Providers are only offering unlimited free minutes to the same provider under competitive pressure. It's not free for them to provide it. They know there is money in things like this, so you can be sure they'd charge for it.
Anyways, it costs the cell companies $X/kB where X is a very low number (the cost, as I understand it, is mainly in that the network is overloaded, so keeping a line open for you prevents them from keeping a line open to someone else). An e-mail can be 1-2kB, a voice reading that e-mail would be many times more.
Yes, the 2 means it is a system call. The binary is jail(8). And yes, it needs the hostname. Linux uses the hostname in the kernel, too, I believe. It's been that way for years.
You shouldn't be surprised, because they've come out and said almost exactly that on many, many occasions. Software and hardware companys work together to raise the bar to get people to buy more product. If no one ever needed to buy a new machine when they got Windows 95, Intel would quite likely be out of business today.
"that they have been established long enough to have a business listing"
Wha? I got a secure certificate in the first few weeks of starting my company. It was registered under my name, in fact.
SSL certificates do not grant any useful level of trust. All they do is say "This web merchant was conned by the Thawte/Verisign/MSIE/Netscape conspiracy, trust us on that!"
"So site owners have to rate. But, aha, rating incorrectly will have to be made a crime, else those illegal pornographers will rate themselves as 'kid-friendly', dontchaknowit."
I think you're missing the point WRT illegal. You are also missing some key information - not every porn site operator is out to get kids on their sites. After all, kids rarely have credit cards (that won't result in chargebacks that is). The adult industry is also very tight and is mostly based on a series of trades all attempting to funnel traffic to sites that make the cash. If this sort of thing catches on and some webmasters aren't following "the rules", they will not be part of the game for long.
Doesn't this just show the uselessness of continuing to use Quake3 for benchmarks? Or for that matter anything above a frame rate you can actually see?
Maybe the graphics card reviewers will start using different benchmark utilities that actually strain the cards to the point that you can discern a difference while playing.
Wouldn't it be amusing if the drivers are just skipping sending frames to the video card? Nobody would ever notice the 15% boost when it's already above 100fps...
Code Red is definitely still out there. So far today, 485 unique hosts have hit just one of the servers I'm monitoring. The pace is much lower now, though.
NBC and other networks are investors in TiVo, so it's not just the ones carrying the content who have an interest in the device. Some speculate that this is why TiVo doesn't have a 30-second skip feature (by default).
TiVo also has a thumbs up/thumbs down system, which I'm sure are included in the marketing data they read from your system (unless you opt-out). I would be surprised if they weren't considered similarly to the Neilsen(sp) ratings system.
One thing Season Passes can do for you is record each episode only once per say.. month. That way you don't end up seeing the same episode if it is aired on two seperate channels during the same month. I think that's pretty damn nifty.
Plus it's nice not having to even guess which channel your shows are on. I get Law and Order on two different channels at least, but it doesn't even matter to me which channel it's on - I skip the commercials anyways.:)
Also, TiVo's listings are far more than just a step above the regular listings. They're interactive, meaning you can select shows from the list and set them to record in just a few clicks. You can also look backwards to see what was on yesterday - I'm sure I'm not the only person to use this feature.
Btw: You can set up manual recordings. I do that for Adult Swim on Cartoon Network because their clocks are a few minutes off there. TiVo can handle this if you tell it to record a few minutes early or late, but I've found it to be a lot of trouble to set that up for 6 shows in a row - personal preference.
f it was really such a great idea, why isn't it flourishing?
Probably because it was marketed poorly. Marketing has nearly nothing to do with the quality of the actual idea - it has to do with whoever was hired to do the marketing. If they're incompetent, they can kill the idea.
It seems like the primary (note/.'ers, I said PRIMARY, not your little pet project:) ) use for mod_perl is to avoid the overhead associated with loading modules.
It seems like the better choice would be to avoid using modules altogether. Or using another language like C or PHP that has stuff built-in. It's amazing how much CPU time loading a simple perl module takes.
I think you misunderstood. True, launching from the moon would be less efficient than launching from an orbiting station. However, I believe he was referring to the fact that once you have the technology to survive on the moon, you have the technology to survive nearly anywhere, because the moon is so barren.
Yahoo's home page, yesterday, had one of these iPaqs twirling around it insanely. At this point I'm convinced that anything Yahoo advertises will be immediately unappealing to me.
I'm sorry but "we are not working on an encryption bill" means nothing to me. They'll just say "instead, we're working on this anti-terrorism bill, and whoops, what do you know, it includes clauses about encryption."
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
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Imagine the possibilities, distributed load balanced address books and calendars!
Argh. Is it possible that when news articles come listed from Yahoo that a non-Yahoo source could be used instead, or at least added as a secondary link?
As soon as I see a blur (pop-behind) ad I quickly close the page I'm on in the naive hope that they track when people stop visiting their sites and don't leave via an ad...;)
Bill Gates himself has talked about how Microsoft's long-term (10 yearish) future is not going to be as pretty as the past has been.
Given that, it looks to me like Microsoft is going to risk some alienation while at the same time opening consumers eyes to the idea of subscription-based software. When most software starts to use this scheme, Microsoft won't look quite as evil and will begin to rise once again.
Need to have dagrab and lame installed, and possibly some other ports. My scripts can be found at: mp3 scripts. When I want to rip a CD, I pop it in and simply run "./rip" from my mp3 dir. It takes care of the rest, including CDDB-based naming.
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He didn't say that the Transmeta chip was cool, he said it was cool that you could pack 6 machines in 1 rack unit.
Providers are only offering unlimited free minutes to the same provider under competitive pressure. It's not free for them to provide it. They know there is money in things like this, so you can be sure they'd charge for it.
Anyways, it costs the cell companies $X/kB where X is a very low number (the cost, as I understand it, is mainly in that the network is overloaded, so keeping a line open for you prevents them from keeping a line open to someone else). An e-mail can be 1-2kB, a voice reading that e-mail would be many times more.
Yes, the 2 means it is a system call. The binary is jail(8). And yes, it needs the hostname. Linux uses the hostname in the kernel, too, I believe. It's been that way for years.
You shouldn't be surprised, because they've come out and said almost exactly that on many, many occasions. Software and hardware companys work together to raise the bar to get people to buy more product. If no one ever needed to buy a new machine when they got Windows 95, Intel would quite likely be out of business today.
"that they have been established long enough to have a business listing"
Wha? I got a secure certificate in the first few weeks of starting my company. It was registered under my name, in fact.
SSL certificates do not grant any useful level of trust. All they do is say "This web merchant was conned by the Thawte/Verisign/MSIE/Netscape conspiracy, trust us on that!"
...is unfair to some. :-) Where's the obligatory mirror?
"So site owners have to rate. But, aha, rating incorrectly will have to be made a crime, else those illegal pornographers will rate themselves as 'kid-friendly', dontchaknowit."
I think you're missing the point WRT illegal. You are also missing some key information - not every porn site operator is out to get kids on their sites. After all, kids rarely have credit cards (that won't result in chargebacks that is). The adult industry is also very tight and is mostly based on a series of trades all attempting to funnel traffic to sites that make the cash. If this sort of thing catches on and some webmasters aren't following "the rules", they will not be part of the game for long.
(I know, bad form following up to myself but...)
Doesn't this just show the uselessness of continuing to use Quake3 for benchmarks? Or for that matter anything above a frame rate you can actually see?
Maybe the graphics card reviewers will start using different benchmark utilities that actually strain the cards to the point that you can discern a difference while playing.
Wouldn't it be amusing if the drivers are just skipping sending frames to the video card? Nobody would ever notice the 15% boost when it's already above 100fps...
Heh, damn, I was pushing for a Funny score on that one. :)
I seem to remember that the Dreamcast was also running on Microsoft software. (Windows CE?) Amusing...
Why would a MS Windows user use Netscape/Opera instead of MSIE?
Code Red is definitely still out there. So far today, 485 unique hosts have hit just one of the servers I'm monitoring. The pace is much lower now, though.
NBC and other networks are investors in TiVo, so it's not just the ones carrying the content who have an interest in the device. Some speculate that this is why TiVo doesn't have a 30-second skip feature (by default).
TiVo also has a thumbs up/thumbs down system, which I'm sure are included in the marketing data they read from your system (unless you opt-out). I would be surprised if they weren't considered similarly to the Neilsen(sp) ratings system.
One thing Season Passes can do for you is record each episode only once per say.. month. That way you don't end up seeing the same episode if it is aired on two seperate channels during the same month. I think that's pretty damn nifty.
:)
Plus it's nice not having to even guess which channel your shows are on. I get Law and Order on two different channels at least, but it doesn't even matter to me which channel it's on - I skip the commercials anyways.
Also, TiVo's listings are far more than just a step above the regular listings. They're interactive, meaning you can select shows from the list and set them to record in just a few clicks. You can also look backwards to see what was on yesterday - I'm sure I'm not the only person to use this feature.
Btw: You can set up manual recordings. I do that for Adult Swim on Cartoon Network because their clocks are a few minutes off there. TiVo can handle this if you tell it to record a few minutes early or late, but I've found it to be a lot of trouble to set that up for 6 shows in a row - personal preference.
f it was really such a great idea, why isn't it flourishing?
Probably because it was marketed poorly. Marketing has nearly nothing to do with the quality of the actual idea - it has to do with whoever was hired to do the marketing. If they're incompetent, they can kill the idea.
It seems like the primary (note /.'ers, I said PRIMARY, not your little pet project :) ) use for mod_perl is to avoid the overhead associated with loading modules.
It seems like the better choice would be to avoid using modules altogether. Or using another language like C or PHP that has stuff built-in. It's amazing how much CPU time loading a simple perl module takes.
I think you misunderstood. True, launching from the moon would be less efficient than launching from an orbiting station. However, I believe he was referring to the fact that once you have the technology to survive on the moon, you have the technology to survive nearly anywhere, because the moon is so barren.
Are you seriously asking why Microsoft would choose a proprietary protocol over an open standard? Do you know what company we're talking about here? :)
Yahoo's home page, yesterday, had one of these iPaqs twirling around it insanely. At this point I'm convinced that anything Yahoo advertises will be immediately unappealing to me.
I'm sorry but "we are not working on an encryption bill" means nothing to me. They'll just say "instead, we're working on this anti-terrorism bill, and whoops, what do you know, it includes clauses about encryption."
Imagine the possibilities, distributed load balanced address books and calendars!
Argh. Is it possible that when news articles come listed from Yahoo that a non-Yahoo source could be used instead, or at least added as a secondary link?
;)
As soon as I see a blur (pop-behind) ad I quickly close the page I'm on in the naive hope that they track when people stop visiting their sites and don't leave via an ad...
Bill Gates himself has talked about how Microsoft's long-term (10 yearish) future is not going to be as pretty as the past has been.
Given that, it looks to me like Microsoft is going to risk some alienation while at the same time opening consumers eyes to the idea of subscription-based software. When most software starts to use this scheme, Microsoft won't look quite as evil and will begin to rise once again.
Need to have dagrab and lame installed, and possibly some other ports. My scripts can be found at: mp3 scripts. When I want to rip a CD, I pop it in and simply run "./rip" from my mp3 dir. It takes care of the rest, including CDDB-based naming.
No warranties or anything.