Nope. You're thinking of distributed.net, which did cryptography research. SETI came after, and gave people a pretty screensaver (ooh!), and everyone thinks that the SETI client was number 1 because it's the first one that they heard of.
Nope, you're thinking of GIMPS, or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which searches for Mersenne primes. distributed.net came after, and gave people lots of things better of GIMPS, and you think the distributed.net client was number 1 because you forgot to do a little research.
Regardless of the fact that they are probably more artistic than your whole family combined, you continue to bitch about something they give away for free.... Shut up.
You could always go for an LL Bean backpack. They've extremely comfortable (to me at least), have lots of padding for your back, and have a good amount of room inside the 2 main pockets. As a bonus, you get lots of other pockets to stick 'stuff' in. LL Bean Backpack
The point, unless I am mistaken, is to get people to switch away from IE. Does IE have a built in mail reader, irc client, calendar app? No. It's a browser vs browser war. Granted, there are mail readers (OE), etc, but those aren't what the Mozilla/Firefox guys are fighting against.
Had a Scout leader when I was younger by the name of "Z"... Googling for him doesn't return anything (didn't expect it to), but it's still interesting...
This article is mostly flamebait, at best. He states that searching for "apple" happens more often when people are searching for the fruit than when searching for the company. He also states that many of the millions of google visitors daily wouldn't refine their search to find the information they wanted.
This is just an article trying to stir up a big fuss about a search engine that works with little to no human intervention.
The Linux Hardware Database, which was at one time on http://lhd.datapower.net, then moved to http://lhd.zdnet.com, has, unfortunately gone by the wayside. It was an amazing project, and I personally would love to see another like it.
Actually, the plasma TV thing was meant as a joke. However, the reply was totally on-topic, as he asked for a *semi* tech related job. Best Buy is pretty close (as far as leaving the job at the job, etc).
I brought up the 5% over cost thing as well since it might make sense (as someone else already posted), if he spends a good deal of money on electronics/movies/cds anyway. In the long run, he saves money from buying at his temporary place of employment, and it could help him pay for other things.
However, I also understand that if he's getting this second job, it's because he needs extra money in the first place, which then assumes that he probably isn't going to be buying any extra electronics/movies/cds...
Best Buy might be an option. The money isn't the best (about $7 to start), but they get 90% of the stuff in the store at 5% over cost. Which means a cheap plasma TV...
Well, if there's money in the budget, you could always do like we had to do on one of my previous teams. We had the developers talk to the middle-man, and the middle-man spoke with the managers. The middle-man had some programming experience, and some management experience.
He also knew well enough that a project that needed 6 months to complete couldn't be done in 6 weeks, and he made sure to tell the clients/managers that. He also had to translate coder talk to manager talk, a very impressive feat to say the least.
After he arrived, the projects went much smoother, and we even let him code once in a while;)
Hmm, I seem to remember the web server being something that they wrote custom for their purposes. netcraft shows them as running GWS/2.0, which I would take for Google Web Server. They're running it on linux, but that doesn't mean what distro they're using. I also remember them (somewhere on the google.com site) saying that they had mixes of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and others.
I don't know, but I like it...
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Actually, he was running RC5. The problem the school had with this is that with RC5, there is a change (albeit a very limited one) that you could win money. He had not stated that he would give the money to the school...
Robert Goddard was a great scientist. Period. Nobody really cares whether or not he was a mean man, bad father, chauvenist(?) or pretty much anything else for that matter. What he is known for is being the father of modern rocketry. He was a genius. Much in the same way that any people are geniuses. They think up a new idea, and whether they share that new idea with anyone or not, it was still a new idea.
So please, for once, don't criticize someone because they were smart (whether they were smarter than you or not is irrelevant) or because they were a mean person. Criticize someone because their work was incorrect, or their theories were flawed. That is the best way to get the result that you want.
I remember X-Com as well. That was a pretty good game, if I remember correctly. I can't remember much of anything about it, other than that it was pretty good.
Organs used in transplants are normally removed after the donor has been declared dead but while the heart is still beating
How exactly does that work? I know that there are a few ways that doctors can decide if someone is dead, but say your brainwave activity stops completely. You're dead, right? And if there is no brainwave activity, then how can your heart continue to beat? Someone please fill me in on this, because I'm kinda confused here.
C/C++ would probably be the best for overall speed, just because it is fully compiled and could run like lightning, provided that there weren't any memory leaks or the like. Perl would also be a good choice, just because of it's extremely large abilities. ASP/ColdFusion/PerlScript is always bad because they are so damned slow. We use ASP at work, but I would much rather use Perl/PHP to do the same thing.
I suggested these two TLD's last year when they had that big thing going...
MOV for movie sites (the DotCom is running pretty thin because of movies)
and XXX for pr0n sites (cuz they are taking up a bunch of the DotComs as well).
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Nope. You're thinking of distributed.net, which did cryptography research. SETI came after, and gave people a pretty screensaver (ooh!), and everyone thinks that the SETI client was number 1 because it's the first one that they heard of. Nope, you're thinking of GIMPS, or the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which searches for Mersenne primes. distributed.net came after, and gave people lots of things better of GIMPS, and you think the distributed.net client was number 1 because you forgot to do a little research.
Bittorrent?
Anyone got torrents available, since the server is down already?
Regardless of the fact that they are probably more artistic than your whole family combined, you continue to bitch about something they give away for free.... Shut up.
Anyone with a torrent link? I highly expect the server to not last too horribly long, but it's still up as of right now.
Sounds like you just volunteered :)
You could always go for an LL Bean backpack. They've extremely comfortable (to me at least), have lots of padding for your back, and have a good amount of room inside the 2 main pockets. As a bonus, you get lots of other pockets to stick 'stuff' in.
LL Bean Backpack
The point, unless I am mistaken, is to get people to switch away from IE. Does IE have a built in mail reader, irc client, calendar app? No. It's a browser vs browser war. Granted, there are mail readers (OE), etc, but those aren't what the Mozilla/Firefox guys are fighting against.
Had a Scout leader when I was younger by the name of "Z"... Googling for him doesn't return anything (didn't expect it to), but it's still interesting...
the GIMPS project has been around longer than both of them, and unless I'm mistaken, is the longest running DC project currently available.
Notice that it was added in 2001, and I remember it actually being there *long* before then...
This article is mostly flamebait, at best. He states that searching for "apple" happens more often when people are searching for the fruit than when searching for the company. He also states that many of the millions of google visitors daily wouldn't refine their search to find the information they wanted.
This is just an article trying to stir up a big fuss about a search engine that works with little to no human intervention.
The Linux Hardware Database, which was at one time on http://lhd.datapower.net, then moved to http://lhd.zdnet.com, has, unfortunately gone by the wayside. It was an amazing project, and I personally would love to see another like it.
Actually, the plasma TV thing was meant as a joke. However, the reply was totally on-topic, as he asked for a *semi* tech related job. Best Buy is pretty close (as far as leaving the job at the job, etc). I brought up the 5% over cost thing as well since it might make sense (as someone else already posted), if he spends a good deal of money on electronics/movies/cds anyway. In the long run, he saves money from buying at his temporary place of employment, and it could help him pay for other things. However, I also understand that if he's getting this second job, it's because he needs extra money in the first place, which then assumes that he probably isn't going to be buying any extra electronics/movies/cds...
Best Buy might be an option. The money isn't the best (about $7 to start), but they get 90% of the stuff in the store at 5% over cost. Which means a cheap plasma TV...
Ahh.... the good old Konami code. I loved that thing.
Well, if there's money in the budget, you could always do like we had to do on one of my previous teams. We had the developers talk to the middle-man, and the middle-man spoke with the managers. The middle-man had some programming experience, and some management experience.
;)
He also knew well enough that a project that needed 6 months to complete couldn't be done in 6 weeks, and he made sure to tell the clients/managers that. He also had to translate coder talk to manager talk, a very impressive feat to say the least.
After he arrived, the projects went much smoother, and we even let him code once in a while
Hmm, I seem to remember the web server being something that they wrote custom for their purposes. netcraft shows them as running GWS/2.0, which I would take for Google Web Server. They're running it on linux, but that doesn't mean what distro they're using. I also remember them (somewhere on the google.com site) saying that they had mixes of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and others.
I don't know, but I like it...
Actually, he was running RC5. The problem the school had with this is that with RC5, there is a change (albeit a very limited one) that you could win money. He had not stated that he would give the money to the school...
p c&s=50009562&f=122097561&m=1110950822 p c&s=50009562&f=122097561&m=7450963242&r=5150986242 #5150986242 = 39&threadid=518510&start=1 = 39&threadid=518184
This was widely discussed among many of the more well known distributed computing teams. Check it out.
Read about it here:
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=t
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=t
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Oh my god! How many more bugs do you think people will find in M$ software? I'm actually getting very tired of hearing about it!
Robert Goddard was a great scientist. Period. Nobody really cares whether or not he was a mean man, bad father, chauvenist(?) or pretty much anything else for that matter. What he is known for is being the father of modern rocketry. He was a genius. Much in the same way that any people are geniuses. They think up a new idea, and whether they share that new idea with anyone or not, it was still a new idea.
So please, for once, don't criticize someone because they were smart (whether they were smarter than you or not is irrelevant) or because they were a mean person. Criticize someone because their work was incorrect, or their theories were flawed. That is the best way to get the result that you want.
I remember X-Com as well. That was a pretty good game, if I remember correctly. I can't remember much of anything about it, other than that it was pretty good.
Organs used in transplants are normally removed after the donor has been declared dead but while the heart is still beating
How exactly does that work? I know that there are a few ways that doctors can decide if someone is dead, but say your brainwave activity stops completely. You're dead, right? And if there is no brainwave activity, then how can your heart continue to beat? Someone please fill me in on this, because I'm kinda confused here.
C/C++ would probably be the best for overall speed, just because it is fully compiled and could run like lightning, provided that there weren't any memory leaks or the like. Perl would also be a good choice, just because of it's extremely large abilities. ASP/ColdFusion/PerlScript is always bad because they are so damned slow. We use ASP at work, but I would much rather use Perl/PHP to do the same thing.
I suggested these two TLD's last year when they had that big thing going...
MOV for movie sites (the DotCom is running pretty thin because of movies)
and XXX for pr0n sites (cuz they are taking up a bunch of the DotComs as well).