Going into rescue mode showed that it was having trouble reading the disk. (crap!) After reading some message boards where others have experienced similar problems, I decided that I had little to lose and smacked it flat down on the desk. The Karma made a little grinding noise and booted up!
This is probably the most telling sentence in the review. The firmware for this device is not capable of even a REBOOT when there's a hard drive error. NO recovery, NONE. The *only* recourse was a "smack it flat down on the desk," indicating that the firmware had quite obviously tried to get the hard drive to perform some physically impossible task... and banging the HD juggled the heads enough to produce either a good error or knock the firmware out of its loop and find the data it needs.
Firmware issues... yuck. Wonder if I can convince my web guys to drop their 1U server boxes on the floor when they're being slow to help jiggle those hard drives into compliance???
And, when not driving, you're not required to even have ID. You have to ID yourself, but officers who need to can verify that identification against existing computer systems, or if they can't at least can't charge you with anything.
Proponents claim it would help law enforcement determine that you are who you claim to be and would make forgeries less common.
Hogwash. I'm a cop (and a Libertarian, believe it or not) and an RFID chip would not make one, single bit of difference with regards to verifying that someone is who their ID says they are. All an RFID chip would do is verify that the signal given to the RFID reader matches what the reader expects. Given than any signal can be intercepted and copied, that doesn't tell me anything.
Plus, I don't think we need to get any further down this slippery slope of training new police officers to rely on technology! My rookies learn how to talk to people, how to interview people, and how to try and determine whether or not people are being truthful! Good interviewing skills are what find deception, not good technology.
Besides, do you know how many very worn, very damaged driver licenses I get? They're legal, they're vaild and I can still use them to check ID.
THIS law enforcement officer neither NEEDS nor SUPPORTS the use of RFID chips.
Really now... have we sunk *that* low? We're cross-referencing slashvertisements with ad-articles from other news sites with commercial interests of their own?
No matter how good XAMLon is, I (and likely other/.'ers) are much less likely to even *look* at the web site/article now.../. effect or not.
The Court's 1942 decision in Wickard vs. Filburn gave Congress the power to regulate anything. In that case, the Court remarkably held that the interstate commerce clause could be used to regulate an individual farmer's wheat production or his family's consumption. The reasoning was that since the farmer grew his own wheat, he affected interstate commerce; otherwise, he might have purchased wheat that had moved in interstate commerce.
Beginning with the Hepburn Act (1906), the ICC's jurisdiction was gradually extended beyond railroads to all common carriers except airplanes by 1940. Its enforcement powers to set rates were also progressively extended, through statute and broadened Supreme Court interpretations of the commerce clause of the Constitution, as were its investigative powers for determining fair rates of return on which to base rates. In addition, the ICC was given the task of consolidating railroad systems and managing labor disputes in interstate transport. In the 1950s and 60s the ICC enforced U.S. Supreme Court rulings that required the desegregation of passenger terminal facilities.
The ICC's safety functions were transferred to the Dept. of Transportation when that department was created in 1966; the ICC retained its rate-making and regulatory functions. However, in consonance with the deregulatory movement, the ICC's powers over rates and routes in rails and trucking were curtailed in 1980 by the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carriers Act. Most ICC control over interstate trucking was abandoned in 1994, and the agency was terminated at the end of 1995. Many of its remaining functions were transferred to the new National Surface Transportation Board.
Suffice it to say that the ICC has been oft-abused in a search/grab for power, and many activities we take for granted in our daily lives are now subject to continuing jurisdiction of the government under the ICC. Do you check email? That email crossed state lines and someone paid for connectivity at both ends... thus the software, keyboard, mouse and monitor you use with your computer are theoretically subject to ICC regulation. Want to use Linux instead of Windows? Want to install SP2 on your Windows box? Maybe Congress will decide that it needs to regulate software distribution and require you to register your use of any updates with them...
The ICC is a big, dangerous thing in the hands of often overzealous public officials...
LCDs were losing money, but the company was profitable because they were showing speculative stock market and real estate gains as if they were the company's profits from operations. But it was bogus, a sleight of hand. Sharp didn't make money at all. Ouch. If that's true, the entire Japanese electronics business was, well, a profitless pit. Turns out it was worse than that.
Interesting... this just goes to confirm this story:
LCD makers sell panels below production prices
But makers hope stock mountain crumbling
WHILE MAKERS of panels for LCD monitors and TVs are hoping that distributors and resellers have demolished inventory mountains over the last few weeks, giant manufacturer LG Philips is now selling units for less than it costs to make them, it has emerged.
LCD oversupply causes price tumble
Martin Lynch, 08.30.04, 11:10 AM ET
Demand for LCD panels fell off in the second quarter of this year, leading to an uncharacteristic oversupply scenario, which is expected to continue throughout Q3. But market watcher iSuppli has predicted that demand will rise again by the end of the year.
The analyst found that although there was an increase in large LCD panel unit shipments of 17 per cent over Q1, it still fell short of expectations. This spurred a 6.4 per cent oversupply of panels and led to a series of price reductions as vendors and VARs scrambled to clear stock.
The situation is likely to continue throughout this quarter with the expected opening of eight new fabrication plants. Supply might slow in Q4 but the researcher has claimed the market will be flooded in 2005.
In its quarterly Global LCD Supply/ Demand Forecast, iSuppli said: "We believe the current panel price decreases will boost end-user demand for LCD panels by the holiday season at the end of this year.
"This, accompanied by the cuts in supply that some suppliers have announced, will result in a situation of slight undersupply in Q4 2004, before the industry settles into a period of oversupply throughout 2005."
Mike Farrah, senior business manager for audiovisual and displays at Ingram Micro, said: "We went from constraint in Q1 to oversupply in Q2. All the vendors have had quite a lot of stock and the only way to get rid of it is to cut the price.
"Prices on 17in panels have fallen by 15 to 20 per cent. In Q1, a 17in panel cost dealers ?250; now they can pick one up for ?170.
"On 15in and 17in panels prices will be fairly steady over the next few weeks. The main drop will be seen on 19in and 21in panels. Manufacturers are much more efficient at producing these sizes now."
Panel prices on LCD TVs fell sharply during Q2 but iSuppli maintained that consumer prices are still not low enough to boost demand significantly.
Until linux standardizes out a little bit more it'll be hard for users to seriously consider migrating to it, and harder for sysadmins.
Yes, each one does things slightly different - different pathing, different packages, etc. But, copmare this against Windows - "Home" or "Professional." Two flavors, same program.
The right distro of linux for your use is a good thing - finding the right one for a particular use can be a *itch.
A gram of antimatter would cost almost more money than exists on earth if I recall.
When you consider that the money itself it worthless without the work that goes behind it (people producing things that other people want/need), I'd hardly be willing to believe that the amount of money (measured as time paying people to productively create 1 gram of antimatter) would be anywhere near infinite. It might be more than exists on earth today, but that's only because the value is high and the work "hard", comparatively.
The ambient temperature in my office was about 85F/29C,
The *ambient* temp was 85F? Lord, I'd hate to think how much I'd be sweating in an 85 degree office with limited air movement...
This magazine writer works at a place that can't afford air conditioning? Or does he have so many computers in there that he's just cooking himself voluntarily?!?
you need to go a lot higher, and that's more difficult
Really now? The farther out you get, the less gravity pull you get and the less resistance to atmoshphere you get - in fact, they both trend towards zero the farther away you get.
The real challenge is just getting off the ground and into space. "Higher" from that point is simply a relative term that describes more fuel, power, weight, etc.
And, I'm sure that the Boeing being used is a HELLUVA lot more efficient that adding the weight of fuel needed to reach it's take-off height to SS'1... different hardware, different jobs.
There are a lot of people out there who will not see the potential ramifications of their actions, and think that it is a fun test. "Can I make somebody take a fake $20?"
The guys across the hall from me in college did this. Realized that the optical scanners in vending machines in those days (they'd just started taking dollars) only scanned in black and white and were doing pattern recognition. They copied a bunch of bills and used them all over campus. Morons, though - they used MOST of them in the machines in our OWN dorm.
These causal counterfitters are the hardest ones to catch. Especially the "smart" ones who only do it once or twice. If you keep it up, you will get caught. The Feds are our protection against professional counterfitters, more than the nature of the bill.
Yep - the Secret Service enjoys finding counterfeiters... just ask my/former/ college buddies.
Nothing. I have my mac, and I use OpenOffice. I've not found *anything* productivity related on the PC that I can't get on the Mac.
I'd love to write this letter to Windows, but unfortunately the people who make the decision to *buy* my software are so infatuated with her than they'd never consider leaving...
Southland Corp., owner of 7/11 stores, was up $1.50/share today in news that there is no competition for their stores on the moon! In other news, Southland announced a new Slurpee(TM) training center opened in conjunction with India's planned space program...
but still should be enough to fit every episode of The Simpsons on one disk. Dr Török, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015."
Great. I'll need to invest at a pretty high interest rate to afford EVERY episode on one disk. Single-season sets are running $30-$50. Ten seasons and you're looking at a CAR PAYMENT...
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It's pretty wonderful to select 4 hours of random music for the evening, and not have to worry about changing CDs.
I had a 110-disc CD deck that would do random music between all 110 CD's or any group thereof that I chose... didn't require a digital music player.
Going into rescue mode showed that it was having trouble reading the disk. (crap!) After reading some message boards where others have experienced similar problems, I decided that I had little to lose and smacked it flat down on the desk. The Karma made a little grinding noise and booted up!
This is probably the most telling sentence in the review. The firmware for this device is not capable of even a REBOOT when there's a hard drive error. NO recovery, NONE. The *only* recourse was a "smack it flat down on the desk," indicating that the firmware had quite obviously tried to get the hard drive to perform some physically impossible task... and banging the HD juggled the heads enough to produce either a good error or knock the firmware out of its loop and find the data it needs.
Firmware issues... yuck. Wonder if I can convince my web guys to drop their 1U server boxes on the floor when they're being slow to help jiggle those hard drives into compliance???
And, when not driving, you're not required to even have ID. You have to ID yourself, but officers who need to can verify that identification against existing computer systems, or if they can't at least can't charge you with anything.
We do not have to carry our papers.
Proponents claim it would help law enforcement determine that you are who you claim to be and would make forgeries less common.
Hogwash. I'm a cop (and a Libertarian, believe it or not) and an RFID chip would not make one, single bit of difference with regards to verifying that someone is who their ID says they are. All an RFID chip would do is verify that the signal given to the RFID reader matches what the reader expects. Given than any signal can be intercepted and copied, that doesn't tell me anything.
Plus, I don't think we need to get any further down this slippery slope of training new police officers to rely on technology! My rookies learn how to talk to people, how to interview people, and how to try and determine whether or not people are being truthful! Good interviewing skills are what find deception, not good technology.
Besides, do you know how many very worn, very damaged driver licenses I get? They're legal, they're vaild and I can still use them to check ID.
THIS law enforcement officer neither NEEDS nor SUPPORTS the use of RFID chips.
Congress exists, and Congress has the authority to deem something within the realm of ICC.
CNET recently wrote a story of our launch
/.'ers) are much less likely to even *look* at the web site/article now... /. effect or not.
:(
Really now... have we sunk *that* low? We're cross-referencing slashvertisements with ad-articles from other news sites with commercial interests of their own?
No matter how good XAMLon is, I (and likely other
The Court's 1942 decision in Wickard vs. Filburn gave Congress the power to regulate anything. In that case, the Court remarkably held that the interstate commerce clause could be used to regulate an individual farmer's wheat production or his family's consumption. The reasoning was that since the farmer grew his own wheat, he affected interstate commerce; otherwise, he might have purchased wheat that had moved in interstate commerce.
Much has been written about the interstate commerce decision/clause. Here's an excerpt:
Beginning with the Hepburn Act (1906), the ICC's jurisdiction was gradually extended beyond railroads to all common carriers except airplanes by 1940. Its enforcement powers to set rates were also progressively extended, through statute and broadened Supreme Court interpretations of the commerce clause of the Constitution, as were its investigative powers for determining fair rates of return on which to base rates. In addition, the ICC was given the task of consolidating railroad systems and managing labor disputes in interstate transport. In the 1950s and 60s the ICC enforced U.S. Supreme Court rulings that required the desegregation of passenger terminal facilities.
The ICC's safety functions were transferred to the Dept. of Transportation when that department was created in 1966; the ICC retained its rate-making and regulatory functions. However, in consonance with the deregulatory movement, the ICC's powers over rates and routes in rails and trucking were curtailed in 1980 by the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carriers Act. Most ICC control over interstate trucking was abandoned in 1994, and the agency was terminated at the end of 1995. Many of its remaining functions were transferred to the new National Surface Transportation Board.
Suffice it to say that the ICC has been oft-abused in a search/grab for power, and many activities we take for granted in our daily lives are now subject to continuing jurisdiction of the government under the ICC. Do you check email? That email crossed state lines and someone paid for connectivity at both ends... thus the software, keyboard, mouse and monitor you use with your computer are theoretically subject to ICC regulation. Want to use Linux instead of Windows? Want to install SP2 on your Windows box? Maybe Congress will decide that it needs to regulate software distribution and require you to register your use of any updates with them...
The ICC is a big, dangerous thing in the hands of often overzealous public officials...
Um, no, the second article clearly was writeen in 2004, and references the date 2004 several times in the article.
LCDs were losing money, but the company was profitable because they were showing speculative stock market and real estate gains as if they were the company's profits from operations. But it was bogus, a sleight of hand. Sharp didn't make money at all. Ouch. If that's true, the entire Japanese electronics business was, well, a profitless pit. Turns out it was worse than that.
Interesting... this just goes to confirm this story:
LCD makers sell panels below production prices
But makers hope stock mountain crumbling
WHILE MAKERS of panels for LCD monitors and TVs are hoping that distributors and resellers have demolished inventory mountains over the last few weeks, giant manufacturer LG Philips is now selling units for less than it costs to make them, it has emerged.
--snip--
And this one...
LCD oversupply causes price tumble Martin Lynch, 08.30.04, 11:10 AM ET
Demand for LCD panels fell off in the second quarter of this year, leading to an uncharacteristic oversupply scenario, which is expected to continue throughout Q3. But market watcher iSuppli has predicted that demand will rise again by the end of the year.
The analyst found that although there was an increase in large LCD panel unit shipments of 17 per cent over Q1, it still fell short of expectations. This spurred a 6.4 per cent oversupply of panels and led to a series of price reductions as vendors and VARs scrambled to clear stock.
The situation is likely to continue throughout this quarter with the expected opening of eight new fabrication plants. Supply might slow in Q4 but the researcher has claimed the market will be flooded in 2005.
In its quarterly Global LCD Supply/ Demand Forecast, iSuppli said: "We believe the current panel price decreases will boost end-user demand for LCD panels by the holiday season at the end of this year.
"This, accompanied by the cuts in supply that some suppliers have announced, will result in a situation of slight undersupply in Q4 2004, before the industry settles into a period of oversupply throughout 2005."
Mike Farrah, senior business manager for audiovisual and displays at Ingram Micro, said: "We went from constraint in Q1 to oversupply in Q2. All the vendors have had quite a lot of stock and the only way to get rid of it is to cut the price.
"Prices on 17in panels have fallen by 15 to 20 per cent. In Q1, a 17in panel cost dealers ?250; now they can pick one up for ?170.
"On 15in and 17in panels prices will be fairly steady over the next few weeks. The main drop will be seen on 19in and 21in panels. Manufacturers are much more efficient at producing these sizes now."
Panel prices on LCD TVs fell sharply during Q2 but iSuppli maintained that consumer prices are still not low enough to boost demand significantly.
Which one?
Red Hat? Debian? Yellow Dog? Ubuntu? Mandrake? Fedora? Knoppix? Suse? Gentoo?
Until linux standardizes out a little bit more it'll be hard for users to seriously consider migrating to it, and harder for sysadmins.
Yes, each one does things slightly different - different pathing, different packages, etc. But, copmare this against Windows - "Home" or "Professional." Two flavors, same program.
The right distro of linux for your use is a good thing - finding the right one for a particular use can be a *itch.
the price tag for 100-billionths of a gram of antimatter would be $6 billion
Actually, per the article (above, italics), 1 gram would be $60,000,000,000,000,000 - sixty quadrillion. It's 60 billion billion / 100.
A gram of antimatter would cost almost more money than exists on earth if I recall.
When you consider that the money itself it worthless without the work that goes behind it (people producing things that other people want/need), I'd hardly be willing to believe that the amount of money (measured as time paying people to productively create 1 gram of antimatter) would be anywhere near infinite. It might be more than exists on earth today, but that's only because the value is high and the work "hard", comparatively.
The ambient temperature in my office was about 85F/29C,
The *ambient* temp was 85F? Lord, I'd hate to think how much I'd be sweating in an 85 degree office with limited air movement...
This magazine writer works at a place that can't afford air conditioning? Or does he have so many computers in there that he's just cooking himself voluntarily?!?
What *does* roast-geek smell like?
you need to go a lot higher, and that's more difficult Really now? The farther out you get, the less gravity pull you get and the less resistance to atmoshphere you get - in fact, they both trend towards zero the farther away you get. The real challenge is just getting off the ground and into space. "Higher" from that point is simply a relative term that describes more fuel, power, weight, etc. And, I'm sure that the Boeing being used is a HELLUVA lot more efficient that adding the weight of fuel needed to reach it's take-off height to SS'1... different hardware, different jobs.
There are a lot of people out there who will not see the potential ramifications of their actions, and think that it is a fun test. "Can I make somebody take a fake $20?"
/former/ college buddies.
The guys across the hall from me in college did this. Realized that the optical scanners in vending machines in those days (they'd just started taking dollars) only scanned in black and white and were doing pattern recognition. They copied a bunch of bills and used them all over campus. Morons, though - they used MOST of them in the machines in our OWN dorm.
These causal counterfitters are the hardest ones to catch. Especially the "smart" ones who only do it once or twice. If you keep it up, you will get caught. The Feds are our protection against professional counterfitters, more than the nature of the bill.
Yep - the Secret Service enjoys finding counterfeiters... just ask my
common_wisdom != common
In other news... my mom thinks I'm handsome when I drink.
LMFAO!!!
Nothing. I have my mac, and I use OpenOffice. I've not found *anything* productivity related on the PC that I can't get on the Mac.
I'd love to write this letter to Windows, but unfortunately the people who make the decision to *buy* my software are so infatuated with her than they'd never consider leaving...
PS - Please don't be blue. And I'll be screening your calls...
PPS - Yes, SP2 *does* make you look fat.
Shhhh!!! Quiet, else Symantec might patch NAV to detect MONO as a virus!!!
If you have questions about Mono, read the project launch statement or visit the list of Frequently Asked Questions.
There's an RSS feed for the newest news, updates, etc. on Mono, too.
Southland Corp., owner of 7/11 stores, was up $1.50/share today in news that there is no competition for their stores on the moon! In other news, Southland announced a new Slurpee(TM) training center opened in conjunction with India's planned space program...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP are the national police force, are part of the Canadian Forces Reserves.
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http://www.fact-index.com/m/mi/military_of_canada
but still should be enough to fit every episode of The Simpsons on one disk. Dr Török, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015."
Great. I'll need to invest at a pretty high interest rate to afford EVERY episode on one disk. Single-season sets are running $30-$50. Ten seasons and you're looking at a CAR PAYMENT...
Yin and Yang! Look at how *ugly* DMV pics are!!! They've GOT to balance that out by looking at the world's most beautiful pr0n...