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I don't understand why it is that when a company enters into a work contract they are not held to the same standards of the employer.

Hashing a with buckets makes out of a Happy Mac a collection of groups of Not So Happy Mac parts of similar size, but of unrelated use.

A B-Tree is stuffing a lot of Happy Macs to a lot of 'X's, so you can smash them faster because of their physical nearness. But keep them in countable pile, so you don't lost track of them.

A two-handed clock algorithm is a attempt at stopping a clock with both hands, which bears the problem that one hand is catching the other.

And Google is the answer to all questions

Where is my banana?

(I admit, that I was not aware that Happy Mac stood for "that icon", too.)

Here's a longer interview with Barry from Wired

They also have some nice information on 'Carnivore' and 'Magic Lantern', spy technologies that the FBI is using on Americans.

Scary stuff.

Here's a longer interview with Barry from Wired

They also have some nice information on 'Carnivore' and 'Magic Lantern', spy technologies that the FBI is using on Americans.

Scary stuff.

Here's a longer interview with Barry from Wired

They also have some nice information on 'Carnivore' and 'Magic Lantern', spy technologies that the FBI is using on Americans.

Scary stuff.

Apparently it's reliable enough for the Department of Defense.

don't you canadians realize that down here in the USA we don't care what you think?

really? for a country that doesn't care, you sure have a thin skin

"May in some cases?" That's the lamest thing I've ever heard

But given the systematic errors that copy protection introduces combined with the random errors introduced by replication, the maximum BLER specified by the Red Book is not so many sigmas (standard deviations) away, and it's almost certain that a large percentage of manufactured discs violate the spec's BLER limit. Every single disc that turns out over the limit is a case of trademark infringement if it carries the "COMPACT disc DIGITAL AUDIO" label.

you haven't the foggiest

What do you dispute? Do you dispute that at least one CD audio copy protection method introduces intentional uncorrectable block errors? Or do you dispute that the whole process of manufacturing copy-protected CDs introduces so many that it violates the Red Book specification?

Please read this Wired News article.

you're desperately googling for something to support your side of the argument, right?

Correct, but only because I don't have a copy of the Red Book in front of me because my local public library does not carry it. But if "desperately googling" results in success, what's wrong with it?

You are an idiot.

An ad hominem attack does nothing to further your argument.

Enclosing a phrase [in a Google query] in quotation marks does nothing, you clod.

Then why do I get so many more results for |red book| than for |"red book"|, and the number and order of results for |"red book"| is about the same as for |red-book| or |red.book|?

According to this Wired article, Phillips is in the process of trying... but the bottom line really is, if the record companies were forced to remove the little CD-logo-thing from albums, would anyone notice and/or care?

I think you all give too much credit to the average consumer.

Actualy, the "real-virtual economy" has already been done.

http://www.project-entropia.com
Project Entropia will have a real economy system that allows you as a user to exchange real life money into PED (Project Entropia Dollars) and then back into a real currency again.

The game was release last month (or so), but the company (MindArk) is pretty much a joke ... they were raided in 2002 with the help of M$ for having pirated software:

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53534,00 .html

The whole real-virtual economy thing sounds more like a bad gimmick than a viable feature...
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There was a study in Wired News a while back that basicly said that the real money in spamming is maintaining and selling lists of e-mail addresses to other spammers.

Is it possible to make a real life living in a virtual economy?

There was a good Wired article on this- the minimum wage averages out to be $3.42/hour, though for a different game (UO and/or EQ) than There.com.

I like the verdict and think that the fine is appropriate, but I don't like how it was calculated. Maybe the article misrepresented it, but charging $0.01 per spam seems excessive.

The article says 880 million undeliverable emails are sent every day. At a penny a piece, that's USD$8.8million / day, or $3.2 billion/year. The company does $42 billion in sales per year, I doubt that they spend 7.6% of their income on spam. Or, for that matter, give me $3b/yr and I'll provide the equipment to totally filter all of their undeliverable mail -- they'll save their shareholders $200 million!.

I just wish they said "it cost us 1 man-year of work to stop this guy" and cost it that way instead of making up numbers per message. It's this kind of unjustified damage estimate that "cost" sun $80 million of money that was good enough to tell a judge under oath, but too bogus to tell their shareholders. A doubt NTT has a $3.2b line-item on their annual report.

(and, as others have pointed out, this 880milMsg/day is misaddressed mail - trivial to filter out and it never consume any expensive RF bandwidth)

A custom binary like seti@home perhaps?

that didnt stop the cheaters of seti ,and this is a project where no one wins a cent,

disassembling/RE gets a lot more serious when cash is involved.

Wow! Read the Wired article! He drives a CAR around a parking lot!! Jens must be the same guy I read about earlier. And Humayun's research seems to be the basis for the retinal implant that I remember.

Wow! Makes you wonder if perhaps the Sci Fi writers are more influenced by reality?

I suspect this was probably discussed in Slashdot back in the day, but couldn't get the search engines to give me a good reference.

Just curious, just who is making the X-Box and new network gear that Microsoft sells?

Flextronics. They make them in Mexico, and their business is making stuff for others.

You're right, this list is bad. Take number 5, it says virtual reality game are dead. How about, virtual reality games were never really alive! The Virtual Boy was a horrible device designed to give me headaches. I rented it once from blockbuster years ago... sometimes I still wake up seeing red lines!

Seriously, the only good virtual experience I have ever found is the battletech pods. You sit inside a pod which looks like a real cockpit of a battlemech from the inside and you go on a rampage. I guess all virtual stuff will suck until we can walk into a star trek-like holodeck and play some REAL games.

Sure database structures can be larger, but what about all the apple die-hard graphic gurus, that have files larger than 2 Gigs. Then what about the biology folks that are mapping the the human gens (that file takes up an iPod)

At then what about my needs, and the ability to run every applications I have from ram so that I don't have to wait for my hard drive.

Wired had an article late last year entitled Vision Quest about a similar topic. The doctor couldn't perform most of his techniques in the U.S. due to ethical laws, giving the article a real "Frankenstein" flair. Good read.

The author of the Forbes article is Gary Reback who is a notorious anti-monoplist.

wired ran an article a few weeks ago about how the army was using rugged panasonic laptops for operations. one of their gis guys was having trouble manipulating huge images with them and had the government ship over a titanium powerbook which is apparently holding up fine.

Wired has a story on the same subject: http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58143,0 0.html

I'm sure some of you have read this on Wired, regarding 'Dick Tracy' watches - this seems like something which might move us even closer to the reality :-)

And here: ...in a March 9 interview on CNN's Late Edition/Prime Time Gore insisted: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

And here:
Several times, George W. Bush and his campaign have questioned Al Gore's credibility. One of their favorite examples is when on 09March 1999, Gore told CNN's Wolf Blitzer....

And here:
During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself from rival Bill Bradley, Gore boasted: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

And here:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet," Gore said during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

And here:
In March of 1999 while appearing on a CNN program hosted by Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore briefly alluded to his role in the development of the Internet. This comment became controversial overnight and was used to the former Vice President's disadvantage during the 2000 campaign.

And EVEN here:
March 9, 1999; CNN interview
CLAIM: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Or, if you still want to believe Gore said "I invented the Internet" during a debate, than go ahead. But I will reserve the right to get pissed off when people like you falsely accuse me of lying.

I think it's well past the drawing board... I remember reading this in Wired a while ago -- back in May 2001, actually.

They're using 16 PS2's hooked up in parallel...

In a CNN interview on 9 March 2000, Al Gore claimed "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Was Al Gore really the "Father of the Internet"? Well, no. Albert Gore, Junior, was not elected to Congress until 1976, although his father Albert Gore, Senior, was previously a Senator. Junior represented Tennesee's Fourth District in the House of Representatives, then was elected to the US Senate in 1984. (Source: "Current Biography Yearbook 1987", page 213, edited by Charles Moritz, published by The H.H. Wilson Company, NY, copyright 1987 and 1988.) The Pentagon funded the original development of the Internet, and the military contracting company Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) began constructing it in 1969. (Source: see the Internet history FAQ pages listed below.) It was originally called ARPAnet, since the agency that funded it was named ARPA. By 1973 it was a modest success.

Wired News does a nice job of debunking Gore's claim.

The CNN interview in which Al Gore claimed that he created the Internet:

• CNN transcript of Gore interview
• RealAudio audio-video file of Gore CNN interview

Internet history FAQ pages:

• The History of the Internet
• Internet Society (ISOC) All About the Internet
• Evolution of the Internet

In a CNN interview on 9 March 2000, Al Gore claimed "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Was Al Gore really the "Father of the Internet"? Well, no. Albert Gore, Junior, was not elected to Congress until 1976, although his father Albert Gore, Senior, was previously a Senator. Junior represented Tennesee's Fourth District in the House of Representatives, then was elected to the US Senate in 1984. (Source: "Current Biography Yearbook 1987", page 213, edited by Charles Moritz, published by The H.H. Wilson Company, NY, copyright 1987 and 1988.) The Pentagon funded the original development of the Internet, and the military contracting company Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) began constructing it in 1969. (Source: see the Internet history FAQ pages listed below.) It was originally called ARPAnet, since the agency that funded it was named ARPA. By 1973 it was a modest success.

Wired News does a nice job of debunking Gore's claim.

The CNN interview in which Al Gore claimed that he created the Internet:

• CNN transcript of Gore interview
• RealAudio audio-video file of Gore CNN interview

Internet history FAQ pages:

• The History of the Internet
• Internet Society (ISOC) All About the Internet
• Evolution of the Internet

There have actually been real instances when non-conventional techniques have been used for office delivery. For instance, the Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN uses a sophisticated network of pneumatic tubes for instant office delivery. Remember Winston from Orwell's 1984? He used something like that too. For more info on this technology: a Wired article

As some have heard, there was a grassroots campaign back in 2000 to elect Steve Jobs as President of the U.S... Perhaps having Gore to the board of directors is bringing this idea one step closer to reality?

Think very different

During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself from rival Bill Bradley, Gore boasted: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. ... The terrible irony in this exchange is that while Gore certainly didn't create the Internet, he was one of the first politicians to realize that those bearded, bespectacled researchers were busy crafting something that could, just maybe, become pretty important." - Wired News

Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, and anyone who jokes about it is just showing their ignorance. (sorry timothy)

Kallahar

The article is online here

I hope that all the people saying "serves them right" have the same attitude to this practice.

Google turned this up:

This Laptop's Too Hot to Handle.

Among other links. I didn't see confirmation of the story though...

--RJ

make even faster (and hopefully cooler) processors

Decide. You can only have one at a time.

They either give you faster CPUs or cooler CPUs.

First, they go for faster for the price of creating way more heat. Those were the last few years.

Right now, the market has decided that it doesn't need any more speed and that it is more concerned about heat and energy consumption. Alas, not for enviromental reasons, since then we'd see low voltage CPUs and chipsets in desktops, but because it affects laptop battery life and it's potentially unpleasant.

I hope that low voltage CPUs will be seen more often in desktops. I hate my computer's cooling fans.

On a related note, you might like to read this article in Wired, documenting very much your position, and that of many other US Citizens, it would seem.

For about a year, Mark Allen, a gay man living in New York, conducted an online relationship with a man living in Austin, Texas. But as the relationship matured, Allen realized it wasn't his cyberboyfriend he was falling in love with, it was his PowerMac G3.

The complete article is here

Is there any centralized coordination? Isn't there a CEO of Sony corporate who keeps his divisions in line with the goals (i.e. bottom line interests) of the company as a whole?

Wired did an article about the fighting within Sony. Basic idea: Sony can keep fighting itself and fail, or it can embrace new technology and win.

that article is well over 4 years old...

this one gives a date of Nov. 1998. We probably would have heard something by now...

How is the sexual life of geeks, crackerz and other members of the Internet underground documented? Check this out. A Wired story about this too!

Try Wired News.

No tables, and looks great in the latest versions of Mozilla and Explorer. Not only that, try the same page with Lynx or Avantgo and see it working flawlessly with them too.

Fh

The GM Hy-Wire

You should also read Wired's article on the Hy-Wire, Popular Mechanics' article and How Stuff Works: GM Hy-Wire for more details.

Hint, it doesn't cost $100B. Infrastructure buildout should cost less than $100M. In the article, it's budgeted at $5B. The hydrogen storage system has to provide 300 miles in range not 400 as this article says is necessary. Honda currently ships a fuel cell car that has a range of 220 miles so we're already 2/3rds of the way there. The article says that Detroit is already gearing up for fuel cell mass production. If they're already doing that, they have no need of the taxpayer's $10B. As for renewables, this is just a bolt on and has nothing to do intrinsicly with hydrogen. Scratch another $10B for that (or at least put it in its own program). $25B to shove uneconomic hydrogen cars down the consumer's throat? I don't think so. $10B for the oil companies to make hydrogen pipelines? Again, no way. Let them pay their own way. When you strip out the unnescessary expenses and just leave the technical problems of fuel tanks and a bare bones national hydrogen infrastructure, you end up with less than $20B in federal spending. Kicking it off with $1.2B this year doesn't seem unreasonable all of a sudden.

Ha,ha,ha, You are so funny! A lot of different people work on a lot of different projects. There is going to be some inconsistencies. But they don't really concern you, Apple will give you an interface and you will like it. And don't forget, the work of these people allow you to post "We have a Unix-based OS" all over the place.

Did you happen to read this? You might find it interesting.

No idea what to do with the money?!? There's a problem I'd love to have. Sheesh.

I can't say this is a bad use of the money, but I'm sure they could come up with more productive uses. Like revitalizing their energy infrastructure and making a market for all the energy they are generating with those damns.

From the article:

Currently, the least expensive method is a process known as steam reforming, in which natural gas reacts chemically with steam to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

There should be more info on the web. Don't be a pessimist! ;)

When the global energy system becomes dire - which it WILL, eventually, and sooner than you think - the hydrogen economy will take off, because if it doesn't the human race is quite literally doomed.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that on the same page as this "How Hydrogen can Save America" article, there's a GIANT FUCKING AD FOR AN SUV

I think it's the human race's nature to destroy itself, hydrogen tech or no hydrogen tech.

I don't know which is more sad, that the parent didn't read the article (which devoted a whole section to different ways to get hydrogen) or the fact that there are three replies to his comment which failed to point this out.

Check out page 3, point number 4, to read his suggestion of using "steam reforming" combined with nuclear power to get the hydrogen. (Of course, read this comment to see why this might not be such a good idea...)