Does it not seem somewhat strange that we are more than happy to rally against measures by certain governments to restrict our internet liberties, yet there is no problem with us blocking whole nations access to western sites because of rogue elements in their borders?
Not at all. There is a tremendous difference between the government deciding what sites I am allowed to access and my deciding who is allowed to access my site.
I enjoy driving as much as anyone, probably more than most, what I don't like is commuting. Taking the bus isn't really feasible since I'd have to drive 8 miles to the nearest bus stop and then spend another 90 minutes on the bus to cover a 25 mile commute. A car that could navigate that commute on it's own would be terrific! Even GM's automatic speed control would be a major step fowardward in stop and go traffic.
The cell phone networks obviously were only designed to support a small fraction of the total number of cell phone users in the area at any given time.
Just like every dialup ISP. They don't have enough modems/phone lines or IP address for every one of their customers to call in at the same time. As I recall they only generally have enough capacity for around 20% at any given time. It isn't surprising that cell companies do the same thing.
It had an enormously successful beta but was down to a few thousand players within 6 months. I'm sure the game set all kinds of records for the fast decline in playerbase
You must not have been in beta or have a very short memory. There were tens of thousands of people in the open beta because it was free and overwhelmingly they HATED it. There was so much comtempt for AC2 and the problems in the game Turbine/MS all but shut down their forums only allowing positive posts.
If you define "success" as "lots of people tried it and 99% hated it" then yes AC2 had a terrificly successful beta.
Tell him you've found a great backup in the form of TCP/IP you can use and should actually add some money to next quarters budget so you can switch to it.
If it was really as bad as people are making it out to be, it seems like I should have had a lot more problems than I have had. Either I am fantastically lucky, or the problems are being overstated.;) You all know which one I think it is.
Or you're simply oblivious to the problem that many others experience. It's certainly possible that you simply aren't bothered by the the same things others are, or not to the same extent. Not a single problem in 10 years going to the movies twice a month? I think you simply just don't notice the problems.
You joke, but MS Research has been working on building distributed computing into Windows for a while now. It probably won't be all that long until they either have a client, or something after Longhorn that will automatically distribute CPU load across a LAN.
It may be on the back burner at MS for now, but as we've seen many times if they perceive a market they're missing out on they can throw enormous resources at a project to get it to market.
so you agree that these kids should be charged with a felony for typing in a password that was affixed to their computer?
No, but look into the story before believing the soundbite. That was only the first thing they did, they comitted many other offenses far more serious - spying on the admins is just a tad worse don't you think - even after being punished and warned.
The IT manager should also be punished or possibly fired for being incompetent at his/her job, but that doesn't change that the kids did wrong, multiple times even after being caught and warned against doing it again.
Another absurd attempt at an analogy. These students didn't try to repair anything and deliberatly broke the rules setup for using those school owned computers. A more appropriate analogy would be a tenant in a government subsidised house going into the locked basement and building a distillery and then being charged.
Also today, some of the kutztown 13 were offered informal adjustments. If they accept that option--they'll be monitored for several months. During that time if they perform community service and stay out of trouble no formal charges will be filed against them.
The hope that Google, of all companies, will come in and save us from the ongoing rape of consumers of communications, is something that makes me hopeful.
Right, because Google - a billion dollar corporation - is going to behave so much differently than every other billion dollar corp. They are all out for the bottem line, period. Just because Google hasn't raped the consumer yet (and there are those who would disagree with that) doesn't mean they won't eventually when their middle managers start looking strictly at this quarters profit/loss statements.
...it's not worth it. You can get a non hybrid Civic for $14k that gets 32/38 milage. The hybrid Civic runs $6k more but gets 10mpg more. How many years does it take you to break even on the gas costs?
About 20 years to break even at 20,000 miles per year and $2.70 / gallon of gas. Even at $3.00 per gallon it's still over 18 years. That 10 mpg difference only saves a few hundred dollars per year, it takes a lot of years to whittle down that $6,000 difference.
You'd have to get around 120 mpg in the hybrid to make up the initial cost difference in less than 6 years on gas savings alone. If there are tax benifits that would of course make up the difference sooner.
From a purely economical point of view it's not worth it to buy a hybrid today. People can make an enviromental argument, and that's a fine reason to drive a hybrid, but the "saves money on gas" argument doesn't hold up.
Well, wouldn't that make the whole system insecure?
As in, anybody could bring their own USB bootable hd to any computer and gain access... Or am I missing something here?
They can already do it with a floppy or CD so this wouldn't make it any less secure. I'm sure the bios would have the same options to disable booting from USB as it does for CD and floppy.
If someone has physical access to the machine you can't get 100% security anyway.
Look, what if this kind of thinking gets to the point where I'll have to sign non-compete agreements and give six months' notice if I'm involved with anything significant?
Gets to the point? Just about everyone in the tech field already, from test to dev, signs a non-compete agreement now. I had to sign one at Microsoft as a tester 7 years ago. It's not often enforced for the grunts, mainly for execs or the superstar developers but most people out here at medium to large companies have them.
Paying for information is simply not something many people are ready to do.
You mean like paying for school, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, Internet access, website subscriptions, libraries, credit reports....people pay for information all the time.
"think of the children" has typically been the liberal gun banners mantra, not the conservatives. How many times have the gun grabbers repeated the same tired "if it saves just one childs life" phrase?
Biggest stumblingblock: the heatshield is not up to the increased punishment it'll get when re-entering from a trans-luna trajectory instead of a deorbit from LEO...
Couldn't they return from the moon and enter a LEO first and then begin re-entry?
If I had $100 million, I'd probably design and build and fly my own rocket, not pay someone else to do it
Or you could find and hire some retired NASA engineers, they managed to do it 40 years ago, with a 100,000,000 budget today I'm sure they could duplicate the trip.
Really. When I worked at Microsoft and participated in many interview loops an MCSE carried zero weight because everyone there knew how easy the tests were. If an MCSE means nothing to Microsoft why should it to anyone else?
Killing is wrong yes, but you can't expect to tick off millions of people all over the world, and not suffer some retibution if discovered
If only the spammers would read that and realize the truth of it. I'm sure many of them think what they're doing is harmless and no one could possibly be bothered by it, but as you pointed out when you irritate millions of people chances are at least a few of them we be complete raving psychos.
After much chasing, only two vendors submitted an AMD-powered product -- MSI and Asus.
So they only test laptops they are given? Why should we trust them to have an unbiased opinion or that they have actually done the best AMD/Intel comparision possible in that case? They should buy commercial laptops just like any individual or admin would do and test those, not just what they can get given to them by potential advertisers.
Is it just me or does it seem like all MS is doing these days is just copy catting google?
Seems like it, but in this case I think the MS copy machine was low on toner. Why would anyone use MS Virtual Earth over maps.google.com or even better Google Earth??
To bad for MS but this doesn't hold a candle to what Googles done.
I have to think that there will be challenges to this.
I'm sure there will be many, probably thousands or tens of thousands, who will want to challenge it but who is going to pay for the challenge? As we know MS has more than enough cash to hire as many lawyers as it takes to defend their patents, it will take other lawyers ($$$) to challenge it.
Just so you know, September and February are usually considered throwaway months for Hollywood, meaning that this is when they choose to release films which they consider inferior but still worthy of release (by virtue of audience size or a soft spot in the release schedule at large).
I didn't know it was considered a throw away month, it's obviously not a blockbuster holiday weekend like some movies get though.
If it's a throwaway month then the release will fit right in with the Friday night timeslot the series was shown in.:)
I suspect it will do quite well the first week or so when the die hard fans see it (I loved the series) but won't have the legs for a long run in the theater. I don't expect it to be breaking any sales records.
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Not at all. There is a tremendous difference between the government deciding what sites I am allowed to access and my deciding who is allowed to access my site.
I enjoy driving as much as anyone, probably more than most, what I don't like is commuting. Taking the bus isn't really feasible since I'd have to drive 8 miles to the nearest bus stop and then spend another 90 minutes on the bus to cover a 25 mile commute. A car that could navigate that commute on it's own would be terrific! Even GM's automatic speed control would be a major step fowardward in stop and go traffic.
Just like every dialup ISP. They don't have enough modems/phone lines or IP address for every one of their customers to call in at the same time. As I recall they only generally have enough capacity for around 20% at any given time. It isn't surprising that cell companies do the same thing.
You must not have been in beta or have a very short memory. There were tens of thousands of people in the open beta because it was free and overwhelmingly they HATED it. There was so much comtempt for AC2 and the problems in the game Turbine/MS all but shut down their forums only allowing positive posts.
If you define "success" as "lots of people tried it and 99% hated it" then yes AC2 had a terrificly successful beta.
Tell him you've found a great backup in the form of TCP/IP you can use and should actually add some money to next quarters budget so you can switch to it.
Or you're simply oblivious to the problem that many others experience. It's certainly possible that you simply aren't bothered by the the same things others are, or not to the same extent. Not a single problem in 10 years going to the movies twice a month? I think you simply just don't notice the problems.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Heats_Gr id_Iron_with_Bigtop/1104374194 4 6291,00.asp
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,17
It may be on the back burner at MS for now, but as we've seen many times if they perceive a market they're missing out on they can throw enormous resources at a project to get it to market.
No, but look into the story before believing the soundbite. That was only the first thing they did, they comitted many other offenses far more serious - spying on the admins is just a tad worse don't you think - even after being punished and warned.
The IT manager should also be punished or possibly fired for being incompetent at his/her job, but that doesn't change that the kids did wrong, multiple times even after being caught and warned against doing it again.
Another absurd attempt at an analogy. These students didn't try to repair anything and deliberatly broke the rules setup for using those school owned computers. A more appropriate analogy would be a tenant in a government subsidised house going into the locked basement and building a distillery and then being charged.
Right, because Google - a billion dollar corporation - is going to behave so much differently than every other billion dollar corp. They are all out for the bottem line, period. Just because Google hasn't raped the consumer yet (and there are those who would disagree with that) doesn't mean they won't eventually when their middle managers start looking strictly at this quarters profit/loss statements.
About 20 years to break even at 20,000 miles per year and $2.70 / gallon of gas. Even at $3.00 per gallon it's still over 18 years. That 10 mpg difference only saves a few hundred dollars per year, it takes a lot of years to whittle down that $6,000 difference.
You'd have to get around 120 mpg in the hybrid to make up the initial cost difference in less than 6 years on gas savings alone. If there are tax benifits that would of course make up the difference sooner.
From a purely economical point of view it's not worth it to buy a hybrid today. People can make an enviromental argument, and that's a fine reason to drive a hybrid, but the "saves money on gas" argument doesn't hold up.
As in, anybody could bring their own USB bootable hd to any computer and gain access... Or am I missing something here?
They can already do it with a floppy or CD so this wouldn't make it any less secure. I'm sure the bios would have the same options to disable booting from USB as it does for CD and floppy.
If someone has physical access to the machine you can't get 100% security anyway.
Gets to the point? Just about everyone in the tech field already, from test to dev, signs a non-compete agreement now. I had to sign one at Microsoft as a tester 7 years ago. It's not often enforced for the grunts, mainly for execs or the superstar developers but most people out here at medium to large companies have them.
You mean like paying for school, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, Internet access, website subscriptions, libraries, credit reports....people pay for information all the time.
"think of the children" has typically been the liberal gun banners mantra, not the conservatives. How many times have the gun grabbers repeated the same tired "if it saves just one childs life" phrase?
Couldn't they return from the moon and enter a LEO first and then begin re-entry?
Or you could find and hire some retired NASA engineers, they managed to do it 40 years ago, with a 100,000,000 budget today I'm sure they could duplicate the trip.
You'd get to keep the modules as souviners too.
Really. When I worked at Microsoft and participated in many interview loops an MCSE carried zero weight because everyone there knew how easy the tests were. If an MCSE means nothing to Microsoft why should it to anyone else?
If only the spammers would read that and realize the truth of it. I'm sure many of them think what they're doing is harmless and no one could possibly be bothered by it, but as you pointed out when you irritate millions of people chances are at least a few of them we be complete raving psychos.
So they only test laptops they are given? Why should we trust them to have an unbiased opinion or that they have actually done the best AMD/Intel comparision possible in that case? They should buy commercial laptops just like any individual or admin would do and test those, not just what they can get given to them by potential advertisers.
Seems like it, but in this case I think the MS copy machine was low on toner. Why would anyone use MS Virtual Earth over maps.google.com or even better Google Earth??
To bad for MS but this doesn't hold a candle to what Googles done.
I'm sure there will be many, probably thousands or tens of thousands, who will want to challenge it but who is going to pay for the challenge? As we know MS has more than enough cash to hire as many lawyers as it takes to defend their patents, it will take other lawyers ($$$) to challenge it.
It can't be far off. Google Earth shows exit numbers, at least they did in northern Idaho.
I didn't know it was considered a throw away month, it's obviously not a blockbuster holiday weekend like some movies get though.
If it's a throwaway month then the release will fit right in with the Friday night timeslot the series was shown in. :)
I suspect it will do quite well the first week or so when the die hard fans see it (I loved the series) but won't have the legs for a long run in the theater. I don't expect it to be breaking any sales records.