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Review: Harry Potter
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· Score: 2, Insightful
He's right about the books and the movie. I just wish the kid target demographic hadn't limited the length of the movie so. Another half hour would have done wonders. Oh well, maybe a "director's cut".
Richard Clarke stressed Wednesday that the nuisance of online vandals and the occasional hacker should not be used as a yardstick to measure the threat of terrorism to cyberspace.
So they waited for the polling data to come back before they wrote the response. Frowns, my ass. They found out the average joe is not that much of a sheep. Uh-oh, time to duck and cover
The short time to market can also be attributed to three other factors, according to Cora: "We have the programming skills, we have a small company that is not bureaucratic, and we put aside the established OSes (operating systems) and started from scratch."
After my own heart. Bureaucracies are not an "asset", and trying to salvage (reuse) existing stuff, that happens to be crap, is not "efficient".
The chip could enable items such as a teddy bear that lulls a child to sleep by reading a bedtime story with the pre-programmed voice of Winnie the Pooh.
In the short term, however, Winbond is setting its sites on more sophisticated markets. Topping the list are power-sensitive mobile devices, such as PDAs, cell phone accessories and pagers. Also on the radar are automotive applications such as telematics systems and car stereos.
Great. Now every damn thing everyone owns will be talking.
The specs are killer. Now if we could just get the cable company to send out the guide channel in machine-readable format, I'd be all set. As soon as the price has settled into my range . ..
They have a commitment for as much as $200 million financing from GE Capital, "which will be used to fund operating expenses and supplier and employee obligations". They won't be under for long. This really is just a reorganization.
Nice number crunching, but in my dealings with mainframes, I've found the best advantage is that, when overloaded, they just slow down, as opposed to crashing. That wasn't considered in the article.
Such evidence is called "circumstantial" and you can't find someone guilty based on circumstantial evidence.
Perhaps in the UK, but here in the USA the majority of convictions are based in circumstantial evidence. One cannot depend on eyewitnesses to every crime, and they are notoriously unreliable anyway. Circumstantial evidence, like DNA, has proven far more reliable here in the USA
FWIW, I'm not a citizen of the U.S. nor do I live there. Violence induces more violence. Retaliation will only lead to more deaths. If you are a citizen of the U.S. of America, please write your representative right now and ask him to join a plea for peace.
Yeah, you're right. You're not an American. Some one/place is about to join the stone age.
This reminds me so much of the Steve Jackson Games raid of a decade ago. Yes, the warrant was valid. And sealed. The effect was to nearly silence a voice the SS didn't like.
Matt Westervelt, one of the originators of what he likes to call a "symbiotic grid" rather than a parasitic one.
There ya go. What I do with the bandwidth on my T-1 is my business. If I choose to give it away, that's my business. There's nothing "parasitic" about it.
Each point would link up 10 or so houses, until a grassroots net could spring up, catering exclusively to the town. All it would take is one
individual, perhaps working collectively with 20 other people, to get a high bandwidth connection, say a T1, or whatever, even a 'normal' 2mb DSL line, and this gathering of clouds hooked up by dry lines would be connected to the larger 'net.
If they are to pick up atoms with any dexterity, they should be smaller than the atoms. But the jaws must be built of atoms and are thus larger than the atom they must pick and place.
Atoms, especially carbon atoms, bond strongly to their neighbors.
I really don't care if the "jaws" are Drexlerian or biochemical. As long as the damn thing works, we're golden. An assembler that is a mix of mechanical and chemical, or any other approach is still a successful assembler. As for his concern of how to make a machine self-replicating, we don't need the assembler machine to be tiny, just to make tiny stuff. Room for template storage is easy.
What does.NET and Passport have to do with CodeRed?
They run under Windows, and CodeRed is a Windows Virus(tm). IOW, they require a proven insecure platform.
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Benchmark Becomes Bellyache
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Mac Rants
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· Score: 1
Specifically, TechTV's benchmarking geniuses ran a total of six Photoshop filters. From this meager selection of tests . ..
Great, so he sees one badly done benchmark comparison, and uses that as a basis for trashing Apple entirely, including Steve Jobs. Like incompetent or rigged benchmarks are something new and shocking. I'm not an Apple fan, but this is a bit of ranting nonsense. If he wanted to trash the comparison, he could have stuck to that. Or at least, to the facts.
Like the article says, The Senator is just trying to get some press. He has no intention of getting the bill passed; it's blatantly unconstitutional anyway.
Well, that was my funny for the day. Who'da guessed it: people want to share porn and, hey, they succeed. Damn, these Congress Critters ain't so dumb after all.
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He's right about the books and the movie. I just wish the kid target demographic hadn't limited the length of the movie so. Another half hour would have done wonders. Oh well, maybe a "director's cut".
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The "cat" shit is really irritating. He needs to either get an editor or lose the "clever" shit.
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Unfortunately, the managers who need this the most will never see it. The ones who read this stuff are the ones who already have a tech clue.
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Richard Clarke stressed Wednesday that the nuisance of online vandals and the occasional hacker should not be used as a yardstick to measure the threat of terrorism to cyberspace.
So they waited for the polling data to come back before they wrote the response. Frowns, my ass. They found out the average joe is not that much of a sheep. Uh-oh, time to duck and cover
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The short time to market can also be attributed to three other factors, according to Cora: "We have the programming skills, we have a small company that is not bureaucratic, and we put aside the established OSes (operating systems) and started from scratch."
After my own heart. Bureaucracies are not an "asset", and trying to salvage (reuse) existing stuff, that happens to be crap, is not "efficient".
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I use Visual Cafe. Its not that great but it happens to be what I've been using and hasn't screwed anything up yet. Great praise and all . . .
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The chip could enable items such as a teddy bear that lulls a child to sleep by reading a bedtime story with the pre-programmed voice of Winnie the Pooh.
In the short term, however, Winbond is setting its sites on more sophisticated markets. Topping the list are power-sensitive mobile devices, such as PDAs, cell phone accessories and pagers. Also on the radar are automotive applications such as telematics systems and car stereos.
Great. Now every damn thing everyone owns will be talking.
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experts like . . . David Siegel
Please save us from "experts" like this. Good book anyway, though.
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"We're still looking for the Mercator projection of cyberspace. We're not there yet. The map of the Web is still waiting to be drawn."
Its the Web. How about ditching the paper and using a VR approach? As in, take advantage of tech, rather than just "appreciate them artistically".
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The specs are killer. Now if we could just get the cable company to send out the guide channel in machine-readable format, I'd be all set. As soon as the price has settled into my range . . .
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They have a commitment for as much as $200 million financing from GE Capital, "which will be used to fund operating expenses and supplier and employee obligations". They won't be under for long. This really is just a reorganization.
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Nice number crunching, but in my dealings with mainframes, I've found the best advantage is that, when overloaded, they just slow down, as opposed to crashing. That wasn't considered in the article.
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Such evidence is called "circumstantial" and you can't find someone guilty based on circumstantial evidence.
Perhaps in the UK, but here in the USA the majority of convictions are based in circumstantial evidence. One cannot depend on eyewitnesses to every crime, and they are notoriously unreliable anyway. Circumstantial evidence, like DNA, has proven far more reliable here in the USA
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FWIW, I'm not a citizen of the U.S. nor do I live there. Violence induces more violence. Retaliation will only lead to more deaths. If you are a citizen of the U.S. of America, please write your representative right now and ask him to join a plea for peace.
Yeah, you're right. You're not an American. Some one/place is about to join the stone age.
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Mind posting a link?
Sorry, guess that would be nice. Here ya go
This reminds me so much of the Steve Jackson Games raid of a decade ago. Yes, the warrant was valid. And sealed. The effect was to nearly silence a voice the SS didn't like.
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Matt Westervelt, one of the originators of what he likes to call a "symbiotic grid" rather than a parasitic one.
There ya go. What I do with the bandwidth on my T-1 is my business. If I choose to give it away, that's my business. There's nothing "parasitic" about it.
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Each point would link up 10 or so houses, until a grassroots net could spring up, catering exclusively to the town. All it would take is one individual, perhaps working collectively with 20 other people, to get a high bandwidth connection, say a T1, or whatever, even a 'normal' 2mb DSL line, and this gathering of clouds hooked up by dry lines would be connected to the larger 'net.
You must be planning on IPv6
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I wonder if he meant to say, Russian citizens aren't subject to U.S. laws?
Probably he was referring to the point that Americans would scream bloody murder if the shoe were on the other foot.
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It's been three years. I never thought it would be this long before Dmitry Sklyarov or the like would be winning before the Supremes.
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If they are to pick up atoms with any dexterity, they should be smaller than the atoms. But the jaws must be built of atoms and are thus larger than the atom they must pick and place.
Atoms, especially carbon atoms, bond strongly to their neighbors.
I really don't care if the "jaws" are Drexlerian or biochemical. As long as the damn thing works, we're golden. An assembler that is a mix of mechanical and chemical, or any other approach is still a successful assembler. As for his concern of how to make a machine self-replicating, we don't need the assembler machine to be tiny, just to make tiny stuff. Room for template storage is easy.
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What does .NET and Passport have to do with CodeRed?
They run under Windows, and CodeRed is a Windows Virus(tm). IOW, they require a proven insecure platform.
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Specifically, TechTV's benchmarking geniuses ran a total of six Photoshop filters. From this meager selection of tests . . .
Great, so he sees one badly done benchmark comparison, and uses that as a basis for trashing Apple entirely, including Steve Jobs. Like incompetent or rigged benchmarks are something new and shocking. I'm not an Apple fan, but this is a bit of ranting nonsense. If he wanted to trash the comparison, he could have stuck to that. Or at least, to the facts.
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this bill was written to generate publicity
Like the article says, The Senator is just trying to get some press. He has no intention of getting the bill passed; it's blatantly unconstitutional anyway.
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Well, that was my funny for the day. Who'da guessed it: people want to share porn and, hey, they succeed. Damn, these Congress Critters ain't so dumb after all.
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