If someone with far better French than me could provide a proper translation of the relevant paragraph I would be grateful.
Here you go:
We noted, unsurprisingly, that 95% of client stations were windows based, with professionals predominantly choosing windows 2000. In 42% of the client stations, Windows 2000 had replaced Windows NT, which failed to achieve more than a 16% footprint. Windows XP has had difficulty gaining a foothold, most notably among the industrial companies, 83% of which chose Windows 2000. XP achieved its highest userbase in the service industries at around 5% - the general average is a 2% XP installation rate.
Its been a while since I've done any RF, but theres some things in that article that are a little bit, odd, to say the least.
Camero developed a certain kind of ultra radio wave that can be emitted to generate a high-definition image and also invented the technology that allows the enhanced wave to pass through virtually any wall.
How exactly does one develop a "certain kind of ultra wadio wave", and how does one "allow it to pass through any wall". Perhaps they have a valid technology, but the person who translated this to layman's terms should be shot for creating a document that makes it sound like the company is selling smoke and mirrors.
Actually, the part of the article that I found most interesting was
...an Israeli security source told WND that Israel recently developed proprietary technology that can discreetly put an electronic field around a building or area that gives users the ability to monitor and control every electronic emission within that field, from electronic can openers to fax machines, computers and cell phones.
Seeing inside a room is one thing, but realistically, the potential for invasion of privacy is much larger with the wiretap field.
How sad, what else Insightful as Flamebait Offtopic as funny Trolls as Informative?
I don't know about you, but my time is a limited resource. I come here to stay current on the latest tech news, and to learn from the smart people who respond to the articles.
Most of the anonymous coward posts are flamebait, trolls, or other crap, and most of the jokes are just plain stupid. Seriously, does anyone still think that first posts, beowulf clusters and jabs at soviet russia are funny ? Are you really interested in joining GNAA, or the kill a puppy foundation ?
Theres an inverse relation between signal to noise ratio and the quality of the readers, and consequently the quality of the comments, and the last few years here have been the proof of this.
Now, it is definitely true that speech should not be curtailed, voices need to be heard, medium for free speech, blah blah blah, but that's what usenet is for - not a site which is trying to attract advertising revenue.
The only thing slashdot has going for it are the comments from the smart readers. I'd hate to see even more of them get driven away by the cowards.
The uneveness in F1 is now appauling, I've seen only two of the races this year whereas in 2002 I didn't miss any of them. Having a sport so unbalanced like this can't be any good for the people who run it as they will be losing viewers and therefore money from sponsors. Hopefully the FIA will restrict the use of computers and telemetry and give lower teams a chance.
Its got nothing to do with budget. Ferrari is simply fortunate enough to have the greatest driver of all time working for them.
In the last 20 years, every champshipship was won by either Williams, McLaren, or "team that Schumacher happened to be driving for at the time", which would be Benneton and Ferrari (teams which pre-Schumacher had never won a championship, and hadn't won a champiDC in 20 years respectively)
The fundamental problem here is that we're running out of vendors! Linksys and Belkin are on the shitlist; now NetGear. Who, exactly, does that leave for consumer-grade networking equipment?
you'll drop file sizes 40-50% and still be able to losslessly transcode into whatever without having to rerip.
how do you transcode from the apple format to something else ?
I considered going to apple lossless, but I quit when I realized that I would not be able to burn mp3 CDs from lossless files within iTunes. Is there a way to do this that I am unaware of ?
The difference is professional athletes get paid even if they lose the game. Playing solely for prizes is a much dicier proposition, and I think it stands a good chance of sucking the fun out of your job.
You are correct, professional team players on the NFL, NBA, etc. get paid even if they lose. However, there are many, many sports/games where if you don't win, you don't get jack.
Just off the top of my head, Tennis, Billiards, Golf, Snowboarding...
That act gave them the right to regulate indecent content, NOT to decide what is indecent. Except for the 'Seven Dirty Words', there has been no trial or public proceeding to determine what is decent. Howard Stern does not use the Seven Dirty Words
Just a slight comment. George Carlin takes great pains to call these the Seven Words You Can't Say On Television and to correct the people who name them otherwise.
Calling them the "Seven Dirty Words" carries with it an implicit acknowledgement that they are in fact dirty, and his longstanding argument is that they are not, although the Supreme court, (barely) disagreed with him. For those interested:
On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the FCC by a 5-4 vote (Justices Stevens, Burger, Rehnquist, Blackmun and Powell, with Justices Brennan, Stewart, White and Marshall dissenting). (from here)
Its a typesetting language devised by Donald Knuth. He has an open offer of cash and a mention in his next book to the person that finds a bug in his code. From what I have read, there hasn't been a bug found in his code for well on a decade.
And no, its not some obscure piece of crap, his software is still widely used when accurate typesetting is important, and his next book (TAOCP Vol 4) is one of the most anticipated books in the software industry.
I would like to see, one day, somebody build a computer case to look aesthetically pleasing, and not like a pile of melted action figures with chrome fins.
At the risk of sounding facetious, I would suggest that perhaps you consider an apple.
Granted, if you are a hardcore gamer, or if you feel the need for homebuilt PC to reinforce your "1337"-ness, then an apple is not for you, but it bears consideration.
Personally I think that an iMac makes a great looking (albeit slow) email/letter writing/web surfing workstation. Alternately, it is a nice looking platform that you can load PPC linux on if you are a more serious computer user. Again, I'm a programmer, not a gamer, so my needs are probably atypical.
Not everyone likes the minimalist theme that apple is currently usigng in their designs, but at least you have an option. Like you, I find that all the current PC case designs tend to look like those Honda based hotrods with wild fins and colours. To say that they doesn't fit in with the way my house is decorated is an understatement.
You could also go for some more modern hardware, which looks stunning. This is going to be my next machine when I am due for an upgrade.
If you were to take a few seconds to read Microsoft financials, you will see that the ONLY things that Microsoft makes money on are its operating systems, and office suite. It loses (quite a lot of) money on hardware sales.
I looked at the diagram, and it looks very nice, but they seem to be very light on the details.
Supposedly, This new version has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JOnAS, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Excellent results have been obtained with the TPC-W and RUBiS benchmarks.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, and I have been wanting something like this for years, but I sure would like to _see_ the test results, even if they are preliminary.
Well, I haven't been able to read your site, as the server of course has been slashdotted, but I gather you have collated a list of similarities between the software in questions, and (legal) software which has already been out for a while.
Given that you made the effort to prepare this work, I suggest that you take it the final step and send it to the lawyers in charge of defending the students against this lawsuit by the RIAA, or if they have none yet, try to get it to their hands.
Oh, one more thing. You might want to send it anonymously; you never know, you might be sued next. (I'm only half-joking).
At first glance this sounds good, but hasn't this been done before with the video conference software ? I remember reading about how the "shared whiteboard" would allow for internet meetings to be far more productive since we could be working on the same data at the same time.
Those fizzled, and I suspect that this will as well. Most people just funamentally can't accept their documents/work magically changing as they go along.
Hmm, on further thought, maybe this might develop into something that you could bundle in software development packages to the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmanagers that believe that eXtreme Programming is the silver bullet that will solve all programming problems.
#1. You can't outsource fixing a car to another country.
I was talking about car making, not car fixing
#2. You can't outsource delivering UPS packages to another country.
True, but the article was talking about H1-B engineers being imported to fill domestic jobs, not work being exported. You don't hear about H1-B workers coming into UPS in quantity because the unions won't stand for it.
#3. You can outsource tens of thousands of engineers to another country.
Perfectly true. This is the same thing that happened in the automobile industry - USA cars were crap quality and expensive. Then cars started coming in from Japan, Korea, Germany, etc., and the US auto industry had to improve their product or die.
But if you make a better and higher quality product, then you can charge more, which will let you swallow higher labour costs.
Perfect example is the German auto industry. Labour costs in Germany are higher than Japan or USA, but guess what - they make a better product, which allows them to remain competitive. VW makes their low end models in Mexico, but the high end models (which can carry more markup, and require higher build quality) and engines are still made in Germany.
I'm not against foreigners - actually in this case, I am more pissed off at the Americans. Really, this is not much different from the assraping that medical doctors have to take on a daily basis.
If you don't like it FORM A UNION and fight for your rights.
Theres a reason wrench monkeys at the auto makers make ridiculous money and have pretty much eternal job security, and UPS drivers start off at 1.5x the salary of a newly graduated engineer.
Why ? They realized that there is power in numbers, and they stuck together to make sure that the company they work for doesn't take advantage of them.
That take real, honest to goodness balls, which far too many debt laden, middle-class, complacent engineers just don't have.
For some reason the higher income people in the US seem to feel that they are above unions, but you can bet your ass that if all the tens of thousands of engineers that Sun has went on strike for just one day, they would sit up and listen pretty damm fast.
I'm not sure what planet you are on (a better one), but the contract workers (I am one) at a certain huge Cali. based printer manufacturer are paid 1/2 to 2/3 the employees.....
Yeah, I know what you mean, but theres two types of contract workers - notice the first 2nd sentence of my post
If you define "part time help" as someone being grossly underpaid, possibly a grad student or something, then you're probably right. If you define "part time help" as a professional contractor, you couldn't be more wrong.
You clearly fall into the first category, and I agree with what you said - you definitely need to get the duck out of fodge.
Many people I personally know were employees, fired to reduce head count but hired back as "resources" (like a power bill) at 2/3 origional $ (not including loss of all benefits).
I have to say, thats pretty shitty. Remind me not to work at your company. Leave - the economy is not _that_ bad.
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If someone with far better French than me could provide a proper translation of the relevant paragraph I would be grateful.
Here you go:
We noted, unsurprisingly, that 95% of client stations were windows based, with professionals predominantly choosing windows 2000. In 42% of the client stations, Windows 2000 had replaced Windows NT, which failed to achieve more than a 16% footprint. Windows XP has had difficulty gaining a foothold, most notably among the industrial companies, 83% of which chose Windows 2000. XP achieved its highest userbase in the service industries at around 5% - the general average is a 2% XP installation rate.
Its been a while since I've done any RF, but theres some things in that article that are a little bit, odd, to say the least.
Camero developed a certain kind of ultra radio wave that can be emitted to generate a high-definition image and also invented the technology that allows the enhanced wave to pass through virtually any wall.
How exactly does one develop a "certain kind of ultra wadio wave", and how does one "allow it to pass through any wall". Perhaps they have a valid technology, but the person who translated this to layman's terms should be shot for creating a document that makes it sound like the company is selling smoke and mirrors.
Actually, the part of the article that I found most interesting was
Seeing inside a room is one thing, but realistically, the potential for invasion of privacy is much larger with the wiretap field.
got it. Actually I figured it was you from your other posts (here not there), but the tribus confirmed it.
Nope, I don't use the same handle here and there fellow.
great. now figuring out who you are is going to drive me insane...
I'd like to see it too.
I don't know about you, but my time is a limited resource. I come here to stay current on the latest tech news, and to learn from the smart people who respond to the articles.
Most of the anonymous coward posts are flamebait, trolls, or other crap, and most of the jokes are just plain stupid. Seriously, does anyone still think that first posts, beowulf clusters and jabs at soviet russia are funny ? Are you really interested in joining GNAA, or the kill a puppy foundation ?
Theres an inverse relation between signal to noise ratio and the quality of the readers, and consequently the quality of the comments, and the last few years here have been the proof of this.
Now, it is definitely true that speech should not be curtailed, voices need to be heard, medium for free speech, blah blah blah, but that's what usenet is for - not a site which is trying to attract advertising revenue.
The only thing slashdot has going for it are the comments from the smart readers. I'd hate to see even more of them get driven away by the cowards.
I said benetton never, ferrari 20+ years. Ferrari of course has a great F1 history.
Its got nothing to do with budget. Ferrari is simply fortunate enough to have the greatest driver of all time working for them.
In the last 20 years, every champshipship was won by either Williams, McLaren, or "team that Schumacher happened to be driving for at the time", which would be Benneton and Ferrari (teams which pre-Schumacher had never won a championship, and hadn't won a champiDC in 20 years respectively)
Apple?
how do you transcode from the apple format to something else ?
I considered going to apple lossless, but I quit when I realized that I would not be able to burn mp3 CDs from lossless files within iTunes. Is there a way to do this that I am unaware of ?
You are correct, professional team players on the NFL, NBA, etc. get paid even if they lose. However, there are many, many sports/games where if you don't win, you don't get jack.
Just off the top of my head, Tennis, Billiards, Golf, Snowboarding...
Great post, and by the way, your .sig is excellent.
Just a slight comment. George Carlin takes great pains to call these the Seven Words You Can't Say On Television and to correct the people who name them otherwise.
Calling them the "Seven Dirty Words" carries with it an implicit acknowledgement that they are in fact dirty, and his longstanding argument is that they are not, although the Supreme court, (barely) disagreed with him. For those interested:
On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the FCC by a 5-4 vote (Justices Stevens, Burger, Rehnquist, Blackmun and Powell, with Justices Brennan, Stewart, White and Marshall dissenting). (from here)
Yes, I'm a George Carlin fan.
Unless of course, your name is Donald Knuth.
Since when does AOL own iTunes ?
Have you ever heard of TeX ?
Its a typesetting language devised by Donald Knuth. He has an open offer of cash and a mention in his next book to the person that finds a bug in his code. From what I have read, there hasn't been a bug found in his code for well on a decade.
And no, its not some obscure piece of crap, his software is still widely used when accurate typesetting is important, and his next book (TAOCP Vol 4) is one of the most anticipated books in the software industry.
At the risk of sounding facetious, I would suggest that perhaps you consider an apple.
Granted, if you are a hardcore gamer, or if you feel the need for homebuilt PC to reinforce your "1337"-ness, then an apple is not for you, but it bears consideration.
Personally I think that an iMac makes a great looking (albeit slow) email/letter writing/web surfing workstation. Alternately, it is a nice looking platform that you can load PPC linux on if you are a more serious computer user. Again, I'm a programmer, not a gamer, so my needs are probably atypical.
Not everyone likes the minimalist theme that apple is currently usigng in their designs, but at least you have an option. Like you, I find that all the current PC case designs tend to look like those Honda based hotrods with wild fins and colours. To say that they doesn't fit in with the way my house is decorated is an understatement.
You could also go for some more modern hardware, which looks stunning. This is going to be my next machine when I am due for an upgrade.
Typical /. - try reading.
If you were to take a few seconds to read Microsoft financials, you will see that the ONLY things that Microsoft makes money on are its operating systems, and office suite. It loses (quite a lot of) money on hardware sales.
I looked at the diagram, and it looks very nice, but they seem to be very light on the details.
Supposedly, This new version has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JOnAS, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Excellent results have been obtained with the TPC-W and RUBiS benchmarks.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, and I have been wanting something like this for years, but I sure would like to _see_ the test results, even if they are preliminary.
Well, I haven't been able to read your site, as the server of course has been slashdotted, but I gather you have collated a list of similarities between the software in questions, and (legal) software which has already been out for a while.
Given that you made the effort to prepare this work, I suggest that you take it the final step and send it to the lawyers in charge of defending the students against this lawsuit by the RIAA, or if they have none yet, try to get it to their hands.
Oh, one more thing. You might want to send it anonymously; you never know, you might be sued next. (I'm only half-joking).
At first glance this sounds good, but hasn't this been done before with the video conference software ? I remember reading about how the "shared whiteboard" would allow for internet meetings to be far more productive since we could be working on the same data at the same time.
Those fizzled, and I suspect that this will as well. Most people just funamentally can't accept their documents/work magically changing as they go along.
Hmm, on further thought, maybe this might develop into something that you could bundle in software development packages to the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmanagers that believe that eXtreme Programming is the silver bullet that will solve all programming problems.
*sigh*
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these ?
Oh wait.
Shit.
A few thoughts on your reasoning:
:)
#1. You can't outsource fixing a car to another country.
I was talking about car making, not car fixing
#2. You can't outsource delivering UPS packages to another country.
True, but the article was talking about H1-B engineers being imported to fill domestic jobs, not work being exported. You don't hear about H1-B workers coming into UPS in quantity because the unions won't stand for it.
#3. You can outsource tens of thousands of engineers to another country.
Perfectly true. This is the same thing that happened in the automobile industry - USA cars were crap quality and expensive. Then cars started coming in from Japan, Korea, Germany, etc., and the US auto industry had to improve their product or die.
But if you make a better and higher quality product, then you can charge more, which will let you swallow higher labour costs.
Perfect example is the German auto industry. Labour costs in Germany are higher than Japan or USA, but guess what - they make a better product, which allows them to remain competitive. VW makes their low end models in Mexico, but the high end models (which can carry more markup, and require higher build quality) and engines are still made in Germany.
#4. Profit!
Can't argue against profit
I'm not against foreigners - actually in this case, I am more pissed off at the Americans. Really, this is not much different from the assraping that medical doctors have to take on a daily basis.
If you don't like it FORM A UNION and fight for your rights.
Theres a reason wrench monkeys at the auto makers make ridiculous money and have pretty much eternal job security, and UPS drivers start off at 1.5x the salary of a newly graduated engineer.
Why ? They realized that there is power in numbers, and they stuck together to make sure that the company they work for doesn't take advantage of them.
That take real, honest to goodness balls, which far too many debt laden, middle-class, complacent engineers just don't have.
For some reason the higher income people in the US seem to feel that they are above unions, but you can bet your ass that if all the tens of thousands of engineers that Sun has went on strike for just one day, they would sit up and listen pretty damm fast.
Yeah, I know what you mean, but theres two types of contract workers - notice the first 2nd sentence of my post
If you define "part time help" as someone being grossly underpaid, possibly a grad student or something, then you're probably right. If you define "part time help" as a professional contractor, you couldn't be more wrong.
You clearly fall into the first category, and I agree with what you said - you definitely need to get the duck out of fodge.
Many people I personally know were employees, fired to reduce head count but hired back as "resources" (like a power bill) at 2/3 origional $ (not including loss of all benefits).
I have to say, thats pretty shitty. Remind me not to work at your company. Leave - the economy is not _that_ bad.