Lemme see, Intel could fund the development of current optimized and up-to-date OpenSource drivers for their *entire* product line for (I'm just guessing here) under 1 million dollars.
That's still less than One THIRTIETH of ONE Percent of their 2002 NET After TAX Profit. (NB 2002 was more than double their 2001 NET After TAX profit)
I'm not as hairy as The Yeti, but I've *always* had to shave every single day.
If you're making comments like that (one assumes from personal experience) are you sure you're producing enough testosterone? You should have a doctor look at that.
Just don't pay attention to the fact that the same people who say that always use headsets/earpieces with their cell phones.
Says he, completely ignoring the many and various studies which clearly show that the WIRE in headsets/earpieces act as an efficient antenna, very directly routing harmful EM frequencies directly through your ear and into your skull.
For those of you who've been using your headsets too often, headset use on cellphones has been shown to often be WORSE (in terms of EM exposure) than plain/boring hold-it-to-your-head cellphone use. (at least in modern handsets)
Precision (The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.)
Oddly enough the dictionary.com reference for precision turned up this interesting definition. Of or characterized by accurate action: precision bombing. Implying that in common (?military?) phraseology, Precision implies Accuracy.
Getting back to your original post, that clearly explains why the US managed to hit a clearly located Red Cross compound in Afghanistan not once but twice? (The US Military has Precision Bombing.) Or why it managed to hit a Chinese embassy building in the Balkans? (The US Military, {or more specifically, US Intelligence} Accuracy is sadly lacking)
802.11g is all-the-rage, there are proprietary (I cannae give ye much more, cap'n) extensions to g which give it even more KickAss throughput and already Intel even are trying to jumpstart "more wireless speed than you would know what to do with" mode AKA UltraWideBand based technologies.
Somebody releasing half-assed (in the sense that we have to rely on them to provide timely updates, because it's not open source) drivers for last-years wireless technology is not in any sense of the phrase "stuff that matters".
On this kind of timescale I expect we're soon going to have our own OpenSource (we worked it out for ourselves, thanks for nothing) drivers.
Intel is a large enough company making enough profit that they could easily afford to provide current-and-up-to-date drivers for their wireless technologies as they release them not whenever they're no longer busy doing "important stuff".
Intel, you're half-assed. Period.
Behind the 8-ball when it comes to 64bit (busily playing catch-up to AMD) and can't be bothered getting out drivers for your technologies.
Here's a clue
hardware with drivers sells more units
more sales = more profits
Intel, please just plain get up off your fat hairy ass and deliver drivers (we'll live with proprietary if you insist) as soon as the hardware is available on the shelf and provide timely updates for new OS releases (dammit man, it's not like we're releasing a new MAJOR kernel every month)
Yours truly
The Community (aka Your Customers)
but I can't see how they are overstepping their legal bounds
Well how could you, when every time you blink they're busily forcing the government to extend the laws so that their actions are always Within The Bounds.
Interesting comment, except that you're missing an extremely significant portion of the issue here.
The RIAA and friends want to have their cake and eat it too
they do their best to prevent illegal copying
and they charge a MEDIA TAX (eg in Canada) to recoup losses from copying
Aside from the blatant implication that anyone who uses CDR media is BREAKING THE LAW , I also resent the fact that people are expected to PAY the costs of a crime without actually having committed one.
IF they were only interested in preventing copyright violations, then there would NOT be a "blanket" fee imposed on CDR media, irrespective of its use.
They're nothing more than a brain dead business who cannot see past the tip of their own nose. They need to change their business model to keep pace with the world, not start taxing every man-woman-and-child for doing something which has NOTHING inherently to do with EITHER music OR copyright violation.
I buy 100 pack of CDR Media
I use it to backup my HDD (mostly my own original digital photography)
In what way is that violating anyones copyright or depriving "the RIAAs of the world" of income they have every right to collect?
in no way whatsoever
Yet if I was in Canada I'd be paying them FEES, simply because I'm backing up to CDR.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
What does that have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
None of this makes sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
SCO spend too much time shooting with all the wrong ammo.
Not entirely accurate.
IN fact: SCO has spent too much time shooting blanks.
And like the committing any other crime, eventually someone in charge is going to realize you're only shooting blanks and will send in the SWAT Team/Shock Troops/Storm Troopers and blow you into surprisingly insignificant pieces with extreme prejudice.
I propose that after the dust settles some enterprising young folks should pick up pieces of the rubble and sell them on eBay for a suitably ludicrous amount.
Perhaps a momument should be erected to their eternal overconfidence and supreme stupidity, complete with a Wall Of Imbecility detailing the most choice of Quotes from Darl McBride-of-Satan and his PR Flacks/Legal Vultures.
In an interesting twist on the question of global warming, many and various recent scientific studies show that Research into Global Warming leads to additional releases of Greenhouse Gasses (most notoriously, scientists blowing smoke and being full of hot air)
In a most impressive statement of The Blindingly Obvious, Professor Julian Something-Thriller was heard commenting that
"See-oh-two is a GreenHouse Gas, every conference and research project on Global Warming involves vast amounts of rather heated debate greatly increasing the output of said GreenHouse Gas due to the aspirations of the entire scientific community"
When asked why nobody had seen this coming he retorted that "Even a bumbling fool knows that most GreenHouse gases are invisible to the naked eye."
Apparently a Feb 11 S-3 Filing by SCO includes the following
"Additionally, we have begun notifying selected Linux end users in writing of violations we allege under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to our copyrights contained in Linux."
And of course, at the succusful conslusion of any mating ritual - you know that someone's going to get screwed in this case, it's most likely to be the customers
Leave it to slashdot moderators to label a Brainless Troll as +5 Insightful.
Unlike YOU I actually read the article. The headline does not in any way mention "close friends" in fact, the article specifically says "to millions of the Democratic and Republican rank-and-file" which not only is not "only about a million" it actually sounds like another way of saying anyone and everyone we can find an email address for and even the vaguest excuse to claim they might possibly be interested.
Even the writer of the articl is quick to admit how devious and underhanded this scheme is "And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law, including the statement by the candidate of "I approved this ad" that has given some campaigns pause before launching negative political ads. Web videos have the potential to be nastier than the typical TV ad."
This is not even slightly about "save the environment" and other tree-hugging fantasies it's purely and simply a loophole they've carefully crafted so that they can circumvent some very important campaign laws.
After all the years we've spent bitching and moaning about SPAM sucking up the last vestiges of space in our inbox - these presidential candidates think they're going to win votes by emailing out a VIDEO attachment?
"The format is a Web video message e-mailed to millions of the Democratic and Republican rank-and-file."
You have GOT to be kidding me!
You have to wonder WHY are they DOING THIS?
"And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law"
No surprises here: Politicians find new ways in which The LAW does not apply to them. Details at 11.
Is only one of the reasons Australian Currency was switched to Polymer (ie Plastic) rather than Paper.
These plastic notes are physically colored and include clear sections, as opposed to being blank paper with colors printed on them.
One of the other reasons was the durability of the notes.
Oddly enough, when they first came out many people tried to IRON them to remove the wrinkles (they take hard creases very easily) - evey seen a shrinky-dink after it's been baked?
Actually we do. Someone earlier (somewhere in this, I couldn't be bothered finding the specific comment) ran the FAQ through an auto-translator.
At one point it specifically talks about (paraphrased) "for portable use, and low power requirements, we'd expect ~ 1.5Mbps. In high power use (home/car) we expect to ramp up the throughput significantly"
So yes it's envisioned for things like embedded and portable devices, as well as higher throughput for in-the-home devices.
Slashdot Mirror
- Additional Battery Capacity
- PC Interface (via RF, naturally)
- Video Camera
THEN you have something you can call a robot worthy of an Alpha GeekYup!
I know where my towel is.
I wear glasses and a pocket-protector.
Inet 2002 NET after tax profit -> 3,117.0 (Millions of US Dollars)
Lemme see, Intel could fund the development of current optimized and up-to-date OpenSource drivers for their *entire* product line for (I'm just guessing here) under 1 million dollars.
That's still less than One THIRTIETH of ONE Percent of their 2002 NET After TAX Profit. (NB 2002 was more than double their 2001 NET After TAX profit)
- Across the internet
- To/From MS Windows OS driven machines
I feel like I'm quoting from Cluedo.I'm not as hairy as The Yeti, but I've *always* had to shave every single day.
If you're making comments like that (one assumes from personal experience) are you sure you're producing enough testosterone? You should have a doctor look at that.
Just don't pay attention to the fact that the same people who say that always use headsets/earpieces with their cell phones.
Says he, completely ignoring the many and various studies which clearly show that the WIRE in headsets/earpieces act as an efficient antenna, very directly routing harmful EM frequencies directly through your ear and into your skull.
For those of you who've been using your headsets too often, headset use on cellphones has been shown to often be WORSE (in terms of EM exposure) than plain/boring hold-it-to-your-head cellphone use. (at least in modern handsets)
- Accuracy (Conformity to fact)
- Precision (The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.)
Oddly enough the dictionary.com reference for precision turned up this interesting definition. Of or characterized by accurate action: precision bombing. Implying that in common (?military?) phraseology, Precision implies Accuracy.Getting back to your original post, that clearly explains why the US managed to hit a clearly located Red Cross compound in Afghanistan not once but twice? (The US Military has Precision Bombing.) Or why it managed to hit a Chinese embassy building in the Balkans? (The US Military, {or more specifically, US Intelligence} Accuracy is sadly lacking)
That is so 15-minutes-ago.
802.11g is all-the-rage, there are proprietary (I cannae give ye much more, cap'n) extensions to g which give it even more KickAss throughput and already Intel even are trying to jumpstart "more wireless speed than you would know what to do with" mode AKA UltraWideBand based technologies.
Somebody releasing half-assed (in the sense that we have to rely on them to provide timely updates, because it's not open source) drivers for last-years wireless technology is not in any sense of the phrase "stuff that matters".
On this kind of timescale I expect we're soon going to have our own OpenSource (we worked it out for ourselves, thanks for nothing) drivers.
Intel is a large enough company making enough profit that they could easily afford to provide current-and-up-to-date drivers for their wireless technologies as they release them not whenever they're no longer busy doing "important stuff".
Intel, you're half-assed. Period.
Behind the 8-ball when it comes to 64bit (busily playing catch-up to AMD) and can't be bothered getting out drivers for your technologies.
Here's a clue
Intel, please just plain get up off your fat hairy ass and deliver drivers (we'll live with proprietary if you insist) as soon as the hardware is available on the shelf and provide timely updates for new OS releases (dammit man, it's not like we're releasing a new MAJOR kernel every month) Yours truly The Community (aka Your Customers)
Optimized for Reduced Consumption?
I guess that explains all the gravel-rash.
Where I ask my self "Y, Windows?"
No, but according to the RIAA someone is making an absolute killing pirating CDs of music.
but I can't see how they are overstepping their legal bounds
Well how could you, when every time you blink they're busily forcing the government to extend the laws so that their actions are always Within The Bounds.
The RIAA and friends want to have their cake and eat it too
- they do their best to prevent illegal copying
- and they charge a MEDIA TAX (eg in Canada) to recoup losses from copying
Aside from the blatant implication that anyone who uses CDR media is BREAKING THE LAW , I also resent the fact that people are expected to PAY the costs of a crime without actually having committed one.IF they were only interested in preventing copyright violations, then there would NOT be a "blanket" fee imposed on CDR media, irrespective of its use.
They're nothing more than a brain dead business who cannot see past the tip of their own nose. They need to change their business model to keep pace with the world, not start taxing every man-woman-and-child for doing something which has NOTHING inherently to do with EITHER music OR copyright violation.
- I buy 100 pack of CDR Media
- I use it to backup my HDD (mostly my own original digital photography)
In what way is that violating anyones copyright or depriving "the RIAAs of the world" of income they have every right to collect?in no way whatsoever
Yet if I was in Canada I'd be paying them FEES, simply because I'm backing up to CDR.
Chewbacca Defense
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
What does that have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
None of this makes sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
SCO spend too much time shooting with all the wrong ammo.
Not entirely accurate.
IN fact: SCO has spent too much time shooting blanks.
And like the committing any other crime, eventually someone in charge is going to realize you're only shooting blanks and will send in the SWAT Team/Shock Troops/Storm Troopers and blow you into surprisingly insignificant pieces with extreme prejudice.
I propose that after the dust settles some enterprising young folks should pick up pieces of the rubble and sell them on eBay for a suitably ludicrous amount.
Perhaps a momument should be erected to their eternal overconfidence and supreme stupidity, complete with a Wall Of Imbecility detailing the most choice of Quotes from Darl McBride-of-Satan and his PR Flacks/Legal Vultures.
And you're too gutless to post them again in this thread at the risk of being moderated -1 Redundant?
It's not true karma-whoring until you risk coming back as a Toad on the Information Superhighway.
In an interesting twist on the question of global warming, many and various recent scientific studies show that Research into Global Warming leads to additional releases of Greenhouse Gasses (most notoriously, scientists blowing smoke and being full of hot air)
In a most impressive statement of The Blindingly Obvious, Professor Julian Something-Thriller was heard commenting that
"See-oh-two is a GreenHouse Gas, every conference and research project on Global Warming involves vast amounts of rather heated debate greatly increasing the output of said GreenHouse Gas due to the aspirations of the entire scientific community"
When asked why nobody had seen this coming he retorted that "Even a bumbling fool knows that most GreenHouse gases are invisible to the naked eye."
Hints and other juicyness can be found here
Apparently a Feb 11 S-3 Filing by SCO includes the following
"Additionally, we have begun notifying selected Linux end users in writing of violations we allege under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to our copyrights contained in Linux."
Perhaps this entry is relevant? (Red Hat News - Lehman Brothers Threatened by SCO)
And of course, at the succusful conslusion of any mating ritual - you know that someone's going to get screwed in this case, it's most likely to be the customers
Leave it to slashdot moderators to label a Brainless Troll as +5 Insightful.
Unlike YOU I actually read the article. The headline does not in any way mention "close friends" in fact, the article specifically says "to millions of the Democratic and Republican rank-and-file" which not only is not "only about a million" it actually sounds like another way of saying anyone and everyone we can find an email address for and even the vaguest excuse to claim they might possibly be interested.
Even the writer of the articl is quick to admit how devious and underhanded this scheme is "And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law, including the statement by the candidate of "I approved this ad" that has given some campaigns pause before launching negative political ads. Web videos have the potential to be nastier than the typical TV ad."
This is not even slightly about "save the environment" and other tree-hugging fantasies it's purely and simply a loophole they've carefully crafted so that they can circumvent some very important campaign laws.
After all the years we've spent bitching and moaning about SPAM sucking up the last vestiges of space in our inbox - these presidential candidates think they're going to win votes by emailing out a VIDEO attachment?
"The format is a Web video message e-mailed to millions of the Democratic and Republican rank-and-file."
You have GOT to be kidding me!
You have to wonder WHY are they DOING THIS?
"And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law"
No surprises here: Politicians find new ways in which The LAW does not apply to them. Details at 11.
Is only one of the reasons Australian Currency was switched to Polymer (ie Plastic) rather than Paper.
These plastic notes are physically colored and include clear sections, as opposed to being blank paper with colors printed on them.
One of the other reasons was the durability of the notes.
Oddly enough, when they first came out many people tried to IRON them to remove the wrinkles (they take hard creases very easily) - evey seen a shrinky-dink after it's been baked?
Actually we do. Someone earlier (somewhere in this, I couldn't be bothered finding the specific comment) ran the FAQ through an auto-translator.
At one point it specifically talks about (paraphrased) "for portable use, and low power requirements, we'd expect ~ 1.5Mbps. In high power use (home/car) we expect to ramp up the throughput significantly"
So yes it's envisioned for things like embedded and portable devices, as well as higher throughput for in-the-home devices.