Yeah, yeah, they don't call it an OS; it's a "platform", but then isn't that the same terminology we use for OSs, like "the Windows platform".
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that the low-level part of the platform is really hard to do these days. Getting to the same level of support with device drivers and so forth is an impossibly large slope (wall).
The OSs that will succeed are the ones that concentrate on the higher level. Java is an OS that can be ported to other "low level" OSs and you can run your programs on the Java OS wherever it may be.
The operating system, in the traditional sense, is a done deal. It's the virtual abstraction above it where it's at.
Hmm, trying a fixed proxy address, the.pac returned from localhost:9100 looks ok, ie. looks like it returned localhost:9100 as the proxy for non-local/non-bypassed urls. However, netstat still shows that IE is accessing the corp proxy directly. Don't know what's going on, maybe IE choking on the regex in the.pac file.
I may have spoken too quickly. After following the steps above IE works through GWA, however as far as I can tell from netstat the connections are still being made directly from IE to the corporate proxy -- perhaps GWA is simply passing the real.pac file through to IE which then parses it an uses an IP address as specified in the file. That would explain why I'm still seeing "0.0 seconds saved" even after doing some browsing.
Posting here to be noticed, since a number of people have complained it doesn't work behind a corporate proxy/firewall. It seems that on first use it trashes the proxy setting, but to fix it: 1. Stop GWA 2. Fix your connection settings in IE 3. Start GWA 4. See connection settings in IE redirect to localhost:9100 5. Stop GWA 6. See connection settings as before (if not, repeat from step 2) 7. Start GWA 8. GWA should be using your proper proxy
I haven't actually used BT for downloading TV shows, but I can think of a good reason for doing so over here (in Australia). Several of the networks (examples of Ten and Seven come to mind) have cut series midway just because the ratings trailed off a little. These were shows I was into and then all of a sudden they're gone, with not even a single announcement to say so. If the TV stations treat their loyal viewers like this then no wonder we'll turn to BT to pick up where they've left off.
Fair enough, but at least 90% of the stuff written in C and C++ doesn't need to be.
Yes it does. The newer languages that you're thinking these 90% of programs should be written in just didn't exist when they were written. When your choice for a programming language is between C, C++ and the-not-yet-invented-Java, what are your real options? However, I agree that for a large number of spanking new projects there are better mixed-language options which would still often include C/C++ code.
Surely it's not possible to get into another dimension via 3D space. If taking a left on High Street could take you back to 1932 then maybe I could believe it but it just doesn't seem to work that way. Taking it back a step, if you have a 2D plane in 3D space, moving a point around that plane whichever way you like is not going to allow you to get off it.
If the snow plow guy was caught minutes after the complaint was made to police maybe they found him simply because he'd only made it 13 meters down the road -- doesn't sound like GPS really made much difference here.
The article is really talking about using hardware tokens for extra security since the private data is stored on an external token and can't be stolen by viruses, trojans, or phishing scams. I don't even see RSA mentioned in the article -- there is an inset picture of an RSA SecurID but that's as close as it gets.
My first job lasted 18 months. In that time I averaged 65 hours a week with a peak of over 85, and a number of 80 hours weeks. I left after the owner/boss wouldn't agree during a heated argument that we needed another programmer -- he actually said to me (at the end of another 80 hour week) that he believed people were at there best under pressure. There's some truth in that, but it's definitely the opposite beyond some point.
The longest single day was from 9:00am Friday morning through the day and night (chinese takeaway dinner was provided -- the least they could do), through the next morning. Around 6am I said I was going home to have a shower and breakfast and got a whole lot of crap about the project having to be finished by Sunday.
The code was often buggy -- not serious bugs, but it sucks when you spend hours looking for a silly mistake someone made because they weren't concentrating properly (not their fault really, after caffiene has stopped helping out). I messed up royally myself one time, attempting to copy the artists files from his computer to a floppy (no network at that place) and doing a del *.* in the source folder rather than on the floppy. He lost about 30 hours work but had enough stuff in the clipboard that it only took 10 hours to reproduce.
The bottom line -- long hours and intense pressure work sometimes, but the risk of mistakes is greater and if you try to do it for long you will burn out.
...while they're paying contracting rates. If they're paying low rates while dangling the full time carrot then it sounds less like contracting and more like exploitation. My interpretation of contracting is a non-permanent job -- if you're looking for it to become permanenent it may not be contracting you want to pursue.
Oh please. That's going too far. Your aren't paying for the cd. You are paying for the time and skills of the hundreds or thousands of employees who wrote the software and maintain it.
That's part of what I'm saying. Hardware costs a hell of a lot in fixed costs to design before you even get to the variable costs of mass manufacture. Software costs a hell of a lot in fixed costs to design but doesn't have the same level of variable costs as hardware. So what I'm saying is that when the equations for total costs are:
Hardware: VeryLargeFixedCost + LargePerUnitCost
Software: VeryLargeFixedCost + SmallPerUnitCost how do you justify to customers that the hardware should be a lot cheaper than the software?
He's a funny guy. How are they going to justify to customers that some general purpose software on $0.20 media costs more than a physical piece of hardware?
The software that came with my Kodak digital camera installed some special software called BackWeb to check for updates to it's picture viewing software. BackWeb apparently waits for idle CPU and then checks for updates "when you're not using the computer". It doesn't work so great, as whenever I come back to my machine with a coffee it takes 10 seconds for the display to be refreshed due to backweb being CPU bound. It appears that it checks for updates many, many times a day, even though there has NEVER been an update become available since I got the camera last year.
Hey, I want something similar for my home setup. Not necessarily the same specs as the originator but still an affordable redundant fault-tolerant network attached storage device so that I can forget about backing anything up to DVD ever again. However, it just takes an "rm -rf/" (*) to totally ruin your day. Such a device would sure have to come with an inbuilt DAT drive for backing up the truely critical data, and tape cycling would still be required to be totally safe. It really depends how much you value your data. If it's not valuable enough to invest in such a device and do the tape backups then just use a USB harddrive, maybe a redundant second drive to be sure.
*: that's "rd/s/q c:\" for the 95% of slashdotters who use Microsoft on a daily basis but swear they are elite Linux hackers.:-)
It isn't just about ordering, it's about extracting the time for an image using a variety of methods including OCR. Novel it isn't, but it's a whole lot more than you've concluded after not even bothering to read it.
The optical character recognition part of the patent may be what they relied on for the "novel" part. It never occured to me to do this until I read their patent just now (but it's still not novel as anyone working on image sorting/archiving would have thought of the same thing).
Anyone want to co-author a patent with me on extracting the area code from a phone number? I'm sure it will take many years and millions of dollars of research so would be the perfect candidate for patent protection. If successful, next will be seperating the number from the street name in an address. Really tricky stuff.
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Yeah, yeah, they don't call it an OS; it's a "platform", but then isn't that the same terminology we use for OSs, like "the Windows platform".
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that the low-level part of the platform is really hard to do these days. Getting to the same level of support with device drivers and so forth is an impossibly large slope (wall).
The OSs that will succeed are the ones that concentrate on the higher level. Java is an OS that can be ported to other "low level" OSs and you can run your programs on the Java OS wherever it may be.
The operating system, in the traditional sense, is a done deal. It's the virtual abstraction above it where it's at.
Hmm, trying a fixed proxy address, the .pac returned from localhost:9100 looks ok, ie. looks like it returned localhost:9100 as the proxy for non-local/non-bypassed urls. However, netstat still shows that IE is accessing the corp proxy directly. Don't know what's going on, maybe IE choking on the regex in the .pac file.
I may have spoken too quickly. After following the steps above IE works through GWA, however as far as I can tell from netstat the connections are still being made directly from IE to the corporate proxy -- perhaps GWA is simply passing the real .pac file through to IE which then parses it an uses an IP address as specified in the file. That would explain why I'm still seeing "0.0 seconds saved" even after doing some browsing.
Posting here to be noticed, since a number of people have complained it doesn't work behind a corporate proxy/firewall. It seems that on first use it trashes the proxy setting, but to fix it:
1. Stop GWA
2. Fix your connection settings in IE
3. Start GWA
4. See connection settings in IE redirect to localhost:9100
5. Stop GWA
6. See connection settings as before (if not, repeat from step 2)
7. Start GWA
8. GWA should be using your proper proxy
If you live in a suburb where a cracked player was found, you too will loose the ability to play discs.
Futures: block based on iris scans of people sitting on the couch. Or, a partial fingerprint match from the side of the disc.
I haven't actually used BT for downloading TV shows, but I can think of a good reason for doing so over here (in Australia). Several of the networks (examples of Ten and Seven come to mind) have cut series midway just because the ratings trailed off a little. These were shows I was into and then all of a sudden they're gone, with not even a single announcement to say so. If the TV stations treat their loyal viewers like this then no wonder we'll turn to BT to pick up where they've left off.
Fair enough, but at least 90% of the stuff written in C and C++ doesn't need to be.
Yes it does. The newer languages that you're thinking these 90% of programs should be written in just didn't exist when they were written. When your choice for a programming language is between C, C++ and the-not-yet-invented-Java, what are your real options? However, I agree that for a large number of spanking new projects there are better mixed-language options which would still often include C/C++ code.
Slashdot == DDOS
Surely it's not possible to get into another dimension via 3D space. If taking a left on High Street could take you back to 1932 then maybe I could believe it but it just doesn't seem to work that way. Taking it back a step, if you have a 2D plane in 3D space, moving a point around that plane whichever way you like is not going to allow you to get off it.
If the snow plow guy was caught minutes after the complaint was made to police maybe they found him simply because he'd only made it 13 meters down the road -- doesn't sound like GPS really made much difference here.
The article is really talking about using hardware tokens for extra security since the private data is stored on an external token and can't be stolen by viruses, trojans, or phishing scams. I don't even see RSA mentioned in the article -- there is an inset picture of an RSA SecurID but that's as close as it gets.
My first job lasted 18 months. In that time I averaged 65 hours a week with a peak of over 85, and a number of 80 hours weeks. I left after the owner/boss wouldn't agree during a heated argument that we needed another programmer -- he actually said to me (at the end of another 80 hour week) that he believed people were at there best under pressure. There's some truth in that, but it's definitely the opposite beyond some point.
The longest single day was from 9:00am Friday morning through the day and night (chinese takeaway dinner was provided -- the least they could do), through the next morning. Around 6am I said I was going home to have a shower and breakfast and got a whole lot of crap about the project having to be finished by Sunday.
The code was often buggy -- not serious bugs, but it sucks when you spend hours looking for a silly mistake someone made because they weren't concentrating properly (not their fault really, after caffiene has stopped helping out). I messed up royally myself one time, attempting to copy the artists files from his computer to a floppy (no network at that place) and doing a del *.* in the source folder rather than on the floppy. He lost about 30 hours work but had enough stuff in the clipboard that it only took 10 hours to reproduce.
The bottom line -- long hours and intense pressure work sometimes, but the risk of mistakes is greater and if you try to do it for long you will burn out.
...while they're paying contracting rates. If they're paying low rates while dangling the full time carrot then it sounds less like contracting and more like exploitation. My interpretation of contracting is a non-permanent job -- if you're looking for it to become permanenent it may not be contracting you want to pursue.
How far will they take this?
Maybe the election results messed up their heads
Oh please. That's going too far. Your aren't paying for the cd. You are paying for the time and skills of the hundreds or thousands of employees who wrote the software and maintain it.
That's part of what I'm saying. Hardware costs a hell of a lot in fixed costs to design before you even get to the variable costs of mass manufacture. Software costs a hell of a lot in fixed costs to design but doesn't have the same level of variable costs as hardware. So what I'm saying is that when the equations for total costs are:
Hardware: VeryLargeFixedCost + LargePerUnitCost
Software: VeryLargeFixedCost + SmallPerUnitCost
how do you justify to customers that the hardware should be a lot cheaper than the software?
He's a funny guy. How are they going to justify to customers that some general purpose software on $0.20 media costs more than a physical piece of hardware?
The software that came with my Kodak digital camera installed some special software called BackWeb to check for updates to it's picture viewing software. BackWeb apparently waits for idle CPU and then checks for updates "when you're not using the computer". It doesn't work so great, as whenever I come back to my machine with a coffee it takes 10 seconds for the display to be refreshed due to backweb being CPU bound. It appears that it checks for updates many, many times a day, even though there has NEVER been an update become available since I got the camera last year.
What a way to store old backups.
SVG
95% of consumers are unlikely to realise what they have lost before it is too late.
Hey, I want something similar for my home setup. Not necessarily the same specs as the originator but still an affordable redundant fault-tolerant network attached storage device so that I can forget about backing anything up to DVD ever again. However, it just takes an "rm -rf /" (*) to totally ruin your day. Such a device would sure have to come with an inbuilt DAT drive for backing up the truely critical data, and tape cycling would still be required to be totally safe. It really depends how much you value your data. If it's not valuable enough to invest in such a device and do the tape backups then just use a USB harddrive, maybe a redundant second drive to be sure.
/s /q c:\" for the 95% of slashdotters who use Microsoft on a daily basis but swear they are elite Linux hackers. :-)
*: that's "rd
It isn't just about ordering, it's about extracting the time for an image using a variety of methods including OCR. Novel it isn't, but it's a whole lot more than you've concluded after not even bothering to read it.
The optical character recognition part of the patent may be what they relied on for the "novel" part. It never occured to me to do this until I read their patent just now (but it's still not novel as anyone working on image sorting/archiving would have thought of the same thing).
Anyone want to co-author a patent with me on extracting the area code from a phone number? I'm sure it will take many years and millions of dollars of research so would be the perfect candidate for patent protection. If successful, next will be seperating the number from the street name in an address. Really tricky stuff.