Just a bunch of people bitching for no reason, trying to generate traffic to their blogs. Let's see... True to some point. Still, it raises an interesting question. Shouldn't we be able to choose this for ourselves? In the end, security problems that I force on myself by refusing updates is my own responsibility, not Microsoft. They have the responsibility to deliver fixes. We have the responsibility to care for installing them, but we still must have the choice to do so.
A potential use of these molecules is to make extremely powerful gamma-ray lasers, possibly on sharks. Finally! Now that the harmless sharks finally get some gamma-ray lasers on the tip of their nose, this will help them regain their position at the top of the food chain, ever since the nasty penguins started taking over their territory.
His bottle will shortly be available for sale from Lifesaver Systems at an expected cost of £190 (approx. $385). At one hundredth of that cost, this could actually become a life saver to hundreds of millions of people and not just wealthy people who are lost in the woods for days.
Nevertheless, the idea is great and hopefully it can be sold for $10 in the future after a few refinements.
Fortunately, that's how it works. A world without hierarchy would be a world without leaders and without people with billions who can invest in ideas that could create thousands of new jobs. And why would anyone want to become a brain surgeon (aside from helping people) if it wasn't for the good money?
Aside from my sarcasm above, a company like Google has only a few executives "up there". Don't you think their time is better spent on meetings rather than being forced to travel for hours to the airport? You're flying economy because you didn't end up well like the Google execs did. That's life. That's hierarchy.
Maybe this explains why religion persists in the face of logic, it was here before science. Parent should not be modded Funny. It is indeed a very Insightful comment.
It's obviously a debate that is bound to generate some buzz, but how realistic is it? In my opinion, it is not a realistic plan.
- For starters, where do you draw the line? Is downloading one song enough?
- Who is going to pay for all the incredible amount of data processing?
- How often can one be 100% certain that it is in fact piracy?
- How are they going to disprove that an ISP isn't doing what's expected?
- How are the ISP:s expected to keep up with the fast pace of anti-anti piracy prevention methods?
- Why is the ISP supposed to police its customers, when it is clearly the police dep's job?
- How is this filter going to work and how will they make sure that the customer's privacy rights are preserved?
Good luck. It's probably a media stunt by some lawyer with a fat paycheck from RIAA.
There is no doubt in my mind that the ethics of this law are in favor of the government.
The REAL issue here is not whether the government should be allowed to do it. The dilemma is how these terror suspects are sorted out and what it takes to be a terror suspect.
You're turning a discussion about buying high-end hardware into "best bang for the buck". Where in my quoted statement can you see me saying anything about buying the top of the line hardware and that it is the best choice?
"And of course.. 4 core CPU has no use at homes unless you are content creator. I'm software engineer, I don't think that any of my colleagues I work with knows how to write app that will take advantage of 2 cores; let alone 4.
Conclusion? 4 cores right now need much software support."
Well, you're talking about cutting-edge CPU:s which typically co-exist with cutting-edge software. If you're getting a quad core setup, it's probably because you're going beyond Word processing.
Of course quad cores will need more software support before they become a more viable option, but it's hardly a bad thing to prepare for the future when you're purchasing a computer.
I would think that AMD would be providing Barcelona benchmarks hand over fist, at this point, if they had something...
There are two possible situations here:
a) Barcelona is faster than Intel's current line-up and does not want to see Intel up the pace more by releasing such numbers. b) Barcelona is slower than Intel's current line-up and does not want its shares hit a new low, or perhaps buy some time to speed it up.
"Who fucking cares anyway? All it shows is just how quickly AMD is disappearing into irrelevant-ville, just like Linux."
You shouldn't rule out the company that forced Intel into this pace. After all, it's remarkable what they did with the Athlon series when Intel's Netburst architecture proved inefficient. I agree that they are in trouble, but at least don't make quick assumptions before we get to see Barcelona.
So is this the point where we starting hearing that blocking ads is just like running out of the store with a pair of blue jeans? I mean really...
You can compare it to stealing all you want, but it's an incorrect comparison. If you steal a pair of jeans, the store will be at a financial loss. If you block ads, you prevent the site from making more money per customer, but it's hardly a financial loss.
At what point do businesses start realize they they are providers of information and not the gate keepers for information...
Lousy gatekeeper then, since all you have to do is just switch browser. Seriously though, they are obviously providers of information. It's not an attempt of gatekeeping information, but to maximize the revenue.
I'm not saying their actions are justified, but it's really up to them if they want a business model which affects so many of its visitors.
Carlrovism/ca:lrouizm/
-noun
1. the practiced theory of "I Don't Recall" statements.
2. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
"I think it's more a matter of making the mistake of underestimating how many people are still going to be buying your old product line (XP) instead of your brand spanking new all-singing and all-dancing product line (Vista). And actually that is a bad mistake to make."
I personally made the switch from XP to Vista about two months ago because I wanted the driver updates to kick in first. There is no doubt in my mind -- I prefer Vista far more than XP because of all the nifty new features and the new look. I guess I was getting tired of XP.
I do however understand why people still purchase XP. It wasn't all that good in its early days, but a fully patched XP is actually pretty darn good and stable now. I really don't think XP ran out of keys because Vista "sucks", but because it was delayed for so long that XP had an exceedingly long lifetime. Had Vista been released a couple of years ago, then Microsoft wouldn't have this problem. So it's rather the delay of Vista, not the claimed "suckiness" of Vista.
"I'm amazed and a bit shocked that there are so many people here who think that paperless billing is an acceptable idea. It isn't, because:"
If you read my post again, you will realize that I am not proposing a paperless billing. I only propose that AT&T put the 52 pages online and just summarize all important data on the bill. There is certainly no need to receive pages and pages of traffic data since only a small number of people would want this. In fact, I think they should charge people who request such a service because it sounds like a complete waste of good paper.
There's nothing wrong with being thorough and precise. I think people would complain more if it was the opposite; no details whatsoever. Unfortunately, AT&T decided to do this the paper route instead of just supplying its customers with online, on-demand details. After all, no iPhone owner lacks an internet connection.
"Are we humans a benefit to the universe, as TFA suggests, or are we a detriment?"
Why must we be either a benefit or a detriment?
From my point of view, only living things can perceive a detriment and a benefit. With that assumption, what in the universe would care if we blow up a planet on the other side of our galaxy.
For all I know, the universe doesn't care if we blow up everything there is, since atoms do not bother. Our race would be a detriment/benefit to other civilizations, however, if such will ever exist within our reach. But then we must first prove that alien life exists, get over there and influence it. Only then can we know for sure.
Until "that" day, we are neither a benefit or a detriment, because a particle is feeling just fine regardless of what we do to it.
Scientist: Our group would like to study beer bubbles.
Board member: Denied. We need a cure for cancer.
Scientist: But it's really important -- like that Norwegian study which proved that penguins don't fall on their back when observing passing planes.
Board member: Sorry, but it's not viable.
Scientist: You can have 20 percent of the beer.
Board member: Will $200,000 do?
The problem with Vista is not with Vista itself. The migration of Windows XP was reasonable because any pre-existing operating system from Microsoft just didn't cut it. Several years later, XP is so mature and secure that the advantages between XP and Vista are less significant. Had Vista been released in its current state two years ago, I guess Vista would have been an obvious choice.
I have no doubt Vista will become significantly better in a couple of years and narrow the competition with the next-gen Windows, but that's how it should be too. After all, XP and 2K were very similar at first, until service packs and such made XP much better. In the meantime, development of 2K halted, which presented a bigger gap between the two systems. The same will happen with XP and Vista.
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Nevertheless, the idea is great and hopefully it can be sold for $10 in the future after a few refinements.
Fortunately, that's how it works. A world without hierarchy would be a world without leaders and without people with billions who can invest in ideas that could create thousands of new jobs. And why would anyone want to become a brain surgeon (aside from helping people) if it wasn't for the good money?
Aside from my sarcasm above, a company like Google has only a few executives "up there". Don't you think their time is better spent on meetings rather than being forced to travel for hours to the airport? You're flying economy because you didn't end up well like the Google execs did. That's life. That's hierarchy.
Here's some benchmarking done by Anandtech.
And a performance preview for Barcelona desktop as well.
Is this really the end of Radioactive Man? Find out soon!
It's obviously a debate that is bound to generate some buzz, but how realistic is it? In my opinion, it is not a realistic plan.
- For starters, where do you draw the line? Is downloading one song enough?
- Who is going to pay for all the incredible amount of data processing?
- How often can one be 100% certain that it is in fact piracy?
- How are they going to disprove that an ISP isn't doing what's expected?
- How are the ISP:s expected to keep up with the fast pace of anti-anti piracy prevention methods?
- Why is the ISP supposed to police its customers, when it is clearly the police dep's job?
- How is this filter going to work and how will they make sure that the customer's privacy rights are preserved?
Good luck. It's probably a media stunt by some lawyer with a fat paycheck from RIAA.
There is no doubt in my mind that the ethics of this law are in favor of the government.
The REAL issue here is not whether the government should be allowed to do it. The dilemma is how these terror suspects are sorted out and what it takes to be a terror suspect.
You're turning a discussion about buying high-end hardware into "best bang for the buck". Where in my quoted statement can you see me saying anything about buying the top of the line hardware and that it is the best choice?
"And of course.. 4 core CPU has no use at homes unless you are content creator. I'm software engineer, I don't think that any of my colleagues I work with knows how to write app that will take advantage of 2 cores; let alone 4.
Conclusion? 4 cores right now need much software support."
Well, you're talking about cutting-edge CPU:s which typically co-exist with cutting-edge software. If you're getting a quad core setup, it's probably because you're going beyond Word processing.
Of course quad cores will need more software support before they become a more viable option, but it's hardly a bad thing to prepare for the future when you're purchasing a computer.
I would think that AMD would be providing Barcelona benchmarks hand over fist, at this point, if they had something...
There are two possible situations here:
a) Barcelona is faster than Intel's current line-up and does not want to see Intel up the pace more by releasing such numbers.
b) Barcelona is slower than Intel's current line-up and does not want its shares hit a new low, or perhaps buy some time to speed it up.
"Who fucking cares anyway? All it shows is just how quickly AMD is disappearing into irrelevant-ville, just like Linux."
You shouldn't rule out the company that forced Intel into this pace. After all, it's remarkable what they did with the Athlon series when Intel's Netburst architecture proved inefficient. I agree that they are in trouble, but at least don't make quick assumptions before we get to see Barcelona.
So is this the point where we starting hearing that blocking ads is just like running out of the store with a pair of blue jeans? I mean really...
You can compare it to stealing all you want, but it's an incorrect comparison. If you steal a pair of jeans, the store will be at a financial loss. If you block ads, you prevent the site from making more money per customer, but it's hardly a financial loss.
At what point do businesses start realize they they are providers of information and not the gate keepers for information...
Lousy gatekeeper then, since all you have to do is just switch browser. Seriously though, they are obviously providers of information. It's not an attempt of gatekeeping information, but to maximize the revenue.
I'm not saying their actions are justified, but it's really up to them if they want a business model which affects so many of its visitors.
Also, who modded this guy up?
"I've been saying for years that plain soap is good enough"
I take it your conversations with women don't end up that well, at least for the past few years?
Carlrovism /ca:lrouizm/
-noun
1. the practiced theory of "I Don't Recall" statements. 2. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
"I think it's more a matter of making the mistake of underestimating how many people are still going to be buying your old product line (XP) instead of your brand spanking new all-singing and all-dancing product line (Vista). And actually that is a bad mistake to make."
I personally made the switch from XP to Vista about two months ago because I wanted the driver updates to kick in first. There is no doubt in my mind -- I prefer Vista far more than XP because of all the nifty new features and the new look. I guess I was getting tired of XP.
I do however understand why people still purchase XP. It wasn't all that good in its early days, but a fully patched XP is actually pretty darn good and stable now. I really don't think XP ran out of keys because Vista "sucks", but because it was delayed for so long that XP had an exceedingly long lifetime. Had Vista been released a couple of years ago, then Microsoft wouldn't have this problem. So it's rather the delay of Vista, not the claimed "suckiness" of Vista.
"I'm amazed and a bit shocked that there are so many people here who think that paperless billing is an acceptable idea. It isn't, because:"
If you read my post again, you will realize that I am not proposing a paperless billing. I only propose that AT&T put the 52 pages online and just summarize all important data on the bill. There is certainly no need to receive pages and pages of traffic data since only a small number of people would want this. In fact, I think they should charge people who request such a service because it sounds like a complete waste of good paper.
There's nothing wrong with being thorough and precise. I think people would complain more if it was the opposite; no details whatsoever. Unfortunately, AT&T decided to do this the paper route instead of just supplying its customers with online, on-demand details. After all, no iPhone owner lacks an internet connection.
"Are we humans a benefit to the universe, as TFA suggests, or are we a detriment?"
Why must we be either a benefit or a detriment?
From my point of view, only living things can perceive a detriment and a benefit. With that assumption, what in the universe would care if we blow up a planet on the other side of our galaxy.
For all I know, the universe doesn't care if we blow up everything there is, since atoms do not bother. Our race would be a detriment/benefit to other civilizations, however, if such will ever exist within our reach. But then we must first prove that alien life exists, get over there and influence it. Only then can we know for sure.
Until "that" day, we are neither a benefit or a detriment, because a particle is feeling just fine regardless of what we do to it.
Question is, how did you access Slashdot while driving the ice cream truck, and what was your boss doing there?
Scientist: Our group would like to study beer bubbles. Board member: Denied. We need a cure for cancer. Scientist: But it's really important -- like that Norwegian study which proved that penguins don't fall on their back when observing passing planes. Board member: Sorry, but it's not viable. Scientist: You can have 20 percent of the beer. Board member: Will $200,000 do?
The problem with Vista is not with Vista itself. The migration of Windows XP was reasonable because any pre-existing operating system from Microsoft just didn't cut it. Several years later, XP is so mature and secure that the advantages between XP and Vista are less significant. Had Vista been released in its current state two years ago, I guess Vista would have been an obvious choice.
I have no doubt Vista will become significantly better in a couple of years and narrow the competition with the next-gen Windows, but that's how it should be too. After all, XP and 2K were very similar at first, until service packs and such made XP much better. In the meantime, development of 2K halted, which presented a bigger gap between the two systems. The same will happen with XP and Vista.
So according to your claims, Apple is Taco Bell with white walls?