The British Government estimates eight percent of all domestic electricity is consumed by devices in standby."
I don't doubt this figure, but I wonder if you would see any savings by banning this standby feature, or if this would suddenly get worse? What percentage of jerks will revert to the "never shut stuff off" form of standby? Keep in mind that standby mode on most devices is passive - that is, they go into standby due to inactivity. But somebody has to get off their ass to actually turn something off.
I'm more concerned about the plethora of wasteful power-bricks that are trickle-charging all of my devices...
Net neutrality is like saying that the airline can't sell you a first-class ticket, and then bump you down to coach unless you win a bidding war with another guy in first-class after you're on the airplane.
Yikes, that's a mouthful. Here's another stab at it: Imagine the electricity company charging $.10/kWh for your lights, and $.20/kWh for your television.
Ridiculous, right? That's similar to what the ISP's are trying to do. They'd like to charge (for example) $1/GB for accessing comcast.com, and $15/GB for accessing google.com.
Many people are afraid of doctors, and many people are afraid of robots. And a few are hemophobic. Combine all three and you will have a very interesting situation if wakes up in the middle of surgery. Yikes.
First off, I think this less of an "I'm sorry" situation, but rather "I'm sorry I got caught".
But regardless of whether they are truly sorry for this fiasco, they STILL don't get the problem. It's not that they staged a news conference, it's why they staged the conference that is the issue. They don't care about "emergency management", they only care about *public relations*. And while they claim that things are so much better than Katrina, this mock press conference only proves that nothing has changed.
On the positive side, Kanye West might be heartened to learn that it isn't just black people -- George Bush doesn't care about *anybody*.
Call it sour grapes if you want, but I'm not really clamoring over a hip-hop, breakdancing, mp3-playing egg. Although I'll gladly pay to import whatever drugs the Sony execs were taking when they gave this thing the green light.
I also learned LOGO when I was six (that was back when Radio Shack tought classes with TRS-80's... wow I'm old). What I think is so great about logo is that the syntax is very, very approachable -- even to kids who don't yet know how to spell!
911 uses ANI, not your garden variety CID. I'm not saying it's impossible to spoof, but WAAAAAY harder
Yes, the amount of research you have to do to learn how to spoof ANI is daunting. Oh wait, no it's not
Yes it's harder to forge than CID, but it's definitely possible. I'm not sure what the point of your post was. Are you disputing the facts? Obviously the police raided the house, that's not in dispute. So are you saying the hack didn't happen, or what?
Good post. In addition, I believe that PS3 Linux still prohibits access tothe RSX processor (not sure if this is still the case with the latest firmware - please correct me if I'm wrong). So unfortunately a lot of the cool math tricks that you can do with the GPU are unavailable, and also effectively cuts the amount of RAM down to 256MB, since the other 256 is reserved for the graphics processor.
Holy cow, I was just joking around, honest! Now I'm gonna have IP lawyers knocking down my door. And's it's not like I'm going to be able to lie to get myself out of this one 'cus, like, they'd know.
I was angry with Bungie when, just a few months before Halo was to be released as a Mac exclusive, Microsoft bought them out and put them to work. But eventually I began to feel sorry for them. Bungie has had its creativity stifled for quite some time now and they've finally realized it
I don't necessarily hold it against them. At the end of the day Bungie needed money to finance Halo's development, and no Mac publisher at the time had the $$$ to handle such a thing. You could argue that Bungie sold out, but if they hadn't sold out to Microsoft it's quite likely that they would have to accept the terms of another publisher, and I suspect those terms would be much worse than what Microsoft was offering.
On that note: There's a penny-arcade strip that echoes Bungie's predicament (is there a Karma whore out there willing to look it up? My company firewall blocks out PA when they should block/.). Basically the Bungie devs are come to the realization, after churning out countless Halo sequels, that they actually died shortly before launch of Halo 1 in a car wreck or something and they were in hell)
So tragic that historical accuracy is just a few clicks away, and still it eludes everybody.
I believe GP was referring to the open sourcing of Darwin, not necessarily the choice of Mach kernel. Still, I think that this was more of an effort for Apple to ingratiate itself with the Linux community. This move (arguably) failed, and I believe that Darwin has gone closed-source again.
It seems to me that that before you charge someone of committing libel, you must first prove that his/her accusations against you are untrue. Otherwise, how is it libel? That being said, should it really matter (to the hospital) that the accuser is anonymous? Sounds to me like the hospital simply wants to know the identity so they can snuff out the whistleblower.
Ironically, the so-called libelous claim is that the hospital violated HIPPA privacy laws. Seeing as how they are trying to destroy the whistleblower's anonymity, I'm more inclined to believe that these claims have merit.
I imagine that it wasn't their first choice to do this, however with their jump to next-gen console development I suppose it was a necessity (it's not like you can have DX9 on the PS3, or OpenGL on the 360).
Well, time to burn off some karma: I actually don't have a problem with this. Why should Intel support AMD?
Intel bore the costs of the x86 R&D, and the costs of marketing the platform, AND the costs of writing an extremely good C compiler. When AMD makes a copycat chip, it's no surprise that they can undercut Intel because they don't have any of those overhead costs. I don't have a problem with AMD legally reverse-engineering the x86, but they have no right to claim foul because they were too cheap to write their own compiler.
The idiocy comes in whatever thought process he had that allowed him to think that he had any right to continue being employed by GameStop.
Well, according to article he knew that he would get in some kind of trouble. Who knows what his true intentions were but it seems like he wanted to have the issue come to a head and illicit a reaction from gamestop. Perhaps this was his way of quitting. Who knows. I do hate it when people in joe-jobs go on power trips, and I'd fire the guy if I were his district manager. Still though, you gotta give the guy style points.
I'd be interested to see, on the other hand, how many "rogue" gamestop managers got suspended when they powertripped-out and forced people into wii bundles on launch day. I'd wager the number hovers around zero.
Idiolistic? certainly. Misguided? probably. But why is he an idiot? He wanted to do have a positive effect on kids in a position that is generally associated with destroying our childrens minds (just ask Jack Thompson). Furhermore, he knew that he was probably going to get suspended and/or fired and was not surprised when it finally happened. So it's not as though he's shocked that he got fired.
Gamestop is famous (or infamous) for having generally odd store managers. You typically get the Simpsons Comic-Book Guy variety, the hyperactive upseller, or you get the nutjob that tells you that he spoke with the Bungie devs and that "Halo 3 is TOTALLY coming out on the Playstation 3 in Q4. You should really pre-order it". So a gamestop manager that wants my kids to have good grades is a welcome change.
I think Gamestop was justified in firing the guy, but I applaud him for at least sparking a dialog on the issue. If GameStop is smart, they'd find some way to turn this into a promotional deal ($20 off with a straight-A report card etc., etc.).
Sorry for the relativist subject line, but with respect to adblocking it's pretty much true.
Without weighing in on the "morality" issue of blocking ads, the simple truth is that if enough people start blocking ad-supported content, ad-supported content will go away. I'm not even saying that this is a bad or good thing, just that it will happen. It'll probably play out in one or more of the following ways:
Content owners will revert to subscription-based models
Advertisers will revert to even more insideous tactics.
Ad-supported content will go belly-up.
I think that some people are under the illusion that you can rip ads out of the internet and that it will keep chugging along just as was before.
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I'm more concerned about the plethora of wasteful power-bricks that are trickle-charging all of my devices...
Thanks, Pauly Shore, for the insight. Who knew you had such range!
Imagine the electricity company charging $.10/kWh for your lights, and $.20/kWh for your television.
Ridiculous, right? That's similar to what the ISP's are trying to do. They'd like to charge (for example) $1/GB for accessing comcast.com, and $15/GB for accessing google.com.
There we go. Why oh why do I never use the preview button?
Many people are afraid of doctors, and many people are afraid of robots. And a few are hemophobic. Combine all three and you will have a very interesting situation if wakes up in the middle of surgery. Yikes.
First off, I think this less of an "I'm sorry" situation, but rather "I'm sorry I got caught".
But regardless of whether they are truly sorry for this fiasco, they STILL don't get the problem. It's not that they staged a news conference, it's why they staged the conference that is the issue. They don't care about "emergency management", they only care about *public relations*. And while they claim that things are so much better than Katrina, this mock press conference only proves that nothing has changed.
On the positive side, Kanye West might be heartened to learn that it isn't just black people -- George Bush doesn't care about *anybody*.
Haven't you heard? The cake is a LIE. Hence, Thompson is suing for false advertising.
Really? You read the part about it being a breakdancing egg, right?
Call it sour grapes if you want, but I'm not really clamoring over a hip-hop, breakdancing, mp3-playing egg.
Although I'll gladly pay to import whatever drugs the Sony execs were taking when they gave this thing the green light.
I also learned LOGO when I was six (that was back when Radio Shack tought classes with TRS-80's... wow I'm old). What I think is so great about logo is that the syntax is very, very approachable -- even to kids who don't yet know how to spell!
Yes, the amount of research you have to do to learn how to spoof ANI is daunting. Oh wait, no it's not
Yes it's harder to forge than CID, but it's definitely possible. I'm not sure what the point of your post was. Are you disputing the facts? Obviously the police raided the house, that's not in dispute. So are you saying the hack didn't happen, or what?
Good post. In addition, I believe that PS3 Linux still prohibits access tothe RSX processor (not sure if this is still the case with the latest firmware - please correct me if I'm wrong). So unfortunately a lot of the cool math tricks that you can do with the GPU are unavailable, and also effectively cuts the amount of RAM down to 256MB, since the other 256 is reserved for the graphics processor.
Holy cow, I was just joking around, honest! Now I'm gonna have IP lawyers knocking down my door. And's it's not like I'm going to be able to lie to get myself out of this one 'cus, like, they'd know.
I don't necessarily hold it against them. At the end of the day Bungie needed money to finance Halo's development, and no Mac publisher at the time had the $$$ to handle such a thing. You could argue that Bungie sold out, but if they hadn't sold out to Microsoft it's quite likely that they would have to accept the terms of another publisher, and I suspect those terms would be much worse than what Microsoft was offering.
On that note: There's a penny-arcade strip that echoes Bungie's predicament (is there a Karma whore out there willing to look it up? My company firewall blocks out PA when they should block
Sony and Microsoft are developing competing formats for reading your mind.
If you're using the new discussion system, the "reply" link appears on the comment filter "slider" widget. It's not very obvious though...
It seems to me that that before you charge someone of committing libel, you must first prove that his/her accusations against you are untrue. Otherwise, how is it libel? That being said, should it really matter (to the hospital) that the accuser is anonymous? Sounds to me like the hospital simply wants to know the identity so they can snuff out the whistleblower.
Ironically, the so-called libelous claim is that the hospital violated HIPPA privacy laws. Seeing as how they are trying to destroy the whistleblower's anonymity, I'm more inclined to believe that these claims have merit.
As CrusadeR wisely pointed out, Carmack has stated that they already have an OpenGL and DX9 renderer in development.
I imagine that it wasn't their first choice to do this, however with their jump to next-gen console development I suppose it was a necessity (it's not like you can have DX9 on the PS3, or OpenGL on the 360).
Well, time to burn off some karma: I actually don't have a problem with this. Why should Intel support AMD?
Intel bore the costs of the x86 R&D, and the costs of marketing the platform, AND the costs of writing an extremely good C compiler. When AMD makes a copycat chip, it's no surprise that they can undercut Intel because they don't have any of those overhead costs. I don't have a problem with AMD legally reverse-engineering the x86, but they have no right to claim foul because they were too cheap to write their own compiler.
I'd be interested to see, on the other hand, how many "rogue" gamestop managers got suspended when they powertripped-out and forced people into wii bundles on launch day. I'd wager the number hovers around zero.
Idiolistic? certainly. Misguided? probably. But why is he an idiot? He wanted to do have a positive effect on kids in a position that is generally associated with destroying our childrens minds (just ask Jack Thompson). Furhermore, he knew that he was probably going to get suspended and/or fired and was not surprised when it finally happened. So it's not as though he's shocked that he got fired.
Gamestop is famous (or infamous) for having generally odd store managers. You typically get the Simpsons Comic-Book Guy variety, the hyperactive upseller, or you get the nutjob that tells you that he spoke with the Bungie devs and that "Halo 3 is TOTALLY coming out on the Playstation 3 in Q4. You should really pre-order it". So a gamestop manager that wants my kids to have good grades is a welcome change.
I think Gamestop was justified in firing the guy, but I applaud him for at least sparking a dialog on the issue. If GameStop is smart, they'd find some way to turn this into a promotional deal ($20 off with a straight-A report card etc., etc.).
Well, when the Genuide Advantage network goes down, that demographic will get pretty big, right?
In other news, Apple, Sun, and a billion linux supporters simultaneously screamed their praise at this latest initiative by Microsoft.
Without weighing in on the "morality" issue of blocking ads, the simple truth is that if enough people start blocking ad-supported content, ad-supported content will go away. I'm not even saying that this is a bad or good thing, just that it will happen. It'll probably play out in one or more of the following ways:
Content owners will revert to subscription-based models
Advertisers will revert to even more insideous tactics.
Ad-supported content will go belly-up.
I think that some people are under the illusion that you can rip ads out of the internet and that it will keep chugging along just as was before.