Considering StorageTek was founded by a bunch of ex-IBM engineers who broke off on their own (and did a pretty damn good job), it's really too bad that they got bought out by Sun, who's now getting bought out by IBM.
I know of some Redwood silos that'll be getting Yet Another Rebranding Sticker here RSN.
When SGI bought Cray, they couldn't figure out what to do w/us. After a few weeks Sun got the SPARC shop for basically the cost of inventory.
The SuperDragon was renamed the E-10K, got new colorful cabinets and people started to eat them up. I still don't understand why Cray couldn't have done just as well w/those boxes.
This is exactly why I thought a Sun/SGI (& Cray) merger back in The Day would be a good thing. I had heard some rumor about McNealy in talks with SGI, but they fell through. Too bad, IMO, though it would've taken some effort to make it all work out.
Seems like some great opportunities foundered on the rocks of individual egos.
Ergo, it's sort of an English coup d'etat. Quod erat demonstrandum.
"English" -not even "American English" - is such a mish-mash of other languages. It's like a giant ball of gum that everyone who passed by it added another wad to the mess. UrbanDictionary.com is further proof of this.:)
Just because they claim it's not tradition DRM, doesn't mean that their new thing is "better".
I don't have an Xbox (no TV) - I only play on my buddy's 360. He's got a platinum account, so we've had him just buy all the games/extra content we want. Notably, Penny Arcade's two installments, and Bring Down The Sky for Mass Effect. We split the cost since I don't want or need the super-duper-special account where MS gets to keep my credit card on file.
Then he upgraded his 360 to a more recent model he found dirt cheap (bigger drive, HDMI?, etc).
Turns out that if you buy anything on Xbox Live, the things that you buy are good for all users only on the first Xbox you download them to. If you buy a newer Xbox360 and transfer your accounts, the downloaded stuff is only good for the user account that made the purchase.
Seems like it would be easy to allow legitimate folks to deactivate downloaded content on the old Xbox first, then transfer to the new Xbox.
But this is Microsoft*, so I'm not going to hold my breath.
(* - currently, you can download something to an Xbox, then disconnect it from the network. In theory this Xbox would be able to run downloaded stuff forever for all accounts on it, which could be used to "pirate" games. As long as it was never connected again. But this seems like a sophomoric design flaw to me than anything else, so the preventing of download transfers to a new Xbox for all users seems to me to be a kluge-workaround for a loophole that could've been easily prevented with a little forethought in the first place.)
Yeah, but obviously they're waging a "war" against Democracy!
Just like the War on Terror, or the War on Drugs, or the War on Poverty, or the War on the Middle Class!
The recording industry started out as distribution. It got into production because it knew that would foster their ability to distribute. The production side, however, is an expense rather than an income stream. Their entire business model is based on distribution.
Which the internet has now made a moot point.
The industry used its clout to be the only game in town for musicians, regardless of quality. They shored up their investment by producing lowest-common-denominator appealing pap.
But now they're not the only game in town. They no longer get to say who your band gets to connect with, outside your local live performance perimeter. So a lot of bands, etc, who were being squeezed like hell by these guys, are free to build audiences anywhere. And even if you're only making $1 per song on average, you have much better odds with the billions of people on the net than being shut out of the industry altogether by the bigwigs.
So the industry is left with the pap it was foisting on everybody, without the higher-markup stuff.
So I disagree that my mind has narrowed (my tastes, while eclectic, have been changing more as I grow older) I would say that the "plenty of good stuff" that has come out lately are gravitating away from the industry, or have built themselves up before getting into the industry.
Announcer: Oh how long can trusty Cadet Stimpy hold out? How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push button that could erase his very existence? Will his tortured mind give into its uncontrollable desires? Can he withstand the temptation to push the button that even now beckons him ever closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history with the mere push of a single button? The beautiful SHINY button. The jolly CANDY-like button. WILL he hold out folks? CAN he hold out?!
They can't magically wave a wand and give your baby genes you didn't already pass along. You may be able to select the best embryo out of a bunch, but if you ain't got it, neither will your embryos.
You really think that's Hulu's fault, or something that Hulu has real control over?
From the O'Reilly article: Let's control ads on the Internet by putting them on our "content" through Hulu, an entertainment industry company, not a smelly nerd company.
Hulu's in the back pocket of the MPAA. Right.
As far as Hulu's concerned, "any way they damn well please" is whatever the studios damn well please. The only right choice they made was to bend over for the studios, except now they're starting to feel the sting.
Sounds like this would be easily adapted so that you can't access a file if you don't have permission due to DRM restrictions (you have paid your monthly access fee!).
Expect to see this on set-top boxes and as a feature of Microsoft Media * (or just Windows generally) as soon as the MPAA/RIAA get wind of it.
These guys'll make a fortune licensing to those asshats.
The file server ozzel was of course, intentionally named as he was soon replaced by piett and veers.
Most users got to name theirs, but for public terminals we had luke, leia, c3po, r2d2, dak, and wedge. The last two being my favorites, and I still tend to use those names for desktops.
My first mac laptop was 'rome' since most other apple names were too long (winesap, braeburn, etc) and it made a nice play on words with 'roam'. I abandoned that for moons of Jupiter or Saturn. This was typed from 'tethys'.
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
The answer page says "D" is the correct answer. I answered "A".
This is a little perplexing to me, since D would imply that every person pays the same amount of tax, say $5000, and therefore the Gov't would spend $5000 per person.
However, the pool of tax the gov't receives and spends was generated by a progressive tax. For the sake of illustration, if person A makes $500,000 and is taxed at 20%, they pay $100,000 in tax. Person B makes $50,000 and is taxed at 10%, so B pays $5,000. The total tax the gov't receives is $105,000 and therefore spends $52,500 per person, despite the tax per person being quite disparate.
So answer "D" only makes sense in a situation where there's no progressive tax. Which isn't even what the question is about.
The question is what is meant when the gov't spends what the gov't gets, and that just means no deficit spending.
Seven's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. Seven doors. Seven, man! That's the number! Seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch! You know that old children's tale from the sea? It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby!
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Who knows, maybe they'll see our Antichthon!
Considering StorageTek was founded by a bunch of ex-IBM engineers who broke off on their own (and did a pretty damn good job), it's really too bad that they got bought out by Sun, who's now getting bought out by IBM.
I know of some Redwood silos that'll be getting Yet Another Rebranding Sticker here RSN.
When SGI bought Cray, they couldn't figure out what to do w/us. After a few weeks Sun got the SPARC shop for basically the cost of inventory.
The SuperDragon was renamed the E-10K, got new colorful cabinets and people started to eat them up. I still don't understand why Cray couldn't have done just as well w/those boxes.
This is exactly why I thought a Sun/SGI (& Cray) merger back in The Day would be a good thing. I had heard some rumor about McNealy in talks with SGI, but they fell through. Too bad, IMO, though it would've taken some effort to make it all work out.
Seems like some great opportunities foundered on the rocks of individual egos.
five Sparc 4s, and a Sparc Classic
You crazy bastard.
You wouldn't happen to know anyone who wants a couple of Sparc 4 audio modules, would you? :)
Ergo, it's sort of an English coup d'etat.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
"English" -not even "American English" - is such a mish-mash of other languages. It's like a giant ball of gum that everyone who passed by it added another wad to the mess. UrbanDictionary.com is further proof of this. :)
Thanks for the tip! I'll go get my boots...
Video editing.
Hollywood will load up on these systems.
Just because they claim it's not tradition DRM, doesn't mean that their new thing is "better".
I don't have an Xbox (no TV) - I only play on my buddy's 360. He's got a platinum account, so we've had him just buy all the games/extra content we want. Notably, Penny Arcade's two installments, and Bring Down The Sky for Mass Effect. We split the cost since I don't want or need the super-duper-special account where MS gets to keep my credit card on file.
Then he upgraded his 360 to a more recent model he found dirt cheap (bigger drive, HDMI?, etc).
Turns out that if you buy anything on Xbox Live, the things that you buy are good for all users only on the first Xbox you download them to. If you buy a newer Xbox360 and transfer your accounts, the downloaded stuff is only good for the user account that made the purchase.
Seems like it would be easy to allow legitimate folks to deactivate downloaded content on the old Xbox first, then transfer to the new Xbox.
But this is Microsoft*, so I'm not going to hold my breath.
(* - currently, you can download something to an Xbox, then disconnect it from the network. In theory this Xbox would be able to run downloaded stuff forever for all accounts on it, which could be used to "pirate" games. As long as it was never connected again. But this seems like a sophomoric design flaw to me than anything else, so the preventing of download transfers to a new Xbox for all users seems to me to be a kluge-workaround for a loophole that could've been easily prevented with a little forethought in the first place.)
Yeah, but obviously they're waging a "war" against Democracy!
Just like the War on Terror, or the War on Drugs, or the War on Poverty, or the War on the Middle Class!
Hell, you could even say organic farmers are waging a War on Monsanto! Clearly, Monsanto needs to defend itself!
That's "Mako" - it's a type of shark.
(and a concept car that influenced the Corvette)
And I thought the Mako was fun to drive! It was like a little R/C dune buggy with jets. You just never flipped it. :)
I don't think it's about narrow minds so much.
The recording industry started out as distribution. It got into production because it knew that would foster their ability to distribute. The production side, however, is an expense rather than an income stream. Their entire business model is based on distribution.
Which the internet has now made a moot point.
The industry used its clout to be the only game in town for musicians, regardless of quality. They shored up their investment by producing lowest-common-denominator appealing pap.
But now they're not the only game in town. They no longer get to say who your band gets to connect with, outside your local live performance perimeter. So a lot of bands, etc, who were being squeezed like hell by these guys, are free to build audiences anywhere. And even if you're only making $1 per song on average, you have much better odds with the billions of people on the net than being shut out of the industry altogether by the bigwigs.
So the industry is left with the pap it was foisting on everybody, without the higher-markup stuff.
So I disagree that my mind has narrowed (my tastes, while eclectic, have been changing more as I grow older) I would say that the "plenty of good stuff" that has come out lately are gravitating away from the industry, or have built themselves up before getting into the industry.
Now that it's a push-button operation:
Lets us OSX as a counter example:
1. find the software you want to install 2. Oh, nobody makes it for Mac. FAIL.
Spoken like someone that hasn't used OS X in 5 years or more.
I think Hulu is incompetent for tying its existence so closely to that of a bunch of dinosaurs. :)
They can't magically wave a wand and give your baby genes you didn't already pass along. You may be able to select the best embryo out of a bunch, but if you ain't got it, neither will your embryos.
You really think that's Hulu's fault, or something that Hulu has real control over?
From the O'Reilly article:
Let's control ads on the Internet by putting them on our "content" through Hulu, an entertainment industry company, not a smelly nerd company.
Hulu's in the back pocket of the MPAA. Right.
As far as Hulu's concerned, "any way they damn well please" is whatever the studios damn well please. The only right choice they made was to bend over for the studios, except now they're starting to feel the sting.
IYKWIM, AITYD
Asps on an Airbus!
Try applying vector patterns to the passwords. Eg: the 1q2w3e is a \/\/\ pattern. The 159357 pattern would just be a big X.
Vector patterns like this are how I remember phone numbers.
BTW, I'm left handed and I have no idea at all how you jumped to that conclusion.
Sounds like this would be easily adapted so that you can't access a file if you don't have permission due to DRM restrictions (you have paid your monthly access fee!).
Expect to see this on set-top boxes and as a feature of Microsoft Media * (or just Windows generally) as soon as the MPAA/RIAA get wind of it.
These guys'll make a fortune licensing to those asshats.
The file server ozzel was of course, intentionally named as he was soon replaced by piett and veers.
Most users got to name theirs, but for public terminals we had luke, leia, c3po, r2d2, dak, and wedge. The last two being my favorites, and I still tend to use those names for desktops.
My first mac laptop was 'rome' since most other apple names were too long (winesap, braeburn, etc) and it made a nice play on words with 'roam'. I abandoned that for moons of Jupiter or Saturn. This was typed from 'tethys'.
Try NCL - NCAR-Graphics Command Language.
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
I've said it before, I'll say it again,
Law enforcement by automaton scares the living hell out of me.
Is it just me or is the whole idea of automated law enforcement the most repulsive thing in modern society?
I am really very much opposed to having my laws executed by automaton.
The answer page says "D" is the correct answer. I answered "A".
This is a little perplexing to me, since D would imply that every person pays the same amount of tax, say $5000, and therefore the Gov't would spend $5000 per person.
However, the pool of tax the gov't receives and spends was generated by a progressive tax. For the sake of illustration, if person A makes $500,000 and is taxed at 20%, they pay $100,000 in tax. Person B makes $50,000 and is taxed at 10%, so B pays $5,000. The total tax the gov't receives is $105,000 and therefore spends $52,500 per person, despite the tax per person being quite disparate.
So answer "D" only makes sense in a situation where there's no progressive tax. Which isn't even what the question is about.
The question is what is meant when the gov't spends what the gov't gets, and that just means no deficit spending.
Which is answer A. Right? Am I missing something?
Seven's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. Seven doors. Seven, man! That's the number! Seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch! You know that old children's tale from the sea? It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby!
Makes as much sense as anything else.