The other option is MS sell 'at cost' to europe. Their profits then amount to $0 and 5% of $0 is, well, $0.
They were going to lose their profit from Europe anyway.. instead of the option of pulling out or paying a fine indefinately, they sew up a market with dirt cheap software and effectively kill most of the opposition (the cost of MS software is driving a lot of the movement away from it).
I have a mini and believe me it is *not* quicker than anything. It's pretty darned slow in fact.
I may be unique on slashdot in that I do not like OSX. They've just never got many of the bugs out, and it feels half finished... Tiger still won't integrate with a Windows network for example, something that Linux has been doing for 5 years.
My mailing list was getting it in response to all sorts of stuff.. verification emails, standard mailings, etc. The response I got back from some people when I asked them to whitelist the list members was *another* C/R email!
Worse was that most viruses spoof their email address now and C/R systems just become spam generation machines when faced with that influx of virus payload. One of these was so bad I had to report the offender to an antispam list and get him blacklisted (over 100 C/R packets from spoofed virus payload in *one hour*).
If you create an index on a varchar 'email' field, the the SQL server creates the hashes for you, an with probably with considerably greater efficiency as it has raw database access.
A string select on an indexed field should be no slower than an integer one, if your SQL database is worth a damn. Using your own hashes may be a lot slower - how are you dealing with collisions for example? A round trip to the server to find 10 records with the same hash is a *lot* slower than just using an index in the frist place.
I had written a short list on my blog on some working 6to4 tunnel brokers as well
6to4 tunnel brokers? WTF?
There is *one* 6to4 tunnel endpoint (192.88.99.1), which always goes to the nearest gateway wherever you are. 6to4 is something you setup *yourself* not through brokers.. it gives you (IIRC) 16 million addressable IPV6 locations per fixed IPV4 address (the 2002:xxxx:xxxx range).
A tunnel broker is something different. They allocate a 'real' IPV6 block and route it towards your router, unrelated to your IP address.
Tunnel brokers are largely free at the moment but you can bet they'll start charging $$$ if ipv6 ever takes off.
6to4 will probably always be free, but it's looked down upon by the ipv6 community as not 'real' ipv6 (not sure what's not real about it myself).
My doctor recommended my Wife go on an Atkins diet.. it's simply not as simple as comparing evolution vs. intelligent design. Heck, it's practically mainstream now.
OK it doesn't work for the reasons the original person thought it did (nothing to do with carbohydrates.. it's because the atkins diet is high protein, and protein intake supresses appetite - ie. you eat less, even if you think you're not), but there's some real science behind it nowadays, and forcing people to eat lettuce might be technically better but really doesn't work...
My strategy is usually to let them fuck up a couple of times (after first going on record that they were about to do so (in diplomatic language of course))
The registry *does* support a form of self-containment. You can load hives at temporary locations (a bit like mountpoints) and have them in separate files.
Blizzard's World of Warcraft game uses a bittorrent-like p2p download system for all its large patches...which is why anyone with any sense waits for the fileplanet mirror.
BT is great if you're not behind a firewall or on a corporate network... for normal usage get used to downloading your 500MB file at 1k/second.
I have 20 machines behind this firewall.. there is no way in hell port forwarding is going to work, so WoW doesn't get updated for a couple of weeks while until the mirrors get up to speed.
If I bring up, say, the calculator and want to do some relatively complex stuff... my spreadsheet is slightly obscured so I decide to move it and the calculator disappears!
The problem is it's just a fullscreen app with a semitransparent screen - it is *not* a way to bring up a calculator on your desktop, which would be far more useful.
Overkill. One key suffices. 1 and 0 can be distinguished according to the length of the key press. This also will teach you fast typing because if you type too slowly you'll get only zeros (assuming that zero is the longer keypress).
GENIUS!
We can use something similar to send messages between computers.. much less chance of corruption.
They also share a common syntax, similar security issues and appeared on browsers at pretty much the same time... there's a lot more history there than just the letters.
It's common practice to have javascript disabled (especially in companies due to the security issues). I've rarely seen a site that doesn't work with it because good ones are written in *standard* HTML.
Requiring javascript to work at all is just retarted. Use it to add bells and whistles but don't depend on it otherwise you'll just piss off a lot of your audience.
That site shows you gifs of actualy emails and expects you to tell the difference visually?
I looked at the first one and realized it's sophisticated enough to need to look at the source first.. Outlook is easily spoofable with links so there isn't enough information to make a determination. Plus we have no idea whether the recipient is *really* a member of the bank anyway.
Actually it wasn't completely unique, just unusual.
Whenever a wormhole was discovered that seemed stable, the federation jumped in and got trading rights over it (cf. the episode that stranded the ferengi in the delta quadrant after the wormhole was found to be stable only on one side).
In later Voyager they communicated via a very small wormhole - enough to get a data signal through, but nothing else. IIRC that was artifically created, though.
There's also the Borg transwarp technology (OK they're subspace corridors, but they sure sound like wormholes to me...).
Of course they're unstable... they only stay open long enough to let the sliders through, and close before any of the heavily armed soldiers stop gawping long enough to consider following...
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I'm guessing, but I'd guess it's 'SMS'.
The other option is MS sell 'at cost' to europe. Their profits then amount to $0 and 5% of $0 is, well, $0.
They were going to lose their profit from Europe anyway.. instead of the option of pulling out or paying a fine indefinately, they sew up a market with dirt cheap software and effectively kill most of the opposition (the cost of MS software is driving a lot of the movement away from it).
Hi Def on a Mini? Don't fool yourself.
It's not even fast enough to playback 720p at full framrate.. I have to copy the files to the Windows box to preview them.
I have a mini and believe me it is *not* quicker than anything. It's pretty darned slow in fact.
I may be unique on slashdot in that I do not like OSX. They've just never got many of the bugs out, and it feels half finished... Tiger still won't integrate with a Windows network for example, something that Linux has been doing for 5 years.
I blacklisted it ages ago.
My mailing list was getting it in response to all sorts of stuff.. verification emails, standard mailings, etc. The response I got back from some people when I asked them to whitelist the list members was *another* C/R email!
Worse was that most viruses spoof their email address now and C/R systems just become spam generation machines when faced with that influx of virus payload. One of these was so bad I had to report the offender to an antispam list and get him blacklisted (over 100 C/R packets from spoofed virus payload in *one hour*).
You're not helping there...
If you create an index on a varchar 'email' field, the the SQL server creates the hashes for you, an with probably with considerably greater efficiency as it has raw database access.
A string select on an indexed field should be no slower than an integer one, if your SQL database is worth a damn. Using your own hashes may be a lot slower - how are you dealing with collisions for example? A round trip to the server to find 10 records with the same hash is a *lot* slower than just using an index in the frist place.
There's also 60hz PAL and 50hz NTSC.. the standard refers to the colour encoding (and to some extent the resolution) not the framerate.
I was thinking that.
It's just a frikkin' kernel recompile. Why does this warrant a whole article.
I just upgraded my DG834GT to IPV6.. not that I'd call it that.. the IPV6 bit took, what, 3 seconds? Woot. I'd better email slashdot right away!
I had written a short list on my blog on some working 6to4 tunnel brokers as well
6to4 tunnel brokers? WTF?
There is *one* 6to4 tunnel endpoint (192.88.99.1), which always goes to the nearest gateway wherever you are. 6to4 is something you setup *yourself* not through brokers.. it gives you (IIRC) 16 million addressable IPV6 locations per fixed IPV4 address (the 2002:xxxx:xxxx range).
A tunnel broker is something different. They allocate a 'real' IPV6 block and route it towards your router, unrelated to your IP address.
Tunnel brokers are largely free at the moment but you can bet they'll start charging $$$ if ipv6 ever takes off.
6to4 will probably always be free, but it's looked down upon by the ipv6 community as not 'real' ipv6 (not sure what's not real about it myself).
My doctor recommended my Wife go on an Atkins diet.. it's simply not as simple as comparing evolution vs. intelligent design. Heck, it's practically mainstream now.
OK it doesn't work for the reasons the original person thought it did (nothing to do with carbohydrates.. it's because the atkins diet is high protein, and protein intake supresses appetite - ie. you eat less, even if you think you're not), but there's some real science behind it nowadays, and forcing people to eat lettuce might be technically better but really doesn't work...
...it's a space station!
Damn wrong thread.
Management can be trained.
My strategy is usually to let them fuck up a couple of times (after first going on record that they were about to do so (in diplomatic language of course))
They usually come around eventually..
The registry *does* support a form of self-containment. You can load hives at temporary locations (a bit like mountpoints) and have them in separate files.
Nobody does this though.
Try NT4. Install SP6a.. comes with IE3.1.
Unfortunately the MS site won't render properly in it so you can't download IE6, IE4 or anyting else.
Firefox requires at least IE4 before it'll install (bizarrely!) due to missing DLLs.
Great fun!
(I still have to do this occasionally for client testing... luckily experience has taught me to burn CDs with all the upgrades on it first).
Blizzard's World of Warcraft game uses a bittorrent-like p2p download system for all its large patches. ..which is why anyone with any sense waits for the fileplanet mirror.
BT is great if you're not behind a firewall or on a corporate network... for normal usage get used to downloading your 500MB file at 1k/second.
I have 20 machines behind this firewall.. there is no way in hell port forwarding is going to work, so WoW doesn't get updated for a couple of weeks while until the mirrors get up to speed.
Dashboard is damned annoying.
If I bring up, say, the calculator and want to do some relatively complex stuff... my spreadsheet is slightly obscured so I decide to move it and the calculator disappears!
The problem is it's just a fullscreen app with a semitransparent screen - it is *not* a way to bring up a calculator on your desktop, which would be far more useful.
Overkill. One key suffices. 1 and 0 can be distinguished according to the length of the key press. This also will teach you fast typing because if you type too slowly you'll get only zeros (assuming that zero is the longer keypress).
GENIUS!
We can use something similar to send messages between computers.. much less chance of corruption.
Gotta think of a good name for the patent.
Umm..
I know!
Morse Code!
They also share a common syntax, similar security issues and appeared on browsers at pretty much the same time... there's a lot more history there than just the letters.
btw. it's damned slow even under a fast machine running firefox.
I currently have a screen saying 'Loading' and it's up to 70 seconds & still rising. People just won't wait that long.
It's common practice to have javascript disabled (especially in companies due to the security issues). I've rarely seen a site that doesn't work with it because good ones are written in *standard* HTML.
Requiring javascript to work at all is just retarted. Use it to add bells and whistles but don't depend on it otherwise you'll just piss off a lot of your audience.
That site shows you gifs of actualy emails and expects you to tell the difference visually?
I looked at the first one and realized it's sophisticated enough to need to look at the source first.. Outlook is easily spoofable with links so there isn't enough information to make a determination. Plus we have no idea whether the recipient is *really* a member of the bank anyway.
Pretty useless test.
I suspect they were probably drunk, stoned or both.
I know I would be if I had to live in Hemel Hempstead...
Actually it wasn't completely unique, just unusual.
Whenever a wormhole was discovered that seemed stable, the federation jumped in and got trading rights over it (cf. the episode that stranded the ferengi in the delta quadrant after the wormhole was found to be stable only on one side).
In later Voyager they communicated via a very small wormhole - enough to get a data signal through, but nothing else. IIRC that was artifically created, though.
There's also the Borg transwarp technology (OK they're subspace corridors, but they sure sound like wormholes to me...).
Of course they're unstable... they only stay open long enough to let the sliders through, and close before any of the heavily armed soldiers stop gawping long enough to consider following...
That've released a VB OCX...
For Linux?
I doubt it. That means:
a) the article is wrong and they are not producing drivers for Linux.
b) you are wrong and they have not yet released a driver.
Given the accuracy of slashdot editing either may be true...