One more shout out for FastMail. I've been using them for about 6 months. They have an awesome service. I've had no down time and they work really well with IMAP clients (espically Thunderbird). I now have server based unified email on all clients (PC, web, and mobile phone--yes they have a WAP interface!).
Now, the only thing I wish they had was an LDAP server so that I could store my address book on the server.
FastMail rocks! (no, I don't work for them, just a satisifed customer).
Here at the BSA, we know it can be hard to stay in compliance with software licensing issues.
We'll be sending a special team (don't worry about keeping the door open, we'll let ourselves in) to help you determine your proper needs as you are obviously confused.
Take your sensor grid, scale it down to nano size, space it much, much more closely (i.e. every few centimeters in open air), have it capture electromagnetic spectrum data in addition to the weather stuff, and make it scan the surrounding area with radar / ultrasound and what do you have?
I believe you have the way that post-humans will interact with the outside world when they choose to. Want to travel to Tokyo? Just start sampling the sensor grid there to and use it to drive your sensory inputs.
Of course we may decided that sampling the real world is not of much value (other than scientifically) once we have progressed to that stage. Who knows? Maybe Ray?
It's too bad this technology requires power to keep the pixels in a "non-black" state. Which means, to display an image at all, this thing has to have juice.
As I understand it, some of the other e-paper systems only require power when you want to change the image which is both a signifigant power reduction and also means the paper can hold an image when it's "unplugged".
Oh, no problem. The new Oracle 10G database can handle it--all while tracking terrorists of course.
Just think, we can now know the exact can of Coke and Snickers bar the terrorist was eating as he flew his plane into a building--all thanks to Oracle.
Ha, I'd like to see this kind of blatent biased apology for Microsoft when Windows machines get hacked.
I mean, sheesh, I'm no MS fanboy (espically after having to deal with the blaster fallout), but c'mon--let's hold everyone to the same standard.
In fact, Linux, *BSD, any OSS OS, should be held to a higher standard given the geeky, more vigilant nature of most OSS operators and the fact that it's "all open and most patches are released 3 seconds after someone finds a hole blah blah blah..."
Sysops should do their job, regardless of the OS--no apologies.
I was working on my parents compter (Windows XP) remotely today when this started happening. I was installing some new software for them and I had also just disabled that stupid Messenger service so they would stop getting those pop-up spam messages.
Anyhow, I had just finished that when XP said it was shutting down in 30 seconds. I was like, WTF!
Here I am thinking that I just screwed up their machine with the new apps somehow.
Thanks a bunch, Billy. Guess they'll be punting this one to Longhorn:)
From the article: One of the expected side effects of this approach was that nodes would tend to specialize in the retrieval of some keys to the exclusion of others.
I wonder which lucky chap will run the node that specializes in kiddie porn?
Man, where are the mod points WHEN I NEED THEM!!! Very well said.
Re:always room for more competition.
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Right, should have added Y, Cr, Cb (Y/RY/BY) or straight up RGB to the list...
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Easy to remember...
Composite: Color and lumanence Composited (i.e. smashed) together in the same signal. If it's smashed together, it's hard to take apart resulting in quality loss.
Component: Color and lumanence kept as seperate Components. Not smashed means there's no quality loss (or at least less).
Just for the record, Component != HDTV. HDTV may be delivered via component signal, however analog and standard def digital can also be delivered via component (ala S-Video, SDI).
Interestingly enough, there is composite digital video as well (D2) which is loads better than composite analog (although probabaly not used much anymore). However you still get quality loss after many generations of copying.
The cliff-hanger at the end of Reloaded was retarded. Ooooh, the only survivor from the ship is the guy on table right across from Neo, NOOOOOOOOOO!
L A M E ! ! !
The Whatchamacallit brothers should cut their losses and and destroy any evidence of Revolutions before they release it and ruin their carears for good.
Unless Adobe did some secretive optimizations for the G5 (which is unlikely as they have not yet released the optimizations for the G4/OS 10.2), then its hard to scoff at the fact that the new G5 did it twice as fast as the Intel Chip.
True, however given Apple's tactics in the SPEC "benchmarks", maybe they had Hyperthreading disabled for the Dell machine on stage?
Disclamer: I'm not affiliated with this project in any way, I just saw it and thought it looked cool...
There's an interesting project at Sourceforce called Newsfighter that's working to build an open source reporting and colaboration system for fighting repressive control or censorship of information.
From their web site:
Newsfighter is a set of tools that web designers and independent journalists can use to protect the integrity of their written work against abusive governments, guarantee its dispersal and persistence around the world, and foster relationships of trust with their audiences and each other.
Let me start by saying I don't have a Mac, so I haven't actually seen the store. If this is already a feature, than mod accordingly...
Anyhow, I'd like to see a streaming radio feature, where I could listen to a particular genre and have an option to buy the music that has played.
I used Rapsody for a while and I really liked being able to listen to a radio format (streaming playlist whatever) and then get info and purchase the song currently playing. I discovered a lot of new artists and songs that way.
The 30 second preview is nice, but I'd like to hear an entire song (in a no rights format--no random access, no replay ability, lower quality) and then decide to buy or not.
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One more shout out for FastMail. I've been using them for about 6 months. They have an awesome service. I've had no down time and they work really well with IMAP clients (espically Thunderbird). I now have server based unified email on all clients (PC, web, and mobile phone--yes they have a WAP interface!).
Now, the only thing I wish they had was an LDAP server so that I could store my address book on the server.
FastMail rocks! (no, I don't work for them, just a satisifed customer).
Thanks for the information.
Here at the BSA, we know it can be hard to stay in compliance with software licensing issues.
We'll be sending a special team (don't worry about keeping the door open, we'll let ourselves in) to help you determine your proper needs as you are obviously confused.
Remember, proper software licensing helps combat terrorism!
Sincerly,
Business Software Alliance
Finally, Microsoft is going to get the street cred it deserves!
Take your sensor grid, scale it down to nano size, space it much, much more closely (i.e. every few centimeters in open air), have it capture electromagnetic spectrum data in addition to the weather stuff, and make it scan the surrounding area with radar / ultrasound and what do you have?
I believe you have the way that post-humans will interact with the outside world when they choose to. Want to travel to Tokyo? Just start sampling the sensor grid there to and use it to drive your sensory inputs.
Of course we may decided that sampling the real world is not of much value (other than scientifically) once we have progressed to that stage. Who knows? Maybe Ray?
It's too bad this technology requires power to keep the pixels in a "non-black" state. Which means, to display an image at all, this thing has to have juice.
As I understand it, some of the other e-paper systems only require power when you want to change the image which is both a signifigant power reduction and also means the paper can hold an image when it's "unplugged".
Oh, no problem. The new Oracle 10G database can handle it--all while tracking terrorists of course.
Just think, we can now know the exact can of Coke and Snickers bar the terrorist was eating as he flew his plane into a building--all thanks to Oracle.
Ha, I'd like to see this kind of blatent biased apology for Microsoft when Windows machines get hacked.
I mean, sheesh, I'm no MS fanboy (espically after having to deal with the blaster fallout), but c'mon--let's hold everyone to the same standard.
In fact, Linux, *BSD, any OSS OS, should be held to a higher standard given the geeky, more vigilant nature of most OSS operators and the fact that it's "all open and most patches are released 3 seconds after someone finds a hole blah blah blah..."
Sysops should do their job, regardless of the OS--no apologies.
I was working on my parents compter (Windows XP) remotely today when this started happening. I was installing some new software for them and I had also just disabled that stupid Messenger service so they would stop getting those pop-up spam messages.
:)
Anyhow, I had just finished that when XP said it was shutting down in 30 seconds. I was like, WTF!
Here I am thinking that I just screwed up their machine with the new apps somehow.
Thanks a bunch, Billy. Guess they'll be punting this one to Longhorn
Looks like they have a holographic web site as well...
Excuse me, whoever posted this story forgot to add the following line somewhere in the summary:
"The privacy implications here are worrying, and this sets a bad precedent, IMO."
Slashdot editors, please make this correction immediatly.
Excuse me, whoever posted this story forgot to add the following line somewhere in the summary:
"The privacy implications here are worrying, and this sets a bad precedent, IMO."
Slashdot editors, please make this correction immediatly.
From the article: One of the expected side effects of this approach was that nodes would tend to specialize in the retrieval of some keys to the exclusion of others.
I wonder which lucky chap will run the node that specializes in kiddie porn?
Man, where are the mod points WHEN I NEED THEM!!! Very well said.
Right, should have added Y, Cr, Cb (Y/RY/BY) or straight up RGB to the list...
Easy to remember...
Composite: Color and lumanence Composited (i.e. smashed) together in the same signal. If it's smashed together, it's hard to take apart resulting in quality loss.
Component: Color and lumanence kept as seperate Components. Not smashed means there's no quality loss (or at least less).
Just for the record, Component != HDTV. HDTV may be delivered via component signal, however analog and standard def digital can also be delivered via component (ala S-Video, SDI).
Interestingly enough, there is composite digital video as well (D2) which is loads better than composite analog (although probabaly not used much anymore). However you still get quality loss after many generations of copying.
The cliff-hanger at the end of Reloaded was retarded. Ooooh, the only survivor from the ship is the guy on table right across from Neo, NOOOOOOOOOO!
L A M E ! ! !
The Whatchamacallit brothers should cut their losses and and destroy any evidence of Revolutions before they release it and ruin their carears for good.
The registration site is running ASP.Net...
:)
Maybe that's why
True, however given Apple's tactics in the SPEC "benchmarks", maybe they had Hyperthreading disabled for the Dell machine on stage?
Here's a picture of the new G5 tower...
:)
Kinda ugly if you ask me...
Prices just came out...
1.6GHz $1999
1.8GHz $2399
Dual 2GHz $2999
I can see 3K for the dual processor machine, but the other two need to be way less if Apple wants to gain more market share...
Just so you know, I like Macs. Alas, mod as you wish...
There's an interesting project at Sourceforce called Newsfighter that's working to build an open source reporting and colaboration system for fighting repressive control or censorship of information.
From their web site:
Let me start by saying I don't have a Mac, so I haven't actually seen the store. If this is already a feature, than mod accordingly...
Anyhow, I'd like to see a streaming radio feature, where I could listen to a particular genre and have an option to buy the music that has played.
I used Rapsody for a while and I really liked being able to listen to a radio format (streaming playlist whatever) and then get info and purchase the song currently playing. I discovered a lot of new artists and songs that way.
The 30 second preview is nice, but I'd like to hear an entire song (in a no rights format--no random access, no replay ability, lower quality) and then decide to buy or not.