The NCSA httpd 0.4 release in 1993 announced support for Group Annotations, which was basically this. So all of you "I had this idea four years ago" people need to get in line behind Marc Andreesen, who had this idea, dear god, 16 years ago.
It never really took off--I think even though httpd supported annotations, I don't think Mosaic itself ever really did.
I too use the Cisco VPN software. It's not too bad to work around if you have a spare copy of XP.
Install VirtualPC on the 64-bit OS, and then install a spare copy of 32-bit XP into a virtual machine. Install the Cisco VPN software on that. Works like a charm, and I kind of like the fact that I've got another firewall between my home machine and the company network.
The English->Arabic lanaguage path essentially learns how to translate by looking at a whole bunch of examples. Yes, the Google Algorithm sometimes screws up (the recent "Heath Ledger is dead" translation thing) but then again, so do toddlers.
"A new study from pro-business think tank Institute for Policy Innovation claims that music piracy accounts for $12.5 billion in lost output to the US economy."
On the other hand, music piracy accounted for $12.5 billion in gained income to the listeners.
If they don't, come May of next year their residents will see their licenses unable to gain them access to federal buildings and airplanes.
I hope my state doesn't comply. It will be interesting to see how the feds are planning to staff their buildings with 100% out-of-state employees. I can see it now: "Sorry, Judge! Even though you were elected to serve in California, you can't enter the building...because your id is from California."
Everyone here likes to make jokes about the Southern USA being dumb, but it's amazing how much computing power is there. Hell, Mississippi missed the top 100 by not-so-much. 115 Mississippi State University
If Old Man McPhee can't hear it, perfect. Just convince him that the machine burnt out.
Get a few friends who can stand the noise, hold a party on the porch, and when the old man comes out, thank him profusely for finally turning off that dammed machine. Hopefully he'll try to get his money back, or get a replacement machine. Just wait a few weeks, and repeat. After a few times, he'll be convinced that the thing is unreliable and hopefully just give up.
It's really, really difficult to get people to follow rules. We're lazy, we're incompetent (yes), and some of us are evil. I still don't think I truly understand how RDF is supposed to work exactly, and it doesn't even seem like it will be fun to try.
On the other hand, it's really easy to release a million monkeys and let the create what they will. It's not so easy to sort through what they end up producing, but Google does a surprisingly good job of this.
It reminds me of the early days of the Web, when companies like CompuServe and AOL wanted to design and own all content. On the other hand, an internet server with httpd let anybody make a ~/public_html directory and put up whatever they wanted to. The million monkeys won that battle. I think they'll win this one, too.
Look, I understand they need to brand their product. And sure, the KEYS are all blank. But the product advertises itself as "100% blank", and it's not! The "Das Keyboard" logo and the "Num Lock/Scroll Lock/Caps Lock" icons are there, uglifying the ninja cool factor.
It's like making a ninja outfit... and then embroidering the word "NINJA" on the back of it.
My request for "Das Keyboard 3": No markings of ANY sort on the front. (I guess if you HAD to put "Das Keyboard" on there somewhere: barely readable black ink on a black background is always cool.)
My take on the price: Sony priced it high because they knew they would not be able to meet initial demand had they priced it lower. They might as well make a lot of money on the few systems they'll be able to ship.
My prediction: a sizeable price drop after they system has been out for less than six months.
This is different than the Intel bug; that was a logic flaw, where the chip computed a floating point quantity using an incorrect algorithm.
This is an implementation error. In fact, the article mentions that they're going to re-spec the parts and they'll be fine. So if you've got a 2.8Ghz part, and you run this loop at 2.8Ghz (within the old spec), it's like you're "overclocking" (because you're actually outside of AMD's new spec).
My guess is that if you over-bought your heatsink and got something better than the stock OEM cooling solution, you would be fine even if you ran this loop all day. Yay, arctic silver!
Back in the day, before C++ was the "winner"...
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For all of those hearing about Eiffel for the first time.
Back in the mid 80's, when the OO paradigm was first starting to gain traction (but it wasn't obvious that C++ would become the first mainstream object-oriented language) there were debates about whether the big OO language of the future would be C++, Smalltalk, or Eiffel.
On RISKS, a few years ago, someone wrote up his experiences as"My life as uucp@aol.com". Pretty funny:
The AOL software politely informed me that this name was taken, and said thesame when I requested "postmaster", "webmaster", etc. In some cases itsuggested an alternative like "webmast236", and in others it simply said"That name is taken."
Then I requested "uucp".
And the software asked me to enter my new password.
The snippet above says 47% do not support 'wiretapping in order to reduce the threat of terrorism'. That's NOT what the actual article says: the word "warrantless" is what's missing. I ABSOLUTELY support wiretapping terrorists, drug dealers, whoever...but get a warrant! It's freakin' EASY, and it's required by the fourth ammendment.
Even if you trust this president, the unfettered and unchecked power for warrantless wiretaps is the first step towards a dictatorship. Even if Bush doesn't abuse the power, who's to say the next guy, or the guy after him, will show the same restraint? Our founding fathers codified this in the fourth ammendment because they realized the danger such power posed to democracy.
Does the fourth ammendment make life for law enforcement a little harder? Probably. But so does the entire bill of rights. If the war against terrorism trumpts the fourth ammendment, I don't see why it wouldn't also trump, say, the right to bear arms. Once again, even if warrantless wiretapping might be undertaken with the best of intentions, it's also the first step on the road to dictatorship.
The "greedy corporate money-grubbing schemer" side of me is asking: Why doesn't Google start charging Bell South an access fee? After all, thousands of Bell South customers use Google's services for free every month.
LCD watches, back in the '80s
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At some point back in the '80s, the cheap, almost disposable, LCD watch was perfected. Soon after we were treated to a parade of typical household items...but with an LCD watch in them! Yay! But we soon burnt out on them.
But don't worry, because now we have a trend of our own: devices with a USB in them?
What else can we stick a USB drive in? A wristband...why not a headband? A hat! Why not a shoe? How about a toothbrush! A novelty toy fish! Etc.
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Dude, the preferred nomenclature is "Winklevii".
Does some dude named "Jesus" count?
Let's hope they're animal lovers.
The NCSA httpd 0.4 release in 1993 announced support for Group Annotations, which was basically this. So all of you "I had this idea four years ago" people need to get in line behind Marc Andreesen, who had this idea, dear god, 16 years ago.
It never really took off--I think even though httpd supported annotations, I don't think Mosaic itself ever really did.
> You need to ask a lawyer.
Goodbye $1250.
I too use the Cisco VPN software. It's not too bad to work around if you have a spare copy of XP.
Install VirtualPC on the 64-bit OS, and then install a spare copy of 32-bit XP into a virtual machine. Install the Cisco VPN software on that. Works like a charm, and I kind of like the fact that I've got another firewall between my home machine and the company network.
An article on the same subject from the New Yorker.
You know, the plugin that blocks the endless comments from people asking "does it have Adblock?"
As hex dumps.
The English->Arabic lanaguage path essentially learns how to translate by looking at a whole bunch of examples. Yes, the Google Algorithm sometimes screws up (the recent "Heath Ledger is dead" translation thing) but then again, so do toddlers.
"A new study from pro-business think tank Institute for Policy Innovation claims that music piracy accounts for $12.5 billion in lost output to the US economy."
On the other hand, music piracy accounted for $12.5 billion in gained income to the listeners.
If they don't, come May of next year their residents will see their licenses unable to gain them access to federal buildings and airplanes.
I hope my state doesn't comply. It will be interesting to see how the feds are planning to staff their buildings with 100% out-of-state employees. I can see it now: "Sorry, Judge! Even though you were elected to serve in California, you can't enter the building...because your id is from California."
Everyone here likes to make jokes about the Southern USA being dumb, but it's amazing how much computing power is there. Hell, Mississippi missed the top 100 by not-so-much. 115 Mississippi State University
Hell, that's a fast computer. Does it got a hemi?
Can't someone make an extension that does this for me?
If Old Man McPhee can't hear it, perfect. Just convince him that the machine burnt out.
Get a few friends who can stand the noise, hold a party on the porch, and when the old man comes out, thank him profusely for finally turning off that dammed machine. Hopefully he'll try to get his money back, or get a replacement machine. Just wait a few weeks, and repeat. After a few times, he'll be convinced that the thing is unreliable and hopefully just give up.
It's really, really difficult to get people to follow rules. We're lazy, we're incompetent (yes), and some of us are evil. I still don't think I truly understand how RDF is supposed to work exactly, and it doesn't even seem like it will be fun to try.
On the other hand, it's really easy to release a million monkeys and let the create what they will. It's not so easy to sort through what they end up producing, but Google does a surprisingly good job of this.
It reminds me of the early days of the Web, when companies like CompuServe and AOL wanted to design and own all content. On the other hand, an internet server with httpd let anybody make a ~/public_html directory and put up whatever they wanted to. The million monkeys won that battle. I think they'll win this one, too.
I'm not going to be using it anytime soon, but I noticed the other day that Netflix is starting to roll out their support for blu-ray.
Look, I understand they need to brand their product. And sure, the KEYS are all blank. But the product advertises itself as "100% blank", and it's not! The "Das Keyboard" logo and the "Num Lock/Scroll Lock/Caps Lock" icons are there, uglifying the ninja cool factor. It's like making a ninja outfit... and then embroidering the word "NINJA" on the back of it. My request for "Das Keyboard 3": No markings of ANY sort on the front. (I guess if you HAD to put "Das Keyboard" on there somewhere: barely readable black ink on a black background is always cool.)
My take on the price: Sony priced it high because they knew they would not be able to meet initial demand had they priced it lower. They might as well make a lot of money on the few systems they'll be able to ship. My prediction: a sizeable price drop after they system has been out for less than six months.
This is different than the Intel bug; that was a logic flaw, where the chip computed a floating point quantity using an incorrect algorithm. This is an implementation error. In fact, the article mentions that they're going to re-spec the parts and they'll be fine. So if you've got a 2.8Ghz part, and you run this loop at 2.8Ghz (within the old spec), it's like you're "overclocking" (because you're actually outside of AMD's new spec). My guess is that if you over-bought your heatsink and got something better than the stock OEM cooling solution, you would be fine even if you ran this loop all day. Yay, arctic silver!
For all of those hearing about Eiffel for the first time. Back in the mid 80's, when the OO paradigm was first starting to gain traction (but it wasn't obvious that C++ would become the first mainstream object-oriented language) there were debates about whether the big OO language of the future would be C++, Smalltalk, or Eiffel.
On RISKS, a few years ago, someone wrote up his experiences as"My life as uucp@aol.com". Pretty funny:
The snippet above says 47% do not support 'wiretapping in order to reduce the threat of terrorism'. That's NOT what the actual article says: the word "warrantless" is what's missing. I ABSOLUTELY support wiretapping terrorists, drug dealers, whoever...but get a warrant! It's freakin' EASY, and it's required by the fourth ammendment.
Even if you trust this president, the unfettered and unchecked power for warrantless wiretaps is the first step towards a dictatorship. Even if Bush doesn't abuse the power, who's to say the next guy, or the guy after him, will show the same restraint? Our founding fathers codified this in the fourth ammendment because they realized the danger such power posed to democracy.
Does the fourth ammendment make life for law enforcement a little harder? Probably. But so does the entire bill of rights. If the war against terrorism trumpts the fourth ammendment, I don't see why it wouldn't also trump, say, the right to bear arms. Once again, even if warrantless wiretapping might be undertaken with the best of intentions, it's also the first step on the road to dictatorship.
The "greedy corporate money-grubbing schemer" side of me is asking: Why doesn't Google start charging Bell South an access fee? After all, thousands of Bell South customers use Google's services for free every month.
At some point back in the '80s, the cheap, almost disposable, LCD watch was perfected. Soon after we were treated to a parade of typical household items...but with an LCD watch in them! Yay! But we soon burnt out on them.
But don't worry, because now we have a trend of our own: devices with a USB in them?
What else can we stick a USB drive in? A wristband...why not a headband? A hat! Why not a shoe? How about a toothbrush! A novelty toy fish! Etc.