You: I'd like one Red Plate KPentium VII at 3Ghz.
TMSC: One run?
You: No, one chip.
TMSC: One run of one chip?
You: No, one chip of one design.
TMSC: Right, buddy... <click>
But why is it a cheaper solution? Because less product inventory means cheaper costs? Because Intel gives better marketing help? Because Intel chips are cheaper than AMD? Because if Gateway dropped AMD, Intel would give them better prices? We'll probably never know.
I used to have a PacBell dial-up account from a long time ago and I vaguely recall that they had a public/private DNS setup. I don't think the lin in the story is ever going to work for non-PacBell customers. Can somebody with a PacBell account check?
If they used the driver's license database to identify him, and track him down, wouldn't that same information also have shown that he was NOT who the woman claimed he was?
Nobody said they ever did use the driver's license database. The article never mentions it. This is wild speculation by the article submitter that everybody is getting all worked up about.
The meat of the issue isn't the fact that some one mis-recognized his picture. Its the fact that the police were able to take the digital photo from the survailance camera and match it correctly to a person in the DMV database using the driver's licence digital photo. He was the guy in the picture, just not a non-payer of child support.
The DMV mention was typical Slashdot over-hyped speculation by the submitter and not caught by the editors. The DMV was never mentioned at all in the article.
In other words, there was no computer software that did any identification with this case. The issue is getting hyped because the system has the potential to have software matches, but it didn't happen in this case.
It's very common for large companies to have their corporate parent headquarters in one place and their subsidiary company's headquarters in other places.
When has Microsoft ever been forthright in providing information? The closest I've seen is their Security Bulletin service, which while quite good, does leave some things to be desired.
They're called "comps" by the casinos. And they're really not free since to get them you have to gamble at a consistant rate. You only get back a certain percentage that you're expected to lose. The more you gamble (and lose), the more you get. You first start off with perhaps a free lunch or dinner. Then you go to rooms, tickets to a show, etc.
Anand's "News" headline thing on the left is a merging of the four "News" sections he has. The Seagate "story" is under the Press Releases section which is why it's pretty much verbatim as with everything else in that section.
For those of you who read paper books, I would suggest reading David Koenig's Mouse Under Glass : Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks, ISBN 0964060507 (hardback) or 0964060515 (paperback). It covers all of Disney's classic movies and where they ripped the story off.
David also wrote two other interesting secrets of DisneyLand books: Mouse Tales: A Behind-The-Ears Look at Disneyland and More Mouse Tales : A Closer Peek Backstage at Disneyland
Interesting reading for both Disney fans and haters.
"defragment our server's hard drives" ? Seems that he's not using Linux for his servers...
I take it that you've never heard of SpinRite. It's a disk defragmenter Steve wrote before ShieldsUP! And yup, it's written entirely in assembly. Before you go knocking him, you try writing a disk defragmenter entirely in assembly.
Eazel was founded on Hype. OSS hype, Linux hype, services hype, and the hype that it's founders were geniuses. (obviously they are not)
The founders are probably quite intelligent. However, one has to have a different level of intelligence than software programming intelligence to be business smart.
Are you sure about Adaptec owning Gracenote? I couldn't find anything related to Gracenote in Adaptec's SEC filings. I checked the last two quarterly reports and annual reports. No mention of Gracenote.
Adaptec doesn't have any mention of it on their website either. No mention of Gracenote in their PR database.
Prolly the most famous application using Lisp is Emacs. In fact, some people refer to Emacs as nothing more than a Lisp interpreter that includes some macros that are really good for text editing.
The famous (?) quote is:
GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch
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It doesn't have to be, but generally is if you want the best video quality with compression. See Apple's list of formats that QuickTime supports.
Yeah, I can see you calling TMSC right now...
You: I'd like one Red Plate KPentium VII at 3Ghz.
TMSC: One run?
You: No, one chip.
TMSC: One run of one chip?
You: No, one chip of one design.
TMSC: Right, buddy... <click>
But why is it a cheaper solution? Because less product inventory means cheaper costs? Because Intel gives better marketing help? Because Intel chips are cheaper than AMD? Because if Gateway dropped AMD, Intel would give them better prices? We'll probably never know.
http://www.bluesnews.com/files/idstuff/wolf/linux/ wolfmptest-nomedia-0.7.16-1.shtml / wolfmptest-0.7.16-1.shtml
http://www.bluesnews.com/files/idstuff/wolf/linux
This is the same mission as the Budget Satellite story covered back in August.
If it's the episode on forts, then the show repeats on Saturday, Sept. 8th, at 5pm.
I used to have a PacBell dial-up account from a long time ago and I vaguely recall that they had a public/private DNS setup. I don't think the lin in the story is ever going to work for non-PacBell customers. Can somebody with a PacBell account check?
Apple already released an ActiveX plug-in for IE 5.5 SP2 and later.
Nobody said they ever did use the driver's license database. The article never mentions it. This is wild speculation by the article submitter that everybody is getting all worked up about.
The DMV mention was typical Slashdot over-hyped speculation by the submitter and not caught by the editors. The DMV was never mentioned at all in the article.
In other words, there was no computer software that did any identification with this case. The issue is getting hyped because the system has the potential to have software matches, but it didn't happen in this case.
> snort -dvi
/dev/pot
/dev/filter
/dev/display
> telnet coffee.appliance.myhome.org
Welcome to the BrewMatic 4000
Running Linux 2.4.14
Login:root
Password:******
# rm
# rm
# echo "Owned!" >
# exit
> _
See the AOL Time Warner press fact sheet and America Online company info page
It's very common for large companies to have their corporate parent headquarters in one place and their subsidiary company's headquarters in other places.
When has Microsoft ever been forthright in providing information? The closest I've seen is their Security Bulletin service, which while quite good, does leave some things to be desired.
They're called "comps" by the casinos. And they're really not free since to get them you have to gamble at a consistant rate. You only get back a certain percentage that you're expected to lose. The more you gamble (and lose), the more you get. You first start off with perhaps a free lunch or dinner. Then you go to rooms, tickets to a show, etc.
They also have a list of trademarks that have become generic.
The site referenced above is quite extensive. I suggest we all read it.
IGN has coverage at http://scifi.ign.com/tv/7058.html
Anand's "News" headline thing on the left is a merging of the four "News" sections he has. The Seagate "story" is under the Press Releases section which is why it's pretty much verbatim as with everything else in that section.
David also wrote two other interesting secrets of DisneyLand books: Mouse Tales: A Behind-The-Ears Look at Disneyland and More Mouse Tales : A Closer Peek Backstage at Disneyland
Interesting reading for both Disney fans and haters.
I take it that you've never heard of SpinRite. It's a disk defragmenter Steve wrote before ShieldsUP! And yup, it's written entirely in assembly. Before you go knocking him, you try writing a disk defragmenter entirely in assembly.
The founders are probably quite intelligent. However, one has to have a different level of intelligence than software programming intelligence to be business smart.
Adaptec doesn't have any mention of it on their website either. No mention of Gracenote in their PR database.
Let the pork jokes begin...
The famous (?) quote is:
GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch
See http://www.lickey.com/emacs/ for more quotes.