While it is a nice story about how the NOAA Satellites "predicted" Hurricane's Sandy's path, the truth is they had a 50-50 chance. In case you have missed it, no one is able to predict the weather any longer.
Predicting overnight temps is also broken. The other morning it was predicted to be 16F as the low, it was -5F, which broke the record set back in 1983. If you shuddered well so did I because I had to go relocate snow that was not predicted from the night before.
Look out a window to see what the weather is, many NOAA stations do not do this. Doppler Radar is a great tool except it does not cover my area so it really is a guessing game as to what will happen.
".As for "conflicts with her belief system" she can just fuck right off with that. You don't get to be excused from policies, laws, regulations, etc. just because they "offend your belief system"."
Maybe her belief is in the original U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights, something the government is violating left, right, and center every single day in the name of "security."
"And lastly, sound in space."
So two large objects colliding in space would make no noise? Has anyone bothered to blast music in space to see what would happen?
I'll stick with EVE Online, at least it has noise.
"New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story – one that upon a second look offers clues it was false."
So that also explains Sales. Even a half-wit like me knows that when Safeway does a "buy one, get one free" sale, they went around jacking up all their prices before the event, like we would not notice. It is simply amazing just how much quarterly profit Safeway has made since the economy went poof.
"... 'open fields' are open game for law-enforcement and surveillance technology. Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant. What the police cannot do, their cameras can — without warrant or court oversight."
Aren't you glad it is an Election Year and you can vote out all the long-term politicians? After all, they are the ones who are destroying the prinicipals and rights of the people in the Republic. Problem is most people will just re-elect them. So, at what point will it be too much for "We, The People" and a reboot of America happens?
Oh boy, Oh boy, Oh boy, 48-cores in a phone! It is a National Security nightmare, who needs a portable Cray?! Plug n Pray USB with a power/data/array port and woohoo, spatial physics is no longer in the the realm of data centers.
"Enric Herrero, a research scientist at Intel Labs in Barcelona, explained that with the prototype chip someone could, for instance, be encrypting an email while also working on other power-intensive apps at the same time — without hiccups."
Encrypt an email? Ah, so that is what a "smartphone" is supposed to be doing. "Without hiccups," guy must be new at Intel - Have you seen the OS being used on phones right now? Go back to basics and speeds increase without all the GUI crap - why isn't that being made on the fly?
Everyone is being so upbeat and optimistic, you got 50 days left.:P
Josh Gellers writes: "The study showing abnormal levels of caffeine in the waters off the Oregon coast also suggested that the contaminants were predominantly coming from small-scale waste treatment systems such as household septic tanks, as opposed to large-scale wastewater treatment plants, which are regulated with much greater scrutiny. Such massive facilities are well-equipped to process the waste originating from cities in Oregon, which are comparatively smaller than major metropolitan hubs that have much more waste to contend with. For example, in Massachusetts, high levels of caffeine have been detected in Boston Harbor, likely the result of significantly greater quantities of wastewater that require treatment than those present in Oregon."
Gee, I wonder why there is tea detected in Boston Harbor?!?! As to the coffee off Oregon's coast, well, we have crabs and they are very mellow, now.
Yet another example of bad reporting. What the study actually said was:
Caffeine was detected in Oregon coastal ocean waters measuring up to 44.7 ng/L.
Caffeine occurrence and concentrations in seawater did not correspond with pollution threats from population density and point and non-point sources, but did correspond with storm event occurrence. Caffeine concentrations in rivers and estuaries draining to the coast ranged from below the reporting limit to 152.2 ng/L.
So, figure out where those rivers dumping in to the Pacific were getting all that caffeine from should be what people are doing.
I have read enough comments to realize that people on/. will continue to debate whether the adverse environmental conditions are man-caused or natural. It really does not matter any longer as there is nothing that can stop it. Storms will be more destructive year after year and those islands no one cares about will disappear in to the water. Of course, people will debate if the weather is really worse than before. We are only just starting to see weather that will scare the crap out of you and your wallet. Who to blame for it, does it really matter?
What bothers me about moving from desktop PCs to all those other things: 1) The screens shrink and now I have to wear glasses to see anything? Yeah, not. 2) There is no way to replace anything that breaks inside, especially when out of warranty. Throwing everything away is not that answer either. 3) Anything that doesn't let me play EvE Online is a fail. At least I have my priorities.
As far as my company goes, it will continue to design & sell its own branded desktop PCs and servers.
I don't speak for CPP obviously, but would presume you are not aware:
#1) Dust514 is not exactly new news, EvE players have known about it for about a year. The actual EvE client is being updated to allow the PC to gaming console interaction but that takes time.
#2) Is it easy to port a game written for one gaming platform to another? PS3 was selected at the time because it was the most popular out there and now a couple of years later, it isn't. Do you throw away all that work to code for Xbox or any other game console? I recall when even Xbox was having serious problems so no one is immune.
#3) Isn't a PS4 coming out or is that another vaporware product?
Twenty years ago, hackers were caught, prosecuted, and tossed in a hole for a long 'time out' - What has changed?
Interesting article but at least there is one state doing something about e-waste. Oregon E-Cycles is a new statewide program that began January 1, 2009. It provides free recycling of computers, monitors, and TVs. The program is financed by electronics manufacturers and jointly implemented with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, who maintains a list of manufacturers' brands and compliance status. Oregon retailers may only sell those brands that are listed as pending or compliant.
For more information about the program, go here:
http://www.oregonecycles.org/
Some years ago, a customer placed an order for 100 computers, which was wonderful, except we were short 25 cases. [My company has been an OEM since 1996.] These are just medium tower cases, no power supplies, as we use specific components - We are also on a customer-imposed deadline. None of our distributors had any more in the same style case, which meant I had to go to the retail sites. I bought all I could find and ended up contacting Tigerdirect OEM sales department for the final 13 cases.
The order was confirmed, paid with a wire transfer, and confirmed (by email) that the order would get to us shortly. One week later, no cases - Contacted the Tigerdirect rep, "we are sorry, he is on vacation." (Where is my order?) "We have not received payment for that order." (I have here a faxed copy of the confirmation that payment was received by your bank ten minutes after the rep confirmed the order.) "Please fax us that confirmation." (I did.) "Please hold.... There was a hold placed on your order for non payment." (HUH?!) "The finance department put a hold on it." (Why?) "I am bringing the finance dept. on the line now." At this point, I was starting to wonder who these people were. It took most of the day to get the issue corrected. The next morning, the rep came back from 'vacation' and called me to say they were out of stock on the order! grrrr
Meanwhile, five days remained to get the cases and the computers built, so went shopping to local computer stores and found them. The customer got everything on time a couple days later and that was the end of that deal.
Same morning that the customer accepted delivery, I get an email from Tigerdirect - they shipped the cases, UPS ground, so I called the rep. (Got an email that says the cases were shipped UPS ground this morning.) "Yes, isn't it wonderful." (I paid for overnight air.) "Oh. I can issue you a credit for your next order." (There will not be a next order. I want a full shipping refund because Tigerdirect not only put a hold on a wire transfer, they forgot to notify me that they had not shipped the order as indicated, and then shipped it via the wrong method. Now I've been put through hoops just to get this order here.) "I am sorry. I will pass your concerns along but I can not do anything."
I eventually filed a complaint with the BBB and had it resolved that way. Moral of this story: OEM's do not let friends buy from Tigerdirect, ever.
Your comment is slightly incorrect. If you order from a business based in the same state you are in and your state charges a sales tax, that biz must collect that sales tax from you for the taxable item.
There is also another little oops that a number of small companies seem to be making with the 'point of presence' issue. After a lot of research, by legal advisers and my own reading of various state laws, I determined that a point of presence means a physical location (store, warehouse, or employee.) My company is based in the state of Oregon, where there is no state sales tax nor is there a government office that collects sales tax for other states.
Let me give an example: IF my warehouse was in California, (point of presence) my company must have a Cali. resellers permit (and other corp-related sales licenses.) Any sale to a Cali. customer, even though they order it from my web site, requires me to collect the customer's local sales tax (state plus county and or city taxes).
And it gets even more complicated when employees are throw in to the mix. So I'll stick to doing everything in Oregon and any other sales-tax free state.
To put it simply, guess Networkworld has missed the arrays Xirrus makes. Plus, it helps to be upgrading the back end wired equipment (switches, routers, even cabling) to support the faster requirements.
Just my penny thought.
"could we have possibly done worse as a species?"
Well actually, yes.. the US of A is sending the Wal-Mart of space ships in to space (lowest priced components to get us in to space cheap, until NASA tacks on their administration charges..) and broadcasting each of those launches. I can't imagine any advanced civilizations seeing us as a threat from those images. At least not for a really long time. But, our Science Fiction movie space ships are much more interesting and frankly knowing that those images are also heading out in to space worries me more. We could end up having a "Galaxy Quest" moment if the SETI signal actually clues some one in to us.
Funny you should mention those lines.. I watched "The Last Starfighter" last weekend and thought, woah, that ship actually looks real. I wonder why it took a crew of 400 to fly an upside down iron?
If SETI did bring aliens here, we could build real space ships and actually get out there, at least before it gets crowded here or goes underwater.
Obviously it'd be bad if you were under the falling house-like object, but it would be a good wake up call to all the naysayers in our world (and politicians who are the true cause of global warming, what with all their heated arguments and blame..) And you know, sometimes I think it'd be nice to just drive up and over a crater instead of going through all that traffic in the center of large cities.. But, knowing our luck, SETI's signals will get to the aliens after their planet was foreclosed and the riff-raff will come here and cause trouble.;)
I dunno about the rest of you, but ads on web pages are annoying. And the arguments that they are losing money? Oh please.. Try selling an original work instead of ads. If they worry about "content" being free, try locking it up and see where that gets you.
I look at running a web site or in my case, 3 domains, as the cost of doing business.
I think if I see lots of other sites start to block their "content" to certain browser users, then I'd dust off the script I last used during the Netscape & IE wars. Wasn't that about 7 or 8 years ago? Afterall, Fair is Fair.
I'm a bit confused - How could Microsoft even apply for a patent on the FAT filesystem, they did not invent it? Even NTFS is a rip-off from technology IBM & Microsoft worked on together. You know, the "windows killer" known as OS/2 that IBM fumbled...
I use the Linux version (but clients use the Windoze version - works very well with XP, while 98se & ME require you to turn off AVG_CC in the startup-tab of msconfig.)
Actually, OS/2 IS owned by IBM - they just licensed the code to Serenity Systems International, who is responsible for the development and distribution of eComStation. http://www.ecomstation.com/
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While it is a nice story about how the NOAA Satellites "predicted" Hurricane's Sandy's path, the truth is they had a 50-50 chance. In case you have missed it, no one is able to predict the weather any longer.
Predicting overnight temps is also broken. The other morning it was predicted to be 16F as the low, it was -5F, which broke the record set back in 1983. If you shuddered well so did I because I had to go relocate snow that was not predicted from the night before.
Look out a window to see what the weather is, many NOAA stations do not do this. Doppler Radar is a great tool except it does not cover my area so it really is a guessing game as to what will happen.
".As for "conflicts with her belief system" she can just fuck right off with that. You don't get to be excused from policies, laws, regulations, etc. just because they "offend your belief system"."
Maybe her belief is in the original U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights, something the government is violating left, right, and center every single day in the name of "security."
"And lastly, sound in space." So two large objects colliding in space would make no noise? Has anyone bothered to blast music in space to see what would happen? I'll stick with EVE Online, at least it has noise.
"New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story – one that upon a second look offers clues it was false."
So that also explains Sales. Even a half-wit like me knows that when Safeway does a "buy one, get one free" sale, they went around jacking up all their prices before the event, like we would not notice. It is simply amazing just how much quarterly profit Safeway has made since the economy went poof.
"... 'open fields' are open game for law-enforcement and surveillance technology. Whether 'No Trespassing' signs are present or not, your private property is public for the law, with or without a warrant. What the police cannot do, their cameras can — without warrant or court oversight."
:P
Aren't you glad it is an Election Year and you can vote out all the long-term politicians? After all, they are the ones who are destroying the prinicipals and rights of the people in the Republic. Problem is most people will just re-elect them. So, at what point will it be too much for "We, The People" and a reboot of America happens?
Just curious, 50 days left.
Oh boy, Oh boy, Oh boy, 48-cores in a phone! It is a National Security nightmare, who needs a portable Cray?! Plug n Pray USB with a power/data/array port and woohoo, spatial physics is no longer in the the realm of data centers.
:P
"Enric Herrero, a research scientist at Intel Labs in Barcelona, explained that with the prototype chip someone could, for instance, be encrypting an email while also working on other power-intensive apps at the same time — without hiccups."
Encrypt an email? Ah, so that is what a "smartphone" is supposed to be doing. "Without hiccups," guy must be new at Intel - Have you seen the OS being used on phones right now? Go back to basics and speeds increase without all the GUI crap - why isn't that being made on the fly?
Everyone is being so upbeat and optimistic, you got 50 days left.
Josh Gellers writes: "The study showing abnormal levels of caffeine in the waters off the Oregon coast also suggested that the contaminants were predominantly coming from small-scale waste treatment systems such as household septic tanks, as opposed to large-scale wastewater treatment plants, which are regulated with much greater scrutiny. Such massive facilities are well-equipped to process the waste originating from cities in Oregon, which are comparatively smaller than major metropolitan hubs that have much more waste to contend with. For example, in Massachusetts, high levels of caffeine have been detected in Boston Harbor, likely the result of significantly greater quantities of wastewater that require treatment than those present in Oregon." Gee, I wonder why there is tea detected in Boston Harbor?!?! As to the coffee off Oregon's coast, well, we have crabs and they are very mellow, now. Yet another example of bad reporting. What the study actually said was: Caffeine was detected in Oregon coastal ocean waters measuring up to 44.7 ng/L. Caffeine occurrence and concentrations in seawater did not correspond with pollution threats from population density and point and non-point sources, but did correspond with storm event occurrence. Caffeine concentrations in rivers and estuaries draining to the coast ranged from below the reporting limit to 152.2 ng/L. So, figure out where those rivers dumping in to the Pacific were getting all that caffeine from should be what people are doing.
I have read enough comments to realize that people on /. will continue to debate whether the adverse environmental conditions are man-caused or natural. It really does not matter any longer as there is nothing that can stop it. Storms will be more destructive year after year and those islands no one cares about will disappear in to the water. Of course, people will debate if the weather is really worse than before. We are only just starting to see weather that will scare the crap out of you and your wallet. Who to blame for it, does it really matter?
What bothers me about moving from desktop PCs to all those other things:
1) The screens shrink and now I have to wear glasses to see anything? Yeah, not.
2) There is no way to replace anything that breaks inside, especially when out of warranty. Throwing everything away is not that answer either.
3) Anything that doesn't let me play EvE Online is a fail. At least I have my priorities.
As far as my company goes, it will continue to design & sell its own branded desktop PCs and servers.
There is always the Ziotek Media Carousel that stores 150 discs per device and it includes software: http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=10670
In your mind, when does their fun cross a line? When someone dies because LulzSec decided to take down an electrical grid?
I don't speak for CPP obviously, but would presume you are not aware:
#1) Dust514 is not exactly new news, EvE players have known about it for about a year. The actual EvE client is being updated to allow the PC to gaming console interaction but that takes time.
#2) Is it easy to port a game written for one gaming platform to another? PS3 was selected at the time because it was the most popular out there and now a couple of years later, it isn't. Do you throw away all that work to code for Xbox or any other game console? I recall when even Xbox was having serious problems so no one is immune.
#3) Isn't a PS4 coming out or is that another vaporware product?
Twenty years ago, hackers were caught, prosecuted, and tossed in a hole for a long 'time out' - What has changed?
Interesting article but at least there is one state doing something about e-waste. Oregon E-Cycles is a new statewide program that began January 1, 2009. It provides free recycling of computers, monitors, and TVs. The program is financed by electronics manufacturers and jointly implemented with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, who maintains a list of manufacturers' brands and compliance status. Oregon retailers may only sell those brands that are listed as pending or compliant. For more information about the program, go here: http://www.oregonecycles.org/
I also agree with avoiding Tigerdirect.
Some years ago, a customer placed an order for 100 computers, which was wonderful, except we were short 25 cases. [My company has been an OEM since 1996.] These are just medium tower cases, no power supplies, as we use specific components - We are also on a customer-imposed deadline. None of our distributors had any more in the same style case, which meant I had to go to the retail sites. I bought all I could find and ended up contacting Tigerdirect OEM sales department for the final 13 cases.
The order was confirmed, paid with a wire transfer, and confirmed (by email) that the order would get to us shortly. One week later, no cases - Contacted the Tigerdirect rep, "we are sorry, he is on vacation." (Where is my order?) "We have not received payment for that order." (I have here a faxed copy of the confirmation that payment was received by your bank ten minutes after the rep confirmed the order.) "Please fax us that confirmation." (I did.) "Please hold. ... There was a hold placed on your order for non payment." (HUH?!) "The finance department put a hold on it." (Why?) "I am bringing the finance dept. on the line now." At this point, I was starting to wonder who these people were. It took most of the day to get the issue corrected. The next morning, the rep came back from 'vacation' and called me to say they were out of stock on the order! grrrr
Meanwhile, five days remained to get the cases and the computers built, so went shopping to local computer stores and found them. The customer got everything on time a couple days later and that was the end of that deal.
Same morning that the customer accepted delivery, I get an email from Tigerdirect - they shipped the cases, UPS ground, so I called the rep. (Got an email that says the cases were shipped UPS ground this morning.) "Yes, isn't it wonderful." (I paid for overnight air.) "Oh. I can issue you a credit for your next order." (There will not be a next order. I want a full shipping refund because Tigerdirect not only put a hold on a wire transfer, they forgot to notify me that they had not shipped the order as indicated, and then shipped it via the wrong method. Now I've been put through hoops just to get this order here.) "I am sorry. I will pass your concerns along but I can not do anything."
I eventually filed a complaint with the BBB and had it resolved that way. Moral of this story: OEM's do not let friends buy from Tigerdirect, ever.
Your comment is slightly incorrect. If you order from a business based in the same state you are in and your state charges a sales tax, that biz must collect that sales tax from you for the taxable item.
There is also another little oops that a number of small companies seem to be making with the 'point of presence' issue. After a lot of research, by legal advisers and my own reading of various state laws, I determined that a point of presence means a physical location (store, warehouse, or employee.) My company is based in the state of Oregon, where there is no state sales tax nor is there a government office that collects sales tax for other states.
Let me give an example:
IF my warehouse was in California, (point of presence) my company must have a Cali. resellers permit (and other corp-related sales licenses.) Any sale to a Cali. customer, even though they order it from my web site, requires me to collect the customer's local sales tax (state plus county and or city taxes).
And it gets even more complicated when employees are throw in to the mix. So I'll stick to doing everything in Oregon and any other sales-tax free state.
To put it simply, guess Networkworld has missed the arrays Xirrus makes. Plus, it helps to be upgrading the back end wired equipment (switches, routers, even cabling) to support the faster requirements. Just my penny thought.
"could we have possibly done worse as a species?" Well actually, yes.. the US of A is sending the Wal-Mart of space ships in to space (lowest priced components to get us in to space cheap, until NASA tacks on their administration charges..) and broadcasting each of those launches. I can't imagine any advanced civilizations seeing us as a threat from those images. At least not for a really long time. But, our Science Fiction movie space ships are much more interesting and frankly knowing that those images are also heading out in to space worries me more. We could end up having a "Galaxy Quest" moment if the SETI signal actually clues some one in to us.
Funny you should mention those lines.. I watched "The Last Starfighter" last weekend and thought, woah, that ship actually looks real. I wonder why it took a crew of 400 to fly an upside down iron? If SETI did bring aliens here, we could build real space ships and actually get out there, at least before it gets crowded here or goes underwater.
And the best space ship the US of A has to attend the 'galactic club' is a tile-failing over-sized plane? Oh yeah, be afraid Aliens... ;)
Obviously it'd be bad if you were under the falling house-like object, but it would be a good wake up call to all the naysayers in our world (and politicians who are the true cause of global warming, what with all their heated arguments and blame..) And you know, sometimes I think it'd be nice to just drive up and over a crater instead of going through all that traffic in the center of large cities.. But, knowing our luck, SETI's signals will get to the aliens after their planet was foreclosed and the riff-raff will come here and cause trouble. ;)
I dunno about the rest of you, but ads on web pages are annoying. And the arguments that they are losing money? Oh please.. Try selling an original work instead of ads. If they worry about "content" being free, try locking it up and see where that gets you.
I look at running a web site or in my case, 3 domains, as the cost of doing business.
I think if I see lots of other sites start to block their "content" to certain browser users, then I'd dust off the script I last used during the Netscape & IE wars. Wasn't that about 7 or 8 years ago? Afterall, Fair is Fair.
I'm a bit confused - How could Microsoft even apply for a patent on the FAT filesystem, they did not invent it? Even NTFS is a rip-off from technology IBM & Microsoft worked on together. You know, the "windows killer" known as OS/2 that IBM fumbled...
Try AVG Anti-Virus:
http://www.grisoft.com/
I use the Linux version (but clients use the Windoze version - works very well with XP, while 98se & ME require you to turn off AVG_CC in the startup-tab of msconfig.)
Actually, OS/2 IS owned by IBM - they just licensed the code to Serenity Systems International, who is responsible for the development and distribution of eComStation.
http://www.ecomstation.com/
IBM's OS/2 web site is:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/
Hope that clears up any confusion.
There has been a trend in the past five years or so to migrate to ATM's running either windows [shudder] or Java-based terminals.
I know that Wells Fargo replaced most if not all of their ATM's with windoze-based terminals a couple of years ago.