Look at any other industry and it has never happened. This is a significant milestone.
I know it's rah-rah time at Logitech, but come on, talk about stretching the truth : industries routinely ships billions of stuff, if said stuff is small/ubiquitous enough. Remington and other manufacturers has produced and shipped countless billions of firearm cartridges, ball bearing manufacturers have probably stopped counting a long time ago, and McDonald's is even proud to have served a billion obese-making meals.
That's a lot of BS. A friend of mine had a stroke in is 30s: he kept fit, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat too much, and you how it happened? He was taking a dump, was pushing hard with his mouth closed, and collapsed right there. The hospital doctor I talk to said the extreme change of blood pressure when someone does that is enough to burst a vessel even with the healthiest person.
Incidentally, I who drinks coffee, alcohol and smokes the cigar, never rushes my morning business anymore. I've seen the result, nosiree...
as I sit here in a cafe, my laptop connected to some unsecured AP far awqay with a biquad wifi antenna, I say go right ahead, search my hard-drive, but don't forget to bring a good map and a gonio antenna to find me in case you realize I'm not the poor guy whose house you're about to raid.
This will never work, there are way too many anonymous internet connections around for this 1984 scheme to work, and people who have something to hide usually don't leave stuff hanging around unencrypted on their hard disks.
This year, like the previous year, and the year before that, I will definitely NOT shop my ass off for Christmas, nor will I stuff my face silly on Christmas, only to feel bloated the next day and have to diet so I can stomach New Year's eve binge (which, in case you didn't guess, I never do either).
Christmas, like Halloween, father/mother/grandma/grandpa days, are commercial inventions, fake joy and fake happiness destined to make you shell out your hard-earned money and, since the great Bank Robbery^H^H^H^Hbailout plan, supposedly help the economy recover.
Well, I paid my loans, I don't live on credit, I spend my money cautiously, even when there's no "crisis", so I fail to see why I must buy Christmas junk to support those who don't.
The team of workers will deliver more than 1,000 servers, 10,000 PCs and 4,000 printers.
It always makes my blood boil to see how much money is funneled into sporting events such as the olympics without flinching, while at the same time public research, schools, etc..., people of real value to society, have to cry and beg for resources...
The shit in question was probably developed with the battlefield in mind in the first place. Just like Superglue, which was developed so seal off wounds of injured soldiers.
there's all that psychological "people want video games to make themselves happy during a recession" stuff
Exactly. In fact, most things that are designed to make people forget about their problems do very well indeed during periods of economic downturn For example, at the poker club I play at, we've been seeing a lot more people coming in to become members lately. We used to have a steady number of 20/25 players twice a week, and the past weeks, we've seen upward of 45 players coming in. What's more, they tend to drink more than usual, and we hear a lot of talks of lost jobs and winning streaks that should line up pockets, something that never happened before, when most people came in to play the tournament seriously and sober.
I have no doubt the gaming industry (real or video), as well as the booze industry, will actually benefit from the crisis.
Re:Misuse of words
on
Evolving Rocks
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Misuse of words it isn't. Saying rocks evolve is like saying technology evolves : of course it doesn't do it by itself, but it does nonetheless.
US troops are cheaters. They use all those hi-tech weaponry and the other teams only have AK's, knives and home-made explosives.
and yet they get their butts kicked.
High-tech stuff and training doesn't quite cut it when you fight to pay for college studies when you get back home, but the enemy is fueled by a hysterical desire to see you die, preferably in horrible ways.
He's not the first one to think that the iPhone would be well-employed as the guts of an ultra-portable, though.
If Apple manufactures is, not on your life. I don't want to have to jailbreak the thing at each update, or be denied the right to run this or that on it.
I think the success Asus has had with the EeePC doesn't come so much from the PC's form factor or scale, as from the fact that it's... just a PC, i.e. an open platform that doesn't require people to buy special software, and lets them run whatever they want on it. PDAs these days are powerful enough to do almost the same, but depending on the manufacturer, it can be a breeze, or a pain in the butt, to develop and run applications on them.
Come to think of it, this issue of openness (i.e. letting people do what they want without corporate greediness and power-freaking getting in the way) is what defines successful things from unsuccessful ones. MP3 for example is an open format, just look at the MP3 players industry now. PCs are essentially an open design, and it's been flourishing for decades, to the point that it's so entrenched that it gets in the way of better designs. On the other hand, ebooks for example are a dismal failure, because people have to jump through hoops (and pay dearly for the privilege of jumping) to get DRM-encumbered files that won't be readable on other devices.
"For the past two years Microsoft and Novell have been working on the 'Moonlight' project.
Translation: for two years, Microsoft has been using Novell to pretend they're not working on the Linux platform and aren't trying to embrace/extend it.
There ain't no way Silverlight will end up on my hard-drive. Having the Flash player is bad enough already.
The answer to an age old OS/2 puzzle : how many double clicks can you make on a mouse with your left big toe while typing repeatedly antidisestablishmentarianism.
No it isn't. Studies have shown that temperatures rose significantly across the US right after 9/11 when all planes where grounded for several days, because of clearer skies.
My understanding is that the woolly mammoth is one of the first casualty of the infestation Earth by the human species : they went extinct partly because of the warming climate, partly because of overhunting.
Feel threatened in your religious beliefs much? Don't worry, that phenomenon you see around you whereby people abandon irrational creeds is called progress. It's slow coming, but it's coming.
What is your consciousness? What makes you sentient? They've poked and prodded every orifice of your body and they have still not been able to determine where your consciousness
Have you considered that consciousness is an illusion of a human brain that has become powerful enough to reflect on its own existence? That's why you won't find it in the body or the brain, anymore that you'll find a tummy ache if you look inside your stomach.
this 'thing' in quantum physics called 'the observer'
Nice confusion here. The "observer" in quantum physics doesn't have to be sentient or conscious. A simple camera is enough to skew a quantum physic's experiment.
Yet, most people seem to acknowledge its existence. Even many scientists, atheist or not.
Wrong logic here. It's not because scientists and "most people" acknowledge the existence of consciousness that they all agree it's a metaphysical being. In fact, if I had to guess, I'd say most scientists believe consciousness is a physical brain process that has nothing to do with metaphysics or religion.
Slashdot Mirror
Look at any other industry and it has never happened. This is a significant milestone.
I know it's rah-rah time at Logitech, but come on, talk about stretching the truth : industries routinely ships billions of stuff, if said stuff is small/ubiquitous enough. Remington and other manufacturers has produced and shipped countless billions of firearm cartridges, ball bearing manufacturers have probably stopped counting a long time ago, and McDonald's is even proud to have served a billion obese-making meals.
Of course I'm dead due to misfiring brain cells.
No no, you're pining for the fjords.
That's a lot of BS. A friend of mine had a stroke in is 30s: he kept fit, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat too much, and you how it happened? He was taking a dump, was pushing hard with his mouth closed, and collapsed right there. The hospital doctor I talk to said the extreme change of blood pressure when someone does that is enough to burst a vessel even with the healthiest person.
Incidentally, I who drinks coffee, alcohol and smokes the cigar, never rushes my morning business anymore. I've seen the result, nosiree...
Stairways are indeed tough for hemiplegics.
as I sit here in a cafe, my laptop connected to some unsecured AP far awqay with a biquad wifi antenna, I say go right ahead, search my hard-drive, but don't forget to bring a good map and a gonio antenna to find me in case you realize I'm not the poor guy whose house you're about to raid.
This will never work, there are way too many anonymous internet connections around for this 1984 scheme to work, and people who have something to hide usually don't leave stuff hanging around unencrypted on their hard disks.
Sorry, only Netcraft can claim anything about bsd, and it doesn't look good...
This year, like the previous year, and the year before that, I will definitely NOT shop my ass off for Christmas, nor will I stuff my face silly on Christmas, only to feel bloated the next day and have to diet so I can stomach New Year's eve binge (which, in case you didn't guess, I never do either).
Christmas, like Halloween, father/mother/grandma/grandpa days, are commercial inventions, fake joy and fake happiness destined to make you shell out your hard-earned money and, since the great Bank Robbery^H^H^H^Hbailout plan, supposedly help the economy recover.
Well, I paid my loans, I don't live on credit, I spend my money cautiously, even when there's no "crisis", so I fail to see why I must buy Christmas junk to support those who don't.
The team of workers will deliver more than 1,000 servers, 10,000 PCs and 4,000 printers.
It always makes my blood boil to see how much money is funneled into sporting events such as the olympics without flinching, while at the same time public research, schools, etc..., people of real value to society, have to cry and beg for resources...
In every other country he would have been arrested for obstructing traffic or scaring the shit out of the neighbor's kids.
The police is too busy arresting dissidents and Falun Gong followers.
The shit in question was probably developed with the battlefield in mind in the first place. Just like Superglue, which was developed so seal off wounds of injured soldiers.
there's all that psychological "people want video games to make themselves happy during a recession" stuff
Exactly. In fact, most things that are designed to make people forget about their problems do very well indeed during periods of economic downturn For example, at the poker club I play at, we've been seeing a lot more people coming in to become members lately. We used to have a steady number of 20/25 players twice a week, and the past weeks, we've seen upward of 45 players coming in. What's more, they tend to drink more than usual, and we hear a lot of talks of lost jobs and winning streaks that should line up pockets, something that never happened before, when most people came in to play the tournament seriously and sober.
I have no doubt the gaming industry (real or video), as well as the booze industry, will actually benefit from the crisis.
Misuse of words it isn't. Saying rocks evolve is like saying technology evolves : of course it doesn't do it by itself, but it does nonetheless.
I've contacted [any telco anywhere in the world] about the poor state of my line, and they basically ignore me.
There, fixed that for you.
Last time I checked, CO2 footprints have nothing to do with power.
will keep about 62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year
And the residents also cut their CO2 footprint by about 2 tons per year, simply by not breathing.
US troops are cheaters. They use all those hi-tech weaponry and the other teams only have AK's, knives and home-made explosives.
and yet they get their butts kicked.
High-tech stuff and training doesn't quite cut it when you fight to pay for college studies when you get back home, but the enemy is fueled by a hysterical desire to see you die, preferably in horrible ways.
One that lets you experience:
- the joys of running through snow and much with a 20kg backpack and a submachinegun
- the wait/RUN-RUN-RUN!/wait cycles of a standard soldier's day
- guard duties during which, if you fall asleep, your CO kicks your ass and throws your in jail for 5 days
- toilet and shower cleaning duties
- obeying to stupid conflicting orders without being able to respond anything but "yes Sir!" (failing this, see 2 previous sections, in that order)
- Binge drinking after service
etc...
That would give potential recruits a real taste of military life, something that romanticized war games don't exactly provide.
I don't know what happened to my brain there
You Cortex is in your ARM, that's what.
He's not the first one to think that the iPhone would be well-employed as the guts of an ultra-portable, though.
If Apple manufactures is, not on your life. I don't want to have to jailbreak the thing at each update, or be denied the right to run this or that on it.
I think the success Asus has had with the EeePC doesn't come so much from the PC's form factor or scale, as from the fact that it's ... just a PC, i.e. an open platform that doesn't require people to buy special software, and lets them run whatever they want on it. PDAs these days are powerful enough to do almost the same, but depending on the manufacturer, it can be a breeze, or a pain in the butt, to develop and run applications on them.
Come to think of it, this issue of openness (i.e. letting people do what they want without corporate greediness and power-freaking getting in the way) is what defines successful things from unsuccessful ones. MP3 for example is an open format, just look at the MP3 players industry now. PCs are essentially an open design, and it's been flourishing for decades, to the point that it's so entrenched that it gets in the way of better designs. On the other hand, ebooks for example are a dismal failure, because people have to jump through hoops (and pay dearly for the privilege of jumping) to get DRM-encumbered files that won't be readable on other devices.
"For the past two years Microsoft and Novell have been working on the 'Moonlight' project.
Translation: for two years, Microsoft has been using Novell to pretend they're not working on the Linux platform and aren't trying to embrace/extend it.
There ain't no way Silverlight will end up on my hard-drive. Having the Flash player is bad enough already.
The answer to an age old OS/2 puzzle : how many double clicks can you make on a mouse with your left big toe while typing repeatedly antidisestablishmentarianism.
No it isn't. Studies have shown that temperatures rose significantly across the US right after 9/11 when all planes where grounded for several days, because of clearer skies.
See here.
I'd rather have a pet dodo personally.
My understanding is that the woolly mammoth is one of the first casualty of the infestation Earth by the human species : they went extinct partly because of the warming climate, partly because of overhunting.
You're a very clever troll, but I'll bite...
here come the knee-jerk atheists
Feel threatened in your religious beliefs much? Don't worry, that phenomenon you see around you whereby people abandon irrational creeds is called progress. It's slow coming, but it's coming.
What is your consciousness? What makes you sentient? They've poked and prodded every orifice of your body and they have still not been able to determine where your consciousness
Have you considered that consciousness is an illusion of a human brain that has become powerful enough to reflect on its own existence? That's why you won't find it in the body or the brain, anymore that you'll find a tummy ache if you look inside your stomach.
this 'thing' in quantum physics called 'the observer'
Nice confusion here. The "observer" in quantum physics doesn't have to be sentient or conscious. A simple camera is enough to skew a quantum physic's experiment.
Yet, most people seem to acknowledge its existence. Even many scientists, atheist or not.
Wrong logic here. It's not because scientists and "most people" acknowledge the existence of consciousness that they all agree it's a metaphysical being. In fact, if I had to guess, I'd say most scientists believe consciousness is a physical brain process that has nothing to do with metaphysics or religion.