"Sir, there are some gentlemen here who say they are from an organization called the BSA. They want to see the license certificates for those Windows CDs we've been handing out..."
"A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. It requires a legal copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003."
Why did you read "Windows XP Live CD" and jump to OMG HAX OS WTF!?!!!!
"I don't think OEM licensing does. Maybe for Businesses with OBLs etc"
Aren't we talking about businesses? "He tells a story of two businesses that lost $100K and $447K, respectively, when thieves — armed with malware on the company controller's PC"
"All well and good if all your PC's are in labs, doesn't quite work so well for a distributed work force."
Distributed how? As in not in a office? Again, I thought we were talking about businesses.
"Maybe you're thinking of a different Moore's law?"
Nope, I have the right Moore's Law, it's just been misquoted so many times in the media that it has become doubling clock speed and not transistors.
If transistors is where performance is at then CPU marketers might want to start letting people know, because when average joe sees an ad for the new AMD 3.4ghz and he's already sitting in front his 5 yr old Pentium 4 3ghz he's not going to be thinking "new computer time", he's still waiting for that 5ghz.
"Keyloggers could still capture the input from the Host OS."
What about a Windows XP Live CD? I can understand why businesses are afraid to run Linux, it's unfamiliar to their IT and their employees, but I don't understand why they still deal with XP running from hard drives.
Even 10+ yrs ago when I was in college they'd re-image the OS onto the hard drive within seconds over the network with every boot-up on PCs in the computer lab, and this was back on Pentium II PCs and 100mbit. Sounds like a pain for IT but it really made things much easier, just have one image of XP on a central server and update that and every PC that's rebooted throughout the entire campus pulls the same image over the network. Why don't they have a system like that? No virus or malware or problems with crashing, just reboot the PC and everything's back to normal.... hmm, actually this is starting to sound pretty good, I should do this at home.... thanks slashdot!
"Can someone find the old slashdot article about petabyte holographic storage? I don't remember how far back it was, but talking about hundreds + layer holographic storage basically."
Every year there's another "hundreds of layers of storage" article, and we're still sitting here with dual layer DVDs. By the time we see terabyte discs we'll probably all have petabyte hard drives. I remember them talking about blu ray in the 90s, with the prototype arriving in 2000. Back when we had 6gb drives the idea of 50gb discs was amazing, but they dragged their feet so bad creating a standard that by the time it reached market we all moved on to terabyte hard drives. Blu ray burners are still too damn expensive, costing five times ($160 vs $30) more than a DVD burner costs. And once you have one then what? Pay $3 to $7 for each BD-R disc? No thanks, even at $3 for 25gb that's $120 per terabyte, 50% more than a 1 terabyte hard drive.
So forgive me if I don't get all excited every time they announce a new high capacity disc format because they haven't fixed the one they have out now.
"I find I'm "skipping a generation" in many technologies:"
trust me, you're not missing anything. Seems nothing has changed, they just take the same old stuff and slap a new coat of paint on it. Guess Hollywood isn't the only ones who have run out of new ideas.
"I think more accurately the point they are making is that advances in technology are showing that there is no reason for the ridiculously low usage caps we are facing."
Exactly. Anything that makes it cheaper to deliver higher speeds filters down to us. Any time AT&T, Sprint or Tata is thinking "Gee, we'll need another 50 Tier 1 lines to keep up with demand" and scientist come along and say "No, you can do it with one 100 Petabit line, and you can use fewer repeaters", it saves them money and allows them to eventually pass the faster speeds down to us.
I'm at 10mbps/1mbps and I probably only hit max 1% of the time. The other 99% I'm using about a 1/10th of that. Would I like to say I have a 100/10 connection? Sure! Do I need it? Only 1% of the time;) I'd rather have a lower ping. Pinging my ISP is 20ms, but pinging Yahoo or Google is closer to 100ms.
$700 is ridiculous. You can buy very nice cases for under $200 leaving $500 for mb, cpu, graphics, hard drive, ram... hell the entire computer is less than this one case.
I went to the website for the case looking for answers and found no real explanation of why it's $700, just that it's stylish and innovative. Guess it's the equivalent to having a expensive work of art on your wall by a artist no one has heard of but you still spent 20 grand on it.
They discontinued my favorite case. Wish they'd bring it back, mounting a 300mm side fan in that vent would cool the entire PC.
"First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case"
I've been staring at this thing for 6 months now. Why is it hardware never gets the attention of/. until Maximum PC or other snot-nosed website submits it? What happened to/. getting tomorrow's news first instead of yesterday's news last?
smaller and more portable than a mobility scooter, I could see these being popular for those with limited mobility especially since you can easily throw it in the trunk of any car and stores could easily keep a dozen of these around in the same space only two mobility scooters currently occupy.
But at a max speed of 3.7mph, and thats probably if you weigh 120 lbs, I don't think I'd ever bother with one unless I had a serious leg injury.
"Reading the PC perspective reviews and a couple of others the 5870 seems to be a bit faster than the GTX285 but not by much, and certainly not by a margin one would expect from a new generation of parts vs old."
Also seems we won't be seeing support for 3 LCDs anytime soon: " if you already have some DVI-ready monitors and are looking forward to triple monitor support you might be disappointed to learn that the DisplayPort connection requires an ACTIVE adaptor to be converted to a DVI connection. The adaptors are also expensive (around $100) and are pretty hard to find right now. AMD says they are trying to address this but short of selling their own version I am not sure what pull they have in this regard."
Thanks ATI! Sure it supports 3 LCDs, if you have some kinda special LCD that uses Displayport.
So there really is nothing to see here, move on....
"I don't care if one nutcase claims to be a follower of jedism and says that he has to wear his hooded robe when he's in a grocery store. I don't expect the store to honor that kind of nonsense. "
Who decides who's religion is nonsense? Hey I'm with you I'd love to run around destroying all the religions I don't agree with but then isn't that what the Nazi's did?
"Google needs Apple to increase their mobile app install base, and ultimately Apple will need Google to keep up the iPhone's functional parity with the rest of the market."
Apple's been around for 25+ years, and how many people use their Safari browser? 3%, vs Google Chrome's 7% within just one year. Is there anything Google can not do? Does Google "need" anyone, or do they need Google?
"Programming can be fun, but there's more interesting things to do in life."
Maybe he enjoys it? Some people enjoy painting or writing, but I'd hate to spend my entire life writing or painting. And who says he doesn't travel the world and have fun?
"Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to significant improvements in laptop battery life."
compared to? Because from the graphs the core2duo had much better battery life, and core2duo battery life sucks imho. Wish they'd focus more on improving the battery life of two cores because 4 cores in a laptop is overkill 99% of the time, I'd rather have a extra hour of battery life and suffice with two cores.
Or he could have just moved on with his life. I swear people do the dumbest things to spy or date people that don't like them. If he would have just spent half as much effort making himself more appealing: working towards better job/pay, working out more, finding better clothing, and just researching what makes men attractive to the opposite sex he'd have all kinds of women instead of a $33,000 fine and up to 5 yrs in jail.
"he was having issues with some third party websites and software "
I'm lucky enough to have a iMac (not using it right now) with OS 9 and IE 5 and the internet is pretty much unusable. Flash doesn't work, so no youtube, and webmail sites like hotmail, gmail and yahoo also do not work. About the only thing that does work is Google and news sites.
However the new Classilla browser might have changed all that. I'll have to dig out the iMac and see how it does.
"Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. "
That explains why half the time I can't even read the word. I swear every time I reach a captcha I have to refresh it 5x before I finally land on two words I can read.
I must say this system is ingenious. Distributed OCR: let millions of internet users figure out what the words are. Maybe next election when there's hanging chads they can use that as a captcha.
"they would have given a discount for going paperless with the money they save from not sending out paper bills. (I'm sure as heck it wouldn't be anywhere near $1.50/month though!"
or even just give them $1 off, doesn't have to be $1.50, or give them something near worthless, like 10 free text messages, or an extra 100 minutes a month.
And who wants to use their phone like a controller anyway? Controllers take a lot of abuse, would it be a good idea to use your $300 iPhone with no insurance as a video game controller?
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"Sir, there are some gentlemen here who say they are from an organization called the BSA. They want to see the license certificates for those Windows CDs we've been handing out..."
"Sure no problem, here's the legal copies of Windows XP"
"A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. It requires a legal copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003."
Why did you read "Windows XP Live CD" and jump to OMG HAX OS WTF!?!!!!
"I don't think OEM licensing does. Maybe for Businesses with OBLs etc"
Aren't we talking about businesses?
"He tells a story of two businesses that lost $100K and $447K, respectively, when thieves — armed with malware on the company controller's PC"
"All well and good if all your PC's are in labs, doesn't quite work so well for a distributed work force."
Distributed how? As in not in a office? Again, I thought we were talking about businesses.
"Maybe you're thinking of a different Moore's law?"
Nope, I have the right Moore's Law, it's just been misquoted so many times in the media that it has become doubling clock speed and not transistors.
If transistors is where performance is at then CPU marketers might want to start letting people know, because when average joe sees an ad for the new AMD 3.4ghz and he's already sitting in front his 5 yr old Pentium 4 3ghz he's not going to be thinking "new computer time", he's still waiting for that 5ghz.
"Keyloggers could still capture the input from the Host OS."
What about a Windows XP Live CD? I can understand why businesses are afraid to run Linux, it's unfamiliar to their IT and their employees, but I don't understand why they still deal with XP running from hard drives.
Even 10+ yrs ago when I was in college they'd re-image the OS onto the hard drive within seconds over the network with every boot-up on PCs in the computer lab, and this was back on Pentium II PCs and 100mbit. Sounds like a pain for IT but it really made things much easier, just have one image of XP on a central server and update that and every PC that's rebooted throughout the entire campus pulls the same image over the network. Why don't they have a system like that? No virus or malware or problems with crashing, just reboot the PC and everything's back to normal.... hmm, actually this is starting to sound pretty good, I should do this at home.... thanks slashdot!
"so in 80 years my computers processors wont be able to get any faster"
looks like we've almost reached that point now. We've had Xeon 3.0GHz cpus for over 5 years now, and they're still coming out with brand new 3ghz processors. That's a long time to not see a jump in speed, what happened to "doubling every 18 months"? We should be around 24ghz by now.
"Someone should send an email explaining robot.txt to the poor guy."
actually someone should explain robots.txt to you: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/robots-txt-remove-url/
putting something in robots.txt won't stop it from showing up in Google. Still shows up, they just don't crawl it.
If you want to keep urls from showing up on Google put it in the meta tags: meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"
"If they honestly think they have a claim, then it would be absurd not to go after it. What would you have them do instead?"
how were they granted a patent? They filed in 2006, only 7 years after the first production hybrid. Is it too late for me to patent the wheel?
"Honestly. She's not that good."
/. or MIT that has to be bad.
I know, I just found her photo:
http://clarebayley.com/?page_id=15
http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/mit/sports/w-crewop/auto_headshot/683289.jpeg
http://www.eecs.mit.edu/spotlights/images/google-android-enlarged_Coveney.jpg (not the little Asian girl unfortunately)
I can see why she sticks to pen and paper instead of video blogs. Even for
"Can someone find the old slashdot article about petabyte holographic storage? I don't remember how far back it was, but talking about hundreds + layer holographic storage basically."
Every year there's another "hundreds of layers of storage" article, and we're still sitting here with dual layer DVDs. By the time we see terabyte discs we'll probably all have petabyte hard drives. I remember them talking about blu ray in the 90s, with the prototype arriving in 2000. Back when we had 6gb drives the idea of 50gb discs was amazing, but they dragged their feet so bad creating a standard that by the time it reached market we all moved on to terabyte hard drives. Blu ray burners are still too damn expensive, costing five times ($160 vs $30) more than a DVD burner costs. And once you have one then what? Pay $3 to $7 for each BD-R disc? No thanks, even at $3 for 25gb that's $120 per terabyte, 50% more than a 1 terabyte hard drive.
So forgive me if I don't get all excited every time they announce a new high capacity disc format because they haven't fixed the one they have out now.
"I find I'm "skipping a generation" in many technologies:"
trust me, you're not missing anything. Seems nothing has changed, they just take the same old stuff and slap a new coat of paint on it. Guess Hollywood isn't the only ones who have run out of new ideas.
"I think more accurately the point they are making is that advances in technology are showing that there is no reason for the ridiculously low usage caps we are facing."
;) I'd rather have a lower ping. Pinging my ISP is 20ms, but pinging Yahoo or Google is closer to 100ms.
Exactly. Anything that makes it cheaper to deliver higher speeds filters down to us. Any time AT&T, Sprint or Tata is thinking "Gee, we'll need another 50 Tier 1 lines to keep up with demand" and scientist come along and say "No, you can do it with one 100 Petabit line, and you can use fewer repeaters", it saves them money and allows them to eventually pass the faster speeds down to us.
I'm at 10mbps/1mbps and I probably only hit max 1% of the time. The other 99% I'm using about a 1/10th of that. Would I like to say I have a 100/10 connection? Sure! Do I need it? Only 1% of the time
Think I'll wait for the $150 generic version.
$700 is ridiculous. You can buy very nice cases for under $200 leaving $500 for mb, cpu, graphics, hard drive, ram... hell the entire computer is less than this one case.
I went to the website for the case looking for answers and found no real explanation of why it's $700, just that it's stylish and innovative. Guess it's the equivalent to having a expensive work of art on your wall by a artist no one has heard of but you still spent 20 grand on it.
They discontinued my favorite case. Wish they'd bring it back, mounting a 300mm side fan in that vent would cool the entire PC.
"First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case"
/. until Maximum PC or other snot-nosed website submits it? What happened to /. getting tomorrow's news first instead of yesterday's news last?
I've been staring at this thing for 6 months now. Why is it hardware never gets the attention of
smaller and more portable than a mobility scooter, I could see these being popular for those with limited mobility especially since you can easily throw it in the trunk of any car and stores could easily keep a dozen of these around in the same space only two mobility scooters currently occupy.
But at a max speed of 3.7mph, and thats probably if you weigh 120 lbs, I don't think I'd ever bother with one unless I had a serious leg injury.
"Reading the PC perspective reviews and a couple of others the 5870 seems to be a bit faster than the GTX285 but not by much, and certainly not by a margin one would expect from a new generation of parts vs old."
I noticed the exact same thing. I was a bit disappointed by the 5870. Only at the highest resolutions, 2560x1600 4xAA 8xAF, did it start beating the GTX285 by a 10% margin. The GTX285 came out in January and is already under $300, how does ATI expect to compete with a $400 card that only offers 10% more at 2560x1600 resolutions that most LCDs don't even support? Even the power consumption isn't significantly different, with the GTX285 using about 10% more.
I'm afraid of what the $300 5850 will look like.
Also seems we won't be seeing support for 3 LCDs anytime soon:
" if you already have some DVI-ready monitors and are looking forward to triple monitor support you might be disappointed to learn that the DisplayPort connection requires an ACTIVE adaptor to be converted to a DVI connection. The adaptors are also expensive (around $100) and are pretty hard to find right now. AMD says they are trying to address this but short of selling their own version I am not sure what pull they have in this regard."
Thanks ATI! Sure it supports 3 LCDs, if you have some kinda special LCD that uses Displayport.
So there really is nothing to see here, move on....
"I don't care if one nutcase claims to be a follower of jedism and says that he has to wear his hooded robe when he's in a grocery store. I don't expect the store to honor that kind of nonsense. "
Who decides who's religion is nonsense? Hey I'm with you I'd love to run around destroying all the religions I don't agree with but then isn't that what the Nazi's did?
If he's registered as a religion he has just as much as a right to sue as the muslim teen that sued Abercrombie for not letting her wear her scarf at work.
"Cursive writing is no more a requirement to literacy than knowing how to operate a printing press."
so what will signatures look like in 20-30 years? Printed out? "Print name" and "Sign here" will look identical?
"Google needs Apple to increase their mobile app install base, and ultimately Apple will need Google to keep up the iPhone's functional parity with the rest of the market."
I think Apple needs Google more than Apple knows. Google has made great strides in just ten years, rising from virtually nothing to offering the best search engine, having a near monopoly on online advertisement, offering their own cellphone OS, their own browser, and soon their own operating system. And we still love Google.
Apple's been around for 25+ years, and how many people use their Safari browser? 3%, vs Google Chrome's 7% within just one year. Is there anything Google can not do? Does Google "need" anyone, or do they need Google?
"Programming can be fun, but there's more interesting things to do in life."
Maybe he enjoys it? Some people enjoy painting or writing, but I'd hate to spend my entire life writing or painting. And who says he doesn't travel the world and have fun?
"Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to significant improvements in laptop battery life."
compared to? Because from the graphs the core2duo had much better battery life, and core2duo battery life sucks imho. Wish they'd focus more on improving the battery life of two cores because 4 cores in a laptop is overkill 99% of the time, I'd rather have a extra hour of battery life and suffice with two cores.
Or he could have just moved on with his life. I swear people do the dumbest things to spy or date people that don't like them. If he would have just spent half as much effort making himself more appealing: working towards better job/pay, working out more, finding better clothing, and just researching what makes men attractive to the opposite sex he'd have all kinds of women instead of a $33,000 fine and up to 5 yrs in jail.
fail.
"he was having issues with some third party websites and software "
I'm lucky enough to have a iMac (not using it right now) with OS 9 and IE 5 and the internet is pretty much unusable. Flash doesn't work, so no youtube, and webmail sites like hotmail, gmail and yahoo also do not work. About the only thing that does work is Google and news sites.
However the new Classilla browser might have changed all that. I'll have to dig out the iMac and see how it does.
"Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. "
That explains why half the time I can't even read the word. I swear every time I reach a captcha I have to refresh it 5x before I finally land on two words I can read.
I must say this system is ingenious. Distributed OCR: let millions of internet users figure out what the words are. Maybe next election when there's hanging chads they can use that as a captcha.
"they would have given a discount for going paperless with the money they save from not sending out paper bills. (I'm sure as heck it wouldn't be anywhere near $1.50/month though!"
or even just give them $1 off, doesn't have to be $1.50, or give them something near worthless, like 10 free text messages, or an extra 100 minutes a month.
And who wants to use their phone like a controller anyway? Controllers take a lot of abuse, would it be a good idea to use your $300 iPhone with no insurance as a video game controller?