It would be worthwhile to think of a way of formulating statements/rules that don't resemble the languages used in the ordinary computer world, this would stress that.walk is not merely an offshoot of something that is already existing but that it is a whole new field of research.
Translates to: Whilst open-standards are great and we could leverage and existing language that just wouldn't be cool enough. We need to invent a whole new difficult to learn language to obscure the fact that we've just reinvented the wheel (aka LOGO)
The way that i believe distributed.net detect people who dont check and just send the block back is to hand out false positives. (i'm actually not sure they do this but it was discussed)
That way the server can tell if a user has been cheating when they report that a false positive didn't contain the key.
I appreciate that it's normal to drop the per second when it's painfully obvious what you mean.
Unforunately when it comes to hosting providers that works both ways. Some will claim that 10Mbit is a 10Mbit/s connection, others will claim 40GB meaning 40Gigabytes/month data transfer.
Where there's ambiguity you should always spell out what you mean.
bits, bytes, words, nibbles and their kilo, mega, giga, tera prefixes all describe quantities of data.
Bandwidth is expressed in units data per unit time. So megabits/second, bytes/minute, etc...
Bits are a perfectly legitimate unit of data, and if you've ever bought ram then this should be really obvious to you.
Re:Is that conversion correct?
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Sadly a UK gallon of regular 95 octane will set you back about $5.30 - but I guess that's the price to pay for better milage.
The US needs tax breaks
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At least in the UK the government started diesel at a lower tax rate (around $3/gallon in 1990 - as a rough guess) and slowly crept it up to match regular gasoline.
Now they are doing the same with LPG which you can now get in quite a lot of gas stations - maybe 1 in 10 (and more in cities) and most public service vehical fleets have already been converted.
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Yeah i'm not sure where that came from - by my calculations you get:
264.34 miles per US Gallon 317.46 miles per UK Gallon
I spoke to someone at sun about 2 years ago who said that they'd like to OS solaris but some of it is still based on code that they licensed years ago from companies which are no longer around.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it'd still require quite a lot of effort to replace this code with cleanly implemented open-sourceable code.
It'd probably make reasonably good economic sense since x86 boxes just cant compete with the higher end sun machines - either in performance or reliability.
I've determined that I have to whitelist my universities domain and my work domain since I cannot risk loosing an email from either - however many spammers now forge the from address so as to appear spamming from your own domain.
Have offered this for years! I know i was still in high school when it started so it was probably around 1996.
Certainly in the US safeway are well backward but their scottish stores are a bit more useful.
You just pick up a handscanner when you go in, place it back when you leave, it prints out a receipt with a barcode and you pay that amount.
Of course sometimes they make the cashiers rescan you and if you are unreliable at doing your own scanning then this happens everytime... unfortunately my safeway card is also used by my mother, who wonderful as she is, cant work new fangled electronics to save herself:)
Improper usage of the English language, it prevents you from landing a high paying job
Ahh i knew that anyway (or at least i did about 50ms after hitting post), I've been having a crappy day anyway. Typically that would be on the day that I had 4 hrs of aptitude testing for an investment bank IT job.... personally i think beer is the reason i dont have a high paying job.
Thankfully we live in the age of the spell checker:)
Salon is a quality site, with the sort of quality journalism that can probably command fairly good advertisers and their money. (as can be seen by the calibre of ads on their site).
Their site plainly appeals to more educated and probably more wealthy individuals and i am of the opinion that this advertising method will not work for many other sites.
It's clearly inline with their advertisers wishes.
The advert i saw the other day from mercedes benz was clearly designed to be exactly that sort of click through. It had 4 pages of very flash oriented adverts for some new car.
I must admit it was quite effective, and if i had the money to buy a mercedes then the ad might have effected me.
If it were better targetted and perhaps extolled the benifits of red bull and coding sessions then i might have gone for it.
Microsoft aren't doing anything illegal here, put simply - to use xbox live you require an original microsoft xbox.
People should be free to mod their hardware as they see fit (since it's theirs).
This is a bit like me fitting rocket boosters to the back of my car and driving it around at 200 mph. Sure i can do it and that's probaly legal. Driving it on public roads is of course not.
Anyway i thought everyone that bought xbox mod chips wanted them to make them into linuXBoxes - what the hell will they be doing with xbox live, what they realy need access to is apt-get live:)
Hang on a second... everyone here is fighting for the right to time-shift & space-shift things that they own.
Now if i'm vaguely allowed to tivo something off satelite (my satelite company even suppy tivo enabled boxes) then surely i should also be able to time-shift one of these discs.
If you could somehow convince them to pay maybe $10 for a large popcorn & coke then you could still make a tidy profit.... and movies would be free.... oh hang on..
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It would be worthwhile to think of a way of formulating statements/rules that don't resemble the languages used in the ordinary computer world, this would stress that .walk is not merely an offshoot of something that is already existing but that it is a whole new field of research.
Translates to: Whilst open-standards are great and we could leverage and existing language that just wouldn't be cool enough. We need to invent a whole new difficult to learn language to obscure the fact that we've just reinvented the wheel (aka LOGO)
The way that i believe distributed.net detect people who dont check and just send the block back is to hand out false positives. (i'm actually not sure they do this but it was discussed)
That way the server can tell if a user has been cheating when they report that a false positive didn't contain the key.
I'm in scotland and thanks to vonage i'm paying $40 a month for all the calls to the US i can handle.
Before that i was paying 3 pence (US 5c) a minute for calls to the us - hardly expensive compared to the other costs involved in telemarketting.
I appreciate that it's normal to drop the per second when it's painfully obvious what you mean.
Unforunately when it comes to hosting providers that works both ways. Some will claim that 10Mbit is a 10Mbit/s connection, others will claim 40GB meaning 40Gigabytes/month data transfer.
Where there's ambiguity you should always spell out what you mean.
I'd agree with the autopr0n guy:
bits, bytes, words, nibbles and their kilo, mega, giga, tera prefixes all describe quantities of data.
Bandwidth is expressed in units data per unit time. So megabits/second, bytes/minute, etc...
Bits are a perfectly legitimate unit of data, and if you've ever bought ram then this should be really obvious to you.
Sadly a UK gallon of regular 95 octane will set you back about $5.30 - but I guess that's the price to pay for better milage.
At least in the UK the government started diesel at a lower tax rate (around $3/gallon in 1990 - as a rough guess) and slowly crept it up to match regular gasoline.
Now they are doing the same with LPG which you can now get in quite a lot of gas stations - maybe 1 in 10 (and more in cities) and most public service vehical fleets have already been converted.
Yeah i'm not sure where that came from - by my calculations you get:
264.34 miles per US Gallon
317.46 miles per UK Gallon
but either way that's pretty good
I spoke to someone at sun about 2 years ago who said that they'd like to OS solaris but some of it is still based on code that they licensed years ago from companies which are no longer around.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it'd still require quite a lot of effort to replace this code with cleanly implemented open-sourceable code.
It'd probably make reasonably good economic sense since x86 boxes just cant compete with the higher end sun machines - either in performance or reliability.
Whitelists dont work.
I've determined that I have to whitelist my universities domain and my work domain since I cannot risk loosing an email from either - however many spammers now forge the from address so as to appear spamming from your own domain.
:) very very good beer
That's always a good way to hear how good your connection is.
Have offered this for years! I know i was still in high school when it started so it was probably around 1996.
:)
Certainly in the US safeway are well backward but their scottish stores are a bit more useful.
You just pick up a handscanner when you go in, place it back when you leave, it prints out a receipt with a barcode and you pay that amount.
Of course sometimes they make the cashiers rescan you and if you are unreliable at doing your own scanning then this happens everytime... unfortunately my safeway card is also used by my mother, who wonderful as she is, cant work new fangled electronics to save herself
Improper usage of the English language, it prevents you from landing a high paying job
:)
Ahh i knew that anyway (or at least i did about 50ms after hitting post), I've been having a crappy day anyway. Typically that would be on the day that I had 4 hrs of aptitude testing for an investment bank IT job.... personally i think beer is the reason i dont have a high paying job.
Thankfully we live in the age of the spell checker
Salon is a quality site, with the sort of quality journalism that can probably command fairly good advertisers and their money. (as can be seen by the calibre of ads on their site).
Their site plainly appeals to more educated and probably more wealthy individuals and i am of the opinion that this advertising method will not work for many other sites.
It's clearly inline with their advertisers wishes.
The advert i saw the other day from mercedes benz was clearly designed to be exactly that sort of click through. It had 4 pages of very flash oriented adverts for some new car.
I must admit it was quite effective, and if i had the money to buy a mercedes then the ad might have effected me.
If it were better targetted and perhaps extolled the benifits of red bull and coding sessions then i might have gone for it.
Microsoft aren't doing anything illegal here, put simply - to use xbox live you require an original microsoft xbox.
:)
People should be free to mod their hardware as they see fit (since it's theirs).
This is a bit like me fitting rocket boosters to the back of my car and driving it around at 200 mph. Sure i can do it and that's probaly legal. Driving it on public roads is of course not.
Anyway i thought everyone that bought xbox mod chips wanted them to make them into linuXBoxes - what the hell will they be doing with xbox live, what they realy need access to is apt-get live
Hang on a second... everyone here is fighting for the right to time-shift & space-shift things that they own.
Now if i'm vaguely allowed to tivo something off satelite (my satelite company even suppy tivo enabled boxes) then surely i should also be able to time-shift one of these discs.
slashdot moderator michael actually manages correct use of a semicolon.
sadly the database seems to have gone down - but look at http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~jlauha/taat/porrasturvat /score/webscores.cgi tommorrow :)
Ummmm my 3 yr old cellphone connects quite happily with IR to my laptop.
Most new phones have bluetooth which should have some support in linux and means you can leave your phone in your pocket.
The downside is that downloading will zap your phone batteries...
British Telecom tried this...
If you could somehow convince them to pay maybe $10 for a large popcorn & coke then you could still make a tidy profit.... and movies would be free .... oh hang on..
Perhaps it wont reach the widest audience but it's certainly a great way to deliver it :)
When (if ever) i get to build my own place then i'll end up with cable drops plastered into the walls.
:)
That way when a new tech comes out i just need to replace the faceplates on the walls and drop new cable down from the attic