It is very true that pilots are the limiting factor in maneuverability. I did notice that the article seemed to stress the benefits of weight reduction allowing a greater payload as apposed to soley speaking on maneuverability benefits.
...that they have a separate blue program for each human player. It is well known that the AI is programmed to beat the specific chess player it is going against. Old news. What will be interesting is if they come up with a chess AI to take on and beat any grandmaster. What if sports were played like this for example? "If I pit team A against team B, I know A will win. If I pit team C against D, I know C will win etc. Thus I win the superbowl/world series/whatever using 10 different teams dependant on the situation." Sounds goofy. What will be interesting is when they have a one size fits all deep program that does more than the current slew of programs that only target individuals.
Mr. Gates claims really are quite ridiculous. His claims of starting open source by (falsly) taking credit for opening the BIOS is an extremely long stretch. I see it as the equivilant of MS taking credit for Stephen Kings new book, because it was written in Word. Or a childs drawing done in MS Paint. The reason I say this is because yes, indirectly MS may have "helped" open source, but to take credit is silly. Finally, since he claims to have started open source, uhm, where's the open source code?
It was reverse engineered so as not to break patent/copyright law. It was compaq, they had one team of engineers who didn't know the source of the original bios write the clone, and another that did know the source "advising" them. Legalities.
Why would it be cool to have a fibre mouse and keyboard? Do you type and click so fast that you need gb's of bandwidth? Perhaps you would like a peripheral that needs to be replaced every time you bend the wire sharply. Good idea!
Well my friend, it isn't well known but the copper infastructure on the American side of the pond doesn't even compare to the quality in Europe. DSL is much cheaper and easier to impliment and maintain when the majority of your lines weren't laid in the 1940's. I wish things were as up to date here as they are in Europe so I too could have quality DSL.
I actually read a (semi)unbiased version of the article in a *gasp* hardcopy publication (nuhz-PAPER?). I would just like to comment that bankruptcy filing does NOT mean going out of business. Pat your cable/dsl modems and be rest assured that this is a business manuever. It is not unheard of for companies to declare bankruptcy for protection against their creditors in times of economic strife. Last I checked the tech industry has been hit hard in the market and it would actually be quite good for the company to not be liable to it's debts for the time being until the market restablizes. Excite@home refusing new subscriptions *temporarily* is a part of their filing manuever and by no means implicates their doors and windows being boarded over. So please, don't have any nightmares of returning to the days of 9600 baud and the pleasant screams of a modem handshake.
Who's to say Jim even needs Bob? What we need is a Carnivore for the brain and legislation to back it up before anyone even *thinks* of trying it again. We'll nip this whole terrorism thing right in the bud. God bless America. We all need to give up our rights in the name of liberty. Hrm, wait a minute....
Uhm, what does W getting re-elected have to do with outrages laws being passed? I do hope you realize that when someone leaves office the laws they've passed don't leave with them. It's either that or you're possibly a little off topic. I wouldn't mind seeing him lose a future election, but what I'm more worried about is the damage he does while he's in office now.
I must commend your post. It's nice to see something like this in a sea of hair splitting. This country, it's philosophy, and it's heritage is based on liberty. That is it. Everything else is just fluff to keep things running smooth. When liberty is sacrificed there is no more "America" to defend. All that will remain is a massive ugly shell that once was a great nation.
My friend, I personally do not disagree with the need for security, the question is, what type of security? I think a strong steal door design on jetliners cockpits is a more rational idea of security than monitoring 285+ million people. There are thousands upon thousands of businesses that have no more than 20 dollars on cash and the rest of their funds in time lock safes so that would be robbers are discouraged from even trying to take them. And if they do? Too bad, nobody can open it. Yet a multi-million dollar jetliner/potential missile is protected by a flimsy panel door and open controls for anyone to take. That is a problem in security. I believe the uproar you're seeing is in response to the fact that these new laws do *nothing* to protect anybody, yet they remove the rights that define us as free Americans. The masses see them as a way to "fight back" and think the laws only apply to the people responsible for the attacks. How untrue, they not only apply, but are targeted at average citizens. Yes security would be wonderful, but I don't agree with my rights being taken from me in the false promise of safety.
They are saying "future" disk space restraints. You are right, 80GB should tide just about any normal person over.... for now. It's going to continue as it has, more disk space as faster hardware comes out to compute it. The statement in this article is there might be a block in the road to disk space keeping up with hardware. You and I both know that 2-3 years down the road 80GB isn't going to be jack for hard drive space. The point of the article hints at the fact that hard drive size and capabilities might reach a temporary limit as other methods of storage are developed.
That is why this story, published on independence day, speaks of the balance of public good and promotes the progress of science as the American fore fathers intended. The DMCA does nothing in the public good and hinders the progress of science. That's the whole point of the article.
I didn't get the impression that the author of the article was claiming the US came up with the idea of copyright law right after England. I think the author is just giving the history of American copyright laws. He's discussing how our laws were set up and why the DMCA is not in accordance with them, not giving the history of all copyright law. That's what the articles about. Lastly if you read the whole article and looked at the authors name, you'd see it was Siva Vaidhyanathan. I would *guess* this person hasn't been in the US their whole life. So your perception that it's an American glorizing the US is stupid.
I said the lower end stuff is junk and it still is. You did buy a decent printer, the 600's, you shouldn't even bother looking at them, the current 800's are alright, some of the discontinued 800's are pretty good. The 932 you have has a duty cycle of 2,000 pages a month, and decent speed compared to even higher printers. Again, my advice is to stay away from the junk like deskjet 600's, low end pavilions (ick, stick with the business series like the vectra's or kayaks), and definetely stay away from the low end scanners like the 3000's. They don't even have support and a 90 day warranty is pretty bad. All these products should be ax'd to keep hp's name of quality up. But anyways, the whole point is yes you did get a decent printer, infact I bought my brother one of those.
me or the article poster? If it's me, who's to say you haven't already? Like I said, my ideas get my @ss in a sling... frequently. I have very convincing stories though, like "people on slashdot said it was *OK* to do it! I swear! I didn't know thermite could burn through *that*!".
Call 1-800-752-0900, you'll get a bunch of options, select cd writers and you'll get presales. These guys can't do *anything* for you, but demand to speak with the ceo (I'm serious). They can connect you with a group much higher than regular support if you demand to speak with the ceo. *Don't* let them send you to support. Anyways, if and when you get transferred, explain to them how you love hp, hp rawks etc, then go into your dissatisfaction on the cdr. How you're so utterly surprised and dissapointed with hp. Tell 'em how you bought it for your home use to benchmark it and see if it'd be good for your company (see you're a CIO for a company with 1200 nodes that need cdr's) and if you get the right person I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll get what you want. If not go to support and request a supervisor, the key is to get higher in the ladder and explain your former love of hp and how now you'll never buy again without extreme hesitation and how dissatisfied you are. And it doesn't hurt to imply you're a big decision maker for your company. Somethin like that.
I have an opinions, the thing is my opinions get my @ss in a sling frequently so take them with a pinch of salt. What I would try is speaking with an executive, someone above the current webmaster of these insecure sites, and you'll be surely told "we already have someone who does that for us". Now comes my idea, challenge them, tell them you have seen *obvious* security holes, and get their permission to exploit them and show them exactly what is available to anybody with a little bit of nohow. Not only would you gain contracts but you would put one more dumbass out of a job who jumped into this industry just for the cash anyways (c-mon he called you sore loser for not getting the contract as apposed to actually listening to what his box's are doing). Anywho, just my 2 cents, I would approach it in a manner to challenge the company and get their permission to exploit away. Almost everybody has a hard time backing down from a challenge and it'd be the easiest way to get their consent and also show them exactly what you're talking about.
yea but the drivers are only written for the "linux" part of GNU/linux, so this isn't flamebait but if you're going to nit pick they *are* only mentioning the portion that applies to print drivers. When HP talks about supporting debian and linux, the really don't give too much of a rats ass about gnu or the shell because the driver doesn't do much (anything) with them. So just saying linux instead of GNU/Linux is okie.
The windows driver has ColorSmart III which is proprietary and HP doesn't want the competitors to look at it. It does auto color optimization, sRGB color calibration, color maps, auto contrast, HP SmartFocus (basically interpolation for low res pics to come out better) etc. HP basically doesn't want the competitors to see their methods since HP always tries to keep one step ahead as far as print technology goes. Don't expect a full version open source driver anytime soon.. now closed source, that's a different matter.
The networkable ones are perfectly fine, most of the lower end junk doesn't have postscript, most of the lasers do, especially the current ones. Check the specs before laying down cash. If it isn't going to be on a network, check the printer language (is it pcl or some of the weird stuff like PPA or HPA that's proprietary or only works with windows). If you find it's pcl 3 you can just load up an existing driver for pcl 3 like an 895 driver that's with the RH6 distro and that'll work on your newer series. Lasers are *very* backwards compatible so older drivers are fine, but you may be missing some of the new features.
It's good HP is facing Linux now. I work for them (up until 3pm today, THANKS FOR THE LAYOFF CARLY!) and it's been a real pain in the booty explaining to people that no the hp equipment isn't supported for linux, but "most likely" it will work or there's a driver with your distro. HP's been making alot of bad decisions lately (besides closing operations in this state and offering to move me to kentucky, YEAH RIGHT, let me get right on that). The quality of support on products has gone to null, the products themselves aren't as good as they were (at least with the lower end stuff). One thing that's been hp's niche is what the name says, expensive but you get what you pay for. Now it's kind of hit and miss as far as the quality goes. Anyways, my bloody point is it's nice to see them making a decision that heads in the right direction. My advice to any/.'s though is stay away from anything HP that's priced the same as the competitors, it's junk. The stuff you lay down some green for is still the quality products you've come to expect from HP.
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It is very true that pilots are the limiting factor in maneuverability. I did notice that the article seemed to stress the benefits of weight reduction allowing a greater payload as apposed to soley speaking on maneuverability benefits.
...that they have a separate blue program for each human player. It is well known that the AI is programmed to beat the specific chess player it is going against. Old news. What will be interesting is if they come up with a chess AI to take on and beat any grandmaster. What if sports were played like this for example? "If I pit team A against team B, I know A will win. If I pit team C against D, I know C will win etc. Thus I win the superbowl/world series/whatever using 10 different teams dependant on the situation." Sounds goofy. What will be interesting is when they have a one size fits all deep program that does more than the current slew of programs that only target individuals.
because it applies to windows instead of mac but some people might appreciate a site with alot of content: www.freeware.com
Mr. Gates claims really are quite ridiculous. His claims of starting open source by (falsly) taking credit for opening the BIOS is an extremely long stretch. I see it as the equivilant of MS taking credit for Stephen Kings new book, because it was written in Word. Or a childs drawing done in MS Paint. The reason I say this is because yes, indirectly MS may have "helped" open source, but to take credit is silly. Finally, since he claims to have started open source, uhm, where's the open source code?
It was reverse engineered so as not to break patent/copyright law. It was compaq, they had one team of engineers who didn't know the source of the original bios write the clone, and another that did know the source "advising" them. Legalities.
Why would it be cool to have a fibre mouse and keyboard? Do you type and click so fast that you need gb's of bandwidth? Perhaps you would like a peripheral that needs to be replaced every time you bend the wire sharply. Good idea!
Well my friend, it isn't well known but the copper infastructure on the American side of the pond doesn't even compare to the quality in Europe. DSL is much cheaper and easier to impliment and maintain when the majority of your lines weren't laid in the 1940's. I wish things were as up to date here as they are in Europe so I too could have quality DSL.
I actually read a (semi)unbiased version of the article in a *gasp* hardcopy publication (nuhz-PAPER?). I would just like to comment that bankruptcy filing does NOT mean going out of business. Pat your cable/dsl modems and be rest assured that this is a business manuever. It is not unheard of for companies to declare bankruptcy for protection against their creditors in times of economic strife. Last I checked the tech industry has been hit hard in the market and it would actually be quite good for the company to not be liable to it's debts for the time being until the market restablizes. Excite@home refusing new subscriptions *temporarily* is a part of their filing manuever and by no means implicates their doors and windows being boarded over. So please, don't have any nightmares of returning to the days of 9600 baud and the pleasant screams of a modem handshake.
Who's to say Jim even needs Bob? What we need is a Carnivore for the brain and legislation to back it up before anyone even *thinks* of trying it again. We'll nip this whole terrorism thing right in the bud. God bless America. We all need to give up our rights in the name of liberty. Hrm, wait a minute....
Uhm, what does W getting re-elected have to do with outrages laws being passed? I do hope you realize that when someone leaves office the laws they've passed don't leave with them. It's either that or you're possibly a little off topic. I wouldn't mind seeing him lose a future election, but what I'm more worried about is the damage he does while he's in office now.
I must commend your post. It's nice to see something like this in a sea of hair splitting. This country, it's philosophy, and it's heritage is based on liberty. That is it. Everything else is just fluff to keep things running smooth. When liberty is sacrificed there is no more "America" to defend. All that will remain is a massive ugly shell that once was a great nation.
My friend, I personally do not disagree with the need for security, the question is, what type of security? I think a strong steal door design on jetliners cockpits is a more rational idea of security than monitoring 285+ million people. There are thousands upon thousands of businesses that have no more than 20 dollars on cash and the rest of their funds in time lock safes so that would be robbers are discouraged from even trying to take them. And if they do? Too bad, nobody can open it. Yet a multi-million dollar jetliner/potential missile is protected by a flimsy panel door and open controls for anyone to take. That is a problem in security. I believe the uproar you're seeing is in response to the fact that these new laws do *nothing* to protect anybody, yet they remove the rights that define us as free Americans. The masses see them as a way to "fight back" and think the laws only apply to the people responsible for the attacks. How untrue, they not only apply, but are targeted at average citizens. Yes security would be wonderful, but I don't agree with my rights being taken from me in the false promise of safety.
Amen brother. That was the most intelligent thing I've read all day.
They are saying "future" disk space restraints. You are right, 80GB should tide just about any normal person over.... for now. It's going to continue as it has, more disk space as faster hardware comes out to compute it. The statement in this article is there might be a block in the road to disk space keeping up with hardware. You and I both know that 2-3 years down the road 80GB isn't going to be jack for hard drive space. The point of the article hints at the fact that hard drive size and capabilities might reach a temporary limit as other methods of storage are developed.
That is why this story, published on independence day, speaks of the balance of public good and promotes the progress of science as the American fore fathers intended. The DMCA does nothing in the public good and hinders the progress of science. That's the whole point of the article.
I didn't get the impression that the author of the article was claiming the US came up with the idea of copyright law right after England. I think the author is just giving the history of American copyright laws. He's discussing how our laws were set up and why the DMCA is not in accordance with them, not giving the history of all copyright law. That's what the articles about. Lastly if you read the whole article and looked at the authors name, you'd see it was Siva Vaidhyanathan. I would *guess* this person hasn't been in the US their whole life. So your perception that it's an American glorizing the US is stupid.
I said the lower end stuff is junk and it still is. You did buy a decent printer, the 600's, you shouldn't even bother looking at them, the current 800's are alright, some of the discontinued 800's are pretty good. The 932 you have has a duty cycle of 2,000 pages a month, and decent speed compared to even higher printers. Again, my advice is to stay away from the junk like deskjet 600's, low end pavilions (ick, stick with the business series like the vectra's or kayaks), and definetely stay away from the low end scanners like the 3000's. They don't even have support and a 90 day warranty is pretty bad. All these products should be ax'd to keep hp's name of quality up. But anyways, the whole point is yes you did get a decent printer, infact I bought my brother one of those.
me or the article poster? If it's me, who's to say you haven't already? Like I said, my ideas get my @ss in a sling... frequently. I have very convincing stories though, like "people on slashdot said it was *OK* to do it! I swear! I didn't know thermite could burn through *that*!".
heh mod this guy up, I thought of yodabyte and well.. kinky star wars type visuals came along...
Call 1-800-752-0900, you'll get a bunch of options, select cd writers and you'll get presales. These guys can't do *anything* for you, but demand to speak with the ceo (I'm serious). They can connect you with a group much higher than regular support if you demand to speak with the ceo. *Don't* let them send you to support. Anyways, if and when you get transferred, explain to them how you love hp, hp rawks etc, then go into your dissatisfaction on the cdr. How you're so utterly surprised and dissapointed with hp. Tell 'em how you bought it for your home use to benchmark it and see if it'd be good for your company (see you're a CIO for a company with 1200 nodes that need cdr's) and if you get the right person I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll get what you want. If not go to support and request a supervisor, the key is to get higher in the ladder and explain your former love of hp and how now you'll never buy again without extreme hesitation and how dissatisfied you are. And it doesn't hurt to imply you're a big decision maker for your company. Somethin like that.
I have an opinions, the thing is my opinions get my @ss in a sling frequently so take them with a pinch of salt. What I would try is speaking with an executive, someone above the current webmaster of these insecure sites, and you'll be surely told "we already have someone who does that for us". Now comes my idea, challenge them, tell them you have seen *obvious* security holes, and get their permission to exploit them and show them exactly what is available to anybody with a little bit of nohow. Not only would you gain contracts but you would put one more dumbass out of a job who jumped into this industry just for the cash anyways (c-mon he called you sore loser for not getting the contract as apposed to actually listening to what his box's are doing). Anywho, just my 2 cents, I would approach it in a manner to challenge the company and get their permission to exploit away. Almost everybody has a hard time backing down from a challenge and it'd be the easiest way to get their consent and also show them exactly what you're talking about.
yea but the drivers are only written for the "linux" part of GNU/linux, so this isn't flamebait but if you're going to nit pick they *are* only mentioning the portion that applies to print drivers. When HP talks about supporting debian and linux, the really don't give too much of a rats ass about gnu or the shell because the driver doesn't do much (anything) with them. So just saying linux instead of GNU/Linux is okie.
The windows driver has ColorSmart III which is proprietary and HP doesn't want the competitors to look at it. It does auto color optimization, sRGB color calibration, color maps, auto contrast, HP SmartFocus (basically interpolation for low res pics to come out better) etc. HP basically doesn't want the competitors to see their methods since HP always tries to keep one step ahead as far as print technology goes. Don't expect a full version open source driver anytime soon.. now closed source, that's a different matter.
The networkable ones are perfectly fine, most of the lower end junk doesn't have postscript, most of the lasers do, especially the current ones. Check the specs before laying down cash. If it isn't going to be on a network, check the printer language (is it pcl or some of the weird stuff like PPA or HPA that's proprietary or only works with windows). If you find it's pcl 3 you can just load up an existing driver for pcl 3 like an 895 driver that's with the RH6 distro and that'll work on your newer series. Lasers are *very* backwards compatible so older drivers are fine, but you may be missing some of the new features.
It's good HP is facing Linux now. I work for them (up until 3pm today, THANKS FOR THE LAYOFF CARLY!) and it's been a real pain in the booty explaining to people that no the hp equipment isn't supported for linux, but "most likely" it will work or there's a driver with your distro. HP's been making alot of bad decisions lately (besides closing operations in this state and offering to move me to kentucky, YEAH RIGHT, let me get right on that). The quality of support on products has gone to null, the products themselves aren't as good as they were (at least with the lower end stuff). One thing that's been hp's niche is what the name says, expensive but you get what you pay for. Now it's kind of hit and miss as far as the quality goes. Anyways, my bloody point is it's nice to see them making a decision that heads in the right direction. My advice to any /.'s though is stay away from anything HP that's priced the same as the competitors, it's junk. The stuff you lay down some green for is still the quality products you've come to expect from HP.