But seriously, this is a highly specific site, designed primarily for Knoppix/LiveCD users. Complaining about it is like Windows update not working for BeOS... DUH!
if the line moved faster they wouldn't have told so many bad jokes!!!
the real issue here is that the courts are so out-of-touch with "regular people" that they don't see the real problem... The REAL problem is expecting CITIZENS to stand in a line for search at a public place that's supposed to represent our freedoms. It's interesting that the lawyer would complain about one morning of bad jokes...when they stand in line outside every day to do their job in a public place!!! That's the real outrage here.
I'll admit I was shocked last month to walk into a courthouse WITHOUT metal detectors...it's really become that bad now!!
they should build a notebook keyboard in...maybe a touchpad swiped from a snow ibook...
If it had DVI & S-video out plus firewire/usb/network it would do pretty well. Most of the mac perphials nodays have adopted the USB or firewire interface... most PC external periphials at least work on current generation macs as well. Apple has also decoupled their displays from being attached to just macs...you can use an apple display on a PC now just like a normal monitor...as well as the airport device...ipod..
an attempt at a $500 "bookshelf" mac would really make sense to ipod owners. Most recent scanners and printers are PC/Mac compatible...and the big ticket mac devices can be used with PCs. The "gamble" to get into Mac would "only" be the $500...the "exit" cost would only be the machine...if you sprang for an expensive monitor, iPod, airport, you could still keep those with your PCs!
except that even the largest Nukes are "teaspoons" when dealing with geology on that scale. Unlike in the movies where a bomb "blows up" the world, even the biggest nukes we have are mearly "bug splats". Your dealing with solid rock measured in MILES!
On the filp side, look at Mt St Helens... we knew it was going to go, but couldn't really do anything about it other than leave it alone. It's not like defusing a bomb, but more like trying to stop an overheating boiler. The heat and pressure are building and you have to create an "out" for all that stuff....or like letting the air out of a balloon with a pin without popping the balloon.
I used to work for a defense contractor that build "radio equipment" for the govt. They were located in a fairly populated part of town...so they had entire labs for RF testing with coppermesh under the paneling of every door and wall. aside from the fact that it's probably terribly expensive, it was kinda cool.
I'd think the biggest purchasers of this paint would be stores and movie theaters... That'd be a cruel/cool trick to play on moviegoers rather than jamming the signals, just paint the walls with this paint when you remodel!
you miss the point that the electronic processing of this type has been done with checks for nearly 25 years now...mandated by the Federal Clearing System that clears all checks. Ever since checks have had MICR numbers the basics of this patent have been performed... The checks you write almost never were actually recieved by your bank anyway. The actual transaction has been performed by the Clearinghouses for many years now! The only new thing is that the "Check 21" system allows an individual business to perform the same transaction as the clearinghouse. It's such a basic, taken-for-granted technology that they wrote a law to make it "specificallly legal" because the practice was well know for years but not legally allowed. The patent wasn't even novel...it was just a procedure that was not legally allowed... I'm sure the IBM or NCR engineers will step up and squash this in a few days.
This is something so simple and so basic to the functions and laws of the financial systems that it is truely insulting that any patent examiner who would be familiar with financial systems should have laughed this off the desk!
still depends on when he did it. It's obviously a breech of any confidentiallity agreements he had with his employer, but data-theft is always a touchy subject trying to get the law involved. AOL would have had a better case in civil court, but not much under the criminal laws. After all, he didn't actually "steal" [deprive AOL access] anything, he mearly coppied it. The level of "cracking" involved is always suspect in corperate cases too... How many times do you or I just jump across the asile to work on a coworkers machine for a tough problem... technically that's against the company policy...in practice it happens all the time.
This type of thing happens all the time in the sales business. Salesmen all the time keep a "backup" of their contacts when they leave employers...even though it's clearly in their contracts not to do that... after all it's just a list of AOL email addresses... like having a list of unlisted phone numbers... it's pseudo-public information already... he just has an advantage to the "quality" of his list. There's very little most criminal law can do in this situation because he WAS a legitimate AOL employee, what he did or didn't have "privilage" too is between AOL and him...it's only their word versus his that he "stole" the data versus "found" it after he was fired. It'd be a stretch to find a crininal law to fit the situation that vague...but it's a pretty clear civil lawsuit that he breeched "confidential" AOL info for profit. But that has nothing to do with the SPAM laws...because he didn't actually send any emails!
at least they could put it on Mars, with space marines, uac, and demons from Hell! The only "redeeming" value of a "Doom" movie is that it at least have those things.
then again, Doom 3 has a great engine...why don't we just devote a section of/. to pounding out a script...we obviously can't do any worse! we can have some map modders create the sets and farm the reners out to the really geeky people with dual opterons and dual SLI'd 6800's... it would at least be "Doom on Doom"
That's not a good enough reason though... if the items had "real world value" then Blizzard would be legally compelled to allow the "trading" much like Wizards with Magic cards or Ty with Beanies...Collectible companies have to be very careful to keep their fingers strictly off the "secondary" market.
The argument that DOES work however is that Blizzard has set certian rules to "play in their sandbox". Much like Champion tennis player can't give me their Wimbelton trophy and I expect to just walk into the place...or a counrty club enforcing the golf rules. Blizzard is selling the "service" to play a "fair game" free from outside influances.
A better example would be an "all you can eat buffet" club...but where ten people [paying] come into the resturant and spend all day "hoarding" the ice cream and pies from the buffet then selling favorites back to your other paying customers. That's the similar thing to what's going on. If the "customers" were consuming the pies for themselves it would be an inconvenience, but part of the store's "offer" but in the MMORGS like my example, they are just there to take away from the other paying customers...which ruins it for everyone.
I like that he left spec of his system...I've got an older 9500Pro and only some of the "new cool demos" still work on my machine. 162 MB is a LOT to download for nothing!!!
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Really, It's a rated "M" brand game anyway...It's not like 13 year-olds are the target audience.
But design & manufacture pollutants can be more easlily controlled at a central point and are one-time occurances. That's the true benifits of the focus on electric power for all sorts of stuff. Because it allows you to build one, well regulated, super-polluter...and have the local devices be extremely clean.
Things like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and chainsaws are "simpler" devices, but pound-for-pound nearly 10x as bad as gas-guzzlers like the Hummer.
The real factor in the military's decision for fuel performance is the cost to get the fuel to the troops. Under the current numbers it takes 17 gallons of fuel to get 1 gallon in the tank of a front-line vehical. The army units getting whipped in Iraq right now are the ones that are part of hauling around those "17 Gallons" not intended to be fighting...if you can cut the number of PEOPLE hauling gas [and supplies for themselves!] around then you have fewer people in harms way. The other advantage is the movement/surprise factor. A more effiecent vehical can move further on a "turn" meaning the enemy must improve survailance over a wider area or risk security holes. You can drop fewer troops further from their targets, hit the targets earlier, and avoid "tipping your hand" by moving fewer support troops!
from what I read they want to "fork" the next kernel into seperate specialties... i.e. one for desktops, servers, and embedded...perhaps RTOS as well. There are a lot of people out there with great ideas that don't neccessaraily get "approved" by Linus. It's nice to think they can go on as huge patch sets from the "offical" kernels, but we're rapidly hitting the point that the "offical" kernel has to make design decisions that end up specifically excluding other "niche" uses for the kernel...i.e. the heated discussions over RTOS. The designers can support one or the other well, but things good for one type of kernel make the other types suffer performance hits.
Frankly, if it's done right I wouldn't see it as a problem...even Linus would approve because he'll admit all the specialties have grown too much for the central group to focus on. The only real problem is maintaining userspace application level compatibility so the other projects...Apache, php, KED, etc don't have to "choose sides" or then we'll have problems.
I sit by an AS400 all day and 99% of the calls I've ever gotten were non-software related [i.e. power problem, network problem, user input errors, etc] If computers are treated as tools...like a CNC or engine then they'd work much better. Windows is the WRONG OS for most business. Sure it's cheap and versitile but that means it's also mostly a hack-job. If you identify your business needs you'd see that in 90% of cases Linux is already there...it's just piss poor management that isn't used to planning computers as tools but wouldn't change the toilet paper without considering the budget cost.
The good thing is that combine with SO-OX this type of business could start being really attractive... when SO-OX hits the "teenage hackers" that run most IT shops simply won't cut it anymore. locked down tight, squeaky clean boxes will be mandated by law. While it will be a bit#H to fix the net effect will be REAL progress in IT...not just cool screensavers for the VPs!
But this article was about selling to SMALL businesses... ones that are already reeling from MS fees to begin with. Hint: the ones to look for are job shops that use PCs as basically dumb terminalt + email and internet... that describes 50% of small businsees out there... they don't need MS latest & greatest... they need what's free done right!
The idea is to start with small businesses that have needs that can be easily meet and then grow the business as your small customers grow... I was laying the same plans before I left my last employer. All the pieces are out there, it just needs some business and techinal skill to pull it off!
this isn't just "auto-updating" linux...it's much more!
It's the idea of OSS taken to it's logical extreme...what we all really NEED to happen. The WHOLE article is about starting a one or two person consulting company that would sell "whole" businesses around a custom-spun solution to other small businesses [i.e. mom-n-pops] that just want to have computers...not worry about licensing and all that stuff.
It's a brilliant idea that's not quite there yet...but would make all the/.'rs happy. it's the best use of OSS in a business model. After all, most small businesses just want it to work. MS has had their shot and only seems to be raising more money...not SAVING businesses money! You'd remote administer several locations which would be easer because you'd have an "IT" contract rather than just selling random PCs. They get all the stuff from your business and you'd make it all work...so you'd know all the hardware before you ever auto-updated anything!!! You the consultant would be in complete control per what the business asked for...it's a great idea that moves IS from being "hackers" to professionals!
Some of the space/alien scenes were truely works of art in the L&S movie. The opening sequences really pushed the bounds of disney/anime style... there was real potential for something REALLY cool to come out.
Itanic isn't really THAT bad. I believe it was Anandtech that ran a comparison several weeks ago about enterprise server dualies...Xeon, Opteron, & Itanium... The Opteron came out "cheapest" for the horsepower, but the Itanium whipped most of the benchmarks...running at mearly HALF the speed of the Xeon! With the right software it's a smokin' architecture...way ahead of it's time.
That said, Itanium is UNGODLY expensive. You can buy a lower end dual opteron server and get about the same performance as you'd pay for 1 itanium CPU [just the cpu!] On top of that software is at least twice the price as for normal servers...meaning an itanium server will run a minumum of 5 figures "fully equipt" That also rules out much of the "hobbiest" groups helping them out. After all, sure linux will run on it but if very few people can ever afford a box to run it ON it will never be that well supported... Itanium's server pricing pits it against such established players like VAX, HP 3000, & AS400...at a time when most shops are looking to replace them with PC servers. And...intel is doing a crappy job of marketing!
If you look at the server market it's very clear MS is playing "kingmaker" with it's favorite chips. Opteron is clearly a better value, but MS has yet to release a "supported" os for it in 2 years after it's release. Now their doing the same to Itanium. It's time the CPU vendors wise up and start supporting somebody else before MS does them all in!
but it's still an IBM design based on the PPC architecture. IBM's made a small to-do about how they've been selling the PPC "core" to other companies to modify for their designs. I.e. they sell the design to sony engineers for PS3, sell the design to MS for XBox2, of course they have some fab available too...and they've got REALLY good numbers on efficency... so good even nVidia and AMD partner with them for research and a little fab!
Big blue may have lost the PC wars, but they're making it up in spades on the back end...quietly selling to more and more companies and raking in the royalties!!!
it only has to be cheap. You could put together a via EDEN board + stuff for well under $200 in volume especially without harddisk or OS involved. It's entirely possible to put a functional desktop os in 32MB rom...espically if you're relying on it to be online for all the content. If you could find a all-in-one board with LinuBIOS supported + put Firefox in ROM you could probably do it right now! It wouldn't win any records, but it would do what 80% of people need their computers to do...and they probably wouldn't notice the lack of Windows!
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But seriously, this is a highly specific site, designed primarily for Knoppix/LiveCD users. Complaining about it is like Windows update not working for BeOS... DUH!
but it runs under KDE and Knoppix and Konquer... hence the Klik name!!!
the real issue here is that the courts are so out-of-touch with "regular people" that they don't see the real problem... The REAL problem is expecting CITIZENS to stand in a line for search at a public place that's supposed to represent our freedoms. It's interesting that the lawyer would complain about one morning of bad jokes...when they stand in line outside every day to do their job in a public place!!! That's the real outrage here.
I'll admit I was shocked last month to walk into a courthouse WITHOUT metal detectors...it's really become that bad now!!
If it had DVI & S-video out plus firewire/usb/network it would do pretty well. Most of the mac perphials nodays have adopted the USB or firewire interface... most PC external periphials at least work on current generation macs as well. Apple has also decoupled their displays from being attached to just macs...you can use an apple display on a PC now just like a normal monitor...as well as the airport device...ipod..
an attempt at a $500 "bookshelf" mac would really make sense to ipod owners. Most recent scanners and printers are PC/Mac compatible...and the big ticket mac devices can be used with PCs. The "gamble" to get into Mac would "only" be the $500...the "exit" cost would only be the machine...if you sprang for an expensive monitor, iPod, airport, you could still keep those with your PCs!
On the filp side, look at Mt St Helens... we knew it was going to go, but couldn't really do anything about it other than leave it alone. It's not like defusing a bomb, but more like trying to stop an overheating boiler. The heat and pressure are building and you have to create an "out" for all that stuff....or like letting the air out of a balloon with a pin without popping the balloon.
but type more meaningless stuff because the lameness filter makes you spend 20 seconds before you can hit the submit button....should be ok now
I'd think the biggest purchasers of this paint would be stores and movie theaters... That'd be a cruel/cool trick to play on moviegoers rather than jamming the signals, just paint the walls with this paint when you remodel!
of course it's toxic when it's still wet!! but after it dries it's encapsulated and safe for everyday use.
This is something so simple and so basic to the functions and laws of the financial systems that it is truely insulting that any patent examiner who would be familiar with financial systems should have laughed this off the desk!
This type of thing happens all the time in the sales business. Salesmen all the time keep a "backup" of their contacts when they leave employers...even though it's clearly in their contracts not to do that... after all it's just a list of AOL email addresses... like having a list of unlisted phone numbers... it's pseudo-public information already... he just has an advantage to the "quality" of his list. There's very little most criminal law can do in this situation because he WAS a legitimate AOL employee, what he did or didn't have "privilage" too is between AOL and him...it's only their word versus his that he "stole" the data versus "found" it after he was fired. It'd be a stretch to find a crininal law to fit the situation that vague...but it's a pretty clear civil lawsuit that he breeched "confidential" AOL info for profit. But that has nothing to do with the SPAM laws...because he didn't actually send any emails!
simply float a rumor that your dead relative may have been communicating with terrorists....then Yahoo or any other ISP will roll right over!
at least they could put it on Mars, with space marines, uac, and demons from Hell! The only "redeeming" value of a "Doom" movie is that it at least have those things.
then again, Doom 3 has a great engine...why don't we just devote a section of
The argument that DOES work however is that Blizzard has set certian rules to "play in their sandbox". Much like Champion tennis player can't give me their Wimbelton trophy and I expect to just walk into the place...or a counrty club enforcing the golf rules. Blizzard is selling the "service" to play a "fair game" free from outside influances.
A better example would be an "all you can eat buffet" club...but where ten people [paying] come into the resturant and spend all day "hoarding" the ice cream and pies from the buffet then selling favorites back to your other paying customers. That's the similar thing to what's going on. If the "customers" were consuming the pies for themselves it would be an inconvenience, but part of the store's "offer" but in the MMORGS like my example, they are just there to take away from the other paying customers...which ruins it for everyone.
I like that he left spec of his system...I've got an older 9500Pro and only some of the "new cool demos" still work on my machine. 162 MB is a LOT to download for nothing!!!
Really, It's a rated "M" brand game anyway...It's not like 13 year-olds are the target audience.
Things like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and chainsaws are "simpler" devices, but pound-for-pound nearly 10x as bad as gas-guzzlers like the Hummer.
The real factor in the military's decision for fuel performance is the cost to get the fuel to the troops. Under the current numbers it takes 17 gallons of fuel to get 1 gallon in the tank of a front-line vehical. The army units getting whipped in Iraq right now are the ones that are part of hauling around those "17 Gallons" not intended to be fighting...if you can cut the number of PEOPLE hauling gas [and supplies for themselves!] around then you have fewer people in harms way. The other advantage is the movement/surprise factor. A more effiecent vehical can move further on a "turn" meaning the enemy must improve survailance over a wider area or risk security holes. You can drop fewer troops further from their targets, hit the targets earlier, and avoid "tipping your hand" by moving fewer support troops!
Frankly, if it's done right I wouldn't see it as a problem...even Linus would approve because he'll admit all the specialties have grown too much for the central group to focus on. The only real problem is maintaining userspace application level compatibility so the other projects...Apache, php, KED, etc don't have to "choose sides" or then we'll have problems.
I sit by an AS400 all day and 99% of the calls I've ever gotten were non-software related [i.e. power problem, network problem, user input errors, etc] If computers are treated as tools...like a CNC or engine then they'd work much better. Windows is the WRONG OS for most business. Sure it's cheap and versitile but that means it's also mostly a hack-job. If you identify your business needs you'd see that in 90% of cases Linux is already there...it's just piss poor management that isn't used to planning computers as tools but wouldn't change the toilet paper without considering the budget cost.
The good thing is that combine with SO-OX this type of business could start being really attractive... when SO-OX hits the "teenage hackers" that run most IT shops simply won't cut it anymore. locked down tight, squeaky clean boxes will be mandated by law. While it will be a bit#H to fix the net effect will be REAL progress in IT...not just cool screensavers for the VPs!
The idea is to start with small businesses that have needs that can be easily meet and then grow the business as your small customers grow... I was laying the same plans before I left my last employer. All the pieces are out there, it just needs some business and techinal skill to pull it off!
It's the idea of OSS taken to it's logical extreme...what we all really NEED to happen. The WHOLE article is about starting a one or two person consulting company that would sell "whole" businesses around a custom-spun solution to other small businesses [i.e. mom-n-pops] that just want to have computers...not worry about licensing and all that stuff.
It's a brilliant idea that's not quite there yet...but would make all the /.'rs happy. it's the best use of OSS in a business model. After all, most small businesses just want it to work. MS has had their shot and only seems to be raising more money...not SAVING businesses money! You'd remote administer several locations which would be easer because you'd have an "IT" contract rather than just selling random PCs. They get all the stuff from your business and you'd make it all work...so you'd know all the hardware before you ever auto-updated anything!!! You the consultant would be in complete control per what the business asked for...it's a great idea that moves IS from being "hackers" to professionals!
Then in decended into disney "ruin".
That said, Itanium is UNGODLY expensive. You can buy a lower end dual opteron server and get about the same performance as you'd pay for 1 itanium CPU [just the cpu!] On top of that software is at least twice the price as for normal servers...meaning an itanium server will run a minumum of 5 figures "fully equipt" That also rules out much of the "hobbiest" groups helping them out. After all, sure linux will run on it but if very few people can ever afford a box to run it ON it will never be that well supported... Itanium's server pricing pits it against such established players like VAX, HP 3000, & AS400...at a time when most shops are looking to replace them with PC servers. And...intel is doing a crappy job of marketing!
If you look at the server market it's very clear MS is playing "kingmaker" with it's favorite chips. Opteron is clearly a better value, but MS has yet to release a "supported" os for it in 2 years after it's release. Now their doing the same to Itanium. It's time the CPU vendors wise up and start supporting somebody else before MS does them all in!
means that the garages in your new gated subdivision in the country are able to acommodate 2 of the largest SUV in manufacture today!
Big blue may have lost the PC wars, but they're making it up in spades on the back end...quietly selling to more and more companies and raking in the royalties!!!
it only has to be cheap. You could put together a via EDEN board + stuff for well under $200 in volume especially without harddisk or OS involved. It's entirely possible to put a functional desktop os in 32MB rom...espically if you're relying on it to be online for all the content. If you could find a all-in-one board with LinuBIOS supported + put Firefox in ROM you could probably do it right now! It wouldn't win any records, but it would do what 80% of people need their computers to do...and they probably wouldn't notice the lack of Windows!