... much easier than the surface as far less deceleration is needed...
I would hope that they would still decelerate all the way before landing. Messy otherwise. Or maybe Phobos has enough velocity relative to Mars that you just sort of slow down a little and hop on?
(Presumably, the intended meaning was that far less fuel is required for deceleration.)
You are suffering from backwards thinking. You see, since any misappropriated code would be The SCO Group's code anyway, they don't need to check it. They can use it at will.
The only problem they have (a minor inconvenience for them, really) is actually pointing to any code that belongs to them.
TFA is talking about "high-quality speakers which have bare-wire connections:
Running wires this way allows you to trim your speaker wires to exact lengths without having to crimp a jack on the end of your speaker wires.
That would be a "plug". The male (sticky-outty) thing is a plug. The female (takie-innie) thing is a jack.
I'm about to run speaker wire to the upstairs bathroom, to put a pair of car speakers in the ceiling above the sink. That means crawling in the attic, pulling wires, etc. I'm not about to spend $1000 to do that!
images that conform to the content, rather than forcing the content to conform
A simple, static (per-view) banner doesn't bother me. Advertizing related to the content doesn't bother me. Pretty, but subtle, images that fit the color scheme and page layout of the site are just fine.
What I will block every time are
images hosted by an ad site
animated GIFs, flash, etc. Go away!
off-site images that crowd the screen or conflict with the page layout I'm expecting. If I have to alter my browser window, I click on AdBlock and tell it:
http://*.adsite.com/*
(Slashcode kept making that clickable, so I put a space after the ":").
I block everything from doubleclick.net, for instance.
Exactly. Some MPAA congresstooge will slip it in under the cover of night, as it were.
On the other hand, consider the possibility that the story was leaked as a trial balloon, to see how much attention it would get. They'll put it out again every couple of months, until we all decide that a broadcast flag is inevitable.
Considering how many people think digital TV is some kind of constitutional right, I suspect we'll get a broadcast flag along with subsidized digital TV -- to protect our way of life, fight terrorism, and to save the children.
The MPAA will get their broadcast flag, and the government will borrow money from my kids to pay for it.
Blaming "the hackers" for finding and exploiting insecurities in your software is like blaming barking dogs for your insomnia. The dog is just being a dog. Hackers or dogs may or may not be providing you with a service, by alerting you to real trouble coming your way.
1997 was about five years after Compuserve should have known what to do. They were operating in the same mode as AOL: serve the dialup user, and put up barriers to everyone else.
Compuserve could have been the biggest company in the world if they'd just realized that market share was everything.
AOL has brand name recognition with just about everyone in the U.S. The trouble is, when I think of AOL I think of those stacks of CDs in the Wal-Mart checkout isle and the endcaps at supermarkets. I don't think about any content I'd like to see there, despite the number of "content parters" they've signed up over the years.
It's the same reason Compuserve is such a non-player on the Internet. The industry shifted out from underneath them.
AOL wasted way too much corporate energy convincing their customers that they were the Internet, and didn't expend enough effort drawing in non-AOL dialup users with their content. Didn't they sign up exclusive content, so you couldn't get there unless you subscribed to AOL?
They're now paying for misreading the market, for not realizing that the money was in clicks, not in subscriptions.
The service was obviously not well thought out, since they weren't able to cope with any kind of volume. They probably expected that the existing editorial staff could handle weeding out the graffiti.
I wondered whether a wiki was a good fit for an editorial site. Seems like the wrong model.
My best essays have always been the result of reacting to reader responses and making alterations. Probably something like the Slashdot Journal page format would have been better for them.
They could even have a real person looking at comments before they were published. The volume would tend to be self-limiting, since you'd be less likely to post comments if they never got out of the reviewer's backlog.
According to Masuji Ibuse'sBlack Rain, a recollection of Hiroshima, it was because there was such chaos on the one hand and pride on the other that the Emperor, who still had supreme authority, didn't fully believe the reports.
Remember, in July, 1945 the Bomb was only a rumor. The American Air Force dropped leaflets over Hiroshima saying that it was coming, and the Japanese thought it was just propaganda. Communication with the region was confined to reports through the mouths of refugees.
A single bomb that can destroy a city? It was the stuff of science fiction. The Emperor may have also thought that there was only one bomb, or clinged to the dream of victory, until the second bomb dropped. Then he had to know that it was over.
But critics question whether Google has an efficient process for managing innovation.
Managing innovation, in an Open Source mindset, is an oxymoron. Ideas compete in a sort of free market, and managers just watch to see what's taking root. "Throw many new services against the wall to see what sticks", in other words.
That contrasts with the two-fold MBA way of doing things, which is to say A) commission a focus group and convince them that the thing the management team wants is best, and then listen to the focus group or B) let politicking among mid-level managers run its course until someone gets the ear of a TLA-level boss. Some combination of A and B gets the job done.
Since Google's business is driven by a huge number of all different kinds of people using their services, and since they have a profitable business already, they have the luxury of seeing what works.
The real point is that trying to manage the innovation in the MBA sense would eventually kill the goose laying the golden clicks (or something like that). And does the world really need another Computer Associates clone?
It may take 3 hours of hands-on time to fix a single computer, but five computers can usually be fixed in that same three hours. Much of the "fixing" time is just waiting for disks to be scanned for malware and for installs to run. "Windows is saving your settings" (Ugh.)
The real issue is support costs versus training costs. Businesses that pay $250/hour for someone to "fix their computers" (which is to say, clean up Windows errors) should be paying $100/hour for someone to train their people on how to avoid these problems.
It's not hard to avoid viruses and malware. You switch to a non-IE browser and don't run programs whose originator you don't know. That doesn't take too much training time, but it saves a timeclock full of support time if people practice those things.
Combined with some AV tool (and in my experience it doesn't matter which one), you're generally on target for hassle-free computer use.
That may be true, but we should also consider that many American companies have copied Japanese management techniques with great success.
The Japanese were influenced heavily by W. Edwards Deming, from Iowa.
But you're right in that the Japanese culture, which has traditionally placed a high value on conformity, seems to be well-suited to high-precision manufacturing. They make good stuff.
(The above is not meant to imply that all Japanese are conformists or that conformity is the only thing that characterizes Japanese culture).
Why would you want a wireless card to connect to another wireless card? I don't get that at all. Besides, what are the odds you'd ever run into anyone else with a wireless network adapter without a base station? You don't mean you'd try to move your laptop around, do you?
But "Ad Hoc" has a nice ring to it. You should trademark that phrase. Maybe it would catch on.
Hot on the heels of its stunning disclosure of the "heat sink", which someday may allow computers to have processors that never overheat no matter how far they're overclocked, Intel has invented "firmware".
Firmware will allow the electronics giant to reprogram its chips when new standards are developed. That should help Intel avoid a replay of the wireless Centrino debacle, in which they were shipping 10Mhz mobile chips into a market driven by 54Mhz base stations.
I've always wondered by movie theatres don't all have video rental stores inside, and vice versa.
They could have projection rooms available for groups could watch videos on a hiqh-quality projection screen with a good sound system. There's money to be made, so there's probably a way around that stupid legal construction about private viewing of videos versus public display.
I think the movie-nerd subculture would be attracted by that like flies to cocoa butter.
Unsanctioned copies help sell your product by exposing it to a wider audience.
You can't stop people from making copies, law or no law.
Copy protection makes your product more difficult to use and so discourages its use. If people are discouraged from using your product they've bought, they tend not to buy anything else from you.
Trying to use lawywers to stop copying wastes everyone's time and money.
Trying to stop copying through technical obstacles wastes your time and money, but it also hinders technical development that could add real value to your product.
I've got over 1,500 vinyl albums of music of all types, over 1,000 of which I've never played. I've bought them at garage sales and auctions for maybe $100 total. I'm going through and listening, digitizing the ones I like.
So to the Inferno with you, Sony, and may your cash registers melt in the flames of your corporate soul.
Slashdot Mirror
They already did that*.
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* Well, mostly.
I would hope that they would still decelerate all the way before landing. Messy otherwise. Or maybe Phobos has enough velocity relative to Mars that you just sort of slow down a little and hop on?
(Presumably, the intended meaning was that far less fuel is required for deceleration.)
>they've check those projects
You are suffering from backwards thinking. You see, since any misappropriated code would be The SCO Group's code anyway, they don't need to check it. They can use it at will.
The only problem they have (a minor inconvenience for them, really) is actually pointing to any code that belongs to them.
That would be a "plug". The male (sticky-outty) thing is a plug. The female (takie-innie) thing is a jack.
I'm about to run speaker wire to the upstairs bathroom, to put a pair of car speakers in the ceiling above the sink. That means crawling in the attic, pulling wires, etc. I'm not about to spend $1000 to do that!
But then, I'm a hands-on kind of guy.
Precisely!
I don't block:
A simple, static (per-view) banner doesn't bother me. Advertizing related to the content doesn't bother me. Pretty, but subtle, images that fit the color scheme and page layout of the site are just fine.
What I will block every time are
I block everything from doubleclick.net, for instance.
>So which bill....?
Exactly. Some MPAA congresstooge will slip it in under the cover of night, as it were.
On the other hand, consider the possibility that the story was leaked as a trial balloon, to see how much attention it would get. They'll put it out again every couple of months, until we all decide that a broadcast flag is inevitable.
Considering how many people think digital TV is some kind of constitutional right, I suspect we'll get a broadcast flag along with subsidized digital TV -- to protect our way of life, fight terrorism, and to save the children.
The MPAA will get their broadcast flag, and the government will borrow money from my kids to pay for it.
I think your post should replace the story.
Blaming "the hackers" for finding and exploiting insecurities in your software is like blaming barking dogs for your insomnia. The dog is just being a dog. Hackers or dogs may or may not be providing you with a service, by alerting you to real trouble coming your way.
Dvorcrack any more. He's just irrelevant.
Just because Microsoft is out to borg peer-to-peer technology, that doesn't mean that every related event is the result of a Gatesian plot.
Spyware on Bittorrent was almost as unsurprising as a wiki editorial site getting graffitied to death.
>AOL bought them in 1997
1997 was about five years after Compuserve should have known what to do. They were operating in the same mode as AOL: serve the dialup user, and put up barriers to everyone else.
Compuserve could have been the biggest company in the world if they'd just realized that market share was everything.
But then, hindsight's 20:20.
AOL has brand name recognition with just about everyone in the U.S. The trouble is, when I think of AOL I think of those stacks of CDs in the Wal-Mart checkout isle and the endcaps at supermarkets. I don't think about any content I'd like to see there, despite the number of "content parters" they've signed up over the years.
It's the same reason Compuserve is such a non-player on the Internet. The industry shifted out from underneath them.
AOL wasted way too much corporate energy convincing their customers that they were the Internet, and didn't expend enough effort drawing in non-AOL dialup users with their content. Didn't they sign up exclusive content, so you couldn't get there unless you subscribed to AOL?
They're now paying for misreading the market, for not realizing that the money was in clicks, not in subscriptions.
The service was obviously not well thought out, since they weren't able to cope with any kind of volume. They probably expected that the existing editorial staff could handle weeding out the graffiti.
I wondered whether a wiki was a good fit for an editorial site. Seems like the wrong model.
My best essays have always been the result of reacting to reader responses and making alterations. Probably something like the Slashdot Journal page format would have been better for them.
They could even have a real person looking at comments before they were published. The volume would tend to be self-limiting, since you'd be less likely to post comments if they never got out of the reviewer's backlog.
According to Masuji Ibuse'sBlack Rain, a recollection of Hiroshima, it was because there was such chaos on the one hand and pride on the other that the Emperor, who still had supreme authority, didn't fully believe the reports.
Remember, in July, 1945 the Bomb was only a rumor. The American Air Force dropped leaflets over Hiroshima saying that it was coming, and the Japanese thought it was just propaganda. Communication with the region was confined to reports through the mouths of refugees.
A single bomb that can destroy a city? It was the stuff of science fiction. The Emperor may have also thought that there was only one bomb, or clinged to the dream of victory, until the second bomb dropped. Then he had to know that it was over.
Managing innovation, in an Open Source mindset, is an oxymoron. Ideas compete in a sort of free market, and managers just watch to see what's taking root. "Throw many new services against the wall to see what sticks", in other words.
That contrasts with the two-fold MBA way of doing things, which is to say A) commission a focus group and convince them that the thing the management team wants is best, and then listen to the focus group or B) let politicking among mid-level managers run its course until someone gets the ear of a TLA-level boss. Some combination of A and B gets the job done.
Since Google's business is driven by a huge number of all different kinds of people using their services, and since they have a profitable business already, they have the luxury of seeing what works.
The real point is that trying to manage the innovation in the MBA sense would eventually kill the goose laying the golden clicks (or something like that). And does the world really need another Computer Associates clone?
>[short M-F crossover extension]
That's a good idea.
But then you go to some old gal's house and she's
(That's a compilation, thankfully, not a description of a single person.)
It may take 3 hours of hands-on time to fix a single computer, but five computers can usually be fixed in that same three hours. Much of the "fixing" time is just waiting for disks to be scanned for malware and for installs to run. "Windows is saving your settings" (Ugh.)
The real issue is support costs versus training costs. Businesses that pay $250/hour for someone to "fix their computers" (which is to say, clean up Windows errors) should be paying $100/hour for someone to train their people on how to avoid these problems.
It's not hard to avoid viruses and malware. You switch to a non-IE browser and don't run programs whose originator you don't know. That doesn't take too much training time, but it saves a timeclock full of support time if people practice those things.
Combined with some AV tool (and in my experience it doesn't matter which one), you're generally on target for hassle-free computer use.
"Green Tennis Shoes are the best! Come see my kewl site about Green Tennis Shoes!"
And you're taken to some guy's blog. Is there a rating system, and if so, how well does it work?I was only kidding. Not very well, now that I reread my post.
As for crossover cables, I generally carry a pair of RJ-11/12/45 crimpers with me.
The Japanese were influenced heavily by W. Edwards Deming, from Iowa.
But you're right in that the Japanese culture, which has traditionally placed a high value on conformity, seems to be well-suited to high-precision manufacturing. They make good stuff.
(The above is not meant to imply that all Japanese are conformists or that conformity is the only thing that characterizes Japanese culture).
...and your father smells of elderberries!
What do you mean, "sarcastic"?
Why would you want a wireless card to connect to another wireless card? I don't get that at all. Besides, what are the odds you'd ever run into anyone else with a wireless network adapter without a base station? You don't mean you'd try to move your laptop around, do you?
But "Ad Hoc" has a nice ring to it. You should trademark that phrase. Maybe it would catch on.
Hot on the heels of its stunning disclosure of the "heat sink", which someday may allow computers to have processors that never overheat no matter how far they're overclocked, Intel has invented "firmware".
Firmware will allow the electronics giant to reprogram its chips when new standards are developed. That should help Intel avoid a replay of the wireless Centrino debacle, in which they were shipping 10Mhz mobile chips into a market driven by 54Mhz base stations.
I've always wondered by movie theatres don't all have video rental stores inside, and vice versa.
They could have projection rooms available for groups could watch videos on a hiqh-quality projection screen with a good sound system. There's money to be made, so there's probably a way around that stupid legal construction about private viewing of videos versus public display.
I think the movie-nerd subculture would be attracted by that like flies to cocoa butter.
I'm going to start building and selling computers with Linux preinstalled.
I've got over 1,500 vinyl albums of music of all types, over 1,000 of which I've never played. I've bought them at garage sales and auctions for maybe $100 total. I'm going through and listening, digitizing the ones I like.
So to the Inferno with you, Sony, and may your cash registers melt in the flames of your corporate soul.