You people disgust me. You go through the trouble of having a kid and yet you want to leave the responsibilty to big corporation. If you can't bother to spend time browsing the web with your kid, don't have one.
You disgust me. You want to express your opinion to a lot of people at the same time, but you use a corporate web site to do it. If you can't bother to spend time talking to many people in person, keep your opinion to yourself.
I remember when web articles were presented as a single continuous page, rather than being split up into multiple segments to generate more ad impressions.
I have a smartphone, but what I loved about Google 411 is with my in-car bluetooth it only took a button push on my steering wheel plus some voice commands to call any business, all while my phone is still in my pocket.
It's a bummer that they still don't allow PDFs to be uploaded. I use Google Docs to store stuff that I used to "print for my records." Having command line interface to upload PDFs would be one step closer to a virtual printer that would just store in Google Docs as PDF. Now that I think if it, they're probably just holding it off while they prepare new interfaces for Google Cloud Print.
Paints and coatings aren't applied in drops of 10 nanograms after sitting around, UNMIXED, on a shelf for two years, and then test to 200 year life for colorfastness. Making good ink is hard. You're a complete blowhard to think that your expertise in any way qualifies you to speak intelligently about an almost completely unrelated industry.
By the way... why is it so expensive? Because people will pay it. Why isn't the ink raw material you're familiar with more expensive? Because people won't pay it. If you don't like it, find some other way of getting your bits on paper, or better yet, send an email.
If this were just about Win7 sucking at tablet, HP would have gone with Android..
Android isn't a tablet OS. It's a phone OS. If you spend enough time playing with it, the fact becomes abundantly clear. Even people who work for Google couldn't make it work well for anything but a phone. That's why Chrome was created. If you really look at what hardware is and is not supported in Android, and look at the limitations of the UI, you can see that it would make a very, very disappointing tablet. For all the complaints about the limitations of the iPad, complaints about an Android tablet will be worse.
Woz must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists.
Too bad Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are dead. They could sympathize.
The reason there is no camera
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iPad Review
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I gave some thought to why there's no video camera. I mean, it seems obvious that this thing should have a camera, right? And the teardown shows exactly where the camera was supposed to go.
I bet the software wasn't ready yet. Apple couldn't get the software ready in time for launch so they pulled the camera out. If they had left it in then they would have to open up its functionality to Skype and every other app writer who wants to put out video chat functionality. By putting the camera (in iPad 2nd generation) and the software on the same schedule, Apple makes video chat part of the core functionality of the device and gets to lock out every other video chat app.
Now the question remains as to why the software wasn't ready, seeing as how iChat would seem to be a fairly easy port to the iPad. Maybe they have something new and cool in mind for video chat? Or maybe there were some carrier restrictions. In any case, be thankful that they couldn't include the camera or right now you'd be at Starbucks trying to read Slashdot on your laptop while listening to some hipster having a video conversation with his hipster friend at the Starbucks on the other side of the street.
Bill Joy's a smart guy, but not much of a diplomat. Speaking of Kleiner-Perkins, maybe Tom Perkins is interested in coming out of retirement. Other good choices: Vint Cerf, Vinod Khosla.
Better yet, just use Digg. Whatever tech is getting the most diggs gets federal funding. The site was one of his best supporters anyway.
Do not buy the largest hard drives that you can find. Cutting-edge storage densities might mean bad long term reliability.
Wow, you just totally made that up. The truth is that HDD manufacturers have some models that are good from start to finish (most), some that start bad and get better, and some that start good and get worse (because suppliers often drop quality after first articles are delivered). There are a ton of variables that affect the long term reliability of a HDD, and the manufacturer cannot screen them all on the manufacturing line. HDD manufacturers have a fair idea of which models are going to be reliable, but they won't tell you, and the best indication to you is the length of the warranty because they figure the warranty cost into their profit and loss.
I have to chime in on how much JungleDisk kicks ass. It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, and there's even a USB key version so that you can access your data on the go. Local caching means you can save on transfer charges, plus you can save now and let your data trickle up later. I run the command line version on my Linux server, and all my other machines access it via the native webdav interface, allowing the multiple clients to share the one cache.
I try to be diligent about rotating disks offsite, but it's so much better to have the convenience of local cached storage that's backed up and available anywhere.
Here's how at GPLv3 is playing at my Fortune 50 company, who makes contributions to lots of OSS projects.
1. We make tivoized device. 2. OSS project which we use for the device switches to GPLv3. 3. We start looking at other alternatives, decide project is no longer useful to us. 4. We stop contributing to the project.
I anticipate there will be a lot of corporate contributors quietly exiting their Samba involvement in the near future. A few of these exits will see some pub when a major developer switches employers as a result, but most corporate OSS contributions will disappear with a whimper. GPLv3 will return OSS to the original egalitarian ideals, but it's probably going to reverse all the corporate uptake that has happened in the last few years. If you're about to say that this only applies to tivoized devices, you should take a look at the market and see that the majority of corporate uptake of OSS has been in internet-connected appliances.
2. Google will beef up the service to meet the needs of publicly traded companies, thus making the Google option so much cheaper than managing the IT part of SOX compliance on your own that companies will have no choice but to use a hosted service.
3. SOX is going away because it blows and it's driving companies away from our stock markets.
It's not Beta.. It's not even FC
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Neuros OSD Review
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· Score: 3, Informative
I had an OSD for a couple weeks and returned it. I'm an embedded Linux developer by trade, so it would have been right in my wheelhouse, IF I had a ton of free time to work on it and time to wait for Neuros' and others' contributions. But seriously, you can't call it beta if > 50% of the features on the box don't work reliably. It's not fair to review the unit at this time. It's nowhere near done.
Say what you will about Dunn, but the fact of the matter is that she ousted both Keyworth, a hack and a leaker, and Carly Fiorina, who was just a hack. The loss of Perkins is regrettable, but I support Dunn all the way. If she continues to clean house she can administer anal probes to the Board and Executive Committee for all I care.
If it were not, she would never have been hired. The HP Way was about substance over style, and hiring the best people. Carly fails on both accounts. The tenures of Carly and Hurd have continued to erode what was left of the HP Way. Employees can't help but be saddened about this, and many smart people have left as a result, but Carly and Hurd have worked to turn HP into just another big company that is capable of surviving with cheaper, lesser quality employees, so it may work out in the end for the shareholders.
Most mini-labs (I'm looking at you, Costco, Wal-Mart, and everyone with a Kodak kiosk) have pretty lame quality. If you have a photo printer with card slots, ie. you're not going to f it up in photoshop, print a picture at home, then print the same picture at your minilab. If the minilab print looks better to you, consider yourself lucky. In my experience as a studio photographer, and as a family snapshotter, the quality from most minilabs is very inconsistent, mostly due to operator error or poor maintenance. What's worse, is that every web site I've used that doesn't do their own printing (I'm looking at you, sites with online submission and local pickup) recompresses your high quality image to a tiny low quality jpeg such that you can see artifacts that weren't in the original on anything larger than an 8x10.
If you want really good quality and consistency, spend a little more for a higher end place like mpix.com or whcc.com, or probably dozens more, who understand their own equipment, and pay the operators more than $7/hr. Or print at home.
I never got why HP did this. It looked nothing more than what it probably was--a desperate attempt to try to cash in on a popular name. Was there any reason to buy an HP iPod instead of an Apple one? Same price, same warranty, same everything, right?
Go to Costco or Target and see how many non-HP iPods you see there. Now think a little bit. Now a little bit more. Wait for it... there! You figured out why HP did it.
Novell is latching onto anything they think can make them money because they certainly haven't made a penny in years.
Good for them. If they were losing money and they didn't try something new, THAT would be a problem.
What about HP? HP-UX is dying, they need to jump on something.
Every product in every industry is dying. The companies that don't jump on something else are the ones that die.
Red Hat will help push Linux to desktops. HP is wandering in the woods.
Red Hat has already burned bridges with many hardware vendors, and they've pissed off the user community at large by dropping their mainstream distribution. Watch for them to lose market share until IBM buys them.
Windows dominance is already threatened by Linux existence. Keeping that threat manageable is the key to Windows survival.
Hey, you managed one-for-four, at least you avoided a shutout.
Why are we trying to cram all this stuff into our lives?
Hear, hear. People really need to do more nothing. Even when most people say they're doing nothing, they're watching TV, surfing the net, scratching, eating cheetos. Try sitting down and paying attention to your breath. Try letting your mind slow down. Now do it for an hour every day. Now do it every day for a month. Now see how much more you're getting out of life.
Don't be surprised if you see a bill floating around Congress suggesting that software to be sold must meet pass some sort of regulation testing that (gee, how about that!) open source software will have a very hard time passing. Microsoft has in their possession a nice crop of congressmen, and since neither their illegal monopoly tactics nor the msft-funded lawsuits are slowing open source adoption, expect legislation next.
Re:Hacking And Overclocking - What?
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Hackers On Atkins
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· Score: 1
It's reasonably likely that you would have lost the same weight on just cutting bad carbs alone.
That's a nice thought, but it's not true. The first two stages of the four-stage Atkins diet are "corrective." They are meant to make you lose weight, and that simply means you're not getting enough to maintain the status quo. Having reintroduced carbs, I'm now on a steady state diet that is healthful and does not result in my gaining or losing weight.
When I started on Atkins, people repeatedly asked, "how will you keep the weight off?" I always said, "For once in my life, I would like to have that problem."
Cutting out bad carbs alone is a sensible plan from a theoretical point of view, but it's a hard diet to stay on. The severeness of induction phase of Atkins contributes to its documented success rate. I (and many friends I know) find Atkins is easier to stay on as time passes. Low-fat and many other diets are more difficult the longer you're on them.
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You people disgust me. You go through the trouble of having a kid and yet you want to leave the responsibilty to big corporation. If you can't bother to spend time browsing the web with your kid, don't have one.
You disgust me. You want to express your opinion to a lot of people at the same time, but you use a corporate web site to do it. If you can't bother to spend time talking to many people in person, keep your opinion to yourself.
I remember when web articles were presented as a single continuous page, rather than being split up into multiple segments to generate more ad impressions.
Trolling articles are still alive and well.
I have a smartphone, but what I loved about Google 411 is with my in-car bluetooth it only took a button push on my steering wheel plus some voice commands to call any business, all while my phone is still in my pocket.
It's a bummer that they still don't allow PDFs to be uploaded. I use Google Docs to store stuff that I used to "print for my records." Having command line interface to upload PDFs would be one step closer to a virtual printer that would just store in Google Docs as PDF. Now that I think if it, they're probably just holding it off while they prepare new interfaces for Google Cloud Print.
Paints and coatings aren't applied in drops of 10 nanograms after sitting around, UNMIXED, on a shelf for two years, and then test to 200 year life for colorfastness. Making good ink is hard. You're a complete blowhard to think that your expertise in any way qualifies you to speak intelligently about an almost completely unrelated industry.
By the way... why is it so expensive? Because people will pay it. Why isn't the ink raw material you're familiar with more expensive? Because people won't pay it. If you don't like it, find some other way of getting your bits on paper, or better yet, send an email.
If this were just about Win7 sucking at tablet, HP would have gone with Android..
Android isn't a tablet OS. It's a phone OS. If you spend enough time playing with it, the fact becomes abundantly clear. Even people who work for Google couldn't make it work well for anything but a phone. That's why Chrome was created. If you really look at what hardware is and is not supported in Android, and look at the limitations of the UI, you can see that it would make a very, very disappointing tablet. For all the complaints about the limitations of the iPad, complaints about an Android tablet will be worse.
Too bad Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are dead. They could sympathize.
I gave some thought to why there's no video camera. I mean, it seems obvious that this thing should have a camera, right? And the teardown shows exactly where the camera was supposed to go.
I bet the software wasn't ready yet. Apple couldn't get the software ready in time for launch so they pulled the camera out. If they had left it in then they would have to open up its functionality to Skype and every other app writer who wants to put out video chat functionality. By putting the camera (in iPad 2nd generation) and the software on the same schedule, Apple makes video chat part of the core functionality of the device and gets to lock out every other video chat app.
Now the question remains as to why the software wasn't ready, seeing as how iChat would seem to be a fairly easy port to the iPad. Maybe they have something new and cool in mind for video chat? Or maybe there were some carrier restrictions. In any case, be thankful that they couldn't include the camera or right now you'd be at Starbucks trying to read Slashdot on your laptop while listening to some hipster having a video conversation with his hipster friend at the Starbucks on the other side of the street.
Bill Joy's a smart guy, but not much of a diplomat. Speaking of Kleiner-Perkins, maybe Tom Perkins is interested in coming out of retirement. Other good choices: Vint Cerf, Vinod Khosla.
Better yet, just use Digg. Whatever tech is getting the most diggs gets federal funding. The site was one of his best supporters anyway.
Do not buy the largest hard drives that you can find. Cutting-edge storage densities might mean bad long term reliability.
Wow, you just totally made that up. The truth is that HDD manufacturers have some models that are good from start to finish (most), some that start bad and get better, and some that start good and get worse (because suppliers often drop quality after first articles are delivered). There are a ton of variables that affect the long term reliability of a HDD, and the manufacturer cannot screen them all on the manufacturing line. HDD manufacturers have a fair idea of which models are going to be reliable, but they won't tell you, and the best indication to you is the length of the warranty because they figure the warranty cost into their profit and loss.17-inch backlit LCD will cost you 20 watts. Doh!
I have to chime in on how much JungleDisk kicks ass. It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, and there's even a USB key version so that you can access your data on the go. Local caching means you can save on transfer charges, plus you can save now and let your data trickle up later. I run the command line version on my Linux server, and all my other machines access it via the native webdav interface, allowing the multiple clients to share the one cache.
I try to be diligent about rotating disks offsite, but it's so much better to have the convenience of local cached storage that's backed up and available anywhere.
Here's how at GPLv3 is playing at my Fortune 50 company, who makes contributions to lots of OSS projects.
1. We make tivoized device.
2. OSS project which we use for the device switches to GPLv3.
3. We start looking at other alternatives, decide project is no longer useful to us.
4. We stop contributing to the project.
I anticipate there will be a lot of corporate contributors quietly exiting their Samba involvement in the near future. A few of these exits will see some pub when a major developer switches employers as a result, but most corporate OSS contributions will disappear with a whimper. GPLv3 will return OSS to the original egalitarian ideals, but it's probably going to reverse all the corporate uptake that has happened in the last few years. If you're about to say that this only applies to tivoized devices, you should take a look at the market and see that the majority of corporate uptake of OSS has been in internet-connected appliances.
This isn't a problem because
1. Small businesses don't care about SOX.
2. Google will beef up the service to meet the needs of publicly traded companies, thus making the Google option so much cheaper than managing the IT part of SOX compliance on your own that companies will have no choice but to use a hosted service.
3. SOX is going away because it blows and it's driving companies away from our stock markets.
I had an OSD for a couple weeks and returned it. I'm an embedded Linux developer by trade, so it would have been right in my wheelhouse, IF I had a ton of free time to work on it and time to wait for Neuros' and others' contributions. But seriously, you can't call it beta if > 50% of the features on the box don't work reliably. It's not fair to review the unit at this time. It's nowhere near done.
Say what you will about Dunn, but the fact of the matter is that she ousted both Keyworth, a hack and a leaker, and Carly Fiorina, who was just a hack. The loss of Perkins is regrettable, but I support Dunn all the way. If she continues to clean house she can administer anal probes to the Board and Executive Committee for all I care.
If it were not, she would never have been hired. The HP Way was about substance over style, and hiring the best people. Carly fails on both accounts. The tenures of Carly and Hurd have continued to erode what was left of the HP Way. Employees can't help but be saddened about this, and many smart people have left as a result, but Carly and Hurd have worked to turn HP into just another big company that is capable of surviving with cheaper, lesser quality employees, so it may work out in the end for the shareholders.
Most mini-labs (I'm looking at you, Costco, Wal-Mart, and everyone with a Kodak kiosk) have pretty lame quality. If you have a photo printer with card slots, ie. you're not going to f it up in photoshop, print a picture at home, then print the same picture at your minilab. If the minilab print looks better to you, consider yourself lucky. In my experience as a studio photographer, and as a family snapshotter, the quality from most minilabs is very inconsistent, mostly due to operator error or poor maintenance. What's worse, is that every web site I've used that doesn't do their own printing (I'm looking at you, sites with online submission and local pickup) recompresses your high quality image to a tiny low quality jpeg such that you can see artifacts that weren't in the original on anything larger than an 8x10.
If you want really good quality and consistency, spend a little more for a higher end place like mpix.com or whcc.com, or probably dozens more, who understand their own equipment, and pay the operators more than $7/hr. Or print at home.
I never got why HP did this. It looked nothing more than what it probably was--a desperate attempt to try to cash in on a popular name. Was there any reason to buy an HP iPod instead of an Apple one? Same price, same warranty, same everything, right?
Go to Costco or Target and see how many non-HP iPods you see there. Now think a little bit. Now a little bit more. Wait for it... there! You figured out why HP did it.
Trends, huh? Just like their making the printers with bizarre hump shapes so you can't set anything on top of them.
Maybe you should clean all those soda cans and pizza boxes off your desk, ya slob.
Novell is latching onto anything they think can make them money because they certainly haven't made a penny in years.
Good for them. If they were losing money and they didn't try something new, THAT would be a problem.
What about HP? HP-UX is dying, they need to jump on something.
Every product in every industry is dying. The companies that don't jump on something else are the ones that die.
Red Hat will help push Linux to desktops. HP is wandering in the woods.
Red Hat has already burned bridges with many hardware vendors, and they've pissed off the user community at large by dropping their mainstream distribution. Watch for them to lose market share until IBM buys them.
Windows dominance is already threatened by Linux existence. Keeping that threat manageable is the key to Windows survival.
Hey, you managed one-for-four, at least you avoided a shutout.
Why are we trying to cram all this stuff into our lives?
Hear, hear. People really need to do more nothing. Even when most people say they're doing nothing, they're watching TV, surfing the net, scratching, eating cheetos. Try sitting down and paying attention to your breath. Try letting your mind slow down. Now do it for an hour every day. Now do it every day for a month. Now see how much more you're getting out of life.
Don't be surprised if you see a bill floating around Congress suggesting that software to be sold must meet pass some sort of regulation testing that (gee, how about that!) open source software will have a very hard time passing. Microsoft has in their possession a nice crop of congressmen, and since neither their illegal monopoly tactics nor the msft-funded lawsuits are slowing open source adoption, expect legislation next.
It's reasonably likely that you would have lost the same weight on just cutting bad carbs alone.
That's a nice thought, but it's not true. The first two stages of the four-stage Atkins diet are "corrective." They are meant to make you lose weight, and that simply means you're not getting enough to maintain the status quo. Having reintroduced carbs, I'm now on a steady state diet that is healthful and does not result in my gaining or losing weight.
When I started on Atkins, people repeatedly asked, "how will you keep the weight off?" I always said, "For once in my life, I would like to have that problem."
Cutting out bad carbs alone is a sensible plan from a theoretical point of view, but it's a hard diet to stay on. The severeness of induction phase of Atkins contributes to its documented success rate. I (and many friends I know) find Atkins is easier to stay on as time passes. Low-fat and many other diets are more difficult the longer you're on them.