?? We haven't had any Chernobyl. We have, on the other hand, had a lot of violations of FCC standards. Nobody wants a nuclear disaster. But certain people do want to hype their career, and Janet Jackson, for instance, clearly came out ahead by doing her little stunt.
Maybe there shouldn't be a financial fine for FCC violations at all, but rather the people in question would be suspended from the public airwaves for a year. Now *that* might directly address these publicity seekers.
Am I reading that wrong? All it says is that you don't have to call Microsoft before turning on your new PC for the first time if Windows was already installed.
So it's true that every windows self-install will require a phone call? Good grief.
No, infringement is ChoicePoint copying and selling my data/information without permission in the first place. (However in their case it is perfectly legal).
Theft is somebody using that information to draw money out of my bank account. Hardly anybody would justify signing Hillary Rosen's name on phony checks.
Is it just me, or do others here feel that Ebay is a better place to sell than to buy?
Absolutely! In several ways:
The seller places the item for auction, waits a fixed amount of time, then gets money. At no time does he face any risk.
The buyer, on the other hand, has to sift through the items (and sellers DO spam keywords), place a bid, then wait around for days. He may likely be outbid, in which case the whole process starts over. If the buyer "wins", he then sends off his money in *hopes* that the seller will deliver. When/if the item arrives, it's often not in the condition described, or very often violates normal assumptions about what is salabled. ("Well gee, I didn't say it came with a power cord!!").
That's not to say this is all ebay's fault, the point is that ebay is great for selling, not great for buying.
That is really lame. They have actually set up a system where (in certain circumstances) you are bidding against yourself!
I predict if nothing else ebay will agree to fix this problem. I realize some feel that anything is OK so long as it's buried in the fine print somewhere, but I predict ebay will not find the extra 2 cents of comission on fractions of a bid increment to be worth the bad will generated by this dumb policy.
Absolute freedom is an illogical myth. Some freedoms must be precluded to preserve more important ones. That's why my freedom to swing my fist must end at the tip of your nose. Everybody (aside from anarchists) knows this intuitively.
The freedom to trade in child pornography is the same as the freedom to own slaves, for which the Confederacy wrongfully fought and died. In both cases, preserving the perpetrators' freedoms takes away many more, and more important, rights from victims.
There could also be power issues since the dual core chips will need more juice. I know the current 939 socket and motherboards designs are "supposed" to be sufficient for dual core, but I'll believe it when I see it.
My experience with CPU upgradability is that it's nice when it happens but it's not worth paying more for a motherboard up front if there's no immediate benefit. It's not just the CPU socket, everything on motherboards (ram format, chipsets, agp, pci, sata) is churning all the time.
Well, I just don't believe they'll release a dual-core chip with single chip price, in effect doubling performance without much price jump. It just never happens. The best option is always just a little better choice than the second best option. If not, whoever is pricing the best option is leaving money on the table.
How don't see how the Mac Mini could work as a DVR when it can't hold a 3.5" hard drive. Also the TV tuner and digitizer hardware and connectors have to go somewhere. In any case, I think the normal width and depth for VCRs, DVD players, and stereo components would be preferable.
Call me crazy, but based on the last few financial quarters, I'm guessing that Steve jobs has a better handle on his business than you do. If he does this deal, it's going to be because he thinks he can make it work.
Then again, if he doesn't do this deal, it's going to be because he doesn't think he can make it work. Whatever he chooses to do, it's going to be because he thinks it's the right thing to do.
So what's your point? Is Apple acquiring TiVo a good idea or not? Or shall we just wait for His Majesty Steve to reveal the Truth once and for all?
Obviously, a dual core V40z - which is already dual core ready - will give Sun the only 3U, 8-way Opteron that we've heard of. Between dual core Opterons and continual improvements on the 90nm Opteron steppings, server administrators have a lot to look forward to this year.
I suspect that kernel building does not run in parallel very easy.
The kneejerk response here is, "just use make -j 10" But in practice, I don't think make will parallel compile files in different directories, and linking is a serial bottleneck. In a kernel tree I expect linking is performed in many different directories to produce modules.
I know you were joking, but IMHO downloading movies is not that far off.
I have been downloading episodes of "Lost" because the quality is quite a bit better than my (analog) cable TV. Yet the files are only about 350 MB in size. That translates to a little over 1 megabit per second. In practice, my internet connection (Comcast) doesn't seem to have any problem exceeding 1 megabit per second. (It is 3 or 4 mbps claimed).
If the music industry is any indicator, fear of piracy will be a bigger impediment than bandwidth. It does seem irrational, since it's already easy for anybody to make a downloadable version of a movie, but there you go.
The comparison with Mac Mini is ridiculous. The Mac is a far smaller. The Shuttle is far faster, more expandable, and more expensive. So what is better? Obviously it depends.
I recently built a video acquisition box for work. I wanted the smallest case that could support RAID, a fast processor, and an addon PCI board (the frame grabber). The Shuttle was the perfect choice.
But if I were buying a computer for my wife or kids, the Mac would probably be better.
Why is PCI-66 (and beyond) being passed over? There are many high-end network interfaces, frame grabber boards, etc. that will not be available in PCI-X for some time. I just built a Shuttle box and had to go with an older, PCI-33 model for compatibility reasons.
Why is the industry going with PCI-X, rather than PCI-Express or PCI-66 which are both speedy AND backwards compatitble?
While there is a slight hint of counter-americanism in the article, I did not see any particular attack on google.
?? How much of TFA did you read? Try the first sentence: "The National Library of France is not happy with Google's effort to scan and integrate millions of books into its Web search."
Continuing, "the librarian-in-chief cautioned against the domination of America for generations to come and its potential to skew thought without reflecting the diversity of civilizations."
In other words, he feels google is being unfair by not putting equal effort into scanning books from everywhere, instead of just the US. Although he has now "designed a parallel program" to digitize French works, he clearly doesn't feel that should be necessary. He's annoyed that google is giving preferential treatment to English books.
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You can buy the box and a lifetime subscription instead of subsidizing the cost of the Tivo via the monthly fee.
If you pay that lifetime subscription, you have no idea what you're buying. First is the issue of whether they stay in business, as you noted. But besides that, they reserve the right to change the service at any time in the future... previous "upgrades" include reporting your viewing back to TiVo, automatically recording comercials, and now (from what I hear) interrupting fast-forwarding to show (more) commercials.
The initial outlay is too risky when you don't know what you're really in for.
You can't exert control over individual issues like this satellite law through voting. Our representative government is not granular enough to accomplish that. Or perhaps you can tell me who included "voting down that satellite data to NASA bill" in their platform during the previous election.
This actually strengthens your argument, but I don't think Comcast offers 512Kbit/s upstream, at least not for anywhere near $50/mo. I believe it was recently increased to 384Kbit/s, and for me it never seems to go over 300.
Upstream matters when your wife is at home making calls on Vonage and you're at work listening to.mp3's streaming from your home computer:)
Does anyone else remember the simpler days, when phones where just phones?
Want to save some bandwidth? Let's establish short code words for slashdot cliches such as this. Just like the cops on their CB's, "we got a 1014 in progress on maple and central." I also nominate "in Russia..", "Step 5..profit," and "why, when OSX already has it?"
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Maybe there shouldn't be a financial fine for FCC violations at all, but rather the people in question would be suspended from the public airwaves for a year. Now *that* might directly address these publicity seekers.
So it's true that every windows self-install will require a phone call? Good grief.
Theft is somebody using that information to draw money out of my bank account. Hardly anybody would justify signing Hillary Rosen's name on phony checks.
The seller places the item for auction, waits a fixed amount of time, then gets money. At no time does he face any risk.
The buyer, on the other hand, has to sift through the items (and sellers DO spam keywords), place a bid, then wait around for days. He may likely be outbid, in which case the whole process starts over. If the buyer "wins", he then sends off his money in *hopes* that the seller will deliver. When/if the item arrives, it's often not in the condition described, or very often violates normal assumptions about what is salabled. ("Well gee, I didn't say it came with a power cord!!").
That's not to say this is all ebay's fault, the point is that ebay is great for selling, not great for buying.
I predict if nothing else ebay will agree to fix this problem. I realize some feel that anything is OK so long as it's buried in the fine print somewhere, but I predict ebay will not find the extra 2 cents of comission on fractions of a bid increment to be worth the bad will generated by this dumb policy.
The freedom to trade in child pornography is the same as the freedom to own slaves, for which the Confederacy wrongfully fought and died. In both cases, preserving the perpetrators' freedoms takes away many more, and more important, rights from victims.
My experience with CPU upgradability is that it's nice when it happens but it's not worth paying more for a motherboard up front if there's no immediate benefit. It's not just the CPU socket, everything on motherboards (ram format, chipsets, agp, pci, sata) is churning all the time.
[insert experiences to the contrary here].
Well, I just don't believe they'll release a dual-core chip with single chip price, in effect doubling performance without much price jump. It just never happens. The best option is always just a little better choice than the second best option. If not, whoever is pricing the best option is leaving money on the table.
What I want to know, is this guy really a defector... or a mole?
How don't see how the Mac Mini could work as a DVR when it can't hold a 3.5" hard drive. Also the TV tuner and digitizer hardware and connectors have to go somewhere. In any case, I think the normal width and depth for VCRs, DVD players, and stereo components would be preferable.
So what's your point? Is Apple acquiring TiVo a good idea or not? Or shall we just wait for His Majesty Steve to reveal the Truth once and for all?
What I want to know is whether I can put 4 dual-core CPUs into this thing sometime soon.
I have been downloading episodes of "Lost" because the quality is quite a bit better than my (analog) cable TV. Yet the files are only about 350 MB in size. That translates to a little over 1 megabit per second. In practice, my internet connection (Comcast) doesn't seem to have any problem exceeding 1 megabit per second. (It is 3 or 4 mbps claimed).
If the music industry is any indicator, fear of piracy will be a bigger impediment than bandwidth. It does seem irrational, since it's already easy for anybody to make a downloadable version of a movie, but there you go.
But my question is, why isn't the industry going with the backwards-compatible solution? Isn't PCI-X good enough, except perhaps for the video card?
I recently built a video acquisition box for work. I wanted the smallest case that could support RAID, a fast processor, and an addon PCI board (the frame grabber). The Shuttle was the perfect choice.
But if I were buying a computer for my wife or kids, the Mac would probably be better.
It all depends on your needs.
(That's a link to the chassis this story is about).
Thanks for the mirror, but don't these review websites live and die by getting hits? Does mirrordot somehow credit the original site for ad hits?
Why is the industry going with PCI-X, rather than PCI-Express or PCI-66 which are both speedy AND backwards compatitble?
Continuing, "the librarian-in-chief cautioned against the domination of America for generations to come and its potential to skew thought without reflecting the diversity of civilizations."
In other words, he feels google is being unfair by not putting equal effort into scanning books from everywhere, instead of just the US. Although he has now "designed a parallel program" to digitize French works, he clearly doesn't feel that should be necessary. He's annoyed that google is giving preferential treatment to English books.
The initial outlay is too risky when you don't know what you're really in for.
You can't exert control over individual issues like this satellite law through voting. Our representative government is not granular enough to accomplish that. Or perhaps you can tell me who included "voting down that satellite data to NASA bill" in their platform during the previous election.
Upstream matters when your wife is at home making calls on Vonage and you're at work listening to .mp3's streaming from your home computer :)