Hopefully there will be a parallel advance in cooling technology.
There is, sort of. If the wires are shorter, they have less resistance end-to-end assuming they have the same thickness, are made from the same material, etc etc. Less resistance means less heat (and maybe core voltage could be lowered slightly too, since there would be less of a voltage drop). However, I honestly don't know how much heat comes from the actual junctions versus circuit pathways.
I see a lot of people complaining on a lot of forums about this bug or that bug. Not that this isn't valid, but hoping that someone from the particular group at Apple will read your post is not a good way to go about getting your problem solved.
Fair enough- but there are some serious bugs that still haven't been fixed, and are blatantly obvious. For example- add someone to your address book from Mail. It will flip their name around, putting "Last" in the "First" spot (YES, I'm aware of the 'sort/display list by last name' option, I'm talking about the edit pane).
This was on my local newspaper's homepage hours ago.
Why is it that virtually everything I read on slashdot, I've already seen on the AP/Reuters wire stories from my paper?
I don't come to slashdot to read news wire stories; back in the very late 90's I came here to read stuff that you couldn't find anywhere else. I certainly don't come here for the insightful commentary (judging from the 20 comments that all say "dude, who cares about the window, what fell off and damaged it?", a number of which have been modded up, instead of modded down as redundant).
Travelling at speeds of up to 130km/hr (80mph), these teams will race from Austin Texas to Calgary Alberta all with no non-reusable energy.
That will be an impressive feat, with the US Federal highway speed limit of 65, and a Canadian speed limit on major roads up there not much faster; 100km/hr to 120km/hr, if I recall on my last trip?(it was months ago, sorry). Why is it that nobody else is allowed to break the speed limit, but these guys are? Particularly given their vehicles have about zero crashworthyness?
I'm also curious how they plan to keep solar cars from mixing with general traffic; there has been at least one fatal accident involving a solar car (which came apart like paper mache) a few months ago when a solar vehicle was being tested.
Honestly, what was wrong with an enduro race on a closed race circuit? At least then it would be more controllable, and emergency/rescue crews would be barely a minute or two from any participant. There are numerous reasons we do our racing OFF public roads...
107 cameras seems a bit like overkill and perhaps an attempt to fix a "one in a million" problem that has already occurred.
Cameras don't fix problems. They just see them (sometimes).
Like the Patriot Act, this doesn't solve anything; it just perpetuates the illusion that the problem was with data collection. In the WTC attacks and the Columbia break-apart (I refuse to use the term "disaster" or "accident"), it was the decision-making process and management. In both situations, there was plenty of evidence that was ignored because of egos, rivalries, and mindsets.
enjoy a good number of B-Movies (and even a few C and D-list films), but I get worried when the predominant type of movie being produced is deliberately low-brow and sets the bar so low in fact, a first year film student could trip over it.
Most first-year film student movies I have seen have been worse than anything that makes it near regional TV, much less national.
The idea that SciFi can be well-written and produced with some care is hard for many people to accept these days, as all they see is schlock put together on the cheap as fast as humanly possible to give the channel in question a quick cash infusion
I'm not saying all of scifi network's stuff is gold, but they're fighting a public that isn't in love with the genre; they do a lot of cross-channel promotion, and a big draw are the series/miniseries/movies that they've put together.
it nearly brings a tear to my eye to consider that the bargain-bin product coming from The SciFi Channel is pretty much the cream of the crop these days.
Dude, save the drama fo yo momma. Scifi has always been full of laughably bad movies. It's part of the genre. The scifi cable network happens to be doing a pretty decent job at it- better than most, in fact. Almost half a dozen names instantly come to mind, of excellent stuff they've done. Dune. Battlestart Galactica. Farscape. I'm probably missing a few...
Give them a chance, and recognize that people -expect- and often -enjoy- campy scifi movies, so if it's bad, it can't hurt much. If it's good, it'll be that more of a surprise.
$3K for a low to mid level, brand name server with some guts to it and a real warranty is a fair price.
No, it's really not a fair price. $2k will get you a 1U (assuming you pay by space, which is common at colos), 3Ghz P4, 2GB, 2x80GB SATA w/RAID controller, from Dell. Including 3 years of next-day on-site service. That's a pretty damn nice box; maybe you'd like to trade in 1GB of that RAM for a pair of 120's or 200's, but you get the idea. If that's not enough horsepower for an installation of drupal, some mailing lists, CVS/SVN repository, and a website...then something is wrong. Furthermore, much of Dell's rackmount boxes start at around $1K...and that's only if you need rackmount. If someone is offering up a shelf in a colo or their private datacenter and a minitower isn't a problem, $1k gets you an equally nicely-equipped system as the $2k rackmount I spec'd out above.
Oh, and three grand is also almost 3 years of $100/month hosting (which would be VERY steep hosting!)
A box full of a bunch of no-name, el-cheapo hardware isn't really going to cut it.
When you're an open-source community project, you take what you can get. If you're homeless, you don't whine about how the roof leaks in the house someone handed you keys to, and you don't go asking for $500,000 for a "nice house with some really nice carpets".
I can see why some people might like having their icons change around, but I hate it. I want to click where the thing always is and have the thing work.
They do it, quite simply, because Office does pretty much what it always has. Sure, maybe Excel gets a new graph format or a new function, and maybe Word tells you how many paragraphs per fortnight you write.
None of these are sexy marketing bullets. "New in Office 2006! Sin() 125% faster! Slightly different 3D chart you'll never use! Spell check finally has 80% instead of 75% of English words!" doesn't cut it on the banners and magazine ads.
"Office 2006- streamlined for the way YOU and YOUR business works. So you can get to the important things in life quicker" (insert picture of model playing with model child, both of them laughing. Flowers and ice cream and little puppies optional).
Sound familiar? That's because that is the basis for virtually every "new" Office release marketing blitz in the last decade. Why? Because for much of the business world, if you're sitting there at your desk instead of home with your SO and/or kids, chances are you're staring at a Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document. Translation: you identify with the supposed problem and believe the utter lie- that the new software will boost your productivity.
Also, changing around the interface keeps the training companies busy, and pushes companies to upgrade everyone so "people don't get confused" (same with the myriad of niggling little incompatibilities, especially in Powerpoint, which affect how slides are rendered.)
The technology isn't there to match the dynamics in picking techniques and subtle stylistic interpretations.
It's not capable of even doing a slide on the fret; it can only do a fixed number of notes because for some strange reason, the fretboard "fingers" are fixed.
I guess they have many electronic documents as well... Does the order apply to "not deleting the file". More specifically, how do they intend to enforce this order ! They can't obviously sit and ensure that no shredding is performed or no document is deleted
Files can be deleted, but if tapes go missing or don't pass integrity checks, you know someone was mucking around.
Even fairly small corporations/businesses use complex backup plans, with redundancy, off-site storage, etc.
You're also assuming most of these companies don't want to cooperate. If Intel was strongarming [ducks]
Is there some law organisation in the USA that you can call saying "my laptop has been stolen and it is now on the internet at address 333.444.555.666" which will then go out to locate your laptop and return it to you??
Well sonny I work for these here boys, and when I get a tellygram, I hop on my trusty steed 'Mac', and he and I head on down to russle me up some lappies. 'casionally I hook up with m' associate Ping; she's a real darlin' and knows how to ferret out the sneakiest son-of-a-guns, even them Cen-trin-toes.
I tell ya, these city slickers wouldn't be loosin' 'em so fast if they branded 'em!
Yeah, because we all know how much "hacking" is required to use wide open WiFi connections.
We all know how much effort is required to step onto someone else's property- but the definition of "trespassing" in New Hampshire, for example, is basically "you're somewhere you don't belong". As in most cases, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse.
Similarly- ignorance in how to use a tool you purchased is not an excuse. It was your responsibility to learn how to properly operate it.
Also, the poor guy admitted to using the connection too (unauthorized access to a computer network, which is a third degree felony according to the article). Now, if he would have just asked for a lawyer and then shut up, he probably would have gotten off with just a warning.
All prosecutors would have had to prove was "he knew he was accessing something that didn't belong to him".
It is like a radio station only allowing members to listen to their station, but broadcasting to everyone and saying if someone who isn't a member listens in, they are breaking the law.
Does your radio send packets back to the radio station? Does the radio station have to individually address content to each listener, consuming "bandwidth" on a per-listener basis?
No, no, and NO!
Further- the radio station's costs (licensing music/content) scales with their profits (advertising) pretty equally, since both are based off how many listeners they have.
Sorry, you're consuming a resource if you use my cablemodem. I paid for that resource, and by using it, you're making it less available to me.
I'm a 21 year Mac user, I buy all of my software to support the developers who code for our platform.
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You may say "games", I have bought 20 games this year alone at $50 or more a pop for my DP PowerMac G5
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I need a machine to do my work in peace and security and enjoying my mid-life crises with a occasional diversion into 3D games is a pleasant diversion.
I did a doubletake here...I read your first sentence as "I'm a 21 year OLD Mac user".
First I was pissed you could afford a dual processor G5 and spend $1k a year on games ("damn kids these days, mummy&daddy buy them everything"), but then I realized you weren't going live past 40, and couldn't decide between feeling sorry for you, or saying "ha-ha!" like that bulley on the Simpsons. Then "he thinks 21 is mid-life?" popped into my head, and finally, "Oh. 21 year user of Macintoshes. Mid life crisis. Ah."
I need to read Slashdot more often, after just waking up. It makes reading it far more interesting and entertaining.
They don't bad mouth it properly, even when an act was amazing on the Muppet Show they'd hate it.
And they'd make some pretty clever jabs, too- like the time when their "opinion" of the show dropped through the floor over the course of about 5 seconds.
S:"You know that wasn't half bad."
W:"It was okay."
S:"I've seen better."
W:"It was pretty bad!"
S:"It was horrible!"
W:"Booo!"
S:"Booo!"
Much of the beauty of S&W was that you ONLY saw them doing their brief little bit, and that little bit was pure 100% comedy. Plenty of muppet characters were grumpy (Miss Piggy comes to mind), but with S&W, they were like an espresso shot of comedy. Everyone could also identify with the stereotypical cranky old guy who pipes up out the middle of nowhere and just says something completely off the wall or obnoxious.
Whoever did this obviously has no appreciation for why Statler and Waldorf worked.
I think it would be hard for them to have come up with a worse idea, except maybe if it were to get into extremely bad racist jokes, violence and sexual content.
Apparenly you didn't stick around long enough for Pepe's review of "Miss Con'gentialia', about a HOT FBI agent, she can (something something- sorry, supressed the memory already) me anytime" etc etc. Jim Henson just flew clear out of his grave and did a back-flip somersault.
PS:If anyone can find online the letter Jim Henson wrote to be read at his memorial service, they'll have my eternal gratitude. I've never found it, and it was terrific (I'll never forget his sister reading it, and the audience laughing at "and that's final, because I'm DEAD and you can't argue with me about it").
Yes, they did, in 2003. I wasn't aware of the report you cited- which came out about 3-4 days ago (June 30th, 2005 to be exact).
The 2003 stats happened to fall during (I believe) a skyrocketing increase in the number of speed cameras, speeding tickets, and increased fines/penalties.
Oh- and the UK points system was recently overhauled so that it costs you more per offense, and takes more points before you loose your license. So basically, the UK government gets to collect more money off speeders before yanking their license. Cute, eh? Yeah, traffic safety is -their- #1 priority.
Most people survive being hit by a car going 30km/h. Most people die being hit by a car going 50km/h
So we should all drive 30km/h (18mph!) any time there's a remote chance of someone being in the road? Seriously, you must be from Europe, where the EU has brought us the EURO-NCAP crash test for pedestrian safety. As Jeremey Clarkson on Top Gear put it, "There is an order for the people I care about in this world. Number one are my children in the back seat. Number two is ME. Somewhere, towards the bottom, is the bloke stumbling out of the pub into the middle of the road in front of me."
Nowadays I see signs slapped up all over my neighborhood- "we love our children, GO SLOW", "CHILDREN PLAY ZONE"(I kid you not), and so on. If they love their kids, why can't they a)supervise them when they're outside and b)pound it into their heads that ROADS AND CARS ARE DANGEROUS? Nevermind that in a state of half a million people, the only two kids to be killed in recent memory were both cases where parents backed over their kids(in #1, kids were playing/hiding in a pile of leaves; in another, the kid made a bee-line for the garage and ran behind the father's car right as he started to back up; both were truly tragic).
You probably survive if you have a frontal collision at 65-70km/h in a modern car. You will probaly die in the same collision if you go 150km/h.
70km/hr is 40-ish MPH. 150km/h is about 91mph. It should not be shocking that survivability at almost 26 MPH over the legal highway speed limit(in the US) is not so great as 20MPH BELOW. You've doubled the speed in both cases- no shit, there's going to be a difference. Stating "you're more likely to die at a higher speed" doesn't mean speeding is the primary cause of death in motor vehicle collisions, much less that speeding should be our #1 priority in traffic safety- which it pretty much is, because it earns revenue for police departments which are badly underfunded, especially since they've been forced to train/buy equipment to 'deal with terrorism'.
The problem is that anything over 5-10% is enforced like the world is going to end, and god help you if you're over 15-20%. You can get into a fist fight and get fined less than you will for doing 75 in a 65 zone- barely 5% over the 10% legal tolerance on speedometers.
...is that it will finally, once and for all, prove that speeding doesn't have much effect on traffic safety. They've got speed cameras. They're writing a HUGE number of speeding tickets. And yet...traffic deaths in Britain went UP! Not down! UP!
Folks- speed doesn't kill, and this is something few people (especially the "won't someone please think of the children" types) fail to understand. They point to statistics where "police site speed was a factor". It's not the speeding itself- it is usually a lack of judgement (very often obliterated by drugs, including alcohol) or experience, or going too fast for conditions. It is compounded by a driving public that has, for the most part, absolutely no idea (much less experience) at controlling a vehicle near its limits, or regaining control of an out-of-control vehicle.
An example- a high school kid in my town got a Mistubishi Eclipse when he passed his driving test. Two friends in the car, he's doing sixty down a local road. That's pretty damn fast, and yes, too fast for a country road with limited visibility. How did he crash? His friend at the last second yelled "turn here!", and the guy tried to do a 90 degree turn. At 60mph. Instead of just keeping on the road. Speed didn't cause the crash- stupidity and lack of experience with what the car was (and was NOT) capable of did. A huge number of accidents are caused by people being very reactionary, like risking taking a short space to turn, instead of waiting 5-10 seconds for a much longer one.
It is similar to the lack of distinction between "accidents" and "collisions". If an asteroid hits your car and you crash, that's an accident. Pretty much everything else is driver error.
Most people don't have the foggiest idea of how to control their vehicle. The simplest concepts, such as weight transfer, basic cornering technique, or friction circles (which describe the capabilities of a tire) - aren't taught or tested at all. Most people also have a "I put gas in it and oil, that's all I should have to do" mindset to car maintenance. When I'm talking to someone about car maintenance and I ask how old their brake fluid is, they a)can't remember and b)ask why. Brake fluid is like a dessicant- it absorbs water from the atmosphere. When it does, its boiling point drops substantially (brake fluid should be changed at a minimum of every 2 years, and that means flushing, not just siphoning out the reservoir).
Improving driver education would be a huge step in the right direction. Teach people what maintenance is required typically, and teach them HOW TO CONTROL a vehicle!
Try racing an Audi S4 around in Project Gotham all day, then hopping into a real S4 to go to the grocery store. Dangerous stuff.
If you own an Audi, join the Audi Club North America and come to one of the driver education events (actually, the DE events are open to any make/model, except trucks, including SUVs). I'd claim it was a plug, except it's not- I'm a volunteer, the club is a non-profit organization, and the chapter that I volunteer with donates a fair amount of money at the end of the year to charity.
Most people come to club driving schools thinking they know how to drive- especially the hot-shots who like to drive "hard" and have done all sorts of "performance modifications". Most leave realizing they knew nothing- and that half their "performance modifications" just served to cover up bad driving. They also realize that driving "hard" isn't best (smooth is key!) and that you should at any time (well, most of the time) be doing ONE thing- changing your speed (braking or accelerating) OR turning.
As the owner of a much older Audi which has performance exceeding a stock S4 biturbo (same weight and about 20-30 more HP) and no traction control...one of the blessings of all wheel drive vehicle is that under power, they understeer (plow) very much like FWD vehicles. Not exactly the same, but very similar.
What does this mean? That your first gut reaction (letting up off the gas) is usually the correct one; it puts weight back on the front of the car, and takes it off the rear; as a result, it lessens or corrects the understeer; just be careful you don't overdo it, or you'll induce oversteer.
In many high performance RWD vehicles (especially the 911, which became infamous with the turbo version, because peole weren't used to the lag, which would kick in mid-corner), lifting in the beginnings of a slide will spin the car very nicely. Also- understeering into something generally means you hit whatever you were avoiding reasonably head on. Spinning means you have about a 1 in 10 chance or less of hitting something head-on, and side (and especially rear) impacts are extremely dangerous compared to hitting something head on. Virtually every passive and active safety device in your vehicle is designed to work in a frontal collision.
Now remember kids, this advice is worth what it cost you- nothing. So don't be a dick and jump in your car and play Speed Racer on the street. Don't even do it after going to a driving school. Knowledge of how to drive, and practicing it at a track, is best applied in keeping your vehicle within BOTH your limits and its limits, and making correct reactions instinctual in emergencies.
I know there are a huge number of young people on slashdot, so bear this in mind- most of you crash because you don't understand your limits or your vehicle's limits. Compound that with the typical teenager car (many of you drive hand-me-downs or very used vehicles, which have -very- low limits), and you have a recipe for disaster.
Well, I see we've already got a few people posting "zOMG my hand's gonna get chopped off".
Here's a pop quiz. How's a device that uses near-IR to see active blood vessels going to work....
...on a hand with no blood pressure, and no hot blood flowing through it? Seems to me a cut-off hand would be virtually worthless within seconds; the veins would become the same temperature as the rest of the hand, and collapse due to lack of blood pressure.
It's small part of the Boston Museum of Science's Omnitheater sound check, and they even put lights on each channel's speakers behind the screen so you can see them as each channel is "checked". Then they do a driver through Boston traffic with an omnimax camera on the bumper of a car. And speed it up at least 2x. Even the most die-hard Boston taxi driver will grip his seat:-) Oh, and yes, Nimoy narrates the whole intro.
Then you do a helicopter trip over parts of New England, coming into a harbor in Maine...then on the docks. Ahhh, peaceful, quiet, much better you think.
"Hey CHaaaalie. They folks whanaaah seeah lobstah!" And then you get presented with a live lobster...full screen width, up close and personal, an inch or two from the lens, complete with squishy/squeeky noises:-)
Sure the businesses are acting in self interest, but it's the government acting like thugs.
Actually, I think it's probably "the government" acting in its interests too- preventing any erosion of eminent domain. What's next, people arguing how much of the "public interest" that new bypass is? Can't have that!
I'd have less of a problem with eminent domain if property owners had to be compensated several times fair market value for their property (you're being forced off your land, you need something more than just "what it was worth"). It'd make developers and government planners think twice about pushing people around.
The whole concept is from legislation dating back to the 1800's for the railroads to gobble up property to build cross-country rail lines. It's extremely outdated- few if any projects are big enough to require that sort of thing (and anyway, the railroads made a SHITLOAD of money, they could have bought the land fair and square).
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There is, sort of. If the wires are shorter, they have less resistance end-to-end assuming they have the same thickness, are made from the same material, etc etc. Less resistance means less heat (and maybe core voltage could be lowered slightly too, since there would be less of a voltage drop). However, I honestly don't know how much heat comes from the actual junctions versus circuit pathways.
Fair enough- but there are some serious bugs that still haven't been fixed, and are blatantly obvious. For example- add someone to your address book from Mail. It will flip their name around, putting "Last" in the "First" spot (YES, I'm aware of the 'sort/display list by last name' option, I'm talking about the edit pane).
Why is it that virtually everything I read on slashdot, I've already seen on the AP/Reuters wire stories from my paper?
I don't come to slashdot to read news wire stories; back in the very late 90's I came here to read stuff that you couldn't find anywhere else. I certainly don't come here for the insightful commentary (judging from the 20 comments that all say "dude, who cares about the window, what fell off and damaged it?", a number of which have been modded up, instead of modded down as redundant).
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist mentioning one of the most famous 4chan memes. It's what instantly came to mind.)
That will be an impressive feat, with the US Federal highway speed limit of 65, and a Canadian speed limit on major roads up there not much faster; 100km/hr to 120km/hr, if I recall on my last trip?(it was months ago, sorry). Why is it that nobody else is allowed to break the speed limit, but these guys are? Particularly given their vehicles have about zero crashworthyness?
I'm also curious how they plan to keep solar cars from mixing with general traffic; there has been at least one fatal accident involving a solar car (which came apart like paper mache) a few months ago when a solar vehicle was being tested.
Honestly, what was wrong with an enduro race on a closed race circuit? At least then it would be more controllable, and emergency/rescue crews would be barely a minute or two from any participant. There are numerous reasons we do our racing OFF public roads...
Cameras don't fix problems. They just see them (sometimes).
Like the Patriot Act, this doesn't solve anything; it just perpetuates the illusion that the problem was with data collection. In the WTC attacks and the Columbia break-apart (I refuse to use the term "disaster" or "accident"), it was the decision-making process and management. In both situations, there was plenty of evidence that was ignored because of egos, rivalries, and mindsets.
enjoy a good number of B-Movies (and even a few C and D-list films), but I get worried when the predominant type of movie being produced is deliberately low-brow and sets the bar so low in fact, a first year film student could trip over it.
Most first-year film student movies I have seen have been worse than anything that makes it near regional TV, much less national.
The idea that SciFi can be well-written and produced with some care is hard for many people to accept these days, as all they see is schlock put together on the cheap as fast as humanly possible to give the channel in question a quick cash infusion
I'm not saying all of scifi network's stuff is gold, but they're fighting a public that isn't in love with the genre; they do a lot of cross-channel promotion, and a big draw are the series/miniseries/movies that they've put together.
it nearly brings a tear to my eye to consider that the bargain-bin product coming from The SciFi Channel is pretty much the cream of the crop these days.
Dude, save the drama fo yo momma. Scifi has always been full of laughably bad movies. It's part of the genre. The scifi cable network happens to be doing a pretty decent job at it- better than most, in fact. Almost half a dozen names instantly come to mind, of excellent stuff they've done. Dune. Battlestart Galactica. Farscape. I'm probably missing a few...
Give them a chance, and recognize that people -expect- and often -enjoy- campy scifi movies, so if it's bad, it can't hurt much. If it's good, it'll be that more of a surprise.
No, it's really not a fair price. $2k will get you a 1U (assuming you pay by space, which is common at colos), 3Ghz P4, 2GB, 2x80GB SATA w/RAID controller, from Dell. Including 3 years of next-day on-site service. That's a pretty damn nice box; maybe you'd like to trade in 1GB of that RAM for a pair of 120's or 200's, but you get the idea. If that's not enough horsepower for an installation of drupal, some mailing lists, CVS/SVN repository, and a website...then something is wrong. Furthermore, much of Dell's rackmount boxes start at around $1K...and that's only if you need rackmount. If someone is offering up a shelf in a colo or their private datacenter and a minitower isn't a problem, $1k gets you an equally nicely-equipped system as the $2k rackmount I spec'd out above.
Oh, and three grand is also almost 3 years of $100/month hosting (which would be VERY steep hosting!)
A box full of a bunch of no-name, el-cheapo hardware isn't really going to cut it.
When you're an open-source community project, you take what you can get. If you're homeless, you don't whine about how the roof leaks in the house someone handed you keys to, and you don't go asking for $500,000 for a "nice house with some really nice carpets".
They do it, quite simply, because Office does pretty much what it always has. Sure, maybe Excel gets a new graph format or a new function, and maybe Word tells you how many paragraphs per fortnight you write.
None of these are sexy marketing bullets. "New in Office 2006! Sin() 125% faster! Slightly different 3D chart you'll never use! Spell check finally has 80% instead of 75% of English words!" doesn't cut it on the banners and magazine ads.
"Office 2006- streamlined for the way YOU and YOUR business works. So you can get to the important things in life quicker" (insert picture of model playing with model child, both of them laughing. Flowers and ice cream and little puppies optional).
Sound familiar? That's because that is the basis for virtually every "new" Office release marketing blitz in the last decade. Why? Because for much of the business world, if you're sitting there at your desk instead of home with your SO and/or kids, chances are you're staring at a Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document. Translation: you identify with the supposed problem and believe the utter lie- that the new software will boost your productivity.
Also, changing around the interface keeps the training companies busy, and pushes companies to upgrade everyone so "people don't get confused" (same with the myriad of niggling little incompatibilities, especially in Powerpoint, which affect how slides are rendered.)
It's not capable of even doing a slide on the fret; it can only do a fixed number of notes because for some strange reason, the fretboard "fingers" are fixed.
Yep, when she gets sick from the heavy metals in capacitors.
Seriously- someone needs to tell this woman that a fair bit of the stuff in electronic components is TOXIC, and very much so.
Files can be deleted, but if tapes go missing or don't pass integrity checks, you know someone was mucking around.
Even fairly small corporations/businesses use complex backup plans, with redundancy, off-site storage, etc.
You're also assuming most of these companies don't want to cooperate. If Intel was strongarming [ducks]
Well sonny I work for these here boys, and when I get a tellygram, I hop on my trusty steed 'Mac', and he and I head on down to russle me up some lappies. 'casionally I hook up with m' associate Ping; she's a real darlin' and knows how to ferret out the sneakiest son-of-a-guns, even them Cen-trin-toes.
I tell ya, these city slickers wouldn't be loosin' 'em so fast if they branded 'em!
We all know how much effort is required to step onto someone else's property- but the definition of "trespassing" in New Hampshire, for example, is basically "you're somewhere you don't belong". As in most cases, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse.
Similarly- ignorance in how to use a tool you purchased is not an excuse. It was your responsibility to learn how to properly operate it.
Also, the poor guy admitted to using the connection too (unauthorized access to a computer network, which is a third degree felony according to the article). Now, if he would have just asked for a lawyer and then shut up, he probably would have gotten off with just a warning.
All prosecutors would have had to prove was "he knew he was accessing something that didn't belong to him".
Does your radio send packets back to the radio station? Does the radio station have to individually address content to each listener, consuming "bandwidth" on a per-listener basis?
No, no, and NO!
Further- the radio station's costs (licensing music/content) scales with their profits (advertising) pretty equally, since both are based off how many listeners they have.
Sorry, you're consuming a resource if you use my cablemodem. I paid for that resource, and by using it, you're making it less available to me.
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You may say "games", I have bought 20 games this year alone at $50 or more a pop for my DP PowerMac G5
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I need a machine to do my work in peace and security and enjoying my mid-life crises with a occasional diversion into 3D games is a pleasant diversion.
I did a doubletake here...I read your first sentence as "I'm a 21 year OLD Mac user".
First I was pissed you could afford a dual processor G5 and spend $1k a year on games ("damn kids these days, mummy&daddy buy them everything"), but then I realized you weren't going live past 40, and couldn't decide between feeling sorry for you, or saying "ha-ha!" like that bulley on the Simpsons. Then "he thinks 21 is mid-life?" popped into my head, and finally, "Oh. 21 year user of Macintoshes. Mid life crisis. Ah."
I need to read Slashdot more often, after just waking up. It makes reading it far more interesting and entertaining.
And they'd make some pretty clever jabs, too- like the time when their "opinion" of the show dropped through the floor over the course of about 5 seconds.
S:"You know that wasn't half bad."
W:"It was okay."
S:"I've seen better."
W:"It was pretty bad!"
S:"It was horrible!"
W:"Booo!"
S:"Booo!"
Much of the beauty of S&W was that you ONLY saw them doing their brief little bit, and that little bit was pure 100% comedy. Plenty of muppet characters were grumpy (Miss Piggy comes to mind), but with S&W, they were like an espresso shot of comedy. Everyone could also identify with the stereotypical cranky old guy who pipes up out the middle of nowhere and just says something completely off the wall or obnoxious.
Whoever did this obviously has no appreciation for why Statler and Waldorf worked.
I think it would be hard for them to have come up with a worse idea, except maybe if it were to get into extremely bad racist jokes, violence and sexual content.
Apparenly you didn't stick around long enough for Pepe's review of "Miss Con'gentialia', about a HOT FBI agent, she can (something something- sorry, supressed the memory already) me anytime" etc etc. Jim Henson just flew clear out of his grave and did a back-flip somersault.
PS:If anyone can find online the letter Jim Henson wrote to be read at his memorial service, they'll have my eternal gratitude. I've never found it, and it was terrific (I'll never forget his sister reading it, and the audience laughing at "and that's final, because I'm DEAD and you can't argue with me about it").
Yes, they did, in 2003. I wasn't aware of the report you cited- which came out about 3-4 days ago (June 30th, 2005 to be exact).
The 2003 stats happened to fall during (I believe) a skyrocketing increase in the number of speed cameras, speeding tickets, and increased fines/penalties.
Oh- and the UK points system was recently overhauled so that it costs you more per offense, and takes more points before you loose your license. So basically, the UK government gets to collect more money off speeders before yanking their license. Cute, eh? Yeah, traffic safety is -their- #1 priority.
So we should all drive 30km/h (18mph!) any time there's a remote chance of someone being in the road? Seriously, you must be from Europe, where the EU has brought us the EURO-NCAP crash test for pedestrian safety. As Jeremey Clarkson on Top Gear put it, "There is an order for the people I care about in this world. Number one are my children in the back seat. Number two is ME. Somewhere, towards the bottom, is the bloke stumbling out of the pub into the middle of the road in front of me."
Nowadays I see signs slapped up all over my neighborhood- "we love our children, GO SLOW", "CHILDREN PLAY ZONE"(I kid you not), and so on. If they love their kids, why can't they a)supervise them when they're outside and b)pound it into their heads that ROADS AND CARS ARE DANGEROUS? Nevermind that in a state of half a million people, the only two kids to be killed in recent memory were both cases where parents backed over their kids(in #1, kids were playing/hiding in a pile of leaves; in another, the kid made a bee-line for the garage and ran behind the father's car right as he started to back up; both were truly tragic).
You probably survive if you have a frontal collision at 65-70km/h in a modern car. You will probaly die in the same collision if you go 150km/h.
70km/hr is 40-ish MPH. 150km/h is about 91mph. It should not be shocking that survivability at almost 26 MPH over the legal highway speed limit(in the US) is not so great as 20MPH BELOW. You've doubled the speed in both cases- no shit, there's going to be a difference. Stating "you're more likely to die at a higher speed" doesn't mean speeding is the primary cause of death in motor vehicle collisions, much less that speeding should be our #1 priority in traffic safety- which it pretty much is, because it earns revenue for police departments which are badly underfunded, especially since they've been forced to train/buy equipment to 'deal with terrorism'.
The problem is that anything over 5-10% is enforced like the world is going to end, and god help you if you're over 15-20%. You can get into a fist fight and get fined less than you will for doing 75 in a 65 zone- barely 5% over the 10% legal tolerance on speedometers.
Folks- speed doesn't kill, and this is something few people (especially the "won't someone please think of the children" types) fail to understand. They point to statistics where "police site speed was a factor". It's not the speeding itself- it is usually a lack of judgement (very often obliterated by drugs, including alcohol) or experience, or going too fast for conditions. It is compounded by a driving public that has, for the most part, absolutely no idea (much less experience) at controlling a vehicle near its limits, or regaining control of an out-of-control vehicle.
An example- a high school kid in my town got a Mistubishi Eclipse when he passed his driving test. Two friends in the car, he's doing sixty down a local road. That's pretty damn fast, and yes, too fast for a country road with limited visibility. How did he crash? His friend at the last second yelled "turn here!", and the guy tried to do a 90 degree turn. At 60mph. Instead of just keeping on the road. Speed didn't cause the crash- stupidity and lack of experience with what the car was (and was NOT) capable of did. A huge number of accidents are caused by people being very reactionary, like risking taking a short space to turn, instead of waiting 5-10 seconds for a much longer one.
It is similar to the lack of distinction between "accidents" and "collisions". If an asteroid hits your car and you crash, that's an accident. Pretty much everything else is driver error.
Most people don't have the foggiest idea of how to control their vehicle. The simplest concepts, such as weight transfer, basic cornering technique, or friction circles (which describe the capabilities of a tire) - aren't taught or tested at all. Most people also have a "I put gas in it and oil, that's all I should have to do" mindset to car maintenance. When I'm talking to someone about car maintenance and I ask how old their brake fluid is, they a)can't remember and b)ask why. Brake fluid is like a dessicant- it absorbs water from the atmosphere. When it does, its boiling point drops substantially (brake fluid should be changed at a minimum of every 2 years, and that means flushing, not just siphoning out the reservoir).
Improving driver education would be a huge step in the right direction. Teach people what maintenance is required typically, and teach them HOW TO CONTROL a vehicle!
If you own an Audi, join the Audi Club North America and come to one of the driver education events (actually, the DE events are open to any make/model, except trucks, including SUVs). I'd claim it was a plug, except it's not- I'm a volunteer, the club is a non-profit organization, and the chapter that I volunteer with donates a fair amount of money at the end of the year to charity.
Most people come to club driving schools thinking they know how to drive- especially the hot-shots who like to drive "hard" and have done all sorts of "performance modifications". Most leave realizing they knew nothing- and that half their "performance modifications" just served to cover up bad driving. They also realize that driving "hard" isn't best (smooth is key!) and that you should at any time (well, most of the time) be doing ONE thing- changing your speed (braking or accelerating) OR turning.
As the owner of a much older Audi which has performance exceeding a stock S4 biturbo (same weight and about 20-30 more HP) and no traction control...one of the blessings of all wheel drive vehicle is that under power, they understeer (plow) very much like FWD vehicles. Not exactly the same, but very similar.
What does this mean? That your first gut reaction (letting up off the gas) is usually the correct one; it puts weight back on the front of the car, and takes it off the rear; as a result, it lessens or corrects the understeer; just be careful you don't overdo it, or you'll induce oversteer.
In many high performance RWD vehicles (especially the 911, which became infamous with the turbo version, because peole weren't used to the lag, which would kick in mid-corner), lifting in the beginnings of a slide will spin the car very nicely. Also- understeering into something generally means you hit whatever you were avoiding reasonably head on. Spinning means you have about a 1 in 10 chance or less of hitting something head-on, and side (and especially rear) impacts are extremely dangerous compared to hitting something head on. Virtually every passive and active safety device in your vehicle is designed to work in a frontal collision.
Now remember kids, this advice is worth what it cost you- nothing. So don't be a dick and jump in your car and play Speed Racer on the street. Don't even do it after going to a driving school. Knowledge of how to drive, and practicing it at a track, is best applied in keeping your vehicle within BOTH your limits and its limits, and making correct reactions instinctual in emergencies.
I know there are a huge number of young people on slashdot, so bear this in mind- most of you crash because you don't understand your limits or your vehicle's limits. Compound that with the typical teenager car (many of you drive hand-me-downs or very used vehicles, which have -very- low limits), and you have a recipe for disaster.
Well, I see we've already got a few people posting "zOMG my hand's gonna get chopped off".
Here's a pop quiz. How's a device that uses near-IR to see active blood vessels going to work....
...on a hand with no blood pressure, and no hot blood flowing through it? Seems to me a cut-off hand would be virtually worthless within seconds; the veins would become the same temperature as the rest of the hand, and collapse due to lack of blood pressure.
Sound tech 1:"Okay everyone, sound check!"
Sound tech 2:"Cue Leonard Nimoy"
Sound tech 3(quietly):"Leonard Nimoy!? Why?"
(LN):"Because he grew up a few blocks from here!"
It's small part of the Boston Museum of Science's Omnitheater sound check, and they even put lights on each channel's speakers behind the screen so you can see them as each channel is "checked". Then they do a driver through Boston traffic with an omnimax camera on the bumper of a car. And speed it up at least 2x. Even the most die-hard Boston taxi driver will grip his seat :-) Oh, and yes, Nimoy narrates the whole intro.
Then you do a helicopter trip over parts of New England, coming into a harbor in Maine...then on the docks. Ahhh, peaceful, quiet, much better you think.
"Hey CHaaaalie. They folks whanaaah seeah lobstah!" And then you get presented with a live lobster...full screen width, up close and personal, an inch or two from the lens, complete with squishy/squeeky noises :-)
Different band.
Actually, I think it's probably "the government" acting in its interests too- preventing any erosion of eminent domain. What's next, people arguing how much of the "public interest" that new bypass is? Can't have that!
I'd have less of a problem with eminent domain if property owners had to be compensated several times fair market value for their property (you're being forced off your land, you need something more than just "what it was worth"). It'd make developers and government planners think twice about pushing people around.
The whole concept is from legislation dating back to the 1800's for the railroads to gobble up property to build cross-country rail lines. It's extremely outdated- few if any projects are big enough to require that sort of thing (and anyway, the railroads made a SHITLOAD of money, they could have bought the land fair and square).
Inconvenience doesn't superceede my rights.