I read news at NYTimes.com - in color - from a laptop for free, and with Adblockplus I don't have to wade through full-page ads for The Hottest Movie of the Year.
So how is e-Ink supposed to save the NY Times money again?
A virus that takes the host offline is not a very effective virus. The virus needs keep the host alive to reproduce and spread, otherwise it won't let itself run wild.
The Florida issue came down to 1) who gets to decide whether someone else's ballot is improper or not, 2) does Florida's 'legal code' or its interpretation violate the higher authority (Article 14 of the US Constitution) requiring Florida to not mess with your right to vote, and 3) who gets to decide number 2).
It turns out the Supreme Court gets the final answer, and they (like all of us) answered down party lines.
If Bush v. Gore situation were reversed, would you be supporting the other guy right now? I seriously doubt it.
The recounts did indicate that if overvotes were counted (where the voter filled out a bubble for Al Gore, then wrote in 'Al Gore' again at the bottom, or had crossed out GWB's name), then Gore would have won.
But, regardless of Florida law, Bush still would have won the election by 1 vote anyway.
The shuttle program is primarily a technology-jobs program. The science stuff they do in space (orbiting grade-school teachers, studying John Glenn's bones) is kind of trivial compared to the 10,000 high-tech jobs created in the USA, paid for by the billions of dollars NASA spends on shuttle contracts. How all that money would otherwise get spent, is what I wonder about.
The headline on/. is "News: Building the Green Data Center". Every IT publication for the past year has put "building the green data center" on its cover. It's not news anymore!
The ComputerWorld author sounds like they just learned about e-ink. The author doesn't seem to realize that e-ink thought they'd have the Kimble out the door ever since like 1999. E-ink has become another eternal technology of the future, perpetually in pilot. It's been like a company of Media Lab students that just pump out one demo after another.
The author also calls EPD the acronym for Electronic Paper Display. Everyone in the industry uses EPD to mean Electrophoretic Display.
The author also doesn't once mention OLED, which is a really big thing to leave out when talking about the future of display technology.
I went to this 'Vipassana' meditation camp a couple years ago. It's a program where you go to this silent retreat for 10 days and just sit all day and meditate. One of the things that freaks first-timers out is that they feed you breakfast and lunch, but no dinner. You don't eat at all after 12 noon.
Sure, you're sitting all day and not expending much energy. But one thing you discover is how much better you sleep on an empty stomach.
I never understood what happens when an airport baggage handler gets a second job as a landscaper, and comes to work every day covered in nitrates, and spreads it on everyone's luggages?
How do chemical detectors deal with all these sources of noise?
The government entity I work for operates a class B, and we waste IP addresses for all sorts of things. In a couple places, we have entire routable class C subnets being used for both ends of a serial link for a branch office T1. It's so easy to waste IP's when you have 64k of them, and really only need several hundred.
So what I wonder is, how much are these large IP ranges worth on the open market? I know class A is impossible to come by. Class B you can get by acquiring random organizations like SF radio. About a year ago didn't ARIN start allowing people to buy/sell IP addresses for profit? Before you either had to use them, or release them out of benevolence. I wonder what market value is.
I work for a government agency that has been donating tons of money to Verisign for the past 10+ years. They were the only approved SSL vendor in our system, and we paid them top dollar for every new application server that went up. I think each cert cost us like $600 a year which is comparable to the cost of maintenance from Dell.
Finally we got Digicert in our purchasing system, and bought a wildcard cert for $400 a year. We can use it on any server, and more importantly, we can use it on every server - they're the only wildcard vendor I could find that licenses it to be used on unlimited servers concurrently. Digicert also offers invoice billing, which you need for government.
So we still have Verisign for EV on our payment server. They do have like 90% of the SSL market and they are the brand leader (not as many people recognize Godaddy, Comodo, or Entrust). And they're the only vendor that seems to have an EV plugin for Firefox v2. But for all else, Digicert wildcard is what we'll use.
Crediting a science fiction writer with predicting scientific accomplishments, seems to me like crediting Al Gore for inventing the internet, Sam Lemelson for inventing using robots on assembly lines, and Amazon.com as the father of one-click checkout.
Jack Welch at GE advocated the 20-70-10 principle which says to periodically purge the lowest-performing 10% of employees to keep a company healthy.
First, it gets rid of nonproductive employees. Second, *not* firing the lowest 10% is bad for the morale of the top-performing 20%.
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Great, now TSA will require me to boot my laptop and prove I do not possess blurry photographs on my computer.
Uranus has a bigger G-ring
Open-WRT needs a Redmond theme. Bonus points for defaulting to Aero theme, which the user immediately disables, reverting to Redmond theme.
I read news at NYTimes.com - in color - from a laptop for free, and with Adblockplus I don't have to wade through full-page ads for The Hottest Movie of the Year. So how is e-Ink supposed to save the NY Times money again?
an american standard exists already link
32-bit Vista is the enemy here. How do you sell 4gb DRAM's when you can't use more than 3.5?
A virus that takes the host offline is not a very effective virus. The virus needs keep the host alive to reproduce and spread, otherwise it won't let itself run wild.
The Florida issue came down to 1) who gets to decide whether someone else's ballot is improper or not, 2) does Florida's 'legal code' or its interpretation violate the higher authority (Article 14 of the US Constitution) requiring Florida to not mess with your right to vote, and 3) who gets to decide number 2). It turns out the Supreme Court gets the final answer, and they (like all of us) answered down party lines. If Bush v. Gore situation were reversed, would you be supporting the other guy right now? I seriously doubt it.
The recounts did indicate that if overvotes were counted (where the voter filled out a bubble for Al Gore, then wrote in 'Al Gore' again at the bottom, or had crossed out GWB's name), then Gore would have won. But, regardless of Florida law, Bush still would have won the election by 1 vote anyway.
Pencil? Pen!
The shuttle program is primarily a technology-jobs program. The science stuff they do in space (orbiting grade-school teachers, studying John Glenn's bones) is kind of trivial compared to the 10,000 high-tech jobs created in the USA, paid for by the billions of dollars NASA spends on shuttle contracts. How all that money would otherwise get spent, is what I wonder about.
The headline on /. is "News: Building the Green Data Center". Every IT publication for the past year has put "building the green data center" on its cover. It's not news anymore!
Kucinich was one of the 11 people in Congress to vote against the bill. Go Kucinich!
Al Gore made us stoopid by inventing the Internet (right after he invented the VCR)
The ComputerWorld author sounds like they just learned about e-ink. The author doesn't seem to realize that e-ink thought they'd have the Kimble out the door ever since like 1999. E-ink has become another eternal technology of the future, perpetually in pilot. It's been like a company of Media Lab students that just pump out one demo after another.
The author also calls EPD the acronym for Electronic Paper Display. Everyone in the industry uses EPD to mean Electrophoretic Display.
The author also doesn't once mention OLED, which is a really big thing to leave out when talking about the future of display technology.
I went to this 'Vipassana' meditation camp a couple years ago. It's a program where you go to this silent retreat for 10 days and just sit all day and meditate. One of the things that freaks first-timers out is that they feed you breakfast and lunch, but no dinner. You don't eat at all after 12 noon.
Sure, you're sitting all day and not expending much energy. But one thing you discover is how much better you sleep on an empty stomach.
I never understood what happens when an airport baggage handler gets a second job as a landscaper, and comes to work every day covered in nitrates, and spreads it on everyone's luggages? How do chemical detectors deal with all these sources of noise?
The government entity I work for operates a class B, and we waste IP addresses for all sorts of things. In a couple places, we have entire routable class C subnets being used for both ends of a serial link for a branch office T1. It's so easy to waste IP's when you have 64k of them, and really only need several hundred.
So what I wonder is, how much are these large IP ranges worth on the open market? I know class A is impossible to come by. Class B you can get by acquiring random organizations like SF radio. About a year ago didn't ARIN start allowing people to buy/sell IP addresses for profit? Before you either had to use them, or release them out of benevolence. I wonder what market value is.
I work for a government agency that has been donating tons of money to Verisign for the past 10+ years. They were the only approved SSL vendor in our system, and we paid them top dollar for every new application server that went up. I think each cert cost us like $600 a year which is comparable to the cost of maintenance from Dell.
Finally we got Digicert in our purchasing system, and bought a wildcard cert for $400 a year. We can use it on any server, and more importantly, we can use it on every server - they're the only wildcard vendor I could find that licenses it to be used on unlimited servers concurrently. Digicert also offers invoice billing, which you need for government.
So we still have Verisign for EV on our payment server. They do have like 90% of the SSL market and they are the brand leader (not as many people recognize Godaddy, Comodo, or Entrust). And they're the only vendor that seems to have an EV plugin for Firefox v2. But for all else, Digicert wildcard is what we'll use.
Crediting a science fiction writer with predicting scientific accomplishments, seems to me like crediting Al Gore for inventing the internet, Sam Lemelson for inventing using robots on assembly lines, and Amazon.com as the father of one-click checkout.
True, if spammers are so successful at cracking gmail's and yahoo's captcha's, then you'd think they could make a better screen scraper for the blind.
Or maybe the spammers *are* the blind. They get on the internet and don't have much interest in porn, so they spend time doing email forwards instead.
Jack Welch at GE advocated the 20-70-10 principle which says to periodically purge the lowest-performing 10% of employees to keep a company healthy. First, it gets rid of nonproductive employees. Second, *not* firing the lowest 10% is bad for the morale of the top-performing 20%.
This is another case of blaming the user for confusing interfaces,
and another case of blaming hardware for a software problem.
I think somebody in Texas is pulling a prank with acronyms.
Sounds like the company has $40 million in funding. So one bulb costs $40 million.