Actually it implies that you need Windows XP SP2 _RC2_ (ie not actually released yet) to be safe - that's not really something that MS should expect people to install on production boxes.
Although Google obviously won't be releasing it's search algorithms it might well release the code for things like the Google FileSystem (PDF) which may benefit a lot of people.
I've been waiting for these to come out before building my new dev box. Does anyone know where I can buy them in the UK? And a socket 939 mboard too? I'm thinking of the Asus A8V. I've tried Dealtime, Kelkoo and some specific dealers but no luck yet other than US stores.
As another bonus for the scammer, they can run several calls at the same time, pasting in what they want to say... they could probably handle 10 or so concurrent calls.
There are some more details in the BBC article here. Apparently the radio is working fine but it seems to be transmitting random data. Anyone know where the 'reset' button is?
To be fair he also says "The addresses ending in one dot are technically valid adresses. If handled correctly by the software that is used, they should cause no problems. However, when sending bulk e-mail your goal would be to reach as many as possible and one would prefer to play at safe."
Another interesting option would be to use deposits rather than payments - you'd lose your deposit if the mail was unsolicited. That way sending mail is free unless it shouldn't have been sent, and if the deposit was of a big enough size spamming would no longer be profitable. I started a discussion about this a few days ago here
Ok, I guess I'll probably lose a load of karma for this cos it sounds like I'm sticking up for spyware but what the hell... having looked at RedSherriff's website all this java applet really does is allow them to get around the problems that proxies and caches cause for people that want to find out how many page hits they got - is that really spyware?
But you can save time by removing the clock-synched latch that currently has to separate each piece of logic. Like the article says, async chip design is gradually being introduced in this way to current designs, like the Pentium 4 - not that that is much of an advert for the technology... It's not really anything new, it's just that previously the benefits were greatly outweighed by the difficulty in designing these systems.
Wow - I can't believe that you have never worked at a place that listens to it's employees. Some of the best ideas that I've ever seem implemented have come 'up from the floor'. In my humble opinion, if a company doesn't want to use the intelligence and experience that it's paying it's employees are, then it's the company's loss and they're not going to stick around long anyway.
To sum it up - make your point. The worst that they can do is say no and, at the end of the day, it is their choice to make.
That's a problem that I've never come across. The management team at my place now are excellent - they realise that pushing a release out before it is ready will only come back to bite us. I've worked on releases before that have slipped by over 9 months, but I work in an area where scalability, stability and reliability are vital - if we don't supply it, our customers will go to another vender. I guess that helps to focus the management team a little.;-)
Even though working on a product that slipped 9 months really sucked, I'd much rather do that than face the support team after releasing it on time.
I suspect that this might even stay legal - it looks like they've limited it so that you can only send each show to a maximum of 15 units - enough to keep your average user happy, but it should also be low enough to stop it being a worthwhile means of piracy.
This is probably slightly offtopic, but I wanted to gauge peoples reactions, and this seems like a good place to do it...
Search engines are having a harder and harder time spidering the web as time goes on. There are more and more sites to spider and more and more indexed sites to update. This seems like a perfect application for a peer to peer application - kinda like gnutella except only the indexing information would be held by the nodes rather than the data itself... There are lots of idle machines out there with idle bandwidth - we could create a peer to peer solution where each node spiders a minute part of the web. When it's done, it could send the info to it's immediate peers so that a node being down doesn't hide the index. A search could be done using a similar technique to gnutella but the advantage would be that the system could index all the information that is currently out there rather than the items stored in the application. Does anyone know if anything like this has been done, or is even feasible?
You make some good points, but what you're forgetting is that Brazil is an intensley poor country with a huge AIDS problem. They do not have the money to pay for the treatment and so the alternative is death. At the end of the day, IMHO, this will make virtually no difference to the drugs companies, but a massive difference to people's lives.
There's no info on how HAL works in the article above, but for those of you who still have Adobe software on your machine, there's a more technical paper here
IIRC nCompass's plugin actually allowed did the opposite - it allowed ActiveX plugins to run in Netscape. Microsoft do seem to have buried the product tho.
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before it gets hammered too badly:
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(both EN-US).
Actually it implies that you need Windows XP SP2 _RC2_ (ie not actually released yet) to be safe - that's not really something that MS should expect people to install on production boxes.
Although Google obviously won't be releasing it's search algorithms it might well release the code for things like the Google FileSystem (PDF) which may benefit a lot of people.
Thanks, but monarchcomputers.com seems to be a parked domain - do you have another URL please?
I've been waiting for these to come out before building my new dev box. Does anyone know where I can buy them in the UK? And a socket 939 mboard too? I'm thinking of the Asus A8V. I've tried Dealtime, Kelkoo and some specific dealers but no luck yet other than US stores.
They're available on Google's USENet archive.
Here is Linus first announcing Linux, and here is the (in)famous debate between Linus and Tanembaun.
As another bonus for the scammer, they can run several calls at the same time, pasting in what they want to say... they could probably handle 10 or so concurrent calls.
Umm, no. If you RTFA yourself, it says:
This non-rigid "cloud", made up of several hundred glowing helium balloons will be embedded with mobile phones.
There are some more details in the BBC article here. Apparently the radio is working fine but it seems to be transmitting random data. Anyone know where the 'reset' button is?
I really hope that this isn't the end of Spirit.
To be fair he also says "The addresses ending in one dot are technically valid adresses. If handled correctly by the software that is used, they should cause no problems. However, when sending bulk e-mail your goal would be to reach as many as possible and one would prefer to play at safe."
Another interesting option would be to use deposits rather than payments - you'd lose your deposit if the mail was unsolicited. That way sending mail is free unless it shouldn't have been sent, and if the deposit was of a big enough size spamming would no longer be profitable. I started a discussion about this a few days ago here
Let's just hope that if the universe is a simulation it's not some benchmark running on NVidia. One wrong move and the whole thing will disappear!
People are actually having a lot of success with this new board - check the MythTV forums @ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/
Ok, I guess I'll probably lose a load of karma for this cos it sounds like I'm sticking up for spyware but what the hell... having looked at RedSherriff's website all this java applet really does is allow them to get around the problems that proxies and caches cause for people that want to find out how many page hits they got - is that really spyware?
PS - sorry for not jumping on the bandwagon.
But you can save time by removing the clock-synched latch that currently has to separate each piece of logic. Like the article says, async chip design is gradually being introduced in this way to current designs, like the Pentium 4 - not that that is much of an advert for the technology... It's not really anything new, it's just that previously the benefits were greatly outweighed by the difficulty in designing these systems.
Wow - I can't believe that you have never worked at a place that listens to it's employees. Some of the best ideas that I've ever seem implemented have come 'up from the floor'. In my humble opinion, if a company doesn't want to use the intelligence and experience that it's paying it's employees are, then it's the company's loss and they're not going to stick around long anyway.
To sum it up - make your point. The worst that they can do is say no and, at the end of the day, it is their choice to make.
That's a problem that I've never come across. The management team at my place now are excellent - they realise that pushing a release out before it is ready will only come back to bite us. I've worked on releases before that have slipped by over 9 months, but I work in an area where scalability, stability and reliability are vital - if we don't supply it, our customers will go to another vender. I guess that helps to focus the management team a little. ;-)
Even though working on a product that slipped 9 months really sucked, I'd much rather do that than face the support team after releasing it on time.
I suspect that this might even stay legal - it looks like they've limited it so that you can only send each show to a maximum of 15 units - enough to keep your average user happy, but it should also be low enough to stop it being a worthwhile means of piracy.
:-(
Now why can't I have one in England?
This is probably slightly offtopic, but I wanted to gauge peoples reactions, and this seems like a good place to do it...
Search engines are having a harder and harder time spidering the web as time goes on. There are more and more sites to spider and more and more indexed sites to update. This seems like a perfect application for a peer to peer application - kinda like gnutella except only the indexing information would be held by the nodes rather than the data itself... There are lots of idle machines out there with idle bandwidth - we could create a peer to peer solution where each node spiders a minute part of the web. When it's done, it could send the info to it's immediate peers so that a node being down doesn't hide the index. A search could be done using a similar technique to gnutella but the advantage would be that the system could index all the information that is currently out there rather than the items stored in the application. Does anyone know if anything like this has been done, or is even feasible?
You make some good points, but what you're forgetting is that Brazil is an intensley poor country with a huge AIDS problem. They do not have the money to pay for the treatment and so the alternative is death. At the end of the day, IMHO, this will make virtually no difference to the drugs companies, but a massive difference to people's lives.
Well, yeah, you are missing something. The IEEE just ratified the standard and furthered it with their working group. It was Apple's work originally.
There's no info on how HAL works in the article above, but for those of you who still have Adobe software on your machine, there's a more technical paper here
and yes, I know that it should be "they", not "they're" - it's been a long day, okay? ;-)
for (no) customer service, it's not really surprising. I have never heard anything positive said about excite@home
IIRC nCompass's plugin actually allowed did the opposite - it allowed ActiveX plugins to run in Netscape. Microsoft do seem to have buried the product tho.