"Last year, nearly $8 billion worth of DRAM was sold in the United States. Customers touched by Hynix's illegal activities include Dell Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Computer Inc., International Business Machines Corp. and Gateway Inc., according to the Justice Department."
This affects a lot of consumers. I wonder what the involvement of each individual retailer was?
Aren't we suppose to cooperate with a foreign investigation under current international laws? I can't imagine the USA standing up to a request from the British investigative branch when they're on a lead.
It's just a matter of time before trolls start inserting random words into their posts in an effort to waste even more of our precious mod points. Can you imagine a new wave of ``fw: re: fw: Ffirst GARAGE MORTGAGE Ppostss"?
Wow, all those oldtimers and their 1970s era computers. We've got a Commodore 64 in the basement, but our first home computer (at the ripe age of six) was an IBM PS/1, with a 386 processor and an 80mb hard drive. It's taken the years rather well, and I still tinker with it. I've put Slakware on it and use it as a journal.
Forceware display drivers are all well and good, but how about releasing the source for the nForce2 motherboard drivers? Having them be closed source is still making it a pain in the arse to install correctly. I still cannot get my integrated networking to work under Debian. Why not just make it easy on us and not distribute only the binaries?
I remember the good old days of KoF on the Game Boy. Back then, it was just good fighting action that kept you entertained for ten minutes. I didn't care much that there wasn't blood or "bouncing", KoF was just a quality game to me. It doesn't much matter whether I see few pixels of gore or a couple others on a character's chest move.
AROUND five exabytes (5 billion gigabytes) of information was created in 2002, up from around two exabytes in 1999, according to the latest "How Much Information?" survey produced by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California in Berkeley.
How does one go about measuring this? It seems wildly inaccurate; either they're using a complex algorithm to model data creation, or they're taking a shot in the dark.
Because of the difficulty of estimating such figures, however, all of their numbers have wide margins of error.
I'll say! Give or take, say, five exabytes or so...
"Why have data out there about yourself when there's no reason for it?" he said.
My sentiments exactly. If there's no need for anyone to know anything about me, then they shouldn't know it. I know I won't be getting one of those electronic passes anytime soon.
Although I do understand the opposition: if I've got nothing to hide, I shouldn't worry, right?
The trouble is, it is not clear that these identity-verification systems are worth the cost and trouble of introducing them. All 19 of the September 11th hijackers entered the United States using valid visas, on their own passports, for example. Verifying their identities using biometric visas would have made no difference.
I find it hard to justify the cost of using biometrics, at least in this airport example. The airlines in are in decline, the government has just bailed them out with a couple billion, and revenues are still falling. Does the TSA really need to scan my finger before I step onto a plane? Like the quote says, biometrics wouldn't have made a difference on 9/11.
This iQue looks particularly interesting to me, althought I already own both the systems that it would emulate. I want to know if it will support American-style wattage, resolution, etc.? Would it output in NTSC or PAL? Would it accept our power supply? What about the games? Emulation is nice and everything, provided you're able to read simplifie Chinese.
Mr. Silverman seems very obliging, revising his original list to conform to certain external demands. The one question I have is why he didn't acknowledge his own poll (the one on the original top 10 page)? The largest number (34%) cleary chose the Apple Macintosh over every other computer, with a couple recieve close to no votes at all (0-1%)! I don't use a Macintosh, but if so many people feel that way, shouldn't Mr. Silverman think about it?
Does anyone know if this new kernel will support nVidia's nforce2 motherboard? I have it and use the integrated ethernet adapter, but I can't it to work in Linux. It'd be nice to see support for it compiled into a kernel perhaps, or maybe offered as an easier-to-use module. I'm a total newbie, but the learning curve is somewhat steep.
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wtf is nanamicroscopic art? very very tiny paintings of grandmothers? i think they mean "nano"?
Now that the HST is effectively blind, it can look forward to a long and promising career as an NFL referee.
I'm attending MIT in the fall, and from what I hear at the school, the funny rumor is that they're testing nukes at the Stata.
Aren't we suppose to cooperate with a foreign investigation under current international laws? I can't imagine the USA standing up to a request from the British investigative branch when they're on a lead.
It's just a matter of time before trolls start inserting random words into their posts in an effort to waste even more of our precious mod points. Can you imagine a new wave of ``fw: re: fw: Ffirst GARAGE MORTGAGE Ppostss"?
I hope this won't signify a big invasion of privacy. I'd hate to be able to be pinpointed by any schmuck with a cell phone.
Wow, all those oldtimers and their 1970s era computers. We've got a Commodore 64 in the basement, but our first home computer (at the ripe age of six) was an IBM PS/1, with a 386 processor and an 80mb hard drive. It's taken the years rather well, and I still tinker with it. I've put Slakware on it and use it as a journal.
Forceware display drivers are all well and good, but how about releasing the source for the nForce2 motherboard drivers? Having them be closed source is still making it a pain in the arse to install correctly. I still cannot get my integrated networking to work under Debian. Why not just make it easy on us and not distribute only the binaries?
I agree. Nothing's more annoying than handing someone $10.15 for a $5.15 bill and watching the other person take out a calculator.
I remember the good old days of KoF on the Game Boy. Back then, it was just good fighting action that kept you entertained for ten minutes. I didn't care much that there wasn't blood or "bouncing", KoF was just a quality game to me. It doesn't much matter whether I see few pixels of gore or a couple others on a character's chest move.
How does one go about measuring this? It seems wildly inaccurate; either they're using a complex algorithm to model data creation, or they're taking a shot in the dark.
Because of the difficulty of estimating such figures, however, all of their numbers have wide margins of error.
I'll say! Give or take, say, five exabytes or so...
My sentiments exactly. If there's no need for anyone to know anything about me, then they shouldn't know it. I know I won't be getting one of those electronic passes anytime soon.
Although I do understand the opposition: if I've got nothing to hide, I shouldn't worry, right?
I find it hard to justify the cost of using biometrics, at least in this airport example. The airlines in are in decline, the government has just bailed them out with a couple billion, and revenues are still falling. Does the TSA really need to scan my finger before I step onto a plane? Like the quote says, biometrics wouldn't have made a difference on 9/11.
This iQue looks particularly interesting to me, althought I already own both the systems that it would emulate. I want to know if it will support American-style wattage, resolution, etc.? Would it output in NTSC or PAL? Would it accept our power supply? What about the games? Emulation is nice and everything, provided you're able to read simplifie Chinese.
Mr. Silverman seems very obliging, revising his original list to conform to certain external demands. The one question I have is why he didn't acknowledge his own poll (the one on the original top 10 page)? The largest number (34%) cleary chose the Apple Macintosh over every other computer, with a couple recieve close to no votes at all (0-1%)! I don't use a Macintosh, but if so many people feel that way, shouldn't Mr. Silverman think about it?
Does anyone know if this new kernel will support nVidia's nforce2 motherboard? I have it and use the integrated ethernet adapter, but I can't it to work in Linux. It'd be nice to see support for it compiled into a kernel perhaps, or maybe offered as an easier-to-use module. I'm a total newbie, but the learning curve is somewhat steep.