This is old news. I don't know if anyone noticed but there's only about 20 mil. Jews in the world which is statistically a drop in a bucket (probably around 0.2 - 0.4% of the world population) and yet Jews, especially the Ashkenazi camp has done exceptionally well producing many thinkers, philosophers, and so forth. Also Jews have a lot of power in the world, just think Allen Greenspan... Gee what could possibly have created such a group of people? Well perhaps if everyone had to suffer what we suffered through the ages, being persecuted without end, then maybe everyone else would mutate and become a higher being at the same rate as well? Oh wait, did I just make a non-PC statement? I'm sorry...
The data went missing while in transit to an Iron Mountain facility by a truck. Sounds like a very similar incident here. In the TimeWarner article, the Iron Mountain corp was quoted as saying that they have the technology that would allow companies to use incremental backups to copy their data to the Iron Mountain center electronically thus eliminating the truck but I guess companies are either not listening or finding it cheaper to ground-ship the data... Perhaps after all these massive thefts at TimeWarner, Bank of America, Wachovia, and now Citigroup, companies will reconsider how they back up their data..
Perhaps they will start to use Armor trucks instead of UPS ground to ship their customer's records, once the law-suits start streaming in...
When my email arrives, I automatically receive an audible notification on my cellphone and can check the message right from the phone. So it's essentially beeing fed to me 'intravenously' so to speak. Does that make an addict of me?
Unless you attende all honors / AP courses in high school, a public high school does a pretty piss-poor job in preparing younglings for college just because of this reason, namely , the emphasis on memorization and busywork. Even some honors classes fall prey to the same problem. Once kids get into college, they are confronted with real challenges, where you really have to understand material and not just memorize hashtables of information. That is when kids start to dropout and so forth. I completely agree with the author: we need less mindless memorization and churning and more conceptual inderstanding of the sciences and the arts inside the highschools so that the kids don't end up dropping out or jumping off bridges once in college.
Maybe objective was the wrong word to use. Google has a well-balanced review system where no reviewer receives more cred than another and an overall score is computed based on the conglomeration of all the reviewers. So an Ebert would be listed next to an aspiring epinions.com reviewer, to use an example. I find a problem when people take Ebert's reviews as gospel. And also, I didn't even think Ebert was all that great, when Siskel was alive, he only became big after Siskel passed away..
I can not believe what happened -- I installed the Microsoft desktop search engine today and was playing around with it, setting various starting points for the indexing. The last marker I set it at was the root of my data directory. For some reason it would only scan about 600 files and then stop (I had about 18000 files there) So i figured maybe I should delete the temp index directories that it created in an effort to get it to start fresh. When I did that the desktop search application crashed and so I tried to start it up several times. Sometimes it would actually stay up for a while and then crash when I would get ot the settings page.
Then I got tired of it and decided to go back to what I was doing before I got mixed up with this piece of shit. Before I know it, my editor pops up a message saying the file I was modifying has been deleted! WTF? I look at my c:/data directory and realize it's fucking gone. I could not believe my eyes.
I have been undeleting my files ever since:(... And so to the genius who engineered this piece of shit -- all I have to say is FUCK YOU and FUCK YOU again, for ruining my beautiful afternoon/evening and fucking up my files.
Although this is clearly a direct response to Google's Desktop Search, I feel that Microsoft should have had this built-into the OS a long long time ago! It's their own OS for crying out loud.. The default Windows OS file search function was ridiculously slow and had severe limitations.
tabs were one of the two reasons i switched from IE to firefox. (the other was the adblocker) does anyone else feel that microsoft, in its everlasting drive to dominate the market, stole another idea, the same way they stole the "recycle bin" from apple. you would think that with all that money and legions of programmers they would be able to come up with original ideas?
In related news, according to this story, IBM employees (numbering +- 300,000) are urged to switch over to Firefox. That should help the numbers even more
I have written an extensive article on how to set up HTTHost + HTTPort (in conjunction with VNC, putty, and SSHd) on client/server side to be able to get past a restrictive firewall. I have tested this set up successfully.
On a more practical level, couldn't some malicious person or persons buy a large quantity of these batteries and extract the nuclear source out of them to build a dirty bomb? Just a thought..
When antiviruses were just coming out my uncle made a funny comment -- that those antivirus guys have got the perfect formulae: write virus, profit by protecting people from that virus. There is nothing new here. The mafia has been doing this for years. Obviously this is pure stipulation, something to ponder over a drink.
Microsoft Mafia: let's write a P.O.S. OS with gaping security holes in it, making a killing on it, and then write an antivirus to protect people from the OS, and make another killing on it..
We need more women in CS... Seems like when I went to school 5 years ago, the male:female ratio in CS classes was something like 99:1. We were all very depressed males. If society could somehow be more accepting of women in CS then all us CS guys wouldn't be as depressed/apathetic in college. It/s a win/win situation. It might even attract more guys to CS... The real question is - how? How do we get more women to go into science/computer science?
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This is old news. I don't know if anyone noticed but there's only about 20 mil. Jews in the world which is statistically a drop in a bucket (probably around 0.2 - 0.4% of the world population) and yet Jews, especially the Ashkenazi camp has done exceptionally well producing many thinkers, philosophers, and so forth. Also Jews have a lot of power in the world, just think Allen Greenspan... Gee what could possibly have created such a group of people? Well perhaps if everyone had to suffer what we suffered through the ages, being persecuted without end, then maybe everyone else would mutate and become a higher being at the same rate as well? Oh wait, did I just make a non-PC statement? I'm sorry...
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What is interesting is that this comes about a month after the theft of about 600,000 customer records by TimeWarner cable (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtm l?articleID=162101437/).
The data went missing while in transit to an Iron Mountain facility by a truck. Sounds like a very similar incident here. In the TimeWarner article, the Iron Mountain corp was quoted as saying that they have the technology that would allow companies to use incremental backups to copy their data to the Iron Mountain center electronically thus eliminating the truck but I guess companies are either not listening or finding it cheaper to ground-ship the data... Perhaps after all these massive thefts at TimeWarner, Bank of America, Wachovia, and now Citigroup, companies will reconsider how they back up their data..
Perhaps they will start to use Armor trucks instead of UPS ground to ship their customer's records, once the law-suits start streaming in...
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video.google.com makes this service irrelevant?
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Are there any plans to simulate the Multiple Personality Disroder (MPD) with their flagship e-server z/OS?
Or, perhaps start replacing employees with these bad boys... 607 employees cut in IGS, so far. ref: http://www.allianceibm.org/
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it's a dupe...:)
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When my email arrives, I automatically receive an audible notification on my cellphone and can check the message right from the phone. So it's essentially beeing fed to me 'intravenously' so to speak. Does that make an addict of me?
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shouldn't that read http://pigeon.google.com/ ?
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Unless you attende all honors / AP courses in high school, a public high school does a pretty piss-poor job in preparing younglings for college just because of this reason, namely , the emphasis on memorization and busywork. Even some honors classes fall prey to the same problem. Once kids get into college, they are confronted with real challenges, where you really have to understand material and not just memorize hashtables of information. That is when kids start to dropout and so forth. I completely agree with the author: we need less mindless memorization and churning and more conceptual inderstanding of the sciences and the arts inside the highschools so that the kids don't end up dropping out or jumping off bridges once in college.
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maybe that is our destiny.. the victory of the machine over human-kind..
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Nothing would give a greater boost to the robot industry than a RoboGirl...
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Just wait until Google releases GoogleOS, like next week, and we'll see who will be gone in 5 years.
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Maybe objective was the wrong word to use. Google has a well-balanced review system where no reviewer receives more cred than another and an overall score is computed based on the conglomeration of all the reviewers. So an Ebert would be listed next to an aspiring epinions.com reviewer, to use an example. I find a problem when people take Ebert's reviews as gospel. And also, I didn't even think Ebert was all that great, when Siskel was alive, he only became big after Siskel passed away..
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Google has a very good non-biased, objective review system in place. Check it out for this movie:
9 &oi=showtimes&fq=Star+Wars--Episode+III:+Revenge+o f+the+Sith/
http://www.google.com/reviews?cid=ba601666fe1a2e7
It pulls from many different sources
I can not believe what happened -- I installed the Microsoft desktop search engine today and was playing around with it, setting various starting points for the indexing. The last marker I set it at was the root of my data directory. For some reason it would only scan about 600 files and then stop (I had about 18000 files there) So i figured maybe I should delete the temp index directories that it created in an effort to get it to start fresh. When I did that the desktop search application crashed and so I tried to start it up several times. Sometimes it would actually stay up for a while and then crash when I would get ot the settings page.
:( ... And so to the genius who engineered this piece of shit -- all I have to say is FUCK YOU and FUCK YOU again, for ruining my beautiful afternoon/evening and fucking up my files.
Then I got tired of it and decided to go back to what I was doing before I got mixed up with this piece of shit. Before I know it, my editor pops up a message saying the file I was modifying has been deleted! WTF? I look at my c:/data directory and realize it's fucking gone. I could not believe my eyes.
I have been undeleting my files ever since
Although this is clearly a direct response to Google's Desktop Search, I feel that Microsoft should have had this built-into the OS a long long time ago! It's their own OS for crying out loud.. The default Windows OS file search function was ridiculously slow and had severe limitations.
on a practical level, how often do you play old games? ok maybe halo once in a blue moon. they probably just did it to for PR reasons...
tabs were one of the two reasons i switched from IE to firefox. (the other was the adblocker) does anyone else feel that microsoft, in its everlasting drive to dominate the market, stole another idea, the same way they stole the "recycle bin" from apple. you would think that with all that money and legions of programmers they would be able to come up with original ideas?
oh wait debian doesn't have rpm's. nevermind. just use whatever the debian equivalent of an rpm is
just use an RPM upgrade utility and crontab...?
In related news, according to this story, IBM employees (numbering +- 300,000) are urged to switch over to Firefox. That should help the numbers even more
I have written an extensive article on how to set up HTTHost + HTTPort (in conjunction with VNC, putty, and SSHd) on client/server side to be able to get past a restrictive firewall. I have tested this set up successfully.
Here is a link
On a more practical level, couldn't some malicious person or persons buy a large quantity of these batteries and extract the nuclear source out of them to build a dirty bomb? Just a thought..
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http://unk1911.blogspot.com/
When antiviruses were just coming out my uncle made a funny comment -- that those antivirus guys have got the perfect formulae: write virus, profit by protecting people from that virus. There is nothing new here. The mafia has been doing this for years. Obviously this is pure stipulation, something to ponder over a drink.
Microsoft Mafia: let's write a P.O.S. OS with gaping security holes in it, making a killing on it, and then write an antivirus to protect people from the OS, and make another killing on it..
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You may have a point - it may be a vicious cycle..
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We need more women in CS... Seems like when I went to school 5 years ago, the male:female ratio in CS classes was something like 99:1. We were all very depressed males. If society could somehow be more accepting of women in CS then all us CS guys wouldn't be as depressed/apathetic in college. It/s a win/win situation. It might even attract more guys to CS... The real question is - how? How do we get more women to go into science/computer science?
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http://unk1911.blogspot.com/