I agree, and let me refer you to a real life example. The USS Yorktown is that very famous Navy ship that was immobilized by a network outage. The whole thing was trigged by some seaman entering a 0 where he shouldn't have, so the Navy made some attempt to pin it on him. But it didn't fly. Operational errors like that are routine. It shouldn't have crashed the app. Having crashed the app, it shouldn't have taken down the whole network.
If one resercher sitting at his desk can take down the whole hospital system accidentally just by "overusing" the network, it's just a matter of time.
I cringed during the CGI sequences of "Attack of the Clones." I really liked Lord of the Rings. Please let this new scene be a breakthrough and not an embarrasing distraction.
Did they fail to protect themselves? Because as with the previous DNS attacks, I was using the Internet as ususal throughout the whole thing and never even noticed.
Raising the question, how many of us actually noticed this before reading about it?
Gee, I'm glad that's not what they said about Standard Oil. "Let's let the market solve this problem. If people don't want to support Standard Oil, they can heat their homes with coal and travel on horseback." It seems to me we're all much better off because enough people realized the market was NOT going to fix the problem, and solved it through government.
My feeling on the whole issue is that the people who REALLY use their PDA's are the ones who still own Handspring visors (original) and Palm III's... they're not in it for the gee-whiz factor, and you'll usually be able to tell by the fact that their PDA is 3+ years old and held together w/ duct tape.
I mostly agree (and yes, I had a Palm III before the Palm V before the m515, and if it were my money I'd probably still have the III). The one thing I missed before was an English dictionary in my Palm. Now I've got one - Noah Pro, about 5 megs with the largest database. I've been pretty impressed with how comprehensive it is. I hate it when somebody uses a word I don't know and later I can't remember it to look it up.
Wow, I haven't noticed any mention of "ToDo" lists. This is my personal PDA "killer app" - over 3 years on a Palm V and now a 515. I use the todo list in DateBook5. Whenever I think of something I "ought to do sometime" I slap it in there and it carries along on my schedule every day until I finally finish it off. Once I put something in that ToDo list, I know it will get done sooner or later. I wouldn't bother with paper because there's no decent way to carry over items until I do them.
The key to PDAs ia "small and light." My first PDA, a Psion 3a, fell into disuse because it was a hassle to carry.
That's Visa's problem for trademarking such a common word. If they want exclusive rights to all uses of a word they are welcome to use a password generator. It would be stupid of us to give companies exclusive rights to useful portions of our language.
I totally disagree. Performance on Doom III *ought* to be the #1 criteria for any gamer buying hardware, it's going to set the new standard and a lot of games will be based on that engine.
There is the argument that the leak's performance is not representative of the final product. This is somewhat valid, but then again developers always use this response to performance complaints about demos, and how often are the released games *that* much different?
Checking out the specs, it seems a box in this case would have little over a laptop, other than 1 (count them, "one") pci slot. Which isn't so cool considering it has NO pcmcia slots, and laptops ususally have 2. Oh, and no screen or battery power. OK, we've established it isn't much of a laptop, so what does it have over a 2+ Ghz laptop with Geforce 4 graphics?
Even if they didn't let you clean out your desk (which would surely constitute theft) it really woudn't matter, unless you got fired AND your home backups AND primary storage were destroyed all at the same time. Now that would be very unlucky indeed.
But the real nail in the coffin is their far-left reporting/editorial.
Because god knows there aren't any outlets for conservatives anywhere else in the media.
So you're saying driving away customers won't hurt Salon.com, because there are plenty of other places for the customers to go? And apparently the folks who modded you up thought that made sense.
(and dropped the DirecTiVo monthly price to $4.99, which MS can't compete with)
Why couldn't they compete? $60/year seems like a lot for that service; more than most subscription websites dare charge. tvguide.com and tv.yahoo.com provide the same information for free.
(Granted, that information has less value when not integrated with the TiVo hardware, but that doesn't affect the question of how much it costs to provide said information).
As it is, X is the only project that has usable drivers for desktop video cards.... IMHO this gives X a responsibility to write the drivers in a way that other GUIs can use them
There is some validity to this maxim, but really all it states is that "there should be no laws," because none will every be universally embraced or enforced. In other words, the "who decides" issue here is no more difficult than, say, "who decides" how much taxes will be, or who gets a raise, or when to fight a war. It's a very rare and convenient issue on which everybody agrees.
Well, unless military satellites are dropping film canisters or tethered with fiber optic cables, I think it's farily safe to conclude that classified data is already being transmitted through your person at this moment.
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If one resercher sitting at his desk can take down the whole hospital system accidentally just by "overusing" the network, it's just a matter of time.
I cringed during the CGI sequences of "Attack of the Clones." I really liked Lord of the Rings. Please let this new scene be a breakthrough and not an embarrasing distraction.
Raising the question, how many of us actually noticed this before reading about it?
Gee, I'm glad that's not what they said about Standard Oil. "Let's let the market solve this problem. If people don't want to support Standard Oil, they can heat their homes with coal and travel on horseback." It seems to me we're all much better off because enough people realized the market was NOT going to fix the problem, and solved it through government.
Wow, I haven't noticed any mention of "ToDo" lists. This is my personal PDA "killer app" - over 3 years on a Palm V and now a 515. I use the todo list in DateBook5. Whenever I think of something I "ought to do sometime" I slap it in there and it carries along on my schedule every day until I finally finish it off. Once I put something in that ToDo list, I know it will get done sooner or later. I wouldn't bother with paper because there's no decent way to carry over items until I do them.
The key to PDAs ia "small and light." My first PDA, a Psion 3a, fell into disuse because it was a hassle to carry.
That's Visa's problem for trademarking such a common word. If they want exclusive rights to all uses of a word they are welcome to use a password generator. It would be stupid of us to give companies exclusive rights to useful portions of our language.
For what it's worth I hope you are correct and the real Doom III has better framerates. And a disclaimer wouldn't have hurt anything.
There is the argument that the leak's performance is not representative of the final product. This is somewhat valid, but then again developers always use this response to performance complaints about demos, and how often are the released games *that* much different?
Checking out the specs, it seems a box in this case would have little over a laptop, other than 1 (count them, "one") pci slot. Which isn't so cool considering it has NO pcmcia slots, and laptops ususally have 2. Oh, and no screen or battery power. OK, we've established it isn't much of a laptop, so what does it have over a 2+ Ghz laptop with Geforce 4 graphics?
OK, right now I can't think of any other ripoffs except for Athlon XP. But I could have sworn there were lots of them a year ago.
Even if they didn't let you clean out your desk (which would surely constitute theft) it really woudn't matter, unless you got fired AND your home backups AND primary storage were destroyed all at the same time. Now that would be very unlucky indeed.
I don't have a cell phone because I've been holding out for a better deal. It doesn't seem to be working.
(Granted, that information has less value when not integrated with the TiVo hardware, but that doesn't affect the question of how much it costs to provide said information).
When you ask a Mac user to set up a "honeypot" machine.
What, no access points in the elevators? Sheesh, I thought CMU was a good school...
Wish I had a mod point for you... because as you say talk is cheap.
Hyperthreading isn't AMD's problem. The problem is AMD has fallen behind in performance and are losing tons of money which they don't have.
That raises an intesting question then... what and when will be the Chinese Sputnik - the moment at which it strikes home that we're losing?
Oh, is recognizing foreign accents politically incorrect now? Sorry, I missed the memo.
Well, unless military satellites are dropping film canisters or tethered with fiber optic cables, I think it's farily safe to conclude that classified data is already being transmitted through your person at this moment.
Can I plug it into a folding keyboard and run emacs? That would blow my m515 away...