I am in North Texas as well. Access to smart meter data is available at http://www.smartmetertexas.com/. It provides monthly, daily and incremental reports (every 15 minutes IIRC), and I've found it to be quite useful in tracking which devices use more energy.
On the corporate side, Win7 has much better capability for updating drivers and patching images offline. With 7 I no longer need to manage a million different images for specific configurations, and I don't have to jump through hoops just to get the right drivers injected for a specific model machine.
Despite the prevailing geek attitude here on Slashdot, Win7 offers better security out of the box, and much improved UAC settings. This will allow us to give users more control over their machines while still allowing for increased security.
Win7 is much more centrally manageable, there are lots more tweakable settings that we can implement via GPO. Group Policy Preferences and item-level targeting are both very cool.
I'd come up with more but I'm in the midst of finalizing our Win7 image for deployment.:)
This is also assuming the authentication server will be online and working 100% of the time. What happens when you can't contact the server? Will I still be able to play the game 15 years from now when that server is but a memory? What happens when the company goes out of business?
I haven't listened to the radio in years. Virtually 100% of the new music I find I get through word of mouth (usually a thread on a forum) or from sites like Allmusic or Pandora. Both are awesome, and free.
Regarding hijacked accounts, why don't places like Ebay implement two-factor authentication? IMO it would cut down drastically on the amount of fraudulent auctions, and it might even put a dent in the number of shill bidders.
[i]"Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill."[/i]
You know, if Kazaa wants to bill for their service, fine by me. But if you're telling me my ISP is going to scan ALL traffic going into and out of their network, and "bill appropriately" depending on what I download, then I'll take my business elsewhere. Uh, hello? They're ALREADY billing me $40 a month for the service, why should I have to pay extra for certain content?
Never mind that it wouldn't work anyway... if they charge based on what ports are used, someone will figure out how to change it to port 80. If they search packets for MP3 file information, someone will write a "wrapper" program to zip and encrypt a download.
Dave
So you're content to listen to the same old mindless crap that Clearchannel et al. shove down our throats? I'm not. I quit listening to the radio five years ago and haven't regretted it one bit. All of the music I listen to now comes from word of mouth, and I find that it's better quality stuff, and 99% of it is from non-RIAA artists, so I don't feel guilty about buying a CD that I like.
Bose? Good? Hardly... for $3000 you can do much better than Bose, and you'll get something that's upgradeable as well, when new surround formats are available. Those who think Bose is good should check out this link, especially the part about the frequency gap between 80 and 200hz:
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I am in North Texas as well. Access to smart meter data is available at http://www.smartmetertexas.com/. It provides monthly, daily and incremental reports (every 15 minutes IIRC), and I've found it to be quite useful in tracking which devices use more energy.
On the corporate side, Win7 has much better capability for updating drivers and patching images offline. With 7 I no longer need to manage a million different images for specific configurations, and I don't have to jump through hoops just to get the right drivers injected for a specific model machine.
Despite the prevailing geek attitude here on Slashdot, Win7 offers better security out of the box, and much improved UAC settings. This will allow us to give users more control over their machines while still allowing for increased security.
Win7 is much more centrally manageable, there are lots more tweakable settings that we can implement via GPO. Group Policy Preferences and item-level targeting are both very cool.
I'd come up with more but I'm in the midst of finalizing our Win7 image for deployment. :)
This is also assuming the authentication server will be online and working 100% of the time. What happens when you can't contact the server? Will I still be able to play the game 15 years from now when that server is but a memory? What happens when the company goes out of business?
I haven't listened to the radio in years. Virtually 100% of the new music I find I get through word of mouth (usually a thread on a forum) or from sites like Allmusic or Pandora. Both are awesome, and free.
At least they aren't using America's Army.
Regarding hijacked accounts, why don't places like Ebay implement two-factor authentication? IMO it would cut down drastically on the amount of fraudulent auctions, and it might even put a dent in the number of shill bidders.
Power over ethernet? Bah! Here's a few more uses for power over anything!
$550 won't get you a kilo, more like 11 grams.
What awards? This is just the press release, we'll never actually see the real thing...
Dave
[i]"Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill."[/i] You know, if Kazaa wants to bill for their service, fine by me. But if you're telling me my ISP is going to scan ALL traffic going into and out of their network, and "bill appropriately" depending on what I download, then I'll take my business elsewhere. Uh, hello? They're ALREADY billing me $40 a month for the service, why should I have to pay extra for certain content? Never mind that it wouldn't work anyway... if they charge based on what ports are used, someone will figure out how to change it to port 80. If they search packets for MP3 file information, someone will write a "wrapper" program to zip and encrypt a download. Dave
Two weeks of TV? Bah... this would be much better suited to recording HDTV signals. Speaking of which, wasn't Tivo working on an HD-capable unit?
More power to them! Oh, wait...
After spending all their money on SCO licenses, they probably aren't anymore...
So you're content to listen to the same old mindless crap that Clearchannel et al. shove down our throats? I'm not. I quit listening to the radio five years ago and haven't regretted it one bit. All of the music I listen to now comes from word of mouth, and I find that it's better quality stuff, and 99% of it is from non-RIAA artists, so I don't feel guilty about buying a CD that I like.
Blasphemy! How else can we recognize nerds if they no longer have a need for pocket protectors?
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