Anyone care to speculate on what happens to all the e-books that B&N has sold if/when they go under? I know I don't "own" the books, rather I purchased some sort of licensing agreement which lets me view the books until... when?
This is a huge and not often discussed down-side to e-books. Our first nook died a few weeks ago, I'll probably avoid purchasing another one for just this reason.
I feel like the Native Americans watching the first wave of pilgrims coming off the boat, smiling and wanting to trade smallpox-infected blankets with us.
Your comparison, while compelling, is historically inaccurate: The US government didn't give disease infested sleepware to Native American tribes until about 100 years later during the forced relocation of tribes to the "west."
"The fact that HDMI protects video and audio signaling is enough for content providers to lean on PC manufacturers to adopt the standard over DVI."
Its funny how the whole tone of the article is Jee-Whiz, look at this cool new technology. And then the kicker is that there's a ghost in the machine... the ghost of fair use.
Yes. As a technology teacher at an elementary school with a modest budget, we're interested in the price point... but not in the lack of binary compatability with EVERY piece of windoze software in the world. What SOFTWARE is available for this little guy? "Third world" not withstanding, if you can't run the most basic software, it won't fly.
Yea, I found the article boring when scanning superficially. But after reading the perfigo site faq, its clear there's a potential for "synergy" between cisco and perfigo's products. It may be one of those [very] rare acquisitions that adds value for investors (and customers).
Perfigo offers network security and control solutions that strengthen network security and resilience by regulating access based on user and device compliance with security policies. The CleanMachines product is a software solution from Perfigo that automatically detects, isolates, and cleans infected and/or vulnerable devices that attempt to access the network. It identifies whether machines are compliant with security policies and repairs these vulnerabilities before permitting access to the network.
you must be skimming the conversation and not following the actual gist. Teaching about profit is great -- we have local business leaders come into our elementary school each year and do age-appropriate lessons set up the better business bureau. Making profit off of children at their expense is not good. The difference seems clear to me.
An excellent point, it is the responsibility of parents to educate kids about societal dangers. I wonder if all parents have the same resources - education, time, money, community - to draw from in the process of regulating their children. And if not, what role does the various institutions that intersect children's lives have to make up any institutional barriers to protecting those children? Neopets is a tempest in a teapot, I don't really mind it that much, though it is extremely addictive. What's more troublesome is the darwinian / libertarian perspective of "let them sink or swim" with respect to things that threaten the well-being of children.
Its a great idea to make neopets gambling as risky as real gambling, that way we'll control children's neopet gambling as well as our society handles adult money gambling. Oh wait, never mind.
You have an excellent point. The fact is that many 8, 9 and 10 years in my school (poverty-driven families of color) seem to have a fondness for video games. Another fact is that companies are creating games that are meant to be so enjoyable that they verge on addictive for many of these students. And finally it seems to me that companies such as neopets care little for the well-being of their "customers" since their real customers are the ones paying for the games. So I've arrived at the viewpoint that companies are like non-lethal viruses... they disable their hosts without killing them.
your're right, I am complaining about a well-designed game. i forgot to mention that we're preparing (high-horse alert!) students for life through a process of "education"... math, literacy, science, etc. Neopets has a different mission: profit. The students' interest is sadly neglected by the makers of neopets. Okay, off the high horse.
Neopets is insidious because it provides "challenges" that appear to require students' problem-solving abilities. Its more like video-game crack since it combines elements that fascinate both girls and boys, youngters and adults: community-building chats, personal vendettas (you can slam an opponent by name) as well as the usual eye-candy. My students (grades 4/5, "inner-city" youth) will go to neopets given the smallest opportunity. Fortunately I've just gotten our squid-server going... say "bye-bye! Neopets!"
Absolutely prepend "M$" to the virus description. From the horse's mouth (or A$$) itself:
Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution (833987)
What is GDI+?
GDI+ is a graphics device interface that provides two-dimensional vector graphics, imaging, and typography to applications and programmers.
Yes, pointless. Except that a cool HYDROGEN powered car gets positive attention from consumers, beginning the process of legitimizing hydrogen as an "alternative" fuel source. Never mind that the same sources for gasoline are gearing up for hydrogen production...
Apple sells iPods (at a healthy mark-up) and gives away the software to keep those iPods fed. MS's strategy will be to commodify and hence cheapen (and make mediocre) digital media players -- and then make deals with publishers, studios, and the companies duking it out to create these cheap media players. And presumably MS will find other ways to charge for the software and content once everyone is taking advantage of the 40% discount to go with generic, off-the-shelf media players.
Yes, you're right, there are some components in the G5 that aren't available yet in PC-land. But then the G5 isn't exactly available yet either. But this is all very off-topic.
I spent about $700 upgrading the Beige G3 versus $1200 for a great components-based PC. The intent was to call into question the value of trying to upgrade the Beige G3. But thanks for the constructive feedback.
Uhm, yea, it works, but...
I have a Beige G3, 333 Mhz with the following upgrades:
- OS X 10.2.6
- G4 processor running at 500 MhZ
- ATA133 card w/ 80 GB drive
- 512 Meg memory
- TEAC CDRW (IDE) drive
- firewire/USB card
- and other assorted goodies.
The machine runs OSX, but it's painful to use for everything from web browsing to email.
I used to work for Apple in their A/UX group, I've used Macs for years and years, but I finally just built a PC using components that will be in the much ballyhoo-ed G5 -- Serial ATA, DVD, 400 Mhz memory, etc. All for about $1200, substantially less than a comparable Mac. The main drawback is Windows XP Pro -- everything that comes with OSX (iTunes, iMovie, great browser, great email) is EXTRA for Windows XP. Still the machine kicks a__ over my old Mac.
Good luck.
That is incredible! On the surface, it looks idiotic: run a virtual Macintosh process under the Linux kernel that supports Mac OSX (potentially breaking the Apple license) -- and the whole thing is currently restricted to PPC platforms since there isn't a PPC emulator (yet).
However, there might be an application of the technology in cost-sensitive venues, e.g. schools. Fire up a hefty PPC server running virtual machines for dozens of students. use diskless linux boxes running VNC as the terminals. Voila, cheap OS X desktops. This might actually work!
Slashdot Mirror
FreeBSD hosts interesting work with respect to TCP congestion control. An earlier version (I think FreeBSD 8.0) introduced modular congestion control algorithms, and this version introduces CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) congestion control algorithm. The check in is here: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=252504, and an interesting (if slightly esoteric) slide deck is here: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/slides/slides-84-iccrg-2.pdf.
Anyone care to speculate on what happens to all the e-books that B&N has sold if/when they go under? I know I don't "own" the books, rather I purchased some sort of licensing agreement which lets me view the books until ... when?
This is a huge and not often discussed down-side to e-books. Our first nook died a few weeks ago, I'll probably avoid purchasing another one for just this reason.
I feel like the Native Americans watching the first wave of pilgrims coming off the boat, smiling and wanting to trade smallpox-infected blankets with us. Your comparison, while compelling, is historically inaccurate: The US government didn't give disease infested sleepware to Native American tribes until about 100 years later during the forced relocation of tribes to the "west."
Its funny how the whole tone of the article is Jee-Whiz, look at this cool new technology. And then the kicker is that there's a ghost in the machine ... the ghost of fair use.
Yes. As a technology teacher at an elementary school with a modest budget, we're interested in the price point ... but not in the lack of binary compatability with EVERY piece of windoze software in the world. What SOFTWARE is available for this little guy? "Third world" not withstanding, if you can't run the most basic software, it won't fly.
Yea, I found the article boring when scanning superficially. But after reading the perfigo site faq, its clear there's a potential for "synergy" between cisco and perfigo's products. It may be one of those [very] rare acquisitions that adds value for investors (and customers).
you must be skimming the conversation and not following the actual gist. Teaching about profit is great -- we have local business leaders come into our elementary school each year and do age-appropriate lessons set up the better business bureau. Making profit off of children at their expense is not good. The difference seems clear to me.
god, so many addictions, so little time.
An excellent point, it is the responsibility of parents to educate kids about societal dangers. I wonder if all parents have the same resources - education, time, money, community - to draw from in the process of regulating their children. And if not, what role does the various institutions that intersect children's lives have to make up any institutional barriers to protecting those children? Neopets is a tempest in a teapot, I don't really mind it that much, though it is extremely addictive. What's more troublesome is the darwinian / libertarian perspective of "let them sink or swim" with respect to things that threaten the well-being of children.
Its a great idea to make neopets gambling as risky as real gambling, that way we'll control children's neopet gambling as well as our society handles adult money gambling. Oh wait, never mind.
You have an excellent point. The fact is that many 8, 9 and 10 years in my school (poverty-driven families of color) seem to have a fondness for video games. Another fact is that companies are creating games that are meant to be so enjoyable that they verge on addictive for many of these students. And finally it seems to me that companies such as neopets care little for the well-being of their "customers" since their real customers are the ones paying for the games. So I've arrived at the viewpoint that companies are like non-lethal viruses ... they disable their hosts without killing them.
your're right, I am complaining about a well-designed game. i forgot to mention that we're preparing (high-horse alert!) students for life through a process of "education" ... math, literacy, science, etc. Neopets has a different mission: profit. The students' interest is sadly neglected by the makers of neopets. Okay, off the high horse.
Neopets is insidious because it provides "challenges" that appear to require students' problem-solving abilities. Its more like video-game crack since it combines elements that fascinate both girls and boys, youngters and adults: community-building chats, personal vendettas (you can slam an opponent by name) as well as the usual eye-candy. My students (grades 4/5, "inner-city" youth) will go to neopets given the smallest opportunity. Fortunately I've just gotten our squid-server going ... say "bye-bye! Neopets!"
FYI, here's the fix from M$ for this exploit: Security Bulletin
Yes, pointless. Except that a cool HYDROGEN powered car gets positive attention from consumers, beginning the process of legitimizing hydrogen as an "alternative" fuel source. Never mind that the same sources for gasoline are gearing up for hydrogen production ...
Apple sells iPods (at a healthy mark-up) and gives away the software to keep those iPods fed. MS's strategy will be to commodify and hence cheapen (and make mediocre) digital media players -- and then make deals with publishers, studios, and the companies duking it out to create these cheap media players. And presumably MS will find other ways to charge for the software and content once everyone is taking advantage of the 40% discount to go with generic, off-the-shelf media players.
Yes, you're right, there are some components in the G5 that aren't available yet in PC-land. But then the G5 isn't exactly available yet either. But this is all very off-topic.
I spent about $700 upgrading the Beige G3 versus $1200 for a great components-based PC. The intent was to call into question the value of trying to upgrade the Beige G3. But thanks for the constructive feedback.
Uhm, yea, it works, but ...
I have a Beige G3, 333 Mhz with the following upgrades:
- OS X 10.2.6
- G4 processor running at 500 MhZ
- ATA133 card w/ 80 GB drive
- 512 Meg memory
- TEAC CDRW (IDE) drive
- firewire/USB card
- and other assorted goodies.
The machine runs OSX, but it's painful to use for everything from web browsing to email.
I used to work for Apple in their A/UX group, I've used Macs for years and years, but I finally just built a PC using components that will be in the much ballyhoo-ed G5 -- Serial ATA, DVD, 400 Mhz memory, etc. All for about $1200, substantially less than a comparable Mac. The main drawback is Windows XP Pro -- everything that comes with OSX (iTunes, iMovie, great browser, great email) is EXTRA for Windows XP. Still the machine kicks a__ over my old Mac.
Good luck.
That is incredible! On the surface, it looks idiotic: run a virtual Macintosh process under the Linux kernel that supports Mac OSX (potentially breaking the Apple license) -- and the whole thing is currently restricted to PPC platforms since there isn't a PPC emulator (yet). However, there might be an application of the technology in cost-sensitive venues, e.g. schools. Fire up a hefty PPC server running virtual machines for dozens of students. use diskless linux boxes running VNC as the terminals. Voila, cheap OS X desktops. This might actually work!