Actually for the 80 Gig HD and combo DVD/CDR adds $200 to the price of the Dell. That is balanced by my boner on the taxes (I assumed for it to be a fair comparison you need to get them straight from the manufacturer both ways) (Also the Dell, slightly beefed up is what my company supplies me).
Walmart got 7 figures out of Amazon for some VP in fulfilment. I think it was Rick Dalzell, but I'm not sure on that one. The suit claimed something like illegal recruitment.
Talk about uninformed. Whenever something wants to be added to IE I get a security dialog asking if I want to install it (I have run IE for years without one virus or spyware infection, and yes I have been known to look at questionable sites). There are ways to install BHO's using an exe installer, but the same could easily be done with firefox (xpi) by simply editing the hosts file, or putting the xpi locally in the filesystem. This ain't rocket science.
You don't think a whitelist is easy to get around? If it has a windows installer it is awfully easy to update a hosts file. Most viruses and spyware aps were installed by the user clicking on setup.
Most of the power cost in growing the corn comes from the oil used in the fertilizer. What this study (and it is actually quite old) says is that there is more OIL used in the creation of the ethanol than the volume of oil it is replacing as a fuel. That may be fine if ethanol was just being used as an oxygenation additive (which in itself is of questionable worth as the emissions systems of cars are much, much better these days), but it is being touted as a way to reduce our usage of foreign oil as a replacement of a fairly high percentage (25% or more) of the oil in gasoline. Not only that, but auto manufactures get a credit for engines that can burn ethanol in the CAFE standards, eg a car that can burn ethanol is credited for something to the degree of 25% or higher MPG rating when it comes to CAFE quotas.
The Accord "hybrid" has a 255 horsepower engine, and still is rated at 37 mpg (yes it likely doesn't get that, but either do non "hybrids"). That said, I am not a fan of the propaganda saying that "hybrids" are dual powered as they are not, they are powered only by gasoline. (diesel would be much better though). However the advantage is that while the prius engine has 67 hp, when you need more torque at the low end, the boost (juice saved from braking, etc) kicks in giving you the power that you need to start from a stop in a reasonable amount of time. My boss went from a Lexus RS 400 (something on the order of 300 hp) to a Prius, and said the Prius was suprisingly quick. If you rarely leave a city it a good way to go (stick with the honda's as they don't have the demand of the Toyota, theorized because they don't look "hybridy" enough.) It's also why a lot of people find turbo boosted cars to be pokie, the turbo only kicks in at higher RPM which they rarely hit.
Grokster has such a great scam going. They build a piece of software, which they know darn is of questionable legality. They plan to profit in the millions on this software off they backs of copyright holders, see the internal memos. (have they offered anything to those who hold the copyrights both the RIAA people and the songwriters who have statutory mechanical royalties?). Then they get you schmucks to foot the bill for their legal defense. In the end the worse thing that happens is they go belly up fold the corp and the founders don't get to cash in when the company sells (I wonder what these guys are giving themselves for a salary.) Man I gots to get one of these schemes going.
Google has plenty of ridiculous patents, one pointed out by a poster here is highlighting search terms. BTW google infringes on at least one Amazon patent that I know of, have they been sued? Also it seems to me that very few people are aware of just how narrow most patents really are, while the abstract may claim something very basic, when you get to the calims and the implementation details it becomes much more narrow. That said there was a bountyquest reward (posted by tim o'reilly) for finding prior art on the One Click patent (the only one Amazon has tried to enforce), it went unclaimed as the was none.
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A) San Francisco doesn't own the Presidio, the Federal government does. B) He leases the land, and it ain't free. C) The presidio has tons of empty office space and buildings they have been trying to lease for years. D) SF currently has historically high amounts of vacant office space, in many ways the Presidio Trust got very lucky that they struck the deal with Lucas when they did, at the height of the Dot Com Bubble.
The archive chooses a level which gives it the reliabilty it needs for the cost it can cover. Since nobody is using the archive for mission critical work, and it is a free service to you and me, they can do it however they please. I have to say, they probably got the number right, as they are actually providing the the data now, and have been for years. Whereas other much bigger organizations (the archive when part of Alexa maxed out at about 80 people) have been crawling just as long (google, as a stanford project) or longer (altavista), either never tried to save it all or never put any money into serving it to the people. Yet for some reason the archive NEVER won a webby.
When a drive dies, it's data tends to go with it. It's sad, but similar to a drinking bender, or e.c.t. sometimes things are better that way. One of Brewster's drving ideals is "do it as cheaply as possible". (sometimes penny wise/dollar foolish) At first, 1996 or so, the archive used tapes on a tape robot, which was cool looking, but slow and really painful to use as the tapes degraded, as the drives aged they stopped being able to read old tapes (the heads had to be re-aligned far to often). Finally Circa 2000 the Archive was able to get a killer deal (1/3 retail) on consumer HP boxes and 80 Gig drives, and now the data has never been more safe. Every now and then, someone wants to get a copy of the archive (there is one in Egypt and I think the LOC) but I don't know how up to date they are kept.
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Actually for the 80 Gig HD and combo DVD/CDR adds $200 to the price of the Dell. That is balanced by my boner on the taxes (I assumed for it to be a fair comparison you need to get them straight from the manufacturer both ways) (Also the Dell, slightly beefed up is what my company supplies me).
Dell Precision M70 1.6GHz/80Gig/256Mb/15.4" lcd $2,400 + (Tax everywhere)
Apple G4 1.5GHz/80Gig/512Mb/15.2" lcd $2,000 + (tax in california only)
Walmart got 7 figures out of Amazon for some VP in fulfilment. I think it was Rick Dalzell, but I'm not sure on that one. The suit claimed something like illegal recruitment.
Talk about uninformed. Whenever something wants to be added to IE I get a security dialog asking if I want to install it (I have run IE for years without one virus or spyware infection, and yes I have been known to look at questionable sites). There are ways to install BHO's using an exe installer, but the same could easily be done with firefox (xpi) by simply editing the hosts file, or putting the xpi locally in the filesystem. This ain't rocket science.
You don't think a whitelist is easy to get around? If it has a windows installer it is awfully easy to update a hosts file. Most viruses and spyware aps were installed by the user clicking on setup.
Burning ethanol does not pollute?
Wow, then how does it get 50% higher milage?
Most of the power cost in growing the corn comes from the oil used in the fertilizer. What this study (and it is actually quite old) says is that there is more OIL used in the creation of the ethanol than the volume of oil it is replacing as a fuel. That may be fine if ethanol was just being used as an oxygenation additive (which in itself is of questionable worth as the emissions systems of cars are much, much better these days), but it is being touted as a way to reduce our usage of foreign oil as a replacement of a fairly high percentage (25% or more) of the oil in gasoline. Not only that, but auto manufactures get a credit for engines that can burn ethanol in the CAFE standards, eg a car that can burn ethanol is credited for something to the degree of 25% or higher MPG rating when it comes to CAFE quotas.
The Accord "hybrid" has a 255 horsepower engine, and still is rated at 37 mpg (yes it likely doesn't get that, but either do non "hybrids"). That said, I am not a fan of the propaganda saying that "hybrids" are dual powered as they are not, they are powered only by gasoline. (diesel would be much better though). However the advantage is that while the prius engine has 67 hp, when you need more torque at the low end, the boost (juice saved from braking, etc) kicks in giving you the power that you need to start from a stop in a reasonable amount of time. My boss went from a Lexus RS 400 (something on the order of 300 hp) to a Prius, and said the Prius was suprisingly quick. If you rarely leave a city it a good way to go (stick with the honda's as they don't have the demand of the Toyota, theorized because they don't look "hybridy" enough.) It's also why a lot of people find turbo boosted cars to be pokie, the turbo only kicks in at higher RPM which they rarely hit.
Grokster has such a great scam going. They build a piece of software, which they know darn is of questionable legality. They plan to profit in the millions on this software off they backs of copyright holders, see the internal memos. (have they offered anything to those who hold the copyrights both the RIAA people and the songwriters who have statutory mechanical royalties?). Then they get you schmucks to foot the bill for their legal defense. In the end the worse thing that happens is they go belly up fold the corp and the founders don't get to cash in when the company sells (I wonder what these guys are giving themselves for a salary.) Man I gots to get one of these schemes going.
Actually, you are taking something of value. The exclusive right to distribute the work.
More people died in the shuttle program than the others combined.
I did point out that google patented highlighting search terms. While I didn't link to it, I haven't seen anyone link to one click.
Google has plenty of ridiculous patents, one pointed out by a poster here is highlighting search terms. BTW google infringes on at least one Amazon patent that I know of, have they been sued? Also it seems to me that very few people are aware of just how narrow most patents really are, while the abstract may claim something very basic, when you get to the calims and the implementation details it becomes much more narrow. That said there was a bountyquest reward (posted by tim o'reilly) for finding prior art on the One Click patent (the only one Amazon has tried to enforce), it went unclaimed as the was none.
A. One, against BN.com
... software patent?
why doesn't slashdot print a story for every google or transmeta or
And we have a pretty big news rag in SF.
A) San Francisco doesn't own the Presidio, the Federal government does. B) He leases the land, and it ain't free. C) The presidio has tons of empty office space and buildings they have been trying to lease for years. D) SF currently has historically high amounts of vacant office space, in many ways the Presidio Trust got very lucky that they struck the deal with Lucas when they did, at the height of the Dot Com Bubble.
Keep in mind that the archive also gets some processing power on these machines, and it does actually use it.
Exactly,
every 9 of uptime costs 10X the previous on EG
90% $10
99% $100
99.9% $1000
The archive chooses a level which gives it the reliabilty it needs for the cost it can cover. Since nobody is using the archive for mission critical work, and it is a free service to you and me, they can do it however they please. I have to say, they probably got the number right, as they are actually providing the the data now, and have been for years. Whereas other much bigger organizations (the archive when part of Alexa maxed out at about 80 people) have been crawling just as long (google, as a stanford project) or longer (altavista), either never tried to save it all or never put any money into serving it to the people. Yet for some reason the archive NEVER won a webby.
When a drive dies, it's data tends to go with it. It's sad, but similar to a drinking bender, or e.c.t. sometimes things are better that way. One of Brewster's drving ideals is "do it as cheaply as possible". (sometimes penny wise/dollar foolish) At first, 1996 or so, the archive used tapes on a tape robot, which was cool looking, but slow and really painful to use as the tapes degraded, as the drives aged they stopped being able to read old tapes (the heads had to be re-aligned far to often). Finally Circa 2000 the Archive was able to get a killer deal (1/3 retail) on consumer HP boxes and 80 Gig drives, and now the data has never been more safe. Every now and then, someone wants to get a copy of the archive (there is one in Egypt and I think the LOC) but I don't know how up to date they are kept.
You can still contact them to have them remove years and date. If the archive was opt-in it would be useless.
Google has an $80 Billion cap, they can put more man hours on this in a week than HighWire could for a decade.
One bloomed in san francisco a few weeks ago. There are a lot of these plants at this point and there seems to be one blooming all over.
Are they? They are solar, thus can run forever. Think about all the scrap paper they could replace in their lifetime...
They also fare very poorly at English.