says that they're expecting it to be worth about $300 billion in just five years. Are they really suggesting that the worldwide market is going to triple that quickly?
Wow, looks like it's a good time to become a sofware pirate! Profits for software pirates will triple this year! Better quit my network enginer job and get in while the gettin's good!
Yeah, how about them Performa 52xx and 62xx models, I say they were the biggest mistake ever. The relatively cheap prices and high availablilty got a lot of people to purchase them; then the crappy design, unreliability, and un-upgradability pushed them right back into the hands of Microsoft. I know more people who shunned Apple after buying a Performa than those who "switched" to the "i" products.
That drives initiatives like consolidation. If you have 10,000 servers that are only 20% utilized, can't you get by with 2,000? The answer is probably no. But you might be able to get by with 4,000 and cut your cost in half on the equipment side. And then you start to look at not only the capital investment, but also the expense investment.
What kind of wacky PHB approves the purchase of 10,000 servers when he only needs 4000? And more importantly, is he hiring?
It keeps referring to the "speed of light" which itself is not constant -- is a function of the media it travels in.
Yes, depending on the medium, like the traffic on the M25 outside london, the speed of light slows significantly, so you really wouldn't be going any faster than other cars, and thus wouldn't see any more than anyone else.
I'm surprised that movie industry is not following up how pr0n industry can be so successful and profitable.
The porn industry is a completey different beast. It is profitable because they don't pay their actors millions of dollars for each film, especially when they make a dozen "films" a week. They don't pay millions to the producer. They don't pay tens of thousands for a script, and don't worry if they use the same script over and over again. They don't pay millions on advertising blitzes before the release. They don't pay millions to build sets, but reuse sets over and over and over and over again.
The only reason the porn industry is "profitable" is because they don't have anything like the budget requirements for a large box office movie. Porn manages to survive rampant copying only because it's so cheap to produce, the only need a few thousand people to buy the product to make it profitable.
Because the difference in the number of movies made, the budgets for each movie, and the number of copies that need to be viewed/sold to make a profit, there's no way the film industry can model itself after the porn industry.
It's simple. Your ship is the white blip in the center. You have to shoot your way out as the concentric rings rotate around you. I think it's based on Yars Revenge or something.
FCC.. hmm.. Federal Communication Commision. They regulate interstate communication, surprisingly. No mention of regulating electronic devices or portable music players anywhere
The FCC does regulate portable music players; every model must undergo FCC testing to ensure it does not generate RF interference. The UL "certifies" electronics for safety, which I don't think really means all that much. But yes, the FCC does regluate portable music players in the US.
It doesn't say that Galaxy was in our Universe. Could have been in a completely different Universe where the laws of physics are slightly different, allowing for photos to interact somehow.
Maybe it takes place in the Universe where flightless birds are not affected by the laws of gravity, but witless canines are only when they realize they're not standing on solid ground.
The only reason the Jedi were effective with the light saber, was because the damn Storm Troopers couldn't hit the side of a barn with their blasters. Seriously, there's only so many blaster shots a Jedi can deflect at one time. Maybe if he's real good, he can block two shots at once. But if you had three troopers fire at the same time... ON TARGET... then there'd have been many less Jedi around.
I watched these movies a few days back, and found them amusing, but I didn't understand their message. Are they suggesting that using e.g. IE is so devastating to the user that his head will pop off? Or is using Firefox so horrible that he scream in horror? Or are these good things, to show how remarkably different Firefox is from the competition?
Yeah, I can't think of anything *really* exciting about firefox. Yes, it works, and it does what many of us *expect* from a browser. Blocks pop-ups. Blocks cookies. But are they something to lose your head over? Maybe if they showed an IE user next to the FF user, and the IE user's head blowing up or screaming because he keeps trying to close pop-ups that just opens more. Or if they showed an IE user with a machine so slowed by spyware they just sit and chat on the phone and the FF user busy surfing and then eating the phone because she's so distracted by being able to do something (probably hard get the point across without some narration), then the videos would be somewhat meaningful.
And how about those beautiful babes that shower you with champagne and pose with you for pictures in the winners circle? Have they figured out how to emulate them?
Now it will only take 20 of these to backup my porn!
Gigabytes seems like a meaningless number nowadays; I think we need to start measuring capacity in LoP, or "Libraries of Porn". So these new HD DVDs will hold 20 LoPs.
People have been describing it as a possible 'Blackberry killer.'
I think that was part of the original script that got cut from the movie; just as Arthur is losing his arms and Ford is turning into a penguin, Microsoft releases a "Blackberry Killer" OS. On the other hand, the Microsoft "iPod killer" was determined to be of such high improbability that it would have occurred before they were rescued from certain death.
If they do, then they are entered into the database and should any agency of the government (INS for visa violation, FBI for suspected terrorist, CIA for evidence of being in terrorist training camps, etc.) post a reason to detain, they will be detained at the next traffic stop. THIS ACTUALLY WOULD HAVE SAVED THE LIVES OF ONE PLANEFUL OF PEOPLE AND THOSE THEY KILLED CRASHING INTO ON THE GROUND ON SEP 11, 2001.
No, it wouldn't. Each plane had two pilots, so unless both pilots were captured, and unless both talked, it would not have made a difference. Z> Moussaoui knew of the attacks, and even though he was being held by the INS, he didn't talk. So there's no proof that capturing one person would have stopped the attacks in any way.
Had I been a terrorist the extra days probably would have been helpful to the authorities and that would have been that.
You were supect, but they let you go in the end because they didn't have enough proof of a crime in progress. Remember that Mohammad Atta was already under surveillence by the FBI, but he was allowed to travel freely. A national ID would do nothing to prevent this.
There'd be plenty of debate, except that it got tagged onto a military funding and tsunami relief bill. That's how things work on this side of the pond, if you want something controversial passed, you append it to a bill nobody can say "no" to.
So now we're gonna slashdot 'em?
Seems kinda brutal to hit them with another DDOS.
The last line of the extortion email probably said "and if you don't pay up, I'll set up a DDoS that no server farm can withstand". And when all else failed, the extortionist submitted an article to/.
I think it makes sense that web shoppers aren't implusive because there is no immediate satisfaction.
Exactly. The only time to make an impulse purchase is when you see something on sale, like Amazon's Friday sales. Otherwise, it's not going anywhere, and you might as well look around to see what the other sites are selling for; you may find someone else has a sale. But you still add the item to the basket, because you don't want to re-search for the item. You can spend a few days looking around, and in the end you go back to one of the sites and make the purchase. All the other baskets remain unpurchased and unemptied.
If I *have* to have it next day, it doesn't make sense to order it online and pay the ridiculous next day shipping when I can run to the store and buy it for a similar price.
Someone cloned your RFID tag, disabled yours with some sort of shock, went out and did a bunch of sex offending and stuff, then destroyed their copy of the tag?
That's one of the reasons against *everyone* having an RFID tag.
The question is does the RFID provide non-repudiation? If it's possible to copy the RFID, then no, it doesn't, and then it won't matter if someone steals your RFID.
(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
A legacy of the teletype machines first used for widespread NWS alert bulletins, which only had uppercase letters.
Slashdot Mirror
says that they're expecting it to be worth about $300 billion in just five years. Are they really suggesting that the worldwide market is going to triple that quickly?
Wow, looks like it's a good time to become a sofware pirate! Profits for software pirates will triple this year! Better quit my network enginer job and get in while the gettin's good!
He looks up and with stunned shock you say, "Hey! Didn't you used to be Darl McBride"? ;P
/. I had to metamoderate!!!"
And then you start beating him with your laptop screaming "damn you and all those SCO stories on
Yeah, how about them Performa 52xx and 62xx models, I say they were the biggest mistake ever. The relatively cheap prices and high availablilty got a lot of people to purchase them; then the crappy design, unreliability, and un-upgradability pushed them right back into the hands of Microsoft. I know more people who shunned Apple after buying a Performa than those who "switched" to the "i" products.
That drives initiatives like consolidation. If you have 10,000 servers that are only 20% utilized, can't you get by with 2,000? The answer is probably no. But you might be able to get by with 4,000 and cut your cost in half on the equipment side. And then you start to look at not only the capital investment, but also the expense investment.
What kind of wacky PHB approves the purchase of 10,000 servers when he only needs 4000? And more importantly, is he hiring?
It keeps referring to the "speed of light" which itself is not constant -- is a function of the media it travels in.
Yes, depending on the medium, like the traffic on the M25 outside london, the speed of light slows significantly, so you really wouldn't be going any faster than other cars, and thus wouldn't see any more than anyone else.
I'm surprised that movie industry is not following up how pr0n industry can be so successful and profitable.
The porn industry is a completey different beast. It is profitable because they don't pay their actors millions of dollars for each film, especially when they make a dozen "films" a week. They don't pay millions to the producer. They don't pay tens of thousands for a script, and don't worry if they use the same script over and over again. They don't pay millions on advertising blitzes before the release. They don't pay millions to build sets, but reuse sets over and over and over and over again.
The only reason the porn industry is "profitable" is because they don't have anything like the budget requirements for a large box office movie. Porn manages to survive rampant copying only because it's so cheap to produce, the only need a few thousand people to buy the product to make it profitable.
Because the difference in the number of movies made, the budgets for each movie, and the number of copies that need to be viewed/sold to make a profit, there's no way the film industry can model itself after the porn industry.
I had the slightest clue what those images meant.
It's simple. Your ship is the white blip in the center. You have to shoot your way out as the concentric rings rotate around you. I think it's based on Yars Revenge or something.
Any suggestions for products/procedures/systems out there making anonymous access & publishing a reality under repressive regime...
Which oppressive regime, the RIAA or MPAA?
FCC.. hmm.. Federal Communication Commision. They regulate interstate communication, surprisingly. No mention of regulating electronic devices or portable music players anywhere
The FCC does regulate portable music players; every model must undergo FCC testing to ensure it does not generate RF interference. The UL "certifies" electronics for safety, which I don't think really means all that much. But yes, the FCC does regluate portable music players in the US.
There are workarounds, but you won't like them.
Wow, sounds like he's depressed, like he has a pain in all the diodes down his left side or something.
A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...
It doesn't say that Galaxy was in our Universe. Could have been in a completely different Universe where the laws of physics are slightly different, allowing for photos to interact somehow.
Maybe it takes place in the Universe where flightless birds are not affected by the laws of gravity, but witless canines are only when they realize they're not standing on solid ground.
The only reason the Jedi were effective with the light saber, was because the damn Storm Troopers couldn't hit the side of a barn with their blasters. Seriously, there's only so many blaster shots a Jedi can deflect at one time. Maybe if he's real good, he can block two shots at once. But if you had three troopers fire at the same time... ON TARGET... then there'd have been many less Jedi around.
I watched these movies a few days back, and found them amusing, but I didn't understand their message. Are they suggesting that using e.g. IE is so devastating to the user that his head will pop off? Or is using Firefox so horrible that he scream in horror? Or are these good things, to show how remarkably different Firefox is from the competition?
Yeah, I can't think of anything *really* exciting about firefox. Yes, it works, and it does what many of us *expect* from a browser. Blocks pop-ups. Blocks cookies. But are they something to lose your head over? Maybe if they showed an IE user next to the FF user, and the IE user's head blowing up or screaming because he keeps trying to close pop-ups that just opens more. Or if they showed an IE user with a machine so slowed by spyware they just sit and chat on the phone and the FF user busy surfing and then eating the phone because she's so distracted by being able to do something (probably hard get the point across without some narration), then the videos would be somewhat meaningful.
And how about those beautiful babes that shower you with champagne and pose with you for pictures in the winners circle? Have they figured out how to emulate them?
Now it will only take 20 of these to backup my porn!
Gigabytes seems like a meaningless number nowadays; I think we need to start measuring capacity in LoP, or "Libraries of Porn". So these new HD DVDs will hold 20 LoPs.
People have been describing it as a possible 'Blackberry killer.'
I think that was part of the original script that got cut from the movie; just as Arthur is losing his arms and Ford is turning into a penguin, Microsoft releases a "Blackberry Killer" OS. On the other hand, the Microsoft "iPod killer" was determined to be of such high improbability that it would have occurred before they were rescued from certain death.
The burst has been named GRB050509b I mean, really! How droll, how clever...
Speaking of the name, why "b"? Did they discover another black hole earlier in the day and name that GRB050509a?
If they do, then they are entered into the database and should any agency of the government (INS for visa violation, FBI for suspected terrorist, CIA for evidence of being in terrorist training camps, etc.) post a reason to detain, they will be detained at the next traffic stop. THIS ACTUALLY WOULD HAVE SAVED THE LIVES OF ONE PLANEFUL OF PEOPLE AND THOSE THEY KILLED CRASHING INTO ON THE GROUND ON SEP 11, 2001.
No, it wouldn't. Each plane had two pilots, so unless both pilots were captured, and unless both talked, it would not have made a difference. Z> Moussaoui knew of the attacks, and even though he was being held by the INS, he didn't talk. So there's no proof that capturing one person would have stopped the attacks in any way.
Had I been a terrorist the extra days probably would have been helpful to the authorities and that would have been that.
You were supect, but they let you go in the end because they didn't have enough proof of a crime in progress. Remember that Mohammad Atta was already under surveillence by the FBI, but he was allowed to travel freely. A national ID would do nothing to prevent this.
Where's the debate on this?
There'd be plenty of debate, except that it got tagged onto a military funding and tsunami relief bill. That's how things work on this side of the pond, if you want something controversial passed, you append it to a bill nobody can say "no" to.
Yes it is, but it's already a lot better MS Office, and doesn't have annoying clips, dogs and cats either.
Yet, as annoying as they might be, they did give you some answers, instead of automatically yelling "RTFM!" at you...
So now we're gonna slashdot 'em?
/.
Seems kinda brutal to hit them with another DDOS.
The last line of the extortion email probably said "and if you don't pay up, I'll set up a DDoS that no server farm can withstand". And when all else failed, the extortionist submitted an article to
I think it makes sense that web shoppers aren't implusive because there is no immediate satisfaction.
Exactly. The only time to make an impulse purchase is when you see something on sale, like Amazon's Friday sales. Otherwise, it's not going anywhere, and you might as well look around to see what the other sites are selling for; you may find someone else has a sale. But you still add the item to the basket, because you don't want to re-search for the item. You can spend a few days looking around, and in the end you go back to one of the sites and make the purchase. All the other baskets remain unpurchased and unemptied.
If I *have* to have it next day, it doesn't make sense to order it online and pay the ridiculous next day shipping when I can run to the store and buy it for a similar price.
but it costs 320 dollars per litre
Wow... at that price, it's not so much a liquid-cooling system for a computer, but rather a computer-powered heating system for a liquid.
Someone cloned your RFID tag, disabled yours with some sort of shock, went out and did a bunch of sex offending and stuff, then destroyed their copy of the tag?
That's one of the reasons against *everyone* having an RFID tag.
The question is does the RFID provide non-repudiation? If it's possible to copy the RFID, then no, it doesn't, and then it won't matter if someone steals your RFID.
(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
A legacy of the teletype machines first used for widespread NWS alert bulletins, which only had uppercase letters.