They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way.
Wouldn't this be a GOOD time to have legal drones getting involved? No, not Microsoft's lawyers, the ones that will protect the interests of the Samba intellectual property?
Car manufacturers don't put version numbers of their car as part of their marketing. I suspect that people don't buy first releases of new platforms, so there isn't the same incentive to get the X.0 version of the car until the manufacturer takes a look at the warranty work and fixes the bugs in the design.
However, most enthusiasts do know the internal numbering system. For instance, the Audi A4 was released in the B5, B6, B7 and B8 platform. If this was software, it would have been Audi A4 1.0, Audi A4 2003 Server, Audi A4 XP and Audi A4 7.
Polyphony Digital has made the jump from video game to real world with the Nissan GT-R as well. The video game designer worked on the design of the driver gauges in the GT-R
that the world is getting more bandwidth capacity to individuals on new technology, whereas most of the US is on cable modem and we're getting new restrictions after years of unannounced restrictions placed on our bandwidth.
The vegas experience was something I walked through and felt like I was being shuffled through like cattle - there are people lining up, looking over you, and many don't even want to be there.
I hear that the San Diego exhibit was part of a much larger exhibit that was broken up - I wish I could have seen the original.
but it sure doesn't seem to be producing something of value, when there's a general level of distaste to what CGI's done to filmmaking. I've grown tired of paying my $13 to watch computer graphics fight each other on the big screen.
I still remember Titanic being the first time I've heard that the human mind has a built-in detector that alerts when they see animated humans, and fooling it is very difficult. Well, I watched Titanic and noticed right away when they showed animated humans, so it was still a long ways off from delivering what they promised.
It seems to me that Crispin Porter + Bogusky is using their new Microsoft account to make a lot of publicity for themselves, given that Fast Company just did a cover article on their acquisition of the Microsoft account.
I know pricing very well for my company, and the way the pricing was originally done against the euro was that a dollar and the euro symbol were exchanged at the time the dollar and the euro were relatively the same. So a $200 product was 200 Euro. It makes accounting easier too by not having to recognize odd numbers, like trying to charge customers 1000.21 cents instead of 1000 when doing a conversion.
Conversion to other currencies were done against the euro price list as well, so the UK price list was based on a factor against the euro.
Over time, the euro got stronger, but the market already was used to the price. The prices don't change (up or down, depending how favorable the exchange rate is to your country)
For instance, just because the exchange rate of the china yuan fluctuates against the dollar, Apple doesn't adjust the Made in China iPod to vary in price from day to day. In fact, it usually only goes down (not up).
For the European customer, the price gap is now huge, and you CAN get the products cheaper if you either travel to the US, use a global purchasing agreement negotiated through a US subsidiary or deal with a greymarket importer. But usually there is territorial pricing practices/warranty support issues (i.e. do you need to have your US purchased product serviced at a US warranty center)? However, YMMV
Of course there are products that do vary in accordance significantly with the daily exchange rates, but computer software doesn't tend to be one of them.
There is a base level of science education that is good for everyone. But above & beyond that, too much time & money is spent on education (science in particular) for children who would prefer to do other things, such as vocational work. If we separate the class offerings to give science to the kids who want & need it, it reduces the amount of money spent on trying to give a one-size fits all education to everyone.
I see lots of comments ask if you can take your electronics underwater, but isn't there a difference between waterproof and submergible?
For example, a waterproof jacket doesn't mean both sides of the jacket won't get wet when underwater. And a waterproof watch doesn't necessarily mean you can go diving with it - it just means if you wear it in the rain, it won't malfunction.
Yes, it is certainly expensive compared to the price you pay for residential or business service. But if you compare it to what you pay for a typical trade show (or any event where the service has to be set up and torn down), the price is actually cheap.
For instance, the price to install an internet line to a trade show booth to something like RSA conference is on the order of $1000 for 5 days of usage.
is not the education itself, but the doors it opens (because people see the name brand), and the connections you make (by knowing lots of other people who have open doors).
That's not to say that you can't get these things in other ways. But it is easier to get it in that manner.
My education at state college didn't open many doors, but I don't think that on average, the ivy league graduate has that many legs up on me.
Much like at the end of Rush Hour 2's bloopers, Chris Tucker ad-libs upon the death of a bad guy "He's not going to appear in Rush Hour 3". That was in no way a confirmation that Rush Hour 3 was going to be produced, in fact it was a long way off from it. It was use of the language to simply show that an arbitrary point of time would coincide with a possible future event, of which a sequel fits the definition of a future event.
How did mediadefender get enough computing resources/bandwidth to launch a DOS? Did they launch it out of their own datacenter/domain, or do they have a network of locations?
No, I haven't read the article because the link is not coming up right now.
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"Sooner or later some dumb ass is going to ask why Skein is based on Threefish, which was (apparently, according to the intertubes) broken."
Threefish can't possibly be broken yet; we only just announced it yesterday. No one knew of its existence before then.
I think your intertubes are clogged.
Posted by: Bruce Schneier at October 30, 2008 7:24 PM
Costco sells offices now?
Wouldn't this be a GOOD time to have legal drones getting involved? No, not Microsoft's lawyers, the ones that will protect the interests of the Samba intellectual property?
Car manufacturers don't put version numbers of their car as part of their marketing. I suspect that people don't buy first releases of new platforms, so there isn't the same incentive to get the X.0 version of the car until the manufacturer takes a look at the warranty work and fixes the bugs in the design.
However, most enthusiasts do know the internal numbering system. For instance, the Audi A4 was released in the B5, B6, B7 and B8 platform. If this was software, it would have been Audi A4 1.0, Audi A4 2003 Server, Audi A4 XP and Audi A4 7.
Polyphony Digital has made the jump from video game to real world with the Nissan GT-R as well. The video game designer worked on the design of the driver gauges in the GT-R
Does chess really need to separate the rankings between male and female champions? Isn't this a sport that gender really doesn't factor in?
that the world is getting more bandwidth capacity to individuals on new technology, whereas most of the US is on cable modem and we're getting new restrictions after years of unannounced restrictions placed on our bandwidth.
it's fairly amazing that international SMS works at all. Although it's a simple protocol, there are a lot of moving parts in between it would seem.
I found the musueum exhibit at The San Diego Air & Space Museum to be far more rewarding. I spent hours at the San Diego exhibit, looking at the detail at which items were presented. Set reproductions, models from the show, props and costumes. It was fantastic.
The vegas experience was something I walked through and felt like I was being shuffled through like cattle - there are people lining up, looking over you, and many don't even want to be there.
I hear that the San Diego exhibit was part of a much larger exhibit that was broken up - I wish I could have seen the original.
by the fact that Cyber Ark's business is privledged account management, would it?
the Gammima.AG worm? I hear that's popular in space nowadays
leaving the new car plates on your car even after you get your real license plates?
I thought Jake Sisko wrote that.
Imagine a beowoulf cluster of quantum computers!
but it sure doesn't seem to be producing something of value, when there's a general level of distaste to what CGI's done to filmmaking. I've grown tired of paying my $13 to watch computer graphics fight each other on the big screen.
I still remember Titanic being the first time I've heard that the human mind has a built-in detector that alerts when they see animated humans, and fooling it is very difficult. Well, I watched Titanic and noticed right away when they showed animated humans, so it was still a long ways off from delivering what they promised.
It seems to me that Crispin Porter + Bogusky is using their new Microsoft account to make a lot of publicity for themselves, given that Fast Company just did a cover article on their acquisition of the Microsoft account.
I know pricing very well for my company, and the way the pricing was originally done against the euro was that a dollar and the euro symbol were exchanged at the time the dollar and the euro were relatively the same. So a $200 product was 200 Euro. It makes accounting easier too by not having to recognize odd numbers, like trying to charge customers 1000.21 cents instead of 1000 when doing a conversion.
Conversion to other currencies were done against the euro price list as well, so the UK price list was based on a factor against the euro.
Over time, the euro got stronger, but the market already was used to the price. The prices don't change (up or down, depending how favorable the exchange rate is to your country)
For instance, just because the exchange rate of the china yuan fluctuates against the dollar, Apple doesn't adjust the Made in China iPod to vary in price from day to day. In fact, it usually only goes down (not up).
For the European customer, the price gap is now huge, and you CAN get the products cheaper if you either travel to the US, use a global purchasing agreement negotiated through a US subsidiary or deal with a greymarket importer. But usually there is territorial pricing practices/warranty support issues (i.e. do you need to have your US purchased product serviced at a US warranty center)? However, YMMV
Of course there are products that do vary in accordance significantly with the daily exchange rates, but computer software doesn't tend to be one of them.
There is a base level of science education that is good for everyone. But above & beyond that, too much time & money is spent on education (science in particular) for children who would prefer to do other things, such as vocational work. If we separate the class offerings to give science to the kids who want & need it, it reduces the amount of money spent on trying to give a one-size fits all education to everyone.
I see lots of comments ask if you can take your electronics underwater, but isn't there a difference between waterproof and submergible?
For example, a waterproof jacket doesn't mean both sides of the jacket won't get wet when underwater. And a waterproof watch doesn't necessarily mean you can go diving with it - it just means if you wear it in the rain, it won't malfunction.
Yes, it is certainly expensive compared to the price you pay for residential or business service. But if you compare it to what you pay for a typical trade show (or any event where the service has to be set up and torn down), the price is actually cheap.
For instance, the price to install an internet line to a trade show booth to something like RSA conference is on the order of $1000 for 5 days of usage.
is not the education itself, but the doors it opens (because people see the name brand), and the connections you make (by knowing lots of other people who have open doors).
That's not to say that you can't get these things in other ways. But it is easier to get it in that manner.
My education at state college didn't open many doors, but I don't think that on average, the ivy league graduate has that many legs up on me.
The cat's out of the bag - everyone was happy at Apple until you told them they're underpaid.
get 60fps in Crysis?
Much like at the end of Rush Hour 2's bloopers, Chris Tucker ad-libs upon the death of a bad guy "He's not going to appear in Rush Hour 3". That was in no way a confirmation that Rush Hour 3 was going to be produced, in fact it was a long way off from it. It was use of the language to simply show that an arbitrary point of time would coincide with a possible future event, of which a sequel fits the definition of a future event.
How did mediadefender get enough computing resources/bandwidth to launch a DOS? Did they launch it out of their own datacenter/domain, or do they have a network of locations?
No, I haven't read the article because the link is not coming up right now.