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I don't really like the sites redesign all that much. This is of course all my opinion and people can shit on it if they want.
I think the search box was perfect where it was. It is a bit harder to read although it loads much faster than the previous version. Anouncements kind of run together with a single thin line parting them. You never realize how much the shading help till you scroll through the listings. Also the drop downs are kind of "lame". It is also a bit harder to read the search listings as well as program descriptions. I also think the sidebar should be an exact width rather than a percentage it kinda crowds the screen at larger resolutions with very little to offer.
K enough of what I don't like, what I do like.
I like the minimalistic aproach to bringing me the content I want. The page load a whole lot faster now. I like the color scheme the new buttons and the side bar login.
I think it is a great site and the redesign I think was needed it helps "keep it fresh" but I also think it needs a bit o tweeking cause it has some anoying areas introduced because of the change.
I think beautiful code is subjective like art but unlike art programming has a relatively short history. I think things that would define beautiful code could be things like originality of thought, simplicity, and efficiency as well as the more common things like is it easy to read through and does it exhibit the general consensus of how things should look at the time. I think that in time groups will begin open source "peer reviews" where people could actually vode on things like syntax, originality, simplicity, how well they perform the function for which they were intended. I'm not sure of anything out there like that right now asside from the obscufiblagh* whatever they call it.
I think it would be neet to see a site pop up where thats all they did was take pretty code and imortalize it for study and general advancement of the "science".
I have my own server setup and a friend points dns at me. I like to use imp/horde from www.horde.org. It is nice lightwieght supports address books uses php and works great in ssl mode. As for a provider I'm not much help there but this is how I accomplish what your looking for for myself.
Well I'm sure there is just one of those nice little drop downs for story posting and it probably just says Digital. And the poster probably knows little to nothing about Digital E.Q. which to my knowledge is still owned by Compaq and not "dead" as a previous poster was pointing out. They may not be making alphas any more but they could decide to start back up at any moment which makes them not dead, dormant maybe.
I think this is ridiculous. The olympics is not about how much money adc cbs or nbc can make off of it but about the amature competition. which even that is going to shit in a handbag look how many professionals are being allowed to compete. I think the olympic commitee is just a bunch of whores and they enflame me to no end.
I got it for the 3d acceleration and built in tunner. Takes up one slot and does a lot better than my previous card. It seems to me it is all a game of leap frog. Never ending and never winning. You buy any video card today and you've made a good purchase if you can still play games on it in 6 - 10 months.
I'm just wondering if you use this product of have even tryed to use it yet. We've have now crashed it on linux win 98 win 2k and nt. I have not been able to change the start page or hit some of the most basic sites that contain javascript or dhtml. Now I would expect a release that either didn't support them at all and didn't crash but one that just up and opens a casket everytime you try and do anything real world in it. So while I think there may be people complaining just to complain there are also a lot of people who know what they are talking about and spending time integrating aim into the browser and some of he other for lack of a better word junk into it which does work well they haven't focused on what people who use netscape for browsing the web.
I can't belive they released this under as a final product no Preview tags no beta designations. I have run it twice and crashed it twice on things as trivial as javascript arrays and some dhtml. I'm a developer and scared to try and support a browser on the sites I develop that can't even render a homepage that works fine in previous versions without crashing to the ground.
I think your right after reading it I can't say what my predictions would be due to market volitility and me not wanting to be wrong. But these predictions are all based off certainties that for all intisive purposes are still vapor ware and we have all seen what happens when you bank on vaporware.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm tired of people dogging on mysql and the things it doesn't have and things it "should". If you use it you will find it has strong areas and weak ones for most applications you will find the strengths outweigh the weaknesses. That is of course unless you are doing multitiered POS/Banking/Finance type integration the first being the most common where it might not be a good idea to use. Another argument is that you have to have transactions to e-commerce. Which I don't feel is true there are hundreds of ways, some possbly easier than implimenting transactions, to deal with the fact mysql doesn't have them.
The impression I get is there are DBAs out there who don't know anything else but the DB they were raised on let alone how to learn a new one. And there are people out there that believe anythign their highly paid DBA tells them. This is just the only way I'm able to rationalize anyone would suggest mom and pop PC retailer on the net should pay 3-15k on a database that may never see more than a couple thousand records. Esp when there are alternatives that are in some cases free that give them the functionality they need without starting them off in the red.
I think the quasi proffesionals who fail to realize the importance of mysql in the industry aren't real proffesionals at all.
P.S. didn't mean to not include any of the other free databases out there but I could not call myself an expert in them yet so I cannot argue there strengths as well as I could mysql/oracle/mssql.
I think mysql is perfectly suited for most applications the web has to offer currently. I wouldn't trust it for my banking or trading but It does do great for most applications. I think you said tables when you meant rows. And how do you decide how much functionality is to much for a given application do you have any metrics you can share that allow you to make the supervious decision on what rdbm is "full featured" and quik enough to do what you need.
I don't think they meant this was equivical to someone clock chipping a system and improving all aspects of performance. I think it was directed at specific applications. At least that is what I got when I read it. And to use their analogy it is like the early era of cars and although the probability of someone being able to use this information to update the speed of their computer is small as time goes on and if this feature is kept it won't be long before someone figures it out and it becomes an easy way to squeeze just a bit more performance out.
To many of the posters fail to relize what you mentioned here. Security is not some star warsish meltdown of the facility if someone tampers with it. And for sensitive data such as the problem described in the original post deals with. Your only real method of solving the possible breach of security once someone has the hardware is to encrypt it. Otherwise the first thing I would do if I stole it would be to remove the HD seeing as how they probably knew what they were looking for and it wasn't the laptop it was sensitive financial data stored on it. I might even go so far as to disassemble the drive and send the platters off for data recovery. Meanwhile the laptop and drive case are sitting at the local dump or in some salavage electronics store. Lot of good your GPS locator and dead mans switch are now. May I remind you that all this took was maybe an hour or so to disassemble and get what I needed. I think the only solution is as the poster above pointed out awareness throughout the organization coupled with encryption for sensitive information. Any explosives or corrosive materials would be improbable and dangerous to use threatening more the lives of their daily users than the unprobable thief who might come along with the knowhow to circumvent the counter messures entirely.
I find it's the asthetics of it that make it very apealing. The lack of wires running across your desk. No more worrying if you move your computer to a more out of sight area if your keyboard or mouse cable will reach. I'm a techie from way back and I remember the time when none of that mattered. My box sat on my desk with the case off and wires running everywhere like spagheti. I find myself in the past few years becomming more and more concerned with how it looks when I'm not using it. I like it to look neat and organized because I feel better when it is. I no longer just close off my computer room when people come to visit. So while I can see why they are not for everyone I also see their usefullness. My only concern with them is when will they run encryption so I can set a private key for the computer and keyboard and have encrypted communications between the two. Otherwise someone could setup a device to record my computing to be played back at anytime including possible bank transactions and online purchases.
The one I fell in love with was the logitech itouch keyboard and mouse. They work of FM radio waves not the IR type which mean line of sigh is not an issue nore how far I choose to locate my computer from my desktop. The only limitation I have found with it is using more than one of them can become a hastle as they can interfear with each other at close range. This is the one issue I have yet to see anyone with a solution for. But as for my use of it I find it to work out great batteries last for months at a time and it is not that difficult to spot when they are going dead.
I think mechanical winders would be more practicle than a hand crank. Although I'm sure the later part of your statement would be a concern. Although I'm sure given enough time someone could come up with someting that would work but I'm also sure breaking would be somewhat difficult after a recharge.
I would only imagine that the latency is due in part to the lack up publication of the kernel being released as stable. I personaly had no idea the 2.4 kernel had been released and can only imagine there are others out there in the same boat. What happened with the hype behind 2.2 that did not propigate to the 2.4 release.
The only issues I can see with this would be the reliability and viability of independant organizations. How can you ensure they would be around to keep it going. I think that it would be a good thing only if it could be made so we were sure they would be up for a very long time. How many times have you gone to a software mirror only to find the old 404 or invalid dir DNS would be much more suceptable to that then you have the trust issue how to make sure everyone in the open source is not doing anything like NSI is doing for their own personal gain.
For me the best solution would be for the goverment to take control of domain registration like you would have to get a permit for your domain.
(remind: this isn't an all inclusive solution just something I could see being viable and long lasting.)
I would like to know the story behind how whois lookups on a b c and y.com all return reserved and as being there since 93 and z.com has only been around since 20-Apr-2000 this year.
"www.cybiko.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000"
So I would doubt that vi was used to create the site.
Also there are a lot of inconsistencies. I read this and tryed to figure what they mean by it.
"We have hit 220 000 000+ Impressions in 200 of the World's Best Publications!"
My thinking is they have hit 220,000,000 eyes with their blurbs in publications. If this were a possible investment I not know what to do. They have a decent product that could be the next pokemon. But they do not deliver a consistent message with their website most all of the marketing I have seen out of this company leads me to believe they lack leadership and dirrection.
So while I wouldn't concure with you in your statement of them being phonies. I would agree that they are somewhat misguided in their persuits.
Maybe I'm just outdated but I thought CDMA was Sprints baby TDMA is what most other normal companies are using in the US and GSM is what is used in the overseas markets.
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Man when I was 15 I would have lvoed to put one of those babies with a cam on it in the girls locker room.
I don't really like the sites redesign all that much. This is of course all my opinion and people can shit on it if they want.
I think the search box was perfect where it was. It is a bit harder to read although it loads much faster than the previous version. Anouncements kind of run together with a single thin line parting them. You never realize how much the shading help till you scroll through the listings. Also the drop downs are kind of "lame". It is also a bit harder to read the search listings as well as program descriptions. I also think the sidebar should be an exact width rather than a percentage it kinda crowds the screen at larger resolutions with very little to offer.
K enough of what I don't like, what I do like.
I like the minimalistic aproach to bringing me the content I want. The page load a whole lot faster now. I like the color scheme the new buttons and the side bar login.
I think it is a great site and the redesign I think was needed it helps "keep it fresh" but I also think it needs a bit o tweeking cause it has some anoying areas introduced because of the change.
Anyway just my two cents.
I think beautiful code is subjective like art but unlike art programming has a relatively short history. I think things that would define beautiful code could be things like originality of thought, simplicity, and efficiency as well as the more common things like is it easy to read through and does it exhibit the general consensus of how things should look at the time. I think that in time groups will begin open source "peer reviews" where people could actually vode on things like syntax, originality, simplicity, how well they perform the function for which they were intended. I'm not sure of anything out there like that right now asside from the obscufiblagh* whatever they call it.
I think it would be neet to see a site pop up where thats all they did was take pretty code and imortalize it for study and general advancement of the "science".
I have my own server setup and a friend points dns at me. I like to use imp/horde from www.horde.org. It is nice lightwieght supports address books uses php and works great in ssl mode. As for a provider I'm not much help there but this is how I accomplish what your looking for for myself.
It's the programers triangle. Fast Cheap or Good Pick any two and only two.
Well I'm sure there is just one of those nice little drop downs for story posting and it probably just says Digital. And the poster probably knows little to nothing about Digital E.Q. which to my knowledge is still owned by Compaq and not "dead" as a previous poster was pointing out. They may not be making alphas any more but they could decide to start back up at any moment which makes them not dead, dormant maybe.
I think this is ridiculous. The olympics is not about how much money adc cbs or nbc can make off of it but about the amature competition. which even that is going to shit in a handbag look how many professionals are being allowed to compete. I think the olympic commitee is just a bunch of whores and they enflame me to no end.
I got it for the 3d acceleration and built in tunner. Takes up one slot and does a lot better than my previous card. It seems to me it is all a game of leap frog. Never ending and never winning. You buy any video card today and you've made a good purchase if you can still play games on it in 6 - 10 months.
I'm just wondering if you use this product of have even tryed to use it yet. We've have now crashed it on linux win 98 win 2k and nt. I have not been able to change the start page or hit some of the most basic sites that contain javascript or dhtml. Now I would expect a release that either didn't support them at all and didn't crash but one that just up and opens a casket everytime you try and do anything real world in it. So while I think there may be people complaining just to complain there are also a lot of people who know what they are talking about and spending time integrating aim into the browser and some of he other for lack of a better word junk into it which does work well they haven't focused on what people who use netscape for browsing the web.
I can't belive they released this under as a final product no Preview tags no beta designations. I have run it twice and crashed it twice on things as trivial as javascript arrays and some dhtml. I'm a developer and scared to try and support a browser on the sites I develop that can't even render a homepage that works fine in previous versions without crashing to the ground.
I think your right after reading it I can't say what my predictions would be due to market volitility and me not wanting to be wrong. But these predictions are all based off certainties that for all intisive purposes are still vapor ware and we have all seen what happens when you bank on vaporware.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm tired of people dogging on mysql and the things it doesn't have and things it "should". If you use it you will find it has strong areas and weak ones for most applications you will find the strengths outweigh the weaknesses. That is of course unless you are doing multitiered POS/Banking/Finance type integration the first being the most common where it might not be a good idea to use. Another argument is that you have to have transactions to e-commerce. Which I don't feel is true there are hundreds of ways, some possbly easier than implimenting transactions, to deal with the fact mysql doesn't have them.
The impression I get is there are DBAs out there who don't know anything else but the DB they were raised on let alone how to learn a new one. And there are people out there that believe anythign their highly paid DBA tells them. This is just the only way I'm able to rationalize anyone would suggest mom and pop PC retailer on the net should pay 3-15k on a database that may never see more than a couple thousand records. Esp when there are alternatives that are in some cases free that give them the functionality they need without starting them off in the red.
I think the quasi proffesionals who fail to realize the importance of mysql in the industry aren't real proffesionals at all.
P.S. didn't mean to not include any of the other free databases out there but I could not call myself an expert in them yet so I cannot argue there strengths as well as I could mysql/oracle/mssql.
I think mysql is perfectly suited for most applications the web has to offer currently. I wouldn't trust it for my banking or trading but It does do great for most applications. I think you said tables when you meant rows. And how do you decide how much functionality is to much for a given application do you have any metrics you can share that allow you to make the supervious decision on what rdbm is "full featured" and quik enough to do what you need.
I don't think they meant this was equivical to someone clock chipping a system and improving all aspects of performance. I think it was directed at specific applications. At least that is what I got when I read it. And to use their analogy it is like the early era of cars and although the probability of someone being able to use this information to update the speed of their computer is small as time goes on and if this feature is kept it won't be long before someone figures it out and it becomes an easy way to squeeze just a bit more performance out.
To many of the posters fail to relize what you mentioned here. Security is not some star warsish meltdown of the facility if someone tampers with it. And for sensitive data such as the problem described in the original post deals with. Your only real method of solving the possible breach of security once someone has the hardware is to encrypt it. Otherwise the first thing I would do if I stole it would be to remove the HD seeing as how they probably knew what they were looking for and it wasn't the laptop it was sensitive financial data stored on it. I might even go so far as to disassemble the drive and send the platters off for data recovery. Meanwhile the laptop and drive case are sitting at the local dump or in some salavage electronics store. Lot of good your GPS locator and dead mans switch are now. May I remind you that all this took was maybe an hour or so to disassemble and get what I needed. I think the only solution is as the poster above pointed out awareness throughout the organization coupled with encryption for sensitive information. Any explosives or corrosive materials would be improbable and dangerous to use threatening more the lives of their daily users than the unprobable thief who might come along with the knowhow to circumvent the counter messures entirely.
I find it's the asthetics of it that make it very apealing. The lack of wires running across your desk. No more worrying if you move your computer to a more out of sight area if your keyboard or mouse cable will reach. I'm a techie from way back and I remember the time when none of that mattered. My box sat on my desk with the case off and wires running everywhere like spagheti. I find myself in the past few years becomming more and more concerned with how it looks when I'm not using it. I like it to look neat and organized because I feel better when it is. I no longer just close off my computer room when people come to visit. So while I can see why they are not for everyone I also see their usefullness. My only concern with them is when will they run encryption so I can set a private key for the computer and keyboard and have encrypted communications between the two. Otherwise someone could setup a device to record my computing to be played back at anytime including possible bank transactions and online purchases.
The one I fell in love with was the logitech itouch keyboard and mouse. They work of FM radio waves not the IR type which mean line of sigh is not an issue nore how far I choose to locate my computer from my desktop. The only limitation I have found with it is using more than one of them can become a hastle as they can interfear with each other at close range. This is the one issue I have yet to see anyone with a solution for. But as for my use of it I find it to work out great batteries last for months at a time and it is not that difficult to spot when they are going dead.
I think mechanical winders would be more practicle than a hand crank. Although I'm sure the later part of your statement would be a concern. Although I'm sure given enough time someone could come up with someting that would work but I'm also sure breaking would be somewhat difficult after a recharge.
I would only imagine that the latency is due in part to the lack up publication of the kernel being released as stable. I personaly had no idea the 2.4 kernel had been released and can only imagine there are others out there in the same boat. What happened with the hype behind 2.2 that did not propigate to the 2.4 release.
The only issues I can see with this would be the reliability and viability of independant organizations. How can you ensure they would be around to keep it going. I think that it would be a good thing only if it could be made so we were sure they would be up for a very long time. How many times have you gone to a software mirror only to find the old 404 or invalid dir DNS would be much more suceptable to that then you have the trust issue how to make sure everyone in the open source is not doing anything like NSI is doing for their own personal gain.
For me the best solution would be for the goverment to take control of domain registration like you would have to get a permit for your domain.
(remind: this isn't an all inclusive solution just something I could see being viable and long lasting.)
x.com is one also. My thinking is give them enough money and maybe they won't be so reserved with it.
I would like to know the story behind how whois lookups on a b c and y.com all return reserved and as being there since 93 and z.com has only been around since 20-Apr-2000 this year.
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.cybiko.com
says
"www.cybiko.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000"
So I would doubt that vi was used to create the site.
Also there are a lot of inconsistencies. I read this and tryed to figure what they mean by it.
"We have hit 220 000 000+ Impressions in 200 of the World's Best Publications!"
My thinking is they have hit 220,000,000 eyes with their blurbs in publications. If this were a possible investment I not know what to do. They have a decent product that could be the next pokemon. But they do not deliver a consistent message with their website most all of the marketing I have seen out of this company leads me to believe they lack leadership and dirrection.
So while I wouldn't concure with you in your statement of them being phonies. I would agree that they are somewhat misguided in their persuits.
Maybe I'm just outdated but I thought CDMA was Sprints baby TDMA is what most other normal companies are using in the US and GSM is what is used in the overseas markets.
I think the most recent stuff I have seen on this has been using microwaves to transmit waves that are converted to electricity.