Ya, my first thought when I read it was "well, I guess they are not too worried about interoperability. Between Offices, cubicles and labs, you are not going to squeese too many engineers into 2500 square feet."
I guess we were supposed to read "2500" and think, ooohh what a large number... and not translate it into real terms.
Not a problem in case, as you read (lol, of course not, this is/.) they were talking about key logging software.
Of course I am aware there are other ways to log keystrokes, those little keyboard dongles that you attach between the kb and computer are fun at work eh? When IT Security start to ride you to start changing your password every week, and they accept almost nothing as a valid password anymore you can complain. When they tell you it is for security... then you say "what, and you think your password "number1secritygod" is really that uncrackable?" Oh, just make sure you have your next contract lined up, because they WILL terminate you even when you claim it was just a lucky guess. (Yes, I know a guy that did this. He was driven nuts by the six passwords he had to somehow remember, and was opposed to writing them down)
You are likely right about the competent owner, but the only two I have been to have not locked them down.
Even large hotel chains often do not lock down the PC's in the "business center". That includes the Westin St. Francis in San Fransisco as of last year. (Yes, even top hotels do not lock them down)
If a store made a visible effort to retrieve bags it could be argued that it was their property. Since they don't, it is implied that they are giving it to you with the purchased item.
I remember all the hype and money to be spent on this "fifth generation computer project" (for that era). With this project, Japan was going to take over the entire computer universe, and the USA was to be left out in the cold.
"We Americans have enjoyed almost total security, in that our three neighbors consist of two good friends (Mexico and Canada)"
And I don't know how many of our "Comrads" here in the U.S. realize that Bush has been trying to piss off the Canadians ever since 9/11, big time. I live only four hours from the border, and work up there sometimes... and you cannot believe how he went out of the way to stab them in the back.
On 9/11 we would not allow any international flights to land in our country... they were too dangerous. So what does canada do, they take them, even in Toronto. Now any of those planes could have been compromised for all they knew, they could have lost many lives, but they did it anyway. Well, when I was working up there after 9/11, Bush thanked all sorts of nations for helping, and left out Canada. Don't worry, they are not too dumb to notice.
Bush does not want Canada for a friend, it is much easier for him to close off the borders if they become an adversary.
Just so people don't get discouraged reading your remark, I believe you can get audiophile quality playback without buying the $10,000.00 stereo system. I would start with a pair of Sennheiser HD-600 headphones and a good headphone amp. That is almost free in comparison, and the sound will blow most people away.
While the variable bit rate codecs are getting much better than the early ones, I no longer bother with mp3's. I just compress everything to FLAC these days - it does not get better than playing a data stream that is half the size, has lost nothing AND is an open standard.
I'm sorry you are loosing your hearing, it is a terrible thing. I used to do some Sound Reinforcement work(mixing for small bands etc.), and help out a friend occasionaly as he did some big concerts - and I have never met a serious drummer that has not damaged the ears. I think it is a crime that hearing protection is not stressed more.
I feel I should tell you (since you cannot hear it any more) that the compression on Sirius (XM as well?) is horrendous. I have listened to different units, and I confess I would rather live with silence than the poor reproduction they consider music. I would consider the lowest end equipment (emmerson or whatever it is today) too good for that signal.
(Let me preface this by mentioning I love big cases and multicore CPU's, so I hear what you are intending to say.)
OK, so the Apple droids have started redefining the language and are trying to make "P.C." mean "the wintel competition of Apple".
BUT
I would like to mention that P.C. is an abbreviation for PERSONAL COMPUTER. Thus, it is a P.C. -IF- it does what a person needs. (maybe word processing, surfing and astrix?)
Right now you are (Score:0, troll) because you seem to have not noticed that you CANNOT find any fault with Steve or an Apple product without being modded to "karma hell". There are a fair number of mod points sitting out there just to trash uninformed posters like yourself.
Soon we will have run all those pesky freeBSD, windows and GNU/Linux fans out of here and we can rename the site MacDot! Yeeha
I agree that of the border areas this is the least populated. But most of Canada is not on the border, and this is not a small stretch. From the Manitoba border to Sudbury Ontario there are very few populated areas. This is a 16 hour drive? That is not trivial. There are very few other places in the world where you can drive an hour on the countries main highway and not see a single house.
Of the areas that border the US, "Northern Ontario" seems to be the least populated, but if you travel the southern border of Sask or Alberta, there is not much there either... just badlands. Then there is a strip of population, and then the Northern parts are all isolated again. And lets not talk about the Youkon or Northwest territories, man that is bleak. (I know you changed the names, but I can't keep up)
My point is - just because you live in southern ontario or Qubec, mid Alberta or a very small strip of BC... don't think that rolling out broadband to MOST of canada is trivial, or that it does not exsist in other parts(I've been through some of it, and these people are online).
If the U.S. put half the energy into broadband access that Canada does, the coverage would be amazing.
But seriously, outside of some of the US west(especially the desert areas) the rest of the rural USA still has a high population density, and that should be more attractive to deploy high speed networks than the rural areas of Norway or Canada (I have not traveled Sweden). Take a drive I do once in a while from Chicago to Boston. No matter what route I take, there will be small villages/hamlets everywhere. It would be hard to get really stranded. Now if I go up north to your country (Canada) from Chicago, I'd be in thunder Bay. If I drive east from there for 8 hours, I would have passed through maybe 4 villages and passed a bunch of other isolated houses that might be at least 60 miles (100 km) from the nearest neighbor. Flying north would be even worse (yes, you can't drive far north except in winter... another whole story) And going west isn't much better for about 5 hours. And yet, these remote towns seem to have high speed access, and had it earlier than many comparable US towns. I talked to one Business owner in the north, and he was stuck on Satalite Internet, but the government paid for most of his hardware cost so his monthly charge was all he really had to pay, and it was not too bad. Now if you live in a canadian city, you likely don't know your government does this, but I don't think it hurts your broadband numbers.
Summary... Much of the rural US is easy pickings compared to Canada and Norway. The tough areas are areas like Montana and Alaska, and that is not a large percentage of rural customers.
The brushed Aluminum should be a good look for Apple. The old white is looking so dated, I cringe whenever I see it. It was a nice look five or so years ago, but I think it has been worn out by overuse.
(And yes, I am almost embarrased to be seen in public with my white Ipod now, so I stuck on better aftermarket headphones and keep it covered)
Cmon, instead of spending your time with well thought out reasons as to why the posting is wrong, spend the time gaining control of/. We are the customer, generating the revenue, and we have to keep putting up with this kind of crap?
When you see a post with the name TACO on it, you automatically know there is a 70%(I guessed) chance it is taking at least a subtle jab at Linux or pushing Apple.
Where is the feature to moderate the Taco and Gang? (some are better than others)
First off, I disagree with the whole premise that being from the EU can be compared to being from the US. The EU is a group of countries, about as many as we have in the Americas.
The people from the EU are MUCH better traveled on average. You will find that they travel outside of their country much more often, and often know more than one language. In Italy, many of the people I met spoke English, Italian, German and French(one knew spanish as well)... Wow, did I ever feel humbled.
Most citizens of EU countries have far more vacation days than the US does. This also aids the tendency to travel.
Also, even if persons from the EU did not travel more - THEY WOULD STILL BE LESS SHELTERED! Why? They do not suffer from news organizations that seem to conspire to keep important world news suppressed. You think I am making this up? I learned about the Darfur genocide (big news) up in Canada, a couple of years before I ever saw it mentioned in the U.S. This unfortunately is just the most obvious example.
How can most of the Citizens of our country proudly claim that the USA is the greatest country on earth...when they have not sampled even ONE other country... let alone a sizable chunk of the best nations on earth??? I am afraid they are not only "sheltered" but also ignorant and "intellectually undeveloped" (It reminds me of the old Soviet Union and how the people BELIEVED they were as close as possible to Utopia on earth)
List of great countries I enjoyed the most, and that I think many USers might really enjoy. Very Developed -------------- Australia Canada New Zealand Norway (language barrier I know) Switzerland Singapore (really nice and well run) Grand Caymen (note I have not mentioned England? Sorry guys, too many countrymen just do not make others feel welcome... to put it nicely, I do thank you for making Belize what it is though)
Not quite First World --------------------- Belize (English speaking, and very nice outside the rougher "belize city". I like the undeveloped south) Costa Rica Barbados Aruba etc. etc.
And then there are countries that are great that are just a bit too much of a cultural or linguistic stretch for the average USer, but are good for the adverturous.... Such as South Korea, a great country really.
All the other great countries that I have left out... Sorry.
First, there is a lot of territory outside the US that we COULD travel to without a passport.
Second, You are right, most "Americans" (USers) have no desire to travel to most places abroad, and don't consider themselves to be "sheltered". But what does this lack of experience and interest do? - it makes them myopic and ignorant. Is it a wonder that they have no idea what is going on in the rest of the world?
I don't think I have seen the mainstream media do a better job of covering a topic in so few words. The fact that they even covered this topic, and it was on the main CBC page is AMAZING!
You dissed Firefox on/. , major karma mistake (Score:0, Offtopic)
Yes, Opera is second to none overall, but don't let anyone know, OK? Yes, most of the good features of the new IE and Firefox actually came from Opera, but they don't know that, and as long as you keep getting modded into karma hell, they never will.
(Yes, I do use Firefox and Konqurer and Opera and I want them all, but please don't take my opera away... It is the ONE closed source tool I REALLY like, and since it does not threaten anyone please indulge us Opera users)
Way to go Mandriva. This affirms that MS is only able to pick off the weaker/greedier distro's.
Mandriva/Mandrake has held a place in my heart for a long time. It is up to date, and it has about the nicest install.
If you are going to give a linux PC to a newbie, they are one of the first I would recommend. They have configuration tools (drake) that are second to none.
It is a very nice distro, and now with the assurance that we are free from MS worries, I would highly recommend trying it to see if it is the right distro for your friends.
AMD cpu's are not really that far behind INTEL, and yet they cannot make a dime because Intel pushes the ASP down below costs because THEY (intel) has the high end market, and that is the ONLY place money is being made and the ONLY place AMD cannot compete. The high volume high end parts make money and give bragging rights. (yes, boutique parts like 4x4 and v8 will loose money)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, when they made this one, they made others as well.
Either this one has lost mass, or the other ones have gained mass to varying degrees.
Ya, my first thought when I read it was "well, I guess they are not too worried about interoperability. Between Offices, cubicles and labs, you are not going to squeese too many engineers into 2500 square feet."
I guess we were supposed to read "2500" and think, ooohh what a large number... and not translate it into real terms.
Not a problem in case, as you read (lol, of course not, this is /.) they were talking about key logging software.
Of course I am aware there are other ways to log keystrokes, those little keyboard dongles that you attach between the kb and computer are fun at work eh? When IT Security start to ride you to start changing your password every week, and they accept almost nothing as a valid password anymore you can complain. When they tell you it is for security... then you say "what, and you think your password "number1secritygod" is really that uncrackable?" Oh, just make sure you have your next contract lined up, because they WILL terminate you even when you claim it was just a lucky guess. (Yes, I know a guy that did this. He was driven nuts by the six passwords he had to somehow remember, and was opposed to writing them down)
You are likely right about the competent owner, but the only two I have been to have not locked them down.
Even large hotel chains often do not lock down the PC's in the "business center". That includes the Westin St. Francis in San Fransisco as of last year. (Yes, even top hotels do not lock them down)
Knoppix
Insert Knoppix in the drive and reboot the PC before you do anything. I bet it would work at most Cafe's.
If a store made a visible effort to retrieve bags it could be argued that it was their property. Since they don't, it is implied that they are giving it to you with the purchased item.
I remember all the hype and money to be spent on this "fifth generation computer project" (for that era). With this project, Japan was going to take over the entire computer universe, and the USA was to be left out in the cold.
"We Americans have enjoyed almost total security, in that our three neighbors consist of two good friends (Mexico and Canada)"
And I don't know how many of our "Comrads" here in the U.S. realize that Bush has been trying to piss off the Canadians ever since 9/11, big time. I live only four hours from the border, and work up there sometimes... and you cannot believe how he went out of the way to stab them in the back.
On 9/11 we would not allow any international flights to land in our country... they were too dangerous. So what does canada do, they take them, even in Toronto. Now any of those planes could have been compromised for all they knew, they could have lost many lives, but they did it anyway. Well, when I was working up there after 9/11, Bush thanked all sorts of nations for helping, and left out Canada. Don't worry, they are not too dumb to notice.
Bush does not want Canada for a friend, it is much easier for him to close off the borders if they become an adversary.
You rich kids must have recieved HUGE lego boxes!
Just so people don't get discouraged reading your remark, I believe you can get audiophile quality playback without buying the $10,000.00 stereo system.
I would start with a pair of Sennheiser HD-600 headphones and a good headphone amp. That is almost free in comparison, and the sound will blow most people away.
While the variable bit rate codecs are getting much better than the early ones, I no longer bother with mp3's. I just compress everything to FLAC these days - it does not get better than playing a data stream that is half the size, has lost nothing AND is an open standard.
I'm sorry you are loosing your hearing, it is a terrible thing. I used to do some Sound Reinforcement work(mixing for small bands etc.), and help out a friend occasionaly as he did some big concerts - and I have never met a serious drummer that has not damaged the ears. I think it is a crime that hearing protection is not stressed more.
I feel I should tell you (since you cannot hear it any more) that the compression on Sirius (XM as well?) is horrendous. I have listened to different units, and I confess I would rather live with silence than the poor reproduction they consider music. I would consider the lowest end equipment (emmerson or whatever it is today) too good for that signal.
(Let me preface this by mentioning I love big cases and multicore CPU's, so I hear what you are intending to say.)
OK, so the Apple droids have started redefining the language and are trying to make "P.C." mean "the wintel competition of Apple".
BUT
I would like to mention that P.C. is an abbreviation for PERSONAL COMPUTER. Thus, it is a P.C. -IF- it does what a person needs. (maybe word processing, surfing and astrix?)
Right now you are (Score:0, troll) because you seem to have not noticed that you CANNOT find any fault with Steve or an Apple product without being modded to "karma hell". There are a fair number of mod points sitting out there just to trash uninformed posters like yourself.
Soon we will have run all those pesky freeBSD, windows and GNU/Linux fans out of here and we can rename the site MacDot! Yeeha
I agree that of the border areas this is the least populated. But most of Canada is not on the border, and this is not a small stretch. From the Manitoba border to Sudbury Ontario there are very few populated areas. This is a 16 hour drive? That is not trivial. There are very few other places in the world where you can drive an hour on the countries main highway and not see a single house.
Of the areas that border the US, "Northern Ontario" seems to be the least populated, but if you travel the southern border of Sask or Alberta, there is not much there either... just badlands. Then there is a strip of population, and then the Northern parts are all isolated again. And lets not talk about the Youkon or Northwest territories, man that is bleak. (I know you changed the names, but I can't keep up)
My point is - just because you live in southern ontario or Qubec, mid Alberta or a very small strip of BC... don't think that rolling out broadband to MOST of canada is trivial, or that it does not exsist in other parts(I've been through some of it, and these people are online).
If the U.S. put half the energy into broadband access that Canada does, the coverage would be amazing.
I was going to use the same line myself.
But seriously, outside of some of the US west(especially the desert areas) the rest of the rural USA still has a high population density, and that should be more attractive to deploy high speed networks than the rural areas of Norway or Canada (I have not traveled Sweden). Take a drive I do once in a while from Chicago to Boston. No matter what route I take, there will be small villages/hamlets everywhere. It would be hard to get really stranded.
Now if I go up north to your country (Canada) from Chicago, I'd be in thunder Bay. If I drive east from there for 8 hours, I would have passed through maybe 4 villages and passed a bunch of other isolated houses that might be at least 60 miles (100 km) from the nearest neighbor. Flying north would be even worse (yes, you can't drive far north except in winter... another whole story) And going west isn't much better for about 5 hours. And yet, these remote towns seem to have high speed access, and had it earlier than many comparable US towns.
I talked to one Business owner in the north, and he was stuck on Satalite Internet, but the government paid for most of his hardware cost so his monthly charge was all he really had to pay, and it was not too bad. Now if you live in a canadian city, you likely don't know your government does this, but I don't think it hurts your broadband numbers.
Summary... Much of the rural US is easy pickings compared to Canada and Norway. The tough areas are areas like Montana and Alaska, and that is not a large percentage of rural customers.
Because we all know you can tell how fast a processor is by the clock speed alone? (forget that this is a dual core, and not that old crap P4 design)
2002 called and wants Intel's OLD marketing campaign back.
The brushed Aluminum should be a good look for Apple. The old white is looking so dated, I cringe whenever I see it. It was a nice look five or so years ago, but I think it has been worn out by overuse.
(And yes, I am almost embarrased to be seen in public with my white Ipod now, so I stuck on better aftermarket headphones and keep it covered)
Cmon, instead of spending your time with well thought out reasons as to why the posting is wrong, spend the time gaining control of /. We are the customer, generating the revenue, and we have to keep putting up with this kind of crap?
When you see a post with the name TACO on it, you automatically know there is a 70%(I guessed) chance it is taking at least a subtle jab at Linux or pushing Apple.
Where is the feature to moderate the Taco and Gang? (some are better than others)
Huh? Intel still sell processors fab'd at larger sizes as well ... Does that mean Intel is also still in the process of moving to 65nm???
Nope, "totally wrong" is probably more correct than the original statement.
First off, I disagree with the whole premise that being from the EU can be compared to being from the US. The EU is a group of countries, about as many as we have in the Americas.
The people from the EU are MUCH better traveled on average. You will find that they travel outside of their country much more often, and often know more than one language. In Italy, many of the people I met spoke English, Italian, German and French(one knew spanish as well)... Wow, did I ever feel humbled.
Most citizens of EU countries have far more vacation days than the US does. This also aids the tendency to travel.
Also, even if persons from the EU did not travel more - THEY WOULD STILL BE LESS SHELTERED! Why? They do not suffer from news organizations that seem to conspire to keep important world news suppressed. You think I am making this up? I learned about the Darfur genocide (big news) up in Canada, a couple of years before I ever saw it mentioned in the U.S. This unfortunately is just the most obvious example.
How can most of the Citizens of our country proudly claim that the USA is the greatest country on earth...when they have not sampled even ONE other country... let alone a sizable chunk of the best nations on earth??? I am afraid they are not only "sheltered" but also ignorant and "intellectually undeveloped" (It reminds me of the old Soviet Union and how the people BELIEVED they were as close as possible to Utopia on earth)
List of great countries I enjoyed the most, and that I think many USers might really enjoy.
Very Developed
--------------
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
Norway (language barrier I know)
Switzerland
Singapore (really nice and well run)
Grand Caymen
(note I have not mentioned England? Sorry guys, too many countrymen just do not make others feel welcome... to put it nicely, I do thank you for making Belize what it is though)
Not quite First World
---------------------
Belize (English speaking, and very nice outside the rougher "belize city". I like the undeveloped south)
Costa Rica
Barbados
Aruba
etc. etc.
And then there are countries that are great that are just a bit too much of a cultural or linguistic stretch for the average USer, but are good for the adverturous.... Such as South Korea, a great country really.
All the other great countries that I have left out... Sorry.
First, there is a lot of territory outside the US that we COULD travel to without a passport.
Second, You are right, most "Americans" (USers) have no desire to travel to most places abroad, and don't consider themselves to be "sheltered".
But what does this lack of experience and interest do? - it makes them myopic and ignorant. Is it a wonder that they have no idea what is going on in the rest of the world?
I don't think I have seen the mainstream media do a better job of covering a topic in so few words. The fact that they even covered this topic, and it was on the main CBC page is AMAZING!
You dissed Firefox on /. , major karma mistake (Score:0, Offtopic)
Yes, Opera is second to none overall, but don't let anyone know, OK? Yes, most of the good features of the new IE and Firefox actually came from Opera, but they don't know that, and as long as you keep getting modded into karma hell, they never will.
(Yes, I do use Firefox and Konqurer and Opera and I want them all, but please don't take my opera away... It is the ONE closed source tool I REALLY like, and since it does not threaten anyone please indulge us Opera users)
Way to go Mandriva. This affirms that MS is only able to pick off the weaker/greedier distro's.
Mandriva/Mandrake has held a place in my heart for a long time. It is up to date, and it has about the nicest install.
If you are going to give a linux PC to a newbie, they are one of the first I would recommend. They have configuration tools (drake) that are second to none.
It is a very nice distro, and now with the assurance that we are free from MS worries, I would highly recommend trying it to see if it is the right distro for your friends.
Huh?
AMD cpu's are not really that far behind INTEL, and yet they cannot make a dime because Intel pushes the ASP down below costs because THEY (intel) has the high end market, and that is the ONLY place money is being made and the ONLY place AMD cannot compete.
The high volume high end parts make money and give bragging rights. (yes, boutique parts like 4x4 and v8 will loose money)