I'm hoping this is the first step on a ladder that leads us to plugins for NAS software that allows "iTunes Home Sharing" support, much the way they have now-defunct DAAP services.
Being able to serve video to an AppleTV / iPad / iPhone without having iTunes running 100% of the time would be great.
Yeah, because the difference between the unrealized fear of launching a lump of nuclear material into space is indistinguishable from the real danger of being present during an active nuclear accident.
I especially like the irony of you calling him a blowhard. Well done.
Maybe we can use a centralized broadcast that can transmit it just once, let anyone who wants it cache it, then use that broadcast's bandwidth to transmit other things? And then people who miss the centralized broadcast can get a copy separately later? Let's do it!
Time Warner would be fired tomorrow if I wasn't such a college football fan. ESPN3 is a step in the right direction, but needs to be much more comprehensive.
I don't expect we'll see a Mac Pro announcement next week, as Apple's support for the AMD Radeon 69x0 cards is horribly broken in anything you can see outside of a lab in Cupertino. Announcing a system with "next generation performance" that uses previous generation video cards is something they are trying to get away from.
However, NAB is next week in Las Vegas, so who knows what they might do to get people to stop looking at CUDA-accelerated Adobe Premiere.
Okay, but what was the size of that dam? How much water was it holding back? Did it rupture all at once, or did it hold on long enough for them to controllably spill water out before it was completely compromised?
All dams, and disasters affecting them, are not made equal. If the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River took that 9.0, it's quite possible that north Portland OR, and Vancouver WA may cease to exist.
Epsilon is a company that does mass-market emails. Kroger uses DunnHumby USA for their statistics and market data. They use someone completely different for credit card processing, maintaining PCI compliance.
I'm pretty sure they have the capacity to have different databases, with controlled access to each. They aren't the local fruit stand, they're a Fortune-30 business.
You might be surprised about Kroger - they have 17+ banners they do business with. There might not be a Kroger store, but there might be a Fry's, Smith's, Ralph's, Fred Meyer, QFC, or King Soopers.
netbooks may have not gone anywhere, but sales of netbooks certainly did. Anyone who wants one, already bought one; new ones don't do anything that the one they already have does, so there's no reason to upgrade unless you smash the one you have.
Yeah, I'd get pissed that someone came along and actually wrote software specifically for the device too, rather than just recycling the same thing they're already selling onto a reduced-spec laptop that has two-axis hinges...
Like it or not, Apple did some real development work to make the touch interface what it is. Before that, everyone was basically forced into using a stylus on a warmed-over mouse driven interface.
Replace? That's funny. The operators are going to run these plants until they fall apart, because they *can't* replace them. Then we'll have some real fun.
Vermont Yankee, which has been the source of detected radioactive tritium leaks, has had it's NRC license extended by another 20 years last week because it provides 35% of the State of Vermont's energy, and amounts to almost 72% of Vermont's power generation.
It is also a BWR plant like the ones in Fukishimia, built in 1972. It is currently running at 120% of it's original licensed thermal capacity under an NRC-licensed Extended Power Uprate.
Yeah, we don't need to build new stuff - we'll just wait until the 40-year-old stuff completely falls apart and cannot be repaired.
When he talks about recycling, he's not talking about reducing the radioactivity of uranium and plutonium - you want those to be radioactive. He's talking about removing the neutron poisons and fission products from the fuel elements, and returning the fuel to the core for more energy production. A nuclear reactor only uses about 1% of the fuel in an assembly before the reaction is no longer sustainable due to neutron poisons. This allows you to get at the other ~99%, increasing efficiency and reducing waste.
Removing the trans-uranics and fission products allows you to separate the high-level wastes that decay much faster (tens to hundreds of years rather than tens of thousands) from the usable fuel assemblies that can undergo critical assembly to be useful again. Also, it gives us access to lots of materials useful for medical imaging and radiotherapy.
Yeah, $DEITY forbid that people should be able to enjoy your product, the way they want to enjoy it, when they want to enjoy it, on the device they want to use to enjoy it.
If that is 'losing' for these assholes, then I hope they fucking lose, and damn quick.
That is what FileVault is under 10.7. Also, apparently Apple was very close to using ZFS in 10.6, but couldn't come to licensing terms with Sun, so they scrapped it. There is still a project to maintain it out there using the development efforts for ZFS on BSD, but it's hardly supported by Apple.
Multiple monitors may increase productivity, but I'd be willing to bet it would be easier to prove that they reduce paper and toner expense. How many people stop printing wedges of dead tree if they can have more than one document readable at a time?
The submitter. Apple, I'm sure, had a team of lawyers pour over the thing to find their own exposure, and then make a decision. It's not like the linked article is a press release from Apple saying "Hurr we're booting Samba from our software because the GPL v3 does stuff that it actually doesn't."
This is Apple making a strategic decision based on the information and analysis they have made internally. The article is someone else, with limited understanding of the facts, making a leap of logic.
The whole legal proceeding with modern DUI prosecutions seem to be extremely problematic in constitutional law. Maybe I'm missing something, but how is it legal to:
> compel someone into a "breath test" which amounts to a warrantless search (Fourth Amendment) > compel someone to bear witness against themselves in a criminal proceeding by either bearing witness against themselves in a breath test (Fifth Amendment), or going to jail for not (due process, also Fifth Amendment)
I know there's some law scholars within the Slashdot Horde, anyone care to explain?
This subtlety is often lost on the Internet, and it drives me crazy. The First Amendment only restricts the action of governments to limit speech, not individuals or private entities.
If we had invented the perfect energy generating device, we wouldn't be building anything else. Everything has it's drawbacks - you just have to engineer around them in order to mitigate them.
" Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;"
No idea what this means either.
They mean having a progress bar, that shows up in the middle of your screen, rather than at the bottom. I know, that's just amazingly intuitive, and you've never heard of that before.
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I'm hoping this is the first step on a ladder that leads us to plugins for NAS software that allows "iTunes Home Sharing" support, much the way they have now-defunct DAAP services.
Being able to serve video to an AppleTV / iPad / iPhone without having iTunes running 100% of the time would be great.
Don't forget this lovely product for the do-it-at-home crowd: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/revigat.htm
Yeah, because the difference between the unrealized fear of launching a lump of nuclear material into space is indistinguishable from the real danger of being present during an active nuclear accident.
I especially like the irony of you calling him a blowhard. Well done.
Yep, we'll have fusion power in 50 years. Just like they said 50 years ago.
Maybe we can use a centralized broadcast that can transmit it just once, let anyone who wants it cache it, then use that broadcast's bandwidth to transmit other things? And then people who miss the centralized broadcast can get a copy separately later? Let's do it!
So, multicast streaming then?
Time Warner would be fired tomorrow if I wasn't such a college football fan. ESPN3 is a step in the right direction, but needs to be much more comprehensive.
I don't expect we'll see a Mac Pro announcement next week, as Apple's support for the AMD Radeon 69x0 cards is horribly broken in anything you can see outside of a lab in Cupertino. Announcing a system with "next generation performance" that uses previous generation video cards is something they are trying to get away from.
However, NAB is next week in Las Vegas, so who knows what they might do to get people to stop looking at CUDA-accelerated Adobe Premiere.
Okay, but what was the size of that dam? How much water was it holding back? Did it rupture all at once, or did it hold on long enough for them to controllably spill water out before it was completely compromised?
All dams, and disasters affecting them, are not made equal. If the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River took that 9.0, it's quite possible that north Portland OR, and Vancouver WA may cease to exist.
Epsilon is a company that does mass-market emails. Kroger uses DunnHumby USA for their statistics and market data. They use someone completely different for credit card processing, maintaining PCI compliance.
I'm pretty sure they have the capacity to have different databases, with controlled access to each. They aren't the local fruit stand, they're a Fortune-30 business.
You might be surprised about Kroger - they have 17+ banners they do business with. There might not be a Kroger store, but there might be a Fry's, Smith's, Ralph's, Fred Meyer, QFC, or King Soopers.
They are all Kroger.
netbooks may have not gone anywhere, but sales of netbooks certainly did. Anyone who wants one, already bought one; new ones don't do anything that the one they already have does, so there's no reason to upgrade unless you smash the one you have.
Yeah, I'd get pissed that someone came along and actually wrote software specifically for the device too, rather than just recycling the same thing they're already selling onto a reduced-spec laptop that has two-axis hinges...
Like it or not, Apple did some real development work to make the touch interface what it is. Before that, everyone was basically forced into using a stylus on a warmed-over mouse driven interface.
Replace? That's funny. The operators are going to run these plants until they fall apart, because they *can't* replace them. Then we'll have some real fun.
Vermont Yankee, which has been the source of detected radioactive tritium leaks, has had it's NRC license extended by another 20 years last week because it provides 35% of the State of Vermont's energy, and amounts to almost 72% of Vermont's power generation.
It is also a BWR plant like the ones in Fukishimia, built in 1972. It is currently running at 120% of it's original licensed thermal capacity under an NRC-licensed Extended Power Uprate.
Yeah, we don't need to build new stuff - we'll just wait until the 40-year-old stuff completely falls apart and cannot be repaired.
When he talks about recycling, he's not talking about reducing the radioactivity of uranium and plutonium - you want those to be radioactive. He's talking about removing the neutron poisons and fission products from the fuel elements, and returning the fuel to the core for more energy production. A nuclear reactor only uses about 1% of the fuel in an assembly before the reaction is no longer sustainable due to neutron poisons. This allows you to get at the other ~99%, increasing efficiency and reducing waste.
Removing the trans-uranics and fission products allows you to separate the high-level wastes that decay much faster (tens to hundreds of years rather than tens of thousands) from the usable fuel assemblies that can undergo critical assembly to be useful again. Also, it gives us access to lots of materials useful for medical imaging and radiotherapy.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Yeah, $DEITY forbid that people should be able to enjoy your product, the way they want to enjoy it, when they want to enjoy it, on the device they want to use to enjoy it.
If that is 'losing' for these assholes, then I hope they fucking lose, and damn quick.
Re: full disk encryption
That is what FileVault is under 10.7. Also, apparently Apple was very close to using ZFS in 10.6, but couldn't come to licensing terms with Sun, so they scrapped it. There is still a project to maintain it out there using the development efforts for ZFS on BSD, but it's hardly supported by Apple.
Because the software publisher gets to choose their own versioning scheme?
Multiple monitors may increase productivity, but I'd be willing to bet it would be easier to prove that they reduce paper and toner expense. How many people stop printing wedges of dead tree if they can have more than one document readable at a time?
The submitter. Apple, I'm sure, had a team of lawyers pour over the thing to find their own exposure, and then make a decision. It's not like the linked article is a press release from Apple saying "Hurr we're booting Samba from our software because the GPL v3 does stuff that it actually doesn't."
This is Apple making a strategic decision based on the information and analysis they have made internally. The article is someone else, with limited understanding of the facts, making a leap of logic.
The whole legal proceeding with modern DUI prosecutions seem to be extremely problematic in constitutional law. Maybe I'm missing something, but how is it legal to:
> compel someone into a "breath test" which amounts to a warrantless search (Fourth Amendment)
> compel someone to bear witness against themselves in a criminal proceeding by either bearing witness against themselves in a breath test (Fifth Amendment), or going to jail for not (due process, also Fifth Amendment)
I know there's some law scholars within the Slashdot Horde, anyone care to explain?
This subtlety is often lost on the Internet, and it drives me crazy. The First Amendment only restricts the action of governments to limit speech, not individuals or private entities.
So don't use sodium.
Use a lead bismuth eutectic mixture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_cooled_fast_reactor
If we had invented the perfect energy generating device, we wouldn't be building anything else. Everything has it's drawbacks - you just have to engineer around them in order to mitigate them.
I imagine it's harder to get an injunction against shipping products against Google than it is against HTC, who actually ships a physical good.
Besides, Google could lock this up in courts for decades - they have a money bin that rivals the one in Redmond.
" Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;"
No idea what this means either.
They mean having a progress bar, that shows up in the middle of your screen, rather than at the bottom. I know, that's just amazingly intuitive, and you've never heard of that before.
Zing!