What do they care about SCO Unix? I doubt they care if they sell another copy. Right now, SCO is a zombie that only exists for two reasons: (1) Sue as many people as possible and hope they win something before they're locked up in prison or the loony-bin. (2) Live-testing designer drugs.
It just seems like yesterday when people were lined up to reserve a N64 with SGI graphics core. Now it seems like so much dumpster dung. The world of consoles is cold and cruel.
Now that all the hardware can push a bajillion polygons, perhaps they should concentrate on the game play rather than the "beautiful plumage"?
It probably all boils down to price. When they're losing money per unit (they make it up in volume, narf!), it's important to shave every nickel and dime off the manufacturing cost.
So long as the two boards were in the same ball park, they probably would have gone for the cheaper unit. I doubt Microsoft wanted to stick it to nVidia, or that nVidia will take it hard. Business is business, and someday there'll be an XBox3 and another go-round.
Ah. I never load HTML email, so the thought of JavaScript email never even occured to me!:^) I don't think that I've seen spam rigged to do that, but I suppose it's possible. I've seen plenty with the images tagged with an ID, but that only confirms that the email box exists and someone read it.
Of course they aren't going to allow/disallow claims based on stress-tests. Publically. But I'll bet that this little piece of dirt will haunt your files in a place where you can't review the results or appeal them. Ah well, I suppose it's as reliable as any speech recognition software.
My physical copy of Dr. Dobb's 2/96 isn't here, but the editorial makes for good reading. Microsoft was using someone's patented method, but Eolas promised that it wasn't about royalties, just enforcing conformance to the standard.
Could someone with access go in and haul the proper sections out of the Dr. Dobb's archive? (Trim and add comments for fair use.)
Pretty funky reading back when MS was scrambling to catch up in the Browser Wars and would use anything to even the score. Even Open/Depth Charge tech.
I was just re-reading an old Dr. Dobbs (Feb '96)(which I left in the car, damnit!), and in the editorial the writer said he had been reassured by someone from Eolas that the patent was not to extract royalties from developers, but to insure that they conform to the standard.
Hurmph. No doubt Microsoft has walked all over that standard, but now I'll have to deep-search (boxes in the basement) my Dr. Dobb's to see what sort of "the check is in my mouth" promises Eolas made at the time. (Scatter-gun search the Dr. Dobb's before and after that date.) Was Microsoft tricked by what looked like an open standard? (Did free = time-bomb?)
Frankly, until now, I didn't give a RATFOR's ass about it: Microsoft gets burned for chump change, oh dear. But if Eolas was promising this as an open standard against the "Enhanced by Netscape" garbage of the day, it's time to take a closer look.
I mean, come on, he could get away with insurance murder and they'd still be testing that robo-swedish accent voice. (Unless the chip was stressed that day.)*
* Unless he's set against the idea#, could a gang of volunteers upgrade that Speak'n'Spell voice that he uses? I've got a stand-alone TTS card that does inflections better than that, and it's old (late '70's tech). I'm sure that there are any number of people at Cambridge who'd help out (and probably do). Kudos to Walt Woltosz and David Mason who provided the current works with the tech of the day.
# A voice is personal thing, and if he's happy with it, and it works, end of story, 'nuff said.
The NSA used to use heavy-duty polygraphs and experienced operators (possibly they still do), and still let some people pass which shouldn't have. (Possibly flunked some people which should have passed, but those people could hardly file a grevance.)
"Lie-detectors" are voodoo. Any informed court should tear a case based on those results to shreds. (Two weasel-words in there: informed and should.) I wonder how the insurance companies will hire trained and certified operators? Check for recent certs from the Cthurch of $cientology with E-meters?
My advice?
(a) refuse any such idiocy.
(b) if pressed, curl your toes on any tough question.
Perhaps it's part of an effort to improve pigeon protocols? Flying higher and faster would seem to avoid traffic congestion problems and allow longer range routing. However, there still remains the problem of pigeon packets that miss their final port. At high sub-sonic speeds, the result wouldn't be pretty. Even worse, the results of a high-speed Pigeon Packet Protocol DDoS attack* against a closed port... Suggested fixes: Employ BBQ Firewall, or use McDonald/GnuGets services.
* A. Hitchcock, p.235, April 2003, Journal of Avian Protocol Experimenters.
Now that's a smart application of technology! I guess ugly bags of mostly water pedestrians will have to continue using the button. Some intersections won't give a walk signal at all unless the button is pressed. Bad application of tech, especially in winter when the pole is surrounded by snowbank.
The city (with IBM) has fitted a number of intersections with audio walk signals for north-south, east-west. Verbal signals would have been more interesting: "You've got 2 seconds left, run you sucker!" (Perhaps just as well that I wasn't involved with that.:^)
Version 0.0.7E2 is intended to be the last alpha release in the current development branch of Slash'EM. It is not really considered playable yet, but is provided for anyone who wants to play with the new ideas.
And doesn't that dragon in the screen shot look a little like Jar Jar? Kill!
I wondered what all the cruft in the logs for port 135 over the last few hours was. There had been a low volume of port 135 hits over the couple of weeks, when usually there are almost none. I glanced at the logs while having a coffee, and immediately thought "Gee I wonder what MS exploit is loose this time?"
Assuming two eggs released, each fertilized by a spermazoa from a different man, could a Chimera form? (Probably a higher chance complications, but it seems possible.)
Wow, can you imagine the fun on one of those idiotic Paternity Test TV shows when they bring the results? "Uhmm, you're both the father!" Or introductions? "I'd like you to meet my liver's dad, and this is the dad of the rest of me..." (Answer that Miss Manners!)
Check the EULA. It probably limits damages the higher of what he paid for Windows (which IE is part of sez Microsoft) or $5. I never trust any of Microsoft's defaults for anything.
There are spammers/pr0no pages that try to get you to install a "porn downloader" ActiveX control. (If the security settings in IE are really bad [default?] IE might just suck it down for you.) Then it changes your Internet connection to a dial-up via an expensive (900-type or long-distance) connection. No doubt it installs various backdoors too.
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What do they care about SCO Unix? I doubt they care if they sell another copy. Right now, SCO is a zombie that only exists for two reasons: (1) Sue as many people as possible and hope they win something before they're locked up in prison or the loony-bin. (2) Live-testing designer drugs.
Now that all the hardware can push a bajillion polygons, perhaps they should concentrate on the game play rather than the "beautiful plumage"?
So long as the two boards were in the same ball park, they probably would have gone for the cheaper unit. I doubt Microsoft wanted to stick it to nVidia, or that nVidia will take it hard. Business is business, and someday there'll be an XBox3 and another go-round.
Ah. I never load HTML email, so the thought of JavaScript email never even occured to me! :^) I don't think that I've seen spam rigged to do that, but I suppose it's possible. I've seen plenty with the images tagged with an ID, but that only confirms that the email box exists and someone read it.
Sounds like the usual net tempest-in-a-toilet.
What about newsgroups? Is MS planning on shifting newsgroup functions to Outlook or are they planning to drop support completely?
Hmm, the fetch can be tagged. But how do they get any information when you close the email?
This is .. Slashdot. Work it out. :^P
Of course they aren't going to allow/disallow claims based on stress-tests. Publically. But I'll bet that this little piece of dirt will haunt your files in a place where you can't review the results or appeal them. Ah well, I suppose it's as reliable as any speech recognition software.
Could someone with access go in and haul the proper sections out of the Dr. Dobb's archive? (Trim and add comments for fair use.)
Pretty funky reading back when MS was scrambling to catch up in the Browser Wars and would use anything to even the score. Even Open/Depth Charge tech.
No doubt Microsoft "embraced and extended" the standard, but did Eolas plant an "open standard" time-bomb?
Hurmph. No doubt Microsoft has walked all over that standard, but now I'll have to deep-search (boxes in the basement) my Dr. Dobb's to see what sort of "the check is in my mouth" promises Eolas made at the time. (Scatter-gun search the Dr. Dobb's before and after that date.) Was Microsoft tricked by what looked like an open standard? (Did free = time-bomb?)
Frankly, until now, I didn't give a RATFOR's ass about it: Microsoft gets burned for chump change, oh dear. But if Eolas was promising this as an open standard against the "Enhanced by Netscape" garbage of the day, it's time to take a closer look.
Why don't they just use a Magic Nine-Ball?
* Unless he's set against the idea#, could a gang of volunteers upgrade that Speak'n'Spell voice that he uses? I've got a stand-alone TTS card that does inflections better than that, and it's old (late '70's tech). I'm sure that there are any number of people at Cambridge who'd help out (and probably do). Kudos to Walt Woltosz and David Mason who provided the current works with the tech of the day.
# A voice is personal thing, and if he's happy with it, and it works, end of story, 'nuff said.
"Lie-detectors" are voodoo. Any informed court should tear a case based on those results to shreds. (Two weasel-words in there: informed and should.) I wonder how the insurance companies will hire trained and certified operators? Check for recent certs from the Cthurch of $cientology with E-meters?
My advice?
(a) refuse any such idiocy.
(b) if pressed, curl your toes on any tough question.
* A. Hitchcock, p.235, April 2003, Journal of Avian Protocol Experimenters.
The city (with IBM) has fitted a number of intersections with audio walk signals for north-south, east-west. Verbal signals would have been more interesting: "You've got 2 seconds left, run you sucker!" (Perhaps just as well that I wasn't involved with that. :^)
*sigh*
Wow, can you imagine the fun on one of those idiotic Paternity Test TV shows when they bring the results? "Uhmm, you're both the father!" Or introductions? "I'd like you to meet my liver's dad, and this is the dad of the rest of me..." (Answer that Miss Manners!)
Check the EULA. It probably limits damages the higher of what he paid for Windows (which IE is part of sez Microsoft) or $5. I never trust any of Microsoft's defaults for anything.
I thought his Chimera twin was a Grey from Roswell?
I thought it was a TV show about the life of that singer. You know, "Chimera Twin's Story".
Who knows what the bait was that the John fell for? The spammer/whatever will use anything they can to lure someone into clicking OK to their trojan.
There are spammers/pr0no pages that try to get you to install a "porn downloader" ActiveX control. (If the security settings in IE are really bad [default?] IE might just suck it down for you.) Then it changes your Internet connection to a dial-up via an expensive (900-type or long-distance) connection. No doubt it installs various backdoors too.
Okay, no problem. We'll send you a few hundred copies of it to make sure you get it.