It used to be a lot worse. These days (> 2003) the problems seem to be getting better, and now it's usually a case of unsupported graphics cards meaning slow unaccelerated graphics, or unsupported wifi chipsets for a while until they're reverse engineered.
Tools like ndiswrapper helped along the way, and now that the buying decisions are being noticed, we're getting better help... But we've left many completely unsupported network cards, usb devices, webcams, and bluetooth devices, and graphics cards in our wake. (Some will eventually be supported, when someone with enough time to waste reverse engineers something, or when some vendor donates some code to, or drops some binary blob on, the community - but many will not...)
Which of those categories do data analysis and aggregation tools fall into?
I'm thinking of user-focused tools like RSS Readers, Stock Quote graphers, etc... They're automated non-human tools which access websites, but it's not clear how they are being categorised...
Or, if you want it in local time, http://whenistheeclipse.com/ (admittedly just presenting the same data with TZ conversion). If I get bored tonight, I'll add a drop-list with some cities so you don't have to type in your time zone...
All this move by ICANN would do is to chop the last four characters off every.com in the database, and move that whole damn thing to the root level. [...snip...] Bad policy, bad engineering, bad idea.
Yeah... Although a variation on it is a good idea: de-emphasize the.com TLD.
The arguments why the suggestion in TFA is bad were outlined a decade ago by Brad Templeton in his essays "Problems, Goals and a Fix for Domain Names". His proposed fix (allow [almost] anyone to create a TLD, but you can't get one solely for your own business) prevents the problems of vanity TLDs while removing the problems of trademark squatting/fighting in.com...
What the hell are they going to replace it with? More fossil fuels? Sunshine and wind aren't going to meet any nation's energy demands with current technology.
http://www.beyondzeroemissions.org/ has a plan for 100% renewable zero-carbon energy for Australia by 2020 using only current, commercially available technology, and no nuclear (because a new nuclear power station wouldn't be ready in time, not for any ideological reason).
In the United States, where the hospital bills for a procedure of this kind are likely to run into thousands of dollars, "disposable" has a pretty broad definition.
Yes, because the billable time for the techs, the cost of certification of the equipment and various other overhead costs nothing.
I think the point is that if the various overheads you mention are on the order of $5000, an extra $500 "disposable" camera is reasonable, even if in other contexts the idea of throwing away $500 worth of equipment seems unreasonable...
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The government is stopping subsidizing a service which should never have been subsidized, by closing an unnecessary loophole.
OS/2 is being developed under the name eComStation, by IBM amongst others. It isn't being sold by IBM, but it is still around...
Or similarly, a process which is required to do something every brief once every 15/30/60 minutes...
It used to be a lot worse. These days (> 2003) the problems seem to be getting better, and now it's usually a case of unsupported graphics cards meaning slow unaccelerated graphics, or unsupported wifi chipsets for a while until they're reverse engineered.
Tools like ndiswrapper helped along the way, and now that the buying decisions are being noticed, we're getting better help... But we've left many completely unsupported network cards, usb devices, webcams, and bluetooth devices, and graphics cards in our wake. (Some will eventually be supported, when someone with enough time to waste reverse engineers something, or when some vendor donates some code to, or drops some binary blob on, the community - but many will not...)
Awesome analogy! I really want to learn that soliloquy from Devil Wears Prada..
For those who don't get it, http://youtu.be/1LVptO7o4L8#t=1m25s
This was my thought too... I think this is just the follow on from that...
Wow - I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie! Did you get a weird feeling of deja vu when watching Inception?
Which of those categories do data analysis and aggregation tools fall into?
I'm thinking of user-focused tools like RSS Readers, Stock Quote graphers, etc... They're automated non-human tools which access websites, but it's not clear how they are being categorised...
A million years ago I read Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference, explaining that situation in much more detail...
I know I'm just getting trolled, but...
It's "you're a pal and a confidant"
They don't lock their bootloaders.
Didn't. I wouldn't count on that remaining the same going forward...
(And I say this as an owner of several Samsung devices...)
Exactly - and some people have "vanity" short keys, and have had since 1999, including generating their own collisions...
http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xDEADBEEF
http://f-droid.org/ is probably helpful - a "marketplace" for open source apps...
Or, if you want it in local time, http://whenistheeclipse.com/ (admittedly just presenting the same data with TZ conversion). If I get bored tonight, I'll add a drop-list with some cities so you don't have to type in your time zone...
CmdrTaco doesn't want to edit stuff!
If you want a "very straight-laced, spell-checked, fact-checked summary" go to CNN, says he....
Oh, no, I'm quoting my own sig! :-S
Something like this, from back in March?
I assume you mean we're saved from having to run all that cruft...
Wild plants start growing all by themselves.
But that's too late... The question is when do you sow, not when will the plants come up...
Eh...I dont see any plan.
Okay, so I guess you missed these links on the left of the page?
They used to be, as you described, "a group trying to develop a plan". Then, in July last year, they completed their plan, and released it.
(And if all that reading is too much, here's the 6 page executive summary of the plan which was released in February 2010.)
All this move by ICANN would do is to chop the last four characters off every .com in the database, and move that whole damn thing to the root level. [...snip...] Bad policy, bad engineering, bad idea.
Yeah... Although a variation on it is a good idea: de-emphasize the .com TLD.
The arguments why the suggestion in TFA is bad were outlined a decade ago by Brad Templeton in his essays "Problems, Goals and a Fix for Domain Names". His proposed fix (allow [almost] anyone to create a TLD, but you can't get one solely for your own business) prevents the problems of vanity TLDs while removing the problems of trademark squatting/fighting in .com...
What the hell are they going to replace it with? More fossil fuels?
Sunshine and wind aren't going to meet any nation's energy demands with current technology.
http://www.beyondzeroemissions.org/ has a plan for 100% renewable zero-carbon energy for Australia by 2020 using only current, commercially available technology, and no nuclear (because a new nuclear power station wouldn't be ready in time, not for any ideological reason).
I'm surprised no one has circumvented CAPTCHA by examining the audio.
I assume you're being sarcastic, but for those playing along at home: http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=audio+captchas and http://slashdot.org/tag/captcha list several successful attacks on audio CAPTCHAs...
In the United States, where the hospital bills for a procedure of this kind are likely to run into thousands of dollars, "disposable" has a pretty broad definition.
Yes, because the billable time for the techs, the cost of certification of the equipment and various other overhead costs nothing.
I think the point is that if the various overheads you mention are on the order of $5000, an extra $500 "disposable" camera is reasonable, even if in other contexts the idea of throwing away $500 worth of equipment seems unreasonable...
my first job out of high school was installing windows 95 on refurbed computers.
00100-1234567-00100. Fifteen years later, and it's still burned into my brain. :-S
This is probably short enough for your sig: http://v.gd/rTh91L
http://is.gd/ and http://v.gd/ (same folk) are pretty good for the moment...