"Either he's lying or woefully misinformed; their recent performance seems to be more on the order of 3+ months, or over 2000 hours."
This is quite an odd assertation, as the link only details one security flaw, and only mentions the date it was discovered, not the date it was patched. Besides, it would be utterly incompetent (and dare I say malicious?) to draw a conclusion from one datapoint.
Pilot lists the VBall and VBall Grip on their website, www.pilotpen.us, but having never seen or used a VBall Extra, I cannot say if they are similiar. Perhaps the product pictures onsite will help.
Yes, it does. He may be a bit of a curmudgeon, but he does not see the world through rose-colored glasses. Using wit and a sharp tongue, he has put life in perspective for those who would casually dismiss anything not less than a decade old and who see products as mere lumps of material, not as a means to an end.
My favorite pen is the Pilot Explorer, a fairly basic and nondescript black pen. However, it writes smoothly, and has a fine point. It also is not expensive. Nor is it a ballpoint (it is a rolling ball), as I find that the ink tends to come out in little gobs and paper fibers get stuck around the nub. I have an abundant array of pens in my desk, most of them from business trips. I don't recall where I acquired the Pilot Explorer, but I do remember that I did not pay for it. My advice is that pens can usually be had for free, and there is no point in paying for such a common tool. If you have a stockpile of pens, as I do, simply try out each one until you find one that fits best for you. If you do not, I would not pay more than five dollars at most, as pens are easily lost, or in some cases I suspect, stolen. For comparison, the Pilot Explorer is currently listed at $2.39 per unit, at www.pilotpen-store.com.
Corporations are created by individuals, not the government. They are only chartered by the government. Corporations are comprised of people. To infringe on the rights of corporations would infringe on the rights of individuals. All rights that people posses come from natural law, not the government. The only rights government has is those that the citizenry grant it. Corporation and tax laws view corporations as legal persons. You do not seem to understand the Bill of Rights, or to have read it. See the 9th Amendment, which clearly states that simply because a right is not listed in the aforementioned document, that does not mean it is not retained by the states and the people. This is akin to asking why raping a woman is not legal, simply because the right not to be raped is not explicitly listed. If I were you, I'd transfer, or barring that, do some independent study/thinking, because you aren't getting enough from wherever you are attending. You deserve to be better educated.
Didn't Arnold say that the citizens of California were overregulated, among other things? Gov. Arnold will no doubt be more friendly to the free market than the Davis administration. Arguments, no matter if founded completely in fact, will not dissaude overzealous and unaccountable regulators from ignoring an easy power grab. The house needs to be cleared out.
Many articles on Slashdot have misleading titles. Many of the articles themselves are misleading, with a clear bias and skewing of facts. Some, not all, of the Slashdot staff have an axe to grind, and feel that they are entitled to their own facts, as well as opinions.
Windows NT 4.0 was more than just a shell update, but also rejiggered the kernel, and moved GDI into kernel mode. Betas aren't releases, and I do not consider them when comparing release dates different software.
I find it a little suspicious that the story refers to an anonymous group of "leading" security experts with no credentials listed. One needs to be skeptical of these things, especially when it appears that much of it is backed by Microsoft's competitors. Could they be an objective panel? Possibly. Could it be FUD? Possibly.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is only charged with overseeing publicly traded securities. Infinium Labs does not have publicly trading securities.
Your skepticism is welcome. I have not been able to find much on short notice, but what I found is this. Some of the barriers were removed in 1998, when Congress passed the "Commercial Space Act," which "repealed a ban on private parties' bringing vehicles, payloads, and even people back to Earth from space..." (Cato Handbook for Congress [107th]) This would indicate that, up to 1998, private exploration of space was illegal. While this got the foot in the door for private space exploration, this has not by any means resulted in the total opening of space. Of interest may be http://www.cato.org/research/reglt-st.html#space.
You're using the straw man argument. Creating a fallacious claim that was not present in the original. Now, although you've proven yourself hostile and willingly open to misinterpretation, I will point out why you are wrong. What NASA has done is prohibit private enterprise from operating in the majority of its sphere of influence. Indeed, most companies simply use the services of foreign companies in other countries to circumvent this. It has everything to do with being legally prevented from operating freely, and nothing to do with what you invented.
The government "investing" my money into IT and manufacturing, when parts or in the case of manufacturing, the complete process, can be done better and more cheaply is like tying a noose and jumping off the ladder. This would only hurt the consumer and other businesses for the benefit of a select few. For each job "saved" in IT or manufacturing, many more would be lost in other sectors. No amount of money thrown at a paradigm shift is going to change reality. Instead, one should try to adapt to changing situations.
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This is quite an odd assertation, as the link only details one security flaw, and only mentions the date it was discovered, not the date it was patched. Besides, it would be utterly incompetent (and dare I say malicious?) to draw a conclusion from one datapoint.
The former will get people annoyed with you. The latter are grounds for arrest, as it is a clear and present danger.
Do you mean a Pentium MMX?
Are power cords all the same, or are older ones at all different than newer ones?
I find your faith in conspiracy theories disturbing...
Hey, that billion or so has to come from somewhere. People bought the product before there were billions to market it.
Clueless Liberal: Ronald Reagan won in a landslide? But no one I know voted for him!
Pilot lists the VBall and VBall Grip on their website, www.pilotpen.us, but having never seen or used a VBall Extra, I cannot say if they are similiar. Perhaps the product pictures onsite will help.
Yes, it does. He may be a bit of a curmudgeon, but he does not see the world through rose-colored glasses. Using wit and a sharp tongue, he has put life in perspective for those who would casually dismiss anything not less than a decade old and who see products as mere lumps of material, not as a means to an end.
My favorite pen is the Pilot Explorer, a fairly basic and nondescript black pen. However, it writes smoothly, and has a fine point. It also is not expensive. Nor is it a ballpoint (it is a rolling ball), as I find that the ink tends to come out in little gobs and paper fibers get stuck around the nub. I have an abundant array of pens in my desk, most of them from business trips. I don't recall where I acquired the Pilot Explorer, but I do remember that I did not pay for it. My advice is that pens can usually be had for free, and there is no point in paying for such a common tool. If you have a stockpile of pens, as I do, simply try out each one until you find one that fits best for you. If you do not, I would not pay more than five dollars at most, as pens are easily lost, or in some cases I suspect, stolen. For comparison, the Pilot Explorer is currently listed at $2.39 per unit, at www.pilotpen-store.com.
Tinfoil hat land? Have you ever watched a press conference, to say nothing of a public hearing? Really.
Corporations are created by individuals, not the government. They are only chartered by the government. Corporations are comprised of people. To infringe on the rights of corporations would infringe on the rights of individuals. All rights that people posses come from natural law, not the government. The only rights government has is those that the citizenry grant it. Corporation and tax laws view corporations as legal persons. You do not seem to understand the Bill of Rights, or to have read it. See the 9th Amendment, which clearly states that simply because a right is not listed in the aforementioned document, that does not mean it is not retained by the states and the people. This is akin to asking why raping a woman is not legal, simply because the right not to be raped is not explicitly listed. If I were you, I'd transfer, or barring that, do some independent study/thinking, because you aren't getting enough from wherever you are attending. You deserve to be better educated.
Didn't Arnold say that the citizens of California were overregulated, among other things? Gov. Arnold will no doubt be more friendly to the free market than the Davis administration. Arguments, no matter if founded completely in fact, will not dissaude overzealous and unaccountable regulators from ignoring an easy power grab. The house needs to be cleared out.
Many articles on Slashdot have misleading titles. Many of the articles themselves are misleading, with a clear bias and skewing of facts. Some, not all, of the Slashdot staff have an axe to grind, and feel that they are entitled to their own facts, as well as opinions.
Windows NT 4.0 was more than just a shell update, but also rejiggered the kernel, and moved GDI into kernel mode. Betas aren't releases, and I do not consider them when comparing release dates different software.
I was pointing out that Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 did not come out in the same year, not anything about NotePad itself.
Windows 95 was released in 1995, Windows NT 4.0 was released in 1996. A year in computing years is not quite the same age.
RTFA?
I find it a little suspicious that the story refers to an anonymous group of "leading" security experts with no credentials listed. One needs to be skeptical of these things, especially when it appears that much of it is backed by Microsoft's competitors. Could they be an objective panel? Possibly. Could it be FUD? Possibly.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is only charged with overseeing publicly traded securities. Infinium Labs does not have publicly trading securities.
The first remote control that I am aware of was simply a flashlight in a trigger gun casing.
Your skepticism is welcome. I have not been able to find much on short notice, but what I found is this. Some of the barriers were removed in 1998, when Congress passed the "Commercial Space Act," which "repealed a ban on private parties' bringing vehicles, payloads, and even people back to Earth from space..." (Cato Handbook for Congress [107th]) This would indicate that, up to 1998, private exploration of space was illegal. While this got the foot in the door for private space exploration, this has not by any means resulted in the total opening of space. Of interest may be http://www.cato.org/research/reglt-st.html#space.
You're using the straw man argument. Creating a fallacious claim that was not present in the original. Now, although you've proven yourself hostile and willingly open to misinterpretation, I will point out why you are wrong. What NASA has done is prohibit private enterprise from operating in the majority of its sphere of influence. Indeed, most companies simply use the services of foreign companies in other countries to circumvent this. It has everything to do with being legally prevented from operating freely, and nothing to do with what you invented.
See http://www.eoc.csiro.au/. No doubt they learned from the kangaroo jump.
The government "investing" my money into IT and manufacturing, when parts or in the case of manufacturing, the complete process, can be done better and more cheaply is like tying a noose and jumping off the ladder. This would only hurt the consumer and other businesses for the benefit of a select few. For each job "saved" in IT or manufacturing, many more would be lost in other sectors. No amount of money thrown at a paradigm shift is going to change reality. Instead, one should try to adapt to changing situations.