Would an existing user comment about both versions? Having 'games' in the name implies it is optomised for gaming, but does one use both for gaming, or is the pro a more light weight version without the gaming tweaks? Finally does one license number cover both? --ADVthanksANCE
Users of MySpace/Facebook etc. have clearly demonstrated by their actions that they don't care at all about their privacy. They routinely post loads of information about themselves that advertisers, marketers, and other intelligence agencies could not get easily, and probably could not get at all.
Some even think it a virtue to live an 'open life' and not do anything they would not mind seeing in public.
Since they are the future, it is no wonder that software vendors have little incentive to invest money in a product/feature that has no future market going forward.
I work for another large US federal department and we were only mandated to switch to XP a few months ago. They traditionally withhold our site license disks nationally to keep people from putting a new OS on the network until it has gotten some scrutiny at the national level. The consensus of our local betting pool is we won't see MS Vista until 2009.
I heard the presentation when it was repeated at DefCon and what was not vague was this exploit was at the card driver level below the OS, which is why it would work against any OS. They said they chose to demonstrate it on Apple rather than Windows because they thought if they'd used Windows, people would say "Of course, it's Windows, what did you expect." so by demonstrating it on a more "secure" (Mac) OS people would realize it was not just a Windows thing. Unfortunatly, now everybody just thinks its a Mac thing.
Bottom line, assuming the demo is not a hoax, it will work against *nix, Windows, and Mac equally.
Personally, I think the best definition would basically include Pluto as a special case just so people don't cry about it.
Just because a mistake was made last century, doesn't mean we need to hang onto it for sentimental reasons--no matter how famous the astronomer that made it.
Science is a process of refinement in our understanding as new evidence presents itself. We used to have something called the raisin pudding model of the atom, now we don't. It was abandoned as our understanding improved. Even the greatest minds don't always accept change that stretches their sensibilities too far. Einstein's problems with quantum theory was not with the math. He just could accept that God just might "play dice with the universe" after all.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it" --Max Planck
Of course, this is not a scientific truth just a slight change in classification. Assuming they "do the right thing" people will be saying eight planets again sooner than most scientists think, because that's how they will have been taught. In the grand scheme of things this is almost the definition of "tempest in a teapot".
Sam Palmisano announced that IBM's policy was never to use genetic information as a basis for hiring or eligibility for health insurance.
I'm sure the IBM workers that have had their promised retirement system just gutted, take great comfort from such statements. Promises are easy when one making the promise doesn't feel they will ever have to make good on them. That is true whether they think something can't be done (too hard) or just won't be done during their watch.
Counting down the days till we move to a country with a sense of freedom.
...and what is the name of this country of which you speak? Every country seems to be somewhere along the path. Is there any government that has the technical capability to track its citizens but has made the choice not to do it? Some countries, like Britain, are much further along toward ubiquitous surveillance, with broad CCD camera coverage because of geographic compactness. It would be a much bigger problem to blanket a larger country, but that is a technical problem not a philosophical one. If the new stories are to be believed, there is wide public support. In a climate of fear, there are many people willing to trade the perception of freedom for the perception of security.
"With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc),"
In other news, Google announces plans to purchase all hard drive makers"
Seems to me like there's a bit of poetic justice here. (Is poetic justice a form of art?) I bet there's a bunch of dead painters who would (if they could) be rolling around laughing at the irony of a photographer complaining about people who take advantage of technology to make their art "too easily".:)
Sigh, I never have mod points when I need them...Insightful!
If Disney is worth 60 billions before and after the aquisition, and Pixar is worth 7 billions before and does not exist anymore afterwards, where did the 7 billion go?
Why to the shareholders (Owners) of Pixar, of course. They are free to keep part ownership of the new combined company or dump it if they think the merger is a bad idea.
60 billion - 7 billion payed to Pixar shareholders + the value of Pixar (7 billion again) means Disney is still worth 60 Billion. The 7 billion that Pixar is worth (purcahsed for) went to the owners of the thing being sold.
Now presumably Disney is willing to pay that price because they think they can increase the value over time to make it a good return on investment.
To my simple mind, TPS is "Transactions Per Second". "Test Procedure Specification" would never have entered my mind.
The problem is there are too many of these and not enough "letters";-)
The current one that jumps out at me every time I hear it is: SOA
To these aged ears that is clearly 'Start of Authority' as one would see on DNS servers. Now those letter have been co-opted with some new buzzword compliant term that I still don't remember because when I hear it I first think of its orignal meaning.
In the UK at least, Google uses Map24 images. One gets map24 images and that slick Google UI.
From the map24 site: 'Due to the new cooperation between Google, Inc, and Mapsolute GmbH, maker of the unique mapping portal Map24.com, it is now possible to search for city maps in all European Google search engines. If you enter a city name into Google.co.uk, the first result list entry is a special link to Map24.com that brings up the corresponding city map. On the result page, for sure, the full set of the rich Map24 options is available to the users.'
There is a profoundly simple explanation for this...the Mac OS was free!
In those days and for many years, Apple thought of themselves as a hardware company. the OS was just something they did to sell hardware. Since the Mac OS only ran on Apple Hardware--this was never an issue. It was only after the original corporate culture of the founders was long gone, that they entertained the idea that the software was really the core of their value. If they had realized this earlier and licensed the OS out to other hardware makers, Windows would be a shadow of itself. You have only to compare Windows 3.x (the first Windows that had any sales) and the Mac OS of the day. It was no contest. But back then in the DOS world, real mean didn't need or want Windows, they used a DOS prompt.
Since the standard USB form factor puts 2 ports so close together, I was surprised more wasn't said about the difficulty of inserting many drives when the other port(s) are in use. This sometimes causes one to have to use a USB extension cord or wedge it in next to the other connector adding mechanical stress.
Fortunatly, there are some thin ones. I randomly bought one (Fry's loss leader) that happened to be thin (PNY) and came to appriciate how much less hassle it was to use. You really could put two side by side for that raid-0 stripe, or just fit into an open port without having to jam it.
That's because they're shaped almost exactly like quarters.
I don't see why that matters, the paper money in the U.S of A. is exactly the same size for all values. I don't hear of people constantly confusing ones for tems or hundreds. The problem is people use a crude pattern match on coins but actually look at the paper. Sometimes down to the watermarks and printer threads.
Would please post which star? How is named so I can search for more info and a better picture? I missed this one and all the references in the article and here are vague.
You are quite right, except for the young euro or american kid looking for a bit of adventure those are not the destinations.
If you look at the real ex-pat community, you find them in exotic but different places, where instead of earning less they earn much more than their "home" wages. Until recently that meant some wealthy arab emmerate where unless you lived in a company 50's style compound with you family your social life wasn't so great but after a few years you could return with ten years western wages saved.
The current analog for the western working class would be those folks from Mississippi or Liverpool working as a civilian contractors in Iraq. Not much of a life while they are there but if they survive, they will come home with several years wages in the bank.
Look at it this way - I think it's more like Genetic Algorithms - it will get a lot closer to the truth quickly through its process of "evolution" through its methods.
The reason evolution works is it selects for advantagous traits to be carried forward. There is no advantage in the evolutionary sense for beleiving Alexander Hamilton was born in 55 or 57. Therefore, there is no reason it would evolve towards the correct answer. One hopes that somone in the know would at least acknowlege that there is some dispute about this.
In the case of controversial topics the situation is much worse. Entrenched parties would alternate a 'correct' version much like groups of taggers covering over each others stuff.
On that note, why should a click, two clicks, and a double click be treated differently? It's actually the third that's the issue, since with all the things that in Windows were made to require double clicking people double click on hyperlinks because they've come to understand a double click is what you use to activate a stand-alone widget (and MS stole this idea from Apple, clearly, who probably got it from PARC).
I don't know anyone with Xerox Star experience, so I first saw this convention on the Mac. Like many conventions, the reason seems to have been lost somewhere along the way.
The double click is a shorthand way of doing a 'select' then 'open'. This first click selects what you want to interact with, (program, folder, etc.) and then in either Mac or Windows, you go to the pull down menu and choose open/new/run, or whatever the default action is. The second click is just a quick way to launch that default action.
Thank goodness MS does copy Mac now and then. Old guys like me who remember early versions Windows (I think up to v.3.0), will remember an odd system of cut copy and paste commands with the insert, delete, shift and control keys that few could keep straight. They got tired of the complaints and switched to the Mac system of X, C and V where C was copy and the V was like the editors markup to insert something where the 'arrow' was. It was of course arbitrary too, but most people with early GUI experience had used a Mac. Back then, the MS(PC) folks were mostly pretty militant command line (DOS) users until they started to be seduced by the GUI side around Windows 3.1
I like Gutenberg, I hope they start a system where you can download copyright books for a micropayment, I would pay good money for text ebooks.
Rather than setting up a complicated system to make micro-payments that only some people would follow anyway, do what I do, determine a fair value for youself and make a donation. Not for one book, but estimate a year or two worth so you don't 'nickel and dime' the value of you donation with transaction fees.
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Would an existing user comment about both versions? Having 'games' in the name implies it is optomised for gaming, but does one use both for gaming, or is the pro a more light weight version without the gaming tweaks? Finally does one license number cover both? --ADVthanksANCE
I'm glad you haven't invested a lot of time since as a commercial product it would need to compete with the likes of www.asigra.com
The company has in the past been a provider for ISPs to rebrand it as their own but has recently started to get into the enterprise space.
Some even think it a virtue to live an 'open life' and not do anything they would not mind seeing in public.
Since they are the future, it is no wonder that software vendors have little incentive to invest money in a product/feature that has no future market going forward.
I work for another large US federal department and we were only mandated to switch to XP a few months ago. They traditionally withhold our site license disks nationally to keep people from putting a new OS on the network until it has gotten some scrutiny at the national level. The consensus of our local betting pool is we won't see MS Vista until 2009.
Bottom line, assuming the demo is not a hoax, it will work against *nix, Windows, and Mac equally.
"Not a star."
WooHoo! I'm a planet!
Just because a mistake was made last century, doesn't mean we need to hang onto it for sentimental reasons--no matter how famous the astronomer that made it.
Science is a process of refinement in our understanding as new evidence presents itself. We used to have something called the raisin pudding model of the atom, now we don't. It was abandoned as our understanding improved. Even the greatest minds don't always accept change that stretches their sensibilities too far. Einstein's problems with quantum theory was not with the math. He just could accept that God just might "play dice with the universe" after all.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it" --Max Planck
Of course, this is not a scientific truth just a slight change in classification. Assuming they "do the right thing" people will be saying eight planets again sooner than most scientists think, because that's how they will have been taught. In the grand scheme of things this is almost the definition of "tempest in a teapot".
I'm sure the IBM workers that have had their promised retirement system just gutted, take great comfort from such statements. Promises are easy when one making the promise doesn't feel they will ever have to make good on them. That is true whether they think something can't be done (too hard) or just won't be done during their watch.
In other news, Google announces plans to purchase all hard drive makers"
Sigh, I never have mod points when I need them...Insightful!
Why to the shareholders (Owners) of Pixar, of course. They are free to keep part ownership of the new combined company or dump it if they think the merger is a bad idea.
60 billion - 7 billion payed to Pixar shareholders + the value of Pixar (7 billion again) means Disney is still worth 60 Billion. The 7 billion that Pixar is worth (purcahsed for) went to the owners of the thing being sold.
Now presumably Disney is willing to pay that price because they think they can increase the value over time to make it a good return on investment.
I never seem to have mod points when I need them...well said!
The problem is there are too many of these and not enough "letters" ;-)
The current one that jumps out at me every time I hear it is: SOA
To these aged ears that is clearly 'Start of Authority' as one would see on DNS servers. Now those letter have been co-opted with some new buzzword compliant term that I still don't remember because when I hear it I first think of its orignal meaning.
From the map24 site: 'Due to the new cooperation between Google, Inc, and Mapsolute GmbH, maker of the unique mapping portal Map24.com, it is now possible to search for city maps in all European Google search engines. If you enter a city name into Google.co.uk, the first result list entry is a special link to Map24.com that brings up the corresponding city map. On the result page, for sure, the full set of the rich Map24 options is available to the users.'
There is a profoundly simple explanation for this...the Mac OS was free!
In those days and for many years, Apple thought of themselves as a hardware company. the OS was just something they did to sell hardware. Since the Mac OS only ran on Apple Hardware--this was never an issue. It was only after the original corporate culture of the founders was long gone, that they entertained the idea that the software was really the core of their value. If they had realized this earlier and licensed the OS out to other hardware makers, Windows would be a shadow of itself. You have only to compare Windows 3.x (the first Windows that had any sales) and the Mac OS of the day. It was no contest. But back then in the DOS world, real mean didn't need or want Windows, they used a DOS prompt.
Fortunatly, there are some thin ones. I randomly bought one (Fry's loss leader) that happened to be thin (PNY) and came to appriciate how much less hassle it was to use. You really could put two side by side for that raid-0 stripe, or just fit into an open port without having to jam it.
I don't see why that matters, the paper money in the U.S of A. is exactly the same size for all values. I don't hear of people constantly confusing ones for tems or hundreds. The problem is people use a crude pattern match on coins but actually look at the paper. Sometimes down to the watermarks and printer threads.
ADVthanksANCE
If you look at the real ex-pat community, you find them in exotic but different places, where instead of earning less they earn much more than their "home" wages. Until recently that meant some wealthy arab emmerate where unless you lived in a company 50's style compound with you family your social life wasn't so great but after a few years you could return with ten years western wages saved.
The current analog for the western working class would be those folks from Mississippi or Liverpool working as a civilian contractors in Iraq. Not much of a life while they are there but if they survive, they will come home with several years wages in the bank.
The reason evolution works is it selects for advantagous traits to be carried forward. There is no advantage in the evolutionary sense for beleiving Alexander Hamilton was born in 55 or 57. Therefore, there is no reason it would evolve towards the correct answer. One hopes that somone in the know would at least acknowlege that there is some dispute about this.
In the case of controversial topics the situation is much worse. Entrenched parties would alternate a 'correct' version much like groups of taggers covering over each others stuff.
Very close, except Software and Entwicklung are two separate words. That is why the E is also uppercase.
SuSE = System und Software Entwicklung
Petabytes, then Exabytes after that.
I don't know anyone with Xerox Star experience, so I first saw this convention on the Mac. Like many conventions, the reason seems to have been lost somewhere along the way.
The double click is a shorthand way of doing a 'select' then 'open'. This first click selects what you want to interact with, (program, folder, etc.) and then in either Mac or Windows, you go to the pull down menu and choose open/new/run, or whatever the default action is. The second click is just a quick way to launch that default action.
Thank goodness MS does copy Mac now and then. Old guys like me who remember early versions Windows (I think up to v.3.0), will remember an odd system of cut copy and paste commands with the insert, delete, shift and control keys that few could keep straight. They got tired of the complaints and switched to the Mac system of X, C and V where C was copy and the V was like the editors markup to insert something where the 'arrow' was. It was of course arbitrary too, but most people with early GUI experience had used a Mac. Back then, the MS(PC) folks were mostly pretty militant command line (DOS) users until they started to be seduced by the GUI side around Windows 3.1
Rather than setting up a complicated system to make micro-payments that only some people would follow anyway, do what I do, determine a fair value for youself and make a donation. Not for one book, but estimate a year or two worth so you don't 'nickel and dime' the value of you donation with transaction fees.