I'm a member of the United States Marines and my job is roughly that of an entry level IT professional. We (and by we I mean the Armed Forces) have been operating under a moratorium against upgrading our Microsoft products for years. The only authorized OS we can install, support, or allow access to ANYTHING on our network is Win2k. It's the only OS we're fairly confident has had most if not all of the security holes worked out of it.
Of course if there was a security breach we couldn't do anything about it because of NMCI... I love when an Admiral forces a civilian organization down our throats that does the exact same job we do, with less responsiveness, less effectiveness, and a bill in the billion dollars range... And then resigns his commission as an Admiral to become the CEO of NMCI 6 months after he forces the acceptance. They of course can't do our job in the field so they settle for making our job difficult in garrison.
This would indeed be a nice step forward in security if they manage to complete all their principles and goals. It would be nice to have a system that I can hand out to users (or famliy members) that is basically secure out of the box but with a little reading and changing of settings I can obtain full control over.
The idea that it would be open is certainly a nice boost to credibility and would, if successful, push all security forward and not just their own.
I've used the TI's extensively and been very happy with them especially the 89. They're also pretty much standard throughout academia and many textbooks even come with directions in them on how to perform certain functions on your TI calculators. If you want a calculator thats good and handheld (the 92 I think it was is the same as the 89 but basically a really bad laptop) get the 89 if you're going TI. It can handle algebraic calculation over integrals and such as well as 3d graphing and is relatively easy to write custom programs (including games, I lost many hours playing a version of pole position) to do damn near anything it doesn't have built in, which means you can use reverse polish on it.
HP makes some decent graphong calculators but iirc they run on reverse polish notation which while very nice can take some time to get used to.
You may also want to look into just getting a pda and putting a math program on it but unfortunately I have no experience using them in that regard.
Of course all this info could be worthless since it's at least 3 years old.
It's not just apple who should have been hoping for this but Intel as well. This is a market that if it grows AMD has absolutely no foothold or way to gain a foothold in for the immediate future.
Very well would be the case however if the show is good they will likely pick up less tech savvy viewers as well who won't download the episodes. Besides I think regular Tv's days are numbered so even if they don't it's a win win for me.
This is something that should be a suprise to no one especially with the increasing popularity of BT and other p2p software to share shows from netwrok TV.
Finding new shows on the internet and providing them with dedicated viewers should also inprove the quality of regular television, while it lasts, as some of these shows get picked up by the networks. They would likely be popular because they're good and hopefully original instead of being popular because they're better than the rest of the trash on TV.
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I'm a member of the United States Marines and my job is roughly that of an entry level IT professional. We (and by we I mean the Armed Forces) have been operating under a moratorium against upgrading our Microsoft products for years. The only authorized OS we can install, support, or allow access to ANYTHING on our network is Win2k. It's the only OS we're fairly confident has had most if not all of the security holes worked out of it. Of course if there was a security breach we couldn't do anything about it because of NMCI... I love when an Admiral forces a civilian organization down our throats that does the exact same job we do, with less responsiveness, less effectiveness, and a bill in the billion dollars range... And then resigns his commission as an Admiral to become the CEO of NMCI 6 months after he forces the acceptance. They of course can't do our job in the field so they settle for making our job difficult in garrison.
This would indeed be a nice step forward in security if they manage to complete all their principles and goals. It would be nice to have a system that I can hand out to users (or famliy members) that is basically secure out of the box but with a little reading and changing of settings I can obtain full control over. The idea that it would be open is certainly a nice boost to credibility and would, if successful, push all security forward and not just their own.
How long before they outgrow just one convention center and start renting cities?
I've used the TI's extensively and been very happy with them especially the 89. They're also pretty much standard throughout academia and many textbooks even come with directions in them on how to perform certain functions on your TI calculators. If you want a calculator thats good and handheld (the 92 I think it was is the same as the 89 but basically a really bad laptop) get the 89 if you're going TI. It can handle algebraic calculation over integrals and such as well as 3d graphing and is relatively easy to write custom programs (including games, I lost many hours playing a version of pole position) to do damn near anything it doesn't have built in, which means you can use reverse polish on it.
HP makes some decent graphong calculators but iirc they run on reverse polish notation which while very nice can take some time to get used to.
You may also want to look into just getting a pda and putting a math program on it but unfortunately I have no experience using them in that regard.
Of course all this info could be worthless since it's at least 3 years old.
It's not just apple who should have been hoping for this but Intel as well. This is a market that if it grows AMD has absolutely no foothold or way to gain a foothold in for the immediate future.
Very well would be the case however if the show is good they will likely pick up less tech savvy viewers as well who won't download the episodes. Besides I think regular Tv's days are numbered so even if they don't it's a win win for me.
This is something that should be a suprise to no one especially with the increasing popularity of BT and other p2p software to share shows from netwrok TV. Finding new shows on the internet and providing them with dedicated viewers should also inprove the quality of regular television, while it lasts, as some of these shows get picked up by the networks. They would likely be popular because they're good and hopefully original instead of being popular because they're better than the rest of the trash on TV.
You haven't played World of Warcraft much have you?