Well all politicians will preach to the converted, no matter what the converted believe in. In \. land that means copyright is evil, micro$oft is evil and little penguins are cute.
Now instead of buying a game, existing games that run on linux can be recompiled to run on ps2. Distribute the game as a bootable iso. Linux boots and loads the game.
The developers don't pay sony for a licence which means that we can get cheep high quality games.
Wins all round.
JM
Think about it. There is no difference. If anything banner ads are more effective than tv ads.
Banner ads can be interactive. Flash ads are appearing in places.
Tv ads are just there.
How many times have you rung up a number or mailed an address that you saw on the TV?
Banner ads can be removed with filters.
The TV channel can be changed.
Banner ads lead to much better targetting of an audience than TV./. wont show ads for knitting machines. I imagine. Whereas it does show techie stuff.
At the end of the day banner ads are now more evil than TV ads.
JM
It depends on the plain text that you are compressing.
ie:
foo@bar ~>dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.txt bs=1024k count=10
foo@bar ~>ls -lh ... 10M foo.txt
foo@bar ~>gzip -9 foo.txt
foo@bar ~>ls -lh foo.txt.gz ... 10k foo.txt.gz
Dear Lord, Some cleaver sod has managed to reduce this file to.0974 of its original size.
Kicks their ass....
Given the correct data with the correct algorithm I could do even better.
Hmmmm lots of zero's, ok its commpressed.
>cat foo.txt.supercompression
0xlots
>
Hurrah, now gimme lots of money and some free/. publicity.
Seems very similiar to sun situation. Sun released thier OS for X86 (don't know when but 2.4 was the first) and hardware sales didn't get affected. They seem to be doing very nicely thank you very much.
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Can anyone imagine being locked in a dark room up to your neck in water, waiting to die?
This does lead to peace of mind. For anyone that does online buying, there is always the chance that you will be had by some.com. You have no idea where they live, or who to turn to with a complaint. With this system however, the only way to get a.biz/.pro is if you've got the documentation to proove it. Thus, you know who to take your complaint. The.ie domain has been run like this since the start I think (although it is due to change to a more.com status), and this has been its biggest plus. However not everyone is happy about it.
There is a lot of similar work going on in the area of text recognition in web pages.
Check out cora for a list of papers. Cora is a search engine that uses AI to deceide whether a paper is an AI paper or not.
Usually hoax's are uncovered because they are too good to be true. That doesn't count here. Its not really that useful as anything that you can do on this you can do on the host (probably cheaper) and you also know where all the stuff has come from (use the source). However, it does have the advantage that if you want to, you can easily move your firewall to another host machine, if you want to use the other for something else...
If sites like this were outlawed, M$ and co would have an easy time of it. Think if the public didn't know about the nasty holes in app X or Y? I'd be sure that the crackers would know all about but the sysadmins would need to work much harder to keep up if all the info wasn't in one place. Also M$ and co would be much less willing to give out fixes if the hole was harder to find. In short, it would be madness to make sites like securityfocus and bugtraq illegal. Apart from being impossible to enforce.
Is this for the support that you get, or are these genuinely better at handling large databases (>100Gb)? Any pointers to stats on MySQL/PostGRE handling large databases?
Indeed a TB of IDE ain't that impressive but its not IDE. IDE would take many many many times longer to do that fiber. Also fiber is way more expensive. EG, sun will sell you a 4808.8GB fibre channel array for a little over half a million dollars. Granted sun aren't bargain basement you get the picture. They are spending bag fulls of cash on what looks like an awesome system with lots of fast disk. I'm impressed. By the numbers not the web site.
I'm involved with an college internet society and have found that local technical companies are often approachable about sponsoring events. For instance I'm sure that a local web design company would be interested in giving a contribution to a talk involving a popular web designer. Given that the crowd would probably contain budding/experienced designers, promoting thier brand name might get them some workers.
It sounds great. Just plug and play. Doesn't be the cleanest though as the compression comes from somewhere. Unless it comes with a really really big bicycle pump...
I recall when my ZX spectrum. A whole 48K of ram. The keyboard was a rubber thingumy that in due course got lost. The heat of its massive CPU had melted the glue that held the metal cover on. The dog duly ran off with the keys and from there on it was all guess work as too what keys did what!
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Well all politicians will preach to the converted, no matter what the converted believe in. In \. land that means copyright is evil, micro$oft is evil and little penguins are cute.
Now instead of buying a game, existing games that run on linux can be recompiled to run on ps2. Distribute the game as a bootable iso. Linux boots and loads the game. The developers don't pay sony for a licence which means that we can get cheep high quality games. Wins all round. JM
Banner ads can be interactive. Flash ads are appearing in places.
Tv ads are just there.
How many times have you rung up a number or mailed an address that you saw on the TV?
Banner ads can be removed with filters.
The TV channel can be changed.
Banner ads lead to much better targetting of an audience than TV. /. wont show ads for knitting machines. I imagine. Whereas it does show techie stuff.
At the end of the day banner ads are now more evil than TV ads. JM
foo@bar ~>dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.txt bs=1024k count=10
foo@bar ~>ls -lh
foo@bar ~>gzip -9 foo.txt
foo@bar ~>ls -lh foo.txt.gz
Dear Lord, Some cleaver sod has managed to reduce this file to .0974 of its original size.
Kicks their ass.... Given the correct data with the correct algorithm I could do even better.
Hmmmm lots of zero's, ok its commpressed.
>cat foo.txt.supercompression
0xlots
> Hurrah, now gimme lots of money and some free /. publicity.
MS has an excellent consumer OS with 95% market share.
As to the excellence of the os, I'd say that was debateable.
Sun don't have anything with 95% market share.
I'd say Java has a fair market share.
Sun have never even written a game.
So? Have MS ever made a server? Sun makes all its money off hardware and not software...
Still would be handy for dealing with those pesky Salesmen.
Seems very similiar to sun situation. Sun released thier OS for X86 (don't know when but 2.4 was the first) and hardware sales didn't get affected. They seem to be doing very nicely thank you very much.
Can anyone imagine being locked in a dark room up to your neck in water, waiting to die?
If the windows ppl of the last few days are anything to go by... ;)
is here.
Jm
the nice ppl at handhelds.org can do something funky with it. :)
Slashdot headline:
Webserver on a camera. Live webcast.
Go head sets.
Suprized it took this long. Non-networked PDA's are only so much use.
This does lead to peace of mind. For anyone that does online buying, there is always the chance that you will be had by some .com. You have no idea where they live, or who to turn to with a complaint. With this system however, the only way to get a .biz/.pro is if you've got the documentation to proove it. Thus, you know who to take your complaint. The .ie domain has been run like this since the start I think (although it is due to change to a more .com status), and this has been its biggest plus. However not everyone is happy about it.
There is a lot of similar work going on in the area of text recognition in web pages. Check out cora for a list of papers. Cora is a search engine that uses AI to deceide whether a paper is an AI paper or not.
Usually hoax's are uncovered because they are too good to be true. That doesn't count here. Its not really that useful as anything that you can do on this you can do on the host (probably cheaper) and you also know where all the stuff has come from (use the source). However, it does have the advantage that if you want to, you can easily move your firewall to another host machine, if you want to use the other for something else...
If napster gets shut down, then maybe they could look this crowd up... :)
If sites like this were outlawed, M$ and co would have an easy time of it. Think if the public didn't know about the nasty holes in app X or Y? I'd be sure that the crackers would know all about but the sysadmins would need to work much harder to keep up if all the info wasn't in one place. Also M$ and co would be much less willing to give out fixes if the hole was harder to find. In short, it would be madness to make sites like securityfocus and bugtraq illegal. Apart from being impossible to enforce.
Is this for the support that you get, or are these genuinely better at handling large databases (>100Gb)? Any pointers to stats on MySQL/PostGRE handling large databases?
Which of the two is the more widely used? All you hear is that MySQL is the best. Seems that this is not the case...
Linked of the article. Funny article by a former Micro$oft employee saying that .NET is vapourware. Worth a look
here.
Indeed a TB of IDE ain't that impressive but its not IDE. IDE would take many many many times longer to do that fiber. Also fiber is way more expensive. EG, sun will sell you a 4808.8GB fibre channel array for a little over half a million dollars. Granted sun aren't bargain basement you get the picture. They are spending bag fulls of cash on what looks like an awesome system with lots of fast disk. I'm impressed. By the numbers not the web site.
:)
Hopefully the movie will have nicer pics.
JM
I'm involved with an college internet society and have found that local technical companies are often approachable about sponsoring events. For instance I'm sure that a local web design company would be interested in giving a contribution to a talk involving a popular web designer. Given that the crowd would probably contain budding/experienced designers, promoting thier brand name might get them some workers.
It sounds great. Just plug and play. Doesn't be the cleanest though as the compression comes from somewhere. Unless it comes with a really really big bicycle pump...
I recall when my ZX spectrum. A whole 48K of ram. The keyboard was a rubber thingumy that in due course got lost.
The heat of its massive CPU had melted the glue that held the metal cover on. The dog duly ran off with the keys and from there on it was all guess work as too what keys did what!