With the Nomad Zen and all its empty spaces and much larger volume and mass, it seems to be much easier to damage than the Apple iPod, which is twice as light, much smaller, and has a lot less empty space.
I've seen people take apart their iPods with nothing more than a thin, stiff, flat piece of plastic, and putting it back together totally unscathed. Heck, I've even heard of people accidently putting their iPods in the washing machine and then the drier and still turning out fine after leaving it out to dry for a few hours.
So, this should say something about the quality of the devices. Sure, the iPod is more expensive and holds a lot less (10 gb for about $300 compared to 20gb for the same price), but in my opinion, its built a lot better than Creative's player, Nomad Zen, as can be compared from the article above, and this one
Though it is true that a box filled with hard disks that is snail mailed has a higher rate of transfer than actually uploading the contents of all those hard disks, there are problems with this argument as well.
First of all, when downloading, you have the benefit of instantly recieving the file that you need, as opposed to waiting at least a day for your shipment to arrive.
Secondly, remember that bandwidth is probably cheaper than postage. Shipping a carton with a few hard disks and proper insulation would cost at least $30 to overnight it.
Really, the title of the article comes upon the conclusion way too quickily. You must consider much bandwidth the sender and the reciever have. If both have a several gigabit OC line, then perhaps uploading it would be faster.
It was a PDP-7 that they developed the first UNIX on, and the PDP-11 was the one they got later. It was so advanced that a hard disk wasn't avaliable for it until the next year, and until that time, they ran a core-only version of UNIX on it, which calculated all the knight positions on a 6x6 chessboard.
You should know that BSD suffered a case like this (though it wasn't filled with such utter BS from a small and overly obnoxious company that does literally nothing productive), and the result was not that BSD became illegal, the offending parts of the code were simply taken out, and BSD remained free.
If this is to happen to Linux(however unlikely), then the same thing will happen. And even if worst comes to worst, all businesses will have to pay SCO, but it still will not be illegal.
If those people wish to prohibit violent video games, it would make more sense if they would just prohibit guns.. that's where the real problem is. Video games are designed to entertain, with killing as a rare side effect. Guns are designed to kill, with entertainment as a side effect to it.
Although you may be right as to what.NET exactly is, you didn't mention how that ties in the advertisements that Microsoft literally plastered everywhere.
In Newsweek, for example, there were ads that had catchy slogans like "1 degree of seperation between you and your customers - that's the power of.NET".
They make it sound like some sort of fix-all do-all solution to business, when the product itself wasn't about business at all, but more about the technology behind it; the ads didn't mention anything about it. That's where it is extremely misleading, and giving people false impressions about it.
At first, I heard that it was a development platform, like you said, then, I saw the ads. I got confused as to what.NET really is, and being one who is skeptical about Microsoft, I speculated that it was nothing new, just hype, and lots of it.
That every single agency in a "Communist" nation is controlled by the government? It just so happens that many urban dwelling Chinese people actually have some pro-American sentiment and are usually apathetic to the ruling regieme.
It would be naive to assume either way: The software can't be left unchecked, but it would be unfair to just assume that any software developer in China is working for or collaborating with the Communist government. There is percaution, then there is just baseless suspiction. China was not always hostile in recent times to the US, but hostilities have increased ever since the rise of the Bush administration.
Like how Homer Simpson got his "drinking bird" to cover for him by constantly pressing 'y' while he went to the movies, you could do the same thing. Have one of those drinking birds continually tap a single key over and over again while the Mac is in screensaver mode, and EVENTUALLY, it will terminate due to this bug.
It probably didn't work for you because you didn't type enough stuff. Go buy a drinking bird.
Dr. Pepper is not a beverage that is distributed by Coke, as they (I think) are independent. Instead, Coke produces a not well known imitation beverage called "Mr. Pibb"
It comes as no suprise that Microsoft isn't even living up to an antitrust settlement that is this painless. From day 1, it looked as if they had no intention of following it through, and now, it seems as if the lawsuit was never filed at all.
What is a second lawsuit going to produce? Another slap on the wrist? If so, I will begin to think that the judges were... easily persuaded.
Though I am a huge GNU/Linux OSS fan, and I use Linux for all my desktop and server tasks, there still is a common misconception about security.
Whether we like it or not, Microsoft _has_ done a better job with security now, and Windows has gotten a lot more secure nowadays. Though in my opinion, sysadmins could do a LOT more to protect their Linux systems than their Windows systems (much more stuff is configurable), it is still fact that good security dosn't mean using Open Source Software like Linux or BSD and stopping there, it requires competent sysadmins and being updated about security, as well as using patches and new versions of software.
Remember that having a text-only web browser is something that you can change. You could easily goto someone else's computer that has a GUI and a graphical web browser to sign up for that account. However, if you are severely visiually impaired, that's something that you can't change. Therefore, the analogy you presented can't be applied.
Then, how do you explain the fact that QWERTY is still very unbalanced? The left hand has much more of a job than the right hand, as studies have shown.
Dvorak actually tries to put the typist in a better position by putting the keys in such a position so that it would allow them to type in a strumming motion (type one or two letters on the left, one or two on the right).
On QWERTY, it is so unbalanced that there are plenty of "one hand" words that have to be typed with just one hand, reducing accruacy in most circumstances. The longest one that I know of is "desegregated", while the longest "one hand" word on Dvorak in the entire English language is "papaya".
On the issue of speed, however, the test have shown that neither will increase your speed if you get used to using them. The conclusion is: Good typists type fast, those who are not don't. It dosen't matter what layout you use. Still, many still switch to the Dvorak keyboard because of comfort, as since 70% of all typing is done on the home row, your fingers move around a lot less, resulting in a much longer typing time before your hands get tired or fingers cramped, etc.
Perhaps innovation on the core components of the browser are next to dead, but what about all the things that Netscape has come up with in the past 5 years alone? The sidebar, for example, wasn't avaliable until 6.0, which was released well more recently than 5 years.
Though I think that yes, fundamental concepts are out of the question and probably best left unchanged, I have to disagree that innovation is completely dead. Whenever something makes using the Internet easier and more enjoyable, I consider that innovation.
That may be, but how do you explain the fact that the network can still do 100 mbps?
The way that I understand it, twisted pair ethernet requires just 4 wires, and on a Cat5 cable, the other 4 wires are just duplicates. The speed dosn't rely on how many leads are present, it only affects how far the network can reach. I think that Cat5 can go 300 feet, but Cat3 a lot less...
IF you get your house built, you should consider sneaking in wire at night and putting them in the walls before they do the sheetrock. This way, you won't have to bore holes in the walls later.
A few years ago, I thought ahead, and decided that it necessary in the future to install ethernet at home. Therefore, without the permission of the builder or subcontractor, I just snuck in some wire and stapeled it like they did. Apparently, the subcontractors that did the plastering and sheetrock had no blueprints, as they installed phone jacks where my wires ended (what a deal... it would have cost me $50 for each jack for them to do it officially). About a year ago, I finally got broadband and decided to install a wired home network. The wire that I had installed earlier was 8 lead, and phones needed only 2 wires. Therefore, I wired up the other 6 into a Cat3 ethernet network, which can still do 100mbps just fine.
On the lower end side (GeForce 3/4 and Radeon 7500), I really still do prefer Nvidia, because ATI still dosn't provide commerical Linux drivers, and DRI just refuses to work, no matter what I try.
After buying a 7500 and tinkering with it for a few days, I decided that I didn't want to try anymore, and then traded it for a GeForce 4. It worked perfectly on the first try. I'm not a huge fan of either company, but yes, I still like to buy Nvidia cards.
On the simplistic FAT filesystem, oftentimes, when a file is stored and some other information is deleted, there is possibility that it may become isolated from the "bulk" of the filesystem. Though this is no big deal besides just a minor slowdown in seek time for the hard disk, it may become catastrophe when repartitioning the hard disk, as some repartitioning utilities may not notice these fragments, marking them as blank space.
Though even if you don't defragment the hard disk, there is not a lot of risk that you'll mess anything up, but most people are told to do it, just to be on the safe side. Every repartitioning has a risk involved in it, and having a terribly fragmented FAT filesystem only makes it more risky to size down.
Well, shoudn't India do the same thing? Whether or not there are starving people in a nation is rather irrelevant. I could make the same argument about the US. Shoudn't the US tend to all the homeless and starving people out on the street due to the economic recession before attacking other nations?
The point is, if every nation had specific order or priorities, and followed it strictly, then this world would get nowhere. Nobody would probably never get past agriculture.
AFAIK, China is pretty good at hiding this kind of information, as I haven't heard of any massive famines recently, in the past decade, though I'm not particularly attentive at that kind of thing. Someone help me out here plz.
I think that he means nightly updates, as in they update their site with new software and some patching, when necessary. In the case of Windows, it means patches for the operating system, not always desirable.
Moreover, people hate automatic Windows updates because in their EULA, I remember there was a clause that essentially allowed Microsoft to scan Windows XP based computers and automatically apply updates. On SuSE'S YOU(YaST Online Update), it's entirely your choice when you want to update.
One would think that FSF would jump at the opportunity to assert that indeed, Linux is NOT GNU/Linux, and should not be confused with it. Their abstnance from giving a clear statement about this kind of thing really has let the hype go downhill.
Moreover, is it just me, or has the case really gone from something that is targeted at Linux (kernel) that many people worry about into just an internal dispute between IBM and SCO that not many really worry about anymore? I woudn't be suprised if the latter was true.
In that movie, yes, I remember how he deposited garbage into what appeared to be a miniature fusion reactor. However, remember that it is very hard to fuse heavy elements like aluminum, possibly carbon as well. I think that they must have had anti-matter in mind. In a fusion reaction, there are many restrictions on the fuel, however, in an anti-matter reactor, there are none. It just has to be matter, and we have plenty of that.
Whatever happened on research on anti-matter reactors? The entire concept is feasable, and it is very effeicient. In most nuclear fission reactions, the efficency is about 8%, and combustion reactions usually have substantially less, at less than a tenth of a percent. In an anti-matter reaction, nothing is wasted, and the efficency is 100%.
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I've seen people take apart their iPods with nothing more than a thin, stiff, flat piece of plastic, and putting it back together totally unscathed. Heck, I've even heard of people accidently putting their iPods in the washing machine and then the drier and still turning out fine after leaving it out to dry for a few hours.
So, this should say something about the quality of the devices. Sure, the iPod is more expensive and holds a lot less (10 gb for about $300 compared to 20gb for the same price), but in my opinion, its built a lot better than Creative's player, Nomad Zen, as can be compared from the article above, and this one
When C++ came out, there was some debate over whether it should be called C++ or P, as P is the letter after C in BCPL.
Therefore, it would be more logical to call the new language L instead of D, E, or F.
I know someone who uses Windows 98. Since the number 98 is higher that 10.2, 9, and 2.6 put together, that must be one kickass operating system.
First of all, when downloading, you have the benefit of instantly recieving the file that you need, as opposed to waiting at least a day for your shipment to arrive.
Secondly, remember that bandwidth is probably cheaper than postage. Shipping a carton with a few hard disks and proper insulation would cost at least $30 to overnight it.
Really, the title of the article comes upon the conclusion way too quickily. You must consider much bandwidth the sender and the reciever have. If both have a several gigabit OC line, then perhaps uploading it would be faster.
It was a PDP-7 that they developed the first UNIX on, and the PDP-11 was the one they got later. It was so advanced that a hard disk wasn't avaliable for it until the next year, and until that time, they ran a core-only version of UNIX on it, which calculated all the knight positions on a 6x6 chessboard.
If this is to happen to Linux(however unlikely), then the same thing will happen. And even if worst comes to worst, all businesses will have to pay SCO, but it still will not be illegal.
If those people wish to prohibit violent video games, it would make more sense if they would just prohibit guns.. that's where the real problem is. Video games are designed to entertain, with killing as a rare side effect. Guns are designed to kill, with entertainment as a side effect to it.
Although you may be right as to what .NET exactly is, you didn't mention how that ties in the advertisements that Microsoft literally plastered everywhere.
.NET".
.NET really is, and being one who is skeptical about Microsoft, I speculated that it was nothing new, just hype, and lots of it.
In Newsweek, for example, there were ads that had catchy slogans like "1 degree of seperation between you and your customers - that's the power of
They make it sound like some sort of fix-all do-all solution to business, when the product itself wasn't about business at all, but more about the technology behind it; the ads didn't mention anything about it. That's where it is extremely misleading, and giving people false impressions about it.
At first, I heard that it was a development platform, like you said, then, I saw the ads. I got confused as to what
It would be naive to assume either way: The software can't be left unchecked, but it would be unfair to just assume that any software developer in China is working for or collaborating with the Communist government. There is percaution, then there is just baseless suspiction. China was not always hostile in recent times to the US, but hostilities have increased ever since the rise of the Bush administration.
On any computer using OSX, it is possible to change the root password with 6 easy steps:
/"
Reboot the computer
Hold down appl ctrl + S
Type "mount -uw
"su" (it dosen't ask for a password)
"/sbin/systemstarter"
"passwd"
It probably didn't work for you because you didn't type enough stuff. Go buy a drinking bird.
Dr. Pepper is not a beverage that is distributed by Coke, as they (I think) are independent. Instead, Coke produces a not well known imitation beverage called "Mr. Pibb"
What is a second lawsuit going to produce? Another slap on the wrist? If so, I will begin to think that the judges were... easily persuaded.
Whether we like it or not, Microsoft _has_ done a better job with security now, and Windows has gotten a lot more secure nowadays. Though in my opinion, sysadmins could do a LOT more to protect their Linux systems than their Windows systems (much more stuff is configurable), it is still fact that good security dosn't mean using Open Source Software like Linux or BSD and stopping there, it requires competent sysadmins and being updated about security, as well as using patches and new versions of software.
Or, you could just use NetBSD :)
Remember that having a text-only web browser is something that you can change. You could easily goto someone else's computer that has a GUI and a graphical web browser to sign up for that account. However, if you are severely visiually impaired, that's something that you can't change. Therefore, the analogy you presented can't be applied.
Dvorak actually tries to put the typist in a better position by putting the keys in such a position so that it would allow them to type in a strumming motion (type one or two letters on the left, one or two on the right).
On QWERTY, it is so unbalanced that there are plenty of "one hand" words that have to be typed with just one hand, reducing accruacy in most circumstances. The longest one that I know of is "desegregated", while the longest "one hand" word on Dvorak in the entire English language is "papaya".
On the issue of speed, however, the test have shown that neither will increase your speed if you get used to using them. The conclusion is: Good typists type fast, those who are not don't. It dosen't matter what layout you use. Still, many still switch to the Dvorak keyboard because of comfort, as since 70% of all typing is done on the home row, your fingers move around a lot less, resulting in a much longer typing time before your hands get tired or fingers cramped, etc.
Though I think that yes, fundamental concepts are out of the question and probably best left unchanged, I have to disagree that innovation is completely dead. Whenever something makes using the Internet easier and more enjoyable, I consider that innovation.
The way that I understand it, twisted pair ethernet requires just 4 wires, and on a Cat5 cable, the other 4 wires are just duplicates. The speed dosn't rely on how many leads are present, it only affects how far the network can reach. I think that Cat5 can go 300 feet, but Cat3 a lot less...
A few years ago, I thought ahead, and decided that it necessary in the future to install ethernet at home. Therefore, without the permission of the builder or subcontractor, I just snuck in some wire and stapeled it like they did. Apparently, the subcontractors that did the plastering and sheetrock had no blueprints, as they installed phone jacks where my wires ended (what a deal... it would have cost me $50 for each jack for them to do it officially). About a year ago, I finally got broadband and decided to install a wired home network. The wire that I had installed earlier was 8 lead, and phones needed only 2 wires. Therefore, I wired up the other 6 into a Cat3 ethernet network, which can still do 100mbps just fine.
After buying a 7500 and tinkering with it for a few days, I decided that I didn't want to try anymore, and then traded it for a GeForce 4. It worked perfectly on the first try. I'm not a huge fan of either company, but yes, I still like to buy Nvidia cards.
Though even if you don't defragment the hard disk, there is not a lot of risk that you'll mess anything up, but most people are told to do it, just to be on the safe side. Every repartitioning has a risk involved in it, and having a terribly fragmented FAT filesystem only makes it more risky to size down.
The point is, if every nation had specific order or priorities, and followed it strictly, then this world would get nowhere. Nobody would probably never get past agriculture.
AFAIK, China is pretty good at hiding this kind of information, as I haven't heard of any massive famines recently, in the past decade, though I'm not particularly attentive at that kind of thing. Someone help me out here plz.
Moreover, people hate automatic Windows updates because in their EULA, I remember there was a clause that essentially allowed Microsoft to scan Windows XP based computers and automatically apply updates. On SuSE'S YOU(YaST Online Update), it's entirely your choice when you want to update.
Moreover, is it just me, or has the case really gone from something that is targeted at Linux (kernel) that many people worry about into just an internal dispute between IBM and SCO that not many really worry about anymore? I woudn't be suprised if the latter was true.
Whatever happened on research on anti-matter reactors? The entire concept is feasable, and it is very effeicient. In most nuclear fission reactions, the efficency is about 8%, and combustion reactions usually have substantially less, at less than a tenth of a percent. In an anti-matter reaction, nothing is wasted, and the efficency is 100%.