I guess Sun deserves what it gets, but I think the reviewer was a bit irresponsible. Perhaps he had a deadline and couldn't wait around for replacement media (assuming that you still couldn't rule out defective media) or for Sun support to resolve the issue
Whether or not you think the reviewer could have done more -- the reviewer definately did more than Joe User would. If a reviewer 'only' tried installation on three or four computers, that's still three or four more than most people have access to.
The company selling the product will have to turn in the spammer based on contractual documentations.
Unfortunately the CAN-SPAM act also superceded better spam laws that let individual citizens go after the spammers (it has to be from a governing body or something, I'm not quite sure of the specifics), so while that would get rid of a spammer, nobody will get the satisfaction of personal vidication -- which would be the only benefit of getting rid of an individual spammer.
It won't help with the spam problem, because spammers are bottom feeders and as long as there are still suckers born every minute, there will be spammers born every hour on the hour.
Even though subpeonas make it easy enough to go after the spammers individually, the problem won't go away until the companies that hire the spammers are held responsible.
Those "Untrackable" spammers are selling a product, a product via credit card. Don't think too hard on that one.
Yeah, but unfortunately the CAN-SPAM law only allows you to take action against the person/agency that sent the spam. It superceded better laws that let you take action against the company that hired the spammer. So it doesn't matter if you can 'track' down the product and the company/person selling the product -- as long as they hired an outside party to send the spam, they're free to do so again...and again...and again....
And they say that the sciences don't have enough funding! Pitchers get millions of dollars every year to work on their "subtle science." Maybe if cancer and AIDS researchers organized into teams and wore uniforms....
When I say 'best movie' I'm talking about the art of filmmaking, not the values of the people in the movie. The book Native Son is about a semi-retarted black boy who kills a white girl, and I hated the story. But it's still considered a great book and that's why it is on reading lists in universities. I hated Lord of the Flies because I despised the characters and the plot sickened me, but it's still considered a great book.
I suppose the only consolation is that it could have been worse
Could have been worse? I'm actually impressed at how good it is (compared to the others). It's actually a great title. Too bad it's a ripoff of what is considered one of the best movies of all time: The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915 -- #44 on the AFI's top 100 list)
Google is successful? I could never tell whether or not it was a search engine, or a one with a hundred zeros behind it. It's just so confusing! So difficult to tell!
"The first task is to identify the font, and font size the missing word was written in. Once that is done, the dictionary search begins for words that fit the space, plus or minus three pixels"
This is why I don't work for an intelligence agency.
Doesn't sound like a big problem to me. All you need to do is use a fixed-width font, and then all the decrypter would be able to find out is how many letters in the given word. Much more difficult to solve.
I had also pondered whether the 'V's were instead 'U's, but gave that up when I realized that there was also an actual 'U' as well. No sense in having both, right?
While the famous version of Les Bergers d'Arcadie shows a version that is reversed from this monument, other versions were created. One version came several years before the famous one. This page shows both.
But most interestingly (and cryptically) is this image. I don't know the origin of this engraving, but it is almost exactly the same as as the monument. Down to the swirling clouds, which actually aren't present in the famous version! The only obvious difference is the present of an additional urn on top of the sarcophagus in the monument. I have little doubt that either this engraving was created from the monument, or the monument was created from this engraving.
Can anyone offer anymore insight into this engraving?
I drive a 1996 Infiniti I30t, which is rated 28mpg on the highway. I do a lot of driving back and forth between Kansas City and Virginia to see relatives, and I consistently get better than 28mpg. I've gotten as high as 33.3mpg.
So whatever problem they have with the EPA tests, it is not universal.
The RIAA is going out of there way to correct a royalty problem that may/may not have entirely been their fault
Sure, it sounds good now. But wait until the quarterly earnings are publicized. The RIAA will complain that earnings were mysteriously $50 Million under the projected earnings, and blame it all on piracy.
It might not look like much, but it was infringed thousands of times:
for (i=0;
(this is as far into each line of code that the SCO lawyers bothered to look -- because if the first eight or nine characters match, that's enough to be infringing, right?)
This may be modded as funny. But even 2008 seems too early for these kind of specs. Give me a break, 2GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of disk space.
It's not that ridiculous.
On the hard drive side, 250GB drives and even 300+GB are very easy to find in any computer store. I've also heard of 1TB external hard drives. It would be pretty simple to set up a system with more than 1TB of storage.
On the RAM side, most motherboards these days support 3-4GB of RAM. Mine right now supports 4GB; I run 1GB in it for now, and will be buying a second GB fairly soon.
And on the processor side, I hear of CPUs being overclocked past 4GHz and higher all the time.
So, even though these are the specs for the "average" computer, it's possible to have it today. And bottom line, if it can be done today, then there is no reason to think it wouldn't be average in 2.5-3.0 years.
and come up with something truly unique and cool: a car... that doubles as a boat
Maybe cool, but not unique! There was a story about a sportcar/speedboat that came up a while back. True, it can only go 100mph on land and 30mph in the water, but I'd say it's close enough to say it's not unique.
Oh yeah, and this site called Slash- something or other posted about the the same vehicle.
(note: not that I'm upset with the content of this news item, I think it's even cooler to have modded a car to do this than to create one from scratch -- I just have a problem with hype like saying something is new and unique when it's not)
Not sure if the Bugatti really does have "the most horsepower." Maybe most for a production car
Yup, that's what they're aiming for at least. Things like the Lamborghini Murcielago has somewhere in the 650s I think, to give you some comparison. But I do remember that an after-market shop was selling 'production' Vipers with a twin-turbo slapped in it. They called the Viper Venom TT, and it shipped with 800hp. Not too shabby. Apparently the 0-60 was in the 2-second range. Yikes!
So what if a CD doesn't last a hundred years? It's still a digital medium, which means that as long as there is one good copy, you can make an unlimited number of exact duplicates with no degradation in quality.
But another points is, why would you want to keep something on CD for a hundred years? You can't walk into a Walmart and buy a record player. 100 years is probably more than the lifespan of the medium, regardless of how long each disc is expected to last.
That is not a cooling tower. A cooling tower works by evaporating a liquid (usually water) to a gas and then just venting this to the atmosphere. It is not a closed system....What you are describing is a simple refrigeration circuit
So would it be correct to say that a refridgeration circuit would be the "Sterling engine" equivalent of a cooling tower?
This is just one of the great things about Linux (or any open source project):
Say an article about security is published in a magazine. The article takes a really good critical look at Linux vs. Windows and genuinely points out a few areas of improvement. Well, that just prompts the open source community to rev up their engines and (should they agree with the evaluation) they'll just go out and fix it! In fact, there's a pretty good chance that the fix is available in a development version in time to send a letter to the editor for the next month's issue.
Now compare that to Windows. Microsoft would spend two, maybe three times that long debating with the media about whether or not it's a problem or a 'feature', and then whether or not it will be fixed immediately or we have to wait until 2031 for Looooooonghorn to be released. Then they'll just sit on it for a while to see if people really care about it being fixed, and how much. They might also, at this point, have their lawyers spend three weeks writing the licensing agreement for the patch, should it be created. Then they put the whole thing on hold and wait until somebody exploits the problem. Then, only if everything else has gone completely in their favor and the problem has been exploited and the existance of the problem has reached at least two major media outlets, they might work on a patch and distribute it....
Then Microsoft will brag about how quickly they've updated their software in response to the problem......as Linux is releasing the seventeenth update since the article....
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I'd like a wearable always-on camera like this -- but wish Tivo-esque functions. I don't want to actually record my whole day, but I know that most of the time if there's something really exciting that I wish I had on camera, I don't have time to react to it in time to turn on a camera.
So, have an always-on camera with a 30 or 60 minute buffer (or however long you can get). During normal use, it just cycles through the buffer over and over again. If you want to save something permanently, you can click a button (or however the control would function) to start saving what was happing one, five, ten, fifteen, 30, etc. minutes earlier. Then, that section of the buffer would be marked as permanent memory, and you don't have to worry about reacting in time to save those funny/exciting moments!
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I guess Sun deserves what it gets, but I think the reviewer was a bit irresponsible. Perhaps he had a deadline and couldn't wait around for replacement media (assuming that you still couldn't rule out defective media) or for Sun support to resolve the issue
Whether or not you think the reviewer could have done more -- the reviewer definately did more than Joe User would. If a reviewer 'only' tried installation on three or four computers, that's still three or four more than most people have access to.
The company selling the product will have to turn in the spammer based on contractual documentations.
Unfortunately the CAN-SPAM act also superceded better spam laws that let individual citizens go after the spammers (it has to be from a governing body or something, I'm not quite sure of the specifics), so while that would get rid of a spammer, nobody will get the satisfaction of personal vidication -- which would be the only benefit of getting rid of an individual spammer.
It won't help with the spam problem, because spammers are bottom feeders and as long as there are still suckers born every minute, there will be spammers born every hour on the hour.
Even though subpeonas make it easy enough to go after the spammers individually, the problem won't go away until the companies that hire the spammers are held responsible.
Those "Untrackable" spammers are selling a product, a product via credit card. Don't think too hard on that one.
Yeah, but unfortunately the CAN-SPAM law only allows you to take action against the person/agency that sent the spam. It superceded better laws that let you take action against the company that hired the spammer. So it doesn't matter if you can 'track' down the product and the company/person selling the product -- as long as they hired an outside party to send the spam, they're free to do so again...and again...and again....
And they say that the sciences don't have enough funding! Pitchers get millions of dollars every year to work on their "subtle science." Maybe if cancer and AIDS researchers organized into teams and wore uniforms....
When I say 'best movie' I'm talking about the art of filmmaking, not the values of the people in the movie. The book Native Son is about a semi-retarted black boy who kills a white girl, and I hated the story. But it's still considered a great book and that's why it is on reading lists in universities. I hated Lord of the Flies because I despised the characters and the plot sickened me, but it's still considered a great book.
I suppose the only consolation is that it could have been worse
Could have been worse? I'm actually impressed at how good it is (compared to the others). It's actually a great title. Too bad it's a ripoff of what is considered one of the best movies of all time: The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915 -- #44 on the AFI's top 100 list)
Take a look at the picture of Darl McBride in the article or even do a Google search
That's so weird, I thought I had a very clear picture of what Darl McBride looked like, but it turns out I was thinking about this guy. Huh.
Google is successful? I could never tell whether or not it was a search engine, or a one with a hundred zeros behind it. It's just so confusing! So difficult to tell!
This is why I don't work for an intelligence agency.
Doesn't sound like a big problem to me. All you need to do is use a fixed-width font, and then all the decrypter would be able to find out is how many letters in the given word. Much more difficult to solve.
Dunno about the new letter though...wonder which one it is...
Or is it a different letter at all, when compared to the engraving instead of the famous painting?
I had also pondered whether the 'V's were instead 'U's, but gave that up when I realized that there was also an actual 'U' as well. No sense in having both, right?
While the famous version of Les Bergers d'Arcadie shows a version that is reversed from this monument, other versions were created. One version came several years before the famous one. This page shows both.
But most interestingly (and cryptically) is this image. I don't know the origin of this engraving, but it is almost exactly the same as as the monument. Down to the swirling clouds, which actually aren't present in the famous version! The only obvious difference is the present of an additional urn on top of the sarcophagus in the monument. I have little doubt that either this engraving was created from the monument, or the monument was created from this engraving.
Can anyone offer anymore insight into this engraving?
I drive a 1996 Infiniti I30t, which is rated 28mpg on the highway. I do a lot of driving back and forth between Kansas City and Virginia to see relatives, and I consistently get better than 28mpg. I've gotten as high as 33.3mpg.
So whatever problem they have with the EPA tests, it is not universal.
I suppose people vaguely interested who know the basics but haven't tried some of these out are the target audience
Sounds like my normal bedtime reading!
The RIAA is going out of there way to correct a royalty problem that may/may not have entirely been their fault
Sure, it sounds good now. But wait until the quarterly earnings are publicized. The RIAA will complain that earnings were mysteriously $50 Million under the projected earnings, and blame it all on piracy.
It might not look like much, but it was infringed thousands of times:(this is as far into each line of code that the SCO lawyers bothered to look -- because if the first eight or nine characters match, that's enough to be infringing, right?)
This may be modded as funny. But even 2008 seems too early for these kind of specs. Give me a break, 2GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of disk space.
It's not that ridiculous.
On the hard drive side, 250GB drives and even 300+GB are very easy to find in any computer store. I've also heard of 1TB external hard drives. It would be pretty simple to set up a system with more than 1TB of storage.
On the RAM side, most motherboards these days support 3-4GB of RAM. Mine right now supports 4GB; I run 1GB in it for now, and will be buying a second GB fairly soon.
And on the processor side, I hear of CPUs being overclocked past 4GHz and higher all the time.
So, even though these are the specs for the "average" computer, it's possible to have it today. And bottom line, if it can be done today, then there is no reason to think it wouldn't be average in 2.5-3.0 years.
and come up with something truly unique and cool: a car ... that doubles as a boat
Maybe cool, but not unique! There was a story about a sportcar/speedboat that came up a while back. True, it can only go 100mph on land and 30mph in the water, but I'd say it's close enough to say it's not unique.
Oh yeah, and this site called Slash- something or other posted about the the same vehicle.
(note: not that I'm upset with the content of this news item, I think it's even cooler to have modded a car to do this than to create one from scratch -- I just have a problem with hype like saying something is new and unique when it's not)
Not sure if the Bugatti really does have "the most horsepower." Maybe most for a production car
Yup, that's what they're aiming for at least. Things like the Lamborghini Murcielago has somewhere in the 650s I think, to give you some comparison. But I do remember that an after-market shop was selling 'production' Vipers with a twin-turbo slapped in it. They called the Viper Venom TT, and it shipped with 800hp. Not too shabby. Apparently the 0-60 was in the 2-second range. Yikes!
So what if a CD doesn't last a hundred years? It's still a digital medium, which means that as long as there is one good copy, you can make an unlimited number of exact duplicates with no degradation in quality.
But another points is, why would you want to keep something on CD for a hundred years? You can't walk into a Walmart and buy a record player. 100 years is probably more than the lifespan of the medium, regardless of how long each disc is expected to last.
So what am I going to do with my Bluetooth desktop?
cry over it.
That is not a cooling tower. A cooling tower works by evaporating a liquid (usually water) to a gas and then just venting this to the atmosphere. It is not a closed system....What you are describing is a simple refrigeration circuit
So would it be correct to say that a refridgeration circuit would be the "Sterling engine" equivalent of a cooling tower?
Why is there a "no service" signal in the first place? Do phones really rely on a special signal to tell them they don't have a signal?
This is just one of the great things about Linux (or any open source project):
...as Linux is releasing the seventeenth update since the article....
Say an article about security is published in a magazine. The article takes a really good critical look at Linux vs. Windows and genuinely points out a few areas of improvement. Well, that just prompts the open source community to rev up their engines and (should they agree with the evaluation) they'll just go out and fix it! In fact, there's a pretty good chance that the fix is available in a development version in time to send a letter to the editor for the next month's issue.
Now compare that to Windows. Microsoft would spend two, maybe three times that long debating with the media about whether or not it's a problem or a 'feature', and then whether or not it will be fixed immediately or we have to wait until 2031 for Looooooonghorn to be released. Then they'll just sit on it for a while to see if people really care about it being fixed, and how much. They might also, at this point, have their lawyers spend three weeks writing the licensing agreement for the patch, should it be created. Then they put the whole thing on hold and wait until somebody exploits the problem. Then, only if everything else has gone completely in their favor and the problem has been exploited and the existance of the problem has reached at least two major media outlets, they might work on a patch and distribute it....
Then Microsoft will brag about how quickly they've updated their software in response to the problem...
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I'd like a wearable always-on camera like this -- but wish Tivo-esque functions. I don't want to actually record my whole day, but I know that most of the time if there's something really exciting that I wish I had on camera, I don't have time to react to it in time to turn on a camera.
So, have an always-on camera with a 30 or 60 minute buffer (or however long you can get). During normal use, it just cycles through the buffer over and over again. If you want to save something permanently, you can click a button (or however the control would function) to start saving what was happing one, five, ten, fifteen, 30, etc. minutes earlier. Then, that section of the buffer would be marked as permanent memory, and you don't have to worry about reacting in time to save those funny/exciting moments!