The fact that he shut it down ("chickened out") only gives credibility to the claim that "Windows is just a bigger target" crowd, which were not his intentions. If he kept the contest going, and the Macs had been infected, which probably would have happened eventually, then it would show that Macs are vulnerable too, which Mac software writers don't want, because Mac has benefited from the security lessons MSFT has learned the hard way and the perception, real or not, that Macs are more secure. Either way, it was a lose-lose for this guy and the Mac community.
Interesting that Wisconsin's neighbor, Minnesota, is the home state of Digital River, one of the largest eTailers of digital download software, which also owns Regnow and Regsoft
Gaming is not a right, it's a privilege, one of which you should lose when you break the law. I don't see how video games help rehabilitate an inmate, unless they give them computers to learn how to build their own video games...
I believe so, I have that tape, created in 2000, which documents the launching of Netscape's browser to the open source world, and they document a 14-yr old kid (from Atlanta I believe) who moves to Silicon Valley to work for Netscape, and his mom drives him to work. I'll have to watch that tape again, but I believe it is him.
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DISCLAIMER: I develop heavily in both C# and Java, more C# than Java, about 80% C#, 20% Java, not by choice but based on client demands.
I don't think it's fair to compare Java 1.5 (released) vs. C# 2.0 (beta, who knows when it'll actually be released). That's like comparing Linux to Longhorn.
And re: IDEs, while programming so much in VS.NET, I missed all of the cool features of my IDEA IntelliJ Java IDE that I was excited to buy ReSharper, bringing some of IDEA's cool features to VS.NET.
One of the main things I like about.NET, though, is that the libraries seem to be more consistent, whereas the Java APIs have evloved and been added to by different developers using diffferent programming styles and approaches to patterns, each package seems to implement different programming styles and constructs, but you get used to it after a while. Plus, Java has so much deprecated code, they need to clean those out once and for all and clean up the APIs, see this for more details of what I'm talking about.
Cloudmark has been doing this for over a year now, I love it and have gotten many "thank yous" form people I have told about it. It uses both Bayesian filtering and uses information gathered from its network of users to help identify spam. And it integrates with MS Outlook. This other eProvisia service forces you to an address on their email server, bogus.
And don't the major web-mail providers (Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc.) use group-based filtering as well?
This was already tried...
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What a great example of how public institutions waste money! "We need to devise a survey" analysis paralysis. The time spend on devising a survey and then doing the surveying could equal the cost of a couple of machines!
Try this list of priorities
Replace ones that don't work
Replace ones that are slower (replace a 300MHz PC over an 800MHz PC)
Consider upgrading instead of replacing (maybe more RAM or a bigger hard drive would extend the life of the PC)
Hey, what kind of schmuck would post their idea to the public like this? The same schmuck that will give away 99% of his company for Draper to have them fund it for $1M.
On the other hand, DFJ have funded some pretty gutsy ventures in the past, so I gotta give them props for trying something different.
This Wired article talks about how hybrids MPG stats are somewhat skewered because of the way the EPA performs the test partially based on emissions, which hybrids don't produce.
I personally would hope this is not the case, as I am excited about getting the new 2005 Lexus RX 400 H hybrid which comes our next year.
...if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month.
What's wrong with you? Why do you reformat your hard drive so often? Why not just try a defrag and a chkdsk every now and then instead? Man, you sure wast a lot of time managing your hard drive!
I saw a doctor for the same reason some years ago.
First, they sent me to a neurologist, who electrocuted various parts of my arms and hands to check the stimulii. Since I felt the full extent of the pain of being shocked over and over everything checked out OK. He said it was probably a case of tendonitis, which is fairly common, probably more common than carpal tunnel.
Also, someone mentioned the thing that if you hunch forward too much that you could be pinching nerves in your neck that are causing the pain. I've run across that too.
One thing that helps is variety, like others have said.
Also, if you've been behind a computer for that long I'll bet you don't type properly, like keeping your fingers on the home row ("ASDF JKL;") and are not using the proper fingers to press the proper keys. Lately, I have been retraining myself to type from the home row and it's a bit frustrating and I type slower but it is more comfortable if I stick with it.
But I think computer mice cause more problems for people than keyboards.
We are offering free distributed computing services to people who have worthy projects they want to run across our network over thousands of members around the world on their PCs. If you got an algorithm and some code, we've got a lot of bandwidth and processing power. If your project is cool, or of worthy scientific or societal interest, and not too onerous to integrate into our platform, then we would like to process your projects for free.
Gateway was reselling CPU time on the PCs showroom PCs in all of their stores for companies to use as a private computing grid. So what happens to the grid? Do they just put all of the PCs that were in the stores in a warehouse and run the grid there? They just signed a new customer a few weeks ago.
OK, I'm glad there's a new Mozilla release, and I'm glad it's a little faster, but calling the 5% - 9% increases "dramatic" is a little much, don't ya think?
You could live anywhere and try to get gigs from sites like ITMoonlighter.com (recently acquired by guru.com, or RentACoder.com, etc., except you may be competing with programmers in Bulgaria and India willing to work for $1500/mo or less, but if the hiree wants an American or someone more local that would give you an advantage.
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The fact that he shut it down ("chickened out") only gives credibility to the claim that "Windows is just a bigger target" crowd, which were not his intentions. If he kept the contest going, and the Macs had been infected, which probably would have happened eventually, then it would show that Macs are vulnerable too, which Mac software writers don't want, because Mac has benefited from the security lessons MSFT has learned the hard way and the perception, real or not, that Macs are more secure. Either way, it was a lose-lose for this guy and the Mac community.
Interesting that Wisconsin's neighbor, Minnesota, is the home state of Digital River, one of the largest eTailers of digital download software, which also owns Regnow and Regsoft
Gaming is not a right, it's a privilege, one of which you should lose when you break the law. I don't see how video games help rehabilitate an inmate, unless they give them computers to learn how to build their own video games...
I believe so, I have that tape, created in 2000, which documents the launching of Netscape's browser to the open source world, and they document a 14-yr old kid (from Atlanta I believe) who moves to Silicon Valley to work for Netscape, and his mom drives him to work. I'll have to watch that tape again, but I believe it is him.
No, Sun has its own grid computing product that I'm sure it would rather support.
DISCLAIMER: I develop heavily in both C# and Java, more C# than Java, about 80% C#, 20% Java, not by choice but based on client demands.
.NET, though, is that the libraries seem to be more consistent, whereas the Java APIs have evloved and been added to by different developers using diffferent programming styles and approaches to patterns, each package seems to implement different programming styles and constructs, but you get used to it after a while. Plus, Java has so much deprecated code, they need to clean those out once and for all and clean up the APIs, see this for more details of what I'm talking about.
I don't think it's fair to compare Java 1.5 (released) vs. C# 2.0 (beta, who knows when it'll actually be released). That's like comparing Linux to Longhorn.
And re: IDEs, while programming so much in VS.NET, I missed all of the cool features of my IDEA IntelliJ Java IDE that I was excited to buy ReSharper, bringing some of IDEA's cool features to VS.NET.
One of the main things I like about
I think Google should, and perhaps may, use Jabber for an IM client. I'm sure they are working on an IM client/network...
Cloudmark has been doing this for over a year now, I love it and have gotten many "thank yous" form people I have told about it. It uses both Bayesian filtering and uses information gathered from its network of users to help identify spam. And it integrates with MS Outlook. This other eProvisia service forces you to an address on their email server, bogus.
And don't the major web-mail providers (Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc.) use group-based filtering as well?
Infrasearch was working on this, until Sun paid $8M for the company, them had them work on something else, then Gene Kan committed suicide. Be careful what you work on.
just like Ant/NAnt and JUnit/NUnit, there's also a .NET Hibernate called NHibernate.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate
They have USB TV tuners. I have their PCI PVR, the USB one must be pretty good as well.
http://www.hauppage.com/pages/prods_usbs.html
Try this list of priorities
Some of what they are collecting is really disturbing
Disturbing? Yeah, now that they know your CPU model and BIOS version number they can clearly learn about your cross-dressing hobby.
Hey, what kind of schmuck would post their idea to the public like this? The same schmuck that will give away 99% of his company for Draper to have them fund it for $1M.
On the other hand, DFJ have funded some pretty gutsy ventures in the past, so I gotta give them props for trying something different.
This Wired article talks about how hybrids MPG stats are somewhat skewered because of the way the EPA performs the test partially based on emissions, which hybrids don't produce.
I personally would hope this is not the case, as I am excited about getting the new 2005 Lexus RX 400 H hybrid which comes our next year.
...if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month.
What's wrong with you? Why do you reformat your hard drive so often? Why not just try a defrag and a chkdsk every now and then instead? Man, you sure wast a lot of time managing your hard drive!
So this undo Apple's FairPlay DRM? Or Microsoft's DRM? Quicktime? I couldn't really tell which DRM scheme it De-s.
I saw a doctor for the same reason some years ago.
First, they sent me to a neurologist, who electrocuted various parts of my arms and hands to check the stimulii. Since I felt the full extent of the pain of being shocked over and over everything checked out OK. He said it was probably a case of tendonitis, which is fairly common, probably more common than carpal tunnel.
Also, someone mentioned the thing that if you hunch forward too much that you could be pinching nerves in your neck that are causing the pain. I've run across that too.
One thing that helps is variety, like others have said.
Also, if you've been behind a computer for that long I'll bet you don't type properly, like keeping your fingers on the home row ("ASDF JKL;") and are not using the proper fingers to press the proper keys. Lately, I have been retraining myself to type from the home row and it's a bit frustrating and I type slower but it is more comfortable if I stick with it.
But I think computer mice cause more problems for people than keyboards.
We are offering free distributed computing services to people who have worthy projects they want to run across our network over thousands of members around the world on their PCs. If you got an algorithm and some code, we've got a lot of bandwidth and processing power. If your project is cool, or of worthy scientific or societal interest, and not too onerous to integrate into our platform, then we would like to process your projects for free.
For more information visit http://www.ubero.com/freeservices.asp
You should check these out too, some are free, others cost but are cheap, give you web interfaces to manage your own DNS
n s.org
/ /www.ultradns.com/
FREE
http://www.everydns.net/
http://www.dynd
For pay
http://www.easydns.com/dnsmanage.php3
http:
Gateway was reselling CPU time on the PCs showroom PCs in all of their stores for companies to use as a private computing grid. So what happens to the grid? Do they just put all of the PCs that were in the stores in a warehouse and run the grid there? They just signed a new customer a few weeks ago.
OK, I'm glad there's a new Mozilla release, and I'm glad it's a little faster, but calling the 5% - 9% increases "dramatic" is a little much, don't ya think?
You could live anywhere and try to get gigs from sites like ITMoonlighter.com (recently acquired by guru.com, or RentACoder.com, etc., except you may be competing with programmers in Bulgaria and India willing to work for $1500/mo or less, but if the hiree wants an American or someone more local that would give you an advantage.
Give us Californians a break, it's not like we'd elect an action hero to be our governor or anything ludicrous like that...
So what are the new features of Palm OS 6? Why is it better?