The whole process takes maybe 4 hours on a 400 Mhz machine, not 10.
Jeez... we've known it's been faster to reinstall for 15 years now. We all know it's faster to reimage for 10. It's not *insightful*, it's common knowledge. 10 years ago it used to take close to an hour to image a 8GB machine. Today, it takes less than 10minutes to reiamge a 40GB machine. We reimage 40+ machines a day, and users are back online in under 20 minutes. We don't fix machines, we ask the users to step out and get a cup of coffee or something, and by the time they get back they're up and running. So saying "reinstall is faster" is old news, really old news.
But sometimes you can't reimage. For some reason or another, you just have to spend the time to pick through and clean the system. Maybe there's special customized apps that the user has lost the install disks to. Maybe there's a software registration process that involves calling and giving information which can't be done until 9am monday, and they need the machine fully functional NOW. Maybe it's a laptop with a broken floppy and no CD, with unknown hardware and no drivers. That's the point. Sometimes you have to just dig in there and clean it manually. And yeah, sometimes it will take 10 hours, sometimes it can take much longer.
Why can't you just do this with the Winamp plugin that records streams to mp3 files (forgot name, sorry) and then transfer to media card via film reader?
Probably for the same reasons most people don't use their computers to record Cable TV programs. First, you probably don't have a digital radio tuner built into your PC. 2nd, Winamp or any other stream grabber isn't going to do time-shifting. Using some batch programming you can probably get it to record future shows, but it's a kludge. The bug is an all-in-one solution much like TiVo
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Since they plan to offer this in retail stores, where you can realistically pay cash, any idea how they plan to enforce the subscription terms? Or will this turn into another NetPC(? The similar deal MSN tried a few years ago) fiasco, where they end up losing huge amounts of money because no one actually follows through with the subscription?
I can't RTFA... but my guess would be you have to shell out $600 or so for the system, and get a $300 *rebate* when you sign up for the AOL subscription, which would include a $300 cancellation fee. At least, that's what any *smart* company would do.
The progressive device doesn't include a GPS. So how's the device know if I'm doing 55 down a highway, or 55 down the adjacent local road blowing through red lights?
What I dont understand is how they intend to protect these massive sails from being shot full of holes by meteorites and space dust as it propels its way through space.
That's why the Japanese are busy working on manufacturing "solar duct tape"...
The problem is, it won't work as well the other way around. For penguin, it would be free advertising. For katie j, it was more like a free slashdotting for 4 years.
Well, if we get enough people to talk/post/blog about it, then a search in google for penguin.com might bring up the book instead of the publishing company... a minor victory.
...the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.
At what point did state governments start to unabashedly refer to its citizens as consumers? (Don't answer that.)
This is brought up by the Attorney's General... which are the advocates for consumer rights in the state. They do not speak for all the "citizens", thus "consumer" is the proper term, since not all "citizens" are "consumers".
Anyway, reading the document, this is what I got out of it:
"Please P2P makers, our consumers are complete idiots who don't know enough to run virus protection, to run personal firewalls, or to check MD5s. We're not allowed to tell our consumers they're fucking morons and to get a clue, since they pay for our salaries... please please please stop writing P2P software so these idiots will stop complaining about it. Since there's nothing we can do legally about your software, we're asking nicely that you voluntarily stop producing it. Thanks, the atty's generals."
That's why you should keep a log, preferably a dated lab note book of any kind of research or work you do. If he had such a book that contained the history of his ideas and went back to before his employment at Alcatel, he would likely have been able to win this court case.
Or maybe it would have sealed the case for Alcatel. Yes, the idea might have come from before he was employed, but if during the time of employment, ideas and enhancements came at times he was working on similar projects at work, if there was any sort of similarity between his personal and his professional work, then the journal could have proved the case for Alcatel.
You can get significant speed increases in the system by simply turning off services and removing all the random crap that's set to start automatically. Windows Messenger, Quicktime, Winamp, MS Office, CD/DVD recording, AOL, there's so much junk that likes to start itself, it's amazing the system actually manages to boot. Get rid of all of it, disable services like browser, distributed link tracking, messenger, fast user switching, and you'll see plenty of speed increases.
GF: "So, why were you staring at her? And her? And her? You didn't even *look* at her face! And that one? Another? How many women *do* you stare at walking to work???"
What Apple seems to be mad about is them cracking their DRM.
Why would Apple care that the DRM has been "hijacked"? The iPod ships with a bona fide DRM that works as designed, so there's no negligence on Apple's part. The DRM still exists, the Fairplay DRM'ed songs are still DRM'ed and there's a limit on where those songs can be played. So there's no threat of iTunes songs being pirated (directly, since there are ways to get around it).
So, why is Apple concerned? Because exaclty like the Lexmark case, Apple is concerned about 3rd party vendors. They don't want to lose iTunes business to Real. That Real has managed to fake the iPod to play other DRM schemes besides Fairplay doesn't mean that any iTunes songs are open to piracy (although that may happen later). So it is exactly like the Lexmark case.
The reason I read is to get away from the computer.
Thanks to work, I'm sitting in front of a computer screen a good 12 hours a day at least. I don't want to spend any more time in front of an LCD than I have to.
Yes, I've read ebooks on my laptop on the train. I read Anna Karenina on my Sony Clie. The technology is pretty good, I didn't really have problems with the screen, the reader... it's the technology itself!
Sometimes I just need to get away from the whir of hard drives, the glow of pixels... to sit under a tree in the park with a good novel. To feel the texture of the tree on my back, the earth under my butt, to smell the fresh air, to feel the paper in my hands. It's a comfort. To know that as technology continues to infect every aspect of my life, I still can grab a paperback and get away for a few hours downtime. I rue the day we lose that ability...
There are various definitions of room temperature. The one most often used is 20 degrees C (Err... about 75 degrees F, I think).
75F room temperature? That's what my GF seems to think, while my idea of room temperature is more 68F. So yeah, I'd say that there are plenty of definitions for "room" temperature.
He should liken any government using closed source software with the Trojans themselves, who took the *gift* without examining the contents.
If the Trojan Horse were really Open Source, it would have had a list of building materials, instructions on building the horse yourself, the number of greek warriors inside, how the warriors were armed, along with several notes from the Phoenicians commenting on the dangers of the included Greeks...
The frustrating thing is that when someone cuts you off, they *AREN'T* looking at you, and *DON'T* look back at you. The idiot driving 55 in the passing lane is obviously ignoring you. So what's the point of having a car that shows emotion when the people you want to know you're upset are igoring you completely?
That's why the only thing that ever really works is a.357 magnum. A few rounds through their rear windows definitely let's them know how you feel.
I read through a few of them, and really, they're pretty worthless. This is from the first article: "One Law to Rule Them All"
There were several directions Asimov didn't go with his robot AIs, such as recursive self-enhancement. Recursive self-enhancement occurs when an AI improves its own intelligence, and then repeats the process - but this time using more intelligence - and repeating again and again, resulting in a mountainous intellect. Even though Asimov didn't write much about recursive self-enhancement, his robot AIs still had imagination. If a robot were to imagine itself with greater capability, then it would be straightforward for it to conclude that it would have greater ability to obey the First Law....A robot improving itself in this way would obtain an increasing spiral of capability completely overpowering that of humans, all to better obey the First Law and protect humans from harm.
Well, it sounds like the author knows nothing of the robot series, since this is exactly where the series headed with Giskard and Daneel. Really, if the author missed that part of the robot series, then exactly what did he read?
I found the other articles similarly lacking in depth and research, so overall a pointless waste of time.
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The whole process takes maybe 4 hours on a 400 Mhz machine, not 10.
Jeez... we've known it's been faster to reinstall for 15 years now. We all know it's faster to reimage for 10. It's not *insightful*, it's common knowledge. 10 years ago it used to take close to an hour to image a 8GB machine. Today, it takes less than 10minutes to reiamge a 40GB machine. We reimage 40+ machines a day, and users are back online in under 20 minutes. We don't fix machines, we ask the users to step out and get a cup of coffee or something, and by the time they get back they're up and running. So saying "reinstall is faster" is old news, really old news.
But sometimes you can't reimage. For some reason or another, you just have to spend the time to pick through and clean the system. Maybe there's special customized apps that the user has lost the install disks to. Maybe there's a software registration process that involves calling and giving information which can't be done until 9am monday, and they need the machine fully functional NOW. Maybe it's a laptop with a broken floppy and no CD, with unknown hardware and no drivers. That's the point. Sometimes you have to just dig in there and clean it manually. And yeah, sometimes it will take 10 hours, sometimes it can take much longer.
Me too!
Why can't you just do this with the Winamp plugin that records streams to mp3 files (forgot name, sorry) and then transfer to media card via film reader?
Probably for the same reasons most people don't use their computers to record Cable TV programs. First, you probably don't have a digital radio tuner built into your PC. 2nd, Winamp or any other stream grabber isn't going to do time-shifting. Using some batch programming you can probably get it to record future shows, but it's a kludge. The bug is an all-in-one solution much like TiVo
Since they plan to offer this in retail stores, where you can realistically pay cash, any idea how they plan to enforce the subscription terms? Or will this turn into another NetPC(? The similar deal MSN tried a few years ago) fiasco, where they end up losing huge amounts of money because no one actually follows through with the subscription?
I can't RTFA... but my guess would be you have to shell out $600 or so for the system, and get a $300 *rebate* when you sign up for the AOL subscription, which would include a $300 cancellation fee. At least, that's what any *smart* company would do.
The progressive device doesn't include a GPS. So how's the device know if I'm doing 55 down a highway, or 55 down the adjacent local road blowing through red lights?
What I dont understand is how they intend to protect these massive sails from being shot full of holes by meteorites and space dust as it propels its way through space.
That's why the Japanese are busy working on manufacturing "solar duct tape"...
this genetic sequence is licensed under GLP...
Ah, so you believe the aliens are benevolent. Me, I think the message encoded in our DNA will turn out to be a shrink-wrap EULA...
The problem is, it won't work as well the other way around. For penguin, it would be free advertising. For katie j, it was more like a free slashdotting for 4 years.
Well, if we get enough people to talk/post/blog about it, then a search in google for penguin.com might bring up the book instead of the publishing company... a minor victory.
The BlueSniper "rifle," created by John Hering and colleagues at Flexilis as a proof-of-concept device, resembles a rifle.
How much does it resemble a rifle? People get shot here in NYC when wallets and candy bars get mistaken for weapons...
...the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.
At what point did state governments start to unabashedly refer to its citizens as consumers? (Don't answer that.)
This is brought up by the Attorney's General... which are the advocates for consumer rights in the state. They do not speak for all the "citizens", thus "consumer" is the proper term, since not all "citizens" are "consumers".
Anyway, reading the document, this is what I got out of it:
"Please P2P makers, our consumers are complete idiots who don't know enough to run virus protection, to run personal firewalls, or to check MD5s. We're not allowed to tell our consumers they're fucking morons and to get a clue, since they pay for our salaries... please please please stop writing P2P software so these idiots will stop complaining about it. Since there's nothing we can do legally about your software, we're asking nicely that you voluntarily stop producing it. Thanks, the atty's generals."
I went to download DVD Shrink, and there were ads for DVD_X_Copy, the "The Best-Selling software for backing up your DVD movies". Oh well...
That's why you should keep a log, preferably a dated lab note book of any kind of research or work you do. If he had such a book that contained the history of his ideas and went back to before his employment at Alcatel, he would likely have been able to win this court case.
Or maybe it would have sealed the case for Alcatel. Yes, the idea might have come from before he was employed, but if during the time of employment, ideas and enhancements came at times he was working on similar projects at work, if there was any sort of similarity between his personal and his professional work, then the journal could have proved the case for Alcatel.
What's it do, drop you down to 640x480?
You can get significant speed increases in the system by simply turning off services and removing all the random crap that's set to start automatically. Windows Messenger, Quicktime, Winamp, MS Office, CD/DVD recording, AOL, there's so much junk that likes to start itself, it's amazing the system actually manages to boot. Get rid of all of it, disable services like browser, distributed link tracking, messenger, fast user switching, and you'll see plenty of speed increases.
GF: "So, why were you staring at her? And her? And her? You didn't even *look* at her face! And that one? Another? How many women *do* you stare at walking to work???"
What Apple seems to be mad about is them cracking their DRM.
Why would Apple care that the DRM has been "hijacked"? The iPod ships with a bona fide DRM that works as designed, so there's no negligence on Apple's part. The DRM still exists, the Fairplay DRM'ed songs are still DRM'ed and there's a limit on where those songs can be played. So there's no threat of iTunes songs being pirated (directly, since there are ways to get around it).
So, why is Apple concerned? Because exaclty like the Lexmark case, Apple is concerned about 3rd party vendors. They don't want to lose iTunes business to Real. That Real has managed to fake the iPod to play other DRM schemes besides Fairplay doesn't mean that any iTunes songs are open to piracy (although that may happen later). So it is exactly like the Lexmark case.
Oh yeah! Now foreign powers will have to go back to sending sexy spies to seduce the secrets out of us instead of just breaking the codes!
The reason I read is to get away from the computer.
Thanks to work, I'm sitting in front of a computer screen a good 12 hours a day at least. I don't want to spend any more time in front of an LCD than I have to.
Yes, I've read ebooks on my laptop on the train. I read Anna Karenina on my Sony Clie. The technology is pretty good, I didn't really have problems with the screen, the reader... it's the technology itself!
Sometimes I just need to get away from the whir of hard drives, the glow of pixels... to sit under a tree in the park with a good novel. To feel the texture of the tree on my back, the earth under my butt, to smell the fresh air, to feel the paper in my hands. It's a comfort. To know that as technology continues to infect every aspect of my life, I still can grab a paperback and get away for a few hours downtime. I rue the day we lose that ability...
There are various definitions of room temperature. The one most often used is 20 degrees C (Err... about 75 degrees F, I think).
75F room temperature? That's what my GF seems to think, while my idea of room temperature is more 68F. So yeah, I'd say that there are plenty of definitions for "room" temperature.
He should liken any government using closed source software with the Trojans themselves, who took the *gift* without examining the contents.
If the Trojan Horse were really Open Source, it would have had a list of building materials, instructions on building the horse yourself, the number of greek warriors inside, how the warriors were armed, along with several notes from the Phoenicians commenting on the dangers of the included Greeks...
The frustrating thing is that when someone cuts you off, they *AREN'T* looking at you, and *DON'T* look back at you. The idiot driving 55 in the passing lane is obviously ignoring you. So what's the point of having a car that shows emotion when the people you want to know you're upset are igoring you completely?
.357 magnum. A few rounds through their rear windows definitely let's them know how you feel.
That's why the only thing that ever really works is a
Bloody ex-wives.. i knew they were up to no good..
Nah, the ex-wives have their own scam going, it's called "alimony". No need to send death threats in the mail.
I suspect it's the chicks you *forgot* to call the morning after...
Did you even look around the site?
And did you look at the articles?
I read through a few of them, and really, they're pretty worthless. This is from the first article: "One Law to Rule Them All"
There were several directions Asimov didn't go with his robot AIs, such as recursive self-enhancement. Recursive self-enhancement occurs when an AI improves its own intelligence, and then repeats the process - but this time using more intelligence - and repeating again and again, resulting in a mountainous intellect. Even though Asimov didn't write much about recursive self-enhancement, his robot AIs still had imagination. If a robot were to imagine itself with greater capability, then it would be straightforward for it to conclude that it would have greater ability to obey the First Law....A robot improving itself in this way would obtain an increasing spiral of capability completely overpowering that of humans, all to better obey the First Law and protect humans from harm.
Well, it sounds like the author knows nothing of the robot series, since this is exactly where the series headed with Giskard and Daneel. Really, if the author missed that part of the robot series, then exactly what did he read?
I found the other articles similarly lacking in depth and research, so overall a pointless waste of time.
That's only $30,000 in American dollars but you might be able to own a house on that.
Damn... $30k is half of the downpayment on a cheap 1BR apartment in NYC...
"from which information can be recovered at will"."
I like the sense of humor of these guys.
It's kinda funny; I can't recover any information from the MS Encarta DVD since I'm running FreeBSD...