Every time I see "up to" in their claims, I know I'm not going to see that performance on anything. I would so much rather see a substantiated claim of performance double or better in all circumstances than this other crap -- excuse me, hype.
This decision is more than long overdue. How much are you being hurt on a moment-by-moment basis for a patent you aren't even using? Eventual damages can be decided, if any, but you're not suffering irreparable harm for every second that passes otherwise.
I realize that MS loses money with each console sold...could this be something that MS planned on to sell more systems?
You mean so that Microsoft can lose even more money? Money they won't make up in game royalties since people will be running backups? Doesn't make sense to me.
Why hasn't anyone ever invented The Linux Game? Create a signed game, pay royalities to the game console provider, scream MONOPOLY at the top of your lungs if the refuse you, and have a running Linux OS on the game console. Might be a best seller.
So video now will choke the Internet. All that dark fibre laid during the boom and never lit won't be enough. Run for the hills! The Internet is about to die! Oh woe. Oh woe. And all because of those pesky computer users.
Go back a mere 10 years or so and it was the Internet users that were going to kill the switched telephone network. Instead of brief calls, Internet users got online and stayed on line for hours, if not days at a time. The telephone system was predicted to collapse soon from the overload of all those pesky computer users.
Do you remember the telephone network collapsing? Me neither. And the Internet doesn't collapse nearly so much as degrade somewhat gracefully as load increases. And besides, all those illegal P2P and BT users will all be switching to legal downloads now the moment they become reasonable, which will mean less of a predicted increase in overall traffic. Aren't there something like 60M P2P users in the USA alone right now?
*Yawn* Here I was all set to get excited over this, until realized I've seen it all before and not much of anything comes out of it.
Was there once a threat to overload the telegraph lines? Can't recall for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if it once happened too.
It won't affect you because after you've paid the over-priced tariff for those cables you can't afford electricity at these rapidly rising rates anyway.
Circuit City tried to sell my mother those $70 connectors with her new 37" Sharp TV, along with a $85 Super Surge Protector. Both, she was told, were essential to the full operation of her new television. Fortunately she said no to that, although the TV has HDMI sans HDCP - which they conveniently neglected to mention.
That's not malware. Hushmail, for example, makes legitimate use of Java to do the encryption/decryption on your own machine so that plaintext never touches their servers.
That still doesn't mean I wouldn't like to know about it before I go to their site.
Why isn't Google performing a value added function here of flagging all sites they've spidered for the following malware before presenting them as search results:
1: Virus
2: Attempted AdWare installs
3: Attempted Spyware installs
4: ActiveX controls
5: Java required
6: Anything else that it attempts to install when you visit
7: Sites that disable, or attempt to, your browser features like Right Click.
8: Sites that are only redirection sites.
and most of all
are you ready?
9: Sites that make themselves anywhere from hard to impossible to exit from afterwards without, at minimum, killing your browser process.
Flagging questionable, along with outright bad, sites would protect users, while likely reducing their traffic - which is what they deserve to have happen to them. More than twice I've used the Google cache to read a site's static content rather than risk visiting them directly.
And while they're at it, add an easily clickable link to tell Google that this site appears gone, or substantially changed from the search result summary and ought to be re-spidered ASAP would be nice too. Enlist your users in identifying bad search results.
Someone who does all this would have a strong hold on my search business.
And in other news, the combined cable television industry announced today that it's possible to provide power-over broadband-lines. Their spokesman said:
"What is coax but insulated copper conductor. With Edison's DC delivery methods, tried and proven over a hundred years ago, a single conductor with ground return has always been feasible. Now we will free you from the greedy power companies and their unfair monopolies one and for all. Bwahahaha!"
The combined telcos have scheduled a news-conference for later this afternoon.
I would be very happy to have another alternative to Comcast. DSL is not an option in my neighborhood, and broadly available WiFi not even a glimmer. When my only current broadband ISP starts QoS traffic shaping that benefits them, not me, I want a new place to leave them for. After all, with satellite, I don't need them for TV either.
was barely able to fill much more than four hours of real work in an 8-hour shift, and now I almost had to strike because the union wanted to bust balls with the company on this.
The Union didn't want to bust the company's balls. They wanted to increase their membership, and hence their dues. They intended to do this by lowering productivity and requiring the hiring of more Union workers to get the same amount of work done. That's how they destroy good companies, but it is calculated, and not out of sheer spite.
My manager makes 3x what I do and he has the spine and decision making skills of a jellyfish. Like many managers, the only quick decisions he makes are those that make him look good.
Your manager is good at the only skill that truly matters - protecting his 3X salary. As long as his incompetence doesn't sink the company in the process, you should learn from him. After all, he's the one making 3X for being a jellyfish!
No one owes you a job or a life you have to make your own.
Except in France, where if you make enough noise in the streets the government caves. Germany is probably lucky they never got France for very long. The chances of France destroying German resolve and work-ethic is certainly greater than that of Germany reforming French attitudes!
Tech is the Wild West as far as the job market goes and the robber barons on top of the pile aim to keep it that way.
Even if you are willing to accept all the rest of the hype in this summary, in no sense that that convince me that Unions are the solution. With a Union, you're doing little more it seems than funding a new elite class (Union bosses) who make more money than you do while working less hard than you do - all the while funding political candidates and causes using dues money that are at odds with half their membership on average. Great work, Union boss that is, if you can get it, but not for me.
And what's the density of current storage? While it has a lot of square centimeters, current coatings are rather thin. What would a cubic centimeter of current magnetic disc storage store?
certain customers may be eligible to purchase common stock at IPO pricing.
They should have only left those messages on those Certain Customer's voicemails. Otherwise I'll wonder just how well this company is being run, and do I want to give them my money.
The only person setting my Quality of Service settings should be ME! I should determine how to allocate the bandwidth I'm paying for. The broadband companies aren't losing money. They aren't in business to lose money. They just want to make MORE than they're already making by charging BOTH ENDS of the wire now. The see Google with a big pot of money, and are trying to figure out how to steal it.
You know, if Google started up their own broadband service at a competitive rate, I'd dump my current ISP in a moment over this.
Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?
I can at least avoid doing business with a particular oil company if I especially don't like the @$$holes running it. But the cable company has a monopoly, and has to play by different rules than even the competition-challenged oil companies.
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Now the terrorists can sit on the ground and hijack the plane with an override signal. I hope they're using something better than WEP for encryption.
Every time I see "up to" in their claims, I know I'm not going to see that performance on anything. I would so much rather see a substantiated claim of performance double or better in all circumstances than this other crap -- excuse me, hype.
So they got one right this time.
You mean so that Microsoft can lose even more money? Money they won't make up in game royalties since people will be running backups? Doesn't make sense to me.
Why hasn't anyone ever invented The Linux Game? Create a signed game, pay royalities to the game console provider, scream MONOPOLY at the top of your lungs if the refuse you, and have a running Linux OS on the game console. Might be a best seller.
Hate to think that the next time I get a strong static shock from someone that my cells are all going to go bonkers.
Go back a mere 10 years or so and it was the Internet users that were going to kill the switched telephone network. Instead of brief calls, Internet users got online and stayed on line for hours, if not days at a time. The telephone system was predicted to collapse soon from the overload of all those pesky computer users.
Do you remember the telephone network collapsing? Me neither. And the Internet doesn't collapse nearly so much as degrade somewhat gracefully as load increases. And besides, all those illegal P2P and BT users will all be switching to legal downloads now the moment they become reasonable, which will mean less of a predicted increase in overall traffic. Aren't there something like 60M P2P users in the USA alone right now?
*Yawn* Here I was all set to get excited over this, until realized I've seen it all before and not much of anything comes out of it.
Was there once a threat to overload the telegraph lines? Can't recall for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if it once happened too.
It won't affect you because after you've paid the over-priced tariff for those cables you can't afford electricity at these rapidly rising rates anyway.
Circuit City tried to sell my mother those $70 connectors with her new 37" Sharp TV, along with a $85 Super Surge Protector. Both, she was told, were essential to the full operation of her new television. Fortunately she said no to that, although the TV has HDMI sans HDCP - which they conveniently neglected to mention.
There's clearly a need to take action now. I'd better go clear my calendar, then I'll be prepared.
Memo to Self: Get stick on "N" and "S" labels for compass.
Not protect, but inform you ahead of time. There is a difference.
That still doesn't mean I wouldn't like to know about it before I go to their site.
1: Virus
2: Attempted AdWare installs
3: Attempted Spyware installs
4: ActiveX controls
5: Java required
6: Anything else that it attempts to install when you visit
7: Sites that disable, or attempt to, your browser features like Right Click.
8: Sites that are only redirection sites.
and most of all
are you ready?
9: Sites that make themselves anywhere from hard to impossible to exit from afterwards without, at minimum, killing your browser process.
Flagging questionable, along with outright bad, sites would protect users, while likely reducing their traffic - which is what they deserve to have happen to them. More than twice I've used the Google cache to read a site's static content rather than risk visiting them directly.
And while they're at it, add an easily clickable link to tell Google that this site appears gone, or substantially changed from the search result summary and ought to be re-spidered ASAP would be nice too. Enlist your users in identifying bad search results.
Someone who does all this would have a strong hold on my search business.
Now I'm scared.
"What is coax but insulated copper conductor. With Edison's DC delivery methods, tried and proven over a hundred years ago, a single conductor with ground return has always been feasible. Now we will free you from the greedy power companies and their unfair monopolies one and for all. Bwahahaha!"
The combined telcos have scheduled a news-conference for later this afternoon.
I would be very happy to have another alternative to Comcast. DSL is not an option in my neighborhood, and broadly available WiFi not even a glimmer. When my only current broadband ISP starts QoS traffic shaping that benefits them, not me, I want a new place to leave them for. After all, with satellite, I don't need them for TV either.
The Union didn't want to bust the company's balls. They wanted to increase their membership, and hence their dues. They intended to do this by lowering productivity and requiring the hiring of more Union workers to get the same amount of work done. That's how they destroy good companies, but it is calculated, and not out of sheer spite.
It's also stupid!
Your manager is good at the only skill that truly matters - protecting his 3X salary. As long as his incompetence doesn't sink the company in the process, you should learn from him. After all, he's the one making 3X for being a jellyfish!
Except in France, where if you make enough noise in the streets the government caves. Germany is probably lucky they never got France for very long. The chances of France destroying German resolve and work-ethic is certainly greater than that of Germany reforming French attitudes!
Even if you are willing to accept all the rest of the hype in this summary, in no sense that that convince me that Unions are the solution. With a Union, you're doing little more it seems than funding a new elite class (Union bosses) who make more money than you do while working less hard than you do - all the while funding political candidates and causes using dues money that are at odds with half their membership on average. Great work, Union boss that is, if you can get it, but not for me.
And what's the density of current storage? While it has a lot of square centimeters, current coatings are rather thin. What would a cubic centimeter of current magnetic disc storage store?
They should have only left those messages on those Certain Customer's voicemails. Otherwise I'll wonder just how well this company is being run, and do I want to give them my money.
Not revealing security holes should be the crime, and not the reverse. Only a well-informed consumer has a realistic chance of protecting themselves.
And that's not even mentioning a lack of DRM. Doesn't Hollywood own gravity these days? I'm sure a patent was filed somewhere - or was it a copyright?
You know, if Google started up their own broadband service at a competitive rate, I'd dump my current ISP in a moment over this.
I can at least avoid doing business with a particular oil company if I especially don't like the @$$holes running it. But the cable company has a monopoly, and has to play by different rules than even the competition-challenged oil companies.