Let me guess, you had a chance to get in on the IPO when it was 40 bucks a share? And you turned it down, and said "40 dollars a share is way overvalued for a search company".
As you may know, Seagate bought Maxtor a couple years ago. Yea, they are including Maxtor branded products, Which are generally now Seagate products with the Maxtor brand label.
Cnet has this article which goes into a little more detail. From what I've gathered it seems they "just moved" to the new building, and got the address wrong the first time (this sort of explains why they put up 3 addresses in 2 days if you buy it). It seems they had to switch payment processing companies from Powerpay to PayPal, because of the rights infringement stuff. But I doubt PayPal's policy is going to be different. Whats next? Cashiers checks to Nigeria?
Insightful indeed, the law as it stands applies to all business right? So government contractors would have their emails subject to this as well. Would government employees be subject too? Since third party contractors can gain access to the information, what would prevent them from publishing all the correspondence between the gov and its contractors? Wouldn't it be lawful for a private company (or a NFP like the EFF or someone) to get "permission" to access all such emails and publish them?
Don't worry aussies! some freindly type folks have been so kind as to share encryption software! And how precisely will the AU Government deal with that? If everyone there starts encrypting all their IM's Emails and VoIP calls, there is simply not enough processing power to make it valuable to tap anything in the first place. I predict significant backlash once Law Enforcement figures out that this isn't going to help them at all, but rather it is going to popularize encryption (which is in my view A Good Thing Anyway).
ASUS C90S ran with
160GB Hard Drive @
7,200 RPM SATA
Dell XPS M1730 ran with
2x200GB in RAID0 @
7,200 RPM SATA - The article doesn't seem to state it but does anyone know if this is Sata 3 or 1.5?
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 ran with
64GB Hard Drive
Solid-State
ASUS U6S ran with
160GB Hard Drive
5,400 RPM SATA
interestingly, the test the SSD performed best (and whuped the HDD's) was the HDD test.
As soon as everyone who buys a computer is willing to put and extra 1000 dollars to get an SSD instead of an HDD. That or the price of flash starts dropping (right now it has been dropping linearly with density, vs. HDD's which have tended to drop price/GB exponentially).
Could designers do a better job? Sure, but the fundamental problem remains that the default interface we have chosen for computer is the MOUSE. This is of no use to the blind, who need to navigate with keyboard shortcuts. Their web experience and for that matter their experience of most any app, is going to be limited to how dependent the interface is on the mouse. Unfortunately for the blind, I don't see that changing significantly any time soon.
and overlooking what the device would do during the rest of the time when you're NOT picking up a cup. That was my first thought: tests subjects first dream where the wrestle a bear, upon waking discovers his robotic arms have torn his pillows to shreds!
Convincing the masses to actually install it, now, that's the trick. No, its getting OEM's to install it that's the trick. Once dell asks you to pay an extra $50 for Vista instead of Hardy, we will start to see Ubuntu pick up some momentum. When there is a price difference, AND an alternative for the consumer when they purchase, the choice is in their hands. Until then, 90% of consumers are just going to work with whats already on their computer.
Given
A supervisory PC sits at the top of that system, managing Roasting Plantâ(TM)s drink- and roasting-related databases. The PC also gives the system a nice graphical user interface. and the little schematic they gave, I would venture a guess that they coded it in G. Though personally, I never really enjoyed programming for LabVIEW, I much preferred SimuLINK in MATLAB.
But now, with a Democratic Congress and a potentially Democratic administration next year, the arguments may gain more political traction." This is about states trying to collect state tax on goods crossing state lines, which are sold in their state. NY State is totally broke that is why they are pushing for this. (Despite the fact that even were they to be successful it would only bring in ~ 100 Million dollars compared to their 100 Billion budget).
I sure hope no CEO was dumb enough to fall for this. But it certainly is a new and interesting direction for Social Engineering - very targeted, but if even one falls for it the whole companies financials/business strategies, basically a tremendous amount of high value information all in one fell swoop.
Damn, thanks for the heads up, but this really sucks. In CO we had most of our voting machines de-certified (I believe some have since been re-approved for use) but I was looking forward to a verifiable vote here (most our county clerks can't afford to print paper ballots without assistance from somewhere). Very disappointing.
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If you use this, be sure to use protection, haven't you ever heard of electro-gonorrhea the noisy killer?
Let me guess, you had a chance to get in on the IPO when it was 40 bucks a share? And you turned it down, and said "40 dollars a share is way overvalued for a search company".
As you may know, Seagate bought Maxtor a couple years ago. Yea, they are including Maxtor branded products, Which are generally now Seagate products with the Maxtor brand label.
Cnet has this article which goes into a little more detail. From what I've gathered it seems they "just moved" to the new building, and got the address wrong the first time (this sort of explains why they put up 3 addresses in 2 days if you buy it). It seems they had to switch payment processing companies from Powerpay to PayPal, because of the rights infringement stuff. But I doubt PayPal's policy is going to be different. Whats next? Cashiers checks to Nigeria?
Because IT decided to use MS Active Directory for all our internal servers. Otherwise I would ask for a mac (and probably be denied anyway).
Insightful indeed, the law as it stands applies to all business right? So government contractors would have their emails subject to this as well. Would government employees be subject too? Since third party contractors can gain access to the information, what would prevent them from publishing all the correspondence between the gov and its contractors? Wouldn't it be lawful for a private company (or a NFP like the EFF or someone) to get "permission" to access all such emails and publish them?
Don't worry aussies! some freindly type folks have been so kind as to share encryption software! And how precisely will the AU Government deal with that? If everyone there starts encrypting all their IM's Emails and VoIP calls, there is simply not enough processing power to make it valuable to tap anything in the first place. I predict significant backlash once Law Enforcement figures out that this isn't going to help them at all, but rather it is going to popularize encryption (which is in my view A Good Thing Anyway).
I was under the impression that Oceania was supposed to be the former UK along with some of Europe. Perhaps I've been misinformed?
ASUS C90S ran with
160GB Hard Drive @ 7,200 RPM SATA
Dell XPS M1730 ran with
2x200GB in RAID0 @ 7,200 RPM SATA - The article doesn't seem to state it but does anyone know if this is Sata 3 or 1.5?
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 ran with
64GB Hard Drive Solid-State
ASUS U6S ran with
160GB Hard Drive 5,400 RPM SATA
interestingly, the test the SSD performed best (and whuped the HDD's) was the HDD test.
As soon as everyone who buys a computer is willing to put and extra 1000 dollars to get an SSD instead of an HDD.
That or the price of flash starts dropping (right now it has been dropping linearly with density, vs. HDD's which have tended to drop price/GB exponentially).
Could designers do a better job? Sure, but the fundamental problem remains that the default interface we have chosen for computer is the MOUSE. This is of no use to the blind, who need to navigate with keyboard shortcuts. Their web experience and for that matter their experience of most any app, is going to be limited to how dependent the interface is on the mouse. Unfortunately for the blind, I don't see that changing significantly any time soon.
tests subjects first dream where the wrestle a bear, upon waking discovers his robotic arms have torn his pillows to shreds!
the cake is a lie.
When you outlaw cookies, only outlaws will have cookies..... yum delicious cookies
Ok predictions: how long till 2 girls, one faceboogle?
I put the over under at one week.
I assume you've never payed sales tax?
I sure hope no CEO was dumb enough to fall for this. But it certainly is a new and interesting direction for Social Engineering - very targeted, but if even one falls for it the whole companies financials/business strategies, basically a tremendous amount of high value information all in one fell swoop.
Damn, thanks for the heads up, but this really sucks. In CO we had most of our voting machines de-certified (I believe some have since been re-approved for use) but I was looking forward to a verifiable vote here (most our county clerks can't afford to print paper ballots without assistance from somewhere).
Very disappointing.