Blah! You call this an innovation?! Back in the days we had SHARE.EXE to handle file locking which is not present in Windows 3.x. Of course, sometimes files mysterically remained locked when nothing was running, but at least it's safe until next reboot. Most important, a user had full control over this locking mechanism by NOT loading SHARE.EXE during boot, then more than one user could access to the same file!
Talking about reinvent the wheel...kids these days...
May be they really mean it - find place where you could find cheap programmers to code, then sell your product at maximum profit you could squeeze from people in different geographical region. Go Globalization go!
Don't you see that most Windows applications are globalized in this way?:)
When someone argued that they should be given another day, Wanke simply said, "F#$% 'em. If it was that important, they would have been here. It's in Longhorn. Next bug."
C#, J#, S#....now we have F#....shall we pronounce it "Fuck Sharp"?
In order to make it work , both merchants and customers must not know the value of a coin. I think there's some method to enable merchants to know the value of a coin AFTER they received it, but that's not the hard part.
Other micropayment companies failed as they realized that the cost of processing(verifying, pay-up, etc.) individual return coins is very high. This method guarantee only 5% of those issued are processed. It'd significantly lower the cost and ideal for micropayment. (note that cost of issuing is not counted here as it's relatively low)
As you can see, collecting 20 coins wouldn't help lowering cost of processing individual coin because each coin must be processed. That's why they make use of the randomness.
But I'm not sure if they'd sucess because I could think of chances to fraud, but the idea still sound...
is that the merchants and PepperCoin don't need to process each digital coin. Statistically the issuer only need to process(verify and pay-up) 5% of them. If you could see that the cost of issuing a digital coin is relatively low, then the cost of this micropayment method is only about 5% as before.
It's definitely a breakthru in micropayment as it lowers the cost of processing used digital-coins. In the past other micopayment issuers attempted to fix this problem by allowing reuse of paid-coin like we do with papernote. It doesn't work as you can see, because merchants always wants to cash in asap, and they don't care if that'd increase the burden of micropayment issuers, this is just not their bussiness.
One of the problem I can see is the fairness. Would that be one extremely bad luck dude keep getting null coin and compain about it? I know it's unlikely in statistical sense, but I DO keep drawing lousy trading cards so those people like me would worry.:)
Btw, those who compare it to Paypal can move along. First of all Paypal charges flat for each transaction and ALL payment methods requires you to prove your credit and your ability to pay back. Credit card is just one of the method for this purpose.
In the case where he was not banned for spamming, he could sue them for inappropriate use of words which cause millions of people who visit the site believing that he's a 'spammer' and 'idiot'.
Oh wait, did he post this story in order to increase the publicity so that he could ask more damage recovery in the lawsuit? Damn..:)
Unless you could secure the entire crowssover cable someone could still tap in the middle. My suggestion is to use encryption when the line is not physically contained.
It's like an endless race on defense and intrusion, but the math is in fact simple - make sure the cost of break-in is much more than the cost of the information. Well, how to make sure? that's the hard part.:)
The only ways your dog could be excused from sitting in judgement is to be medically incapable, but he should submit a letter from a physician; or send a copy of your dog's death certificate with your signature notarized.
Or send the court a picture postcard tell them them your dog is on vacation with german hairy hot chicks.:)
However, I tell your dog, he should gracefully take its civic duty, as they graciously agreed to pay your $1.50 for mileage. This mean that if your dog sat on a jury that lasted all day he'd make 18.75 cents per hour. Oh yes it's just 2.8 percent of what he could earn burning burgers at McDonald's, but your dog can't lick butt while burning burgers can he?
Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account?
It happens to others companies like domainnic.com. They used my email address as account name and all account related information(change password, etc.) will be sent thru this email.
Years later the email account originally used to register the domain is invalidated and I request to change the email address. Their reply is negative because they can't change the account name thus can't change my primary admin email address, and they refused to make change to their system so I'll have to make the change by other means.
You can't expect too much for free services such like hotmail, but sometime even when you paid you may not recieve certain level of convenience you expect. Not matter it's a paid or free service, make sure it meets your expected level of customer services before you join. Just MHO.
just doesn't do the job right, at least it doesn't work well with database sessions. More than once it locks up database session when the corresponding http session ended prematurely. Sometime it returns errorous status when the database session closes its connection, the http session just died, while it should not. Well enough rant.:(
I worked for a press company and they switch from Mac to Windows because one clueless management said "Why would we need expensive Mac box to do the image archiving?" Thus all boxes for this purpose were replaced.
Guess what? The no. of support calls skyrocketed and we needed to hire more tech supports to sustain our business!
"Knowledge is Power", "Time is Money", and as every engineer knows,
"Power is Work over Time". So, substituting algebraic equations for
these time worn bits of wisdom, we get:
K = P (1)
T = M (2)
P = W/T (3)
Now, do a few simple substitutions:
Put W/T in for P in equation (1), which yields:
K = W/T (4)
Put M in for T into equation (4), which yields:
K = W/M (5).
Now we've got something. Expanding back into English, we get:
Knowledge equals Work over Money.
What this MEANS is that:
1. The More You Know, the More Work You Do, and
2. The More You Know, the Less Money You Make.
Solving for Money, we get:
M = W/K (6)
Money equals Work Over Knowledge.
From equation (6) we see that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches 0, regardless of the Work done.
What THIS MEANS is:
The More you Make, the Less you Know.
Solving for Work, we get
W = M K (7)
Work equals Money times Knowledge
From equation (7) we see that Work approaches 0 as Knowledge approaches 0.
What THIS MEANS is:
The stupid rich do little or no work.
Working out the socioeconomic implications of this breakthrough is left as an exercise for the reader.
As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. - Fred Dales at Microsoft Corporation
I got a email from a stubborn and clueless tech consultant who insisted on adding '... and creation date < system date' in the SQL query.
I calmly explained to her that 'creation date < system date' always holds true, unless, of course, the user could go to future and create a case there.
She doesn't seem to get the joke, and today I got a email, cc to my and her bosses, saying that we must 'creation date < system date' so that we would not miss those cases created 'in the future'....and she dare quote me on that!
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Of course, Linus works for a chip maker
I knew it! All dotcomers end up working in Mcdonald.
I ended up on the floor infront of my computer. All I remember was waking up to a formatted hard drive;
You fsck'd it! You bastard!
arguing that people convicted of computer-related crimes tend to get stiffer sentences than comparable non-computer-related offenses.
Only in US. Convicted hacker Raphael Gray, who stole 23,000 credit card no. and sent Bill Gates boxes of Viagra, was only sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation. As he told BBC:
"...Kevin Mitnick was stopped from going near computers, even from working a cash register, but they can't do that in this country.
I've had two job offers - one from the guy who tracked me down..."
Blah! You call this an innovation?! Back in the days we had SHARE.EXE to handle file locking which is not present in Windows 3.x. Of course, sometimes files mysterically remained locked when nothing was running, but at least it's safe until next reboot. Most important, a user had full control over this locking mechanism by NOT loading SHARE.EXE during boot, then more than one user could access to the same file!
Talking about reinvent the wheel...kids these days...
May be they really mean it - find place where you could find cheap programmers to code, then sell your product at maximum profit you could squeeze from people in different geographical region. Go Globalization go!
:)
Don't you see that most Windows applications are globalized in this way?
...and they just went out for lunch ... Argh! Did you know there is a solution to this problem?
Go to lunch.
When someone argued that they should be given another day, Wanke simply said, "F#$% 'em. If it was that important, they would have been here. It's in Longhorn. Next bug."
C#, J#, S#....now we have F#....shall we pronounce it "Fuck Sharp"?
In order to make it work , both merchants and customers must not know the value of a coin. I think there's some method to enable merchants to know the value of a coin AFTER they received it, but that's not the hard part.
Other micropayment companies failed as they realized that the cost of processing(verifying, pay-up, etc.) individual return coins is very high. This method guarantee only 5% of those issued are processed. It'd significantly lower the cost and ideal for micropayment. (note that cost of issuing is not counted here as it's relatively low)
As you can see, collecting 20 coins wouldn't help lowering cost of processing individual coin because each coin must be processed. That's why they make use of the randomness.
But I'm not sure if they'd sucess because I could think of chances to fraud, but the idea still sound...
is that the merchants and PepperCoin don't need to process each digital coin. Statistically the issuer only need to process(verify and pay-up) 5% of them. If you could see that the cost of issuing a digital coin is relatively low, then the cost of this micropayment method is only about 5% as before.
:)
It's definitely a breakthru in micropayment as it lowers the cost of processing used digital-coins. In the past other micopayment issuers attempted to fix this problem by allowing reuse of paid-coin like we do with papernote. It doesn't work as you can see, because merchants always wants to cash in asap, and they don't care if that'd increase the burden of micropayment issuers, this is just not their bussiness.
One of the problem I can see is the fairness. Would that be one extremely bad luck dude keep getting null coin and compain about it? I know it's unlikely in statistical sense, but I DO keep drawing lousy trading cards so those people like me would worry.
Btw, those who compare it to Paypal can move along. First of all Paypal charges flat for each transaction and ALL payment methods requires you to prove your credit and your ability to pay back. Credit card is just one of the method for this purpose.
I'd rather be interested how could I obtain a citizenship in Sealand. :)
.com? Don't they have a root domain themself?
Btw, should I be worried that an offical Government website use
In the case where he was not banned for spamming, he could sue them for inappropriate use of words which cause millions of people who visit the site believing that he's a 'spammer' and 'idiot'.
:)
Oh wait, did he post this story in order to increase the publicity so that he could ask more damage recovery in the lawsuit? Damn..
Unless you could secure the entire crowssover cable someone could still tap in the middle. My suggestion is to use encryption when the line is not physically contained.
:)
It's like an endless race on defense and intrusion, but the math is in fact simple - make sure the cost of break-in is much more than the cost of the information. Well, how to make sure? that's the hard part.
He'll have to do jury duty
:)
Let me give your dog some advise.
The only ways your dog could be excused from sitting in judgement is to be medically incapable, but he should submit a letter from a physician; or send a copy of your dog's death certificate with your signature notarized.
Or send the court a picture postcard tell them them your dog is on vacation with german hairy hot chicks.
However, I tell your dog, he should gracefully take its civic duty, as they graciously agreed to pay your $1.50 for mileage. This mean that if your dog sat on a jury that lasted all day he'd make 18.75 cents per hour. Oh yes it's just 2.8 percent of what he could earn burning burgers at McDonald's, but your dog can't lick butt while burning burgers can he?
Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account?
It happens to others companies like domainnic.com. They used my email address as account name and all account related information(change password, etc.) will be sent thru this email.
Years later the email account originally used to register the domain is invalidated and I request to change the email address. Their reply is negative because they can't change the account name thus can't change my primary admin email address, and they refused to make change to their system so I'll have to make the change by other means.
You can't expect too much for free services such like hotmail, but sometime even when you paid you may not recieve certain level of convenience you expect. Not matter it's a paid or free service, make sure it meets your expected level of customer services before you join. Just MHO.
I got your joke, but most high-rising facilities as such us one-off button which could be turn off by another touch.
:)
Imagine a fight in the life...
just doesn't do the job right, at least it doesn't work well with database sessions. More than once it locks up database session when the corresponding http session ended prematurely. Sometime it returns errorous status when the database session closes its connection, the http session just died, while it should not. Well enough rant. :(
What mathematical topics should we be teaching to budding computer scientists?
:)
:)
Algorithm. I wondered why you asked this question. The CS degree courses around the world rely on MIT's textbook.
While you here, would you ask them why this book is freaking thick? We can complete no more than half of it before examination.
Why mod this funny? He's telling the truth!
I worked for a press company and they switch from Mac to Windows because one clueless management said "Why would we need expensive Mac box to do the image archiving?" Thus all boxes for this purpose were replaced.
Guess what? The no. of support calls skyrocketed and we needed to hire more tech supports to sustain our business!
One day you will curse a lot, after you decide to set your system date back, so that your unregistered software doesn't expire.
:)
LOL! May be that's what she thought, but dating back an UNIX system is fatal(usually halt the system).
"Knowledge is Power", "Time is Money", and as every engineer knows, "Power is Work over Time". So, substituting algebraic equations for these time worn bits of wisdom, we get:
K = P (1)
T = M (2)
P = W/T (3)
Now, do a few simple substitutions:
Put W/T in for P in equation (1), which yields:
K = W/T (4)
Put M in for T into equation (4), which yields:
K = W/M (5).
Now we've got something. Expanding back into English, we get:
Knowledge equals Work over Money.
What this MEANS is that:
1. The More You Know, the More Work You Do, and
2. The More You Know, the Less Money You Make.
Solving for Money, we get:
M = W/K (6)
Money equals Work Over Knowledge. From equation (6) we see that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches 0, regardless of the Work done.
What THIS MEANS is:
The More you Make, the Less you Know.
Solving for Work, we get
W = M K (7)
Work equals Money times Knowledge
From equation (7) we see that Work approaches 0 as Knowledge approaches 0.
What THIS MEANS is:
The stupid rich do little or no work.
Working out the socioeconomic implications of this breakthrough is left as an exercise for the reader.
Microsoft Antitrust Trial Decision
As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. - Fred Dales at Microsoft Corporation
but at least it's the best one I got today.
I got a email from a stubborn and clueless tech consultant who insisted on adding '... and creation date < system date' in the SQL query.
I calmly explained to her that 'creation date < system date' always holds true, unless, of course, the user could go to future and create a case there.
She doesn't seem to get the joke, and today I got a email, cc to my and her bosses, saying that we must 'creation date < system date' so that we would not miss those cases created 'in the future'....and she dare quote me on that!
...and a nasty case of trying to count without taking their socks off... :)
:)
They might have to take their pants off to count the last digit...if they are male that is.