The whole idea of "long distance" went away with the net. Since then, it's just been phone companies that have gotten in the way of progress. Internet == phone. Will happen soon. Why not yet? Pigopoly.
Looks like the teasing from the CEO of CRM got microsoft in a squeeze. Subscription this, subscription that. People aren't going to be too warm and fuzzy to the idea of having to pay continuous fees just to listen to music. I mean, a lot of music you just listen to off and on, and paying over and over again just seems absurd.
Electricity, water, resources that have fixed, continuous costs, that makes sense in the consumer's eye....but software? Music? Digital stuff with practically zero reproduction cost? This is what drives people to piracy...they can't visualize the need for software et al to have continuous fees...it feels like extortion.
Despite how justified/neat business model it may be, that's what the average person deep down thinks. RIAA et al do not understand this. MSFT seems to have followed the same path.
AMD's share price went up 15% AH in response to the news of Dell using their chips in their servers. How this is not connected to the topic, I do not know.
Developers are tired of having to reinvent the wheel every time with dynamic components on web pages, and things like PEAR do not have all their component lib. in one centralized location like this. A developer framework for AJAX is definitely a revolutionary. It marks the move toward using web-based platforms for a greater and greater percentage of common computing functions.
see, this is the problem here. Why the delay? The vast majority of people I've talked to have this fallactious attitude of "if you're doing nothing wrong, then you've got nothing to hide." Well, what about the government, then? If they're doing nothing wrong, they've got nothing to hide, dammit! Why all this secrecy? Why do things like wiretapping have to be uncovered by whistleblowers? Why can't there be open discussion and debate instead of groupthink clusterfuck mind-control censorship?
The people who quickly dismiss alternative theories are just as bad as those who believe the government is hiding aliens in the neighborhood playground.
These videos prove nothing and spark controversy. There still is no "airplane" in the video, it could just as easily be a missile. A well-painted, high-speed object flying 20 feet above you could easily be mistaken for an airliner. And if it was an airliner, how the hell did it fly so low without ground force turbulence causing it to slam into the ground? This was either the greatest stroke of luck or a plot much more carefully planned than most people want to believe. And no, it is difficult to believe that someone could hijack an aircraft with NO ONE out of the many passengers taking him down, steer the thing like a fighter jet (research the flight path if you want, the bank is EXTREMELY steep), stabilize it 20-50 feet above the ground while SIMULTANEOUSLY compensating for the ground effect turbulence, to pilot it in a straight line into the pentagon.
This is not to say it was government plotted; that is over-complicating the issue. It could be, but there is not enough definitive evidence for that. I just think there are more players at hand here. Quite possibly there is blood on far more hands than the "al qaida" terrorist group.
All in all, this (and past) administration's excessive secrecy does not lent credence to them.
Lots of chicken little stuff going on around here. I think people have to stop assigning blame to a part or system, saying the system is wrong, when it is the people who are wrong.
People kill people, people make companies go from $80 to $0.60.
Well, for one thing, high power consumption results in a lot of wattage dumping into the room. It also runs up the electricity bill. It demands beefier PSUs, which must be larger. Larger PCs take up more room, which may not be a problem, but may be, especially in smaller abodes. High power output also creates thermal hazard problems, as real as cooling failure resulting in components melting and catching on fire, etc.
Right now, Athlon 64 X2s wipe the floor with P-Ds, in both power consumption and performance. Why settle for less? I've got a 3800+ X2 @ 2.4GHz and it consumes very little power for such an amazingly fast chip. It runs off a 220W PSU in a low-profile case with no problems, fan speed on half. A Pentium D would struggle with such a setup, that I know for sure.
A conroe (Core 2) may wipe the floor with AMD. In fact, it probably will. But you know what? That's good, it pressures AMD into releasing K9/reverse SMT chips sooner. A little competition never hurt anyone.
$60 dual core chips? Sooner than you might think...
This is the problem with FOSS, lack of direction. People need to realize that x branch of y software should have some interoperability and backwards compatability. Various immaturities such as "OMG HOW DARE YOU IMPLEMENT NON-FOSS INTO LINUX LOL!!!!111" and "BINARY DRIVERS ARE TEH SUXOR" will just get more major (and minor) players detracted from linux. If you need to rely on a system, you want to see a solid, unified front, not a disorganized group of hippies hellbent on an idealogy. Compromise is the best and only solution in today's world. That's why Linus will be remembered and Stallman will pass into obscurity.
Simple concept. it's easier to display x number of icons in y screen area by projecting them into "space." In fact, this is probably what should be done first (keep the explorer/konqueror windows/desktop/etc) and just add three-dimensional iconing to them.
Taking AP Comp in high school, combined with strict english teachers, is what does the trick. Of course, I took AP comp, and had strict english teachers...
Why is this modded offtopic? The constitution is almost a urinal cake already. The government just wants more justification for intrusion into everyone's lives - the real crooks will continue to use throwaway cell phones and ad-hoc voip protocols.
Have you ever actually tried wireless inside a reasonably well built home? Quality at times is terrible. Oh, these are american homes with their hollow walls. Never mind.
PS - I own the patent on RFID-in-the-finger-ring-to-open-doors-and-start-ca r-engines.
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The whole idea of "long distance" went away with the net. Since then, it's just been phone companies that have gotten in the way of progress. Internet == phone. Will happen soon. Why not yet? Pigopoly.
Looks like the teasing from the CEO of CRM got microsoft in a squeeze. Subscription this, subscription that. People aren't going to be too warm and fuzzy to the idea of having to pay continuous fees just to listen to music. I mean, a lot of music you just listen to off and on, and paying over and over again just seems absurd.
Electricity, water, resources that have fixed, continuous costs, that makes sense in the consumer's eye....but software? Music? Digital stuff with practically zero reproduction cost? This is what drives people to piracy...they can't visualize the need for software et al to have continuous fees...it feels like extortion.
Despite how justified/neat business model it may be, that's what the average person deep down thinks. RIAA et al do not understand this. MSFT seems to have followed the same path.
Article, -1, Troll. Sensationalist title.
Microsoft -5, Troll. Trolling all along.
Person who mods this down, head bashed in.
AMD's share price went up 15% AH in response to the news of Dell using their chips in their servers. How this is not connected to the topic, I do not know.
I dumped my shares and they're up 15% after hours. Dammit!
Yeah, same here. Ran SuSE 8.1 real snappy with KDE. Much better graphics than WinXP and much more responsive.
"Linux can run perfectly fine on 256MB with old AGP and a K6/2, sir."
Future Windows memory requirements are measured in chairs....
Developers are tired of having to reinvent the wheel every time with dynamic components on web pages, and things like PEAR do not have all their component lib. in one centralized location like this. A developer framework for AJAX is definitely a revolutionary. It marks the move toward using web-based platforms for a greater and greater percentage of common computing functions.
see, this is the problem here. Why the delay? The vast majority of people I've talked to have this fallactious attitude of "if you're doing nothing wrong, then you've got nothing to hide." Well, what about the government, then? If they're doing nothing wrong, they've got nothing to hide, dammit! Why all this secrecy? Why do things like wiretapping have to be uncovered by whistleblowers? Why can't there be open discussion and debate instead of groupthink clusterfuck mind-control censorship?
The people who quickly dismiss alternative theories are just as bad as those who believe the government is hiding aliens in the neighborhood playground.
These videos prove nothing and spark controversy. There still is no "airplane" in the video, it could just as easily be a missile. A well-painted, high-speed object flying 20 feet above you could easily be mistaken for an airliner. And if it was an airliner, how the hell did it fly so low without ground force turbulence causing it to slam into the ground? This was either the greatest stroke of luck or a plot much more carefully planned than most people want to believe. And no, it is difficult to believe that someone could hijack an aircraft with NO ONE out of the many passengers taking him down, steer the thing like a fighter jet (research the flight path if you want, the bank is EXTREMELY steep), stabilize it 20-50 feet above the ground while SIMULTANEOUSLY compensating for the ground effect turbulence, to pilot it in a straight line into the pentagon.
This is not to say it was government plotted; that is over-complicating the issue. It could be, but there is not enough definitive evidence for that. I just think there are more players at hand here. Quite possibly there is blood on far more hands than the "al qaida" terrorist group.
All in all, this (and past) administration's excessive secrecy does not lent credence to them.
aye mate let's head to china to see how it's really done now eh?
Nuff said.
Course it'd be nice if the JVM were a little easier to install on linux...and getting it to work with the browser didn't require a million hacks..
Lots of chicken little stuff going on around here. I think people have to stop assigning blame to a part or system, saying the system is wrong, when it is the people who are wrong.
People kill people, people make companies go from $80 to $0.60.
e-nabomber?
What do you live in, the 80s? The disks in this clunk de munk run at 7200
Well, for one thing, high power consumption results in a lot of wattage dumping into the room. It also runs up the electricity bill. It demands beefier PSUs, which must be larger. Larger PCs take up more room, which may not be a problem, but may be, especially in smaller abodes. High power output also creates thermal hazard problems, as real as cooling failure resulting in components melting and catching on fire, etc.
Right now, Athlon 64 X2s wipe the floor with P-Ds, in both power consumption and performance. Why settle for less? I've got a 3800+ X2 @ 2.4GHz and it consumes very little power for such an amazingly fast chip. It runs off a 220W PSU in a low-profile case with no problems, fan speed on half. A Pentium D would struggle with such a setup, that I know for sure.
A conroe (Core 2) may wipe the floor with AMD. In fact, it probably will. But you know what? That's good, it pressures AMD into releasing K9/reverse SMT chips sooner. A little competition never hurt anyone.
$60 dual core chips? Sooner than you might think...
FreeBSD 6.1 is slashdotted
This is the problem with FOSS, lack of direction. People need to realize that x branch of y software should have some interoperability and backwards compatability. Various immaturities such as "OMG HOW DARE YOU IMPLEMENT NON-FOSS INTO LINUX LOL!!!!111" and "BINARY DRIVERS ARE TEH SUXOR" will just get more major (and minor) players detracted from linux. If you need to rely on a system, you want to see a solid, unified front, not a disorganized group of hippies hellbent on an idealogy. Compromise is the best and only solution in today's world. That's why Linus will be remembered and Stallman will pass into obscurity.
Simple concept. it's easier to display x number of icons in y screen area by projecting them into "space." In fact, this is probably what should be done first (keep the explorer/konqueror windows /desktop /etc) and just add three-dimensional iconing to them.
developing a craft that can go to mars more than 40 years after we made it to the moon?
Taking AP Comp in high school, combined with strict english teachers, is what does the trick. Of course, I took AP comp, and had strict english teachers...
The real world and the slashdot world differ, sometimes radically.
Why is this modded offtopic? The constitution is almost a urinal cake already. The government just wants more justification for intrusion into everyone's lives - the real crooks will continue to use throwaway cell phones and ad-hoc voip protocols.
Have you ever actually tried wireless inside a reasonably well built home? Quality at times is terrible. Oh, these are american homes with their hollow walls. Never mind.
Since superman wears panties already, I don't see why they needed ladies for him
Sorry, our corporate holdings department has determined that patent no. 9,323,322,155,423, "RFID-in-the-finger-ring-to-open-doors-and-start-c ar-engines-no-space-between-the-a-and-r" has been already registered. Please contact us immediately before implementing a solution or we may or may not have to take legal action against you.