I push the power button perhaps once a month, maybe even less.
I can not find in any of the source articles any mention whether the defective laptops are owned by people who mash the power button on a daily basis, or whether they're regular users like me, and just let the computer handle its own power management?
Doesn't Texas Law ("Sir, he was too dumb to let live.") apply in Utah? It really shouldn't be so difficult to get rid of the SCO dipshits, ferchrissake.
It is worth noting that he completely fails to identify an important fact: even if all CFLs were to break open, the mercury released would be less than would be released if the lights had remained incandescent: coal-fired power is pumping horrendous amounts of mercury into the air.
Little wonder we're seeing such a spike in weird neurological problems these days. Autism up? Gosh, can't imagine why...
Soon you'll be an IP wasteland, completely bereft of innovation as those with ideas seek other countries in which to make their money, out of desire to avoid US patent litigation.
First you export your manufacturing labour. Now you're exporting your brains. WTF do you think you're going to do for business in the future?
Sorry, AMD, but I don't get my panties in a bunch over CPU speed any more. The CPU isn't the bottleneck that it once was.
Truthfully, I have not seen a significant benefit to higher CPU speeds since circa 300MHz days. Except for gaming, things seem to always work about the same speed. The rate at which I can type this message is limited not by CPU, but by my fingers; the speed with which I browse the web is limited not by CPU, but by my ability to skim for content; the speed with which I get real paying work done remains about the same.
And even for intensive processing, CPU speed is often less limiting than GPU, HD, or RAM. Doubling my laptop's memory more than doubled its speed; doubling the CPU speed would accomplish bugger-all.
(I lied: one thing that did improve with CPU speed is the performance of Natural Painter. That little puppy loves the CPU cycles!)
I wholly expect zoomable to be the thing. I hope for 200dpi screen resolutions on an organic led display, too. But I expect zoomable, dialable, flickable, spreadable, gesturable UI, yes.
Apple is also obviously headed for a vertically-integrated entertainment/communication system. Wireless devices, mDNS, automation, scriptability, plug-n-play, voice recognition, autoconfiguration, all that seamless jazz.
I am certain that Apple will, in the end, turn out to be just as rotten as Microsoft. Well, almost as rotten. But until that time, we're in for some sweet, rapid development of new and powerful toys!
There's a single OS X development team. OS X is running on Mac, AppleTV, iPhone, and god knows what other products Apple has in the development stream. The team is going to focus on numerous facets of the OS; currently, they're focused more on the iPhone drivers & UI et al. All of which is going to pay off for us Mac users.
My bet is that the big OS X secret is going to have something to do with new ways of interacting with the computer, using technologies developed expressly for the iPhone initially. All Apple products are high-touch/interactive; the iPhone is *especially* so. The computer and TV platforms can only benefit by that.
These are very exciting times in the OS world. We are *finally* beginning to get an OS that really lives up to everything an OS should be: stable, secure, great UI, intuitive, pleasant.
I am absolutely confident that RIAA is an offshoot of the old-school Mafia. Everything about them screams racketeering and extortion. The old Mafia realized long ago that it needed to start dipping its beak into legitimate, legal ventures so as to (a) avoid prosecution and (b) gain political powers in a socially-acceptable manner.
One's publisher is the measure by which one's worth is (partly) calculated.
When your publisher is the same as, say, Judith Miller's (New York Times), you can probably feel safe assuming most people will take your requests for interviews and information seriously.
When your publisher is same as, say, TimeCubeGuy (Internet), you can probably feel safe assuming most people will laugh at you.
Is there any doubt that those are inefficient governments? Is there any doubt that many (most?) of their citizens fall through the cracks?
I suppose it all depends on what you mean by "best-run." A government that is failing most of the people most of the time can not, imo, be a "best-run" government.
Leads me to believe, yet again, that there is are population size constraints on effective/efficient government. The best-run countries don't have a humongous population.
Selecting everything after the cut-line (and so it was trying to summarize the pull-quotes, too), OS X's Summarize service spits out the following. I don't think it's nearly as good as what Word did.
--snip--->
And it turned out that the RBL not only included spammers, but also Web sites that were not sending mail at all but were blocked because of their content -- in our case, our ISP got blocked because some other customers were selling mailing list software that MAPS believed could be too easily abused by spammers....If you're tempted to argue that backbone providers should be allowed to block whatever they want as long as they bury it in their AUP (although AboveNet and TeleGlobe didn't even do that much), just consider: When you access Google from your home computer, have you read the AUP of every network that the packets pass through, to check whether they reserve the right to block or even modify your traffic?...At the time, I'd just spent four years telling people that kids looking at porn was a non-issue, and that by the way if their kids came to my Web site I'd even help them get around their blocking software, and I still got more angry e-mails for disclosing the fact that AboveNet blocked Web sites based on their content, than I'd gotten in all the previous four years combined....If vastly more people start trying to stream CNN over the Internet 24/7, and fully using the services that ISPs have "only been pretending to sell" as Brad Templeton put it, then ISPs may have to charge more for users who consume too much bandwidth, encouraging people to stay at today's average levels by rationing themselves and perhaps watching 24 on their $5,000 TV sets sometimes instead of downloading it off of BitTorrent to their laptop every week because it makes them feel like a haX0r.
"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."
Riiiight. You, Microsoft, are going to implement a fundamental new techology and bring it to release successfully in two years. And from a standing start because, as you've just admitted, you haven't even nailed down what it is you are going to do.
Microsoft has not only fumbled the ball, they've accidently knocked it out out of the yard into moving traffic.
Popular Mechanics has up an interesting story, discussing what the long-term implications of the Lisa Nowak incident could mean for Mars Mission crew decisions: With a 30-month roundtrip, that isn't the sort of thing you'd want to happen in space.
I wouldn't want a Lisa Nowak wigout on even a quick 30 minute jaunt into the stratosphere.
SCO's price has always been where IBM could buy it outright. Several times over. IBM has more money than God.
IBM plays hardball. Purchasing SCO would let the perps off the hook.
Although, come to that, I'm sometimes IBM didn't decide it'd be cheaper to purchase SCO and simply snuff the bastards who were behind this stupid debacle.
Sketchy? As in "we'll give you a kickback if you send all charity donations our way" sketchy?
That would cement one's name in net-journalism history: the person who documents a "sketchy" Paypal-United Way connection.
Y'know, a bounty system for "evil doing" leaks about corporate behaviour would be really quite awesome. I'd kick in a few bucks as reward for the fellow who can document to a legal standard, the mis-doings of business. It'd help remove the turds from the pool.
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I push the power button perhaps once a month, maybe even less.
I can not find in any of the source articles any mention whether the defective laptops are owned by people who mash the power button on a daily basis, or whether they're regular users like me, and just let the computer handle its own power management?
Doesn't Texas Law ("Sir, he was too dumb to let live.") apply in Utah? It really shouldn't be so difficult to get rid of the SCO dipshits, ferchrissake.
I agree. All emergency exit signs should be On at all times.
Blinking the most-appropriate exit path would be appropriate, so long as in the worst-case they failsafe to steady On.
Repeat: Milloy is an ass and an idiot.
It is worth noting that he completely fails to identify an important fact: even if all CFLs were to break open, the mercury released would be less than would be released if the lights had remained incandescent: coal-fired power is pumping horrendous amounts of mercury into the air.
Little wonder we're seeing such a spike in weird neurological problems these days. Autism up? Gosh, can't imagine why...
"which would make it difficult to dial while driving says Gartner's Ken Dulaney"
One word: Asshole.
Soon you'll be an IP wasteland, completely bereft of innovation as those with ideas seek other countries in which to make their money, out of desire to avoid US patent litigation.
First you export your manufacturing labour. Now you're exporting your brains. WTF do you think you're going to do for business in the future?
Sorry, AMD, but I don't get my panties in a bunch over CPU speed any more. The CPU isn't the bottleneck that it once was.
Truthfully, I have not seen a significant benefit to higher CPU speeds since circa 300MHz days. Except for gaming, things seem to always work about the same speed. The rate at which I can type this message is limited not by CPU, but by my fingers; the speed with which I browse the web is limited not by CPU, but by my ability to skim for content; the speed with which I get real paying work done remains about the same.
And even for intensive processing, CPU speed is often less limiting than GPU, HD, or RAM. Doubling my laptop's memory more than doubled its speed; doubling the CPU speed would accomplish bugger-all.
(I lied: one thing that did improve with CPU speed is the performance of Natural Painter. That little puppy loves the CPU cycles!)
Dig was, and I mean this without exaggeration, fucking awesome.
I spoof my MAC address and re-boot my DSL connection once a week, getting a new IP Address each time!
I wholly expect zoomable to be the thing. I hope for 200dpi screen resolutions on an organic led display, too. But I expect zoomable, dialable, flickable, spreadable, gesturable UI, yes.
Apple is also obviously headed for a vertically-integrated entertainment/communication system. Wireless devices, mDNS, automation, scriptability, plug-n-play, voice recognition, autoconfiguration, all that seamless jazz.
I am certain that Apple will, in the end, turn out to be just as rotten as Microsoft. Well, almost as rotten. But until that time, we're in for some sweet, rapid development of new and powerful toys!
There's a single OS X development team. OS X is running on Mac, AppleTV, iPhone, and god knows what other products Apple has in the development stream. The team is going to focus on numerous facets of the OS; currently, they're focused more on the iPhone drivers & UI et al. All of which is going to pay off for us Mac users.
My bet is that the big OS X secret is going to have something to do with new ways of interacting with the computer, using technologies developed expressly for the iPhone initially. All Apple products are high-touch/interactive; the iPhone is *especially* so. The computer and TV platforms can only benefit by that.
These are very exciting times in the OS world. We are *finally* beginning to get an OS that really lives up to everything an OS should be: stable, secure, great UI, intuitive, pleasant.
I am absolutely confident that RIAA is an offshoot of the old-school Mafia. Everything about them screams racketeering and extortion. The old Mafia realized long ago that it needed to start dipping its beak into legitimate, legal ventures so as to (a) avoid prosecution and (b) gain political powers in a socially-acceptable manner.
I think they accomplished their goal quite well.
That's why we can't have nice things.
Any y'all who were on Usenet back in the day know exactly what I mean.
? Even though ?
As Vancouver is consistently ranked as one of the world's best cities, I can not begin to fathom how you see that as an "even though."
Damn straight.
One's publisher is the measure by which one's worth is (partly) calculated.
When your publisher is the same as, say, Judith Miller's (New York Times), you can probably feel safe assuming most people will take your requests for interviews and information seriously.
When your publisher is same as, say, TimeCubeGuy (Internet), you can probably feel safe assuming most people will laugh at you.
The cops already have plenty of legal means to accomplish all the wiretapping that is necessary.
If they are on an active case, they'll have little difficulty getting permission to tap appropriately.
They do not need the ability to tap indiscriminantly and without supervision.
Is there any doubt that those are inefficient governments? Is there any doubt that many (most?) of their citizens fall through the cracks?
I suppose it all depends on what you mean by "best-run." A government that is failing most of the people most of the time can not, imo, be a "best-run" government.
Leads me to believe, yet again, that there is are population size constraints on effective/efficient government. The best-run countries don't have a humongous population.
So sad you've got Parkinson's. That really sucks. Good thing you are not forced to use mouse gestures!
Back when I used mouse instead of touchpad, mouse gestures were terrific. I love 'em. Will I still love them when they're sixty-four? Maybe not.
Selecting everything after the cut-line (and so it was trying to summarize the pull-quotes, too), OS X's Summarize service spits out the following. I don't think it's nearly as good as what Word did.
...If you're tempted to argue that backbone providers should be allowed to block whatever they want as long as they bury it in their AUP (although AboveNet and TeleGlobe didn't even do that much), just consider: When you access Google from your home computer, have you read the AUP of every network that the packets pass through, to check whether they reserve the right to block or even modify your traffic? ...At the time, I'd just spent four years telling people that kids looking at porn was a non-issue, and that by the way if their kids came to my Web site I'd even help them get around their blocking software, and I still got more angry e-mails for disclosing the fact that AboveNet blocked Web sites based on their content, than I'd gotten in all the previous four years combined. ...If vastly more people start trying to stream CNN over the Internet 24/7, and fully using the services that ISPs have "only been pretending to sell" as Brad Templeton put it, then ISPs may have to charge more for users who consume too much bandwidth, encouraging people to stay at today's average levels by rationing themselves and perhaps watching 24 on their $5,000 TV sets sometimes instead of downloading it off of BitTorrent to their laptop every week because it makes them feel like a haX0r.
--snip--->
And it turned out that the RBL not only included spammers, but also Web sites that were not sending mail at all but were blocked because of their content -- in our case, our ISP got blocked because some other customers were selling mailing list software that MAPS believed could be too easily abused by spammers.
Recharge the tank by capturing braking energy, ie. run a compressor attached to the transmission.
"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is ... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it ... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."
Riiiight. You, Microsoft, are going to implement a fundamental new techology and bring it to release successfully in two years. And from a standing start because, as you've just admitted, you haven't even nailed down what it is you are going to do.
Microsoft has not only fumbled the ball, they've accidently knocked it out out of the yard into moving traffic.
Popular Mechanics has up an interesting story, discussing what the long-term implications of the Lisa Nowak incident could mean for Mars Mission crew decisions: With a 30-month roundtrip, that isn't the sort of thing you'd want to happen in space.
I wouldn't want a Lisa Nowak wigout on even a quick 30 minute jaunt into the stratosphere.
Hell, I wouldn't want it on a 3 minute bus trip!
SCO's price has always been where IBM could buy it outright. Several times over. IBM has more money than God.
IBM plays hardball. Purchasing SCO would let the perps off the hook.
Although, come to that, I'm sometimes IBM didn't decide it'd be cheaper to purchase SCO and simply snuff the bastards who were behind this stupid debacle.
Sketchy? As in "we'll give you a kickback if you send all charity donations our way" sketchy?
That would cement one's name in net-journalism history: the person who documents a "sketchy" Paypal-United Way connection.
Y'know, a bounty system for "evil doing" leaks about corporate behaviour would be really quite awesome. I'd kick in a few bucks as reward for the fellow who can document to a legal standard, the mis-doings of business. It'd help remove the turds from the pool.