Actually, while there is plenty of military doublespeak that could be dispensed with, "IED" I am perfectly happy with. "Improvised" is a worthwhile adjective to use in this context, because the improvised devices do typically have different characteristics from the closest equivalent professionally made devices, so you want to use that or some other adjective (you could use "home made" if you like, but that sounds like you're talking about pie, not weaponry). And since the term covers a range of blast, shrapnel, and incendiary devices, "explosive device" pretty much covers it. For once, it's actually a concise and descriptive acronym.
Where I come from, "baked" means stoned. With that in mind, I can't help thinking that "more than half-baked" is a very good description for this plan. The blindingly obvious flaw is that if Microsoft did use Google malware list, people would immediately start asking why Microsoft wasn't sharing it's list. While it might be easy for many Slashdotters to say that Microsoft should indeed do that, it does not make any more sense for Microsoft to do that than it does for it to open-source any of the rest of it's products. It's a commercial entity looking for competitive advantage over other players in the marketplace, and that does not go hand-in-hand with these airy-fairy sharing ideas.
Performance does count for something, even on netbooks. The current Atom-based netbooks can't play 1080p video usably, not are they up to any kind of 3d usage at all. Some netbooks are actually being offered with an optional HD video accelerator (Broadcom Crystal HD Media Accelerator), at extra cost and power usage. That's the reason for the existence of the Ion platform also. Clearly some of people do think there's demand for netbooks capable of playing full HD video and baseline 3d apps, even at the cost of some battery life. Paired with the 780E chipset mentioned in the article, it sounds like these things could fit into that segment, no idea if that's the intentions though.
Well, I did battle with a couple of those little standalone media players, but in the end I went to the trouble of building and configuring a full-fledged (XP and MediaPortal based) HTPC. If you can live with the limitations of those stand-alone things, then fine. But when you run into an unsupported codec on those things, that's it, your only option is to convert the video on a PC. If you want a feature it doesn't have, say you want to add a tuner or whatever, you're stumped. Network performance (if any) usually sucks. There's really no comparison to the power and flexibility of a full HTPC, and yes, the HTPC takes a few hours of setting up, but once done, with a suitable remote and the right software, it's as remote-friendly as any of the little stand-alones.
If you read the wikipedia article linked on the first line of the summary, then you would have seen in the very first paragraph that "Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography."
That's only filing fees, it covers the fee to initiate the action, but it doesn't cover the other costs that will occur if the case goes forward. From a relevant document
Does this mean I will never have to pay any expenses?
No! Poor person status allows you to start your action without paying the initial fees or court costs. As your case moves through the court system, you may find there are certain expenses associated with your action. These can include copy fees, expert witness testimony and preparing for trial. You are responsible for paying these expenses.
I really hope this chick loses the case, and gets saddled with a bunch of court costs to add to her student loans, that way nobody will ever try anything so stupid again. Three month job-hunt? In this economy? College education is no guarantee of a job, and if you can't sell yourself, you're going to be unemployed for a lot longer than that. Your college can't convince employers to give you a job, they can provide some contacts and resources to help you, but that's it.
I was just thinking the same thing. Considering that the list of models with this stuff in the BIOS doesn't include Acer, who ship more laptops than anyone else, or HP, or several other big players, I'm a bit sceptical of that figure. Still the list is quite extensive, I'm a bit surprised I haven't heard of this.
It may be easy for a nerd to install e.g. SwitchProxy, and knock together some scripts to automate the maintenance of a list of working anonymizing proxy servers (and by the way, any old proxy is not good enough), but it's not that easy for Joe Public. Unless they're going to pay for a vpn service, the vast majority of Dutch people will be accurately blocked by their IP address. And since accessing TPB is not a fundamental human right, the tiny amount of collateral damage will be seen as insignificant.
Many followers were bemused and intrigued by what they assumed was a clever new viral marketing campaign put on by Nintendo ahead of Diabolical Box's August release. In reality, though, the TopHatProfessor account was the work of a lonely college student and amateur game journalist.
Although the computer looks nice, I am a bit concerned as to the quality of the screen attachment. I have friend who has a computer with a similar configuration and after a year the screen would become wobbly, probably because of wear on the joint. Does anyone know whether Asus has taken care of this?
As a time-traveller from July 2010, I can assure you that this newly-launched product which hardly anyone in 2009 has even touched, does not, in fact, get wobbly after a year of use.
is it the act of hating someone due to their racial background or sexual orientation which is illegal? or just running your mouth about it?. if its the former its thought crime and if its the latter its censorship.[...] Besides I like living in a free society where the government doesn't get to decide what I can legally think.
You can think what you like, and hate who you like, if it makes you happy. I have no problem with that. But when you start inciting others to take action based upon your hatred, then we have a problem. Maybe I think you deserve to die because you don't capitalise your sentences properly, so I post "evidence" that you are a child rapist on the internet. Your house gets fire-bombed, and your kids die. How are you liking your free society now?
"First, a "few times" noon sunlight power, I think would be pretty brutal."
The OP was talking about transiting the collection area, not camping out there. Also we're talking about microwaves rather than visible/UV from sunlight, you will have to ask someone else what the equivalent energy of 3x noon sunlight in microwave form will do, but the point is we're not simply talking about noon sunlight x3, it's not visible/UV at all.
"Doesn't a "few times" noon sunlight power mean that your getting only a "few times" what you'd be getting from the sun by itself..."
Again, we're talking microwaves. Microwaves can be converted to electricity with an efficiency of 75% plus using a rectenna, this is many times the best efficiency we can currently achieve with visible light (typically ~15%). So if you have a beam energy density 3x sunlight, and a conversion efficiency 5x photovoltaics, that give you and output energy 15x what you would get directly converting sunlight using photovoltaics, not just 3x.
The reason they are going after this one is not to extract money from the end users. Selling ring-tones is an extremely profitable business, and they want a (bigger) cut of that cash. If they can get this upheld in theory, they will then look to extract the fee from the ring-tone vendors, telcos etc. At least, that would be my guess.
It's not necessarily a misunderstanding. I, and most of my friends and colleagues, use "Linux" as shorthand for "Linux-based operating system". We are fully well aware what the Linux kernel is, and what the operating systems consist of. However that usage is both concise (no, I will bloody well not say "GNU/Linux" every time, andy more so than "Linux-based operating system") and understood to a sufficient extent by non-techies as well as IT people. By all means try and earn nerd-cred by complaining about it if you want, but I view that behaviour as pretty much on the same level as the grammar-nazis here on slashdot - they may be technically correct, but they are annoying and unproductive, and we could get by with a lot fewer of them.
is there anyone by now that HASN'T seen the extensive test by Anandtech that completely DESTROYS this bullshit article?
Actually, yes, I hadn't seen the bloody article, and would have greatly benefitted from a link, you know, one of those wonders of modern technology whereby you can give a clickable fragment of text that takes a reader directly to the article you are talking about, so they don't have to scratch their heads and wonder WTF you're talking about.
Having had a quick scan of Anandtech, I guess you are referring to this article, but it's so long that it will be a couple of hours before I can finish reading it and decide for sure, but you probably have a point.
This actually *is* a good thing - if the money inmediately is used for the intended purpose: Bringing nation-wide Broadband fast.
Unfortunately given the track record of our government, I can't say I'm hugely optimistic about that. This smells of the kind of private-public partnerships that our government is so fond of, where they can claim a low up-front cost for a scheme, but it ends up costing more than they thought, with the private companies raking it in at the tax payers expense. See for example the PFI hospital schemes that Mr Brown championed so keenly. I expect the telcos in line to be involved in this are rubbing their hands with glee.
...if they offer cable-based content as individual subscriptions at prices that are cumulatively less than my current cable bill, it may actually be a better option...
Yeah, but that's a pretty big if, unless you really don't watch much TV. Especially in the long run. The networks producing the shows want to make as much money as they are now, and while they might let the pricing be low in the early days, sooner or later the margin is going to go up. Shows are $2-3 on iTunes, and you can pretty much guarantee that's what these guys will be looking at before too long, and it'll only go in one direction after that.
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Warranty is important for me when buying expensive stuff that's going to retain it's value. But large flash drives are cheap, and the technology is moving quickly. A 16GB flash drive costs a mere £20 now, and chances are that by the time it fails, I'll be able to buy something much larger and faster for the same price, so the warranty doesn't seem that important. Say you had a lifetime warranty on one of the $200 2GB drives mentioned in TFS and it failed, would you even bother getting a replacement 2GB drive now?
...you mean to tell me that fragmentation *reduces* the performance of storage???
Fragmentation on hard disks reduces performance because of the time it takes to physically move the disk heads around. There are no physical heads to be moved around in SSDs, therefore it's perfectly reasonable to assume that that mechanism of performance hit will not occur on SSDs, and therefore it's not an issue. I did a small test years ago on the effects of flash memory fragmentation in a PDA, and I, and most people I discussed the matter with seemed to be quite surprised with the results at the time. I never got a good technical explanation of why the performance hit was so large. Doubt that's the same mechanism at work as with modern SSDs, but sort of relevant anyway.
C++ Builder and Delphi were sold off some time ago (to Embarcadero in 2008, according to wikipedia), so I'm not sure what Borland actually does these days, but it should have no effect on any of the CodeGear stuff. I still use Delphi, it's a great IDE, but not as nice a language as c# imho, maybe there'll be a C# Builder in RAD studio at some point.
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Actually, while there is plenty of military doublespeak that could be dispensed with, "IED" I am perfectly happy with. "Improvised" is a worthwhile adjective to use in this context, because the improvised devices do typically have different characteristics from the closest equivalent professionally made devices, so you want to use that or some other adjective (you could use "home made" if you like, but that sounds like you're talking about pie, not weaponry). And since the term covers a range of blast, shrapnel, and incendiary devices, "explosive device" pretty much covers it. For once, it's actually a concise and descriptive acronym.
Where I come from, "baked" means stoned. With that in mind, I can't help thinking that "more than half-baked" is a very good description for this plan. The blindingly obvious flaw is that if Microsoft did use Google malware list, people would immediately start asking why Microsoft wasn't sharing it's list. While it might be easy for many Slashdotters to say that Microsoft should indeed do that, it does not make any more sense for Microsoft to do that than it does for it to open-source any of the rest of it's products. It's a commercial entity looking for competitive advantage over other players in the marketplace, and that does not go hand-in-hand with these airy-fairy sharing ideas.
Performance does count for something, even on netbooks. The current Atom-based netbooks can't play 1080p video usably, not are they up to any kind of 3d usage at all. Some netbooks are actually being offered with an optional HD video accelerator (Broadcom Crystal HD Media Accelerator), at extra cost and power usage. That's the reason for the existence of the Ion platform also. Clearly some of people do think there's demand for netbooks capable of playing full HD video and baseline 3d apps, even at the cost of some battery life. Paired with the 780E chipset mentioned in the article, it sounds like these things could fit into that segment, no idea if that's the intentions though.
Well, I did battle with a couple of those little standalone media players, but in the end I went to the trouble of building and configuring a full-fledged (XP and MediaPortal based) HTPC. If you can live with the limitations of those stand-alone things, then fine. But when you run into an unsupported codec on those things, that's it, your only option is to convert the video on a PC. If you want a feature it doesn't have, say you want to add a tuner or whatever, you're stumped. Network performance (if any) usually sucks. There's really no comparison to the power and flexibility of a full HTPC, and yes, the HTPC takes a few hours of setting up, but once done, with a suitable remote and the right software, it's as remote-friendly as any of the little stand-alones.
If you read the wikipedia article linked on the first line of the summary, then you would have seen in the very first paragraph that "Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography."
... but in reality a woman with a penis isn't any more attractive to women than it is to men.
There are websites that say otherwise buddy ... erm, or so I hear.
That's only filing fees, it covers the fee to initiate the action, but it doesn't cover the other costs that will occur if the case goes forward. From a relevant document
Does this mean I will never have to pay any
expenses?
No! Poor person status allows you to start your
action without paying the initial fees or court costs.
As your case moves through the court system, you
may find there are certain expenses associated with
your action. These can include copy fees, expert
witness testimony and preparing for trial. You are
responsible for paying these expenses.
I really hope this chick loses the case, and gets saddled with a bunch of court costs to add to her student loans, that way nobody will ever try anything so stupid again. Three month job-hunt? In this economy? College education is no guarantee of a job, and if you can't sell yourself, you're going to be unemployed for a lot longer than that. Your college can't convince employers to give you a job, they can provide some contacts and resources to help you, but that's it.
Ok, so it does include HP. It's been a long day, and I go home in 3 minutes.
I was just thinking the same thing. Considering that the list of models with this stuff in the BIOS doesn't include Acer, who ship more laptops than anyone else, or HP, or several other big players, I'm a bit sceptical of that figure. Still the list is quite extensive, I'm a bit surprised I haven't heard of this.
It may be easy for a nerd to install e.g. SwitchProxy, and knock together some scripts to automate the maintenance of a list of working anonymizing proxy servers (and by the way, any old proxy is not good enough), but it's not that easy for Joe Public. Unless they're going to pay for a vpn service, the vast majority of Dutch people will be accurately blocked by their IP address. And since accessing TPB is not a fundamental human right, the tiny amount of collateral damage will be seen as insignificant.
Many followers were bemused and intrigued by what they assumed was a clever new viral marketing campaign put on by Nintendo ahead of Diabolical Box's August release. In reality, though, the TopHatProfessor account was the work of a lonely college student and amateur game journalist.
There, fixed that for you.
Although the computer looks nice, I am a bit concerned as to the quality of the screen attachment. I have friend who has a computer with a similar configuration and after a year the screen would become wobbly, probably because of wear on the joint. Does anyone know whether Asus has taken care of this?
As a time-traveller from July 2010, I can assure you that this newly-launched product which hardly anyone in 2009 has even touched, does not, in fact, get wobbly after a year of use.
is it the act of hating someone due to their racial background or sexual orientation which is illegal? or just running your mouth about it?. if its the former its thought crime and if its the latter its censorship.[...] Besides I like living in a free society where the government doesn't get to decide what I can legally think.
You can think what you like, and hate who you like, if it makes you happy. I have no problem with that. But when you start inciting others to take action based upon your hatred, then we have a problem. Maybe I think you deserve to die because you don't capitalise your sentences properly, so I post "evidence" that you are a child rapist on the internet. Your house gets fire-bombed, and your kids die. How are you liking your free society now?
Since the OP didn't reply, I'll have a stab.
"First, a "few times" noon sunlight power, I think would be pretty brutal."
The OP was talking about transiting the collection area, not camping out there. Also we're talking about microwaves rather than visible/UV from sunlight, you will have to ask someone else what the equivalent energy of 3x noon sunlight in microwave form will do, but the point is we're not simply talking about noon sunlight x3, it's not visible/UV at all.
"Doesn't a "few times" noon sunlight power mean that your getting only a "few times" what you'd be getting from the sun by itself..."
Again, we're talking microwaves. Microwaves can be converted to electricity with an efficiency of 75% plus using a rectenna, this is many times the best efficiency we can currently achieve with visible light (typically ~15%). So if you have a beam energy density 3x sunlight, and a conversion efficiency 5x photovoltaics, that give you and output energy 15x what you would get directly converting sunlight using photovoltaics, not just 3x.
The reason they are going after this one is not to extract money from the end users. Selling ring-tones is an extremely profitable business, and they want a (bigger) cut of that cash. If they can get this upheld in theory, they will then look to extract the fee from the ring-tone vendors, telcos etc. At least, that would be my guess.
It's not necessarily a misunderstanding. I, and most of my friends and colleagues, use "Linux" as shorthand for "Linux-based operating system". We are fully well aware what the Linux kernel is, and what the operating systems consist of. However that usage is both concise (no, I will bloody well not say "GNU/Linux" every time, andy more so than "Linux-based operating system") and understood to a sufficient extent by non-techies as well as IT people. By all means try and earn nerd-cred by complaining about it if you want, but I view that behaviour as pretty much on the same level as the grammar-nazis here on slashdot - they may be technically correct, but they are annoying and unproductive, and we could get by with a lot fewer of them.
is there anyone by now that HASN'T seen the extensive test by Anandtech that completely DESTROYS this bullshit article?
Actually, yes, I hadn't seen the bloody article, and would have greatly benefitted from a link, you know, one of those wonders of modern technology whereby you can give a clickable fragment of text that takes a reader directly to the article you are talking about, so they don't have to scratch their heads and wonder WTF you're talking about.
Having had a quick scan of Anandtech, I guess you are referring to this article, but it's so long that it will be a couple of hours before I can finish reading it and decide for sure, but you probably have a point.
This actually *is* a good thing - if the money inmediately is used for the intended purpose: Bringing nation-wide Broadband fast.
Unfortunately given the track record of our government, I can't say I'm hugely optimistic about that. This smells of the kind of private-public partnerships that our government is so fond of, where they can claim a low up-front cost for a scheme, but it ends up costing more than they thought, with the private companies raking it in at the tax payers expense. See for example the PFI hospital schemes that Mr Brown championed so keenly. I expect the telcos in line to be involved in this are rubbing their hands with glee.
If you truly want to make a decision on whether code reviews are worth it.. you need to know[...]
So what you're saying is we have to have a review of the reviews...we're going to be here a while aren't we?
...if they offer cable-based content as individual subscriptions at prices that are cumulatively less than my current cable bill, it may actually be a better option...
Yeah, but that's a pretty big if, unless you really don't watch much TV. Especially in the long run. The networks producing the shows want to make as much money as they are now, and while they might let the pricing be low in the early days, sooner or later the margin is going to go up. Shows are $2-3 on iTunes, and you can pretty much guarantee that's what these guys will be looking at before too long, and it'll only go in one direction after that.
Warranty is important for me when buying expensive stuff that's going to retain it's value. But large flash drives are cheap, and the technology is moving quickly. A 16GB flash drive costs a mere £20 now, and chances are that by the time it fails, I'll be able to buy something much larger and faster for the same price, so the warranty doesn't seem that important. Say you had a lifetime warranty on one of the $200 2GB drives mentioned in TFS and it failed, would you even bother getting a replacement 2GB drive now?
They would stick a small cannonball up the horse's backside for a "one." An empty horse was a "zero."
Up the backside, huh? I guess that should be called "rear-to-rear sharing" then.
...you mean to tell me that fragmentation *reduces* the performance of storage???
Fragmentation on hard disks reduces performance because of the time it takes to physically move the disk heads around. There are no physical heads to be moved around in SSDs, therefore it's perfectly reasonable to assume that that mechanism of performance hit will not occur on SSDs, and therefore it's not an issue. I did a small test years ago on the effects of flash memory fragmentation in a PDA, and I, and most people I discussed the matter with seemed to be quite surprised with the results at the time. I never got a good technical explanation of why the performance hit was so large. Doubt that's the same mechanism at work as with modern SSDs, but sort of relevant anyway.
C++ Builder and Delphi were sold off some time ago (to Embarcadero in 2008, according to wikipedia), so I'm not sure what Borland actually does these days, but it should have no effect on any of the CodeGear stuff. I still use Delphi, it's a great IDE, but not as nice a language as c# imho, maybe there'll be a C# Builder in RAD studio at some point.