This shows the difficulty of classifying images on the web. All that a search engine has to go on is the image url, the alt tag, and any text that seems to be associated with it. The barney sidecar problem is more because whoever put it on the web isn't properly identifying it. Pretty frustrating. Still, I'd rather have an imperfect system than none at all.
With altavista.com, you have to go to the actual web page, which sometimes doesn't even have the iamge.
I've been using Google Image for a couple of days now, and can tell you that this still happens. Google will give you a thumbnail, but to get the full size image, you still have to get it from the site.
My uncle served as a radar operator in the Pacific Theater in WWII. He told me that the first radar units that they deployed on Pacific islands would quickly become clogged with fungus and other biological nastiness and stop working. In my own military designs, fabrication costs big bucks because (among other things) we have to coat the electronics to avoid this very problem.
I never heard of Zero*, and from what it sounds like, Linux users think that their software is crap.
This Linux user doesn't. Freedom has its problems, but its the best at what it does, IMO. That said, I agree with you that emailing them is a dumb idea. It's like writing to a TV network to get it to keep your favorite show. If they were getting the ratings in the first place they wouldn't be canceling it.
I'll grant a certain vulnerability if a snooper can see my keystrokes, but what possible use could the mouse movement and clicks be? Mouse movements are relative, and I pick up my mouse all the time, so you'd never be able to map it to a location on-screen. Without the screen info, it would be meaningless, and if you have captured what the screen shows, you don't need the mouse data.
Could you imagine if some crazy congress people got together and put say...and entire just released novel in the middle of a regulation? Suddenly that novel is public domain.
They can do that now. The Congressional Record is public domain and any congressbeing could theoretically put anything they wanted into it. They don't because they'd get major heat for it.
Regardless of the final outcome, I'd favor legislation that would make the text of all government regulations public domain. If we're expected to comply, it should be as easy as possible to access this information. And if fewer regs get written as a result, that's just gravy.
It usually takes 5-10 minutes to set up a burn, then 15 minutes or more (on a 4X burner) to burn the disk.
A 4x burner is so, so... ten minutes ago:-). I just bought a 16x burner and a spindle of 100 16x CD-Rs. I deliver my software products to my customers on them, so I burn quite a few.
I think even nuclear proponents will agree that a nuclear release is a bad thing. The argument becomes whether or not you can reduce the likelihood enough that the advantages of nuclear power outweigh the risks. I think the answer is 'yes'. The 'occasionally annoying meltdown' is a phenomenon of the 3rd-world implementations that don't have containment vessels. France gets 80% of its power from nuclear sources and hasn't had a problem so far.
Low carbohydrate for me. Eating fewer than 30 grams or so of carbs per day lets me eat less. In fact, I actually do forget about eating sometimes, since the satiety of a low-carb meal lasts for many hours. Plus, I've discovered that my blood sugar is sensitive to carbs, especially sugar, spiking 50% or more above normal before settling back. This would indicate that I'm on the verge of diabetes. If I eat few carbs, my blood sugar is well within normal limits at all times. If you want to look into this type of diet, get a book like the "New Atkin's Diet" or "Protein Power". There are also mailing lists and many web sites devoted to this way of eating.
This has an obvious flaw: the light emission from the monitor to user is unencrypted. I look forward to a future enhancement which embeds a content protection chip in each user's brain.
Perhaps? PERHAPS? What would you like to bet that this is the principle reason? My old school pesters me half to death and they flunked me out. If they had my email address, they'd probably be twice as obnoxious.
Hmmm. I always thought that the Brits say, "Intel are developing..." because they consider corporations to be collections of individuals. (Although why they don't maintain consistency and say "That forest are certainly pretty" are beyond my understanding":-)
I'm aware that it says "gnutella like" but i don't know how this could be better implemented
The way the article phrased it was, "Peekabooty will work like the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that has no central server." So the only stated resemblance to Gnutella lies in the lack of a Napster-like central server.The underlying implementation could be (and probably is) completely different. cDc must be aware of Gnutella's problems and presumably wouldn't be bothering to do this if it wasn't going to end up beng usable.
Many users (such as myself) with nice fast connections have bandwidth limits per month after which we start to pay.
In my case, my cable modem downloads are 'unlimited' but if you exceed a 500MB upload in a single day (pretty tough to do, since they limit upload speed to 256kbps), they get TOS on your ass. I suspect that there's some point in the download that they'd decide you're abusing the system, but it's theoretically unrestricted. I wasn't aware that any cable companies were charging extra for bytes above some limit. I thought they just threatened to cut off your service.
The managers treated people like shit, the workers didn't know anything and were starting to get angry at people if their calls lasted more than 'the' 6 minutes.
And if customers are being ill-served, this will be reflected in how people rate Compaq on support. Why don't you do your fellow computer users a favor and put this story on epinions.com? If you have first-hand knowledge of lousy customer service and don't let others know about it, it's like not voting and then bitching about who gets elected.
People ought to understand that the reason a near-identical computer costs significantly more from one dealer than another is at least partly due to additional support. If you opt for a bargain-basement price, you're not going to get much (or perhaps any) support. That's your choice as a consumer. If you buy a cheap computer and then find out you need help with it, you can always find someone who will do it for a fee. And if you get shafted by an "arrogant and greedy" company that promises but doesn't deliver, you have only yourself to blame; with the net, there's no excuse not to research the reputation of the vendor you're considering.
Lapsing into reminiscence mode, I recall during my first exposure to the internet in the early '70s there was a project called the Terabyte Memory. It was going to be this huge (!) datastore tied to the net so that everyone who needed it could have someplace to keep large amounts of data (for a fee, of course). As I remember, it was going to be a warehouse-sized building with a whole bunch of mag tapes (the only affordable choice, since washing-machine-sized disk drives holding just a few tens of megabytes cost thousands of dollars in those days). The 'highspeed' links of the internet ran running at 50 kbps. If you ever catch a techie saying how great the old days were, you'll know they've definitely gone senile.
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This shows the difficulty of classifying images on the web. All that a search engine has to go on is the image url, the alt tag, and any text that seems to be associated with it. The barney sidecar problem is more because whoever put it on the web isn't properly identifying it. Pretty frustrating. Still, I'd rather have an imperfect system than none at all.
Perhaps the reason that you couldn't find a particular Barney poster is that there aren't any on the web. In that case, it wouldn't be Google's fault.
I've been using Google Image for a couple of days now, and can tell you that this still happens. Google will give you a thumbnail, but to get the full size image, you still have to get it from the site.
Personally, I'd be interested in one of these so that I could have multiple DTV receivers running off a single, legitimate card that I own.
My uncle served as a radar operator in the Pacific Theater in WWII. He told me that the first radar units that they deployed on Pacific islands would quickly become clogged with fungus and other biological nastiness and stop working. In my own military designs, fabrication costs big bucks because (among other things) we have to coat the electronics to avoid this very problem.
This Linux user doesn't. Freedom has its problems, but its the best at what it does, IMO. That said, I agree with you that emailing them is a dumb idea. It's like writing to a TV network to get it to keep your favorite show. If they were getting the ratings in the first place they wouldn't be canceling it.
The kind who'd call in an air strike on his own unit's position. That's Medal of Honor material, man. Show some respect.
By the way, if you think fast food is bad for you, then don't eat it. Is that a difficult concept?
I'll grant a certain vulnerability if a snooper can see my keystrokes, but what possible use could the mouse movement and clicks be? Mouse movements are relative, and I pick up my mouse all the time, so you'd never be able to map it to a location on-screen. Without the screen info, it would be meaningless, and if you have captured what the screen shows, you don't need the mouse data.
AOL just got the rights to the Aimster domain, so the RIAA will be sueing ... AOL. Ah, what sweet justice. :-)
They can do that now. The Congressional Record is public domain and any congressbeing could theoretically put anything they wanted into it. They don't because they'd get major heat for it.
Regardless of the final outcome, I'd favor legislation that would make the text of all government regulations public domain. If we're expected to comply, it should be as easy as possible to access this information. And if fewer regs get written as a result, that's just gravy.
Ewwww. Well, he got it partially right. Thank God we're not eating the used variety as he envisioned.
A 4x burner is so, so ... ten minutes ago :-). I just bought a 16x burner and a spindle of 100 16x CD-Rs. I deliver my software products to my customers on them, so I burn quite a few.
I think even nuclear proponents will agree that a nuclear release is a bad thing. The argument becomes whether or not you can reduce the likelihood enough that the advantages of nuclear power outweigh the risks. I think the answer is 'yes'. The 'occasionally annoying meltdown' is a phenomenon of the 3rd-world implementations that don't have containment vessels. France gets 80% of its power from nuclear sources and hasn't had a problem so far.
Low carbohydrate for me. Eating fewer than 30 grams or so of carbs per day lets me eat less. In fact, I actually do forget about eating sometimes, since the satiety of a low-carb meal lasts for many hours. Plus, I've discovered that my blood sugar is sensitive to carbs, especially sugar, spiking 50% or more above normal before settling back. This would indicate that I'm on the verge of diabetes. If I eat few carbs, my blood sugar is well within normal limits at all times. If you want to look into this type of diet, get a book like the "New Atkin's Diet" or "Protein Power". There are also mailing lists and many web sites devoted to this way of eating.
This has an obvious flaw: the light emission from the monitor to user is unencrypted. I look forward to a future enhancement which embeds a content protection chip in each user's brain.
Perhaps? PERHAPS? What would you like to bet that this is the principle reason? My old school pesters me half to death and they flunked me out. If they had my email address, they'd probably be twice as obnoxious.
Hmmm. I always thought that the Brits say, "Intel are developing ..." because they consider corporations to be collections of individuals. (Although why they don't maintain consistency and say "That forest are certainly pretty" are beyond my understanding" :-)
The way the article phrased it was, "Peekabooty will work like the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that has no central server." So the only stated resemblance to Gnutella lies in the lack of a Napster-like central server.The underlying implementation could be (and probably is) completely different. cDc must be aware of Gnutella's problems and presumably wouldn't be bothering to do this if it wasn't going to end up beng usable.
It presumably won't allow you to discover on what server the information resides. At least, that's how it sounds from the description in the article.
In my case, my cable modem downloads are 'unlimited' but if you exceed a 500MB upload in a single day (pretty tough to do, since they limit upload speed to 256kbps), they get TOS on your ass. I suspect that there's some point in the download that they'd decide you're abusing the system, but it's theoretically unrestricted. I wasn't aware that any cable companies were charging extra for bytes above some limit. I thought they just threatened to cut off your service.
And if customers are being ill-served, this will be reflected in how people rate Compaq on support. Why don't you do your fellow computer users a favor and put this story on epinions.com? If you have first-hand knowledge of lousy customer service and don't let others know about it, it's like not voting and then bitching about who gets elected.
People ought to understand that the reason a near-identical computer costs significantly more from one dealer than another is at least partly due to additional support. If you opt for a bargain-basement price, you're not going to get much (or perhaps any) support. That's your choice as a consumer. If you buy a cheap computer and then find out you need help with it, you can always find someone who will do it for a fee. And if you get shafted by an "arrogant and greedy" company that promises but doesn't deliver, you have only yourself to blame; with the net, there's no excuse not to research the reputation of the vendor you're considering.
Lapsing into reminiscence mode, I recall during my first exposure to the internet in the early '70s there was a project called the Terabyte Memory. It was going to be this huge (!) datastore tied to the net so that everyone who needed it could have someplace to keep large amounts of data (for a fee, of course). As I remember, it was going to be a warehouse-sized building with a whole bunch of mag tapes (the only affordable choice, since washing-machine-sized disk drives holding just a few tens of megabytes cost thousands of dollars in those days). The 'highspeed' links of the internet ran running at 50 kbps. If you ever catch a techie saying how great the old days were, you'll know they've definitely gone senile.