More detail: It should not be possible to get a patent on a connector!!! All connectors and other standard ways of doing things like file system organizations must be in the public domain. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for abuse.
Yes, fearing Apple's destructiveness toward the world makes sense. But what you said directs attention away from the fact that Apple makes money partly by making products people want, and partly by being destructive toward those people.
Apple's current downward slide is good for the world, because it tends to limit Apple's hostility. What will stop Apple from becoming less and less relevant? The one-time opportunities to make a well-designed music player and a more sophisticated cell phone have come and gone.
At the link you gave, Seagate says, "Up to 3 x faster than a traditional HDD". There is a superscript 1 for a footnote, but no footnote.
"Up to 3 x faster" can mean 10% faster. There are marketing people who have no knowledge of technology and no interest in technology who believe that marketing always includes some kind of lying or sneakiness.
And, what happens when one fails? Are there weird failure modes in which your files get scrambled? Seagate's web pages are not reassuring.
Medical Daily is not a reliable source, in my opinion. Is the publication paying for so many links to it? Does the owner of Slashdot, Dice Holdings, have a financial relationship with Medical Daily?
A friend of mine said recently he is looking for a new email client because it seems that Mozilla Foundation doesn't want to improve Thunderbird. I agree with him.
Mozilla Foundation gets something like $100 million per year. Quoting: "Mozilla's consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries) for 2010 was $123 million..."
Do you see $100 million of development every year? Where does the money go? Where is the 2011 report?
We often distribute short but complicated business reports to clients by email. The emails must be formatted in HTML or they would be difficult to read.
Things we need in Thunderbird:
A "Get All Mail" button. Getting all email should not require a menu choice.
Better handling of images and other attachments. Sending an image with slightly different text to 10 people should have the option of not requiring storage of 10 copies of that image.
Automatic storage of important emails in both the email database and as separate files. If something corrupts the database, we cannot afford to lose important emails.
The fundamental problem is that Mark Shuttleworth, who owns Canonical and the Ubuntu and Kubuntu trademarks, does not deal well with conflict. In this case he has made a decision that is destroying the reputation of his company.
I tried to talk with him about resolving conflict perhaps 2 years ago, but he did not take sufficient interest.
"The modem contains 4G LTE capabilities but is only effective when combined with other essential hardware parts such as a signal amplifier and filter in order for it to work" the LG spokesperson explained. "It therefore cannot be upgraded to 4G LTE capability through software."
A lot of people on Slashdot make comments that show they aren't thinking carefully. However, many people who do think carefully read Slashdot. The kind of person who thinks carefully has social power.
Apple has loudly advertised, "We can't be trusted. We're dishonest." People may think that, if Apple can so easily be sneaky about that, maybe the company can't be trusted to provide good hardware or service. Remember, those who buy hardware now are depending on the supplier for years to come.
After bribes are paid, the income is $265. But that is misleading, because people who take the bribes are included in the overall average. So the average income for those who don't get bribes is apparently much less than $265.
Using $265 as the figure, U.S. taxpayers paid the equivalent of 61 years income for average people (16,268 per person, as mentioned above) to the rich people in Afghanistan who take bribes and participate in corruption. Numerous articles say the lives have average people haven't improved much.
I'm guessing: The U.S. Secretary of Defense has no knowledge of computer technology whatsoever, except what he learned from his children. But he wants to be cool, seem knowledgeable, get his name in the news, and get government contracts for associates, so he put his name on a scary memo written by his staff, who also have such associates.
That's a guess, but it seems a likely guess given the fact that technically knowledgeable people use different language and recommend examination of code for security problems and sloppiness.
Some of those who want government corruption want continuous war because government "defense" contracts provide easy profits, and it is easy to keep corruption secret.
If they get easy money, the corrupters don't care who is killed, what lives and property are destroyed, or how much money is wasted. For example, the book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban provides a huge amount of detail about a small part of the corruption.
Ecoboost engines are horrible. Also, as Ford says, "DO NOT TOW ANYTHING with Ecoboost."
Good for a person who wants [a] full size truck to check power meters or do little or no farm work. Don't believe me? Google ecoboost problems.
I see 20 of them a week, broken, mis-firing, and, well, trash. [That's] what they [Ford] gets for using old Mazda/Volvo engine [designs] and hooking turbos and such to them.
Keep buying them, I could use the extra cash. Just think, timing service will be soon 1200$-2k a pop. Weeee.
Fraud Alert: This may be a paid ad for the very un-respectable Medical Daily. Do you see the Medical Daily ad? "Lose inches AND pounds with no hunger or exercise. Lose 5 lbs/week on average and look great!"
The PLOS One article says, "Jointly, these two sets of data support the hypothesis..." and "suggesting" and "we can speculate that perhaps" and "Consequently, it is likely..." and "it is likely that... would have been...". When that is re-phrased by the Medical Daily article, it is written to sound much less scientific and much more certain.
SRT does NOT support RAID. That's all I said. I was repeating what an Intel engineer told me personally.
If SRT supported RAID 1, it could be both faster and more secure.
RAID issues at Intel are badly managed, in my opinion, so badly managed that it demonstrates that the Intel CEO has little understanding of technology. (Intel makes RAID adapter cards, also.)
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More detail: It should not be possible to get a patent on a connector!!! All connectors and other standard ways of doing things like file system organizations must be in the public domain. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for abuse.
Yes, fearing Apple's destructiveness toward the world makes sense. But what you said directs attention away from the fact that Apple makes money partly by making products people want, and partly by being destructive toward those people.
Apple's current downward slide is good for the world, because it tends to limit Apple's hostility. What will stop Apple from becoming less and less relevant? The one-time opportunities to make a well-designed music player and a more sophisticated cell phone have come and gone.
Some people say Perl is a write-only language that is slowly losing importance in comparison to Python. It seems that it is the CPAN library that is important, not the Perl language.
At the link you gave, Seagate says, "Up to 3 x faster than a traditional HDD". There is a superscript 1 for a footnote, but no footnote.
"Up to 3 x faster" can mean 10% faster. There are marketing people who have no knowledge of technology and no interest in technology who believe that marketing always includes some kind of lying or sneakiness.
And, what happens when one fails? Are there weird failure modes in which your files get scrambled? Seagate's web pages are not reassuring.
Medical Daily is not a reliable source, in my opinion. Is the publication paying for so many links to it? Does the owner of Slashdot, Dice Holdings, have a financial relationship with Medical Daily?
More likely it is just fraud, in my opinion. Here's another one of today's articles in Medical Daily: A Tomato a Day Keeps the Shrink Away: How Eating Tomatoes Can Cut the Risk of Depression by Half
I don't know how it was accomplished, but I'm guessing there was fraud.
Slashdot has a LONG history of running articles that are in fact advertisements, many people have said. (They call them Slashvertisements.)
Now we are seeing stories from Medical Daily.com, a publication that seems to me to be EXTREMELY unreliable public relations.
Consider this: How did Slashdot become a medical web site?
"Four or more cups a day lowered the risk of getting oral cancers by 49%."
Is that public relations from coffee producers?
Did the percentage of oral cancers go down because people died from diabetes?
I'm VERY skeptical.
Is Apple on the way down? I'm surprised the problem has not been fixed.
A friend of mine said recently he is looking for a new email client because it seems that Mozilla Foundation doesn't want to improve Thunderbird. I agree with him.
Mozilla Foundation gets something like $100 million per year. Quoting: "Mozilla's consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries) for 2010 was $123 million..."
Do you see $100 million of development every year? Where does the money go? Where is the 2011 report?
We often distribute short but complicated business reports to clients by email. The emails must be formatted in HTML or they would be difficult to read.
Things we need in Thunderbird:
A "Get All Mail" button. Getting all email should not require a menu choice.
Better handling of images and other attachments. Sending an image with slightly different text to 10 people should have the option of not requiring storage of 10 copies of that image.
Automatic storage of important emails in both the email database and as separate files. If something corrupts the database, we cannot afford to lose important emails.
It's scary how few people in the U.S. take the corruption in their government seriously. There are jokes!
The corruption is FAR, FAR more severe than shown in the Harvard Review article. For example, read Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban.
Or read House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties.
To many in the U.S. government, killing other people is a way of making money.
The fundamental problem is that Mark Shuttleworth, who owns Canonical and the Ubuntu and Kubuntu trademarks, does not deal well with conflict. In this case he has made a decision that is destroying the reputation of his company.
I tried to talk with him about resolving conflict perhaps 2 years ago, but he did not take sufficient interest.
Read this article: LG: LTE in the Nexus 4 is an evolutionary leftover.
Quoting:
"The modem contains 4G LTE capabilities but is only effective when combined with other essential hardware parts such as a signal amplifier and filter in order for it to work" the LG spokesperson explained. "It therefore cannot be upgraded to 4G LTE capability through software."
You obviously aren't thinking about the secondary effects. A story on Slashdot advertises it to mainstream media. A Google search for Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling gives a link to this story on the 22nd page of the search results: Apple accused of hiding U.K. Samsung 'apology' with code. A story on CNet may become mainstream news. Even if it doesn't, the story is traveling fast with 21 other pages of web sites.
A lot of people on Slashdot make comments that show they aren't thinking carefully. However, many people who do think carefully read Slashdot. The kind of person who thinks carefully has social power.
Apple has loudly advertised, "We can't be trusted. We're dishonest." People may think that, if Apple can so easily be sneaky about that, maybe the company can't be trusted to provide good hardware or service. Remember, those who buy hardware now are depending on the supplier for years to come.
Apple managers are apparently unaware that sneaky behavior is likely to get a big story on Slashdot.
The January 19, 2010 BBC article, UN Afghanistan survey points to huge scale of bribery says, "According to the UN survey, bribes averaged $160 (£98) in contrast to an average Afghan annual income of $425."
After bribes are paid, the income is $265. But that is misleading, because people who take the bribes are included in the overall average. So the average income for those who don't get bribes is apparently much less than $265.
Using $265 as the figure, U.S. taxpayers paid the equivalent of 61 years income for average people (16,268 per person, as mentioned above) to the rich people in Afghanistan who take bribes and participate in corruption. Numerous articles say the lives have average people haven't improved much.
I'm guessing: The U.S. Secretary of Defense has no knowledge of computer technology whatsoever, except what he learned from his children. But he wants to be cool, seem knowledgeable, get his name in the news, and get government contracts for associates, so he put his name on a scary memo written by his staff, who also have such associates.
That's a guess, but it seems a likely guess given the fact that technically knowledgeable people use different language and recommend examination of code for security problems and sloppiness.
Some of those who want government corruption want continuous war because government "defense" contracts provide easy profits, and it is easy to keep corruption secret.
If they get easy money, the corrupters don't care who is killed, what lives and property are destroyed, or how much money is wasted. For example, the book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban provides a huge amount of detail about a small part of the corruption.
Divide the cost to the U.S. taxpayer of just the war in Afghanistan ($574,624,781,538) by the population of Afghanistan (35,320,445). The U.S. taxpayer has already paid 16,268 hard-earned dollars for every man, woman, and child in Afghanistan. The results: Mostly, things are worse.
If those who want corruption can't get the taxpayers to pay for killing other people, they want "cyber war". See, for example, Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran.
The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 27 countries since the end of the 2nd world war.
Constant war makes us poor.
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Ecoboost engines are horrible. Also, as Ford says, "DO NOT TOW ANYTHING with Ecoboost."
Good for a person who wants [a] full size truck to check power meters or do little or no farm work. Don't believe me? Google ecoboost problems.
I see 20 of them a week, broken, mis-firing, and, well, trash. [That's] what they [Ford] gets for using old Mazda/Volvo engine [designs] and hooking turbos and such to them.
Keep buying them, I could use the extra cash. Just think, timing service will be soon 1200$-2k a pop. Weeee.
My reaction is a variation of "Stop talking and take my money": Stop discussing this long enough to give me the code. Here it is: Reference and optimized code in C, from the article The Keccak sponge function family.
Fraud Alert: This may be a paid ad for the very un-respectable Medical Daily. Do you see the Medical Daily ad? "Lose inches AND pounds with no hunger or exercise. Lose 5 lbs/week on average and look great!"
... would have been...". When that is re-phrased by the Medical Daily article, it is written to sound much less scientific and much more certain.
The PLOS One article says, "Jointly, these two sets of data support the hypothesis..." and "suggesting" and "we can speculate that perhaps" and "Consequently, it is likely..." and "it is likely that
That's my opinion, but others feel the same way.
SRT does NOT support RAID. That's all I said. I was repeating what an Intel engineer told me personally.
If SRT supported RAID 1, it could be both faster and more secure.
RAID issues at Intel are badly managed, in my opinion, so badly managed that it demonstrates that the Intel CEO has little understanding of technology. (Intel makes RAID adapter cards, also.)
And you cannot RAID the SSD's, as I said, not using SRT mode.
It's amazing that the parent comment has been moderated a troll. It only repeats what an Intel engineer said in a meeting.
Intel's "Smart Response Technology" operates under RAID drivers, but does NOT support RAID. If the SSD fails, you lose data.
John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. His August 31, 2012 article is Apple's iPhone 5 Ploy.