How long until municipalities are sued because they put in municipal WiFi which is "irradiating" everyone? If everyone's not complaining because they're being cooked from the inside out, will they be bitching about how their tax dollars are paying for service which doesn't work?
I was using Miranda, but someone with whom I needed to communicate, who uses the ICQ client from ICQ.com wasn't receiving messages from me. I made sure I had the latest Miranda, and it was no help. Immediately upon installing ICQ Lite, everything worked.
Hell, I get 3-4 "(i from forum)" add-to-contacts requests a day if I leave ICQ up. That's something that could easily be blocked with some kind of regex on the ICQ servers. It's really frustrating that there aren't more spim blockers implemented.
DVD::Rip looks really neat. It mentions that the heavy I/O operations are done on the system with the local disk, and that transcoding is done on the agent nodes... though I'd think there's significant I/O involved in the transcoding... has anyone got data on the point at which adding systems really stops helping unless you've got switched gigE? I would imagine that the NFS mount becomes a bottleneck at some point before you get to a dozen nodes.
Apple has tended to really whiz-bang their new products, and this was really simply incremental in nature.
Reminds me of when companies meet analyst estimates and their stock drops for not having exceeded expectations. Lack of awesomeness becomes a real downer.
Damage like... soldered connections coming loose. Metal and plastic and fiberglass expand and contract at different rates. Electrical connections particularly at a junction are vulnerable to temperature changes.
Even if they end up using a hybrid of the two, the R&D isn't wasted. Along the way, both companies have learned a lot, including finding out a lot of things that *didn't* work.
A lot of R&D is failing and figuring out why.
It's not like we're talking about Xerox PARC, where Corporate wasted the opporunity to commercialize the wonderful things which were developed. A compromise on the new DVD format will still bring both companies/consortia licensing revenue.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question -- if they're both contributing IP, will they both be charging royalties and price the technology too high?
Just like the armed services talk about sophisticated weapons as force multipliers, you really have to consider the effects which leaking pre-release movies can have. Granted, it's a bigger effect if the movie really sucks, since everyone can determine for himself, but...
Granted it's theft, but theft of one $8.00 movie ticket at the most.
Not at all. They're trying to stop the filesharing at the source with this. Keep people from leaking the movie in the first place. To go with your analogy, it's like stealing the ticket machine and giving it to a guy at Kinkos who can make reasonable facsimiles to get everyone in town into the movie.
Dell is all about low margin *parts assembly*. Works fine for destops.
When we had a drive fail in a PowerVault 220S, Dell sent out a tech to replace the drive, and the entire RAID-5 volume got hosed. That's just simply not supposed to happen. Doesn't happen with the Sun boxes we have here, nor the CPQ/HP ProLiants. The Sun and HP boxes are engineered as systems. The Dell relied on a rebadged Adaptec card, a rebadged copy of Volume Manager, and tech support who don't know anything about how the parts work together.
If your IT stuff is done right, desktops are essentially disposable. Servers, not so much. Restoring a terabyte from tape is still a slow proposition, especially with network-based backup.
Especially with Intel advertising subsidies
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I know that Intel will subsidize your advertising budget if you go all-Intel. I wonder how much of it is a matter of mindshare through advertising... get Intel to pay more of your marketing costs, you can cut margins on your servers.
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Too bad that any police department using AOL for e-mail won't get the alerts anyway...
Wouldn't it be nice to combine this article and the previous one and have a Cell to make your 720p TV display 1080i content properly? :)
How long until municipalities are sued because they put in municipal WiFi which is "irradiating" everyone? If everyone's not complaining because they're being cooked from the inside out, will they be bitching about how their tax dollars are paying for service which doesn't work?
Not In My Back Yard for...
Cell phone towers
Windmill farms
Nuclear power plants
People would love the benefits of all three, but only if they're nowhere to be seen, or in the case of the nuke plants, just far, far away.
I hope for karmic retribution for these people.
I'm impressed by not taking money for leaving, unlike a certain Fiorina we all know.
No, the fundamental problem isn't solved. The fundamental problem is the same people who forward urban legends around the net.
Unfortunately, we still can't figure out how to stab people in the face over the internet
I was using Miranda, but someone with whom I needed to communicate, who uses the ICQ client from ICQ.com wasn't receiving messages from me. I made sure I had the latest Miranda, and it was no help. Immediately upon installing ICQ Lite, everything worked.
Hell, I get 3-4 "(i from forum)" add-to-contacts requests a day if I leave ICQ up. That's something that could easily be blocked with some kind of regex on the ICQ servers. It's really frustrating that there aren't more spim blockers implemented.
Which explains the past month for AAPL.
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DVD::Rip looks really neat. It mentions that the heavy I/O operations are done on the system with the local disk, and that transcoding is done on the agent nodes... though I'd think there's significant I/O involved in the transcoding... has anyone got data on the point at which adding systems really stops helping unless you've got switched gigE? I would imagine that the NFS mount becomes a bottleneck at some point before you get to a dozen nodes.
something? If you really, really reach.
Apple has tended to really whiz-bang their new products, and this was really simply incremental in nature.
Reminds me of when companies meet analyst estimates and their stock drops for not having exceeded expectations. Lack of awesomeness becomes a real downer.
Do they encode regular NTSC signals as HD even though there's no visual benefit, to simplify production, operation, and tuning at the client end?
perhaps we need a big, round word for it. Like... oh... I dunno... ground?
Yes, they will.
Damage like... soldered connections coming loose. Metal and plastic and fiberglass expand and contract at different rates. Electrical connections particularly at a junction are vulnerable to temperature changes.
Heck, even Quentin Tarantino isn't as cutting-edge as he once was.
I didn't really like them, but the Kill Bill pair didn't qualify for cutting-edge in your book?
I'd like to see the patent you're talking about, but even without seeing it, prior art would make it ludicrous to try to enforce.
Got the patent #?
Even if they end up using a hybrid of the two, the R&D isn't wasted. Along the way, both companies have learned a lot, including finding out a lot of things that *didn't* work.
A lot of R&D is failing and figuring out why.
It's not like we're talking about Xerox PARC, where Corporate wasted the opporunity to commercialize the wonderful things which were developed. A compromise on the new DVD format will still bring both companies/consortia licensing revenue.
Which, of course, begs the obvious question -- if they're both contributing IP, will they both be charging royalties and price the technology too high?
Just like the armed services talk about sophisticated weapons as force multipliers, you really have to consider the effects which leaking pre-release movies can have. Granted, it's a bigger effect if the movie really sucks, since everyone can determine for himself, but...
Granted it's theft, but theft of one $8.00 movie ticket at the most.
Not at all. They're trying to stop the filesharing at the source with this. Keep people from leaking the movie in the first place. To go with your analogy, it's like stealing the ticket machine and giving it to a guy at Kinkos who can make reasonable facsimiles to get everyone in town into the movie.
I'd buy HP's ProLiant line, but not their PCs.
Dell is all about low margin *parts assembly*. Works fine for destops.
When we had a drive fail in a PowerVault 220S, Dell sent out a tech to replace the drive, and the entire RAID-5 volume got hosed. That's just simply not supposed to happen. Doesn't happen with the Sun boxes we have here, nor the CPQ/HP ProLiants. The Sun and HP boxes are engineered as systems. The Dell relied on a rebadged Adaptec card, a rebadged copy of Volume Manager, and tech support who don't know anything about how the parts work together.
If your IT stuff is done right, desktops are essentially disposable. Servers, not so much. Restoring a terabyte from tape is still a slow proposition, especially with network-based backup.
I know that Intel will subsidize your advertising budget if you go all-Intel. I wonder how much of it is a matter of mindshare through advertising... get Intel to pay more of your marketing costs, you can cut margins on your servers.
Bloat hasn't caused people to run screaming from ColdFusion, which eats up RAM like a flesh-eating virus on steroids...
HSPDA is triple threats (Voice,DATA,DMB all in one)
I figure that it's probably not Dave Matthews Band streaming wirelessly that you're talking about, though that might be a "threat" to RIAA.
Should you really be talking up a Microsoft app/service and putting down IRC *on Slashdot*? :)
Someone's gotta find a way to break the $2000 mark for speaker cables that some arrogant ass will insist makes the whole sound experience worth it.
When they liberate a 2-legged cat from a Chinese restaurant, that's when the "saving" really begins.
Sergei: We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
Then, they fuse together the two- and three-legged cats, and create Cat5, a supercat to guard the Googleplex.