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No, because the resolution is only 1920x1080, meaning its good for HDTV content, presetaions, etc, but will suck doing your spreadsheets unless you want to work on them from accross the room.
Read up on flash cards and you'll find they are a bit lacking in the rewritability department. Many manufacturers are recommending reformating cards after about 20 or 30 cycles to recover "lost capacity"; fine for digital cameras and other such temporary storgae but not something I'd want on my hard drive...
Smaller is better I would expect. Smaller arms traveling a shorter distance have less inertia when they impact, so I would expect these will handle shock pretty well. Discounting that, and just examining the general "resistance to impact" of drives over the last twenty years and you'll see a pretty impressive curve.
Last time I checked, I was able to blow my nose without a license fee, and copy a piece of paper without threat of litigation.
The point being that TiVo is hardly a failing company that can't hang, that role is being played by ReplayTV. Tivo seems to be doing quite well.
A market defining brand, maybe.
See? That's all I was saying
Innovative IP? Hardly.
I'm not going to argue this, unless you have prior art (and a VCR is NOT prior art) you really cant prove it either way.
They took a bunch of great concepts, wrapped it together very well, and now they're losing market share and margins to competitors. They had the first mover advantage, now it's gone, and no lawsuit should bring it back.
Yes, between MythTV, MS's UltimateTV, ReplayTV, and Panasonic's DVD writer system (you know, the one they abandoned and replaced with TiVo), its surprising TiVo has any lunch for itself. No, wait two of those have been abandoned because they couldn't compete, a third is bouncing from owner to owner. MythTV isn't really competing, since its aimed at DIY'ers, and not producing hardware.
But then, I probably shouldnt be responding to obvious trolls like this...
This is nonsense. TiVo is a market defining brand, up there with Xerox and Kleenex. They innovated the technology, they have pushed to help the public understand what it is. Tivo all in all has been very good about letting people explore the technology in a non infringing way.
They have a right and a responsibility to their stockholders to defend their IP. If this was a open source project trying to defend itself from a company stealing its code you wouldn't be attacking them...
The particular part of the post I was refering to was:
They go so far as to shitlist entire B-class subnets without a second thought just because one or two hosts from within that subnet were sending out spam
Which Spamcop does not do.
However, they are just as suseptable to stupid spam submitters as the next list. I use Cloudmark Spamnet myself, and occasionally find legitimate mailing lists in my spam folder; despite being careful, sometimes I accidentally submit one myself, and Im not real sure when I "unmark" it as spam it updates Cloudmark. So errors happen.
Then again, there are a few legit lists I signed up for that have now ignored two requests to stop, despite having had several months to process the request. Pretty soon I'll be submitting them as spam, since they assumedly have chosen to ignore the unsubscribe problem.
I suspect your confusing SpamCop with one of the other blacklists out there. Some of them are simply out of control, some of them actively warn admins not to use them because they are so strict. I know of one that has blacklisted an entire class A of one of the Big backbones just because.
Spamcop is very concerned about not blocking innocent servers. Its one of the better blacklists out there
You're not? You say folks go for Starbucks because they'd rather go for a brand name than quality! Perhaps they feel Starbucks coffee is an 9 or a 10? Unless you've stood outside a Starbuck's and performed blind taste tests with customers going in to Starbuck's, you really don't know that they'd prefer the grinds down at Syphillis Jack's House o' Brew. God knows a good portion of the folks visiting the gourmet coffee shop downstairs (which also charges $10/hour for WAN access) I get my bagels from (cant stand coffe) would prefer Starbucks to their brew, but aren't willing to walk the two blocks to get it.
So what "fact" are you stating? That the coffee shop down the street tatstes better than Starbucks? That because they stay in buisness doing A that Starbuck's should be doing A? Or is that my Penis size known to you, Ken? (I call you Ken, because like a Ken Doll your smooth in front)
My apologies that you are so dumb that you don'ty know you are dumb, that you orphanarian failed to teach you the difference between "Fact" and "Opinion" in between dropping you on your head and pushing in your soft spot, and to all the poor souls that have to bear your presence because the good lord saw fit to make both murder and suicide a sin.
(then again, Starbucks doesn't care about bringing in customers...the fact that its there will kill off 70% of the coffee shops in its vacinity because most people would rather go with a brand name than quality).
Reminds me of Tom Monaghan's Pizza Tiger. He had three pizza shops in the area with different names (He kept the names as he bought the stores, changing signs cost $$$). He used to hear customers say Store A's pizza was much better than store B's, even though the food was identical because he owned them both and prepped the ingredients for both.
As for dissing people for chosing Starbucks:
People from out of the area will chose Starbucks because its known. Maybe the coffee is only 8 of 10, but Sloppy Joe's Coffee house might be only a 6, or it might be a 10. But my experience says most folks chose the most conveinent place unless there's sufficent motivation. A 7 shop in the lobby will keep them from walking 2 blocks to an 8 Starbucks.
But then again, lots of folks still think Maxwell house is a damned good cup o' Joe for 15 cents and hate Starbucks.
Finally, people who criticize others tastes are usually just inconsiderate pricks who think they have all the answers; tiny little demagouges shouting to the world from their imaginary balconies while the rest of the world walks on by.
While we're at it, I need a place to stay next month when I'll be in your town. I probably won't get drunk and punch holes in your walls, pee in your sink, and puke in your sock drawer.
There is an off chance I'll leave some herione and child porn wedged in your dresser, but I'm sure the cops will beleive you when you tell them it was me.
Might be OK for starbucks to offer free access to folks who buy $4 Mocha's and other items, but what about Johnny Freeloader setting up camp outside their building? And realistically, if you don't think Starbucks is worth $4 a coffe, then you're not a Starbucks customer. If I were a Starbucks VP, I'd be bitching about how our business is selling great coffee, not internet access.
You also act like the barista's should care about supporting this service. I'm an IT guy, my office offers coffee; if he walked into my office and asked me if I were using Columbian, African, or Brazilian coffee my eyes would glaze over, and I'd say "It comes in paper cups." Get off your high horse and understand that all the world does not share your passions.
As for whether its worth $10/hour, thats for the marketplace to decide. If enoug buisnessmen come in who need to check their email before visiting a client; log in to update an important presentation, or have another need that worth $10/hour then they'll lower their price. Keep in mind their goal is not to become the leading Wireless ISP, its to provide a nice place to hang out while you sip $4 coffees and munch on $4 scones.
don't accept any advice on how to run your company unless it makes sense to you, irrespective of what anyone says.
Typically, once you bring in Venture Capital, its no longer your company but their company.
But yeah, succeeding as a startup takes something completely different than running a multinational. Personally though, I recall our founder/CEO bringing in his buddies to take important roles despite their lack of capability, spending $$$ on management off sites to exotic locations, etc. So YMMV
There are things an IPtables box can do that the others can't. There are things the others can do that the IPtables box can't.
But one of the big things IPtables can't do to my knowledge is route packets at near wirespeed. Though I'm sure with todays machines they are pretty darned fast, they don't have the "route once, switch many" architecture of a good hardware based product.
Running a firewall on peoples laptops isn't quite what we're talking about. Of cource your not going to run a dedicated firewall as your laptop, so your arguements just plain silly. Your laptop goes and gets exposed to the internet at Starbucks, then you go bring those infections inside my firewall.
And we're talking about Fortune 500 companies, not SMB's, although all buisnesses computers really ought to have something in place if they are exposed to the internet.
But really, good job defeating arguements that nobody was making. Have you looked into a career in politics?
As opposed to hardware based firewalls running custom operating systems. Granted, almost anything based in silicone could be considered a "computer", but running a general purpose OS on generic hardware is a far cry from what companies like Netscreen are producing.
"Potter" is not really a childrens book the way other children's books are.
The first books really were kids books. Simple stories, lots of "don't jump to conclusions" moral lessons.
But the later books are becoming more complex, and I just don't see how anyone can call a 900 page tome a "children's book" What amazes me is that kids are still reading it. 12 year olds are going out and reading a 900 page novel.
You're honestly of the impression that there is actually a sizable minority of people who would like to invent something with no guarantee to their right of exclusive production?
Not what was said. You have arbitrily added the condition "people who would like to invent something"; which is probably better stated as "people who intend to invent something"
First, if I know I lack the resources to invent something useful, but believe I could copy it once seen in action, why wouldn't I be against patents? At that point they are an imediment to my success.
The point of patents are as much to preserve the knowledge as it is to preserve my right to make a profit. The requirement that I explain my new foamed steel making process means that if I died trying to keep my foaming furnace from self destructing, the world doesn't need to wait for someone else to find out the secret is crushed eggshells because I was successful hiding that secret from the world to protect my profits.
Also, admining in itself has absolutely zero value, only by supporting programmers and other staff are administrators able to justify their very existence.
Dumbest statement, ever!
The majority of companies don't need or use programmers, but still need someone to admin their systems.
I know bad admins exist, but so do bad programers, who write software than needlessly requires root privledges, that fail to check buffers, and behave badly in endlessly different ways.
The people complaining should learn the magic of open source.
Worth noting is that the people complaining are the developers of "new" features, not the users. If a user needs a feature, he'll get the patch and apply it. The particular complainers are SGI's XFS file system team, users already have several choices in the kernel, so if they are not included the kernel their share will drop
Users, on the other hand, want their stable kernels to be stable.
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Rig the BIOS to stop the computer from booting when you stop using AOL?
Why would AOL care? AOL saves money if you pay $24/mo for the service and don't use it. No support costs. I know this is Slashdot, and hence everything not open source is an evil corporate conspiracy, but seriously...
Its a cheap machine. We know this without seeing it. Maybe they will try to establish a brand and these will be quality PC's. If you're AOL you might figure you'll get 60% retention when the contract expires, 20% who just aren't using it, and 20% who move on to other services. Now think about what it costs to attract new customers to AOL. What it will cost to let those non-traditional users know about the program. What it will cost to support all those non-traditional users
Yeah baby, AOL's going to be riding the gravy train to bankrupcity!
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Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
No, because the resolution is only 1920x1080, meaning its good for HDTV content, presetaions, etc, but will suck doing your spreadsheets unless you want to work on them from accross the room.
Read up on flash cards and you'll find they are a bit lacking in the rewritability department. Many manufacturers are recommending reformating cards after about 20 or 30 cycles to recover "lost capacity"; fine for digital cameras and other such temporary storgae but not something I'd want on my hard drive...
Smaller is better I would expect. Smaller arms traveling a shorter distance have less inertia when they impact, so I would expect these will handle shock pretty well. Discounting that, and just examining the general "resistance to impact" of drives over the last twenty years and you'll see a pretty impressive curve.
I for one welcome our new Dr Bernstein overload...
I beleive they are against software patents, not all patents. I do not beleive they are against my patent for automated reloader for my Nerf Wildfire.
And I'm not really sure these qualify as software patents, since its for a "device" that performs time-shifting, etc.
The point being that TiVo is hardly a failing company that can't hang, that role is being played by ReplayTV. Tivo seems to be doing quite well.
A market defining brand, maybe.
See? That's all I was saying
Innovative IP? Hardly.
I'm not going to argue this, unless you have prior art (and a VCR is NOT prior art) you really cant prove it either way.
They took a bunch of great concepts, wrapped it together very well, and now they're losing market share and margins to competitors. They had the first mover advantage, now it's gone, and no lawsuit should bring it back.
Yes, between MythTV, MS's UltimateTV, ReplayTV, and Panasonic's DVD writer system (you know, the one they abandoned and replaced with TiVo), its surprising TiVo has any lunch for itself. No, wait two of those have been abandoned because they couldn't compete, a third is bouncing from owner to owner. MythTV isn't really competing, since its aimed at DIY'ers, and not producing hardware.
But then, I probably shouldnt be responding to obvious trolls like this...
They have a right and a responsibility to their stockholders to defend their IP. If this was a open source project trying to defend itself from a company stealing its code you wouldn't be attacking them...
They go so far as to shitlist entire B-class subnets without a second thought just because one or two hosts from within that subnet were sending out spam
Which Spamcop does not do.
However, they are just as suseptable to stupid spam submitters as the next list. I use Cloudmark Spamnet myself, and occasionally find legitimate mailing lists in my spam folder; despite being careful, sometimes I accidentally submit one myself, and Im not real sure when I "unmark" it as spam it updates Cloudmark. So errors happen.
Then again, there are a few legit lists I signed up for that have now ignored two requests to stop, despite having had several months to process the request. Pretty soon I'll be submitting them as spam, since they assumedly have chosen to ignore the unsubscribe problem.
Spamcop is very concerned about not blocking innocent servers. Its one of the better blacklists out there
I always figure the Cobalt stuff was just standard x86 stuff. Anybody know what the difference was?
You're not? You say folks go for Starbucks because they'd rather go for a brand name than quality! Perhaps they feel Starbucks coffee is an 9 or a 10? Unless you've stood outside a Starbuck's and performed blind taste tests with customers going in to Starbuck's, you really don't know that they'd prefer the grinds down at Syphillis Jack's House o' Brew. God knows a good portion of the folks visiting the gourmet coffee shop downstairs (which also charges $10/hour for WAN access) I get my bagels from (cant stand coffe) would prefer Starbucks to their brew, but aren't willing to walk the two blocks to get it.
So what "fact" are you stating? That the coffee shop down the street tatstes better than Starbucks? That because they stay in buisness doing A that Starbuck's should be doing A? Or is that my Penis size known to you, Ken? (I call you Ken, because like a Ken Doll your smooth in front)
My apologies that you are so dumb that you don'ty know you are dumb, that you orphanarian failed to teach you the difference between "Fact" and "Opinion" in between dropping you on your head and pushing in your soft spot, and to all the poor souls that have to bear your presence because the good lord saw fit to make both murder and suicide a sin.
Reminds me of Tom Monaghan's Pizza Tiger. He had three pizza shops in the area with different names (He kept the names as he bought the stores, changing signs cost $$$). He used to hear customers say Store A's pizza was much better than store B's, even though the food was identical because he owned them both and prepped the ingredients for both.
As for dissing people for chosing Starbucks:
People from out of the area will chose Starbucks because its known. Maybe the coffee is only 8 of 10, but Sloppy Joe's Coffee house might be only a 6, or it might be a 10. But my experience says most folks chose the most conveinent place unless there's sufficent motivation. A 7 shop in the lobby will keep them from walking 2 blocks to an 8 Starbucks.
But then again, lots of folks still think Maxwell house is a damned good cup o' Joe for 15 cents and hate Starbucks.
Finally, people who criticize others tastes are usually just inconsiderate pricks who think they have all the answers; tiny little demagouges shouting to the world from their imaginary balconies while the rest of the world walks on by.
I fart in your general direction
While we're at it, I need a place to stay next month when I'll be in your town. I probably won't get drunk and punch holes in your walls, pee in your sink, and puke in your sock drawer.
There is an off chance I'll leave some herione and child porn wedged in your dresser, but I'm sure the cops will beleive you when you tell them it was me.
You also act like the barista's should care about supporting this service. I'm an IT guy, my office offers coffee; if he walked into my office and asked me if I were using Columbian, African, or Brazilian coffee my eyes would glaze over, and I'd say "It comes in paper cups." Get off your high horse and understand that all the world does not share your passions.
As for whether its worth $10/hour, thats for the marketplace to decide. If enoug buisnessmen come in who need to check their email before visiting a client; log in to update an important presentation, or have another need that worth $10/hour then they'll lower their price. Keep in mind their goal is not to become the leading Wireless ISP, its to provide a nice place to hang out while you sip $4 coffees and munch on $4 scones.
Typically, once you bring in Venture Capital, its no longer your company but their company.
But yeah, succeeding as a startup takes something completely different than running a multinational. Personally though, I recall our founder/CEO bringing in his buddies to take important roles despite their lack of capability, spending $$$ on management off sites to exotic locations, etc. So YMMV
But one of the big things IPtables can't do to my knowledge is route packets at near wirespeed. Though I'm sure with todays machines they are pretty darned fast, they don't have the "route once, switch many" architecture of a good hardware based product.
And we're talking about Fortune 500 companies, not SMB's, although all buisnesses computers really ought to have something in place if they are exposed to the internet.
But really, good job defeating arguements that nobody was making. Have you looked into a career in politics?
The first books really were kids books. Simple stories, lots of "don't jump to conclusions" moral lessons.
But the later books are becoming more complex, and I just don't see how anyone can call a 900 page tome a "children's book" What amazes me is that kids are still reading it. 12 year olds are going out and reading a 900 page novel.
That is an accomplishment.
For firewall we kept windows because the software we currently use performs much better on windows than Linux.
What fortune 500 company is using computer based firewalls? Let me know because I'll happily take over as "Cheif Security Officer"
Not what was said. You have arbitrily added the condition "people who would like to invent something"; which is probably better stated as "people who intend to invent something"
First, if I know I lack the resources to invent something useful, but believe I could copy it once seen in action, why wouldn't I be against patents? At that point they are an imediment to my success.
The point of patents are as much to preserve the knowledge as it is to preserve my right to make a profit. The requirement that I explain my new foamed steel making process means that if I died trying to keep my foaming furnace from self destructing, the world doesn't need to wait for someone else to find out the secret is crushed eggshells because I was successful hiding that secret from the world to protect my profits.
Dumbest statement, ever!
The majority of companies don't need or use programmers, but still need someone to admin their systems.
I know bad admins exist, but so do bad programers, who write software than needlessly requires root privledges, that fail to check buffers, and behave badly in endlessly different ways.
Worth noting is that the people complaining are the developers of "new" features, not the users. If a user needs a feature, he'll get the patch and apply it. The particular complainers are SGI's XFS file system team, users already have several choices in the kernel, so if they are not included the kernel their share will drop
Users, on the other hand, want their stable kernels to be stable.
Why would AOL care? AOL saves money if you pay $24/mo for the service and don't use it. No support costs. I know this is Slashdot, and hence everything not open source is an evil corporate conspiracy, but seriously...
Its a cheap machine. We know this without seeing it. Maybe they will try to establish a brand and these will be quality PC's. If you're AOL you might figure you'll get 60% retention when the contract expires, 20% who just aren't using it, and 20% who move on to other services. Now think about what it costs to attract new customers to AOL. What it will cost to let those non-traditional users know about the program. What it will cost to support all those non-traditional users
Yeah baby, AOL's going to be riding the gravy train to bankrupcity!