Agreed. There are some huge differentials in price there. Some of those parameters may make a different for servers and business machines but for home machines who cares?
Planned obsolescence (planning for a product to go out of service) has no relation to selling someone a product that explicitly developed from the start to not do it's advertised capabilities.
I hope they throw the book at them. They're basically holding their customers hostage.
Even worse, they are breaking some contract for sure. Bugs are one thing; every written piece of software contains bugs. But when you intentionally code the program to fail at certain intervals you are cheating the customers.
What if cars were programmed to randomly stop at some random interval? GM's head would be served up on a plate.
Does this mean that the PDF pages are translated into HTML pages then displayed? I always thought that one of the main strengths of PDF was that the author has 100% control over how it is presented. Or am I misunderstanding that feature?
Are we getting too hung up on the password issue? Was his refusal to divulge the passwords what he's being found guilty of?
Or is it the fact that if he stepped in front of a bus, the city had no hope of being able to manage the network? My place of employment has "the password list" and it's known to more than one person. If the city allowed Childs to hold all the keys, they're pretty stupid. If they had a policy prohibiting that, I could understand why violating it could get you jail time.
Basically he was guilty of not providing the passwords to his superiors. This is equivalent to being hired by the city to build a new stadium and then refusing to give the city the keys. I do not know what everyone is so up in arms about.
Google has had their hands in some aspects of hardware for a while now. They have their own custom designed server motherboards.
But this is their first into the whole "digital music/iphone/ipad" world. Apple has dominated that world for quite some time so it may be good to get some competition.
Using the Gemini Observatory, follow-up spectroscopic analysis has detected methane and water vapor in its atmosphere
I think that the discovery of water is very interesting. And with organic compounds existing there (in the liked article) this could be a very important discovery in our quest to understand the universe.
I agree it is fairly self-explanatory that "Anonymous Coward" is not one person. Anyone conducting research with the Groklaw archives that assumes it is a single entity deserves whatever convoluted results they obtain.
I am thankful that these sorts of issues were pretty much unknown when I went to school. I think I'll home-school my kids....
It is all relative. More then anything it depends on the specific area that you live in and the actual teachers and administration (Principal, VP...) that are in that school. The real big change is that we all hear about the really bad cases whereas before we would not have heard if it was not in out local school.
This is a terrible situation but sometimes it feels like observers are too sensationalistic.
For the future, the company also plans to target other specialized applications, such as pitch-black night vision goggles, cheaper solar cells and even spray-on displays.
Right now night vision goggles give a very grainy tinged image. Clarifying that could have millions of applications.
The problem is that there is a simple, preexisting and free way to use a table saw where you never risk getting limbs cut off. This method has been available to everyone since table saws were invented. Here it is: Do not put your limbs in the damn saw blade while it is spinning.
But what if someone pushes you from behind? What if someone startles you? What if you get distracted? What if you have an off day?
I do not think most people put their limbs into a moving blade on purpose. The idea is to prevent accidents.
From TFA this is exactly what happened with airbags in cars. Airbags were introduced and patented. At first they were just in some cars. Then manufactures that did not have air bags got sued because their product was not as safe as it could be. So they licensed the idea from the patent holder and put it in their cars. Now everyone is safer and the guy who invented a way to save lots of lives got rich.
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Agreed. There are some huge differentials in price there. Some of those parameters may make a different for servers and business machines but for home machines who cares?
I think the point is that Obama pledged to stop this from happening and it hasn't.
Planned obsolescence (planning for a product to go out of service) has no relation to selling someone a product that explicitly developed from the start to not do it's advertised capabilities.
I hope they throw the book at them. They're basically holding their customers hostage.
Even worse, they are breaking some contract for sure. Bugs are one thing; every written piece of software contains bugs. But when you intentionally code the program to fail at certain intervals you are cheating the customers.
What if cars were programmed to randomly stop at some random interval? GM's head would be served up on a plate.
Does this mean that the PDF pages are translated into HTML pages then displayed? I always thought that one of the main strengths of PDF was that the author has 100% control over how it is presented. Or am I misunderstanding that feature?
There is a list on the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Queue
"Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my house?"
Get off my lawn.
This is still out of the price range of most of the population for a vacation.
and learned not a damned thing. Classic marketecture speak.
You must be new here.
That seems like a no brain statement. It doesn't matter what language I use if I write insecure code the application will be insecure.
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The headline in the Ceph wiki: Ceph is under heavy development, and is not yet suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review.
Are we getting too hung up on the password issue? Was his refusal to divulge the passwords what he's being found guilty of? Or is it the fact that if he stepped in front of a bus, the city had no hope of being able to manage the network? My place of employment has "the password list" and it's known to more than one person. If the city allowed Childs to hold all the keys, they're pretty stupid. If they had a policy prohibiting that, I could understand why violating it could get you jail time.
Basically he was guilty of not providing the passwords to his superiors. This is equivalent to being hired by the city to build a new stadium and then refusing to give the city the keys. I do not know what everyone is so up in arms about.
For a proper analysis see sfgate
I do not know what everyone else thinks but I think that sounds pretty exciting. I can see it having a huge impact on airline and space travel.
Google has had their hands in some aspects of hardware for a while now. They have their own custom designed server motherboards.
But this is their first into the whole "digital music/iphone/ipad" world. Apple has dominated that world for quite some time so it may be good to get some competition.
At least the name of the glacier is spelled correctly. Eyjafjallajoekull is quite a mouthful.
I think that the discovery of water is very interesting. And with organic compounds existing there (in the liked article) this could be a very important discovery in our quest to understand the universe.
In the same vein feel free to ask me about Linux.
Linus Torvalds
Linux Kernel Founder
I agree it is fairly self-explanatory that "Anonymous Coward" is not one person. Anyone conducting research with the Groklaw archives that assumes it is a single entity deserves whatever convoluted results they obtain.
I am thankful that these sorts of issues were pretty much unknown when I went to school. I think I'll home-school my kids....
It is all relative. More then anything it depends on the specific area that you live in and the actual teachers and administration (Principal, VP...) that are in that school. The real big change is that we all hear about the really bad cases whereas before we would not have heard if it was not in out local school.
This is a terrible situation but sometimes it feels like observers are too sensationalistic.
I cannot see anything meaningful coming from such a small sample size. It has potential but obviously much more research is needed.
Obviously this is an accomplished statistician. Maybe he works for FOX News?
Right now night vision goggles give a very grainy tinged image. Clarifying that could have millions of applications.
The problem is that there is a simple, preexisting and free way to use a table saw where you never risk getting limbs cut off. This method has been available to everyone since table saws were invented. Here it is: Do not put your limbs in the damn saw blade while it is spinning.
But what if someone pushes you from behind? What if someone startles you? What if you get distracted? What if you have an off day?
I do not think most people put their limbs into a moving blade on purpose. The idea is to prevent accidents.
From TFA this is exactly what happened with airbags in cars. Airbags were introduced and patented. At first they were just in some cars. Then manufactures that did not have air bags got sued because their product was not as safe as it could be. So they licensed the idea from the patent holder and put it in their cars. Now everyone is safer and the guy who invented a way to save lots of lives got rich.
What is the problem?
The recent story from Canada about the group of snow mobile riders who triggered an avalanche that killed a few of them. The risk was obvious. Environment Canada had issued an avalanche risk warning. But the guys went out anyways.
Some people will always not do the right thing. No matter how obvious it may be.