Every time a "Linux -vs- Microsoft" study comes out (forexample
, or see this), I never see any mention of the costs of these combatting these virii, even though virii have been plaguing MS systems from the DOS days. Why don't these "studies" include the cost of re-installing infected machines, anti-virus software, firewall software, continuous monitoring, etc. ?
On the one hand, virus writers are aggressively pursued and prosecuted with claimed damages of billions of dollars; on the other hand, these losses are not included in the TCO of Windows! What gives?
I have broadband from Adelphia without cable TV. I pay $55/month just for broadband ("Adelphia Powerlink" is what they call it). Sure, broadband when clubbed with some other service would be cheaper, but I don't watch TV anyways, so why get it?
For once, I'd like Mozilla's "back" button to work truly like a bloody BACK button and take me to the previous page, **REGARDLESS** of whether it's a POST or a GET or whatever. Some sites are form-driven (like my bank's), and I HATE it when Mozilla insists on resubmitting the form when you hit the back button. JUST TAKE ME TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE, DAMMIT! Show me what you were showing me; don't try to be too smart and resubmit the form (or, at least give me the option of NOT resubmitting the form; it doesn't give you a choice, you either have to resubmit, or you can't go back).
A lot of "art" today can best be described by a 4-letter word which starts with "f" and ends with "art".
At our local gallery, proudly displayed, is a canvas painted (get this) all orange. Nothing else: just a large canvas painted orange. Now, someone please tell me what "emotional, spiritual communication" this 'artist' is conveying.
There's another piece of "art" at our local gallery, which is a plain white canvas. It is by a Russian artist from 1918 (or so), titled "starting over" (or "clean slate" or something), signifying the reboot happening in Russia (communist revolution). Wow... what a concept: a blank canvas. I wish I knew this when I was in school, for I would've given my English teacher a blank paper.
Most of the art today is a popularity contest, and whoever creates the most "buzz" for his/her art wins. It doesn't matter that 12-year old Timmy is creating better pieces of "art" than the acclaimed "artist" on display at the gallery.
I don't know what Google's interviews are like, but what I've heard from PhDs who have interviewed at Microsoft leads me to believe that Microsoft isn't really interested in their credentials as much as in the fact that they are "smart".
PhDs applying for machine learning jobs get asked questions about sorting, data structures (prefix trees), programming, etc. For a PhD, stepping out of the academia, these questions tend to catch you off-guard. They are expecting more to be grilled about their research.
The police generally don't host a grand jury unless they have a reasonable expectation that they'll be able to charge the suspect with a crime. If you're brought before a grand jury, then you should be concerned because that means there's a very good chance that you will be indicted (and hence go to trial) on something.
There's an oft-quoted saying in legal circles, 'a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he chooses.'
Some more details about the power connection (12v DC to the Linksys) would be nice. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not an EE, so please don't flame me crisp for asking...
They[sic] problem is not that they GET them. The problem only occurs if they can actually ENFORCE them.
Then why have a patent office anyways? Why not just go the Copyright route, and let everyone and his aunt patent everything they like, and duke it out in the courts.
The USPTO was created for a friggin' REASON. They are NOT doing their job by just rubberstamping everything that crosses their desk. They are being negligent in their duties, and should be held accountable by the Congress. Sheesh, only an Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer would grant this patent....
As to the question of life becoming so long that it loses its meaning, De Grey has a response that's truly guaranteed to silence critics: If you don't want to try it, you can simply reject rejuvenation therapy and fade away.
By the same token: if you do want to try it, fund it yourself! Don't ask for my taxpayer dollars!!
The only problem with death is that you have to be reborn and go through 12 years of school again.:-)
From the article (yeah, I read it....):
"What labels have told us is that their agreements (with the download services) are relatively short term, a year or under, and so they believe that they have the capability to require (the burning tools to be added) next time around," Macrovision Chief Executive Officer Bill Krepick said.
To all those who were bitching about PlayFair, keep this in mind: if you do not strip away the DRM from the music that you bought for your use, some day the music studios will just yank the ability to play your tunes anywhere. This is why projects like PlayFair are so important: they let you control how you use your own media. All this talk about PlayFair leading to piracy is pure bullshit.
There are two competing models here.
1. Hardware is "free", software costs money. Analogy would be the cable TV box. You get the box for free, but you pay for the software (programming).
2. Hardware costs money, software is "free". Example would be broadcast media (broadcast TV, radio).
Guess which one the conglomerates like? (hint: 1).
Only time will tell which model succeeds.
Unlike the TV/Radio industry, the content in the computer world can be created by anyone (hence the FLOSS movement). This would seem to tip the balance in favor of #2.
Unless, of course, suitable laws can be passed... and seeing how apathetic the voters are ("look! over there!! shiny things!!!"), it is only a matter of time before writing software becomes encumbered with patents, licensing (i.e. software professionals will have to be "certified"), etc., thereby tipping the balance in favor of #1 above.
So what's preventing some of the big names (like Crosby) who "get it" from starting an iTunes-like service where they cut out the middlemen, and give 80% of the proceeds to fellow (up and coming) musicians?
You might think it's clever to post my home address and phone number to/. by "cunning" use of the 'whois' command, but really - it isn't.
Seriously, man, drop it. If it was a mistake, apologise (as you finally did in the last sentence), and move on. Bringing up OSS and your home address (how is anyone supposed to know it's your home address? It is public WHOIS knowledge, for Chrissake!) just prolongs the suffering. Seeing the fact that you've been around on the 'net for so long, I'm surprised you haven't heard of astroturfing; there was even a slashdot headline about it last Friday.
So, what is your relationship to this company HEM? Just curious.
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I have Adelphia Powerlink (in Buffalo, NY), and don't have cable. Just the internet access, nothing else.
If the CPU clock exceeds the threshold
What is it? Will it lock the frequency? Will it not refuse to lock the frequency? Will it? Won't it???
On the one hand, virus writers are aggressively pursued and prosecuted with claimed damages of billions of dollars; on the other hand, these losses are not included in the TCO of Windows! What gives?
Rediff is a spinoff (or subsidiary?) of Rediffusion, one of the premier Ad agencies in India. I doubt that they'll disappear anytime soon.
As does the US, from time to time.
I have broadband from Adelphia without cable TV. I pay $55/month just for broadband ("Adelphia Powerlink" is what they call it). Sure, broadband when clubbed with some other service would be cheaper, but I don't watch TV anyways, so why get it?
For once, I'd like Mozilla's "back" button to work truly like a bloody BACK button and take me to the previous page, **REGARDLESS** of whether it's a POST or a GET or whatever. Some sites are form-driven (like my bank's), and I HATE it when Mozilla insists on resubmitting the form when you hit the back button. JUST TAKE ME TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE, DAMMIT! Show me what you were showing me; don't try to be too smart and resubmit the form (or, at least give me the option of NOT resubmitting the form; it doesn't give you a choice, you either have to resubmit, or you can't go back).
At our local gallery, proudly displayed, is a canvas painted (get this) all orange. Nothing else: just a large canvas painted orange. Now, someone please tell me what "emotional, spiritual communication" this 'artist' is conveying.
There's another piece of "art" at our local gallery, which is a plain white canvas. It is by a Russian artist from 1918 (or so), titled "starting over" (or "clean slate" or something), signifying the reboot happening in Russia (communist revolution). Wow... what a concept: a blank canvas. I wish I knew this when I was in school, for I would've given my English teacher a blank paper.
Most of the art today is a popularity contest, and whoever creates the most "buzz" for his/her art wins. It doesn't matter that 12-year old Timmy is creating better pieces of "art" than the acclaimed "artist" on display at the gallery.
You know, the 2K in Win2K is a pretty big even number...
j/k
PhDs applying for machine learning jobs get asked questions about sorting, data structures (prefix trees), programming, etc. For a PhD, stepping out of the academia, these questions tend to catch you off-guard. They are expecting more to be grilled about their research.
On this page, they claim to have only 50 Pigeon Harvesting Dogs (PHDs). Now they're up to 700? Wow....
I do work in machine vision and image processing. There is a huge leap between what's possible in theory, and what's practical.
I'm not trying to discourage you (or anybody) here, so if you _do_ manage to get something that works well, I'll be very happy to read how you did it.
BTW: there are rocks which look yellow and scatter light, looking sparse. In the desert, almost everything's yellow.
Try finding the edges in a bush or a clump of tumbleweed...
There's an oft-quoted saying in legal circles, 'a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he chooses.'
Some more details about the power connection (12v DC to the Linksys) would be nice. Anyone have any ideas? I'm not an EE, so please don't flame me crisp for asking...
Argh! The recursion is killing me!
Then why have a patent office anyways? Why not just go the Copyright route, and let everyone and his aunt patent everything they like, and duke it out in the courts.
The USPTO was created for a friggin' REASON . They are NOT doing their job by just rubberstamping everything that crosses their desk. They are being negligent in their duties, and should be held accountable by the Congress. Sheesh, only an Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer would grant this patent....
By the same token: if you do want to try it, fund it yourself! Don't ask for my taxpayer dollars!!
The only problem with death is that you have to be reborn and go through 12 years of school again. :-)
"What labels have told us is that their agreements (with the download services) are relatively short term, a year or under, and so they believe that they have the capability to require (the burning tools to be added) next time around," Macrovision Chief Executive Officer Bill Krepick said.
To all those who were bitching about PlayFair, keep this in mind: if you do not strip away the DRM from the music that you bought for your use, some day the music studios will just yank the ability to play your tunes anywhere. This is why projects like PlayFair are so important: they let you control how you use your own media. All this talk about PlayFair leading to piracy is pure bullshit.
1. Hardware is "free", software costs money. Analogy would be the cable TV box. You get the box for free, but you pay for the software (programming).
2. Hardware costs money, software is "free". Example would be broadcast media (broadcast TV, radio).
Guess which one the conglomerates like? (hint: 1).
Only time will tell which model succeeds.
Unlike the TV/Radio industry, the content in the computer world can be created by anyone (hence the FLOSS movement). This would seem to tip the balance in favor of #2.
Unless, of course, suitable laws can be passed... and seeing how apathetic the voters are ("look! over there!! shiny things!!!"), it is only a matter of time before writing software becomes encumbered with patents, licensing (i.e. software professionals will have to be "certified"), etc., thereby tipping the balance in favor of #1 above.
EWRT, from Portless Networks (a fork of Sveasoft)
Wi-Fi Box
Ahh... the wonders of OSS and GPL. :-)
So what's preventing some of the big names (like Crosby) who "get it" from starting an iTunes-like service where they cut out the middlemen, and give 80% of the proceeds to fellow (up and coming) musicians?
Seriously, man, drop it. If it was a mistake, apologise (as you finally did in the last sentence), and move on. Bringing up OSS and your home address (how is anyone supposed to know it's your home address? It is public WHOIS knowledge, for Chrissake!) just prolongs the suffering. Seeing the fact that you've been around on the 'net for so long, I'm surprised you haven't heard of astroturfing; there was even a slashdot headline about it last Friday.
So, what is your relationship to this company HEM? Just curious.
Your post reeks of astroturfing (thanks AC, I forgot the right word). Nowhere did you mention your affiliation with the company or the research lab.
See the use of "they" in this sentence: :-)
The tags used are really robust - they did a wastebasket torture test for a bit of fun as well
It would indicate a separation between you, the postor, and the company, HEM, when in fact there is none.
Story is about HighEnergyMagic, for which WHOIS tells me:Story is mirrored at University of Cambridge Systems Research Group, where we find that the page is "© 2004 Anil Madhavapeddy".
Seriously, shouldn't the submitter put some sort of a disclaimer somewhere? Or failing which, at least pay Slashdot to run these "ads", dammit! :)