I think "insulting" is code for "the market value of this vulnerability is much higher. I'd rather sell it to buyer other than Mozilla." In other words, most ethics are based in economics. Its easy to do good when there's money involved in doing so.
Gaming capable computers aren't that cheap. I think you need to spend a minimum of $150 for a midrange video card. Sure you can try to get away with an $80 beater card, but your frame rates on even low settings for games like BC2 will put you at a disadvantage against players who don't get random slowdowns.
To make this situation worse you'll probably need to spend another $60 on a power supply and the huge hassle of replacing your existing ps.
When you consider this, not only are gaming computers expensive (you could buy a console for this money) but most people don't have or want the technical chops to replace a ps.
>Bad batteries are completely different from bad cellphone reception. The former can cause a fire, damage to the laptop, damage to the home if the fire spreads, and possibly death.
I'd say the bigger difference is that the battery vendor paid for most of the recall. I'm sure that's in the contract. This design issue with the antenna is all Apple's fault and would involve admitting a mistake on their part, not an outside vendor, and they would have to absorb 100% of the cost.
I have an EVO. My previous phone was a 3GS. Reception? Sprint coverage in Chicago is close to perfect. AT&T, well, not so good. 4G reception isn't great, but its good enough. Its as good as AT&T 3G in the places I go to and I can always fall back on 3G. There are spots where my iphone got EDGE only where I get 4G now. Nothing like 4-6mbps in your pocket. Battery lasts all day. Free wired tethering. Open-ish platform.
They also have something like 70% of the mp3 player market and I wouldn't call 25% of the smartphone market (40 million phones) small either. Apple is just another corporation. They calculated that fixing this costs them more than ignoring it, not to mention the giant face-palm they'd have to do in front of their adoring fans. Jobs will continue to ignore it and the next revision will have a piece of tape on there or somesuch. Never buy a rev 1 Apple product.
I don't understand these complaints about the market in Android. You can sort by top apps or you can search by keywords. Most apps are reviewed pretty quickly. I almost never see junk like soundboards and fart apps (which I guess is just a type of soundboard), but if I wanted to I could simply search for them. The iphone app store has all this garbage too, except 100 different fart apps instead of 5 in Android. That may not be a bad thing.
Oh, I wouldn't say that. A couple weeks ago I decided to upgrade my 8800GTS. I read a few reviews, saw some benchmarks, and wasn't really impressed with ATI, but was willing to give them a chance. I decided to spend anywhere between $150 and $200.
At my local Microcenter I could get a 5770 for around $179 or a GTX275 for $199. The difference between these cards is night and day. I bought the 4770 and returned it because it wasn't much faster than my 8800. The GTX275 on the other hand, just blows the 5770 away. Sure, I don't get directx11, but I don't have a need for it.
I guess I could have bought a 5830, but that was at least $50 more than I was willing to spend. I'm not sure what "bargain" card ATI has, but from what I can tell, right now, the bang-for-your-buck crown goes to Nvidia.
>There will be a billion "look ma, I click this button and something happens" apps. Aside from that?
That's what they said about html because of its simplicity, but it turns out that most people's needs aren't met by commecial software and need something that's just not worth paying someone to develop.
There's always going to be a need for simple apps. I don't see this than being any different than VBA for apps or building front-ends in Access. Non-coders can learn these things, build prototypes or even little production apps, and be better off for it. I think it would be foolish to let Apple or WinMo take the lead in simple app development because it has the potential to be a big deal. I'm pleased to see that not only is Google not emulating Apple's lock down/walled garden approach, they are also promoting simplified development to end users!
I've always found that quote to be amusing. It like admitting that communism can't produce enough rope, only capitalism can, but they need rope so they deal with capitalists. Reminds me of all those stories about the price of car wipers and toilet paper in the USSR because their command economy 'geniuses' couldn't figure it out or couldn't turn capital into production.
>Nothing quite like putting quarterly profits above national security.
Lets not be too dramatic. The source code of Windows isn't some big trade secret. Several governments have it. Afterall, they want to see the source just like you do with linux and they have the buying power to demand it.
I did something similar a few months back. My desktop has an Intel 80gb SSD and my laptop has the 40gb model. Spinning disks now just make me crazy. The lag, noise, poor performance, etc are just unacceptable. Once you gone SSD its tough to go back. The machine feels like an appliance and its incredible how the bottleneck in typical usage isn't RAM or CPU anymore, its the drive.
Previous to these Intels I tried to save money with the OCZ 60gb model, but it died after a couple of months. Thankfully, it was only 'mostly dead.' I could still manage to read from it and grab whatever files I needed. It just couldn't write past a certain point. No need to freeze it, pray to cthulhu, and hit it with a hammer, like you would a mechanical drive.
The 80gb cost me a little over $200 and the 40 cost me $120. I have a separate 500gb for media and such attached to my desktop. I can't remember the last time I did a single upgrade that made so much of a difference.
>Until human beings actually go somewhere "out there", it is not exploration. It is investigation.
Bullshit semantics. Be it via meatbag or via robot, you're still exploring. Except the meatbag option is 1000x the cost and gives us less than 100000x the range with current technology. We've explored Venus and Saturn and Jupiter. You can deny it all you want, but you wont convince anyone outside of your marginalized minority echochamber.
>will likely lead to a net loss of employment and personal wealth over what would have been without it.
Bullshit. This is being done because investors are wary about investing in that industry as its seen as being too risky. I'm so sick of these anti-government screeds and so glad people like you are marginalized internet weirdos no one takes seriously. If people like you were in charge we'd be living in an Ayn Rand dystopia and certainly wouldn't be posting on the government created internet.
>And too bad all of Intel's products seem to be made in China these days.
Err, do you really want to work in a chip fab? They're in China because of China's lax environmental regulations. They're essentially poison factories.
Grove's statements are populist bullcrap. Protectionism isn't going to help. Raising the price of Intel's chips isn't going to help (that's what these taxes will do). Sure, fabs are overseas but all the cushy office jobs that aren't manufacturing are here. If sales drop because of rise of prices, which they will, we'll be laying off our local engineers, marketers, etc because of the drop in business.
The US will never be a manufacturing powerhouse again. We're too rich. We dont want dirty factories polluting our lands and more minimum wage jobs in factory conditions. All countries that can afford to get out of manufacturing do so for a reason.
>What do you have? "A popular website marketed to Joe Average."
Compare fark to, say, metafilter or even reddit. Your comment quality rises quite a bit when the site's purpose isn't junk like GOP cheerleading (fark during the Bush years) and celebrity news (fark today). Fark attracts the lowest common denominator and it doesn't even bother with any real sort of moderation system. It just dumps all the comments linearly, with no community karma or threaded conversations.
That said, the wisdom of crowds is more than a little overplayed by web-savvy types, but that doesn't mean the crowdsourcing wisdom can't work, its just the current implementations are pretty poor.
>If you want math shit tattooed all over your arm - do it - screw everybody else.
Except that 'screw everybody else' is an attitude and most attitudes are temporary/reactionary. To an 18 year old, its an absolute mantra, to a 35 year old, its being childish. Permanently tattooing yourself over a temporary attitude seems pretty foolish.
What a trite statement. So without them you "haven't lived?" Please, there's no shortage of tattoo regret out there. People shouldn't be asking on the internet on what to get done. That's a sign that you shouldn't get one, if there really is a reason to ever get one.
>As to being purely superficial, lots of people get tattoos that have a strong meaning to them (and, admittedly, lots don't).
So? That breakup with that one girl has a pretty strong meaning, but it doesn't mean you should permanently remind yourself of it on your skin. There's no shortage of regrettable ink that starts with the phrase "This meant a lot to me."
Strong feelings or "deep meaning" don't necessarily justify anything.
>Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Or it would attract know-it-alls who would come in the thread and be dismissive without adding to the discussion. Kudos to you!
>So what we're talking about is a aircraft that fits in a domestic garage and has road-legal extended taxiing ability. It's still a aircraft first.
Pretty much. It would be foolish to allow people to fly these things without a proper pilot's license. Probably non-instrument rated, but that means you're not driving/flying (fliving?) at night. Not to mention the price of these things will be prohibitively expensive. You won't have the economies of scales cars enjoy.
>Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
ASCAP represents artists. The artists are not going against ASCAP. They are just enjoying the checks they bring. Change won't come from the outside, it needs to come from the artists. I blame the artists. They control ASCAP collectively and do little to reform it. Wiki:
In 2008, ASCAP collected over US$933 million in licensing fees and distributed US$817 million in royalties to its members, with an 11.3% operating expense ratio
June 2009, the dollar was.71 against the Euro. Lately its been floating around.85. So, the dollar is worth a little more. On top of it, stock values fell due to the recession.
As far as some kind of Joe Sixpack "that company aint worth that much" sentiment, well, the stock market has never been a rational system. It trading system. The mob mentality defines the prices. If the mob thinks Pokemon is worth a bazillion dollars and people are willing to spend all this money on Pokemon, the guess what, they are right! Nothing is worth anything, in a real sense. Gold is just some random metal. Currency is just some paper. Worth is a fiction dictated by markets.
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I think "insulting" is code for "the market value of this vulnerability is much higher. I'd rather sell it to buyer other than Mozilla." In other words, most ethics are based in economics. Its easy to do good when there's money involved in doing so.
Gaming capable computers aren't that cheap. I think you need to spend a minimum of $150 for a midrange video card. Sure you can try to get away with an $80 beater card, but your frame rates on even low settings for games like BC2 will put you at a disadvantage against players who don't get random slowdowns.
To make this situation worse you'll probably need to spend another $60 on a power supply and the huge hassle of replacing your existing ps.
When you consider this, not only are gaming computers expensive (you could buy a console for this money) but most people don't have or want the technical chops to replace a ps.
>TFA doesn't explain what an "eFuse" is
Its what robot dads blow when their robot kids do something especially stupid.
>Bad batteries are completely different from bad cellphone reception. The former can cause a fire, damage to the laptop, damage to the home if the fire spreads, and possibly death.
I'd say the bigger difference is that the battery vendor paid for most of the recall. I'm sure that's in the contract. This design issue with the antenna is all Apple's fault and would involve admitting a mistake on their part, not an outside vendor, and they would have to absorb 100% of the cost.
>Wait.. was that the iPhone video or the Evo one?
I have an EVO. My previous phone was a 3GS. Reception? Sprint coverage in Chicago is close to perfect. AT&T, well, not so good. 4G reception isn't great, but its good enough. Its as good as AT&T 3G in the places I go to and I can always fall back on 3G. There are spots where my iphone got EDGE only where I get 4G now. Nothing like 4-6mbps in your pocket. Battery lasts all day. Free wired tethering. Open-ish platform.
You tell me.
They also have something like 70% of the mp3 player market and I wouldn't call 25% of the smartphone market (40 million phones) small either. Apple is just another corporation. They calculated that fixing this costs them more than ignoring it, not to mention the giant face-palm they'd have to do in front of their adoring fans. Jobs will continue to ignore it and the next revision will have a piece of tape on there or somesuch. Never buy a rev 1 Apple product.
I don't understand these complaints about the market in Android. You can sort by top apps or you can search by keywords. Most apps are reviewed pretty quickly. I almost never see junk like soundboards and fart apps (which I guess is just a type of soundboard), but if I wanted to I could simply search for them. The iphone app store has all this garbage too, except 100 different fart apps instead of 5 in Android. That may not be a bad thing.
Oh, I wouldn't say that. A couple weeks ago I decided to upgrade my 8800GTS. I read a few reviews, saw some benchmarks, and wasn't really impressed with ATI, but was willing to give them a chance. I decided to spend anywhere between $150 and $200.
At my local Microcenter I could get a 5770 for around $179 or a GTX275 for $199. The difference between these cards is night and day. I bought the 4770 and returned it because it wasn't much faster than my 8800. The GTX275 on the other hand, just blows the 5770 away. Sure, I don't get directx11, but I don't have a need for it.
I guess I could have bought a 5830, but that was at least $50 more than I was willing to spend. I'm not sure what "bargain" card ATI has, but from what I can tell, right now, the bang-for-your-buck crown goes to Nvidia.
>There will be a billion "look ma, I click this button and something happens" apps. Aside from that?
That's what they said about html because of its simplicity, but it turns out that most people's needs aren't met by commecial software and need something that's just not worth paying someone to develop.
There's always going to be a need for simple apps. I don't see this than being any different than VBA for apps or building front-ends in Access. Non-coders can learn these things, build prototypes or even little production apps, and be better off for it. I think it would be foolish to let Apple or WinMo take the lead in simple app development because it has the potential to be a big deal. I'm pleased to see that not only is Google not emulating Apple's lock down/walled garden approach, they are also promoting simplified development to end users!
I've always found that quote to be amusing. It like admitting that communism can't produce enough rope, only capitalism can, but they need rope so they deal with capitalists. Reminds me of all those stories about the price of car wipers and toilet paper in the USSR because their command economy 'geniuses' couldn't figure it out or couldn't turn capital into production.
>Nothing quite like putting quarterly profits above national security.
Lets not be too dramatic. The source code of Windows isn't some big trade secret. Several governments have it. Afterall, they want to see the source just like you do with linux and they have the buying power to demand it.
I did something similar a few months back. My desktop has an Intel 80gb SSD and my laptop has the 40gb model. Spinning disks now just make me crazy. The lag, noise, poor performance, etc are just unacceptable. Once you gone SSD its tough to go back. The machine feels like an appliance and its incredible how the bottleneck in typical usage isn't RAM or CPU anymore, its the drive.
Previous to these Intels I tried to save money with the OCZ 60gb model, but it died after a couple of months. Thankfully, it was only 'mostly dead.' I could still manage to read from it and grab whatever files I needed. It just couldn't write past a certain point. No need to freeze it, pray to cthulhu, and hit it with a hammer, like you would a mechanical drive.
The 80gb cost me a little over $200 and the 40 cost me $120. I have a separate 500gb for media and such attached to my desktop. I can't remember the last time I did a single upgrade that made so much of a difference.
Dont bother, this is slashdot where all corporations are evil and releasing zero days and never paying for movies or music is the norm.
>Until human beings actually go somewhere "out there", it is not exploration. It is investigation.
Bullshit semantics. Be it via meatbag or via robot, you're still exploring. Except the meatbag option is 1000x the cost and gives us less than 100000x the range with current technology. We've explored Venus and Saturn and Jupiter. You can deny it all you want, but you wont convince anyone outside of your marginalized minority echochamber.
>will likely lead to a net loss of employment and personal wealth over what would have been without it.
Bullshit. This is being done because investors are wary about investing in that industry as its seen as being too risky. I'm so sick of these anti-government screeds and so glad people like you are marginalized internet weirdos no one takes seriously. If people like you were in charge we'd be living in an Ayn Rand dystopia and certainly wouldn't be posting on the government created internet.
>And too bad all of Intel's products seem to be made in China these days.
Err, do you really want to work in a chip fab? They're in China because of China's lax environmental regulations. They're essentially poison factories.
Grove's statements are populist bullcrap. Protectionism isn't going to help. Raising the price of Intel's chips isn't going to help (that's what these taxes will do). Sure, fabs are overseas but all the cushy office jobs that aren't manufacturing are here. If sales drop because of rise of prices, which they will, we'll be laying off our local engineers, marketers, etc because of the drop in business.
The US will never be a manufacturing powerhouse again. We're too rich. We dont want dirty factories polluting our lands and more minimum wage jobs in factory conditions. All countries that can afford to get out of manufacturing do so for a reason.
Oh, I've had more laughs on those other sites than fark. I guess if fart/dick/racist 'jokes' is your thing then fark it is.
>What do you have? "A popular website marketed to Joe Average."
Compare fark to, say, metafilter or even reddit. Your comment quality rises quite a bit when the site's purpose isn't junk like GOP cheerleading (fark during the Bush years) and celebrity news (fark today). Fark attracts the lowest common denominator and it doesn't even bother with any real sort of moderation system. It just dumps all the comments linearly, with no community karma or threaded conversations.
That said, the wisdom of crowds is more than a little overplayed by web-savvy types, but that doesn't mean the crowdsourcing wisdom can't work, its just the current implementations are pretty poor.
>If you want math shit tattooed all over your arm - do it - screw everybody else.
Except that 'screw everybody else' is an attitude and most attitudes are temporary/reactionary. To an 18 year old, its an absolute mantra, to a 35 year old, its being childish. Permanently tattooing yourself over a temporary attitude seems pretty foolish.
What a trite statement. So without them you "haven't lived?" Please, there's no shortage of tattoo regret out there. People shouldn't be asking on the internet on what to get done. That's a sign that you shouldn't get one, if there really is a reason to ever get one.
>As to being purely superficial, lots of people get tattoos that have a strong meaning to them (and, admittedly, lots don't).
So? That breakup with that one girl has a pretty strong meaning, but it doesn't mean you should permanently remind yourself of it on your skin. There's no shortage of regrettable ink that starts with the phrase "This meant a lot to me."
Strong feelings or "deep meaning" don't necessarily justify anything.
>Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Or it would attract know-it-alls who would come in the thread and be dismissive without adding to the discussion. Kudos to you!
>So what we're talking about is a aircraft that fits in a domestic garage and has road-legal extended taxiing ability. It's still a aircraft first.
Pretty much. It would be foolish to allow people to fly these things without a proper pilot's license. Probably non-instrument rated, but that means you're not driving/flying (fliving?) at night. Not to mention the price of these things will be prohibitively expensive. You won't have the economies of scales cars enjoy.
>Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
ASCAP represents artists. The artists are not going against ASCAP. They are just enjoying the checks they bring. Change won't come from the outside, it needs to come from the artists. I blame the artists. They control ASCAP collectively and do little to reform it. Wiki:
In 2008, ASCAP collected over US$933 million in licensing fees and distributed US$817 million in royalties to its members, with an 11.3% operating expense ratio
June 2009, the dollar was .71 against the Euro. Lately its been floating around .85. So, the dollar is worth a little more. On top of it, stock values fell due to the recession.
As far as some kind of Joe Sixpack "that company aint worth that much" sentiment, well, the stock market has never been a rational system. It trading system. The mob mentality defines the prices. If the mob thinks Pokemon is worth a bazillion dollars and people are willing to spend all this money on Pokemon, the guess what, they are right! Nothing is worth anything, in a real sense. Gold is just some random metal. Currency is just some paper. Worth is a fiction dictated by markets.
I'd like to see people with IE6 browser just forced to use the mobile page. Kind of a passive aggressive way of saying "upgrade now."
>You don't generally hear much about them because they deserved to die.
How often do you hear, "Would you like to sign my petition to bring back Tru Calling and Fish Police?"