this is one of those technologies that is always "just around the corner" - "coming out next year"
a colleague and I noted a story in the media three years ago that said a new technology for e-paper and e-ink was coming out "next year" - but it never surfaced.
guess for now I'll keep driving my flying car to the 7-11 to pick up my Daily Post...
If you need use two screens on a laptop, wait until you get back to your desk and plug in an external screen. Hell - I've got three external screens connected to my MBP 15" and it works great.
This is just engineering out of control - if they sell 10,000 of these I'll be shocked.
Someone call the pointy-haired boss and have Dilbert-san clean out his desk. . .
All "Americans" should be required to take the same citizenship test at age 18 that legal immigrants have to take to become naturalized US citizens, and if the 18 year old fails, they get deported to Mexico, or China . . .
These guys were stupid. Madoff made off will literally billions based on their efforts. They ended up with a six-figure salary and impending jail time...
There were albums of "sound-alike top hits" - top 40 songs played and sung by unknown bands and artists. These albums were only ever bought once, by people who were fooled into doing so by the label on the album - nobody ever bought a second one after hearing how terrible the first one was...
And, is it me, or is it totally stupid of EMI & company to limit as much as possible, exposure to The Beatles' music? I have many acquaintances in their teens and twenties who think The Beatles are just lame, and don't get what all the fuss was about, because they never hear their music played (except maybe in TV commercials, which they never watch anyway). . .
Since this is a Data General system, they could achieve instantaneous, cheap redundancy by utilizing the open source minicomputer emulator SIMH. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/.
This software allows modern microcomputers running Windows, Linux or MacOS to transparently emulate many legacy minicomputer and mainframe systems, including Data General NOVA and ECLIPSE environments.
They could slap in a couple of Xeon server blades, replicate their existing software environment and not have to spend a cent to reinvent the wheel (pun intended). It's not like traffic control technology has made major scientific strides in the last 30 years. If it had, we'd be building light rail instead of offramps...
allow positive and negative voting in elections. you would be able to vote either + or - for any candidate, but not both. any candidate with a negative poll balance at the end of any election would be banned from ever holding public office again.
Could this technology be used to apply tattoos to people? Would that represent a threat to the hard working skin artists of the American tattoo industry? Is the grungy, sensitive biker dude who etches L O V E on one set of knuckles and H A T E on the other about to be replaced by a carbon dioxide laser?
I did not realize it until I read the posted news article, but the crushed Camry in the photograph is his car. He's been devastated since the incident. My mom was also pretty upset as well. I drive a Corolla with a manual five speed...
My mom's best friend was killed when her husband was parking their Toyota Camry at a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway, and the car suddenly accelerated through a fence and off a tall cliff onto the rocks below. Her husband survived with severe injuries, and he swears that the whole floormat excuse is BS. The car had been giving them acceleration issues prior to this incident, but the mechanic they took it to could find nothing wrong.
Elcomsoft makes good cracking software - I've paid for and used their MS Office tools, and they work great on easy and even hard passwords. People are just not going to use 72 character passwords with ampersands and asterisks. I'd say this new cloud cracking tech will be put to effective nefarious use pretty quickly.
Why don't they just say it - they're going to do what they want, and it doesn't matter what anyone outside the "secret" circle thinks.
Hey, is this a new calling plan from AT&T: Secret Circle of Friends?
In cooperation with the NSA and the FISA court, AT&T offers the new Secret Circle of Friends calling plan. Place your friends' names on our surveillance list, and all of their calls are monitored for "quality assurance", while you receive credit for "rollover" testimony when you rat them out in a star chamber hearing.
Earn bonus points for entrapping the stupid into terror plots while earning frequent "no-fly" miles that can't be redeemed on any airline!
Again, normally one reads a contract, agrees to it, and then pays money. This is civil contract law. In the curious case of shrinkwrapped software, you pay your money and then read the contract, and then supposedly if you disagree and try to get your money back, wait, OOPS - you opened it, you cannot get your money back. It's a rigged game. In order to agree or disagree to the EULA contract, you have to have already paid. It's totally slanted in favor of the software company against the user.
Now, you can say "that's the way it is, that's the law, tough shit" - but again, since I paid for the use of something, it should not be anyone's business how I use it as long as no harm comes to others. It is patently unfair for the licensor to accept my money and subsequently tell me how can or can't use something, be it physical or intellectual. You can preach the law all you want - oral sex is illegal in some states, and that's certainly working well as a preventive measure - but the law in particular instance of an individual buying, installing and using OS X on a non-Apple computer is not reasonable.
Again, if I pay for a license to use OS X, I PAID for it. There's no piracy. Plus, you are confusing civil law and criminal law. If I pirated a copy of OS X then that is a criminal offense. If I buy a copy of OS X and use it in a manner inconsistent with the EULA, that is a CIVIL offense. Big difference. Plus, EULA has never been tested in a court of law and might well not stand. Normally you sign a contract, then pay money. In the case of a EULA, you pay money and then sign a contract (but, not really).
Sherwin Williams doesn't tell me that I can't use exterior house paint on interior walls. They might recommend otherwise, but I can do what I want with their paint - I paid for it.
Prescription drug makers love it when something like Botox, which was originally developed as a treatment for crossed eyes, is used for "off-label" applications. Now, airline tickets are another matter, but it's not really good marketing to justify your shitty business practices because airlines get away with something similar...
Granted, if I use these products in a manner inconsistent with their labeling, I assume the risk of doing so.
I couldn't give two fucks about the BSA or your Adobe example (I seriously doubt BSA is going to sue one individual for upgrading a pirated serial, but this has nothing to do with the discussion at hand).
In my theoretical case, I paid for OS X and I can damn well use it how I please. Apple got their money. If they don't want us using OS X on third party hardware, maybe they should stop selling upgrades, embed the OS in ROM and only sell updated OS software with new machines - they'd love that.
If I am Apple and some whiner calls complaining that their Dell Mini 9 got bricked by a software update, it's tough luck, Charlie. It's funny though that Dell support will tell you how to install OS X on your Dell Mini 9, and I don't see the BSA going after them.
Isn't it also funny how Dell has made sure that certain models of their laptops are plug compatible with Macs, which allows you to install OS X onto them without hacking them first...
If I buy a copy of OS X, then I legally possess a license to use it. Apple says I am only licensed to use it on an Apple manufactured computer, but this is bundling, which got IBM in a lot of trouble back in the mainframe heyday.
IBM said you could not buy a copy of its mainframe OS to run on anything other than an IBM mainframe, and could not even buy the software license separately from the hardware. The case went on for years, but was eventually dismissed by the Reagan Justice Department.
Since Apple sells the operating system software separately from the hardware, some lawyer somewhere is eventually going to successfully make the case that Apple is illegally bundling hardware and software...
"non-parsable by software, unfindable by search engines, and unreliable if text is extracted."
I don't believe this is true - I find PDF documents in search results all the time. The consistency and reliability of PDF for forms creation has no real competition. If you hate Adobe, ok, but don't hate PDF 'cause it's beautiful...
With a name like Inglourius Basterds, I wouldn't go within a mile of the theater. Tarantino lost it a long time ago, if indeed he ever did have 'it', and I never liked his crappy movies anyway. From Dusk To Dawn was good only because he gets his head blown off in that one. What a dick.
I do agree with you about the balance of power, and hope my iPredator VPN stays on even after this court case is done...
Graduates of the college Class of 2009 may not be as lucky as previous grads when it comes to finding jobs after graduation. Due to the current economic recession, stock prices are plummeting and the unemployment rate has soared to a high of 7.2 percent. Consumers have curbed their spending habits, resulting in a reduction in demand for goods and services.
Earlier this academic year, employers... reported that hiring for new graduates will remain flat compared to last year. This... suggests that average starting salary offers will be flat as well. Last year at this time, the average starting salary to all bachelor's degree graduates was $49,300, representing a 4 percent increase from the previous year.
Two-thirds of bachelor's degree recipients last year graduated with an average debt of about $23,000, according to Finaid.org, a financial aid website.
Total debt for borrowers with graduate or professional degrees ranges from $30,000 to $120,000, Finaid.org says.
New graduates face an even more unforgiving job market. Employers expect to hire 22% fewer graduates from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
I guess I was thinking more of the person just starting out in their career - until you log some experience, you'll be working lower level jobs making lower level pay. Granted, not everyone is going to be rocketing to the top of the org chart, but even here in the US, people just out of college and looking for jobs are scraping the bottom of the salary barrel.
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aka Data Processing. Some of us remember JCL, keypunch machines, teletypes and allocating disk space manually.
I never toggled a boot loader into the front panel of a CPU, but I watched IBM customer engineers who did. . .
this is one of those technologies that is always "just around the corner" - "coming out next year"
a colleague and I noted a story in the media three years ago that said a new technology for e-paper and e-ink was coming out "next year" - but it never surfaced.
guess for now I'll keep driving my flying car to the 7-11 to pick up my Daily Post...
If you need use two screens on a laptop, wait until you get back to your desk and plug in an external screen. Hell - I've got three external screens connected to my MBP 15" and it works great.
This is just engineering out of control - if they sell 10,000 of these I'll be shocked.
Someone call the pointy-haired boss and have Dilbert-san clean out his desk. . .
sorry you cannot recognize sarcasm when you see it... I agreed with most of what you originally said, didn't realize you were an ignorant lamer....
All "Americans" should be required to take the same citizenship test at age 18 that legal immigrants have to take to become naturalized US citizens, and if the 18 year old fails, they get deported to Mexico, or China . . .
and it will think outside the litter box
These guys were stupid. Madoff made off will literally billions based on their efforts. They ended up with a six-figure salary and impending jail time...
There were albums of "sound-alike top hits" - top 40 songs played and sung by unknown bands and artists. These albums were only ever bought once, by people who were fooled into doing so by the label on the album - nobody ever bought a second one after hearing how terrible the first one was...
And, is it me, or is it totally stupid of EMI & company to limit as much as possible, exposure to The Beatles' music? I have many acquaintances in their teens and twenties who think The Beatles are just lame, and don't get what all the fuss was about, because they never hear their music played (except maybe in TV commercials, which they never watch anyway). . .
Since this is a Data General system, they could achieve instantaneous, cheap redundancy by utilizing the open source minicomputer emulator SIMH. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/.
This software allows modern microcomputers running Windows, Linux or MacOS to transparently emulate many legacy minicomputer and mainframe systems, including Data General NOVA and ECLIPSE environments.
They could slap in a couple of Xeon server blades, replicate their existing software environment and not have to spend a cent to reinvent the wheel (pun intended). It's not like traffic control technology has made major scientific strides in the last 30 years. If it had, we'd be building light rail instead of offramps...
allow positive and negative voting in elections. you would be able to vote either + or - for any candidate, but not both. any candidate with a negative poll balance at the end of any election would be banned from ever holding public office again.
Could this technology be used to apply tattoos to people? Would that represent a threat to the hard working skin artists of the American tattoo industry? Is the grungy, sensitive biker dude who etches L O V E on one set of knuckles and H A T E on the other about to be replaced by a carbon dioxide laser?
At least until this NYT article is translated into Arabic... See! They're aiding terrorists!
I did not realize it until I read the posted news article, but the crushed Camry in the photograph is his car. He's been devastated since the incident. My mom was also pretty upset as well. I drive a Corolla with a manual five speed...
My mom's best friend was killed when her husband was parking their Toyota Camry at a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway, and the car suddenly accelerated through a fence and off a tall cliff onto the rocks below. Her husband survived with severe injuries, and he swears that the whole floormat excuse is BS. The car had been giving them acceleration issues prior to this incident, but the mechanic they took it to could find nothing wrong.
Elcomsoft makes good cracking software - I've paid for and used their MS Office tools, and they work great on easy and even hard passwords. People are just not going to use 72 character passwords with ampersands and asterisks. I'd say this new cloud cracking tech will be put to effective nefarious use pretty quickly.
It takes place in a cabin in the woods, it's comic, tragic and frightening, and it would translate well to Broadway...
Hey, is this a new calling plan from AT&T: Secret Circle of Friends?
In cooperation with the NSA and the FISA court, AT&T offers the new Secret Circle of Friends calling plan. Place your friends' names on our surveillance list, and all of their calls are monitored for "quality assurance", while you receive credit for "rollover" testimony when you rat them out in a star chamber hearing.
Earn bonus points for entrapping the stupid into terror plots while earning frequent "no-fly" miles that can't be redeemed on any airline!
Again, normally one reads a contract, agrees to it, and then pays money. This is civil contract law. In the curious case of shrinkwrapped software, you pay your money and then read the contract, and then supposedly if you disagree and try to get your money back, wait, OOPS - you opened it, you cannot get your money back. It's a rigged game. In order to agree or disagree to the EULA contract, you have to have already paid. It's totally slanted in favor of the software company against the user.
Now, you can say "that's the way it is, that's the law, tough shit" - but again, since I paid for the use of something, it should not be anyone's business how I use it as long as no harm comes to others. It is patently unfair for the licensor to accept my money and subsequently tell me how can or can't use something, be it physical or intellectual. You can preach the law all you want - oral sex is illegal in some states, and that's certainly working well as a preventive measure - but the law in particular instance of an individual buying, installing and using OS X on a non-Apple computer is not reasonable.
Again, if I pay for a license to use OS X, I PAID for it. There's no piracy. Plus, you are confusing civil law and criminal law. If I pirated a copy of OS X then that is a criminal offense. If I buy a copy of OS X and use it in a manner inconsistent with the EULA, that is a CIVIL offense. Big difference. Plus, EULA has never been tested in a court of law and might well not stand. Normally you sign a contract, then pay money. In the case of a EULA, you pay money and then sign a contract (but, not really).
Sherwin Williams doesn't tell me that I can't use exterior house paint on interior walls. They might recommend otherwise, but I can do what I want with their paint - I paid for it.
Prescription drug makers love it when something like Botox, which was originally developed as a treatment for crossed eyes, is used for "off-label" applications. Now, airline tickets are another matter, but it's not really good marketing to justify your shitty business practices because airlines get away with something similar...
Granted, if I use these products in a manner inconsistent with their labeling, I assume the risk of doing so.
I couldn't give two fucks about the BSA or your Adobe example (I seriously doubt BSA is going to sue one individual for upgrading a pirated serial, but this has nothing to do with the discussion at hand).
In my theoretical case, I paid for OS X and I can damn well use it how I please. Apple got their money. If they don't want us using OS X on third party hardware, maybe they should stop selling upgrades, embed the OS in ROM and only sell updated OS software with new machines - they'd love that.
If I am Apple and some whiner calls complaining that their Dell Mini 9 got bricked by a software update, it's tough luck, Charlie. It's funny though that Dell support will tell you how to install OS X on your Dell Mini 9, and I don't see the BSA going after them.
Isn't it also funny how Dell has made sure that certain models of their laptops are plug compatible with Macs, which allows you to install OS X onto them without hacking them first...
If I buy a copy of OS X, then I legally possess a license to use it. Apple says I am only licensed to use it on an Apple manufactured computer, but this is bundling, which got IBM in a lot of trouble back in the mainframe heyday.
IBM said you could not buy a copy of its mainframe OS to run on anything other than an IBM mainframe, and could not even buy the software license separately from the hardware. The case went on for years, but was eventually dismissed by the Reagan Justice Department.
Since Apple sells the operating system software separately from the hardware, some lawyer somewhere is eventually going to successfully make the case that Apple is illegally bundling hardware and software...
I don't believe this is true - I find PDF documents in search results all the time. The consistency and reliability of PDF for forms creation has no real competition. If you hate Adobe, ok, but don't hate PDF 'cause it's beautiful...
With a name like Inglourius Basterds, I wouldn't go within a mile of the theater. Tarantino lost it a long time ago, if indeed he ever did have 'it', and I never liked his crappy movies anyway. From Dusk To Dawn was good only because he gets his head blown off in that one. What a dick.
I do agree with you about the balance of power, and hope my iPredator VPN stays on even after this court case is done...
And there's this:
I guess I was thinking more of the person just starting out in their career - until you log some experience, you'll be working lower level jobs making lower level pay. Granted, not everyone is going to be rocketing to the top of the org chart, but even here in the US, people just out of college and looking for jobs are scraping the bottom of the salary barrel.
And they still have to pay their college loans...