I don't know why this article was even posted. Mike Masnick actually put some time into READING the court documents, and Viacom (just like this poster) is taking things WAY out of context.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people's grammar these days? Collective nouns such as company names are almost ALWAYS considered to be singular. Yet I have seen a rash of idiotic grammatical errors due to someone trying to be cute and different with subject-verb agreement.
It makes me wonder if their new network management tool had failed at some point because my local Comcast number was completely overloaded (getting "the call could not be completed as dialed" telco messages). Obviously something had broke, and even my father called me before I woke up on Saturday about the problem.
The Internet is a collection of network computers that are assigned a valid public IP (Internet Protocol) address. That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?:-P
I just checked both Google Earth and Google Maps (not that they should be using different satellite maps), and TMI is clear as day. When Google Earth was first released, the first sat map did not have a clear picture of TMI. All of a sudden, the sat map was updated one day, and ever since then TMI has been clear as day.
...STUPID (for reasons already mentioned sarcastically in other posts). WiFi is simply not that reliable, period. Connection stability can be absolute shit, and then you have to worry about encrypting the connection as well. It is simply just not a good idea at all.
Gmail is where it's at. Forget bothering to use it as a POP3 mailbox as well. Just keep your shit on the server and view it via a web browser. You won't run into those issues with the POP3 mail client having corrupted mailbox folders, hosing all the emails that you have. You also don't need to worry about configuring a POP3 mail client on each computer you wish to view your emails at.
That's why an AJAX-based OpenDocument office suite would probably be better for such an application to be hosted centrally on a server. Maybe that is actually in the works already by some bright developers.
"...and although desktop versions of it won't be available until next year..."
Uh, both AOpen and DFI have had Socket 479 (Pentium-M) motherboards for the desktop available (iirc, both are micro ATX form factor) for several months. Granted, those motherboards are overpriced (at least they were back in January when I built a Dothan box for my mother (mobo was about $250 back then), but that clearly shows the above quote to be bullshit.
Considering that I can actually remember back to my middle school and high school years (a long time ago) and how I was also able to find this educator's guide off NASA's site (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2003/ed ucators_guide2003/pdf/rwaves_acts.pdf), I honestly don't understand what the big deal is. I was always taught that X-Rays and gamma rays are completely blocked by our atmosphere, so why would this type of scenario put us in danger exactly? Also, how in the hell did the gamma radiation supposedly break through our atmosphere 400+ million years ago? So where exactly is the danger of this gamma radiation coming from?
Neither liberalism nor leftism is about "favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded", period.
If you're referring to those Super DLT tapes that hold 160 GB uncompressed and 320 GB compressed, then I know which type of data tapes you're referring to. I once worked in a data center that stored some of its backups onto those Super DLT tapes, and those tapes were kind of flimsy with regards to the latch on the ends of the tape media itself that was used by the tape robots to pull the tape out of the spindle. Those plastic latches would break off a lot. The data medium itself may be more reliable than CD-R and DVD-R, but the tape is useless after those plastic latches break off.
Linux on laptops has improved. You can get a basic install working on a modern laptop, but getting all the things windows users take for granted can take work. Lots of work, including installing kernel patches and patches to those patches. You also frequently have to sacrifice goats to get certain features working.
That's why you should just get an iBook or PowerMac instead. Laptops as a whole are proprietary, using a lot of chips for modems, NICs, etc. that are never thoroughly documented (Broadcom et al). Why not get a laptop that has an OS written for it that will actually be able to:
1) play DVD movies
2) use 802.11 and Bluetooth without pulling your hair and teeth out
3) use the NIC and modem without driver issues
4) handle power managment
5) have accelerated 3D chipsets onboard
How about getting a Mac instead of a Wintendo for a PC? You'll avoid the spyware and viruses, but the spam you'll just have to live with. In any case, Gmail filters spam pretty well, so I don't see it much.:P
Think about it as an investment into the future. When you have more market share, you can then start pulling in more money by having more people in the market to buy more Apple *software* and more iPods as well. iPods and iTMS being Apple's main revenue generator, this can only mean even more profit coming in if they were to sell more headless Macs.
Yes, Opera is a bloated POS. I've used it several times in the past with multiple versions of it. I couldn't display a lot of pages properly that IE and Firefox could. Everytime I tried to force myself to use Opera instead of IE, I kept going back to using IE.
Now when I started using Firefox at around version 0.9.3, it only took me a week to get permanently hooked on it. It had crashed a few times up to and including version 1.0 PR, but after 1.0 came out, I haven't had any browser crashes whatsoever, thus putting far ahead in IE in stability.
That's not the say that Firefox doesn't act a little buggy here and there, but at least it stays up and usually stays usable even after experiencing what few bugs I run into. IE used to crash frequently on me, and thus it was always a pain in my ass when it did. Not to mention the spyware, adware, and other malware that gets installed through using IE, I'm just glad that Firefox works as I want it to, and it didn't have all the features I thought were necessary for a tabbed browser until it did finally release 1.0 Final.
When it comes to viewing web pages in an alternative web browser, Firefox owns Opera just for the fact it renders them properly noticably more than Opera. No, Opera not worth the $20 or whatever the going price is for it. I get way more than I pay for with Firefox, all of it good.
After looking at the benchmarks across the board for the Dothan setups, I would get such a setup if only they dropped the prices down on the Dothans and their associated motherboards to a more reasonable price. The only thing you'd have to worry about overheating would probably be the GPU, and that should already have adequate cooling built onto it. It makes me wonder if you could get away with a lower-wattage power supply because the CPU using up a whole lot less power than P4's and Athlon64's and still have enough power to juice up a high-end GPU, a couple HDs, an optical drive, and the good ol' floppy drive.
My history is the exact opposite. I've had 1.0 PR crash multiple times on me (albeit not as often as IE has when I was still using IE). I have YET to have 1.0 Final crash on me, period. I've seen some weird bugs occur (such as bookmarks getting out of alignment spontaneously once or twice, having a live bookmark just stop working until I delete it and then recreate it again, etc.), but nothing serious enough that I actually had to resort to opening Firefox in "safe mode" just so I can get it to work again as I had to do at least a half dozen times with 1.0 PR.
So what kind of crack-smoking hardware are you using?:-P
Please note the following quote from the C|Net article:
"However, political science professors at Harvard University, Stanford University and Cornell University discounted the theories by pointing out that optical-scan systems are used mainly in rural counties of Florida and that those counties have had registered Democrats that have voted Republican in the past four presidential elections."
""We conclude that allegation is baseless," wrote Walter Mebane, professor of political science at Cornell University."
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I don't know why this article was even posted. Mike Masnick actually put some time into READING the court documents, and Viacom (just like this poster) is taking things WAY out of context.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100319/1237138636.shtml
Read The Fracking Article!
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people's grammar these days? Collective nouns such as company names are almost ALWAYS considered to be singular. Yet I have seen a rash of idiotic grammatical errors due to someone trying to be cute and different with subject-verb agreement.
Look it up.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm
(under "Collective Nouns, Company Names, Family Names, Sports Teams")
So just in case you could not figure out the proper subject-verb agreement, it is "Apple is..." in your last sentence.
It makes me wonder if their new network management tool had failed at some point because my local Comcast number was completely overloaded (getting "the call could not be completed as dialed" telco messages). Obviously something had broke, and even my father called me before I woke up on Saturday about the problem.
The Internet is a collection of network computers that are assigned a valid public IP (Internet Protocol) address. That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? :-P
I just checked both Google Earth and Google Maps (not that they should be using different satellite maps), and TMI is clear as day. When Google Earth was first released, the first sat map did not have a clear picture of TMI. All of a sudden, the sat map was updated one day, and ever since then TMI has been clear as day.
...STUPID (for reasons already mentioned sarcastically in other posts). WiFi is simply not that reliable, period. Connection stability can be absolute shit, and then you have to worry about encrypting the connection as well. It is simply just not a good idea at all.
Gmail is where it's at. Forget bothering to use it as a POP3 mailbox as well. Just keep your shit on the server and view it via a web browser. You won't run into those issues with the POP3 mail client having corrupted mailbox folders, hosing all the emails that you have. You also don't need to worry about configuring a POP3 mail client on each computer you wish to view your emails at.
So drop all 3 and go Gmail all the way!
https://mail.google.com/mail/
That's why an AJAX-based OpenDocument office suite would probably be better for such an application to be hosted centrally on a server. Maybe that is actually in the works already by some bright developers.
Embrace! Extend! Exterminate!
Trusted Computing owns you now!
"...and although desktop versions of it won't be available until next year..." Uh, both AOpen and DFI have had Socket 479 (Pentium-M) motherboards for the desktop available (iirc, both are micro ATX form factor) for several months. Granted, those motherboards are overpriced (at least they were back in January when I built a Dothan box for my mother (mobo was about $250 back then), but that clearly shows the above quote to be bullshit.
Considering that I can actually remember back to my middle school and high school years (a long time ago) and how I was also able to find this educator's guide off NASA's site (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2003/ed ucators_guide2003/pdf/rwaves_acts.pdf), I honestly don't understand what the big deal is. I was always taught that X-Rays and gamma rays are completely blocked by our atmosphere, so why would this type of scenario put us in danger exactly? Also, how in the hell did the gamma radiation supposedly break through our atmosphere 400+ million years ago? So where exactly is the danger of this gamma radiation coming from?
...it's a 2005 BMW 325xiT with said equipment! :D
Sounds a lot like ActiveX .NYET.
Neither liberalism nor leftism is about "favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded", period.
If you're referring to those Super DLT tapes that hold 160 GB uncompressed and 320 GB compressed, then I know which type of data tapes you're referring to. I once worked in a data center that stored some of its backups onto those Super DLT tapes, and those tapes were kind of flimsy with regards to the latch on the ends of the tape media itself that was used by the tape robots to pull the tape out of the spindle. Those plastic latches would break off a lot. The data medium itself may be more reliable than CD-R and DVD-R, but the tape is useless after those plastic latches break off.
Bad Idea (TM)
If it isn't broke, then don't fix it.
That's why you should just get an iBook or PowerMac instead. Laptops as a whole are proprietary, using a lot of chips for modems, NICs, etc. that are never thoroughly documented (Broadcom et al). Why not get a laptop that has an OS written for it that will actually be able to: 1) play DVD movies 2) use 802.11 and Bluetooth without pulling your hair and teeth out 3) use the NIC and modem without driver issues 4) handle power managment 5) have accelerated 3D chipsets onboard
Did I miss anything?
How about getting a Mac instead of a Wintendo for a PC? You'll avoid the spyware and viruses, but the spam you'll just have to live with. In any case, Gmail filters spam pretty well, so I don't see it much. :P
Think about it as an investment into the future. When you have more market share, you can then start pulling in more money by having more people in the market to buy more Apple *software* and more iPods as well. iPods and iTMS being Apple's main revenue generator, this can only mean even more profit coming in if they were to sell more headless Macs.
I'll have to call BULLSHIT here on this one.
Yes, Opera is a bloated POS. I've used it several times in the past with multiple versions of it. I couldn't display a lot of pages properly that IE and Firefox could. Everytime I tried to force myself to use Opera instead of IE, I kept going back to using IE.
Now when I started using Firefox at around version 0.9.3, it only took me a week to get permanently hooked on it. It had crashed a few times up to and including version 1.0 PR, but after 1.0 came out, I haven't had any browser crashes whatsoever, thus putting far ahead in IE in stability.
That's not the say that Firefox doesn't act a little buggy here and there, but at least it stays up and usually stays usable even after experiencing what few bugs I run into. IE used to crash frequently on me, and thus it was always a pain in my ass when it did. Not to mention the spyware, adware, and other malware that gets installed through using IE, I'm just glad that Firefox works as I want it to, and it didn't have all the features I thought were necessary for a tabbed browser until it did finally release 1.0 Final.
When it comes to viewing web pages in an alternative web browser, Firefox owns Opera just for the fact it renders them properly noticably more than Opera. No, Opera not worth the $20 or whatever the going price is for it. I get way more than I pay for with Firefox, all of it good.
It's called ForecastFox now because of trademark issues with The Weather Channel. You may download it at http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/
After looking at the benchmarks across the board for the Dothan setups, I would get such a setup if only they dropped the prices down on the Dothans and their associated motherboards to a more reasonable price. The only thing you'd have to worry about overheating would probably be the GPU, and that should already have adequate cooling built onto it. It makes me wonder if you could get away with a lower-wattage power supply because the CPU using up a whole lot less power than P4's and Athlon64's and still have enough power to juice up a high-end GPU, a couple HDs, an optical drive, and the good ol' floppy drive.
My history is the exact opposite. I've had 1.0 PR crash multiple times on me (albeit not as often as IE has when I was still using IE). I have YET to have 1.0 Final crash on me, period. I've seen some weird bugs occur (such as bookmarks getting out of alignment spontaneously once or twice, having a live bookmark just stop working until I delete it and then recreate it again, etc.), but nothing serious enough that I actually had to resort to opening Firefox in "safe mode" just so I can get it to work again as I had to do at least a half dozen times with 1.0 PR.
:-P
So what kind of crack-smoking hardware are you using?
Please note the following quote from the C|Net article:
:P
"However, political science professors at Harvard University, Stanford University and Cornell University discounted the theories by pointing out that optical-scan systems are used mainly in rural counties of Florida and that those counties have had registered Democrats that have voted Republican in the past four presidential elections."
""We conclude that allegation is baseless," wrote Walter Mebane, professor of political science at Cornell University."
Enough's said.