If you've been using Windows 2000, the performance you'll get with XP is virtually identical; if you've been using Windows Me, 98 or 98 SE, or 95, your system is going to feel like it has a whole new lease on life.
We... found that XP and 2000 outperformed Windows 98 and ran neck and neck with each other.
If you're comparing it to 2000, it meets expectations. If you're comparing it to 9x, it exceeds expectations.
So performance-wise, it's really nothing new. Get it because you like the application support, or the fast boot times, or the config restore, or... But don't buy it for the performance.
Mmmm, christmas meat... Sorry, got stuck on that image for a sec...
Anyhow. Isn't that what Venture Capitalists and Investors do? Spread the risk, but give a return on investment if you do well? Sega, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have all been doing this.
Also, there are many more people here who are avid sci-fi readers than are avid research report readers. So even if the costs were equitable, fewer people would be willing to shell out the dough.
Okay. So... they finally realize that driver's licenses are a bad thing to base identity off of, we know this already. The DMV is primarily concerned with pulling speeders over, not necessarily with identifying people well enough for financial transactions, etc...
But I don't see what terrorism has to do with that. As mentioned, terrorists are unlikely to use signed web server certs to do much in the way of loss of life. And the unreliability of driver's licenses won't go away if/when the terrorist threat does.
XOSL gets installed on its own partition, since it's so large. How is this different from installing a mini-linux distro on its own partition, and then doing some smart booting from there?
"Microsoft is seeing (that) it is an Opera browser and shutting it out," said Tetzchner, whose team was testing the problem Thursday. "If you change the Opera string by one letter, it is letting us in."
Just a note... google considers "Write Only Memory" and "write-only memory" to be the same, so you don't need that "or" there.
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Agreed. If you've ever listened to an NPR pledge drive, you know that they usually give away a token gift in return for your pledge. Even though people understand that it's really the right thing to do, they feel a lot better about getting something extra (even if it's small) for their money.
That said, I'd like to throw in another value added suggestion: a usenet feed of slashdot, so you can sort it, slice and dice it with whatever client or script you choose. The main objection to that has been lack of ad revenue, but now the person is paying, so why not? It might even cut down on bandwidth costs.
1) There are other ways to trace and/or stop DDoS attacks, most of which don't add new security problems or privacy concerns.
2) Phone tapping is very different than massive packet-sniffing, in at least two ways: First, to implement a phone tap, you have to have a phone company employee do it for you. Second, one phone tap gets you one line, while one internet tap allows you to see many conversations at once. As a result, it's much easier to do massive illegal packet sniffing than it is to do massive illegal phone taps.
-- The term "interactive digital device" means any machine, device, product,
software, or technology, whether or not included with or as part of some other machine, device, product, software, or technology, that is designed, marketed or used for the primary purpose of, and that is capable of, storing, retrieving, processing, performing, transmitting, receiving, or copying information in digital form.
I'm guessing linux is software which is capable of processing information in digital form.
Hear hear. GPL covers the specific code and binaries; it doesn't cover the ideas or the specific interfaces involved.
For example, if I write a GPL'd grep with a spiffy new regular expression syntax, that does not in any way preclude someone else from writing the same utilitiy under a closed-source license.
is that if you magnify a TV's screen by a factor of 2, you reduce the brightness by a factor of 4. Magnification factors of the sort mentioned makes the TV too dark to comfortably watch.
The first great monopoly, Standard Oil Company, came about largely because they got the railroad companies to raise the transportation rates for their competitors.
Fast forward to today, and it's worse. Now the producers OWN the distribution channels, not just pay them off.
1) They still have PR issues to deal with, so they'd probably only go after people they can label as social misfits.
2) They're not absolved of all consequences, just $50,000 worth. And since that's difficult to estimate, they'll probably be conservative so they don't get sued for corporate hacking, and lose, and thus get bad PR.
Look at what large companies pay for metered access. It's much higher outside of the US.
Bandwidth costs ~$0.04 a megabyte in the US (and much higher rates, in the teens, for places like India) for my fortune 100 company. Count up how much you're costing your cable modem company, versus how much you're paying them. For me personally, I'm getting a tremendous bargain.
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- If you've been using Windows 2000, the performance you'll get with XP is virtually identical; if you've been using Windows Me, 98 or 98 SE, or 95, your system is going to feel like it has a whole new lease on life.
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... found that XP and 2000 outperformed Windows 98 and ran neck and neck with each other.
If you're comparing it to 2000, it meets expectations. If you're comparing it to 9x, it exceeds expectations.So performance-wise, it's really nothing new. Get it because you like the application support, or the fast boot times, or the config restore, or... But don't buy it for the performance.
Anyhow. Isn't that what Venture Capitalists and Investors do? Spread the risk, but give a return on investment if you do well? Sega, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have all been doing this.
Isn't this what Sega was doing with Dreamcast just as it was getting out of the console hardware business? So is this a sign of things to come?
Here's a link to SonicBlue's press release...
The only thing Slashdot provides in that vein are mental pictures of CowboyNeal wearing only a ten-gallon hat...
Also, there are many more people here who are avid sci-fi readers than are avid research report readers. So even if the costs were equitable, fewer people would be willing to shell out the dough.
"that Rowling guy", ala google's image search.
But I don't see what terrorism has to do with that. As mentioned, terrorists are unlikely to use signed web server certs to do much in the way of loss of life. And the unreliability of driver's licenses won't go away if/when the terrorist threat does.
So why even bring up terrorism?
XOSL gets installed on its own partition, since it's so large. How is this different from installing a mini-linux distro on its own partition, and then doing some smart booting from there?
So really, it's nothing new, it's just a combination of previous products.
Not really in the spirit of things, are we? Don't you know that no proper Nintendo unit has a backlight?
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Search for "write only memory" scan, click on the first result, search the page for "Scan", click on that link. Voila.
Just a note... google considers "Write Only Memory" and "write-only memory" to be the same, so you don't need that "or" there.
That said, I'd like to throw in another value added suggestion: a usenet feed of slashdot, so you can sort it, slice and dice it with whatever client or script you choose. The main objection to that has been lack of ad revenue, but now the person is paying, so why not? It might even cut down on bandwidth costs.
1) There are other ways to trace and/or stop DDoS attacks, most of which don't add new security problems or privacy concerns.
2) Phone tapping is very different than massive packet-sniffing, in at least two ways: First, to implement a phone tap, you have to have a phone company employee do it for you. Second, one phone tap gets you one line, while one internet tap allows you to see many conversations at once. As a result, it's much easier to do massive illegal packet sniffing than it is to do massive illegal phone taps.
- -- The term "interactive digital device" means any machine, device, product,
- software, or technology, whether or not included with or as part of some other machine, device, product, software, or technology, that is designed, marketed or used for the primary purpose of, and that is capable of, storing, retrieving, processing, performing, transmitting, receiving, or copying information in digital form.
I'm guessing linux is software which is capable of processing information in digital form.For example, if I write a GPL'd grep with a spiffy new regular expression syntax, that does not in any way preclude someone else from writing the same utilitiy under a closed-source license.
As long as people are allowed to leave the country, most things are voluntary...
is that if you magnify a TV's screen by a factor of 2, you reduce the brightness by a factor of 4. Magnification factors of the sort mentioned makes the TV too dark to comfortably watch.
Fast forward to today, and it's worse. Now the producers OWN the distribution channels, not just pay them off.
1) They still have PR issues to deal with, so they'd probably only go after people they can label as social misfits.
2) They're not absolved of all consequences, just $50,000 worth. And since that's difficult to estimate, they'll probably be conservative so they don't get sued for corporate hacking, and lose, and thus get bad PR.
Look at what large companies pay for metered access. It's much higher outside of the US.
Bandwidth costs ~$0.04 a megabyte in the US (and much higher rates, in the teens, for places like India) for my fortune 100 company. Count up how much you're costing your cable modem company, versus how much you're paying them. For me personally, I'm getting a tremendous bargain.
That doesn't mean they won't release it on a CDMA phone at some point.