More likely, they're hoping to grab a quick buzz, score some venture capital, and then run off into the sunset, cash in hand, before Apple legal pulls the plug on the party...
Bad submitter - from the article..."IGN reports that Cleese will play a physicist Dr. Barnhardt, a Nobel Prize laureate who helps work out why Klaatu and Gort have come to earth."
Sigh of relief. I can't imagine Gort being played with any personality, especially humor - he's a world-destroying robot, after all.
"Coenraets noted that the data management features were not being open sourced at this time. The RTMP binary messaging channel is also not being included."
Depending on the way the DB is being used - some mail servers are configured to 554-reject DNSBL matches. If so, they're going to be rejecting *everything* that comes in until the check is removed from the server.
If the server is just using it for a scoring system a la spamassassin, you're probably right.
I'm surprised none of the CDNs out there haven't volunteered to host this file - the problem is they'd have to host the entire w3.org site, else move the rest of it to a another hostname.
IF you have a 1080p set that does proper deinterlacing (not all do, some just use one "half" of the interlaced frames and scale them 2x vertically), there is no difference between 1080i and p. 1080i delivers a frame consisting of half the signal (odd numbered lines, then even) every 60th of a second, giving you a full 1080 frame every 1/30th of a second. 1080p delivers - guess what? a full 1080p frame every 1/30th of a second. What's the difference again?
I ordered two Apple Powerbook AC adapters from them, which they were selling about $30 less than Apple list, a year or so ago; both died within a week. Shentech exchanged them - they refused to refund at first, depite my concerns that they had a bad lot - and the replacements died also. I asked for a refund this time, being pretty confident that any replacements they sent would be from the same production run, but they refused until I threatened to dispute the credit card charge with my bank. In retrospect I'm 99.9% confident that they were bogus, and this story seems to confirm my suspicions.
The punchline? I ordered the adapters from a different company and had the same problem. Getting a refund was easier this time, and I gave up and went to the Apple store. So much for trying to save a buck.
Good, I just posted in the related firehose story how logging every connection from each user would likely cause a huge data-storage issue - ISPs that do Netflow accounting (such as the one I work for) only keep the data long enough to do realtime traffic analysis and still have to store it on big disks if they want to hold onto it for a day, much less six months.
Truth is, that is very, very possible - by the looks of it it's running the same software the iPhone runs, just without the phone-centric features, and if that's the case it should be just as hackable as the iPhone is proving to be. That said, first task for me is to put the Mail application back in...
Actually, Total Recall's effects weren't done by ILM either. I think it was Dream Quest Images who did that film, with makeup/creature effects by Rob Bottin (the same guy responsible who did makeup for Robocop).
It also doesn't help that we have three different mobile protocols in use in the US - AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM, Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, and Nextel (part of Sprint) uses IDEN. In EU all phones are GSM and roaming agreements are pervasive, which means that if one carrier has a radio covering a given location , any other carrier can serve customers from that tower. In the US, you need three radios minimum, and even then it's not guaranteed that roaming agreements are in place, which means you have five radios in some locations.
Might have been a EBGP-to-IGP redistribution event - the BGP table carries close to 217,000 routes today, as it's designed to do, but IGPs are only designed to carry at the most tens of thousands of routes, as those routes need far more detailed information on them than BGP routes. Occasionally due to either a config error of a software bug the BGP routes will get injected into the IGP (OSPF or IS-IS), and each router's IGP process chokes on the routes, but not before passing them on to the next router, and so on, and so on. It ain't pretty.
Actually, you use both. BGP is an Exterior Gateway Protocol, which gives each router an "exit point" to a given prefix - that is, how to get the packet out of NTT's network to get it where it needs to go (i.e. "send it to Google's peering point at the Tokyo exchange point"). IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, etc are Interior protocols, which map out the NTT network so that a given router knows which neighboring router is closer to that exchange point.
Effectively, it's a two stage lookup - BGP will tell you that your grandmother lives in Chicago, but you need IS-IS to tell you which highway to get on.
Because Verizon has no interest in licensing the patent to Vonage - they're seeking an injunction preventing Vonage from using the technology, which mean no competing VoIP. The monetary damages they're seeking are for past infringement, not licensing fees for future use.
One thing to remember is that Verizon, AT&T, etc. really don't see much of a profit from regulated phone service, or even LD service - it's the add-on services (Caller ID, VM, three-way calling, etc.) that they make a mint on. With companies like Vonage around, people expect those services to be bundled in, which is the *real* danger, IMO.
I'm really curious what the future holds for other labels now that we've had a major break in the DRM ranks. Several independent labels, most notably Nettwerk, have gone on record as being willing to sell their tracks DRM-free (and AFAIK they do on emusic.com), but have been unable to get Apple to do so, citing Apple's desire for "user consistency" or some other bullsh*t...so I wonder if we'll see DRM-free tracks from those labels as well sooner than later given this mornings news.
This is an interesting debate, but there is at least one precedent...in the electronic keyboard/synth business. The analog synths of the 60s through the early 80s were analog devices, which required a knob for every sound parameter on the front panel. But the first couple generations of digital synths (The Yamaha DX7, Korg M1, Roland D series) eschewed the knobs for a "clean" menu-driven parameter editing system.
Guess what? Musicians HATED them. Why? Because they missed being able to tweak the knobs in realtime while playing, and they missed the ease of just "grabbing a knob" to change sound parameters when creating new patches.
Finally, around 1990 Roland released the JD-800, which restored the concept of a control for every parameter on the panel, and it was a huge hit. The rest of the business followed suit as best they could, either putting a knob for every parameter or providing a generous number of panel controls that could be mapped to parameters of the user's choice.
Personally, I think a combination works best - I don't mind the menu-driven system on my phone because I have hot keys that get me to the most common functions with one button. Take those away and it would drive me nuts, however.
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More likely, they're hoping to grab a quick buzz, score some venture capital, and then run off into the sunset, cash in hand, before Apple legal pulls the plug on the party...
This doesn't appear to have been updated in the Debian 4.0 bind9 package - I just checked my installation, then updated the file manually.
Bad submitter - from the article..."IGN reports that Cleese will play a physicist Dr. Barnhardt, a Nobel Prize laureate who helps work out why Klaatu and Gort have come to earth."
Sigh of relief. I can't imagine Gort being played with any personality, especially humor - he's a world-destroying robot, after all.
(So is Bender, but he doesn't count)
Or maybe not...
"Coenraets noted that the data management features were not being open sourced at this time. The RTMP binary messaging channel is also not being included."
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/blazeds
Bantu Tribesman Uses IBM Modem To Crush Nut
(linked to alternate site 'cuz I can't find it on theonion.com...)
Depending on the way the DB is being used - some mail servers are configured to 554-reject DNSBL matches. If so, they're going to be rejecting *everything* that comes in until the check is removed from the server.
If the server is just using it for a scoring system a la spamassassin, you're probably right.
The second copy of a CD costs 80 cents to make. The first copy costs much more than that.
It took a couple months longer to develop a crack?
I'm surprised none of the CDNs out there haven't volunteered to host this file - the problem is they'd have to host the entire w3.org site, else move the rest of it to a another hostname.
IF you have a 1080p set that does proper deinterlacing (not all do, some just use one "half" of the interlaced frames and scale them 2x vertically), there is no difference between 1080i and p. 1080i delivers a frame consisting of half the signal (odd numbered lines, then even) every 60th of a second, giving you a full 1080 frame every 1/30th of a second. 1080p delivers - guess what? a full 1080p frame every 1/30th of a second. What's the difference again?
I ordered two Apple Powerbook AC adapters from them, which they were selling about $30 less than Apple list, a year or so ago; both died within a week. Shentech exchanged them - they refused to refund at first, depite my concerns that they had a bad lot - and the replacements died also. I asked for a refund this time, being pretty confident that any replacements they sent would be from the same production run, but they refused until I threatened to dispute the credit card charge with my bank. In retrospect I'm 99.9% confident that they were bogus, and this story seems to confirm my suspicions.
The punchline? I ordered the adapters from a different company and had the same problem. Getting a refund was easier this time, and I gave up and went to the Apple store. So much for trying to save a buck.
Good, I just posted in the related firehose story how logging every connection from each user would likely cause a huge data-storage issue - ISPs that do Netflow accounting (such as the one I work for) only keep the data long enough to do realtime traffic analysis and still have to store it on big disks if they want to hold onto it for a day, much less six months.
You can automate it in one line:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Truth is, that is very, very possible - by the looks of it it's running the same software the iPhone runs, just without the phone-centric features, and if that's the case it should be just as hackable as the iPhone is proving to be. That said, first task for me is to put the Mail application back in...
They're out there, but for the asking price you could buy one player of each format and still have cash left over...
Not just T-Mobile - AT&T uses GSM as well.
Actually, Total Recall's effects weren't done by ILM either. I think it was Dream Quest Images who did that film, with makeup/creature effects by Rob Bottin (the same guy responsible who did makeup for Robocop).
Well, you'll lose the Visual Voicemail system - you can always just call the VM number to check messages like everyone else does today.
It also doesn't help that we have three different mobile protocols in use in the US - AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM, Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, and Nextel (part of Sprint) uses IDEN. In EU all phones are GSM and roaming agreements are pervasive, which means that if one carrier has a radio covering a given location , any other carrier can serve customers from that tower. In the US, you need three radios minimum, and even then it's not guaranteed that roaming agreements are in place, which means you have five radios in some locations.
Might have been a EBGP-to-IGP redistribution event - the BGP table carries close to 217,000 routes today, as it's designed to do, but IGPs are only designed to carry at the most tens of thousands of routes, as those routes need far more detailed information on them than BGP routes. Occasionally due to either a config error of a software bug the BGP routes will get injected into the IGP (OSPF or IS-IS), and each router's IGP process chokes on the routes, but not before passing them on to the next router, and so on, and so on. It ain't pretty.
Actually, you use both. BGP is an Exterior Gateway Protocol, which gives each router an "exit point" to a given prefix - that is, how to get the packet out of NTT's network to get it where it needs to go (i.e. "send it to Google's peering point at the Tokyo exchange point"). IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, etc are Interior protocols, which map out the NTT network so that a given router knows which neighboring router is closer to that exchange point.
Effectively, it's a two stage lookup - BGP will tell you that your grandmother lives in Chicago, but you need IS-IS to tell you which highway to get on.
Because Verizon has no interest in licensing the patent to Vonage - they're seeking an injunction preventing Vonage from using the technology, which mean no competing VoIP. The monetary damages they're seeking are for past infringement, not licensing fees for future use.
One thing to remember is that Verizon, AT&T, etc. really don't see much of a profit from regulated phone service, or even LD service - it's the add-on services (Caller ID, VM, three-way calling, etc.) that they make a mint on. With companies like Vonage around, people expect those services to be bundled in, which is the *real* danger, IMO.
I'm really curious what the future holds for other labels now that we've had a major break in the DRM ranks. Several independent labels, most notably Nettwerk, have gone on record as being willing to sell their tracks DRM-free (and AFAIK they do on emusic.com), but have been unable to get Apple to do so, citing Apple's desire for "user consistency" or some other bullsh*t...so I wonder if we'll see DRM-free tracks from those labels as well sooner than later given this mornings news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EMI_labelsg ned_to_EMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musicians_si
This is an interesting debate, but there is at least one precedent...in the electronic keyboard/synth business. The analog synths of the 60s through the early 80s were analog devices, which required a knob for every sound parameter on the front panel. But the first couple generations of digital synths (The Yamaha DX7, Korg M1, Roland D series) eschewed the knobs for a "clean" menu-driven parameter editing system.
Guess what? Musicians HATED them. Why? Because they missed being able to tweak the knobs in realtime while playing, and they missed the ease of just "grabbing a knob" to change sound parameters when creating new patches.
Finally, around 1990 Roland released the JD-800, which restored the concept of a control for every parameter on the panel, and it was a huge hit. The rest of the business followed suit as best they could, either putting a knob for every parameter or providing a generous number of panel controls that could be mapped to parameters of the user's choice.
Personally, I think a combination works best - I don't mind the menu-driven system on my phone because I have hot keys that get me to the most common functions with one button. Take those away and it would drive me nuts, however.