Pretty soon the HDTV experience will be as displeasurable as the DVD experience - my power button will be disabled during the intro, we'll have "FBI" warnings that cannot be bypassed in any manner, the TV will change channels when I turn it on, and I'll have hypertension. And I will give up on TV entirely. Oh, wait, I already have.
Thanks you MPAA - it will help people see the world outside of the bland "art" produced nowadays in Hollywood.
Maybe if companies like MP3.com used their VC to build their businesses rather than buy Hummers, so many wouldn't have gone under. I bet you can't even listen to MP3s over the roar of the diesel in that thing...
Impinging on the liberties of the people to try to prevent crime has become an integral part of American politics. In the past, it was limited to the far left, but has been encompassing more and more of the mainstream and has gone right of center as time has passed. I'm not appalled, but unfortunately, not surprised.
Would this mean that drinking and driving is ok, as long as you pass the breathalyzer?
$10k per week? At a conservative $50 a pop, that's only equivalent to 200 people in the door - per week. It's sad that they're compromising the art for relatively small savings.
Now if only we can get rid of the idea of spending taxpayer money domestically for fancy touch screens and computers, and return to good old foolproof (well, except maybe for the most foolish) making holes in paper or pulling a lever, we'll be all set, and maybe we can trust the voting system. Oh wait - you don't need to prove who you are when you register to vote. Never mind.
I wholeheartedly agree. Introductury computer science courses should teach students about computers rather than focusing on how to code. Assembly language is a great way to do this. Just like you wouldn't want to teach kids how to add using a calculator, people shouldn't learn how to program a computer using a high level language.
I know exactly zero people who have iChat AV with a camera or microphone. How is this better than using my cell phone?
For now and the near future (say 2-5 years), videoconferencing will remain a novelty for the masses and perhaps a tool for the tech-savvy. It will be useless, however, for one average person to talk to another.
The article isn't very specific about the level of access he had gained. I'm guessing the classified information was firewalled off from the network which he broken into for its internet bandwidth. At the very least, I'd expect (false hope?) that the actual particle accelerator controls aren't accessible from any internet-connected computer.
I'm tired of seeing this kind of rubbish. People who do real work on their computers (e.g., engineers and scientists) need 64 bit computing. For example, the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software we used at my company required 64 bit precision for accuracy. That would be painfully slow on a 32 bit machine. Not everybody compiles Linux kernels all day.
Many people are going to think I'm defending outsourcing just because of my name (I'm an American and always have been).
The whole premise of tech boom was to be able to lower costs - that real estate didn't matter, infrastructure costs were minimal, etc. It's much easier to move an office than a steel plant (and even steel is dead in the US.
During the tech boom, countless people went into computer science (or got certifications in network management from fly-by-night operations) in the hopes of riches. This was just like the run up in NASDAQ - fueled by ridiculous expectations of everyone being a programmer or a network admin. The economy cooled, and there are simply too many such people out there. And these people feel that they deserve some salary higher than the now low market salary. Let's face it. IT has become a commodity resource and is now priced like it. BTW, I still have a job, since I decided I'd rather be a mechanical engineer.
And to those who somehow want to ban outsourcing, can you come up with a way to do it without absolutely destroying the concept of free trade and freedom in general? It's not easy when you're transmitting code over the internet instead of bringing steel in at the harbor.
No offense intended to the writer, but this review is not representative of the target market for a real server OS. What business would use USB connected printers? Use a software firewall? This review probably covers your typical Slashdotter who wants to run OS X Server for the fun of it, but is not useful to those who might use it as a real server in any sort of production environment. Those people will want to know how it deals with large numbers of connections, how it integrates with things like XServe RAID, etc.
This has always been their pricing scheme. It's assumed that if you need more than 10 concurrent connections, the $500 difference is negligible, and you just go for the $1000 unlimited client version. Which is still _much_ cheaper than MS server licensing. Think of the $500 as a cheap version for small businesses or students.
The difference between the copier and Photoshop is that the copier is an output device. As soon as the copier outputs a picture of currency near actual size, the law has been broken. Photoshop, however, cannot be used in and of itself to commit a crime and is thus further up the chain (and further along the slippery slope of crime-preemption).
I'd be more worried about the mercury my dinner is eating than it eating a pet that gets released into the ocean. Okay, I'd be more worried about the moon falling onto the earth than genes being spread through eating. Anyway, couldn't fish eat the sea anemone which originally had the gene that glows?
There is no relationship between a prion based disease (BSE) and genetic modification. Your post is as ridiculous as the lies that the media spreads. Maybe I'm going to develop hemophilia because I ate a cow that had a cold. That's what you're saying.
So buy some shares.
Keep in mind that shareholders include people with 401(k) retirement plans, mutual funds, etc. We all benefit from efficiency in the end.
"What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?"
Some of us actually use computers for real work. I work with GPS data sampled at 5.714 MHz. During processing, I have files that are over 1 GB for each minute of data.
Amazon.com is selling iPods right now for $15-$30 off through www.macintouch.com's links. And my campus store is having a holiday sale at $40 off the educational price. However, they sold out the day they got their last shipment, and now I'm waiting 2 weeks for the next one. Sounds to me like they didn't maximize their profits and should be selling at a higher price.
That said, it's not fair to expect large discounts on a premium product. Go to a Ferrari dealer and ask for a deal on a 360. They'll laugh you out of the store. They sell for over MSRP because of supply and demand.
The reason the US put diplomatic pressure on the EU to change to an "easily jammable" frequency is that the initial proposals for Galileo had it using the exact same carrier frequency as GPS. This was an attempt by the EU to prevent jamming of Galileo without taking down American GPS as well. Naturally, having Galileo placed atop the GPS frequency irked the Americans and caused this apprently successful push to change frequencies.
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Pretty soon the HDTV experience will be as displeasurable as the DVD experience - my power button will be disabled during the intro, we'll have "FBI" warnings that cannot be bypassed in any manner, the TV will change channels when I turn it on, and I'll have hypertension. And I will give up on TV entirely. Oh, wait, I already have. Thanks you MPAA - it will help people see the world outside of the bland "art" produced nowadays in Hollywood.
Maybe if companies like MP3.com used their VC to build their businesses rather than buy Hummers, so many wouldn't have gone under. I bet you can't even listen to MP3s over the roar of the diesel in that thing...
Impinging on the liberties of the people to try to prevent crime has become an integral part of American politics. In the past, it was limited to the far left, but has been encompassing more and more of the mainstream and has gone right of center as time has passed. I'm not appalled, but unfortunately, not surprised. Would this mean that drinking and driving is ok, as long as you pass the breathalyzer?
Wow. $9M is damn cheap - most business jets start in the $20M range. Now if only I can find $9M in the piggybank, I think I'll go for it.
$10k per week? At a conservative $50 a pop, that's only equivalent to 200 people in the door - per week. It's sad that they're compromising the art for relatively small savings.
I guess Windows is now "Fertile Ground for Foul Play" too, like W. Russell Jones claims (from the last article)
Now if only we can get rid of the idea of spending taxpayer money domestically for fancy touch screens and computers, and return to good old foolproof (well, except maybe for the most foolish) making holes in paper or pulling a lever, we'll be all set, and maybe we can trust the voting system. Oh wait - you don't need to prove who you are when you register to vote. Never mind.
I wholeheartedly agree. Introductury computer science courses should teach students about computers rather than focusing on how to code. Assembly language is a great way to do this. Just like you wouldn't want to teach kids how to add using a calculator, people shouldn't learn how to program a computer using a high level language.
I know exactly zero people who have iChat AV with a camera or microphone. How is this better than using my cell phone? For now and the near future (say 2-5 years), videoconferencing will remain a novelty for the masses and perhaps a tool for the tech-savvy. It will be useless, however, for one average person to talk to another.
The article isn't very specific about the level of access he had gained. I'm guessing the classified information was firewalled off from the network which he broken into for its internet bandwidth. At the very least, I'd expect (false hope?) that the actual particle accelerator controls aren't accessible from any internet-connected computer.
I'm tired of seeing this kind of rubbish. People who do real work on their computers (e.g., engineers and scientists) need 64 bit computing. For example, the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software we used at my company required 64 bit precision for accuracy. That would be painfully slow on a 32 bit machine. Not everybody compiles Linux kernels all day.
Many people are going to think I'm defending outsourcing just because of my name (I'm an American and always have been). The whole premise of tech boom was to be able to lower costs - that real estate didn't matter, infrastructure costs were minimal, etc. It's much easier to move an office than a steel plant (and even steel is dead in the US. During the tech boom, countless people went into computer science (or got certifications in network management from fly-by-night operations) in the hopes of riches. This was just like the run up in NASDAQ - fueled by ridiculous expectations of everyone being a programmer or a network admin. The economy cooled, and there are simply too many such people out there. And these people feel that they deserve some salary higher than the now low market salary. Let's face it. IT has become a commodity resource and is now priced like it. BTW, I still have a job, since I decided I'd rather be a mechanical engineer. And to those who somehow want to ban outsourcing, can you come up with a way to do it without absolutely destroying the concept of free trade and freedom in general? It's not easy when you're transmitting code over the internet instead of bringing steel in at the harbor.
No offense intended to the writer, but this review is not representative of the target market for a real server OS. What business would use USB connected printers? Use a software firewall? This review probably covers your typical Slashdotter who wants to run OS X Server for the fun of it, but is not useful to those who might use it as a real server in any sort of production environment. Those people will want to know how it deals with large numbers of connections, how it integrates with things like XServe RAID, etc.
There is a lot of information on building a sound-triggered system at http://www.hiviz.com/, along with some photos.
This has always been their pricing scheme. It's assumed that if you need more than 10 concurrent connections, the $500 difference is negligible, and you just go for the $1000 unlimited client version. Which is still _much_ cheaper than MS server licensing. Think of the $500 as a cheap version for small businesses or students.
The difference between the copier and Photoshop is that the copier is an output device. As soon as the copier outputs a picture of currency near actual size, the law has been broken. Photoshop, however, cannot be used in and of itself to commit a crime and is thus further up the chain (and further along the slippery slope of crime-preemption).
Turn off Java and Javascript, and reject loading anything automatically from a domain other than the web site. I'll bet the movie doesn't load.
I'd be more worried about the mercury my dinner is eating than it eating a pet that gets released into the ocean. Okay, I'd be more worried about the moon falling onto the earth than genes being spread through eating. Anyway, couldn't fish eat the sea anemone which originally had the gene that glows?
There is no relationship between a prion based disease (BSE) and genetic modification. Your post is as ridiculous as the lies that the media spreads. Maybe I'm going to develop hemophilia because I ate a cow that had a cold. That's what you're saying.
So buy some shares. Keep in mind that shareholders include people with 401(k) retirement plans, mutual funds, etc. We all benefit from efficiency in the end.
Maybe he was referring to u-Law (.au)...
Airplane cabins are pressurized.
"What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?" Some of us actually use computers for real work. I work with GPS data sampled at 5.714 MHz. During processing, I have files that are over 1 GB for each minute of data.
Amazon.com is selling iPods right now for $15-$30 off through www.macintouch.com's links. And my campus store is having a holiday sale at $40 off the educational price. However, they sold out the day they got their last shipment, and now I'm waiting 2 weeks for the next one. Sounds to me like they didn't maximize their profits and should be selling at a higher price. That said, it's not fair to expect large discounts on a premium product. Go to a Ferrari dealer and ask for a deal on a 360. They'll laugh you out of the store. They sell for over MSRP because of supply and demand.
The reason the US put diplomatic pressure on the EU to change to an "easily jammable" frequency is that the initial proposals for Galileo had it using the exact same carrier frequency as GPS. This was an attempt by the EU to prevent jamming of Galileo without taking down American GPS as well. Naturally, having Galileo placed atop the GPS frequency irked the Americans and caused this apprently successful push to change frequencies.