"Greater than current G4" isn't setting the bar very high, especially if they go with the dual core chip (which would certainly be nice). I hesitate to risk a flamewar by asserting that current Pentium-M's are already a lot faster than the G4, but they are, so I will.
It's not clear to me why it wouldn't be free, or why we need a "provider" for this in the first place. You're already paying the ISP for bandwidth, do we really need a web page provider, ssh provider... another "provider" and another bill for every protocol over IP?
Vonage, for instances, bills themselves as a VOIP provider, which I don't see as being quite the case. For pure VOIP calls, you don't need a provider. What Vonage really sells is a VOIP-to-POTS bridge... a transition technology until such time as every telephone and blackberry have IP addresses.
RTA, the hydrogen helps the diesel combust more completely so you get more energy from each gallon. Some of that is lost in the water->hydrogen conversion, and some is a net savings.
My question, though, is why not just produce the hydrogen at a plant and enrich the diesel with it at the refinery?
Besides, RedHat's 36% annual revenue growth for 4 years is impressive. Sure it's easier for smaller company to score big growth numbers, but $200M in revenue and 36% annual growth seems like a pretty nice place to be.
The nice thing is RedHat's success actually means something to Linux users, even if they're not RedHat customers, because RedHat is quite active in developing OSS.
If these filters really work, wouldn't US carriers love to have them?
That's like saying McDonald's would love to save money by taking the beef out of their burgers. It might be true but it doesn't work that way. On top of customer outrage there's the issue of FCC fines. Besides, the telecoms have already made up their minds:
MCI executive and Internet co-founder Vint Cerf agreed, saying it was bad for everyone if service providers suddenly started discriminating against traffic types by competitive parameters.
"The presumption [of the Internet] is that you're fully connected," Cerf said. Any attempts to block certain application types or types of content, he said, "will destroy the utility of the Net."
Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert, who also spoke at the conference Monday, said his company has a commercial contract with Vonage. Carrying more application traffic, Notebaert said, was an economic plus for Qwest.
"I want to run a network utilized as fully as possible," Notebaert said. "I want to sell wholesale [access] to everyone I can."
It's not really about free speech here. It's just the chinese goverment protecting it's profits.
Huh? Profit is the most obvious motive for supressing free speech I can imagine.
That's the whole idea of property - you forfeit your freedom to take and use things whenever you want, but gain the right of control over things assigned to you.
I wish we could just ignore their eco-friendly marketing spin and get down to whether the chip is any good.
8 quad-hyperthread cores sounds pretty intriguiging to me. I'd like to try out make -j32 on this puppy.
iPod wasn't just providing same stuff with some click wheel.
It wasn't?
It brought a rather unused concept into masses.
And what concept was that?
I may never understand the iPod craze. A few posts ago somebody called it a "way of life." All I can say is, hats off to companies like Harley Davidson and Apple, with their ups and downs. I only wish I could predict their rebirths in time to buy stock.
Anyways, it looks like the Original XBox is worth a little over $100. It would be nice if compatibility were good enough to sell the old XBox and use it towards the new one.
One problem with just keeping the old XBox is it costs you money, compared to selling it if the 360 were a direct replacement.
I was going to check the market value of the XBox, but when I search for "XBox" ebay changes my search and says "1496 items found for Microsoft Xbox 360 - Game console"... no original XBox results come up at all, just zillions and zillions of identical auctions for 360's. At the bottom of each page is a long list of "reviews" (for the as-yet nonexistent product) that are mostly shills. The only vaguely negative comment any of them made was that supplies were going to be limited, so act now!!!
Exactly, I don't think "crack" has anything to do with cryptography at all. The beaurocracy just wants a bit more time for things to work through its system. Crime labs always have backlogs, computer forensics investigators are busy, the drives have to be sent out, etc. To think this says anything about key lengths or something is just silly IMHO.
Well, I was confused and thought "router fragmentation" meant the growth of routing tables due to IP addresses being allocated in smaller noncontiguous network blocks. Oops.
To be fair, until the P4 came along MHhz was pretty synonymous with "speed" (except for AMD processors which were slower - don't flame me, I owned a K6233 and I speak the truth of its disappointing performance). And even today the MHz "myth" is almost universally true within processor families, and still mostly true between processor families; it's rare that a 2:1 advantage in MHz fails to predict which chip will be faster. In other words people who think MHz is unrelated to effective speed are too clever by half.
Is router fragmentation such a big deal? The 4 billion addresses provided by IP4 isn't that big a number anymore. Even if there were only, say, 8 hosts per network on average, and even if there were one big hub-like router in the middle of the Internet that had a separate route to every network, that's "only" 2gb of addresses, plus the next hop for each network. Given that we have at least several years until things get that fragmented, can't we cope?
If you agree to not hold someone responsible for anything that they do to you, well, you're a moron who practically deserves to get taken advantage of.
I don't think this is true, and a lot hinges on it. The problem is that in today's world there's practically no way to know what you're "agreeing" to.
First, you may never see the contract. Maybe you are tearing the shrinkwrap off a box of software with some disclaimers hidden somewhere inside. Maybe you're sitting down to use software installed by somebody else along time ago.
Second, the contracts are too long and complicated. It would be impossible for a company to conduct business if every customer who came in to spend $20 had their own unique multiple-page legal document that had to be scrutinized and accepted by a company lawyer. Not because companies are lazy or stupid but because it's economically infeasible. Yet somehow that's what we demand of private individuals (with no legal training) in dealing with dozens of companies every week. It's simply not workable, and gives the upper hand to businesses which conduct all end-customer transactions under the same contract (their own).
Third, even if you know all the jargon and have all the time in the world to read the contracts, you really can't interpret them without knowing the entire legal framework. Which parts are actually enforceable by law, and which are just wishful thinking by a company lawyer? Do you know all the applicable state regulations? How about for all 50 states, or do you never order things from another state?
The enticing ideal of two parties with mutual understanding entering a contract simply isn't very applicable to the myriad of little transactions we carry out on a day to day basis, and yet we pretend it is. That's why its such a mess.
That's right kids, you can't get away with murder simply by granting yourself the right to do so in some fine print legalize.
I think it's foolish to let companies write (nearly) arbitrary contracts for public commerce. It's widely accepted that non-lawyers are unfit to interpret contracts (that why we make fun of people who ask legal questions on Slashdot), and yet the dozens of different contracts you can't go a day without consenting to are supposed to be binding. It's unworkable. I think everyday commerce with private individuals should be governed by a small, standardized set of contracts established by law. Then allow companies to select which they want for each product or service.
IMHO it's a culture clash between natives and immigrants, and not about Islam in particular. Europe will see a lot of this as their birth rates are below sustainment, prompting high immigration and sweeping cultural change. In other words Europe is being assimilated. In the US there is also some tension, but I think we have largely accepted the fact that there is no fixed US culture per se, it's just whoever happens to live here at the moment.
Noticed that now there are so few public warnings of new terrorist threats and increasing the national "security level"? Just wait for election time...
Nothing like general fear and confusion to make everybody rally around whomever happens to be in office.
And for an added twist, float some insinuations that the enemy endorses your opponents.
Hi. I'm John Q. Public. Japanese style, manga, anime, japanimation, or whatever everyone wants to call it this week, to me, is big eyes, small mouth and no nose. There are other aspect that make it that style, but visually, that is what it is to me, John Q. Public.
And if animated the framerate is not to exceed 1hz.
It's very likely that Bethesda software will simply require people to have a hard drive. Several xbox 360 critics say the core system is pretty much useless.
Well I sure hope that isn't true, or there are going to be a lot of sad kids and ticked off parents on Christmas morning.
Whose bright idea was it to fragment a game console into sublevels?
First you say MS has a trademark on "Microsoft Windows," not "Windows." Then you can MS can control any use of the word "Windows" with respect to computers after all. In other words, they do have the (de facto) trademark on "Windows," even though that's illegal.
Under the letter of trademark law the only think MS should control is the use of "Microsoft Windows" in connection with computers. A glass company named "Microsoft Windows" is fine, and Microsoft has no control over "Windows" at all.
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"Greater than current G4" isn't setting the bar very high, especially if they go with the dual core chip (which would certainly be nice). I hesitate to risk a flamewar by asserting that current Pentium-M's are already a lot faster than the G4, but they are, so I will.
Vonage, for instances, bills themselves as a VOIP provider, which I don't see as being quite the case. For pure VOIP calls, you don't need a provider. What Vonage really sells is a VOIP-to-POTS bridge... a transition technology until such time as every telephone and blackberry have IP addresses.
My question, though, is why not just produce the hydrogen at a plant and enrich the diesel with it at the refinery?
Besides, RedHat's 36% annual revenue growth for 4 years is impressive. Sure it's easier for smaller company to score big growth numbers, but $200M in revenue and 36% annual growth seems like a pretty nice place to be.
The nice thing is RedHat's success actually means something to Linux users, even if they're not RedHat customers, because RedHat is quite active in developing OSS.
Sony is more akin to your friendly streetcorner CD and "Rolex" salesman.
That's the whole idea of property - you forfeit your freedom to take and use things whenever you want, but gain the right of control over things assigned to you.
I wish we could just ignore their eco-friendly marketing spin and get down to whether the chip is any good. 8 quad-hyperthread cores sounds pretty intriguiging to me. I'd like to try out make -j32 on this puppy.
I may never understand the iPod craze. A few posts ago somebody called it a "way of life." All I can say is, hats off to companies like Harley Davidson and Apple, with their ups and downs. I only wish I could predict their rebirths in time to buy stock.
Anyways, it looks like the Original XBox is worth a little over $100. It would be nice if compatibility were good enough to sell the old XBox and use it towards the new one.
I was going to check the market value of the XBox, but when I search for "XBox" ebay changes my search and says "1496 items found for Microsoft Xbox 360 - Game console"... no original XBox results come up at all, just zillions and zillions of identical auctions for 360's. At the bottom of each page is a long list of "reviews" (for the as-yet nonexistent product) that are mostly shills. The only vaguely negative comment any of them made was that supplies were going to be limited, so act now!!!
I would have assumed HDTV is commonplace in Japan, is that wrong or is Sony not selling the PS3 at home?
Exactly, I don't think "crack" has anything to do with cryptography at all. The beaurocracy just wants a bit more time for things to work through its system. Crime labs always have backlogs, computer forensics investigators are busy, the drives have to be sent out, etc. To think this says anything about key lengths or something is just silly IMHO.
Well, I was confused and thought "router fragmentation" meant the growth of routing tables due to IP addresses being allocated in smaller noncontiguous network blocks. Oops.
To be fair, until the P4 came along MHhz was pretty synonymous with "speed" (except for AMD processors which were slower - don't flame me, I owned a K6233 and I speak the truth of its disappointing performance). And even today the MHz "myth" is almost universally true within processor families, and still mostly true between processor families; it's rare that a 2:1 advantage in MHz fails to predict which chip will be faster. In other words people who think MHz is unrelated to effective speed are too clever by half.
Is router fragmentation such a big deal? The 4 billion addresses provided by IP4 isn't that big a number anymore. Even if there were only, say, 8 hosts per network on average, and even if there were one big hub-like router in the middle of the Internet that had a separate route to every network, that's "only" 2gb of addresses, plus the next hop for each network. Given that we have at least several years until things get that fragmented, can't we cope?
First, you may never see the contract. Maybe you are tearing the shrinkwrap off a box of software with some disclaimers hidden somewhere inside. Maybe you're sitting down to use software installed by somebody else along time ago.
Second, the contracts are too long and complicated. It would be impossible for a company to conduct business if every customer who came in to spend $20 had their own unique multiple-page legal document that had to be scrutinized and accepted by a company lawyer. Not because companies are lazy or stupid but because it's economically infeasible. Yet somehow that's what we demand of private individuals (with no legal training) in dealing with dozens of companies every week. It's simply not workable, and gives the upper hand to businesses which conduct all end-customer transactions under the same contract (their own).
Third, even if you know all the jargon and have all the time in the world to read the contracts, you really can't interpret them without knowing the entire legal framework. Which parts are actually enforceable by law, and which are just wishful thinking by a company lawyer? Do you know all the applicable state regulations? How about for all 50 states, or do you never order things from another state?
The enticing ideal of two parties with mutual understanding entering a contract simply isn't very applicable to the myriad of little transactions we carry out on a day to day basis, and yet we pretend it is. That's why its such a mess.
I think it's foolish to let companies write (nearly) arbitrary contracts for public commerce. It's widely accepted that non-lawyers are unfit to interpret contracts (that why we make fun of people who ask legal questions on Slashdot), and yet the dozens of different contracts you can't go a day without consenting to are supposed to be binding. It's unworkable. I think everyday commerce with private individuals should be governed by a small, standardized set of contracts established by law. Then allow companies to select which they want for each product or service.
IMHO it's a culture clash between natives and immigrants, and not about Islam in particular. Europe will see a lot of this as their birth rates are below sustainment, prompting high immigration and sweeping cultural change. In other words Europe is being assimilated. In the US there is also some tension, but I think we have largely accepted the fact that there is no fixed US culture per se, it's just whoever happens to live here at the moment.
And for an added twist, float some insinuations that the enemy endorses your opponents.
Whose bright idea was it to fragment a game console into sublevels?
Kudos on a better-than-average "car vs. OS" analogy.
Under the letter of trademark law the only think MS should control is the use of "Microsoft Windows" in connection with computers. A glass company named "Microsoft Windows" is fine, and Microsoft has no control over "Windows" at all.