Why should I? If there are any fraudulent charges, my credit card company will reverse them. Constantly reloading a debit card is a big hassle, and carrying around that much cash with me is unsafe.
Taking a snapshot of where the Longsoon is now and comparing against where AMD and Intel are now is flawed. The processor business chases moving targets, rather than comparing single samples you need to look at a longer history to try to estimate the rate of change.
I'm sorry, but it's ridiculous to think that because Longsoon starts today at 1GHz, that they will be able to accelerate faster than Intel and eventually overtake them. The rate of change has got nothing to do with the starting point. A 1GHz MIPS core is easy to make by today's standards, so it just doesn't mean anything.
I agree. I've turned off in-app purchases because I just don't trust the mechanism. There's no way for me to know that when I authorize an in-app purchase, that I will actually be paying what I'm supposed to pay, and that I'll get what I'm being sold. Once I type in my password, who knows what really happens?
The $10 is not to cover bandwidth. It's to cover the cost of the music that you're downloading. They're saying that people would normally spend $10/month buying music if it weren't possible to "pirate" it.
Paypal does provide protection if you buy something and the Seller (a) doesn't deliver it or (b) delivers it but not in the new condition advertised.
Not quite. They only provide this protection if they can withdraw the funds from the seller's account. I had a problem with one seller not shipping the product I purchased. When I complained to PayPal, they told me that I was entitled to a refund, but they wouldn't give me one because they could not obtain the funds from the seller.
Fortunately, I used a credit card to make the purchase through PayPal, and the credit card company refunded me.
Considering most OS's out there support IPv6 (Vista, 7, Linux, Mac OS X) and most have it defaulted ON out of the box, why not add the capability?
Because it would cost Cisco money to do so, and they would get no financial benefit out of it. Those routers were never advertised with IPv6 support, so why should they be upgraded for free?
Except now the device is worth even less than before. Just the announcement from VM that unlimited service is no longer available makes the device worth less than it was. Theoretically, VM should lower the price of the device to compensate for the reduced value of the service (I know they won't).
Then what are you supposed to do with your $150 mifi device? What about people that bought it for Christmas thinking that they'd get unlimited mobile Internet for $40?
Hey buddy, wake up. It's the 21st Century. You should know that being profitable is just not good enough any more. Every business unit has to be more profitable year-after-year! A lower attachment rate will reduce profitability, so the bean counters will insist that the techies put a stop to this custom firmware nonsense.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
It is possible that the debug features are for their internal use and they don't quite work as intended.
Ding ding ding ding... we have a winner!
I work for a processor design company. If this feature is kept secret, it's because the company does not want to put in the resources to make sure it works completely on every chip. It probably uses lots of hacks and violates the architecture in some obscure way. AMD does not want customers depending on this feature and then insisting that it works for future design wins.
Considering how these machines cost $1,000, and that's only for the lowest end model, I don't know if I'd say they are "cheap". Even if the price drops to $200, that's still orders of magnitude more expensive than the official, mass-produced versions of those objects. It's going to be a very long time before these things are a threat to any patent-holders.
If my personal vault of ebooks dies, how do I transfer them to someone?
Think of your ebook reader as a bag full of books. If you lose the bag, or the books get damaged somehow, then they're gone for good. Similarly, if your Kindle gets destroyed, then the e-books you've kept on them are gone for good as well.
I realize Slashdot has a certain "information should be free" ethos
I think you are mistaken. There may be a few people who believe this, but my observation has been that the vast majority of Slashdotters are much more concerned about the right of first sale, which DRM-encumbered digital downloads do not currently allow. There's no way I'm going to spend $10 or $20 on an e-book if I can't sell it to someone when I'm done with it.
I'm sorry, but any TV show that has been on the air for four years hasn't been canceled, it simply ended. If a show comes to end after more than two years, it's not because of the network executives. It's because the show either told all the stories that it could (e.g. Galactica and Stargate: SG-1), or because it starts going downhill and people no longer like it (e.g. Heroes).
Do you realize that you do not need to purchase any DRM-encumbered content in order to enjoy playing online games? You can can buy disc-only games (of which there are hundreds), download only the free updates, and then sell the game when you're done.
As for the lag, now you're just trolling. I play multiplayer games on my Xbox every week, and there's no lag unless something is wrong with the Internet or Microsoft's servers at that time. I certainly doubt that Xbox Live games exhibit any more lag than PC games.
I wonder if the Microsoft employees who made the decision to make IE6 incompatible with HTML standards have been disciplined in any way for the money that they're costing Microsoft now?
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Why should I? If there are any fraudulent charges, my credit card company will reverse them. Constantly reloading a debit card is a big hassle, and carrying around that much cash with me is unsafe.
No, but they might be winning fewer viewers.
So you had a cell phone, but you got rid it because people you know were expecting you to use it for its intended purpose?
Taking a snapshot of where the Longsoon is now and comparing against where AMD and Intel are now is flawed. The processor business chases moving targets, rather than comparing single samples you need to look at a longer history to try to estimate the rate of change.
I'm sorry, but it's ridiculous to think that because Longsoon starts today at 1GHz, that they will be able to accelerate faster than Intel and eventually overtake them. The rate of change has got nothing to do with the starting point. A 1GHz MIPS core is easy to make by today's standards, so it just doesn't mean anything.
I agree. I've turned off in-app purchases because I just don't trust the mechanism. There's no way for me to know that when I authorize an in-app purchase, that I will actually be paying what I'm supposed to pay, and that I'll get what I'm being sold. Once I type in my password, who knows what really happens?
The $10 is not to cover bandwidth. It's to cover the cost of the music that you're downloading. They're saying that people would normally spend $10/month buying music if it weren't possible to "pirate" it.
I see TW/RR in my area, so I think you just have bad local data.
>>>I don't think of Paypal as secure
Paypal does provide protection if you buy something and the Seller (a) doesn't deliver it or (b) delivers it but not in the new condition advertised.
Not quite. They only provide this protection if they can withdraw the funds from the seller's account. I had a problem with one seller not shipping the product I purchased. When I complained to PayPal, they told me that I was entitled to a refund, but they wouldn't give me one because they could not obtain the funds from the seller. Fortunately, I used a credit card to make the purchase through PayPal, and the credit card company refunded me.
I'm pretty sure Adobe is working on an update that will allow all four cores to run at 100%.
Betty Crocker has a FAQ on all the ways you can screw up cooking Hamburger Helper. Would you say the people who need the help have no business eating?
No, I would say they have no business cooking.
Considering most OS's out there support IPv6 (Vista, 7, Linux, Mac OS X) and most have it defaulted ON out of the box, why not add the capability?
Because it would cost Cisco money to do so, and they would get no financial benefit out of it. Those routers were never advertised with IPv6 support, so why should they be upgraded for free?
Except now the device is worth even less than before. Just the announcement from VM that unlimited service is no longer available makes the device worth less than it was. Theoretically, VM should lower the price of the device to compensate for the reduced value of the service (I know they won't).
Then what are you supposed to do with your $150 mifi device? What about people that bought it for Christmas thinking that they'd get unlimited mobile Internet for $40?
Hey, I've always thought it's better when she cries.
Hey buddy, wake up. It's the 21st Century. You should know that being profitable is just not good enough any more. Every business unit has to be more profitable year-after-year! A lower attachment rate will reduce profitability, so the bean counters will insist that the techies put a stop to this custom firmware nonsense.
This would be the reaction:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
It is possible that the debug features are for their internal use and they don't quite work as intended.
Ding ding ding ding ... we have a winner!
I work for a processor design company. If this feature is kept secret, it's because the company does not want to put in the resources to make sure it works completely on every chip. It probably uses lots of hacks and violates the architecture in some obscure way. AMD does not want customers depending on this feature and then insisting that it works for future design wins.
Considering how these machines cost $1,000, and that's only for the lowest end model, I don't know if I'd say they are "cheap". Even if the price drops to $200, that's still orders of magnitude more expensive than the official, mass-produced versions of those objects. It's going to be a very long time before these things are a threat to any patent-holders.
If my personal vault of ebooks dies, how do I transfer them to someone?
Think of your ebook reader as a bag full of books. If you lose the bag, or the books get damaged somehow, then they're gone for good. Similarly, if your Kindle gets destroyed, then the e-books you've kept on them are gone for good as well.
I realize Slashdot has a certain "information should be free" ethos
I think you are mistaken. There may be a few people who believe this, but my observation has been that the vast majority of Slashdotters are much more concerned about the right of first sale, which DRM-encumbered digital downloads do not currently allow. There's no way I'm going to spend $10 or $20 on an e-book if I can't sell it to someone when I'm done with it.
I'm sorry, but any TV show that has been on the air for four years hasn't been canceled, it simply ended. If a show comes to end after more than two years, it's not because of the network executives. It's because the show either told all the stories that it could (e.g. Galactica and Stargate: SG-1), or because it starts going downhill and people no longer like it (e.g. Heroes).
Do you realize that you do not need to purchase any DRM-encumbered content in order to enjoy playing online games? You can can buy disc-only games (of which there are hundreds), download only the free updates, and then sell the game when you're done.
As for the lag, now you're just trolling. I play multiplayer games on my Xbox every week, and there's no lag unless something is wrong with the Internet or Microsoft's servers at that time. I certainly doubt that Xbox Live games exhibit any more lag than PC games.
the 12-18 block has ... substantial disposable income.
Um, no.
I wonder if the Microsoft employees who made the decision to make IE6 incompatible with HTML standards have been disciplined in any way for the money that they're costing Microsoft now?
They could have included an aerial picture of the area, or at least a map, showing where it is buried.