Don't really care either way. Everything's getting ripped and stuffed on a thumbdrive. So it's either draconian DRM that makes everyone a criminal or it's a new business model for the record companies. End of story. You can argue the merits of it either way. I don't care, the CD is nearly done and there's nothing the state of Florida or the RIAA can do about it.
Does such a thing even exist? Even if you ran tight on space you could upgrade to a 60GB unit. That' about 8 HD-DVD'sdatawise.
From Xbox.com: Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
* Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
* Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
* VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
* 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
* 1 MB L2 cache CPU Game Math Performance
* 9.6 billion dot product operations per second Custom ATI Graphics Processor
* 10 MB of embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
* Unified shader architecture Polygon Performance
* 500 million triangles per second Pixel Fill Rate
* 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA Shader Performance
* 48 billion shader operations per second Memory
* 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM
* Unified memory architecture Memory Bandwidth
* 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
* 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
* 21.6 GB/s front-side bus Overall System Floating-Point Performance
* 1 teraflop Storage
* Detachable and upgradeable 20-GB hard drive
* 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
* Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB I/O
* Support for up to four wireless game controllers
* Three USB 2.0 ports
* Two memory unit slots Optimized for Online
* Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
* Built-in Ethernet port
* Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
* Video camera-ready Digital Media Support
* Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
* Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, and Windows XP-based PCs
* Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive
* Custom playlists in every game
* Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
* Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers High-Definition Game Support
* All games supported at 16:9, 720p, or 1080i, with anti-aliasing
* Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported Audio
* Multi-channel surround sound output
* Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
* 320 independent decompression channels
* 32-bit audio processing
* Over 256 audio channels
See in order for a 91 billion dollar company to show the necessary double digit growth required of Wall St. to move the stock in line with the market, IBM would have to create from scratch a Fortune 200 business every year. Clearly that's impossible even with acquisition. So they have to say something and invent a new market - the SMB market, one that IBM has traditionally failed in because IBM is too expensive (like thos SAP ads that tout how affordable SAP software can be for the SMB sector too!). You can believe it or you can laugh at it like you laugh at all of their insanely bad advertising.
Oh I see - I have the opposite problem. VoIP is not the only landline to my house. I have POTS via MCI and I'm wondering if there's a way I get AT&T to just ignore E911 because the service is unstable and most of the time it breaks into my dialing and makes me verify if I have moved or not in order to process E911 correctly, which as I said, I don't care about. That would be the kicker if they turned me off because of their failure to deliver a redundant service I don't need.
I don't want that job and I really don't want to fuck with slow network speeds to support my dumb heads on the network. I have a network file storage device now and anything less than Gig Ethernet is torture.
Was 18.8 million dollars last year. That's just the cash component. It doesn't include stock, deferred comp, etc. This was last year when stock was in year 7 of languishing. Not to begrudge our overlords their satchel of gold, but let's at least pay for performance, please. I'm reasonably sure that anyone could do as poor a job for one tenth of that payment.
Sorry of that was unclear. The point is that even where we push out the door we need people to do it. I'm not seeing them overseas staffing up or scaling up enough to pick the slack that would appear if we here in the US dropped off the face of the earth. And for what it's worth, we've been saying for 10 years that they should drop accounts that lose money. But we don't have the ability to say no. I'll believe it when I see it.
That's from CNN. Also ALL H1B quotas through 2008 have in the US have ALREADY been filled. It would take an act of Congress to change that so clearly any company wishing to drag in more foreign labor can't. They have to send the jobs to them over there.
In 1996 the single largest IBM site in the world was RTP. Now that is one of the sites in India. In fact India has more IBM employees than any other country including the US.
Let me first say I work in IBM outsourcing; SO actually. I work with this stuff. Let me also say that whenever wherever we can send a unit of work outside of the US we do that. But, one presumes there are those people 'over there' to do that. One can eliminate 150,000 jobs from IBM but at least some fraction of that, probably a large fraction of it, would have to be employed over in those other places to do that work, one estimates at a fraction of the US cost. And we are not seeing that level of growth over there. Maybe I'm too far removed from it or maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard but I'm not seeing that level of growth overseas.
That's neither here nor there. That's just a vendor decision. If you could go to your FatPenguin.Com and pick up a device and you could install your favorite flavor or Linux on that hardware, then what would be the difference? After all the UMPC or any other unique small form factor hardware requires a custom built OS kernel and device drivers at some level no matter what it is.
I saw one yesterday that ran Mobile Windows, could support MS Office, AIM, a VPN tunnel client, browser, PDA functions, camera, mp3 player, bluetooth, 802.11g WiFi and of course a 3G near broadband speed cell phone. Cingular 8525.
If the rules exist solely to insulate the school from complaining parents then no, it's the school's problem. They asserted in loco parentis and it's their deficiency to deal with. They can't simply put in an electronic babysitter and hope for the best. If the kids who broke their border did something illegal the school would be responsible so just because they don't doesn't mean the school gets to erect a legal fiction that takes them off the hook.
If on the other hand the rules and the border are there solely to instill some sense of 'good' computing and being a cheerful and well mannered community member then yes the punishment is appropriate, AS LONG AS those penalties are are articulated in the policy beforehand. If on the other hand there are no articulated penalties and the school is literally on a witchhunt pulling things out of their heads willy nilly and never ending the search for the guilty according to a set of invisible laws that they maintain allow them to question and punish anyone they want for whatever they feel like then no, they should back off. Or they should simply throw all the kids under suspicion out of school forever and leave them to the private school system. That way the school is free to assert their rules, free to ignore or not even require evidence and free to do whatever it likes to whomever it likes for as long as they want. I'm sure THAT will teach the students about fair and reasonable community behavior.
Why do we have to work from the assumption that every tech journal is perfectly unbiased? They aren't. No one expects them to be. No one expects Mom&Pop Router company to come out ahead in a head to head test with Cisco regardless of the relative merits of each. No one expects a magazine that touts itself as the expert on the corporate desktop to be in favor of Linux or Mac. And no one who's ad space is 3/4ths of the goddamn magazine to begin with EVER expects them to be vendor neutral any more than you would expect the editors of Cosmo to start bashing Cosmetic companies. The Editor who quit in a fury should remember that no one's hands are pure but we don't expect them to be. We really can in part form our own opinions about something. Or if we can't then it doesn't matter anyway and all products are the same.
Shouldn't code be able to debug itself? Do we still need auditors? Why? Shouldn't our training and processes be up to snuff by now. See the point of a 'security industry' is not because things should work this way or that way but because they in fact DO work this way or that way. That's why they call it engineering, because it's engineered and that means it's imperfect.
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Oh I'm sorry, have you ever heard of a non tech company? Yeah there's this beverage company called Coca Cola where they have a frightening level of paranoia they check everyone going in and out and they really don't like it if you so much as utter the name 'Coca Cola'. Even if you don't work there, even if you're on a consulting gig and the company hasn't even signed a contract yet. And if you ever allude to having worked for any beverage company or, as a consultant, even in that sector, they don't want you on the account at all and will probably have you thrown off.
Who shoved her way in based on a politically sensitive agenda and once she acquired enough power, could crush anyone in the system who might hurt her. But to be fair, it's Dean of Admissions. Is that Dean-worthy at all? Isn't a Dean of Admissions a glorified cool table in the high school lunchroom? As long as she was admitting an acceptable number of the appropriate demographic, geographic and economic dispersion, what possible value-add can the role bring? Probably none at all. It's like being the VP of Human Resources Diversity at a Fortune 500 company.
The author's problem stems from takers no givers. The problem of the common green where everyone takes and no one gives back. But wasn't the right kind of licensing supposed to address this? Aren't companies supposed to be prohibited from doing this?
If MS came out and said there's now a way to run Windows on the cheapest lowest powered laptop you can find. Sorry about that massive investment you wasted.
We can use any tools we want. Hell if they want to shrink down tiny scribes who are placed in the machines to write everything down, then fine. But they have to fully disclose everything. Otherwise what will happen is that eventually we'll be unable to find problems and problems will continue to occur w/o our knowledge until at some point the whole process is a sham.
Too bad you got a crappy one. I had a C82 which died after a few years of heavy use. replaced it with a C86 and when it goes probably replace it with another like model. Beats the tar out of my Lexmark Z705/715.
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Don't really care either way. Everything's getting ripped and stuffed on a thumbdrive. So it's either draconian DRM that makes everyone a criminal or it's a new business model for the record companies. End of story. You can argue the merits of it either way. I don't care, the CD is nearly done and there's nothing the state of Florida or the RIAA can do about it.
Does such a thing even exist? Even if you ran tight on space you could upgrade to a 60GB unit. That' about 8 HD-DVD'sdatawise.
From Xbox.com:
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
* Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
* Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
* VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
* 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
* 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance
* 9.6 billion dot product operations per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor
* 10 MB of embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
* Unified shader architecture
Polygon Performance
* 500 million triangles per second
Pixel Fill Rate
* 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA
Shader Performance
* 48 billion shader operations per second
Memory
* 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM
* Unified memory architecture
Memory Bandwidth
* 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
* 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
* 21.6 GB/s front-side bus
Overall System Floating-Point Performance
* 1 teraflop
Storage
* Detachable and upgradeable 20-GB hard drive
* 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
* Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB
I/O
* Support for up to four wireless game controllers
* Three USB 2.0 ports
* Two memory unit slots
Optimized for Online
* Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
* Built-in Ethernet port
* Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
* Video camera-ready
Digital Media Support
* Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
* Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, and Windows XP-based PCs
* Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive
* Custom playlists in every game
* Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
* Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers
High-Definition Game Support
* All games supported at 16:9, 720p, or 1080i, with anti-aliasing
* Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported
Audio
* Multi-channel surround sound output
* Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
* 320 independent decompression channels
* 32-bit audio processing
* Over 256 audio channels
See in order for a 91 billion dollar company to show the necessary double digit growth required of Wall St. to move the stock in line with the market, IBM would have to create from scratch a Fortune 200 business every year. Clearly that's impossible even with acquisition. So they have to say something and invent a new market - the SMB market, one that IBM has traditionally failed in because IBM is too expensive (like thos SAP ads that tout how affordable SAP software can be for the SMB sector too!). You can believe it or you can laugh at it like you laugh at all of their insanely bad advertising.
Oh I see - I have the opposite problem. VoIP is not the only landline to my house. I have POTS via MCI and I'm wondering if there's a way I get AT&T to just ignore E911 because the service is unstable and most of the time it breaks into my dialing and makes me verify if I have moved or not in order to process E911 correctly, which as I said, I don't care about. That would be the kicker if they turned me off because of their failure to deliver a redundant service I don't need.
What is the issue? They're not offering service.....to whom....for what reason?
Any drugs to these countries and they'll be forced to reverse engineer everything from AIDS drugs to chemotherapy to antibiotics. Viva La Revolucion!
No one talks about TSA. I'm sure even mentioning that this has happened is a violation of some stupid Federal law and the terrorists have already won.
I don't want that job and I really don't want to fuck with slow network speeds to support my dumb heads on the network. I have a network file storage device now and anything less than Gig Ethernet is torture.
Was 18.8 million dollars last year. That's just the cash component. It doesn't include stock, deferred comp, etc. This was last year when stock was in year 7 of languishing. Not to begrudge our overlords their satchel of gold, but let's at least pay for performance, please. I'm reasonably sure that anyone could do as poor a job for one tenth of that payment.
Sorry of that was unclear. The point is that even where we push out the door we need people to do it. I'm not seeing them overseas staffing up or scaling up enough to pick the slack that would appear if we here in the US dropped off the face of the earth. And for what it's worth, we've been saying for 10 years that they should drop accounts that lose money. But we don't have the ability to say no. I'll believe it when I see it.
That's from CNN. Also ALL H1B quotas through 2008 have in the US have ALREADY been filled. It would take an act of Congress to change that so clearly any company wishing to drag in more foreign labor can't. They have to send the jobs to them over there.
In 1996 the single largest IBM site in the world was RTP. Now that is one of the sites in India. In fact India has more IBM employees than any other country including the US.
Let me first say I work in IBM outsourcing; SO actually. I work with this stuff. Let me also say that whenever wherever we can send a unit of work outside of the US we do that. But, one presumes there are those people 'over there' to do that. One can eliminate 150,000 jobs from IBM but at least some fraction of that, probably a large fraction of it, would have to be employed over in those other places to do that work, one estimates at a fraction of the US cost. And we are not seeing that level of growth over there. Maybe I'm too far removed from it or maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard but I'm not seeing that level of growth overseas.
That's neither here nor there. That's just a vendor decision. If you could go to your FatPenguin.Com and pick up a device and you could install your favorite flavor or Linux on that hardware, then what would be the difference? After all the UMPC or any other unique small form factor hardware requires a custom built OS kernel and device drivers at some level no matter what it is.
I saw one yesterday that ran Mobile Windows, could support MS Office, AIM, a VPN tunnel client, browser, PDA functions, camera, mp3 player, bluetooth, 802.11g WiFi and of course a 3G near broadband speed cell phone. Cingular 8525.
If the rules exist solely to insulate the school from complaining parents then no, it's the school's problem. They asserted in loco parentis and it's their deficiency to deal with. They can't simply put in an electronic babysitter and hope for the best. If the kids who broke their border did something illegal the school would be responsible so just because they don't doesn't mean the school gets to erect a legal fiction that takes them off the hook.
If on the other hand the rules and the border are there solely to instill some sense of 'good' computing and being a cheerful and well mannered community member then yes the punishment is appropriate, AS LONG AS those penalties are are articulated in the policy beforehand. If on the other hand there are no articulated penalties and the school is literally on a witchhunt pulling things out of their heads willy nilly and never ending the search for the guilty according to a set of invisible laws that they maintain allow them to question and punish anyone they want for whatever they feel like then no, they should back off. Or they should simply throw all the kids under suspicion out of school forever and leave them to the private school system. That way the school is free to assert their rules, free to ignore or not even require evidence and free to do whatever it likes to whomever it likes for as long as they want. I'm sure THAT will teach the students about fair and reasonable community behavior.
Why do we have to work from the assumption that every tech journal is perfectly unbiased? They aren't. No one expects them to be. No one expects Mom&Pop Router company to come out ahead in a head to head test with Cisco regardless of the relative merits of each. No one expects a magazine that touts itself as the expert on the corporate desktop to be in favor of Linux or Mac. And no one who's ad space is 3/4ths of the goddamn magazine to begin with EVER expects them to be vendor neutral any more than you would expect the editors of Cosmo to start bashing Cosmetic companies. The Editor who quit in a fury should remember that no one's hands are pure but we don't expect them to be. We really can in part form our own opinions about something. Or if we can't then it doesn't matter anyway and all products are the same.
Shouldn't code be able to debug itself? Do we still need auditors? Why? Shouldn't our training and processes be up to snuff by now. See the point of a 'security industry' is not because things should work this way or that way but because they in fact DO work this way or that way. That's why they call it engineering, because it's engineered and that means it's imperfect.
Oh I'm sorry, have you ever heard of a non tech company? Yeah there's this beverage company called Coca Cola where they have a frightening level of paranoia they check everyone going in and out and they really don't like it if you so much as utter the name 'Coca Cola'. Even if you don't work there, even if you're on a consulting gig and the company hasn't even signed a contract yet. And if you ever allude to having worked for any beverage company or, as a consultant, even in that sector, they don't want you on the account at all and will probably have you thrown off.
Who shoved her way in based on a politically sensitive agenda and once she acquired enough power, could crush anyone in the system who might hurt her. But to be fair, it's Dean of Admissions. Is that Dean-worthy at all? Isn't a Dean of Admissions a glorified cool table in the high school lunchroom? As long as she was admitting an acceptable number of the appropriate demographic, geographic and economic dispersion, what possible value-add can the role bring? Probably none at all. It's like being the VP of Human Resources Diversity at a Fortune 500 company.
The author's problem stems from takers no givers. The problem of the common green where everyone takes and no one gives back. But wasn't the right kind of licensing supposed to address this? Aren't companies supposed to be prohibited from doing this?
If MS came out and said there's now a way to run Windows on the cheapest lowest powered laptop you can find. Sorry about that massive investment you wasted.
We can use any tools we want. Hell if they want to shrink down tiny scribes who are placed in the machines to write everything down, then fine. But they have to fully disclose everything. Otherwise what will happen is that eventually we'll be unable to find problems and problems will continue to occur w/o our knowledge until at some point the whole process is a sham.
It's only we have an entire nation of criminals will anyone perk up their ears to address the stupidity of it all.
Too bad you got a crappy one. I had a C82 which died after a few years of heavy use. replaced it with a C86 and when it goes probably replace it with another like model. Beats the tar out of my Lexmark Z705/715.