>Why would Apple not approve Google+ app when there are Facebook app and tons of other social networks apps?
Retaliation for the million and one proxy wars they have with Google right now? Not sure if you guys know about this thing new called Android, but its pretty hot, and Apple is competing against it the only way it knows how: via patent lawsuits.
Sure you can. For the price of a 400/800 DLT tape I can get a 1 or even a 2TB drive. I can even put them in a RAID array and monitor them. Or spin them occasionally. No surprises. No loss.
In the case of a failure, I can send it off to be fixed with a decent chance of some kind of recovery. Tape failure? Just toss it out, no one can service it.
Yeah, he clearly a victim of a massive conspiracy! A site that I've never heard of that has content indistinguishable from r/politics is suddenly under attack from the DOJ?
You right-wing loons will believe anything that makes Obama look bad.
Most people stream from internet sources that are highly compressed and is very much sub 10mbps. Think Neflix, youtube, and hulu. You're looking at 3-5, max.
Secondly, the average G connection sure as hell isnt 20mbps. In low noise scenarios I can barely get 20-25mbps. Once the SNR gets slightly lower you're in 10-15 territory.
N changes things, but Joe Average doesn't have N yet. Heck, N in high noise scenarios is just as bad as G.
10mbps is about what most people get on wireless-G (real world throughput) and they don't even really notice. Typical home use involves internet usage and the occasional large file transfer. 10mbps is entirely usable for most people.
I always also thought 650megs for a CD was unusually large at the time. Especially considering that at the time data CDROMs came out we were all still using floppies and the occasional pricey 100meg zip drive you had to carry around because no one else owned one.
>It is definitely a big brother approach, but considering the situation with the cameras in London, Homeland Security in the U.S., and the filtering in Australia,
Cameras in public spaces or being searched before getting on a plane have nothing to do with state enforced censorship. I'm not sure why so many Chinese find it believable that their limits of expression are normal and fit in with the West. They don't. Its just propaganda to make you feel better and not to try any pesky revolution or uprising.
It starts with a guy not being able to name what the acronym stands for and then shows the lead scientist who seems to be a facial piercings enthusiast.
They take regular laptops into space every trip. The hardening is for critical systems like flight, life support, etc. If a laptop or phone dies, nothing happens.
That's autorun. Autorun by default (now at least) is disabled for removable devices, but not CDROMs. So they just fake the hardware ID to be a CD and off they go. If you disable Autorun manually or via GP you can shut off autorun for CDs easily.
If this happened to you, you still have autorun enabled.
I doubt they're using the stock version. The federal government does have the budget and gravitas to demand special things and Skype must be falling over backwards to accommodate them just for the PR alone. Until we have more details, its a little presumptuous to think that they have the stock version.
The first few chapters of the Zahn books were rewritten to include an improbable story about an eight-year old boy building his own robot, racing pods, and seducing a twenty-something queen. Its the vision Lucas always had from the beginning.
>At a hub like ATL, DFW, DEN or ORD the lines are always too long to only use the scanners and pat downs.
I wish. We waited in line at ORD for longer than usual (and usual is long - 30-45 minutes) to go through security because they were scanning everyone.
As far as cancer from backscatter radiation devices, I'll wait until there's further proof. From what I can tell the documents are employees complaining and requesting "led shields." Err, ok. Also, the woman complaining mentions strokes and heart attacks and seems to inflate the problem by including them with the cancer. Until we have an independent investigation here, I wouldnt be surprised if this was just paranoia. The only real complaint I see is that the xray machine may not have been shielded properly. Of course, people don't go through those machines, we go through millimeter wave machines, so its non-applicable. Xray exposure could cause cancer in these employees. Regular fliers have nothing to worry about.
Regardless, the fear mongering will continue. In the end, slashdot is no different than the "WIFI/CELL PHONES IS CANCER" people. We all are just slaves to our biases.
Ignoring the IP issues I find the magsafe on my macbook to be a real pain in the ass when I'm reading in bed. It sticks out on the left, but I sleep on the right side of the bed. So I have this wire running accross me, which isn't a big deal, but the magsafe magnet is so incredibly weak and movement sets it off and its constantly getting unplugged.
I'd love to see a standard, but lets step away from Apple's designs. They're more for show than for use. There's a million safe-break designs. Magsafe is just one and its owned by an IP fascist. How about we standardize on one that a cat walking across on doesn't unplug it?
Its a bi-partisan bill which both parties have quite a bit of input into and the reform process has been going on for six years, you know when the GOP and Bush ruled. I think its hilarious that you think that if it was a GOP only bill, it would be all unicorns and sunshine for small business.
Prior art still is defense and this new bill also includes pre-trial arbitration as part of settling disputes.
All the 'first to file" thing does is end the lawsuits that aren't prior art, but are more about arguing who invented it first, not invalidating the patent via prior use.
I'm sure groklaw will have an article about this tomorrow explaining the pros and cons, but it looks like there are more pros than cons here. The GOP still doesnt want the patent office paying for its operations with its own fees so they're will still be staff shortages as it takes congress years to review the patent budget.
Also, this bill invalidates business process patents. So you can't just patent "ATM banking" or something simple. This might spill over to software patents as well, many of which are business process patents. Oh well, maybe next time we can start addressing software patent abuse. Apple just patented the most basic use of a touch screen today too. With IP abusers like Apple around, we still need real patent reform.
Seriously, I'm not sure what the point of this article is. He dismisses higher ratings and then compains of technical issues. Err, okay.
From what I can tell, there's a real fear of the breaking of the Apple monopoly right now. Froyo and Gingerbread and Honeycomb are really on par with Apple's usually excellent mobile quality. Android phones are now moving into dual cores and with Gingerbread can do hardware acceleration. I think we're looking at a lot of people who have invested themselves into iOS and are now complaining that their customers are moving to Android. Now these developers have to learn a new mobile ecosystem and deal with its issues.
Christ, imagine if these people were as whiny about Windows as they are about Android. "OMG, one of my customers is using a slow Pentium 4!" Grow up, whiny devs. Either you move with the market or you fall behind. Someone else will make the next fart simulator or tip calculator. You're not some genius the world needs, you're 100% replaceable. If you can't code for my phone that fine because your competitors can.
T-mobile has a 200mb plan too. I'm on it. So far its okay. I'm on wifi 90% of the time anyway. Costs about the same as AT&T but the big benefit is that I'm not on AT&T. *shudder*
Blizzard is rolling in cash. For all we know they just paid these guys a licensing fee instead of fighting it. Going to court is actually rare in patent disputes.
I'd be very curious to see if my passphrases are breakable. The feasibility of cracking 30+ character mixed case and numbers seems difficult even for the most determined attacker. From what I've read these trojans just pick up plain-text files that have zero encryption.
That said, I agree, keeping your wallet on your flash drive is probably the way to go.
The point is that you get official MS support and can start monetizing your kinect software. Its an easier sell when there's an official driver and SDK.
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>Why would Apple not approve Google+ app when there are Facebook app and tons of other social networks apps?
Retaliation for the million and one proxy wars they have with Google right now? Not sure if you guys know about this thing new called Android, but its pretty hot, and Apple is competing against it the only way it knows how: via patent lawsuits.
Sure you can. For the price of a 400/800 DLT tape I can get a 1 or even a 2TB drive. I can even put them in a RAID array and monitor them. Or spin them occasionally. No surprises. No loss.
In the case of a failure, I can send it off to be fixed with a decent chance of some kind of recovery. Tape failure? Just toss it out, no one can service it.
Yeah, he clearly a victim of a massive conspiracy! A site that I've never heard of that has content indistinguishable from r/politics is suddenly under attack from the DOJ?
You right-wing loons will believe anything that makes Obama look bad.
Most people stream from internet sources that are highly compressed and is very much sub 10mbps. Think Neflix, youtube, and hulu. You're looking at 3-5, max.
Secondly, the average G connection sure as hell isnt 20mbps. In low noise scenarios I can barely get 20-25mbps. Once the SNR gets slightly lower you're in 10-15 territory.
N changes things, but Joe Average doesn't have N yet. Heck, N in high noise scenarios is just as bad as G.
10mbps is about what most people get on wireless-G (real world throughput) and they don't even really notice. Typical home use involves internet usage and the occasional large file transfer. 10mbps is entirely usable for most people.
I always also thought 650megs for a CD was unusually large at the time. Especially considering that at the time data CDROMs came out we were all still using floppies and the occasional pricey 100meg zip drive you had to carry around because no one else owned one.
>It is definitely a big brother approach, but considering the situation with the cameras in London, Homeland Security in the U.S., and the filtering in Australia,
Cameras in public spaces or being searched before getting on a plane have nothing to do with state enforced censorship. I'm not sure why so many Chinese find it believable that their limits of expression are normal and fit in with the West. They don't. Its just propaganda to make you feel better and not to try any pesky revolution or uprising.
It starts with a guy not being able to name what the acronym stands for and then shows the lead scientist who seems to be a facial piercings enthusiast.
They take regular laptops into space every trip. The hardening is for critical systems like flight, life support, etc. If a laptop or phone dies, nothing happens.
That's autorun. Autorun by default (now at least) is disabled for removable devices, but not CDROMs. So they just fake the hardware ID to be a CD and off they go. If you disable Autorun manually or via GP you can shut off autorun for CDs easily.
If this happened to you, you still have autorun enabled.
>Gender ratio?
Whoa, this place called the "Pink Triangle" is like 99% women!
Most likely they aren't doing p2p like typical skype, but have a dedicated super-peer. I'd be very surprised if they were.
I doubt they're using the stock version. The federal government does have the budget and gravitas to demand special things and Skype must be falling over backwards to accommodate them just for the PR alone. Until we have more details, its a little presumptuous to think that they have the stock version.
The first few chapters of the Zahn books were rewritten to include an improbable story about an eight-year old boy building his own robot, racing pods, and seducing a twenty-something queen. Its the vision Lucas always had from the beginning.
>At a hub like ATL, DFW, DEN or ORD the lines are always too long to only use the scanners and pat downs.
I wish. We waited in line at ORD for longer than usual (and usual is long - 30-45 minutes) to go through security because they were scanning everyone.
As far as cancer from backscatter radiation devices, I'll wait until there's further proof. From what I can tell the documents are employees complaining and requesting "led shields." Err, ok. Also, the woman complaining mentions strokes and heart attacks and seems to inflate the problem by including them with the cancer. Until we have an independent investigation here, I wouldnt be surprised if this was just paranoia. The only real complaint I see is that the xray machine may not have been shielded properly. Of course, people don't go through those machines, we go through millimeter wave machines, so its non-applicable. Xray exposure could cause cancer in these employees. Regular fliers have nothing to worry about.
Regardless, the fear mongering will continue. In the end, slashdot is no different than the "WIFI/CELL PHONES IS CANCER" people. We all are just slaves to our biases.
Ignoring the IP issues I find the magsafe on my macbook to be a real pain in the ass when I'm reading in bed. It sticks out on the left, but I sleep on the right side of the bed. So I have this wire running accross me, which isn't a big deal, but the magsafe magnet is so incredibly weak and movement sets it off and its constantly getting unplugged.
I'd love to see a standard, but lets step away from Apple's designs. They're more for show than for use. There's a million safe-break designs. Magsafe is just one and its owned by an IP fascist. How about we standardize on one that a cat walking across on doesn't unplug it?
Its a bi-partisan bill which both parties have quite a bit of input into and the reform process has been going on for six years, you know when the GOP and Bush ruled. I think its hilarious that you think that if it was a GOP only bill, it would be all unicorns and sunshine for small business.
Prior art still is defense and this new bill also includes pre-trial arbitration as part of settling disputes.
All the 'first to file" thing does is end the lawsuits that aren't prior art, but are more about arguing who invented it first, not invalidating the patent via prior use.
I'm sure groklaw will have an article about this tomorrow explaining the pros and cons, but it looks like there are more pros than cons here. The GOP still doesnt want the patent office paying for its operations with its own fees so they're will still be staff shortages as it takes congress years to review the patent budget.
Also, this bill invalidates business process patents. So you can't just patent "ATM banking" or something simple. This might spill over to software patents as well, many of which are business process patents. Oh well, maybe next time we can start addressing software patent abuse. Apple just patented the most basic use of a touch screen today too. With IP abusers like Apple around, we still need real patent reform.
Seriously, I'm not sure what the point of this article is. He dismisses higher ratings and then compains of technical issues. Err, okay.
From what I can tell, there's a real fear of the breaking of the Apple monopoly right now. Froyo and Gingerbread and Honeycomb are really on par with Apple's usually excellent mobile quality. Android phones are now moving into dual cores and with Gingerbread can do hardware acceleration. I think we're looking at a lot of people who have invested themselves into iOS and are now complaining that their customers are moving to Android. Now these developers have to learn a new mobile ecosystem and deal with its issues.
Christ, imagine if these people were as whiny about Windows as they are about Android. "OMG, one of my customers is using a slow Pentium 4!" Grow up, whiny devs. Either you move with the market or you fall behind. Someone else will make the next fart simulator or tip calculator. You're not some genius the world needs, you're 100% replaceable. If you can't code for my phone that fine because your competitors can.
But only to morons. Every week some Obama onion article makes the rounds on Facebook with conservatives screaming "ZOMG OBAMA IS BUILDING AN ABORTIONPLEX!!"
The Onion is almost as cynical and hysterically funny as Fox News. Almost.
T-mobile has a 200mb plan too. I'm on it. So far its okay. I'm on wifi 90% of the time anyway. Costs about the same as AT&T but the big benefit is that I'm not on AT&T. *shudder*
Blizzard is rolling in cash. For all we know they just paid these guys a licensing fee instead of fighting it. Going to court is actually rare in patent disputes.
I'd be very curious to see if my passphrases are breakable. The feasibility of cracking 30+ character mixed case and numbers seems difficult even for the most determined attacker. From what I've read these trojans just pick up plain-text files that have zero encryption.
That said, I agree, keeping your wallet on your flash drive is probably the way to go.
and if we didn't stop using CFC's then yes, you'd have other problems on your hands. Educate yourself:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030730080139.htm
Cheap people, gamers, power users, and businesses do. That's probably a good chunk of the desktop market right now.
> Remember, we live in a disposable culture.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
The point is that you get official MS support and can start monetizing your kinect software. Its an easier sell when there's an official driver and SDK.