Pulled the product? Are you talking about G-Archiver, the subject of the blog entry? Think again; http://www.brothersoft.com/g-archiver-58027.html Of course its linked to by one of those fly-by-night software "repositories" . I wouldn't call G-Archiver or the page that links to it paragons of digital virtue. As always let the buyer beware. I find it amusing that the author is charging for his little opus as well. $30, not exactly cheap for what it does. I wonder how much money he culls from his victi... er, users.
Thoroughly agree. Of course that leaves the unsupported hardware users out in the cold. But it goes to show how valuable a little research is before you make that laptop purchase. Make sure your hardware is supported people!
Same here, but I got back to High School. Might sound sad to some, but some of the best times of my life were spent with a handful of friends from HS in a basement playing D&D. I started playing when the first hardback book, "The Monster Manual", was introduced. RIP Gary Gygax.
The Gov. is looking at this the wrong way. This is an untapped resource for tracking Chinese satellites. There's not a thing they can do to keep trackers from spotting ours, but what works for spotting our satellites most definitely will work for tracking the Chinese as well. The Gov. could tap this, quite possibly for free. Give the spotters all "National Security SatSpotter" badges or something.
> You realize that the post was probably deleted by someone in poorly-trained low level support monkeys, right?
Doesn't matter. Simply deleting a post about a security concern is very bad form, no matter how it happened. If Apple wanted to live up to its own hype about "Being different" it would treat such customer concerns with importance, not "accidentally delete" them. Very bad form to take the "oops, we never got your note" course of action. I'm a support monkey, if it got around that I deleted a customer's email, even by accident, I'd get a reprimand, at the least, poorly trained or not. Apple gets away with it because their stock price is up around $200, not because they have careless employees.
The arrogance comes in because it will soon be 2008, and I really have a hard time that in all this time since 1995 companies are still treating security as an afterthought, if at all. After all the bank break-ins, all the headlines, Apple still has the balls to be the same as all the other digital companies when it comes to such an important topic. Who knew that "Being different" really meant "Business as usual." Sorry but I feel justified in never having bought either apple or microsoft products, except for the microsoft tax on a lap top or two, unavoidable, those.
Ok, but there's nothing wrong with:
1.) Sign long term contract
2.) Get free phone
3.) Proceed to end of contract
4.) Use unlocked phone I now legally own with other carrier should I wish
5.) Live happy life w/iPhone
This is true. In Japan if you don't go to one of three schools (Todai Univ., and the other two I forget what they are) there you are essentially wasting your time. Those three schools are needless to say very difficult to get into. US universities however look ok to Japanese employers.
I have to disagree with your disagreement. You are of course correct in the long term, yes, eventually, assuming a asteroid or global warming doesn't slam us back into the stone age, the pool of internet-savvy elderly can only grow, but in the short term the pool of internet neophytes grows as people of the last generation realize more and more that they really need to learn how to use the internet weather they want to or not. He actually makes a good point for a practical internet appliance. I've been thinking about this, and this should be doable with off-the-shelf ports, if you don't want to go the web tv route. Here's a short list of attributes this appliance should have:
The most configuration the user should enter is his/her net config
The appliance should come with a firewall configured to allow http/https/dns/ftp both ways and probably not much more
The interface should have a simple way to configure that firewall and include a way to block any domain the user desires
The user interface should allow resolution tweaking and not much beyond that
The device should be compact flash based- no moving parts
The device should probably come video rf and digital, for connecting to either a tv or a monitor
The thing should use the web browser as the interface to everything; the web, the configuration, everything
Yes, this is webtv. But this should be well within the ability of a modest engineer to put together with off-the-shelf hw and some web programming skillz, this isn't rocket science.
I love comments like this. You can append them to any discussion and they'll fit. Why didn't/. award this precious post 3? In the meantime I'm looking forward to a world where no one comments or even says anything 'cause its all been said. What a wonderful world that'll be.
Ok, we're talking about High School; if you didn't care, well, yeah, you're extra special. Special like the Korean who shot up those 30 people a month ago...
Of course by classically he means canonically, not Newtonian. The problem here of course is quantum tunneling causing electron leakage at the gate, but these effects are kept to a minimum by a number of processes, even at 65nm I doubt Intel have reached the threshold of determinism just yet. I think the problems are more born out of the usual architect error: they are human.
Exactly right. I left a comment on that blog to that effect; if the worst thing that an obviously "pro-Microsoft stance" blog posting about how horrible Google is that the engineers work long hours or have no lives, well, welcome to Sillycon Valley. Oracle is riding high on a wave of current success (if Wall Street is to be believed, and they are generally accurate I think) I've heard war stories for years about how hard the engineers there work. Well guess what? HARD WORK PAYS OFF. How about that incredible concept?
So the tone of the posting is mildly anti-Google, yet Google appears to be rather successful. So what are to make of this blog post? Not a whole lot, other than Microsoft hates Google. Again; surprise!
Probably because "intelligent" design has no place in a serious scientific debate? Or; to be diplomatic, because ID wasn't the theory on the table? If you want to offer ID as some kind of plausible scientific explanation for anything you can't insert it into every scientific debate that comes across your conscienceless; that's called "bogarting the forum."
Kevin Bankston said that 'I think that this product illustrates a tension between our First Amendment right to document public spaces around us...'
And Kevin is a lawyer. Well, to be fair, Kevin didn't bend the first amendment all the way around, at least he didn't come right out and say it was a 1st Amend. issue. Which is surprising, usually as soon as 7-Eleven or Wal*Mart asks their employees to keep something quiet some yokel yells "First Amendment!"
Which of course it isn't.
I'm with this guy. If Linux automounts as any other removable drive, I'm happy. I could care less about syncing it with some mp3 library gizmo. I find syncing with media librarians a little tedious. Drag and drop, is all I need. A playlist generator is nice, but I can live without. If they don't do.m3u I don't need them anyway. And there seems to be as many formats for something is stupid as a playlist as there are players. We just need ONE FORMAT people.
I hate to press the jaded button here, I actually have a love for Palm, but its a whole lot of ~big deal~. Palm needs to bring PalmOS into the 21st century, and with that new OS bring in some really smart new portable devices if it wants to stay in the game.
CompUSA? On the west coast: Fry's Electronics? I think Radio Shack still sells pcs of one type or another. Probably missing a chain or two. Then there's the plethora of independents who are willing to put together a rig with off the shelf parts for you. Lastly there's me; the it guy who does the same, but I build 'em and get exactly what I want in a rig. So I could care less how many retail outlets are out there selling consumer pcs.
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What exactly is a "large register file"?
Pulled the product? Are you talking about G-Archiver, the subject of the blog entry? Think again; http://www.brothersoft.com/g-archiver-58027.html
Of course its linked to by one of those fly-by-night software "repositories" . I wouldn't call G-Archiver or the page that links to it paragons of digital virtue. As always let the buyer beware. I find it amusing that the author is charging for his little opus as well. $30, not exactly cheap for what it does. I wonder how much money he culls from his victi... er, users.
Thoroughly agree. Of course that leaves the unsupported hardware users out in the cold. But it goes to show how valuable a little research is before you make that laptop purchase. Make sure your hardware is supported people!
Same here, but I got back to High School. Might sound sad to some, but some of the best times of my life were spent with a handful of friends from HS in a basement playing D&D. I started playing when the first hardback book, "The Monster Manual", was introduced. RIP Gary Gygax.
Next they'll be teaching the kids that Whoopie Goldberg is a mountain of talent.
And my karma sucks.
The Gov. is looking at this the wrong way. This is an untapped resource for tracking Chinese satellites. There's not a thing they can do to keep trackers from spotting ours, but what works for spotting our satellites most definitely will work for tracking the Chinese as well. The Gov. could tap this, quite possibly for free. Give the spotters all "National Security SatSpotter" badges or something.
That post scores a 5 for funny? You've got to be kidding me.
> You realize that the post was probably deleted by someone in poorly-trained low level support monkeys, right?
Doesn't matter. Simply deleting a post about a security concern is very bad form, no matter how it happened. If Apple wanted to live up to its own hype about "Being different" it would treat such customer concerns with importance, not "accidentally delete" them. Very bad form to take the "oops, we never got your note" course of action. I'm a support monkey, if it got around that I deleted a customer's email, even by accident, I'd get a reprimand, at the least, poorly trained or not. Apple gets away with it because their stock price is up around $200, not because they have careless employees.
The arrogance comes in because it will soon be 2008, and I really have a hard time that in all this time since 1995 companies are still treating security as an afterthought, if at all. After all the bank break-ins, all the headlines, Apple still has the balls to be the same as all the other digital companies when it comes to such an important topic. Who knew that "Being different" really meant "Business as usual." Sorry but I feel justified in never having bought either apple or microsoft products, except for the microsoft tax on a lap top or two, unavoidable, those.
1) You can't see infrared light
2) It can damage your eyes, however to do so from a distance it would be certainly hot enough to melt in a second the device emitting it
(Infrared == heat)
Ok, but there's nothing wrong with: 1.) Sign long term contract 2.) Get free phone 3.) Proceed to end of contract 4.) Use unlocked phone I now legally own with other carrier should I wish 5.) Live happy life w/iPhone
This is true. In Japan if you don't go to one of three schools (Todai Univ., and the other two I forget what they are) there you are essentially wasting your time. Those three schools are needless to say very difficult to get into. US universities however look ok to Japanese employers.
I have to disagree with your disagreement. You are of course correct in the long term, yes, eventually, assuming a asteroid or global warming doesn't slam us back into the stone age, the pool of internet-savvy elderly can only grow, but in the short term the pool of internet neophytes grows as people of the last generation realize more and more that they really need to learn how to use the internet weather they want to or not. He actually makes a good point for a practical internet appliance. I've been thinking about this, and this should be doable with off-the-shelf ports, if you don't want to go the web tv route. Here's a short list of attributes this appliance should have: The most configuration the user should enter is his/her net config The appliance should come with a firewall configured to allow http/https/dns/ftp both ways and probably not much more The interface should have a simple way to configure that firewall and include a way to block any domain the user desires The user interface should allow resolution tweaking and not much beyond that The device should be compact flash based- no moving parts The device should probably come video rf and digital, for connecting to either a tv or a monitor The thing should use the web browser as the interface to everything; the web, the configuration, everything Yes, this is webtv. But this should be well within the ability of a modest engineer to put together with off-the-shelf hw and some web programming skillz, this isn't rocket science.
I love comments like this. You can append them to any discussion and they'll fit. Why didn't /. award this precious post 3? In the meantime I'm looking forward to a world where no one comments or even says anything 'cause its all been said. What a wonderful world that'll be.
"Gee, I don't remember ever caring..."
Ok, we're talking about High School; if you didn't care, well, yeah, you're extra special. Special like the Korean who shot up those 30 people a month ago...
Of course by classically he means canonically, not Newtonian. The problem here of course is quantum tunneling causing electron leakage at the gate, but these effects are kept to a minimum by a number of processes, even at 65nm I doubt Intel have reached the threshold of determinism just yet. I think the problems are more born out of the usual architect error: they are human.
Exactly right. I left a comment on that blog to that effect; if the worst thing that an obviously "pro-Microsoft stance" blog posting about how horrible Google is that the engineers work long hours or have no lives, well, welcome to Sillycon Valley. Oracle is riding high on a wave of current success (if Wall Street is to be believed, and they are generally accurate I think) I've heard war stories for years about how hard the engineers there work. Well guess what? HARD WORK PAYS OFF. How about that incredible concept? So the tone of the posting is mildly anti-Google, yet Google appears to be rather successful. So what are to make of this blog post? Not a whole lot, other than Microsoft hates Google. Again; surprise!
http://www.fuck-china.com/
Microsoft can go fuck themselves.
Probably because "intelligent" design has no place in a serious scientific debate? Or; to be diplomatic, because ID wasn't the theory on the table? If you want to offer ID as some kind of plausible scientific explanation for anything you can't insert it into every scientific debate that comes across your conscienceless; that's called "bogarting the forum."
Kevin Bankston said that 'I think that this product illustrates a tension between our First Amendment right to document public spaces around us...' And Kevin is a lawyer. Well, to be fair, Kevin didn't bend the first amendment all the way around, at least he didn't come right out and say it was a 1st Amend. issue. Which is surprising, usually as soon as 7-Eleven or Wal*Mart asks their employees to keep something quiet some yokel yells "First Amendment!" Which of course it isn't.
I'm with this guy. If Linux automounts as any other removable drive, I'm happy. I could care less about syncing it with some mp3 library gizmo. I find syncing with media librarians a little tedious. Drag and drop, is all I need. A playlist generator is nice, but I can live without. If they don't do .m3u I don't need them anyway. And there seems to be as many formats for something is stupid as a playlist as there are players. We just need ONE FORMAT people.
I hate to press the jaded button here, I actually have a love for Palm, but its a whole lot of ~big deal~. Palm needs to bring PalmOS into the 21st century, and with that new OS bring in some really smart new portable devices if it wants to stay in the game.
CompUSA? On the west coast: Fry's Electronics? I think Radio Shack still sells pcs of one type or another. Probably missing a chain or two. Then there's the plethora of independents who are willing to put together a rig with off the shelf parts for you. Lastly there's me; the it guy who does the same, but I build 'em and get exactly what I want in a rig. So I could care less how many retail outlets are out there selling consumer pcs.
The kids better hope Microsoft doesn't sue them if their new software infringes on any patents.