If Comcast used a 100' multimillion dollar dish you would have something. As it stands at least with my local franchise, they have just regular 8-12 foot C-band satellite dishes. Not exactly multimillion dollar dishes. They suffer from rain fade although not to the same extent.
bought an inspiron 6400 laptop from dell for my work laptop. It has a core duo, 1 gig ram, 256 megs radeon x1400 video, glossy screen, etc. $1200 bucks. Come on. That is a killer price and this is a killer laptop because it's a killer proc.
If you purchased that recently, you were seriously ripped off. I just bought yesterday a e1505 (Dell Home's twin of Small Business's 6400 with a Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, the x1300, 15.4" glossy screen, etc for $803.
Either way, I had long been a fanboy of AMD because they were cheaper and had a much better price:performance ratio then Intel. It came down to the e1505 with the C2D or a Acer laptop iwth a Turion 64 X2 and for just a few bucks more there was a more significant performance advantage with the e1505. Sorry AMD, but competition is back in town.
According to this article in my local paper, Verizon is planning on spending nearly $23b on FiOS and that's for about 1/2 their network. The $18b figure mentioned in the summary comes from discounting the $5b in projected savings from not having to maintain the aging copper physical plant. The linked to article sort of mentions this, but it's not real clear.
Sony is one of the suppliers of battery packs used in some Toshiba notebook PCs. We have investigated with Sony whether those PCs that employ the subject batteries are affected with the same problem that caused the recent recalls issued by Dell and Apple, and have found that the system design and the protection system of Toshiba notebook PCs differ from those of Dell and Apple. We have found no evidence that the problem reported by Dell and Apple in their recalls applies to our notebook PCs. Sony has confirmed to us that there is no such problem as cited in the recalls of Dell and Apple with the battery packs supplied to Toshiba.
Way to send mixed messages folks. It looks bad for Toshiba that they have faulty batteries that may or may not be under a recall. It looks even worse for Sony as they are responsible for both recalls.
Agreed. All things being equal, it might be a deciding factor but I doubt that. It's not like people buy their PC based off of how well it runs SETI/Folding/etc, it's very doubtful that consoles would be any better off. Based off of how hot my PS2 and XBox become after long period of use, I'm not sure if I would want to leave my shiny new $600 console on 24x7 doing computationally intensive activites.
There is another lawsuit going on very similar to this. The plantiff sued on nothing, went through discovery on a fishing expedition to try to find anything, given time and time again to find something, and still has found nothing. It's been talked about a little here (although the site is currently down for maintainance).
I can see where this law could be useful in cases where we know someone has committed a heinous act but the state can't punish him.
Such as? If we KNOW someone has committed a heinous act, we should be able to prosecute them. If we tried and someone screwed up and double jepordy set it, well, the law says we can't keep trying to convict them. The law doesn't say if we can't get them the right way we get another chance to convict them. Anyone who says this isn't a incredibly stupid idea is delusional. I pray I never have you as a lawyer.
Yup, for a mere $200K, you too can have every reality TV program and/or naughty picture at your fingertips...and here I was thinking about mundane things like virtual libraries, genome sequencing, protien folding, etc.
I'm going to be sad now...
The problem with saying they can be used for genome sequencing, protein folding, etc is that the typical Enquirer reader isn't going to have a clue how much space those activites take. I consider myself an above average geek and I don't know what an educated guess would be. However many people can relate what a show or movie size is, and they have a general idea that there are a ton of reality episodes out there. They can somewhat equate the storage requirements although it's quite vague still.
I'll admit that reality TV shows and porn isn't a great intellectual measurement of storage space. A more generic measurement, such as 1000 DVD movies or 200k MP3s may be a little better though.
I think what he was getting at is that if Otis Wilson answers a question differently, then there COULD be a problem. However if SCO asks all the same questions again and Wilson answers the same way, then there wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that there has been significant time between his first deposition and this one. Can you remember EXACTLY what you said 2 years ago about an event that happened a decade or two ago? SCO will try to jump on any discrepancy where Wilson either omits something during this deposition but answered before or that he remembers now but didn't 2 years ago.
At best, his testimony is more or less exactly the same and SCO doesn't get anything, so no problems occur. At worst, SCO finds some evidence that they try to abuse, prevents a summary judgment, and drags this on for several more years. My guess is that it will be somewhere in between where there is a tidbit or two, SCO tries to jump all over it, but the Nevada judge(s) rule that it's not significant enough and SCO used the new deposition as a fishing expedition after discovery has closed.
Honestly I don't think that they can "destroy the earth" as the ending. The whole idea of the show is that it's based on the present time. They are (or at least were) using conventional weapons and very limited knowledge of a very advanced technology to fight a far superior and advanced enemy (in the Goa'uld). We developed skills over the last 10 years to finally conquer them. If the Ori come in and blow up the world...well, it doesn't fit in with the idea that it's a "real" current day operation. It's kind of hard to blow up the world but yet keep it's inhabitants around to watch the episode.
Are there any commonly used services or utilities that are going down in price? Yes Dish has raised prices. But so has every other provider out there. Dish is one of the few "cable" companies that stands up against content providers and doesn't allow them to rape the consumer with constant increases.
Sued into bankruptcy? Please. Dish could purchase Tivo if it really wanted to. Charlie Ergen isn't going to let his company fall apart over this. He himself could just purchase it outright as well, seeming that he is the 80th richest person in the world.
Worst case, Dish settles which is what Tivo wanted all along. Current license rates are under a dollar a receiver so it's not exactly going to break the bank. Comcast and DirecTV somehow managed to license the technology so I'm sure Dish can figure out a way to do it too.
The trial judge did not award treble damages to Tivo because Echostar sought outside counsel that, as it turned out, incorrectly told them that their DVR would not be infringing on Tivo's right. There was no "playing fast and loose" here. Echostar did exactly what any company should do, but still got burned in the process.
In all serious though it would take fairly little to social engineer a situation where a terrorist had the advantage. Have you ever seen the movie XXX-State of the Union? (...get the Clinton jokes out of the way) In one of the sceens the "good guys" need weapons, so they hijack a truck traveling cross country from a couple of hillbilly black guys. They had two ladies appropriately dressed looking at their broken down car and flagged down the guys in the truck. Once the guys got out of the truck they were ambushed easily. Yeah it's a movie, but it's not out of the realm of a possiblity in real life either.
And it wouldn't even have to be weapons, guns, etc the truck was carrying. I work right next to a rail yard that routinely has railcars full of anhydrous ammonia, hydrochloric acid, etc. It wouldn't take much to rupture a tank while the car was traveling near a water supply to cause catastrophic damage to the local utilities as well as enviroment.
I guess I know know what to think. On one hand, I agree with Josh in that if current laws say that unpublished work can remain confidential. I think that gets diminished a little when get selectively chooses to show clips of the video, but I probably agree with his side of the argument, at least in principal.
However, I see the flip side where a crime was committed (the burning of the police car) and the police have a right and duty to investigate the crime. At least from the Time write-up it wasn't like the police crashed his colo, forcible removed his servers, etc. It was a grand jury that subpoenaed him for the evidence. That's their job. Josh had the right to ignore the subpoena to which the Judge charged him with contempt.
I won't argue that saying it's a federal issue because SFPD gets federal funding is a little shady. Every government organization gets federal funding in some way so every government lawsuit should be transferred to federal court. The whole jurisdiction issue aside, it seems to me that things are working as they are suppose to. If you don't like how the laws are written, that's fine, then lobby to get them changed. But don't bitch and moan when the letter of the law is followed.
Presuming a 30-month, there are 720 hours in that month. NJ state mimimum wage goes up to 7.15 on Oct 1st. At that rate, that's A 24-hour a day parking attendant would cost 5148. $5500 a month in software developer fees was just paid for by the former attendant.
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Laptop arrived today nine days early and I have been very happy so far.
If Comcast used a 100' multimillion dollar dish you would have something. As it stands at least with my local franchise, they have just regular 8-12 foot C-band satellite dishes. Not exactly multimillion dollar dishes. They suffer from rain fade although not to the same extent.
Either way, I had long been a fanboy of AMD because they were cheaper and had a much better price:performance ratio then Intel. It came down to the e1505 with the C2D or a Acer laptop iwth a Turion 64 X2 and for just a few bucks more there was a more significant performance advantage with the e1505. Sorry AMD, but competition is back in town.
According to this article in my local paper, Verizon is planning on spending nearly $23b on FiOS and that's for about 1/2 their network. The $18b figure mentioned in the summary comes from discounting the $5b in projected savings from not having to maintain the aging copper physical plant. The linked to article sort of mentions this, but it's not real clear.
Isn't a battery pretty much a larger version of a capacitor?
Yes. The FISA court allowed warrents to be secretly handed out retroactively.
From that page:
Way to send mixed messages folks. It looks bad for Toshiba that they have faulty batteries that may or may not be under a recall. It looks even worse for Sony as they are responsible for both recalls.
Agreed. All things being equal, it might be a deciding factor but I doubt that. It's not like people buy their PC based off of how well it runs SETI/Folding/etc, it's very doubtful that consoles would be any better off. Based off of how hot my PS2 and XBox become after long period of use, I'm not sure if I would want to leave my shiny new $600 console on 24x7 doing computationally intensive activites.
There is another lawsuit going on very similar to this. The plantiff sued on nothing, went through discovery on a fishing expedition to try to find anything, given time and time again to find something, and still has found nothing. It's been talked about a little here (although the site is currently down for maintainance).
Isn't it obvious why they aren't providing one? It's so that you can spend $60 on the official Sony branded HDMI cable. Or better yet, if you want to keep it a "pure HD" signal, you probably should step up to the $199 Monster brand HDMI cable.
I'll admit that reality TV shows and porn isn't a great intellectual measurement of storage space. A more generic measurement, such as 1000 DVD movies or 200k MP3s may be a little better though.
The scary thing is I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
He knows something. He is THE guy who signed off on the original IBM/AT&T/Sequent licenses.
I think what he was getting at is that if Otis Wilson answers a question differently, then there COULD be a problem. However if SCO asks all the same questions again and Wilson answers the same way, then there wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that there has been significant time between his first deposition and this one. Can you remember EXACTLY what you said 2 years ago about an event that happened a decade or two ago? SCO will try to jump on any discrepancy where Wilson either omits something during this deposition but answered before or that he remembers now but didn't 2 years ago.
At best, his testimony is more or less exactly the same and SCO doesn't get anything, so no problems occur. At worst, SCO finds some evidence that they try to abuse, prevents a summary judgment, and drags this on for several more years. My guess is that it will be somewhere in between where there is a tidbit or two, SCO tries to jump all over it, but the Nevada judge(s) rule that it's not significant enough and SCO used the new deposition as a fishing expedition after discovery has closed.
Honestly I don't think that they can "destroy the earth" as the ending. The whole idea of the show is that it's based on the present time. They are (or at least were) using conventional weapons and very limited knowledge of a very advanced technology to fight a far superior and advanced enemy (in the Goa'uld). We developed skills over the last 10 years to finally conquer them. If the Ori come in and blow up the world...well, it doesn't fit in with the idea that it's a "real" current day operation. It's kind of hard to blow up the world but yet keep it's inhabitants around to watch the episode.
Are there any commonly used services or utilities that are going down in price? Yes Dish has raised prices. But so has every other provider out there. Dish is one of the few "cable" companies that stands up against content providers and doesn't allow them to rape the consumer with constant increases.
It actually means that in 30 days most Dish DVRs could be worthless. I'd almost guarantee you though that it won't come to that.
Sued into bankruptcy? Please. Dish could purchase Tivo if it really wanted to. Charlie Ergen isn't going to let his company fall apart over this. He himself could just purchase it outright as well, seeming that he is the 80th richest person in the world.
Worst case, Dish settles which is what Tivo wanted all along. Current license rates are under a dollar a receiver so it's not exactly going to break the bank. Comcast and DirecTV somehow managed to license the technology so I'm sure Dish can figure out a way to do it too.
The trial judge did not award treble damages to Tivo because Echostar sought outside counsel that, as it turned out, incorrectly told them that their DVR would not be infringing on Tivo's right. There was no "playing fast and loose" here. Echostar did exactly what any company should do, but still got burned in the process.
In all serious though it would take fairly little to social engineer a situation where a terrorist had the advantage. Have you ever seen the movie XXX-State of the Union? (...get the Clinton jokes out of the way) In one of the sceens the "good guys" need weapons, so they hijack a truck traveling cross country from a couple of hillbilly black guys. They had two ladies appropriately dressed looking at their broken down car and flagged down the guys in the truck. Once the guys got out of the truck they were ambushed easily. Yeah it's a movie, but it's not out of the realm of a possiblity in real life either.
And it wouldn't even have to be weapons, guns, etc the truck was carrying. I work right next to a rail yard that routinely has railcars full of anhydrous ammonia, hydrochloric acid, etc. It wouldn't take much to rupture a tank while the car was traveling near a water supply to cause catastrophic damage to the local utilities as well as enviroment.
It takes you 11 hours to fly between Pittsburgh and Boston? You know, you don't have to connect through Denver...
I guess I know know what to think. On one hand, I agree with Josh in that if current laws say that unpublished work can remain confidential. I think that gets diminished a little when get selectively chooses to show clips of the video, but I probably agree with his side of the argument, at least in principal.
However, I see the flip side where a crime was committed (the burning of the police car) and the police have a right and duty to investigate the crime. At least from the Time write-up it wasn't like the police crashed his colo, forcible removed his servers, etc. It was a grand jury that subpoenaed him for the evidence. That's their job. Josh had the right to ignore the subpoena to which the Judge charged him with contempt.
I won't argue that saying it's a federal issue because SFPD gets federal funding is a little shady. Every government organization gets federal funding in some way so every government lawsuit should be transferred to federal court. The whole jurisdiction issue aside, it seems to me that things are working as they are suppose to. If you don't like how the laws are written, that's fine, then lobby to get them changed. But don't bitch and moan when the letter of the law is followed.
Presuming a 30-month, there are 720 hours in that month. NJ state mimimum wage goes up to 7.15 on Oct 1st. At that rate, that's A 24-hour a day parking attendant would cost 5148. $5500 a month in software developer fees was just paid for by the former attendant.
You forgot massively annoying background music in addition to the blinking text and stolen clipart.