It makes me worry about who else has access to which servers containing all the other masses of government data.
Most of it is not accessible to the government employees, as it has been outsourced. In the case of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), an announcement was made about "re-structuring its IT outsourcing contract" - on the same day (8th November) that the data actually was reported missing.
Imagine being able to build a planetary computer capable of answering the question of life the universe and.... everything! Planetary should be big enough for that, right?
Shuttle Computer single-handedly invented the SFF PC or Small Form-Factor PC a few years back....
I've read some fanboi tosh on slashdot in my time, but that is so wrong it's not even ironically funny.
Indeed, the Shuttle guys were interviewed for Macformat magazine, and stated that what gave them the idea was the Cube - they wanted to do a Windows equivalent of something as small
not artificially tied to one OS
There's nothing artificial about it.
There is everything artificial about the way that IE cannot be uninstalled from the OS. That was the crux of the DoJ investigation. If a browser is demonstrated to be "just another application", then there is a case for forcing an unbundling (assuming, of course, that there is a sympathetic president)
Looking further ahead, there is a possibility that the 2008 US presidential election will produce a candidate who will look at the DoJ anti-trust case against Microsoft again. However, it could only be re-examined if it could be demonstrated that a browser should be a cross-platform application that is not artificially tied to one OS. Firefox and Opera are already there. Safari for Windows demonstrates that it, too is there, leaving only IE as the monoculture product (since they stopped development of Mac IE when Safari first came out).
So you're proposing we blacklist AOL, TimeWarner, ComCast...
I'm all for it. But if they don't blacklist each other there's not much affect this is going to have.
It will create a "them" and "us" style internet. Except that AOL, Time Warner and so on have loads of cash, so will whitelist each other and become the self styled "fair and balanced" ISPs, while everyone else will be part of the "if you're not with us, you're against us", and hence AOL et al will blacklist those not in their circle of friends.
According to the Niemoller site, that version probably comes from the Congressional Record of 1968 (copy of text) , although there is an earlier citation from 1955.
However, it does appear that there is no "correct" version, as Niemoller himself was wont to change the order to suit the audience.
in a democracy it only matters that 51% support something.
It doesn't even need 51% (simple majority for one of 2 choices) - if there are 3 options, the majority figure could be as low as 34%. As long as the other two options can fight each other, rather than ganging up and defeating you, then you're sorted.
What they didn't mention is that with all those video cameras each frame counts as an individual photograph, so standing in view of a 30fps camera for 4 seconds counts as 120 individual photographs. Not as scary once you do the math.
Err, no. With, on average, one camera per 14 people (and far, far more in the big cities), it is more like "everyone caught on camera hundreds of times per day"
She's already passed her DV clearance, so can't be blackmailed about it (the point is not whether you have done anything illegal / morally dubious, but whether you are embarrassed about other people finding out about it)
Thus it's easier to stick with the attribution for which everyone is familiar, rather than appending a long genealogy of usage at the end of the quote.
so, I'll stick with Disraeli then, as that's the attribution that "everyone" where I am is familiar with*
* I know, I'm ending a sentence with a preposition - "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.", which may, or may not have been actually said by Churchill. I think I'll stick with properly attributable quotes: "I feel like a military academy. bits of me keep passing out" (Douglas Adams)
How is using the MOS 6502 a "non-standard" processor?
Isn't the 6502 and it's immediate family the most common 8-bit processor?
Seems like Atari, Commodore (who, granted, owned MOS), and Apple all dominated the 8-bit landscape, and everybody else of the era was an also-ran...
Not totally. TRS-80 was fairly significant, as was (in the UK at least), the Sinclair ZX-80, ZX-81 and ZX Spectrum. All of which used the Zilog Z80.
I suspect that the "non-standard" label is because (Commodore 64 apart), all had fallen by the wayside for x86 by around 1988-89. Also, the 8086 instruction set was more like the Z80 set than 6502 was, so early programmers for 8086 PCs who had come from a Z80 background were at an advantage. Hence, anyone coming from 6502-land would be seen as "non-standard":-(
How long before iApple and iJobs get the iLawyers to send a iMail to BBC for an iNappropriate and possibly iNfringing use of an iWord?
Nah, he'll just redirect all the "I can't get iPlayer to work on my iPod / iMac" straight to the BBC. Via the BBC-hating media.
Headlines will then have "BBC (and government) wastes taxpayers' money on incompatible video player", although with even the Prime Minister apparently in Bill Gates' pocket, I won't hold my breath on it changing anything.
In this case (John Reid), a government minister who is the parliamentary rottweiler - he orchestrates the UK part of the "war on terror", coming up with random "solutions" like this.
it seems like they are taking this awfully lightheartedly. They're still bugs and they still need fixed.
Nothing new from MS, then. When the first Word macro virus (Concept) was invented (by a MS employee who had realised that allowing a data format to have embedded executable code was a bad idea, and set out to prove to the sceptics within Redmond why it was so bad), everyone except MS called it a "Macro virus" (because that's what it was). MS called it a "prank macro"
"Less storage then a regular size iPod. More than twice the cost of two 8GB iPod nanos. Other than for the sheer sake of proving it can be done, why is this hack impressive again?"
Now, the concern is for the OEMs. I have been saying for a long time that by concentrating on price, they are playing the MS game, which is to maximize profit at MS and minimize profit on the hardware.
Indeed, we have seen many OEMs go away as they can no longer make cheap enough boxen. We are really going to be down to Dell, HP, Lenova and Sony. The later two are more or less premium manufacturers. HP has the experience with HP/UX to rebrand it's PC as *nix workstations, but Dell will continue to be at the mercy of MS, and I feel sorry for them as Apple continues to earn 20% per machine, while squeezing Dell's margin to zero, especially now that the Intel kickbacks seem to be a thing of the past.
Indeed, Dell's decline is already noteworthy - back in January, Steve Jobs commented "We're bigger than Dell", because the market cap had (briefly) overtaken that of Dell. It crossed back under later that week, and the two stayed pretty close to each other for the rest of January. A quick look today shows that market cap for AAPL is $80Bn, while DELL is down to $52Bn
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I suspect that the reason that GSI wasn't used would be:
The person asked for the data didn't have GSI access, while those with GSI access weren't asked for the data.
Most of it is not accessible to the government employees, as it has been outsourced. In the case of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), an announcement was made about "re-structuring its IT outsourcing contract" - on the same day (8th November) that the data actually was reported missing.
Provided you have, oh, about 10,000,000 years!
(Curiously, the wiki entry for the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42k in size)
Bummer! (hindsight filter on) Maybe by putting "popularised the SFF PC", you wouldn't have had the meaning edited out (hidsight filter off)
I've read some fanboi tosh on slashdot in my time, but that is so wrong it's not even ironically funny.
Indeed, the Shuttle guys were interviewed for Macformat magazine, and stated that what gave them the idea was the Cube - they wanted to do a Windows equivalent of something as small
There's nothing artificial about it.
There is everything artificial about the way that IE cannot be uninstalled from the OS. That was the crux of the DoJ investigation. If a browser is demonstrated to be "just another application", then there is a case for forcing an unbundling (assuming, of course, that there is a sympathetic president)
Looking further ahead, there is a possibility that the 2008 US presidential election will produce a candidate who will look at the DoJ anti-trust case against Microsoft again. However, it could only be re-examined if it could be demonstrated that a browser should be a cross-platform application that is not artificially tied to one OS. Firefox and Opera are already there. Safari for Windows demonstrates that it, too is there, leaving only IE as the monoculture product (since they stopped development of Mac IE when Safari first came out).
Probably because even the nutjob asshats reckon it's not worth the cost of the bullets
So you're proposing we blacklist AOL, TimeWarner, ComCast...
I'm all for it. But if they don't blacklist each other there's not much affect this is going to have.
It will create a "them" and "us" style internet. Except that AOL, Time Warner and so on have loads of cash, so will whitelist each other and become the self styled "fair and balanced" ISPs, while everyone else will be part of the "if you're not with us, you're against us", and hence AOL et al will blacklist those not in their circle of friends.
I think this would be an unintended consequence.
According to the Niemoller site, that version probably comes from the Congressional Record of 1968 (copy of text) , although there is an earlier citation from 1955.
However, it does appear that there is no "correct" version, as Niemoller himself was wont to change the order to suit the audience.
However you dress this up, it is still a Big Deal. It may not be the absolute first, but it is close enough for most folk.
And yet... Microsoft announce a major new product, and their stock price (as I write this) has gone up 2 cents.
Meanwhile, Apple hasn't anything (at least not until WWDC in a couple of weeks), and its stock price has gone up $3.06 !
1. Launch product
2. ????
3. Watch competitor profit!
So, in a nutshell, those with the desire to change don't have the money, while those with the money don't desire change.
It doesn't even need 51% (simple majority for one of 2 choices) - if there are 3 options, the majority figure could be as low as 34%. As long as the other two options can fight each other, rather than ganging up and defeating you, then you're sorted.
What they didn't mention is that with all those video cameras each frame counts as an individual photograph, so standing in view of a 30fps camera for 4 seconds counts as 120 individual photographs. Not as scary once you do the math.
Err, no. With, on average, one camera per 14 people (and far, far more in the big cities), it is more like "everyone caught on camera hundreds of times per day"
She's already passed her DV clearance, so can't be blackmailed about it (the point is not whether you have done anything illegal / morally dubious, but whether you are embarrassed about other people finding out about it)
so, I'll stick with Disraeli then, as that's the attribution that "everyone" where I am is familiar with*
* I know, I'm ending a sentence with a preposition - "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.", which may, or may not have been actually said by Churchill. I think I'll stick with properly attributable quotes: "I feel like a military academy. bits of me keep passing out" (Douglas Adams)
Well done! 10 out of 10.
I use iScroll2, as my iBook is the one just before Apple introduced it. Excellent.
(even better, not only do you have the ideas, but you also have access to developers who can implement them)
I also wondered why anyone would need a search engine to go through Steve Jobs' notes. But... "RDF" could be "Radio Direction Finding".
Wiki has several more suggestions. The one I think this thread is about is at the bottom of the list.
Isn't the 6502 and it's immediate family the most common 8-bit processor?
Seems like Atari, Commodore (who, granted, owned MOS), and Apple all dominated the 8-bit landscape, and everybody else of the era was an also-ran...
Not totally. TRS-80 was fairly significant, as was (in the UK at least), the Sinclair ZX-80, ZX-81 and ZX Spectrum. All of which used the Zilog Z80.
I suspect that the "non-standard" label is because (Commodore 64 apart), all had fallen by the wayside for x86 by around 1988-89. Also, the 8086 instruction set was more like the Z80 set than 6502 was, so early programmers for 8086 PCs who had come from a Z80 background were at an advantage. Hence, anyone coming from 6502-land would be seen as "non-standard"
Nah, he'll just redirect all the "I can't get iPlayer to work on my iPod / iMac" straight to the BBC. Via the BBC-hating media.
Headlines will then have "BBC (and government) wastes taxpayers' money on incompatible video player", although with even the Prime Minister apparently in Bill Gates' pocket, I won't hold my breath on it changing anything.
In this case (John Reid), a government minister who is the parliamentary rottweiler - he orchestrates the UK part of the "war on terror", coming up with random "solutions" like this.
But of course, no one will expect the Spanish Inquisition!
Nothing new from MS, then. When the first Word macro virus (Concept) was invented (by a MS employee who had realised that allowing a data format to have embedded executable code was a bad idea, and set out to prove to the sceptics within Redmond why it was so bad), everyone except MS called it a "Macro virus" (because that's what it was). MS called it a "prank macro"
No, no, no. It goes like this:
Indeed, we have seen many OEMs go away as they can no longer make cheap enough boxen. We are really going to be down to Dell, HP, Lenova and Sony. The later two are more or less premium manufacturers. HP has the experience with HP/UX to rebrand it's PC as *nix workstations, but Dell will continue to be at the mercy of MS, and I feel sorry for them as Apple continues to earn 20% per machine, while squeezing Dell's margin to zero, especially now that the Intel kickbacks seem to be a thing of the past.
Indeed, Dell's decline is already noteworthy - back in January, Steve Jobs commented "We're bigger than Dell", because the market cap had (briefly) overtaken that of Dell. It crossed back under later that week, and the two stayed pretty close to each other for the rest of January. A quick look today shows that market cap for AAPL is $80Bn, while DELL is down to $52Bn