I never personally don't think the did anything wrong, I just think they could have done a lot more right if they threw us early adopters a bone. I love my iPod and Apple got a lot of sales from me showing it off to others, it would be nice if they had given me a feature that would have cost them essentially nothing to implement and which would greatly increase my enjoyment of the device. Shelling out several hundred dollars every couple years for a new music player just isn't reasonable for most people. Hell if they need additional revenue to justify it they could do something like Cisco where you can pay for featuresets but maintenance upgrades for bugs are free.
maybe now that the community can hack the firmware the on the go playlist feature will be backported to my gen 1 ipod =) I know that Apple isn't required to backport features to older units, but the fact that the hardware is capable of it, and that they have ported new features that benifit them just rubs me the wrong way.
Hmm, guess I'm really hurting my chances at a second offspring whenever I take a bath then since my baths are generally drawn at about 115F and I tend to stay in them for about an hour occasionally adding hot water to make sure it stays good and hot. I generally take showers but tend to take a relaxing soak after a shower about once or twice a week.
Funny enough that was the lone script permission that I still had checked because mouseovers were the one script action that I thought would be rather benign, now scripts aren't allowed to do much of anything in my browser =)
The real answer has been known for some time and I believe the Mozilla team is working on it, javascript should be limited to interacting with objects from the same domain as the script was launched from. This will break some stupid scripts but it gets rid of an entire class of cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Shouldn't be that hard to do either, just unload any active javascript code when the domain is changed by an action (whether it be user initiated or scripted).
Besides a hand gun is retarded for stopping power, if it has enough power to stop someone it has too much power for most people to handle correctly. If you want to stop someone in one shot in a home defense situation a 12 guage shotgun with buckshot is a damn fine choice IMHO.
Actually they called it the PENTIUM 2 or PENTIUM II, the reason was that they had several billion in marketing behind the Pentium brand by that point and since the Pentium name was covered by copyright there was little incentive to go away from it. Btw P-II is just geek shorthand =)
It's probably not so much that a megacasino increases the overall frequency of gambling addiction in the general population as it is that it GREATLY increases the frequency in the local population in the immediate surrounding area. Basically the area around the casino becomes a blighted area full of gambling addicts. The reality is that so long as a casino hasn't fallen out of favor with the general population and the total number of outlets for gambling is sensibly limited a casino or group of casinos can be the anchor for a sucessful entertainment district.
Well they weren't correct from that perspective, there was a LOT more verification steps needed early on in RDRAM's existince. It pushed the fab and material technology of the time MUCH harder than SDR DRAM or even early DDR DRAM. Verification is one of the most expensive components of chips because it takes time (money) and expensive custom machinery to do as well as additional labor or expensive labor replacement devices like sort and pick robots. Basically the inputs would have made RDRAM more expensive anyways. The price collusion was more about trying to drive Hynix from the market to raise long term prices through reduction of world capacity than it was about shutting Rambus from the market, though I'm sure that was a nice side effect for the companies involved.
Damn I hate responding to myself but a good example of revocation in action from the NY State Attorney General can be seen here. As you can see he believed that the corporation was being run primarily as a criminal enterprise and as such it was eligible for the corporate death penalty. I very much doubt that anyone would find similar reason in fact about the Infineon case.
Yes, revocation of charter is often referred to as the corporate death penalty, and it does happen occasionally. However any more for it to be applied the business essentially has to have either been setup or run for some time solely as a fraudulent enterprise, misconduct along the lines of simple collusion would most likely NOT qualify a company for revocation. Revocation of charter was somewhat more common in the 19th century because the idea that a corporation existed to serve the common good was much stronger.
Higher state mandated minimum wages act as a silent, invisible tax on everyone because the goverment is indirectly taking money out of your pocket that the free market would not, add to that the fact that it makes it harder for employers to justify adding additional labor capacity and you end up with higher prices for goods and more unemployed people eating from the public trough. Higher minimum wages can also hurt those at the bottom because rather than being in the work force and potentially improving their skills they will be unemployed with little chance for improving their lot, especially since blank spaces on the resume often set off red flashing lights in the eyes of HR people. Btw this is coming from a bleeding hear liberal who finally saw some sense in some Republican policies when they passed wellfare reform and wellfare stopped being a social prison/way of life.
The reason MS got the OS deal is that Bill's mother Mary sat on the Board of Directors of the United Way with an IBM senior executive involved in the decision making process. As always it's all about WHO you know, not WHAT you know.
Except you'd be suprised how many HUGE accounts IBM sells PC's into, and they are generally IBM branded just because. Companies like banks, insurance companies, mortage companies, etc which use IBM for services also tend to buy PC's through them and the price ends up being competitive with anyone else.
Well I guess in markets without remarkable weather you might have airheads reading reports, but in "lake effect" Cleveland almost all of the channels (except FOX) have a couple actual meteorologists on staff for the weather department. Weather here is fleeting but often brutal, as the saying goes "if you don't like the weather, wait around it's sure to change". Personally I've used weatherunderground.com for about a decade. Recently they added a cool feature which got me to pay for daytime radar, they now added the storm prediction vectors to severe weather systems on their animated radar maps. They also have the predicted precip, cloud height, hail size (if applicable), etc for each front. The subscription paid for itself when I could see a major hail storm was heading right for my area last spring, I moved the car under the carport just 10 minutes before 3+ inch hail caused major damage to my neighbors vehicles (it stripped half the trees by my apartment since it was driven by 60+ mph winds). But having freer access to the info we are already paying for with our taxes will be nice =)
He's refering to a Layer 7 switch, which are pretty common in the managed switch arena. Just because the classic definition of a switch is out of date doesn't mean that the author was incorrect.
hmm, SGI isn't out of business, in fact I believe they just achieved their highest spot ever on the Supercomputer Top500 list this last quarter. There will always be a need for specialized high end hardware because adding the features that such niche applications need to the cheap mass consumption hardware would raise the cost of that cheap stuff unnecessarily.
If you think that every division fires the bottom 10% every quarter you are insane. Yes divisions that are losing money generally fire slacker employees, and they justify it with the "it's company policy" line, but that doesn't mean that Cisco has a 40% annual turnover rate! Hell when the big round of layoffs happened they gave everyone 6 months severance and paid medical for 6 months! Cisco hires the best and the brightest from around the world, as well the should since they are a global company. I worked with people in Taiwan, Australia, Germany, etc while there, if they can't bring those workers here they'll just move the work to somewhere where they CAN get the talent to. Cisco pays better than competitive wages so it's not like they are bringing in sweatshop labor like some H-1B employers, they are using the program for exactly what it was designed for, to bring in talented people from around the world to work on specialized projects for a limited amount of time.
I've done 100+ hours with only caffeine. Of course at one point we were using caffinated water to make espresso but it IS possible without illegal drugs =) amphetamine sulphate would work and would have a low risk of side effects (though addiction does occour in a fairly significant percentage of user it does not usually occour with a low number of uses).
Yes, but Firewire2 is 80MB/s, which is more than twice as fast as any tape drive out there and just as fast as the U2W interface on most libraries. Sure a super expensive Fiberchannel library will be faster, but it will also cost orders of magnitude more.
Uh, since windows 2000 you can go dynamic group and expand the partition across as many drives as you want, you can also mount a partition as a mount point under an NTFS volume, so for example you could add a drive as a new folder under your existing C drive, this is just as flexible as a unix solution. Oh yeah and you can do software RAID5 if you want if you are running Server.
Yes because letting a two year old watch the odd movie leads to them being stupid./sarcasm
Why do people without kids assume that they know how best to raise other peoples? My four year old watches an hour or two of educational programming a day and spends about 4 hours a day reading books, yet by your logic because he has a tv/vcr in his room he is stupid.
God that sounds like every frustrating experience I've ever had with Word and its incessant insistence that it autoformat everything for me (generally incorrectly). I wish there was a reveal codes option, or even a way to temporarily disable autoformat.
What I don't understand is why they don't use a PC Card type 3 slot. That way you could use whatever memory technology you wanted with simple, cheap adapters. You could use 1.8" HDD's, CF cards including microdrives, SD, etc. The reason for not doing MPEG-4 is that it is more expensive to do in hardware and more expensive to process in software, then again on a $1,000 camcorder that's kind of a lame excuse =)
mostly it's breaking networking related stuff, like winsock settings. Unfortunatly there are also some that trojan system files and change references to their new version in theregistry. Those are the ones that fail to boot. Running ad-aware and other spyware removal tools will often end up breaking the os the same way that the service pack will.
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I never personally don't think the did anything wrong, I just think they could have done a lot more right if they threw us early adopters a bone. I love my iPod and Apple got a lot of sales from me showing it off to others, it would be nice if they had given me a feature that would have cost them essentially nothing to implement and which would greatly increase my enjoyment of the device. Shelling out several hundred dollars every couple years for a new music player just isn't reasonable for most people. Hell if they need additional revenue to justify it they could do something like Cisco where you can pay for featuresets but maintenance upgrades for bugs are free.
maybe now that the community can hack the firmware the on the go playlist feature will be backported to my gen 1 ipod =) I know that Apple isn't required to backport features to older units, but the fact that the hardware is capable of it, and that they have ported new features that benifit them just rubs me the wrong way.
Hmm, guess I'm really hurting my chances at a second offspring whenever I take a bath then since my baths are generally drawn at about 115F and I tend to stay in them for about an hour occasionally adding hot water to make sure it stays good and hot. I generally take showers but tend to take a relaxing soak after a shower about once or twice a week.
Funny enough that was the lone script permission that I still had checked because mouseovers were the one script action that I thought would be rather benign, now scripts aren't allowed to do much of anything in my browser =)
The real answer has been known for some time and I believe the Mozilla team is working on it, javascript should be limited to interacting with objects from the same domain as the script was launched from. This will break some stupid scripts but it gets rid of an entire class of cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Shouldn't be that hard to do either, just unload any active javascript code when the domain is changed by an action (whether it be user initiated or scripted).
Besides a hand gun is retarded for stopping power, if it has enough power to stop someone it has too much power for most people to handle correctly. If you want to stop someone in one shot in a home defense situation a 12 guage shotgun with buckshot is a damn fine choice IMHO.
Actually they called it the PENTIUM 2 or PENTIUM II, the reason was that they had several billion in marketing behind the Pentium brand by that point and since the Pentium name was covered by copyright there was little incentive to go away from it. Btw P-II is just geek shorthand =)
It's probably not so much that a megacasino increases the overall frequency of gambling addiction in the general population as it is that it GREATLY increases the frequency in the local population in the immediate surrounding area. Basically the area around the casino becomes a blighted area full of gambling addicts. The reality is that so long as a casino hasn't fallen out of favor with the general population and the total number of outlets for gambling is sensibly limited a casino or group of casinos can be the anchor for a sucessful entertainment district.
Well they weren't correct from that perspective, there was a LOT more verification steps needed early on in RDRAM's existince. It pushed the fab and material technology of the time MUCH harder than SDR DRAM or even early DDR DRAM. Verification is one of the most expensive components of chips because it takes time (money) and expensive custom machinery to do as well as additional labor or expensive labor replacement devices like sort and pick robots. Basically the inputs would have made RDRAM more expensive anyways. The price collusion was more about trying to drive Hynix from the market to raise long term prices through reduction of world capacity than it was about shutting Rambus from the market, though I'm sure that was a nice side effect for the companies involved.
Damn I hate responding to myself but a good example of revocation in action from the NY State Attorney General can be seen here. As you can see he believed that the corporation was being run primarily as a criminal enterprise and as such it was eligible for the corporate death penalty. I very much doubt that anyone would find similar reason in fact about the Infineon case.
Yes, revocation of charter is often referred to as the corporate death penalty, and it does happen occasionally. However any more for it to be applied the business essentially has to have either been setup or run for some time solely as a fraudulent enterprise, misconduct along the lines of simple collusion would most likely NOT qualify a company for revocation. Revocation of charter was somewhat more common in the 19th century because the idea that a corporation existed to serve the common good was much stronger.
Higher state mandated minimum wages act as a silent, invisible tax on everyone because the goverment is indirectly taking money out of your pocket that the free market would not, add to that the fact that it makes it harder for employers to justify adding additional labor capacity and you end up with higher prices for goods and more unemployed people eating from the public trough. Higher minimum wages can also hurt those at the bottom because rather than being in the work force and potentially improving their skills they will be unemployed with little chance for improving their lot, especially since blank spaces on the resume often set off red flashing lights in the eyes of HR people. Btw this is coming from a bleeding hear liberal who finally saw some sense in some Republican policies when they passed wellfare reform and wellfare stopped being a social prison/way of life.
The reason MS got the OS deal is that Bill's mother Mary sat on the Board of Directors of the United Way with an IBM senior executive involved in the decision making process. As always it's all about WHO you know, not WHAT you know.
Except you'd be suprised how many HUGE accounts IBM sells PC's into, and they are generally IBM branded just because. Companies like banks, insurance companies, mortage companies, etc which use IBM for services also tend to buy PC's through them and the price ends up being competitive with anyone else.
Well I guess in markets without remarkable weather you might have airheads reading reports, but in "lake effect" Cleveland almost all of the channels (except FOX) have a couple actual meteorologists on staff for the weather department. Weather here is fleeting but often brutal, as the saying goes "if you don't like the weather, wait around it's sure to change". Personally I've used weatherunderground.com for about a decade. Recently they added a cool feature which got me to pay for daytime radar, they now added the storm prediction vectors to severe weather systems on their animated radar maps. They also have the predicted precip, cloud height, hail size (if applicable), etc for each front. The subscription paid for itself when I could see a major hail storm was heading right for my area last spring, I moved the car under the carport just 10 minutes before 3+ inch hail caused major damage to my neighbors vehicles (it stripped half the trees by my apartment since it was driven by 60+ mph winds). But having freer access to the info we are already paying for with our taxes will be nice =)
He's refering to a Layer 7 switch, which are pretty common in the managed switch arena. Just because the classic definition of a switch is out of date doesn't mean that the author was incorrect.
hmm, SGI isn't out of business, in fact I believe they just achieved their highest spot ever on the Supercomputer Top500 list this last quarter. There will always be a need for specialized high end hardware because adding the features that such niche applications need to the cheap mass consumption hardware would raise the cost of that cheap stuff unnecessarily.
If you think that every division fires the bottom 10% every quarter you are insane. Yes divisions that are losing money generally fire slacker employees, and they justify it with the "it's company policy" line, but that doesn't mean that Cisco has a 40% annual turnover rate! Hell when the big round of layoffs happened they gave everyone 6 months severance and paid medical for 6 months! Cisco hires the best and the brightest from around the world, as well the should since they are a global company. I worked with people in Taiwan, Australia, Germany, etc while there, if they can't bring those workers here they'll just move the work to somewhere where they CAN get the talent to. Cisco pays better than competitive wages so it's not like they are bringing in sweatshop labor like some H-1B employers, they are using the program for exactly what it was designed for, to bring in talented people from around the world to work on specialized projects for a limited amount of time.
I've done 100+ hours with only caffeine. Of course at one point we were using caffinated water to make espresso but it IS possible without illegal drugs =) amphetamine sulphate would work and would have a low risk of side effects (though addiction does occour in a fairly significant percentage of user it does not usually occour with a low number of uses).
Yes, but Firewire2 is 80MB/s, which is more than twice as fast as any tape drive out there and just as fast as the U2W interface on most libraries. Sure a super expensive Fiberchannel library will be faster, but it will also cost orders of magnitude more.
Uh, since windows 2000 you can go dynamic group and expand the partition across as many drives as you want, you can also mount a partition as a mount point under an NTFS volume, so for example you could add a drive as a new folder under your existing C drive, this is just as flexible as a unix solution. Oh yeah and you can do software RAID5 if you want if you are running Server.
Yes because letting a two year old watch the odd movie leads to them being stupid. /sarcasm
Why do people without kids assume that they know how best to raise other peoples? My four year old watches an hour or two of educational programming a day and spends about 4 hours a day reading books, yet by your logic because he has a tv/vcr in his room he is stupid.
God that sounds like every frustrating experience I've ever had with Word and its incessant insistence that it autoformat everything for me (generally incorrectly). I wish there was a reveal codes option, or even a way to temporarily disable autoformat.
What I don't understand is why they don't use a PC Card type 3 slot. That way you could use whatever memory technology you wanted with simple, cheap adapters. You could use 1.8" HDD's, CF cards including microdrives, SD, etc. The reason for not doing MPEG-4 is that it is more expensive to do in hardware and more expensive to process in software, then again on a $1,000 camcorder that's kind of a lame excuse =)
mostly it's breaking networking related stuff, like winsock settings. Unfortunatly there are also some that trojan system files and change references to their new version in theregistry. Those are the ones that fail to boot. Running ad-aware and other spyware removal tools will often end up breaking the os the same way that the service pack will.