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Ohfortheloveofallthatissane.... you will NOT void the warranty on a Mac by opening it. Hell, the iMac G5 was just designed around the entire concept of the user replacing the freakin' MLB at home rather than getting it serviced.
The Mac mini is completely user-serviceable. If you want to add your own RAM, do it.
Sprint actually does this. They have a plan called "Fair and Flexible" that auto-adjusts your plan each month based on your usage. So far, it's worked great for me. If that's what you're after, check it out.
It's not even that, it's that they're using it wrong, too. For instance, with Sprint I can pay $10/mo. and get unlimited SMS messages. For $10. Screw this $800 crap, with just a little planning and a little forethought they wouldn't pay more than $60 a month for the whole package.
Major towns have loops, like San Antonio's Anderson Loop, or I410. Austin, stupidly, has no viable loop. Eventually the work on the west side of 183 will perform this function, but that's a decade away.
My guess would be that if you need that functionality you should use a real reader. Google Groups is more centered around search and minor discussion than being a full interface to USENET.
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Re:Two good RSS directories of which I am aware
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Cool RSS Feeds?
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It's not a protocol, it's a file format. And as XHTML is slowly replacing HTML (the largest holdout being, of all places, Slashdot) so will Atom replace RSS. Google already moved Blogger over to Atom (the largest single supplier of feeds, period) and most blogging software can make Atom feeds now. Most readers can handle it. In the next rev of bloging packages they just need to turn off RSS and then it's done. After that it's just about waiting for the commercial feeds to move, and once the software is out there and stable (and the file format is stable...) then that will be a matter of a year or two.
It'll happen. It will take time, but it will happen. And someday, ten or twenty years down the line, Slashdot will move to it as well. Maybe.
Star Trek had either significantly less or more than seven years if you want to get pedantic. Three for the first one or 24 if you put all four series together (3 TOS + 7 TNG + 7 DS9 + 7 VOY; 27 if you want to include the three years of the disaster-in-progress).
Ten movies seems specifically Trek... or Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm or, at the current rate, the Alien.* movies.
Seems ambiguous after all, doesn't it?:) Seven years is the typical run for a decent series (if SG-1 wasn't such a cash-cow it would have also died in season 7; the writers expected as much when they killed off Frasier). So, the numbers are rather generic there.
Ok, it was client/server, but were the logical rules for the enabling and disabling sent to the client over the network connection and the client trusted to enforce them for the return data? Are you sure there was -zero- network activity when you changed selections? Oh, and was this related to pricing information with incompatible data values and did it enable and disable form elements (all client-side code sent over the wire now) as you made selections?
If so, great, that works. Honestly, I hope there is prior art. I just can't think of it, myself, so this could be valid. And boy, wouldn't that suck?
That's just a stupid, stupid interpretation of the patent. After reading the patent you will notice that it's about using client-side scripting to enable or disable conflicting form component values based on the current values of other components all specifically in the context of "pricing information" retrieved from the server. After reading the full description it's basically something they thought of when designing Carpoint (now http://autos.msn.com/) so that after each selection (year, model, etc.) you didn't hit the server for the values for the next item. Very popular these days, but not so much in 1998 when this was filed.
One such system is a server database with a used car price guide for access by a remote user. First, the remote user makes an initial request to access results, such as pricing information for a particular car. After the remote user makes the initial request, the server collects sub-items, such as options relating to the particular car, and transmits the options to the remote user. The remote user is then required to select options for building an option configuration. If the option selections are invalid or conflict, the server notifies the user that the selections are invalid and then retransmits the options to the user. This validation step is repeated until the remote user submits valid option selections and an option configuration without conflicts. When the selection is valid, the server collects pricing information based on the option selections and overall configuration. The pricing information built from the selected options is then transmitted to the remote user.
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Specifically, first, a user requests information from a remote computer and then results of the requested information are collected at a host computer. Second, the results, sub-items and rules of enforcement of the sub-items relating to the request are transmitted from the host to the remote computer in a format that is preferably encoded and transparent to the remote user. Third, the results are remotely processed in response to user interaction of the results and sub-item selection and configuration. The processed results are dynamically adjusted and displayed as the user interacts with the results and the sub-items. Sub-item conflicts are prevented by enforcement of the transmitted rules of sub-item combinations and predefined interactive options. Graphical user interface control devices are used to allow user interaction and adjustment of the results. For example, alphanumerical boxes, drop-down menus, check boxes, radio buttons or the like can be used. The system and method of the present invention preferably utilizes client side-processing of the results instead of server-side processing. This enables the user to quickly access and adjust information dynamically and in real time without server delays.
Still a crappy thing to patent, I totally agree, but hardly every damned control widget in every damned language in the known fucking universe as the author hints at.
definitely the renaissance stemmed from galileo because he broke the power of the church.
Quit parroting bad history. Galileo's problems with the Catholic Church had nothing to do with its power at the time (which was more the power of the people in it in politics than the Church as a discrete entity) but more to do with the fact that Galileo used the concept of heliocentricism (which most people already believed at the time) to question the inerrancy of Scripture (which would also question the authority of it, which would section the Church). This would, obviously, anger any church.
Galileo did do good science, however, and his work started the scientific renaissance, but not the artistic one that is so popularly generalized as TheRenaissance which had its beginnings in place 200-300 years before Galileo was even born (1200s in northern Italy vs. late 1500s for Galileo).
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Ohfortheloveofallthatissane.... you will NOT void the warranty on a Mac by opening it. Hell, the iMac G5 was just designed around the entire concept of the user replacing the freakin' MLB at home rather than getting it serviced.
The Mac mini is completely user-serviceable. If you want to add your own RAM, do it.
Freakin' paranoids.
Sprint actually does this. They have a plan called "Fair and Flexible" that auto-adjusts your plan each month based on your usage. So far, it's worked great for me. If that's what you're after, check it out.
It's not even that, it's that they're using it wrong, too. For instance, with Sprint I can pay $10/mo. and get unlimited SMS messages. For $10. Screw this $800 crap, with just a little planning and a little forethought they wouldn't pay more than $60 a month for the whole package.
It's just another sign that people are stupid.
Nah, making it too complicated.
cron + "curl http://thestream.foo/stream > ~/stream.mp3"
It's just one big MPEG stream, which is all an MP3 file is..
Of course, because when we got there we realized they'd been illegally selling them French armaments.
I'd put up some resistance, too, if I'd been doing the same.
... and the IM client and music player. :)
Major towns have loops, like San Antonio's Anderson Loop, or I410. Austin, stupidly, has no viable loop. Eventually the work on the west side of 183 will perform this function, but that's a decade away.
My guess would be that if you need that functionality you should use a real reader. Google Groups is more centered around search and minor discussion than being a full interface to USENET.
:)
Just a thought.
Not really. The best games tend to take time from the attention to detail.
Next push-back, however, GT4 will be renamed Gran Turismo Forever, and then God help us.
More like DoubleExcel.
Note: Please do not read the RSS feeds more than 4-6 times per day because I want to keep the server utilisation low.
And you posted it to Slashdot. Talk about counter-productive.
Son, if you can't figure out how to hover your mouse, you deserve the frustration.
That is all...
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It's not a protocol, it's a file format. And as XHTML is slowly replacing HTML (the largest holdout being, of all places, Slashdot) so will Atom replace RSS. Google already moved Blogger over to Atom (the largest single supplier of feeds, period) and most blogging software can make Atom feeds now. Most readers can handle it. In the next rev of bloging packages they just need to turn off RSS and then it's done. After that it's just about waiting for the commercial feeds to move, and once the software is out there and stable (and the file format is stable...) then that will be a matter of a year or two.
It'll happen. It will take time, but it will happen. And someday, ten or twenty years down the line, Slashdot will move to it as well. Maybe.
I conclude that this is nothing more than an unscripted bluff.
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Glad you caught up with the rest of us.
How many times have you rolled a d12 in a game?
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Every time my Dwarf attacks
Bluff check, DC 15.
Changing the climate, one FDIV at a time.
Dude, it's Slashdot. Useless pedanticness is encouraged, worshipped, adored.
... I'm so sorry it works that way.
And if TNG was the only Trek in your mind well
Star Trek had either significantly less or more than seven years if you want to get pedantic. Three for the first one or 24 if you put all four series together (3 TOS + 7 TNG + 7 DS9 + 7 VOY; 27 if you want to include the three years of the disaster-in-progress).
... or Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm or, at the current rate, the Alien.* movies.
:) Seven years is the typical run for a decent series (if SG-1 wasn't such a cash-cow it would have also died in season 7; the writers expected as much when they killed off Frasier). So, the numbers are rather generic there.
Ten movies seems specifically Trek
Seems ambiguous after all, doesn't it?
Ok, it was client/server, but were the logical rules for the enabling and disabling sent to the client over the network connection and the client trusted to enforce them for the return data? Are you sure there was -zero- network activity when you changed selections? Oh, and was this related to pricing information with incompatible data values and did it enable and disable form elements (all client-side code sent over the wire now) as you made selections?
If so, great, that works. Honestly, I hope there is prior art. I just can't think of it, myself, so this could be valid. And boy, wouldn't that suck?
Unless you're paying for mod points and there's an incompatible grouping of them ... no. :)
Remote is a relative term. In this case, remote to the application designer/server.
Still a crappy thing to patent, I totally agree, but hardly every damned control widget in every damned language in the known fucking universe as the author hints at.
FUD sucks, no matter who spews it.
definitely the renaissance stemmed from galileo because he broke the power of the church.
Quit parroting bad history. Galileo's problems with the Catholic Church had nothing to do with its power at the time (which was more the power of the people in it in politics than the Church as a discrete entity) but more to do with the fact that Galileo used the concept of heliocentricism (which most people already believed at the time) to question the inerrancy of Scripture (which would also question the authority of it, which would section the Church). This would, obviously, anger any church.
Galileo did do good science, however, and his work started the scientific renaissance, but not the artistic one that is so popularly generalized as The Renaissance which had its beginnings in place 200-300 years before Galileo was even born (1200s in northern Italy vs. late 1500s for Galileo).