The right to block Spam is important. I hope their executives don't try going over to America any time soon though. If I worked for them I'd be pretty nervous about taking transatlantic flights.
This event is the biggest event for the professional photographer trade. Maybe Apple have some big plans for Aperture but there are other possibilities. Apple have moved towards including iSight cameras as standard on most of their computers but the resolution is not that high. Not high enough to be used as an alternative to a scanner for OCRing text documents.
For many people this would be a killer app especially with Apples knack for making it simple and intuitive. I know there are already ways of doing this but they're less well known.
The number of bytes is easier to calculate and is a measure of the amount of information you will be displaying. If anything the number of lines would be a better indicator but that would be more complicated to work out again.
You probably don't get your tech information from mainstream media either. The SMH is a good paper but it's not a tech specialist. Many people have been put off using Linux because papers like the SMH wrote that it wasn't ready for the desktop and that it was only for geeks.
That they aren't writing that anymore signifys a shift in the mainstream medias perception of Linux. Their understanding is still poor but that will come.
Think of this as free advertising for Linux to a market who it is interested in but doesn't normally reach. Interest in Linux drives usage and hence development of Linux and eventually more interest. It's a self reinforcing cycle and it's what will keep Adobe, IBM and Intel interested in working on Linux.
Sunday's a great day to launch a console. Launch on a friday morning and you have to miss a days school or work to get one. You can't really camp overnight either that easily. A sunday on the other hand allows the die hards to camp out 2 nights. Sunday mornings are really quiet times in the shops which means that the Wii gets all the attention. Sundays are slow for news so they get a lot of media attention (and big stories in the sunday papers).
Nintendo have announced that they intend to sell 4 million Wii by the end of the year. Ideally you want a shortage without putting off customers. Especially if you want to sell 4m. Sunday is also good for that. Only 1 day of weekend shopping and before retailers can get their second wind and have a chance to restock.
Having a launch this close to Christmas is really hard on retailers. They have to guess demand and usually you don't get a second chance to get in stock if demand spikes. Retailers are stuck either buying a huge stock and risk having a huge inventory of unsold consoles (losing a fortune in the process) or they might only get a few in and watch helplessly as customers go somewhere else. You never know if those customers (who came to you first) are going to come back.
Press the buttons on a standard controller for 5 minutes without a game playing and see how bored you get and how tired your hand feels. Even holding a joypad in front of you for 5 minutes is irritating if there isn't a game playing to take your mind off it.
You made a fair point but it won't be possible to objectively judge until weeks after the Wii comes out.
So the coffee hitting millions of screens after one particularly funny/. comment or another incident similar to the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident might cause lots of vibrations simultaneously around the world and set of an alarm.
As long as the vulnerabilities aren't disclosed publicy without allowing the developers the chance to decide what to do they should be very happy.
This audit/analysis has tracked down bugs and problems that might have taken a much longer time and much more effort to find. Now developers time can be spent fixing problems instead of finding them (which they should still do, naturally).
He wants to maintain editorial control by academics. To be honest I see a lot of scope for wikibooks as a method for making textbooks as with the quality of some articles in wikipedia it would almost be possible to make a textbook by making an index of select articles.
The problem with this project is the requirement of total academic oversight to do even minor edits. It's gonna make a lot of work. It would be nice to have a method to have externally selected expert administrators to supervise the editing process.
If it's only $10m then maybe the companies that sell GPS systems would pay for it themselves if they care that much about it. It's fair that companies wouldn't be able to fund GPS in its entirety but customers that want extra accuracy should be willing to pay for it.
SA wasn't a big deal to yachtmen as it was accurate enough. It was a much bigger deal for car navigation systems (think parallel roads 50 yards apart and chaos at junctions).
A few days after SA was turned off I went for a walk and the track of my walk showed that I walked down one side of the road and back the other. That's the difference it made and there are plenty of uses of GPS which don't require that (or more accuracy). Some (especially GPS based surveying) require far greater accuracy than even DGPS/WAAS can provide.
Would not actually be hard. Technically you could do it yourself.
Really at it takes is a fixed location GPS (calibrated) hooked up to a server which processes the NMEA data and uploads the correction dynamically.
Windows has a monopoly because it's on every desktop and laptop that isn't sold by Apple. Linux being free isn't a great help to people who've already paid for Windows. The next year will be critical in that regard. With Vista coming in how will the OEM market react.
Are the companies that are making noise about pre-installing Linux doing just so that they can get a better discount from MS? What if they're serious? There's a real advantage to OEMs to never have to pay for software again. At the top of the market it won't be important. Many OEMs will be relying on Vista to sell computers that are powerfull enough to run Aero-Glass. But what about the lower end of the market.
Big PC manufacturers can be bullied into getting bigger discounts on Vista (and Office) which will affect the bottom line. But there's a gap there for smaller manufacturers to undercut at the bottom end (where Vista's features will have less effect anyway) and make a real name for themselves. There's so much outsourcing in PC manufacturing at the moment that someone could come in and get Linux only laptops built by Asustek or someone without MS ever getting a chance to bully them by threatening to withdraw discounts. If someone does this and succeeds (to a reasonable degree) they can present genuine competition at the budget end of the PC market. Other PC manufacturers will be forced to follow suit to remain competitive or get almost 100% discounts from MS. Either way it's a big chance for Linux. Maybe even Linux's big chance. Linux users here on Slashdot should bear that in mind. If they want Linux to replace Windows the best way might be to support these companies selling Linux preinstalled by buying a computer from them (despite the inevitable misgivings there'll be about the distro etc.). That's assuming someone gets enough critical mass for it to become an issue.
Wiki could have a metamod system like slashdot. Interested/willing editors could be randomly shown anonymous (and other) edits to articles on their watchlist and other related articles. They rank the edits. Anonymous IPs (and accounts) where edits were rejected would be subject to closer scrutiny by coming up more often. It would be a really fast way for wiki editors to do a few good edits a day in 5 minutes.
I also think that wiki should do a tutorial/ quiz which shows people examples of proper and improper editing and the best way to respond. Naturally, it would have to be voluntary but it would serve to help editors become more confident about making edits. Perhaps, edits which are repeatly metamodded well could be used as examples of good edits. It would certainly speed up vandalism detection and some people would be very good at double checking lots of minor edits.
Maybe this isn't for the original fans. Maybe this is intended for the current generation of TV viewers who have been groomed on better special effects and for whom the original is absurd and the experience is marred. Sure the untouched Star Wars had more charm and was the version that we all remembered and liked but aside from the Han shooting first it was just compensating for a lower budget and inadequate special effects. People who only saw Star Wars for the 1st time 5 years ago are likely to get a better viewer experience than they otherwise would have because they now expect higher standards for visual effects.
Fans should understand that this is not about them and that it's ok not to like it. If it's done reasonably well we might end up with something better.
The grandparents point was that this sort of system design is designed to keep lusers dumb. That sort of menu structure obstructs people and confuses lusers who try and learn a little about how their system works. The problem is that the assumption is plain wrong. OSX users aren't confused by it. The files are put out of the way but they are were you would look for them.
I always assumed that Microsoft actually used that directory structure to add a thin veneer of security. On Windows 98/ME (and 2000 if configured (in)correctly) you can read other accounts personal files if you navigate that route. Your "my documents" folder is more obviously available and so some people would never spot it. It's also the example I most often use when I am explaining why "security through obsurity" is not necessarily a good thing.
This is a horrible move on IBM's part.
ISS is having its clock cleaned in the market
That just makes ISS cheaper to acquire for IBM. IBM don't have to be especially interested in some of those issues such as forcing customers to buy ISS hardware as they can bundle it instead with IBM solutions. This just makes IBM more vertically integrated. There's a few more things that they are in control of.
There are certain things that just waste time and companies can easily block. Many people I know don't always have easy internet access at home and blocking at work is so prevalent that they can't do things like check email, book flights even where they might only do that rarely. In such instances it's better to have acceptable use policies and control that limit the time spent and allows some light browsing. It's the same a taking personal calls at work. Are you allowed to have a brief chat to organise something such as meeting a friend or should you be locked away from all communication with the outside world and have this affect your personal life.
Some of the things might include checking a weather forecast. Takes 10 seconds but kinda important if you play sports which are dependent on the weather. You can plan around it.
Ramps aren't the only option though. There are stair climbing lifts, wheelchair lifts, elevators etc. Ramps aren't the only option and for certain buildings they are by far the worst option (short of doing nothing).
It would be a grevious mistake to allow yourself to be tied into one option that forces all sorts of changes down the road because it was the most feasible option in the short term. The plugin will give ODF and all the rival office suites a fair crack at beating the M$ market dominance. But even if people choose to stay with M$ at least with ODF they will have a choice.
Short sighted Sony accountant decides that since Big Media division continues to make pile of money and CE division keeps screwing up the Big Media division should get more prominence within company.
They might even put the core 2 duo into the black macbook. I mean having a black laptop and a slightly larger harddrive is nice but some people seem to think that it's not worth $300 more. This would differentiate it a little more.
Actually, that's not right. What they are doing is changing the spec for CSS so that it's possible to download a movie and using special software approved by them burn a DVD legally which has normal DVD DRM.
Presumably, they'd also set the region for you when you download it. This requires new (windows and mac only, probably) software akin to iTunes. The DVD media will be the same and the DVD players won't know the difference (so long as they can play DVD-R or whatever).
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The right to block Spam is important. I hope their executives don't try going over to America any time soon though. If I worked for them I'd be pretty nervous about taking transatlantic flights.
For many people this would be a killer app especially with Apples knack for making it simple and intuitive. I know there are already ways of doing this but they're less well known.
The number of bytes is easier to calculate and is a measure of the amount of information you will be displaying. If anything the number of lines would be a better indicator but that would be more complicated to work out again.
That they aren't writing that anymore signifys a shift in the mainstream medias perception of Linux. Their understanding is still poor but that will come.
Think of this as free advertising for Linux to a market who it is interested in but doesn't normally reach. Interest in Linux drives usage and hence development of Linux and eventually more interest. It's a self reinforcing cycle and it's what will keep Adobe, IBM and Intel interested in working on Linux.
Nintendo have announced that they intend to sell 4 million Wii by the end of the year. Ideally you want a shortage without putting off customers. Especially if you want to sell 4m. Sunday is also good for that. Only 1 day of weekend shopping and before retailers can get their second wind and have a chance to restock.
Having a launch this close to Christmas is really hard on retailers. They have to guess demand and usually you don't get a second chance to get in stock if demand spikes. Retailers are stuck either buying a huge stock and risk having a huge inventory of unsold consoles (losing a fortune in the process) or they might only get a few in and watch helplessly as customers go somewhere else. You never know if those customers (who came to you first) are going to come back.
You made a fair point but it won't be possible to objectively judge until weeks after the Wii comes out.
So the coffee hitting millions of screens after one particularly funny /. comment or another incident similar to the Janet Jackson Superbowl incident might cause lots of vibrations simultaneously around the world and set of an alarm.
This audit/analysis has tracked down bugs and problems that might have taken a much longer time and much more effort to find. Now developers time can be spent fixing problems instead of finding them (which they should still do, naturally).
The Steve doesn't feel that he needs security experts as badly and he's trying to cut down on chairs.
The problem with this project is the requirement of total academic oversight to do even minor edits. It's gonna make a lot of work. It would be nice to have a method to have externally selected expert administrators to supervise the editing process.
Most disputed release? What about Windows ME?
SA wasn't a big deal to yachtmen as it was accurate enough. It was a much bigger deal for car navigation systems (think parallel roads 50 yards apart and chaos at junctions).
A few days after SA was turned off I went for a walk and the track of my walk showed that I walked down one side of the road and back the other. That's the difference it made and there are plenty of uses of GPS which don't require that (or more accuracy). Some (especially GPS based surveying) require far greater accuracy than even DGPS/WAAS can provide.
Would not actually be hard. Technically you could do it yourself. Really at it takes is a fixed location GPS (calibrated) hooked up to a server which processes the NMEA data and uploads the correction dynamically.
Many users don't have the right screen so a cable wouldn't be much use for them. They'll just have to buy a cable when they are buying their screen.
Steve throws a chair.
Are the companies that are making noise about pre-installing Linux doing just so that they can get a better discount from MS? What if they're serious? There's a real advantage to OEMs to never have to pay for software again. At the top of the market it won't be important. Many OEMs will be relying on Vista to sell computers that are powerfull enough to run Aero-Glass. But what about the lower end of the market.
Big PC manufacturers can be bullied into getting bigger discounts on Vista (and Office) which will affect the bottom line. But there's a gap there for smaller manufacturers to undercut at the bottom end (where Vista's features will have less effect anyway) and make a real name for themselves. There's so much outsourcing in PC manufacturing at the moment that someone could come in and get Linux only laptops built by Asustek or someone without MS ever getting a chance to bully them by threatening to withdraw discounts. If someone does this and succeeds (to a reasonable degree) they can present genuine competition at the budget end of the PC market. Other PC manufacturers will be forced to follow suit to remain competitive or get almost 100% discounts from MS. Either way it's a big chance for Linux. Maybe even Linux's big chance. Linux users here on Slashdot should bear that in mind. If they want Linux to replace Windows the best way might be to support these companies selling Linux preinstalled by buying a computer from them (despite the inevitable misgivings there'll be about the distro etc.). That's assuming someone gets enough critical mass for it to become an issue.
I also think that wiki should do a tutorial/ quiz which shows people examples of proper and improper editing and the best way to respond. Naturally, it would have to be voluntary but it would serve to help editors become more confident about making edits. Perhaps, edits which are repeatly metamodded well could be used as examples of good edits. It would certainly speed up vandalism detection and some people would be very good at double checking lots of minor edits.
Fans should understand that this is not about them and that it's ok not to like it. If it's done reasonably well we might end up with something better.
I always assumed that Microsoft actually used that directory structure to add a thin veneer of security. On Windows 98/ME (and 2000 if configured (in)correctly) you can read other accounts personal files if you navigate that route. Your "my documents" folder is more obviously available and so some people would never spot it. It's also the example I most often use when I am explaining why "security through obsurity" is not necessarily a good thing.
That just makes ISS cheaper to acquire for IBM. IBM don't have to be especially interested in some of those issues such as forcing customers to buy ISS hardware as they can bundle it instead with IBM solutions. This just makes IBM more vertically integrated. There's a few more things that they are in control of.
Some of the things might include checking a weather forecast. Takes 10 seconds but kinda important if you play sports which are dependent on the weather. You can plan around it.
It would be a grevious mistake to allow yourself to be tied into one option that forces all sorts of changes down the road because it was the most feasible option in the short term. The plugin will give ODF and all the rival office suites a fair crack at beating the M$ market dominance. But even if people choose to stay with M$ at least with ODF they will have a choice.
Short sighted Sony accountant decides that since Big Media division continues to make pile of money and CE division keeps screwing up the Big Media division should get more prominence within company.
They might even put the core 2 duo into the black macbook. I mean having a black laptop and a slightly larger harddrive is nice but some people seem to think that it's not worth $300 more. This would differentiate it a little more.
Presumably, they'd also set the region for you when you download it. This requires new (windows and mac only, probably) software akin to iTunes. The DVD media will be the same and the DVD players won't know the difference (so long as they can play DVD-R or whatever).