A new mobile Mac with NAND flash is 99.4% likely to be using Santa Rosa aka Centrino Pro. The chipset isn't exclusive to subnotebooks, so if this rumor turns out true then the larger MacBooks will get bumped up as well (90% likely, but Lord Steve is of course a capricious diety).
If I like a song enough to want a local copy of it, my first step is to check iTunes. Usually I find the song (recent example: Yell Fire by Michael Franti) and its associated album. If I like the other songs enough, I buy the whole thing, otherwise just the one. However...
If the song is NOT on iTunes (recent example: Justified & Ancient by Tammy & the KLF), I click the icon I keep right next to iTunes... Poisoned. It's exceedingly rare not to find exactly what I want on P2P. As far as I'm concerned, I made a good faith effort to pay for it, and my conscience is clear.
Confirmed opt-in: Someone (maybe a legit customer, or not) submits an email address. You send exactly ONE email to that address, containing a "click this to confirm your subscription" link (or a "reply to this email") that uses a strongly randomized ID hash string (aka not guessable by malicious 3rd parties). If you don't get a valid response within a couple days, discard the address entirely.
Honest 1st party addressing: Send all marketing from your own system. Prominently include your company contact information.
Honest intent: do not use the list to send emails for any purpose other than the one that was clearly and explicity declared in the initial subscription.
Full automated unsubscribe: Every email must contain a "click this to unsubscribe" link, again with a randomized ID hash, which takes the user to a page that says "your address has been unsubscribed". And of course, actually unsubscribe them, effective immediately.
Pretty much anything else, including trying to bend the spirit of these rules, is spam.
And furthermore, now that I have read the "article", it turns out to be a freaking BLOG POST containing nine whole sentences. NINE! Sheesh. Secretsather, you deserve some serious downmods for your laziness and obvious lack of subject knowledge.
We show that the coefficients of operators in the electroweak chiral Lagrangian can be bounded if the
underlying theory obeys the usual assumptions of Lorentz invariance, analyticity, unitarity, and crossing to
arbitrarily short distances. Violations of these bounds can be explained by either the existence of new
physics below the naive cutoff of the effective theory, or by the breakdown of one of these assumptions in
the short distance theory. As a corollary, if no light resonances are found, then a measured violation of the
bound would falsify generic models of string theory.
...most of which is beyond grasp of what I remember from 200-level college physics. Would a domain expert care to jump in now?
Secretsather managed to pick a quote from the article that (except for the liquid helium bit) describes the operations of ANY large synchrotron (aka circular particle accelerator). Of course, that might be a good thing, because it means that only people who know particle physics and/or have read the article will be able to post a comment with anything close to relevance.
The current problem with Wikipedia is more of an offshoot from Tragedy of the Commons. In the grand tradition of Slashdot analogy-stretching:
Wikipedia is the field
long-time users are the (semi-enlightened, self-regulating) farmers
HOWEVER, thousands of new farmers have arrived in town, with more every day
AND it turns out that at least half of them are actually human-shaped insects a la Mimic trying to devour the field AND the cows
In all seriousness, Wikipedia has simply outgrown its youthful innocence, just as the Internet did about 15 years ago. Peer-reviewed anarchy breaks down after a sufficient quantity of greedy scumbags show up. Semi-protection needs to become the default.
... IF their proposed technique (which has not actually been tested against live cells) comes anywhere near a useful prediction. They haven't even done IN VITRO modeling yet. If this were a product announcement, I'd call it VAPORWARE of the highest order.
Umm... there shouldn't be an OK button AT ALL in any Mac app (according to the HIG). Dialog buttons are supposed to be VERBS. And yes, I know that several versions of iTunes violate this rule. Lord Steve is above the law.
If one SCO disaster is newsworthy, two disasters in as many days surely is also newsworthy.
Except that this article is the THIRD SCO article in two days. The event yesterday was separate; it had one article. However, this current quashing was already discussed in an article posted 6 hours before this one.
And to top it off, your underinformed post gets +5 Informative while my 100% correct one got marked Overrated.
If we were talking about a fully automated BBS/newsgroup/Slash/blog/etc where there is no direct involvement between the site host and any particular message, IMO it would be completely clear that the host should not be liable. The only possible exception might be if the host received an explicit sworn statement that the message is libelous or otherwise illegal, but refuses to remove it. And that would only be maybe.
However, in this case we have a manually moderated forum, where the host made a conscious decision to publish disputed material. Giving blanket immunity to all secondhand posting doesn't just open a huge can of worms, it takes those worms and tosses them all over a crowded public square.
And relying on Congress to pick up this cause-du-jour and "do the right thing"... that's just plain crazy.
Well maybe if Microsoft hadn't implemented so many "features" (that rarely get used) as services that turned out to be remotely exploitable holes, people wouldn't have such a bad impression of them. The most reliable security default for Win NT/2K/XP is "if you don't seem to be using a service, and nothing seems to break when you turn it off, disable it".
and the license prohibits charging for the derivative work.
Mr Coward misinterprets what that sentence is saying. It's not saying you can't sell derivative copies (pretty sure none of these are directly from Mr Torvalds); it's saying the licenser (original seller) isn't allowed to charge the licensee (new buyer) royalties if the buyer wants to sell their own version. Which is exactly correct.
Many honestly believed that this was critical to the war on terror.
Yes, that utterly astonishing ~2/3rds of all USians who accepted the notion that Iraq was involved in 9/11. It shook my faith in everything from Christian decency to the laws of statistics; apparently we live in Bizarro Lake Woebegon, where much more than half of the population is below average.
IMO, the Democrats' single largest failure (out of oh so many) in the past 5 years was that unopposed mass brainwashing. The world would be a better place if we could cordon off downtown DC, grab all of the fundamentalists on the right the and invertebrates on the left, then ship them to a pacific island to be volcanic sacrifices and/or Hanso lab rats.
Ruby on Rails was announced back in August, and I (et al) added details about the rest of the dev overview to Wikipedia 5 days ago. Personally, I thought the most interesting new part was Mandatory Access Control.
Umm, you'll have to give us a URL. When I look up E1505 at Dell, it says the $999 model comes with Core(1) Duo and Intel GMA 950 graphics, which makes it more comparable to the $1099 MacBook Amateur.
Until AMD's next generation arrives, they are behind Intel's Core chips in performance per watt, performance per dollar, and absolute performance. It took Intel a while to wake up, but they came back with a vengeance.
No, I'm pretty sure the GP poster was referring to actual end-user searches, as in you start typing a word in that corner textbox in a Finder window. You get as far as "mac" or "th" when the SBOD hits; further input is impossible for the next 10-90 seconds. It's somewhat less horrible in Tiger, but that's partly because I think very carefully about my search terms before even starting, then type the characters REALLY fast.
Look at the date stamps for those quotes. The ones saying "sure, we'd love to do Linux and Mac, and we're talking to Atari" are all dated about TWO YEARS AGO, way back before they had even settled on a design spec. And the one saying "if you want a port, post your support on AtariCommunity.com" is over a year old.
How many words about Linux or Mac have either Obsidian or Atari spoken since that time? Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Instead, we have learned that the new graphics engine is entirely based on DirectX, there is no OpenGL code path, and the toolset is written in C#.
NWN2 is a Windows-only game. There is no maybe. Personally, I'm still going to buy NWN2, right after I install BootCamp on my not-yet-existing Core2 MBP, which will probably be in April.
Yes, that certainly sounds funny, but I bet it's actually true. If Steve Jobs called Otellini and said he was willing to slap "Intel(r) Core(tm)" and "Intel(r) Viiv(tm)" logos on the mini, Intel would be all over that with a big fat grin. Apple is already foregoing piles of marketing moolah from Intel for not using the logos on Mac, so it would be a huge score if they gave in.
You're lucky to have missed it. Every freaking day for months, Morning Edition opened up with a breathless report on the speculation about which tie Johnny Cochrane might wear, or other urgent information from the front steps of the courthouse. And then the same thing all over again with Ken Starr and his blue cocktail dress.
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A new mobile Mac with NAND flash is 99.4% likely to be using Santa Rosa aka Centrino Pro. The chipset isn't exclusive to subnotebooks, so if this rumor turns out true then the larger MacBooks will get bumped up as well (90% likely, but Lord Steve is of course a capricious diety).
Clearly you don't work in or near a server room. http://www.google.com/search?q=virtualization+~adv antages
If I like a song enough to want a local copy of it, my first step is to check iTunes. Usually I find the song (recent example: Yell Fire by Michael Franti) and its associated album. If I like the other songs enough, I buy the whole thing, otherwise just the one. However...
If the song is NOT on iTunes (recent example: Justified & Ancient by Tammy & the KLF), I click the icon I keep right next to iTunes... Poisoned. It's exceedingly rare not to find exactly what I want on P2P. As far as I'm concerned, I made a good faith effort to pay for it, and my conscience is clear.
Pretty much anything else, including trying to bend the spirit of these rules, is spam.
And furthermore, now that I have read the "article", it turns out to be a freaking BLOG POST containing nine whole sentences. NINE! Sheesh. Secretsather, you deserve some serious downmods for your laziness and obvious lack of subject knowledge.
A quick news search reveals much more informative articles, which allows one to find the original journal article. Here's the abstract...
...most of which is beyond grasp of what I remember from 200-level college physics. Would a domain expert care to jump in now?
Secretsather managed to pick a quote from the article that (except for the liquid helium bit) describes the operations of ANY large synchrotron (aka circular particle accelerator). Of course, that might be a good thing, because it means that only people who know particle physics and/or have read the article will be able to post a comment with anything close to relevance.
The current problem with Wikipedia is more of an offshoot from Tragedy of the Commons. In the grand tradition of Slashdot analogy-stretching:
In all seriousness, Wikipedia has simply outgrown its youthful innocence, just as the Internet did about 15 years ago. Peer-reviewed anarchy breaks down after a sufficient quantity of greedy scumbags show up. Semi-protection needs to become the default.
... IF their proposed technique (which has not actually been tested against live cells) comes anywhere near a useful prediction. They haven't even done IN VITRO modeling yet. If this were a product announcement, I'd call it VAPORWARE of the highest order.
Umm... there shouldn't be an OK button AT ALL in any Mac app (according to the HIG). Dialog buttons are supposed to be VERBS. And yes, I know that several versions of iTunes violate this rule. Lord Steve is above the law.
Except that this article is the THIRD SCO article in two days. The event yesterday was separate; it had one article. However, this current quashing was already discussed in an article posted 6 hours before this one.
And to top it off, your underinformed post gets +5 Informative while my 100% correct one got marked Overrated.
To all those who are scoffing at (and downmodding) our cries of "Dupe!", please PAY ATTENTION:
If we were talking about a fully automated BBS/newsgroup/Slash/blog/etc where there is no direct involvement between the site host and any particular message, IMO it would be completely clear that the host should not be liable. The only possible exception might be if the host received an explicit sworn statement that the message is libelous or otherwise illegal, but refuses to remove it. And that would only be maybe.
However, in this case we have a manually moderated forum, where the host made a conscious decision to publish disputed material. Giving blanket immunity to all secondhand posting doesn't just open a huge can of worms, it takes those worms and tosses them all over a crowded public square.
And relying on Congress to pick up this cause-du-jour and "do the right thing"... that's just plain crazy.Well maybe if Microsoft hadn't implemented so many "features" (that rarely get used) as services that turned out to be remotely exploitable holes, people wouldn't have such a bad impression of them. The most reliable security default for Win NT/2K/XP is "if you don't seem to be using a service, and nothing seems to break when you turn it off, disable it".
Mr Coward misinterprets what that sentence is saying. It's not saying you can't sell derivative copies (pretty sure none of these are directly from Mr Torvalds); it's saying the licenser (original seller) isn't allowed to charge the licensee (new buyer) royalties if the buyer wants to sell their own version. Which is exactly correct.
Yes, that utterly astonishing ~2/3rds of all USians who accepted the notion that Iraq was involved in 9/11. It shook my faith in everything from Christian decency to the laws of statistics; apparently we live in Bizarro Lake Woebegon, where much more than half of the population is below average.
IMO, the Democrats' single largest failure (out of oh so many) in the past 5 years was that unopposed mass brainwashing. The world would be a better place if we could cordon off downtown DC, grab all of the fundamentalists on the right the and invertebrates on the left, then ship them to a pacific island to be volcanic sacrifices and/or Hanso lab rats.
Ruby on Rails was announced back in August, and I (et al) added details about the rest of the dev overview to Wikipedia 5 days ago. Personally, I thought the most interesting new part was Mandatory Access Control.
Umm, you'll have to give us a URL. When I look up E1505 at Dell, it says the $999 model comes with Core(1) Duo and Intel GMA 950 graphics, which makes it more comparable to the $1099 MacBook Amateur.
Until AMD's next generation arrives, they are behind Intel's Core chips in performance per watt, performance per dollar, and absolute performance. It took Intel a while to wake up, but they came back with a vengeance.
iMac also uses Merom. Easiest way to tell is the FSB. 667MHz == Merom, 1066MHz == Conroe.
...and that Conroe has 75% faster FSB, 10% faster clock and 10% lower cost than Merom. That's the advantage of not having to pinch every watt.
No, I'm pretty sure the GP poster was referring to actual end-user searches, as in you start typing a word in that corner textbox in a Finder window. You get as far as "mac" or "th" when the SBOD hits; further input is impossible for the next 10-90 seconds. It's somewhat less horrible in Tiger, but that's partly because I think very carefully about my search terms before even starting, then type the characters REALLY fast.
Look at the date stamps for those quotes. The ones saying "sure, we'd love to do Linux and Mac, and we're talking to Atari" are all dated about TWO YEARS AGO, way back before they had even settled on a design spec. And the one saying "if you want a port, post your support on AtariCommunity.com" is over a year old.
How many words about Linux or Mac have either Obsidian or Atari spoken since that time? Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Instead, we have learned that the new graphics engine is entirely based on DirectX, there is no OpenGL code path, and the toolset is written in C#.
NWN2 is a Windows-only game. There is no maybe. Personally, I'm still going to buy NWN2, right after I install BootCamp on my not-yet-existing Core2 MBP, which will probably be in April.
Yes, that certainly sounds funny, but I bet it's actually true. If Steve Jobs called Otellini and said he was willing to slap "Intel(r) Core(tm)" and "Intel(r) Viiv(tm)" logos on the mini, Intel would be all over that with a big fat grin. Apple is already foregoing piles of marketing moolah from Intel for not using the logos on Mac, so it would be a huge score if they gave in.
You're lucky to have missed it. Every freaking day for months, Morning Edition opened up with a breathless report on the speculation about which tie Johnny Cochrane might wear, or other urgent information from the front steps of the courthouse. And then the same thing all over again with Ken Starr and his blue cocktail dress.
I can only assume you weren't listening to NPR a decade ago, during the OJ & Clenis hysterias that they whole-heartedly took part in.