I've started reposting them to my blog and made and RSS feed so you can download them easily with an RSS enabled media player like iTunes. I separated it out from my standard feed so you won't get all of my other junk in there. Here's the subscription link.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope
I don't have time to repost all of them (must do each one as a separate post, which takes a while) but I'll finish up tonight. I think there's 10 or so of them on there now.
I'd figure that using cable/dsl mixture would be better, since the systems work over entirely different topology. I tried two cable modems at once years ago when they were limited to around 1.5mb dl, and used one of them for gaming traffic, and the other for web traffic... this was for a lan party. It was done strictly by port. I know you can do software load balancing, but I'm not sure how.
For laughs, any time I travel I make sure to have a Rick Roll loaded in Quicktime and ready to go as soon as the screen opens. It rarely happens, but when it does... it certainly is a triumph.
When will these gaming companies (and others) learn that this isn't the 80's anymore. This news spreads like wildfire and makes them look really bad. Its a much better idea to try to promote positive news instead of repressing and pretty obviously trying to force a lack of journalistic integrity.
I mean... did they somehow convert/import the assets, or did someone just sit there trying intentionally to make something exact.
I do wonder if these are a few 'rare' points in the game, or a larger overall theme. Maybe some intern/rookie screwed up and copied too much when the boss said, "Make something like this"
This is a clear case of a large company making what they want and totally ignoring consumer demand. What people really want is a better version of XP and for continued support. I for one (if I am to use Windows (and then only in a virtualized environment)) would gladly pay $99 or whatever for an upgraded version of XP that is still very much like XP. Apple is making a strong move I feel with Snow Leopard. People like Leopard. They are releasing Leopard, but "better". I'd pay for it in a heartbeat, as stability and speed is well worth money to me. If they made an XP "better", I'd go for it and pay for the upgrade. That's the goal isn't it? For people to pay for the next thing?
But, that's not what they are doing. They figure people want excessively high system requirements, "more secure" environments (which aren't really better security models, just annoying prompts often) and pretty graphics. Hell, I was happy with the graphics in Windows 2000, and in fact when I use XP I turn it back to Win2K themes always.
While Microsoft several times has claimed to "write the operating system from the ground up" they never do. They just keep bloating and never really optimizing. You need more memory, a larger graphics card, faster processor, etc. All the features you don't want and none you need.
I'm glad to see this happen. I want a fast and stable operating system. The operating system allows programs to run on top of it and provides space for that to happen. The operating system itself doesn't need MORE new features nonstop. That's not to say they can't update applications on the operating system still, but those things can be separated. iChat and the OS don't need to go hand in hand for example.
It should be noted at the bottom of the page. I was under the impression that they had initially hoped to include such in Leopard.
However, it isn't just Apple, Microsoft has been working on various structured file systems (WinFS through OFS and Storage+) for nearly 20 years with no shipped products
Is the original iPhone obsolete? I really don't think so. The main differences being just that it doesn't have a perfectly accurate GPS (even when I have been in a car/cab the one one was close enough), and it's on EDGE vs 3G which means it's about half as fast when you aren't on wifi. New features alone don't make something older obsolete to me. For example if they come out with a Macbook Pro that is 200mhz faster than my current one, mine is still perfectly functional.
I should clarify that I'm not rich, but I just knew what I was getting into when I bought it. Never have I purchased a piece of consumer technology to have it go up in price and decrease in features as time went on. I expected the price to drop and the features increase. Again, compare the Apple Lisa at $21K vs a Mac Pro at $2500.
I count the money as "spent". It's not an investment piece and I feel that I've gotten my money worth just in its use. Again I needed a new phone and a new iPod anyway. The iPod was going to be $300 or so and a new phone around a hundred. Well worth it. However I should disclose that I wrote it off as a business expense on my taxes.
No one should have bought a $400 phone in this economy without being able to count it as "gone" without massive financial impact. I did see a lot of people buying this phone that shouldn't have and couldn't afford it- stupid idea.
This is about having proper expectations when you purchase technology. Also a device (should) do the same features that it does on day one and provide similar value. My Commodore 64 still does what it did in 1983, and still provides that value regardless of what else is out there or on the current pricing of them.
I am not upset about purchasing/owning the iPhone 1.0. It's been leaps and bounds above my Treo 650 and I needed a new iPod anyway.
I knew from day 1 that that price would come down on future versions. The Apple Lisa was $9,995 in 1983 which is around $21,000 today in 2008. That was the baseline model. As technology grows, things get cheaper. If you haven't picked up this, then perhaps you shouldn't buy technology products. You didn't "have" to buy an iPhone, and you should have seen this coming. You shouldn't also buy such a phone if you can't afford it.
At the same time, they are upgrading the firmware on the older phones still. My current one still gives me all the battery life I need for reasonable use. I am in a major city (Boston) with wifi almost everywhere. I don't drive, and thus the GPS is a non-feature.
Anyone that acts "upset" over the new features, and price drop, needs to grow up.
They didn't add any killer features for me. If they had added even something like the (much rumored, but obviously a lie) video chat functionality or something insane then maybe I'd have thought otherwise. Funny how those rumors/lies got around.
As some of you may or may not know, Bloomberg provides huge amounts of financial data to investment banks/firms via "Bloomberg Terminals" that Bloomberg offers. These terminals are very expensive to the firms. Yet all they offer is information. Information is something that Google excels at. I've used these Bloomberg terminals and they aren't exactly technology that you'd think of as cutting edge for 2008. Data is often inaccurate and researching things on them is an art.
I've wondered if Google might just enter the financial data market strongly. Google knows how to deal with large amount of data better than many places that are somewhat stuck in the past.
Umm, unless something has changed Netflix computer-based online streaming service doesn't work with OS X. If they want to compete with Apple for the Apple TV perhaps make the software so that Apple people can use their computer with it as well?
Why after all this time can the current screens on the OLPCs not be made cheaper? In nearly 5 years the best they'll have improved on is lowering the price, and making it look worse and less functional? Surely they are trying to address some unique challenges, but this is horrid.
The worst part however is that these screens simply suck! Think of the children! In 20 years we'll need One-Set-of-Glass-Per-Child (OSoGPC).
I haven't worked for the government ever asides from working as an intern for a local County government's IT department, so I really don't know the answer to this.
What in the world happens with these things as far as papertrails go? This question comes to mind every time they "lose" weapons or laptops. Isn't there anyone that has their name on these items as being responsible? Surely either the shipping departments, the departments that they were assigned to, or the people that they were assigned to could be held responsible right?
I imagine for example that in moving of large arms shipments around the Middle East for our troops that there's someone always in charge of the stuff, or that last touched it. Wouldn't a great place to start (and place the blame) be the last person that signed off on something like this? In anything bigger than a really tiny company, there should be very clear paper trails like this right?
Doesn't someone have to answer? Isn't it the auditors job to know who last touched them?
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I tried this one, but couldn't get it to work. I thought it did so I stopped trying to put mine up. I'll continue later tonight. Sorry for the delay.
I've started reposting them to my blog and made and RSS feed so you can download them easily with an RSS enabled media player like iTunes. I separated it out from my standard feed so you won't get all of my other junk in there. Here's the subscription link. http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope
I don't have time to repost all of them (must do each one as a separate post, which takes a while) but I'll finish up tonight. I think there's 10 or so of them on there now.
I really would love to quickly download all of these for my iPhone/iTunes with an RSS feed.
Maybe I'll try to put that together later... anyone interested?
Chuck Norris could do what batman does any day, but he doesn't want to go down to that level of weakness.
So this machine can determine 17 from 18 accurately? That would be a good iPhone app!
I'd figure that using cable/dsl mixture would be better, since the systems work over entirely different topology. I tried two cable modems at once years ago when they were limited to around 1.5mb dl, and used one of them for gaming traffic, and the other for web traffic... this was for a lan party. It was done strictly by port. I know you can do software load balancing, but I'm not sure how.
They are copying your files! They are breaking encryption. They are obviously evil. Sue the gov't and see how far it goes!
No, but seriously... how is this not them subverting copyright? They are obviously not compensating me for copies of the IP that I have on my system.
For laughs, any time I travel I make sure to have a Rick Roll loaded in Quicktime and ready to go as soon as the screen opens. It rarely happens, but when it does... it certainly is a triumph.
When will these gaming companies (and others) learn that this isn't the 80's anymore. This news spreads like wildfire and makes them look really bad. Its a much better idea to try to promote positive news instead of repressing and pretty obviously trying to force a lack of journalistic integrity.
There's always the archives! Nothing is lost. Of course they aren't "current" anymore. Still, the comments at +5 are often gold.
I mean... did they somehow convert/import the assets, or did someone just sit there trying intentionally to make something exact.
I do wonder if these are a few 'rare' points in the game, or a larger overall theme. Maybe some intern/rookie screwed up and copied too much when the boss said, "Make something like this"
This is a clear case of a large company making what they want and totally ignoring consumer demand. What people really want is a better version of XP and for continued support. I for one (if I am to use Windows (and then only in a virtualized environment)) would gladly pay $99 or whatever for an upgraded version of XP that is still very much like XP. Apple is making a strong move I feel with Snow Leopard. People like Leopard. They are releasing Leopard, but "better". I'd pay for it in a heartbeat, as stability and speed is well worth money to me. If they made an XP "better", I'd go for it and pay for the upgrade. That's the goal isn't it? For people to pay for the next thing?
But, that's not what they are doing. They figure people want excessively high system requirements, "more secure" environments (which aren't really better security models, just annoying prompts often) and pretty graphics. Hell, I was happy with the graphics in Windows 2000, and in fact when I use XP I turn it back to Win2K themes always.
While Microsoft several times has claimed to "write the operating system from the ground up" they never do. They just keep bloating and never really optimizing. You need more memory, a larger graphics card, faster processor, etc. All the features you don't want and none you need.
I'm glad to see this happen. I want a fast and stable operating system. The operating system allows programs to run on top of it and provides space for that to happen. The operating system itself doesn't need MORE new features nonstop. That's not to say they can't update applications on the operating system still, but those things can be separated. iChat and the OS don't need to go hand in hand for example.
Right, and is microsoft going to as ZFS read-write support? Umm, no.
And MediaDefender has one for everyone's computer in the world? A warrant has to specific property/location.
It should be noted at the bottom of the page.
I was under the impression that they had initially hoped to include such in Leopard.
However, it isn't just Apple, Microsoft has been working on various structured file systems (WinFS through OFS and Storage+) for nearly 20 years with no shipped products
I've wondered that too. Can you get a "pass" or something to say that you're just "researching" potential piracy?
Is the original iPhone obsolete? I really don't think so. The main differences being just that it doesn't have a perfectly accurate GPS (even when I have been in a car/cab the one one was close enough), and it's on EDGE vs 3G which means it's about half as fast when you aren't on wifi. New features alone don't make something older obsolete to me. For example if they come out with a Macbook Pro that is 200mhz faster than my current one, mine is still perfectly functional.
I should clarify that I'm not rich, but I just knew what I was getting into when I bought it. Never have I purchased a piece of consumer technology to have it go up in price and decrease in features as time went on. I expected the price to drop and the features increase. Again, compare the Apple Lisa at $21K vs a Mac Pro at $2500.
I count the money as "spent". It's not an investment piece and I feel that I've gotten my money worth just in its use. Again I needed a new phone and a new iPod anyway. The iPod was going to be $300 or so and a new phone around a hundred. Well worth it. However I should disclose that I wrote it off as a business expense on my taxes.
No one should have bought a $400 phone in this economy without being able to count it as "gone" without massive financial impact. I did see a lot of people buying this phone that shouldn't have and couldn't afford it- stupid idea.
This is about having proper expectations when you purchase technology. Also a device (should) do the same features that it does on day one and provide similar value. My Commodore 64 still does what it did in 1983, and still provides that value regardless of what else is out there or on the current pricing of them.
I am not upset about purchasing/owning the iPhone 1.0. It's been leaps and bounds above my Treo 650 and I needed a new iPod anyway.
I knew from day 1 that that price would come down on future versions. The Apple Lisa was $9,995 in 1983 which is around $21,000 today in 2008. That was the baseline model. As technology grows, things get cheaper. If you haven't picked up this, then perhaps you shouldn't buy technology products. You didn't "have" to buy an iPhone, and you should have seen this coming. You shouldn't also buy such a phone if you can't afford it.
At the same time, they are upgrading the firmware on the older phones still. My current one still gives me all the battery life I need for reasonable use. I am in a major city (Boston) with wifi almost everywhere. I don't drive, and thus the GPS is a non-feature.
Anyone that acts "upset" over the new features, and price drop, needs to grow up.
They didn't add any killer features for me. If they had added even something like the (much rumored, but obviously a lie) video chat functionality or something insane then maybe I'd have thought otherwise. Funny how those rumors/lies got around.
As some of you may or may not know, Bloomberg provides huge amounts of financial data to investment banks/firms via "Bloomberg Terminals" that Bloomberg offers. These terminals are very expensive to the firms. Yet all they offer is information. Information is something that Google excels at. I've used these Bloomberg terminals and they aren't exactly technology that you'd think of as cutting edge for 2008. Data is often inaccurate and researching things on them is an art.
I've wondered if Google might just enter the financial data market strongly. Google knows how to deal with large amount of data better than many places that are somewhat stuck in the past.
Why does ab return Apache/1.3.41 instead of something... well a little newer? Is the slashdot server really running on this?
Umm, unless something has changed Netflix computer-based online streaming service doesn't work with OS X. If they want to compete with Apple for the Apple TV perhaps make the software so that Apple people can use their computer with it as well?
Why after all this time can the current screens on the OLPCs not be made cheaper? In nearly 5 years the best they'll have improved on is lowering the price, and making it look worse and less functional? Surely they are trying to address some unique challenges, but this is horrid.
The worst part however is that these screens simply suck! Think of the children! In 20 years we'll need One-Set-of-Glass-Per-Child (OSoGPC).
I haven't worked for the government ever asides from working as an intern for a local County government's IT department, so I really don't know the answer to this.
What in the world happens with these things as far as papertrails go? This question comes to mind every time they "lose" weapons or laptops. Isn't there anyone that has their name on these items as being responsible? Surely either the shipping departments, the departments that they were assigned to, or the people that they were assigned to could be held responsible right?
I imagine for example that in moving of large arms shipments around the Middle East for our troops that there's someone always in charge of the stuff, or that last touched it. Wouldn't a great place to start (and place the blame) be the last person that signed off on something like this? In anything bigger than a really tiny company, there should be very clear paper trails like this right?
Doesn't someone have to answer? Isn't it the auditors job to know who last touched them?