Exactly. Microsoft owns 90% of the desktop market and after the Netscape/IE debacle I imagine Microsoft could be pretty skittish about bundling software that competes with third-party software makers, especially software that implements their formats. (I know that PDF's an open standard now but that wasn't until recently)
Apple also probably struck a deal with Adobe. (I don't know, though)
AFAIK "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't necessarily apply outside a courtroom. (And in some cases it might not even be said to apply inside one but that's for another thread...)
The demo boat was 2 centimeters long and was navigating a small dish of water. I think their bigger concern with this proof-of-concept was not to make it as fast as possible but to prove it's a sound concept. Speed improvements will probably be more of a matter of how much energy you want to use to run such a vessel than technological improvements.
First off, emailing is free so there's no point paying for a text.
There is if you want someone to get it when you send it as opposed to whenever they might decide to check their e-mail, and believe me, not everybody checks their e-mail every few minutes.
I think any security offered by TPM would be against remote exploits. The mantra I keep hearing is "all bets are off once an attacker has physical access" which makes sense.
In the real world we measure Words Per Minute by the number of words... we type in a minute. There's a lot of auxiliary words we use shorter than 5 characters.
Perfectly alright, it happens. You almost certainly would have been correct at one point and they only made the 2.6 driver available recently- I certainly had never heard of it before I checked the Ubuntu wiki for Macbook installation instructions after 8.10 was released.
I haven't had any problems getting it. Ubuntu 8.10's restricted driver manager let me enable it pretty painlessly (Check the "Broadcom STA Driver" and reboot) and Broadcom has a download page where you can get it. I've compiled it manually once or twice for distributions which don't have packages yet.
Really? Well I'd read somewhere storage was a special case. "Somewhere" could be wrong. But that still doesn't make sense because hard drives and RAM (or at least Crucial RAM, as I found out my last RAM upgrade) are the only places I ever see the SI prefixes used to mean powers of 10 and not 2 when referring to storage/memory.
I kind of appreciate ibi. It explicitly means the units are measured in terms of powers of two. Yes yes I know SI units are _supposed_ to be base-2 when referring to storage but it does still generate confusion because no other SI unit is base-2 and RAM and hard drive makers exploit this fact to their advantage. I got burned by this a couple years ago before I was aware of the ambiguity and bought a "320 GB" hard drive that ended up missing around 20 GB.
It's obviously not used universally but where it is it helps eliminate ambiguity. Which I like. I just wish they'd picked better prefixes.
I don't know how representative it is but at the last LinuxFest NW (maybe the one before, I can't recall exactly) there was a booth with some XO's and the Sugar interface on them was AWFUL. Molasses go faster and the interface? More confusing than religious fundamentalism. Half the time I couldn't tell what I'd done- I'd engage an activity and the screen would simply go grey for tens of seconds.
I think they would have done better with something more akin to the EEE interface.
So how should medical workers get their hands on useful tech? Test kits don't assemble themselves ya know and people generally want compensation for their time.
I'm broadly in agreement with you, I think a lot of companies in healthcare do slimy shit (I'm looking at you, insurance companies)... but that doesn't mean making a reasonable profit and not being slimy are mutually exclusive. I mean, c'mon, you don't even know how much they're going to ask for the application and you're already calling them bloodsucking leeches.
That said, I'm quite open to the possibility of them trying to milk the product for all they can. It happens. I just don't think it's fair to cry foul before they've even done anything.
Now that's a good point. Of course that's kind of an edge case. Someone living on $500 a month whose only option for education is to have material broadcast over the air to her television set? I don't see it being too common.
I'd rather have my grandchildren benefit from my creations than some guy that has a sweat shop in China cranking off cheapie knock offs.
Wouldn't everyone, yet nobody expects the grandchildren of, say, realtors or carpenters to receive any more benefit from their grandparents' work than an inheritance after they're gone.
(a) You can't put a bomb into anyones bag that can drive a plane into a building.
(b) I dare you to even try approaching another persons bag in an airport. People are paranoid about their luggage, and if anything it would be far harder to do this than to get something through security today!
Who says a terrorist has to want to fly a plane into a building? I imagine you could spread terror pretty effectively if you started salting baggages with bombs...
Count in base 3 (0, 1, 2). You could never tell anyone what counting system you were using but that just makes working out what you're saying that much more fun!
Well, GPS can also break or be manipulated. I think an odometer makes more sense- just make it a separate odometer the user can't mess with. The only world-facing thing would be like a jack somewhere on the car, once a year the tax man plugs your car into a machine which tells him how many miles you've driven. That said, I think a gas tax hike would probably be simpler and save the state money it would otherwise spend setting up a gps tracking system for every car in oregon or some kind of odometer scheme. It would also involve fewer privacy concerns.
Court proceedings are usually public. I went down to Seattle and sat in on a civil case between some lady suing U-Haul for about an hour, decided I was done, sat in on some B&E charges, moved on to drug court, then finished off my day with a civil case against the Metropolitan bus service because some guy got mugged on a bus. I had nothing to do with anybody involved, I just needed to rack up some hours sitting in court for a justice system class I was taking. They seemed pretty transparent to me. They don't post them on Youtube but that doesn't make them opaque.
Also, have you ever considered that the attitude that jury duty is something to be gotten out of is one reason most juries suck?
Also, the phrase had to occur SOMEWHERE in this discussion since I just copied and pasted the text. Last I checked Mac OS X wasn't able to copy-and-paste from delusions.
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Exactly. Microsoft owns 90% of the desktop market and after the Netscape/IE debacle I imagine Microsoft could be pretty skittish about bundling software that competes with third-party software makers, especially software that implements their formats. (I know that PDF's an open standard now but that wasn't until recently)
Apple also probably struck a deal with Adobe. (I don't know, though)
AFAIK "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't necessarily apply outside a courtroom. (And in some cases it might not even be said to apply inside one but that's for another thread...)
The demo boat was 2 centimeters long and was navigating a small dish of water. I think their bigger concern with this proof-of-concept was not to make it as fast as possible but to prove it's a sound concept. Speed improvements will probably be more of a matter of how much energy you want to use to run such a vessel than technological improvements.
First off, emailing is free so there's no point paying for a text.
There is if you want someone to get it when you send it as opposed to whenever they might decide to check their e-mail, and believe me, not everybody checks their e-mail every few minutes.
I think any security offered by TPM would be against remote exploits. The mantra I keep hearing is "all bets are off once an attacker has physical access" which makes sense.
In the real world we measure Words Per Minute by the number of words... we type in a minute. There's a lot of auxiliary words we use shorter than 5 characters.
Perfectly alright, it happens. You almost certainly would have been correct at one point and they only made the 2.6 driver available recently- I certainly had never heard of it before I checked the Ubuntu wiki for Macbook installation instructions after 8.10 was released.
I haven't had any problems getting it. Ubuntu 8.10's restricted driver manager let me enable it pretty painlessly (Check the "Broadcom STA Driver" and reboot) and Broadcom has a download page where you can get it. I've compiled it manually once or twice for distributions which don't have packages yet.
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Broadcom, who provide their own binary driver for 2.4 kernels (wl.o).
They also provide a closed driver for 2.6 kernels.
Really? Well I'd read somewhere storage was a special case. "Somewhere" could be wrong. But that still doesn't make sense because hard drives and RAM (or at least Crucial RAM, as I found out my last RAM upgrade) are the only places I ever see the SI prefixes used to mean powers of 10 and not 2 when referring to storage/memory.
I kind of appreciate ibi. It explicitly means the units are measured in terms of powers of two. Yes yes I know SI units are _supposed_ to be base-2 when referring to storage but it does still generate confusion because no other SI unit is base-2 and RAM and hard drive makers exploit this fact to their advantage. I got burned by this a couple years ago before I was aware of the ambiguity and bought a "320 GB" hard drive that ended up missing around 20 GB.
It's obviously not used universally but where it is it helps eliminate ambiguity. Which I like. I just wish they'd picked better prefixes.
I don't know how representative it is but at the last LinuxFest NW (maybe the one before, I can't recall exactly) there was a booth with some XO's and the Sugar interface on them was AWFUL. Molasses go faster and the interface? More confusing than religious fundamentalism. Half the time I couldn't tell what I'd done- I'd engage an activity and the screen would simply go grey for tens of seconds.
I think they would have done better with something more akin to the EEE interface.
So how should medical workers get their hands on useful tech? Test kits don't assemble themselves ya know and people generally want compensation for their time.
I'm broadly in agreement with you, I think a lot of companies in healthcare do slimy shit (I'm looking at you, insurance companies)... but that doesn't mean making a reasonable profit and not being slimy are mutually exclusive. I mean, c'mon, you don't even know how much they're going to ask for the application and you're already calling them bloodsucking leeches.
That said, I'm quite open to the possibility of them trying to milk the product for all they can. It happens. I just don't think it's fair to cry foul before they've even done anything.
Now that's a good point. Of course that's kind of an edge case. Someone living on $500 a month whose only option for education is to have material broadcast over the air to her television set? I don't see it being too common.
Actually, no it doesn't. I haven't watched broadcast/cable television for going on six years now.
Someone living on $500 a month has bigger things to deal with than television.
I'd rather have my grandchildren benefit from my creations than some guy that has a sweat shop in China cranking off cheapie knock offs.
Wouldn't everyone, yet nobody expects the grandchildren of, say, realtors or carpenters to receive any more benefit from their grandparents' work than an inheritance after they're gone.
(a) You can't put a bomb into anyones bag that can drive a plane into a building.
(b) I dare you to even try approaching another persons bag in an airport. People are paranoid about their luggage, and if anything it would be far harder to do this than to get something through security today!
Who says a terrorist has to want to fly a plane into a building? I imagine you could spread terror pretty effectively if you started salting baggages with bombs...
Count in base 3 (0, 1, 2). You could never tell anyone what counting system you were using but that just makes working out what you're saying that much more fun!
Well, GPS can also break or be manipulated. I think an odometer makes more sense- just make it a separate odometer the user can't mess with. The only world-facing thing would be like a jack somewhere on the car, once a year the tax man plugs your car into a machine which tells him how many miles you've driven. That said, I think a gas tax hike would probably be simpler and save the state money it would otherwise spend setting up a gps tracking system for every car in oregon or some kind of odometer scheme. It would also involve fewer privacy concerns.
Court proceedings are usually public. I went down to Seattle and sat in on a civil case between some lady suing U-Haul for about an hour, decided I was done, sat in on some B&E charges, moved on to drug court, then finished off my day with a civil case against the Metropolitan bus service because some guy got mugged on a bus. I had nothing to do with anybody involved, I just needed to rack up some hours sitting in court for a justice system class I was taking. They seemed pretty transparent to me. They don't post them on Youtube but that doesn't make them opaque.
Also, have you ever considered that the attitude that jury duty is something to be gotten out of is one reason most juries suck?
Only if you're speaking classical Latin. In the modern world it's a particular type of device.
Also, the phrase had to occur SOMEWHERE in this discussion since I just copied and pasted the text. Last I checked Mac OS X wasn't able to copy-and-paste from delusions.
You must not be trying hard enough. I get a post by an anon coward with a zero score when I hit the parent button. See: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1073255&cid=26230671
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