Wellll my problem isnt that ms owns skype now, but rather that they just introduced the patent to evesdrop on skype calls. I prefer my elective representatives use stronger security but hey what do i know?
The lesson here is that no one in enterprise (what ever the hell that is) should build anything that is dependent on a single version number.... Did we learn nothing in the IE6 debacle.
Yeah, we learned to keep track of the major version of the browser we're coding for.
The big problem with modern stealth planes is that they may be invisible to radar, but they make a distinctive rumbling sound when they fly by. They way they deal with this now is they scientifically pinpoint where the sound is statistically likely to be heard, then they'll place a man on the ground to hold out his hand and say "Sounds like rain!"
The problem is the spread-out nature of the event diminishes the perceived impact.
This statement supports my point. If all of the car crashes in the space of a year happened in one day the damage would be greater than it currently is where everything is spread out.
The severity of those big events aren't reduced by the size of the time-line. They're compounded by compressing them all together into one big event. That sort of situation is always going to be worse than dealing with the small percentage of loss we deal with just by getting out of bed every morning.
We are VERY bad at judging risk at timescales other than the immediate.
No we're not, we just recognize the importance of going after the low-hanging fruit. We're also smart enough to diversify our efforts so both issues are actually being actively addressed, even if not successfully.
But somehow we feel we should have our genitals groped on the off chance there might be a non-savoury passenger aboard. Even when the drive to the airport is several orders of magnitude more dangerous.
We are a stupid lot, really.
Look, I agree that the TSA's approach isn't working out. But if we're going to discuss stupidity, we should at least do it fairly: Those car crashes do not equal the damage done by 9-11. Everybody was affected by that event, not just those directly involved in the crashes. Remember the massive bouts of unemployment that lasted something like 2 years? It's also worth noting that though the death toll was around 3,000, they were aiming for more than 50,000. We were very lucky the count was that low.
They release an "upgrade" that degrades performance on older phones. People update because of the new features but soon decide it is too slow for their taste and try to downgraded back to when it was ok.
Probably, any company would smile at that prospect. I think it's more likely that Apple's been keeping an eye on what's been happening with the PSP and are trying to stay ahead of those trying to jailbreak their products. There are people who have their PSPs at a certain version of the firmware and won't go past it. That means no buying of new PSP games since they often require the newest version available at the time of their release.
Interesting headline. I was trying to figure out how old-school manual construction work would be responsible for tricky power supply problems on Linux machines only.
It speaks about how even low IQ people crave for the single most innovative and powerful device thats bound to rewrite the complete history of computational devices. Obama farts? It's news if he have an iPad in his hand in the moment. Nuclear power plant flooding, is not news because nuclear power plants don't make/use iPads. Get with the program.
It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY. Then you have to go through the scanner, so you're separated from your goods for a bit. I'm all for poo-poo'ing an obvious appeal to fanboism for link-bait, but you don't really think that's something important to know?
Okay, here's how it matters for iPad owners:
- You'll lose sight of it. - Activate the 'find' feature. - Don't go to airplane mode until you're on the flight.
And for non iPad owners, but owners of other tablets or laptops...
- You'll lose sight of your gadget. - Encrypt your device. - You should see if there's a built in GPS that can phone home.
Again, I'm annoyed with Slashdot's use of Apple stories to serve ads, but I just flew recently and I think there's definitely a lot of 'it matters' here to discuss. I'm lucky in that my iPad didn't walk away from me during the security screening. I wasn't too worried about it because it's the cellular version and I have the 'find me' option activated on it. I didn't realize this until this article came about, but I put the iPad on Airplane Mode before we went through security. That was dumb Dumb DUMB of me! The 'find me' option wouldn't work!
All this story has encouraged is for people, like me, to question why it is here. Especially when we are only a single major bug away from a beta 3 or beta 4.
This is madness!
Yeah it's definitely far less sensible than stories like: "Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39"
Well, for starters, Apple would have to license using a magnet on their connector from a company that makes kitchen wares. Every other product you'd buy would be the result of lots of seemingly unrelated patents getting licensed.
Broad patents are bad, mmkay. That's why 'on a computer' is patentable. If you think software shouldn't be patented, fine, I don't give a shit, but you should be happy 'on a computer' is enough to be considered non-infringing or you'd really see a grinding halt to innovation.
You must have been away from other manufacturers for a while. Sony, Lenovo, etc. bricks are gettin' real small.
You are right, it has been a couple of years. So what are the dimensions of these? I'm looking around on Lenovo's site and cannot find the dimensions on the power brick.
DTS-HD on Blu-Ray offers bit rates up to 24.5 mbps, at least in theory, which is significantly faster than my ~5mbps "broadband" connection and faster than the 10+ mbits you mention.
It's also using a codec that is not as efficient and is quicker to encode than you'd use on the internet. It's like claiming a delivery by train can only go so fast because of speed limits on the highways.
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Who are the blackmailers? Do you mean another gov't agency, or do you mean the mob or something...?
After all, there's no way most games in the Market take over a week to beat, so this would essentially be giving free video games to Taiwan.
Has this ever happened before, or is it just assumed that it will happen?
Wellll my problem isnt that ms owns skype now, but rather that they just introduced the patent to evesdrop on skype calls. I prefer my elective representatives use stronger security but hey what do i know?
Isn't that the opposite of transparency?
The lesson here is that no one in enterprise (what ever the hell that is) should build anything that is dependent on a single version number.... Did we learn nothing in the IE6 debacle.
Yeah, we learned to keep track of the major version of the browser we're coding for.
I am extremely disappointed to read this. They want us to pay full price for what they've intentionally designed to be a rental?
*sigh* ... and I'm a Nintendo fanboy, too.
He's just a dentist, probably just checking out our gravities.
Wow. Ten years ago, this comment here on Slashdot would have been argued to death. "CROSS PLATFORM CROSS PLATFORM!!"
I agree with you by the way, I just remember all the fuss back then.
Blackberries have the "air" of being business-y and important, making the user some kind of nobility...
I would have used the word 'heir'. Blackberries feel old.
The big problem with modern stealth planes is that they may be invisible to radar, but they make a distinctive rumbling sound when they fly by. They way they deal with this now is they scientifically pinpoint where the sound is statistically likely to be heard, then they'll place a man on the ground to hold out his hand and say "Sounds like rain!"
The problem is the spread-out nature of the event diminishes the perceived impact.
This statement supports my point. If all of the car crashes in the space of a year happened in one day the damage would be greater than it currently is where everything is spread out.
The severity of those big events aren't reduced by the size of the time-line. They're compounded by compressing them all together into one big event. That sort of situation is always going to be worse than dealing with the small percentage of loss we deal with just by getting out of bed every morning.
We are VERY bad at judging risk at timescales other than the immediate.
No we're not, we just recognize the importance of going after the low-hanging fruit. We're also smart enough to diversify our efforts so both issues are actually being actively addressed, even if not successfully.
But somehow we feel we should have our genitals groped on the off chance there might be a non-savoury passenger aboard. Even when the drive to the airport is several orders of magnitude more dangerous.
We are a stupid lot, really.
Look, I agree that the TSA's approach isn't working out. But if we're going to discuss stupidity, we should at least do it fairly: Those car crashes do not equal the damage done by 9-11. Everybody was affected by that event, not just those directly involved in the crashes. Remember the massive bouts of unemployment that lasted something like 2 years? It's also worth noting that though the death toll was around 3,000, they were aiming for more than 50,000. We were very lucky the count was that low.
Beaten up for scaring the shit out of everybody on a plane.
FTFY.
They release an "upgrade" that degrades performance on older phones. People update because of the new features but soon decide it is too slow for their taste and try to downgraded back to when it was ok.
Probably, any company would smile at that prospect. I think it's more likely that Apple's been keeping an eye on what's been happening with the PSP and are trying to stay ahead of those trying to jailbreak their products. There are people who have their PSPs at a certain version of the firmware and won't go past it. That means no buying of new PSP games since they often require the newest version available at the time of their release.
Interesting headline. I was trying to figure out how old-school manual construction work would be responsible for tricky power supply problems on Linux machines only.
Do you have trouble using contractions, too?
No doubt you're right, but I'm not confident the people they hire to run those checkpoints are fully up to speed.
Heh I thought you were going to recommend a chiropractic adjustment for a moment there.
It speaks about how even low IQ people crave for the single most innovative and powerful device thats bound to rewrite the complete history of computational devices. Obama farts? It's news if he have an iPad in his hand in the moment. Nuclear power plant flooding, is not news because nuclear power plants don't make/use iPads. Get with the program.
It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY. Then you have to go through the scanner, so you're separated from your goods for a bit. I'm all for poo-poo'ing an obvious appeal to fanboism for link-bait, but you don't really think that's something important to know?
Okay, here's how it matters for iPad owners:
- You'll lose sight of it.
- Activate the 'find' feature.
- Don't go to airplane mode until you're on the flight.
And for non iPad owners, but owners of other tablets or laptops...
- You'll lose sight of your gadget.
- Encrypt your device.
- You should see if there's a built in GPS that can phone home.
Again, I'm annoyed with Slashdot's use of Apple stories to serve ads, but I just flew recently and I think there's definitely a lot of 'it matters' here to discuss. I'm lucky in that my iPad didn't walk away from me during the security screening. I wasn't too worried about it because it's the cellular version and I have the 'find me' option activated on it. I didn't realize this until this article came about, but I put the iPad on Airplane Mode before we went through security. That was dumb Dumb DUMB of me! The 'find me' option wouldn't work!
This thread could easily be salvaged.
I think it's an Eddie Murphy routine.
All this story has encouraged is for people, like me, to question why it is here. Especially when we are only a single major bug away from a beta 3 or beta 4.
This is madness!
Yeah it's definitely far less sensible than stories like: "Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39"
They'll also be driving in the right lane.
Well, for starters, Apple would have to license using a magnet on their connector from a company that makes kitchen wares. Every other product you'd buy would be the result of lots of seemingly unrelated patents getting licensed.
Broad patents are bad, mmkay. That's why 'on a computer' is patentable. If you think software shouldn't be patented, fine, I don't give a shit, but you should be happy 'on a computer' is enough to be considered non-infringing or you'd really see a grinding halt to innovation.
You must have been away from other manufacturers for a while. Sony, Lenovo, etc. bricks are gettin' real small.
You are right, it has been a couple of years. So what are the dimensions of these? I'm looking around on Lenovo's site and cannot find the dimensions on the power brick.
I will begrudgingly admit that the Apple magnetic power connection is vastly superior. But it's the only Apple feature I covet!
What about how small the Apple power brick is?
Innovation = adding 3 words
You'd rather the patent be so broad that those 3 words didn't make a difference?
DTS-HD on Blu-Ray offers bit rates up to 24.5 mbps, at least in theory, which is significantly faster than my ~5mbps "broadband" connection and faster than the 10+ mbits you mention.
It's also using a codec that is not as efficient and is quicker to encode than you'd use on the internet. It's like claiming a delivery by train can only go so fast because of speed limits on the highways.