The original XBox had a power cord issue. The 360, while it has had widespread reports of a poorly designed power brick, hasn't gotten to the point of smoking/sparking.
I hope these problems can be fixed and reworked because I love the look, feel and concept of the program.
Apart from the RAW problems, the review also points out that the interface is not only difficult to read due to small fonts and liberally applied white-on-black text, but also doesn't play with the global UI settings (specific issues were extension hiding and text AA settings not following the system settings).
It should also give the third world a new market for their agricultural products; while we may make it a pain for people to sell us food, it's easy as pie to sell fuel over the border.
This is exactly what Verisign did a couple of years ago, except they're doing more targetting advertisements. I wonder how the rates compare (does anyone know what the rates were like for verisign invalid domain ads?).
slashdot.org is a subdomain of the top-level domain 'org'. This scheme is trying to sell off rights to additional top-level domains for a grand apiece. As such, com, org, net, uk, etc are already taken.
Honestly, I think it's kind of a bargain. Imagine how much cash you'd get if you had a dollar for every domain registered under 'uk', or even something obscure like 'info'. Whoever gets and squats your 3-5 letter vulgarities will be very wealthy...
You can't expect these hard working executives to put in the work that brings you this entertainment without a certain level of compensation. Only terrorists hold their firstborn from their corporate overlords.
Judging from the diameter of the wire between your average 5VDC wall wart and the device, the draw from say a scanner isn't quite at the level that a 120VAC 15A outlet provides. People always quote transmission losses for DC distribution, but I think that over the short distances within a house you're going to be rather closer to the losses incurred though a mass of small transformers as opposed to the losses incurred through a thousand miles of high tension cable (that is, your savings from switching from lots of small transformers to one big transformer will be greater than the losses incurred by transmitting DC a couple hundred feet)
My point is that while everyone should be able to compromise to fit with a company, companies should also be able to compromise to fit with a worker. If you can pay someone in India to do someone's job, is their manner of dress anything more than a way to assauge your conscience when you lay them off?
If you're good enough, many future jobs are excluding themselves from a great employee with their attitudes. The value of a programmer in a suit versus a programmer in a t-shirt is nowhere near the value of a good programmer versus a programmer who dresses like HR dresses.
That's pretty much what you have now, except that traffic between networks is pretty much equal in both directions. You saw what unequal traffic levels do with the Level 3/Cogent thing last month. Things like that would only become more common if you had countries getting in pissing contests; it's a lot harder to change countries than change Tier 1 providers.
IIRC, the reason that the problem is so widespread is not that a particular manufacturer of caps screwed up, but that a single supplier of the electrolyte cut some corners and then proceeded to underbid to supply a lot of companies.
It involves Bruce Willis and modified space shuttles.
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People can choose to start smoking, knowing that it will increase their chances of developing a heart or lung condition, and that it will most likely be difficult to quit.
People can choose to start cocaine, knowing that it will increase their chances of serious brain damage, and that it will most likely be difficult to quit.
Yes, it's really the consumer's choice, the negative effects of these drugs are not unknown as they were in the 19th century. No matter how many ads you see with people having fun smoking, you still know that it will probably cause you no end of health problems.
Of course not, because producers of vegetables would *never* sell a product that can kill you. Haven't you heard? Cigarettes and meat are bad, pot and vegetables are good.
... it mostly takes money from the working class for a few rich executives...
All consumer products take money from the working class for the executives of the companies that make them. That's why people start companies that make consumer products. Just because this product has a reputation for killing people makes little difference. A large number of people weighed the risk of death and the cost of the product against the benefit they receive, and bought the product. It's much as if you walk into a store and say "The jar of jam costs $1.95 and has a 1 in 1 trillion chance of killing me (assume some sort of extremely fatal foodborn illness or something). I will get enough joy from this jam to make up for it, though"
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So what your saying is, if you don't want to get screwed over within a company, you better own it, because that's the only way you'll get any security?
If you don't want to get screwed over in general, don't tie your fortunes to someone else's. Any owner is going to consider themselves and the company making a decision, not the individual employees. The only way to be in control of your future is to actually be in control.
...that was until the commercial fishing and technology came along to start wiping them out
The sharks evolved heaters to move into colder waters for more prey. The humans evolved fishing boats and nets to move into damned near any water for more prey. What the sharks need to do is evolve torpedoes as a defensive mechanism...
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The original XBox had a power cord issue. The 360, while it has had widespread reports of a poorly designed power brick, hasn't gotten to the point of smoking/sparking.
I hope these problems can be fixed and reworked because I love the look, feel and concept of the program.
Apart from the RAW problems, the review also points out that the interface is not only difficult to read due to small fonts and liberally applied white-on-black text, but also doesn't play with the global UI settings (specific issues were extension hiding and text AA settings not following the system settings).
First subscription music service.
A Christian who is a *real* conservative ... I salute you!
This is exactly the same as DRM on software. If you fail to pay the license fee on annually licensed software, the DRM kicks in and it fails to start.
What's the difference between members of government expressing their religion through law and a state-sponsored religion?
Oh, and keep it out of the carpet..
Indeed. How many of these do you suppose are stuffed behind the entertainment center with the rest of the wall warts?
It should also give the third world a new market for their agricultural products; while we may make it a pain for people to sell us food, it's easy as pie to sell fuel over the border.
This is exactly what Verisign did a couple of years ago, except they're doing more targetting advertisements. I wonder how the rates compare (does anyone know what the rates were like for verisign invalid domain ads?).
slashdot.org is a subdomain of the top-level domain 'org'. This scheme is trying to sell off rights to additional top-level domains for a grand apiece. As such, com, org, net, uk, etc are already taken.
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Honestly, I think it's kind of a bargain. Imagine how much cash you'd get if you had a dollar for every domain registered under 'uk', or even something obscure like 'info'. Whoever gets and squats your 3-5 letter vulgarities will be very wealthy
unless the company has the capacity to defend itself physically
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They're called 'terminators' for a reason
You can't expect these hard working executives to put in the work that brings you this entertainment without a certain level of compensation. Only terrorists hold their firstborn from their corporate overlords.
Judging from the diameter of the wire between your average 5VDC wall wart and the device, the draw from say a scanner isn't quite at the level that a 120VAC 15A outlet provides. People always quote transmission losses for DC distribution, but I think that over the short distances within a house you're going to be rather closer to the losses incurred though a mass of small transformers as opposed to the losses incurred through a thousand miles of high tension cable (that is, your savings from switching from lots of small transformers to one big transformer will be greater than the losses incurred by transmitting DC a couple hundred feet)
My point is that while everyone should be able to compromise to fit with a company, companies should also be able to compromise to fit with a worker. If you can pay someone in India to do someone's job, is their manner of dress anything more than a way to assauge your conscience when you lay them off?
If you're good enough, many future jobs are excluding themselves from a great employee with their attitudes. The value of a programmer in a suit versus a programmer in a t-shirt is nowhere near the value of a good programmer versus a programmer who dresses like HR dresses.
That's pretty much what you have now, except that traffic between networks is pretty much equal in both directions. You saw what unequal traffic levels do with the Level 3/Cogent thing last month. Things like that would only become more common if you had countries getting in pissing contests; it's a lot harder to change countries than change Tier 1 providers.
And the obligatory "Yay free markets!".
I think these guys may take offense ...
The difference of course being that the C/C++ will still compile, and the Perl actually puts the error handler on the same line:
open my $filehandle, '', 'filename' or die 'omfgwtfbbq!';
IIRC, the reason that the problem is so widespread is not that a particular manufacturer of caps screwed up, but that a single supplier of the electrolyte cut some corners and then proceeded to underbid to supply a lot of companies.
It involves Bruce Willis and modified space shuttles.
People can choose to start smoking, knowing that it will increase their chances of developing a heart or lung condition, and that it will most likely be difficult to quit.
People can choose to start cocaine, knowing that it will increase their chances of serious brain damage, and that it will most likely be difficult to quit.
Yes, it's really the consumer's choice, the negative effects of these drugs are not unknown as they were in the 19th century. No matter how many ads you see with people having fun smoking, you still know that it will probably cause you no end of health problems.
Of course not, because producers of vegetables would *never* sell a product that can kill you. Haven't you heard? Cigarettes and meat are bad, pot and vegetables are good.
... it mostly takes money from the working class for a few rich executives ...
All consumer products take money from the working class for the executives of the companies that make them. That's why people start companies that make consumer products. Just because this product has a reputation for killing people makes little difference. A large number of people weighed the risk of death and the cost of the product against the benefit they receive, and bought the product. It's much as if you walk into a store and say "The jar of jam costs $1.95 and has a 1 in 1 trillion chance of killing me (assume some sort of extremely fatal foodborn illness or something). I will get enough joy from this jam to make up for it, though"
So what your saying is, if you don't want to get screwed over within a company, you better own it, because that's the only way you'll get any security?
If you don't want to get screwed over in general, don't tie your fortunes to someone else's. Any owner is going to consider themselves and the company making a decision, not the individual employees. The only way to be in control of your future is to actually be in control.
...that was until the commercial fishing and technology came along to start wiping them out
...
The sharks evolved heaters to move into colder waters for more prey. The humans evolved fishing boats and nets to move into damned near any water for more prey. What the sharks need to do is evolve torpedoes as a defensive mechanism