I especially liked the transcription of the phone calls...
CT: Both these machines have internal OCUR cards, too; I've never worked with the internal cards before.
MSG: [Still unaware he's on a speakerphone] Yeah, those are really tricky. But don't tell the guy that, or he'll write it up. You're gonna start seeing Dells like that come through your system like crazy.
Interesting...a US product being banned from being brought into the US.
From the aforementioned article:
Qualcomm says the new phones, with features like faster Internet access and better graphics, are necessary to public safety agencies. The Broadcom patent is for a battery-saving feature.
There it is...the catch phrase "public safety agencies." Would this be considered to be Qualcomm playing the "anti-terror" card?
why in the world would anyone run emulation when they can run Windows natively with bootcamp. If you're going to play games you would obviously want the most speed you can get. I bought a mac, but I'm 98% in the windows. I only use mac to test web based apps in safari. For people like me or for gamers, I don't see why you would ever use paralells emulation. The speed cost is just too high.
Because there are times where I want to work in Windows *and* Mac simultaneously. I can run a Win2K guest OS with my campus Novell client and have access to all the networked apps that I need to use, and still use my Mac apps.
As you said, for people like you or gamers, Boot Camp is the way to go. "You and gamers" are not the majority of computer users, thus that is why "the rest of us" who need it will use Parallels.
The false negatives, in which valid people are denied the oh-so-exciting opportunity of working for the DHS (cough, cough) or the false positives, in which lazy bums are given cushy jobs at said department because of, say, political allegiances?
You either misread or didn't read the story; this isn't about a database for working AT the DHS, this is about a database of eligible workers maintained BY the DHS.
In much the USA, many Americans refuse to use public transportation because they want to get to work in a half-hour rather than spending four hours hopping from bus to bus to train to bus.
I tried taking the Washington DC Metro system to work once, comparing it to my daily drive. By bus/train/train/bus (Alexandria, VA to Bolling AFB), it took me two hours. By car, it took about 10-15 minutes (if the old Woodrow Wilson bridge wasn't back up...HA! otherwise it was about 20-25 minutes).
I think I still got value for my money though; in taking about five times as long to get to work via public transit instead of driving, the metro fare cost me five times as much as the gas it took to get to work.
(I never figured out the per-mile cost figuring the cost of the vehicle, insurance, maintenance, etc...I should do that someday and see how the comparison works out.)
Summer gasoline is more expensive because the formulation is more expensive to produce. Whether produced by the free market or government controlled entities.
I thought that gasoline was the same regardless of season; diesel fuel, OTOH, definitely has a summer and winter blend, as diesel would otherwise gel up in cold weather.
What's the difference between the two types of gasoline, if there is one?
MS needs to tell us specifically which free software is violating what patents. If they do not tell us that we are justified in assuming that either no free software violates any patents, or that MS is entirely ok with all the free software that violates any of their patents. If they were not ok with it, they would tell us exactly which free software violated exactly what patents.
Microsoft can't specify which patents have been infringed upon because it hasn't filed for those patents yet. Wait a few years until MS has the patents filed and approved, THEN MS can point out the patents in question.
Look at the display timeout and backlight settings. I have both set to a minute on my RAZR, and the screens are off after a minute, even on the charger.
And this blow my mind, the way the fuel use is estimated:
"A hose is connected to the tailpipe to collect the engine exhaust.
The amount of carbon in the exhaust is measured to calculate the amount of fuel used during the test.
This is more accurate than using a fuel gauge."
How is this more accurate? You cover x miles, burning y gallons of fuel. Thus, your fuel economy for that test is x/y miles per gallon.
Leave it to the government to find a overly complicated means of conducting a simple test. I'd like to know why metered fuel use over a measured distance isn't very accurate.
(BTW...my '03 Prius, rated at 45 MPG highway, is currently hitting 55 MPG over the last 200+ miles of nearly exclusively highway driving.)
These guys are pretty big tools to think that they'll actually get away with this....then again, the way the government (and silly laws) work, they may just win the day.
I hope not, this is just asinine. I bet the jokers at MRT are looking for an out-of-court settlement, as somebody has their eye on a shiny new boat and can't scrape up the payments.
I hope this doesn't get settled...I want to see Apple, Microsoft, et al go to court and make it hurt. How much do you want to bet that when court day arrives, the suit gets dropped?
Thanks for the clarification--I suppose I would have seen the connection had I actually used a social networking site. I didn't think that sort of thing could happen. Now I'm more sure that staying away from those sites is a good move.
On the high side of mid 30s. I remember something about that argument, then as I got wiser I realized how stupid the argument was. Trees are renewable, although the way some environmentalist groups act you would think not another tree would ever sprout from the Earth again.
I've commented on this subject before on Slashdot, in the context of social networking sites. I think humanity needs to learn that in a highly-connected world, you have to be careful what you say, you have to be wary of reading too much into what others say, and most important of all, you have to cut people a little slack sometimes. Right now, IMHO, our laws don't place nearly enough value on privacy, and I think this is a painful lesson that we are going to learn as an entire generation who grew up with the likes of Facebook, Myspace and LiveJournal run into problems for the next few decades.
I'm not sure I see where the connection is between privacy laws and social websites. Social websites contain material that is voluntarily posted by members, not material that is forced to be posted against one's will. Otherwise, I agree with everything else in this particular segment. We all need to be a little more thick-skinned and, at the same time, a little more sensitive to what might offend others. The "more sensitivity" to try to stop offending somebody, and "thick-skinned" to overlook the occasional transgression.
You're right--I did make some assumptions and not others, and realized the fault in my logic after posting.
I thought the bags were bad because they were of a material that couldn't be easily recycled, not for some budgetary concerns (or maybe they are too expensive to recycle, hence the budget impact).
I've always tried to use paper bags vice plastic. My logic? I can grow more trees, but I can't grow more dinosaurs.
Perhaps where he lives and works, there is no area where housing and employment are in close proximity. It's hard to live next door to the office when the nearest (affordable) residential area is 20 miles away.
I didn't say one was OK and one was not...YOU brought up the "who's greener" argument, not I. mathematically, sure, you burn less gas than he, but you could burn ZERO gas much more easily in your current situation than the other poster.
This is true; however, I didn't read that the device was technically capable of face recognition. It looks specifically for the infrared signature of an eyeball, not facial patterns.
Not to say of course that the device can't do that (now or in future versions), it just wasn't mentioned in the article.
"It's less accurate than those systems, but it is good enough to let us know whether you are looking at a display or billboard or not," says lead developer Roel Vertegaal from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
I read that as a binary "yes-no" device: "Are those eyeballs looking at the ad? Yes or no?" If the answer is "no," then the camera only knows what you are NOT looking at, i.e. the billboard of interest.
It also doesn't appear to be able to determine WHO is looking at the target, just that SOMEBODY is looking at it.
one is a receipt for the person to take with them.
No...
No...
NO!
That would enable vote-selling/blackmail and break the secrecy of the secret ballot. "Bring me your vote for candidate X, and I'll pay you $10!" or "Bring me your vote for candidate X, and your house won't mysteriously burn down tomorrow."
And there's nothing wrong with that. You may only go a mile to work, but if the driving you do at work takes you places no hybrid (or regular car I would wager) should go, then a work truck is the way to go.
As has been stated, before, you use the right tool for the job. A hammer and chisel may be more "green" than a pneumatic jackhammer with a diesel engine driving a compressor, but try breaking up a 12-ton slab of concrete with them.
Actually, what's being given to the viewers is FREE video-on-demand:
Cox viewers will be able to watch episodes of ABC's hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," and "Ugly Betty" free whenever they choose starting in the fall, The Journal said, adding that episodes will be available 12 hours after they premiere on ABC, and ESPN will chip in a package of college football games.
Now, you try charging me for ad-laden content like this where I can't skip ahead, forget it. Otherwise, it's not really such a bad deal; the price you pay is not skipping the ads, but you can always do what you would do if watching the live broadcast; go get a soda, use the bathroom, etc.
What is truly hilarious is that the mainstream media, who, let us not forget, are the ones being "encouraged to generate useful content because of copyright law" have very little understanding of copyright. Their understanding, it would seem, is so limited that the only way they can explain Creative Commons is to say "no copyright!"
Which is the exact OPPOSITE of what I stated; go back and read the part where I stated that a CC license RELIES on copyright.
Since you stated I am as "ridiculously mis-informed," clarify my misunderstanding; what am I missing that ties public domain to a CC license?
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Remember, that's Microsoft-proprietary!
Interesting...a US product being banned from being brought into the US.
From the aforementioned article: There it is...the catch phrase "public safety agencies." Would this be considered to be Qualcomm playing the "anti-terror" card?
As you said, for people like you or gamers, Boot Camp is the way to go. "You and gamers" are not the majority of computer users, thus that is why "the rest of us" who need it will use Parallels.
I think I still got value for my money though; in taking about five times as long to get to work via public transit instead of driving, the metro fare cost me five times as much as the gas it took to get to work.
(I never figured out the per-mile cost figuring the cost of the vehicle, insurance, maintenance, etc...I should do that someday and see how the comparison works out.)
I thought that gasoline was the same regardless of season; diesel fuel, OTOH, definitely has a summer and winter blend, as diesel would otherwise gel up in cold weather.
What's the difference between the two types of gasoline, if there is one?
I call it a "pre-emptive patent strike."
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Settings-->Initial setup
Look at the display timeout and backlight settings. I have both set to a minute on my RAZR, and the screens are off after a minute, even on the charger.
And this blow my mind, the way the fuel use is estimated:
"A hose is connected to the tailpipe to collect the engine exhaust.
The amount of carbon in the exhaust is measured to calculate the amount of fuel used during the test.
This is more accurate than using a fuel gauge."
How is this more accurate? You cover x miles, burning y gallons of fuel. Thus, your fuel economy for that test is x/y miles per gallon.
Leave it to the government to find a overly complicated means of conducting a simple test. I'd like to know why metered fuel use over a measured distance isn't very accurate.
(BTW...my '03 Prius, rated at 45 MPG highway, is currently hitting 55 MPG over the last 200+ miles of nearly exclusively highway driving.)
I hope this doesn't get settled...I want to see Apple, Microsoft, et al go to court and make it hurt. How much do you want to bet that when court day arrives, the suit gets dropped?
Thanks for the clarification--I suppose I would have seen the connection had I actually used a social networking site. I didn't think that sort of thing could happen. Now I'm more sure that staying away from those sites is a good move.
On the high side of mid 30s. I remember something about that argument, then as I got wiser I realized how stupid the argument was. Trees are renewable, although the way some environmentalist groups act you would think not another tree would ever sprout from the Earth again.
I'm not sure I see where the connection is between privacy laws and social websites. Social websites contain material that is voluntarily posted by members, not material that is forced to be posted against one's will. Otherwise, I agree with everything else in this particular segment. We all need to be a little more thick-skinned and, at the same time, a little more sensitive to what might offend others. The "more sensitivity" to try to stop offending somebody, and "thick-skinned" to overlook the occasional transgression.
Terminator - The holiday special
I can hardly wait!
You're right--I did make some assumptions and not others, and realized the fault in my logic after posting.
I thought the bags were bad because they were of a material that couldn't be easily recycled, not for some budgetary concerns (or maybe they are too expensive to recycle, hence the budget impact).
I've always tried to use paper bags vice plastic. My logic? I can grow more trees, but I can't grow more dinosaurs.
Perhaps where he lives and works, there is no area where housing and employment are in close proximity. It's hard to live next door to the office when the nearest (affordable) residential area is 20 miles away.
I didn't say one was OK and one was not...YOU brought up the "who's greener" argument, not I. mathematically, sure, you burn less gas than he, but you could burn ZERO gas much more easily in your current situation than the other poster.
This is true; however, I didn't read that the device was technically capable of face recognition. It looks specifically for the infrared signature of an eyeball, not facial patterns.
Not to say of course that the device can't do that (now or in future versions), it just wasn't mentioned in the article.
I read that as a binary "yes-no" device: "Are those eyeballs looking at the ad? Yes or no?" If the answer is "no," then the camera only knows what you are NOT looking at, i.e. the billboard of interest.
It also doesn't appear to be able to determine WHO is looking at the target, just that SOMEBODY is looking at it.
No...
No...
NO!
That would enable vote-selling/blackmail and break the secrecy of the secret ballot. "Bring me your vote for candidate X, and I'll pay you $10!" or "Bring me your vote for candidate X, and your house won't mysteriously burn down tomorrow."
And there's nothing wrong with that. You may only go a mile to work, but if the driving you do at work takes you places no hybrid (or regular car I would wager) should go, then a work truck is the way to go.
As has been stated, before, you use the right tool for the job. A hammer and chisel may be more "green" than a pneumatic jackhammer with a diesel engine driving a compressor, but try breaking up a 12-ton slab of concrete with them.
He is---20 miles is a bit far to ride a bike every day, 3 miles is not.
Now, you try charging me for ad-laden content like this where I can't skip ahead, forget it. Otherwise, it's not really such a bad deal; the price you pay is not skipping the ads, but you can always do what you would do if watching the live broadcast; go get a soda, use the bathroom, etc.
Which is the exact OPPOSITE of what I stated; go back and read the part where I stated that a CC license RELIES on copyright.
Since you stated I am as "ridiculously mis-informed," clarify my misunderstanding; what am I missing that ties public domain to a CC license?