We had the same problem with Comcast here as well. They were largely unresponsive to our requests for assistance. After suffering with it for about 3 months, I finally convinced the boss to dump the money on a replacement. I called Comcast and explained to them that their service was unsatisfactory and we would be stopping it, breaking the contract and no longer paying them anything. It was fixed within a few hours and we have not had trouble with it since. Get tough with them. I think they save all the good technicians for when the customers threaten to leave. Typical.
We've been doing this for ages at http://www.gofish.com/ We provide the service for a number of big and small search engines. They had to do this to remain competetive in search. To be honest, google releases many services that are derrivative of existing ones -- like google maps or mail. In each of these cases they innovate in improving the service in some way. I am a bit biased here but, I think the real story here is google is now just following the pack. Where are the inovative features? More importantly where is 50 cents audiobook?
The 10% increase in your chance of catching a bad case of cancer may be daunting. However, previous research has also shown exposure to cosmic rays gives you a 25% chance of gaining the ability to create invisible force fields. I would think most people would hop on that chance. Just think, no more dirty dishes to clean!
It would seem this might open up another "Cringleyesque" loophole for a "file swapping service". You buy the rights to a song. When you are done playing it you sell it to some sucker. With the proceedes from the sale you buy another "used" song you would like to listen to. Rise and Repeat.
Of course, you might ocassionally get stuck with a song nobody wants and have to buy in again. But, with a large enough pool of users, it will probably work out over the long run. To mitigate the risk you could buy several songs to begin with so that you always have a slot to place a new purchase in.
> Conserving power is ludicrous. There is an unlimited supply of power in the Universe. Why should we even *consider* conserving it?
Actually, there is a limited supply of power in the Universe. Those first two pesky Laws of Thermodynamics pretty much cover it: energy is neither created nor destroyed and entropy increases with every reaction. Basically, you cannot make engery just move it. When you move it you lose some. Perhaps we should change this to: American priorities to MORE EDUCATION NOW!
Flash and Quicktime are some of my favorite uses for MOL. I'd also suggest if you desire the latest Moz build you might just be out of luck with Linux PPC -- unless you roll your own, of course.
-Alec
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Sure the tought police sound scarry, however, thought can be directed. There is no reason to consider how you would mutilate your coworkers or how much you are attracted to the same sex technician giving you the test. Just practice a little discipline.
So, what do we have to fear. How about when they can insert ideas like how to mutilate your coworkers or how much you are attracted to the same sex technician giving you the test into your head.
> If I can sell a crappy record, does that really > make me sufficiently accountable to receive the > personal information of thousands of cute young > college girls?
Yes and their panties as well. Is this not the dream of any young man who has picked up a guitar or started a band in their garage? Thankfully, the DCMA has provided for musicians once again. No longer will you actually have to play a show to find groupies. Now, you can just turn to the phone records in whatever town you may be in and invite yourself over.
It looks like the calculation was accurate to 2 significant figures. That other.4% is either baryons, dark energy or matter. Since they probably cannot accurately say how much so they don't even try.
The first 3 each have 4.5 stars at Amazon.
I would highly recomend them if you have not read it and you are into that thing. His style is much like Jordan's. The first two books are great. I have yet to read the third. The first one was actually given to me by a freind who works as an editor at Random House.
It's not, "Give the wookie what he wants" but "Let the wookie win". Somebody should rip a corner off his geek card.
The article is other wise quite interesting though. Sell access by category. That is a obvious but brilliant way for the publishers to increase their revenue.
> All of those nationwide supporters aren't going to help unless they all have close friends and relatives in the district of contention, now are they?
Unless, of course, they donate to her. She has plainly stated she needs $5000 to make TV comercials to reach the voters.
Kick her a few buck and scare a Congressman or two.
I went to public school through High School. A lot of people here are claiming that inadequate teachers and school systems are to blame for students failings in mathematics. I sincerely doubt that is the case. Algebra is just not that hard. I myself was doing poorly in algebra. I never really had my times tables down(and still don't). But it was my parents who got me to turn around. My mom, bless her heart, would go over times tables with me when she got home from work. She was not too good with the algebra so she hired an old teacher to tutor me. After the second session the tutor discovered my problem. I wasn't doing my homework. The tutoring sessions then consisted of me doing my homework. It took me longer to do my homework with a tutor then it took alone and I could watch TV while doing it on my own. Needless to say, I saw to it that the tutor was cut out immedately.
I am pretty good at math but I learned a real lesson that day. In college I was taking Discrete II with my roomate the math major. He was a natural and just got everything without any work. I would slave away at the exercises and eventually figure out how the math worked. Good as he was I saw him hit the wall. The concepts got beyond him. I would try to explain them but do no better than the professor. He needed to do the exercises to keep up. He never had to before and was too lazy. I got a better grade then him all due to my dilligence.
Kids need to do their homework. Parents need to make them.
I just can't understand why anyone would want to lease a phone. Now a complex piece of software that is a whole diffrent story. It make sense to lease an operating system or an office suite.
I don't suppose this could be setting a precident or anything?
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I own a 500Mhz G3 iBook with 640MB. I run linux on it. It is my favorite "input device", but on several occasions I have though "damn, I wish this thing was faster". It is not that it is not fast enough to do your everyday tasks. I can email, edit files, and surf the web just fine. My complies run at what you would expect of a 500Mhz machine. I may be spolied but I now consider that slow. It becomes quite appearant when I am compiling multiple files. I've given up on OS X. It crawls when I play any games. That is really the reason I use a Mac OS at all.
This chip looks to be ideal for servers and workstations. I don't care. The day they put one of these chips in a laptop is the day I buy a new laptop.
Bad in practice. Who leaves their playstaion on all the time? Who would be willing to share their bandwidth so that other playstation users can use their extra cycles?
It is more likely that when a playstaion is on it is actually in use and competeing with the rest for the extra cycles.
Add in the issues of communication overhead/latency, parallezation and fault tollerant distribution of computational work, and say security and you have several very hard if not intractable problems.
I would personally love to see Sony pull this off. However, I don't think massively distributed computing lends itself to the production of near real time 3D. Now if you can wait a week or a month for your graphics I am sure it will work famously.
> "Terra Soft's integrated PowerPC solutions take > advantage of the low power consumption and high > performance of the IBM and Motorola PowerPC > chips. When the Motorola's AltiVec(TM) unit > (Apple's "Velocity Engine(TM)") is engaged --the > result may be performance well beyond the CPU's > given speed rating."
How does this actually make YellowDog in any way competitive? What this means in plain english is, "Terra Soft makes a product that runs on macs." So does Debian and Apple whose products in my opinion are better. I may have been close to starting a flame war but that is what this press release is esentially about. That is the superiority of one distribution above others. It may be a matter of market forces or of personal taste but we all eventually make that decision.
> So Alec, what's a dude like you [karoushi.net] > posting biggoted looking stuff like this for?
Yeah, seems kinda dumb now. I guess I was filled with the rightousness of enui.
> Is there any reason you put Chinese characters on > your proported home page? What's all those > references to Death about?
Those are Japanese characters and they spell karoushi. Karoushi is the japanese word for "work to death".
> Do you really own a power book?
ibook damit!
> Have you ever really installed any kind of Linux?
Yeah, more times than I can remember on 3 different architectures.
Debian is "the one true Linux" and it runs just fine on my ibook. Anyone who is in the market for an easy to install and use Unix like system on a Mac will most probably go with OS X. I don't see what the selling point of a "Mac only" distribution is these days. Did I mention I thought Debian was great.
> The primary reason I have DSL is because I have > more choice in providers. ... > More reviews should look at choice vs. monopolies > when comparing DSL and Cable.
And the irony is, it is the phone companies that are the highly regulated legally declared monopoly. Now, I am a bit biased, but it is starting to look like they have some competition. Not from the CLECs or those independent DSL providers. But from the cable companies and the wireless market. It will be interesting to see the governments role in this affair. Eventually, they may have to set the baby bells free or declare the cable companies a monopoly to maintain equal footing.
I haven't read the book. But, I have worked a little on the problem of "encrypted databases". The issue I could never get my head around is indexing encrypted data in a meaningfull way. Large databases are practicle for retreiving data because we key off certain fields. In order for one to index those keys they must be readable by the database. If that data is encrypted it is not readable by the database and pretty much defeats the purpose of keeping it there. Does the author address this fundamental problem? I'd love to know how. After that everything is just gravy.
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He did not act in the first one either!
Who needs anything more?
We had the same problem with Comcast here as well. They were largely unresponsive to our requests for assistance. After suffering with it for about 3 months, I finally convinced the boss to dump the money on a replacement. I called Comcast and explained to them that their service was unsatisfactory and we would be stopping it, breaking the contract and no longer paying them anything. It was fixed within a few hours and we have not had trouble with it since. Get tough with them. I think they save all the good technicians for when the customers threaten to leave. Typical.
We've been doing this for ages at http://www.gofish.com/ We provide the service for a number of big and small search engines. They had to do this to remain competetive in search. To be honest, google releases many services that are derrivative of existing ones -- like google maps or mail. In each of these cases they innovate in improving the service in some way. I am a bit biased here but, I think the real story here is google is now just following the pack. Where are the inovative features? More importantly where is 50 cents audiobook?
http://www.gofish.com/
I didn't -- cough -- work on this or anything. Really.
The 10% increase in your chance of catching a bad case of cancer may be daunting. However, previous research has also shown exposure to cosmic rays gives you a 25% chance of gaining the ability to create invisible force fields. I would think most people would hop on that chance. Just think, no more dirty dishes to clean!
The race to aggregate comercial media has already begun: www.gofish.com -Alec
I mean, paying for postage has stopped advertisers from sending marketing materials to my home. Oh wait, sorry. This is a terrible idea!
-Alec
It would seem this might open up another "Cringleyesque" loophole for a "file swapping service". You buy the rights to a song. When you are done playing it you sell it to some sucker. With the proceedes from the sale you buy another "used" song you would like to listen to. Rise and Repeat. Of course, you might ocassionally get stuck with a song nobody wants and have to buy in again. But, with a large enough pool of users, it will probably work out over the long run. To mitigate the risk you could buy several songs to begin with so that you always have a slot to place a new purchase in.
> Conserving power is ludicrous. There is an unlimited supply of power in the Universe. Why should we even *consider* conserving it?
Actually, there is a limited supply of power in the Universe. Those first two pesky Laws of Thermodynamics pretty much cover it: energy is neither created nor destroyed and entropy increases with every reaction. Basically, you cannot make engery just move it. When you move it you lose some. Perhaps we should change this to: American priorities to MORE EDUCATION NOW!
Flash and Quicktime are some of my favorite uses for MOL. I'd also suggest if you desire the latest Moz build you might just be out of luck with Linux PPC -- unless you roll your own, of course.
-Alec
Sure the tought police sound scarry, however, thought can be directed. There is no reason to consider how you would mutilate your coworkers or how much you are attracted to the same sex technician giving you the test. Just practice a little discipline.
So, what do we have to fear. How about when they can insert ideas like how to mutilate your coworkers or how much you are attracted to the same sex technician giving you the test into your head.
Oh yeah, Pepsi the Choice of a New Generation.
> If I can sell a crappy record, does that really
> make me sufficiently accountable to receive the
> personal information of thousands of cute young
> college girls?
Yes and their panties as well. Is this not the dream of any young man who has picked up a guitar or started a band in their garage? Thankfully, the DCMA has provided for musicians once again. No longer will you actually have to play a show to find groupies. Now, you can just turn to the phone records in whatever town you may be in and invite yourself over.
-Alec
It looks like the calculation was accurate to 2 significant figures. That other .4% is either baryons, dark energy or matter. Since they probably cannot accurately say how much so they don't even try.
The first 3 each have 4.5 stars at Amazon. I would highly recomend them if you have not read it and you are into that thing. His style is much like Jordan's. The first two books are great. I have yet to read the third. The first one was actually given to me by a freind who works as an editor at Random House.
It's not, "Give the wookie what he wants" but "Let the wookie win". Somebody should rip a corner off his geek card.
The article is other wise quite interesting though. Sell access by category. That is a obvious but brilliant way for the publishers to increase their revenue.
Unless, of course, they donate to her. She has plainly stated she needs $5000 to make TV comercials to reach the voters. Kick her a few buck and scare a Congressman or two.
I went to public school through High School. A lot of people here are claiming that inadequate teachers and school systems are to blame for students failings in mathematics. I sincerely doubt that is the case. Algebra is just not that hard. I myself was doing poorly in algebra. I never really had my times tables down(and still don't). But it was my parents who got me to turn around. My mom, bless her heart, would go over times tables with me when she got home from work. She was not too good with the algebra so she hired an old teacher to tutor me. After the second session the tutor discovered my problem. I wasn't doing my homework. The tutoring sessions then consisted of me doing my homework. It took me longer to do my homework with a tutor then it took alone and I could watch TV while doing it on my own. Needless to say, I saw to it that the tutor was cut out immedately.
I am pretty good at math but I learned a real lesson that day. In college I was taking Discrete II with my roomate the math major. He was a natural and just got everything without any work. I would slave away at the exercises and eventually figure out how the math worked. Good as he was I saw him hit the wall. The concepts got beyond him. I would try to explain them but do no better than the professor. He needed to do the exercises to keep up. He never had to before and was too lazy. I got a better grade then him all due to my dilligence.
Kids need to do their homework. Parents need to make them.
I just can't understand why anyone would want to lease a phone. Now a complex piece of software that is a whole diffrent story. It make sense to lease an operating system or an office suite.
I don't suppose this could be setting a precident or anything?
I own a 500Mhz G3 iBook with 640MB. I run linux on it. It is my favorite "input device", but on several occasions I have though "damn, I wish this thing was faster". It is not that it is not fast enough to do your everyday tasks. I can email, edit files, and surf the web just fine. My complies run at what you would expect of a 500Mhz machine. I may be spolied but I now consider that slow. It becomes quite appearant when I am compiling multiple files. I've given up on OS X. It crawls when I play any games. That is really the reason I use a Mac OS at all.
This chip looks to be ideal for servers and workstations. I don't care. The day they put one of these chips in a laptop is the day I buy a new laptop.
Bad in practice. Who leaves their playstaion on all the time? Who would be willing to share their bandwidth so that other playstation users can use their extra cycles?
It is more likely that when a playstaion is on it is actually in use and competeing with the rest for the extra cycles.
Add in the issues of communication overhead/latency, parallezation and fault tollerant distribution of computational work, and say security and you have several very hard if not intractable problems.
I would personally love to see Sony pull this off. However, I don't think massively distributed computing lends itself to the production of near real time 3D. Now if you can wait a week or a month for your graphics I am sure it will work famously.
> "Terra Soft's integrated PowerPC solutions take
> advantage of the low power consumption and high
> performance of the IBM and Motorola PowerPC
> chips. When the Motorola's AltiVec(TM) unit
> (Apple's "Velocity Engine(TM)") is engaged --the
> result may be performance well beyond the CPU's
> given speed rating."
How does this actually make YellowDog in any way competitive? What this means in plain english is, "Terra Soft makes a product that runs on macs." So does Debian and Apple whose products in my opinion are better. I may have been close to starting a flame war but that is what this press release is esentially about. That is the superiority of one distribution above others. It may be a matter of market forces or of personal taste but we all eventually make that decision.
> So Alec, what's a dude like you [karoushi.net]
> posting biggoted looking stuff like this for?
Yeah, seems kinda dumb now. I guess I was filled with the rightousness of enui.
> Is there any reason you put Chinese characters on
> your proported home page? What's all those
> references to Death about?
Those are Japanese characters and they spell karoushi. Karoushi is the japanese word for "work to death".
> Do you really own a power book?
ibook damit!
> Have you ever really installed any kind of Linux?
Yeah, more times than I can remember on 3 different architectures.
> Are your still using NT?
Yeah, but not by choice.
Debian is "the one true Linux" and it runs just fine on my ibook. Anyone who is in the market for an easy to install and use Unix like system on a Mac will most probably go with OS X. I don't see what the selling point of a "Mac only" distribution is these days. Did I mention I thought Debian was great.
> The primary reason I have DSL is because I have
> more choice in providers.
...
> More reviews should look at choice vs. monopolies
> when comparing DSL and Cable.
And the irony is, it is the phone companies that are the highly regulated legally declared monopoly. Now, I am a bit biased, but it is starting to look like they have some competition. Not from the CLECs or those independent DSL providers. But from the cable companies and the wireless market. It will be interesting to see the governments role in this affair. Eventually, they may have to set the baby bells free or declare the cable companies a monopoly to maintain equal footing.
I haven't read the book. But, I have worked a little on the problem of "encrypted databases". The issue I could never get my head around is indexing encrypted data in a meaningfull way. Large databases are practicle for retreiving data because we key off certain fields. In order for one to index those keys they must be readable by the database. If that data is encrypted it is not readable by the database and pretty much defeats the purpose of keeping it there. Does the author address this fundamental problem? I'd love to know how. After that everything is just gravy.