Oh, you think $1e6 per capita is too much? Wait until you see the claims of people with eroding property in California, Florida, and New York in a few years. I'm not saying the lawsuit is just or winnable, but I'll bet it is the first of many larger ones to come.
The cost of the fine is then funneled back into the price tag of the product and considered a "cost of doing business". It's you and me that get screwed in the end with higher prices to cover losses in fines.
No, that's just a scare tactic companies advance to get the public on their side. If it were true, companies wouldn't put up a legal fight to resist fines. The cost of production (including fines) isn't directly related to the retail price. Their price was already whatever they thought would maximize revenue, just as it will be going forward.
I'll believe it when I see it. Everything in Microsoft's experience has taught them that there's always another chance, some way to stall until political conditions become more favorable. That's why it has come to this.
Despite the fact that we only have 7.6 billion years to get the computations correct, I have a feeling that we'll be able to get it done right by then.
Meh, by then any affection for our "original star" will be long since forgotten - just as we don't call ourselves African-Americans unless our ancestors left within the last 300 years or so.
They are far too self-interested to really be concerned about anything resembling "greater good." And I'll say it once again -- this is not the exclusive territory of muslim extremists. It's not even the exclusive territory of religious extremists though it does seem to be something of a hallmark of them. It's a problem of the self-interested mind.
During WWII, Britain (and every other country) made everybody turn out the lights during bombing raids. Is this different?
I think you missed the point, the drugs do nothing. Its the idea that they do something that is the fix.
Says who? This one study out of nowhere?
It's wishful thinking that all your problem are in your own hands. Trying to do away with the injustices of the universe by simply denying they exist, and everybody is to blame for whatever happens to them.
I guess that was a joke, but I absolutely want solid state to take over optical media. Of my kids' DVDs, and the ones we get from the library, hardly any actually work. I would much rather have their movies on GBA-like cartriges. I think flash capacities will catch up with DVD in just a few years, but now Blu-Ray has raised the bar that much more.
My work implemented 2-factor authentication for remote email access. Everybody I've spoken with agrees with me that it has drastically reduced their amount of remote email access. In other words, greater security at the cost of productivity. This is why you should not let network security make their own decisions in a vacuum - they will choose security at the expense of everything else. These studies that state losses from computer security are worthless without equally credible studies of the losses from more draconian security, in terms of direct expenses and lost productivity, and annoyed customers that go somewhere else.
So you're supposed to go online with your antivirus, which was disabled by Vista update, so that you can download a fix for your now not working antivirus so you can be protected from viruses...
If you're downloading your antivirus software from the pirate bay or something, I guess you have a point... and much bigger problems to worry about. I doubt you'll get infected visiting the Norton antivirus site for an update, and if you do, some old version of their software surely wouldn't have helped anyways.
Side note, switch to Linux! 90% of what's wrong with Windows is virses and anti-virus software, I don't know which is worse. My Windows XP VMWare image is constantly bogging down because anti-virus software is chewing up the disk or CPU, getting confused when I disconnect from the network, or nagging me to allow firefox access to the network for the 1000th time.
Who cares indeed. While it sometimes rises to the level of a religious issue on slashdot, this deal shows that to Sony and Toshiba, it's just business. They'll fight on one front while wheeling and dealing on another, whatever makes money.
You beat me to it. I am really curious whether it will work for motorcycle visors, side mirrors, and maybe the windows on my office so they don't dry all spotted with dirt:)
This is a much better challenge than the X-prize, which didn't even include orbit. It was amusing to watch, but really not a huge deal imo.
The original X-prize for space was, on the other hand, for a manned spacecraft. That's a pretty big distinction you should draw if you want to compare & contrast the coolness of X-prize vs. Lunar X-prize.
The X300 also had longer battery life if you remove the DVD and put a battery in there. That seems like a more fair comparison unless you're going to credit the X300 for having a DVD drive where the Air does not.
The other thing I'm surprised people aren't more concerned about is the Air's lack of a removable battery. On long trips I always run my D630 with 2 batteries and a spare so I can swap the main battery without shutting down. With my old T40, I flew from San Francisco to Taiwan this way, computing the whole way. It's the only way to survive such flights IMHO (other than buying a first class seat with a power receptical:)
The X300 review was sorely lacking any performance benchmarks. To bemoan the 60GB capacity of the drive without also measuring its (hopefully low) access time is not fair.
the more amazing thing is how fast the Navy got the systems involved modified to track and kill a target the weapons weren't originally designed for. Talk about agile development!
How much different was this compared to an ICBM shootdown? I'm not implying it was or wasn't, I'm just curious.
I have yet to hear somebody explain why hydrazine is worse than gasoline. The low flash point of hydrazine, in particular, would seemingly make it *less* likely the hydrazine would make it home alive.
I'm not sure I'd include ethanol in that list. Ethanol itself is carbon neutral. What actually creates greenhouse gasses is clearing the vegetation to cultivate ethanol crops. Recent pessimistic analysis seem to assume we would simply burn down rainforest to make room for ethanol crops. Certainly we can do better than that!
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Terrorists may not be able to manufacture a cellphone or the Internet, but they sure can (and do) attack us with them.
Oh, you think $1e6 per capita is too much? Wait until you see the claims of people with eroding property in California, Florida, and New York in a few years. I'm not saying the lawsuit is just or winnable, but I'll bet it is the first of many larger ones to come.
I'll believe it when I see it. Everything in Microsoft's experience has taught them that there's always another chance, some way to stall until political conditions become more favorable. That's why it has come to this.
It's wishful thinking that all your problem are in your own hands. Trying to do away with the injustices of the universe by simply denying they exist, and everybody is to blame for whatever happens to them.
I guess that was a joke, but I absolutely want solid state to take over optical media. Of my kids' DVDs, and the ones we get from the library, hardly any actually work. I would much rather have their movies on GBA-like cartriges. I think flash capacities will catch up with DVD in just a few years, but now Blu-Ray has raised the bar that much more.
My work implemented 2-factor authentication for remote email access. Everybody I've spoken with agrees with me that it has drastically reduced their amount of remote email access. In other words, greater security at the cost of productivity. This is why you should not let network security make their own decisions in a vacuum - they will choose security at the expense of everything else. These studies that state losses from computer security are worthless without equally credible studies of the losses from more draconian security, in terms of direct expenses and lost productivity, and annoyed customers that go somewhere else.
Side note, switch to Linux! 90% of what's wrong with Windows is virses and anti-virus software, I don't know which is worse. My Windows XP VMWare image is constantly bogging down because anti-virus software is chewing up the disk or CPU, getting confused when I disconnect from the network, or nagging me to allow firefox access to the network for the 1000th time.
How does the board control this anyways? If Microsoft simply kept buying Yahoo stock on the market until they owned 51%, it would be over wouldn't it?
Who cares indeed. While it sometimes rises to the level of a religious issue on slashdot, this deal shows that to Sony and Toshiba, it's just business. They'll fight on one front while wheeling and dealing on another, whatever makes money.
You beat me to it. I am really curious whether it will work for motorcycle visors, side mirrors, and maybe the windows on my office so they don't dry all spotted with dirt :)
Ask Atari or Napster. Old trademarks never die, they just get adopted by successively seedier operations.
Yup, the same happened with audio, and before that, images. Yet somehow the 'net survived.
The other thing I'm surprised people aren't more concerned about is the Air's lack of a removable battery. On long trips I always run my D630 with 2 batteries and a spare so I can swap the main battery without shutting down. With my old T40, I flew from San Francisco to Taiwan this way, computing the whole way. It's the only way to survive such flights IMHO (other than buying a first class seat with a power receptical :)
The X300 review was sorely lacking any performance benchmarks. To bemoan the 60GB capacity of the drive without also measuring its (hopefully low) access time is not fair.
What really would have been ironic is if the missile itself became non-responsive and broke dispersing toxic fuel over Hawaii.
I have yet to hear somebody explain why hydrazine is worse than gasoline. The low flash point of hydrazine, in particular, would seemingly make it *less* likely the hydrazine would make it home alive.
That was pre-DRM. It's pretty darn lucky the DRM on HD-DVD is flawed or they'd really be worthless now.