Well, you do realize that yahoo is web based, and not rendering HTML would require stripping out all html from the message? When you're talking billions of messages, it takes a while. Thier solution sucks, they need to at least mark words they've changed at the very least...
Yes, they turn down the turbo boost because you're putting more wear and tear on the engine running it at a higher boost value. Less waranty repairs and a longer engine life are both valuble qualities to have in car not aimed at car enthusiasts.
Something similar has been done before... The only problem being you can't trust taco to leave these polls alone... The Who won by millions of votes, if i remember correctly.
I didn't say he's worth X amount of dollars. Net worth means verry little. The fact that he started and ran a company, however, means something. Running a company requires skill. "Microsoft has questionable business practices" is a statment that can be backed up and defended. I don't beleive "Bill Gates is an idiot" can be, and is only wishfull thinking.
You can call Bill Gates unethical, but I think you'll have a hard time backing up your claim that he's an idiot, seeing as he runs and created one of the most comercially sucessfull companys out there. All you're doing is "Spreading FUD" about Microsoft... Microsoft is in the business of making money - as a public company, they HAVE to have the goal of creating value for their shareholders.
I once heard a story about some group of college students doing the same thing as a project. For a while, they powered the electric can opener with a bicycle. Then they realized that opening a can by hand was far less effort.
You're trying to take the moral high ground with the emusic aspect, but that has nothing to do with it. Emusic doesn't pay for your ISP, they pay to send you the files...
From my experience looking at colleges, you should start close to home and get a feel for what visting colleges is like. You'll be able to practice and learn what you should ask yourself, without feeling pressured. You'll also have a much better idea of what the schools close to you are actualy like. Once you've gained some experience, you won't waste your time spending thousands to visit schools that you'd never go to.
Try to talk with professors and students the most. Heads of departments may sound impressive, but they probably havn't taught a class in a while.
Talk to students and get a feel for what they think of the department. Try and find someone who isn't getting paid by the school to say nice things. (Do you think tour guides volunteer?) Students will usualy tell you what they like and dislike.
Professors are more interesting. My top choice (which I didn't get into) was mainly my top choice because durring a mid summer satuday afternoon visit, a professor pulled me into his office when he saw us wandering around and just had a chat with us. He was interested in students and wanted to be involved with the school. The 45 minutes he spent talking to us on his satuday afternoon showed the dedication of the faculty far more than any brochure. (oh what they hell, it's a compliment so I'll name names - that was Harvey Mudd, which still would be my top choice today)
Decide what's important to you... Do you care if your class has 200 people in it? Do you mind fighting to get the classes you want? Do you want a really comptitive environment or a laid back one? Should you know a programming language before you get there? Do your APs(if you've taken APCS A/AB) count for anything?
It's 4 years of your life. Only you know what you want and what's right for you. If you're gonna be happy graduating from a school who's sweatshirt you're proud of, then chose your school that way. If you want to be in a smaller environment, find a school that's right for you and don't feel ashamed that it's not the most presigious university out there.
Yeah, but this is a free(ish) market economy. In the end, something will give. They may be at an impass now, but it won't take that long... Effiencies will be exploited.
I saw it digitally at the Van Ness AMC and from the seccond row center thought just about everything looked great. What stood out the most, however, was when the credits rolled. You could see the pixels of the text moving up the screen. I assume that all credits are done digitally these days, so it would seem that the problems stem from the projector, not source material.
The thing with digital is that at this point it may not be better than film, but soon enough the resolution will surpass film. The purists will still complain about motion blur and "warmer colors" however...
Very soon, digital projection is going to be very affordable compared to film when you include the cost of making a print of a movie. If it costs less, the quality available today would be plenty to keep the average movie goer happy to keep buying popcorn.
The first I'd heard of this was today...
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I had thought about this but hadn't actualy heard of it happening untill someone in the lab I was working in was complaining about getting offers for free DVD's on their cell phone just today.
The only real way to stop this is going to be getting the phone companies to stray from the phone-number@mobile.phone-company.com. Hopefully they'll catch on. It'll be far more work for them to offer you an user name instead of just using your phone numnber, so we'll see what solution they come up with. They *could* start filtering any server trying to send more than two or three messages an hour, but we'll see how that goes.
At least with my plan I don't get charged for incoming messages, but they're a high priority interupt. If I start getting spam I'll just turn off the message beep. The moral of the story? Spam sucks.
One thing to add is that summer is almost upon us, and with that season comes many students looking for summer jobs. A couple fliers taken around to the local high school should get your plenty of high schoolers who'd be perfectly competent swapping motherboards/ram/hard drives. Ten bucks an hour to a high school student is better than flipping burgers, and far less than a salried employees time.
Actualy, an integer math Ogg library does exist, but it just isn't free. Whoever the "Ogg guys" are decided they needed to eat, and decided to charge money for the integer math decoder. Nothing, however is stopping anyone else from writing their own integer math implementation.
I agree that most of the time I don't care enough about the movie to watch it a seccond time with the comentary tracks, but that's usualy because the comentary tracks aren't worth it.
I disagree with your view that what they should focus on is "ram/os/HD" which is pretty inconsequential a lot of the time. Movies are an artistic vision, not a computaional problem. The matrix is a movie made with "computers" but what's interesting is the entirely new cameras they developed for it, or the hand drawn storyboards that show exactly what scenes ended up looking like.
Obviously you'd teach it to be "posessed" so that it would wander around the room and bump into things... Of course, it should map things out and only bump into them once. Reproducing old hacks with new hardware is a tradition.
I don't think the Nomad Jukebox is linux based, but I could be wrong... The real point is to counter the argument that ogg just needs a software update. At the momement, there is no real free ogg library that uses integer math. Many mp3 products don't have floating point hardware. The product I have the most experience with is the riocar/empeg car player, and this is the main stubling block to implementing ogg support on it.
If you really can't deal with CDs, radio or silence for half an hour a day...
You might as well just hook up your computer to an FM modulator, and tune a cheap shower radio to the frequency. I got my shower radio for under $15 at target. I would think someone makes a waterproof remote control, and there are plenty of IR repeaters available to get the commands to your computer from the bathroom.
A print server as dedicated hardware is probably a better idea than running a whole new computer as a print server. The power requirements alone would pay for the print server pretty quickly. Unless you really want to implement a real print server, with job prioritization, ques and multiple printers, it just isn't worth it.
Also, if you're leaving a computer-illiterate office with a print server, they're going to know one way to fix a problem - unplug and plug it back in. Your average linux box won't handle this too well. (I know it's linux so it'll never crash)
Tape drives are anything but cheap, in all my research. Drives cost a lot for anything semi-reliable, and once you've got this drive, it probably won't backup a single hard drive on one tape.
Tape drives used to be practical when you could do a compleet system backup on a tape, but that basicaly isn't possible anymore.
What tapes do give you is the ability to actualy have a backup scheme. Tapes are relatively(compared to the drive) cheap, so you can keep incremental old backups so that it is possible to go back and see what did that/bin/bash binary look like six months ago...
If they go out of business, their assets belong to their creditors. (Unless they shut down gracefully, but how often do you see that happening?) So, even if everyone wants to release the source code, the likelyhood that a judge would let them make their most valuble asset worthless is minimal.
Pretty easily. What defines a sever is what it's used for, not how much it costs. These machines aren't designed to sit in the back room and serve web pages, they're designed to be at your desk and used directly. Of course with unix there's always some crossover, but it's the primary design princicples that determines what it is.
Where the hell are the karma whores when you need them? Not only do they know to annoy me by posting when I can get to the article, they don't post it when I need to get to the article.
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They did make a 1Gig version(google: Jazz Drive), and it was even less reliable than the zip drive, which was an accomplishment in and of itself.
I wouldn't trust iomega to design the next floppy, ask anyone who's dealt with a clicking zip drive or an overheating jazz drive.
Well, you do realize that yahoo is web based, and not rendering HTML would require stripping out all html from the message? When you're talking billions of messages, it takes a while. Thier solution sucks, they need to at least mark words they've changed at the very least...
Yes, they turn down the turbo boost because you're putting more wear and tear on the engine running it at a higher boost value. Less waranty repairs and a longer engine life are both valuble qualities to have in car not aimed at car enthusiasts.
Something similar has been done before... The only problem being you can't trust taco to leave these polls alone... The Who won by millions of votes, if i remember correctly.
I didn't say he's worth X amount of dollars. Net worth means verry little. The fact that he started and ran a company, however, means something. Running a company requires skill. "Microsoft has questionable business practices" is a statment that can be backed up and defended. I don't beleive "Bill Gates is an idiot" can be, and is only wishfull thinking.
You can call Bill Gates unethical, but I think you'll have a hard time backing up your claim that he's an idiot, seeing as he runs and created one of the most comercially sucessfull companys out there. All you're doing is "Spreading FUD" about Microsoft... Microsoft is in the business of making money - as a public company, they HAVE to have the goal of creating value for their shareholders.
I once heard a story about some group of college students doing the same thing as a project. For a while, they powered the electric can opener with a bicycle. Then they realized that opening a can by hand was far less effort.
You're trying to take the moral high ground with the emusic aspect, but that has nothing to do with it. Emusic doesn't pay for your ISP, they pay to send you the files...
From my experience looking at colleges, you should start close to home and get a feel for what visting colleges is like. You'll be able to practice and learn what you should ask yourself, without feeling pressured. You'll also have a much better idea of what the schools close to you are actualy like. Once you've gained some experience, you won't waste your time spending thousands to visit schools that you'd never go to.
Try to talk with professors and students the most. Heads of departments may sound impressive, but they probably havn't taught a class in a while.
Talk to students and get a feel for what they think of the department. Try and find someone who isn't getting paid by the school to say nice things. (Do you think tour guides volunteer?) Students will usualy tell you what they like and dislike.
Professors are more interesting. My top choice (which I didn't get into) was mainly my top choice because durring a mid summer satuday afternoon visit, a professor pulled me into his office when he saw us wandering around and just had a chat with us. He was interested in students and wanted to be involved with the school. The 45 minutes he spent talking to us on his satuday afternoon showed the dedication of the faculty far more than any brochure. (oh what they hell, it's a compliment so I'll name names - that was Harvey Mudd, which still would be my top choice today)
Decide what's important to you... Do you care if your class has 200 people in it? Do you mind fighting to get the classes you want? Do you want a really comptitive environment or a laid back one? Should you know a programming language before you get there? Do your APs(if you've taken APCS A/AB) count for anything?
It's 4 years of your life. Only you know what you want and what's right for you. If you're gonna be happy graduating from a school who's sweatshirt you're proud of, then chose your school that way. If you want to be in a smaller environment, find a school that's right for you and don't feel ashamed that it's not the most presigious university out there.
Yeah, but this is a free(ish) market economy. In the end, something will give. They may be at an impass now, but it won't take that long... Effiencies will be exploited.
I saw it digitally at the Van Ness AMC and from the seccond row center thought just about everything looked great. What stood out the most, however, was when the credits rolled. You could see the pixels of the text moving up the screen. I assume that all credits are done digitally these days, so it would seem that the problems stem from the projector, not source material.
The thing with digital is that at this point it may not be better than film, but soon enough the resolution will surpass film. The purists will still complain about motion blur and "warmer colors" however...
Very soon, digital projection is going to be very affordable compared to film when you include the cost of making a print of a movie. If it costs less, the quality available today would be plenty to keep the average movie goer happy to keep buying popcorn.
I had thought about this but hadn't actualy heard of it happening untill someone in the lab I was working in was complaining about getting offers for free DVD's on their cell phone just today.
The only real way to stop this is going to be getting the phone companies to stray from the phone-number@mobile.phone-company.com. Hopefully they'll catch on. It'll be far more work for them to offer you an user name instead of just using your phone numnber, so we'll see what solution they come up with. They *could* start filtering any server trying to send more than two or three messages an hour, but we'll see how that goes.
At least with my plan I don't get charged for incoming messages, but they're a high priority interupt. If I start getting spam I'll just turn off the message beep. The moral of the story? Spam sucks.
One thing to add is that summer is almost upon us, and with that season comes many students looking for summer jobs. A couple fliers taken around to the local high school should get your plenty of high schoolers who'd be perfectly competent swapping motherboards/ram/hard drives. Ten bucks an hour to a high school student is better than flipping burgers, and far less than a salried employees time.
This is obviously a paid advertisment for microsoft products. How much did Bill pay them to get their price drop posted on slashdot anyways? :-)
Actualy, an integer math Ogg library does exist, but it just isn't free. Whoever the "Ogg guys" are decided they needed to eat, and decided to charge money for the integer math decoder. Nothing, however is stopping anyone else from writing their own integer math implementation.
I agree that most of the time I don't care enough about the movie to watch it a seccond time with the comentary tracks, but that's usualy because the comentary tracks aren't worth it.
I disagree with your view that what they should focus on is "ram/os/HD" which is pretty inconsequential a lot of the time. Movies are an artistic vision, not a computaional problem. The matrix is a movie made with "computers" but what's interesting is the entirely new cameras they developed for it, or the hand drawn storyboards that show exactly what scenes ended up looking like.
Obviously you'd teach it to be "posessed" so that it would wander around the room and bump into things... Of course, it should map things out and only bump into them once. Reproducing old hacks with new hardware is a tradition.
Linux based and supported under linux are different things. None of the top google results imply that the player itself runs any version of linux.
I don't think the Nomad Jukebox is linux based, but I could be wrong... The real point is to counter the argument that ogg just needs a software update. At the momement, there is no real free ogg library that uses integer math. Many mp3 products don't have floating point hardware. The product I have the most experience with is the riocar/empeg car player, and this is the main stubling block to implementing ogg support on it.
If you really can't deal with CDs, radio or silence for half an hour a day...
You might as well just hook up your computer to an FM modulator, and tune a cheap shower radio to the frequency. I got my shower radio for under $15 at target. I would think someone makes a waterproof remote control, and there are plenty of IR repeaters available to get the commands to your computer from the bathroom.
A print server as dedicated hardware is probably a better idea than running a whole new computer as a print server. The power requirements alone would pay for the print server pretty quickly. Unless you really want to implement a real print server, with job prioritization, ques and multiple printers, it just isn't worth it.
Also, if you're leaving a computer-illiterate office with a print server, they're going to know one way to fix a problem - unplug and plug it back in. Your average linux box won't handle this too well. (I know it's linux so it'll never crash)
Tape drives are anything but cheap, in all my research. Drives cost a lot for anything semi-reliable, and once you've got this drive, it probably won't backup a single hard drive on one tape.
/bin/bash binary look like six months ago...
Tape drives used to be practical when you could do a compleet system backup on a tape, but that basicaly isn't possible anymore.
What tapes do give you is the ability to actualy have a backup scheme. Tapes are relatively(compared to the drive) cheap, so you can keep incremental old backups so that it is possible to go back and see what did that
If they go out of business, their assets belong to their creditors. (Unless they shut down gracefully, but how often do you see that happening?) So, even if everyone wants to release the source code, the likelyhood that a judge would let them make their most valuble asset worthless is minimal.
Pretty easily. What defines a sever is what it's used for, not how much it costs. These machines aren't designed to sit in the back room and serve web pages, they're designed to be at your desk and used directly. Of course with unix there's always some crossover, but it's the primary design princicples that determines what it is.
Where the hell are the karma whores when you need them? Not only do they know to annoy me by posting when I can get to the article, they don't post it when I need to get to the article.