Sun might've got the code for StarOffice 6. Sybase could have do this for Watcom C++/Fortran 11.0c. Netscrape, I mean Netscape, could have done this for Netscape 5.0.
But they are now all GPL. You never know when your code will hit the open source world.
Well, one could just use the very mature IMDb engine and just modify it. This would work for all kinds of databases.
You can get the source at ftp.imdb.com. Little known fact. You can get all the files used there, including the database. I don't know the license used, though.
Have you ever seen the "you're a winner, click here to claim your prize" ad? Well if you do click there, you find a page with a phone number.
I found this out, when teaching a web camp for kids aged 7-13, when a camper clicked on the ad, and spent the rest of the day trying to claim his prize. He called the number, and found it to be a jewelry store, not the free trip he'd been promised.
Imaging having to explain corrupt marketing to a 7 year old. It's not just annoying, it's irresponsible.
If I'm going to run Apache, why would I go through the hell of NT?
Most people who run NT/Server do so because of IIS, and it's ease of config. (let's not start a flame war here...) If you want Apache, use UNIX. There's no point is using a had to config OS (nt/5.0) if you aren't trying to use an easy to config HTTP server (iis/5.0).
When you do, you'll see that here, it isn't cheaper to buy than build, even more so with exotic stuff. And some stuff can't be bought, like EME antennas, etc. There's no feeling in the world like that of having your voice reflected off the moon, and having built the stuff yourself. The magazine of the ARRL, QST, is filled with DIY projects, and QEX is ALL DIY stuff.
The ARRL handbook says that over half of all hams build gear. Doesn't seem dead to me...
Let's say I own an arena. I have cameras in all the entrances. I have a copy of some commercial facial recognition system. I have access to the internet, so I have access to "America's Most Wanted"'s web site. I have JPEGs of many, many fugitaves.
I dump these images into a computer, turn it on, and start fishing. I make a hit, and have my police nab the guy. I get lots of publicity, and become famous.
This only needs to happen once, and everyone will be doing it. I'm only looking for bad guys, so this can't be a bad thing, right? Where do we draw the line now? Is is alright to ban anyone seen being thrown out of my stadium before? How about somebody else's stadium? How about scouts from other teams? This could be a slippery slope, and there isn't anything we can do about it.
I live in a high rise apartment building. I have a window facing a park...
For this to be any good, the signal path must be pure optics, e.g. the same photon must go all the way thru the switch, and just be routed around. That means the switch would have to understand the rays of light out my 100baseFX network, or fibrechannel bus, and deal with it in photonic form.
This solves EMF issues, and other nasties. Electronics could be used for low speed control, and indicators, but fibre be used for ALL high speed stuff, including PCB traces and everything else.
Disney uses the monorail VERY well, and they know how good it is. I'm not saying that they made the monorail seem bad, but by being a pioneer in the transport industry (they built some of the best monorails ever, the Mk.IV class), people think of the monorail as a Disney amusement park ride, not the quiet, safe system of transport it is.
Disney brought the monorail out of darkness. They were trying to introduce the world to a new thing, but the world saw it as a game.
I have nothing against the WDW, DL monorail systems. They are the best in the world, but everyone sees the monorail as a park ride now, so they don't want one in their city.
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Hey! This could be the first time that more than 10 people have gone to the monorails.org in a day.
Look around when you're there, and you'll learn why the monorail is a practical, underused, safe form of transport. It's been stigmatized by Disney. (I've been a monorail advocate for some time) It's a very cool site.
The Mozilla guys did this (they still might) for their nightly builds.
It works quite well to both encourage people to dig into the source, as well as to encourage the lazy to update software. This [Mozilla's scheme] is what got me into modifing open software to begin with. By incorporating these things, the experts [who already keep their systems up to date] would be able to remove them, and the lame would stay current, preventing things like DDoS attacks.
As a person with disgraphia (the inability to write correctly) this device could be complete torture. Writing for me is both slow and extremely painful. An essay can literally leave me with bleeding fingers. For this reason, I use a computer, instead of a pen. I switched from pencil notes to using a Palm with a keyboard in class, and life is much easier.
Some would say that I just shouldn't buy one of these things, but that might not be good enough. Computer labs, where space is at a premium, might see this as a holy grail.
I type because I cannot write. I see no point in writing so I don't have to type. Please, if you run a computer lab somewhere, remember me and my plight, along with the visually impared and others before you make a decision about keyboards, screen resolutions, or anything else.
Prices have kept up, though. I have quite a few Accu-Recharge NiMH batteries that cost me about $10 for four. It used to (about 2 years ago) cost 4 times that. I'd say that's progress...
I thought the Internet was supposed to be universal. The Internet is the only place in the world where it doesn't matter who or where you are.
We cannot throw that away, ever. We cannot resort to blocking a region for any reason.
Let's say this does happen, and we try to block China. How do we know this isn't just what the governenment of China wants, to limit the communication abilities of their people.
Administrators can control speech. We cannot abuse our power.
I run my own e-mail server, so I obviously don't sell my address.
I have three domains in my name with my real e-mail address, and post to slashdot and USENET with my real email address.
I have never, in 2 years, recieved a piece of spam. The only reason I can see for spam, is people having their addresses sold by their ISP. WHOIS hasn't hurt me, and in two years, I should've been hurt if there was anything wrong.
Not to start a flame war here (I hate AOL as much as the next guy), but I think that AOL's old model (when they were competing with Prodigy, CompuServ and GEnie) might be on the right track. They had 'exclusive' content providers, and a portion of your hourly fee would go tho them.
I don't quite know how to make this type of thing work for the web, but perhaps DoubleClick could have a deal where you don't see their ads anymore, if you pay them. This could bring more money to the web site in question, and this money could be used for priority servers for those who subscribe, and so on. Akami, and all the others could do the same, and eventually, someone would sell a 'package deal', with all the content providers included.
If an artist can use home equipment to record and mix his or her own music, what would stop them from acting as their own publisher to these p2p software groups?
People complain about the publisher screwing over the artist, so why don't the artists become the publishers?
Slashdot Mirror
This was a question on the NPR Quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" last week.
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I thought the answer was false because I hadn't seen it on
Oh well...
Sun might've got the code for StarOffice 6. Sybase could have do this for Watcom C++/Fortran 11.0c. Netscrape, I mean Netscape, could have done this for Netscape 5.0.
But they are now all GPL. You never know when your code will hit the open source world.
Well, one could just use the very mature IMDb engine and just modify it. This would work for all kinds of databases.
You can get the source at ftp.imdb.com. Little known fact. You can get all the files used there, including the database. I don't know the license used, though.
Have you ever seen the "you're a winner, click here to claim your prize" ad? Well if you do click there, you find a page with a phone number.
I found this out, when teaching a web camp for kids aged 7-13, when a camper clicked on the ad, and spent the rest of the day trying to claim his prize. He called the number, and found it to be a jewelry store, not the free trip he'd been promised.
Imaging having to explain corrupt marketing to a 7 year old. It's not just annoying, it's irresponsible.
If I'm going to run Apache, why would I go through the hell of NT?
Most people who run NT/Server do so because of IIS, and it's ease of config. (let's not start a flame war here...) If you want Apache, use UNIX. There's no point is using a had to config OS (nt/5.0) if you aren't trying to use an easy to config HTTP server (iis/5.0).
Now.
When you do, you'll see that here, it isn't cheaper to buy than build, even more so with exotic stuff. And some stuff can't be bought, like EME antennas, etc.
There's no feeling in the world like that of having your voice reflected off the moon, and having built the stuff yourself.
The magazine of the ARRL, QST, is filled with DIY projects, and QEX is ALL DIY stuff.
The ARRL handbook says that over half of all hams build gear. Doesn't seem dead to me...
Whee! ;-)
Now we really CAN modify slashcode to "Ask Slashdot to Ask Google" without user intervention
It would be kinda cool...
Let's say I own an arena. I have cameras in all the entrances. I have a copy of some commercial facial recognition system. I have access to the internet, so I have access to "America's Most Wanted"'s web site. I have JPEGs of many, many fugitaves.
I dump these images into a computer, turn it on, and start fishing. I make a hit, and have my police nab the guy. I get lots of publicity, and become famous.
This only needs to happen once, and everyone will be doing it. I'm only looking for bad guys, so this can't be a bad thing, right? Where do we draw the line now? Is is alright to ban anyone seen being thrown out of my stadium before? How about somebody else's stadium? How about scouts from other teams? This could be a slippery slope, and there isn't anything we can do about it.
I live in a high rise apartment building. I have a window facing a park...
For this to be any good, the signal path must be pure optics, e.g. the same photon must go all the way thru the switch, and just be routed around. That means the switch would have to understand the rays of light out my 100baseFX network, or fibrechannel bus, and deal with it in photonic form.
;-)
This solves EMF issues, and other nasties. Electronics could be used for low speed control, and indicators, but fibre be used for ALL high speed stuff, including PCB traces and everything else.
Anybody developed optical solder yet...
The LogiCAD spacebass 6d CAD thang will work.
I'ts a 6degree of freedon ball for CAD work, but can work as a standard mouse. The button is silent.
Pick one up on eBay.
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear:
Disney uses the monorail VERY well, and they know how good it is. I'm not saying that they made the monorail seem bad, but by being a pioneer in the transport industry (they built some of the best monorails ever, the Mk.IV class), people think of the monorail as a Disney amusement park ride, not the quiet, safe system of transport it is.
Disney brought the monorail out of darkness. They were trying to introduce the world to a new thing, but the world saw it as a game.
I have nothing against the WDW, DL monorail systems. They are the best in the world, but everyone sees the monorail as a park ride now, so they don't want one in their city.
Hey! This could be the first time that more than 10 people have gone to the monorails.org in a day.
Look around when you're there, and you'll learn why the monorail is a practical, underused, safe form of transport. It's been stigmatized by Disney. (I've been a monorail advocate for some time) It's a very cool site.
Another F/A-18 pilot sucessfully blew up his altimeter.
But really, if you looked in the wrong place (instrument panel), civilian casualties could get quite nasty.
The Mozilla guys did this (they still might) for their nightly builds.
It works quite well to both encourage people to dig into the source, as well as to encourage the lazy to update software. This [Mozilla's scheme] is what got me into modifing open software to begin with. By incorporating these things, the experts [who already keep their systems up to date] would be able to remove them, and the lame would stay current, preventing things like DDoS attacks.
As a person with disgraphia (the inability to write correctly) this device could be complete torture. Writing for me is both slow and extremely painful. An essay can literally leave me with bleeding fingers. For this reason, I use a computer, instead of a pen. I switched from pencil notes to using a Palm with a keyboard in class, and life is much easier.
Some would say that I just shouldn't buy one of these things, but that might not be good enough. Computer labs, where space is at a premium, might see this as a holy grail.
I type because I cannot write. I see no point in writing so I don't have to type. Please, if you run a computer lab somewhere, remember me and my plight, along with the visually impared and others before you make a decision about keyboards, screen resolutions, or anything else.
Good morning. Welcome to the Mark II Toilet. Analyzing urine... Good news! You're pregnant!
I just hope this thing will defibrillate you after that little shocker.
While this is only a beta...
This thing still seems kinds slow for a small database.
How will it do when there's 2g pages to skim? Also, if this thing's so great, how come Ask Jeeves isn't using it on ask.com?
I've used Google forever, and it's just gotten better, and faster.
They are pushing this as a way to mail discs, right?
If I do got one of these in the mail, I'll need the adapter. I don't have one (like most people), so they would need to send me one in the package.
Guess what: the package is no longer thinner nor lighter than a regular disc, and it isn't flexable.
Seems like a stupid idea to me.
Prices have kept up, though.
I have quite a few Accu-Recharge NiMH batteries that cost me about $10 for four.
It used to (about 2 years ago) cost 4 times that.
I'd say that's progress...
I thought the Internet was supposed to be universal.
The Internet is the only place in the world where it doesn't matter who or where you are.
We cannot throw that away, ever. We cannot resort to blocking a region for any reason.
Let's say this does happen, and we try to block China. How do we know this isn't just what the governenment of China wants, to limit the communication abilities of their people.
Administrators can control speech. We cannot abuse our power.
Would have thought they would look for 'admin'?
Or do they not want to piss of the administrator who can block their IP?
I run my own e-mail server, so I obviously don't sell my address.
I have three domains in my name with my real e-mail address, and post to slashdot and USENET with my real email address.
I have never, in 2 years, recieved a piece of spam. The only reason I can see for spam, is people having their addresses sold by their ISP. WHOIS hasn't hurt me, and in two years, I should've been hurt if there was anything wrong.
Not to start a flame war here (I hate AOL as much as the next guy), but I think that AOL's old model (when they were competing with Prodigy, CompuServ and GEnie) might be on the right track. They had 'exclusive' content providers, and a portion of your hourly fee would go tho them.
I don't quite know how to make this type of thing work for the web, but perhaps DoubleClick could have a deal where you don't see their ads anymore, if you pay them. This could bring more money to the web site in question, and this money could be used for priority servers for those who subscribe, and so on. Akami, and all the others could do the same, and eventually, someone would sell a 'package deal', with all the content providers included.
That I would buy.
If an artist can use home equipment to record and mix his or her own music, what would stop them from acting as their own publisher to these p2p software groups?
People complain about the publisher screwing over the artist, so why don't the artists become the publishers?
Parasitic Computing is useless until the compute power one can steal is greater than the compute power needed for the theft.
A jewel theif wouldn't spend $15,000 to steal a $5,000 diamond, so I won't spend 15 clock cycles to steal one.