You realize that you are trying to reason with a person that thinks it's a great idea to wrap their servers in plastic held up by a couple of pieces of duct tape as some kind of long term solution. They probably have all the servers in backwards because the legs kept getting in the way!
Plus they don't lose the whole array if a disk fails. They lose the data on that disk, which is simply mirrored on another node in another geographical location via software mirroring. It's more redundant AND cheaper than spending more to buy an extra drive and do a RAID setup.
People have been over this many times. There's nothing special there. The dots are in a regular grid. They are perhaps alignment artifacts or some other imaging artifact. Some of them even have part of the google logo in them.
Your attitude shows exactly what is wrong these days. TV shows are not free. You pay your satellite or cable provider for the right to view the show. Both on a service or if you receive TV the old fashion way, you also "pay" for it by the implied viewing of the commercials. Television is already a commercial product. Recording the shows and putting them online for others to view is already illegal. This bill adds additional or updated penalties, that's all.
Computers are making people stupid by making them think that anything they can get on their computer should be free, including: wireless access, DVDs, TV, music, software, etc. They're not. Get over it. Someone spent time and money to produce the content. If you don't like the price, your logical option is to not purchase it. The illogical, but unfortunately common, option is to become a criminal and steal it. If you stopped doing illegal things, the government would stop trying to come up with new laws with a big enough penalty to scare you into stopping. Is it really that hard a concept to understand?
Why don't you look at the other titles of Apple products:
iPhoto - I make photos iDVD - I make DVDs iSight - I see with the camera iPod - I, well, ok, But "Ipod" doesn't mean anything either.
Absolutely NONE of these follow the same definition structure to apply to iCon. If we follow the above:
iCon - I con people.
Perhaps it wasn't intended that way, but it none the less is very poorly done such that it appears very negative. So, why don't you leave off the "moronic" comment and pay a little more attention before you reply.
All true. VT also started out with G5 Desktops, not the servers, and upgraded. I think the reason for that was the desktop machines were easier to get a hold of at the time, in order to make the top 500 list entry deadline.:)
At one point in time I kept setting off the alarm in Target every time I went through it, althought I never stopped. Anyway, I finally discovered a anti-theft device in a secret flap of the new wallet that I had purchased. I had even checked several times but didn't find it until I nearly tore the wallet apart. It was basically a piece of paper with some tracing on it, not one of those fat plastic ones, so you can't even feel the bulk of it.
Tech's machines each have dual 2.3GHz processors as opposed to UIUC's dual 2.0GHz. Tech also appears to have a much faster network, and I imagine custom software for developing and running simulations. I guess it all adds up and Tech did a better overall integration job.
Pardon the computer terms, but there is absolutely no difference between the client -> repeater -> server interaction and the client -> server interaction. All the repeater is is a server that rebroadcasts. Any authentication you could do on it would be just as easy to do on your server. You can't "firewall" using a repeater either, because all an attacker needs to do is pretend to be a repeater. So, to answer your question, no it doesn't make sense.
The parent post is currently marked as informative by suggesting a "shielded signal guide"? Sure, you mean a WIRE?! Come on people, I'd agree with funny, but informative?
For one thing, as stated in the article, we get phones with the service sometimes for free, or for hundreds of dollars less than if you just bought it. The market is heavily geared towards that model and in general people just aren't used to paying that much for a phone.
Second, there are too many standards so not only do they not want you to, but you usually simply can't bring your old phone with you. It won't work. This is good for the provider because they only need to do limited testing, and they can dangle the carrot of a "free phone" in front of you to get you to sign up for multi-year contracts.
So, the reason Verizon can dictate phone features to Motorola is simply by saying "We aren't going to buy the normal hundreds of thousands of them to bundle with our service if you put in this feature." Why would Motorola spend the time and money to create a phone that they basically aren't going to sell in volume?
Are you somehow trying to argue that if you break the law it should be hidden from prospective employers? Give me a break, people need to take the concequences for their actions. The Wired article was mainly about inaccurate data, which has nothing to do with reporting it when it's correct.
It's pretty simple: If you want a good job in the future, try and avoid being a criminal today. It seems like pretty good advice to me.
This idea is so asinine and restrictive that I can almost guarantee that it will fail miserably as well as probably upset a great deal of the existing customer base.
Are you kidding me? Perhaps if we didn't have people that assumed they had some kind of right or privilege to take up a chair all day using someone else's bandwidth and are rude enough that they can't fork out $3 every FOUR HOURS then there wouldn't be a problem to begin with? That's cheap compared to normal hourly rates some places charge! Not only that, but it's much more fair to treat everyone on the same level than to go around picking and choosing who you want to throw out.
I drive a taxi and I clearly wouldn't let someone ride around without giving me some cash. I expect any other sensible businessman to do the same.
This makes no sense with the rest of your argument, unless you are willing to let random people get in your taxi possibly taking up all the seats, ride around for a while as you pick up and drop off paying customers (if there is room, if not keep driving until someone gets out), and then get out at some point without paying you. That's the analogy which matches what you are trying to get the coffee shop to do, mainly submit to freeloaders.
I can't believe your comment was rated as insightful.
Ok, let's see... So it's perfectly ok to waste money as long as it's wasted in the name of representative democracy, irregardless of the actual facts behind the issue. Right. Good plan. Let me know how that works out for you.
That patent is describing a digital audio recorder, requiring the ability to edit tracks, a wireless remote, a built-in CD-ROM/DVD for operating system upgrades and audio import/export, a touch screen, a microphone, voice controlled operation and a million other things which are typically common on a high end digital audio recorder.
It's like trying to claim your patent on a car covers all devices containing wheels, such as a tricycle. More accurately, since most of the components in the patent are contained on a typical computer, it's like suing an aftermarket stereo company for making a stereo that fit in the car you held a patent on.
It says the effect on eBay was accidental, but now that it has come up, they want to regulate people who use eBay as a business (not necessarily with this law). So, nothing really to see here for the normal user, please move along and stop sending the hate mail...
Try typing while holding down your thumb(s)! It's a major pain and impacts my speed. Plus, what the hell are you supposed to do for a command with a space in it? I can see all kinds of thumb fumbles going on. It's still a stupid idea with a dedicated key. A single button click, followed by typing the command, possibly editing it and possibly cancelling it, followed by another click (or more realistically, the enter key) makes a lot more sense. Hey, you know what, that's called a command line with a dedicated hot key to bring it to the front! Hardly a new concept at all. But that's only a minor flaw of the entire flawed idea.
She requested the president to die, that is a threat plain and simple. It's their damn job to check into it, especially when someone specifically complained about it, and they'd do it regardless of who was president.
No, we don't know what's going on, it's typical hype. One story clearly says "some voters have completed and returned ballots mailed those days, hundreds of others have called to complain their forms have not arrived. It was unclear how many absentee ballots were affected."
Basically, they've got a few back, and people have called and complained about not getting them. This could either mean there is a problem or... there isn't. Whoopdeedo. There's nothing to indicate if this isn't just a ploy by an organized group to try and cast extra ballots for that matter.
Someone needs to stop reading and posting BBC tabloid stories on Slashdot.
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Dear Professor,
Rings go all the way around. That's what makes them "rings."
No... they reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to save the ship!
You realize that you are trying to reason with a person that thinks it's a great idea to wrap their servers in plastic held up by a couple of pieces of duct tape as some kind of long term solution. They probably have all the servers in backwards because the legs kept getting in the way!
Plus they don't lose the whole array if a disk fails. They lose the data on that disk, which is simply mirrored on another node in another geographical location via software mirroring. It's more redundant AND cheaper than spending more to buy an extra drive and do a RAID setup.
Oy! Your comment makes me feel old.
People have been over this many times. There's nothing special there. The dots are in a regular grid. They are perhaps alignment artifacts or some other imaging artifact. Some of them even have part of the google logo in them.
Your attitude shows exactly what is wrong these days. TV shows are not free. You pay your satellite or cable provider for the right to view the show. Both on a service or if you receive TV the old fashion way, you also "pay" for it by the implied viewing of the commercials. Television is already a commercial product. Recording the shows and putting them online for others to view is already illegal. This bill adds additional or updated penalties, that's all.
Computers are making people stupid by making them think that anything they can get on their computer should be free, including: wireless access, DVDs, TV, music, software, etc. They're not. Get over it. Someone spent time and money to produce the content. If you don't like the price, your logical option is to not purchase it. The illogical, but unfortunately common, option is to become a criminal and steal it. If you stopped doing illegal things, the government would stop trying to come up with new laws with a big enough penalty to scare you into stopping. Is it really that hard a concept to understand?
Why don't you look at the other titles of Apple products:
iPhoto - I make photos
iDVD - I make DVDs
iSight - I see with the camera
iPod - I, well, ok, But "Ipod" doesn't mean anything either.
Absolutely NONE of these follow the same definition structure to apply to iCon. If we follow the above:
iCon - I con people.
Perhaps it wasn't intended that way, but it none the less is very poorly done such that it appears very negative. So, why don't you leave off the "moronic" comment and pay a little more attention before you reply.
Now, where's that interface to mark a whole story as flame-bait again? Can't seem to find it...
All true. VT also started out with G5 Desktops, not the servers, and upgraded. I think the reason for that was the desktop machines were easier to get a hold of at the time, in order to make the top 500 list entry deadline. :)
At one point in time I kept setting off the alarm in Target every time I went through it, althought I never stopped. Anyway, I finally discovered a anti-theft device in a secret flap of the new wallet that I had purchased. I had even checked several times but didn't find it until I nearly tore the wallet apart. It was basically a piece of paper with some tracing on it, not one of those fat plastic ones, so you can't even feel the bulk of it.
Tech's machines each have dual 2.3GHz processors as opposed to UIUC's dual 2.0GHz. Tech also appears to have a much faster network, and I imagine custom software for developing and running simulations. I guess it all adds up and Tech did a better overall integration job.
Pardon the computer terms, but there is absolutely no difference between the client -> repeater -> server interaction and the client -> server interaction. All the repeater is is a server that rebroadcasts. Any authentication you could do on it would be just as easy to do on your server. You can't "firewall" using a repeater either, because all an attacker needs to do is pretend to be a repeater. So, to answer your question, no it doesn't make sense.
The parent post is currently marked as informative by suggesting a "shielded signal guide"? Sure, you mean a WIRE?! Come on people, I'd agree with funny, but informative?
For one thing, as stated in the article, we get phones with the service sometimes for free, or for hundreds of dollars less than if you just bought it. The market is heavily geared towards that model and in general people just aren't used to paying that much for a phone.
Second, there are too many standards so not only do they not want you to, but you usually simply can't bring your old phone with you. It won't work. This is good for the provider because they only need to do limited testing, and they can dangle the carrot of a "free phone" in front of you to get you to sign up for multi-year contracts.
So, the reason Verizon can dictate phone features to Motorola is simply by saying "We aren't going to buy the normal hundreds of thousands of them to bundle with our service if you put in this feature." Why would Motorola spend the time and money to create a phone that they basically aren't going to sell in volume?
Are you somehow trying to argue that if you break the law it should be hidden from prospective employers? Give me a break, people need to take the concequences for their actions. The Wired article was mainly about inaccurate data, which has nothing to do with reporting it when it's correct.
It's pretty simple: If you want a good job in the future, try and avoid being a criminal today. It seems like pretty good advice to me.
This idea is so asinine and restrictive that I can almost guarantee that it will fail miserably as well as probably upset a great deal of the existing customer base.
Are you kidding me? Perhaps if we didn't have people that assumed they had some kind of right or privilege to take up a chair all day using someone else's bandwidth and are rude enough that they can't fork out $3 every FOUR HOURS then there wouldn't be a problem to begin with? That's cheap compared to normal hourly rates some places charge! Not only that, but it's much more fair to treat everyone on the same level than to go around picking and choosing who you want to throw out.
I drive a taxi and I clearly wouldn't let someone ride around without giving me some cash. I expect any other sensible businessman to do the same.
This makes no sense with the rest of your argument, unless you are willing to let random people get in your taxi possibly taking up all the seats, ride around for a while as you pick up and drop off paying customers (if there is room, if not keep driving until someone gets out), and then get out at some point without paying you. That's the analogy which matches what you are trying to get the coffee shop to do, mainly submit to freeloaders.
I can't believe your comment was rated as insightful.
So, you only give out the passwords to those who request to use the service. Please show your receipt if you forgot to ask when you bought something.
Ok, let's see... So it's perfectly ok to waste money as long as it's wasted in the name of representative democracy, irregardless of the actual facts behind the issue. Right. Good plan. Let me know how that works out for you.
That patent is describing a digital audio recorder, requiring the ability to edit tracks, a wireless remote, a built-in CD-ROM/DVD for operating system upgrades and audio import/export, a touch screen, a microphone, voice controlled operation and a million other things which are typically common on a high end digital audio recorder.
It's like trying to claim your patent on a car covers all devices containing wheels, such as a tricycle. More accurately, since most of the components in the patent are contained on a typical computer, it's like suing an aftermarket stereo company for making a stereo that fit in the car you held a patent on.
It says the effect on eBay was accidental, but now that it has come up, they want to regulate people who use eBay as a business (not necessarily with this law). So, nothing really to see here for the normal user, please move along and stop sending the hate mail...
Try typing while holding down your thumb(s)! It's a major pain and impacts my speed. Plus, what the hell are you supposed to do for a command with a space in it? I can see all kinds of thumb fumbles going on. It's still a stupid idea with a dedicated key. A single button click, followed by typing the command, possibly editing it and possibly cancelling it, followed by another click (or more realistically, the enter key) makes a lot more sense. Hey, you know what, that's called a command line with a dedicated hot key to bring it to the front! Hardly a new concept at all. But that's only a minor flaw of the entire flawed idea.
She requested the president to die, that is a threat plain and simple. It's their damn job to check into it, especially when someone specifically complained about it, and they'd do it regardless of who was president.
No, we don't know what's going on, it's typical hype. One story clearly says "some voters have completed and returned ballots mailed those days, hundreds of others have called to complain their forms have not arrived. It was unclear how many absentee ballots were affected."
Basically, they've got a few back, and people have called and complained about not getting them. This could either mean there is a problem or... there isn't. Whoopdeedo. There's nothing to indicate if this isn't just a ploy by an organized group to try and cast extra ballots for that matter.
Someone needs to stop reading and posting BBC tabloid stories on Slashdot.
Which reality was the article written in? We can't trust the results because it could be the wrong one!