The police get paid to arrest people and look like they're being competent.
Google gets paid to provide a service to its users to the advertisers have someone to sell product to.
The people I want the police to catch are already good enough at not doing what they do in front of cameras... the essentially innocent people who look like they might be doing something bad but are easy to catch? They'll be on camera.
Most people I know barely benefit from gigabit Ethernet. Most people I know are not running Exchange servers and huge file sharing projects on their LANs but hosting their data on their local PC and using their network for E-mail and the web.
While 10-100Mbit made a huge difference to peoples' networking abilities, and going from that to gigabit helps with smooth transfers of larger files, there's still a lot of people running 100Mbit and quite happy with it because modern switches are pretty good at what they do.
Sure, as a geek, I'd love to have 1Tb/s streaming but its really not that relevant to most small business or home users.
For reference, at 12MB/s (100Mbit), you can transfer a 9GB DVD in about 12.5 minutes. At gigabit speeds, you can do it in just over one minute instead. Jumping up to 10GbE brings that down to around 7 seconds or so... but why are you moving a 9GB DVD any faster than one minute? It takes longer than that to burn or watch.
And that, my unreading friend, is why the notebook only offers 25 hours of battery life if you buy an additional battery pack -- because its rarely useful.
Yawn... I do in fact write software, and I know how long it takes to proof-test patches. That doesn't change that Microsoft has historically been incredibly sluggish at acknowledging vulnerabilities in the wild until they go public.
Since when is raising the alarm about an *actual* vulnerability FUD? Because when you stop and realize there's an *actual* and *exploitable* vulnerability out there, you should stop claiming its political and realize its a problem.
Yawn, I am actually a sysadmin and I'm thrilled that people do what's necessary to make vendors do their jobs. I spent too many years hoping nobody would exploit Windows systems that were vulnerable with no patches available...
Luckily I now maintain primarily Linux boxes, and much of that is because of my history working with NT 3.51 and 4.x... thank God for source code.
History tells us that telling Microsoft privately puts it on their radar for three to five years out. Disclosing publicly actually gets a patch to users.
I don't have a weight problem -- I could care less about my weight. I have a joint and asthma problem, neither of which is helped by your suggestions.
cf. actual studies on how fat people spend less time in hospital than skinny people in the UK before you assume so much based on pop culture rather than actual medicine.
While I own a lot of used games myself, I've always been partial to Sony's mandatory price cut on games that have sold well.
The Greatest Hits program means any PS3 game that's been out for at least 10 months and sold a half million copies will sell at no more than $29.99. The 10 month wait is a bit long but its a great idea and I hope they keep it up on the PS4.
I stopped playing Nintendo games after the N64 because they stopped being innovative and fun and got gimmicky. The only Super Mario game as much fun as the originals took too long to come out and honestly, Ratchet and Clank is a lot more fun and well-made.
If the wiimote were the issue, they'd make the game for PS Move... the issue had a lot to do with install base -- there are a lot of random people with a Wii at home because it was cheap and had at least one killer app people were willing to shell out for (wii sports and/or wii fit, etc.)
True story to back this up -- I was 140 lbs at 6'5 in highschool with very bad joints and asthma I sadly seem to have inherited. Both limit my exercise immensely, as does my job in computers.
Having subsequently moved and having a different doctor now than then and weighing substantially more, I have no new health problems than then but my new doctor upon hearing of my breathing and joint issues blamed my weight and told me to lose it, which obviously won't help, as I had the same problems when clinically under-weight.
A healthcare professional should give you the same advice as any other person with the *actual conditions* you have.
Being obese is not a state of health. A heart condition is, as are bad joints. Being a smoker is not. Lung cancer is.
There's no room in my mind for a healthcare provider showing bias for or against any* patient, healthy or otherwise.
*My mother being a retired RN, I've heard many stories about bias against failed suicide cases -- I can understand bias against those who try to purposefully do themselves harm, but again, the job is to help them, not to be their guidance counsellor.
Voice controls in Sing Star are quite smooth but still delayed a fraction of a second. I wouldn't put it past either company to have excellent voice control this generation. I still don't want people talking to the TV to change channels.
Its called a loss leader... its a common and very workable technique in marketing, and more so when you're a hardware company who knows how to whittle down production costs with time.
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I see very few reasons to fix Glass and a number of reasons to fix the way we police ...
The police get paid to arrest people and look like they're being competent.
Google gets paid to provide a service to its users to the advertisers have someone to sell product to.
The people I want the police to catch are already good enough at not doing what they do in front of cameras ... the essentially innocent people who look like they might be doing something bad but are easy to catch? They'll be on camera.
Most people I know barely benefit from gigabit Ethernet. Most people I know are not running Exchange servers and huge file sharing projects on their LANs but hosting their data on their local PC and using their network for E-mail and the web.
While 10-100Mbit made a huge difference to peoples' networking abilities, and going from that to gigabit helps with smooth transfers of larger files, there's still a lot of people running 100Mbit and quite happy with it because modern switches are pretty good at what they do.
Sure, as a geek, I'd love to have 1Tb/s streaming but its really not that relevant to most small business or home users.
For reference, at 12MB/s (100Mbit), you can transfer a 9GB DVD in about 12.5 minutes. At gigabit speeds, you can do it in just over one minute instead. Jumping up to 10GbE brings that down to around 7 seconds or so ... but why are you moving a 9GB DVD any faster than one minute? It takes longer than that to burn or watch.
And that, my unreading friend, is why the notebook only offers 25 hours of battery life if you buy an additional battery pack -- because its rarely useful.
Yawn ... I do in fact write software, and I know how long it takes to proof-test patches. That doesn't change that Microsoft has historically been incredibly sluggish at acknowledging vulnerabilities in the wild until they go public.
You did live through IE 3 and 4 right?
Since when is raising the alarm about an *actual* vulnerability FUD? Because when you stop and realize there's an *actual* and *exploitable* vulnerability out there, you should stop claiming its political and realize its a problem.
Yawn, I am actually a sysadmin and I'm thrilled that people do what's necessary to make vendors do their jobs. I spent too many years hoping nobody would exploit Windows systems that were vulnerable with no patches available ...
Luckily I now maintain primarily Linux boxes, and much of that is because of my history working with NT 3.51 and 4.x ... thank God for source code.
So the old refrain "those who ignore history are bound to repeat it" means nothing to you?
Making decisions based on historical precedent is the only logical course of action.
History tells us that telling Microsoft privately puts it on their radar for three to five years out. Disclosing publicly actually gets a patch to users.
I don't have a weight problem -- I could care less about my weight. I have a joint and asthma problem, neither of which is helped by your suggestions.
cf. actual studies on how fat people spend less time in hospital than skinny people in the UK before you assume so much based on pop culture rather than actual medicine.
I know a lot of people who only buy a used game because they're going to trade it back in.
If you're going to take away that 'value' from the purchaser, they may not make the original purchase at all.
While I own a lot of used games myself, I've always been partial to Sony's mandatory price cut on games that have sold well.
The Greatest Hits program means any PS3 game that's been out for at least 10 months and sold a half million copies will sell at no more than $29.99. The 10 month wait is a bit long but its a great idea and I hope they keep it up on the PS4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(video_games)
I stopped playing Nintendo games after the N64 because they stopped being innovative and fun and got gimmicky. The only Super Mario game as much fun as the originals took too long to come out and honestly, Ratchet and Clank is a lot more fun and well-made.
If the wiimote were the issue, they'd make the game for PS Move ... the issue had a lot to do with install base -- there are a lot of random people with a Wii at home because it was cheap and had at least one killer app people were willing to shell out for (wii sports and/or wii fit, etc.)
Sony has no fee for developing on the PSN last I checked, and has a large number of fantastic 'indie' titles from fl0w back near launch to the Cave.
Naughty Dog is a studio that seems to do quite well on the console market alone and simply makes phenomenal games for the PS3 (and PS2 before it).
It would seem to me that most of the whiners didn't make games that would sell, and that's easily fixed by making better games.
True story to back this up -- I was 140 lbs at 6'5 in highschool with very bad joints and asthma I sadly seem to have inherited. Both limit my exercise immensely, as does my job in computers.
Having subsequently moved and having a different doctor now than then and weighing substantially more, I have no new health problems than then but my new doctor upon hearing of my breathing and joint issues blamed my weight and told me to lose it, which obviously won't help, as I had the same problems when clinically under-weight.
Bias is wrong -- and leads to poor assumptions.
A healthcare professional should give you the same advice as any other person with the *actual conditions* you have.
Being obese is not a state of health. A heart condition is, as are bad joints. Being a smoker is not. Lung cancer is.
There's no room in my mind for a healthcare provider showing bias for or against any* patient, healthy or otherwise.
*My mother being a retired RN, I've heard many stories about bias against failed suicide cases -- I can understand bias against those who try to purposefully do themselves harm, but again, the job is to help them, not to be their guidance counsellor.
I don't buy your response: http://top500.org/statistics/list/ ... click accelerator and hit submit.
87.6% of the top 500 super computers have no NVIDIA etc. coprocessing
From the company that brought you Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista and then 8.
Yes, that company.
I remember excellent four player gaming sessions on the couch with Warhawk ... I miss it sometimes.
Voice controls in Sing Star are quite smooth but still delayed a fraction of a second. I wouldn't put it past either company to have excellent voice control this generation. I still don't want people talking to the TV to change channels.
And hackable ... didn't Panasonic have trouble with their Skype TVs having the cameras hacked remotely?
Its called a loss leader ... its a common and very workable technique in marketing, and more so when you're a hardware company who knows how to whittle down production costs with time.
Reading skills on Slashdot? You have got to be kidding!