is the same problem mp3.com had when the riaa successfully sued them for their virtual music locker. the idea, was that mp3.com's software would scan a CD to verify you owned it, and afterwards you could listen to the songs on it anywhere, without actually having to rip or upload the mp3s yourself because mp3.com had a master copy. IIRC the courts decided this wasn't airtight enough even with random "please insert the CD again so we can verify you weren't just borrowing it from the library" checks.
if anyone tries snapster 2 they'll lose in court for the same reason...
KJV is not even a little 'responsible for the inversion of "thee/thou/thy."' It was using these in the familiar sense, which was the sense used in the greek original of the NT, and thus was REINFORCING the original connotation of these words rather than inverting it...
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m971211c.htm l
http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-mo st -recent/msg10071.html
I would bet ESR would describe this as, "some snotty know it all wanted to start an argument, but I ignored him and moved on with my talk so I wouldn't bore the hell out of the audience."
the reason SCO can target IBM is b/c IBM was its partner in a "next generation unix" project called AIX 5L or, earlier, Project Monterrey. So IBM, unlike Sun, has engineers who work on Linux AND engineers who had access to SCO ip.
A 5 times speedup is still many orders of magnitude too slow to personalize terabytes of data for millions of customers. That's just ludicrous. But somehow Science Blog puts "...may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests" in their abstract when the actual article from National Science Foundation says nothing of the sort:
Computing PageRank, the ranking algorithm behind the Google search engine, for a billion Web pages can take several days. Google currently ranks and searches 3 billion Web pages. Each personalized or topic-sensitive ranking would require a separate multi-day computation, but the payoff would be less time spent wading through irrelevant search results. For example, searching a sports-specific Google site for "Giants" would give more importance to pages about the New York or San Francisco Giants and less importance to pages about Jack and the Beanstalk.
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The complexities of a personalized ranking would require [far] greater speed-ups to the PageRank calculations. In addition, while a faster algorithm shortens computation time, the issue of storage remains. Because the results from a single PageRank computation on a few billion Web pages require several gigabytes of storage, saving a personalized PageRank for many individuals would rapidly consume vast amounts of storage. Saving a limited number of topic-specific PageRank calculations would be more practical.
Clearly the ScienceBlog and/. editors share more than a work ethic, or, uh, lack thereof. Next up: CmdrTaco's secret double life revealed!
What must have gone through the FirebirdSQL minds
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"Sweet! FREE PUBLICITY!"
I mean, not as popular as mysql, not as advanced as postgresql... they didn't have a whole lot going for them before this came up.:)
Sierra tried twice to get MEO (Middle Earth Online) going and failed. It is widely believed in the community that the first dev team [the 2nd didn't even get off the ground] made the "mistake" of making the game too Tolkien-ish, i.e. too realistic and not mass-market enough. Death was permanant, wizards were Gandalf-ish and not some D&D creation, etc. Too bad.
So with that history, I hope Turbine pulls off the game we ("we tolkien fanatics") want to see, but I'm not making any bets on it.
"What if Microsoft changes their architecture so much that Wine and WineX are rendered useless with new software?"
They can't change their architecture to break Wine w/o breaking apps on windows 2000, too. MS isn't willing to do that.
actually, if you read the article
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(here's the pdf)... many of the changes made bear a striking resemblance to the Java way of doing things Which is hardly a "flame," as one poster accused the article submitter; Java is (still) one of the cleanest language designs around, and gets a LOT of things right.
you just made three assumptions about me, none of which are true. maybe if you'd pull your head out of your butt you'd realize there are other explanations than the one you salivate at like one of pavlov's dogs.
you only have to authenticate _once_ to each recipient. less if you're important enough that they pre-auth you.:) Unless you're working in tech support or something where you mail dozens of new people a day, it's hardly a bother.
I cite a specific example of a challenge-response system for authenticating email dating from 1997, and you reply that since you started in 2001 you are the longest-running.
yes, fastmail has 4 price points, including a free entrylevel one, but given the context of the article, the relevant price point for fastmail is the cheapest that offers spam filtering.
all the systems of this kind I've seen allow recipients to selectively mark senders as OK before OR after receiving something from them. If I don't do that, the filter will be doing exactly what I want it to do by rejecting any mass mailing, from/. or anyone else.
you invented this idea the way al gore invented the internet.:(
as I posted earlier, mapson predates any commercial implementation I have seen. I downloaded version 1.0 to doublecheck -- unless yours was written before 1997, or you employ Peter Simons, I'm afraid your claim to being the first doesn't hold water.
mailblock at least doesn't claim originality, just that they do it better. which may be true; they have a pretty slick "mail siphon" feature going.
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is the same problem mp3.com had when the riaa successfully sued them for their virtual music locker. the idea, was that mp3.com's software would scan a CD to verify you owned it, and afterwards you could listen to the songs on it anywhere, without actually having to rip or upload the mp3s yourself because mp3.com had a master copy. IIRC the courts decided this wasn't airtight enough even with random "please insert the CD again so we can verify you weren't just borrowing it from the library" checks.
if anyone tries snapster 2 they'll lose in court for the same reason...
KJV is not even a little 'responsible for the inversion of "thee/thou/thy."' It was using these in the familiar sense, which was the sense used in the greek original of the NT, and thus was REINFORCING the original connotation of these words rather than inverting it...
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o st -recent/msg10071.html
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m971211c.ht
http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-m
http://www.bartleby.com/61/66/Y0026600.html
http://www.kencollins.com/why-05.htm
much, much more than $3500
so you're saying you didn't read it before submitting it? I thought /. protocol was, you're supposed to at least PRETEND to read the articles...
I would bet ESR would describe this as, "some snotty know it all wanted to start an argument, but I ignored him and moved on with my talk so I wouldn't bore the hell out of the audience."
the reason SCO can target IBM is b/c IBM was its partner in a "next generation unix" project called AIX 5L or, earlier, Project Monterrey. So IBM, unlike Sun, has engineers who work on Linux AND engineers who had access to SCO ip.
"Sweet! FREE PUBLICITY!"
:)
I mean, not as popular as mysql, not as advanced as postgresql... they didn't have a whole lot going for them before this came up.
you don't work construction with a herniated disk, no matter HOW tough you are. nice troll, though.
dude, if they can't handle the mad clickthroughs they would garner from a /. _comment_ they deserve what they get. :P
that link is one of the funniest things I have read in a looooong time.
it's well established now that their target market is willing to pay both.
So with that history, I hope Turbine pulls off the game we ("we tolkien fanatics") want to see, but I'm not making any bets on it.
that's totally different than "breaking" it in some unspecified but underhanded way like what's-his-name was suggesting.
"What if Microsoft changes their architecture so much that Wine and WineX are rendered useless with new software?"
They can't change their architecture to break Wine w/o breaking apps on windows 2000, too. MS isn't willing to do that.
(here's the pdf) ... many of the changes made bear a striking resemblance to the Java way of doing things Which is hardly a "flame," as one poster accused the article submitter; Java is (still) one of the cleanest language designs around, and gets a LOT of things right.
Dammit, Macro! I told you to use the litterbox next time!
that's even better than dumping tons of junk snail mail on him!
Microsoft may be a monopoly, but Office Depot is hardly the only place to buy software.
you just made three assumptions about me, none of which are true. maybe if you'd pull your head out of your butt you'd realize there are other explanations than the one you salivate at like one of pavlov's dogs.
here boy! fetch!
you only have to authenticate _once_ to each recipient. less if you're important enough that they pre-auth you. :) Unless you're working in tech support or something where you mail dozens of new people a day, it's hardly a bother.
I cite a specific example of a challenge-response system for authenticating email dating from 1997, and you reply that since you started in 2001 you are the longest-running.
way to refute me, champ.
yes, fastmail has 4 price points, including a free entrylevel one, but given the context of the article, the relevant price point for fastmail is the cheapest that offers spam filtering.
all the systems of this kind I've seen allow recipients to selectively mark senders as OK before OR after receiving something from them. If I don't do that, the filter will be doing exactly what I want it to do by rejecting any mass mailing, from /. or anyone else.
that's kind of the whole idea, after all.
you invented this idea the way al gore invented the internet. :(
as I posted earlier, mapson predates any commercial implementation I have seen. I downloaded version 1.0 to doublecheck -- unless yours was written before 1997, or you employ Peter Simons, I'm afraid your claim to being the first doesn't hold water.
mailblock at least doesn't claim originality, just that they do it better. which may be true; they have a pretty slick "mail siphon" feature going.