it started complaining after a while that it can't find netscape.com and a couple of other sites.
When DNS lookups fail, Netscape tries to lookup a couple of "well-known" hosts like netscape.com, to
see if the problem is localized, or something is wrong with the network.
At least thats what I think it does. I could be wrong, not having access to the sources....
India may be the world's second-largest software producer, but where does the hardware (to produce the said software) come from? The chips are Intel/AMD. The systems? Could they be from
Dell, Compaq, or HP ?
This really got to me: Bill Hoskins, who is currently in charge of protecting the intellectual property produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet probably didn't understand what they were doing," he says.
No, Mr. Hoskins, they knew what they were doing, apparently you don't. If making money was all that mattered to you, you should've joined a corporation.
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Apple PDA?
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Oh yeah, Apple's handwriting recognition software didn't work.
Newton's Handwriting recognition (HWR) software was done by a Russian company called Parasoft (now known as Parascript, and based in CO).
The Newton was waay ahead of its time. For one, it didn't have the processing power required to do great handwriting recognition. Given today's embedded CPUs, I would not be surprised to see some really good HWR stuff in this (rumored?) PDA.
How long before we'll have vending machines dishing out fully-charged batteries (and accepting your discharged ones in return, only to charge them and put them back in circulation) ? Just an idea...
Isn't it ironic that this story of Santa being tracked as he goes about his business should appear right next to the "World Sousveillance Day" article....
I second that. Often in Netscape I print something, and an error message gets printed (in large font, no less) instead.
For the life of me I can't understand why its so hard to just show whats in memory, dammit!
Microsoft claims that "windows" is special and can be trademarked. On the other hand, they claimed (but eventually lost in court) that "Internet Explorer" is a generic term. They claimed that the word "internet" is too generic.
Yeah, I hate to bring in the "P" word. But with the GPS-enabled cellphone/PDA/whatever continuously checking with a central site to see if there are any "messages" at the current location, how difficult will it be for someone to track people? (hint: cookies or some such mechansm).
This has more prospects of "Big Brother" than anything else from recent past.....
Couldn't you get around the TCP ack problem by increasing the size of the sliding window? Alternately, couldn't you just tack on a "sequence" header at the beginning of the UDP packets, and periodically have the client send a list of packets that it had not received so far (from the sequence)?
I'm sure there are simpler solutions to the problem than what this company is peddling.
BTW: FEC has been used by NASA for decades. How else do you think we get data from Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...........
It's not even using up, in almost all cases, any more than a 1Gbps line would be using. Take a look at all that blue on the map. It seems to signify that this was a waste of time and money.
People said the same thing when 4GB HDDs came out.. "Windows can't access a partition bigger than 2GB, who needs a 4GB disk?".... try to buy a 4GB today, you'll find it in an antiques store!
This sort of excessive capacity planning is called "forethought". Thanks to all of this capacity, Europeans will be all set for a couple of years at least.
They will sell it by the bulk apparently
for top dollars to anyone (who can pay
that top dollar) who needs to keep track
of people moving around.
Wrong! The USPS does not sell NCOA information anymore. It provides the database to a select groups of licensees, who, in turn, provide "address correction" services to mailers.
For more information, hop on over to USPS's webpage on this
Slashdot Mirror
OK: how long before a presidential candidate's Usenet postings will be dragged out for the whole world (US) to see ?
it started complaining after a while that it can't find netscape.com and a couple of other sites.
When DNS lookups fail, Netscape tries to lookup a couple of "well-known" hosts like netscape.com, to see if the problem is localized, or something is wrong with the network.
At least thats what I think it does. I could be wrong, not having access to the sources....
India may be the world's second-largest software producer, but where does the hardware (to produce the said software) come from? The chips are Intel/AMD. The systems? Could they be from Dell, Compaq, or HP ?
This really got to me:
Bill Hoskins, who is currently in charge of protecting the intellectual property produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet probably didn't understand what they were doing," he says.
No, Mr. Hoskins, they knew what they were doing, apparently you don't. If making money was all that mattered to you, you should've joined a corporation.
Oh yeah, Apple's handwriting recognition software didn't work.
Newton's Handwriting recognition (HWR) software was done by a Russian company called Parasoft (now known as Parascript, and based in CO).
The Newton was waay ahead of its time. For one, it didn't have the processing power required to do great handwriting recognition. Given today's embedded CPUs, I would not be surprised to see some really good HWR stuff in this (rumored?) PDA.
How long before we'll have vending machines dishing out fully-charged batteries (and accepting your discharged ones in return, only to charge them and put them back in circulation) ? Just an idea...
"Innovation" is (c) Microsoft. But you already knew that.... ;)
Also, "save as Gnumeric XML file format" produces a binary file. I've never seen a binary XML file before...
That "binary XML file" is just a compressed XML file.
Try this:
zcat binary_XML_file | less
So, has anything interesting been done with this library? Or is it yet another wreck in the massive junkyard of OSS ?
It has worked out a LOT better in the long run.
So, how well has it worked out?
If Sorenson codec is an issue, lets all send mail to Sorenson Labs and ask them to support Linux. At the least, release a DLL for one of the players.
OK, here's another mirror (thanks to the iller.org mirror!)
Somebody please mirror it (and the first one too)... please!?!?
"onnu poda , chumma adipidi koodathe"
The suspense is killing me. What does it mean?
Isn't it ironic that this story of Santa being tracked as he goes about his business should appear right next to the "World Sousveillance Day" article....
but this is an amazing accomplishment for a fantasy movie. ;)
Or a mediocre one for a kid with a script...
I second that. Often in Netscape I print something, and an error message gets printed (in large font, no less) instead. For the life of me I can't understand why its so hard to just show whats in memory, dammit!
Microsoft claims that "windows" is special and can be trademarked. On the other hand, they claimed (but eventually lost in court) that "Internet Explorer" is a generic term. They claimed that the word "internet" is too generic.
Or how about "Windux" ? Or "LinWin" ?
;-)
Why give Micro$oft an opening?
Unless, of course, it gets Lindows some much-needed publicity. Which isn't bad.
Yeah, I hate to bring in the "P" word. But with the GPS-enabled cellphone/PDA/whatever continuously checking with a central site to see if there are any "messages" at the current location, how difficult will it be for someone to track people? (hint: cookies or some such mechansm).
This has more prospects of "Big Brother" than anything else from recent past.....
Couldn't you get around the TCP ack problem by increasing the size of the sliding window? Alternately, couldn't you just tack on a "sequence" header at the beginning of the UDP packets, and periodically have the client send a list of packets that it had not received so far (from the sequence)?
I'm sure there are simpler solutions to the problem than what this company is peddling.
BTW: FEC has been used by NASA for decades. How else do you think we get data from Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...........
I recall someone from the old days saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of tapes" :-)
Now I can go back and read all those Minas jokes
Only oldtimers will remember Minas, I think
It's not even using up, in almost all cases, any more than a 1Gbps line would be using. Take a look at all that blue on the map. It seems to signify that this was a waste of time and money.
People said the same thing when 4GB HDDs came out.. "Windows can't access a partition bigger than 2GB, who needs a 4GB disk?".... try to buy a 4GB today, you'll find it in an antiques store!
This sort of excessive capacity planning is called "forethought". Thanks to all of this capacity, Europeans will be all set for a couple of years at least.
They will sell it by the bulk apparently for top dollars to anyone (who can pay that top dollar) who needs to keep track of people moving around.
Wrong! The USPS does not sell NCOA information anymore. It provides the database to a select groups of licensees, who, in turn, provide "address correction" services to mailers.
For more information, hop on over to USPS's webpage on this