Not commenting on rumors and speculation is no different than the way things have been. Also, Dell regularly says they are looking at the possibility of using AMD processors just to keep Intel on their feet, and to negotiate better pricing.
There have been at least a dozen AMD/Dell false alarms so far. I will believe it after they start shipping and not a second before.
I was in a club once near NYC.. I start talking to this hot latino chick and she asks me if I want to buy her a drink. OK, I can do that. So the bartender charges me $8 for her drink, and $28 for her tab.
I didn't even have $36 extra dollars in my pocket and they didn't take plastic or have an ATM. Keep in mind that everything I drank all night was $3. The bar tender and the bouncer start getting in my face and sweating me to come up with the money. The people I came with (~15 people) came over to see what was going on. To make a long story short we got to the bottom of it, and the bar pays like 8 girls to just hang out in the bar and try to get people to buy them drinks. They were all drinking the same thing too, it was just water in a beer bottle with a label I have never seen before. Needless to say, they didn't get their $36.
Sometimes you have to wonder why any decent attractive woman in her right mind would ever create a profile on one of those things. It is possible that some of the profiles are fake to convince people to actually sign up for the service. Sending employees out to date people would be expensive, but just creating fake profiles or sending email from one of the fake profiles just before someone is about to let their account expire would not be.
If you could get calls to your vonage adapter from any SIP device (rather than just their switches), what would prevent spammers from abusing the system?
I don't have a bus stop or cab company within 40 miles of here. The closest thing we have to eco-friendly transportation around these parts are bicycles and motorcycles (which BTW, my bike is cheaper in cost and gas mileage than a prius). if you are just making the commute alone to work, motorcycles are great. If you still want to look like an artsy girly-man, get a moped at 1/8th of the cost of a hybrid car.
Just becasue you fonud a cheap Linux box online hardly renders the above points invalid.
Besides, the white box you point out does not come with a monitor ($110), printer ($40), speakers ($5), or free shippipping ($90), so your $300 example is really $545 + CNR subscription ($20/year).
I picked up a $300 Windows PC from Dell with all that stuff just before they got rid of free shipping. The only thing not included was the USB cable for the printer ($35), but I had one.
The sad thing is some poor company (or government orginization) paid them thousands of $ to come up with that. I think they took their XP report that said the same thing and just replaced in Vista everywhere it said XP. Gartner certianly does hire many B.S. graduates.
Sony's product was a back door? Like I can connect to a PC that listened to a Sony CD and remotely control it? I was not aware that was the case. AFAIK, the tactics Sony used are actually less intrusive than some of the spyware I have tried to remove. What some spyware companies are doing is flat out hacking (intentional spelling).
"keep the original on you at all times. (mini-CD) If the cops are on your tail, just break the copy you have with you"
Just a FIY, if you want to destroy data on a CD so that it can't be recovered, place it in a microwave for about 5 seconds. Try it with a blank to see what I mean.
Dell pays ~$35 for a copy of Windows, then they get paid to bundle things like AOL, RealPlayer, Mcafee etc. with it. What you have now is a cost of around $30 for something they are charging the consumer a significant amount more for.
With some of the low end PC's ($350 w/ printer & monitor), you could probably argue that if not for the marked up cost of Windows that comes with it, they would be selling the hardware stand-alone at a loss.
If they pushed Linux, they would have to adopt a similar licensing model using Licensed Linux distros (read: for cost) at the prices that are about the same as buying copies of Windows. The problem with this is that someone has to support it. The first time some Linux user called tech support for a $300 linux machine, there goes their profit on that sale.
They could subcontract out the Linux support, but when you have 2 companies supporting one product you have blame shifting (I think the prob is HW, call Dell then I think it is SW, call Red Hat), so that won't work either.
So in short, if they can't mark up the OS, they will have to mark up the hardware.
Good point, but if you were not guilty, why would you care what they were looking at?
In the scenario you are guilty, and they just need your HDD data to prove it, there is no way I would be giving out that pass phrase, 90 days or no 90 days. There are ways to encrypt data that I don't think they would get past if they had a lifetime to do it. You could encapsulate the file in multiple layers of encryption. For one of the layers you could develop your own simple (easy to break) encryption algorythm. Even if it were not much more complex than XOR ing the data, they likely wouldn't have tools to get past it. You could even Sony's stellar rootkit and name it $sys$something.zip so they won't easilly be able to find it.
The point is, that the police getting to your data is certainly not inevitable.
Seriously, this is just a countermeasure. As we have seen in the past, if MS decided to launch the product with that name, guys like Adam can take them to court and domain damages that are exponentially higher than the total value of his entire company. MS just got smart and started playing the game. If you don't like it, hate the game.
But that is exactly the point he is making. If the code is not supported by anyone but you, and you can change Windows code, then isn't Windows really just as "open"?
PS. I am not saying I agree with the position, just offering clarification.
I also have a yahoo mail and Gmail account, and as much as I love Google, I still like yahoo mail better. My opinion could be tainted becasue I also use yahoo's notepad as much as Yahoo Mail, but I just think the interface is really professional.
The world record you are talking about was obtained on a flat surface, not going down hill. You are comparing apples to oranges. Those numbers are rounded, the actual # is 72 MPH on a hill 300 miles from here. I don't know the exact grade of the road, but I am willing to bet it is over 20%. The speed was achieved on a Trek Madone tailgating (drafting) an SUV.
Today I held in my clutch to coast my car half way down a much lesser hill and hit 85, I know the #'s change for a car, but I think your 55 MPH figure is low even without drafting a vehicle.
Well, given the circumstances I am willing to bet his parents are a little more supportive than your average strung out junkie at least. Also, keep in mind that just because he is starting schol at 8 does not mean he will be finished and looking for employment at 10 or 12. He will likely leave schoool with a couple PHD's, the second of which he will be much older when he completes.
I have done 75 MPH on a bicycle, 140 on a motorcycle, and 145 in a car. I think on a closed track a motorcycle may have the advantage in cornering, but with the uneven, bumpy, dirty roads around here if you put a motorcycle into some of the same corners I put my car in at 110 MPH, you would probably live a very short life.
Why even bother charging people at all when if they want to install software on it they have to pay for a subscribtion to Click-n-Run. Free as in "pay us monthly to install software that we didn't create". If MS made you pay a free to install things like winamp, firefox, etc. there would be public outcry. I really doubt the people of Korea would be any better off with Linspire.
Also, one thing the summary should have pointed out is that even the $328 AMD 3800+ beat out the $999 Intel EE in almost every benchmark. It is not like this is the first time AMD has ever lead Intel before, but that is just sad.
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There have been at least a dozen AMD/Dell false alarms so far. I will believe it after they start shipping and not a second before.
It all makes little difference if we just got too premature with our excitement.
I didn't even have $36 extra dollars in my pocket and they didn't take plastic or have an ATM. Keep in mind that everything I drank all night was $3. The bar tender and the bouncer start getting in my face and sweating me to come up with the money. The people I came with (~15 people) came over to see what was going on. To make a long story short we got to the bottom of it, and the bar pays like 8 girls to just hang out in the bar and try to get people to buy them drinks. They were all drinking the same thing too, it was just water in a beer bottle with a label I have never seen before. Needless to say, they didn't get their $36.
Well I hope Rob was honest and disclosed being a Slashdot geek before things became too serious :)
Sometimes you have to wonder why any decent attractive woman in her right mind would ever create a profile on one of those things. It is possible that some of the profiles are fake to convince people to actually sign up for the service. Sending employees out to date people would be expensive, but just creating fake profiles or sending email from one of the fake profiles just before someone is about to let their account expire would not be.
You MUST mouse over some of the small thumbnails just under the cover picture to see the vomit and the comic.
If you could get calls to your vonage adapter from any SIP device (rather than just their switches), what would prevent spammers from abusing the system?
About 10 million line of code.
I don't have a bus stop or cab company within 40 miles of here. The closest thing we have to eco-friendly transportation around these parts are bicycles and motorcycles (which BTW, my bike is cheaper in cost and gas mileage than a prius). if you are just making the commute alone to work, motorcycles are great. If you still want to look like an artsy girly-man, get a moped at 1/8th of the cost of a hybrid car.
Submissions with the term "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" are posted directly to the main page rather than going through the submission process.
Besides, the white box you point out does not come with a monitor ($110), printer ($40), speakers ($5), or free shippipping ($90), so your $300 example is really $545 + CNR subscription ($20/year).
I picked up a $300 Windows PC from Dell with all that stuff just before they got rid of free shipping. The only thing not included was the USB cable for the printer ($35), but I had one.
That is quite possibly the most impressive /. UID I have ever seen, can I touch it?
The sad thing is some poor company (or government orginization) paid them thousands of $ to come up with that. I think they took their XP report that said the same thing and just replaced in Vista everywhere it said XP. Gartner certianly does hire many B.S. graduates.
Sony's product was a back door? Like I can connect to a PC that listened to a Sony CD and remotely control it? I was not aware that was the case. AFAIK, the tactics Sony used are actually less intrusive than some of the spyware I have tried to remove. What some spyware companies are doing is flat out hacking (intentional spelling).
Just a FIY, if you want to destroy data on a CD so that it can't be recovered, place it in a microwave for about 5 seconds. Try it with a blank to see what I mean.
With some of the low end PC's ($350 w/ printer & monitor), you could probably argue that if not for the marked up cost of Windows that comes with it, they would be selling the hardware stand-alone at a loss.
If they pushed Linux, they would have to adopt a similar licensing model using Licensed Linux distros (read: for cost) at the prices that are about the same as buying copies of Windows. The problem with this is that someone has to support it. The first time some Linux user called tech support for a $300 linux machine, there goes their profit on that sale.
They could subcontract out the Linux support, but when you have 2 companies supporting one product you have blame shifting (I think the prob is HW, call Dell then I think it is SW, call Red Hat), so that won't work either.
So in short, if they can't mark up the OS, they will have to mark up the hardware.
In the scenario you are guilty, and they just need your HDD data to prove it, there is no way I would be giving out that pass phrase, 90 days or no 90 days. There are ways to encrypt data that I don't think they would get past if they had a lifetime to do it. You could encapsulate the file in multiple layers of encryption. For one of the layers you could develop your own simple (easy to break) encryption algorythm. Even if it were not much more complex than XOR ing the data, they likely wouldn't have tools to get past it. You could even Sony's stellar rootkit and name it $sys$something.zip so they won't easilly be able to find it.
The point is, that the police getting to your data is certainly not inevitable.
Seriously, this is just a countermeasure. As we have seen in the past, if MS decided to launch the product with that name, guys like Adam can take them to court and domain damages that are exponentially higher than the total value of his entire company. MS just got smart and started playing the game. If you don't like it, hate the game.
PS. I am not saying I agree with the position, just offering clarification.
I also have a yahoo mail and Gmail account, and as much as I love Google, I still like yahoo mail better. My opinion could be tainted becasue I also use yahoo's notepad as much as Yahoo Mail, but I just think the interface is really professional.
Today I held in my clutch to coast my car half way down a much lesser hill and hit 85, I know the #'s change for a car, but I think your 55 MPH figure is low even without drafting a vehicle.
Well, given the circumstances I am willing to bet his parents are a little more supportive than your average strung out junkie at least. Also, keep in mind that just because he is starting schol at 8 does not mean he will be finished and looking for employment at 10 or 12. He will likely leave schoool with a couple PHD's, the second of which he will be much older when he completes.
I have done 75 MPH on a bicycle, 140 on a motorcycle, and 145 in a car. I think on a closed track a motorcycle may have the advantage in cornering, but with the uneven, bumpy, dirty roads around here if you put a motorcycle into some of the same corners I put my car in at 110 MPH, you would probably live a very short life.
Why even bother charging people at all when if they want to install software on it they have to pay for a subscribtion to Click-n-Run. Free as in "pay us monthly to install software that we didn't create". If MS made you pay a free to install things like winamp, firefox, etc. there would be public outcry. I really doubt the people of Korea would be any better off with Linspire.
Also, one thing the summary should have pointed out is that even the $328 AMD 3800+ beat out the $999 Intel EE in almost every benchmark. It is not like this is the first time AMD has ever lead Intel before, but that is just sad.