This fallacy that US education is lackluster is the same garbage spouted by those who say we need H1-B visas. As someone who has managed people educated in the US and people educated in other countries - both H1-B holders and outsourced programmers, it is clear to me that not only are US-educated software engineers superior to those educated in places like India, but they also have a much easier time communicating, undertstanding, and getting the job done right.
CEOs and the rest of management at many US companies simply look at the cost estimates for an employee or for a project, and decide that they need an "outsourcing strategy" and that is provides them a competitive advantage. Longer term, though, they suffer from a decrease in productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
I can't wait for the first company to blame outsourcing for a product's late, buggy arrival.
The Supreme Court, the group the Constitution created to interpret the laws, correctly have held that there are limits to speech that a free and safe society must have. The old "can't yell fire in a crowded theater" adage and inciting a riot. I'm not saying that limits on political speech fit in there, but if the FEC has been held as constutionally allowed to regulate political speech, then no matter how sarcastic you try to be with "what part of...don't you understand", it doesn't change how the U.S. works.
I completely disagree that free speech is black and white as you say. It sounds like you would allow someone to say libelous, slanderous, or "fire in a theater" speech. Sorry - the slippery slope you see doesn't exist.
If the FEC is currently regulating radio, TV and print ads, it should do so for Internet. The regulation has to do with coordination between candidates and PACs as well as spending levels and sources.
The first amendment was not meant to protect your right to say anything, anywhere, anytime, so yes, you are naive. Supreme Court justices of all political bents have ruled that their are limits. In this case, the FEC helps provide a level playing field to *protect* our democracy from people yielding undue influence based on the size of their pockets.
Could you define recharge cycles? I have a 1 1/2 year old Axim X5 with a Lion battery and it certainly seems to still be holding a charge. I dock it at work except when I leave my desk for a meeting and take it with me. Works great. I've never needed to drain the battery more than half way since on vacation I rarely use it as an MP3 player. My kids don't let me listen to music and PocketPC's don't have a powerful enough amplifier for my concert-rotted ears.
Agreed. Look at the book called "To Design is Human". It covers the role of failure in improving our ability to design successful structures. The book is somewhat long winded though.
As other users have said, but not directly, is that there are many legitimate uses for copy/print/etc. capabilities. As one said - to read it on the train - and as I thought - to let you send the information to a friend like "Hey, here's a quote from a book you might want to *buy* because I know you were interested in >.
And somebody else posted about IBM having a problem recently too. And there are many recalls associated with batteries doing the same thing. Overheating and causing fires.
Part of the problem is that this AC/DC conversion and charging of batteries is inefficient enough that a lot of energy is lost as...HEAT. Too much heat or poor ventilation or cooling or poor fire resistance, etc - you get stuff that burns and explodes.
I also recently read that battery technology hasn't really progressed much over the past decades. So I see two problems - 1) a drive to use the cheapest components and designs as possible increasing the risk of a poor design that burns and 2) not enough basic research into power systems. I wish someone would spend some money on that.
I think you're missing the point - you use the AC adapter to power the laptop and/or charge the battery. They're the same thing. You get an extra adapter when you buy a port replicator, but it is the same model and can be interchanged. At least that's true on those Dell models and every other Toshiba and IBM laptop I've ever used.
Read the interview. It clearly won't be that. I do hope that it gets the R rating they've hinted at. The biggest problem with movies like Mortal Kombat and even X-Men is that they had to tone down the violence enough to make it PG-13, and then lost some of its marketability. Yes, you want a lot of action with the plot, but no, like dfj225 worries, it can't be stupid violence either. Predator == good violence. Commando == stupid violence.
I agree with the comment about Gartner. While I certainly believe what they said, it seems like they pulled the numbers out of...thin air. Cnet doesn't provide the source of Gartner's numbers, and I'm not going to pay them money to figure out how valid their claims are. But you have to wonder how they come up with those numbers. Correlating PC shipments with neilsen ratings of OS types connecting to major web sites is too fishy for me. Too many variables involved that can skew the numbers.
So while the premise is valid, Gartner's attempt to put exact numbers on the problem to validate their research is specious.
I'm afraid I'm responding to a troll, but your complaint has been the status quo for over a decade now. Apple market share is tiny relative to Windows and Linux PCs, so they get drivers and software later.
If it bothers you, buy an Intel or AMD based PC.
It seems that most posters basically think this is a crappy idea. Is there anyone that thinks this is a good idea? Any teens think so? Any parents? I think that the concept is sound, but its implementation may not be. And Verisign is certainly one of the right companies to be involved, but they're certainly motivated by what all public companies are motivated by - profit.
Any other positive thoughts?
I don't know where you get the need to make people wait two turns. I've never seen that. And I don't think that making you wait for the next code after a single failed authentication attempt is a configurable option. Sounds more like a bug that's been fixed by now. Yes, if you fail authentication 3 times (default, configurable), you need to enter 2 authentication codes in a row next time. That too is a security feature.
Thanks for the FUD. AOL's solution has no pin pad. You only enter the code displayed on the token. The 2nd factor is your AOL password that you previously entered on the login screen.
You do not need to wait for the code to change if you've fat fingered it. Entering 6 digits can take up to 10 seconds for the slow fingered. The tokens have a little countdown bar to let you know when they're about to change. If mine is about to change, I just wait a few seconds and then log in.
Part of the reason they look like conspiracy theorists is that they sound and act like them too. Of all these demonstrations and video tapings, not a single one is on their web site. How about some photos, scanned in documents, and other evidence. Nothing. Just rantings. And their links on this particular issue don't go to major media outlets, so how do we know it isn't just a ring of crazies.
Now...I *believe* them when they say there are security holes that need to be fixed in the tabulators. But I'm not going to donate to them and join their group because of it.
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This fallacy that US education is lackluster is the same garbage spouted by those who say we need H1-B visas. As someone who has managed people educated in the US and people educated in other countries - both H1-B holders and outsourced programmers, it is clear to me that not only are US-educated software engineers superior to those educated in places like India, but they also have a much easier time communicating, undertstanding, and getting the job done right. CEOs and the rest of management at many US companies simply look at the cost estimates for an employee or for a project, and decide that they need an "outsourcing strategy" and that is provides them a competitive advantage. Longer term, though, they suffer from a decrease in productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. I can't wait for the first company to blame outsourcing for a product's late, buggy arrival.
The Supreme Court, the group the Constitution created to interpret the laws, correctly have held that there are limits to speech that a free and safe society must have. The old "can't yell fire in a crowded theater" adage and inciting a riot. I'm not saying that limits on political speech fit in there, but if the FEC has been held as constutionally allowed to regulate political speech, then no matter how sarcastic you try to be with "what part of...don't you understand", it doesn't change how the U.S. works. I completely disagree that free speech is black and white as you say. It sounds like you would allow someone to say libelous, slanderous, or "fire in a theater" speech. Sorry - the slippery slope you see doesn't exist.
If the FEC is currently regulating radio, TV and print ads, it should do so for Internet. The regulation has to do with coordination between candidates and PACs as well as spending levels and sources. The first amendment was not meant to protect your right to say anything, anywhere, anytime, so yes, you are naive. Supreme Court justices of all political bents have ruled that their are limits. In this case, the FEC helps provide a level playing field to *protect* our democracy from people yielding undue influence based on the size of their pockets.
Could you define recharge cycles? I have a 1 1/2 year old Axim X5 with a Lion battery and it certainly seems to still be holding a charge. I dock it at work except when I leave my desk for a meeting and take it with me. Works great. I've never needed to drain the battery more than half way since on vacation I rarely use it as an MP3 player. My kids don't let me listen to music and PocketPC's don't have a powerful enough amplifier for my concert-rotted ears.
Agreed. Look at the book called "To Design is Human". It covers the role of failure in improving our ability to design successful structures. The book is somewhat long winded though.
As other users have said, but not directly, is that there are many legitimate uses for copy/print/etc. capabilities. As one said - to read it on the train - and as I thought - to let you send the information to a friend like "Hey, here's a quote from a book you might want to *buy* because I know you were interested in >.
And somebody else posted about IBM having a problem recently too. And there are many recalls associated with batteries doing the same thing. Overheating and causing fires. Part of the problem is that this AC/DC conversion and charging of batteries is inefficient enough that a lot of energy is lost as...HEAT. Too much heat or poor ventilation or cooling or poor fire resistance, etc - you get stuff that burns and explodes. I also recently read that battery technology hasn't really progressed much over the past decades. So I see two problems - 1) a drive to use the cheapest components and designs as possible increasing the risk of a poor design that burns and 2) not enough basic research into power systems. I wish someone would spend some money on that.
I think you're missing the point - you use the AC adapter to power the laptop and/or charge the battery. They're the same thing. You get an extra adapter when you buy a port replicator, but it is the same model and can be interchanged. At least that's true on those Dell models and every other Toshiba and IBM laptop I've ever used.
Read the interview. It clearly won't be that. I do hope that it gets the R rating they've hinted at. The biggest problem with movies like Mortal Kombat and even X-Men is that they had to tone down the violence enough to make it PG-13, and then lost some of its marketability. Yes, you want a lot of action with the plot, but no, like dfj225 worries, it can't be stupid violence either. Predator == good violence. Commando == stupid violence.
I agree with the comment about Gartner. While I certainly believe what they said, it seems like they pulled the numbers out of...thin air. Cnet doesn't provide the source of Gartner's numbers, and I'm not going to pay them money to figure out how valid their claims are. But you have to wonder how they come up with those numbers. Correlating PC shipments with neilsen ratings of OS types connecting to major web sites is too fishy for me. Too many variables involved that can skew the numbers. So while the premise is valid, Gartner's attempt to put exact numbers on the problem to validate their research is specious.
I'm afraid I'm responding to a troll, but your complaint has been the status quo for over a decade now. Apple market share is tiny relative to Windows and Linux PCs, so they get drivers and software later. If it bothers you, buy an Intel or AMD based PC.
It seems that most posters basically think this is a crappy idea. Is there anyone that thinks this is a good idea? Any teens think so? Any parents? I think that the concept is sound, but its implementation may not be. And Verisign is certainly one of the right companies to be involved, but they're certainly motivated by what all public companies are motivated by - profit. Any other positive thoughts?
I don't know where you get the need to make people wait two turns. I've never seen that. And I don't think that making you wait for the next code after a single failed authentication attempt is a configurable option. Sounds more like a bug that's been fixed by now. Yes, if you fail authentication 3 times (default, configurable), you need to enter 2 authentication codes in a row next time. That too is a security feature.
Thanks for the FUD. AOL's solution has no pin pad. You only enter the code displayed on the token. The 2nd factor is your AOL password that you previously entered on the login screen.
You do not need to wait for the code to change if you've fat fingered it. Entering 6 digits can take up to 10 seconds for the slow fingered. The tokens have a little countdown bar to let you know when they're about to change. If mine is about to change, I just wait a few seconds and then log in.
Part of the reason they look like conspiracy theorists is that they sound and act like them too. Of all these demonstrations and video tapings, not a single one is on their web site. How about some photos, scanned in documents, and other evidence. Nothing. Just rantings. And their links on this particular issue don't go to major media outlets, so how do we know it isn't just a ring of crazies. Now...I *believe* them when they say there are security holes that need to be fixed in the tabulators. But I'm not going to donate to them and join their group because of it.