this is a trash study that ignores the quality of the US health care system and ignores also the terrible "system" if you can even call it that that is the NHS in the UK where if you are ill you might be waiting YEARS for treatment, so people die before they are treated so never go on the list of people being sick.
A very skewed study, when you look at the amount of money invested in healthcare in the US compared to the UK and the amount of world beating world breaking medical procedures and "world firsts" there is no way the US is a sicker nation than the UK. You also just have to go to each country to see that.
that this action by the fed pretty much confirms the EFF's claims here.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence or in other words what you are saying is only supposition and is not supported by the evidence. Remember don't look for the absence of evidence to prove something and now all this case is about is absence of evidence as THERE IS NO EVIDENCE for what you're implying.
I think you should save condolences for intel fanboys:>
The last month has been unbearable with them conroe this and conroe that. And what did I say back when they were all waiting for their chips? I said intel you will have your ass handed to you on a platter before conroe is released.
And thank you AMD this is exactly what you have done. All the intel hype was hoping conroe could beat AMD's old generation S939 chips and that's what they did, but that was a chip intel will release in 6 months beating a design more than a year old! of course that will happen.
Now let's see if intel have the guts to compare conroe to socket AM2 so cavialerly? I doubt it I doubt it very much. You have too test current models against current models or you are just hyping thin air.
Exactly. Whenever I think of an operating system based on debian using the linux kernel and put together by a group of people headed by an ex astronaut I think of the names "dapper" and "drake".
> I hope that those soldiers were using strong encryption for file systems.
Remember encryption isn't the be all and the end all. What happens when you lose your own keys?
And keys on a laptop itself, well that's all portable too. Laptop + usb key means nothing since you have to carry the encryption keys with you. Without doing that your data is useless, and carrying them with you means when the laptop is stolen, you have the key stolen with it.
Instant access to your data. If they have your key they also can unencrypt anything else of yours, so you have not just lost the USB drive but more than that. How much do you think an encryption for sale on the black market is?
Let me tell you it ain't cheap so there's profit to be made. Where there is profit there is motive. By using encryption you are adding additional motive to the thieves.
So why use the problems with encryption without the benefit? It doesn't make sense. Kapsky and Dilinger's 1999 paper addressed this issue on when widespread use of portable computing was just beginning.
> It's called evolution and its something that non-dead > languages should do to survive (it's a good thing).
I'll remember to use that excuse too next time a slashdotter complains when someone in the media refers to breaking into a computer system and stealing data as "hacking".
I said it once and I'll say it again Spindler was a man ahead of his time. His methods did not suit the old apple of the time 100% but I can see his sense of strategy working in the current climate at apple. Even the iPod would be better off if treated like the newtons, something the purists wouldn't like but would lead to better for the company
for what I see Jobs ideas is getting old and they wont keep apple up together. Watch what happens when in a year from now apple hand out press releases to another Special Event and nobody turns up. Spindler had this long term strategy and Jobs sadly lacking there.
Many people who have never been to the Isle of Man are not sure exactly where it is! The answer is that it lies in the Irish Sea, between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, less than 60 miles west of the Lancashire coastline http://www.isleofman.com/about/ [isleofman.com]
This is not selling out, this is a quality opportunity to allow slashdot readers to interface with the business shakers and movers, the people who define what we'll be using in our desktops this year, next year. Why not share your experiences with AMD products now, and join the IT professionals who're defining an industry.
for the average user there seems no need to make the change. In fact, with the steady increase in browser based applications it might even be possible to argue that prevailing technology is excessive.'
I definitely don't agree. I remember hearing the same rubbish comments in various forms from shortsighted journos and analysts when we were approaching cpus with 50mhz. then I heard the same creeping up to 100mhz then 500mhz then 1ghz.
It is always the same. "The average user doesn't need to go up to the next $CURRENT_GREAT_CPU because they're able to do their average things OK now". Of course they're able to do their average things now, that's why they're stuck doing average things.
This has been known for a long time now. Apple afficionado's call it the "Revision A Syndrome" where nobody who knows their stuff will buy a revision A. Look at the first iMacs and their hard drive and processor problems, the first iMac flat panels and their arms collapsing or the first imac G5 and their capacitors and overheating and fan noise problems. The first eMacs and their analog board problems making for half a display or the revision A G5 with their PCI and fan noise problems. Revision A 15" powerbooks had screen white blotch problems. Revision A white iBooks had some of the worst screen and logic board problems of any macbook.
But it is fixed in the end and progress continues and there are then models that are gems that are known never to give the owners any problems at all and have few issues to ever have warranty fixes. that is what early adopters are for.
watch it continue with the new revision B iMacs when they fix the intel screen problems plaguing them, or revision B macbook pros fixing the dull flickery screen and keyboard brightness problems and dying magsafe connectors and the revision B intel mac mini when they fix its overheating, DVI flickering and dying hard disc problems.
early adopters pay a price but they get what is coming before anybody else so in that case they are getting an advantage by six months and they know they are sometimes willing to pay for something not as good as later.
Something worth mentioning here too is the effect playing.ogg files has on battery life. It completely kills it in comparison to similar mp3s. My non-ipod player does.ogg among other formats, and I bought it for the purpose of playing.oggs, and if the majority of the music I listen to is ogg I get under 2/3 the battery life, closer to half, compared to listening to the majority as mp3. It's a very cpu intensive compression scheme which compresses better and sounds better than mp3 or AAC IMHO, but pays for it with CPU use. Even iPod Linux with dual 80MHz ARM cores inside each iPod to play with has trouble coping with oggs because of the cpu use needed to decode them.
Viiv won't be testing to see if the content being played is pirated from networks such as BitTorrent. He believes that it's not Intel's job to be policing downloads and that it's wrong to assume that all consumers are criminals. As such, Viiv won't test for watermarks or other red flags that reveal pirated content, allowing any type of media to be played.' Another choice quote from the article: 'MacDonald is confident that piracy won't be a significant issue for Viiv, as Intel promises to make content easier to buy than it is to pirate.'"
Translation: "If we say we're against DRM right from the start, we'll sow seeds in people's minds that we're the good guys, so that when we start implementing really restrictive DRM schemes, it'll be really difficult to turn people against us. Hey it worked for Apple"
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There was also enough cocaine in a can of coca-cola to get you high if mixed with tylenol. They changed the recipe in the mid 1990s to lower the concentration, but there are still trace amounts in there with it.
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this is a trash study that ignores the quality of the US health care system and ignores also the terrible "system" if you can even call it that that is the NHS in the UK where if you are ill you might be waiting YEARS for treatment, so people die before they are treated so never go on the list of people being sick.
A very skewed study, when you look at the amount of money invested in healthcare in the US compared to the UK and the amount of world beating world breaking medical procedures and "world firsts" there is no way the US is a sicker nation than the UK. You also just have to go to each country to see that.
> If the theological debates could be set aside
THEOlogical debates. in an open bsd story. hahahahaha. geddit?
oh ok. sorry.
1. the NSA is not an elephant
2. the AT&T is not your kitchen
your analogy falls down flat on both of those points.
that this action by the fed pretty much confirms the EFF's claims here.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence or in other words what you are saying is only supposition and is not supported by the evidence. Remember don't look for the absence of evidence to prove something and now all this case is about is absence of evidence as THERE IS NO EVIDENCE for what you're implying.
> Only a few of the AMD chips, and AMD has only what, 30% of the market.
The intel fanboys have been too noisy lately! AMD has more than 50% of the market since this year already!
When I saw "Boozy Gamer" I thought for a minute I was reading about some future Ubuntu release.
I think you should save condolences for intel fanboys :>
The last month has been unbearable with them conroe this and conroe that. And what did I say back when they were all waiting for their chips? I said intel you will have your ass handed to you on a platter before conroe is released.
And thank you AMD this is exactly what you have done. All the intel hype was hoping conroe could beat AMD's old generation S939 chips and that's what they did, but that was a chip intel will release in 6 months beating a design more than a year old! of course that will happen.
Now let's see if intel have the guts to compare conroe to socket AM2 so cavialerly? I doubt it I doubt it very much. You have too test current models against current models or you are just hyping thin air.
Try better next time intel
vegetable matter does not contain any cholesterol you ninny
Just because plant lipids contain less cholesterol than animal ones does not mean they don't contain any.
less != none
The names are ok, they describe things perfectly
Exactly. Whenever I think of an operating system based on debian using the linux kernel and put together by a group of people headed by an ex astronaut I think of the names "dapper" and "drake".
Why they go together like peas and... USB.
> I hope that those soldiers were using strong encryption for file systems.
Remember encryption isn't the be all and the end all. What happens when you lose your own keys?
And keys on a laptop itself, well that's all portable too. Laptop + usb key means nothing since you have to carry the encryption keys with you. Without doing that your data is useless, and carrying them with you means when the laptop is stolen, you have the key stolen with it.
Instant access to your data. If they have your key they also can unencrypt anything else of yours, so you have not just lost the USB drive but more than that. How much do you think an encryption for sale on the black market is?
Let me tell you it ain't cheap so there's profit to be made. Where there is profit there is motive. By using encryption you are adding additional motive to the thieves.
So why use the problems with encryption without the benefit? It doesn't make sense. Kapsky and Dilinger's 1999 paper addressed this issue on when widespread use of portable computing was just beginning.
A new startup called Webaroo is launching Monday with an audacious proposition: You can search the Web without a net connection of any kind.
If anyone doubted the next dotcom boom is upon us, this should put that doubt to rest.
> It's called evolution and its something that non-dead
> languages should do to survive (it's a good thing).
I'll remember to use that excuse too next time a slashdotter complains when someone in the media refers to breaking into a computer system and stealing data as "hacking".
I said it once and I'll say it again Spindler was a man ahead of his time. His methods did not suit the old apple of the time 100% but I can see his sense of strategy working in the current climate at apple. Even the iPod would be better off if treated like the newtons, something the purists wouldn't like but would lead to better for the company
for what I see Jobs ideas is getting old and they wont keep apple up together. Watch what happens when in a year from now apple hand out press releases to another Special Event and nobody turns up. Spindler had this long term strategy and Jobs sadly lacking there.
This will happen quickly because mobile phones are being turned over about every year.
Given the buying habits of people I know with the devices, so are iPods.
Many people who have never been to the Isle of Man are not sure exactly where it is! The answer is that it lies in the Irish Sea, between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, less than 60 miles west of the Lancashire coastline http://www.isleofman.com/about/ [isleofman.com]
In other words, South African.
The problem is many people see that as being "communist" or "hippie"
I know two managers who found the meaning of ubuntu and immediately demanded a de-install of all linux systems.
This is not what is needed. Maybe not for the USA.
I think call it "Ubuntu" for the rest of the world and "Individual" for the USA. or "Freedom".
Oh for fucks sake, another asperger's geek who gets so hung up on little irrelevant points he misses the whole picture.
Go get treatment, retard, then come back and read the post again.
any geek worth their salt can type one-handed just through practice. I mean, I can. because. you know. sometimes you need to.
This is not selling out, this is a quality opportunity to allow slashdot readers to interface with the business shakers and movers, the people who define what we'll be using in our desktops this year, next year. Why not share your experiences with AMD products now, and join the IT professionals who're defining an industry.
But does Office do 48 bit like OOo does? does it do layer masks like OOo does? does it do hueristics like OOo does?
No, MS Office doesn't do any of those and until it does then it won't be fully useful to normal people.
for the average user there seems no need to make the change. In fact, with the steady increase in browser based applications it might even be possible to argue that prevailing technology is excessive.'
I definitely don't agree. I remember hearing the same rubbish comments in various forms from shortsighted journos and analysts when we were approaching cpus with 50mhz. then I heard the same creeping up to 100mhz then 500mhz then 1ghz.
It is always the same. "The average user doesn't need to go up to the next $CURRENT_GREAT_CPU because they're able to do their average things OK now". Of course they're able to do their average things now, that's why they're stuck doing average things.
This has been known for a long time now. Apple afficionado's call it the "Revision A Syndrome" where nobody who knows their stuff will buy a revision A. Look at the first iMacs and their hard drive and processor problems, the first iMac flat panels and their arms collapsing or the first imac G5 and their capacitors and overheating and fan noise problems. The first eMacs and their analog board problems making for half a display or the revision A G5 with their PCI and fan noise problems. Revision A 15" powerbooks had screen white blotch problems. Revision A white iBooks had some of the worst screen and logic board problems of any macbook.
But it is fixed in the end and progress continues and there are then models that are gems that are known never to give the owners any problems at all and have few issues to ever have warranty fixes. that is what early adopters are for.
watch it continue with the new revision B iMacs when they fix the intel screen problems plaguing them, or revision B macbook pros fixing the dull flickery screen and keyboard brightness problems and dying magsafe connectors and the revision B intel mac mini when they fix its overheating, DVI flickering and dying hard disc problems.
early adopters pay a price but they get what is coming before anybody else so in that case they are getting an advantage by six months and they know they are sometimes willing to pay for something not as good as later.
Something worth mentioning here too is the effect playing .ogg files has on battery life. It completely kills it in comparison to similar mp3s. My non-ipod player does .ogg among other formats, and I bought it for the purpose of playing .oggs, and if the majority of the music I listen to is ogg I get under 2/3 the battery life, closer to half, compared to listening to the majority as mp3. It's a very cpu intensive compression scheme which compresses better and sounds better than mp3 or AAC IMHO, but pays for it with CPU use. Even iPod Linux with dual 80MHz ARM cores inside each iPod to play with has trouble coping with oggs because of the cpu use needed to decode them.
Viiv won't be testing to see if the content being played is pirated from networks such as BitTorrent. He believes that it's not Intel's job to be policing downloads and that it's wrong to assume that all consumers are criminals. As such, Viiv won't test for watermarks or other red flags that reveal pirated content, allowing any type of media to be played.' Another choice quote from the article: 'MacDonald is confident that piracy won't be a significant issue for Viiv, as Intel promises to make content easier to buy than it is to pirate.'"
Translation: "If we say we're against DRM right from the start, we'll sow seeds in people's minds that we're the good guys, so that when we start implementing really restrictive DRM schemes, it'll be really difficult to turn people against us. Hey it worked for Apple"
There was also enough cocaine in a can of coca-cola to get you high if mixed with tylenol. They changed the recipe in the mid 1990s to lower the concentration, but there are still trace amounts in there with it.