of course hard drives and solid state memory work so well under dusty, static-charged conditions! I think the biggest hurdle would be adopting a new technology into an well established mass commodities market. Maybe this stuff could find its way into BIOS? Good luck to them anyways.
Turn off the monitor numbskull! Even if the computer doesn't run "sleep mode" its using much less than that. A couple of 100 watt light bulbs will cost more to run. If you want to save electricity run the hairdryer less, or any appliance that's MEANT to create heat.
The improved security only needs to be relative, not 100% fix. For many large companies the vast majority of the IT department's time is taken with forgotten passwords. Even a slight improvement over time spent recovering/creating new passwords would mean thousands of dollars saved. Biometrics don't have to live up to hype, since current password security is so very inefficient(and annoying), anyways.
Wha? Swipe scans have all sorts of advantages, therefore its better suited for smaller consumer electronics? God knows how we need big, power consuming devices to keep laptops heavy and battery power low- it was like that in the old days...and we liked it that way.
The improved security only needs to be relative, not 100% fix. For many large companies the vast majority of the IT department's time is taken with forgotten passwords. Even a slight improvement over time spent recovering/creating new passwords would mean at least thousands of dollars saved for many large companies. Biometrics don't have to live up to hype, since the current security is so very inefficient, as well as not usually being particularly good.
Of course IBM's major demographic is companies, not individuals. Your average consumer will go to Dell, or one of the many cheaper brands. IBM is able to sell at a premium to large corporations/companies because of the Brand and company reputation. I think the security focus is also different. The disgruntled person in the next cubicle may be more of a concern than an Expert Hacker decrypting large amounts of data from a stolen hard drive.
Many publications outside the US don't have such heavy-handed corporate ties. Unfortunately, many of them also don't have resources to do a lot of thorough research, either. I like the Financial Times news from London. A lot of general news, and the readership depends on accurate reporting for making financial decisions. Financial papers may contain economically conservative views, but they have more incentive to be accurate, and the biases are open and honest
Of course people look for the latest and greatest computer! If they weren't, we would be have terminals and renting time on mainframes. Ever notice how middle managers insist on having the better models? Its a viral meme. Its what has driven the Mhz, now Ghz chip speed race. Bill might have been right about users never needing more than 640 kilobytes, if buyers made completely rational decisions about their computing needs.
How many/.ers out there have eagerly installed software out of nostalgia, only to be a little dissappointed: "I forgot how much this sucked!" I get a bigger kick out of resurrecting old hardware, but maybe that's just me.
I know there's and unfunny joke in this about BSOD, but it made me remember that IBM was/(is?) called Big Blue. Bill gates sold IBM MS-DOS (vaporware at the time) and then startegically doomed IBM's OS2 through a duplicitous partnership. Whatever color it is, the building should definately have a pirate's flag.
"Developers, developers, developers..."
I wish this wasn't AC! I know there's a point to be made hear, but I can actually understand the sentence above. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/tli.html
STEVEN PINKER, a psycholinguist at MIT and director of its Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has a new book on how language works: "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" (Morrow). He argues that language is not simply a cultural invention taught by parents and schools, but a biological system, --an instinct-- partly learned, and partly innate.
who is "they"? I compared "virii" with "hacker" because Those in an authoritative position don't neccessarily get heard. I think the US media has a lot of influence over general American word usage. Of course you may defer to The Oxford English Dictionary or some such as the ultimate authority, but I expect you will continue see and hear the word, "virii" for some time(as annoying as it may be)
Since 9/11, when discussing building security, it makes sense to differentiate between biological viruses and computer "virii."
Also, when the computer community tried to discourage the misuse of a term "hacker": it failed miserably. The mainstream media continues to call criminal computer users, "hackers." After that, it seems pointless to me to either discourage or encourage any word usage. I'll ask to clarify terms for my personal understanding, and that's it.
Most posters seem to have missed this fact: "If your work happens to be near a "bad" intersection for accidents, your rate goes up, even if you have a perfect record."
Many factors other than driving skill determine accidents and therefore insurance rates. This includes how much you drive, as well as where you drive, and not so much how closely you obey traffic laws. On the other hand, something needs to be done about bad senior drivers, and if the boxes keep granny off the road, that would be a good thing.
After googling, I found Acclaim was only planning to be the European distributer of Inxile Entertainment's "Bard's Tale" (which was originally distributed by Electronic Arts) Why does the game industry mess with my nostalgia so!!! Good luck to Inexile, anyways.
I remember playing the Bard's Tale series on my Apple IIe! After playing AD&D as a teenager, I grew tired of games that depended on stroking the Dungeon Masters' ego. I thought "Wouldn't it be great if a computer could take over the duties of running games" The Bard's Tale was the answer, with much better graphics and audio than "Ultima." After that reality intruded, however and I never felt I had the time for RPGs.
I would think that with the library of music and movies Sony owns, and its electronic audio/video division, it should be way ahead of the computer company. Will Sony come out with a next-generation portable entertainment device? Will Apple beat them to the punch? Stay tuned!
didn't you know that giant robots are gonna take care of elderly Japanese! Seriously though, the Japanese will just have to attract more foreign workers.(maybe by treating them better: granting full citizenship, etc) The problems with low-birth rate only exist when a society is xenophobic- unwilling to become multiethnic or multicultural
Wouldn't it have been great if we kept the telephone monopoly and they just planned to convert everything to VOIP. I just haven't seen the advantages consumers were supposed to get with the breakup. Of course Ma Bell might have fouled things up as well, but I remember being able to understand clear phones bills and passable customer service.
Missed the joke! but it wasn't that funny anyway
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I thought this may have been posted seriously then./ers moderated it as funny. There are a fightening number of people who actually believe in what you've posted as a joke. In these times, in this presidential race, I have been bombarded with opinions resulting from simplistic thinking. Blatent stupidity just isn't funny to me anymore
It wasn't very funny, but after reading it a couple times, I think the parent post was meant as a joke
Arabic countries...stick to traditional family val
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"in... Arabic countries these disturbing trends aren't observable - people rather stick to traditional family and religious values" Oh yeah, and they're so much happier and better off!!!
I'd rate this post as informative, but I think you just misspelled moron. "Get a brain, morans!"
Is moran 3133t-speak for moron, or did you just make the most ironic insult I've ever seen?
Nintendo has always been highly protective of its intellectual properties. Before Sony came to dominate the market,(and before MS entered its console) it was a very profitable strategy. It might be more accurate to say that SCO learned from Nintendo rather than the other way around!
Nintendo began as a company making playing card decks, and protecting its brand ferociously. When it went into electronics, making cheap knockoffs was rampant throughout Asia. Their protectionist strategy backfired in getting a library of games to compete with Sony and MS, but Nintendo always has and will continue to feircely protect its intellectual properties.
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of course hard drives and solid state memory work so well under dusty, static-charged conditions! I think the biggest hurdle would be adopting a new technology into an well established mass commodities market. Maybe this stuff could find its way into BIOS? Good luck to them anyways.
Turn off the monitor numbskull! Even if the computer doesn't run "sleep mode" its using much less than that. A couple of 100 watt light bulbs will cost more to run. If you want to save electricity run the hairdryer less, or any appliance that's MEANT to create heat.
The improved security only needs to be relative, not 100% fix. For many large companies the vast majority of the IT department's time is taken with forgotten passwords. Even a slight improvement over time spent recovering/creating new passwords would mean thousands of dollars saved. Biometrics don't have to live up to hype, since current password security is so very inefficient(and annoying), anyways.
Wha? Swipe scans have all sorts of advantages, therefore its better suited for smaller consumer electronics? God knows how we need big, power consuming devices to keep laptops heavy and battery power low- it was like that in the old days...and we liked it that way.
The improved security only needs to be relative, not 100% fix. For many large companies the vast majority of the IT department's time is taken with forgotten passwords. Even a slight improvement over time spent recovering/creating new passwords would mean at least thousands of dollars saved for many large companies. Biometrics don't have to live up to hype, since the current security is so very inefficient, as well as not usually being particularly good.
Of course IBM's major demographic is companies, not individuals. Your average consumer will go to Dell, or one of the many cheaper brands. IBM is able to sell at a premium to large corporations/companies because of the Brand and company reputation. I think the security focus is also different. The disgruntled person in the next cubicle may be more of a concern than an Expert Hacker decrypting large amounts of data from a stolen hard drive.
Many publications outside the US don't have such heavy-handed corporate ties. Unfortunately, many of them also don't have resources to do a lot of thorough research, either. I like the Financial Times news from London. A lot of general news, and the readership depends on accurate reporting for making financial decisions. Financial papers may contain economically conservative views, but they have more incentive to be accurate, and the biases are open and honest
Of course people look for the latest and greatest computer! If they weren't, we would be have terminals and renting time on mainframes. Ever notice how middle managers insist on having the better models? Its a viral meme. Its what has driven the Mhz, now Ghz chip speed race. Bill might have been right about users never needing more than 640 kilobytes, if buyers made completely rational decisions about their computing needs.
How many /.ers out there have eagerly installed software out of nostalgia, only to be a little dissappointed: "I forgot how much this sucked!" I get a bigger kick out of resurrecting old hardware, but maybe that's just me.
I know there's and unfunny joke in this about BSOD, but it made me remember that IBM was/(is?) called Big Blue. Bill gates sold IBM MS-DOS (vaporware at the time) and then startegically doomed IBM's OS2 through a duplicitous partnership. Whatever color it is, the building should definately have a pirate's flag. "Developers, developers, developers..."
I wish this wasn't AC! I know there's a point to be made hear, but I can actually understand the sentence above. http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/tli.html STEVEN PINKER, a psycholinguist at MIT and director of its Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, has a new book on how language works: "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" (Morrow). He argues that language is not simply a cultural invention taught by parents and schools, but a biological system, --an instinct-- partly learned, and partly innate.
who is "they"? I compared "virii" with "hacker" because Those in an authoritative position don't neccessarily get heard. I think the US media has a lot of influence over general American word usage. Of course you may defer to The Oxford English Dictionary or some such as the ultimate authority, but I expect you will continue see and hear the word, "virii" for some time(as annoying as it may be)
Since 9/11, when discussing building security, it makes sense to differentiate between biological viruses and computer "virii." Also, when the computer community tried to discourage the misuse of a term "hacker": it failed miserably. The mainstream media continues to call criminal computer users, "hackers." After that, it seems pointless to me to either discourage or encourage any word usage. I'll ask to clarify terms for my personal understanding, and that's it.
Most posters seem to have missed this fact: "If your work happens to be near a "bad" intersection for accidents, your rate goes up, even if you have a perfect record." Many factors other than driving skill determine accidents and therefore insurance rates. This includes how much you drive, as well as where you drive, and not so much how closely you obey traffic laws. On the other hand, something needs to be done about bad senior drivers, and if the boxes keep granny off the road, that would be a good thing.
After googling, I found Acclaim was only planning to be the European distributer of Inxile Entertainment's "Bard's Tale" (which was originally distributed by Electronic Arts) Why does the game industry mess with my nostalgia so!!! Good luck to Inexile, anyways.
I remember playing the Bard's Tale series on my Apple IIe! After playing AD&D as a teenager, I grew tired of games that depended on stroking the Dungeon Masters' ego. I thought "Wouldn't it be great if a computer could take over the duties of running games" The Bard's Tale was the answer, with much better graphics and audio than "Ultima." After that reality intruded, however and I never felt I had the time for RPGs.
I would think that with the library of music and movies Sony owns, and its electronic audio/video division, it should be way ahead of the computer company. Will Sony come out with a next-generation portable entertainment device? Will Apple beat them to the punch? Stay tuned!
didn't you know that giant robots are gonna take care of elderly Japanese! Seriously though, the Japanese will just have to attract more foreign workers.(maybe by treating them better: granting full citizenship, etc) The problems with low-birth rate only exist when a society is xenophobic- unwilling to become multiethnic or multicultural
Wouldn't it have been great if we kept the telephone monopoly and they just planned to convert everything to VOIP. I just haven't seen the advantages consumers were supposed to get with the breakup. Of course Ma Bell might have fouled things up as well, but I remember being able to understand clear phones bills and passable customer service.
I thought this may have been posted seriously then ./ers moderated it as funny. There are a fightening number of people who actually believe in what you've posted as a joke. In these times, in this presidential race, I have been bombarded with opinions resulting from simplistic thinking. Blatent stupidity just isn't funny to me anymore
It wasn't very funny, but after reading it a couple times, I think the parent post was meant as a joke
"in... Arabic countries these disturbing trends aren't observable - people rather stick to traditional family and religious values" Oh yeah, and they're so much happier and better off!!!
I'd rate this post as informative, but I think you just misspelled moron. "Get a brain, morans!" Is moran 3133t-speak for moron, or did you just make the most ironic insult I've ever seen?
Nintendo has always been highly protective of its intellectual properties. Before Sony came to dominate the market,(and before MS entered its console) it was a very profitable strategy. It might be more accurate to say that SCO learned from Nintendo rather than the other way around!
Nintendo began as a company making playing card decks, and protecting its brand ferociously. When it went into electronics, making cheap knockoffs was rampant throughout Asia. Their protectionist strategy backfired in getting a library of games to compete with Sony and MS, but Nintendo always has and will continue to feircely protect its intellectual properties.