While they may whine and kick and scream about it because of how hard it is to please the professional audio crowd
It's not really that hard to please the audiophile crowd. Just coat all the connectors in gold, add a bit of shielding here and there and charge insane prices for your products. It works for Monster Cable after all.
Unfortunately for Diebold, I'm not of the opinion that if they can't properly make a secure voting machine, what is to say that they can make a secure ATM? Sure, they may be two completely different divisions within the same company but considering how much the top management has avoided doing the right thing to fix their voting machines, I doubt the ATM division would be much different.
Because maybe you've got a dozen drives in the array. RAID 10 would be a serious hit on capacity while RAID 50 wouldn't be so bad.
Some file storage doesn't need to be super fast but you need a lot of it and you need reliability. Hence, RAID 50. You'll learn that the first time you have a budget on a hardware deployment.
These laptops aren't for areas where there is mass starvation. It's for areas where people can, generally, feed themselves and get by okay but that's about it. Educating these children with computers so they can get a bit of a leg up on their parents would serve them to help areas in their country that *do* have starving people.
The summary mentions modern PCs but it seems to be about gaming PCs. Posting a story saying that gaming PCs take up a lot of electricity is pretty much stating the obvious.
I'd be more interested to see the power consumption differences between an off she shelf Best Buy computer of 5-10 years ago compared to one of today. Brick and mortar electronics stores are where a good majority of people buy their computers so as far as home computer power usage goes, that's what matters. I'd like to think that with components like sound, networking and video being put on the mainboard and the ability of major manufacturers to set machines to go into a sleep mode by default that computers of today would actually take up less power than those of yesteryear.
Not having any machine of that type around, I can't really do any testing unfortunately.
What's that behind you?!? It's a shadow, mobilize the National Guard! We must take every possible threat 100% seriously. Forget about taking half a second to see what it is, it could be too late. Close down the streets, send the people into their bomb shelters, run for your lives!
You're forgetting that in the real world many precincts allow election workers to take the voting devices home in the days prior to an election. This would give them both plenty of time and plenty of privacy to do whatever they want with the machines.
That's nice, however those opte maps don't show the same information as the xkcd map does. While a whole bunch of lines randomly spread around has a certain spartan appeal, it doesn't convey any information. I can't look at the opte maps and say, "Oh, there's so and so" or "here I am." So, I'd hardly call them maps. Maps usually have information tags describing/naming places. Maybe those LGL files contain that information? It'd be nice if they made screenshots of the output of those LGL files though.
Yeah, you definitely need to have a Cisco router with Monster Cable CAT 6 running between it and your computer to make full use of Gigabit. Anything less and you're dropping packet fidelity through crosstalk line expansion. Not to mention the undervoltage latencies.
Not much. I'm at an I2 site and when I do big downloads from other I2 sites, they're noticably faster than from places like Redhat, Novell, etc. Sure, there's some technology in I2 that allows for more reliably low latency connections but you'd be hard pressed to find a web based application that would need that tech that I1 doesn't already serve (provided you're willing to spend the money for your last mile connection of course).
Maybe you'd like to increase page load times to make your site behave like a Web 2.0 (3.0?) site so you can get some investor to give you truckloads of money?
I'm missing something here, what does OpenSUSE devs being annoyed at Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu have to do with your argument?
At any rate, the article has some merit. In a previous Slashdot linked story, at least one CIO was quoted as saying that this agreement has caused them to not consider Microsoft for a new project that their company is working on.
You're perfectly welcome to keep your cash (lumps of gold would probably be better since US currency probably has RFID tags in them, right?) underneath your tinfoil hat.
At any rate, I'd be interested to see *any* credible documentation of banking and or federal regulations that mention this mandatory secretive reporting that you're blathering about.
Yeah, it's funny how the poster is talking about "poor backward compatability" when quite a few users have said that they're minor issues for the most part. Certain titles are unplayable but Sony has said that they're planning on fixing those issues.
Oh, then there's the "numerous" hi-def scaling issues which is really just the same issue (once again, goint to be patched soon) happening to multiple titles.
This guy should be writing for some political or marketing company. He's got the "take a minor issue and blow it out of proportion using clever wording" down to a T.
The GP may be on to something though. Technically, all of those business and home desktops *are* servers since they've got a myriad of trojans, rootkits and bots busily serving data to script kiddies around the globe.
If the only thing that you're critical of is the source of the information and not the information itself, then you're an idiot. That's the GP's point.
If you're constantly running over your voice minutes, perhaps you should just spend the extra $5-10 per month and increase your minutes? It's a helluva lot cheaper and easier than spending 5-10c for each arthritis generating text message.
Report to Zonk for re-education mister! Sony is an evil company and the PS3 is going to be a total failure and Zonk will make sure of that.
I can see the Slashdot offices later on today...
Zonk: Hey Hemos, I saw that PS3 submission you put up earlier today, about opening the case. Hemos: Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that it can be opened so easily and the hard drive upgraded. Zonk: Yeah... about that... Hemos: Hmm? Zonk: *bashes Hemos' head in with a Swingline stapler* Hemos: Grngh!
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While they may whine and kick and scream about it because of how hard it is to please the professional audio crowd
It's not really that hard to please the audiophile crowd. Just coat all the connectors in gold, add a bit of shielding here and there and charge insane prices for your products. It works for Monster Cable after all.
There's plenty of competition in the voting machine market as well as the ATM market so I don't quite understand your reasoning there.
Unfortunately for Diebold, I'm not of the opinion that if they can't properly make a secure voting machine, what is to say that they can make a secure ATM? Sure, they may be two completely different divisions within the same company but considering how much the top management has avoided doing the right thing to fix their voting machines, I doubt the ATM division would be much different.
Because maybe you've got a dozen drives in the array. RAID 10 would be a serious hit on capacity while RAID 50 wouldn't be so bad.
Some file storage doesn't need to be super fast but you need a lot of it and you need reliability. Hence, RAID 50. You'll learn that the first time you have a budget on a hardware deployment.
You're right, you don't get it.
These laptops aren't for areas where there is mass starvation. It's for areas where people can, generally, feed themselves and get by okay but that's about it. Educating these children with computers so they can get a bit of a leg up on their parents would serve them to help areas in their country that *do* have starving people.
The summary mentions modern PCs but it seems to be about gaming PCs. Posting a story saying that gaming PCs take up a lot of electricity is pretty much stating the obvious.
I'd be more interested to see the power consumption differences between an off she shelf Best Buy computer of 5-10 years ago compared to one of today. Brick and mortar electronics stores are where a good majority of people buy their computers so as far as home computer power usage goes, that's what matters. I'd like to think that with components like sound, networking and video being put on the mainboard and the ability of major manufacturers to set machines to go into a sleep mode by default that computers of today would actually take up less power than those of yesteryear.
Not having any machine of that type around, I can't really do any testing unfortunately.
What's that behind you?!? It's a shadow, mobilize the National Guard! We must take every possible threat 100% seriously. Forget about taking half a second to see what it is, it could be too late. Close down the streets, send the people into their bomb shelters, run for your lives!
You're forgetting that in the real world many precincts allow election workers to take the voting devices home in the days prior to an election. This would give them both plenty of time and plenty of privacy to do whatever they want with the machines.
You're only getting good mileage on a Hyundai because the vehicle keeps on getting lighter from parts falling off.
*used to own a Hyundai Excel and will NEVER EVER drive in a Hyundai again*
Are you sure she "failed to notice" the stamp? Maybe you got those jugs *because* of that stamp.
That's nice, however those opte maps don't show the same information as the xkcd map does. While a whole bunch of lines randomly spread around has a certain spartan appeal, it doesn't convey any information. I can't look at the opte maps and say, "Oh, there's so and so" or "here I am." So, I'd hardly call them maps. Maps usually have information tags describing/naming places. Maybe those LGL files contain that information? It'd be nice if they made screenshots of the output of those LGL files though.
Yeah, you definitely need to have a Cisco router with Monster Cable CAT 6 running between it and your computer to make full use of Gigabit. Anything less and you're dropping packet fidelity through crosstalk line expansion. Not to mention the undervoltage latencies.
Not much. I'm at an I2 site and when I do big downloads from other I2 sites, they're noticably faster than from places like Redhat, Novell, etc. Sure, there's some technology in I2 that allows for more reliably low latency connections but you'd be hard pressed to find a web based application that would need that tech that I1 doesn't already serve (provided you're willing to spend the money for your last mile connection of course).
Maybe you'd like to increase page load times to make your site behave like a Web 2.0 (3.0?) site so you can get some investor to give you truckloads of money?
I'm missing something here, what does OpenSUSE devs being annoyed at Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu have to do with your argument?
At any rate, the article has some merit. In a previous Slashdot linked story, at least one CIO was quoted as saying that this agreement has caused them to not consider Microsoft for a new project that their company is working on.
You're perfectly welcome to keep your cash (lumps of gold would probably be better since US currency probably has RFID tags in them, right?) underneath your tinfoil hat.
At any rate, I'd be interested to see *any* credible documentation of banking and or federal regulations that mention this mandatory secretive reporting that you're blathering about.
You're well on your way to getting on the fast track to upper management mister!
Yeah, it's funny how the poster is talking about "poor backward compatability" when quite a few users have said that they're minor issues for the most part. Certain titles are unplayable but Sony has said that they're planning on fixing those issues.
Oh, then there's the "numerous" hi-def scaling issues which is really just the same issue (once again, goint to be patched soon) happening to multiple titles.
This guy should be writing for some political or marketing company. He's got the "take a minor issue and blow it out of proportion using clever wording" down to a T.
Oh Noes!! A company that wants to make money, will the madness ever end!?!
Thank you Captain Obvious. However, anybody who read the article summary (not you apparently) would know that it's already being used in Europe.
What's different is that this is the first installation in North America where there is quite a taboo against urinating in public here.
The GP may be on to something though. Technically, all of those business and home desktops *are* servers since they've got a myriad of trojans, rootkits and bots busily serving data to script kiddies around the globe.
If the only thing that you're critical of is the source of the information and not the information itself, then you're an idiot. That's the GP's point.
Yes, you are missing the point. Just because something emits electromagnetic waves, doesn't mean that it automatically causes cancer.
If you're constantly running over your voice minutes, perhaps you should just spend the extra $5-10 per month and increase your minutes? It's a helluva lot cheaper and easier than spending 5-10c for each arthritis generating text message.
Report to Zonk for re-education mister! Sony is an evil company and the PS3 is going to be a total failure and Zonk will make sure of that.
I can see the Slashdot offices later on today...
Zonk: Hey Hemos, I saw that PS3 submission you put up earlier today, about opening the case.
Hemos: Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that it can be opened so easily and the hard drive upgraded.
Zonk: Yeah... about that...
Hemos: Hmm?
Zonk: *bashes Hemos' head in with a Swingline stapler*
Hemos: Grngh!