"Google" actually *is* meaningful. "Yahoo" might be another example of stupid. I never said Microsoft had exclusive license to stupidity, though I'm sure they've tried to get it.
People have been using the HTTP filtering proxy Proxomitron for many years to rewrite the Web to their liking, including both removing AND adding content, like floting personal menus and all sorts of things. It might have started out with the primary goal of removing ads, but it evolved to be able to virtually rewrite entire pages according to the user's wishes. I doubt that it's as user-friendly as JetPack will be, but then that's in part because Proxomitron's suthor Scott Lemmon died some years ago and further improvements never happened.
There's already another tech company, Terabyte Unlimited, using that moniker as shorthand for their boot manager product, BootIt Next Generation. If they've trademarked the abbreviation as well as the full name, they might wind up suing Microsoft over their use of it.
It's an utterly stupid and non-descriptive name for a search engine, anyway.
Except the interface specs and other technology will move forward yet again before the devices themselves ever catch up, as has happened with virtually ALL the SATA-bearing motherboards I have ever bought. I'm paying for an interface that I will never be able to fully utilize before the motherboard becomes obsolete e-waste. I don't think the total cumulative combined cost of this interface advancement is as cheap as you think it is, and I don't like paying for something I can't even fully use. I can cite you a far worse example: I once made the misguided choice to buy Pentium-class motherboards with embedded SCSI interfaces. Guess how much I paid for that privilege? $450 EACH, far too big a chunk of it because of the SCSI. I won't do that again, I hope.
My "point in crying", then, is to get other people thinking about the hidden costs and lack of pragmatism involved here. You can disagree or refuse to think about it if you want.
Yes, I was overlooking the effect of striping multiple drives on the SATA bus, but I doubt if even the fanciest RAID 0 or 5 disk array can come close to saturating even SATA II. SSDs are a much bigger threat, but still pretty costly.
In the YouTube video, did anyone else notice the half dozen or so dice trapped below the top of the conveyor belt, because they got the "exit strategy" wrong? Where do we file a bug report?
we don't even have any actual 3.0Gbps disk drives yet. They're upgrading the interface yet again when we have barely even got to the point of saturating the one from TWO generations ago (with magnetic media anyway).
The industry has largely been selling SATA II devices to unwitting consumers based on the perceived promise of 3GBps performance, which of course no one has been getting.
Instead of obsessing over the interface like this, how about they put some equivalent effort into speeding up the actual output of devices that use the interface?
Apparently no one else has noticed that this is a word-for-word cut-and-paste from another Slashdot discussion the other day? It should be modded funny for that alone.
... are the unethical profit margins of the mob of middlemen who thrive at the direct expense of both creative people and the people who would be consumers of that creativity. Those middlemen are the true "useless eaters" that early Twentieth Century eugenicists should have been targeting with forced sterilization. Nobody likes parasites, least of all the intended hosts of them. Just as the Italian Mafia were parasites on the economy, so too is the RIAA and its clientele parasitic. They themselves produce NOTHING of tangible value to the world, yet those corporations harbor some of the wealthiest people in the world. Useless eaters all, deserving of sterilization....
Ethanol was always a scam, even before Ed Wallace
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It takes more water, soil fertility, and work (energy, human labor) to produce the stuff than you ever get back out of it as useful work. It's a scam in the same sense that batteries and electric vehicles are a scam.
Here's yer UAV: it's a long piece of string and a big kite with digital camera and an Eye-Fi card taped to it. Have fun and make sure you're home in time for supper, young man.
Gee, I wonder who cuts paychecks for the "anonymous reader"?
Standards aren't really standards at all if they're simply rammed down the throats of consumers by a dominant entity, whether that entity is Microsoft or ZigBee.
It may not have a basis in "reality", but it certainly has a basis in common culture, memes, and entertainment history, doesn't it? Can you get any more real than that?
I wonder if this might eventually lead to circumvention by creation of "multipurpose" apps that use multiple threads performing completely disparate purposes, in a logical extension of that multiple-tabs exemption granted to browsers? Perhaps some enterprising coder will even figure out how to write a shell app that can spawn other normal apps to make them appear to the OS as threads rather than distinct apps, and thereby circumventing the three-app limit?
This is one roommate sucking overeager and gullible police and campus authorities into his crusade to get back at his roommate. There's PLENTY of blame to go around here.
We had this before the Internet: it's called Neighborhood Watch programs. My extension of it, and a solution to the fears of emergence of Big Brother with the advent of cameras on every street corner, is to wire those cameras up to either the global 'Net or a local WAN and let anyone monitor those cameras and report suspicious activity. The police would merely act on reports from citizens; police would not monitor the cameras directly except perhaps with the express request and consent of a citizen. If the camera system is "open sourced" and available to anyone, then it's not Big Brother, it's democracy in action.
What's this giant squid? You mean the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Cthulu? Heck, for all I know maybe they're one and the same? Homer says, "Mmmmmm, meat balls...."
BTW, I live in a town where a woman DIED (radio stunt) from drinking too much of that water stuff, WITH the "essential" minerals included. I'd say that's kinda the ultimate health problem....
Hey, what a coincidence... I happen to eat most every day! I suck down all sorts of chemicals and compounds and minerals when I do that, so maybe I can afford to drink the pure water, eh?
Those "essential minerals" you mention are only essential for plants: they're basically PLANT FOOD, not in a form the human body can directly metabolize, from what I've read. Of course the experts hired by the bottled-water industry would no doubt beg to differ, as they've been doing in decades of marketing hype now.
I would think providing simple pure water would be easier than trying to stock extra supplies to re-mineralize it and, frankly, I prefer the taste of distilled or purified water myself. So-called "drinking" water tastes rather flat and unappealing to me.
The truest form of "'Net neutrality" is for We the People to force the telcos - at gunpoint if necessary - to sell us back the "wires" and shared public infrastructure that they built for us. Cory seems to have *almost* identified the problem, but not quite, and so doesn't identify the correct solution.
The telecom industry should have been nothing more than contractors to the public interest, just as road construction crews are contractors; we don't allow road crews to retain ownership of the asphalt they lay down, and neither should we have allowed AT&T and its imitators to own the telegraph wires and everything else that has followed. We should have paid them ONCE for that work, and then perhaps kept them on as maintainers of that network, but at no point should they have been allowed to own the wires. That is where we screwed-up. Those wires belong to all of us, just as do the roads and the "airwaves" and the air we breathe. Those are all things shared by everyone that lend themselves perfectly to a bit of socialism... in this case public or (*gasp!*) "state" ownership.
The result of public ownership of the wires would be the inability of the telcos to blackmail us - or each other - for right of access. We the People would be in the driver's seat; if we didn't like the antics of one or more telcos, we could use our ownership of the wires to force them to shape up or ship out.
... Microsoft is certainly the one that deserves it. They've been practicing at it longer than anybody else, starting with Windows XP nine years ago. This is one patent, sadly, that Microsoft actually earned.
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"Google" actually *is* meaningful. "Yahoo" might be another example of stupid. I never said Microsoft had exclusive license to stupidity, though I'm sure they've tried to get it.
People have been using the HTTP filtering proxy Proxomitron for many years to rewrite the Web to their liking, including both removing AND adding content, like floting personal menus and all sorts of things. It might have started out with the primary goal of removing ads, but it evolved to be able to virtually rewrite entire pages according to the user's wishes. I doubt that it's as user-friendly as JetPack will be, but then that's in part because Proxomitron's suthor Scott Lemmon died some years ago and further improvements never happened.
There's already another tech company, Terabyte Unlimited, using that moniker as shorthand for their boot manager product, BootIt Next Generation. If they've trademarked the abbreviation as well as the full name, they might wind up suing Microsoft over their use of it.
It's an utterly stupid and non-descriptive name for a search engine, anyway.
Except the interface specs and other technology will move forward yet again before the devices themselves ever catch up, as has happened with virtually ALL the SATA-bearing motherboards I have ever bought. I'm paying for an interface that I will never be able to fully utilize before the motherboard becomes obsolete e-waste. I don't think the total cumulative combined cost of this interface advancement is as cheap as you think it is, and I don't like paying for something I can't even fully use. I can cite you a far worse example: I once made the misguided choice to buy Pentium-class motherboards with embedded SCSI interfaces. Guess how much I paid for that privilege? $450 EACH, far too big a chunk of it because of the SCSI. I won't do that again, I hope.
My "point in crying", then, is to get other people thinking about the hidden costs and lack of pragmatism involved here. You can disagree or refuse to think about it if you want.
Yes, I was overlooking the effect of striping multiple drives on the SATA bus, but I doubt if even the fanciest RAID 0 or 5 disk array can come close to saturating even SATA II. SSDs are a much bigger threat, but still pretty costly.
In the YouTube video, did anyone else notice the half dozen or so dice trapped below the top of the conveyor belt, because they got the "exit strategy" wrong? Where do we file a bug report?
... bungie cord holding the Dell Mini-9 in place.
we don't even have any actual 3.0Gbps disk drives yet. They're upgrading the interface yet again when we have barely even got to the point of saturating the one from TWO generations ago (with magnetic media anyway).
The industry has largely been selling SATA II devices to unwitting consumers based on the perceived promise of 3GBps performance, which of course no one has been getting.
Instead of obsessing over the interface like this, how about they put some equivalent effort into speeding up the actual output of devices that use the interface?
Apparently no one else has noticed that this is a word-for-word cut-and-paste from another Slashdot discussion the other day? It should be modded funny for that alone.
... are the unethical profit margins of the mob of middlemen who thrive at the direct expense of both creative people and the people who would be consumers of that creativity. Those middlemen are the true "useless eaters" that early Twentieth Century eugenicists should have been targeting with forced sterilization. Nobody likes parasites, least of all the intended hosts of them. Just as the Italian Mafia were parasites on the economy, so too is the RIAA and its clientele parasitic. They themselves produce NOTHING of tangible value to the world, yet those corporations harbor some of the wealthiest people in the world. Useless eaters all, deserving of sterilization....
It takes more water, soil fertility, and work (energy, human labor) to produce the stuff than you ever get back out of it as useful work. It's a scam in the same sense that batteries and electric vehicles are a scam.
Here's yer UAV: it's a long piece of string and a big kite with digital camera and an Eye-Fi card taped to it. Have fun and make sure you're home in time for supper, young man.
Gee, I wonder who cuts paychecks for the "anonymous reader"?
Standards aren't really standards at all if they're simply rammed down the throats of consumers by a dominant entity, whether that entity is Microsoft or ZigBee.
I guess he's not talking with a lisp after all, then, he's just lying through clenched teeth.
... so I guess it's not fast enough.
It may not have a basis in "reality", but it certainly has a basis in common culture, memes, and entertainment history, doesn't it? Can you get any more real than that?
I wonder if this might eventually lead to circumvention by creation of "multipurpose" apps that use multiple threads performing completely disparate purposes, in a logical extension of that multiple-tabs exemption granted to browsers? Perhaps some enterprising coder will even figure out how to write a shell app that can spawn other normal apps to make them appear to the OS as threads rather than distinct apps, and thereby circumventing the three-app limit?
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1198771&cid=27578621
This is one roommate sucking overeager and gullible police and campus authorities into his crusade to get back at his roommate. There's PLENTY of blame to go around here.
We had this before the Internet: it's called Neighborhood Watch programs. My extension of it, and a solution to the fears of emergence of Big Brother with the advent of cameras on every street corner, is to wire those cameras up to either the global 'Net or a local WAN and let anyone monitor those cameras and report suspicious activity. The police would merely act on reports from citizens; police would not monitor the cameras directly except perhaps with the express request and consent of a citizen. If the camera system is "open sourced" and available to anyone, then it's not Big Brother, it's democracy in action.
What's this giant squid? You mean the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Cthulu? Heck, for all I know maybe they're one and the same? Homer says, "Mmmmmm, meat balls...."
BTW, I live in a town where a woman DIED (radio stunt) from drinking too much of that water stuff, WITH the "essential" minerals included. I'd say that's kinda the ultimate health problem....
Hey, what a coincidence... I happen to eat most every day! I suck down all sorts of chemicals and compounds and minerals when I do that, so maybe I can afford to drink the pure water, eh?
Those "essential minerals" you mention are only essential for plants: they're basically PLANT FOOD, not in a form the human body can directly metabolize, from what I've read. Of course the experts hired by the bottled-water industry would no doubt beg to differ, as they've been doing in decades of marketing hype now.
I would think providing simple pure water would be easier than trying to stock extra supplies to re-mineralize it and, frankly, I prefer the taste of distilled or purified water myself. So-called "drinking" water tastes rather flat and unappealing to me.
The truest form of "'Net neutrality" is for We the People to force the telcos - at gunpoint if necessary - to sell us back the "wires" and shared public infrastructure that they built for us. Cory seems to have *almost* identified the problem, but not quite, and so doesn't identify the correct solution.
The telecom industry should have been nothing more than contractors to the public interest, just as road construction crews are contractors; we don't allow road crews to retain ownership of the asphalt they lay down, and neither should we have allowed AT&T and its imitators to own the telegraph wires and everything else that has followed. We should have paid them ONCE for that work, and then perhaps kept them on as maintainers of that network, but at no point should they have been allowed to own the wires. That is where we screwed-up. Those wires belong to all of us, just as do the roads and the "airwaves" and the air we breathe. Those are all things shared by everyone that lend themselves perfectly to a bit of socialism... in this case public or (*gasp!*) "state" ownership.
The result of public ownership of the wires would be the inability of the telcos to blackmail us - or each other - for right of access. We the People would be in the driver's seat; if we didn't like the antics of one or more telcos, we could use our ownership of the wires to force them to shape up or ship out.
... Microsoft is certainly the one that deserves it. They've been practicing at it longer than anybody else, starting with Windows XP nine years ago. This is one patent, sadly, that Microsoft actually earned.