Griffin sounds like a man with the kind of aggressive plans we need to make things like the shuttle replacement finally a reality and make US space efforts relevant and significant again.
Wonder who in the US bureaucratic nightmare pool is going to put a stop to his plans ?
And it shows the quality and direction of where the Register wants to take its articles. The Register is not the National Enquirer . If he wants to make the Office format analogy with Linus there is a way of making it without appearing as sensational as you expect to read in a pure BS publication.
These days its automatically assumed that if you're developing open source, its for the huge community of users out there that are NOW starting to come to your platform. Despite wanting more applications that fulfill needs for the majority of people out there, why does it seem like there is this attitude that these open source developers HAVE TO DO it. They are not blind fools out to serve the masses. I assume a large portion of them develop specific components to be noticed so that they can get a job in the industry. Sure they want to promote open source but they're not going to like it if people say develop these features , and he/she doesn't want to.
Now we're getting more people who just want clones of Windows and Windows applications and want those tools to be free.
Open source is not just about developing free stuff. Its its own self-fullfilling serving product life cycle where not only you but someone else can keep adding onto the product and its open for anyone to modify.
Open source does not mean things have to be FREE in the monetary sense. Not even in the FREE FREE sense if its developed with some other open license than the GPL.
Its also the choice of open source developers on whether they want to be business oriented always taking feedback from users or just doing what they want. However if you don't pay for it, you really have no right to complain about when Developer X doesn't do something.
Cities are looking at deploying wireless networks so that Joe Sixpack can get a connection.
Chicago is looking to expand their public safety network with a wireless solution like mesh networking.
This is not a great move. Try and search for 0S/2 exploits even with Google. You're not going to find tons. I sure don't want to use an ATM running Windows and IE where someone that use the security expoit(s) of the month on it.
Search on Windows security exploits and display the results and oh... darn I hope this gets submitted because my browser crashed when all the results came back.
And this is from the same guy who must have done such a great job advising on security matters for the government that most of the government agenecies just recently received an awesome security grade.
Whether he didn't have the power to make the necessary changes or he's incompetent the government obviously needs to take some serious steps to increase cyber security soon!
Today, mass deployment is done through a process known as "ghosting" an image of the operating system. An improved method will come with Longhorn, Montgomery said.
The new improvement method will be for fresh PCs to connect directly to MS server's for OS install in a way similar to FreeBSD.
While its installing you'll see an install screen that says "All Your Computer Are Belong To Us" with other Engrish phrases being let loose during various parts of the installation.
And where does Sunbird fit into all of this ?
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I don't see Sunbird in any of those slides. We still seem to be far away from a complete Outlook replacement that is stable enough to pitch to people. I would think replacing Outlook would be a good investment of resources.
And how long do you expect to keep a $500 machine? For that price even computers are easily disposable.
You always have the option of buying the crucial ram and having an apple authorized guy install it. However I don't know how much the installation alone would cost.
That statement about EA dying is not true. With a strong cash reserve ( 2.5 billion ) last time I checked, EA isn't going anywhere soon but up. A 20 % investment in Ubisoft was a small transaction for them.
And with EA and Microsoft getting tighter together, well you do the math.
Most of us like the old EA instead of the new one , but they are a financially strong company. They were one of Fortune magazines top picks for the year and their current stock price is around $60.
Anyway, it was probably a lot cheaper to build than most things they lob up into space, so I won't fret.
Are you sure about that ? You know how much a dozen roses or a floral arrangment goes for these days ?
The amount of money the floral industry makes pushing disposable flowers for ooohs and aaahs and future activity with Mrs. Slashdot User probably makes the guys at NASA salivate.
The telephone tax was originally started as a tax to be used to pay for the Spanish American War. Telephones were selected then because they were a luxury item. Why can't we find a luxury item today to tax instead of my VOIP service ?
There are a few websites out there like this one
http://riseup.net/nacc/telephone.htm that tell you how to avoid paying landline telephone tax. If they do decide to tax VOIP, just do the same thing.
If someone comes back and says my VOIP tax money is needed to fight our current war, then just remind them about the history of the telephone tax and suggest some luxury items that we can tax today ( fur coats, Hummer, super diamond ring, etc )
I really don't think Steve Jobs would let Motorola put out a piece of crap. This is probably one of his pet projects which he is going to make sure comes out right. Having a pissed Steve Jobs over your shoulder is not something you want. He is probably all over this venture to make sure its done right. Given that Moto has done a great job lately with the Razr V3 and Mpx220 I wouldn't discount them from designing a phone that makes this whole Itunes venture work.
1000 to 2000 files makes you fat !
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It (the study) found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK "digitally fat".
If 1,000 to 2,000 make yous fat ( loosening belt here)...
In a message to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Gov. Rendell said that the bill's provision limiting municipal competition was a "problem." However, he pointed to Verizon's agreement to waive its right to stop the Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, and said the state would "work with other municipalities on projects that they have established or propose to establish in order to ensure that, to the extent that they are now viable, they will also have the opportunity to succeed."
I'm sure glad Verizon is calling the shots now! I sure wouldn't want my local government to be able to make the kinds of decisions that would be in the public's interest.
Community : Please Verizon roll out your high speed internet services for us. Verizon : I'm sorry . Your current community doesn't have a sufficient return on investment for us to build a high speed network in your area. Community : Fine . Then we will have a community funded wireless network which is easily available with today's technology. Verizon : No, you cannot do this! Community : Why not ? You said you didn't want to invest in infrastructure in our community or that it would take 7-10 years even if you decide to do something. Verizon : Well.... Well.... Because!
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It looks like Enhanced 911 is 9.95 to setup and 1.50 / month. With this federal ruling won't they have to throw it into the normal calling package ?
I suppose they could increase their default monthly fee by $1.50 and everyone else will follow suit.
Griffin sounds like a man with the kind of aggressive plans we need to make things like the shuttle replacement finally a reality and make US space efforts relevant and significant again.
Wonder who in the US bureaucratic nightmare pool is going to put a stop to his plans ?
And it shows the quality and direction of where the Register wants to take its articles. The Register is not the National Enquirer . If he wants to make the Office format analogy with Linus there is a way of making it without appearing as sensational as you expect to read in a pure BS publication.
We send small robots to Mars that can form a larger more complex machine.
Time goes by and we forget we ever tried this experiment and give up on Mars because our society suffers some calamity.
A 100 years later a huge fleet of warships from Mars controlled by a huge artificial AI comes back to Earth and obliterates it.
Sounds Good!
These days its automatically assumed that if you're developing open source, its for the huge community of users out there that are NOW starting to come to your platform. Despite wanting more applications that fulfill needs for the majority of people out there, why does it seem like there is this attitude that these open source developers HAVE TO DO it. They are not blind fools out to serve the masses. I assume a large portion of them develop specific components to be noticed so that they can get a job in the industry. Sure they want to promote open source but they're not going to like it if people say develop these features , and he/she doesn't want to .
Now we're getting more people who just want clones of Windows and Windows applications and want those tools to be free.
Open source is not just about developing free stuff. Its its own self-fullfilling serving product life cycle where not only you but someone else can keep adding onto the product and its open for anyone to modify.
Open source does not mean things have to be FREE in the monetary sense. Not even in the FREE FREE sense if its developed with some other open license than the GPL.
Its also the choice of open source developers on whether they want to be business oriented always taking feedback from users or just doing what they want. However if you don't pay for it, you really have no right to complain about when Developer X doesn't do something.
network .
i .org/elib/publish/article_2698.asp
Cities are looking at deploying wireless networks so that Joe Sixpack can get a connection. Chicago is looking to expand their public safety network with a wireless solution like mesh networking.
http://www.pti.org/toforum.asp?pref=http://www.pt
Verizon isn't goint to be able to stop wireless public safety networks from going up when its a cops life or the ability to do his job at risk.
and with an MBA degree he means real coke too.
This is not a great move. Try and search for 0S/2 exploits even with Google. You're not going to find tons. I sure don't want to use an ATM running Windows and IE where someone that use the security expoit(s) of the month on it.
... darn I hope this gets submitted because my browser crashed when all the results came back.
Search on Windows security exploits and display the results and oh
And this is from the same guy who must have done such a great job advising on security matters for the government that most of the government agenecies just recently received an awesome security grade.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6981279/
Oh wait, that didn't happen!
Whether he didn't have the power to make the necessary changes or he's incompetent the government obviously needs to take some serious steps to increase cyber security soon!
Maybe this will push Google to further incorporate more Firefox talent and have their browser ready by the time MS has IE7 out.
I wonder how much her golden parachute will be and how much they had to pay her to get out.
This is truly a great day for HP.
Today, mass deployment is done through a process known as "ghosting" an image of the operating system. An improved method will come with Longhorn, Montgomery said.
The new improvement method will be for fresh PCs to connect directly to MS server's for OS install in a way similar to FreeBSD.
While its installing you'll see an install screen that says "All Your Computer Are Belong To Us" with other Engrish phrases being let loose during various parts of the installation.
I don't see Sunbird in any of those slides. We still seem to be far away from a complete Outlook replacement that is stable enough to pitch to people. I would think replacing Outlook would be a good investment of resources.
And how long do you expect to keep a $500 machine? For that price even computers are easily disposable.
You always have the option of buying the crucial ram and having an apple authorized guy install it. However I don't know how much the installation alone would cost.
If you check out this forum thread you can see thatr ead.php?Cat=&Board=UBB37&main=290448&type=thread
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/printth
Crucial already offers a 1 GB Ram upgrade for $227. Much cheaper than the Apple upgrade and you can put it in yourself.
That statement about EA dying is not true. With a strong cash reserve ( 2.5 billion ) last time I checked, EA isn't going anywhere soon but up. A 20 % investment in Ubisoft was a small transaction for them.
And with EA and Microsoft getting tighter together, well you do the math.
Most of us like the old EA instead of the new one , but they are a financially strong company. They were one of Fortune magazines top picks for the year and their current stock price is around $60.
Sorry they're not going anywhere.
Anyway, it was probably a lot cheaper to build than most things they lob up into space, so I won't fret.
Are you sure about that ? You know how much a dozen roses or a floral arrangment goes for these days ? The amount of money the floral industry makes pushing disposable flowers for ooohs and aaahs and future activity with Mrs. Slashdot User probably makes the guys at NASA salivate.
The telephone tax was originally started as a tax to be used to pay for the Spanish American War. Telephones were selected then because they were a luxury item. Why can't we find a luxury item today to tax instead of my VOIP service ?
There are a few websites out there like this one http://riseup.net/nacc/telephone.htm that tell you how to avoid paying landline telephone tax. If they do decide to tax VOIP, just do the same thing. If someone comes back and says my VOIP tax money is needed to fight our current war, then just remind them about the history of the telephone tax and suggest some luxury items that we can tax today ( fur coats, Hummer, super diamond ring, etc )
I really don't think Steve Jobs would let Motorola put out a piece of crap. This is probably one of his pet projects which he is going to make sure comes out right. Having a pissed Steve Jobs over your shoulder is not something you want. He is probably all over this venture to make sure its done right. Given that Moto has done a great job lately with the Razr V3 and Mpx220 I wouldn't discount them from designing a phone that makes this whole Itunes venture work.
It (the study) found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK "digitally fat".
...
If 1,000 to 2,000 make yous fat ( loosening belt here)
Gosh! I feel like I am going to explode!
I am more in the mood for a lightweight protocol . Get back with me when it reaches the 'Mary Kate Olsen' stage.
Spammers will hire scumware authors to write apps that packet sites who target spammers, making the circle complete.
SCUMMware authors. Does that mean I will get such hit titles as Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis ?
In a message to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Gov. Rendell said that the bill's provision limiting municipal competition was a "problem." However, he pointed to Verizon's agreement to waive its right to stop the Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, and said the state would "work with other municipalities on projects that they have established or propose to establish in order to ensure that, to the extent that they are now viable, they will also have the opportunity to succeed."
I'm sure glad Verizon is calling the shots now! I sure wouldn't want my local government to be able to make the kinds of decisions that would be in the public's interest.
Community : Please Verizon roll out your high speed internet services for us. .... Well .... Because!
Verizon : I'm sorry . Your current community doesn't have a sufficient return on investment for us to build a high speed network in your area.
Community : Fine . Then we will have a community funded wireless network which is easily available with today's technology.
Verizon : No, you cannot do this!
Community : Why not ? You said you didn't want to invest in infrastructure in our community or that it would take 7-10 years even if you decide to do something.
Verizon : Well