Ok, I see from a moral stand point how a person would refuse a credit check by an employer, but if I were an employer, I would credit check the hell out of my employees. Credit checks really are helpful in giving you a indication of how reliable a person is. Now granted, they're not 100% accurate, and people can get messed up credit from something like large medical bills they cannot possibly pay, but generally a person with jacked up credit is usually a more risky employee. The ovbious connection most people make is bad credit = untrustworthy and more likely to steal, which is sadily true enough to make it a widely accepted assumption. Also, if you have access to trade/government secrets, you are assumed to be more likely to try to sell said secrets to competitors/foreign governments. Take Brian Patrick Regan who is a retired Air Force Master Sgt., and who's currently accused of trying to sell military secrets to Iraq, Libya and China for $13 million. Guess what? His credit was jacked to the tune of about $100,000 in credit debit. If you join the military, they credit check you, and rightfully so. Also, whenever I worked at Ford Credit, they ran credit checks on you because you had access to about a million people's social security numbers and almost all their other personal information, so their was a potential for identity theft. Everyone there had good credit, and there was no identity theft. Concidence? Maybe, but it still didn't happen.
And besides, it's just a credit check. I mean, Jesus, it's the same thing as if you apply for a credit card. Just let them do the stupid credit check, if you really feel so bad about it, you might be in a position to get it removed from future employees hiring processes, there by helping others in your same prediciment. And if nothing else, at least you'd have a job, and a pretty good one from the sound of things. Something I'm sure many of us would just about kill for by now.
The only problem is, to get sufficent evidence, all they need is one or two disgruntled employees to call or write a letter to the BSA, and they can get a warrent in most places. Of course, they would probably try to just have you let them check your equipment first before getting a warrent, then go get one if you refuse, which would give you time to wipe/"make disappear" your hard drives.
Would it even remotely suprise you if it was? Funny thing about numbers, if you have the money behind the study/poll/whatever, you can make them say whatever you like.
Here in Colorado, our DNC list has been taking subscribers for less than a year, and has been enforceable for about 3 months, and so far 1 million lines are on it. Not sure how many lines we have all together, but the state's total population is 4.4 mil, so I predict Mass. will probably get more than a third of their population on board in the end. And as for the legal challenges, several companies have tried to stop the list with no luck. It's actually kind of funny because it seems like they have some valid arguments sometimes, but the courts refuse to listen to them.
This may just be a coincidence, but I think it has something more to do with quality and controll over all of the hardware, but I have NEVER had a drive that came installed in any of the 10 or so Apple computers I've used fail in 9 years, and no one I know that uses a Apple has had a drive fail. Now Apple doesn't make their own drives, and in fact usually seem to use Fujitsu, but never the less, 0% failure rate for me in 9 years. I've only had one drive fail and that was a 20 Gig Maxtor on a G4 tower that I installed, and it still went about a year. Granted the 300 MB drive in my now ancient Performa is now basically useless, but it does still work.
I see your point on this, only this is a long way off. Right now the closest thing to portable lasers being looked at and researched is laser systems on planes and tanks. And good luck carting off a 5 ton laser weapon. I'm sure if a plane got shot down and it looked like our precious technology was about to get captured, we'd bomb it to hell. I'd imagine it would probably be another decade before we'd see laser systems for the infantry man. And hell, by then we'll have probably came up with something really witty like orbital bombardment.
You do raise some good concerns, but really there's almost zero chance any other countries, freinds or foes, will get ahold of working laser weapons (Not to mention, there is a big difference between Stingers and AKs and JDAMs and Apache choppers). And the reason? The almighty dollar. In the article, one Air Force official says the Air Force alone has spent $4.5 Billion dollars on developing a high powered laser weapon. And that's just the AF, who knows how much the Army and Navy have put in, or how much has went in covertly under a black project. Now for the U.S., $4.5 billion is a drop in the pan. Our defense budget for next year is going to be $355.4 billion. So that $4.5 billion is only about 1-1.5% of our defense budget. Not much. But our defense budget is about 10 times more than any other country. The country that spends the second most on defense is China, and they might spend upwards of $60 billion a year, but most countries that can afford to spend a good amount on defense spend around $30 billion, and on average, whatever they spend comes to around 3% of their GDP (The US included).
I get the following numbers from the CIA World Factbook 2002. Just to give you an idea, our $355 billion budget is, combined, more than:
China: Officially spends $20 billion but actual defense spending more likely ranges from $45 billion to $65 billion. So we'll just say $65 billion for ease of use.
United Kingdom: $31.7 billion
France: $46.5 billion
Germany: $38.8 billion
Italy: $20.2 billion
Spain: $8.6 billion
Canada: $7.8 billion
Japan: $40.7 billion
Australia: $9.3 billion
Brazil: $13.4 billion
Argentina: $4.3 billion
Columbia: $3.3 billion
Mongolia: $24.3 billion
Israel: $8.8 billion
Iran: $9.7 billion
Egypt: $4.4 billion
Iraq: $1.3 billion
South Africa: $1.8 billion
Pakistan: $2.5 billion
India: $12 billion
And about $1 billion in change from our U.S. budget minus all the above named countries. And the moral of the story? We can afford to spend more on just one weapon project then some countries can on their entire defense budget, and this is why we don't have to worry about this falling into the wrong hands. That's why there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of dirt cheap assault rifles in the mid-east and south-east Asia, but the only place you can find an entire bomber wing of $2 billion dollar B-2 Spirit stealth bombers is in Missouri. An AK-47 in America can sell for between $300-$1800 depending on what shape it's in and how good it is, and I'm sure one can be made for much less and purchased for less than that in countries where they are legal to sell brand new. If laser based weapons do live up to the hype, they will essentially be the new nuclear weapons. Everyone will want them, but due to the cost and technology involved, almost no one will be able to have them. This is what Rumsfeld really means when he talks of weapons other countries can't emulate. Of course they can't, they can't afford to. To make these weapons, they would have to inflate their defense budgets so much they would crush their economy and countries. So with these weapons it will probably be, as another poster noted with nukes, another 50-60 years before most countries can afford them, and by then, this will look like stone age technology to us.
Just remember, Iraq once had the 4th largest military in the world. On paper, they should have put up a good fight. However, we had vastly superior technology (and people, IMHO), and, well, you see where they are today.
This sounds just like when George Lucas was predicting digital actors would put the regular actors out of business reasonably soon. Is it possible that DVD or some other format will lead to the down fall of cinema as we know it? Yes. Is it going to happen anytime soon? No.
Ah, MacFoxes or something like that. I remember it well. It had a Cheerleader with the Cucumber and a Dominatrix chick that came with such fine devices as a bottle of Jack and a Rocket Pop! You just don't find quality like that anymore. In fact (Did some quick Googling) here it is if you want it for... um... archival/ammusment purposes.
And it will not be missed by me. I've cast off those shackles. And maybe instead of whining and complaining about how they can't find a job, everyone who needs a job should just get over it and do something about it. Everyone needs to find there own path, and here's my story. I went to school for a couple years, got my CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), and got a job at Ford Credit. I was only making collection calls, but hey, had to get in the door somehow. I spent about a year trying to get on Ford's IT department or get a job using my skills somewhere, but never could. Then, I decided it wasn't worth all the crap. It wasn't worth struggling to find a job doing what I wanted to do and had went to school to do. Even if I did find an opening somewhere, I'd go for an interview and basically be told, "Well, you have some good skills, but we're looking for someone who can do basically everything under the sun, and we'd like to pay them maybe $30K/Yr." Seriously. They wanted people that had been in IT for years and wanted to pay them what someone with my skill level might find reasonable. So, you know what I did? I said, "Fuck all this bullshit." Even if I did get a job somewhere, well, we've all see how much security there really is in IT. Lucent just cut 10,000 more workers today. According to CNNFN, they only had 77,000 back at the start of the month.
So, I joined the Air Force. And you know what, I wouldn't trade it for a thing. Yes, I'm not making a whole lot of money. Even at Ford making collection calls, I made about $25K, I'll probably pull about $16K as an E-3, though my living costs will be paid. But I'll still have more money than I'll know what to do with it. It's hard to waste $16K a year with no rent or food costs. And yes, I have a few more responsibilities than the average 19 year old, and I can't go out and do 19 year old things like get piss drunk and wasted off my ass, but I also don't want to. I'm much more mature than people my age, I have self-confidence and pride none of them could imagine, and I'm probably in the best shape of my life. In 20 years, I can retire and collect roughly half of whatever I'm making at the time (Not exactly true, but the system would take to long to explain, so that works) plus have an absurd retirement fund thanks to all the money I have been/will be hoarding. You'd be amazed at how it, coupled with a lovely optional government retirement plan, can grow. No need to worry about if my company will be there in 20 years. Unless the country goes under, my job should be very stable. And all of my education is, as of this month, 100% paid for by the U.S. government, as is every other active duty military member's. I'm not making much now, but download a pay chart and see how much an O-4 makes at 20 years, not bad for a 39 year old.
Now, I'm not saying the military is for everyone, because that it is definitely not. I'm just saying, for those in need of something, 4 years of your life for such a decent cause isn't really a bad thing, and besides, you might just like it. Besides, which do you think has more pride and honor, a 25 year old making $100K/Yr for some wasteful dot.bomd that may well be out of business in a few years and watching his health deteriorate as he sits behind a desk staring at a computer screen, or a 25 year old making $22K/Yr as a Staff Sgt. in Special Forces who is one of the finest specimens humanity can muster, and who's work really does do something to shape the world? "What did you do today, Bob?" "Compiled my new program to write e-mail." "What did you do today, Airman Johnson?" "Helped save the world."
Now go on and mod me down for being off topic and what not while you die slowly at your desk. You have Karma to maintain, I have a country and a world to go help save.
Having bought macs both for myself and on a slightly larger scale for my old school's TV program, and watching Apple trends, I'd say the best time is quarterly. Actually, just after the end of a quarter. As noted, the MacWorld's were ususally when Apple let out their latest and greatest. Lately though, they've unvieled new products a month or two after a new quarter. Take the new G4 towers. They were launched August 13th, while the last MacWorld before that was at the end of July. The main thing to remember with Apple though, Steve Jobs has this control and surprise issue and likes to keep people somewhat on their toes, so good look really prediciting when Apple will definatly launch something new. Oh, and a word of advice, don't get caught up in worring if Apple is going to go to a mythical "G5" chip soon. Look aroung online if you don't know what I mean.
I'm not saying it's always 100% a age issue. My grand ma probably has more computer skill than the average 20 year old, and I do think the "younger" generation gets to much credit sometimes. Most people seem to think if you can check e-mail you're some sort of 1337 haX00r. But in general younger people that grew up with the technology seem to adapt better to it then older people who were introduced to it later in life.
Normally, as long as over 50% of shareholders/owners of a company decide to do something, i.e. sell the company in this case, they can as long as there are no anti-trust issues. However, when a company enters into bankruptcy, they gain protection from their creditors collecting on debts owed, but lose the right to administer their own finances. All transactions, expecially selling the company, must be approved by the court. Here's a brief article on Chapter 11 bankruptcy law.
At least they won't now be coming back as a pay service, which would just bastardize everything Napster stood for when it first came out. Odd how things work, Napster got sued and is now dead for all intents and purposes, and its fuel, mp3's, look like they may have started their down turn thanks to the change in licensing terms and some companies beginning to remove encoding and decoding of mp3s from their software as a result.
You have to look at it in a future text as well. While these things are rare currently, as time goes on, UWB devices will only grow in #s. It does suck that this is the approach they're going with for now (I'm sure there has to be some sort of screening technology) but I do see their concerns. Once I took my cable out of my TV for some reason or another and left it out for a few days. The cable company showed up and said the signal was leaking and interfering with the devices on the airplanes that fly by my house often (They didn't specify civil or military, I have both fly by often) and they reconnected everything lose and replaced a few old splitters. They do take this shit really seriously, as well they should. Besides, how'd you like to be the idiot that crashes a plane because your PDA decided to try to reach out and touch something?
I really hope this idea does take off and soon becomes a standard in the science/research communities. Let us not forget, back whenever the Internet was still something about enhancing humanity instead of about expanding wallets, this (well, maybe not THIS exactly, but things like this in general) was the point of the Internet. The whole thing was invisioned as a way to better and expand human thoughts, ideas, and foster new/better technologies through improved and cheaper research and methods. However, now all the Internet community usually seems concerned about (With a few exceptions like/.) is getting mp3's and pr0n, hence the development of Internet2, which, hopefully will never be opened to the general public so that it doesn't lose its vision and become corrupted like the current Internet did.
I'd say those are probably pretty realistic expectations. The Ti book line is over due for an update, and that would be the most likely place and time for one, and I'm sure Apple will be looking to capatilize on this newest offering from ATI. If they are announced, updated Ti's with the 9000 might not ship right away due to how close the availability date and the Expo date are, but I do think there is a strong chance if not at the Expo, new Ti's with this option will be announced within 3 months.
Especially my spread sheet program. Finally, I don't have to have that horrible graphic lag when moving cells. And man,/. is really going to fly.:) In all honestly though, I really would kill to get one of these for my Ti Book.
I'm not sure, but I think your thinking of the switch fabrics that are chip sets in routers and switches that, I believe, direct traffic. I couldn't find a really good description of them, but here's a standard release that quickly skims over the technology: INCITS
It wouldn't suprise me if this (Marklar) was true, but I'd be more prone to believe it if it came from a more reputable source. You see, eWeek is owned by Ziff Davis who has a vested intrest in the success of, and popular rumors for Microsoft, Windows, and therfore, x86. By vested intrest, I mean out of the 9 magazines they produce, almost half are for geared towards the PC population, and 0 are based around macs. Plus they've always seemed a little biased towards the Wintel Empire, IMHO. This reminds me of the start of the month when a Bear-Stearns analyst said that Apple would go to x86 in 2-4 years, but then disclosed that Bear-Stearns owns Intel stock, and as such would have reason to make such a "detailed analysis" and maybe get Intel stock to rise as a result. So yeah, I'll actually believe it when I see it.
Oh yeah, this will be real cool, until the next time I'm driving through downtown Denver with a double gulp between my legs because it won't fit in any cup holder in the universe and I hit 1 of the 2 or so hundred pot holes on I-25 and dump said double gulp in my lap. Oh well, no more need to spring for Trojan® Cyber-Jans® after that, and more $ for OS Socks or whatever.:)
Suck my balls off topic. The story concerned YDL on an iBook, this was a natural progression. There went my Karma, it appears to have been destroyed when it hit my Dogma.
Is it possible to put Linux on a PowerBook G4 and still be able to boot into OS X/9.2? I have said lovely computer and have been looking into possibly putting Linux (Any Flava better than the rest?) on it, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. Plus I still need OS X/9.2, so I would need to get back to them. Any helpful advice?
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, I see from a moral stand point how a person would refuse a credit check by an employer, but if I were an employer, I would credit check the hell out of my employees. Credit checks really are helpful in giving you a indication of how reliable a person is. Now granted, they're not 100% accurate, and people can get messed up credit from something like large medical bills they cannot possibly pay, but generally a person with jacked up credit is usually a more risky employee. The ovbious connection most people make is bad credit = untrustworthy and more likely to steal, which is sadily true enough to make it a widely accepted assumption. Also, if you have access to trade/government secrets, you are assumed to be more likely to try to sell said secrets to competitors/foreign governments. Take Brian Patrick Regan who is a retired Air Force Master Sgt., and who's currently accused of trying to sell military secrets to Iraq, Libya and China for $13 million. Guess what? His credit was jacked to the tune of about $100,000 in credit debit. If you join the military, they credit check you, and rightfully so. Also, whenever I worked at Ford Credit, they ran credit checks on you because you had access to about a million people's social security numbers and almost all their other personal information, so their was a potential for identity theft. Everyone there had good credit, and there was no identity theft. Concidence? Maybe, but it still didn't happen.
And besides, it's just a credit check. I mean, Jesus, it's the same thing as if you apply for a credit card. Just let them do the stupid credit check, if you really feel so bad about it, you might be in a position to get it removed from future employees hiring processes, there by helping others in your same prediciment. And if nothing else, at least you'd have a job, and a pretty good one from the sound of things. Something I'm sure many of us would just about kill for by now.
The only problem is, to get sufficent evidence, all they need is one or two disgruntled employees to call or write a letter to the BSA, and they can get a warrent in most places. Of course, they would probably try to just have you let them check your equipment first before getting a warrent, then go get one if you refuse, which would give you time to wipe/"make disappear" your hard drives.
Would it even remotely suprise you if it was? Funny thing about numbers, if you have the money behind the study/poll/whatever, you can make them say whatever you like.
Here in Colorado, our DNC list has been taking subscribers for less than a year, and has been enforceable for about 3 months, and so far 1 million lines are on it. Not sure how many lines we have all together, but the state's total population is 4.4 mil, so I predict Mass. will probably get more than a third of their population on board in the end. And as for the legal challenges, several companies have tried to stop the list with no luck. It's actually kind of funny because it seems like they have some valid arguments sometimes, but the courts refuse to listen to them.
This may just be a coincidence, but I think it has something more to do with quality and controll over all of the hardware, but I have NEVER had a drive that came installed in any of the 10 or so Apple computers I've used fail in 9 years, and no one I know that uses a Apple has had a drive fail. Now Apple doesn't make their own drives, and in fact usually seem to use Fujitsu, but never the less, 0% failure rate for me in 9 years. I've only had one drive fail and that was a 20 Gig Maxtor on a G4 tower that I installed, and it still went about a year. Granted the 300 MB drive in my now ancient Performa is now basically useless, but it does still work.
Looks like www.ferrago.co.uk can not hang with us:
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
Just FYI in case you read this comment anytime soon before checking the story.
I see your point on this, only this is a long way off. Right now the closest thing to portable lasers being looked at and researched is laser systems on planes and tanks. And good luck carting off a 5 ton laser weapon. I'm sure if a plane got shot down and it looked like our precious technology was about to get captured, we'd bomb it to hell. I'd imagine it would probably be another decade before we'd see laser systems for the infantry man. And hell, by then we'll have probably came up with something really witty like orbital bombardment.
I get the following numbers from the CIA World Factbook 2002. Just to give you an idea, our $355 billion budget is, combined, more than:
- China: Officially spends $20 billion but actual defense spending more likely ranges from $45 billion to $65 billion. So we'll just say $65 billion for ease of use.
- United Kingdom: $31.7 billion
- France: $46.5 billion
- Germany: $38.8 billion
- Italy: $20.2 billion
- Spain: $8.6 billion
- Canada: $7.8 billion
- Japan: $40.7 billion
- Australia: $9.3 billion
- Brazil: $13.4 billion
- Argentina: $4.3 billion
- Columbia: $3.3 billion
- Mongolia: $24.3 billion
- Israel: $8.8 billion
- Iran: $9.7 billion
- Egypt: $4.4 billion
- Iraq: $1.3 billion
- South Africa: $1.8 billion
- Pakistan: $2.5 billion
- India: $12 billion
And about $1 billion in change from our U.S. budget minus all the above named countries. And the moral of the story? We can afford to spend more on just one weapon project then some countries can on their entire defense budget, and this is why we don't have to worry about this falling into the wrong hands. That's why there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of dirt cheap assault rifles in the mid-east and south-east Asia, but the only place you can find an entire bomber wing of $2 billion dollar B-2 Spirit stealth bombers is in Missouri. An AK-47 in America can sell for between $300-$1800 depending on what shape it's in and how good it is, and I'm sure one can be made for much less and purchased for less than that in countries where they are legal to sell brand new. If laser based weapons do live up to the hype, they will essentially be the new nuclear weapons. Everyone will want them, but due to the cost and technology involved, almost no one will be able to have them. This is what Rumsfeld really means when he talks of weapons other countries can't emulate. Of course they can't, they can't afford to. To make these weapons, they would have to inflate their defense budgets so much they would crush their economy and countries. So with these weapons it will probably be, as another poster noted with nukes, another 50-60 years before most countries can afford them, and by then, this will look like stone age technology to us.Just remember, Iraq once had the 4th largest military in the world. On paper, they should have put up a good fight. However, we had vastly superior technology (and people, IMHO), and, well, you see where they are today.
This sounds just like when George Lucas was predicting digital actors would put the regular actors out of business reasonably soon. Is it possible that DVD or some other format will lead to the down fall of cinema as we know it? Yes. Is it going to happen anytime soon? No.
Ah, MacFoxes or something like that. I remember it well. It had a Cheerleader with the Cucumber and a Dominatrix chick that came with such fine devices as a bottle of Jack and a Rocket Pop! You just don't find quality like that anymore. In fact (Did some quick Googling) here it is if you want it for... um... archival/ammusment purposes.
And it will not be missed by me. I've cast off those shackles. And maybe instead of whining and complaining about how they can't find a job, everyone who needs a job should just get over it and do something about it. Everyone needs to find there own path, and here's my story. I went to school for a couple years, got my CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), and got a job at Ford Credit. I was only making collection calls, but hey, had to get in the door somehow. I spent about a year trying to get on Ford's IT department or get a job using my skills somewhere, but never could. Then, I decided it wasn't worth all the crap. It wasn't worth struggling to find a job doing what I wanted to do and had went to school to do. Even if I did find an opening somewhere, I'd go for an interview and basically be told, "Well, you have some good skills, but we're looking for someone who can do basically everything under the sun, and we'd like to pay them maybe $30K/Yr." Seriously. They wanted people that had been in IT for years and wanted to pay them what someone with my skill level might find reasonable. So, you know what I did? I said, "Fuck all this bullshit." Even if I did get a job somewhere, well, we've all see how much security there really is in IT. Lucent just cut 10,000 more workers today. According to CNNFN, they only had 77,000 back at the start of the month.
So, I joined the Air Force. And you know what, I wouldn't trade it for a thing. Yes, I'm not making a whole lot of money. Even at Ford making collection calls, I made about $25K, I'll probably pull about $16K as an E-3, though my living costs will be paid. But I'll still have more money than I'll know what to do with it. It's hard to waste $16K a year with no rent or food costs. And yes, I have a few more responsibilities than the average 19 year old, and I can't go out and do 19 year old things like get piss drunk and wasted off my ass, but I also don't want to. I'm much more mature than people my age, I have self-confidence and pride none of them could imagine, and I'm probably in the best shape of my life. In 20 years, I can retire and collect roughly half of whatever I'm making at the time (Not exactly true, but the system would take to long to explain, so that works) plus have an absurd retirement fund thanks to all the money I have been/will be hoarding. You'd be amazed at how it, coupled with a lovely optional government retirement plan, can grow. No need to worry about if my company will be there in 20 years. Unless the country goes under, my job should be very stable. And all of my education is, as of this month, 100% paid for by the U.S. government, as is every other active duty military member's. I'm not making much now, but download a pay chart and see how much an O-4 makes at 20 years, not bad for a 39 year old.
Now, I'm not saying the military is for everyone, because that it is definitely not. I'm just saying, for those in need of something, 4 years of your life for such a decent cause isn't really a bad thing, and besides, you might just like it. Besides, which do you think has more pride and honor, a 25 year old making $100K/Yr for some wasteful dot.bomd that may well be out of business in a few years and watching his health deteriorate as he sits behind a desk staring at a computer screen, or a 25 year old making $22K/Yr as a Staff Sgt. in Special Forces who is one of the finest specimens humanity can muster, and who's work really does do something to shape the world? "What did you do today, Bob?" "Compiled my new program to write e-mail." "What did you do today, Airman Johnson?" "Helped save the world."
Now go on and mod me down for being off topic and what not while you die slowly at your desk. You have Karma to maintain, I have a country and a world to go help save.
Ignorance >= Bliss
Having bought macs both for myself and on a slightly larger scale for my old school's TV program, and watching Apple trends, I'd say the best time is quarterly. Actually, just after the end of a quarter. As noted, the MacWorld's were ususally when Apple let out their latest and greatest. Lately though, they've unvieled new products a month or two after a new quarter. Take the new G4 towers. They were launched August 13th, while the last MacWorld before that was at the end of July. The main thing to remember with Apple though, Steve Jobs has this control and surprise issue and likes to keep people somewhat on their toes, so good look really prediciting when Apple will definatly launch something new. Oh, and a word of advice, don't get caught up in worring if Apple is going to go to a mythical "G5" chip soon. Look aroung online if you don't know what I mean.
I'm not saying it's always 100% a age issue. My grand ma probably has more computer skill than the average 20 year old, and I do think the "younger" generation gets to much credit sometimes. Most people seem to think if you can check e-mail you're some sort of 1337 haX00r. But in general younger people that grew up with the technology seem to adapt better to it then older people who were introduced to it later in life.
Normally, as long as over 50% of shareholders/owners of a company decide to do something, i.e. sell the company in this case, they can as long as there are no anti-trust issues. However, when a company enters into bankruptcy, they gain protection from their creditors collecting on debts owed, but lose the right to administer their own finances. All transactions, expecially selling the company, must be approved by the court. Here's a brief article on Chapter 11 bankruptcy law.
At least they won't now be coming back as a pay service, which would just bastardize everything Napster stood for when it first came out. Odd how things work, Napster got sued and is now dead for all intents and purposes, and its fuel, mp3's, look like they may have started their down turn thanks to the change in licensing terms and some companies beginning to remove encoding and decoding of mp3s from their software as a result.
You have to look at it in a future text as well. While these things are rare currently, as time goes on, UWB devices will only grow in #s. It does suck that this is the approach they're going with for now (I'm sure there has to be some sort of screening technology) but I do see their concerns. Once I took my cable out of my TV for some reason or another and left it out for a few days. The cable company showed up and said the signal was leaking and interfering with the devices on the airplanes that fly by my house often (They didn't specify civil or military, I have both fly by often) and they reconnected everything lose and replaced a few old splitters. They do take this shit really seriously, as well they should. Besides, how'd you like to be the idiot that crashes a plane because your PDA decided to try to reach out and touch something?
I really hope this idea does take off and soon becomes a standard in the science/research communities. Let us not forget, back whenever the Internet was still something about enhancing humanity instead of about expanding wallets, this (well, maybe not THIS exactly, but things like this in general) was the point of the Internet. The whole thing was invisioned as a way to better and expand human thoughts, ideas, and foster new/better technologies through improved and cheaper research and methods. However, now all the Internet community usually seems concerned about (With a few exceptions like /.) is getting mp3's and pr0n, hence the development of Internet2, which, hopefully will never be opened to the general public so that it doesn't lose its vision and become corrupted like the current Internet did.
I'd say those are probably pretty realistic expectations. The Ti book line is over due for an update, and that would be the most likely place and time for one, and I'm sure Apple will be looking to capatilize on this newest offering from ATI. If they are announced, updated Ti's with the 9000 might not ship right away due to how close the availability date and the Expo date are, but I do think there is a strong chance if not at the Expo, new Ti's with this option will be announced within 3 months.
Especially my spread sheet program. Finally, I don't have to have that horrible graphic lag when moving cells. And man, /. is really going to fly. :) In all honestly though, I really would kill to get one of these for my Ti Book.
I'm not sure, but I think your thinking of the switch fabrics that are chip sets in routers and switches that, I believe, direct traffic. I couldn't find a really good description of them, but here's a standard release that quickly skims over the technology: INCITS
It wouldn't suprise me if this (Marklar) was true, but I'd be more prone to believe it if it came from a more reputable source. You see, eWeek is owned by Ziff Davis who has a vested intrest in the success of, and popular rumors for Microsoft, Windows, and therfore, x86. By vested intrest, I mean out of the 9 magazines they produce, almost half are for geared towards the PC population, and 0 are based around macs. Plus they've always seemed a little biased towards the Wintel Empire, IMHO. This reminds me of the start of the month when a Bear-Stearns analyst said that Apple would go to x86 in 2-4 years, but then disclosed that Bear-Stearns owns Intel stock, and as such would have reason to make such a "detailed analysis" and maybe get Intel stock to rise as a result. So yeah, I'll actually believe it when I see it.
Oh yeah, this will be real cool, until the next time I'm driving through downtown Denver with a double gulp between my legs because it won't fit in any cup holder in the universe and I hit 1 of the 2 or so hundred pot holes on I-25 and dump said double gulp in my lap. Oh well, no more need to spring for Trojan® Cyber-Jans® after that, and more $ for OS Socks or whatever. :)
Suck my balls off topic. The story concerned YDL on an iBook, this was a natural progression. There went my Karma, it appears to have been destroyed when it hit my Dogma.
Is it possible to put Linux on a PowerBook G4 and still be able to boot into OS X/9.2? I have said lovely computer and have been looking into possibly putting Linux (Any Flava better than the rest?) on it, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. Plus I still need OS X/9.2, so I would need to get back to them. Any helpful advice?