New technology is nice and all, but for every lock ever created there will be a lock pick for it.
The only thing is, the more expensive the lock, the more expensive the lock pick is supposed to be. That's the real measure of the effectiveness of a lock. I.e., an expensive lock that can be picked in an inexpensive manner is an ineffective lock.
Eisenhower was brilliant, in this regard. He predicted and warned against the military-industrial complex more or less taking over the country. His military experience didn't make him a warmonger, it let him see the dark underbelly of the military that normal people would not have even imagined.
Because Amazon is a retailer, it's not an ad, it's a recommendation. It's like the salesperson at Best Buy or some other brick and mortar recommending that you buy the latest 802.11n router with your brand spanking new laptop.
To be an ad, Amazon would have to be the company responsible for the product or service that it is recommending. E.g. if you saw stuff on Amazon's product pages about their S3 rates, that'd be an ad.
Gartner analyst: It just so happens that your product here is only mostly bad. There's a big difference between mostly bad and all bad. Mostly bad is slightly good. With all bad, well, with all bad there's usually only one thing you can do. Microsoft: What's that? Gartner analyst: Go through the code and look for loose change.
Hardly. I'd like to see more diversity in the OS/Office suite app space, but this was a write down for one of their online services purchases. This means next to nothing when you're talking about their cash cows, especially since most of their other divisions have been bleeding money (or, like the Xbox, barely in the black).
Until they make a bad Office acquisition or bad OS acquisition, there's no weakness to exploit.
First you look for stupidity. In the absence of that, then you look for malice. The whole point is not to start off looking for malice, because that's much rarer than stupidity. You'd end up expending all of your energy constantly planning for a rarity.
Knowing Microsoft, probably. Enterprise support is one of their main strengths, and such features will likely be controllable through something like group policy.
The only caveat is that their security might be riddled with holes. Most of your users usually wouldn't know how to exploits those. But it probably helps to have some other security mechanisms in place, like firewall rules, to be safe.
Being high impairs judgment, which as we know from another legal substance, can and often does negatively affect other people.
Now, whether it is better or worse than alcohol is a completely different topic of debate, and whether it should actually be banned is yet another matter of debate. Just remember that congress banned alcohol at one point too.
This is true because of a combination of population density as well as the abundance of space and ease of vehicle ownership.
In a densely-populated area, mass transit isn't just the preferred solution. Sometimes, it's the only solution. If you live in a building with 1000 families (which is fairly common in cities--20 units per floor, 50 floors), and each family owned two to three cars, you'd spend the entire day trying to just get out of your garage and back in. Imagine that happening in a 10 block by 10 block area.
The alternative is to walk or take mass transit. The cheapo buses aren't popular because they're expensive. They're popular because they're cheap, and they're cheap because it's feasible to sell a seat so cheaply and still make enough money for a living.
Trains are even more efficient per distance traveled. However, there are several factors that make buses more convenient than trains. The fact that trains run on a set track, the fact that nobody wants a train behind their backyard, and the fact that the road is so well built, all contribute to the low cost of operating and thus traveling on buses. You can argue that these factors are never going to be resolved, so trains will never be as cheap nor as convenient as buses. But this does mean that if the cost of traveling by road was not nearly so cheap, the alternatives would start to look better. And they'd be better energy-use wise as well.
It's probably cheaper to drive even in Europe than take the train per trip. But the TCO of having a car in Europe is much higher than the equivalent travel on a train over the same period of time. The storage fees alone (parking) would be equivalent to several train rides a month. Even if you have a garage, the cost of the land you purchased to fit that car is going to be more expensive than a lot of trips by train.
The cost effectiveness of transportation is about the pressures of society, and what society values both in general and as a consequence of the pressures. Here, personal independence and thus driving is valued highly. Traveling fairly long distances is the norm because space is not a premium, not the exception. Thus, cars are prevalent, while other forms of transportation are not so heavily developed.
Yeah, but if Kim Dotcom loses, a lot of legitimate data whom the copyright holders themselves uploaded to the service (including files the U.S. military uploaded) gets lost as well.
They've effectively thrown the baby out with the bathwater. And I imagine they've pissed off more people domestic and international than they can imagine. This is exactly the kind of behavior we've all come to expect from decades of granting the federal government ever-increasing powers to control and limit the freedoms of the individual, whether these are U.S. citizens or not. It is also only the beginning of what's to come if we as a people don't make a stand.
Hardly. They had a working prototype. But it couldn't do e-mail. And it didn't run mainstream Windows, it ran a specialized version the same way the Xbox ran a specialized version of Windows 2k.
I suspect Surface came out of the Courier project.
That's probably the sanest proposal and the best course of action to solve the gay marriage conundrum.
But reality is, the neocons will call it an attack on the familial social structure because what they really want are people to be married in churches under their religion. And the radical liberals will call it discriminatory because what they really want are for these backwaters religious people to stop being religious.
Because in an era of unchecked, unlimited federal power, an equally extreme counterpoint is not only refreshing, but necessary. Sure, it's better to take the middle ground. You only end up at the middle when both sides are equidistant from it. If you start in the middle, you'll only end up skewed to one side, just less so than if everyone was at an extreme. Which is what we've been seeing these days.
There are, of course, many different axes, and just because one is at one extreme on one axis does not imply that person is the same degree of extreme on any of the others.
I'm not a libertarian, but I do recognize that they have a place in this government.
Slashdot editors get to put up a half-dozen front-page "articles" on it in an attempt to increase page views.
Come on, guys. There are already tons of posts on the Higgs in the Science section. And that thing about Texas was so blindingly obvious that it's just there for page views it is insulting to your readership. There's no need to post yet another post, this time a stupid question in Ask Slashdot, just because it's got the word "Higgs" in it.
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Or vagina.
New technology is nice and all, but for every lock ever created there will be a lock pick for it.
The only thing is, the more expensive the lock, the more expensive the lock pick is supposed to be. That's the real measure of the effectiveness of a lock. I.e., an expensive lock that can be picked in an inexpensive manner is an ineffective lock.
Eisenhower was brilliant, in this regard. He predicted and warned against the military-industrial complex more or less taking over the country. His military experience didn't make him a warmonger, it let him see the dark underbelly of the military that normal people would not have even imagined.
Because Amazon is a retailer, it's not an ad, it's a recommendation. It's like the salesperson at Best Buy or some other brick and mortar recommending that you buy the latest 802.11n router with your brand spanking new laptop.
To be an ad, Amazon would have to be the company responsible for the product or service that it is recommending. E.g. if you saw stuff on Amazon's product pages about their S3 rates, that'd be an ad.
Gartner analyst: It just so happens that your product here is only mostly bad. There's a big difference between mostly bad and all bad. Mostly bad is slightly good. With all bad, well, with all bad there's usually only one thing you can do.
Microsoft: What's that?
Gartner analyst: Go through the code and look for loose change.
So are your airline tickets.
Hardly. I'd like to see more diversity in the OS/Office suite app space, but this was a write down for one of their online services purchases. This means next to nothing when you're talking about their cash cows, especially since most of their other divisions have been bleeding money (or, like the Xbox, barely in the black).
Until they make a bad Office acquisition or bad OS acquisition, there's no weakness to exploit.
First you look for stupidity. In the absence of that, then you look for malice. The whole point is not to start off looking for malice, because that's much rarer than stupidity. You'd end up expending all of your energy constantly planning for a rarity.
Sounds like an improvement actually.
Knowing Microsoft, probably. Enterprise support is one of their main strengths, and such features will likely be controllable through something like group policy.
The only caveat is that their security might be riddled with holes. Most of your users usually wouldn't know how to exploits those. But it probably helps to have some other security mechanisms in place, like firewall rules, to be safe.
You don't even have to leave computer science for an analogy. Is a hash map better than an array?
That's effectively the question. Those who cannot answer this question have no business writing code.
It's not the pixels. It's the aspect ratio and the dot pitch (remember that?).
The iPad's got it right. If Apple made the screen as stand-alone monitors, I'd buy several right now.
Being high impairs judgment, which as we know from another legal substance, can and often does negatively affect other people.
Now, whether it is better or worse than alcohol is a completely different topic of debate, and whether it should actually be banned is yet another matter of debate. Just remember that congress banned alcohol at one point too.
This is true because of a combination of population density as well as the abundance of space and ease of vehicle ownership.
In a densely-populated area, mass transit isn't just the preferred solution. Sometimes, it's the only solution. If you live in a building with 1000 families (which is fairly common in cities--20 units per floor, 50 floors), and each family owned two to three cars, you'd spend the entire day trying to just get out of your garage and back in. Imagine that happening in a 10 block by 10 block area.
The alternative is to walk or take mass transit. The cheapo buses aren't popular because they're expensive. They're popular because they're cheap, and they're cheap because it's feasible to sell a seat so cheaply and still make enough money for a living.
Trains are even more efficient per distance traveled. However, there are several factors that make buses more convenient than trains. The fact that trains run on a set track, the fact that nobody wants a train behind their backyard, and the fact that the road is so well built, all contribute to the low cost of operating and thus traveling on buses. You can argue that these factors are never going to be resolved, so trains will never be as cheap nor as convenient as buses. But this does mean that if the cost of traveling by road was not nearly so cheap, the alternatives would start to look better. And they'd be better energy-use wise as well.
It's probably cheaper to drive even in Europe than take the train per trip. But the TCO of having a car in Europe is much higher than the equivalent travel on a train over the same period of time. The storage fees alone (parking) would be equivalent to several train rides a month. Even if you have a garage, the cost of the land you purchased to fit that car is going to be more expensive than a lot of trips by train.
The cost effectiveness of transportation is about the pressures of society, and what society values both in general and as a consequence of the pressures. Here, personal independence and thus driving is valued highly. Traveling fairly long distances is the norm because space is not a premium, not the exception. Thus, cars are prevalent, while other forms of transportation are not so heavily developed.
Yeah, but if Kim Dotcom loses, a lot of legitimate data whom the copyright holders themselves uploaded to the service (including files the U.S. military uploaded) gets lost as well.
They've effectively thrown the baby out with the bathwater. And I imagine they've pissed off more people domestic and international than they can imagine. This is exactly the kind of behavior we've all come to expect from decades of granting the federal government ever-increasing powers to control and limit the freedoms of the individual, whether these are U.S. citizens or not. It is also only the beginning of what's to come if we as a people don't make a stand.
I think they should pay the host for the expenses of keeping the data for the period that they've frozen Kim Dotcom's accounts.
As such, I believe they're just stalling for time so that the host and/or Kim himself (and any other of his associates) goes bankrupt.
And who thought of making it so hard to access the shutdown menu? What were they thinking?
Maybe they want to market it using average system uptime.
Sure they've "driven innovation for decades." Driven it into a wall.
Hardly. They had a working prototype. But it couldn't do e-mail. And it didn't run mainstream Windows, it ran a specialized version the same way the Xbox ran a specialized version of Windows 2k.
I suspect Surface came out of the Courier project.
more than a bad case of butthurt
If someone raped or tried to rape you from behind, I imagine you'd have some beef with that person.
And I honestly don't think you'd take it gladly, or even lying down.
The place to start would be agriculture, specifically corn and sugar (cane).
That's probably the sanest proposal and the best course of action to solve the gay marriage conundrum.
But reality is, the neocons will call it an attack on the familial social structure because what they really want are people to be married in churches under their religion. And the radical liberals will call it discriminatory because what they really want are for these backwaters religious people to stop being religious.
Because in an era of unchecked, unlimited federal power, an equally extreme counterpoint is not only refreshing, but necessary. Sure, it's better to take the middle ground. You only end up at the middle when both sides are equidistant from it. If you start in the middle, you'll only end up skewed to one side, just less so than if everyone was at an extreme. Which is what we've been seeing these days.
There are, of course, many different axes, and just because one is at one extreme on one axis does not imply that person is the same degree of extreme on any of the others.
I'm not a libertarian, but I do recognize that they have a place in this government.
Slashdot editors get to put up a half-dozen front-page "articles" on it in an attempt to increase page views.
Come on, guys. There are already tons of posts on the Higgs in the Science section. And that thing about Texas was so blindingly obvious that it's just there for page views it is insulting to your readership. There's no need to post yet another post, this time a stupid question in Ask Slashdot, just because it's got the word "Higgs" in it.
Finally! A topic we can use sex analogies to describe!
No wonder there are so few comments.