There is no particular reason to use 802.11 anything unless you want it to be able to connect to things beyond other zunes wirelessly. And there are plenty of 802.11b-only access points and computers out there.
What TFA doesn't mention and no one else here seems to have brought up is that the number you get every day matters. It's obviously much easier to stay on top of 20 daily emails than it is 200. Once the pile gets too big, you simply think that it's too hard to manage, and give up.
I get about 20 emails a day, which means about 3 per hour. Of those, half are informative messages sent to me from one of my servers (which can be read and then deleted). So I only have to manage/respond to one email per hour. That's not a problem at all.
OTOH, if I had to respond to ten email an hour they would probably pile up faster than I could handle and would soon stop responding all together (and that's exactly what the faculty around here seem to do, unless the From header is someone they know)
I did RTFA, but it didn't mention how the practice violated copyright law. I understand the concerns of the people producing the original works. However:
1) The works weren't sold in stores, so the only people who had them were people who intentionally wanted them. It's not like selling a ripoff or counterfeit.
2) Doesn't this count as fair use. Does this mean that I can't take a song from a CD I bought and remove sections of it? Or it it because the companies were making a profit off of the derviation that it violated the law?
This is the sort of news that I wish dominated slashdot, instead of the more inane microsoft vs linux vs everything else. The overwhelming number of trival Apple did this today articles could be toned down too.
Did you have any idea that this meeting was happening before you read it here? I sure didn't. We (as a community) are probably one of the most qualified to offer a public comment to the board. Kudos to the editors for posting it.
Also, please don't whine about how the US is trying to control the internet until you've at least sent a public comment to the people who need to here it most.
If you look at the list, several of the computers/clusters are known simply as "Classified". It makes me wonder if those at the top really represent the top 10 most powerful supercomputers out there. I'm willing to be the US government, for one, has a couple of military use supercomputers up there that they aren't even willing to acknowledge the existance of.
At the other end of the spectrum, how many smaller clusters aren't on the list simply because the administrator doesn't have time to shut the entire thing down to run a LINPACK benchmark? The cluster I/we use would easily make it into the top 450, and maybe higher, but our research is deemed more important than the glory that comes with being on the list.
I tried hard to come up with a serious comment to this article, I really did. But every time I started writing one, I starting giggling. The RIAA is just too much. So, then, let me be the first to say:
Just before I started working at my current job, our webserver was hacked and used as an ebay phishing site. It didn't take long before our offices were getting personal calls from agents at the FBI and urgent contact from the ISP who runs our node.
Suffice it to say we took action ASAP. I have a feeling they would have forced us to do something about it if we dragged our feet. I'm assuming they do the same for other reports they receive.
From what I understand, it's not two seperate accounts (i.e. ab@gmail.com and a.b@gmail.com are only one account and you can't register both, and you get mail that comes to either).
In addition, you can use it as a feature to filter mail. (i.e. if I'm abcdefg@gmail.com I can give out abcd.efg@gmail.com to friends and abc.defg@gmail.com to random websites, then filter the incoming mail automatically).
.Mac continues to cost Apple money, as users continuously use bandwidth and disk space. On the other hand, software and hardware developing and manufacturing costs are paid for at the time of purchase. That's why I think it's fair to charge a yearly fee for the service.
Plus, many are arguing that.Mac could go free and then benefit from online advertising. I'd rather have it free from advertising, thank you.
OTOH, it should come free for, let's say, a year, with purchase of a new computer. 6 months free with iLife or any other software that links to.Mac. It's really annoying to get new stuff and find out you have to buy more stuff to make it work the way it was intended. Apple could easily rise the price by the at-cost value of.Mac to the hardware cost and no one would notice.
My biggest complaint with the service is that is has exclusive features that don't require.Mac to function. Such as multi-mac syncing. Rendezvous and wifi could easily keep my two macs in sync when they happen to be in the same room. It's stupid to send it to apple's sites then right back down. In fact, rendezvous syncing is much faster, so I could keep larger things like my entire documents folder in sync.
The Secret Service also serves as the branch of law enforcement that investigates financial fraud and counterfeiting. From The Secret Service web page:
"The Secret Service also investigates violations of laws relating to counterfeiting of obligations and securities of the United States; financial crimes that include, but are not limited to, access device fraud, financial institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks on our nation's financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure."
Under the logic of your number 2, anything that does not destroy the planet is acceptable. Do you really wish to assert something so extreme?
Also, consider that, in a natural ecosystem, all waste is recycled. The planet is a zero-sum system when it comes to mass (we have a net flow of energy in from the sun). Humanity is not. We continuously put out far more waste (Trash, nuclear waste, CO2, etc) than we reuse, and it simply isn't sustainable for any extended period of time. Worse, we're doing it on a such a massive and unbalanced scale that I worry the natural processes of evolution may not be able to save us.
We do not need to halt global warming and freeze the climate of earth into a perpetual steady state. We do, though, need to be cautious not to upset the balance that has existed for billions of years unecessarily.
In the enviornmentally conscious bay area we get enough sun that installing solar panels on a rooftop generates enough power to run a house as well as charge the hybrid.
Sure, you're just displacing the energy investment into the solar panels, but eventually you will generate more energy then you consumed in making them, and all of the generated energy is clean.
Duh! Of course you can slowly figure out how a security system works, and then work around it. See any famous and/or talented thief for such an example. The real threat, I suppose, is that these worms can do it automatically and on a larger scale.
Solution: Don't open holes and then fill them with trip wires. Just fill up the hole (via patch or otherwise) in the first place.
You forget that pearpc requires you to buy a copy of OSX. Assuming Apple makes x86 OSX require a handshake with the DRM to work, pearpc will cease to work. That's ignoring the fact that an x86 emulator running on x86 would be more than a little redundant. (that's all pearpc is- a CPU/architecture emulator)
The PPC version, of course, will work, albeit slowly. Really, you're just back to where you started.
A ticket is basically the same as being charged with a crime. Both are based on reasonable evidence that you broke the law. You can choose to not contest the charge, or you can choose to argue in your defense in court.
The real difference is tickets give you the nice option of admitting guilt by mail, to save you an annoying trip to court.
Do you know anyone who falsely got a ticket? If you go to court and say "I wasn't going over the speed limit", the police officer who wrote the ticket will have to first appear in court, then explain his method of estimating your speed, then prove his method was accurate. If he/she fails any of the above, the charges are dismissed. Where is the assumption of guilt?
Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) still rates as my favorite game of all time. No game before or since has actually caused me to dream about the characters.
Even hearing the 30-second previews on iTunes brings back memories of that bastard kefka, that fucking octopus who always screwed things up and spending hours hoping I could keep general leo alive.
My only complaint is that the versions for download are direct releases from the SNES cart. Why couldn't they orchestrate them instead of using the 8-bit sound system?
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There is no particular reason to use 802.11 anything unless you want it to be able to connect to things beyond other zunes wirelessly. And there are plenty of 802.11b-only access points and computers out there.
What TFA doesn't mention and no one else here seems to have brought up is that the number you get every day matters. It's obviously much easier to stay on top of 20 daily emails than it is 200. Once the pile gets too big, you simply think that it's too hard to manage, and give up.
I get about 20 emails a day, which means about 3 per hour. Of those, half are informative messages sent to me from one of my servers (which can be read and then deleted). So I only have to manage/respond to one email per hour. That's not a problem at all.
OTOH, if I had to respond to ten email an hour they would probably pile up faster than I could handle and would soon stop responding all together (and that's exactly what the faculty around here seem to do, unless the From header is someone they know)
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
(I think the rest of us know what that sound was)
I did RTFA, but it didn't mention how the practice violated copyright law. I understand the concerns of the people producing the original works. However:
1) The works weren't sold in stores, so the only people who had them were people who intentionally wanted them. It's not like selling a ripoff or counterfeit.
2) Doesn't this count as fair use. Does this mean that I can't take a song from a CD I bought and remove sections of it? Or it it because the companies were making a profit off of the derviation that it violated the law?
(Netscape) also is starting this "war" with around (95)% market share in (web browsers). MS is starting with 0%
I know who I'd put my money on
This is the sort of news that I wish dominated slashdot, instead of the more inane microsoft vs linux vs everything else. The overwhelming number of trival Apple did this today articles could be toned down too.
Did you have any idea that this meeting was happening before you read it here? I sure didn't. We (as a community) are probably one of the most qualified to offer a public comment to the board. Kudos to the editors for posting it.
Also, please don't whine about how the US is trying to control the internet until you've at least sent a public comment to the people who need to here it most.
How well does this represent the real top 500?
If you look at the list, several of the computers/clusters are known simply as "Classified". It makes me wonder if those at the top really represent the top 10 most powerful supercomputers out there. I'm willing to be the US government, for one, has a couple of military use supercomputers up there that they aren't even willing to acknowledge the existance of.
At the other end of the spectrum, how many smaller clusters aren't on the list simply because the administrator doesn't have time to shut the entire thing down to run a LINPACK benchmark? The cluster I/we use would easily make it into the top 450, and maybe higher, but our research is deemed more important than the glory that comes with being on the list.
I tried hard to come up with a serious comment to this article, I really did. But every time I started writing one, I starting giggling. The RIAA is just too much. So, then, let me be the first to say:
BAHAHAHAHAHAAH
So how long has ROCKS been available as a linux distro? 4 years? 5? Apple copies Linux AGAIN.
That's only a DRM issue and has nothing to do with the platform itself.
As a slashdot user, I'm disappointed you didn't go on a rabid rant about how DRM is evil and will destroy everything we've ever worked for.
Why Slashdot isn't just rejecting submissions out flat that contain the word 'Dvorak' is a mystery
No, it's not that big of a mystery. Slashdot has the biggest concentration of Dvorak keyboard lovers known to mankind
Just before I started working at my current job, our webserver was hacked and used as an ebay phishing site. It didn't take long before our offices were getting personal calls from agents at the FBI and urgent contact from the ISP who runs our node.
Suffice it to say we took action ASAP. I have a feeling they would have forced us to do something about it if we dragged our feet. I'm assuming they do the same for other reports they receive.
From what I understand, it's not two seperate accounts (i.e. ab@gmail.com and a.b@gmail.com are only one account and you can't register both, and you get mail that comes to either).
In addition, you can use it as a feature to filter mail. (i.e. if I'm abcdefg@gmail.com I can give out abcd.efg@gmail.com to friends and abc.defg@gmail.com to random websites, then filter the incoming mail automatically).
Feature, not a bug, in my opinion.
.Mac continues to cost Apple money, as users continuously use bandwidth and disk space. On the other hand, software and hardware developing and manufacturing costs are paid for at the time of purchase. That's why I think it's fair to charge a yearly fee for the service.
.Mac could go free and then benefit from online advertising. I'd rather have it free from advertising, thank you.
.Mac. It's really annoying to get new stuff and find out you have to buy more stuff to make it work the way it was intended. Apple could easily rise the price by the at-cost value of .Mac to the hardware cost and no one would notice.
.Mac to function. Such as multi-mac syncing. Rendezvous and wifi could easily keep my two macs in sync when they happen to be in the same room. It's stupid to send it to apple's sites then right back down. In fact, rendezvous syncing is much faster, so I could keep larger things like my entire documents folder in sync.
Plus, many are arguing that
OTOH, it should come free for, let's say, a year, with purchase of a new computer. 6 months free with iLife or any other software that links to
My biggest complaint with the service is that is has exclusive features that don't require
The Secret Service also serves as the branch of law enforcement that investigates financial fraud and counterfeiting. From The Secret Service web page:
"The Secret Service also investigates violations of laws relating to counterfeiting of obligations and securities of the United States; financial crimes that include, but are not limited to, access device fraud, financial institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks on our nation's financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure."
Can anyone tell me why Marriot has the SSNs of Customers?
Time-share owners, maybe, employees definately, but customers? Why?
Under the logic of your number 2, anything that does not destroy the planet is acceptable. Do you really wish to assert something so extreme?
Also, consider that, in a natural ecosystem, all waste is recycled. The planet is a zero-sum system when it comes to mass (we have a net flow of energy in from the sun). Humanity is not. We continuously put out far more waste (Trash, nuclear waste, CO2, etc) than we reuse, and it simply isn't sustainable for any extended period of time. Worse, we're doing it on a such a massive and unbalanced scale that I worry the natural processes of evolution may not be able to save us.
We do not need to halt global warming and freeze the climate of earth into a perpetual steady state. We do, though, need to be cautious not to upset the balance that has existed for billions of years unecessarily.
Your link is broken. Got a better one?
In the enviornmentally conscious bay area we get enough sun that installing solar panels on a rooftop generates enough power to run a house as well as charge the hybrid.
Sure, you're just displacing the energy investment into the solar panels, but eventually you will generate more energy then you consumed in making them, and all of the generated energy is clean.
Duh! Of course you can slowly figure out how a security system works, and then work around it. See any famous and/or talented thief for such an example. The real threat, I suppose, is that these worms can do it automatically and on a larger scale.
Solution: Don't open holes and then fill them with trip wires. Just fill up the hole (via patch or otherwise) in the first place.
You forget that pearpc requires you to buy a copy of OSX. Assuming Apple makes x86 OSX require a handshake with the DRM to work, pearpc will cease to work. That's ignoring the fact that an x86 emulator running on x86 would be more than a little redundant. (that's all pearpc is- a CPU/architecture emulator)
The PPC version, of course, will work, albeit slowly. Really, you're just back to where you started.
It doesn't quite work that way, in my opinion.
A ticket is basically the same as being charged with a crime. Both are based on reasonable evidence that you broke the law. You can choose to not contest the charge, or you can choose to argue in your defense in court.
The real difference is tickets give you the nice option of admitting guilt by mail, to save you an annoying trip to court.
Do you know anyone who falsely got a ticket? If you go to court and say "I wasn't going over the speed limit", the police officer who wrote the ticket will have to first appear in court, then explain his method of estimating your speed, then prove his method was accurate. If he/she fails any of the above, the charges are dismissed. Where is the assumption of guilt?
They were aiming for May 1st, but missed it by a day.
Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) still rates as my favorite game of all time. No game before or since has actually caused me to dream about the characters.
Even hearing the 30-second previews on iTunes brings back memories of that bastard kefka, that fucking octopus who always screwed things up and spending hours hoping I could keep general leo alive.
My only complaint is that the versions for download are direct releases from the SNES cart. Why couldn't they orchestrate them instead of using the 8-bit sound system?
When TCO is equal why would you pick the software that costs more upfront?
That logic doesn't make sense.
What's a better deal: $0 down and ten payments of $100, or $500 down and ten payments of $50?