You forget when Apple retroactively doubled the clockspeed of all their 040 machines, even those that were no longer in production.
They did not. They labeled the processors with both the front frequency (the one people expected as a measurement and were used to see as the second part of the chip details, say 68040/33 for a Quadra 650), and the core frequency (that is, 33/66 MHz for the above example) once Intel pushed the 486 DX2s with only the core frequency (hence DX2/66 sounded better than 68040/33 even though the 040 had a 66MHz core like the DX2).
Excuse me, but I won't buy anything from a company that obscures one of their product's basic operating parameters from me. It's like buying a car from a manufacturer that won't tell me how many hp the car puts out.
Does that mean that you rely on hp? Do you pay as much attention to, say, the weight of the car? Honest?
E.g. 400 hp sounds like a lot. It is a lot, for a Ferrari. Not for a trailer.
The funny thing is military jets do mach 1 or more over populated areas. It isn't a significant problem, it is just a nuisance. They are high enough it breaking glass isn't really an issue.
Depends on where you are... e.g. the US has heaps of deserts to fly around; France does not (and I can tell you that being woken up by a Rafale (might have been a Mirage 2K for what I know) avoiding hills at a good bit above Mach 1 is an unforgettable experience for a camper!)
Anyway, on the main point, it's much easier to force people to accept military-borne nuisance than commercial flights.
They have to be on those longer flights because they have to fly so high up before going supersonic to avoid having
the shockwaves shatter every pane of glass from New York to Los Angeles.
Actually the Concorde, which already flies somewhat higher than the average long-range flight, only flies {Paris,London}-New York to avoid going above Mach 1 over populated ground.
I'd guess the same would be true with anything flying on wings and ambient oxygen.
Register once, login ([...]) on each
computer you use.
They won't allow me to use firstname.lastname as a login name. Yahoo doesn't either. X doesn't. Y doesn't, etc.
I don't want to have to remember a different username/password pair for each site I ever register for! I don't care what their scripts like or not, I don't care what their database/ad-tracking system requires, I don't want to be this.that.somehugenumber just because someone else on the planet registered with the same name two months ago.
What's your problem with the NYTimes registration system? I registered back in 1996 and have never had any problems nor received any junk mail from them.
I don't have a single machine, I don't have a single browser.
So: I won't register every time I move around. Too bad for them; if they can't implement a quick and usable system for people who don't carry cookies in their pockets, they won't get any registration information from me.
A friend of mine told me a story about going to Europe and having to explain to a clerk that his credit card didn't have a smart chip in it, she
would have to slide it in the other thingie. He ended up having to slide the card for her.
It must have been France. Smart cards are ubiquitous since the early 80s here.
Actually the reason it did catch on is :
Banks did work together on this so we have a single standard (a bit like GSM vs. the American cellphone hodgepodge)
Payments done with a smart card and its PIN number are insured by banks
Payments certified with a plain signature (or nothing at all, eg. in some highway toll booths) are not insured by banks
Net result: every card is a smart card, every shop&co. has a smart card reader, and fraudulent charges amount to practically nothing.
Now that nobody is paying for AIDS drugs (Brazil isn't the first country to ignore the patents), what incentive do drug companies have to
spend the money to develop new ones?
And before you say "to help sick people", let me ask this: how many people do you think would donate money to pharmaceutical companies for
research? Many people think they are just greedy evil companies out to steal money from poor sick people.
Here's the scoop for you: I pay taxes to fund public research. I'll never give a cent to pharmaceutical
companies .
Want a story that is similar, but on a more "person" level. White farmers losing their property in Zimbabwe, because its not fair that they have
it.
This is the new trend, government are going to take what they want and justify it in any shape or form. While they start off doing this with the
cover of "saving lives" how long before it becomes anything they want?
Uh, why do I think of Native Americans when I read this?
Once more the attitude is "do as we say, don't do as we do".
2. Reduces the possibility of region specific drugs NOT being developed because companies rightfully fear losing all investment. (some
diseases are more prevalent in certain areas of the world - that is an obvious statement).
It's already that way: the only region specific drugs are for rich regions. So, anyway, the third-world doesn't get anything from this research.
When do we stop? Who can judge what is a fair price for something? Who can judge what can fairly be patented?
Looks like you just decided that you hold The Truth.
They simply cannot understand the idea of opening the
application and then opening the document.
Now I know that this can be interpreted as a virtue of the Mac OS because it's allowing you to focus on your "job" and not on your "computer",
and maybe it is. But it also strikes me as a little self-defeating because the user doesn't ever get beyond the flail-on-the-mouse stage, which
sounds to me like they're not getting much out of their computer.
What exactly do you mean by getting much out of their computer ? Is it grokking a lousy paradigm that happens to be the most common or knowing how it works inside, like a car engine ?
Whatever, I think this is a self-centered geek view (nothing personal!)
If France doesnt like it, France should figure out a way to block it. If nothing else, they should
tell the ISPs operating in France to not allow their customers to access yahoo auctions, if they want to continue to operate legally in France.
It's probably the 42nd time somebody repeats that on/., but it's not enough apparently:
It's NOT France. It's a French judge and the plaintiff is an independent organization which has nothing to do with the government
It may be slightly less confusing to have only one button, but that's a small thing compared to learning to use a mouse at all,
Indeed.
and more
importantly, a small thing compared to the added functionality of multiple buttons.
...claims the/. commenter, who obviously has no experience with the average computer user, or just can't understand that what he takes for granted isn't always generalizable to everyone.
It seems many moderators are just as stupid as those politicians. Two days ago I did the exact same thing, that is post an s/www/archive/ URL and got moderated down (and NOT for redundancy)...
Sociologically/. is a perferct mirror of the lousiest parts of society.
(and yes, I do agree, I'm part of it just like you)
Slashdot Mirror
The parent deserves some moderation : (+1, Troll smart enough to cut-and-paste)
E.g. 400 hp sounds like a lot. It is a lot, for a Ferrari. Not for a trailer.
Anyway, on the main point, it's much easier to force people to accept military-borne nuisance than commercial flights.
I'd guess the same would be true with anything flying on wings and ambient oxygen.
I don't want to have to remember a different username/password pair for each site I ever register for! I don't care what their scripts like or not, I don't care what their database/ad-tracking system requires, I don't want to be this.that.somehugenumber just because someone else on the planet registered with the same name two months ago.
That's all. I won't do their job for free.
So: I won't register every time I move around. Too bad for them; if they can't implement a quick and usable system for people who don't carry cookies in their pockets, they won't get any registration information from me.
Actually the reason it did catch on is :
- Banks did work together on this so we have a single standard (a bit like GSM vs. the American cellphone hodgepodge)
- Payments done with a smart card and its PIN number are insured by banks
- Payments certified with a plain signature (or nothing at all, eg. in some highway toll booths) are not insured by banks
Net result: every card is a smart card, every shop&co. has a smart card reader, and fraudulent charges amount to practically nothing.Once more the attitude is "do as we say, don't do as we do".
It's already that way: the only region specific drugs are for rich regions. So, anyway, the third-world doesn't get anything from this research. Looks like you just decided that you hold The Truth.Okay. So please build a new language, or pay for the use of English. After all you stole some other country's work.
A political problem?
No. The political problem appears when Brazil decides that life is more important than the stock quotes in some other country far north.
Brazil thus transformed an ethical problem into a political problem. My opinion is, it's a net gain.
Medicine has been corporate property for far too long already.
Whatever, I think this is a self-centered geek view (nothing personal!)
Thanks. Er... ahem... but... where is, uh, Europe? and the sky?
(I can't believe you took my post seriously...)
Uh, actually thhis average slashdotter clicked on the link first, and found it slashdotted already :(
...but where is ISS ? He doesn't say!
What's an average slashdotter to do? Help!
It's probably the 42nd time somebody repeats that on /., but it's not enough apparently:
It's NOT France. It's a French judge and the plaintiff is an independent organization which has nothing to do with the government
OK ? Got it this time?
Uh, external Firewire HD cases, maybe?
Indeed.
and more importantly, a small thing compared to the added functionality of multiple buttons.
...claims the /. commenter, who obviously has no experience with the average computer user, or just can't understand that what he takes for granted isn't always generalizable to everyone.
I just love source control systems...
Funny how so many USians treat Europe as a single country with a single set of laws and usages...
I mean, they always do that, don't they?
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Thus 50% are idiots.
I love statistics!
Sociologically /. is a perferct mirror of the lousiest parts of society.
(and yes, I do agree, I'm part of it just like you)