Paraphrasing Pirates of the Silicon Valley, BIll Gates makes the claim that lifespan is based on how we spend the finite number of heartbeats in a lifetime.
The Justice Department wants to know whether [the consortium] intends to use them defensively to deter patent lawsuits against its members, or offensively against rivals.
Well, it's good that the justice department is taking a closer look at patents. But what about taking a closer look at the IP trolls that are using their patents offensively in both senses of the word (against an opponent and in a disgusting manner).
I think that an arguement could be made that while there may be no improvement or even a decline in quality at the high end, I think there's been a dramatic improvement in what you can get at the low end, and the amount of space that it takes. A home stereo in the 70's usually was an all-in-one cassette/phonograph/radio that didn't do any one thing well, or it was a rack of crappy components that were sold in a valuepack with a fancy EQ. And all of that worked with gigantic floor standing speakers to produce poor quality sound. There was a big gap in quality between consumer level equipment and high quality stuff, and it was easy to be blown away at the difference.
The modern systems made consumer level equipment a lot better, and you can get a lot more affordable quality at entry level prices. Even speakers/sub sitting next to your computer could produce better sound than the floor standing plywood speakers from the past. That's not to say there isn't junk in the consumer market, but rather the average system is a lot better than it was 30 years ago.
I thought that the overall issue is that the dynamic range of the highs & lows is being compressed. So even with a volume limit on the max loudness, would the engineers engineer the song any differently?
A second issue is that the listening environment is changing - music is being played on portable devices in noisy environments - this isn't a fine listening room. As a result, this may be a case where too much dynamic range is lost on the listening audience, as the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
the author clearly states his bias - the name of the blog is called "Android Power". His bio states he's out to irk apple fans.
there is no information in the article whether the delay is Apple's fault or Google's fault. Yes, you can have delays in the approval process of your own doing, not because of a conspiracy that Apple caused.
And all in all, google+ is not even a service that's available to the majority of people. It's in limited beta, meaning that the affected user base who didn't have access to the "delayed" client is small.
Surely you're not implying that Bill Gates formerly held such a distinction. I'd like to hear examples, whether by education or in practice, of this engineering background.
It seems to me that it's pretty clear that the speaker in the video is saying that that IBM invented the Personal Computer (upper case), not the personal computer, lower case. When you watch the video, the screen is showing the case where it says "IBM Personal Computer". And I think that's worth talking about, since the majority of toeday's personal computers (both windows & mac) can trace its roots back to this architecture.
I'd say that the whole reason the IT manager has technical staff is because the manager doesn't know everything, not in spite of it. The technical staff is supposed to know how things work, and pretending to look busy while hiring contractors to do the real work makes me believe that it's the staff that's incompetent rather than the manager.
the black boxes exist in cars today. the story is about how the implementation of the black boxes are highly proprietary (and optional). the proposed standardization, besides the requirement to install them, is talking about how to standardize the boxes and provide some consistency to the design.
you made a deal up front to get paid well to do your job, because at the time, you thought the options were not worth much. They paid you accordingly.
Now that you see the company is doing well, you want to get paid and get options too. Pretty raw deal that you present to the company, you basically didn't take any of the risk and want all the reward.
Based on that description, it sounds like they are saying users don't have to change their master password because their systems can't keep up with load, rather than because they've proven that user data isn't at risk.
The article is about a quote from a marketing mouth from a single vendor, Check Point, who made a sound bite about how hard DLP is to use. And, just by coincidence, they're announcing a security product that is easy to use!
So he's after recovery of damages, but so far it doesn't indicate that he's experienced fraud, and it's not going to come out of his pocket anyways (the credit card company would handle any fraudulent charges).
He also wants credit card monitoring services, but it's not exactly clear that Sony would not have offered such services. It sounds like they're still investigating the extent of the breach. By making it part of the lawsuit, just how long will it take to get the services? After the lawsuit has been settled several months from now? I'd bet that he'd get the services a lot sooner through public pressure than as a remedy of a lawsuit.
Which leaves the third part of what he seeks - recovery of lawyer fees. Now it's pretty clear why this lawsuit exists at this stage - the opportunity for the lawyers to get rich in the name of consumer protection.
Sony tried to prevent the release of custom firmware due to concerns that it could be used for things other than running linux or homebrew. Perhaps their is some validity to those concerns.
I think that it would be much more useful to put it in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. That's in the Silicon Valley at least, and it would make a lot of sense to pair the two topics together.
I can imagine that any large space in SF is going to be horribly expensive, too far out of the way of the main traffic areas, and will end up with financial problems and disappear.
When you look at most phones (especially the pre-smart phone units), there are not easy ways to wipe it back to factory settings. There's no easy way to check if "wipe factory settings" really deleted the data or just removed pointers to the data. There is no sim to pull. And thus, there's no obvious way for the average consumer to dispose of their personal information other than to destroy the phone itself.
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Paraphrasing Pirates of the Silicon Valley, BIll Gates makes the claim that lifespan is based on how we spend the finite number of heartbeats in a lifetime.
I tend to think that the Apple II had a hand in popularizing personal computing
The Justice Department wants to know whether [the consortium] intends to use them defensively to deter patent lawsuits against its members, or offensively against rivals. Well, it's good that the justice department is taking a closer look at patents. But what about taking a closer look at the IP trolls that are using their patents offensively in both senses of the word (against an opponent and in a disgusting manner).
I think that an arguement could be made that while there may be no improvement or even a decline in quality at the high end, I think there's been a dramatic improvement in what you can get at the low end, and the amount of space that it takes. A home stereo in the 70's usually was an all-in-one cassette/phonograph/radio that didn't do any one thing well, or it was a rack of crappy components that were sold in a valuepack with a fancy EQ. And all of that worked with gigantic floor standing speakers to produce poor quality sound. There was a big gap in quality between consumer level equipment and high quality stuff, and it was easy to be blown away at the difference.
The modern systems made consumer level equipment a lot better, and you can get a lot more affordable quality at entry level prices. Even speakers/sub sitting next to your computer could produce better sound than the floor standing plywood speakers from the past. That's not to say there isn't junk in the consumer market, but rather the average system is a lot better than it was 30 years ago.
What Phone 5 marketing are you referring to? I haven't seen any.
Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote a retort to the reader comments regarding several deaths over the past few weeks
I thought that the overall issue is that the dynamic range of the highs & lows is being compressed. So even with a volume limit on the max loudness, would the engineers engineer the song any differently?
A second issue is that the listening environment is changing - music is being played on portable devices in noisy environments - this isn't a fine listening room. As a result, this may be a case where too much dynamic range is lost on the listening audience, as the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
the author clearly states his bias - the name of the blog is called "Android Power". His bio states he's out to irk apple fans.
there is no information in the article whether the delay is Apple's fault or Google's fault. Yes, you can have delays in the approval process of your own doing, not because of a conspiracy that Apple caused.
And all in all, google+ is not even a service that's available to the majority of people. It's in limited beta, meaning that the affected user base who didn't have access to the "delayed" client is small.
Surely you're not implying that Bill Gates formerly held such a distinction. I'd like to hear examples, whether by education or in practice, of this engineering background.
I think we know what Step #2 and #3 are
2) Sue
3) Sue Again!
It seems to me that it's pretty clear that the speaker in the video is saying that that IBM invented the Personal Computer (upper case), not the personal computer, lower case. When you watch the video, the screen is showing the case where it says "IBM Personal Computer". And I think that's worth talking about, since the majority of toeday's personal computers (both windows & mac) can trace its roots back to this architecture.
I'd say that the whole reason the IT manager has technical staff is because the manager doesn't know everything, not in spite of it. The technical staff is supposed to know how things work, and pretending to look busy while hiring contractors to do the real work makes me believe that it's the staff that's incompetent rather than the manager.
so how does any of this relate to removing OtherOS anymore?
You don't trust password management programs but you trust public terminals?
the black boxes exist in cars today. the story is about how the implementation of the black boxes are highly proprietary (and optional). the proposed standardization, besides the requirement to install them, is talking about how to standardize the boxes and provide some consistency to the design.
you made a deal up front to get paid well to do your job, because at the time, you thought the options were not worth much. They paid you accordingly.
Now that you see the company is doing well, you want to get paid and get options too. Pretty raw deal that you present to the company, you basically didn't take any of the risk and want all the reward.
Just how much did TJ Max, Gap, and Heartland give you for their breaches?
Doesn't TrueCrypt only do disk encryption? When you're in the booted state and copy to the file share, it's in plaintext.
Based on that description, it sounds like they are saying users don't have to change their master password because their systems can't keep up with load, rather than because they've proven that user data isn't at risk.
The article is about a quote from a marketing mouth from a single vendor, Check Point, who made a sound bite about how hard DLP is to use. And, just by coincidence, they're announcing a security product that is easy to use!
So he's after recovery of damages, but so far it doesn't indicate that he's experienced fraud, and it's not going to come out of his pocket anyways (the credit card company would handle any fraudulent charges).
He also wants credit card monitoring services, but it's not exactly clear that Sony would not have offered such services. It sounds like they're still investigating the extent of the breach. By making it part of the lawsuit, just how long will it take to get the services? After the lawsuit has been settled several months from now? I'd bet that he'd get the services a lot sooner through public pressure than as a remedy of a lawsuit.
Which leaves the third part of what he seeks - recovery of lawyer fees. Now it's pretty clear why this lawsuit exists at this stage - the opportunity for the lawyers to get rich in the name of consumer protection.
Sony tried to prevent the release of custom firmware due to concerns that it could be used for things other than running linux or homebrew. Perhaps their is some validity to those concerns.
I think that it would be much more useful to put it in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. That's in the Silicon Valley at least, and it would make a lot of sense to pair the two topics together.
I can imagine that any large space in SF is going to be horribly expensive, too far out of the way of the main traffic areas, and will end up with financial problems and disappear.
When you look at most phones (especially the pre-smart phone units), there are not easy ways to wipe it back to factory settings. There's no easy way to check if "wipe factory settings" really deleted the data or just removed pointers to the data. There is no sim to pull. And thus, there's no obvious way for the average consumer to dispose of their personal information other than to destroy the phone itself.
I bet your local credit union is even far less prepared than BoA from being able to fend off hacker attacks.