I'm not even supposed to know this, let alone say anything about it, but one of his predictions will be coming true sooner than he predicted. One of the predictions is that in 2005 shopping lists will be automatically compiled by supermarkets. A certain Springfield, Mass based grocery chain which will remain unnamed for my job's security is almost ready to roll out such a system. You'll be able to walk up to a kiosk in the store, scan your store "loyalty card", and print out a list for you of what you normally buy, highlighting what itmes are on sale this week, and offering on-sale alternatives to some items on your list (i.e. let you know Pepsi 12pks are on sale if you regularly buy Coke 12pks). From what I've heard, almost all the backend code is done, short of a few bugs to work out. They have some more front-end coding to do for the kiosks(store maps, a stupid slot-machine game we already have on the registers, and a few other things) before they roll it out.
MusicCity's Morpheous and the others based on the same core software (Kazaa, etc.) can all download one file from more than one machine at once. After a file is queued for download, right click it and select "Find more locations..." or something of that sort, and it will start downloading it from as many different servers as it can find. I don't know about any other P2P services, but I imagine at least some of the others can do the same, especially considering the capability to do that has been in software like GetRight for many years now.
If I remember right, when Andover.Net (later bought by VA Whatever-they-are-now) bought Slashdot from Taco & Friends, they relocated the physical server to somewhere near their Andover, Mass. HQ. Altho I'm not sure where Franklin is in New Hampshire, the Mass./NH border is less than an hour from Andover, Mass.
This really isn't anything new... Our good friends at DoubleClick have been on top of this for a LONG time. I live in the tiny little state of Connecticut, but for at least the last year and a half I've been getting ads targeted for CT while browsing national and international sites. It started with banner ads for ctnow.com well over a year ago, followed closely by ads trying to get me to subscribe to The Hartford Courant. Now in the last month or so, SBC/SNET(which only serves CT, and yes, the ads are branded with the SNET part of the name, not just as SBC) has been putting on a really annoying campaign for their DSL services that include popunders and big flashy graphics. It's disgusting.
Yes, but that means nothing as to "supporting" the systems. I doubt they've made more than a dozen Win95 CD's since Win98 came out and was accepted by the masses. Also, IIRC, doesn't Win98 also come with M$Java on the CD? Microsoft might just be using it as a scapegoat to dump it. (note: that's all theory. I have no facts on hand at this time to support it.)
Does anyone else find it odd that all verions of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 are supported by Microsoft longer than Win95? They've still got another couple of weeks on 'em for some reason... Nothing major, just seems... odd. I'm probably missing something since I should have been asleep 4 hours ago.;-)
The Nokia 3300 series, which is what Cingular and AT&T Wireless are trying to shove down your throat as their new entry-level phone does have an IR port on it so you can beam contacts to it from your PDA. It also includes a built-in cellular modem that communicates with your laptop or PDA through the IR port. It's no Bluetooth, but it's still very nice.
C'mon, guys. You guys have always been really good with the April Fool's gags, but this year's is just lame. It's almost like you forgot about it and pulled it out of your ass at the last minute. Oh well. Maybe next year. --
I opened a checking account with my bank the day that they let me--my 16th birthday. Included with that was a VISA check card. Today I'm still only 17...
Although I don't like to admit it, I've been able to use it more than once to view age restricted items at eBay and other "unsavory content". he he he.;-)
So to anyone putting together an age verification system out there--the credit card check thing is easily and legally circumvented.:-) --
Make life even easier for people and point that NameZero domain to http://oneilli.net/~sharky/entry/?slashd ot... It'll break away that damn annoying ad banner frame automagically...:-) (and it gives users a choice to keep the frame so NameZero can't get *too* mad before defualting to break it off after 10 seconds...) --
This would also explain why you have to use special labels with a flourescent-orange border when printing Stamps.com/EStamps "Internet Postage" and putting it on envelopes. If I get the oppertunity, I'll try to look at the labels under UV sometime... --
I've been having a little girl trouble lately, and I've been sorta down about it for the last few days, but that article put a huge smile on my face. Thank you Roblimo! --
For those of you who are interested, the local news just did a segment on this new Burger King, and here's some things I noticed: 1) It opened today(5/20). 2) They appear to be regular keyboards and monitors with no covers--spill your shake and they're out a keyboard(and you're probably out another $20). 3) No boxes in sight, so you probably can't BYO hardware.:-( 4) No visible signs of what OS it's running. No start bar, no Mac bar, and I couldn't see the cursor well enough to get an idea if it was X. 5) Purchasing a value meal gives you a token good for 15 minutes--if you wanted a long browsing session, you could collect tokens for a while and then piss off a lot of people waiting in line behind you. 6) There is an on-site admin. 7) There is a bar at the top with a time clock telling you how much you have left and it appears to have navigation controls. and, the kicker....(not directly related, tho.) 7) There are as many access terminals(2) in this Burger King as there are in the Hartford Public School System, which, BTW, is the only one run by the state of CT instead of the town. --
Slashdot isn't just Linux. It's really anything (Rob|Hemos|Nate|Cliff|et. al.) sees fit. While a lot of that happens to be Linux, anything that's "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" is fair game for Slashdot. If there's an article that doesn't intrest you, nobody's forcing you to read it--just skip it over. --
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Visa and SSN? Mine aren't in there! I do have my religion and my "sexual orientation", tho. I wonder what other ones are out there... --
>There is another date earlier that I can't remember.
A few weeks ago the airlines & hotels started acceping reservations for 1/1/2000. From what I heard there were absoloutly no problems with it, so things are gooking good for the big Y2K. --
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I'm not even supposed to know this, let alone say anything about it, but one of his predictions will be coming true sooner than he predicted. One of the predictions is that in 2005 shopping lists will be automatically compiled by supermarkets. A certain Springfield, Mass based grocery chain which will remain unnamed for my job's security is almost ready to roll out such a system. You'll be able to walk up to a kiosk in the store, scan your store "loyalty card", and print out a list for you of what you normally buy, highlighting what itmes are on sale this week, and offering on-sale alternatives to some items on your list (i.e. let you know Pepsi 12pks are on sale if you regularly buy Coke 12pks). From what I've heard, almost all the backend code is done, short of a few bugs to work out. They have some more front-end coding to do for the kiosks(store maps, a stupid slot-machine game we already have on the registers, and a few other things) before they roll it out.
I know this is asking for -1, Redundant, but Congratulations Taco & Kathleen. The best of luck to both of you.
MusicCity's Morpheous and the others based on the same core software (Kazaa, etc.) can all download one file from more than one machine at once. After a file is queued for download, right click it and select "Find more locations..." or something of that sort, and it will start downloading it from as many different servers as it can find. I don't know about any other P2P services, but I imagine at least some of the others can do the same, especially considering the capability to do that has been in software like GetRight for many years now.
If I remember right, when Andover.Net (later bought by VA Whatever-they-are-now) bought Slashdot from Taco & Friends, they relocated the physical server to somewhere near their Andover, Mass. HQ. Altho I'm not sure where Franklin is in New Hampshire, the Mass./NH border is less than an hour from Andover, Mass.
This really isn't anything new... Our good friends at DoubleClick have been on top of this for a LONG time. I live in the tiny little state of Connecticut, but for at least the last year and a half I've been getting ads targeted for CT while browsing national and international sites. It started with banner ads for ctnow.com well over a year ago, followed closely by ads trying to get me to subscribe to The Hartford Courant. Now in the last month or so, SBC/SNET(which only serves CT, and yes, the ads are branded with the SNET part of the name, not just as SBC) has been putting on a really annoying campaign for their DSL services that include popunders and big flashy graphics. It's disgusting.
Yes, but that means nothing as to "supporting" the systems. I doubt they've made more than a dozen Win95 CD's since Win98 came out and was accepted by the masses. Also, IIRC, doesn't Win98 also come with M$Java on the CD? Microsoft might just be using it as a scapegoat to dump it. (note: that's all theory. I have no facts on hand at this time to support it.)
Figures someone else submits it 2 seconds before I do... damn.
Does anyone else find it odd that all verions of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 are supported by Microsoft longer than Win95? They've still got another couple of weeks on 'em for some reason... Nothing major, just seems... odd. I'm probably missing something since I should have been asleep 4 hours ago. ;-)
The Nokia 3300 series, which is what Cingular and AT&T Wireless are trying to shove down your throat as their new entry-level phone does have an IR port on it so you can beam contacts to it from your PDA. It also includes a built-in cellular modem that communicates with your laptop or PDA through the IR port. It's no Bluetooth, but it's still very nice.
C'mon, guys. You guys have always been really good with the April Fool's gags, but this year's is just lame. It's almost like you forgot about it and pulled it out of your ass at the last minute. Oh well. Maybe next year.
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Darnit, somebody cought on to me! :-)
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I opened a checking account with my bank the day that they let me--my 16th birthday. Included with that was a VISA check card. Today I'm still only 17...
Although I don't like to admit it, I've been able to use it more than once to view age restricted items at eBay and other "unsavory content". he he he.
So to anyone putting together an age verification system out there--the credit card check thing is easily and legally circumvented.
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Make life even easier for people and point that NameZero domain to http://oneilli.net/~sharky/entry/?slashd ot... It'll break away that damn annoying ad banner frame automagically... :-) (and it gives users a choice to keep the frame so NameZero can't get *too* mad before defualting to break it off after 10 seconds...)
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Two words: NameZero Sucks. Their service is *always* down... As soon as I get some extra cash I'm taking sharkyfour.com away from them...
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This would also explain why you have to use special labels with a flourescent-orange border when printing Stamps.com/EStamps "Internet Postage" and putting it on envelopes. If I get the oppertunity, I'll try to look at the labels under UV sometime...
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I've been having a little girl trouble lately, and I've been sorta down about it for the last few days, but that article put a huge smile on my face. Thank you Roblimo!
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Sorry about the formatting... I forgot it was in HTML instead of plain-text mode. My bad. Next time I'll use preview.
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For those of you who are interested, the local news just did a segment on this new Burger King, and here's some things I noticed: 1) It opened today(5/20). 2) They appear to be regular keyboards and monitors with no covers--spill your shake and they're out a keyboard(and you're probably out another $20). 3) No boxes in sight, so you probably can't BYO hardware. :-( 4) No visible signs of what OS it's running. No start bar, no Mac bar, and I couldn't see the cursor well enough to get an idea if it was X. 5) Purchasing a value meal gives you a token good for 15 minutes--if you wanted a long browsing session, you could collect tokens for a while and then piss off a lot of people waiting in line behind you. 6) There is an on-site admin. 7) There is a bar at the top with a time clock telling you how much you have left and it appears to have navigation controls. and, the kicker....(not directly related, tho.) 7) There are as many access terminals(2) in this Burger King as there are in the Hartford Public School System, which, BTW, is the only one run by the state of CT instead of the town.
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Slashdot isn't just Linux. It's really anything (Rob|Hemos|Nate|Cliff|et. al.) sees fit. While a lot of that happens to be Linux, anything that's "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" is fair game for Slashdot. If there's an article that doesn't intrest you, nobody's forcing you to read it--just skip it over.
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Visa and SSN? Mine aren't in there! I do have my religion and my "sexual orientation", tho. I wonder what other ones are out there...
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>There is another date earlier that I can't remember.
A few weeks ago the airlines & hotels started acceping reservations for 1/1/2000. From what I heard there were absoloutly no problems with it, so things are gooking good for the big Y2K.
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Hey! What happened to the title? I thought it was the "Slashdot effect killer"! C'mon! You gotta have fun with your titles...
I already have the boss sold on one, now just for me to find the money... There are some disadvantages in working for yourself...
Ummm... He posted that 2 hours after the 16-year-old-girl crypto story...