I hate to say it, but I am beginning to think the parent is correct in their assessment of how to solve the spam/bot/rootkit/spyware/malware problem. It seems that general purpose computers need to be regulated and only run by licensed professionals.
Give everyone else WebTV and an XBox or something.
A: Shannon's Law is the relationship between channel capacity C (bits/sec) or maximum data rate, bandwidth B (Hz) and Signal to Noise power ratio S/N, as summarized in the Shannon-Hartley Theorem: C = B log 2 (1+S/N). The narrowband channel allocation that xMax uses to coordinate reception of its wideband xG Flash Signal is not the system's information-bearing bandwidth. xMax does not violate Shannon's Law.
The built-in updater prompted me to upgrade from 1.5 Beta 2 to 1.5 RC1. However, after asking me to relaunch my browser twice, and telling me it had upgraded to RC1, nothing had actually been upgraded. I had to download the installer directly from the web site in order to get it to update.
Does anyone have more info on this technology? As a resident of a rural area, my only broadband option is satellite. If DSL were a possibility for me via this new technology, it would really be great.
I just have to say that this is one of the best posts I have ever read on Slashdot. I don't have anything clever or insightful to add -- just wanted to shake the hand of the poster for an excellently written post!
The creators of Superman were Jewish. "Kal-El" means something like "All that is God" in Hebrew. (Not sure on Jor-El.) Superman was created around the time of World War II, a time when the Jewish people of Europe were especially beset upon. His homeland is destroyed and his people eliminated -- sound like anything familiar? He is placed in something like a basket and floated out into space, a parallel to Moses. He is raised by a people not his own and rises to prominence in that society, also similar to Moses.
Superman is actually a Jewish icon! He was created to give hope and encouragement to Jewish people the world over during a particularly bleak period in their history.
Ha! Here I am, straining my brain, trying to figure out how in the world this company is able to broadcast some signal to these little orbs. Satellite? Cell towers? Proprietary wi-fi network?
My sister-in-law got one of these for her husband for Christmas. I laughed when I first saw it, because I was convinced it was a gag: you plug it in and it randomly changes colors, "reporting" changes in the Market or whatever.
But when she told me what it cost, I figured there must be something to it. And after looking through the web site for it, I decided these must be legit. There's developer tools and everything! If they're bogus, it's one of the best scams I've seen in a long time.
But I never could figure out exactly how these work. Anyone know anything more about them?
I am excited to hear this news out of pure self-interest.
The sites I maintain do a lot of video streaming, and I have been having a heck of a time getting everything working optimally with the Javascript workarounds Apple, Macromedia, and others are promoting as the best way to deal with this potential change to IE.
I've been dragging my feet on getting it all figured out. As is typical in the industry these days (or so it seems from what I've read and am myself experiencing), I'm a one-man web shop in my company's IT department, overworked, underpaid, project managing, testing, developing, and it all has to be done right NOW!
All I can say is, if I don't have to mess with this IE workaround stuff for ActiveX, it'd be all right by me.
Not to mention that this is potentially a big win for the Internet as a whole. If one of these idiotic methdology/software patents can suffer a big blow like this, there's hope that they all can!
Does everyone really think the CGI was that bad? I remember being absolutely floored by the realism of it. I thought the Hulk looked incredible. Nick Nolte's "melding" effect was awesome. Some of the bigger shots, like with the Hulk running through the desert, hopping from one mesa top to another, were poorer quality. But on the whole I thought the CGI was some of the best I'd seen up to that point.
So, am I blind? Uninformed? Merely in possession of poor taste? Or are there other reasons that people WANT to dislike the CGI in this film?
(This comment could appear in a number of places, but since the parent post critiques the CGI work specifically, I posted it here.)
It does not appear that any of Mozilla's mirrors have the updated 0.7 release of Firebird. guess I'll just have to wait until Mozilla's own servers aren't so slammed.
From the article: "My Dell is a 1 GHz unit with 512mb ram but I didn't like running more than three or four apps at once because the performance became sluggish. On the Mac, I often run six or eight applications at once, including OS 9 and Windows 2000 in Virtual PC. Three open OS's at once plus playing music, downloading files and running updates is an amazing feat."
I have to take exception with this. I run a 1GHz Dell with 512MB of RAM, and I regularly have eight or more apps running simultaneously without any noticeable performance degradation at all. What apps was he running that slowed his system down so much, I wonder?
Does anyone at the TRON project really think the vole of redmond has had a change of heart?
Interesting typo. A Freudian slip perhaps?
vole - n. - Any of various rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, resembling rats or mice but having a shorter tail and limbs and a heavier body.
Generally, I agree. That's why I found it interesting to learn that the guy behind the company mentioned in this story, Amazing Internet Products, is a "national-master-caliber [chess] player" and the New Hampshire Chess Association's VP. Doesn't sound like your run-of-the-mill dope.
Hmmm. No point here. Just interesting.
Sorry to be off-topic, but this review sparked a question that has been lurking at the back of my mind for a while now.
I am in charge of all the web development for a medium-sized parachurch organization, the Willow Creek Association. I come from a hand-coded HTML background; I do most of my page edits/development in Visual InterDev. We run NT 4.0/IIS 4/ASP 3.0 on our web server.
I have relied heavily on SSIs to include header, footer, and sidebar on our web pages. I have been hearing for over a year now that SSIs are pretty much dead. Unfortunately, I have no budget for training, and I know my web skills are falling behind.
Can someone tell me what is replacing SSIs? And is hand-coding of web sites becoming hopelessly antiquated? Do you have to use something like a Dreamweaver to maintain a site these days?
Any info is appreciated. I want to do the best I can for our organization, and it's hard to stay current being a one-man show with no training budget. Thanks!
I have to disagree with your ocmment that there are no big characters in "Foundation". What about the robot who will not die, R. Daneel Olivaw? I remember discovering that he was still alive on the moon in one of the later Foundation books, and laughing out loud in joy at having him back. One of my favorite characters ever!
Well, I at least have to respond to your first alternative. It was Jesus who originally formulated the Golden Rule, so structuring a morality on that principle would indeed be a Christian morality.
I couldn't agree more. I'm done with big media, too. I've gotten rid of my TV -- nothing good on anyway, and now my wife and I talk a lot more, which is cool. I've got hundreds of MP3s from MP3.com that I enjoy more than anything I've heard on commercial radio lately.
I'm enjoying life more and I feel less cluttered, less frantic. Huzzah!
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Touche.
I hate to say it, but I am beginning to think the parent is correct in their assessment of how to solve the spam/bot/rootkit/spyware/malware problem. It seems that general purpose computers need to be regulated and only run by licensed professionals.
Give everyone else WebTV and an XBox or something.
I am not an engineer, but does this sufficiently address the potential problem the parent post brings up? (from http://www.xgtechnology.com/faqs.asp#q7)
Q: What is Shannon's Law?
A: Shannon's Law is the relationship between channel capacity C (bits/sec) or maximum data rate, bandwidth B (Hz) and Signal to Noise power ratio S/N, as summarized in the Shannon-Hartley Theorem: C = B log 2 (1+S/N). The narrowband channel allocation that xMax uses to coordinate reception of its wideband xG Flash Signal is not the system's information-bearing bandwidth. xMax does not violate Shannon's Law.
The built-in updater prompted me to upgrade from 1.5 Beta 2 to 1.5 RC1. However, after asking me to relaunch my browser twice, and telling me it had upgraded to RC1, nothing had actually been upgraded. I had to download the installer directly from the web site in order to get it to update.
Anyone else experience that?
Does anyone have more info on this technology? As a resident of a rural area, my only broadband option is satellite. If DSL were a possibility for me via this new technology, it would really be great.
I just have to say that this is one of the best posts I have ever read on Slashdot. I don't have anything clever or insightful to add -- just wanted to shake the hand of the poster for an excellently written post!
The creators of Superman were Jewish. "Kal-El" means something like "All that is God" in Hebrew. (Not sure on Jor-El.) Superman was created around the time of World War II, a time when the Jewish people of Europe were especially beset upon. His homeland is destroyed and his people eliminated -- sound like anything familiar? He is placed in something like a basket and floated out into space, a parallel to Moses. He is raised by a people not his own and rises to prominence in that society, also similar to Moses.
Superman is actually a Jewish icon! He was created to give hope and encouragement to Jewish people the world over during a particularly bleak period in their history.
Ha! Here I am, straining my brain, trying to figure out how in the world this company is able to broadcast some signal to these little orbs. Satellite? Cell towers? Proprietary wi-fi network?
I forgot all about radio!
My sister-in-law got one of these for her husband for Christmas. I laughed when I first saw it, because I was convinced it was a gag: you plug it in and it randomly changes colors, "reporting" changes in the Market or whatever.
But when she told me what it cost, I figured there must be something to it. And after looking through the web site for it, I decided these must be legit. There's developer tools and everything! If they're bogus, it's one of the best scams I've seen in a long time.
But I never could figure out exactly how these work. Anyone know anything more about them?
I am excited to hear this news out of pure self-interest.
The sites I maintain do a lot of video streaming, and I have been having a heck of a time getting everything working optimally with the Javascript workarounds Apple, Macromedia, and others are promoting as the best way to deal with this potential change to IE.
I've been dragging my feet on getting it all figured out. As is typical in the industry these days (or so it seems from what I've read and am myself experiencing), I'm a one-man web shop in my company's IT department, overworked, underpaid, project managing, testing, developing, and it all has to be done right NOW!
All I can say is, if I don't have to mess with this IE workaround stuff for ActiveX, it'd be all right by me.
Not to mention that this is potentially a big win for the Internet as a whole. If one of these idiotic methdology/software patents can suffer a big blow like this, there's hope that they all can!
Visitors are "tagged and bagged" and made to sign de facto non-disclosure agreements before being lead to an elevator.
"Tagged and bagged"? Really? Visitors are killed, inventoried, and their remains placed into a body bag? And then they're asked to sign an NDA?
That really is tight security!
Does everyone really think the CGI was that bad? I remember being absolutely floored by the realism of it. I thought the Hulk looked incredible. Nick Nolte's "melding" effect was awesome. Some of the bigger shots, like with the Hulk running through the desert, hopping from one mesa top to another, were poorer quality. But on the whole I thought the CGI was some of the best I'd seen up to that point.
So, am I blind? Uninformed? Merely in possession of poor taste? Or are there other reasons that people WANT to dislike the CGI in this film?
(This comment could appear in a number of places, but since the parent post critiques the CGI work specifically, I posted it here.)
It does not appear that any of Mozilla's mirrors have the updated 0.7 release of Firebird. guess I'll just have to wait until Mozilla's own servers aren't so slammed.
From the article: "My Dell is a 1 GHz unit with 512mb ram but I didn't like running more than three or four apps at once because the performance became sluggish. On the Mac, I often run six or eight applications at once, including OS 9 and Windows 2000 in Virtual PC. Three open OS's at once plus playing music, downloading files and running updates is an amazing feat."
I have to take exception with this. I run a 1GHz Dell with 512MB of RAM, and I regularly have eight or more apps running simultaneously without any noticeable performance degradation at all. What apps was he running that slowed his system down so much, I wonder?
Does anyone at the TRON project really think the vole of redmond has had a change of heart?
Interesting typo. A Freudian slip perhaps?
vole - n. - Any of various rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, resembling rats or mice but having a shorter tail and limbs and a heavier body.
I smell a rat!
Generally, I agree. That's why I found it interesting to learn that the guy behind the company mentioned in this story, Amazing Internet Products, is a "national-master-caliber [chess] player" and the New Hampshire Chess Association's VP. Doesn't sound like your run-of-the-mill dope. Hmmm. No point here. Just interesting.
Actually, I recall seeing Mandrake for sale on the shelves of my local (suburban Chicago, IL) Borders bookstore.
Of course, WML appears to be available only for Linux/Unix. Since we're a Windows shop, doesn;t look like WML is going to be an option for me.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Sorry to be off-topic, but this review sparked a question that has been lurking at the back of my mind for a while now.
I am in charge of all the web development for a medium-sized parachurch organization, the Willow Creek Association. I come from a hand-coded HTML background; I do most of my page edits/development in Visual InterDev. We run NT 4.0/IIS 4/ASP 3.0 on our web server.
I have relied heavily on SSIs to include header, footer, and sidebar on our web pages. I have been hearing for over a year now that SSIs are pretty much dead. Unfortunately, I have no budget for training, and I know my web skills are falling behind.
Can someone tell me what is replacing SSIs? And is hand-coding of web sites becoming hopelessly antiquated? Do you have to use something like a Dreamweaver to maintain a site these days?
Any info is appreciated. I want to do the best I can for our organization, and it's hard to stay current being a one-man show with no training budget. Thanks!
I have to disagree with your ocmment that there are no big characters in "Foundation". What about the robot who will not die, R. Daneel Olivaw? I remember discovering that he was still alive on the moon in one of the later Foundation books, and laughing out loud in joy at having him back. One of my favorite characters ever!
anyone tried "guest"/"guest"?
Well, I at least have to respond to your first alternative. It was Jesus who originally formulated the Golden Rule, so structuring a morality on that principle would indeed be a Christian morality.
Sadly, our firewall at work blocks this, too. Alas! What's a boy to do?
I couldn't agree more. I'm done with big media, too. I've gotten rid of my TV -- nothing good on anyway, and now my wife and I talk a lot more, which is cool. I've got hundreds of MP3s from MP3.com that I enjoy more than anything I've heard on commercial radio lately.
I'm enjoying life more and I feel less cluttered, less frantic. Huzzah!