They throw around some mighty big numbers. I wonder how those numbers look when the sun sets.
Even without storage, having that power to tap during daytime hours when businesses and homes need it most would be very helpful. I imagine that demand is most high when it's hottest (for AC), which would also be when this technology performed best.
Until then, solar will be limited to the world of rich eco-friendly types.
Not if the government/utilities build it. And hey - you already pay a massive premium for on-peak power, I bet there is funding for this in there somewhere..
Rather, I don't have a problem with Google doing this simply because I firmly believe in the principle of personal resposibility, and if a person is not prepared to be held personally accountable for the things that they do, then I'm afraid I'm just going to have a hard time recognizing any alleged right that they might have to do it.
That is really naive. Personal responsibility to who? Society? Or the Government? And whatever happens to be the law/populist opinion at the time? What happens further down the road if the law becomes intolerant of your then opinions? What happens if your Government happens to be an oppressive regime? What happens if someone just really doesn't like something you say - even if it's not widely held as offensive, and decides to come track you down over it?
I suppose nothing you write is ever indefensible in the eyes of another?
Or you could... you know, turn on custom mode so that you can run any OS you like.
Or you could, you know, not allow the monopoly PC OS vendor to control the keys that allow the system to boot competing OS's.
Regardless of whether or not you _can_ turn off the secure boot, when you consider what the _majority_ of end users feel comfortable and competent in doing, what kind of barrier to entry does this raise? Would your parents know how to tweak this setting on their own, or feel comfortable doing so? I for one would not even bother attempting to ask my parents, or even some of my siblings, to go and change such an option.
Are the instructions to change this setting even consistent across hardware so that they can be easily published by alternative OS vendors?
RedHat should not have to pay a dime to MS for this IMO, and neither should anyone else. Why couldn't MS have made an option to turn on secure boot by user prompt when they first start their new computers, and require some method provided as standard in the BIOS that allows turning it on only?
Google should simply submit the same take down notice to Microsoft if the "illegal" link is found on Bing too.
They probably can't, since they aren't the copyright owner. I would think it would be easier to make some kind of case that if one party doesn't care enough to remove content from their own engine then the cost burden of doing so on the other should be compensated.
This is Lieutenant Commander Data, attempting to communicate with you through a sub-space channel modulating the reality you are currently perceiving through the 21st century website "Slashdot". An unknown being has locked us out of the holodeck where you are being held and filmed as part of Season 7. Whatever you do, do not initiate the.torrent from TPB. Doing so may trigger a paradox singularity destroying the fabric of space-time. After all, you wouldn't steal a car...
When posession of a Linux distro with smptd becomes a crime
Who cares about that?
You should be more concerned that anything you say to anyone online can be monitored by the government at the flip of a switch (which, based on other articles we've read recently about data warehousing facilities, might eventually be always on). You will have no freedom of speech without real risk to your safety and freedom, even in "private" conversation.
All privacy questions aside, are sat nav devices reliable enough for this purpose?
I purchased a TomTom device new within the last year. On complex intersections - and sometimes just on parallel roads - it can "snap" the car back and forth between pieces of roadway on the display. Sometimes it seems to think you're starting a turn you're not actually making and then eventually snaps the car back onto the correct road later. When exiting a parking lot it sometimes isn't certain about which direction you're really moving in until you've drove a little. It has also tried to direct me down a variety of local roads that don't actually exist. I imagine at least some of these issues are somewhat common among sat navs, and this is only part of my anecdotal experience with one device.
The point is, when these things become a significant input into insurance rates, who can actually inspect them and certify them for such purposes?
Had I bought from Amazon, I would have had to pay to return the units and that's assuming they would have accepted them back.
I haven't returned anything to Amazon in a while now, but I think I recall that so long as they approve the return you get a free shipping label (for most things). They're also very well known for being return-friendly (although that may not be the same for all of their marketplace sellers).
asking vendors to create Target-exclusive products that can't be found online.
This strategy would help Target compete with retailers like Amazon on like-for-like products.
Those seem contradictory. Also, that doesn't help Target compete at all, it helps vendors compete against themselves and Target happens to win on one side of the competition (on the other side, some other outlet loses).
I personally don't have a problem shopping in retail stores for a wide variety of things so long as they're priced reasonably. Unfortunately for brick and mortars, if I find a similar product on Amazon for 40% less on a big ticket item, I'm also not stupid and neither are lots of other consumers. This happens frequently, and, if you're reading, I'm sorry, but it does not cost you a difference of $60 on a $150 item to display it in store and I will still not pay such a difference if you happen to have mildly different SKUs with minor feature differences.
Because a VOIP phone call will suck if the network is congested.
The ISP could alternatively decide to always prioritize VOIP traffic and ensure all VOIP packets received longer than n milliseconds ago were sent before any other traffic, which IMO is vastly different than applying P2P throttling.
Are you dumb?... You're using the VS2010 IDE to run the _exact same_ linker they are having problems with. How does that solve anything?
It doesn't solve their linker issue. It potentially helps them work around a nasty CRT compatibility issue, which is the part of the thread I replied to.
Just a few months back I could not find a way to stop others from listing my employer on my own profile. I had to repeatedly delete this information as more and more people started entering it.
As far as I can tell, only very recently did Facebook add an option to let me approve these associations. Even so, this may still be information I don't want Facebook to store on me (I have no idea what they may use it for or how secure their data is), and it's not clear given their other practices whether that information is actually erased when I remove/disapprove it or simply not added to my public profile.
... it seems to me that another avenue through which Firefox is bleeding customers is through Flash updates. When Firefox updates it tells you in a bright yellow box in the middle of the post-update page if your Flash player is out of date. Given the constant stream of Flash updates Adobe rolls out, this happens very often. Thing is, the Flash installer they point to offers Chrome, and I think it's a web-based based opt-out (haven't checked recently). So the more frequently they push updates, they more of their user base they are likely to lose to Chrome.
DivX HiQ already does cross-browser H.264 in MKV/MP4/MOV with MP3 and AAC support, and ASP in AVI/DivX. http://labs.divx.com/node/14711
It also supports DXVA acceleration for H.264, and it's available on Mac too. It's still in beta and has its quirks but given the discussion I'm surprised it's not mentioned more:)
I use Break very frequently. Win+Break brings up the system control panel, Ctrl+Break breaks some programs, cancels builds, cancels find-in-files, etc. I have seen keyboards without the break key and I actually find it quite infuriating because quick access to the system control panel is something I like.
The Windows key is extremely functional - Win+R lets you run a program, tap Win and start typing the name of a shortcut or indexed file in Windows 7 and it'll find it and let you launch it nearly instantly.
Just because you don't use them doesn't mean other people don't. Not everyone uses their computer for the same things you do. Don't want people to post comments in all caps? (Even though it sounds like a joke, didn't read tfa): Detect if the comment is written in all-caps and reject or reformat it.
Slashdot Mirror
Keep your phone on you, powered down. Or powered up in airplane mode (cell, gps, wifi turned off) if the phone has it.
That would make cell-phones nearly useless. Nobody could reach you quickly. Imagine if everyone you wanted to reach quickly also did this.
They throw around some mighty big numbers. I wonder how those numbers look when the sun sets.
Even without storage, having that power to tap during daytime hours when businesses and homes need it most would be very helpful. I imagine that demand is most high when it's hottest (for AC), which would also be when this technology performed best.
Until then, solar will be limited to the world of rich eco-friendly types.
Not if the government/utilities build it. And hey - you already pay a massive premium for on-peak power, I bet there is funding for this in there somewhere..
Rather, I don't have a problem with Google doing this simply because I firmly believe in the principle of personal resposibility, and if a person is not prepared to be held personally accountable for the things that they do, then I'm afraid I'm just going to have a hard time recognizing any alleged right that they might have to do it.
That is really naive. Personal responsibility to who? Society? Or the Government? And whatever happens to be the law/populist opinion at the time? What happens further down the road if the law becomes intolerant of your then opinions? What happens if your Government happens to be an oppressive regime? What happens if someone just really doesn't like something you say - even if it's not widely held as offensive, and decides to come track you down over it?
I suppose nothing you write is ever indefensible in the eyes of another?
but it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been.
It's cheaper than the alternative would have been based on the way secure boot has been designed.
Or you could... you know, turn on custom mode so that you can run any OS you like.
Or you could, you know, not allow the monopoly PC OS vendor to control the keys that allow the system to boot competing OS's.
Regardless of whether or not you _can_ turn off the secure boot, when you consider what the _majority_ of end users feel comfortable and competent in doing, what kind of barrier to entry does this raise? Would your parents know how to tweak this setting on their own, or feel comfortable doing so? I for one would not even bother attempting to ask my parents, or even some of my siblings, to go and change such an option.
Are the instructions to change this setting even consistent across hardware so that they can be easily published by alternative OS vendors?
RedHat should not have to pay a dime to MS for this IMO, and neither should anyone else. Why couldn't MS have made an option to turn on secure boot by user prompt when they first start their new computers, and require some method provided as standard in the BIOS that allows turning it on only?
Google should simply submit the same take down notice to Microsoft if the "illegal" link is found on Bing too.
They probably can't, since they aren't the copyright owner. I would think it would be easier to make some kind of case that if one party doesn't care enough to remove content from their own engine then the cost burden of doing so on the other should be compensated.
arcite,
This is Lieutenant Commander Data, attempting to communicate with you through a sub-space channel modulating the reality you are currently perceiving through the 21st century website "Slashdot". An unknown being has locked us out of the holodeck where you are being held and filmed as part of Season 7. Whatever you do, do not initiate the .torrent from TPB. Doing so may trigger a paradox singularity destroying the fabric of space-time. After all, you wouldn't steal a car...
Why? Didn't those people get what was advertised to them at the time?
When posession of a Linux distro with smptd becomes a crime
Who cares about that?
You should be more concerned that anything you say to anyone online can be monitored by the government at the flip of a switch (which, based on other articles we've read recently about data warehousing facilities, might eventually be always on). You will have no freedom of speech without real risk to your safety and freedom, even in "private" conversation.
All privacy questions aside, are sat nav devices reliable enough for this purpose?
I purchased a TomTom device new within the last year. On complex intersections - and sometimes just on parallel roads - it can "snap" the car back and forth between pieces of roadway on the display. Sometimes it seems to think you're starting a turn you're not actually making and then eventually snaps the car back onto the correct road later. When exiting a parking lot it sometimes isn't certain about which direction you're really moving in until you've drove a little. It has also tried to direct me down a variety of local roads that don't actually exist. I imagine at least some of these issues are somewhat common among sat navs, and this is only part of my anecdotal experience with one device.
The point is, when these things become a significant input into insurance rates, who can actually inspect them and certify them for such purposes?
Had I bought from Amazon, I would have had to pay to return the units and that's assuming they would have accepted them back.
I haven't returned anything to Amazon in a while now, but I think I recall that so long as they approve the return you get a free shipping label (for most things). They're also very well known for being return-friendly (although that may not be the same for all of their marketplace sellers).
asking vendors to create Target-exclusive products that can't be found online.
This strategy would help Target compete with retailers like Amazon on like-for-like products.
Those seem contradictory. Also, that doesn't help Target compete at all, it helps vendors compete against themselves and Target happens to win on one side of the competition (on the other side, some other outlet loses).
I personally don't have a problem shopping in retail stores for a wide variety of things so long as they're priced reasonably. Unfortunately for brick and mortars, if I find a similar product on Amazon for 40% less on a big ticket item, I'm also not stupid and neither are lots of other consumers. This happens frequently, and, if you're reading, I'm sorry, but it does not cost you a difference of $60 on a $150 item to display it in store and I will still not pay such a difference if you happen to have mildly different SKUs with minor feature differences.
Because a VOIP phone call will suck if the network is congested.
The ISP could alternatively decide to always prioritize VOIP traffic and ensure all VOIP packets received longer than n milliseconds ago were sent before any other traffic, which IMO is vastly different than applying P2P throttling.
Because a VOIP phone call will suck if the network is congested. Whereas your P2P download can take an extra 30 seconds to keep my call quality good.
Perhaps if P2P protocols weren't throttled people could invent more interesting things to use them for, including more time-sensitive applications?
This is just part of a larger, really nasty conflict which has been going on within the King family since Coretta King's death.
Who cares? That ought to be irrelevant. Copyright should not extend as long (or longer than) 70 years in the first place.
Are you dumb? ... You're using the VS2010 IDE to run the _exact same_ linker they are having problems with. How does that solve anything?
It doesn't solve their linker issue. It potentially helps them work around a nasty CRT compatibility issue, which is the part of the thread I replied to.
No need to be so condescending ;)
One of the biggest problems with newer versions is the runtimes using EncodePointer/DecodePointer, which aren't available pre-SP2.
Try this:
* Install VS2010
* In your project configuration(s), under Configuration Properties->General, set "Platform Toolset" to "v90".
I can use this configuration with VS2010 and the latest Windows SDK and get binaries that work on XP pre-SP2.
Just a few months back I could not find a way to stop others from listing my employer on my own profile. I had to repeatedly delete this information as more and more people started entering it.
As far as I can tell, only very recently did Facebook add an option to let me approve these associations. Even so, this may still be information I don't want Facebook to store on me (I have no idea what they may use it for or how secure their data is), and it's not clear given their other practices whether that information is actually erased when I remove/disapprove it or simply not added to my public profile.
... it seems to me that another avenue through which Firefox is bleeding customers is through Flash updates. When Firefox updates it tells you in a bright yellow box in the middle of the post-update page if your Flash player is out of date. Given the constant stream of Flash updates Adobe rolls out, this happens very often. Thing is, the Flash installer they point to offers Chrome, and I think it's a web-based based opt-out (haven't checked recently). So the more frequently they push updates, they more of their user base they are likely to lose to Chrome.
Not recommended! He only responds to crashes, and most of the time you end up being disassembled...
DivX HiQ already does cross-browser H.264 in MKV/MP4/MOV with MP3 and AAC support, and ASP in AVI/DivX.
http://labs.divx.com/node/14711
It also supports DXVA acceleration for H.264, and it's available on Mac too. It's still in beta and has its quirks but given the discussion I'm surprised it's not mentioned more :)
I use Break very frequently. Win+Break brings up the system control panel, Ctrl+Break breaks some programs, cancels builds, cancels find-in-files, etc. I have seen keyboards without the break key and I actually find it quite infuriating because quick access to the system control panel is something I like.
The Windows key is extremely functional - Win+R lets you run a program, tap Win and start typing the name of a shortcut or indexed file in Windows 7 and it'll find it and let you launch it nearly instantly.
Just because you don't use them doesn't mean other people don't. Not everyone uses their computer for the same things you do. Don't want people to post comments in all caps? (Even though it sounds like a joke, didn't read tfa): Detect if the comment is written in all-caps and reject or reformat it.
Kaspersky might have labeled it, but only running AVG ensures there's no chance of catching it ;)
Eh, will we say soon: "Life is too short to surf using 1 Gbit/sec"?
Seriously... damn Flash websites...
Fuck adverts.
Really? So you're willing to pay a monthly subscription to all your favorite search engines, news sites, etc. then?