I can't tell if you're being sarcastically optimistic or not, but compared with the 59 cents or less that most artists make off $20 CD sales, I'd say yea, this is a really sweet deal for everyone involved.
This is great. Not only do they point out all Google's weaknesses from the precieved point-of-view of the company that has labeled itself a new major compeditor, but there is this as well:
Search for "apple" on Google, and you have to troll through a couple pages of results before you get anything not directly related to Apple Computer--and it's a page promoting a public TV show called Newton's Apple. After that it's all Mac-related links until Fiona Apple's home page.
Oh, so God forbid an Internet search engine assumes computers to be a hot topic. Bwahahaha.
Perhaps MSN's writier should try more specific keywords, like searching for "growing apple trees", which yeilds a very nice growing guide as the top link. Or perhaps "Nutrition Information for Apples" ("for" was a very common word and not included in my search), which, also as the top result, gave me this page on health & nutrition information for apples, plus several more sites, including one from a.gov.sg site (e.g. it's not all USDA results), plus several health-related sites in the sponsored links section.
Sounds to me like MSN needs to create a better Google because they're too dumb to figure out how to use the current one properly...
In reply to your sig: I believe the saying was quoted as "C - All the power of assembly programming with all the ease of assembly programming." I forget who said it. Used to be my sig, but I got bitched out by many a/. reader, so now they can catch sars.
A big obvious tag, yea, but perhaps it's hidden or non-obvious? Most people probably have no idea that RFID technology exists. If I said "RFID" to anyone around here they'd probably go: "Or if my ID what?"
PS: How is it you know so much about the minds of child molesters?;-)
$50/mo Cable Modem with admins too stupid to catch me running a web server +$60/mo cell phone with Unlimited SMS, nights&weekends, & free long distance within continental US ================= Watch TV over a friends house since nothing is on that makes it worth buying cable.
If I was a teenager, I would just leave the jacket with the RFID tag in my locker and then ditch school.
If i was an elementary or middle-school level child, I would be glad to have the tag on. A girl in my middle school class was almost kidnapped by a guy who had kidnapped and killed at least 3 other children in the NY/MA area over the previous few years. Luckly she escaped and the man was caught and convicted, but I have to wonder how many of those could have been prevented has the police had a GPS tracking tag to follow...
I'd prefer if McBride and his cronies where found guilty of insider trading and had to pay everyone back they extorted money from, release a statement admitting Linux is just fine and then rot in jail for the rest of their days.
Is it legal for SCO to even take these actions before anything is proven in court? It seems as though they're saying "OK! We filed a lawsuit! That proves it, pay up!"
I would think they couldn't (by law) collect on such claims until after the suit, and even then, only with a ruling in their favor? Or can they say what they want, and the suckers shall fall?
Simple fixes all around. If the REFERER is blocked, check the logs for requests from that IP previously. If they've hit the main page within, say, the previous 20 minutes, then it's probably just a proxy.
As for confusing the cache, I wouldnt' think the HTTP_REFERER would have anything to do with it, the actual URL would probably be a much better choice for labeling what comes from that URL (*shrug*), but for the sake of the possibility: Toss them a "Location:" HTTP header in response and simply bounce them, no meta tags required.
Now, I admit that's all based off slightly older boxes, because those are what I have in the living room, but they are most definitely not 'big and ugly.'
Well, true, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that Apple puts a lot of time and money into their case design and the form factor of the peripherals, most than likely more than IBM does, which adds to the price of Apple hardware.
They tend towards a solid black, but I like that.
Me too... It's a shame Apple doesn't offer pro models in different colors...brushed metal, flat jet-black (remember the MacTV?), or something else a bit less intrusive to the decor of a room when you're not a 16 year old girl. Lately it's been better, except without much choice...oh well. Dismantle, spraypaint, add LEDs; for that is teh geek way.:-D
A 4U base system will be around $3500. That would then definitely be a two-processor machine.
Ummm....well then (from the article):
The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said. [emphasis mine]
Yah. RTFA.
IBM developed the chip, which means they developed a mobo along with it for testing. Apple had to make their own design, and they had to make it look good, and be quiet, home-friendly, and stylish. IBM gets to stamp out big ugly boxes, because really, unless you're talking about a secretary, no one in the office ever says "That is a nice lookin' rack!"
This leads me to believe the 2U model will be priced even lower. No mention is made, however, about clock speeds, although I'm, sure IBM will make nice fast ones avalible, a $3500 base configuration for the 4U probably means four-way 1GHz. Why would the fastest chips come in the base model?
All in all, however, these will be nice machines, and if you've ever wanted to escape the x86 world, PPC is a nice place to do it (speaking from experience). They are slightly ahead of Apple's current offerings, however IBM has the advantage there, the 970 being their own. And if you want to run Mac OS X, you'll be disapointed.
And if you're too stupid or lazy to say "weblog" and have to save two characters, then I guess it makes sense that you're too stupid and lazy to learn something as simple as HTML
Let's see how lazy you are for fun:
I'm == I am = 1 character saved
AOL == America Online = 11 characters saved
It's == It is = 1 character saved
you're == you are = 1 character saved
you're == you are = 1 characters saved
HTML == HyperText Markup Language = 22 characters
Total characters saved = 39 characters. Man you are off the scale.
*Please note this post was made in good humor, it's a Sunday.::)
Yup, to lazy for a </I> tag.
Plus you you forgot one: weblog == web log = 1 character saved.
Which brings him to a nice whopping 40. Unless I was lazy and missed one.:-D
For those of us who are slightly less familiar with Linux (heh), could you explain (or provide a link to a page explaining) why this happens, and what the reason for it still happening that way is?
Honestly not a troll or anything, just curious and I figure I can get an accurate answer from someone like Alan Cox...
the rules explicitly prevent radio stations from doing things like allowing listeners to democratically select which songs to play.
If that is true then it really, solidly proves the RIAA is just trying to get away with forcing everyone to have no alternitive but to buy their crap music produced by the lowest bidder in the quickest amount of time. Cookie-cutter pop forever! *chokes*
In the context of the X-Box hack, however, I think "hacker" means something more like "dreams in x86 assembler", or "impresses Carmack", or perhaps "pwnz L1NUS!!!11"
The AR information was displayed at a fixed "infinite" depth.This made it impossible to focus on both the text and object at the same time, requiring me to adjust my eye focus everytime I wanted to read something.
Couldn't they just overlay the text on a video feed from two small cameras mounted directly in front of the eyes and display the video mix to the user? Then depth becomes no problem because you're always focused on the screen, text and image will match.
Of course, then system bulk, focus, resolution, and frame-rate come into play. Depth-preception wouldn't be that large an issue if two cameras where used...
+5% is a mighty big shift in speed as well as pitch (think about it, most Dj turntables pitch +/-8%, and a full shift is well noticable), if it takes that much to defeat the fingerprinting it is most likely not worth it.
Also, it depends on the implementation. Perhaps it takes possible shifting in the music into account? Perhaps the fingerprinting algorithm will shift all tracks to a constant BPM first? I'm sure with a little thought, such a workaround could be easily defeated, especially considering the nature of the way MP3 compression works with spectral sound data.
I feel the big head and the little head should agree on some decisions.
What, like someone is going to say "Wow, she's ugly, but I really aught to sleep with her anyways!"???
Besides guys, c'mon now, this is/. Anyone here who figures out how to get laid can probably think with more heads than they even have (Or design a mind control device to do so).
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastically optimistic or not, but compared with the 59 cents or less that most artists make off $20 CD sales, I'd say yea, this is a really sweet deal for everyone involved.
This is great. Not only do they point out all Google's weaknesses from the precieved point-of-view of the company that has labeled itself a new major compeditor, but there is this as well:Oh, so God forbid an Internet search engine assumes computers to be a hot topic. Bwahahaha.
Perhaps MSN's writier should try more specific keywords, like searching for "growing apple trees", which yeilds a very nice growing guide as the top link. Or perhaps "Nutrition Information for Apples" ("for" was a very common word and not included in my search), which, also as the top result, gave me this page on health & nutrition information for apples, plus several more sites, including one from a
Sounds to me like MSN needs to create a better Google because they're too dumb to figure out how to use the current one properly...
...fscking RoadRunner will still charge me extra for using more than 3 IP addresses.
My God, man, my sides are splitting
In reply to your sig: I believe the saying was quoted as "C - All the power of assembly programming with all the ease of assembly programming." I forget who said it. Used to be my sig, but I got bitched out by many a /. reader, so now they can catch sars.
A big obvious tag, yea, but perhaps it's hidden or non-obvious? Most people probably have no idea that RFID technology exists.
If I said "RFID" to anyone around here they'd probably go: "Or if my ID what?"
PS: How is it you know so much about the minds of child molesters?
I have it even better here in the US:
$50/mo Cable Modem with admins too stupid to catch me running a web server
+$60/mo cell phone with Unlimited SMS, nights&weekends, & free long distance within continental US
=================
Watch TV over a friends house since nothing is on that makes it worth buying cable.
If I was a teenager, I would just leave the jacket with the RFID tag in my locker and then ditch school.
If i was an elementary or middle-school level child, I would be glad to have the tag on. A girl in my middle school class was almost kidnapped by a guy who had kidnapped and killed at least 3 other children in the NY/MA area over the previous few years. Luckly she escaped and the man was caught and convicted, but I have to wonder how many of those could have been prevented has the police had a GPS tracking tag to follow...
I'd prefer if McBride and his cronies where found guilty of insider trading and had to pay everyone back they extorted money from, release a statement admitting Linux is just fine and then rot in jail for the rest of their days.
Is it legal for SCO to even take these actions before anything is proven in court? It seems as though they're saying "OK! We filed a lawsuit! That proves it, pay up!"
I would think they couldn't (by law) collect on such claims until after the suit, and even then, only with a ruling in their favor? Or can they say what they want, and the suckers shall fall?
...would that have possibly been a Hong Kong FUI?
*rimshot*
Simple fixes all around. If the REFERER is blocked, check the logs for requests from that IP previously. If they've hit the main page within, say, the previous 20 minutes, then it's probably just a proxy.
As for confusing the cache, I wouldnt' think the HTTP_REFERER would have anything to do with it, the actual URL would probably be a much better choice for labeling what comes from that URL (*shrug*), but for the sake of the possibility: Toss them a "Location:" HTTP header in response and simply bounce them, no meta tags required.
Soong sez:Ummm....well then (from the article):Yah. RTFA.
IBM developed the chip, which means they developed a mobo along with it for testing. Apple had to make their own design, and they had to make it look good, and be quiet, home-friendly, and stylish. IBM gets to stamp out big ugly boxes, because really, unless you're talking about a secretary, no one in the office ever says "That is a nice lookin' rack!"
This leads me to believe the 2U model will be priced even lower. No mention is made, however, about clock speeds, although I'm, sure IBM will make nice fast ones avalible, a $3500 base configuration for the 4U probably means four-way 1GHz. Why would the fastest chips come in the base model?
All in all, however, these will be nice machines, and if you've ever wanted to escape the x86 world, PPC is a nice place to do it (speaking from experience). They are slightly ahead of Apple's current offerings, however IBM has the advantage there, the 970 being their own.
And if you want to run Mac OS X, you'll be disapointed.
Let's see how lazy YOU are for fun:Yup, to lazy for a </I> tag.
Plus you you forgot one:
weblog == web log = 1 character saved.
Which brings him to a nice whopping 40. Unless I was lazy and missed one.
Honestly not a troll or anything, just curious and I figure I can get an accurate answer from someone like Alan Cox...
What a vicious reality check...
In the context of the X-Box hack, however, I think "hacker" means something more like "dreams in x86 assembler", or "impresses Carmack", or perhaps "pwnz L1NUS!!!11"
Well, maybe not that last one...
Of course, then system bulk, focus, resolution, and frame-rate come into play. Depth-preception wouldn't be that large an issue if two cameras where used...
80s nostalgia is fine with me... as long as they only bring back stuff worth remembering.
+5% is a mighty big shift in speed as well as pitch (think about it, most Dj turntables pitch +/-8%, and a full shift is well noticable), if it takes that much to defeat the fingerprinting it is most likely not worth it.
Also, it depends on the implementation. Perhaps it takes possible shifting in the music into account? Perhaps the fingerprinting algorithm will shift all tracks to a constant BPM first? I'm sure with a little thought, such a workaround could be easily defeated, especially considering the nature of the way MP3 compression works with spectral sound data.
Besides guys, c'mon now, this is
Anyone here who figures out how to get laid can probably think with more heads than they even have (Or design a mind control device to do so).
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