That's the same has having your lab linux machines pointing at a departmental.deb repositry, and then saying but what happens if my apt server fucks up?
I just ported DoomIII to my favourtie PC, the Acorn BBC B.
Turns out that the BBC B is one shitty piece of hardware, i wouldn't recommend anyone buy one. After hours of work getting DoomIII to run in 32K of ram, it only ran at 0.000003FPS!
I don't know why they even bothered putting that machine on the production line, they must have known the performance was going to be terrible
In fact some fella says the opposite, the banks are now not accepting responsibility for fraud using the old magnetic strip terminals:
"The increased protection from fraud has allowed banks and credit card issuers to push through a 'liability shift' such that merchants are now liable (as from 1 January 2005) for any fraud that results from non-EMV transactions on their systems."
However, in the UK at least, this changes with chip & pin. If someone shoulder-surfs your PIN, pickpockets your card, and spends money on your card, the bank now says it's YOUR responsibility.
I'd find that very surprising, where do you get your information from?
New Zealand has used pins for point of sale transactions for 20 years (and the transactions are instant! They don't take 3 days like in the UK) and shoulder surfing has never been much of a problem and i've never heard of the customer being held responsible
MS doesn't offshore much, if you look at the proportion of MS employees based in the US, and you look at the proportion of MS sales revenue that comes from non-US, i think you will see that actually, the rest of the commercial world is on-shoring it's software development to the US.
No. There is no such thing as "raw digital signals through copper"
Copper is a real world phenomenon and is therfore analog. We encode digital data into voltages and waveforms sent through the copper.
lets say the limit of 100 mbit ethernet over cat5 cable is 100m, after that point the analog signal has degraded to the point that we cannot for instance tell a 1v signal from a 5v signal.
But, you've got to go 200m!!!
Run 100m of cable. Plug the cable into an old 486.
You are only going 100m so you are still within safe limits.
Run another 100m of cable to your end point and plug it into a 2nd ethernet card in the 486.
You can reach the 486 from either end of the 200m.
tell the 486 to bridge the two networks, bingo! you can now transmit 200m via the 486.
Note they are saying how these things can be submerged or stuck on the top of a pole, very handy if you are employing this mechanism across existing POTS copper pairs which will be underground or on top of telegraph poles.
What makes this newsworthy is that they have developed a way to put an OS, applications, and datafiles all together on one portable device.
Yeah amazing! One day though they will come out with portable "optical discs" with holes in the middle that you can store all your data and applications on. Word has it the going term in research circles is "versatile discs". Further down the road are magnetic hard drives so small you can take them with you in your briefcase.
Once these developments become commercially viable this "iPod/Soul" scheme will appear absolutely jurassic.
PS. You can boot any apple mac off an ipod to run your "soul" on any old persons apple PC.
I doubt the networking was broken, that's easy to setup.
More likely the problem was they couldn't "access" their star office based paperwork from *any* police station because the other 95% of police stations PCs would have office and windows which can't open staroffice files.
The top gear isn't necessarily the most fuel efficient.
Remember it's not just how many revolutions the crankshaft is making, but also how much fuel per revolution is being put in (how far the accelerator is depressed)
It all depends on what type of car you drive, in a small light aerodynamic car, as you go faster, the point at which the extra power needed to push air out of the way is greater than the extra efficiency gained by going further for a fixed amount of power required to overcome the engines friction is a much higher speed than that of a large heavy american style car.
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DRM != x86
DRM is just as easy to incorporate into a MIPS based machine as a intel one.
IBM is a big player in the DRM world, a founding member of trusted computing etc etc apple did not need to switch to intel CPUs to get DRM.
So, size doesn't matter to you, but you don't want to use a case because it adds too much bulk?
He's already got a server to do autoupdates.
.deb repositry, and then saying but what happens if my apt server fucks up?
He's asking but what if i can't do updates?
That's the same has having your lab linux machines pointing at a departmental
and there's no support for their cards on linux (offical or Xfree).
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I just ported DoomIII to my favourtie PC, the Acorn BBC B.
Turns out that the BBC B is one shitty piece of hardware, i wouldn't recommend anyone buy one. After hours of work getting DoomIII to run in 32K of ram, it only ran at 0.000003FPS!
I don't know why they even bothered putting that machine on the production line, they must have known the performance was going to be terrible
And what if the power supply fuzzes out?
And what if a ram chip goes faulty?
What if a capacitor on the motherboard starts leaking?
Just get two of the damn things, place them in seperate data centers, and round robin them if search is a critical feature.
and use its' when it's possesive
john's coming to get johns' hat
In fact some fella says the opposite, the banks are now not accepting responsibility for fraud using the old magnetic strip terminals:
"The increased protection from fraud has allowed banks and credit card issuers to push through a 'liability shift' such that merchants are now liable (as from 1 January 2005) for any fraud that results from non-EMV transactions on their systems."
However, in the UK at least, this changes with chip & pin. If someone shoulder-surfs your PIN, pickpockets your card, and spends money on your card, the bank now says it's YOUR responsibility.
I'd find that very surprising, where do you get your information from?
New Zealand has used pins for point of sale transactions for 20 years (and the transactions are instant! They don't take 3 days like in the UK) and shoulder surfing has never been much of a problem and i've never heard of the customer being held responsible
I value mine at about $10.
Spend more than $10 on me and you'd be better off spending the money on vaccinations saving 10 peoples lives.
If you think $10 isn't much consider that i am saying my life is worth 10x a poor persons life
Prior Art
I knew this article would eventually make it to slashdot after i saw the rare mention of the GIMP in mainstream media...
offshoring???
MS doesn't offshore much, if you look at the proportion of MS employees based in the US, and you look at the proportion of MS sales revenue that comes from non-US, i think you will see that actually, the rest of the commercial world is on-shoring it's software development to the US.
No need for an encyclopedia to explain the concept.
It's simply another term for "word of mouth".
Google's IM client (if there is going to be one)
what do you mean "if there is going to be one"
go to talk.google.com and download the client
strongarmed = doing what their majority shareholder tells them to do
No. There is no such thing as "raw digital signals through copper"
Copper is a real world phenomenon and is therfore analog. We encode digital data into voltages and waveforms sent through the copper.
lets say the limit of 100 mbit ethernet over cat5 cable is 100m, after that point the analog signal has degraded to the point that we cannot for instance tell a 1v signal from a 5v signal.
But, you've got to go 200m!!!
Run 100m of cable. Plug the cable into an old 486.
You are only going 100m so you are still within safe limits.
Run another 100m of cable to your end point and plug it into a 2nd ethernet card in the 486.
You can reach the 486 from either end of the 200m.
tell the 486 to bridge the two networks, bingo! you can now transmit 200m via the 486.
Note they are saying how these things can be submerged or stuck on the top of a pole, very handy if you are employing this mechanism across existing POTS copper pairs which will be underground or on top of telegraph poles.
What makes this newsworthy is that they have developed a way to put an OS, applications, and datafiles all together on one portable device.
Yeah amazing! One day though they will come out with portable "optical discs" with holes in the middle that you can store all your data and applications on. Word has it the going term in research circles is "versatile discs". Further down the road are magnetic hard drives so small you can take them with you in your briefcase.
Once these developments become commercially viable this "iPod/Soul" scheme will appear absolutely jurassic.
PS. You can boot any apple mac off an ipod to run your "soul" on any old persons apple PC.
"Microsoft's next generation console, the Xbox 360, will cost $299 (£209) when it goes on sale at Christmas."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4160076.stm
299.00 USD = 165.302 GBP = 26% markup in UK
BUT, US price is excluding sales tax?
UK VAT = 17.5% so they are only ripping off UK customers by 8.5%
Well, let's just say one that couldn't be duplicated with a little bit of effort using open standards and free software.
It's not the one little feature that's missing. It's the 10,000 little features that are missing.
Each easy to implement on it's own, but together it's a huge hurdle.
I doubt the networking was broken, that's easy to setup.
More likely the problem was they couldn't "access" their star office based paperwork from *any* police station because the other 95% of police stations PCs would have office and windows which can't open staroffice files.
Retail for £100? Where do you shop?
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£31 incl VAT http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.htm
£32 incl VAT
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/networki
£28 incl VAT
http://www.macwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/DLWL
is going 110 on the motorway in new zealand worse than going 110 on the motorway in australia (or france)?
Wrong and Right
The top gear isn't necessarily the most fuel efficient.
Remember it's not just how many revolutions the crankshaft is making, but also how much fuel per revolution is being put in (how far the accelerator is depressed)
It all depends on what type of car you drive, in a small light aerodynamic car, as you go faster, the point at which the extra power needed to push air out of the way is greater than the extra efficiency gained by going further for a fixed amount of power required to overcome the engines friction is a much higher speed than that of a large heavy american style car.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question477.htm
Georgia got rid of it's traffic police in 2003 also
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