Here water is billed as an unlimited service too, and we only see brownouts in areas where the water companies haven't maintined the actual pipes very well.
The other problem is the fact your using truecrypt, used to be an indication that you were using stenography, it seams popular enough to get away with now. What would be nice would be the ability to have multiple stenographic partitions in the same file, so you could setup schemes like: 5.7Gb porn, 100mb fake documents * 3, 100mb real docs. By even if they get the real docs they'll never really be sure.
I don't get how this is news! I'm sure firefox 3.1 beta 2 scored ~93 too, firefox 3.1 (now 3.5) was stabilized and heavy feature development was moved to the 3.2 branch long ago. I'd be more interested in an article detailing why 3.5 isn't out yet?
could it simply be that they have: 1) a stronger infection 2) a stronger immune system (due to not using 'detol' and other bullshit to sterilize *everything*, as has become popular in america+europe)
Most of Mexicoâ(TM)s dead were young, healthy adults, and none were over 60 or under 3 years old, the World Health Organization said. That alarms health officials because seasonal flus cause most of their deaths among infants and bedridden elderly people, but pandemic flus â" like the 1918 Spanish flu, and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics â" often strike young, healthy people the hardest.
While CDC may not being saying it and from the available information there isn't enough to be sure, the facts that are available clearly support GP's hypothesis.
I'd be interested to see what they had to defeat. Either: they used a botnet capable of defeating TIME's capatchas. Arguably this is only impressive if they also wrote the botnet, getting a taxi ride isn't even in the same league as building a car. or, and IMO this is much more likely, the time poll was poorly secured, single machines could vote repeatedly and 4chan users were sad enough to do so. It is possible that somebody wrote a script that allowed 4chan users to automate this so that the users only had to enter the capatchas and the rest was done for them, but that isn't a great feat either.
While i am predisposed to assume that 4chan has done nothing impressive (due to their prior history of doing nothing impressive and just trolling), it would be interesting to know which one they actually did (although my money is defiantly on the latter).
I would say that when it comes to interoperability and standards compliance ( like a protocol ) then the GPL makes a lot of sense. With the GPL a business can't take the protocol, modify it, and then use market share to push their closed and modified version as the standard.
what about LGPL, it allows any software to be built on top of it.
My best guess for making money off open source is still support. If you provide pay-only features then you've got to be better than the very best programmer who is interested in developing a competing product in the open source community.
Develop a nice office suite or groupware under dual license and your pretty safe.
With support you can provide a service that the open source community can't match which is basically a legally binding contract. Individuals would never buy the support and just head to the community for issues but a business will use the support contract as a hedge on the risk of using open source. The community has no contract and no obligation.
But looking at your source, means anybody can provide support, so your support has to be good (ofc if its not good you may lose the customer anyway)
There is another way too, consulting. You could go into companies and charge them to design/secure/update their systems. But under that other than brand name, your not making money directly from the software but just using it as a tool, so i don't know if it counts.
These are good uses of javascript, but bad uses of pdfs! Programatically clone a page to the end of the document. print these dynamic fields, so what advantage does using a pdf offer over a webpage (or if you cant get a webpage into a 1 file format then a small java applet seams better suited than a pdf)? Update reference data from the web. - doesn't it make more sense to update your pdf?
I dont really mind the startup time, but the idea that a program adds itself to my bootup menus and runs all the time, really puts me off. The tiny overhead of the updater application doesn't bother me so much, its the fact that it exists at all that indicates a serious design flaw! That is why on windows always choose xmplay^H^H^H foxit over itunes^H^H^H adobe pdf! Unfortunately people still flock to this software because of its 'features', and the atrocities of its design are hard to get across to non-geeks.
Surely windows has a cron you can use update program regularly without running it all the time!? Why micosoft don't provide an updater program for windows, requiring companies to provide their own repos, i don't get though. Additionally a preload system that allows programs to boot faster would let most of these 3rd party programs die (I mean one that software can add itself to, in addition to the standard preload).
When you can vote as many times as you want, fiddling a system to say something "funny" isn't impressive, it just shows that: 1) they think they are smart because they know how to delete cookies 2) they have far too much time on their hands
If they had done something skillful (like rigging the result through coordination and numbers alone or done it on a system where you can't see the results) then it may have be impressive, however taking advantage of a permissive poll (locking down a poll to one vote per ip isn't hard but would prevent legitimate votes) is not skillful or impressive, its just quite sad.
while Colbert fans voted fairly, i find it hard to believe there was no mischief behind moot getting 16m votes, it would take take 4chan 100% of there visitors to vote for the last 3 months (5.6 million visitors a month) to get that sort of turnout.
IE8 is defiantly a step forwards, i think the problem is that update policies like this are the reason Microsoft boxes are left unpatched. Critical would be to upgrade insecure ie6 to ie7 but to issue a "critical" update to ie8, just devalues the meaning of critical!
Imagine a webbrowser, serving up a custom site, with rrs and torrent support, with a media plugin. Wait did i just describe opera?
I kid, its what marketing call a media platform, like the iplayer download client or 4od, but build around open technologies (a.k.a what i listed above).
I wonder how much of the 3rd party projects code is included in thier count? the rendering engine is gecko the interface is xulrunner i think the torrent uses transmition the media player is gstreamer/xine or vlc
I like the idea of miro, but my ISP sucks and last time i checked it didnt support an easy way to change my upload limits, or encrypting all connections?
I also don't see the need for an entire application when they could just as easily make the thing a web app and users could use rss + their normal torrent application to download stuff, but i suppose some people prefer to have it run locally.
It would have been better if hed gone independent, but as long as hes jumping parties because he things that's what the people he represents wants, not for some kickback, this is great news!
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I wonder what the range is on this thing, and in related thoughts i wonder what frequencies it uses to communicate with HQ?
1) block frequencies
2) wait for it to crash into wall
3) steal scraps
4) ???
5) profit
n/t
Here water is billed as an unlimited service too, and we only see brownouts in areas where the water companies haven't maintined the actual pipes very well.
Yeah but as always Ted Ts'o has made statements about whats going to happen, before there is any data in there to support these statements.
*if your about to mod me troll/flamebait you clearly don't get it
AFAIK windows can only read fat,ntfs,cds and at a push ext
The other problem is the fact your using truecrypt, used to be an indication that you were using stenography, it seams popular enough to get away with now.
What would be nice would be the ability to have multiple stenographic partitions in the same file, so you could setup schemes like: 5.7Gb porn, 100mb fake documents * 3, 100mb real docs. By even if they get the real docs they'll never really be sure.
Aren't BringThePorn, DownloadThemAll, Link widgets and kasparov online scanner (for the STDs) the extensions he'd want???
Also your troll fails because firefox betas have a much smaller number of addons available
I don't get how this is news! I'm sure firefox 3.1 beta 2 scored ~93 too, firefox 3.1 (now 3.5) was stabilized and heavy feature development was moved to the 3.2 branch long ago. I'd be more interested in an article detailing why 3.5 isn't out yet?
your bluetooth chip could be emulating usb HID device, or you could be using userspace drivers :s
could it simply be that they have:
1) a stronger infection
2) a stronger immune system (due to not using 'detol' and other bullshit to sterilize *everything*, as has become popular in america+europe)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=spanish+flu
Swine flu > cytokine storm
Most of Mexicoâ(TM)s dead were young, healthy adults, and none were over 60 or under 3 years old, the World Health Organization said. That alarms health officials because seasonal flus cause most of their deaths among infants and bedridden elderly people, but pandemic flus â" like the 1918 Spanish flu, and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics â" often strike young, healthy people the hardest.
While CDC may not being saying it and from the available information there isn't enough to be sure, the facts that are available clearly support GP's hypothesis.
Don't know why your modded funny?
I'll offer 300
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I'd be interested to see what they had to defeat. Either:
they used a botnet capable of defeating TIME's capatchas. Arguably this is only impressive if they also wrote the botnet, getting a taxi ride isn't even in the same league as building a car.
or,
and IMO this is much more likely, the time poll was poorly secured, single machines could vote repeatedly and 4chan users were sad enough to do so. It is possible that somebody wrote a script that allowed 4chan users to automate this so that the users only had to enter the capatchas and the rest was done for them, but that isn't a great feat either.
While i am predisposed to assume that 4chan has done nothing impressive (due to their prior history of doing nothing impressive and just trolling), it would be interesting to know which one they actually did (although my money is defiantly on the latter).
damn!
I always thought it was a moo point (as compared to an apt point)
I would say that when it comes to interoperability and standards compliance ( like a protocol ) then the GPL makes a lot of sense. With the GPL a business can't take the protocol, modify it, and then use market share to push their closed and modified version as the standard.
what about LGPL, it allows any software to be built on top of it.
My best guess for making money off open source is still support. If you provide pay-only features then you've got to be better than the very best programmer who is interested in developing a competing product in the open source community.
Develop a nice office suite or groupware under dual license and your pretty safe.
With support you can provide a service that the open source community can't match which is basically a legally binding contract. Individuals would never buy the support and just head to the community for issues but a business will use the support contract as a hedge on the risk of using open source. The community has no contract and no obligation.
But looking at your source, means anybody can provide support, so your support has to be good (ofc if its not good you may lose the customer anyway)
There is another way too, consulting. You could go into companies and charge them to design/secure/update their systems. But under that other than brand name, your not making money directly from the software but just using it as a tool, so i don't know if it counts.
These are good uses of javascript, but bad uses of pdfs!
Programatically clone a page to the end of the document. print these dynamic fields, so what advantage does using a pdf offer over a webpage (or if you cant get a webpage into a 1 file format then a small java applet seams better suited than a pdf)?
Update reference data from the web. - doesn't it make more sense to update your pdf?
I dont really mind the startup time, but the idea that a program adds itself to my bootup menus and runs all the time, really puts me off. The tiny overhead of the updater application doesn't bother me so much, its the fact that it exists at all that indicates a serious design flaw!
That is why on windows always choose xmplay^H^H^H foxit over itunes^H^H^H adobe pdf!
Unfortunately people still flock to this software because of its 'features', and the atrocities of its design are hard to get across to non-geeks.
Surely windows has a cron you can use update program regularly without running it all the time!?
Why micosoft don't provide an updater program for windows, requiring companies to provide their own repos, i don't get though. Additionally a preload system that allows programs to boot faster would let most of these 3rd party programs die (I mean one that software can add itself to, in addition to the standard preload).
When you can vote as many times as you want, fiddling a system to say something "funny" isn't impressive, it just shows that:
1) they think they are smart because they know how to delete cookies
2) they have far too much time on their hands
If they had done something skillful (like rigging the result through coordination and numbers alone or done it on a system where you can't see the results) then it may have be impressive, however taking advantage of a permissive poll (locking down a poll to one vote per ip isn't hard but would prevent legitimate votes) is not skillful or impressive, its just quite sad.
while Colbert fans voted fairly, i find it hard to believe there was no mischief behind moot getting 16m votes, it would take take 4chan 100% of there visitors to vote for the last 3 months (5.6 million visitors a month) to get that sort of turnout.
IE8 is defiantly a step forwards, i think the problem is that update policies like this are the reason Microsoft boxes are left unpatched. Critical would be to upgrade insecure ie6 to ie7 but to issue a "critical" update to ie8, just devalues the meaning of critical!
spreading democracy also fails if you try and undermine it when you dont like the results.
Imagine a webbrowser, serving up a custom site, with rrs and torrent support, with a media plugin. Wait did i just describe opera?
I kid, its what marketing call a media platform, like the iplayer download client or 4od, but build around open technologies (a.k.a what i listed above).
I wonder how much of the 3rd party projects code is included in thier count?
the rendering engine is gecko
the interface is xulrunner
i think the torrent uses transmition
the media player is gstreamer/xine or vlc
I like the idea of miro, but my ISP sucks and last time i checked it didnt support an easy way to change my upload limits, or encrypting all connections?
I also don't see the need for an entire application when they could just as easily make the thing a web app and users could use rss + their normal torrent application to download stuff, but i suppose some people prefer to have it run locally.
It would have been better if hed gone independent, but as long as hes jumping parties because he things that's what the people he represents wants, not for some kickback, this is great news!