It really is a struggle for some of the more ossified types to even change to another browser simply because the buttons have slightly different icons from IE.
Agreed. I lived this with my mom and Firebird last week. The back arrow is a different pic so she couldn't find it... though I would substitute "less technically inclinded" for "more ossified."
People seem concerned with the electrical current's effect on the fish, but, having killed my share of goldfish in my day, I'd be more concerned with the changes in water temperature between when the thing was running and when it was not.
Judging from the preveilance of "Let's tear up copyright law and start over" posts, copyright law is not popular here (duh).
The kneejerk reaction, however, ignores the fact that copyright law has evolved because of specific problems and exists in its current form because that is what producers believe they require to turn a profit.
Zittrain touches on this patchwork evolution of copyright with a comarison to tax law:
a product of diverse interests shaped from the bottom up than as an elegant set of rules crafted by legal artisans to align with high-level principles.
The original provisions for copyright law have been frequently quoted, because back when they were written they were deemed sufficient to get people to produce content. However, each time the producers (at first authors/composers and later corporations) felt they got screwed they lobbied for an extension.
Examples of this problem / solution approach to law explain many of the changes. For instance, authors in the 1800s frequently were destitute in their later years because their works went out of copyright. Nothing like Sir Walter Scott as your poster boy to get sympathy.
And what about those geniuses who die young before their works become popular (e.g. Stephen Crane). Their heirs were *really* pleased. Can anyone say life plus 50?
Skip to a modern example from the article: look at the rediculous 55 inch TV rule. That's the result of bars competing with cinemaplexes without having to pay royalties for what they showed on huge screens. The resulting (stupid) rule gives a maximum size for a TV screen that does not qualify as competiting with the movies.
Bear in mind each badly written novel generally takes at least a year to write and then several months for a team of people to edit, and each dirivitive pop CD takes about 6 months to write plus several months for a team of people to produce, and we all know about the effort put into each lousy movie. People (and corporations) don't want to see that effort go down the drain, and with profit margins being low in the various content creation industry, they'll fight like dogs for even more draconian rules unless they can be convinced relaxing the rules will help them.
The publishing ogliarchy exists, ironically enough, because people don't like to waste their time listening to garbage. The industry offers people certain (minimal) guarantees, so most people listen to them. That, not money, is what gives them their clout. If we rewrote the law, lawmakers would listen to them out of the because they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Thus, without addressing producer's concerns, we'd have to write *more* draconian laws
I'd say salvation would come from addressing these concerns more then viva la revolucion style burning of the old laws. For instance, listening to my brother's downloaded music has pushed me towards buying CDs I wouldn't otherwise have known about. That is something content producers need to know before we get rational copyright law: Sharing can help them.
Of course, since I'm writting this on a Mac, I have to add that salvation will come from the Apple Music store, just to gloat.
IANAL, just an english major with an emphasis in publishing.
The primary purpose of this test was to determine how G5 scalar floating point performance compares to G4 performance in CFD applications.
Their main point was to compare G5s and G4s. It's not their fault that the only thing that people are getting excited about are:
As a secondary part of this test, G4 and G5 benchmark results were compared to similar results obtained on Pentium 4 systems.
The P4s were just something they tacked on.
Now, what I want to know is, why not use identically clocked G4 and G5 systems? Did they just tack on a new system to the systems they've benchmarked instead of doing side-by-side tests?
Ack! That's unreadable. Take a few moments to put the br's in:)
HP Delivers Affordable, Reliable Microtower PC to Small- and Medium-sized Businesses
PALO ALTO, CALIF., JULY 2, 2003
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced an affordable, high-quality desktop PC for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers: the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower.
The microtower desktop features Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron® processors and offers three PCI expansion slots, two double data rate (DDR) memory slots and five drive bays in a compact microtower platform, allowing for expansion or future upgrades.
"Our SMB customers are looking to maximize their IT investment, and the combination of low purchase price and consistent, reliable performance in the HP Compaq d220 provides value-seeking businesses a solid platform choice," said Keith LeFebvre, vice president of business desktop division, Americas, HP Personal Systems Group.
The HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 is designed to keep IT simple, with the choice of customizable or pre-configured solutions optimized for affordability and quality. Customized solutions, available beginning July 7, start at an estimated U.S. street price of $349 (1) with an Intel Celeron 2.0-gigahertz processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive and 128-megabyte DDR SDRAM. Customers also can opt for an Intel Pentium 4 2.4-gigahertz processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive and 128-megabyte DDR SDRAM for as low as an estimated U.S. street price of $499. (1)
For customers interested in pre-configured solutions with an Intel Celeron 2.0-gigahertz processor, pricing starts at an estimated $429. (1) Or, for customers requiring additional processing power, the HP Compaq d220 is available pre-configured with a 2.4-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive, 512-megabyte DDR SDRAM, integrated Intel Extreme Graphics, DVD+RW/CD-RW combo drive, six USB 2.0 ports and Microsoft Windows® XP Professional - priced at an estimated U.S. street price of only $799. (1)
HP Compaq desktops are available with the latest operating systems from the industry leader, Microsoft, as well as a robust Linux offering from Mandrake. The HP Compaq d220 offers a choice of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Home or Mandrake's Linux v9.1, providing customers with the versatility needed for today's mixed-use environments.
The HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower is now available directly from HP or through authorized resellers. More information about the product is available at http://www.hp.com/products/desktops.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
(1) Actual prices may vary.
Intel, Pentium and Celeron are U.S. registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP 's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP 's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP 's results could differ materially from HP 's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Whoo hoo! It's like the government but without any accountability. Anyone want to bet that the first time they crash a spaceship into sopmething this all becomes illegal.
reconciling this ruling with anti-spam rules may be tricky since this gives spammers a defence...
Not really. IANAL, but there's a chasm between commercial speech and noncommercial speech you could drive several dump trucks through. Witness the national do-not-call list.
Now, if this guy had been trying to sell Viagra...
for reference, Merriam-Webster seems to agree the use of nanotechnologist is shaky:
nanotechnology
...
: the art of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale especially to build microscopic devices (as robots)
but the actual title of the article is
Copper in glazes of Renaissance luster pottery:
Nanoparticles, ions, and local environment
And there's no reference to nanotechnologists in the abstract, so this seems more the submitter being poetic. Welcome to/.
Anyway, since Rennaissance artisans apparently viewed use of nanotechnology as magic, they would be more properly described as nanomagicians, which, incidentally, would make a good scifi title. (hint, hint:)
Seriously though, despite buying Apple, I can see the usefulness separating official Unix from act-alikes, despite the genericness of the term. Otherwise the term can be overused.
For instance (hypothetically) Gomer, Lester, and Bobby-Sue each call their new operating systems Unix when the opperating systems don't meet Unix's technical specifications, and there's no accountability because Unix is generic, so the term becomes meaningless.
I had and have no intention of using the internet streaming feature, but I downloaded this plugin as soon as it came up because it was something I used to be able to do and now I can't do it any more.
As my communications teacher would have said in my class on persuasion, "Scarcity principle."
About a third the comments seem to be "that's good," LOTR has music in it.
No! This is the musical genre. Think Gilbert and Sulivan, Oklahoma and, at its most serious, Les Miserables.
Musical is not serious music. That is reserved for Opera. That is why you have people dying all over the place and 6 hour playing times for opera.
I know people have said, "LOTR has music in it. Now we'll hear it." Forget it. Think of the practical reasons against it. They'll be taking the 6 hour plot of the movie and chopping it down to two hours, music included. Chances are it will be the Cats treatment.
This is not to say it will be bad, but fans of the book are definitely not its intended audience. Fans of the movie are probably its intended audience.
The earlier posts were right. Simirilion and LOTR need opera. They're serious and deserve a serious genre.
Never mind. Forget that. I want to see Pippin get a girlfriend (musical comedy), Sauron (played by a baritone wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a red eye) howl out an opening solo, and who could miss the Nazgul chorus?
Good heavens! The article mentions The Graduate as one of the songwriters' credits. "Here's to you Frodo Baggin's sir..."
I just switched and have felt the mighty heat of the 12in.
My solution is two words: blue jeans.
if you get the thick kind, you won't even be bothered when playing games (which seems to be the worst time for me since you got the both hard and optical drive spinning)
of course, if you got your work to pay for your Mac, and have to use it with slacks, then you get what you deserve:)
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it all now
...
Elderly: I really need to go to the bathroom.
Leg: I don't think I can do that, Dave
People seem concerned with the electrical current's effect on the fish, but, having killed my share of goldfish in my day, I'd be more concerned with the changes in water temperature between when the thing was running and when it was not.
Somebody might be doing a lot of scooping.
The kneejerk reaction, however, ignores the fact that copyright law has evolved because of specific problems and exists in its current form because that is what producers believe they require to turn a profit.
Zittrain touches on this patchwork evolution of copyright with a comarison to tax law:
The original provisions for copyright law have been frequently quoted, because back when they were written they were deemed sufficient to get people to produce content. However, each time the producers (at first authors/composers and later corporations) felt they got screwed they lobbied for an extension.
Examples of this problem / solution approach to law explain many of the changes. For instance, authors in the 1800s frequently were destitute in their later years because their works went out of copyright. Nothing like Sir Walter Scott as your poster boy to get sympathy.
And what about those geniuses who die young before their works become popular (e.g. Stephen Crane). Their heirs were *really* pleased. Can anyone say life plus 50?
Skip to a modern example from the article: look at the rediculous 55 inch TV rule. That's the result of bars competing with cinemaplexes without having to pay royalties for what they showed on huge screens. The resulting (stupid) rule gives a maximum size for a TV screen that does not qualify as competiting with the movies.
Bear in mind each badly written novel generally takes at least a year to write and then several months for a team of people to edit, and each dirivitive pop CD takes about 6 months to write plus several months for a team of people to produce, and we all know about the effort put into each lousy movie. People (and corporations) don't want to see that effort go down the drain, and with profit margins being low in the various content creation industry, they'll fight like dogs for even more draconian rules unless they can be convinced relaxing the rules will help them.
The publishing ogliarchy exists, ironically enough, because people don't like to waste their time listening to garbage. The industry offers people certain (minimal) guarantees, so most people listen to them. That, not money, is what gives them their clout. If we rewrote the law, lawmakers would listen to them out of the because they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Thus, without addressing producer's concerns, we'd have to write *more* draconian laws
I'd say salvation would come from addressing these concerns more then viva la revolucion style burning of the old laws. For instance, listening to my brother's downloaded music has pushed me towards buying CDs I wouldn't otherwise have known about. That is something content producers need to know before we get rational copyright law: Sharing can help them.
Of course, since I'm writting this on a Mac, I have to add that salvation will come from the Apple Music store, just to gloat.
IANAL, just an english major with an emphasis in publishing.
Their main point was to compare G5s and G4s. It's not their fault that the only thing that people are getting excited about are: The P4s were just something they tacked on.
Now, what I want to know is, why not use identically clocked G4 and G5 systems? Did they just tack on a new system to the systems they've benchmarked instead of doing side-by-side tests?
Ack! That's unreadable. Take a few moments to put the br's in :)
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HP Delivers Affordable, Reliable Microtower PC to Small- and Medium-sized Businesses
PALO ALTO, CALIF., JULY 2, 2003
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced an affordable, high-quality desktop PC for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers: the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower.
The microtower desktop features Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron® processors and offers three PCI expansion slots, two double data rate (DDR) memory slots and five drive bays in a compact microtower platform, allowing for expansion or future upgrades.
"Our SMB customers are looking to maximize their IT investment, and the combination of low purchase price and consistent, reliable performance in the HP Compaq d220 provides value-seeking businesses a solid platform choice," said Keith LeFebvre, vice president of business desktop division, Americas, HP Personal Systems Group.
The HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 is designed to keep IT simple, with the choice of customizable or pre-configured solutions optimized for affordability and quality. Customized solutions, available beginning July 7, start at an estimated U.S. street price of $349 (1) with an Intel Celeron 2.0-gigahertz processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive and 128-megabyte DDR SDRAM. Customers also can opt for an Intel Pentium 4 2.4-gigahertz processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive and 128-megabyte DDR SDRAM for as low as an estimated U.S. street price of $499. (1)
For customers interested in pre-configured solutions with an Intel Celeron 2.0-gigahertz processor, pricing starts at an estimated $429. (1) Or, for customers requiring additional processing power, the HP Compaq d220 is available pre-configured with a 2.4-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 40-gigabyte hard drive, 512-megabyte DDR SDRAM, integrated Intel Extreme Graphics, DVD+RW/CD-RW combo drive, six USB 2.0 ports and Microsoft Windows® XP Professional - priced at an estimated U.S. street price of only $799. (1)
HP Compaq desktops are available with the latest operating systems from the industry leader, Microsoft, as well as a robust Linux offering from Mandrake. The HP Compaq d220 offers a choice of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Home or Mandrake's Linux v9.1, providing customers with the versatility needed for today's mixed-use environments.
The HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower is now available directly from HP or through authorized resellers. More information about the product is available at http://www.hp.com/products/desktops
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com
(1) Actual prices may vary.
Intel, Pentium and Celeron are U.S. registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP 's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP 's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP 's results could differ materially from HP 's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Whoo hoo! It's like the government but without any accountability. Anyone want to bet that the first time they crash a spaceship into sopmething this all becomes illegal.
Now, if this guy had been trying to sell Viagra
but the actual title of the article is
And there's no reference to nanotechnologists in the abstract, so this seems more the submitter being poetic. Welcome to
Anyway, since Rennaissance artisans apparently viewed use of nanotechnology as magic, they would be more properly described as nanomagicians, which, incidentally, would make a good scifi title. (hint, hint
/
At 1.90 inches that's either Robert Jordan or War and Peace.
But you could, um, get one of those new G5s for the same price as your linux beowulf cluster
/ducks
1. Plant wind
2. Raise wind
3. Harvest wind
4. PROFIT!
It's time to buy Microsoft!
:)
At least I'll be able to play games again!
Seriously though, despite buying Apple, I can see the usefulness separating official Unix from act-alikes, despite the genericness of the term. Otherwise the term can be overused.
For instance (hypothetically) Gomer, Lester, and Bobby-Sue each call their new operating systems Unix when the opperating systems don't meet Unix's technical specifications, and there's no accountability because Unix is generic, so the term becomes meaningless.
I have here a list of people who are secretly members of the BSA ...
I don't see why everyone feels that benchmarking NVidia's cards is unreliable. All you have to do is follow a simple formulae:
:)
Future card's claimed performance * 0.6 = Actual performance
Tada! Now we still don't have to look at anything other than 3DMark when we're buying cards.
I had and have no intention of using the internet streaming feature, but I downloaded this plugin as soon as it came up because it was something I used to be able to do and now I can't do it any more.
As my communications teacher would have said in my class on persuasion, "Scarcity principle."
Another thing - it is not as funny as Terry Pratchett. But I can live with that.
Dude, if you can be as funny as Pratchett while writing about configuring printers then you're definitely in the wrong field.
About a third the comments seem to be "that's good," LOTR has music in it.
..."
No! This is the musical genre. Think Gilbert and Sulivan, Oklahoma and, at its most serious, Les Miserables.
Musical is not serious music. That is reserved for Opera. That is why you have people dying all over the place and 6 hour playing times for opera.
I know people have said, "LOTR has music in it. Now we'll hear it." Forget it. Think of the practical reasons against it. They'll be taking the 6 hour plot of the movie and chopping it down to two hours, music included. Chances are it will be the Cats treatment.
This is not to say it will be bad, but fans of the book are definitely not its intended audience. Fans of the movie are probably its intended audience.
The earlier posts were right. Simirilion and LOTR need opera. They're serious and deserve a serious genre.
Never mind. Forget that. I want to see Pippin get a girlfriend (musical comedy), Sauron (played by a baritone wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a red eye) howl out an opening solo, and who could miss the Nazgul chorus?
Good heavens! The article mentions The Graduate as one of the songwriters' credits. "Here's to you Frodo Baggin's sir
Put a dime in front of a visitor and ask him the worth of it. He can't. Nowhere does it say "ten cents" or "10 cents." It just say "One Dime."
;)
:)
Unless he happens to know dime means "tenth." It's more a question of vocabulary.
Stupid words from French!
(Joke: I spent 2 years in Quebec.)
Sorry for ranting
Imagine cleaning a beowulf cluster of these ;)
From the article:
:D
"Don't use new technologies blindly. Don't use them just for the fun of it.
I'm _sure_ that will go over big here.
Would it be hard to add a few lines to a C/R program so that you remember addresses you've sent mail to?
At least, if they don't use the lame C/R my brother uses, which sends its challenge from a different address than the one you send to.
I just switched and have felt the mighty heat of the 12in.
:)
My solution is two words: blue jeans.
if you get the thick kind, you won't even be bothered when playing games (which seems to be the worst time for me since you got the both hard and optical drive spinning)
of course, if you got your work to pay for your Mac, and have to use it with slacks, then you get what you deserve
Thats right.
;)
I use this so that people think my Sega Dreamcast, TI calculator, and Epson Dot Matrix are normal servers.
try carnage blender
;)
Yes! CB is great!
Nepotism Alert: My brother made it, and he rocks!
It's a lot better than the art I did for it, anyway