Sun's biggest customer segment is the telco market.
Don't be so sure that Sun is willing to potentially work against them. If I had a wireless company or division, don't think for a second that I wouldn't pull weight with Sun to get them to put some heat on Android.
Video Conferencing. Freaking video conferencing in a handheld device, of all things. You can videoconference with another N800 or N810 unit. Or you can videoconference with a PC. Holy crap!
It may not be ultra-useful, but it is darn cool. And you can bet that more mobile devices are going to start doing this.
Yes, but not getting your own legislation forward, as a majority, does not mean that the minority gets to pass whatever legislation they want. Here you have the democrats rolling over, again, acting as though they're compelled to pass the legislation that the minority wants.
If the MINORITY has so much power to pass legislation, why doesn't the MAJORITY? [Answer: empty excuses]
I'm trying to understand this. Although it is painted as a marketing arrangement, does this provide them the immunity (going forward) that Congree would not grant retroactively?
I think I'd have a lot to add to Wikipedia, but I don't. Any time I have made any contribution, substantial or minor, someone else comes around and knocks it off. The feeling I've gotten is that people seem to 'own' pieces of territory in Wikipedia. Be it individual articles, or their interpretation, or something else. My contributions have no chance of surviving in the face of these Wiki die-hards. So what is the point? I'm a read-only user now.
Keep the process non-standardized. Make it organic and not a mechanical process. It is much easier to prevent an organic process from being gamed in that manner. If it was standardized, then there wouldn't be as good of an opportunity to reject obvious manipulations.
Despite your typos, I'd mod you up if I had the points. I didn't see them specifiy if it was wall clock hours or man hours. (I suppose you could further argue that they don't specify if any part of the man-hours are counted again for a different warrant, or if these were dedicated and discrete man hours to this. Much less how far down into the indirect support roles are included.)
So 200 hours could mean that someone entered something onto a screen in a computer system in five minutes and it was done. But they go back and count the time it takes to maintain the system, the techs to actually do the work, the approval process with multiple people, etc etc.
Or it could mean that from the time the process started, it takes 8 days for the wiretap to be in place.
Either way, I think this is a number used to create an impression rather than to convey any meaningful information.
The truth gets lost when you try to reword officials in this adminstration. I can't find links to what was actually said, but here is what The Washington Post and other sources have reported. My emphasis added:
"Law enforcement officials are targeting fewer than 100 people in the United States for secret court-approved wiretaps aimed at disrupting terrorist networks, the top U.S. intelligence official said in an interview published yesterday."
Given the clever wordplay of the Bush administration, should we assume that there have been 100 wiretaps, or should we believe they're being clever with their words (again) and there are 100 wiretaps aimed at disrupting terrorist networks, but an unknown number of warrantless wiretaps for other purposes?
Most states and even some cities have a 'department of weights and measures' that have a pretty good legal authority to conduct all sorts of testing in regards to the measurement of things sold. I looked up the local ordinances on mine, and they had some fairly nasty teeth to them.
These are exactly the people who you want to get involved to investigate this kind of thing.
So it sounds like someone was designing CPUs like I see some people designing software. They don't think through all the edge cases, but instead rely on testing to point them all out to be fixed. Except, they obviously didn't have sufficient testing in place to catch all of these edge cases. OUCH!
BTW, without going too far down this road, but did a different, perhaps newer, team have a good hand in this processor's implementation?
Basically, a small car going at a high speed towards a highway toll. But it fails to go through the toll gate. Instead, it crashed into a barrier that was between lanes, and erupted into a huge fireball. What caught my interest was the number of cars rubbernecking and driving through. And then someone who actually stopped to take a look.
Kind of makes you wonder why someone would be going so fast through a toll gate, but even stranger, why they managed to miss the toll gate and crashed into the barrier between gates. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. But it is a spectacular video to watch.
I've heard some good stores about the service and coverage area, so they may vary from region to region. I guess that's a good point, to check with other subscribers in the area, to see the local quality signal. (Since they ride on other carrier's networks, they're not building their own. So they're subject to what is already there.)
Mind letting us know which region(s) are causing you grief?
For those areas lucky enough to have Cricket Wireless, they're a nice hybrid between prepaid and regular telephone service. Flat rate. Here are teir plans.
$40/month gets you unlimited calling minutes, unlimited US long distance, unlimited text/picture/IM.
The "high end package" of $60/month gets you all that, plus use of all Cricket coverage areas, voice mail, caller id, call waiting, 3-way calling, 200 nationwide roaming minutes per month. (After you hit your 200 minutes, roaming stops working unless you pay up for some more roaming minutes for that month.)
If I had kids, I'd get them Cricket service in a heartbeat.
Great story on the Big Red Button. A well known company built a new datacenter, and started populating it with servers. Everything was going great. But the datacenter had the Big Red Button. It also had a somewhat smaller Yellow Button. You see, the datacenter's sprinkler system (yes, no halon... water sprinklers) worked in two stages. The first was to fill the tubes with water, and the second was to open up the heads in the sprinklers.
But, in their wisdom, they offered a Big Yellow Button to hold off on opening up the sprinklers. As long as the Big Yellow Button is held down, the sprinklers won't actually spray water. So you can see that this could be very useful in a false alarm situation.
Well, one day, an employee decided to play around with the Big Yellow Button. Yes. Do you know what is coming? No, you probably don't. And neither did the employee. Well, earlier in the story, I mentioned that this was a new datacenter. And it looks like they didn't do a great deal of testing of its emergency features before they put it into use. You see, the people who wired up the Big Yellow Button had swapped the wiring at the other end with the wires to the Big Red Button. But nobody tested the buttons out to make sure they worked. Since you are a Slashdot reader, I'm sure you understand the result of this unfortunate wiring mistake, and lack of testing.
The employee, however, was not fired or significantly disciplined for the significant outage (and disk damage from a sudden power loss) that resulted.
It was at $0.06 before the energy prices started going up, and at the peak of last summer, it climbed all the way up to $0.09 per KWH. (Fuel rate was 0.010 per KWH.)
I have no idea how you people manage to pay double or triple those costs.
Re:Key Isn't Copyrighted - Then why DMCA Takedown?
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Does the DMCA make provisions for a takedown notice to be given for a circumvention tool? My memory of it is that it is just for copyrighted works. Not other things, like a circumvention tool. Or, say, a patent violation.
I'd be more than happy to be wrong, but I just don't remember that being one of the legitimate uses of a DMCA takedown notice.
Re:Key Isn't Copyrighted - Then why DMCA Takedown?
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Well, I think the point is, if the key is not copyrighted, then how is a DMCA takedown application the appropriate way to remove something that isn't copyrighted in the first place?
The only story here is that this information ended up in the wrong Inbox.
You forgot the quote about the paid Forrester Research document "The ROI of Blogging". And then how Microsoft PR tried to drive the reporter to the "analyst" (paid shill?) to get some insight into her "research" (paid report).
QUOTE: "We're also trying to get him to talk to Charlene Li at Forrester Research who just published a positive report for us on the ROI of blogging."
So, you've got a great story that directly shows how Microsoft's PR department uses "research" companies perhaps more for PR than for research. I think this is already pretty much known, but it is a delicious data point down that road.
Here is what TiVo sent me. The Thursday (Mar 8) before DST. Thanks for the warning!
Dear TiVo Subscriber,
As Daylight Saving Time commences three weeks early this year, we thought we'd beat the clock to let you know how this unusual schedule might affect recordings on your TiVo(r) Series1 DVR. (Hint: Chances are slim.)
While the TiVo service will continue to automatically record your Season Pass(tm) programs and WishList(r) searches at the correct airtimes without incident, there are two things to note:
1) For the three weeks that follow the new Daylight Saving Time start date (March 11), your Series1 TiVo(r) DVR may display the incorrect time.
Again, to be clear, this is only a cosmetic issue and should not affect your Season Pass(tm) and WishList(r) recordings.
2) If you have any MANUAL recordings scheduled between March 11 and April 1, you will need to adjust those recordings as appropriate. Here's how:
- From TiVo Central, select Pick Programs to Record, then To Do List.
- Locate your Manual Recording (by channel, date, time) and adjust accordingly. For example, if you have a daily manual recording from 8:00 am
- 9:00 am, you will need to change it to 7:00 am - 8:00 am on March 11. (Quick Tip: If there are no recordings in this list preceded by the word "Manual", there's nothing further you need to do.)
- On April 1 be sure to change it back to its actual time, i.e., 8:00 am - 9:00 am.
For more details, please visit www.tivo.com/dst
Thanks for being a TiVo subscriber and here's to a beautiful spring!
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Sun's biggest customer segment is the telco market.
Don't be so sure that Sun is willing to potentially work against them. If I had a wireless company or division, don't think for a second that I wouldn't pull weight with Sun to get them to put some heat on Android.
Don't tell anyone. But video conferencing has been working with the N800 for quite some time. Google and you'll find plenty more references.
Video Conferencing. Freaking video conferencing in a handheld device, of all things. You can videoconference with another N800 or N810 unit. Or you can videoconference with a PC. Holy crap!
It may not be ultra-useful, but it is darn cool. And you can bet that more mobile devices are going to start doing this.
Yes, but not getting your own legislation forward, as a majority, does not mean that the minority gets to pass whatever legislation they want. Here you have the democrats rolling over, again, acting as though they're compelled to pass the legislation that the minority wants.
If the MINORITY has so much power to pass legislation, why doesn't the MAJORITY? [Answer: empty excuses]
I'm trying to understand this. Although it is painted as a marketing arrangement, does this provide them the immunity (going forward) that Congree would not grant retroactively?
You know this is going to be exploited in so many bad ways. Did the NSA think up this one?
I think I'd have a lot to add to Wikipedia, but I don't. Any time I have made any contribution, substantial or minor, someone else comes around and knocks it off. The feeling I've gotten is that people seem to 'own' pieces of territory in Wikipedia. Be it individual articles, or their interpretation, or something else. My contributions have no chance of surviving in the face of these Wiki die-hards. So what is the point? I'm a read-only user now.
Great! They've got an all too clever way to catch terrorists!
Now... if only there were some terrorists around.
(Hey you! What are those wires? Stop now or I'll blow your brains out!)
Keep the process non-standardized. Make it organic and not a mechanical process. It is much easier to prevent an organic process from being gamed in that manner. If it was standardized, then there wouldn't be as good of an opportunity to reject obvious manipulations.
Despite your typos, I'd mod you up if I had the points. I didn't see them specifiy if it was wall clock hours or man hours. (I suppose you could further argue that they don't specify if any part of the man-hours are counted again for a different warrant, or if these were dedicated and discrete man hours to this. Much less how far down into the indirect support roles are included.)
So 200 hours could mean that someone entered something onto a screen in a computer system in five minutes and it was done. But they go back and count the time it takes to maintain the system, the techs to actually do the work, the approval process with multiple people, etc etc.
Or it could mean that from the time the process started, it takes 8 days for the wiretap to be in place.
Either way, I think this is a number used to create an impression rather than to convey any meaningful information.
The truth gets lost when you try to reword officials in this adminstration. I can't find links to what was actually said, but here is what The Washington Post and other sources have reported. My emphasis added:
"Law enforcement officials are targeting fewer than 100 people in the United States for secret court-approved wiretaps aimed at disrupting terrorist networks, the top U.S. intelligence official said in an interview published yesterday."
Given the clever wordplay of the Bush administration, should we assume that there have been 100 wiretaps, or should we believe they're being clever with their words (again) and there are 100 wiretaps aimed at disrupting terrorist networks, but an unknown number of warrantless wiretaps for other purposes?
Most states and even some cities have a 'department of weights and measures' that have a pretty good legal authority to conduct all sorts of testing in regards to the measurement of things sold. I looked up the local ordinances on mine, and they had some fairly nasty teeth to them.
These are exactly the people who you want to get involved to investigate this kind of thing.
So it sounds like someone was designing CPUs like I see some people designing software. They don't think through all the edge cases, but instead rely on testing to point them all out to be fixed. Except, they obviously didn't have sufficient testing in place to catch all of these edge cases. OUCH!
BTW, without going too far down this road, but did a different, perhaps newer, team have a good hand in this processor's implementation?
Basically, a small car going at a high speed towards a highway toll. But it fails to go through the toll gate. Instead, it crashed into a barrier that was between lanes, and erupted into a huge fireball. What caught my interest was the number of cars rubbernecking and driving through. And then someone who actually stopped to take a look.
Kind of makes you wonder why someone would be going so fast through a toll gate, but even stranger, why they managed to miss the toll gate and crashed into the barrier between gates. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. But it is a spectacular video to watch.
I've heard some good stores about the service and coverage area, so they may vary from region to region. I guess that's a good point, to check with other subscribers in the area, to see the local quality signal. (Since they ride on other carrier's networks, they're not building their own. So they're subject to what is already there.)
Mind letting us know which region(s) are causing you grief?
For those areas lucky enough to have Cricket Wireless, they're a nice hybrid between prepaid and regular telephone service. Flat rate. Here are teir plans.
$40/month gets you unlimited calling minutes, unlimited US long distance, unlimited text/picture/IM.
The "high end package" of $60/month gets you all that, plus use of all Cricket coverage areas, voice mail, caller id, call waiting, 3-way calling, 200 nationwide roaming minutes per month. (After you hit your 200 minutes, roaming stops working unless you pay up for some more roaming minutes for that month.)
If I had kids, I'd get them Cricket service in a heartbeat.
Great story on the Big Red Button. A well known company built a new datacenter, and started populating it with servers. Everything was going great. But the datacenter had the Big Red Button. It also had a somewhat smaller Yellow Button. You see, the datacenter's sprinkler system (yes, no halon... water sprinklers) worked in two stages. The first was to fill the tubes with water, and the second was to open up the heads in the sprinklers.
But, in their wisdom, they offered a Big Yellow Button to hold off on opening up the sprinklers. As long as the Big Yellow Button is held down, the sprinklers won't actually spray water. So you can see that this could be very useful in a false alarm situation.
Well, one day, an employee decided to play around with the Big Yellow Button. Yes. Do you know what is coming? No, you probably don't. And neither did the employee. Well, earlier in the story, I mentioned that this was a new datacenter. And it looks like they didn't do a great deal of testing of its emergency features before they put it into use. You see, the people who wired up the Big Yellow Button had swapped the wiring at the other end with the wires to the Big Red Button. But nobody tested the buttons out to make sure they worked. Since you are a Slashdot reader, I'm sure you understand the result of this unfortunate wiring mistake, and lack of testing.
The employee, however, was not fired or significantly disciplined for the significant outage (and disk damage from a sudden power loss) that resulted.
I like this idea. Very interesting!
(I guess the question then becomes... lifespan of the batteries? Cost of caching equipment?)
From my last electric bill...
Actual energy cost per KWH $0.07
It was at $0.06 before the energy prices started going up, and at the peak of last summer, it climbed all the way up to $0.09 per KWH. (Fuel rate was 0.010 per KWH.)
I have no idea how you people manage to pay double or triple those costs.
Does the DMCA make provisions for a takedown notice to be given for a circumvention tool? My memory of it is that it is just for copyrighted works. Not other things, like a circumvention tool. Or, say, a patent violation.
I'd be more than happy to be wrong, but I just don't remember that being one of the legitimate uses of a DMCA takedown notice.
Well, I think the point is, if the key is not copyrighted, then how is a DMCA takedown application the appropriate way to remove something that isn't copyrighted in the first place?
The only story here is that this information ended up in the wrong Inbox.
You forgot the quote about the paid Forrester Research document "The ROI of Blogging". And then how Microsoft PR tried to drive the reporter to the "analyst" (paid shill?) to get some insight into her "research" (paid report).
QUOTE: "We're also trying to get him to talk to Charlene Li at Forrester Research who just published a positive report for us on the ROI of blogging."
So, you've got a great story that directly shows how Microsoft's PR department uses "research" companies perhaps more for PR than for research. I think this is already pretty much known, but it is a delicious data point down that road.
FTA: We're also trying to get him to talk to Charlene Li at Forrester who just published a positive report for us on the ROI of blogging.
As if anyone at this point had any doubt that these 'research companies' are paid shills.
There is only one problem with a million dollar laptop:
HEAVY DEPRECIATION
Here is what TiVo sent me. The Thursday (Mar 8) before DST. Thanks for the warning!
Dear TiVo Subscriber,
As Daylight Saving Time commences three weeks early this year, we
thought we'd beat the clock to let you know how this unusual schedule might
affect recordings on your TiVo(r) Series1 DVR. (Hint: Chances are
slim.)
While the TiVo service will continue to automatically record your
Season Pass(tm) programs and WishList(r) searches at the correct airtimes
without incident, there are two things to note:
1) For the three weeks that follow the new Daylight Saving Time start
date (March 11), your Series1 TiVo(r) DVR may display the incorrect
time.
Again, to be clear, this is only a cosmetic issue and should not affect
your Season Pass(tm) and WishList(r) recordings.
2) If you have any MANUAL recordings scheduled between March 11 and
April 1, you
will need to adjust those recordings as appropriate. Here's how:
- From TiVo Central, select Pick Programs to Record, then To Do List.
- Locate your Manual Recording (by channel, date, time) and adjust
accordingly. For example, if you have a daily manual recording from 8:00 am
- 9:00 am, you will need to change it to 7:00 am - 8:00 am on March 11.
(Quick Tip: If there are no recordings in this list preceded by the
word "Manual", there's nothing further you need to do.)
- On April 1 be sure to change it back to its actual time, i.e., 8:00
am - 9:00 am.
For more details, please visit www.tivo.com/dst
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