in the meantime, maybe they should just let non-profit organizations use it;) now there's a thought.
Given their lack of paying customers that's a pretty good thought. That might give them clients they could point to when trying to attract customers showing how well their service actually works. Of course if their service doesn't work then I'm sure they'd rather lock someone into a contract before word gets out.:)
I think it would be cheeper to buy a t-shirt that says, "I have a small penis."
You know what's funny, the only people who bring up dick size are the ones whining about other people driving SUVs. Makes you wonder who is really the one trying to compensate for something.
Concerning SUVs: I never understood why those cars with heavily overpowered engines are so popular in the US. I mean a typcial car with a 1.6 16V engine will have around 110 hp. That's enough to drive speeds up to ~200km/h (I think around 125mp/h?!) so it's sufficient to drive on the autobahns. And you can actually drive these speeds!
In the US, what's the usual speed limit? Like 90 mp/h? Why do you need such a strong engine, then? You can't use it anyway!
Can you tow a camper, boat or trailer with your little 1.6L engine? How about hauling 2,000 lbs worth of gear? Can you fit 8 people comfortably in your VW? Believe it or not some of us actually use a full size SUV for something other than commuting in on a regular basis.
Just because you don't use your car for anything other than hauling yourself to work and back doesn't mean everyone else uses their vehicles the same way.
The max speed limit on the interstates in the US is 75 mph, generally 60 mph on highways/interstates that run through cities.
What is really imporatant is how Microsoft's stock has performed and how their product shipment schedules have been met since he took control of the day-to-day operation at Microsoft.
I think even the biggest MS supporter would agree their stock performance has been very ugly since Jan 2000. It may be a fairly stable place to park your money but investing in MS certainly hasn't been a money maker for quite a long time.
817 meg after unzipping that "Browser Appliance". Seems a bit on the heavy side for just a browser. I haven't run it yet but I hope theres more to it than just Mozilla.
Sad but true. Even public schools are focusing to much on computers and less on the basics. I recently found out my son will have to do a power point presentation to finish first grade. First grade and rather than having them spend the students time learning how to read, write and do math they'll have wasted who knows how much time on power point. Even if it's nothing fancy it's still time that would be better spent building a foundation for the kids to build on. There's plenty of time for them to learn how to use an office application.
Actually, I don't think it would help much. Most games now don't benefit from 2 way SMP, so the benefit from 64 way is debateable to say the least. Still for servers, this thing might help. I suspect that most server applications/os's will have servere scaleability problems once you go this far SMP though.
Fortunately all computing isn't about games. With this setup you'll be able to encode those DVD rips to DIVX in seconds instead of hours!
What about newspapers and media? Can they report on candidates? Are they expected to keep silent about major campaigns? The minute they start reporting, they get accused of some sort of bias.
The media has been proven to be biased, it's not just an accusation. When the vast majority of what they report is negative about 1 candidate and positive about another it's a clear case of bias.
The news media is more than welcome to report on candidates, the more we know about them the better. But when they start putting their own political spin on it and start creating news as much as reporting on it then we have a problem. Are we supposed to expect the voters to ignore ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/FOX and somehow do their own research, or should be hold the media to a high standard of honest un-biased reporting in the first place?
Eventually probably, but not yet. From the article "The images are in colour, and can broadcast anything that can be shown on a regular flat screen monitor or TV, although with a slightly lower quality. "
With the big push to HDTV I doubt many people will be will settle for something with even lower quality than a standard TV.
f the US representatives are commited to protecting freedom of speech, and aren't only being reflexively territorial, they would surely be able to propose alternatives that will both protect freedom of speech, and remove the concern of some others that the US has some undefined control in the current set-up
The system is working fine right now. Why should the US or US representitives spend any time coming up with a way to change a system that is working and has worked for decades simply because some politicians in other countries suddenly decide they want control? If anything it should be up to those politicians in the EU/UN who want to change the system to come up with a workable alternative that please everyone, not the US.
So far the only reasons for change has been "we want control/don't want the US to have control" and "we don't trust you". The "we" being a rather loose and undefined group of people. If someone doesn't like the way things are going it's up to them to find a better alternative. Would you expect the phone company to bend over backwards to solve a non existant problem simply because a group of politicians decided they didn't like dialing 011 for international calls?
Click refers to remote controls too, haven't you ever heard it called "the clicker"? Remotes way back in time used to click when pushing what few buttons they had.
If we had to pick an annoyance, it's that you can't seem to bring up the program guide or navigate the menu without stopping the live TV or recording that you're watching. TiVo plays the current TV program in the background, and MCE plays it in a small window in the lower left.
Snapstreams BeyondTV will continue playing the TV with a largely transparent guide over it so you can still (sort of) see it and hear it.
You could probably process it on 1 P2, it would just take forever. The key is how long it takes to do the rendering. Maybe the Weta datacenter could render Star Wars III 10x faster than that 140-processor Opteron AMD64 farm.
Any idea how long it took that setup to do the rendering for RotS?
Speaking of which, I just saw a listing in my digital cable guide today that said there was an episode of Firefly on tonight (on Sci-Fi) and it says "(new)"... Um... Are they producing new episodes of firefly now or something?
They're not producing new episodes (yet) but there were a few episodes that were made but never shown when the series aired the first time. It could be one of those episodes you saw a listing for.
I haven't seen any of that with DirecTV+Tivo. No limitations on recording anything and no commercials or ads shown when FF/RW. Tivo must have a different agreement with DirecTV than they do with their regular subscribers.
And Frankly, we are at a time in history now that the US is more dependent upon the world than the world is upon the US. Look at our trade imbalance, and then look at what nations like China, Russia and all of Europe have been doing. They're negotiating their own deals, outside of our arena.
And who are these countries going to be selling to if the US cuts ties with them? It's no secret that the US is a gigantic consumer, more so than an exporter these days. Do you really think nations like China want to risk losing the market to sell goods to the US? The US doesn't need to import as much as we do. Consumers want cheap goods but don't need them. If the US were totally isolated from the rest of the world it would do just fine, everything that anyone could want is or can be made or grown within the US and as we know there's plenty of consumers to buy it. There would be some internal market and salary adjustments of course and it wouldn't necessarily be plesant for everyone but it's certainly possible.
Our Government? Them I don't trust. Why should I/ The President doesn't represent America, he only represents his one political party. His policy goals and actions are not determined by what is in the best interest for the nation to help it grow, but rather what is in the best interests of maintaining their political power.
Never before have I seen this in my lifetime.
What are you 4 years old? That's how politics have been run around the world for thousands of years, it's certainly been business as usual in modern times regardless of who has been the figurehead in the Whitehouse.
For 22.5 gallons / passenger I could drive that distance in my Suburban. I wouldn't call nearly 3x as inefficient as one of the largest SUVs "quite efficient".
It's about 1 mile long and only goes from the north end of down town a short ways south, "mass transit" it isn't. It's a tourist attraction that needs a $100,000,000 woth of repairs and retrofitting.
The people also voted AGAINST a new stadium and the county council went ahead raised taxs and built it anyway. Politicians don't do what the people want, they do what is best for the politicians period.
Couple that with our pioneer-age constitution requiring direct resolution votes on almost anything important
You're a Democrat aren't you? Who else would be against the people voting for anything important. We can't have that now can we? It's Ok to have Joe Blow vote for some politician who will say anything, true or not - usually not, to get elected but he's to stupid to vote on the issues, is that it? Maybe if Seattle, and Washington, politicans showed they could actually get a fair value for the tax dollars people wouldn't be so against raising taxs. As it is now in Washington the politicans piss away tax funds like it was free, afterall they'll just raise taxs again during the next legislative session.
Troll huh, obviously Slashdot has at least some moderators with degrees who think their piece if paper is worth more than something used to wipe their ass. They're probably just upset that they can't get hired because their degree qualifies them to flip burgers and nothing else.
on the other hand, though, they could justifiably (on the own grounds of what they're saying) argue that it's because the US has poor output in terms of CS types that they have no choice but to go abroad in the first place
Only if you assume that the only qualified workers have CS degrees. Most of the best developers and testers I've worked with either don't have a degree at all or have a degree in some totally unrelated field. Arguing that there aren't enough CS graduates is just an excuse for MS and other companies to try and justify outsourcing.
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Given their lack of paying customers that's a pretty good thought. That might give them clients they could point to when trying to attract customers showing how well their service actually works. Of course if their service doesn't work then I'm sure they'd rather lock someone into a contract before word gets out. :)
You know what's funny, the only people who bring up dick size are the ones whining about other people driving SUVs. Makes you wonder who is really the one trying to compensate for something.
Can you tow a camper, boat or trailer with your little 1.6L engine? How about hauling 2,000 lbs worth of gear? Can you fit 8 people comfortably in your VW? Believe it or not some of us actually use a full size SUV for something other than commuting in on a regular basis.
Just because you don't use your car for anything other than hauling yourself to work and back doesn't mean everyone else uses their vehicles the same way.
The max speed limit on the interstates in the US is 75 mph, generally 60 mph on highways/interstates that run through cities.
I think even the biggest MS supporter would agree their stock performance has been very ugly since Jan 2000. It may be a fairly stable place to park your money but investing in MS certainly hasn't been a money maker for quite a long time.
817 meg after unzipping that "Browser Appliance". Seems a bit on the heavy side for just a browser. I haven't run it yet but I hope theres more to it than just Mozilla.
Sad but true. Even public schools are focusing to much on computers and less on the basics. I recently found out my son will have to do a power point presentation to finish first grade. First grade and rather than having them spend the students time learning how to read, write and do math they'll have wasted who knows how much time on power point. Even if it's nothing fancy it's still time that would be better spent building a foundation for the kids to build on. There's plenty of time for them to learn how to use an office application.
Fortunately all computing isn't about games. With this setup you'll be able to encode those DVD rips to DIVX in seconds instead of hours!
The media has been proven to be biased, it's not just an accusation. When the vast majority of what they report is negative about 1 candidate and positive about another it's a clear case of bias.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/graham200411 040834.asp
The news media is more than welcome to report on candidates, the more we know about them the better. But when they start putting their own political spin on it and start creating news as much as reporting on it then we have a problem. Are we supposed to expect the voters to ignore ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/FOX and somehow do their own research, or should be hold the media to a high standard of honest un-biased reporting in the first place?
With the big push to HDTV I doubt many people will be will settle for something with even lower quality than a standard TV.
The system is working fine right now. Why should the US or US representitives spend any time coming up with a way to change a system that is working and has worked for decades simply because some politicians in other countries suddenly decide they want control? If anything it should be up to those politicians in the EU/UN who want to change the system to come up with a workable alternative that please everyone, not the US.
So far the only reasons for change has been "we want control/don't want the US to have control" and "we don't trust you". The "we" being a rather loose and undefined group of people. If someone doesn't like the way things are going it's up to them to find a better alternative. Would you expect the phone company to bend over backwards to solve a non existant problem simply because a group of politicians decided they didn't like dialing 011 for international calls?
Click refers to remote controls too, haven't you ever heard it called "the clicker"? Remotes way back in time used to click when pushing what few buttons they had.
Snapstreams BeyondTV will continue playing the TV with a largely transparent guide over it so you can still (sort of) see it and hear it.
Any idea how long it took that setup to do the rendering for RotS?
Maybe they're still using PII 266 for PCs in New Zealand.
It must work on a fair number of Slashdot readers or there wouldn't be ads here and there would be a subscription required to view the site.
They're not producing new episodes (yet) but there were a few episodes that were made but never shown when the series aired the first time. It could be one of those episodes you saw a listing for.
I haven't seen any of that with DirecTV+Tivo. No limitations on recording anything and no commercials or ads shown when FF/RW. Tivo must have a different agreement with DirecTV than they do with their regular subscribers.
And who are these countries going to be selling to if the US cuts ties with them? It's no secret that the US is a gigantic consumer, more so than an exporter these days. Do you really think nations like China want to risk losing the market to sell goods to the US? The US doesn't need to import as much as we do. Consumers want cheap goods but don't need them. If the US were totally isolated from the rest of the world it would do just fine, everything that anyone could want is or can be made or grown within the US and as we know there's plenty of consumers to buy it. There would be some internal market and salary adjustments of course and it wouldn't necessarily be plesant for everyone but it's certainly possible.
Our Government? Them I don't trust. Why should I/ The President doesn't represent America, he only represents his one political party. His policy goals and actions are not determined by what is in the best interest for the nation to help it grow, but rather what is in the best interests of maintaining their political power.
Never before have I seen this in my lifetime.
What are you 4 years old? That's how politics have been run around the world for thousands of years, it's certainly been business as usual in modern times regardless of who has been the figurehead in the Whitehouse.
For 22.5 gallons / passenger I could drive that distance in my Suburban. I wouldn't call nearly 3x as inefficient as one of the largest SUVs "quite efficient".
It's about 1 mile long and only goes from the north end of down town a short ways south, "mass transit" it isn't. It's a tourist attraction that needs a $100,000,000 woth of repairs and retrofitting.
The people also voted AGAINST a new stadium and the county council went ahead raised taxs and built it anyway. Politicians don't do what the people want, they do what is best for the politicians period.
You're a Democrat aren't you? Who else would be against the people voting for anything important. We can't have that now can we? It's Ok to have Joe Blow vote for some politician who will say anything, true or not - usually not, to get elected but he's to stupid to vote on the issues, is that it? Maybe if Seattle, and Washington, politicans showed they could actually get a fair value for the tax dollars people wouldn't be so against raising taxs. As it is now in Washington the politicans piss away tax funds like it was free, afterall they'll just raise taxs again during the next legislative session.
Troll huh, obviously Slashdot has at least some moderators with degrees who think their piece if paper is worth more than something used to wipe their ass. They're probably just upset that they can't get hired because their degree qualifies them to flip burgers and nothing else.
It could be worse, they could make him watch re-runs of "The Simpleton Life" with her and Nicole.
Only if you assume that the only qualified workers have CS degrees. Most of the best developers and testers I've worked with either don't have a degree at all or have a degree in some totally unrelated field. Arguing that there aren't enough CS graduates is just an excuse for MS and other companies to try and justify outsourcing.