What happens when you lose your dongle? Do you get a replacement or do you have to buy the set all over again? What happens when the dongle fails but the DVD still works? What if your DVD is lost or damaged but you still have the dongle. Will the dongle work with ANY DVD of the same title? If not that could be a nightmare for places like Blockbuster or Netflix that would be forced to keep up with matched pairs.
Dongle systems work for expensive limited production software packages like autocad. The system isn't a good idea for every $10 DVD produced.
So 200 years from now there may be super high CO2 levels that may trigger some major climatic change. Whoop de doo. If that proves to be the case then I suggest in 150 years whoever is around build some super high scale air scrubbers around the planet that pull the CO2 from the air and do something with it. If it is that big a threat then something like the US defense budget would probably knock that problem out in a decade or two.
"I am a twenty-something who took the CCNA classes back in 2001.... Does college matter in the security field anymore,or are certifications the way to go?"
You got a CCNA 5 years ago and feel that qualifies you to work in the security field?
The short answer is that college does matter. Often, the stuff you learn in college doesn't matter but if you want to work in the corporate world then people like to see that piece of paper. Also, the CISSP is the hot cert to get now. Keep in mind that it has many prerequisites so you can't just pay the $$, sit for a test, and magically become a security expert.
"I constantly see the people with tattered clothes sitting at the machines, the mother with her 6 year old sleeping on the carpet next to her at 2 AM."
I live near Tunica MS and have been to Las Vegas and do not believe you have constantly seen "the mother with her 6 year old sleeping on the carpet next to her at 2 AM."
I have taken MY 6 year old to several casinos in order to enjoy the restaurants and other offerings and just the act of walking through a casino with such an obvious minor usually either requires an escort or us being watched very closely. There are laws against gambling with your children present to prevent this kind of thing. I suspect the various state gambling comissions don't take kindly to violators since the casinos enforce it VERY strictly.
While there are may topics more important than "Paris Hilton getting a DUI, keeping gays from marrying, teaching Creationism/Intelligent Design vs. Evolution", "rise in sea levels, mass extinction and famine" aren't exactly problems that 99% of US voters will ever face.
Sea levels may rise, but it will take 100+ years for it to have a major impact. Mass extinction could happen, but making it a major topic for debate would be a waste of time. Famine doesn't seem to be a problem for US voters anytime soon either. While there are people in the world experiencing famine, voters in the US and elsewhere typically give priority to domestic problems.
I'm surprised you didn't throw in other such important concerns like the urgent need to colonize Mars, build a space elevator, cold fusion, etc.
"So, if this is to be believed, a the Chinese military just attacked the US military while the US military was in international waters. That is an act of war. If the US acknowleges it, we have to acknowlege it as an act of war."
The satellite wasn't exactly attached, it was blinded. Would the Chinese be attacking if it put a big blanket over their country so no one else could see what they are doing?
I worked at EB before it was EB. It was Games and Gadgets. Then it became The Electornics Boutique. This was pre and early Nintendo days. Even back then there was a strategy guide market and people bought them and whined that the games were too easy to beat.
Nonetheless, games have always taken different lengths of time to beat for different skill levels. I went throught Swords of Vermillion because EGM said it would take 40+ hours to beat. I did it in less than 8 hours. Some people said it was impossible and I was lying. They could think what they wanted but it happened.
Harry Podder may soon be in trouble with the folks over at Apple. He may have to use one of the magic spells he learned at Hogjowls to get out of this one!
"All this chit chat about game systems not yet released is like little boys talking about sex. The one who has already had sex keeps his mouth shut. He knows everything they say is bunk and will be debunked. The truth will be known. "
No one seems to see the potential here for super duper high density data disks. If the disks can hold info in all 3 formats at once then they can hold different data in all 3 formats at once. Therefore we may be able to have discs that have 100GB of data on them.
I recently got rid of some very OLD equipment. I had some old hard drive that predated me by 15 years. They were huge and I had no idea what was on them. They weren't IDE or MFM. They came from the day that hard drives required an external controller card. Since I needed to wipe anything that left the building I didn't have many options. I did what my predecessor and his predecessor had done.
I left the drives sitting in a cabinet where they had sat for the last 2+ decades.
Since you don't need to send the drives back to the manufacturter and you just need to be sure no one else can get the data, why don't you just sit on the drives? If they sit there for 10-20 years then even if the data were to get out in the wild it would likely be 100% useless anyway.
If Patricia Dunn spies on her employees like this, how can I trust her enough to be a customer of HP?
If they were looking at company issued phones, computers, or other equiptment I would say that is fair game. When they pretend they are you and get information from services providers where you pay the bill they have crossed the line. I was shopping for a new laptop and HP is now out of contention.
The only way this can be corrected is if HP cans Patricia Dunn ASAP. Tom Perkins should be running HP. He actually has a moral compass and stands by what he thinks is right.
Before we go to Mars I'd like to see a self sufficient groups survive 500 feet under the ocean for 1 year. Living underwater at least has easy access to water, food, and air(by breaking down the water). That seems lots easier than surviving on Mars. If we could do that then we'd be OK even if all the ice caps melted and the average temp at the equator was 150 degrees. If we can't do that, then it seems highly unlikely a group could flourish on Mars.
As others have said, big whoop concerning a cable that a single digit % of users will need isn't included. I'm waiting for the day when the power adaptor isn't included and you have to pay $49.99 extra for the priviledge to be able to plug your game unit in the wall! I believe that day is coming.
"My Vespa LX-150 gets around 60MPG.... I spend less than $5/month in gas."
So at $2.50/gallon you burn about 2 gallons/month or only travel 120 miles. That is fine for you but most of America travel over 1000 miles per month. Most leases provive for 1000 miles per month and people have trouble staying at that level.
I see this moreso being used by places like McDonalds. They could track who buys what when going through the drive thru. Then they could see you ordering and using your past history target you on foods you've ordered before and may be more likely to order again.
"BTW. It is impossible to get an account where I live that gives you more than 150 gigs of transfer a month."
Is it 100% impossible, or is it impossible if all you want to pay for is a $50-$100 per month consumer grade connection? 150GB/month is 5 GB per day. What legitamate non-business need does anyone have to pull that much data? Do you pull ISOs of all of your favorite Linux distros daily?
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That is acceptable.
What happens when you lose your dongle? Do you get a replacement or do you have to buy the set all over again? What happens when the dongle fails but the DVD still works? What if your DVD is lost or damaged but you still have the dongle. Will the dongle work with ANY DVD of the same title? If not that could be a nightmare for places like Blockbuster or Netflix that would be forced to keep up with matched pairs.
Dongle systems work for expensive limited production software packages like autocad. The system isn't a good idea for every $10 DVD produced.
You disappoint. I was expecting a response dealing with Kelvin.
"I can't imagine that anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ and a heartbeat would be unable to interpret what's happening on the screen"
Farenheight or Celcius?
" it just goes to prove real gamers dont use the EB/Gamestop monopoly on game shops anyway. Ill just show up at Target or Best Buy when the Wii comes"
I see. All the "real" gamers get their gear at Target and Best Buy.
"To date, only 11 men in history have free-flown a rocketbelt (aka JetPack)"
"Make that 12, your forgetting Duke Nukem."
I'm pretty sure Duke Nukem is a woman. I once saw Duke Nukem peeing sitting down.
So 200 years from now there may be super high CO2 levels that may trigger some major climatic change. Whoop de doo. If that proves to be the case then I suggest in 150 years whoever is around build some super high scale air scrubbers around the planet that pull the CO2 from the air and do something with it. If it is that big a threat then something like the US defense budget would probably knock that problem out in a decade or two.
"I am a twenty-something who took the CCNA classes back in 2001. ... Does college matter in the security field anymore ,or are certifications the way to go?"
You got a CCNA 5 years ago and feel that qualifies you to work in the security field?
The short answer is that college does matter. Often, the stuff you learn in college doesn't matter but if you want to work in the corporate world then people like to see that piece of paper. Also, the CISSP is the hot cert to get now. Keep in mind that it has many prerequisites so you can't just pay the $$, sit for a test, and magically become a security expert.
"I constantly see the people with tattered clothes sitting at the machines, the mother with her 6 year old sleeping on the carpet next to her at 2 AM."
I live near Tunica MS and have been to Las Vegas and do not believe you have constantly seen "the mother with her 6 year old sleeping on the carpet next to her at 2 AM."
I have taken MY 6 year old to several casinos in order to enjoy the restaurants and other offerings and just the act of walking through a casino with such an obvious minor usually either requires an escort or us being watched very closely. There are laws against gambling with your children present to prevent this kind of thing. I suspect the various state gambling comissions don't take kindly to violators since the casinos enforce it VERY strictly.
String theory sounds weak. Let's upgrade the name so it sounds like it has to be true. Henceforth it will be referred to as String Fact.
I'll even throw a bone to an entrepreneural slashdotter out there. STRINGFACT.COM is not registered yet. It is yours for the taking.
While there are may topics more important than "Paris Hilton getting a DUI, keeping gays from marrying, teaching Creationism/Intelligent Design vs. Evolution", "rise in sea levels, mass extinction and famine" aren't exactly problems that 99% of US voters will ever face.
Sea levels may rise, but it will take 100+ years for it to have a major impact. Mass extinction could happen, but making it a major topic for debate would be a waste of time. Famine doesn't seem to be a problem for US voters anytime soon either. While there are people in the world experiencing famine, voters in the US and elsewhere typically give priority to domestic problems.
I'm surprised you didn't throw in other such important concerns like the urgent need to colonize Mars, build a space elevator, cold fusion, etc.
"So, if this is to be believed, a the Chinese military just attacked the US military while the US military was in international waters. That is an act of war. If the US acknowleges it, we have to acknowlege it as an act of war."
The satellite wasn't exactly attached, it was blinded. Would the Chinese be attacking if it put a big blanket over their country so no one else could see what they are doing?
I worked at EB before it was EB. It was Games and Gadgets. Then it became The Electornics Boutique. This was pre and early Nintendo days. Even back then there was a strategy guide market and people bought them and whined that the games were too easy to beat.
Nonetheless, games have always taken different lengths of time to beat for different skill levels. I went throught Swords of Vermillion because EGM said it would take 40+ hours to beat. I did it in less than 8 hours. Some people said it was impossible and I was lying. They could think what they wanted but it happened.
Harry Podder may soon be in trouble with the folks over at Apple. He may have to use one of the magic spells he learned at Hogjowls to get out of this one!
"All this chit chat about game systems not yet released is like little boys talking about sex. The one who has already had sex keeps his mouth shut. He knows everything they say is bunk and will be debunked. The truth will be known. "
What is this sex you speak of?
No one seems to see the potential here for super duper high density data disks. If the disks can hold info in all 3 formats at once then they can hold different data in all 3 formats at once. Therefore we may be able to have discs that have 100GB of data on them.
You are correct. If only we CS non-engineer types were worthy to comment on anything outside our realm of mastery.
I recently got rid of some very OLD equipment. I had some old hard drive that predated me by 15 years. They were huge and I had no idea what was on them. They weren't IDE or MFM. They came from the day that hard drives required an external controller card. Since I needed to wipe anything that left the building I didn't have many options. I did what my predecessor and his predecessor had done.
I left the drives sitting in a cabinet where they had sat for the last 2+ decades.
Since you don't need to send the drives back to the manufacturter and you just need to be sure no one else can get the data, why don't you just sit on the drives? If they sit there for 10-20 years then even if the data were to get out in the wild it would likely be 100% useless anyway.
If Patricia Dunn spies on her employees like this, how can I trust her enough to be a customer of HP?
If they were looking at company issued phones, computers, or other equiptment I would say that is fair game. When they pretend they are you and get information from services providers where you pay the bill they have crossed the line. I was shopping for a new laptop and HP is now out of contention.
The only way this can be corrected is if HP cans Patricia Dunn ASAP. Tom Perkins should be running HP. He actually has a moral compass and stands by what he thinks is right.
Before we go to Mars I'd like to see a self sufficient groups survive 500 feet under the ocean for 1 year. Living underwater at least has easy access to water, food, and air(by breaking down the water). That seems lots easier than surviving on Mars. If we could do that then we'd be OK even if all the ice caps melted and the average temp at the equator was 150 degrees. If we can't do that, then it seems highly unlikely a group could flourish on Mars.
As others have said, big whoop concerning a cable that a single digit % of users will need isn't included. I'm waiting for the day when the power adaptor isn't included and you have to pay $49.99 extra for the priviledge to be able to plug your game unit in the wall! I believe that day is coming.
"My Vespa LX-150 gets around 60MPG. ... I spend less than $5/month in gas."
So at $2.50/gallon you burn about 2 gallons/month or only travel 120 miles. That is fine for you but most of America travel over 1000 miles per month. Most leases provive for 1000 miles per month and people have trouble staying at that level.
I see this moreso being used by places like McDonalds. They could track who buys what when going through the drive thru. Then they could see you ordering and using your past history target you on foods you've ordered before and may be more likely to order again.
"BTW. It is impossible to get an account where I live that gives you more than 150 gigs of transfer a month."
Is it 100% impossible, or is it impossible if all you want to pay for is a $50-$100 per month consumer grade connection? 150GB/month is 5 GB per day. What legitamate non-business need does anyone have to pull that much data? Do you pull ISOs of all of your favorite Linux distros daily?
"our reproductive organs hang out in plain sight"
Speak for yourself!