I thinks this misses the point. The software is just a visualisation tool. Nobody should be up in arms about this software, because it is not a threat to your civil liberties. The real threat is when government agencies are allowed to accumulate and use the necessary information about private citizens in the first place. Also, for innocent people, the real threat is not that they can be located, it is that they can be picked out of data warehouses using search terms which incorrectly label them as "subversive" or "potential terrorist".
Not to mention that orbiting at 25 degrees just to Accomodate the americans is hardly better. The most efficient way of getting from Earth to orbit is at a 0 degree orbit. But hey, despite all the brilliant scientists, engineers and technical achievements to come out of Russia we should still regard them as backward and incompetent, right?
I need coffee to keep myself awake for at least 8 hours (you know how it feels like when you have to debug thousand lines of code, don't you?)
Staying awake and alert for 8 hours should not be a problem for any normal healthy human being. Caffeine keeps you awake, but reduces your ability to think clearly. Learn to sleep properly, or if this is a problem, see your doctor.
I drink coffee first for the taste, then the caffein, not the other way around.
And you're looking for instant coffee? All instant coffee tastes like shit, relatively speaking. Buy a percolator, or if that's not your thing, a small espresso machine. If you're dead set on instant, I find the more expensive it is, the better it tastes.
I wonder why Apple hasn't made more of this in their advertising
You mean like having the guy who plays Frodo appear in the iLife '04 video, for example? Or were you thinking of golum dancing in silhouette with an ipod?
A better use of the money would have been to fund road building programs, teams of visiting doctors / nurses and mobile clinics.
At least now if someone has a medical problem, they can email a doctor about it, and doctors can distribute medical advice to rural areas. As for roads, you obviously don't appreciate how phenomenally expensive they really are.
Why can't I buy a motherboards without a serial port, a parallel port, two ps/2 ports, and a line-in audio port? Why do motherboards come with built in video, but not bluetooth and wireless networking?
In short, mass production/commoditisation. Motherboards have for a long time been conformant to first the AT standard, then ATX, and now new formats are emerging. These specify the form factor and the standard connectors, and where they are located. This enables any motherboard to be used with any case, any keyboard, and so on. This is why PCs are so cheap. By ditching PS/2 connectors, for example, you cut the happy PS/2 keyboard/mouse owners out of your market share, which is stupid.
As for bluetooth/WiFi, they weren't relevant when the ATX standard was being drawn up. End of story. On a related note, both AT and ATX have an irda port, but almost no computer uses this - go figure.
I you want elegant design, buy an apple, not a PC.
If the email account in question is a work account provided to the employee by the company for work use, then the contents of the account are normally the property of the company, not the employee. Normally, the employee should not be using the account for personal use anyway, so any violations of his privacy are his own fault. Business email accounts generally contain a lot of valuable information pertaining to the job of the former employee which the company is perfectly entitled to recover.
they don't run at 20MHz, they are "capable of carrying out about 20 million instructions per second". Depending on the complexity of the instructions, the processor actually runs several times faster than 20MHz.
And you got this information where? If I remember correctly the PowerPC specification states that the processor can complete an instruction every clock cycle. Even modern CISC architectures with deep pipelines are capable of accomplishing this providing the pipeline can be kept full.
So I'm part language student, and I can't figure out why there are misspellings of the same word. "Treatise" is spelled differently something like five times.
I'll probably get lynched for suggesting this, but maybe he was just crap at spelling?
You could look at it that way. On the other hand, he has has created a viable software product in just 0.1man-months of development time, which probably earns him an hourly rate in excess of $1000/hr.
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I thinks this misses the point. The software is just a visualisation tool. Nobody should be up in arms about this software, because it is not a threat to your civil liberties. The real threat is when government agencies are allowed to accumulate and use the necessary information about private citizens in the first place. Also, for innocent people, the real threat is not that they can be located, it is that they can be picked out of data warehouses using search terms which incorrectly label them as "subversive" or "potential terrorist".
Not to mention that orbiting at 25 degrees just to Accomodate the americans is hardly better. The most efficient way of getting from Earth to orbit is at a 0 degree orbit. But hey, despite all the brilliant scientists, engineers and technical achievements to come out of Russia we should still regard them as backward and incompetent, right?
The Java Desktop is basically a modified gnome distribution with good java integration. Other than that, the "java" part is just for branding.
Staying awake and alert for 8 hours should not be a problem for any normal healthy human being. Caffeine keeps you awake, but reduces your ability to think clearly. Learn to sleep properly, or if this is a problem, see your doctor.
I drink coffee first for the taste, then the caffein, not the other way around.
And you're looking for instant coffee? All instant coffee tastes like shit, relatively speaking. Buy a percolator, or if that's not your thing, a small espresso machine. If you're dead set on instant, I find the more expensive it is, the better it tastes.
Wow! That certainly beats the $699 you have to pay for linux these days.
When I was a lad, we had computers which would boot instantaneously.
I think it's more likely that people will switch from ISPs which charge to send email to ISPs which do it free. Especially spammers.
you forgot:
You mean like having the guy who plays Frodo appear in the iLife '04 video, for example? Or were you thinking of golum dancing in silhouette with an ipod?
At least now if someone has a medical problem, they can email a doctor about it, and doctors can distribute medical advice to rural areas. As for roads, you obviously don't appreciate how phenomenally expensive they really are.
In short, mass production/commoditisation. Motherboards have for a long time been conformant to first the AT standard, then ATX, and now new formats are emerging. These specify the form factor and the standard connectors, and where they are located. This enables any motherboard to be used with any case, any keyboard, and so on. This is why PCs are so cheap. By ditching PS/2 connectors, for example, you cut the happy PS/2 keyboard/mouse owners out of your market share, which is stupid.
As for bluetooth/WiFi, they weren't relevant when the ATX standard was being drawn up. End of story. On a related note, both AT and ATX have an irda port, but almost no computer uses this - go figure.
I you want elegant design, buy an apple, not a PC.
If the email account in question is a work account provided to the employee by the company for work use, then the contents of the account are normally the property of the company, not the employee. Normally, the employee should not be using the account for personal use anyway, so any violations of his privacy are his own fault. Business email accounts generally contain a lot of valuable information pertaining to the job of the former employee which the company is perfectly entitled to recover.
They're probably concerned that nuclear propulsion might irradiate outer space. No, really!
And you got this information where? If I remember correctly the PowerPC specification states that the processor can complete an instruction every clock cycle. Even modern CISC architectures with deep pipelines are capable of accomplishing this providing the pipeline can be kept full.
Maybe, but how will you tell the real quantum physicists from the myriad of armchair quantum physicists who think they know what it's all about.
...or maybe he just takes the word "boot" a little too literally.
I'll probably get lynched for suggesting this, but maybe he was just crap at spelling?
You can find a good analysis here.
First tomato/scorpion hybrids, now fish/zebra hybrids. What's next, flying pigs?
I believe the BBC recently produced a Panorama report criticising the way the whole Kelly/WMD issue was reported by the BBC.
I nominate Darl
You could look at it that way. On the other hand, he has has created a viable software product in just 0.1man-months of development time, which probably earns him an hourly rate in excess of $1000/hr.
All we need now is someone to say SCO IS EVIL!!! and we have the perfect slashdot story.
...unless you've got a really big pen.
Much like many newspapers. And we know how poor they are at displaying information.