There seem to be a lot of innovations in the Wii. If they just pay them off, then I'm sure they're opening the flood gates from lawsuits from all directions. Especially for the trivial stuff that is rather obvious, like this appears to be. I'm willing to bet that motion based interfaces is actually a patent minefield no one has ever forged across before.
Lack of innovation jokes aside, what does this buy Microsoft exactly? I can understand Google's craziness due to their goal of indexing the world's information - and as such Google also tends to have many projects that don't yield profitable results. But Microsoft? This is a software company first. Maybe a search engine company in a way. Yet I don't see how indexing books gains them ANYTHING, aside from just doing what Google is doing... because it's doing it. Much like a little little kid who emulates his father hammering things to "fix" them, but not understanding the purpose of the hammering, nor doing it in a manner that actually fixes anything.
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Actually that's a pretty good analogy. I've seen burnout where I've worked, and it's demoralizing to everyone whether they realize it or not. People are most productive when moral is high. From what I've seen, if you treat people like heartless machines, they may act like heartless machines around you; but they'll screw your business in ways you can't even imagine. Losing customers? Who cares, I just work here. Oops another paper clip in the shredder, oh well they can buy a new one every month. When people care about the workplace, they protect the business as well. Many businesses chug along just fine with low moral, but when times get tough, it's these businesses which are often the first to fall.
If you run Linux or BSD this is already feasible. Assuming you have a PCMCIA slot you can use a CF card with an adapter as a regular hard drive. CF cards currently max out at around 8Gb. With two slots that would give you about 16Gb for under $300. The main limitation is that swap, logging, tempfiles, etc must happen on a memory disk. That means you might have to invest more in RAM.
You're upgrade ability will depend on what you want to upgrade. AM3 will use DDR3 RAM so current AM2 processors will not work in this socket (which is pin compatible if I recall correctly). You will however be able to plug AM3 processors into an AM2 board. The processor memory controller works with both DDR2 and DDR3.
I don't imagine you'd end up in jail unless you were collaborating with me in the robbery. Otherwise people would be ending up in jail rather quick over the influence over video games.
I agree that if you have it stated in policy that people need to save email, they must also be trained to do so. I don't see how I could give them the resources to save all email (which I'm sure will include all spam and viruses) as I work for a small company that has a hard time supplying ME with those resources.
I'm willing to bet if push came to shove management would play dumb and I'd still get the short end of the stick.
This means the MPAA and others argued for the right to make "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements...! Amazing!
I would implore California residents to keep track of who actually voted this down, then bring it up during the next re-election round. Maybe just send it to the competing party. Part of what's wrong with election campaigns is the extremely short memory people have, in which they don't remember all the crap their representatives actually did during their term.
I'm an admin in a smaller company as you - shared hosted email. If you really want to play it safe, I would say make the responsibility of saving email the responsibility of each user.
Really this is a bunch of crap anyway. What about companies that don't even CONTROL their employee's accounts and just expect them to use personal hotmail accounts. Catalog all instant messaging traffic? How about clients that might IM that are installed aside from what the company keeps track of. Yeah, let me just start logging ALL network traffic on that 20 trillion terabyte tape I rotate every day.
Besides which how about tracking stuff that's encrypted? What if the messages are IMed through some http system? Now I have to do man in the middle attacks to sniff HTTP connections, then I have to store that information. Because we also do credit card transactions via HTTP I am storing credit card information this goes against Visa's policy for businesses allowd to do credit card transactions. I wouldn't be surprised if it were against the law either.
The Supreme Court can say whatever they want, but I can't do what they're telling me, nor can I raise the dead like Jesus if they required that either. The law is irrelevant unless you PURPOSELY shred / delete documents - and that's against the law already during litigation.
I went from 10.2 to 10.4. If you don't think the updates are worth it, then don't buy the updates. No one is forcing you. (that's a total of $120 BTW). My main reasons for upgrading were native caps->ctrl mapping, and expose - aside from that every apple update (aside from perhaps tiger which I'm unsure of) has made OSX faster on the same machines. I doubt I'm going to get that warm fuzzy feeling from Vista.
I think upgrading to Leopard will be a waste of money BTW.
I'm over-thinking here, but couldn't that still easily be negated by a managed switch? The piece of garbage nortel's I have can weed out by ethernet address machines that are allowed to connect. No changes to infrastructure required really - aside from perhaps new switches.
Where I work I had to implement a policy where I choose the password. I've decided that since I pick a secure one, it's probably not worth changing. I still find sticky notes. You know what? When people were picking their own passwords which never changed (half of which were there initials and the number 1) they still had them on sticky notes. This isn't automatically the admin's fault.
Nintendo may have hit on an important point though. Just dumping your product on the market with a huge shortage before the Christmas season may not be enough. Nintendo has managed to get major numbers out there (4million estimated before Christmas). If it truly is the hot item, then it stands to stomp the PS3 in terms of market penetration. And if the Wii starts ramping up support, it's quite possible that many who planned on getting a PS3 before, ended up forgetting about it because they're perfectly happy with the Wii - which they could at least obtain.
I agree about the shared experience. I mean what's one of those things people talk about around the water cooler? Probably what was on TV. Either that or a movie they saw. I've actually run into weird instances where someone tries to strike up a conversation with me along the lines of "what shows do you watch?". My response is that I don't watch TV. It's not like I'm trying to be rude, but it's sort of awkward because what do you talk about at that point?
However I'm seriously wondering if we're actually losing anything from the current "shared experience". I mean sharing the experience of crap like Survivor or Fear Factor? If that's all I got to have in common with people, I'll seriously become a hermit because there's no hope for society. But besides that how does modern TV keep us from becoming polarized. Most people I know don't watch the news, and I don't see how your average sitcom is going to make much of a difference in terms of polarization.
Looking at the article... Is it just me or getting that menu to pop up for the shutdown options by that arrow seem really unintuitive? I've gotten that feeling all around while using vista. Nice looking in places, but much of what the windows/system is telling you is hard to make sense of.
I was a big EQ fan a few years ago, and I think it would be great fun to explore Norrath with a small group of friends.
Heh, I never thought of that. You know many of these MMORPGs I tend to hate because of the traffic and people, but letting you on a server with a bunch of friends really does sound like an all out blast. I wonder if World of Warcraft would survive one day in this manner.
I agree with you there. I mean why was this guy in school? Probably to get a good job so he can make decent money. He's made enough now that he could stuff it in the bank and make more on interest than I do working. If I could have managed the same thing when I was in school I'd do exactly the same thing.
Seems like a good time to hype IPv6. These ancient bind implementations probably can't resolve in the IPv6 address space anyway. So all we need to do is give country X an address block of XXXX. The main reason I point out IP blocks, is due to the fact that if a country has a domain name of citybank.com (with some crazy characters that appear the same), and the ip block is from a country that may be suspicious, then it allows phishing implementations to warn people from various countries.
And lets face it, in order for this stuff to work, the DNS portion is going to need a complete overhaul anyway. Really all you need is a translation table based system for character 'X' means 'xfg' in the legacy DNS entries - even if it makes no sense and doesn't form words. It sounds like a huge pain in the ass, but if these countries really want to do this (and I'm assuming they do) - then it's probably time we accommodate them before this grows into some screwed up system with no standards.
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You know, there is one thing about the polar bears going extinct that I can't quite figure out. If polar bears require a fair amount of ice at the caps, then where do they go after each ice age (for which there is typically little to no ice)? It doesn't seem likely to me that woolly mammoths and polar bears evolve quickly enough to exploit each ice age, so I would think that they can weather more timid climates quite well.
Actually I was going to counter your point with the fact that Sony is so short on consoles I don't think it matters. But I realized something else. Because it doesn't matter and they'll be too short, it is actually in their best interest to hold back. Not because of the buzz generated NOW, but because re-releasing some supply on say, the day after Thanksgiving for Christmas shoppers could be a big plus. What we're looking at now is just plain stupidity and greed. But think of how many kids will be the "lucky" ones and spout out about how they got a PS3 for Christmas. Creating that envy is where the biggest marketing is, so I think you're right about them possibly holding back.
You know, that idea is so good it's scary. You can already see what stocks are being pumped, just follow the herd from behind. I'd be surprised if you couldn't short it at 50% of its sudden increase. You can probably also follow some of these schemes around and gather statistics for the best points to short before trying it yourself.
As an extension of what you're saying, I was discussing with my wife about digital knowledge vs age. The former joke used to be if you didn't know how to do it, then you pay some kid down the street to show you how to use your computer. I think we're over the "it's new" hump and that's no longer a given. She used to say her little brother (he's 3) would be a computer wizard that would run circles around us all one day, but I think she's seen enough kids now days who are just point and click masters who don't have the skills to do something as simple as HTML - she's kind of retracted that statement now.
At this point I'm sure it's just going to be a matter of time before popular opinion catches up with the reality. I'm sure people were the same when cars first appeared and old fogies didn't know how to work them. I doubt anyone in the 70's assumed a kid was a wizard mechanic just because he'd been around cars all his life.
Lets say I have robots.txt set to deny everything, but I submit some pages to this thing for indexing. Does the spider obey robots.txt or what was submitted? Actually I'd find it handy to keep the spiders the hell off of my site but just submit a couple pages, but I don't see how that system could be trustworthy at all. Is it just me or is this just another form of meta tags?
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There seem to be a lot of innovations in the Wii. If they just pay them off, then I'm sure they're opening the flood gates from lawsuits from all directions. Especially for the trivial stuff that is rather obvious, like this appears to be. I'm willing to bet that motion based interfaces is actually a patent minefield no one has ever forged across before.
Lack of innovation jokes aside, what does this buy Microsoft exactly? I can understand Google's craziness due to their goal of indexing the world's information - and as such Google also tends to have many projects that don't yield profitable results. But Microsoft? This is a software company first. Maybe a search engine company in a way. Yet I don't see how indexing books gains them ANYTHING, aside from just doing what Google is doing... because it's doing it. Much like a little little kid who emulates his father hammering things to "fix" them, but not understanding the purpose of the hammering, nor doing it in a manner that actually fixes anything.
Actually that's a pretty good analogy. I've seen burnout where I've worked, and it's demoralizing to everyone whether they realize it or not. People are most productive when moral is high. From what I've seen, if you treat people like heartless machines, they may act like heartless machines around you; but they'll screw your business in ways you can't even imagine. Losing customers? Who cares, I just work here. Oops another paper clip in the shredder, oh well they can buy a new one every month. When people care about the workplace, they protect the business as well. Many businesses chug along just fine with low moral, but when times get tough, it's these businesses which are often the first to fall.
If you run Linux or BSD this is already feasible. Assuming you have a PCMCIA slot you can use a CF card with an adapter as a regular hard drive. CF cards currently max out at around 8Gb. With two slots that would give you about 16Gb for under $300. The main limitation is that swap, logging, tempfiles, etc must happen on a memory disk. That means you might have to invest more in RAM.
You're upgrade ability will depend on what you want to upgrade. AM3 will use DDR3 RAM so current AM2 processors will not work in this socket (which is pin compatible if I recall correctly). You will however be able to plug AM3 processors into an AM2 board. The processor memory controller works with both DDR2 and DDR3.
I don't imagine you'd end up in jail unless you were collaborating with me in the robbery. Otherwise people would be ending up in jail rather quick over the influence over video games.
I agree that if you have it stated in policy that people need to save email, they must also be trained to do so. I don't see how I could give them the resources to save all email (which I'm sure will include all spam and viruses) as I work for a small company that has a hard time supplying ME with those resources.
I'm willing to bet if push came to shove management would play dumb and I'd still get the short end of the stick.
This means the MPAA and others argued for the right to make "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements...! Amazing!
I would implore California residents to keep track of who actually voted this down, then bring it up during the next re-election round. Maybe just send it to the competing party. Part of what's wrong with election campaigns is the extremely short memory people have, in which they don't remember all the crap their representatives actually did during their term.
I'm an admin in a smaller company as you - shared hosted email. If you really want to play it safe, I would say make the responsibility of saving email the responsibility of each user.
Really this is a bunch of crap anyway. What about companies that don't even CONTROL their employee's accounts and just expect them to use personal hotmail accounts. Catalog all instant messaging traffic? How about clients that might IM that are installed aside from what the company keeps track of. Yeah, let me just start logging ALL network traffic on that 20 trillion terabyte tape I rotate every day.
Besides which how about tracking stuff that's encrypted? What if the messages are IMed through some http system? Now I have to do man in the middle attacks to sniff HTTP connections, then I have to store that information. Because we also do credit card transactions via HTTP I am storing credit card information this goes against Visa's policy for businesses allowd to do credit card transactions. I wouldn't be surprised if it were against the law either.
The Supreme Court can say whatever they want, but I can't do what they're telling me, nor can I raise the dead like Jesus if they required that either. The law is irrelevant unless you PURPOSELY shred / delete documents - and that's against the law already during litigation.
Well there's the answer to global warming then. Get everyone to play World of Warcraft and no one will ever go out again!
Err, to clarify. I went strait from 10.2 to 10.4.
I went from 10.2 to 10.4. If you don't think the updates are worth it, then don't buy the updates. No one is forcing you. (that's a total of $120 BTW). My main reasons for upgrading were native caps->ctrl mapping, and expose - aside from that every apple update (aside from perhaps tiger which I'm unsure of) has made OSX faster on the same machines. I doubt I'm going to get that warm fuzzy feeling from Vista.
I think upgrading to Leopard will be a waste of money BTW.
I'm over-thinking here, but couldn't that still easily be negated by a managed switch? The piece of garbage nortel's I have can weed out by ethernet address machines that are allowed to connect. No changes to infrastructure required really - aside from perhaps new switches.
Where I work I had to implement a policy where I choose the password. I've decided that since I pick a secure one, it's probably not worth changing. I still find sticky notes. You know what? When people were picking their own passwords which never changed (half of which were there initials and the number 1) they still had them on sticky notes. This isn't automatically the admin's fault.
Nintendo may have hit on an important point though. Just dumping your product on the market with a huge shortage before the Christmas season may not be enough. Nintendo has managed to get major numbers out there (4million estimated before Christmas). If it truly is the hot item, then it stands to stomp the PS3 in terms of market penetration. And if the Wii starts ramping up support, it's quite possible that many who planned on getting a PS3 before, ended up forgetting about it because they're perfectly happy with the Wii - which they could at least obtain.
I agree about the shared experience. I mean what's one of those things people talk about around the water cooler? Probably what was on TV. Either that or a movie they saw. I've actually run into weird instances where someone tries to strike up a conversation with me along the lines of "what shows do you watch?". My response is that I don't watch TV. It's not like I'm trying to be rude, but it's sort of awkward because what do you talk about at that point?
However I'm seriously wondering if we're actually losing anything from the current "shared experience". I mean sharing the experience of crap like Survivor or Fear Factor? If that's all I got to have in common with people, I'll seriously become a hermit because there's no hope for society. But besides that how does modern TV keep us from becoming polarized. Most people I know don't watch the news, and I don't see how your average sitcom is going to make much of a difference in terms of polarization.
Looking at the article... Is it just me or getting that menu to pop up for the shutdown options by that arrow seem really unintuitive? I've gotten that feeling all around while using vista. Nice looking in places, but much of what the windows/system is telling you is hard to make sense of.
I was a big EQ fan a few years ago, and I think it would be great fun to explore Norrath with a small group of friends.
Heh, I never thought of that. You know many of these MMORPGs I tend to hate because of the traffic and people, but letting you on a server with a bunch of friends really does sound like an all out blast. I wonder if World of Warcraft would survive one day in this manner.
I agree with you there. I mean why was this guy in school? Probably to get a good job so he can make decent money. He's made enough now that he could stuff it in the bank and make more on interest than I do working. If I could have managed the same thing when I was in school I'd do exactly the same thing.
Probably just a lack of knowing them. I mean how could you NOT list Asia Carrera when Paris is on that list?
Seems like a good time to hype IPv6. These ancient bind implementations probably can't resolve in the IPv6 address space anyway. So all we need to do is give country X an address block of XXXX. The main reason I point out IP blocks, is due to the fact that if a country has a domain name of citybank.com (with some crazy characters that appear the same), and the ip block is from a country that may be suspicious, then it allows phishing implementations to warn people from various countries.
And lets face it, in order for this stuff to work, the DNS portion is going to need a complete overhaul anyway. Really all you need is a translation table based system for character 'X' means 'xfg' in the legacy DNS entries - even if it makes no sense and doesn't form words. It sounds like a huge pain in the ass, but if these countries really want to do this (and I'm assuming they do) - then it's probably time we accommodate them before this grows into some screwed up system with no standards.
You know, there is one thing about the polar bears going extinct that I can't quite figure out. If polar bears require a fair amount of ice at the caps, then where do they go after each ice age (for which there is typically little to no ice)? It doesn't seem likely to me that woolly mammoths and polar bears evolve quickly enough to exploit each ice age, so I would think that they can weather more timid climates quite well.
Actually I was going to counter your point with the fact that Sony is so short on consoles I don't think it matters. But I realized something else. Because it doesn't matter and they'll be too short, it is actually in their best interest to hold back. Not because of the buzz generated NOW, but because re-releasing some supply on say, the day after Thanksgiving for Christmas shoppers could be a big plus. What we're looking at now is just plain stupidity and greed. But think of how many kids will be the "lucky" ones and spout out about how they got a PS3 for Christmas. Creating that envy is where the biggest marketing is, so I think you're right about them possibly holding back.
You know, that idea is so good it's scary. You can already see what stocks are being pumped, just follow the herd from behind. I'd be surprised if you couldn't short it at 50% of its sudden increase. You can probably also follow some of these schemes around and gather statistics for the best points to short before trying it yourself.
As an extension of what you're saying, I was discussing with my wife about digital knowledge vs age. The former joke used to be if you didn't know how to do it, then you pay some kid down the street to show you how to use your computer. I think we're over the "it's new" hump and that's no longer a given. She used to say her little brother (he's 3) would be a computer wizard that would run circles around us all one day, but I think she's seen enough kids now days who are just point and click masters who don't have the skills to do something as simple as HTML - she's kind of retracted that statement now.
At this point I'm sure it's just going to be a matter of time before popular opinion catches up with the reality. I'm sure people were the same when cars first appeared and old fogies didn't know how to work them. I doubt anyone in the 70's assumed a kid was a wizard mechanic just because he'd been around cars all his life.
Lets say I have robots.txt set to deny everything, but I submit some pages to this thing for indexing. Does the spider obey robots.txt or what was submitted? Actually I'd find it handy to keep the spiders the hell off of my site but just submit a couple pages, but I don't see how that system could be trustworthy at all. Is it just me or is this just another form of meta tags?