"ITworld reports that the U.S. Commerce Department will retain ICANN oversight for three more years, although there will be a review in 18 months of ICANN's progress toward becoming a more stable, transparent and accountable organization.
I'm sorry, but when has the US Government *ever* had a hand in something that turned into a stable, transparent and accountable organization?
Despite everything AM2 had going for it, this includes a dedicated enthusiast base and a tremendous amount of pro-AMD spirit at the time, the new platform has largely been dismissed by consumers. The question now is, what happened? How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?
well, the article itself answers this question in the first paragraph:
The disappointment in AM2 is not a result of its failure to perform, but rather the failure to match the performance gains seen in the move to the K8 platform. Our testing has confirmed what the industry at large has found to be true- the move to AM2 should bring performance gains of about 3-10% when compared to socket 939, with an average increase below 5%. This is what we would comfortably call an "incremental" performance boost, but nothing more.
Where Amazon's normal customer service seems to be run by suspiciously cheerful MBAs from Stanford, who break off from counting their stock options to write apologies and deliver refunds, 'Amazon Advantage', the ironically named system for selling wares, is clearly based on the last days of the Soviet system.
well, with any service, there are going to be different tiers depending on what sort of customer you are. Obviously, direct Amazon customers get the top-level customer service. However, it doesn't make economic sense for Amazon to provide that same-level service for customers of a low-volume third-party-vendor selling their goods on an Amazon storefront.
I'm not saying it's "right", I'm just saying it makes sense.
Among online dating members, "marital status" and "wants children" are the two most influential characteristics to match.
Uhh, yeah. I'm going to guess that the phrase "wants children" means something different, depending on whether you're on a dating site, or on alt.sex.lolita. Yes?
It would be great, if, say, someone had done a video card shootout, and included onboard video as a control group. Then you could link to it to support your statement.
Instead of wowing their audience with in-depth benchmarks they head right for what someone reading a review really wants, an opinion of the best bang for the buck.
What they missed though, was a comparison of all of those with at least one average on-board video implementation. Most of which nowadays are pretty damn good. (at least for things like Warcraft III, starcraft, non-bleeding-edge FPS games, etc). To really gauge "bang-for-buck", you need to measure against spending no extra money at all.
What comptuers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called 'information extraction' and is used for sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security.
Yeah, because we need AT&T giving wide-scale, undocumented wiretaps to the NSA, who use voice recognition to generate transcripts of everyone's phone calls, and then DHS can run NLP on those transcripts to compile a list of "persons of interest", who are then automatically added to the TSA no-fly lists.
Yeah, I can envision the future, and the future sucks.
In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.
You *know* the Army's thinking behind this is to regenerate their limbs so they can just send them back to war.
Yep. Too bad, once they actually had Bin Laden cornered, Clinton decided not to do anything because he was afraid that it would look like we was trying to distract the nation from his sexual indescretions.
Yeah, just what we need. A website where five-year-olds can post drunk pictures of themselves. But now that you mention it, Pete Townshend might be into that.
It's hilarious, because not only does Clinton attempt a diplomatic answer, but when Chris Wallace won't let it go and birddogs him, Clinton completely pwns Wallace, then goes back on topic.
European scientists indicated their shock as they noted a ship could sail from Europe's northern-most outpost directly to the pole, something that hasn't been possible during most of recorded human history.
Now look, I've seen quite a few movies where they go straight to the pole. No dialogue, nothing. Seriously.
Three engineering students from Cambridge University plan to send an unmanned craft into space for £1,000 ($1,880)
They should hook up with that teenager who was building a nuclear reactor in his backyard.
Garcia, a VP with the Information Technology Association of America, will try to resuscitate DHS's flagging efforts to formulate a response plan should the nation's key digital assets come under concerted attack or crumble due to some catastrophic failure.
Will academic institutions learn to deal with this new reality? It sounds a little dubious from this professor's viewpoint.
Perhaps it's time that the academic institutions came to terms with the information society that we live in, and reassessed their teaching methods. Technology is progressing; you can't rely on static schema for distributing information when the main modes for distributing that information are in such dramatic flux.
Slashdot Mirror
Yahoo has announced it will give away the browser-based authentication used in its email service, considered to be the company's 'crown jewels.'
If that's one of their 'crown jewels', would their hosting service be considered the "family jewels"?
The Zune isn't just a music player, the article argues. Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace.
You mean it looks like crap and is completely inane? I'll pass, thanks.
"ITworld reports that the U.S. Commerce Department will retain ICANN oversight for three more years, although there will be a review in 18 months of ICANN's progress toward becoming a more stable, transparent and accountable organization.
I'm sorry, but when has the US Government *ever* had a hand in something that turned into a stable, transparent and accountable organization?
Yeah, the lack of true 16-bit and 24-bit support in GIF would never have spurred the development of something better. Try again.
I'm not saying it wouldn't have ever happened. I'm saying we wouldn't have it TODAY.
As lame as this whole thing was, if it hadn't happened, we wouldn't have the PNG standard today.
Despite everything AM2 had going for it, this includes a dedicated enthusiast base and a tremendous amount of pro-AMD spirit at the time, the new platform has largely been dismissed by consumers. The question now is, what happened? How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?
well, the article itself answers this question in the first paragraph:
The disappointment in AM2 is not a result of its failure to perform, but rather the failure to match the performance gains seen in the move to the K8 platform. Our testing has confirmed what the industry at large has found to be true- the move to AM2 should bring performance gains of about 3-10% when compared to socket 939, with an average increase below 5%. This is what we would comfortably call an "incremental" performance boost, but nothing more.
Where Amazon's normal customer service seems to be run by suspiciously cheerful MBAs from Stanford, who break off from counting their stock options to write apologies and deliver refunds, 'Amazon Advantage', the ironically named system for selling wares, is clearly based on the last days of the Soviet system.
well, with any service, there are going to be different tiers depending on what sort of customer you are. Obviously, direct Amazon customers get the top-level customer service. However, it doesn't make economic sense for Amazon to provide that same-level service for customers of a low-volume third-party-vendor selling their goods on an Amazon storefront.
I'm not saying it's "right", I'm just saying it makes sense.
Several prominent scientists said yesterday that they had formed an organization dedicated to electing politicians '
so they're fighting the politicization of science.... by entering politics.
ironic.
Among online dating members, "marital status" and "wants children" are the two most influential characteristics to match.
Uhh, yeah. I'm going to guess that the phrase "wants children" means something different, depending on whether you're on a dating site, or on alt.sex.lolita. Yes?
It's 2006. You need a video card.
It would be great, if, say, someone had done a video card shootout, and included onboard video as a control group. Then you could link to it to support your statement.
Instead of wowing their audience with in-depth benchmarks they head right for what someone reading a review really wants, an opinion of the best bang for the buck.
What they missed though, was a comparison of all of those with at least one average on-board video implementation. Most of which nowadays are pretty damn good. (at least for things like Warcraft III, starcraft, non-bleeding-edge FPS games, etc). To really gauge "bang-for-buck", you need to measure against spending no extra money at all.
What comptuers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called 'information extraction' and is used for sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security.
Yeah, because we need AT&T giving wide-scale, undocumented wiretaps to the NSA, who use voice recognition to generate transcripts of everyone's phone calls, and then DHS can run NLP on those transcripts to compile a list of "persons of interest", who are then automatically added to the TSA no-fly lists.
Yeah, I can envision the future, and the future sucks.
You're a true American. One of The Heroes. We'll incorporate that into the Threat-Down.
Oh, that's already covered.
In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.
You *know* the Army's thinking behind this is to regenerate their limbs so they can just send them back to war.
Microreactors Change Propane into Hydrogen
Finally, a good example of vaporware. And not in the Duke Nukem Forever sense of the word.
Yep. Too bad, once they actually had Bin Laden cornered, Clinton decided not to do anything because he was afraid that it would look like we was trying to distract the nation from his sexual indescretions.
Yeah, Bush's strategy of waiting around until Osama keels over from natural causes was much better.
MySpace for the Sandlot Set
Yeah, just what we need. A website where five-year-olds can post drunk pictures of themselves. But now that you mention it, Pete Townshend might be into that.
Clinton taped an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace about this today, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. The interview is supposed to be about the energy initiative, and his charitable work; instead, Chris Wallace ambushes him out of left field with some bullshit hardball question about Osama Bin Laden.
It's hilarious, because not only does Clinton attempt a diplomatic answer, but when Chris Wallace won't let it go and birddogs him, Clinton completely pwns Wallace, then goes back on topic.
I'm curious to see if they actually air it.
How soon should such a company let its customers know that their data has been compromised?
that depends, how long does it take to finance a new ferrari and a yacht to ship it out of the country?
Nope. What you learned in an office does not hold true everywhere in life.
Just like your specificity does not disprove the truthiness of my generality.
Debian developer Lucas Nussbaum, however, says that research shows that 'sometimes, paying volunteers decreases the overall participation.
That's because when you pay volunteers, they become employees. And anyone who's ever worked in an office knows how that works.
European scientists indicated their shock as they noted a ship could sail from Europe's northern-most outpost directly to the pole, something that hasn't been possible during most of recorded human history.
Now look, I've seen quite a few movies where they go straight to the pole. No dialogue, nothing. Seriously.
Three engineering students from Cambridge University plan to send an unmanned craft into space for £1,000 ($1,880) They should hook up with that teenager who was building a nuclear reactor in his backyard.
Garcia, a VP with the Information Technology Association of America, will try to resuscitate DHS's flagging efforts to formulate a response plan should the nation's key digital assets come under concerted attack or crumble due to some catastrophic failure.
But what will he do if the tubes become clogged?
Will academic institutions learn to deal with this new reality? It sounds a little dubious from this professor's viewpoint.
Perhaps it's time that the academic institutions came to terms with the information society that we live in, and reassessed their teaching methods. Technology is progressing; you can't rely on static schema for distributing information when the main modes for distributing that information are in such dramatic flux.