I get the feeling that ebay don't want to encourage people to use smaller sites. While an auction search will give a small benefit to ebay, it will really give a huge benefit to those sites that don't have many visitors.
Most items only get a handful of bidders. Normally it's not sensible to use a smaller site, simply because there will not be 2 people sufficiently interested to bid. This is of course a benefit to ebay. As long as only the tiny sites are searched, they will not be a threat
Unfortunately for ebay, auctions.yahoo.com, and various others are sufficiently large to make sure that these search engines are still worthwhile.
The anology is an interesting one. Most supermarkets around here have employees who's job is to check the prices of their competitors. They don't try to prevent this, simply because they don't see anything wrong with it. They might as well escort people out if they look like they're just browsing.
Maybe Ebay have a fair point that the robots.txt file said they shouldn't do this. But from their point of view, how is it different from someone checking all the auction sites seperately?
Maybe, but for most of us, this research is useless. I don't mean to say that its not worth doing, just that it isn't going to do me any good since I can't wait that long for an answer.
So instead, the safe cracker just buys a safe, takes it to bits, and finds where to listen for clicks, where to drill, and where the weak spot is to place the plastique explosive. If the safe is well designed, it won't be possible to get into it in this way whether you know the design or not.
If the source of crypto tools is opened to the public, it says a lot about the compnay's faith in the algorithm. If they don't have enough faith, then they should check it a bit further.
Its moronic logic - Since many Trolls attack the GPL, or open source, anyone who attacks open source is a Troll. Similarly, unless you back it up really well, you musn't say something vaguely pro-windows and anti-linux like "Netscape is a lot more responsive under Windows than Linux"
Unfortunately moderators are only Slashdot posters. You can't really expect tham to show deity like impartiality to all posts
Didn't mobile phones used to be about 10 times as powerful as they are now? Considering I know a lot of people who were using those for a couple of years, I feel safe for about 20 years or so.
(Which doesn't, for the record, make my monitor shake)
Strange really. My mobile makes my expensive 20" monitor jitter when I turn it on or off, but not my cheapy 15" one.
There have been loads of tests of this sort of thing. They always find that the radiation is reduced but by a trivial amount. They usually go on to state that hands free kits are much more effective for the radiation paranoid.
Its £104, (unless it went up in the last 4 days). Anyway, I haven't actually read through all the terms and conditions, but I'm pretty certain that if you have a radio and no TV then you get it for free.
Although if I'm right, this means the radio service must be funded from the TV only licence. These people without TV's are stealing from all us couch potatoes I tell you!
People have been paying for TV and films for years through cable subscription and the like. Ont the other hand, the last time I heard about people paying for audio was years ago when you still needed a radio licence in England.
Society is much more willing to pay for video even though its still just data,
Given a reliable place to get films, people will be willing to pay for the service. If a cut goes to the person who supplies the film, then it will suddenly become more beneficial not to pirate, but to get official authority to sell the film. A central server like Napster should be able to deal with all the finances. The studios should be happy because they can get eliminate the cost of media.
Thats all he's being asked to do at the moment. Once they get him to testify, he will be asked a lot more questions.
Not being all that familiar with court proceedings, I'm not sure if I'm right here, but I think only the defendent has the right to remain silent and a witness can only refuse to answer if he might be incriminated.
Oh come off it. There's much better ways of reducing banding than having a stupidly wide pixel. I don't use textures for light blending. There's nicer faster ways of doing it.
There was a demand for hardware T&L beofre that was introduced. Anything that used OpenGL supported T&L.
The memory needed to store 64 bit texture buffers and framebuffers isn't a problem. Memory is cheap enough and probably fast enough. The fact that you have to double the thickeness of a pipeline in the chip for 256 texturing stages is a problem.
Sorry. Guess I just don't have a clue about how 3-D hardware works.
I don't think so. JC often talks about where PC graphics cards should be going. While his reviews of current hardware are good and well informed, he doesn't really have an in depth understanding of hardware. (I think I remember him saying that graphics cards should move to 64 bit. Great! Double the texel rate, and the width of the pixel pipeline for a marginal increase in colour resolution)
There's Berlin (Still kind of slow and buggy right now). You could always just replace the Kernel with Atheos which comes with its own GUI. or even port the GUI bit to Linux. there's probably a smattering of others too. Developing a GUI isn't a problem. Its getting others to support it.
We'll see impossible feats like dirty, bearded, smelly, GNU hippies avoiding caffeine and moving teir eyes away from the screen. If the special FX budget can stretch to it, we'll see them eat food that isn't Pizza.
Another reason this isn't news - It's saying that Microsoft are releasing non-standards compliant software in order to maintain their market hold. Not exactly Man bites Dog is it?
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(Warning. This post is slightly paranoid)
I get the feeling that ebay don't want to encourage people to use smaller sites. While an auction search will give a small benefit to ebay, it will really give a huge benefit to those sites that don't have many visitors.
Most items only get a handful of bidders. Normally it's not sensible to use a smaller site, simply because there will not be 2 people sufficiently interested to bid. This is of course a benefit to ebay. As long as only the tiny sites are searched, they will not be a threat
Unfortunately for ebay, auctions.yahoo.com, and various others are sufficiently large to make sure that these search engines are still worthwhile.
It does have one - http://cgi.ebay.com/robots.txt
Its on the cgi server rather than the web server.
Some of these sites have agreed with ebay to use a local cache. Auctionwatch might be one of them.
The anology is an interesting one. Most supermarkets around here have employees who's job is to check the prices of their competitors. They don't try to prevent this, simply because they don't see anything wrong with it. They might as well escort people out if they look like they're just browsing.
Maybe Ebay have a fair point that the robots.txt file said they shouldn't do this. But from their point of view, how is it different from someone checking all the auction sites seperately?
do you know any genius who's actually rich?
Yes. Bill Gates.
If only he could direct that marketing genius to producing quality software.
Maybe, but for most of us, this research is useless. I don't mean to say that its not worth doing, just that it isn't going to do me any good since I can't wait that long for an answer.
So instead, the safe cracker just buys a safe, takes it to bits, and finds where to listen for clicks, where to drill, and where the weak spot is to place the plastique explosive. If the safe is well designed, it won't be possible to get into it in this way whether you know the design or not.
If the source of crypto tools is opened to the public, it says a lot about the compnay's faith in the algorithm. If they don't have enough faith, then they should check it a bit further.
Its moronic logic - Since many Trolls attack the GPL, or open source, anyone who attacks open source is a Troll. Similarly, unless you back it up really well, you musn't say something vaguely pro-windows and anti-linux like "Netscape is a lot more responsive under Windows than Linux"
Unfortunately moderators are only Slashdot posters. You can't really expect tham to show deity like impartiality to all posts
ring ring
Hello? Oh hi! Can I call you back in 4 years? I don't know if its safe until then.
Didn't mobile phones used to be about 10 times as powerful as they are now? Considering I know a lot of people who were using those for a couple of years, I feel safe for about 20 years or so.
(Which doesn't, for the record, make my monitor shake)
Strange really. My mobile makes my expensive 20" monitor jitter when I turn it on or off, but not my cheapy 15" one.
There have been loads of tests of this sort of thing. They always find that the radiation is reduced but by a trivial amount. They usually go on to state that hands free kits are much more effective for the radiation paranoid.
"Getting rid of posts no one knows about" is like .... running a website that is never visited.
I do that. Come and visit and see for yourself.
Its £104, (unless it went up in the last 4 days). Anyway, I haven't actually read through all the terms and conditions, but I'm pretty certain that if you have a radio and no TV then you get it for free.
Although if I'm right, this means the radio service must be funded from the TV only licence. These people without TV's are stealing from all us couch potatoes I tell you!
People have been paying for TV and films for years through cable subscription and the like. Ont the other hand, the last time I heard about people paying for audio was years ago when you still needed a radio licence in England.
Society is much more willing to pay for video even though its still just data,
Given a reliable place to get films, people will be willing to pay for the service. If a cut goes to the person who supplies the film, then it will suddenly become more beneficial not to pirate, but to get official authority to sell the film. A central server like Napster should be able to deal with all the finances. The studios should be happy because they can get eliminate the cost of media.
Thats all he's being asked to do at the moment. Once they get him to testify, he will be asked a lot more questions.
Not being all that familiar with court proceedings, I'm not sure if I'm right here, but I think only the defendent has the right to remain silent and a witness can only refuse to answer if he might be incriminated.
Of course it isn't fool proof if you accidently put your hand in it.
It is. It won't damage the shredder at all. The fool may not be shredder proof, but thats his responsibility.
sort of like the deal where people say its ok to use "their" with singular pronouns.
So, if you don't know whether you're refering to a male or a female, what term would you use?
It was designed for lynx
Upgrade your browser, and uninstall that heathan GUI.
Oh come off it. There's much better ways of reducing banding than having a stupidly wide pixel. I don't use textures for light blending. There's nicer faster ways of doing it.
There was a demand for hardware T&L beofre that was introduced. Anything that used OpenGL supported T&L.
The memory needed to store 64 bit texture buffers and framebuffers isn't a problem. Memory is cheap enough and probably fast enough. The fact that you have to double the thickeness of a pipeline in the chip for 256 texturing stages is a problem.
Sorry. Guess I just don't have a clue about how 3-D hardware works.
I don't think so. JC often talks about where PC graphics cards should be going. While his reviews of current hardware are good and well informed, he doesn't really have an in depth understanding of hardware. (I think I remember him saying that graphics cards should move to 64 bit. Great! Double the texel rate, and the width of the pixel pipeline for a marginal increase in colour resolution)
I like lynx's way of handling frames. Tables are usually usable too.
Wouldn't call BeOS lean. It needs 32 megs to work. Apart from that, I agree. And driver installations almost as easy as on the Amiga.
There's Berlin (Still kind of slow and buggy right now). You could always just replace the Kernel with Atheos which comes with its own GUI. or even port the GUI bit to Linux. there's probably a smattering of others too. Developing a GUI isn't a problem. Its getting others to support it.
We'll see impossible feats like dirty, bearded, smelly, GNU hippies avoiding caffeine and moving teir eyes away from the screen. If the special FX budget can stretch to it, we'll see them eat food that isn't Pizza.
Another reason this isn't news - It's saying that Microsoft are releasing non-standards compliant software in order to maintain their market hold. Not exactly Man bites Dog is it?