are my own. Any bar that is scanning my ID and keeping a record or pulling other data is not getting my business. Then again, when I buy beer at the grocery store and put it on my debit card, it is doing the same thing.
We (the collective us) have been rushing at a breakneck speed down the tunnel of complete mediation. Everything about us will be known. Except perhaps to ourselves.
Wow, that was pretty deep for this early in the morning...
That's great. Just wonderful. Our species keeps squabbling over the same pice of dirt for 5,000 years in the Mid-East and completely misses one of the top threats to humanity. We have the technology to give us some protection against this type of thing. Let us implement it since we apparently got a 2nd chance.
I have used WD drives for about 5 years now and their higher-end EIDE and SCSI have been great workhorses for us. A shame for IBM. Their hardware used to be top-notch in quality. Period. I guess that leaves HP....
This is one area where open source software can really pull ahead of Microsoft. Provide excellent documentation of the software and the coding as well. That's all folks. As shoddy as Microsoft's image is regarding security, they won't be able to have it both ways. Not to pick on them, as there are plenty of other targets (AOL being another), but they do have a poor track record in this arena.
The most direct benefit of this initiative is well-written code. Well-written code that undergoes peer review from impartial others is the best thing we can do to further this industry.
It looks like OS X is becoming a serious contender for the server market. Now if Apple can get their ass in gear and make some serious sever hardware, it has a shot at boosting market share.
Hi! I'm Homer Simpson! I'm a complete idiot! I can do anything I want to and get away with it! I live in a mansion and eat lobster 'cuz I'm Homer Simpson!
or
Hi! I'm John Katz! I'm a complete idiot! I sit around all day and surf the web looking for stuff! I can publish inane crap on Slashdot 'cuz I'm an idiot!
.. an intelligent discussion without a lot of FUD.
However, I do object to this constant hyping of putting a computer in front of a kid in Afganistan, Pakistan or wherever and suddenly the world has changed for him/her. There is an interesting article over at MSNBC about how truly inpoverish Pakistani schools are. If they can't even get textbooks and running water, how do you expect to support a student's school with a fiber optic line and steady power to run PCs? Don't get me wrong, technology has a tremendously liberating effect, but the short term impact must be realistic.
I met him at a GenCon once and he is a big freak. But the again, so am I. Too bad he got dicked-over by the former equity partners at TSR in the 1980s.
It seems that Sony has a hard time focusing on consumer products in the IT sphere. They tend to hit or miss. The VAIO line was a pretty tepid offering up until the previous iteration. The Playstation I & II were tremendously successful in their markets. The CLIEs were good(great?). Their MP3 players and MD players had terrible connectivity to PCs or Macs.
The new PDA looks good though. Maybe this will be a hit.
Given Bill Gates attitude toward end-users (i.e. Windows), it is not surpising that Microsoft doesn't have a clue how to handle service. Sales yes, service no.
Hmmm....I have been eyeballing the Mac G4s for about a year. I think it maybe time to take the plunge. Although I could wait and buy a dual AMD Hammer mb with CPUs and a gig of RAM for about 1/2 the price. And build a clear case...
But the iMac sure looks cool. And they are only $2k. Too bad they are 4-6 weeks behind.
I saw TRON at the theater when it cam out. I was 9 or 10 at the time. We got a Sincalir ZX-81 with 16k RAM about the same time. That movie got me into computers like nobody's business. Imagining the CPU and RAM and electrons flowing through them. WOW! It is a little bit dated now, but when you are 9 years old you absorb the images and ideas like a sponge.
With Intel planning on integrated circuits with radio antennas built in by 2010, I wonder if this technology can me melded to provided better range and gain. For example, if your PDA is the size of a 100mm square chip and is embedded in your neck, you can get a range of 10 meters instead of one.
I am an IT manager at a technical services company. I just had a call this morning from Microsoft-Great Plains (the 4th one in a week) wanting to come in and demo their product. I told them no, we don't use Microsoft software. The salesman laughed as if he didn't believe me and made a remark to the effect that our company would soon be out of business due to the software we run (or do not).
Alternative software save our company money, time (money) and offers us tremendous flexibility with our workflow. Why do I want to pay Microsoft $2,000 a seat for licensing when I can get the equivalent performance for approx $400 a seat?
Given that Lucent's CEO said today that he does not see the telecom equipment market turning around anytime soon, a government initiative to upgrade the core routers to IPv6 would help boost the battered sector of the economy. Granted, Lucent shot themselves in the foot last year (several times) and upgrade to IPv6 might just result in a higher volume of spam.....
It is refreshing to read an interview with someone about the Macintosh and not have it deteriorate into a Win-tel bad/Mac good dialectic. Useful, critical insights into the diferent realms of personal computing are rare given the tremendous amounts of PR-spin in this industry. I can think of another example: John Dvorak is the only one left at Ziff-Davis with any kind of integrity.
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"There are 6 billion people in the planet, why would the "system" want to spy on you?"
That is not the point.
First: It can without my consent.
Second: The costs to do so are dropping towards zero.
This is troubling.
are my own. Any bar that is scanning my ID and keeping a record or pulling other data is not getting my business. Then again, when I buy beer at the grocery store and put it on my debit card, it is doing the same thing.
We (the collective us) have been rushing at a breakneck speed down the tunnel of complete mediation. Everything about us will be known. Except perhaps to ourselves.
Wow, that was pretty deep for this early in the morning...
That's great. Just wonderful. Our species keeps squabbling over the same pice of dirt for 5,000 years in the Mid-East and completely misses one of the top threats to humanity. We have the technology to give us some protection against this type of thing. Let us implement it since we apparently got a 2nd chance.
Now it can walk my AIBO at 6:00 in the morning.
I am thinking about joining Apple Developer Connection for access to Carbon/Cocoa tech notes. Any feedback from other users?
I have used WD drives for about 5 years now and their higher-end EIDE and SCSI have been great workhorses for us.
A shame for IBM. Their hardware used to be top-notch in quality. Period. I guess that leaves HP....
This is one area where open source software can really pull ahead of Microsoft. Provide excellent documentation of the software and the coding as well. That's all folks. As shoddy as Microsoft's image is regarding security, they won't be able to have it both ways. Not to pick on them, as there are plenty of other targets (AOL being another), but they do have a poor track record in this arena.
The most direct benefit of this initiative is well-written code. Well-written code that undergoes peer review from impartial others is the best thing we can do to further this industry.
It looks like OS X is becoming a serious contender for the server market. Now if Apple can get their ass in gear and make some serious sever hardware, it has a shot at boosting market share.
I can't wait until that is embedded in a contact lens.
Hi! I'm Homer Simpson! I'm a complete idiot! I can do anything I want to and get away with it! I live in a mansion and eat lobster 'cuz I'm Homer Simpson!
or
Hi! I'm John Katz! I'm a complete idiot! I sit around all day and surf the web looking for stuff! I can publish inane crap on Slashdot 'cuz I'm an idiot!
.. an intelligent discussion without a lot of FUD.
However, I do object to this constant hyping of putting a computer in front of a kid in Afganistan, Pakistan or wherever and suddenly the world has changed for him/her. There is an interesting article over at MSNBC about how truly inpoverish Pakistani schools are. If they can't even get textbooks and running water, how do you expect to support a student's school with a fiber optic line and steady power to run PCs?
Don't get me wrong, technology has a tremendously liberating effect, but the short term impact must be realistic.
I met him at a GenCon once and he is a big freak. But the again, so am I. Too bad he got dicked-over by the former equity partners at TSR in the 1980s.
1980s=TSR
1990s=WotC
2000s=????
'Nothing is as simple as it seems at first Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle Or as finished as it seems in the end.'
Quoted by the slashdot quote generator at the bottom of the Next Windows to Have New File System article.
Perfect.
It seems that Sony has a hard time focusing on consumer products in the IT sphere. They tend to hit or miss. The VAIO line was a pretty tepid offering up until the previous iteration. The Playstation I & II were tremendously successful in their markets. The CLIEs were good(great?). Their MP3 players and MD players had terrible connectivity to PCs or Macs.
The new PDA looks good though. Maybe this will be a hit.
Given Bill Gates attitude toward end-users (i.e. Windows), it is not surpising that Microsoft doesn't have a clue how to handle service. Sales yes, service no.
Hmmm....I have been eyeballing the Mac G4s for about a year. I think it maybe time to take the plunge.
Although I could wait and buy a dual AMD Hammer mb with CPUs and a gig of RAM for about 1/2 the price. And build a clear case...
But the iMac sure looks cool. And they are only $2k. Too bad they are 4-6 weeks behind.
I actually built a larger than life ZX-81 out of a refrigerator box. The RAM module was a dishwasher box and connected by a small access door.
Umm, no I didn't......
I saw TRON at the theater when it cam out. I was 9 or 10 at the time. We got a Sincalir ZX-81 with 16k RAM about the same time. That movie got me into computers like nobody's business. Imagining the CPU and RAM and electrons flowing through them. WOW! It is a little bit dated now, but when you are 9 years old you absorb the images and ideas like a sponge.
With Intel planning on integrated circuits with radio antennas built in by 2010, I wonder if this technology can me melded to provided better range and gain. For example, if your PDA is the size of a 100mm square chip and is embedded in your neck, you can get a range of 10 meters instead of one.
No I don't. It was a local office in the Chicago 'burbs.
Fuck them.
I am an IT manager at a technical services company. I just had a call this morning from Microsoft-Great Plains (the 4th one in a week) wanting to come in and demo their product. I told them no, we don't use Microsoft software. The salesman laughed as if he didn't believe me and made a remark to the effect that our company would soon be out of business due to the software we run (or do not).
Alternative software save our company money, time (money) and offers us tremendous flexibility with our workflow. Why do I want to pay Microsoft $2,000 a seat for licensing when I can get the equivalent performance for approx $400 a seat?
Rhetorical question, I know.....
Just saw on CNN that contact was made via a radio telescope just east of Los Angeles.
Given that Lucent's CEO said today that he does not see the telecom equipment market turning around anytime soon, a government initiative to upgrade the core routers to IPv6 would help boost the battered sector of the economy. Granted, Lucent shot themselves in the foot last year (several times) and upgrade to IPv6 might just result in a higher volume of spam.....
It is refreshing to read an interview with someone about the Macintosh and not have it deteriorate into a Win-tel bad/Mac good dialectic. Useful, critical insights into the diferent realms of personal computing are rare given the tremendous amounts of PR-spin in this industry. I can think of another example: John Dvorak is the only one left at Ziff-Davis with any kind of integrity.
That means ~1.29mm at C (speed of light), so about 0.9mm in reality. Wow, those better be some short circuit traces!