>>You think every time groklaw mentions Forbes, Forbes smeared someone?
>Do you? The Original Poster never said that. Why not look at Lyons' articles and see if he did smear someone or not?
Hey, don't pick a bone with me. The original poster put a link which searches for Forbes on groklaw up there with the title "smear campaigns". I didn't understand it, I asked for clarification. I didn't put in my thoughts for his, I asked what his thoughts were.
Apparently you agree with me (at least somewhat), so I ask again, why did the OP put in a link to a search of groklaw for the word "Forbes" with the title "smear campaigns" unless he feels every time groklaw mentions Forbes it is a smear?
>What do you call a mistake that is published in a national magazine? "Not an attack >in this case"? What do you call something that is obviously incorrect and should >never have been stated in public? An innocent slip? What if it's a pattern and not a >rare event?
I didn't say an innocent slip. But it seemed more (in this case) like a mistake than a personal attack. For starters, it wasn't even all that personal.
I am disappointed you would jump down my throat for asking for a clarification from a poster.
I did read some of what Daniel Lyons has written. He's a very negative person. But apparently it's okay to be negative about Lotus Notes (which is is, correctly). Apparently it's okay to mention how IBM has had to resort to buying a company to compete with Open Source JBoss. But it's not okay to criticize even a single sector of the blogging community.
I was going to mention Apple explicitly, but I didn't.
Yes, you have to enter your password to do root stuff on a Mac. But users are so conditioned to doing it that it ceases to provide much protection. Virtually all installers will ask for your password, so it'd be easy to put a worm out there that asks for it and then does bad things to your machine and others.
Like I said, it is difficult. Apple isn't succeeding either.
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Someone at ufl really blew that conversion. You don't at 32 when converting differential temperatures from C to F, only absolute.
I wonder if that shark can really keep 60F differential when immersed in water (a very good conductor of heat). Maybe it can only keep 27F (the proper conversion of 15C differential)?
symlinks in Unix don't work over sharing either...
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If they are links to absolute paths. Because file systems aren't always shared at the same point in the tree as they are originally.
Honestly, MS' shortcuts are exactly like symlinks. They're just a file with a special bit set that you open and read to get a redirect. The only difference is the servers/clients don't interpret them. The server passes them on unmolested and the client (on Linux/Mac) doesn't bother to interpret them either.
Also, it is stealing. Were you out there fighting when people talked of stealing cable? How about stealing a kiss? How about stealing away to a secluded place? Face it, English overloads words constantly, this is just another case.
You can have all the protection you want and it doesn't help if the user thwarts it. The user owns the machine, they have ultimate control. They are not going to put up with not being allowed to do things like open attachments. So they have to do their best to educate the users and give them a chance to not screw themselves.
You have very little grasp of the problems involved in trying to make a machine secure without the owner's cooperation.
It's happening in the US too. It seems the press is determined to invent a disaster if one refuses to happen on its own. I mean, yes, birds are getting sick. But the worst we've see so far is "experts fear bird flu might mutate and jump to humans".
It's completely ridiculous. Don't we have enough problems without inventing them?
And personally, I'd also say, don't help them along. Drop this pandemic BS. It's called an epidemic. I know people go on TV and say there's a difference, a pandemic is worldwide, an epidemic is not. But previous things like the black death or SARS or the 1918 bird flu breakout are now refererred to as pandemics too (try searching for it). It's just the invention of a new word becuase the old one didn't seem serious (scary) enough anymore. "Oh, we had a flu epidemic in 1999, we survived that. Oh, sh*t, this is a PANdemic? I'm scared again."
Don't let your words work towards their scaring agenda too.
Because measuring the distance between the Earth and Mars in an arbitrary unit which is defined as 5,280 of some dude's foot is completely stupid. It's much better to measure the distance between the Earth and Mars with an arbitrary unit which is defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the pole of one of these planets.
(Yes, I know it isn't defined as that anymore, but that's what it is. And the new definition is even more arbitrary than the old, although more accurate.)
I just drives me nuts when people seem to think that their units are so damn superior to others that for some reason they shouldn't have to be familiar with or convert from someone else's units.
And finally, when measuring astronomical distances, every unit you could possibly use is as arbitrary as another. Meters: based upon the size of the Earth AU: based upon the radius of the Earth's orbit. light-year: based upon the time of the Earth's orbit. parsec: based upon the length of the Earth's day (angular rotation of Earth about its axis)
The colors still aren't quite as good as CRT, nor the blacks, but they're very, very close. It's leaps beyond RP LCD (or DLP) (I say as an LCD and previous CRT HDTV owner).
The contrast ratio on the new TVs is listed as 5,000:1, for whatever that means. And the response time is 3.5ms.
I don't know how fake those numbers are. I'll just say this. I saw one, and it's incredible. It uses the same technology that knocked people's socks off at $40K with the Qualia 004. Some said the picture was "perfect". Well, maybe it's not perfect, but it's incredible. Good LCOS units like this one will tear away all but the most diehard of diehard CRT fans.
Those super bad-ass Japanese phones are usually enormous and the battery lasts typically a day.
I just think most of the rest of the world isn't interested in phones like that. I know I'm not. I'll take a fair number of features, if they can be put in a small space with decent battery life.
Go to mobileburn.com and check the pics from the Sony K750 or W800.
They are probably a lot better than you think. No, they're not perfect, but depending on the subject matter, if you weren't told it came from a phone you wouldn't know much of the time.
"Please explain who spending tons of money to compensate workers who are being asked to produce more per hour, work more hours and accept fewer fringe benefits like comprehensive healthcare coverage is some evil, evil thing that shall destroy every company and drive them into bankruptcy, while distributing the same amount of money to the higher ups is no problem whatsoever?"
The paragraph directly equates ("the same amount") the amount of money withheld from the rank & file with the amount given to the higher ups.
Do you think it's any solace to hear it when your hardware isn't working?
I think the level of hardware support is an important factor when rating releases, because if a release doesn't support your HW, it's going to be a hassle.
The average Wal-Mart employee does 32 hours a week. So I can't imagine MOST employees do less than 32 hours a week.
As to things getting green when China starts making mass quantities of hybrid car batteries... China already does make almost all of the lithium ion batteries in the world. Why? Because making them DESTROYS the environment locally. And China doesn't give a rip about their environment.
China making solar cells? They already do that too. Making gallium arsenide solar cells requires arsenic and other heavy metals. That's not great for the environment either.
I personally think living green will require a bit more conservation. That might mean that everyone won't have a 300HP, 0-60 in 7 seconds car (and 9 seconds truck).
Don't forget to add in "Everyone gets free Live! Silver. It won't let you do much besides buy track-pack add-ons and download free bugfixes to the games we can't even manage to get right before we press the DVD!"
This is sad. The awful quality of 1.0 PC games is creeping into the console market.
MS is definitely rushing this release. It's release on the last day it could be to make the Xmas shopping season? Be prepared to be underwhelmed.
It's decent hardware I guess. It could maybe be better if they'd wait (HD-DVD?). MS is sure giving up a lot to get out before Xmas. They'd better hope it is worth it.
Also read the other posts here about how the benefits packages of the Delphi employees are unreasonably large.
But hey, keep that sense of displaced anger going.
GM cut $3B of benefits to their employees PER YEAR with just some small concessions from the UAW. You say they give out that much money to the execs. I dare ask, do you think the high ups at GM make $3B/year, let alone the big loaf of bread this small slick of savings was cut from? Imagine how much concession they would have gotten if they actually went up against the union, like the NHL did.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan. Most families got their money from GM, many of them line workers. The pay scales were completely disproportionate to the actual job skills of the workers.
There's no reason you couldn't take a automotive-spec power supply and attach it to the mini. Now you won't have a broken mini.
It's just amazing to me that somone "in the business" would miss this.
Note to other posters below, yes, any Mac can be made to power up upon application of power. It's in the Energy Saver preferences panel, called "Restart automatically after a power failure."
I do wish the Mac mini had a Pentium-M in it instead of a G4. It'd be a lot faster than the current Mac mini or a VIA Mini-ITX system. But that doesn't mean I'm going to make up other shortcomings for the Mac mini.
It's the UHF spectrum which is being reallocated, above channel 51. VHF is channels 2-13.
A TV channel is 6MHz (not the 7MHz below). Theoretical throughput depends on the signal to noise ratio (as Nyquist says). Practical throughput also depends on additional factors like the signalling and ability to spatially share bandwidth (i.e. co-interference between users). But perhaps you could assume that if the 5MHz bandwidth of a 802.11g/a channel can do theoretically 54MBits (and actually 25MBits), then a 6MHz channel could give 65MBits (and actually 30MBits).
Actually, it'd probably be a little different due to the difference between UHF and the microwaves used by 801.11.
But either way, a TV channel's worth of bandwidth isn't a panacea, especially if turned over to unmanaged transmissions. I think the biggest prolbem with municipal WiFi is the inability to share bandwidth well. I mean, the guy next door to me will download movies off the internet all day, because it's free. And that means I lose out.
Finally, I've said it before, I'll say it again. It just doesn't make sense to try this anyway before the deployment of WiMax/802.15. The backhaul costs will be very significant using wires.
Who cares that the ships are only 150 feet away and shooting arrows at you? Who cares that the difference between smouldering and flaming is more than a few degrees? Who cares if the mirrors required are unwieldy and easily targeted?
And they didn't know Archimedes was one of the greatest inventors of all time at that time.
This test was rigged in a very positive direction. It had good mirrors, the ship was stationary and not defending itself. It still didn't work.
I think you're missing another form of skepticism here. This system is just impractical. We know this can be done with large enough mirrors and a good tracking/controlling system. That can be proven pretty easily. The question is, could the system be used and manipulated practically at that time?
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>>You think every time groklaw mentions Forbes, Forbes smeared someone?
>Do you? The Original Poster never said that. Why not look at Lyons' articles and see if he did smear someone or not?
Hey, don't pick a bone with me. The original poster put a link which searches for Forbes on groklaw up there with the title "smear campaigns". I didn't understand it, I asked for clarification. I didn't put in my thoughts for his, I asked what his thoughts were.
Apparently you agree with me (at least somewhat), so I ask again, why did the OP put in a link to a search of groklaw for the word "Forbes" with the title "smear campaigns" unless he feels every time groklaw mentions Forbes it is a smear?
>What do you call a mistake that is published in a national magazine? "Not an attack >in this case"? What do you call something that is obviously incorrect and should >never have been stated in public? An innocent slip? What if it's a pattern and not a >rare event?
I didn't say an innocent slip. But it seemed more (in this case) like a mistake than a personal attack. For starters, it wasn't even all that personal.
I am disappointed you would jump down my throat for asking for a clarification from a poster.
I did read some of what Daniel Lyons has written. He's a very negative person. But apparently it's okay to be negative about Lotus Notes (which is is, correctly). Apparently it's okay to mention how IBM has had to resort to buying a company to compete with Open Source JBoss. But it's not okay to criticize even a single sector of the blogging community.
I was going to mention Apple explicitly, but I didn't.
Yes, you have to enter your password to do root stuff on a Mac. But users are so conditioned to doing it that it ceases to provide much protection. Virtually all installers will ask for your password, so it'd be easy to put a worm out there that asks for it and then does bad things to your machine and others.
Like I said, it is difficult. Apple isn't succeeding either.
Someone at ufl really blew that conversion. You don't at 32 when converting differential temperatures from C to F, only absolute.
I wonder if that shark can really keep 60F differential when immersed in water (a very good conductor of heat). Maybe it can only keep 27F (the proper conversion of 15C differential)?
If they are links to absolute paths. Because file systems aren't always shared at the same point in the tree as they are originally.
Honestly, MS' shortcuts are exactly like symlinks. They're just a file with a special bit set that you open and read to get a redirect. The only difference is the servers/clients don't interpret them. The server passes them on unmolested and the client (on Linux/Mac) doesn't bother to interpret them either.
Also, it is stealing. Were you out there fighting when people talked of stealing cable? How about stealing a kiss? How about stealing away to a secluded place? Face it, English overloads words constantly, this is just another case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna
Wow, not sure why it is news that some fish are warm-blooded.
The warm-bloodedness of tuna also makes allows them to be very good swimmers even in cold water.
My right-handed college roommate mouses with his left hand.
Me, I'm left-handed, but mouse right. I still prefer symmetric mice though. They're a lot smaller. I just don't like huge mice.
That's why MS does this.
You can have all the protection you want and it doesn't help if the user thwarts it. The user owns the machine, they have ultimate control. They are not going to put up with not being allowed to do things like open attachments. So they have to do their best to educate the users and give them a chance to not screw themselves.
You have very little grasp of the problems involved in trying to make a machine secure without the owner's cooperation.
It's happening in the US too. It seems the press is determined to invent a disaster if one refuses to happen on its own. I mean, yes, birds are getting sick. But the worst we've see so far is "experts fear bird flu might mutate and jump to humans".
It's completely ridiculous. Don't we have enough problems without inventing them?
And personally, I'd also say, don't help them along. Drop this pandemic BS. It's called an epidemic. I know people go on TV and say there's a difference, a pandemic is worldwide, an epidemic is not. But previous things like the black death or SARS or the 1918 bird flu breakout are now refererred to as pandemics too (try searching for it). It's just the invention of a new word becuase the old one didn't seem serious (scary) enough anymore. "Oh, we had a flu epidemic in 1999, we survived that. Oh, sh*t, this is a PANdemic? I'm scared again."
Don't let your words work towards their scaring agenda too.
I clicked it, a search of groklaw mentions of Forbes came up.
What does that mean? You think every time groklaw mentions Forbes, Forbes smeared someone?
I just don't get what you're trying to say here.
The first part seemed more like a mistake than a personal attack too, not that Forbes has never personally attacked someone, just not in this case.
Because measuring the distance between the Earth and Mars in an arbitrary unit which is defined as 5,280 of some dude's foot is completely stupid. It's much better to measure the distance between the Earth and Mars with an arbitrary unit which is defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the pole of one of these planets.
(Yes, I know it isn't defined as that anymore, but that's what it is. And the new definition is even more arbitrary than the old, although more accurate.)
I just drives me nuts when people seem to think that their units are so damn superior to others that for some reason they shouldn't have to be familiar with or convert from someone else's units.
And finally, when measuring astronomical distances, every unit you could possibly use is as arbitrary as another.
Meters: based upon the size of the Earth
AU: based upon the radius of the Earth's orbit.
light-year: based upon the time of the Earth's orbit.
parsec: based upon the length of the Earth's day (angular rotation of Earth about its axis)
> On Saturday, Mars' orbit will bring it 69.4 million kilometers away from Earth, with its closest pass scheduled for @642.
(Swatch beats)
The colors still aren't quite as good as CRT, nor the blacks, but they're very, very close. It's leaps beyond RP LCD (or DLP) (I say as an LCD and previous CRT HDTV owner).
The contrast ratio on the new TVs is listed as 5,000:1, for whatever that means. And the response time is 3.5ms.
I don't know how fake those numbers are. I'll just say this. I saw one, and it's incredible. It uses the same technology that knocked people's socks off at $40K with the Qualia 004. Some said the picture was "perfect". Well, maybe it's not perfect, but it's incredible. Good LCOS units like this one will tear away all but the most diehard of diehard CRT fans.
Those super bad-ass Japanese phones are usually enormous and the battery lasts typically a day.
I just think most of the rest of the world isn't interested in phones like that. I know I'm not. I'll take a fair number of features, if they can be put in a small space with decent battery life.
Go to mobileburn.com and check the pics from the Sony K750 or W800.
They are probably a lot better than you think. No, they're not perfect, but depending on the subject matter, if you weren't told it came from a phone you wouldn't know much of the time.
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"Please explain who spending tons of money to compensate workers who are being asked to produce more per hour, work more hours and accept fewer fringe benefits like comprehensive healthcare coverage is some evil, evil thing that shall destroy every company and drive them into bankruptcy, while distributing the same amount of money to the higher ups is no problem whatsoever?"
The paragraph directly equates ("the same amount") the amount of money withheld from the rank & file with the amount given to the higher ups.
Do you think it's any solace to hear it when your hardware isn't working?
I think the level of hardware support is an important factor when rating releases, because if a release doesn't support your HW, it's going to be a hassle.
I agree, it appears Sony has decided to opt out of the store from now on.
But as to the TV/movie providers, give it some time.
The average Wal-Mart employee does 32 hours a week. So I can't imagine MOST employees do less than 32 hours a week.
As to things getting green when China starts making mass quantities of hybrid car batteries... China already does make almost all of the lithium ion batteries in the world. Why? Because making them DESTROYS the environment locally. And China doesn't give a rip about their environment.
China making solar cells? They already do that too. Making gallium arsenide solar cells requires arsenic and other heavy metals. That's not great for the environment either.
I personally think living green will require a bit more conservation. That might mean that everyone won't have a 300HP, 0-60 in 7 seconds car (and 9 seconds truck).
Don't forget to add in "Everyone gets free Live! Silver. It won't let you do much besides buy track-pack add-ons and download free bugfixes to the games we can't even manage to get right before we press the DVD!"
This is sad. The awful quality of 1.0 PC games is creeping into the console market.
MS is definitely rushing this release. It's release on the last day it could be to make the Xmas shopping season? Be prepared to be underwhelmed.
It's decent hardware I guess. It could maybe be better if they'd wait (HD-DVD?). MS is sure giving up a lot to get out before Xmas. They'd better hope it is worth it.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/18/C 01-352397.htm
Also read the other posts here about how the benefits packages of the Delphi employees are unreasonably large.
But hey, keep that sense of displaced anger going.
GM cut $3B of benefits to their employees PER YEAR with just some small concessions from the UAW. You say they give out that much money to the execs. I dare ask, do you think the high ups at GM make $3B/year, let alone the big loaf of bread this small slick of savings was cut from? Imagine how much concession they would have gotten if they actually went up against the union, like the NHL did.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan. Most families got their money from GM, many of them line workers. The pay scales were completely disproportionate to the actual job skills of the workers.
There's no reason you couldn't take a automotive-spec power supply and attach it to the mini. Now you won't have a broken mini.
It's just amazing to me that somone "in the business" would miss this.
Note to other posters below, yes, any Mac can be made to power up upon application of power. It's in the Energy Saver preferences panel, called "Restart automatically after a power failure."
I do wish the Mac mini had a Pentium-M in it instead of a G4. It'd be a lot faster than the current Mac mini or a VIA Mini-ITX system. But that doesn't mean I'm going to make up other shortcomings for the Mac mini.
It's the UHF spectrum which is being reallocated, above channel 51. VHF is channels 2-13.
A TV channel is 6MHz (not the 7MHz below). Theoretical throughput depends on the signal to noise ratio (as Nyquist says). Practical throughput also depends on additional factors like the signalling and ability to spatially share bandwidth (i.e. co-interference between users). But perhaps you could assume that if the 5MHz bandwidth of a 802.11g/a channel can do theoretically 54MBits (and actually 25MBits), then a 6MHz channel could give 65MBits (and actually 30MBits).
Actually, it'd probably be a little different due to the difference between UHF and the microwaves used by 801.11.
But either way, a TV channel's worth of bandwidth isn't a panacea, especially if turned over to unmanaged transmissions. I think the biggest prolbem with municipal WiFi is the inability to share bandwidth well. I mean, the guy next door to me will download movies off the internet all day, because it's free. And that means I lose out.
Finally, I've said it before, I'll say it again. It just doesn't make sense to try this anyway before the deployment of WiMax/802.15. The backhaul costs will be very significant using wires.
Sure, just head out there and add more mirrors.
Who cares that the ships are only 150 feet away and shooting arrows at you?
Who cares that the difference between smouldering and flaming is more than a few degrees?
Who cares if the mirrors required are unwieldy and easily targeted?
And they didn't know Archimedes was one of the greatest inventors of all time at that time.
This test was rigged in a very positive direction. It had good mirrors, the ship was stationary and not defending itself. It still didn't work.
I think you're missing another form of skepticism here. This system is just impractical. We know this can be done with large enough mirrors and a good tracking/controlling system. That can be proven pretty easily. The question is, could the system be used and manipulated practically at that time?
The answer seems to be no.
"it was eventually captured in a trap baited with penguin meat several weeks later"
Rats are pretty smart, but like dogs they do fall for bait.