicator with Whiteboard?
Pidgin?
Can't say I didn't try...
Great...now, when I've finally found a restaurant that doesn't put outside seating in the parking lot, they install moving walkways to the door instead. Why can't I eat outside under a nice tree?
You, Anonymous Coward, are precisely correct.
I'd mark you Insightful if it wouldn't remove my post that you responded to....Tricky world, Slashdot.
I was talking with one of my friends who works in the oil business. He was going off how the cleaner energy technologies will never really take off while oil is 3-5 times less expensive. And sadly, I have to agree: efforts are, of course, being made but considering the amount of money that could be put towards green energy (or nuclear fission or fusion), it's very half-hearted. Cheaper is better in our society. And that applies to NIMBY projects too. It took about 20 years for people to really come around to attempting to recycle anything on a regular basis. It surprises me not in the least that people are tossing environmental concerns for cash.
I hope, someday, that we will learn that protecting our natural resources are part of the cost of doing business. Right now we're like a bunch of teenagers wondering how trigonometry is ever going to be useful in our lives. So we're being taught, but we're not really taking it in.
It DOES look a lot like a light saber handle, which is their problem. That being said, the headline suggests that LucasFilm is "threatening legal action if it doesn't change its Pro Arctic Laser series". I'm thinking "change" likely means "pay licensing fees".