The combination of the two is rapidly emerging as a favorite, partly because they work well together
Didn't PHP / MySQL emerge as a favorite about 5 years ago? Isn't the pair now a fully emerged favorite? Did I dream the year 2000 or has the author been Rip Van Winkling?
Shortly after getting a "real" job, post grad school, I got a PDA and bought a password-minder program for it.
I don't trust myself to remember the 6+ passwords for the 10+ systems I have to use, each with differing requirements.
It's not unusual for me to try and login to the travel-expense manager web app, that I use maybe once every six months, and just blank on my username and password combo. Thankfully, I can easily find it in my password minder program.
And then there's the 100+ passwords for misc. websites, both trivial and important...
I watched these movies a few days back, and found them amusing, but I didn't understand their message. Are they suggesting that using e.g. IE is so devastating to the user that his head will pop off? Or is using Firefox so horrible that he scream in horror? Or are these good things, to show how remarkably different Firefox is from the competition?
Cute videos, but I have no idea what they're trying to communicate.
We should extend DST an additional six months -- then we wouldn't have to bother with the silliness of changing our clocks twice a year!
Or, better yet (to really save money), spring forward one hour every year. Now, since falling back costs money, we won't do that anymore. Just spring forward one hour annually, and watch the savings add up, year after year!
I had Time-Warner digital cable and the (regular def) Scientific Atlanta DVR for a year or so. While shackled by mediocre software, its dual tuner made it far more powerful and useful than any TiVo. I've since dropped my cable subscription, and hobble by with my VCR.
The essence of the DVR, for me, was being able to record one show while having live-TV control on a different channel. Or, recording two shows simultaneously and watching a third previously recorded program.
TiVo, with a single tuner, does not justify a lofty $400 pricetag (unit and subscription). If it was $100 and no subscription, I'd buy. Or, $400 for a dual tuner unit would get my cash.
Instead, I'll wait, save up, and get digital cable, HD service, and a dual-tuner HD-DVR. I will suffer bad software to get the functionality I need.
Or, now that I know that Win MCE is so useful, and can support dual tuners, I might get that.
TiVo is out-dated and will be dead soon if it doesn't get with the times.
While this is interesting, it's wholly irrelevant. The tampering was huge news, could be fatal to consumers, and ultimately could have destroyed J&J's business if they didn't restore public confidence in their product line.
In contrast, MCI making a few bucks from spammers isn't in the news, not really newsworthy, won't kill anyone, and doesn't threaten MCI's entire business.
There's little benefit to MCI in addressing this particular issue. MCI could aggressively attack this revenue source, but no one would hear about and few would really care.
Do you really think big companies are managed that way? That would be crazy. $5M here, $5M here, eventually your talking about big money!
Crazy or not, it's real. I've been working for a comparatively small $6B dollar company for a few years now, and that's how it is. And that's what I've been told by people who've spent over a decade in the company.
The business is not grown by millions at a time. Corporate does not want to pursue 200 separate $5M revenue sources. They target a few hundred-million or billion-dollar goals.
I'm in a small section of mid-size division. Internally we pursue the few-million projects. But our real drivers are supporting the hundred-million dollar division-wide projects. And the small things we do are often strategic investments towards the next generation of major projects.
I'm not saying it's best, but it's what I see.
Someone show me I'm wrong. I know engineers interested in developing smart singles, rather than just the homeruns.
MCI is a $27 billion company. (according to http://global.mci.com/about/investor_relations/fun damentals/).
Corporately, they don't care about $5M revenue streams. If it's not a homerun, billion dollar profit potential, it's not going to be developed.
I doubt MCI is actively pursuing SPAM as a business venture. Not unless they believe it's going to generate billions in the next five years. Otherwise, this is a non-story, about MCI making a few pennies because they aren't 100% vigilant.
I bought MS Office '97 for $5 on educational discount. I've been using it ever since. So, if they move their decimal two places to the left, that would worthwhile to me.
Your explanation is close enough, but I'll make a minor optics nit-pick: TIR (Total Internal Reflection) is not involved. Bare glass reflects about 4% of the incident light. As the author indicates, that's enough to read high-contrast text. The other 96% of the light is transmitted up through the glass to the room ceiling. There would be light which is reflected from the top glass surface, then reflected again from the lower surface which makes it to the camera. So less than 0.2% (96%*4%*4%*96%) of the light reaches the camera, which is likely not detected.
Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm using 1.0 and it looks nearly identical to IE 6.0 with the Google toolbar. It's no faster (but no slower) than IE. And I've found its functionality to be about 90% that of IEs.
I'm sticking with Firefox because it seems to be more secure and the tabs seem like a decent way to go. But I'm not wowed by it. It's still playing catchup, in my view.
I trying Firefox currently. While it passed the test for this new attack, it vulnerable to at least one other attack described by Secunia: http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_inject ion_vulnerability_test/
Anyone know the score? What is Firefox vulnerable to and when will it updated?
I wouldn't recommend using math software for students before graduate school.
I took the computer-assisted calculus and differential equations courses in college, and watched a wave of students follow me with even more computer-oriented mathematics. My conclusion is that I should have take the normal classes.
The mechanics of manipulating equations, memorizing identity theorems, and just plain brute force is something that sticks with you longer than knowing -ENTER is how to evaluate a command in Mathematica.
Do these kids a favor and make them learn the hard way. The skills will stick with them longer. They'll hate you now, but it's for their own good.
The concept is interesting. And it could work for some projects -- most of the possible projects have a high "sex" appeal. Others, particulary the smaller ones, could be done as part of graduate studies and thesis work.
However, this is not a panacea. Not all projects can be done successfully with this build and NASA might pay concept.
Consider the next-generation space telescope, JWST. Design work began several years ago. With a plan selected and funding secured from the federal government, the bid process was begun. During the proposal phase, NASA-funded study projects were conducted by several competitors, to determine who would fabricate the primary mirrors -- these are next-generation products.
Three major teams made proposals. The winning propsal is for about $700M. It is sponsored by NASA Goddard. The winning team is composed of TRW, part of Northrop Grumman, as prime and Kodak C&GS, now ITT SSD, and Ball Aerospace. Various subcontractors are involved, including Tinsley, Axsys, and 4D Technologies. It is about a six year project requiring facilities unique to all these companies. The telescope will be assembled at a Government owned facility, with preliminary proof-of-concept testing taking place at Goddard.
Finally, if any of these companies causes the project to fail -- another Hubble -- they will see their NASA business evaporate and their reputation in the community will be damaged, if not destroyed.
There is no way a project of this scope, risk, and complexity, and cost could be done independently, with payment only a hope.
And they also do major projects with the contractor selected based on the best technical proposal. Consider JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) with the prime contractor and two major subcontractors in in CA, CO, and NY. It is funded by NASA Goddard in MD.
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I realize critical writing is difficult, but if you're going to advertise a book review, deliver one. Like most Slashdot "reviews", this review is actually a summary.
A review should provide critical thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the material under consideration. A book review is not just a regurgitation of its contents. It also also provides an evaluation of its merits, noting where it succeeds or fails in its purpose. And enables me to determine if its worth its while.
This "review" nicely summarized the contents of the book but largely failed to inform as to whether the reviews are well written, provide new ideas, or present old ideas in particularly valuable manner. Therefore, I cannot recommend reading this review. Instead, just read the book's table of contents.
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Why should the hardware profits be sacrificed to support high software prices?
Perhaps Windows should be cheaper to support high hardware prices. Cheaper software might also reduce piracy since the it would be more affordable.
EKC has had its hands in many pots: photographic chemicals, digital printers, OLEDs, special effects, night vision goggles. And it just sold a division which is now ITT Space Systems Division.
Kodak defined itself by the little yellow box, but it did range of business most people knew nothing about.
Why not? If you're spending a lot of money, then minor things like file formats won't make any difference to a sale.
Just the opposite. If I'm spending lots of money, I expect good service. If a vendor can't do trivial things, like reading my Excel file, then I being to wonder if they're also incapable of doing the hard work that I'm considering paying them for.
Not reading an Excel file is like refusing to communicate by email. It promotes a poor view of the company/consultant and suggests gross incompetence.
$8760 per year -- very attractive
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This will seem very attractive to a lot of people. Running 24/7/365 it's $8760 per year, and would seem to only require a $500 dedicated computer. After taxes, that's about $5000 take-home for no effort at all!
People have commented on the difference between CPU-hour and clock-hour. Perhaps the details of this scheme prevent people from actually making money. But at first, I think this will appear very lucrative and attractive to people looking for a few extra bucks. I expect college students would be immediately drawn to this (easy cash, and they've got the network and computer already setup).
I'm interested in this notebook. It's priced and featured closer to a desktop than most portables, but it would allow me to move around the house and work in the office, kitchen, living room, etc. I don't need lightweight for that; I'm not traveling with it. I may represent a small market, but I find this very interesting.
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The combination of the two is rapidly emerging as a favorite, partly because they work well together
Didn't PHP / MySQL emerge as a favorite about 5 years ago? Isn't the pair now a fully emerged favorite? Did I dream the year 2000 or has the author been Rip Van Winkling?
Shortly after getting a "real" job, post grad school, I got a PDA and bought a password-minder program for it.
I don't trust myself to remember the 6+ passwords for the 10+ systems I have to use, each with differing requirements.
It's not unusual for me to try and login to the travel-expense manager web app, that I use maybe once every six months, and just blank on my username and password combo. Thankfully, I can easily find it in my password minder program.
And then there's the 100+ passwords for misc. websites, both trivial and important...
I watched these movies a few days back, and found them amusing, but I didn't understand their message. Are they suggesting that using e.g. IE is so devastating to the user that his head will pop off? Or is using Firefox so horrible that he scream in horror? Or are these good things, to show how remarkably different Firefox is from the competition?
Cute videos, but I have no idea what they're trying to communicate.
We should extend DST an additional six months -- then we wouldn't have to bother with the silliness of changing our clocks twice a year!
Or, better yet (to really save money), spring forward one hour every year. Now, since falling back costs money, we won't do that anymore. Just spring forward one hour annually, and watch the savings add up, year after year!
I had Time-Warner digital cable and the (regular def) Scientific Atlanta DVR for a year or so. While shackled by mediocre software, its dual tuner made it far more powerful and useful than any TiVo. I've since dropped my cable subscription, and hobble by with my VCR.
The essence of the DVR, for me, was being able to record one show while having live-TV control on a different channel. Or, recording two shows simultaneously and watching a third previously recorded program.
TiVo, with a single tuner, does not justify a lofty $400 pricetag (unit and subscription). If it was $100 and no subscription, I'd buy. Or, $400 for a dual tuner unit would get my cash.
Instead, I'll wait, save up, and get digital cable, HD service, and a dual-tuner HD-DVR. I will suffer bad software to get the functionality I need.
Or, now that I know that Win MCE is so useful, and can support dual tuners, I might get that.
TiVo is out-dated and will be dead soon if it doesn't get with the times.
While this is interesting, it's wholly irrelevant. The tampering was huge news, could be fatal to consumers, and ultimately could have destroyed J&J's business if they didn't restore public confidence in their product line.
In contrast, MCI making a few bucks from spammers isn't in the news, not really newsworthy, won't kill anyone, and doesn't threaten MCI's entire business.
There's little benefit to MCI in addressing this particular issue. MCI could aggressively attack this revenue source, but no one would hear about and few would really care.
Do you really think big companies are managed that way? That would be crazy. $5M here, $5M here, eventually your talking about big money!
Crazy or not, it's real. I've been working for a comparatively small $6B dollar company for a few years now, and that's how it is. And that's what I've been told by people who've spent over a decade in the company.
The business is not grown by millions at a time. Corporate does not want to pursue 200 separate $5M revenue sources. They target a few hundred-million or billion-dollar goals.
I'm in a small section of mid-size division. Internally we pursue the few-million projects. But our real drivers are supporting the hundred-million dollar division-wide projects. And the small things we do are often strategic investments towards the next generation of major projects.
I'm not saying it's best, but it's what I see.
Someone show me I'm wrong. I know engineers interested in developing smart singles, rather than just the homeruns.
MCI is a $27 billion company. (according to http://global.mci.com/about/investor_relations/fun damentals/).
Corporately, they don't care about $5M revenue streams. If it's not a homerun, billion dollar profit potential, it's not going to be developed.
I doubt MCI is actively pursuing SPAM as a business venture. Not unless they believe it's going to generate billions in the next five years. Otherwise, this is a non-story, about MCI making a few pennies because they aren't 100% vigilant.
and although the bigger players have flat frequency response, they have trouble sustaining big bass notes.
How can you have flat frequency response and also have bass roll-off? That would be non-flat response in the lower frequencies. What am I missing?
I bought MS Office '97 for $5 on educational discount. I've been using it ever since. So, if they move their decimal two places to the left, that would worthwhile to me.
You expect a teenage male in high school to use such a rational thought process?
Are you from a different planet?
Define spam? I wish they'd defy spam. That might make my email life better.
Bah, humbug!
Your explanation is close enough, but I'll make a minor optics nit-pick: TIR (Total Internal Reflection) is not involved. Bare glass reflects about 4% of the incident light. As the author indicates, that's enough to read high-contrast text. The other 96% of the light is transmitted up through the glass to the room ceiling. There would be light which is reflected from the top glass surface, then reflected again from the lower surface which makes it to the camera. So less than 0.2% (96%*4%*4%*96%) of the light reaches the camera, which is likely not detected.
Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm using 1.0 and it looks nearly identical to IE 6.0 with the Google toolbar. It's no faster (but no slower) than IE. And I've found its functionality to be about 90% that of IEs.
I'm sticking with Firefox because it seems to be more secure and the tabs seem like a decent way to go. But I'm not wowed by it. It's still playing catchup, in my view.
I trying Firefox currently. While it passed the test for this new attack, it vulnerable to at least one other attack described by Secunia: http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_inject ion_vulnerability_test/
Anyone know the score? What is Firefox vulnerable to and when will it updated?
I wouldn't recommend using math software for students before graduate school.
I took the computer-assisted calculus and differential equations courses in college, and watched a wave of students follow me with even more computer-oriented mathematics. My conclusion is that I should have take the normal classes.
The mechanics of manipulating equations, memorizing identity theorems, and just plain brute force is something that sticks with you longer than knowing -ENTER is how to evaluate a command in Mathematica.
Do these kids a favor and make them learn the hard way. The skills will stick with them longer. They'll hate you now, but it's for their own good.
The concept is interesting. And it could work for some projects -- most of the possible projects have a high "sex" appeal. Others, particulary the smaller ones, could be done as part of graduate studies and thesis work.
However, this is not a panacea. Not all projects can be done successfully with this build and NASA might pay concept.
Consider the next-generation space telescope, JWST. Design work began several years ago. With a plan selected and funding secured from the federal government, the bid process was begun. During the proposal phase, NASA-funded study projects were conducted by several competitors, to determine who would fabricate the primary mirrors -- these are next-generation products.
Three major teams made proposals. The winning propsal is for about $700M. It is sponsored by NASA Goddard. The winning team is composed of TRW, part of Northrop Grumman, as prime and Kodak C&GS, now ITT SSD, and Ball Aerospace. Various subcontractors are involved, including Tinsley, Axsys, and 4D Technologies. It is about a six year project requiring facilities unique to all these companies. The telescope will be assembled at a Government owned facility, with preliminary proof-of-concept testing taking place at Goddard.
Finally, if any of these companies causes the project to fail -- another Hubble -- they will see their NASA business evaporate and their reputation in the community will be damaged, if not destroyed.
There is no way a project of this scope, risk, and complexity, and cost could be done independently, with payment only a hope.
And they also do major projects with the contractor selected based on the best technical proposal. Consider JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) with the prime contractor and two major subcontractors in in CA, CO, and NY. It is funded by NASA Goddard in MD.
I realize critical writing is difficult, but if you're going to advertise a book review, deliver one. Like most Slashdot "reviews", this review is actually a summary.
A review should provide critical thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the material under consideration. A book review is not just a regurgitation of its contents. It also also provides an evaluation of its merits, noting where it succeeds or fails in its purpose. And enables me to determine if its worth its while.
This "review" nicely summarized the contents of the book but largely failed to inform as to whether the reviews are well written, provide new ideas, or present old ideas in particularly valuable manner. Therefore, I cannot recommend reading this review. Instead, just read the book's table of contents.
Why should the hardware profits be sacrificed to support high software prices?
Perhaps Windows should be cheaper to support high hardware prices. Cheaper software might also reduce piracy since the it would be more affordable.
First RTFM. The patents were purchased from Wang.
EKC has had its hands in many pots: photographic chemicals, digital printers, OLEDs, special effects, night vision goggles. And it just sold a division which is now ITT Space Systems Division.
Kodak defined itself by the little yellow box, but it did range of business most people knew nothing about.
Make it out to Eastman Kodak Company. (That was the formal name as of two months ago when I was working there.)
Why not? If you're spending a lot of money, then minor things like file formats won't make any difference to a sale.
Just the opposite. If I'm spending lots of money, I expect good service. If a vendor can't do trivial things, like reading my Excel file, then I being to wonder if they're also incapable of doing the hard work that I'm considering paying them for.
Not reading an Excel file is like refusing to communicate by email. It promotes a poor view of the company/consultant and suggests gross incompetence.
This will seem very attractive to a lot of people. Running 24/7/365 it's $8760 per year, and would seem to only require a $500 dedicated computer. After taxes, that's about $5000 take-home for no effort at all!
People have commented on the difference between CPU-hour and clock-hour. Perhaps the details of this scheme prevent people from actually making money. But at first, I think this will appear very lucrative and attractive to people looking for a few extra bucks. I expect college students would be immediately drawn to this (easy cash, and they've got the network and computer already setup).
I'm interested in this notebook. It's priced and featured closer to a desktop than most portables, but it would allow me to move around the house and work in the office, kitchen, living room, etc. I don't need lightweight for that; I'm not traveling with it. I may represent a small market, but I find this very interesting.