Exactly, the search service is an indexing service. It has nothing to do with searching the web. Slashdot doesnt need proof, it needs its daily 3 minutes of hate.
Are you sure your external screen is HDCP compliant?
Have you bothered calling Hp about this? The geforce 9600 is HDCP compatible. According to this its a bug, not an HDCP issue. Who knows maybe they have a fix for this already.
Right, except you both wrong. Jobs was on board when version 2.0 of the software was doing the exact same thing. I also find it amusing that you guys picture Jobs going through the source code, "Hey guys, this malloc looks wrong to me!"
Right, we dont blame the victim here. Sure the patch came in October and Conficker spread in January. No siree, we cant blame their IT dept for slacking, its all someone else's fault.
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>I already mention the reluctance of the soldiers as one of the main factors keeping us safe. We're assuming that went away somehow in the "military kills protesters" scenario.
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Guns didnt help Jews, Poles, Gypsies, in WWII. An AK in every home didnt stop Sadaam from oppressing his own people. Its funny how people think a handgun or rifle works against a mechanized division.
>where they conveniently failed to mention that the Zune still had to be physically plugged into a power source to sync
Thats not true. It wont sync automatically on battery power, but it syncs fine if you do a manual sync. You dont want it syncing every few hours only to pick it up a couple of days later and have the battery dead.
>This kind of marketing has been shown over the last 5 years to be completely ineffective against the iPod.
To be fair, the amazing Italian place near me cant compete with McDonalds. Popularity doesnt necessarily translate into quality. Consider how one of the most popular apps for the iphone/ipod is the fart simulator and, well, things arent so cut and dried. Those who side soley with popularity really arent convincing.
When I was 10 or 11 years old and my parents got me a 1200 baud modem for my Apple//e I managed to dial up a BBS and was asked for the first time to make a username and password. I dont remember the username, but I do remember seeing *'s come out as I typed, got confused, so I just made my password ******. Ta da! Problem solved.
I just bought my brother a little lenovo and was shocked at the amount and general crapiness of the lenovo apps it came with. One of them was crashing at bootup. Its amazing how bad the situation is with OEM crapware nowadays.
I spent 30 minutes doing uninstalls. Err no thanks Lenovo, I dont need your unstable wireless manager when the MS one is just fine.
Once I cleared it all it ran like a top. I wish MS would step in and stop them from ruining otherwise decent laptops.
>Believe me - I -detest- spam. At the same time, the methods utilized by SORBS were ineffective, and most legitimate hosts and providers stopped using them years ago.
Actually, thats untrue. Our solution at work is to weigh multiple blacklists. Im not sure what SORBS is weighed but its part of the overall spam score. Less blacklists means we are at the mercy of one or two big blacklists instead of averaging out the craziness by a weighted forumula. SORBS' faults dont matter when theyre only a small part of the equation. More samples means better signal to noise.
>Of everyone who was in my circle of friends working in the IT and computer industry in the mid-to-late 1990s, the only people who have jobs today are in middle management.
Not surprised. The 1990s drew in tons of unqualified unprofessional people into IT. Anyone who could install ICQ and reboot an Win98 machine got some kind of job by clueless hiring managers. These people didnt develop professionally, they didnt finish school, they couldnt write a basic admin script, didnt know any OS9 or OSX let alone any linux, and they didnt know much outside of the most basic level 1 support tasks.
Ive met these people and they really dont belong in the industry. Im not saying your friends are these people but there might be some overlap here. The culling in the last few years has sent a lot of people who dont belong in IT back to school or in different industries where they belong. Its more competitive now and when I mention, say, ssh I dont get a clueless look from the guy Im talking to. Having to work with unqualified bullshitters isnt desirable at all.
No way, lets have the firmware do this. The problem with your approach is that the OS wont understand the drive as well as the manufacturer does, so it will always be a sub-optimal solution. Dont tie the hands of the manufacturer to put intelligence in his drives. For instance, the best way to wipe a disk is via an ATA command, and not through multi-passes of wipes. The manufacturer knows where the heads are and how the drive writes. The SSD situation is somewhat similar.
Your people put the theocrats into power with your Islamic revolution. Those werent CIA agents, but Islamic people wanting a hateful theocracy to be their government. You chose religion over secularism. Now you are paying the price.
Also, no one fears Iran. Your military is one of the worst in the world and your airforce is a joke of f-11's that are falling apart. Our fear is that you want to become like North Korea. A poor, ignorant dictatorship weilding nukes around for aid. Thats your destiny right there.
>but I don't blame you as you seem like yet another uneducated western kid who probably get all your source from CNN and BBC without looking up yourself.
Are you have been brainwashed by your Iranian masters.
This is why I think there was no fraud during this election. The Iranians are anti-secular people who never had an enlightenment, of course theyre going to continue to vote in the conservative candidate. Not to mention the president's role is almost purely ceremonial in Iran. The clerical councils and supreme leader have the real power. Its something akin to a dictatorship, but until the economy when sour on them, they didnt seem to mind. I hate the idea of the "common good of the average person." The average person in Iran hates your western values. Dont be naive.
>Given all the above I would not say the problems of the Iranians are purely their own fault.
Acutally, its 100% their fault. They put theorcrats into power. They love Islam more than love the rights of man. They chose religion or sanity, and this is the price they pay. Why should the US rescue them from their own madness? Perhaps the kids growing up there now will help run a revolution later, in the meantime its Allah and his nutter clerics 24/7. Beware religion in politics kids. Dont blame the US if the Iranians are wullfully ignorant of this. Religion is the worst influence possible for government. Learn that, stop blaming the US for their stupidity.
>Their bullets were designed to pierce armored targets and would basically go through the attackers without causing much to the attacker who kept fighting.
Im really sick of this "didja know the ak47 is the best weapon evar" attitude. The M16 certainly kills. A hole in your head, liver, lungs, etc can be made with either weapon. I dont care how "drug crazed" you are, that is going to take you down and most likely kill you.
Sure, the AK is a larger round, but its also a lot more inaccurate and its a heavy weapon. If we gave AKs to our Marines we'd be hearing from the "didja know the ak47 is the most inaccurate weapon" crowd and its attendant conspiracy theories.
The M16 is good enough for modern combat, drug fueled enemies or not. The M16's muzzle velocity plus its round size/weight is more than enough to cause hydrostatic shock. The round will tumble through the body just as well as the AK round.
>The idiot medicos just pocketed the money for tests
US healthcare is a capitalist system. The idea that people can be treated properly is very much secondary to its main goal: maximizing profits. I think people are finally understanding what capitalism means in healthcare, thus the recent interest in socializing healthcare.
Currently its 100% legal to drag someone several years through the the system to milk their insurance. The doctors can simply argue that they wanted to be careful. The people arent quacks, theyre economically successful and understand how to play the game better than the rest. You dont pay off two mortgages and three cars by doing a good job. You do it by maximizing profits. A quick diagnosis for Crohn's is only a couple billable hours. 8 years of tests? Yeah, thats practically a summer cottage.
>If this 'clever' Microsoft thing is so good, I think the movie industry would have already been using a similar system.
You dont need absurd accuracy for Natal to work. The film industry does. Not to mention people wont wear a suit of ping-pong balls.
The Natal tech is actually very neat. It projects an infrared grid and can measure distance by how the distorted the grid gets. Sorry if it gets in the way of your knee-jerk MS bashing.
Actually, ratings do matter. All that matters is ratings, but you cant keep pre-empting the show with football and who knows what else. Pre-tivo people needed a set time to tune in. They didnt get it often enough with futurama and Fox pretty much pissed away its potential.
>Killing yourself pretty much removes your right to a lot of sympathy.
Bullshit. People with mental illness deserve your sympathy. The idea that suicide was some kind of rational selfish response is stupid. Clearly, he had a lot of suffering if he felt he needed to kill himself. These people deserve our sympathy not our disdain. Hopefully, we can teach people, especially young people, that mental illness shouldnt be shameful and if they suspect they have it then they should get treated - not hide it away and have it lead to suicide like this guy.
>I do not think there is much of a conflict among people familiar with the operation and implementation.
Yes, but this is slashdot where kiddies quote Ayn Rand and Ron Paul for instant +5 insightful and quote generalizations about Americans vs Europeans which would make the worst 80s hack comedian blush. Sadly, there's probably a good thread to be made about computer controls in avionics, but instead we get flamebait from the slashdot editors at the get go.
>If they wished to annihilate us, I wager they'd be able to do it without even giving us a chance to react.
It would be trivial. ET is not a signatory on any of our international laws and treaties. They could concoct a biological weapon that doesnt require any more advanced science than we already know. They could bombard the planet with these weapons, kill only humans, and keep the planet for themselves. I think the hawks need to realize how delicate human life is and the weaponry to destroy all human life has been even in our hands for the last 50 years.
This is what's going to make or break this platform.
I hate the idea that everything depends on purchasing apps. What about just making a damned good browser and letting me use it? Im sure 90% of the popular apps out there can be coded up as web apps, but instead Apple has created a market for buyable apps instead of promoting cross-platform free web apps. I just saw an iphone commercial about "there's an app to find apartments." Err, my beater Treo with WinMo5 does that. I just visit the apartment sites with my browser. No need to spend 10 dollars on another app.
Why a PBX? If youre that serious then run your own wire. For existing wire you can buy a little VOIP box that will run through you existing wiring and ring your analog phones. I got one of these for 5 dollars when I first gave up on a land line. Ive since gotten rid of it and do cell-only, but it works.
Perhaps the real bread and circuses is all this whining about copyright while your nation fights two wars, has out of control military spending, locks up non-violent drug offenders, arrests medical marijuana growers, denies rights to gays, is in the middle of an economic meltdown, has out of control gun laws, etc etc etc, yet here we are arguing the minutia of copyright law. If anyone is guilty of deceiving the public with inconsequential shit, its us geeks, not Obama. Whining about copyright and quoting Ayn Rand is not how you fix things. Bread and circuses indeed!
>I'm stuck talking to my neighbor two apartment buildings away at 384kbit/sec.
The problem is that you dont know where the bottleneck is. Im sure in cable networks the bottlneck in many scenarios is local and in other times its the backhaul. Assuming there's 100mbps of unused bandwidth between the cable node you are on and the node your pal is on may not be correct.
Not to mention, the docsis protocl may not be able to understand who to lift the cap for and who not too. Considering there's no business reason to provide that service, perhaps you and your neighbor should spring for a wifi link.
I think the sad part of this scenario is that there should be a business reason to provide this type of service. I imagine a municipal run ISP would be able to handle this pretty well and it would help the community. It would be nice to have a 50 or 60mbps link to everyone on my local node. Oh well, perhaps someday the municipal government will wise up.
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Exactly, the search service is an indexing service. It has nothing to do with searching the web. Slashdot doesnt need proof, it needs its daily 3 minutes of hate.
Are you sure your external screen is HDCP compliant?
Have you bothered calling Hp about this? The geforce 9600 is HDCP compatible. According to this its a bug, not an HDCP issue. Who knows maybe they have a fix for this already.
Right, except you both wrong. Jobs was on board when version 2.0 of the software was doing the exact same thing. I also find it amusing that you guys picture Jobs going through the source code, "Hey guys, this malloc looks wrong to me!"
Right, we dont blame the victim here. Sure the patch came in October and Conficker spread in January. No siree, we cant blame their IT dept for slacking, its all someone else's fault.
>I already mention the reluctance of the soldiers as one of the main factors keeping us safe. We're assuming that went away somehow in the "military kills protesters" scenario.
No we are not assuming, we saw it at Kent State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Guns didnt help Jews, Poles, Gypsies, in WWII. An AK in every home didnt stop Sadaam from oppressing his own people. Its funny how people think a handgun or rifle works against a mechanized division.
>where they conveniently failed to mention that the Zune still had to be physically plugged into a power source to sync
Thats not true. It wont sync automatically on battery power, but it syncs fine if you do a manual sync. You dont want it syncing every few hours only to pick it up a couple of days later and have the battery dead.
>This kind of marketing has been shown over the last 5 years to be completely ineffective against the iPod.
To be fair, the amazing Italian place near me cant compete with McDonalds. Popularity doesnt necessarily translate into quality. Consider how one of the most popular apps for the iphone/ipod is the fart simulator and, well, things arent so cut and dried. Those who side soley with popularity really arent convincing.
When I was 10 or 11 years old and my parents got me a 1200 baud modem for my Apple//e I managed to dial up a BBS and was asked for the first time to make a username and password. I dont remember the username, but I do remember seeing *'s come out as I typed, got confused, so I just made my password ******. Ta da! Problem solved.
I just bought my brother a little lenovo and was shocked at the amount and general crapiness of the lenovo apps it came with. One of them was crashing at bootup. Its amazing how bad the situation is with OEM crapware nowadays.
I spent 30 minutes doing uninstalls. Err no thanks Lenovo, I dont need your unstable wireless manager when the MS one is just fine.
Once I cleared it all it ran like a top. I wish MS would step in and stop them from ruining otherwise decent laptops.
>Believe me - I -detest- spam. At the same time, the methods utilized by SORBS were ineffective, and most legitimate hosts and providers stopped using them years ago.
Actually, thats untrue. Our solution at work is to weigh multiple blacklists. Im not sure what SORBS is weighed but its part of the overall spam score. Less blacklists means we are at the mercy of one or two big blacklists instead of averaging out the craziness by a weighted forumula. SORBS' faults dont matter when theyre only a small part of the equation. More samples means better signal to noise.
>Of everyone who was in my circle of friends working in the IT and computer industry in the mid-to-late 1990s, the only people who have jobs today are in middle management.
Not surprised. The 1990s drew in tons of unqualified unprofessional people into IT. Anyone who could install ICQ and reboot an Win98 machine got some kind of job by clueless hiring managers. These people didnt develop professionally, they didnt finish school, they couldnt write a basic admin script, didnt know any OS9 or OSX let alone any linux, and they didnt know much outside of the most basic level 1 support tasks.
Ive met these people and they really dont belong in the industry. Im not saying your friends are these people but there might be some overlap here. The culling in the last few years has sent a lot of people who dont belong in IT back to school or in different industries where they belong. Its more competitive now and when I mention, say, ssh I dont get a clueless look from the guy Im talking to. Having to work with unqualified bullshitters isnt desirable at all.
No way, lets have the firmware do this. The problem with your approach is that the OS wont understand the drive as well as the manufacturer does, so it will always be a sub-optimal solution. Dont tie the hands of the manufacturer to put intelligence in his drives. For instance, the best way to wipe a disk is via an ATA command, and not through multi-passes of wipes. The manufacturer knows where the heads are and how the drive writes. The SSD situation is somewhat similar.
>The Shah was then overthrown by the WESTERN NATIONS.
The US put the shah in power, you moron. You know the one you just wrote a love letter for.
Your people put the theocrats into power with your Islamic revolution. Those werent CIA agents, but Islamic people wanting a hateful theocracy to be their government. You chose religion over secularism. Now you are paying the price.
Also, no one fears Iran. Your military is one of the worst in the world and your airforce is a joke of f-11's that are falling apart. Our fear is that you want to become like North Korea. A poor, ignorant dictatorship weilding nukes around for aid. Thats your destiny right there.
>but I don't blame you as you seem like yet another uneducated western kid who probably get all your source from CNN and BBC without looking up yourself.
Are you have been brainwashed by your Iranian masters.
This is why I think there was no fraud during this election. The Iranians are anti-secular people who never had an enlightenment, of course theyre going to continue to vote in the conservative candidate. Not to mention the president's role is almost purely ceremonial in Iran. The clerical councils and supreme leader have the real power. Its something akin to a dictatorship, but until the economy when sour on them, they didnt seem to mind. I hate the idea of the "common good of the average person." The average person in Iran hates your western values. Dont be naive.
>Given all the above I would not say the problems of the Iranians are purely their own fault.
Acutally, its 100% their fault. They put theorcrats into power. They love Islam more than love the rights of man. They chose religion or sanity, and this is the price they pay. Why should the US rescue them from their own madness? Perhaps the kids growing up there now will help run a revolution later, in the meantime its Allah and his nutter clerics 24/7. Beware religion in politics kids. Dont blame the US if the Iranians are wullfully ignorant of this. Religion is the worst influence possible for government. Learn that, stop blaming the US for their stupidity.
>Their bullets were designed to pierce armored targets and would basically go through the attackers without causing much to the attacker who kept fighting.
Im really sick of this "didja know the ak47 is the best weapon evar" attitude. The M16 certainly kills. A hole in your head, liver, lungs, etc can be made with either weapon. I dont care how "drug crazed" you are, that is going to take you down and most likely kill you.
Sure, the AK is a larger round, but its also a lot more inaccurate and its a heavy weapon. If we gave AKs to our Marines we'd be hearing from the "didja know the ak47 is the most inaccurate weapon" crowd and its attendant conspiracy theories.
The M16 is good enough for modern combat, drug fueled enemies or not. The M16's muzzle velocity plus its round size/weight is more than enough to cause hydrostatic shock. The round will tumble through the body just as well as the AK round.
>The idiot medicos just pocketed the money for tests
US healthcare is a capitalist system. The idea that people can be treated properly is very much secondary to its main goal: maximizing profits. I think people are finally understanding what capitalism means in healthcare, thus the recent interest in socializing healthcare.
Currently its 100% legal to drag someone several years through the the system to milk their insurance. The doctors can simply argue that they wanted to be careful. The people arent quacks, theyre economically successful and understand how to play the game better than the rest. You dont pay off two mortgages and three cars by doing a good job. You do it by maximizing profits. A quick diagnosis for Crohn's is only a couple billable hours. 8 years of tests? Yeah, thats practically a summer cottage.
>If this 'clever' Microsoft thing is so good, I think the movie industry would have already been using a similar system.
You dont need absurd accuracy for Natal to work. The film industry does. Not to mention people wont wear a suit of ping-pong balls.
The Natal tech is actually very neat. It projects an infrared grid and can measure distance by how the distorted the grid gets. Sorry if it gets in the way of your knee-jerk MS bashing.
Actually, ratings do matter. All that matters is ratings, but you cant keep pre-empting the show with football and who knows what else. Pre-tivo people needed a set time to tune in. They didnt get it often enough with futurama and Fox pretty much pissed away its potential.
>Killing yourself pretty much removes your right to a lot of sympathy.
Bullshit. People with mental illness deserve your sympathy. The idea that suicide was some kind of rational selfish response is stupid. Clearly, he had a lot of suffering if he felt he needed to kill himself. These people deserve our sympathy not our disdain. Hopefully, we can teach people, especially young people, that mental illness shouldnt be shameful and if they suspect they have it then they should get treated - not hide it away and have it lead to suicide like this guy.
>I do not think there is much of a conflict among people familiar with the operation and implementation.
Yes, but this is slashdot where kiddies quote Ayn Rand and Ron Paul for instant +5 insightful and quote generalizations about Americans vs Europeans which would make the worst 80s hack comedian blush. Sadly, there's probably a good thread to be made about computer controls in avionics, but instead we get flamebait from the slashdot editors at the get go.
>If they wished to annihilate us, I wager they'd be able to do it without even giving us a chance to react.
It would be trivial. ET is not a signatory on any of our international laws and treaties. They could concoct a biological weapon that doesnt require any more advanced science than we already know. They could bombard the planet with these weapons, kill only humans, and keep the planet for themselves. I think the hawks need to realize how delicate human life is and the weaponry to destroy all human life has been even in our hands for the last 50 years.
This is what's going to make or break this platform.
I hate the idea that everything depends on purchasing apps. What about just making a damned good browser and letting me use it? Im sure 90% of the popular apps out there can be coded up as web apps, but instead Apple has created a market for buyable apps instead of promoting cross-platform free web apps. I just saw an iphone commercial about "there's an app to find apartments." Err, my beater Treo with WinMo5 does that. I just visit the apartment sites with my browser. No need to spend 10 dollars on another app.
Why a PBX? If youre that serious then run your own wire. For existing wire you can buy a little VOIP box that will run through you existing wiring and ring your analog phones. I got one of these for 5 dollars when I first gave up on a land line. Ive since gotten rid of it and do cell-only, but it works.
Perhaps the real bread and circuses is all this whining about copyright while your nation fights two wars, has out of control military spending, locks up non-violent drug offenders, arrests medical marijuana growers, denies rights to gays, is in the middle of an economic meltdown, has out of control gun laws, etc etc etc, yet here we are arguing the minutia of copyright law. If anyone is guilty of deceiving the public with inconsequential shit, its us geeks, not Obama. Whining about copyright and quoting Ayn Rand is not how you fix things. Bread and circuses indeed!
>I'm stuck talking to my neighbor two apartment buildings away at 384kbit/sec.
The problem is that you dont know where the bottleneck is. Im sure in cable networks the bottlneck in many scenarios is local and in other times its the backhaul. Assuming there's 100mbps of unused bandwidth between the cable node you are on and the node your pal is on may not be correct.
Not to mention, the docsis protocl may not be able to understand who to lift the cap for and who not too. Considering there's no business reason to provide that service, perhaps you and your neighbor should spring for a wifi link.
I think the sad part of this scenario is that there should be a business reason to provide this type of service. I imagine a municipal run ISP would be able to handle this pretty well and it would help the community. It would be nice to have a 50 or 60mbps link to everyone on my local node. Oh well, perhaps someday the municipal government will wise up.