Somehow, paving "the way for ultrafast, intercontinental air travel" by crashing your very first example does not sound like the way you want to start things off.
Then again, the British did usher in the passener jet age with the Comet.
The Lack of Drivers(tm) argument is one that the Linux community should keep at the forefront when VISTA is launched.
As XP broke many existing drivers, so too will VISTA. This incompatibility issue should highlight the problems associated with ANY new operating system.
Why should people want to adopt an operating system that will not work with much of the hardware they currently own? This argument has been used against Linus for years. It should be turned around and used to justify the choice of Linux instead of VISTA.
Will this lead to the administration reclassifying more documents, or at a greater rate in order to prevent their global dissemination?
BBC Story on Reclassification.
There is some legitimate concern that having all those documents so readily available can pose a problem. I am less concerned about someone coming to city hall and looking at tax records than I am with universal availability of the same information online, and in a readily searchable form.
I generally land squarely on the more access side, but this issue could lend credence to administration concerns.
Has there been a serious investigation of potential patent claims against OpenVZ. This looks like a potentially hazardous inclusion.
If due diligence has been done, and no problems on the horizon, then that's great. Just would hate to have something like this included and have it open up another SCO-like situation. Recognizing that one is Copyright based, and the other would probably be Patent, and in particular US patent based.
I think the point here is that the computer does not have the Stepford Wife annoyingly pleasant attitude that the usual computer assistants have.
Back in the early '80s my fellow students and I wrote computer based quizzing software for our classes. We played around with different responses to wrong answers. Contrary to what educational software companies were putting out, our programs would occasionally razz you for a wrong answer. Care to guess which ones the students used more often?
There is only so much a person can take of a caring and supportive computer before it gets really annoying.
BTW, I also wrote a rudimentary hash algorithm to weed out obscene names, without having to code those very names into the program. And yes, it could be defeated by inserting 1 or 0 in place of L or I and O.
That reply is humorous at best. "I wasn't forced to say 'Uncle', I freely chose to do so in order to get the bully off my chest."
Just like the various states of the United States were not forced to raise their drinking ages to 21. Instead, they chose not to lose significant amounts in federal highway funding. Same scenario happened with seatbelts and a host of other issues. I am proud that my state did stand up against them on the seatbelt laws for adults. FYI, I always wear mine, but I retain the right of choice.
Recently there was talk about routine DNA testing of newborns and the likely father. I cannot recall which state was considering making it part of their standard procedure. I rely on the mass recollection of slashdotters to help me out on that one.
The logic was that it would put the issue to rest at the beginning of life and head off possible disruptions in the child's life later on. The state probably tought of it as a way to make "fathers" financial liability air tight.
The term seems more than a bit outdated. Will there be any cool graphics on the USB stick itself? Could be quite a collectible if the edition is truly limited.
"All the blah-blah about increasing technology graduates is very nice"
Good point. I personally know "technology graduates" of MIT and other fine institutions in Massachusetts. None of them are in the state anymore. The reasons vary, but Massachusetts needs to realize that people will move to states where they can afford to live, pay less taxes, drive 20 miles in less than 1 hour etc.
Romney needed to act on this 3-4 years ago. I've been part of the tech downturn at the time. Many of my ex-co-workers left the state because there were too few opportunities.
The state spent lots of money paying unemployment insurance, and the unemployed were effectively prevented from starting up their own companies because they would lose benefits the day they registered their company.
All these well qualified individuals could not use their skills during that time. Instead, they left for less costly pastures.
Massachusetts was the only state to lose population in 2004. And it wasn't losing those on the dole.
Where I've worked it was primarily for running wires, not cooling. I've also worked in places that have the overhead baskets, and quite frankly, although they are convenient, they are 'tugly. They are great for temporary installations and where stuff gets moved alot, but I'd rather have my critical wires away from places where they can get fiddled with by bored individuals.
So, no, I don't think they will be obselete any time soon. But hey, I'm an old punchcard guy.
I looked into the Fuji Alladin/Printpix process a year ago. It was very hard to find the information on longevity. When I finally did find it, I was suprised. It was saying long lasting prints, with over 10 years of fade resistance. Yep, it was saying that 10 years was long life. Also, the process was somthing dubbe thermochromic uses heat and UV fixative. I didn't go too deep into the process, but it clearly was not the same as chemical prints.
The results were also none too fantastic. I tested the machine when it was first installed, and it was terrible. A $120 inkjet was doing better, and that was $120 last year. The techs came in and aligned and tweaked the machine. It was better than before, but still had a tendancy to reproduce reds as more purplish. It also lacked full contrast. Something to be expected of a CMY process.
Almost all photo printers for home or professional use are CMYK printers, with the possible addition of Red and another color for High End printers. One notable exception is the new HP8250 which although it has a black cartridge does not use it for printing photos.
The greatest variance among the CMYK variety comes from the resolution and drop size as well as color gamut of the inks. Some run standard Photos at 2880 x 720 and others at 9600 x 2400 dpi. Drop size varies greatly from one that has 17pl drops and some that go down to 1.5 or 1 pl. Smaller is better, and 17pl is way bad.
You absolutely should check out price of home prints, but when it comes to quality many of the better home photo printes will put all of those store bought prints to shame.
I'll offer two examples of the new breed of home printers that will trounce the store kiosk. If you want to spend the big bucks and do kick ass B&W look at the Epson R2400. If you do a batch of prints on that, you've justified its price. The Canon iP6600D has the new Chromalife 100 system which beats the longevity of that Fuji and makes absolutely unbelievable prints.
It is astonishing that "fair and balanced" FoxNews would only be getting the story from sources that are on only one side of the issue. Especially since the soruces appear to be in the back pocket of Microsoft. Must be a simple matter of forgetting to check their sources. I doubt the ever so ethical journalists there would present a slanted story in favor of some large corporation.
Here's the "first post" on it right here in slashdot. Of course many simply flamed.
"Now would be a fantastic opportunity to install a citywide Wi-Fi network. If the ILEC was ever going to do it and get good press for it, now is the time. Could Intel use another test bed for Wi-Max?"
You're not going to buy one companies Box-wrap contract laser printer cartridges so you can buy another's DRM'ed cartridges?
Look on the back of the HP 90 series ink tanks. Guess what, they have a use by date and say for sale in the USA only.
Their ink has built in expiration dates and region coding. Epson has built in expiration dates too. In either case, the printer will not let you use the cartridge beyond the date specified. I'm not sure about Brother's inks. Only one I know of without lockout chips are the Canon series. Look at the ink for a Canon iP4000 or even the i9900. No chips whatsoever.
Don't claim to punish an IP abuser buy running into the arms of another IP abuser.
Lexmark heard you loud and clear, and they are ROTFL.
I wasn't talking about rolling out Wi-Fi or Wi-Max right now. I'm talking about it in terms of the reconstruction. Something that can be considered when "re-wiring" the city.
In Eastern Europe after communism, some areas were "wired" with cellular service in order to provide basic home phones. The existing infrastructure was in a bad state of repair, and would not handle the needs of the newly liberated populace. I recall seeing pictures the the unit placed in people's homes that took the cellular signals and made POTS out of it. I've used a similar device here in the U.S. for television remote trucks to give us an alternative to wiring phone lines into remote sites.
With Wi-Fi as part of the planning package, areas where power is restored could pick up many services sooner rather than later. It will take some time to sort out and repair all the broken phone lines. Keep in mind that a pair of individual wires must make it all the way back to the Central Office (CO) for each and every phone line. The CO must also be operating in order for the connection to be made.
It will probably be a couple of weeks before Line Power gets restored to more than a handful of areas. In this time, it may be possible to devise a rollout plan for Wi-Fi.
Questions that would need to be answered include: What connects the access point to the internet? Would a mesh be effective? What access controls need to be implemented? Will residents be able to use this technology when they return? Is VOIP possible? Is it desireable?
You have a valid point. Many said they did not want to leave.
Case in point.
"The musician's agent Al Embry had earlier said that nobody had seen Domino since he told people he was planning to 'ride out' the storm at his low-lying home. "
From the bbcnews article...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4206622.s tm
Clearly Fats Domino had the means to get out of New Orleans, just not the common sense.
It might prove interesting to play back interviews with New Orleans residents who were interviewed before the storm and why they said they weren't leaving.
Now would be a fantastic opportunity to install a citywide Wi-Fi network. If the ILEC was ever going to do it and get good press for it, now is the time.
Could Intel use another test bed for Wi-Max?
Slashdot Mirror
It would seem that Garett may be a bit of a math nut.
"Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14" is the title of the article.
Laugh while you can Monkey Boy!
Then again, the British did usher in the passener jet age with the Comet.
The Lack of Drivers(tm) argument is one that the Linux community should keep at the forefront when VISTA is launched.
As XP broke many existing drivers, so too will VISTA. This incompatibility issue should highlight the problems associated with ANY new operating system.
Why should people want to adopt an operating system that will not work with much of the hardware they currently own? This argument has been used against Linus for years. It should be turned around and used to justify the choice of Linux instead of VISTA.
Will this lead to the administration reclassifying more documents, or at a greater rate in order to prevent their global dissemination? BBC Story on Reclassification. There is some legitimate concern that having all those documents so readily available can pose a problem. I am less concerned about someone coming to city hall and looking at tax records than I am with universal availability of the same information online, and in a readily searchable form. I generally land squarely on the more access side, but this issue could lend credence to administration concerns.
And where was Tanya Harding during all of this?
Has there been a serious investigation of potential patent claims against OpenVZ. This looks like a potentially hazardous inclusion.
If due diligence has been done, and no problems on the horizon, then that's great. Just would hate to have something like this included and have it open up another SCO-like situation. Recognizing that one is Copyright based, and the other would probably be Patent, and in particular US patent based.
I think the point here is that the computer does not have the Stepford Wife annoyingly pleasant attitude that the usual computer assistants have.
Back in the early '80s my fellow students and I wrote computer based quizzing software for our classes. We played around with different responses to wrong answers. Contrary to what educational software companies were putting out, our programs would occasionally razz you for a wrong answer. Care to guess which ones the students used more often?
There is only so much a person can take of a caring and supportive computer before it gets really annoying.
BTW, I also wrote a rudimentary hash algorithm to weed out obscene names, without having to code those very names into the program. And yes, it could be defeated by inserting 1 or 0 in place of L or I and O.
That reply is humorous at best. "I wasn't forced to say 'Uncle', I freely chose to do so in order to get the bully off my chest."
Just like the various states of the United States were not forced to raise their drinking ages to 21. Instead, they chose not to lose significant amounts in federal highway funding. Same scenario happened with seatbelts and a host of other issues. I am proud that my state did stand up against them on the seatbelt laws for adults. FYI, I always wear mine, but I retain the right of choice.
Recently there was talk about routine DNA testing of newborns and the likely father. I cannot recall which state was considering making it part of their standard procedure. I rely on the mass recollection of slashdotters to help me out on that one.
The logic was that it would put the issue to rest at the beginning of life and head off possible disruptions in the child's life later on. The state probably tought of it as a way to make "fathers" financial liability air tight.
Not only is it minus the copy protection, it is plus the space stolen from users for that purpose.
The term seems more than a bit outdated. Will there be any cool graphics on the USB stick itself? Could be quite a collectible if the edition is truly limited.
If someone has a good sense of humour they should send his cellmate a 6 year supply of the "generic viagra". :)
"All the blah-blah about increasing technology graduates is very nice"
Good point. I personally know "technology graduates" of MIT and other fine institutions in Massachusetts. None of them are in the state anymore.
The reasons vary, but Massachusetts needs to realize that people will move to states where they can afford to live, pay less taxes, drive 20 miles in less than 1 hour etc.
Romney needed to act on this 3-4 years ago.
I've been part of the tech downturn at the time. Many of my ex-co-workers left the state because there were too few opportunities.
The state spent lots of money paying unemployment insurance, and the unemployed were effectively prevented from starting up their own companies because they would lose benefits the day they registered their company.
All these well qualified individuals could not use their skills during that time. Instead, they left for less costly pastures.
Massachusetts was the only state to lose population in 2004. And it wasn't losing those on the dole.
Dot mobile appears to believe that if students know the details of the story, it is almost as good as knowing the story.
If I tell you hops, yeast, water, and malt, does this mean you will enjoy beer? No. There needs to be context, nuances.
Storytelling is not merely the recitation of facts, it is the art of gaining the interest of the audience, making them feel something.
I hope this is more of a farce done for publicity than a serious effort to rewrite the literature of the world.
Where I've worked it was primarily for running wires, not cooling. I've also worked in places that have the overhead baskets, and quite frankly, although they are convenient, they are 'tugly. They are great for temporary installations and where stuff gets moved alot, but I'd rather have my critical wires away from places where they can get fiddled with by bored individuals.
So, no, I don't think they will be obselete any time soon. But hey, I'm an old punchcard guy.
I looked into the Fuji Alladin/Printpix process a year ago. It was very hard to find the information on longevity. When I finally did find it, I was suprised. It was saying long lasting prints, with over 10 years of fade resistance. Yep, it was saying that 10 years was long life. Also, the process was somthing dubbe thermochromic uses heat and UV fixative. I didn't go too deep into the process, but it clearly was not the same as chemical prints.
The results were also none too fantastic. I tested the machine when it was first installed, and it was terrible. A $120 inkjet was doing better, and that was $120 last year. The techs came in and aligned and tweaked the machine. It was better than before, but still had a tendancy to reproduce reds as more purplish. It also lacked full contrast. Something to be expected of a CMY process.
Almost all photo printers for home or professional use are CMYK printers, with the possible addition of Red and another color for High End printers. One notable exception is the new HP8250 which although it has a black cartridge does not use it for printing photos.
The greatest variance among the CMYK variety comes from the resolution and drop size as well as color gamut of the inks. Some run standard Photos at 2880 x 720 and others at 9600 x 2400 dpi. Drop size varies greatly from one that has 17pl drops and some that go down to 1.5 or 1 pl. Smaller is better, and 17pl is way bad.
You absolutely should check out price of home prints, but when it comes to quality many of the better home photo printes will put all of those store bought prints to shame.
I'll offer two examples of the new breed of home printers that will trounce the store kiosk. If you want to spend the big bucks and do kick ass B&W look at the Epson R2400. If you do a batch of prints on that, you've justified its price. The Canon iP6600D has the new Chromalife 100 system which beats the longevity of that Fuji and makes absolutely unbelievable prints.
It is astonishing that "fair and balanced" FoxNews would only be getting the story from sources that are on only one side of the issue. Especially since the soruces appear to be in the back pocket of Microsoft. Must be a simple matter of forgetting to check their sources. I doubt the ever so ethical journalists there would present a slanted story in favor of some large corporation.
Here's the "first post" on it right here in slashdot. Of course many simply flamed.
"Now would be a fantastic opportunity to install a citywide Wi-Fi network. If the ILEC was ever going to do it and get good press for it, now is the time. Could Intel use another test bed for Wi-Max?"
For the money grab the Canon CanoScan 8400F.
3200 x 6400 resolution and besides doing 35mm slides and negatives, it can even do 120 roll film. All that for $149 or less. and fast
Damn that's funny.
You're not going to buy one companies Box-wrap contract laser printer cartridges so you can buy another's DRM'ed cartridges?
Look on the back of the HP 90 series ink tanks. Guess what, they have a use by date and say for sale in the USA only.
Their ink has built in expiration dates and region coding. Epson has built in expiration dates too. In either case, the printer will not let you use the cartridge beyond the date specified. I'm not sure about Brother's inks.
Only one I know of without lockout chips are the Canon series. Look at the ink for a Canon iP4000 or even the i9900. No chips whatsoever.
Don't claim to punish an IP abuser buy running into the arms of another IP abuser.
Lexmark heard you loud and clear, and they are ROTFL.
Perhaps I should have been clearer.
I wasn't talking about rolling out Wi-Fi or Wi-Max right now. I'm talking about it in terms of the reconstruction. Something that can be considered when "re-wiring" the city.
In Eastern Europe after communism, some areas were "wired" with cellular service in order to provide basic home phones. The existing infrastructure was in a bad state of repair, and would not handle the needs of the newly liberated populace. I recall seeing pictures the the unit placed in people's homes that took the cellular signals and made POTS out of it. I've used a similar device here in the U.S. for television remote trucks to give us an alternative to wiring phone lines into remote sites.
With Wi-Fi as part of the planning package, areas where power is restored could pick up many services sooner rather than later. It will take some time to sort out and repair all the broken phone lines. Keep in mind that a pair of individual wires must make it all the way back to the Central Office (CO) for each and every phone line. The CO must also be operating in order for the connection to be made.
It will probably be a couple of weeks before Line Power gets restored to more than a handful of areas. In this time, it may be possible to devise a rollout plan for Wi-Fi.
Questions that would need to be answered include:
What connects the access point to the internet?
Would a mesh be effective?
What access controls need to be implemented?
Will residents be able to use this technology when they return?
Is VOIP possible? Is it desireable?
I was just throwing it out as a possibility.
You have a valid point. Many said they did not want to leave. Case in point. "The musician's agent Al Embry had earlier said that nobody had seen Domino since he told people he was planning to 'ride out' the storm at his low-lying home. " From the bbcnews article... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4206622.s tm
Clearly Fats Domino had the means to get out of New Orleans, just not the common sense.
It might prove interesting to play back interviews with New Orleans residents who were interviewed before the storm and why they said they weren't leaving.
Now would be a fantastic opportunity to install a citywide Wi-Fi network. If the ILEC was ever going to do it and get good press for it, now is the time. Could Intel use another test bed for Wi-Max?