It wasn't awesome because it was invite only, it was awesome because it was and still is much better than anything else out there.
My wife is semi-tech-savvy, she's been using Yahoo and Hotmail for years now. She was constantly annoyed by their interfaces. I asked her just to try gmail for a bit. After several month of being annoyed with Yahoo/Hotmail, she asked me to set up a gmail account for her.
She hasn't looked back, and I never help her with anything on it.
I just tried DuckDuckGo , it brought back nearly the same results as Google, except Google did a hell of a lot better bringing the more relevant results to the top.
I'm guessing it's because Google tracks me that I get better results. If I use Chrome in anonymous mode, my Google results are much closer to DuckDuckGo's results, close enough to be the same for me. But since DuckDuckGo doesn't track me, it will NEVER have better results than Google for me, assuming they bring back the same things every time.
That was my short experience with a few test cases. Mileage my vary.
Actually, I have seen off brand "Kleenex". "OffBrand Kleenex" or stuff like that. Kleenex in particular has become genericized.
You can't trademark a generic term, like AppStore. Kleenex has been so synonymous with tissue, that there is no distinction with common usage. Because Kleenex was TM'd, it is effectively grandfathered in. Other companies can sell "Kleenex", but they must very distinctly place their brand name in front of it as not to confuse customers.
Your example still stands, but I just wanted to point out that bit of trivia.
If every new house came with solar shingles, it would make a huge difference. Even a small percentage of houses with a small set of battery banks, hooked up to the "smart grid" could really help with usage.
Because renewable power, like solar and wind, can cause fluctuations, someone could make a device that you plug into any all outlet. The device could just be an ACDC system with a battery pack. It just listens to the "smart grid" and when demand is low and energy is high, it charges itself, and when demand is high and supply is low, it discharges. Power companies would have do something like "when supply is above x, then it's half-price and when it's above y, it's free" or possibly a curve.
Anyway, we got this promise of efficient batteries with 10x-100x the charge/discharge rate of current batteries and 10x the storage capacity. Suppose to be starting to appear in the market in the next 5-10 years in various forms.
Watt hours aren't worse than Joules. A joule is a watt-second of energy.
What would you rather see on your electric bill, 1KW/h = $0.10 or 1J = $0.00002777777~
Have fun doing that math in your head. Only a person who loves making thing harder than they need to be would use joules for every-day power usage.
BTUs aren't any better. I got a device that uses 5 amps and runs 110v. Without using any unit conversions, how much energy is used? Who the #$%^ want to multiple 5 * 10 * 3.41214, when they can just do 5 * 110? How much power can your wire handle? 5,630.031 BTU/h.. WTF?!
Sounds great on paper. But now you need to spend thousands of dollars to sue someone for a $5 website that you did in your spare time. And you have to take off from work and the most you'll get out of losing a half-years and getting fired for missing so much work, is your web-site is eventually brought back up after it's no longer useful and can no longer afford the $5/month because you no longer have a job.
I'm not concerned about size. It says Lion will *only* be for digital downloads. Say your HD died and you replaced it and you don't have a working OS X disc, how do you access the internet to download this?
Parameters are still better because they can support data-types that can't be passed in as a string. Also, the SQL engine is actually more efficient when using parameters as the SQL command and the parameters are sent via separate data streams. This also means you can't "accidentally" mess up your sanitization as it is not even required.
If something is found unconstitutional and people keep attempting to push the exact same laws over and over, they should be personally fined for the amount of the cost to the system if again found unconstitutional.
In the vastness of our skies, two airplanes coming within a mile of each other is close. Now imagine being ~170mi above the Earth.
On the Discovery Channel, they showed a picture of what a 1/2 inch flake of paint can do at those speeds. It left a 3 inch crater about 1/4 deep in the aluminum wing of the Shuttle.
Based on what I've read on the amount of radiation they deliver per dose, assuming the "safe" dosages and not the un-monitored dosages given by the TSA, and based on the total traffic per year, about 5 people per year will die caused from cancer by these machines and many more will develop non-fatal cancer.
But when you look at the amount of people moved per year, that percentage is still quite low, making it close to the safety of many sports.
I did read one recommendation to not have sex for up to one week after getting scanned because the x-rays directly damage DNA, which quadruples the chance of of having a kid with a genetic defect. This was based on the type of radiation, the way it hit your body, and the dosage, not actual studies. But still from a radiologist.
Sounds like a problem with your company, not with FF.
If they're so scared of version numbers changing, may be your should convince FF to never change their version numbers. So we'll be at 4.0.256 in 10 years, but at least it didn't change major.. right?
If your company doesn't like it, they can code their own browser and use their own versioning system. Really, I don't know why people are so up-in-arms about version numbers. I say just replace versions with the UTC build time.
It's not "free". You have to be in the military, which is part of your payment. You're still working for it, but yes, a small percentage of total costs is going into college/health care for the military personnel.
Pulling a number out of my.... And the other 90% of costs is going into fueling jets, making nuclear subs/ships, building tanks/vehicles, ammo/fuel, and transportation.
Money spent in a war is mostly wasted as the bulk of the money is invested into something with zero return. A small percentage trickles back in to the private sector via private sector purchases and services, but the bulk of the money is paying men/women to stand around shooting at people or blowing things up.
If you instead dumped that money into social services, even if largely abused, it would at least be invested directly back into the economy and we would retain nearly all of that money in some form.
When in college a few years back, the current estimated cost of 3 year of war would have paid for 10 years of nation wide free college AND health care. It's insane. Could you imagine a more educated and healthy populace? GDP would skyrocket after a few generations. Instead we're off fighting religious wars.
Nothing against our proud men and women serving abroad, just something against our government.
That's just one. There have been many many other studies over the past decade, all coming up with the same.
If you take the FBI crime graph for the past half-century, and mark when major consoles were released, you will see a sharp decline or at least an increased downward trend after each one. Crime is at an all time low. It's just the media that blows things up. When GTA was released, there was a nice decrease.
We may not know if they're causing the drop, but it is an interestingly strong correlation.
20watt draw 24/7 is only 175.2KWH/year, not 1226. Off by a magnitude. 20watt*24hour/1000(KWH)*365(days) = 175.2KWH The one in the article was ~450KWH/year
"But a good browser would never run something as insecure as ActiveX." Don't worry, FireFox supports WebGL, which is worse than ActiveX could ever dream to be.
Here's a current security flaw that may never be fixed without a re-write of WebGL
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't awesome because it was invite only, it was awesome because it was and still is much better than anything else out there.
My wife is semi-tech-savvy, she's been using Yahoo and Hotmail for years now. She was constantly annoyed by their interfaces. I asked her just to try gmail for a bit. After several month of being annoyed with Yahoo/Hotmail, she asked me to set up a gmail account for her.
She hasn't looked back, and I never help her with anything on it.
I just tried DuckDuckGo , it brought back nearly the same results as Google, except Google did a hell of a lot better bringing the more relevant results to the top.
I'm guessing it's because Google tracks me that I get better results. If I use Chrome in anonymous mode, my Google results are much closer to DuckDuckGo's results, close enough to be the same for me. But since DuckDuckGo doesn't track me, it will NEVER have better results than Google for me, assuming they bring back the same things every time.
That was my short experience with a few test cases. Mileage my vary.
Actually, I have seen off brand "Kleenex". "OffBrand Kleenex" or stuff like that. Kleenex in particular has become genericized.
You can't trademark a generic term, like AppStore. Kleenex has been so synonymous with tissue, that there is no distinction with common usage. Because Kleenex was TM'd, it is effectively grandfathered in. Other companies can sell "Kleenex", but they must very distinctly place their brand name in front of it as not to confuse customers.
Your example still stands, but I just wanted to point out that bit of trivia.
If every new house came with solar shingles, it would make a huge difference. Even a small percentage of houses with a small set of battery banks, hooked up to the "smart grid" could really help with usage.
Because renewable power, like solar and wind, can cause fluctuations, someone could make a device that you plug into any all outlet. The device could just be an ACDC system with a battery pack. It just listens to the "smart grid" and when demand is low and energy is high, it charges itself, and when demand is high and supply is low, it discharges. Power companies would have do something like "when supply is above x, then it's half-price and when it's above y, it's free" or possibly a curve.
Anyway, we got this promise of efficient batteries with 10x-100x the charge/discharge rate of current batteries and 10x the storage capacity. Suppose to be starting to appear in the market in the next 5-10 years in various forms.
Watt hours aren't worse than Joules. A joule is a watt-second of energy.
What would you rather see on your electric bill, 1KW/h = $0.10 or 1J = $0.00002777777~
Have fun doing that math in your head. Only a person who loves making thing harder than they need to be would use joules for every-day power usage.
BTUs aren't any better. I got a device that uses 5 amps and runs 110v. Without using any unit conversions, how much energy is used? Who the #$%^ want to multiple 5 * 10 * 3.41214, when they can just do 5 * 110? How much power can your wire handle? 5,630.031 BTU/h.. WTF?!
Hydro.. produces more greenhouse gases than coal.
P.S. the methane produced by biomass at the bottom of the water reserve is much more effective at warming than CO2
Sounds great on paper. But now you need to spend thousands of dollars to sue someone for a $5 website that you did in your spare time. And you have to take off from work and the most you'll get out of losing a half-years and getting fired for missing so much work, is your web-site is eventually brought back up after it's no longer useful and can no longer afford the $5/month because you no longer have a job.
yeah... great system. Any other great ideas?
Except no one invented a sword yet because that required fire, so the person who made a sword should have paid the person who invented fire.
I'm not concerned about size. It says Lion will *only* be for digital downloads. Say your HD died and you replaced it and you don't have a working OS X disc, how do you access the internet to download this?
Parameters are still better because they can support data-types that can't be passed in as a string. Also, the SQL engine is actually more efficient when using parameters as the SQL command and the parameters are sent via separate data streams. This also means you can't "accidentally" mess up your sanitization as it is not even required.
"...before we get rid of this cancer..."
Yeah, I'm not a fan of back-scatter x-ray either.......
I kid :p
If something is found unconstitutional and people keep attempting to push the exact same laws over and over, they should be personally fined for the amount of the cost to the system if again found unconstitutional.
Song of Solomon is quite arousing.
Anyone who doesn't get this, Song of Solomon talks about oral sex and many other delights.
In the vastness of our skies, two airplanes coming within a mile of each other is close. Now imagine being ~170mi above the Earth.
On the Discovery Channel, they showed a picture of what a 1/2 inch flake of paint can do at those speeds. It left a 3 inch crater about 1/4 deep in the aluminum wing of the Shuttle.
Wiki has a nice pic of what a 7gram object can do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SDIO_KEW_Lexan_projectile.jpg
Based on what I've read on the amount of radiation they deliver per dose, assuming the "safe" dosages and not the un-monitored dosages given by the TSA, and based on the total traffic per year, about 5 people per year will die caused from cancer by these machines and many more will develop non-fatal cancer.
But when you look at the amount of people moved per year, that percentage is still quite low, making it close to the safety of many sports.
I did read one recommendation to not have sex for up to one week after getting scanned because the x-rays directly damage DNA, which quadruples the chance of of having a kid with a genetic defect. This was based on the type of radiation, the way it hit your body, and the dosage, not actual studies. But still from a radiologist.
"corporate security is paranoid"
Sounds like a problem with your company, not with FF.
If they're so scared of version numbers changing, may be your should convince FF to never change their version numbers. So we'll be at 4.0.256 in 10 years, but at least it didn't change major.. right?
If your company doesn't like it, they can code their own browser and use their own versioning system. Really, I don't know why people are so up-in-arms about version numbers. I say just replace versions with the UTC build time.
It's not "free". You have to be in the military, which is part of your payment. You're still working for it, but yes, a small percentage of total costs is going into college/health care for the military personnel.
Pulling a number out of my.... And the other 90% of costs is going into fueling jets, making nuclear subs/ships, building tanks/vehicles, ammo/fuel, and transportation.
Money spent in a war is mostly wasted as the bulk of the money is invested into something with zero return. A small percentage trickles back in to the private sector via private sector purchases and services, but the bulk of the money is paying men/women to stand around shooting at people or blowing things up.
If you instead dumped that money into social services, even if largely abused, it would at least be invested directly back into the economy and we would retain nearly all of that money in some form.
When in college a few years back, the current estimated cost of 3 year of war would have paid for 10 years of nation wide free college AND health care. It's insane. Could you imagine a more educated and healthy populace? GDP would skyrocket after a few generations. Instead we're off fighting religious wars.
Nothing against our proud men and women serving abroad, just something against our government.
"15,000 users is mid-sized"
WTO, World Bank, EU, UN, and USA all think a medium business is under 500 people. I would think that 15k is quite large relative to that definition.
More than 15K probably need it's own definition past "large"
The 2.4ghz range is full of noise from wifi to microwave ovens. It also is readily absorbed by humidity/water.
No one actually uses 2.4ghz except home based wifi because it's such a bad frequency to use. It's the dumping grounds for ad-hoc networks.
You delimited the words within a sentence, not a sentence between a sentence.
Here is an example of two sentences delimited by a period.
The boy was happy.He had his birthday.
"There was a recent study"
That's just one. There have been many many other studies over the past decade, all coming up with the same.
If you take the FBI crime graph for the past half-century, and mark when major consoles were released, you will see a sharp decline or at least an increased downward trend after each one. Crime is at an all time low. It's just the media that blows things up. When GTA was released, there was a nice decrease.
We may not know if they're causing the drop, but it is an interestingly strong correlation.
20watt draw 24/7 is only 175.2KWH/year, not 1226. Off by a magnitude.
20watt*24hour/1000(KWH)*365(days) = 175.2KWH
The one in the article was ~450KWH/year
8watt draw is only 70.08KWH/year
It's Monday, you need more caffeine.
"But a good browser would never run something as insecure as ActiveX."
Don't worry, FireFox supports WebGL, which is worse than ActiveX could ever dream to be.
Here's a current security flaw that may never be fixed without a re-write of WebGL
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/webgl-flaws-puts-chrome-and-firefox-users-at-serious-risk-2011059/
I'm sure there's many more to come as WebGL has been torn apart by many other security professionals for various other design failures.
I just went to "About" in Firefox 4.0.1, and it showed me 5.0, downloaded, and asked me if I wanted to update. Did that on 3 different computers.