Cool, that was my next question too. Thanks for the info. I slept through most of my physics classes in college.. (although I remembered speed vs. acceleration after a few minutes of posting).
While scramjets raise the possibility of Sydney to London flights in two hours, they are set to revolutionise the launch of small space payloads, such as communications satellites, by substantially lowering costs. They have the added benefit that they do not even have to carry most of their propellant as they use oxygen from the atmosphere.
Just wondering, but wouldn't travelling at Mach 7.6 be a little tough on a human? I'm no physisct, but it seems like the G's would be something really painful for a human. Of course, maybe the two hour flight from London to Sydney wouldn't require Mach 7.6 speeds.
You can delete linux partitions with dos's FDISK. You can't create them, though. Not sure if you can do that or not with FreeDOS.. They just show up as "unknown". Depending on what distro your using, fdisk isn't all that bad once you get the hang of it. I prefer slackwares old text based one. Redhat is OK, too.
It was really hard to get the hang of, the controls were pretty touchy. I tried mine on Mike Tysons punch out, and it was VERY hard to control. I think I got up to Mad Bull, but couldn't get any further. The hardest thing was doing a left hook:)
Just because it isn't in the FAQ doesn't mean it isn't worth thinking about again (afterall, that was written over 2 years ago).
There are two types of people. Those who live by the rules, and those who want to change the rules. I'm the latter:) I think there is a solution, and I don't think it would be as difficult as it seems.
I think slashdot could help everyone out by doing the following.
1. Any time an article is submitted that refers to a non-news site (such as the one in this story), slashdot should automatically pull a copy of the page/story and put it somewhere in a temporary cache. The story would automatically generate the "slashdot cache" link and content when the article is posted.
2. The temporary cache that these web pages are pulled into only exist for the stories that are on the front page (or perhaps a day). After that specified time, the cache is flushed.
This code would be VERY simple to write. All it is is a simple screen scrape! A list of sites to not cache (such as yahoo news, cnn, etc.) could be kept in a simple text file.
Despite copyright laws, I think people that have sites that can't handle a slashdot load would prefer a copy of their content on slashdot as opposed to an effective DDOS. Both readers and site owners would be MUCH HAPPIER.
Just my 2c. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! IT IS VERY ANNOYING, ALMOST AS ANNOYING AS WHEN SOMEONE TYPES IN ALL CAPS.
BT is reportedly considering prices of up to £85 per month...
The chances of anyone making money out of the wireless hotspots could be dented by the fact that many community groups and well-intentioned individuals are setting up networks anyone can use for free.
£85 per month seems high, but I suppose broad band isn't near as cheap "accross the pond" as it is here. However, free is a lot cheaper, and I'm hoping that there are some "well-intentioned individuals" that can help make that happen.
It would be great to see a web site for freloaders dedicated to WIFI spots where you could enter your zipcode and then find out what is near you to get on, and what you must do in order to get on (hardware, settings, etc.). Anyone know of such a thing?
In Nazi Germany, I believe the numbers were tatooed (at least in some cases) on the prisoners. How will these Japanese be "marked" with their number? I didn't see anything in the article about that. But if this number is mandatory and so critical, I wouldn't be suprised to see some sort of "permanent" marking, such as a microchip or barcode.
And if that's the case.. (not to get anyone in a panic or anything) take a look at Revalation chapter 12. Could this be a predecessor? Interesting.
I remember dialing long distance to California to download the latest stuff.. at 300 baud! I still remember my first 2400 baud modem, then 9600, then 14400.. (I paid at least $150 for each when they came out).
I miss the days of Telemate, Telix, and PCPlus (I liked Telemate the best). And using "TheDraw" to do ANSI art for my BBS... Things just seemed to be so much more fun and mysterious back then. BBS Doors were fun (remember Solar Realms, The Pit, and Trade Wars?), the message boards were more friendly and geeky..
Tis true and a good point. However, in reality I don't think with a lot of ISP's (especially the smaller ones) the amount of IP addresses are an issue. I've had the same exact dynamic IP address (via DHCP) for pretty much the past year. If it they had more fluctuation/ demand than available IP's, I would expect my dynamic address to be changing frequently.
Perhaps if we went to IPV6 this would be more of a possibility?
I think it is really silly that they try to charge you for the extra machines you put on it. After all, you aren't getting any MORE bandwidth when you add another machine. I might be a little more willing to pay the extra $10 if it meant another full 1.5 mbit.
Similarly though- my cable agreement talks about that but the installers are cool about it. Although a little more recently someone came out to do some tech work on the line (I don't remember the exact reason why he came out right now) and he noticed my hub. "Is that a LAN?" I said "yes" and told him that the reason I have one is because I don't want to have to unplug my computer every time I get on/off the internet to get share my other computers (nor do I want to buy another NIC) which is true. He was cool with that and didn't ask me more questions.
There should be some kind of consumer laws against companies charging for more with no additional product or service to the consumer (as in this case).
In the same boat.. I really wish my cable company could give me a static IP for a reasonable price. I don't understand how they can justify charging so much (I think I'd have to go to a business account, which is over $100). It's just one lousy entry in the DNS table, right?
As far as hooking up multiple computers with a static IP or dynamic, I just use a linksys router. I think I paid $60 for it. It just acts as a firewall and in conjunction with an old 8 port hub I had laying around, I've gotten that many computers on the internet with it (of course you can also buy routers with more ports and not worry about the hub). I can do IP forwarding with it so if I had multiple machines that are acting as servers (say one is mail, one is web) the router can handle that as well...
I think the main problem with.NET is the marketing..NET means somethind different to just about everyone.. To me as a developer it means the new development tools (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, Web Services). I definitely don't think that was a misstep- it is 100x better than its predecessor (COM). However, I think branding hailstorm and all the new version of the enterprise servers as.NET was a mistake. MS was trying to put everything under the.NET umbrella, but since some of those products/concepts have failed (ie hailstorm) it is now going to paint all things.NET in a negative light especially to people who aren't totally familiar with it. I hope they learn the lesson. I can remember visiting the web site several times that talks about what.NET is, and seeing it change about every month:)
Has anyone ever seen that Juno commercial- the one where it hypes the fact that you can use the same IM that AOL uses for a lot less money? I wonder if they will be affected by this. That would suck for them.
It's bad enough when Susie in her corvette is driving in front of me with her ear glued to the cell phone. Just imagine when her phone starts going out and she's in the middle of a lane change getting ready to wind... (shudder)
The first "real" application I developed (at least for money) was in VB5. It had no specification, the requirements were written down on napkins and that sort of thing. It turned out to be one of the most painful experiences in my life. Basically it was a program to fix database corruption problems because the original programmers didn't put ANY referential integrity in the DB and basically let nurses be DBA's (long story).
Needless to say those of us on this project weren't too happy. Oh, but we tried to have some fun with it. Later on in the project, we picked a beaver to be our mascott (remember the "hamster dance?" that was our theme song, don't ask). Anyway, we had a graphics guy modify this bitmap we found and turned it into an animated gif of a beaver with a chainsaw dripping blood all over the place. The easter egg was basically if you clicked on the "Help | About" screen in a certain spot, it would show. Ahh, that was satisfying. I truly believe that is the reasoning behind easter eggs- it helps make horrible projects go a little better.
You're exactly right- most developers who use Java will use C#. The only reason they made a J# (at least in my opinion, and after talking to some of the ms prod managers) is so people that already have an existing investment in Visual J++ can easily leverage it. I'm quite suprised they even bothered, though-- especially with the whole lawsuit thing.
I've got a free voucher for J++ in my VS.NEt box, but I doubt I'll use it:)
"Existing storage technologies are starting to reach the point where they can no longer advance," says Skip Kilsdonk, the InPhase vice president of business development.
They were saying the same thing 10 years ago about SISC chips and probably IDE hard drives. I think blanket statements like this are dangerous. Never underestimate the power of innovation (or luck)!
I always went to either lycos or altavista, and that was back in '94. The quality of both of them started going down especially after they allowed businesses to "pay" to get hits higher.
I think Google absolutely rocks. It has by far the most intelligent/helpful search engine results. Thanks for the great service.
Now onto the questions- what is the Google vision / strategy for the future? Where can Google go? From a search engine perspective, what are some of the challenges that you have and improvements that can be made (perhaps speeding up crawling to make the latest content available, for example)? How are you going about solving these challenges, and when can we expect them to be implemented?
On a similar note, I've noticed that recently Google announced a "google box" that allows for corporate to take advantage of the google search algorithms and indexing. Any more products like this being planned?
I am also a programmer, and I agree entirely with what you are saying. I think a lot of the problems in the user interface are a result of the fact that projects not only have a lack of clear defnition, but they need to be released YESTERDAY. In our organization, the UI is almost the last thing that gets looked at (which is totally backwards). A lot of people end up blaming the programmers, but in reality it was the fact that the managament never prioritized that. As the old axiom goes "Garbage in, Garbage Out".
Basically, UI is about making the user happy. In many a company's culture, the emphasis is not on the people, it is on the product and pulling in the $$$'s. I think that is a big reason why we are seeing "version fatigue".
Another cultural thing-- the customer wants instant gratification (a new version) and that is the hook and why bad UI flies. Only after they excitedly unwrap it and get caught up in the "newness" of it all, only then do they find out that they hate it because everything they once knew has changed.. Complaints go to the manufacturers but are rarely heard-- after all the user bought the product, and they will be buying the next one.
OK, someone messed up.. but it isn't as bad as it sounds. First off, it wasn't MS that put the virus in, it was some third party thing they used to convert the language to Korean. However, MS should have at least run virus scan on it before they shipped it. Second, the person running VS.NET would actually have to install IE 5.5 over IE 6 (why would anyone do that) and browse a certain help file in order for it to get infected.
I'm not trying to defend MS. Just pointing out the facts (or at least how they were stated in the article). On one hand it's kind of funny to read through all the quick one-liner jokes about MS (definitely worth a chuckle) but I think MS isn't quite as bad as they're being made out to be.
By the way, anyone know the company that wrote the nimda infected software?
Slashdot Mirror
Cool, that was my next question too. Thanks for the info. I slept through most of my physics classes in college.. (although I remembered speed vs. acceleration after a few minutes of posting).
While scramjets raise the possibility of Sydney to London flights in two hours, they are set to revolutionise the launch of small space payloads, such as communications satellites, by substantially lowering costs. They have the added benefit that they do not even have to carry most of their propellant as they use oxygen from the atmosphere.
Just wondering, but wouldn't travelling at Mach 7.6 be a little tough on a human? I'm no physisct, but it seems like the G's would be something really painful for a human. Of course, maybe the two hour flight from London to Sydney wouldn't require Mach 7.6 speeds.
FWIW,
You can delete linux partitions with dos's FDISK. You can't create them, though. Not sure if you can do that or not with FreeDOS.. They just show up as "unknown". Depending on what distro your using, fdisk isn't all that bad once you get the hang of it. I prefer slackwares old text based one. Redhat is OK, too.
It was really hard to get the hang of, the controls were pretty touchy. I tried mine on Mike Tysons punch out, and it was VERY hard to control. I think I got up to Mad Bull, but couldn't get any further. The hardest thing was doing a left hook :)
Just because it isn't in the FAQ doesn't mean it isn't worth thinking about again (afterall, that was written over 2 years ago).
:) I think there is a solution, and I don't think it would be as difficult as it seems.
There are two types of people. Those who live by the rules, and those who want to change the rules. I'm the latter
Thanks, good idea. I went ahead and submitted it w/ a little elaboration. We'll see where it goes!
You could even call it something cool, like "slash cache"..
I think slashdot could help everyone out by doing the following.
1. Any time an article is submitted that refers to a non-news site (such as the one in this story), slashdot should automatically pull a copy of the page/story and put it somewhere in a temporary cache. The story would automatically generate the "slashdot cache" link and content when the article is posted.
2. The temporary cache that these web pages are pulled into only exist for the stories that are on the front page (or perhaps a day). After that specified time, the cache is flushed.
This code would be VERY simple to write. All it is is a simple screen scrape! A list of sites to not cache (such as yahoo news, cnn, etc.) could be kept in a simple text file.
Despite copyright laws, I think people that have sites that can't handle a slashdot load would prefer a copy of their content on slashdot as opposed to an effective DDOS. Both readers and site owners would be MUCH HAPPIER.
Just my 2c. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! IT IS VERY ANNOYING, ALMOST AS ANNOYING AS WHEN SOMEONE TYPES IN ALL CAPS.
BT is reportedly considering prices of up to £85 per month...
The chances of anyone making money out of the wireless hotspots could be dented by the fact that many community groups and well-intentioned individuals are setting up networks anyone can use for free.
£85 per month seems high, but I suppose broad band isn't near as cheap "accross the pond" as it is here. However, free is a lot cheaper, and I'm hoping that there are some "well-intentioned individuals" that can help make that happen.
It would be great to see a web site for freloaders dedicated to WIFI spots where you could enter your zipcode and then find out what is near you to get on, and what you must do in order to get on (hardware, settings, etc.). Anyone know of such a thing?
In Nazi Germany, I believe the numbers were tatooed (at least in some cases) on the prisoners. How will these Japanese be "marked" with their number? I didn't see anything in the article about that. But if this number is mandatory and so critical, I wouldn't be suprised to see some sort of "permanent" marking, such as a microchip or barcode.
And if that's the case.. (not to get anyone in a panic or anything) take a look at Revalation chapter 12. Could this be a predecessor? Interesting.
I remember dialing long distance to California to download the latest stuff.. at 300 baud! I still remember my first 2400 baud modem, then 9600, then 14400.. (I paid at least $150 for each when they came out).
I miss the days of Telemate, Telix, and PCPlus (I liked Telemate the best). And using "TheDraw" to do ANSI art for my BBS... Things just seemed to be so much more fun and mysterious back then. BBS Doors were fun (remember Solar Realms, The Pit, and Trade Wars?), the message boards were more friendly and geeky..
Tis true and a good point. However, in reality I don't think with a lot of ISP's (especially the smaller ones) the amount of IP addresses are an issue. I've had the same exact dynamic IP address (via DHCP) for pretty much the past year. If it they had more fluctuation/ demand than available IP's, I would expect my dynamic address to be changing frequently.
Perhaps if we went to IPV6 this would be more of a possibility?
I think it is really silly that they try to charge you for the extra machines you put on it. After all, you aren't getting any MORE bandwidth when you add another machine. I might be a little more willing to pay the extra $10 if it meant another full 1.5 mbit.
Similarly though- my cable agreement talks about that but the installers are cool about it. Although a little more recently someone came out to do some tech work on the line (I don't remember the exact reason why he came out right now) and he noticed my hub. "Is that a LAN?" I said "yes" and told him that the reason I have one is because I don't want to have to unplug my computer every time I get on/off the internet to get share my other computers (nor do I want to buy another NIC) which is true. He was cool with that and didn't ask me more questions.
There should be some kind of consumer laws against companies charging for more with no additional product or service to the consumer (as in this case).
In the same boat.. I really wish my cable company could give me a static IP for a reasonable price. I don't understand how they can justify charging so much (I think I'd have to go to a business account, which is over $100). It's just one lousy entry in the DNS table, right?
As far as hooking up multiple computers with a static IP or dynamic, I just use a linksys router. I think I paid $60 for it. It just acts as a firewall and in conjunction with an old 8 port hub I had laying around, I've gotten that many computers on the internet with it (of course you can also buy routers with more ports and not worry about the hub). I can do IP forwarding with it so if I had multiple machines that are acting as servers (say one is mail, one is web) the router can handle that as well...
I think the main problem with .NET is the marketing. .NET means somethind different to just about everyone.. To me as a developer it means the new development tools (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, Web Services). I definitely don't think that was a misstep- it is 100x better than its predecessor (COM). However, I think branding hailstorm and all the new version of the enterprise servers as .NET was a mistake. MS was trying to put everything under the .NET umbrella, but since some of those products/concepts have failed (ie hailstorm) it is now going to paint all things .NET in a negative light especially to people who aren't totally familiar with it. I hope they learn the lesson. I can remember visiting the web site several times that talks about what .NET is, and seeing it change about every month :)
Has anyone ever seen that Juno commercial- the one where it hypes the fact that you can use the same IM that AOL uses for a lot less money? I wonder if they will be affected by this. That would suck for them.
It's bad enough when Susie in her corvette is driving in front of me with her ear glued to the cell phone. Just imagine when her phone starts going out and she's in the middle of a lane change getting ready to wind... (shudder)
The first "real" application I developed (at least for money) was in VB5. It had no specification, the requirements were written down on napkins and that sort of thing. It turned out to be one of the most painful experiences in my life. Basically it was a program to fix database corruption problems because the original programmers didn't put ANY referential integrity in the DB and basically let nurses be DBA's (long story).
Needless to say those of us on this project weren't too happy. Oh, but we tried to have some fun with it. Later on in the project, we picked a beaver to be our mascott (remember the "hamster dance?" that was our theme song, don't ask). Anyway, we had a graphics guy modify this bitmap we found and turned it into an animated gif of a beaver with a chainsaw dripping blood all over the place. The easter egg was basically if you clicked on the "Help | About" screen in a certain spot, it would show. Ahh, that was satisfying. I truly believe that is the reasoning behind easter eggs- it helps make horrible projects go a little better.
You're exactly right- most developers who use Java will use C#. The only reason they made a J# (at least in my opinion, and after talking to some of the ms prod managers) is so people that already have an existing investment in Visual J++ can easily leverage it. I'm quite suprised they even bothered, though-- especially with the whole lawsuit thing.
:)
I've got a free voucher for J++ in my VS.NEt box, but I doubt I'll use it
From one of the four articles..
"Existing storage technologies are starting to reach the point where they can no longer advance," says Skip Kilsdonk, the InPhase vice president of business development.
They were saying the same thing 10 years ago about SISC chips and probably IDE hard drives. I think blanket statements like this are dangerous. Never underestimate the power of innovation (or luck)!
I always went to either lycos or altavista, and that was back in '94. The quality of both of them started going down especially after they allowed businesses to "pay" to get hits higher.
Josh, you can check the Zeitgeist to get the info on browser stats for a year span, same goes for OS-
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Hi Craig!
I think Google absolutely rocks. It has by far the most intelligent/helpful search engine results. Thanks for the great service.
Now onto the questions- what is the Google vision / strategy for the future? Where can Google go? From a search engine perspective, what are some of the challenges that you have and improvements that can be made (perhaps speeding up crawling to make the latest content available, for example)? How are you going about solving these challenges, and when can we expect them to be implemented?
On a similar note, I've noticed that recently Google announced a "google box" that allows for corporate to take advantage of the google search algorithms and indexing. Any more products like this being planned?
I am also a programmer, and I agree entirely with what you are saying. I think a lot of the problems in the user interface are a result of the fact that projects not only have a lack of clear defnition, but they need to be released YESTERDAY. In our organization, the UI is almost the last thing that gets looked at (which is totally backwards). A lot of people end up blaming the programmers, but in reality it was the fact that the managament never prioritized that. As the old axiom goes "Garbage in, Garbage Out".
Basically, UI is about making the user happy. In many a company's culture, the emphasis is not on the people, it is on the product and pulling in the $$$'s. I think that is a big reason why we are seeing "version fatigue".
Another cultural thing-- the customer wants instant gratification (a new version) and that is the hook and why bad UI flies. Only after they excitedly unwrap it and get caught up in the "newness" of it all, only then do they find out that they hate it because everything they once knew has changed.. Complaints go to the manufacturers but are rarely heard-- after all the user bought the product, and they will be buying the next one.
OK, someone messed up.. but it isn't as bad as it sounds. First off, it wasn't MS that put the virus in, it was some third party thing they used to convert the language to Korean. However, MS should have at least run virus scan on it before they shipped it. Second, the person running VS.NET would actually have to install IE 5.5 over IE 6 (why would anyone do that) and browse a certain help file in order for it to get infected.
I'm not trying to defend MS. Just pointing out the facts (or at least how they were stated in the article). On one hand it's kind of funny to read through all the quick one-liner jokes about MS (definitely worth a chuckle) but I think MS isn't quite as bad as they're being made out to be.
By the way, anyone know the company that wrote the nimda infected software?