You're absolutely right. I couldn't read the tiny font size they chose and increasing text size in FF just mushes those narrow columns into incomprehensibility.
Another great feature of the iRiver HD players is that they are USB mass storage devices, including playing music transfered to the player. Some devices, iPod's and Nomad Zen's IIRC, are USB MSD, but DO NOT play music files dropped onto the drive. You must put music on the player thru their software. This is a big PITA. I'd much rather have a 20GB hardrive act like a 20GB harddrive.
Also, IIRC, the new Rio's are not USB MSDs at all, but I could be wrong about that.
Well the book *says* it's targeted at managers, but I bet that way more managees buy it instead. All the worker bees who think they're Einsteins will be constantly reassured that they are indeed a true-blue Einstein and deserve all the rights and priviledges of such.
Think of it as "Chicken Soup for the Geek-with-inflated-sense-of-importance Soul".
True enough, but the sequence of steps you mentioned are doable, but definitely non-trivial. The average script kiddie would have to put out a lot of effort to accomplish all that.
If code red did, automatically, trash your hard drive and rewrite index.html to read "th3 b3st l33t hax0r 0wns j00 - t0m landry m1ddl3 sk00l rulez!!!!", well then that would be high...
Damage
The damage component measures the amount of harm that a given threat might inflict. This measurement includes triggered events, clogging email servers, deleting or modifying files, releasing confidential information, performance degradation, errors in the virus code, compromising security settings, and ease by which the damage might be fixed.
In terms of what it does locally (ie doesn't erase your entire harddrive), medium damage isn't that far out of line.
Maybe they should add a Mainstream Media Hype rating...
Great idea, except that children aren't adults. An almost 11 year old in no way shape or form has the mental development to handle the things she could get into.
Of course she would resent constant over-the-shoulder badgering, but whether they like/know it or not, children that age still need significant parental supervision and guidance.
Great idea, except that good developers know not to leap into re-inventing a wheel that might already exist, especially at the cost of "a week or two". Don't you think they already have something to occupy their time?
Well, when was the last time you searched on Google? It has a stunning amount of servers indexed. I can search for just about anything, and Google always finds more accurate hits, faster, than any other search engine. (Don't turn this into a search engine flame war, either.) They have to constantly refresh their indexes, and they have to turn around fast answers.
Yeah 1.3 billion pages indexed is stunning. But even more stunning is the fact the total number of "pages" (an overly broad terms I concede) on the Internet is at least 100, if not 500 times that size. Basically Google is behind on indexing by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.
It's true that they constantly refresh their index. But it takes them about 2 months to do it. That ain't fast no matter how you look at it. As evidence, take a look at the date on the cached CNN.com home page
UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. Basically it's a super-duper yellow pages for business services that is heavily XML (and HTTP?) based.
Money is being dumped into anything that even remotely sounds "peerish".
Oh really? That's news to me. Actually there's very little money going into P2P right now. For example, early P2P company Infrasearch just sold out to Sun at a firesale price because they couldn't raise money, even with Marc Andreessen opening VC doors for them.
Since your 8 year old knows about dot bombs, ask him/her to explain current market conditions to you.
Actually their business model is NOT about selling consumer CPU cycles en masse. IIRC, they test the commercial apps performance, parallelization, etc. for their corporate clients. The for-profit bit comes from parallelizing problems for the clients which are then run on the corporation's workstations, not on public machines. Just like you might be paranoid about strangers running code on your machine, those companies are paranoid about strangers crunching on their data.
Well? What do you mean by "bogus copyrights"? Are you saying that Metallica or any creator of content (visual, audible, written, digital or otherwise) somehow doesn't deserve copyright protection?
Thanks for proving my point. My company, Thinkstream, is working on search engine technology that overcomes just this sort of problem. Instead of centralized, HTML spider-based search sites that cough up stale data, our technology is centered around live connection to diverse, distributed data sources (especially databases), regardless of storage method.
They searched for "Chavez" and then complained that there wasn't any information on Linda Chavez (the nominee for Labor Secretary).
No, the problem is that Google (and every other major search engine) takes forever (weeks to months) to spider new pages. So just after Chaves was nominated, none of the news articles about her had been indexed. By the time the spiders hit them, she'd already been dumped.
The basic problem is that HTML spidering is a horribly inefficient way of indexing information that is often (especially in the case of news articles) stored in a nice, neat database.
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This is no longer true. The Catholic and Lutheran Churches recently reached an accord after 30 years of discussion that accepted that salvation (justification) comes through faith alone, saying more or less that Luther was basically right. See link below.
The next time you go to Togo's for a hot pastrami remember to ask the people working there how they manage to live in Silicon Valley, where under $40k/year is poor or what their commute is like.
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Yeah, that's right. Never. Never, never, never. For my MP3s, I find an FTP site with an operator generous enough to give leech. If that's impossible, then I find a good ratio and start transferring. I've dabbled around with Gnutella, but I've only used it for downloading. I can't stand the interface, and all I ever see is junk, junk, junk (and that's after filtering out flatplanet.net, all the porn, metallica, nelson, warrant, et cetera).
And your reason for letting us know this unbelievably important information about yourself was...?
Technology they've grown up with?
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You mean like console game controllers, remote controls and Palm pilots.
Coming soon to the Nintendo 512 and the PS5, Final Fantasy XXVIII: Nader's Revenge...
Actually, Harp is a lager. Sierra Nevada makes a great stout and it has wide distribution. Probably hard for you to get in a keg though. Also, Murphy's and Beamish are the other 2 Irish stouts available in America.
Guinness is THE GOLD STANDARD of stouts. It defines the style. All other stouts are measured against and usually found wanting. Sierra Nevada makes great beer, but there is still only one Guinness (the kind that comes out of a keg).
Also, Guinness is not carbonated, it is poured with nitrogen.
Now don't get me started about you are near-racist "unless your Irish" comment...
Yes, it used to be free (shareware maybe?). Gene Kim, their CTO, wrote the initial releases while in college. After college, Tripwire the company was formed. I presume those old versions of Tripwire are still floating around somewhere.
OK Hemos, it's "overwhelmed", not "overwhemled". One misspelled word in a three sentence burst wasn't so bad. However using "slower then native" instead of the correct "slower than native" was pathetic. Even though Slashdot will never have journalistic integrity, it could at least have grammatical integrity.
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You're absolutely right. I couldn't read the tiny font size they chose and increasing text size in FF just mushes those narrow columns into incomprehensibility.
What he actually said was "Little ones [devices] that cost $50 bucks that you can go running with."
Details and audio of the talk here:
http://www.playerblog.com/archives/000150.shtml
Another great feature of the iRiver HD players is that they are USB mass storage devices, including playing music transfered to the player. Some devices, iPod's and Nomad Zen's IIRC, are USB MSD, but DO NOT play music files dropped onto the drive. You must put music on the player thru their software. This is a big PITA. I'd much rather have a 20GB hardrive act like a 20GB harddrive.
Also, IIRC, the new Rio's are not USB MSDs at all, but I could be wrong about that.
Well the book *says* it's targeted at managers, but I bet that way more managees buy it instead. All the worker bees who think they're Einsteins will be constantly reassured that they are indeed a true-blue Einstein and deserve all the rights and priviledges of such.
Think of it as "Chicken Soup for the Geek-with-inflated-sense-of-importance Soul".
According to CNN, they were owned by New York-based Larry Silverstein Properties and Los Angeles-based Westfield America Properties.
See this article.
True enough, but the sequence of steps you mentioned are doable, but definitely non-trivial. The average script kiddie would have to put out a lot of effort to accomplish all that.
If code red did, automatically, trash your hard drive and rewrite index.html to read "th3 b3st l33t hax0r 0wns j00 - t0m landry m1ddl3 sk00l rulez!!!!", well then that would be high...
From Symantec's website:
Damage
The damage component measures the amount of harm that a given threat might inflict. This measurement includes triggered events, clogging email servers, deleting or modifying files, releasing confidential information, performance degradation, errors in the virus code, compromising security settings, and ease by which the damage might be fixed.
In terms of what it does locally (ie doesn't erase your entire harddrive), medium damage isn't that far out of line.
Maybe they should add a Mainstream Media Hype rating...
Yea well... all my friends and I have routers and domains too. Yee haw... Age has nothing to do with power or achievments.
True enough, but routers and domains have nothing to do with power or achievement either.
Great idea, except that children aren't adults. An almost 11 year old in no way shape or form has the mental development to handle the things she could get into.
Of course she would resent constant over-the-shoulder badgering, but whether they like/know it or not, children that age still need significant parental supervision and guidance.
Great idea, except that good developers know not to leap into re-inventing a wheel that might already exist, especially at the cost of "a week or two". Don't you think they already have something to occupy their time?
Well, when was the last time you searched on Google? It has a stunning amount of servers indexed. I can search for just about anything, and Google always finds more accurate hits, faster, than any other search engine. (Don't turn this into a search engine flame war, either.) They have to constantly refresh their indexes, and they have to turn around fast answers.
Yeah 1.3 billion pages indexed is stunning. But even more stunning is the fact the total number of "pages" (an overly broad terms I concede) on the Internet is at least 100, if not 500 times that size. Basically Google is behind on indexing by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.
It's true that they constantly refresh their index. But it takes them about 2 months to do it. That ain't fast no matter how you look at it. As evidence, take a look at the date on the cached CNN.com home page
UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. Basically it's a super-duper yellow pages for business services that is heavily XML (and HTTP?) based.
Read more at the website, www.uddi.org
Money is being dumped into anything that even remotely sounds "peerish".
Oh really? That's news to me. Actually there's very little money going into P2P right now. For example, early P2P company Infrasearch just sold out to Sun at a firesale price because they couldn't raise money, even with Marc Andreessen opening VC doors for them.
Since your 8 year old knows about dot bombs, ask him/her to explain current market conditions to you.
Actually their business model is NOT about selling consumer CPU cycles en masse. IIRC, they test the commercial apps performance, parallelization, etc. for their corporate clients. The for-profit bit comes from parallelizing problems for the clients which are then run on the corporation's workstations, not on public machines. Just like you might be paranoid about strangers running code on your machine, those companies are paranoid about strangers crunching on their data.
Well? What do you mean by "bogus copyrights"? Are you saying that Metallica or any creator of content (visual, audible, written, digital or otherwise) somehow doesn't deserve copyright protection?
Thanks for proving my point. My company, Thinkstream, is working on search engine technology that overcomes just this sort of problem. Instead of centralized, HTML spider-based search sites that cough up stale data, our technology is centered around live connection to diverse, distributed data sources (especially databases), regardless of storage method.
They searched for "Chavez" and then complained that there wasn't any information on Linda Chavez (the nominee for Labor Secretary).
No, the problem is that Google (and every other major search engine) takes forever (weeks to months) to spider new pages. So just after Chaves was nominated, none of the news articles about her had been indexed. By the time the spiders hit them, she'd already been dumped.
The basic problem is that HTML spidering is a horribly inefficient way of indexing information that is often (especially in the case of news articles) stored in a nice, neat database.
This is no longer true. The Catholic and Lutheran Churches recently reached an accord after 30 years of discussion that accepted that salvation (justification) comes through faith alone, saying more or less that Luther was basically right. See link below.
Brief Commentary and the Full Text
The next time you go to Togo's for a hot pastrami remember to ask the people working there how they manage to live in Silicon Valley, where under $40k/year is poor or what their commute is like.
Yeah, that's right. Never. Never, never, never. For my MP3s, I find an FTP site with an operator generous enough to give leech. If that's impossible, then I find a good ratio and start transferring. I've dabbled around with Gnutella, but I've only used it for downloading. I can't stand the interface, and all I ever see is junk, junk, junk (and that's after filtering out flatplanet.net, all the porn, metallica, nelson, warrant, et cetera).
And your reason for letting us know this unbelievably important information about yourself was...?
You mean like console game controllers, remote controls and Palm pilots.
Coming soon to the Nintendo 512 and the PS5, Final Fantasy XXVIII: Nader's Revenge...
Actually, Harp is a lager. Sierra Nevada makes a great stout and it has wide distribution. Probably hard for you to get in a keg though. Also, Murphy's and Beamish are the other 2 Irish stouts available in America.
Guinness is THE GOLD STANDARD of stouts. It defines the style. All other stouts are measured against and usually found wanting. Sierra Nevada makes great beer, but there is still only one Guinness (the kind that comes out of a keg).
Also, Guinness is not carbonated, it is poured with nitrogen.
Now don't get me started about you are near-racist "unless your Irish" comment...
Yes, it used to be free (shareware maybe?). Gene Kim, their CTO, wrote the initial releases while in college. After college, Tripwire the company was formed. I presume those old versions of Tripwire are still floating around somewhere.
OK Hemos, it's "overwhelmed", not "overwhemled". One misspelled word in a three sentence burst wasn't so bad. However using "slower then native" instead of the correct "slower than native" was pathetic. Even though Slashdot will never have journalistic integrity, it could at least have grammatical integrity.
flame on...