Who modded that flamebait... and what are you smoking while you mod?
This is exactly how MS built the company into it megalithic existence. Lets see if we can name some software/companies that they killed off?
Digital Research, Word Perfect, Netscape, GEM, Paradox, oh screw it, we are all aware that the embrace and extend was MS speak for extinguish. There are products that never even made it to market thanks to MS (can you say tablet pc)
The point is that this is not flamebait. It counts as truthful comment.
Well, I'd say you're probably right to wonder... I'm pretty sure they would. Perry is a bad choice all around. You can spend some time reading the millions of links to websites with stories about him, but this is a good one to start with: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/
Mr Perry has made some blatantly ill-advised choices. Supporting Rudy for Pres was one of them. His views on many topics that relate to gaming either directly or indirectly make him quite a questionable choice. Perhaps Jack Thompson was busy and Perry was the second choice? -- not really a fair comment, but it sounded funny to me.. sigh
While searching through Google'd info about Mr Perry, see if you can find his name near 'video game' anywhere except on the explanation of the DMCA on his official website. I had trouble finding anything. Try searching with the -E3 option.
Choosing a politician to speak in an election year is practically BEGGING them to politicize the presentation. Being republican, and a Bush crony, it's hard to imagine that anything good will come of this. That said, it is not a foregone conclusion that it will totally suck either, it just seems a bad choice. There is not much to say about Mr Perry and video games except he likes game creators to have their businesses in Texas instead of elsewhere... really? How does that make him relevant to E3? I have to admit I can't find any reason that he should be on the short list, never mind the final choice. YMMV
I don't mean to break this to you in a rude kind of way, but that is how you get 'into' anything. Granted, if you want to fly 757s across the ocean, you'll have to aim a bit lower, but same applies, grab a book, read, do flight sims, save for flight lessons, get a job at the airport... blah blah blah...
This is the opposite of FUD, or rather something I'd call DUF(f)... for the English, we understand that. Anyway, when MS is telling you that they are improving, embracing, extending, becomming transparent, supporting OSS, and using someone else's technology to do so... they are hyping up the buzzwords to draw you, get your distracted attention.
It's of little concern that they are not inventing their own version of Ruby, they are only modifying to use it, then you won't have to have OSS as MS will have a.net alternative for that, and throw in SilverLight for more busswordiness, and the marketing droids just juice themselves all over.
We are making.net compatible with Ruby/Rails and giving it SilverLight functionality as well. This should help us keep our name in the spaces that Ruby is now pretty much commanding the buzzword marketshare.
There, does that make sense?
How about this: MS training certs now cover Ruby/Rails (well sort of) so you can put that on your resume too. Of course, you won't know shit about it really, but you'll get the cert through.net training.
There is no way that government wants difficult to trace communication to be availble to the general public. I thought that is how the USPS runs their next day delivery service?
Doubtful actually, at least in all cases. In English, nova has one or two meanings that may bring different thoughts. In some Spanish speaking countries, they might be thinking 'no go' or some option for various value of go in Spanish.
Grammarians unite! Only those who understand language will be able to interpret the results of this machine.
It is quite interesting that there are parts of the brain that light up uniformly (or near it) for some processes. Puts the human brain more in the land of machine with wetware and further away from the land of magic and such. There is probably still a LOT of work to be done before that universal translator does anyone any good.
Well, it might ensure that the NSA et al are not infecting your VoIP equipment with tracing software while you are talking, and those pesky terrorists might not be able to send text data about the next planes to hijack while having a bad conversation quality exchange about prayer times and how to find Mecca while in Chicago.
When a security hole is found, it needs to be plugged because the threats it poses are not always explicitly understood at first glance.
In fact, in computing in general, there are multiple ways to sneak a couple of packets through here and there if you're willing to be patient. I'd mention a few of them, but that would probably get me on a fucked up watch list. The fact remains that this is but one way to do so. Monitoring the network packet for packet won't uncover them all either, nor will it out any terrorists who don't want anyone watching their communications. Why, even my music on hold can contain data for transmission to the right person with the right audio equipment. Never mind a blog post, or email. In fact... woooootttt! I could use the NSA's website as the key for an encryption routine that they would never decode in several decades of trying. sigh, but that won't stop them from telling us that it's all for our protection.
Just encrypting it would not stop the possibility of rogue data if your application can withstand a few missing packets. VoIP is not the only protocol which is susceptible.
That, or they will just leach and give nothing back. Why would they bother? Have you seen written Chinese? Perhaps you've seen some of the foreign language attempts at putting warning labels in English on their products? Google for it, it's fun.
Language and dialects will ensure that they will contribute at least as far as making software compatible with their own language. Google translate does not make good foreign language error messages, and totally mangles the man pages. So, efforts like RedFlag Linux http://www.redflag-linux.com/chanpin/eindex.php just read their web site English and you'll see what I mean.
While that is probably good advice, the one thing that I would advise is the one thing that got me on the track that I'm still on some 35+ years later. There is nothing so fascinating to young boys IMO, than blowing stuff up and on the more docile side, taking things apart. Even if the taking apart is destructive, it is often critically educational. Once you build a flame thrower, the next step is to burn something.
Once you take a lawnmower apart, the next step is to build something, errr, put it back together with some new parts, and cleaning of some old parts. The same can be said for VCRs and old cake mixers. If you can take it apart without explosives, you can learn from it.
The world, it seems, is just one giant erector set with some pretty cool pieces.
Read some Heinlein. He has a theory about how a man should know enough about everything to do at least a half decent job. Not many people will pay for a broken model airplane, but they make a great way for young kids to learn how the various parts of an airplane work, then you can move on to that $500 christmas present if he wants to fly.
In summary, I'd have to say that bringing in new 'junk' every now and then to play with and examine would be healthy. As for the one that did it for me? I cut every part out of a 1967-ish color console television, then stared at the box and wondered for days how in the hell that box of stupid parts ever made a picture? Finding out took quite awhile but then I started off at the age of 9.
I think that you are right. One of the groups who benefits the most are the companies that want to apply DRM to their content. Some will learn up front how much the arms race will cost them. Others will learn what is probably the point at which they should stop trying, and yet other still will learn that it is a futile business tact, and that modifying their business plan is both cheaper and garners more and loyal customers.
Additionally, with the arms race comes better code, not simply for the DRM, but for the operating systems and applications that work with the content. It is indeed evolution of both content, DRM, and code in general. The arms race in this case (not that of nuclear arms) is the catalyst of evolution, and betterment for all users in the long term. I would never call such hackers bad, simply the opposite side of the DRM coin that MUST exist, as without it, the other side cannot exist either.
Try keeping all the coins in your pocket/drawer/whatever so that you only ever see the heads side sometime. It's far easier to just allow any side to show in it's turn. It kind of makes things like pockets, coin purses, piggy banks work well.
Not only that, and you do make a hugely valid point, but all this IT infrastructure is... well, it would grind office productivity to a halt if the printer is broken. Despite all the hardware, the paperless office has not yet taken off in any meaningful way. When the connection between your desktop and the printer is through a router that is on the other side of the country, and it takes 2 hours to get it working, productivity will drop significantly. To simply bleat on about moving the data center out into the cloud is blindly spewing PR like the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
Much like outsourcing has come to be more expensive, so too will 'outsourcing' your data center. I'm sure that we've all heard of DDoS attacks. How convenient will they become when your data is on the other side of a router from your workers? Yeah, the SLAs sound good on paper, but oat 4:30 on a Friday of a long weekend, when your billing processes grind to a halt, how long will it take to get fixed? My personal favorite is the data center people telling me it is an application error. The billing department is telling me that their application is giving an error that a server can't be found. My code says that there is a permission problem on a network directory, and no one left in the data center has admin rights on that box.
Yep, this outsourcing thing will work out well.
What was that old saying? If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself? Sometimes it is true, ya know?
I am looking for something that small or a little bit bigger that supports 2-4 SATA devices, as well as USB and Linux. I have several cases that have enough room for 4 drives, a small PSU, and little extra room. A mini-itx board will just fit if I reconstruct the drive mounting hardware to be vertical rather than horizontal. I think this would be ideal for home. It's about the size of three Linksys routers stuck together - kind of. I have two with 5 1/4 drive bays also. I'm mounting DVD/CD drives in these and a HD. Would like this to sit next to my stereo for ripping and burning CDs etc. as well as streaming music locally on the home LAN. I'd use a laptop, but I'm going for low power and want access to the server from any system in the house, even the under-cabinet system in the kitchen. It's not a small or short term project, so I can afford to wait for the right parts... working on other parts while I wait.:)
Personally, I'm not overly concerned about desktop/mobile machines. The marketplace will take care of that end of things. I'd like to see an ultra low power really-small-motherboard (nano, pico, invisible, whatever) that is fanless and can run on a small battery power source for a reasonable time.
I'm currently hacking some old hardware and such would be fantastic. Trying to take an old SCSI raid chassis, jam a mobo inside, psu, and some SATA drives. All that in a small case as a versatile fileserver/NAS system. For the home network, I'm going to thick clients and keeping the user data all backed up disk2disk in a way that we can all log in from any machine. Also trying to do this without adding extra to the energy bill, so am going for lower power upgrades to some older hardware that I have.
Things are slowly coming together, but a few steps left in the shrinkage department. This looks good, but as pointed out, still a bit of a power draw. sigh... A $75 mobo price point would be quite nice.
Yes, Fermilab is one of those things that deserves both budget and anthropological support exactly because it does benefit us all. There are some things that just need to be a group effort. While there is some private space exploration, NASA was also one of those group effort things, and should be. So is healthcare, but meh... too much argument about that one because too much money to be made by private industry.
I too am glad to see they got the funding they need.
Yeah, if the engineers were in charge of it, it might be good, but it's not even fully baked yet and they are hyping it. In my experience, that means that 'tru2way' technology will be a steaming pile of shit. In fact, it makes you wonder what they were thinking is 2way, but not 'tru' 2way cable services?
Engineers didn't name this, surely not. I would think that if this will be all that it should, it would be named 'interactive' or some term along those lines, not simply 'tru2way'... Perhaps I'm wrong and it would have to be named X-tv to really be a SPOS.
Either way, if the hype is already flowing, it can't be good. It's not quite like the build up to the war in Iraq, but the mass effect is. Lots of PR to get people to buy into it, then off you go to rob them blind.
I'm certain that Sony wants in to make sure that they sell brand new sets to people that have a perfectly good hi-resolution television. With the recession coming, they'll need some reason for you to buy a television because digital tv won't be it.
Those same said Americans bought into all the PR by the Whitehouse about WMD in Iraq. If the MSM tells them something, they believe it. Remember how many of them watch American Idol? Judges are meant to be a bit smarter than that. When it's talk in the break room, everyone is an expert. When you are in court or put in a position of authority, those same said American Idol voters tend to tighten up and try to fly right. This is why you don't see too many complaints about juries being biased etc.
The jury trial is a good thing. I'd like to see the Viacom lawyers find 12 good and true people that really do think like they do without having to pay them to think that way. With a jury trial the jury always has the option of ignoring the law and pronouncing innocence, or rather refusing to convict. Such is the law.
When you have to explain to people what the Internet is, it is just as likely you would have to explain that YouTube videos are supposedly illegal too. 'Why is that illegal' will be what Viacom has to explain, and that may not be so easy as you think.
Nice try, you cretin...... and when the Christian liberators found the beheaded bodies on the hill outside the town, they entombed the skeletons behind glass walls in the town cathedral, where they can still be seen to this day."
Have you READ the Koran? Interesting that you would choose to exhibit the prime reason that there is still violence. Man's inescapable ability to remember. Violence begets violence. Sound familiar? Perhaps this: Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. There is far too little of the meekness and love that each religion seems to want us to have.
Mankind is violent (see Star Trek) and will be violent. Your ability to blame a huge portion of the population of this planet for your woes as a group is typically called racism, and I will call it so now. To dredge up a report of violence done by one group and ignore all the violence done by your group is... well, asinine at best.
See above, 'mankind' is violent. Muslims are not the sole source of violence in the world, nor are the they sole source of violence in the US or UK. the original point was that impinging my rights so that you don't have to face your bogeyman of an irrational fear is wrong. You should well be more worried about buses, poisons in your water/air, lightning strikes, auto accidents, gang violence, taxation, and many other things before you worry about terrorists. All the rest are far more likely. When you tar the entirety of a race or religion with the same brush, it leaves the rest of the world thinking about how ignorant you are.
Zelda... ya know, the video game (and others) have them beat with prior art. If you have to click on the monkey and drag him along to get to the next screen, and fscking 5 year olds can do it, there is nothing in their patent that is new or non-obvious.
Zelda may not have used HTML, but the process, the underpinning functionality, and the 'idea' were old hat before these guys had their own bank accounts.
Just one moment there, young man. A man who has not chosen a religious faith as his own is, by definition, not religious. The fact that he has not yet chosen does not make him an atheist per se'.
One has to have proven that the person chose atheism over religion to then call him an evil atheist.
Yes, yes, Rush says if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice... blah blah. What you chose in that case is to not accept christianity or whatever was presented. Until you say there is NO god, you are not an atheist, but merely someone who has not made up their mind yet. Perhaps we call this a non-believer?
When deciding if atheist are evil or not, it would be wise to know what one is, and what one is not.
In this discussion it would also behoove you to remember that there are MANY people in the world that don't get to choose to be Muslim or not.
Religion is not the reason for violence. Mankind is the reason for violence, religion is only his excuse for bad behavior. After all, with that excuse comes a get out of jail free card for those that believe in invisible friends.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step... and often enough a flat tire, nevertheless, by insisting on the preloaded Linux computer (if you can afford it) you are telling the store, the OEM, and more importantly the MS pundits that you prefer Linux to Windows. Yes, that is something of a statement you are making, yet, the more people who make it, the more who won't have to, and the less likely that YOU will have to in the future.
Believe it or not, MS had to go through this phase of consumer acceptance with Win95 also.
Personally, when I purchased my last pc I could not get a pc preloaded with Linux, so I bought pieces and built my own like I have been doing for years. Hopefully when I buy my next pc that will not be the case.
If you can afford it, pay the tax, then take the EULA back for a refund. That should be good for one or two WTF blog posts anyway.
Exactly. I understand that there were some monks in not too distant history that have given you a golden example of how to go first; quiet, flame-boyant, interesting. Let me just get my camera first....
I'm guessing that Mr AC doesn't remember that other 'terrorist' attack in the US. Down in Oklahoma? Memory getting better? There is very little reason to think that a Muslim is more likely than a white to create an act of great violence inside the US borders... school shootings anyone? Kent state? There are lots of examples. My how the black man cheered when the DC snipers turned out to be black... their first notable serial mass murderer. Up till then, all mass murderers were expected to be white.
Of that, 25 or so have attacked US citizens. Lets be generous and say 50 have attacked western countries. That amounts to... uhmmmm about 3.1047801194719389972802126153426e-6 percent of the Muslim population seems to be hell bent on knocking down buildings. The rest are trying to survive where they are. That, by the way, is a huge bunch of non-violent Muslims. Racial profiling does seem to make sense on face value, but dig a bit deeper and you find that the risk of violence from not invading privacy and personal rights is smaller than... say... getting hit by a fucking bus.
I don't care if you are afraid of shadows, diminishing MY rights because of your irrational fears is still wrong, will always be wrong, and always has been WRONG.
Information hosted on a US government website? That is forbidden material? Entrapment anyone? How about err... uhhh... holy fuck!
So the UK government noticed this material being downloaded and never looked at where it came from? WTF? Is the US Government now hosting terrorism inciting materials for the internets?
This, I truly hope, leaves buckets full of egg and chicken shit on the faces of some government employee types.
Not only that, but as a bonus, you only have to send the repair tech to the bus depot, not the street corner with a bucket lift.
There are many possible and very good uses for mobile sensor platforms... think "Can you hear me now?" and you're pretty close.
Not only can they be used for traffic data, but also wireless network quality measurement. In addition to this, there are uses for short range wireless networks that could use buses as roving AP's for collection of data from those networks. Think of a WiFi network that mostly only needs connectivity now and then. As the bus drives by, boom, connection and data transfer.
There are stand alone applications that don't normally need connection except to report telemetry data.. buses come in handy. Think of all those cameras, if their network fails, they have no way to report telemetric data... unless a WiFi mobile AP comes in range.. woot! As a back channel for all sorts of things, this works well in the coverage area of the bus lines, and is suitable for many applications without huge infrastructure or maintenance costs.
When people that I deal with sit down, open a few documents, surf a bit, check out pictures on their camera... well, they almost invariably say "oh, it's just like MS. What is it called again?" Then after a bit more conversation, I have to explain that they don't need windows to run GNU/Linux, that it's a free alternative to MS Windows and it has alternatives for all the MS software that you have been using. In fact, some of it is better than MS software, and all of it is free! Mind you, you can contribute/donate to projects/software that you find very useful, but you don't have to give them hundreds or even tens of dollars. You can install it on any number of machines, and it won't prompt you for a license key. It has none of those MS annoyances. All software has some, that is how things work, but GNU/Linux importantly is missing the really nasty annoyances like fees, and restrictions etc.
Once that sinks in, they agree that it really is a cool thing. Linux good, MS... not so much.
I have wondered a few times, what if you built your own encryption/decryption software/hardware, then decoded a DVD, further, encoded it in your encryption scheme and shared this with a small group of friends who also have the same hardware/software.
Would you be compelled to allow the **AA et al to have your keys and view what you have on DVD, or would that be against the law for them to do? What works for them should surely work for the private individual regarding encryption. Yes it's not exactly a workable answer, but the question remains valid IMO. To know that you have a copy of a movie on the DVD they would have to crack your encryption. This means that unless they actually caught you physically making the copy, they would have zero evidence. Cracking your encryption in the US would be illegal. I'm not sure about elsewhere.
Am I missing something?
Using your own encryption ensures private use only, and may not be all that useful, but I'm interested in what the law would do.
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Who modded that flamebait... and what are you smoking while you mod?
This is exactly how MS built the company into it megalithic existence. Lets see if we can name some software/companies that they killed off?
Digital Research, Word Perfect, Netscape, GEM, Paradox, oh screw it, we are all aware that the embrace and extend was MS speak for extinguish. There are products that never even made it to market thanks to MS (can you say tablet pc)
The point is that this is not flamebait. It counts as truthful comment.
Well, I'd say you're probably right to wonder ... I'm pretty sure they would. Perry is a bad choice all around. You can spend some time reading the millions of links to websites with stories about him, but this is a good one to start with:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/
Mr Perry has made some blatantly ill-advised choices. Supporting Rudy for Pres was one of them. His views on many topics that relate to gaming either directly or indirectly make him quite a questionable choice. Perhaps Jack Thompson was busy and Perry was the second choice? -- not really a fair comment, but it sounded funny to me.. sigh
While searching through Google'd info about Mr Perry, see if you can find his name near 'video game' anywhere except on the explanation of the DMCA on his official website. I had trouble finding anything. Try searching with the -E3 option.
Choosing a politician to speak in an election year is practically BEGGING them to politicize the presentation. Being republican, and a Bush crony, it's hard to imagine that anything good will come of this. That said, it is not a foregone conclusion that it will totally suck either, it just seems a bad choice. There is not much to say about Mr Perry and video games except he likes game creators to have their businesses in Texas instead of elsewhere... really? How does that make him relevant to E3? I have to admit I can't find any reason that he should be on the short list, never mind the final choice. YMMV
I don't mean to break this to you in a rude kind of way, but that is how you get 'into' anything. Granted, if you want to fly 757s across the ocean, you'll have to aim a bit lower, but same applies, grab a book, read, do flight sims, save for flight lessons, get a job at the airport... blah blah blah...
This is the opposite of FUD, or rather something I'd call DUF(f) ... for the English, we understand that. Anyway, when MS is telling you that they are improving, embracing, extending, becomming transparent, supporting OSS, and using someone else's technology to do so... they are hyping up the buzzwords to draw you, get your distracted attention.
.net alternative for that, and throw in SilverLight for more busswordiness, and the marketing droids just juice themselves all over.
.net compatible with Ruby/Rails and giving it SilverLight functionality as well. This should help us keep our name in the spaces that Ruby is now pretty much commanding the buzzword marketshare.
.net training.
It's of little concern that they are not inventing their own version of Ruby, they are only modifying to use it, then you won't have to have OSS as MS will have a
We are making
There, does that make sense?
How about this: MS training certs now cover Ruby/Rails (well sort of) so you can put that on your resume too. Of course, you won't know shit about it really, but you'll get the cert through
Does that make more sense?
Sorry, but yes, I'm cynical when it comes to MS.
Doubtful actually, at least in all cases. In English, nova has one or two meanings that may bring different thoughts. In some Spanish speaking countries, they might be thinking 'no go' or some option for various value of go in Spanish.
Grammarians unite! Only those who understand language will be able to interpret the results of this machine.
It is quite interesting that there are parts of the brain that light up uniformly (or near it) for some processes. Puts the human brain more in the land of machine with wetware and further away from the land of magic and such. There is probably still a LOT of work to be done before that universal translator does anyone any good.
Well, it might ensure that the NSA et al are not infecting your VoIP equipment with tracing software while you are talking, and those pesky terrorists might not be able to send text data about the next planes to hijack while having a bad conversation quality exchange about prayer times and how to find Mecca while in Chicago.
When a security hole is found, it needs to be plugged because the threats it poses are not always explicitly understood at first glance.
In fact, in computing in general, there are multiple ways to sneak a couple of packets through here and there if you're willing to be patient. I'd mention a few of them, but that would probably get me on a fucked up watch list. The fact remains that this is but one way to do so. Monitoring the network packet for packet won't uncover them all either, nor will it out any terrorists who don't want anyone watching their communications. Why, even my music on hold can contain data for transmission to the right person with the right audio equipment. Never mind a blog post, or email. In fact... woooootttt! I could use the NSA's website as the key for an encryption routine that they would never decode in several decades of trying. sigh, but that won't stop them from telling us that it's all for our protection.
Just encrypting it would not stop the possibility of rogue data if your application can withstand a few missing packets. VoIP is not the only protocol which is susceptible.
Perhaps you've seen some of the foreign language attempts at putting warning labels in English on their products? Google for it, it's fun.
Language and dialects will ensure that they will contribute at least as far as making software compatible with their own language. Google translate does not make good foreign language error messages, and totally mangles the man pages. So, efforts like RedFlag Linux http://www.redflag-linux.com/chanpin/eindex.php just read their web site English and you'll see what I mean.
While that is probably good advice, the one thing that I would advise is the one thing that got me on the track that I'm still on some 35+ years later. There is nothing so fascinating to young boys IMO, than blowing stuff up and on the more docile side, taking things apart. Even if the taking apart is destructive, it is often critically educational. Once you build a flame thrower, the next step is to burn something.
Once you take a lawnmower apart, the next step is to build something, errr, put it back together with some new parts, and cleaning of some old parts. The same can be said for VCRs and old cake mixers. If you can take it apart without explosives, you can learn from it.
The world, it seems, is just one giant erector set with some pretty cool pieces.
Read some Heinlein. He has a theory about how a man should know enough about everything to do at least a half decent job. Not many people will pay for a broken model airplane, but they make a great way for young kids to learn how the various parts of an airplane work, then you can move on to that $500 christmas present if he wants to fly.
In summary, I'd have to say that bringing in new 'junk' every now and then to play with and examine would be healthy. As for the one that did it for me? I cut every part out of a 1967-ish color console television, then stared at the box and wondered for days how in the hell that box of stupid parts ever made a picture? Finding out took quite awhile but then I started off at the age of 9.
I think that you are right. One of the groups who benefits the most are the companies that want to apply DRM to their content. Some will learn up front how much the arms race will cost them. Others will learn what is probably the point at which they should stop trying, and yet other still will learn that it is a futile business tact, and that modifying their business plan is both cheaper and garners more and loyal customers.
Additionally, with the arms race comes better code, not simply for the DRM, but for the operating systems and applications that work with the content. It is indeed evolution of both content, DRM, and code in general. The arms race in this case (not that of nuclear arms) is the catalyst of evolution, and betterment for all users in the long term. I would never call such hackers bad, simply the opposite side of the DRM coin that MUST exist, as without it, the other side cannot exist either.
Try keeping all the coins in your pocket/drawer/whatever so that you only ever see the heads side sometime. It's far easier to just allow any side to show in it's turn. It kind of makes things like pockets, coin purses, piggy banks work well.
Not only that, and you do make a hugely valid point, but all this IT infrastructure is ... well, it would grind office productivity to a halt if the printer is broken. Despite all the hardware, the paperless office has not yet taken off in any meaningful way. When the connection between your desktop and the printer is through a router that is on the other side of the country, and it takes 2 hours to get it working, productivity will drop significantly. To simply bleat on about moving the data center out into the cloud is blindly spewing PR like the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
Much like outsourcing has come to be more expensive, so too will 'outsourcing' your data center. I'm sure that we've all heard of DDoS attacks. How convenient will they become when your data is on the other side of a router from your workers? Yeah, the SLAs sound good on paper, but oat 4:30 on a Friday of a long weekend, when your billing processes grind to a halt, how long will it take to get fixed? My personal favorite is the data center people telling me it is an application error. The billing department is telling me that their application is giving an error that a server can't be found. My code says that there is a permission problem on a network directory, and no one left in the data center has admin rights on that box.
Yep, this outsourcing thing will work out well.
What was that old saying? If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself? Sometimes it is true, ya know?
I am looking for something that small or a little bit bigger that supports 2-4 SATA devices, as well as USB and Linux. I have several cases that have enough room for 4 drives, a small PSU, and little extra room. A mini-itx board will just fit if I reconstruct the drive mounting hardware to be vertical rather than horizontal. I think this would be ideal for home. It's about the size of three Linksys routers stuck together - kind of. I have two with 5 1/4 drive bays also. I'm mounting DVD/CD drives in these and a HD. Would like this to sit next to my stereo for ripping and burning CDs etc. as well as streaming music locally on the home LAN. I'd use a laptop, but I'm going for low power and want access to the server from any system in the house, even the under-cabinet system in the kitchen. It's not a small or short term project, so I can afford to wait for the right parts... working on other parts while I wait. :)
Personally, I'm not overly concerned about desktop/mobile machines. The marketplace will take care of that end of things. I'd like to see an ultra low power really-small-motherboard (nano, pico, invisible, whatever) that is fanless and can run on a small battery power source for a reasonable time.
I'm currently hacking some old hardware and such would be fantastic. Trying to take an old SCSI raid chassis, jam a mobo inside, psu, and some SATA drives. All that in a small case as a versatile fileserver/NAS system. For the home network, I'm going to thick clients and keeping the user data all backed up disk2disk in a way that we can all log in from any machine. Also trying to do this without adding extra to the energy bill, so am going for lower power upgrades to some older hardware that I have.
Things are slowly coming together, but a few steps left in the shrinkage department. This looks good, but as pointed out, still a bit of a power draw. sigh... A $75 mobo price point would be quite nice.
Yes, Fermilab is one of those things that deserves both budget and anthropological support exactly because it does benefit us all. There are some things that just need to be a group effort. While there is some private space exploration, NASA was also one of those group effort things, and should be. So is healthcare, but meh... too much argument about that one because too much money to be made by private industry.
I too am glad to see they got the funding they need.
Yeah, if the engineers were in charge of it, it might be good, but it's not even fully baked yet and they are hyping it. In my experience, that means that 'tru2way' technology will be a steaming pile of shit. In fact, it makes you wonder what they were thinking is 2way, but not 'tru' 2way cable services?
... Perhaps I'm wrong and it would have to be named X-tv to really be a SPOS.
Engineers didn't name this, surely not. I would think that if this will be all that it should, it would be named 'interactive' or some term along those lines, not simply 'tru2way'
Either way, if the hype is already flowing, it can't be good. It's not quite like the build up to the war in Iraq, but the mass effect is. Lots of PR to get people to buy into it, then off you go to rob them blind.
I'm certain that Sony wants in to make sure that they sell brand new sets to people that have a perfectly good hi-resolution television. With the recession coming, they'll need some reason for you to buy a television because digital tv won't be it.
Those same said Americans bought into all the PR by the Whitehouse about WMD in Iraq. If the MSM tells them something, they believe it. Remember how many of them watch American Idol? Judges are meant to be a bit smarter than that. When it's talk in the break room, everyone is an expert. When you are in court or put in a position of authority, those same said American Idol voters tend to tighten up and try to fly right. This is why you don't see too many complaints about juries being biased etc.
The jury trial is a good thing. I'd like to see the Viacom lawyers find 12 good and true people that really do think like they do without having to pay them to think that way. With a jury trial the jury always has the option of ignoring the law and pronouncing innocence, or rather refusing to convict. Such is the law.
When you have to explain to people what the Internet is, it is just as likely you would have to explain that YouTube videos are supposedly illegal too. 'Why is that illegal' will be what Viacom has to explain, and that may not be so easy as you think.
Have you READ the Koran? Interesting that you would choose to exhibit the prime reason that there is still violence. Man's inescapable ability to remember. Violence begets violence. Sound familiar? Perhaps this: Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. There is far too little of the meekness and love that each religion seems to want us to have.
Mankind is violent (see Star Trek) and will be violent. Your ability to blame a huge portion of the population of this planet for your woes as a group is typically called racism, and I will call it so now. To dredge up a report of violence done by one group and ignore all the violence done by your group is
See above, 'mankind' is violent. Muslims are not the sole source of violence in the world, nor are the they sole source of violence in the US or UK. the original point was that impinging my rights so that you don't have to face your bogeyman of an irrational fear is wrong. You should well be more worried about buses, poisons in your water/air, lightning strikes, auto accidents, gang violence, taxation, and many other things before you worry about terrorists. All the rest are far more likely. When you tar the entirety of a race or religion with the same brush, it leaves the rest of the world thinking about how ignorant you are.
Zelda... ya know, the video game (and others) have them beat with prior art. If you have to click on the monkey and drag him along to get to the next screen, and fscking 5 year olds can do it, there is nothing in their patent that is new or non-obvious.
Zelda may not have used HTML, but the process, the underpinning functionality, and the 'idea' were old hat before these guys had their own bank accounts.
Just one moment there, young man. A man who has not chosen a religious faith as his own is, by definition, not religious. The fact that he has not yet chosen does not make him an atheist per se'.
One has to have proven that the person chose atheism over religion to then call him an evil atheist.
Yes, yes, Rush says if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice... blah blah. What you chose in that case is to not accept christianity or whatever was presented. Until you say there is NO god, you are not an atheist, but merely someone who has not made up their mind yet. Perhaps we call this a non-believer?
When deciding if atheist are evil or not, it would be wise to know what one is, and what one is not.
In this discussion it would also behoove you to remember that there are MANY people in the world that don't get to choose to be Muslim or not.
Religion is not the reason for violence. Mankind is the reason for violence, religion is only his excuse for bad behavior. After all, with that excuse comes a get out of jail free card for those that believe in invisible friends.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step... and often enough a flat tire, nevertheless, by insisting on the preloaded Linux computer (if you can afford it) you are telling the store, the OEM, and more importantly the MS pundits that you prefer Linux to Windows. Yes, that is something of a statement you are making, yet, the more people who make it, the more who won't have to, and the less likely that YOU will have to in the future.
Believe it or not, MS had to go through this phase of consumer acceptance with Win95 also.
Personally, when I purchased my last pc I could not get a pc preloaded with Linux, so I bought pieces and built my own like I have been doing for years. Hopefully when I buy my next pc that will not be the case.
If you can afford it, pay the tax, then take the EULA back for a refund. That should be good for one or two WTF blog posts anyway.
I'm guessing that Mr AC doesn't remember that other 'terrorist' attack in the US. Down in Oklahoma? Memory getting better? There is very little reason to think that a Muslim is more likely than a white to create an act of great violence inside the US borders... school shootings anyone? Kent state? There are lots of examples. My how the black man cheered when the DC snipers turned out to be black... their first notable serial mass murderer. Up till then, all mass murderers were expected to be white.
How many Muslims are in the world? The Muslim population in 2006 is 1610.42 million. from http://www.islamicpopulation.com/world_general.html That's 1.6 BILLION or so Muslims.
Of that, 25 or so have attacked US citizens. Lets be generous and say 50 have attacked western countries. That amounts to... uhmmmm about 3.1047801194719389972802126153426e-6 percent of the Muslim population seems to be hell bent on knocking down buildings. The rest are trying to survive where they are. That, by the way, is a huge bunch of non-violent Muslims. Racial profiling does seem to make sense on face value, but dig a bit deeper and you find that the risk of violence from not invading privacy and personal rights is smaller than
I don't care if you are afraid of shadows, diminishing MY rights because of your irrational fears is still wrong, will always be wrong, and always has been WRONG.
Thanks for playing
All this means is ...... WTF????
Information hosted on a US government website? That is forbidden material? Entrapment anyone? How about err... uhhh... holy fuck!
So the UK government noticed this material being downloaded and never looked at where it came from? WTF? Is the US Government now hosting terrorism inciting materials for the internets?
This, I truly hope, leaves buckets full of egg and chicken shit on the faces of some government employee types.
Not only that, but as a bonus, you only have to send the repair tech to the bus depot, not the street corner with a bucket lift.
... think "Can you hear me now?" and you're pretty close.
There are many possible and very good uses for mobile sensor platforms
Not only can they be used for traffic data, but also wireless network quality measurement. In addition to this, there are uses for short range wireless networks that could use buses as roving AP's for collection of data from those networks. Think of a WiFi network that mostly only needs connectivity now and then. As the bus drives by, boom, connection and data transfer.
There are stand alone applications that don't normally need connection except to report telemetry data.. buses come in handy. Think of all those cameras, if their network fails, they have no way to report telemetric data... unless a WiFi mobile AP comes in range.. woot! As a back channel for all sorts of things, this works well in the coverage area of the bus lines, and is suitable for many applications without huge infrastructure or maintenance costs.
Exactly. What he said!
When people that I deal with sit down, open a few documents, surf a bit, check out pictures on their camera... well, they almost invariably say "oh, it's just like MS. What is it called again?" Then after a bit more conversation, I have to explain that they don't need windows to run GNU/Linux, that it's a free alternative to MS Windows and it has alternatives for all the MS software that you have been using. In fact, some of it is better than MS software, and all of it is free! Mind you, you can contribute/donate to projects/software that you find very useful, but you don't have to give them hundreds or even tens of dollars. You can install it on any number of machines, and it won't prompt you for a license key. It has none of those MS annoyances. All software has some, that is how things work, but GNU/Linux importantly is missing the really nasty annoyances like fees, and restrictions etc.
Once that sinks in, they agree that it really is a cool thing. Linux good, MS... not so much.
I have wondered a few times, what if you built your own encryption/decryption software/hardware, then decoded a DVD, further, encoded it in your encryption scheme and shared this with a small group of friends who also have the same hardware/software.
Would you be compelled to allow the **AA et al to have your keys and view what you have on DVD, or would that be against the law for them to do? What works for them should surely work for the private individual regarding encryption. Yes it's not exactly a workable answer, but the question remains valid IMO. To know that you have a copy of a movie on the DVD they would have to crack your encryption. This means that unless they actually caught you physically making the copy, they would have zero evidence. Cracking your encryption in the US would be illegal. I'm not sure about elsewhere.
Am I missing something?
Using your own encryption ensures private use only, and may not be all that useful, but I'm interested in what the law would do.