Since when do supporters of either party have brains?
That's a loaded response. Such a statement makes me question whether the poster is thinking logically, or just ignoring facts to reward his particular ideology. I'd be willing to bet a brain scan of the original poster while reading this article would show many of the responses he is trying to deride.
No you can't do it with x86 bios.
No you can't do it with the cheap hardware.
Sure you can do it with cheap hardware All a vendor would have to do is integrate something like this into their product, and provide power only to the drive (have the MB not access the disk.) These adapters generally sell for $20 or less on Ebay, so all we really need is someone to actually do it, there's no reason this couldn't work, on any bios.
Perhaps it's a PR exercise, or perhaps it's an attempt to raise public awareness. Someone famous donates some large amount to some charity, other people hear about the charity, and donate as well. Just because his money may not vaccinate every child out there, doesn't mean that the amount of residual money brought in won't be able to foot the bill. Already there are comments about the Linux community matching this amount. I say let's match the amount, but not because we want to one-up Billy, but because we want to do something good for the children of the world.
You may want to look into a refund, you were decieved about the lack of subscription cost. They don't call it a subscription, actually they call it an anniversary, and instead of paying money, you have to give her clear rocks that have a falseley inflated market value. I am sorry you have been mislead
perhaps they just meant the quality of the word "the" in open source software?
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not to feed the troll, and for that matter I think Sun really isn't the bad guy here... but that chart is comparing va to Sunoco, not sun. here's the correct one
While I agree they aren't doing this at a loss. I have to disagree with you on pricing. I work for a fortune 100 company, and we buy tens of thousands of these things a year. The best price we can get is about $60 each, with the fobs running 70-100 in smaller quantities. RSA is the leader in two-factor authentication, and they know it. That's why they can get away with charging you so much for a device that has programmed obsolescence.
because they can't be making much money from this:
RSA sells these devices for $60 each or so in bulk. RSA fobs are programed to expire in 36 months. Let's say AOL got them for $50. The customers are paying 9.95+(1.95*36) or $80.15 over three years. That gives AOL $30.15 or about $10 a year. I'm sure aol could find some other way to fleece their users less than a dollar a month, leading me to believe this isn't just some profit making venture (not to mention the cost of the servers to implement this, which is not insignifigant.)
In a popular science magazine in the late 80's. Someone had developed a can that cooled based on releasing highly pressurized CO2 from a cylinder in the can. It worked, but was too expensive to catch on. Wish I could find a link now.
Just use a cheap microcontroller, perhaps a PIC. They are pretty simple to get the hang of, just a handful of RISC instructions, and they're cheap. All the protocol information is available readily
From the Citibank identity theft commercial:
"Sixty-four inch plasma monitor, twenty gigabyte wireless router, and twenty thousand bucks to complete my robot... my girl robot. This is gunna be the best prom ever. Heh heh heh."
Nowadays sure, but back in the good 'ole days you didn't have all these spiffy editing programs. You typed your code in, one line at a time at the command prompt. The interpreter inserted that line into its proper place relative to the line number you started with. If you typed a command without a line number, the command ran instantly. I can remember hours of frustration on my Apple IIc when I'd space lines too closely and run out of room to insert the one line I needed to make my program work as I wanted.
While I'm sure auto zone has many geek customers, (I'm one of them) I doubt their primary customer demographic even knows what linux is, much less cares about it. They sell car parts. Linux is simply a cheap and effective backend operating system. They'd run CP/M if someone could offer it cheap enough and make it scale.
Bigger? Auto zone is the largest auto parts retailer in the nation. They're in the fortune 500, and they posted 5.5 billion in sales last year. I don't know how much bigger you want?
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I'll play... the answer is 'o'... what do I win?
I actually lost a (baby) tooth in just this manner.
TFA says nine adapters, but the graphic says eight, whoops.
Well even if it doesn't have a built in TV out (not sure if it does) You could always use a scan converter.
Sure you can do it with cheap hardware All a vendor would have to do is integrate something like this into their product, and provide power only to the drive (have the MB not access the disk.) These adapters generally sell for $20 or less on Ebay, so all we really need is someone to actually do it, there's no reason this couldn't work, on any bios.
Perhaps it's a PR exercise, or perhaps it's an attempt to raise public awareness. Someone famous donates some large amount to some charity, other people hear about the charity, and donate as well. Just because his money may not vaccinate every child out there, doesn't mean that the amount of residual money brought in won't be able to foot the bill. Already there are comments about the Linux community matching this amount. I say let's match the amount, but not because we want to one-up Billy, but because we want to do something good for the children of the world.
You may want to look into a refund, you were decieved about the lack of subscription cost. They don't call it a subscription, actually they call it an anniversary, and instead of paying money, you have to give her clear rocks that have a falseley inflated market value. I am sorry you have been mislead
perhaps they just meant the quality of the word "the" in open source software?
not to feed the troll, and for that matter I think Sun really isn't the bad guy here... but that chart is comparing va to Sunoco, not sun. here's the correct one
m &q=l&c=SUNw
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=LNUX&l=on&z=
Hint: sun's stock ticker is sunw, not sun
I doubt a clapper is even that complicated. We're talking about 1980's technology... Though I've never seen the guts of one, I'd bet it's all analog.
While I agree they aren't doing this at a loss. I have to disagree with you on pricing. I work for a fortune 100 company, and we buy tens of thousands of these things a year. The best price we can get is about $60 each, with the fobs running 70-100 in smaller quantities. RSA is the leader in two-factor authentication, and they know it. That's why they can get away with charging you so much for a device that has programmed obsolescence.
because they can't be making much money from this:
RSA sells these devices for $60 each or so in bulk. RSA fobs are programed to expire in 36 months. Let's say AOL got them for $50. The customers are paying 9.95+(1.95*36) or $80.15 over three years. That gives AOL $30.15 or about $10 a year. I'm sure aol could find some other way to fleece their users less than a dollar a month, leading me to believe this isn't just some profit making venture (not to mention the cost of the servers to implement this, which is not insignifigant.)
Hey! Who let dubya post on here?
Not to feed the troll, but you didn't even get a single octet correct. Sorry, try again.
Someone with mod points mod this down, and don't go to the link... it's a troll and not safe for work
In a popular science magazine in the late 80's. Someone had developed a can that cooled based on releasing highly pressurized CO2 from a cylinder in the can. It worked, but was too expensive to catch on. Wish I could find a link now.
Just use a cheap microcontroller, perhaps a PIC. They are pretty simple to get the hang of, just a handful of RISC instructions, and they're cheap. All the protocol information is available readily
This is not even original. The exact text is stolen from: http://www.csoonline.com/read/030104/shop.html
From the Citibank identity theft commercial: "Sixty-four inch plasma monitor, twenty gigabyte wireless router, and twenty thousand bucks to complete my robot... my girl robot. This is gunna be the best prom ever. Heh heh heh."
Nowadays sure, but back in the good 'ole days you didn't have all these spiffy editing programs. You typed your code in, one line at a time at the command prompt. The interpreter inserted that line into its proper place relative to the line number you started with. If you typed a command without a line number, the command ran instantly. I can remember hours of frustration on my Apple IIc when I'd space lines too closely and run out of room to insert the one line I needed to make my program work as I wanted.
hrm... I'm willing to bet you could cool the house with liquid oxygen alone much cheaper/more efficiently than the system you propose.
Uhm.... no
I have dish and we get Sci-Fi and History just fine.
While I'm sure auto zone has many geek customers, (I'm one of them) I doubt their primary customer demographic even knows what linux is, much less cares about it. They sell car parts. Linux is simply a cheap and effective backend operating system. They'd run CP/M if someone could offer it cheap enough and make it scale.
Bigger? Auto zone is the largest auto parts retailer in the nation. They're in the fortune 500, and they posted 5.5 billion in sales last year. I don't know how much bigger you want?