100Mbit is common in homes. Although i am limeted by my distance from the main, I still see 80 - 90 MBit up and down using Bit Torrent. And wow, Googles home page opens so much quicker. I do like it as I can watch Atom films and news broadcasts nice and quick.
I agree with what you say but would like to add that likely life would evolve to make use of the light from the three suns. I dare say that unlike us, photosynthisis would prob be the most used form of feeding ones self in this example. Imagine something like the vine that eats the sheriffs car in Jumanji... Much like our own jungles, a canopy of vegitation would prob. cover most of the planet as well as the surface of any ocean that may exist. Without nightfall or with only a slight diminishment in light during a 'night' of sorts, evolution would of course bring about many interesting things.
Plain and simple. Although Linux has come a long way in its interface mom and pop want the simplicity of plug and play for all their toys, cameras, mp3 players, movie cameras &c.
Install is still a bit of a pain, but much better.
There is also the issue of support. With windows there is one place to go for support. Linux, to most mom and pops is a fragmented world of too many choices. Given the option, all things equal, people will go with the simplest answer. Linux distros on their own each offer support, but when you say Linux to a non user for the most part they think, too many options, in number of distros, and, which one is for me... I can't decide. Pan to Windows, One size fits all. Red hat has been trying to centralize the mentality by pushing with the idea, We are the source for your Linux desktop needs, but again simplicity is key and marketing the 'important' stuff to mom and pop needs to be key in their message. The only other thing I can think of is the name. I am not a pure linguist, but the name Linux, is a bit harsh. The Terminal x creates a hard ending to the word . Dos suffered from this too until they changed the mentality by naming it Windows. Windows was a great name for them to choose as it brings to mind the limitlessness of potential. Look out a window and see the world... Now if a distro of Linux rebrands its self in the same vein or with a deeper meaning losing the Linux, I think it would stand a better chance of making market headway. This may cheese off the hard core users as they would feel like the distro sold out, but hey it is whats under the hood that counts. Ever seen a pinto with a 454 hemi. The outside may have been changed, it may not be called a Cobra or Camero or other cool name, but the get up and go is still there.
I wasn't saying NASA should use kitchen tiles on the space shuttle, only that with that much spent on development you would think things like strength and impact resistance would have been pretty far up on the list of requirements. Granted my kitchen tiles were not designed for heat dissipation ?sp. As to design I would like to see a giant mosaic on the bottom of the shuttle... perhaps one that reacts upon reentry so that the shuttle looks like a flaming skull or something tearing through the atmosphere.
A bad batch of super glue, perhaps?
Too bad they sold off the rights to Velcro... coulda used some of that here... Also, WTH is with these tiles. A piece of foam damages them, a piece of plastic damages them. I got some nice tiles in the kitchen that even my psycho girlfried throwing a pressure cooker at me couldn't damage, so after millions of dollars of research they came up with fire resistant tiles that are about as tough as poolboy at a gay bikers convention.
Well then that won`t work here as blowing up the monitors will do nothing to stem the flow of crap comming from the zombies, and if they are headless they are prob. running *nix and are not part of the problem.
yeh, all you have to do is take possesion of all those windows zombies out there and viola, you have your base for a distributed attack... The great thing about this is that most of these zombies have rotating IP addresses as they belong to home users. Even with a broadband connection it is likely that you have a changing IP. Now if the scam sites want to block all traffic from lets say, rogers or bell by wild carding the second two parts of an IP, they are killing most of the traffic set on messing up their site, but they are also killing off most of their intended target. This may not seem like much dealing with one provider, but when you consider the zombies are spread out around the world and across all providers, they would effectively have to block all providers to save their systems from an attack. Although I agree with both sides of the argument here, legal recourse should be pursued before ilegal course is taken.
yeh, all you have to do is take possesion of all those windows zombies out there and viola, you have your base for a distributed attack... Although I agree with both sides of the argument here, legal recourse should be pursued before ilegal course is taken.
I worked for a company, here in Japan where thre use of these type of contactless smart cards is wide spread, which used this technology for fare collection. The bigest problem I had and still have with the system here is that you load up your card with virtual money. So in essence you pay before you play. We used these cards to sign in and out of work as well as to pay for lunch at the cafeteria. A number of phone manufacturers here are also putting this technology into their phones so you can swipe your phone to pay for things at stores. The main supplier of the actual chip is sony, under the namefelica.
Now here, it is impossible to use your bank card to pay for anything. The service is just not avaliable as it is in North america or Europe.
As to the security of the smart cards, the only information on the card is your personal account number and how much money you have on the card. At the end of the day, on mobile fare collection systems anyways, the data is transfered at the depot to a server which updates the main account information. As to store systems, the data is retrieved immediately from the server and updated. If your card is stolen or lost, it is like loosing cash at least until you call the card issuer and they freeze the account. I am not sure about how this may affect the magnetic strip on most credit cards, but a magnetic field generates the electrical power required by the chip on card to 'transmit' the data to the reader.
What/.'rs are missing here is the fact that chicken is just the meat of the animal called a hen... so in fact you are feeling up a dead hen... or cock as the case may be if this is a turkey.
So it seems that if you have lots of money and you find a patent held by someone that infringes on your ability to rape for money, you just take them to court to null the patent. The companies listed I am sure all have patents that are just as far reaching or broad,(didn't sony just apply for a patent for a method of transfering information directly to your brain), which I am sure could be contested in the same way. I guess the only difference is that Joe Nobody doesn't have the cash or the political/economic connections that these companies have. if they win, what will the precidence be for the rest of us as to the legality or coverage of US patents? Could this be the loophole many have been looking for to get all those wide reaching, stupid patents we all hate and read about, dismissed?
Aside from that, I have already stopped flying through the United states. Even as a Canadian living in Japan, I refuse to take a flight that stops in the US. Between customs and everything else, why should I deal with the hassle when I can reroute my trip and bypass the US completely. I wonder how many other people are doing the same? granted, i could get a slightly cheeper ticket from Nagoya to Toronto if i fly through SanFran, but i opt to go to Tokyo first and fly through Vancouver. Well, now that your elected politicians have shot you all in the foot, I wonder how long before you start limping.
Not to take sides on this, but when you take into consideration the strength of brand and physical distribution channels that Disney has, Theme parks etc..., Pixar is far behind. IANAE but I do believe that there is more to creating a brand than just releasing a number of blockbuster films. When you say cartoon to kids, or some adults, your get, the usual Bugs Bunny, mickey mouse etc... and if your lucky you get Disney, or Warner Brothers or possibly Loony Tunes. Brands long established. Now pixar has a ways to go in order to create a fuzzy associative feeling that occurs when you say their name. They can do it, it will just take time. For the time being, Disney and all it's marketing might and money can buy the skills they need to produce films pretty damn close to pixars quality, but Pixar can not buy brand. You also need to take into account the story writers. He who buys the best script and pulls it off wins. Disney could buy the best script in the world and do a lousy job of it and get nowhere. Likewise, Pixar could get a crappy script and do a bang up job on the film and get nowhere. There is a winning combination and it isn't bad script/bad production. I for one hope both find space in the market and that they both push each other to be better. At least that way we, the consumers, win.
Oh yes, it looks like a practical joke now, Just some cute little pink plastic Dino toy...but you just wait, mark my words... with all the good stuff flying around the air out there it will mutate... it will grow... before you know it we will all be screaming... "Godzilla!!! Run for your lives!!!!"
Of course there is a need for this, how else would M$ slow down your P4 HT system with 4 gig of memory thereby convincing you you need to upgrade... In cahoots with Intel I tells ya! the lot of them... It seems it will take more processing power to run the flashy things in M$ than to render a scene from LTR in using Maya. I thought the OS was supposed to be the less system intensive part of the computer experience.
All you have to do is scroll down the article to the first picture of a man you see and you too will know why the mission failed... I wouldn't doubt if the tiny sum of 50 mil (UKP) might have something to do with it as well, but damn, you put Dr. Jekel in charge of sensitive equiptment and not expect Hyde to bite your ass, your really not looking at the possible problems which could come up aside form the 19 other things.
Reports have been surfacing all over the net that a flying spacecraft was seen in the vicinity of Japan... news at 11... Damn good thing they didn't fly this thing near Area 51 or we might have been misled to believe a lone motorcyclist spotted it.
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100Mbit is common in homes. Although i am limeted by my distance from the main, I still see 80 - 90 MBit up and down using Bit Torrent.
And wow, Googles home page opens so much quicker.
I do like it as I can watch Atom films and news broadcasts nice and quick.
Try "ZebraMan" for total cheese...
I agree with what you say but would like to add that likely life would evolve to make use of the light from the three suns. I dare say that unlike us, photosynthisis would prob be the most used form of feeding ones self in this example. Imagine something like the vine that eats the sheriffs car in Jumanji...
Much like our own jungles, a canopy of vegitation would prob. cover most of the planet as well as the surface of any ocean that may exist. Without nightfall or with only a slight diminishment in light during a 'night' of sorts, evolution would of course bring about many interesting things.
Plain and simple. Although Linux has come a long way in its interface mom and pop want the simplicity of plug and play for all their toys, cameras, mp3 players, movie cameras &c.
Install is still a bit of a pain, but much better.
There is also the issue of support. With windows there is one place to go for support. Linux, to most mom and pops is a fragmented world of too many choices. Given the option, all things equal, people will go with the simplest answer. Linux distros on their own each offer support, but when you say Linux to a non user for the most part they think, too many options, in number of distros, and, which one is for me... I can't decide. Pan to Windows, One size fits all.
Red hat has been trying to centralize the mentality by pushing with the idea, We are the source for your Linux desktop needs, but again simplicity is key and marketing the 'important' stuff to mom and pop needs to be key in their message.
The only other thing I can think of is the name. I am not a pure linguist, but the name Linux, is a bit harsh. The Terminal x creates a hard ending to the word .
Dos suffered from this too until they changed the mentality by naming it Windows. Windows was a great name for them to choose as it brings to mind the limitlessness of potential. Look out a window and see the world...
Now if a distro of Linux rebrands its self in the same vein or with a deeper meaning losing the Linux, I think it would stand a better chance of making market headway. This may cheese off the hard core users as they would feel like the distro sold out, but hey it is whats under the hood that counts. Ever seen a pinto with a 454 hemi. The outside may have been changed, it may not be called a Cobra or Camero or other cool name, but the get up and go is still there.
I wasn't saying NASA should use kitchen tiles on the space shuttle, only that with that much spent on development you would think things like strength and impact resistance would have been pretty far up on the list of requirements.
Granted my kitchen tiles were not designed for heat dissipation ?sp.
As to design I would like to see a giant mosaic on the bottom of the shuttle... perhaps one that reacts upon reentry so that the shuttle looks like a flaming skull or something tearing through the atmosphere.
A bad batch of super glue, perhaps?
Too bad they sold off the rights to Velcro... coulda used some of that here...
Also, WTH is with these tiles. A piece of foam damages them, a piece of plastic damages them. I got some nice tiles in the kitchen that even my psycho girlfried throwing a pressure cooker at me couldn't damage, so after millions of dollars of research they came up with fire resistant tiles that are about as tough as poolboy at a gay bikers convention.
What's next, shrinkwrap EULA's in every copy?
I swear judge, I never clicked on the "I agree" button on the EULA.
Al Gore is going to be pissed...
Anyone else notice this article .
I might not be a conspiracy nut but I am stocking up on tin foil just in case. Now that this is going on too...
Well then that won`t work here as blowing up the monitors will do nothing to stem the flow of crap comming from the zombies, and if they are headless they are prob. running *nix and are not part of the problem.
yeh, all you have to do is take possesion of all those windows zombies out there and viola, you have your base for a distributed attack...
The great thing about this is that most of these zombies have rotating IP addresses as they belong to home users. Even with a broadband connection it is likely that you have a changing IP. Now if the scam sites want to block all traffic from lets say, rogers or bell by wild carding the second two parts of an IP, they are killing most of the traffic set on messing up their site, but they are also killing off most of their intended target. This may not seem like much dealing with one provider, but when you consider the zombies are spread out around the world and across all providers, they would effectively have to block all providers to save their systems from an attack.
Although I agree with both sides of the argument here, legal recourse should be pursued before ilegal course is taken.
yeh, all you have to do is take possesion of all those windows zombies out there and viola, you have your base for a distributed attack...
Although I agree with both sides of the argument here, legal recourse should be pursued before ilegal course is taken.
Inconceivable!!!
No Princess Bride... Inconcieveable!
Within 24 hours, more than 10,000 copies of the "Star Wars" film had been swiped.
No, 1 copy was swiped and 10,000 copies of it were made avalable.
I worked for a company, here in Japan where thre use of these type of contactless smart cards is wide spread, which used this technology for fare collection. The bigest problem I had and still have with the system here is that you load up your card with virtual money. So in essence you pay before you play.
We used these cards to sign in and out of work as well as to pay for lunch at the cafeteria.
A number of phone manufacturers here are also putting this technology into their phones so you can swipe your phone to pay for things at stores. The main supplier of the actual chip is sony, under the namefelica.
Now here, it is impossible to use your bank card to pay for anything. The service is just not avaliable as it is in North america or Europe.
As to the security of the smart cards, the only information on the card is your personal account number and how much money you have on the card. At the end of the day, on mobile fare collection systems anyways, the data is transfered at the depot to a server which updates the main account information. As to store systems, the data is retrieved immediately from the server and updated.
If your card is stolen or lost, it is like loosing cash at least until you call the card issuer and they freeze the account.
I am not sure about how this may affect the magnetic strip on most credit cards, but a magnetic field generates the electrical power required by the chip on card to 'transmit' the data to the reader.
What /.'rs are missing here is the fact that chicken is just the meat of the animal called a hen... so in fact you are feeling up a dead hen... or cock as the case may be if this is a turkey.
So it seems that if you have lots of money and you find a patent held by someone that infringes on your ability to rape for money, you just take them to court to null the patent.
The companies listed I am sure all have patents that are just as far reaching or broad,(didn't sony just apply for a patent for a method of transfering information directly to your brain), which I am sure could be contested in the same way.
I guess the only difference is that Joe Nobody doesn't have the cash or the political/economic connections that these companies have.
if they win, what will the precidence be for the rest of us as to the legality or coverage of US patents? Could this be the loophole many have been looking for to get all those wide reaching, stupid patents we all hate and read about, dismissed?
Aside from that, I have already stopped flying through the United states. Even as a Canadian living in Japan, I refuse to take a flight that stops in the US. Between customs and everything else, why should I deal with the hassle when I can reroute my trip and bypass the US completely.
I wonder how many other people are doing the same?
granted, i could get a slightly cheeper ticket from Nagoya to Toronto if i fly through SanFran, but i opt to go to Tokyo first and fly through Vancouver.
Well, now that your elected politicians have shot you all in the foot, I wonder how long before you start limping.
Not to take sides on this, but when you take into consideration the strength of brand and physical distribution channels that Disney has, Theme parks etc..., Pixar is far behind. IANAE but I do believe that there is more to creating a brand than just releasing a number of blockbuster films. When you say cartoon to kids, or some adults, your get, the usual Bugs Bunny, mickey mouse etc... and if your lucky you get Disney, or Warner Brothers or possibly Loony Tunes. Brands long established. Now pixar has a ways to go in order to create a fuzzy associative feeling that occurs when you say their name. They can do it, it will just take time. For the time being, Disney and all it's marketing might and money can buy the skills they need to produce films pretty damn close to pixars quality, but Pixar can not buy brand. You also need to take into account the story writers. He who buys the best script and pulls it off wins. Disney could buy the best script in the world and do a lousy job of it and get nowhere. Likewise, Pixar could get a crappy script and do a bang up job on the film and get nowhere. There is a winning combination and it isn't bad script/bad production. I for one hope both find space in the market and that they both push each other to be better. At least that way we, the consumers, win.
Oh yes, it looks like a practical joke now, Just some cute little pink plastic Dino toy...but you just wait, mark my words... with all the good stuff flying around the air out there it will mutate... it will grow... before you know it we will all be screaming... "Godzilla!!! Run for your lives!!!!"
I can't really think of a real need for this.
Of course there is a need for this, how else would M$ slow down your P4 HT system with 4 gig of memory thereby convincing you you need to upgrade... In cahoots with Intel I tells ya! the lot of them... It seems it will take more processing power to run the flashy things in M$ than to render a scene from LTR in using Maya. I thought the OS was supposed to be the less system intensive part of the computer experience.
All you have to do is scroll down the article to the first picture of a man you see and you too will know why the mission failed... I wouldn't doubt if the tiny sum of 50 mil (UKP) might have something to do with it as well, but damn, you put Dr. Jekel in charge of sensitive equiptment and not expect Hyde to bite your ass, your really not looking at the possible problems which could come up aside form the 19 other things.
Reports have been surfacing all over the net that a flying spacecraft was seen in the vicinity of Japan... news at 11...
Damn good thing they didn't fly this thing near Area 51 or we might have been misled to believe a lone motorcyclist spotted it.
You know at first Oracle seemed at first to be really creative. But think he/she is just riding on killers coattails.