The clause about scripts running in the background was stolen from another web-hosting company - WestHost. It's not just similar - it's identical letter for letter!
From the WestHost TOS:
(http://www.westhost.com/policy.html)
"We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed."
From the Page Creators TOS:
(Google cached version)
"We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed."
What's wrong with a fan? Low power is useful, I admit, but there are already (farily) low power solutions from Transmeta, Intel, and AMD. Also, most of the laptop's battery is used to power the display, not the CPU (although that may change).
Fans may have failed you, but they have never failed me. Also, my desktop doesn't need a "high reliability" CPU, it nees one that is cheap so I can spend my money elsewhere.
Answer: It doesn't. Unless the new processor is priced substantially lower than Intel or AMD processors, it will fail. Above the 1.1GHZ Ahalon, no greater amount of 2d or 3d speed really matters - for now. So unless the product offers an advantage other than preformance over the 1.1 GHZ Atalon or 1.0 GHZ Pentium III, it will fail. Another important factor is that no one reckognises the Cyrix brand - they haven't made any widely-used CPU's in years. AMD is the "budget alternative", and Intel is the "fastest preformance". So where is Cyrix? Nowhere.
I don't care if the new chip outpreforms an Athalon 1.1GHZ 2:1. If it's not cheap enough and Cyrix can't shake the "no-name" reputation, the chip will end up like all of their other processors - forgotton.
This comment is meaningless. Any meaning is purly an act of coincidence.
1: Lose the profanities
2: Yes, they do. TIME WARNER owns the CABLE INTRENET SERVICE in many states ("RoadRunner"). AOL now owns a virtual monopoly over the internet market in those areas. TIME WARNER owns some of the most visited websites on the internet - CNN.com comes to mind, it's #4 - AOL now holds a virtual monopoly over the news services. CNNHN and CNN are the #1 and #2 most watched news channels. AOL.com and CNN.com are the #1 and #2 most used internet news "portals". AOL.com + CNN.com = GIANT NEWS SITE.
This is VERY BAD for consumers. In the past, competition between 3DFX and NVidia who both shared the lead position in the 3D card battle have helped prices crashed. Now, it's just NVidia, ATI, and Matrox. Matrox can't really harm anyone with their current 3D technology, and ATI can't convince people that RAEDON cards are up to the level of Geforce2 or Vodoo5 cards. It's really a dissapointment.
Outlook for the future: NVidia will rule the graphics card business. The Geforce3 will be at least $400 and will stay that way due to the lack of an alternative. I can only hope that ATI or Matrox can come out with a comperablie card at a lower price, or we'll all be paying a lot more for 3D cards.
Doesn't this sound like AOL TIME WARNER? Two giant industry leaders joining together to become a giant? Monopoly is bad for consumers, with media or 3D cards. Like I said, this is bad.
The internet has not "peaked", but it is "maturing". The internet may not be as "new" and "stunning" as it was in '92 (when I got my hands on a copy of Mosaic), but it's becoming a place where work, play, and learn.
So what does the future hold for the internet? More wireless technology, of course. Yesterday I was in a bookstore looking at a book. Using my cellphone, I looked up a review for the book, searched the internet for the best prices, and purchased the book for $15 less then it cost in the bookstore. Wonderful. Stunning. This is the future - not just a faster internet, but an internet that is integrated into our lives.
The internet as we know it, however, has peaked. The internet will become less and less technology oriented and more and more information oriented. It will, and has already started to, cease to be the "nerd" internet that we knew in '92. It will be the people's internet. People will forget the "coolness" factor and start figuring out that the internet can actually be useful.
I don't like the future - but as the proud owner of three palmtops, five graphing calculators, four computers (all > 600MHZ, 192MB of ram, 20GB of HDD), a broadband connection (2mbits), and 100baseT switched networking, I'm a littie biased.
This is slashdot. Remember, we're talking about people who drink more pop then water.:-)
Oh, and I didn't want to offend anyone. However, even if I'm not sexist, the quiz shows are. 86% of "Who Wants to be a Millionare" contestents are male. That % was even higher during the beginning of the show, but people complained. It's a shame, really.
I'm glad that Deja ditched the're "Preciscion Buying Service". I think that I used it once in two years. We already have epinions.com, CNET, ZDNet, and half.com, so there's no need for YAPIS (yet another product information service)
Just read about this on my cellphone, actually:-) Anyway, what MS was doing would be horrible in any company, but it is especially horrible in a company is rich as Microsoft.
Warning: Sensibility filter off. The following is a [crazy] theory [guess]. Do not take it seriouslly. However, this "permatemp" thing does explain how MS can release a browser for free - and how it can be so buggy. They hire temp workers and set them to work at low pay (by MS standards) on the next Internet Explorer. The workers are unhappy without their benifits, and so they write poor code. Sensibility filter re-activated
It's good that MS decided to settle, and I wish that they would do so with the DOJ. 14 years is a long time to be a "temp" worker.
This comment makes no sene, just like my other comments
This is all fine and dandy, except for one problem - you're probably more likely to win the "Do you want to play for a Billion dollars? That's right, we said Billion" prize. Also, I'm 6'1"!!! Wait a minute... I know how they choose contestints, "23 years of age, under 6', under 180 pounds"! That rules out (100 - Difference in Florida vote)% of the people in the country. (If you can't subtract, that's about 99.991%). However, it's cool that someone might get to go to the ISS, but Survivor 2 is gonig to send someone to MIR... if it's still orbiting in another six months!
The only thing worse than bad humor is really bad humor - that includes this comment
This makes me mad. Any company can get a patent for a general purpose, and then inflict it on any product that is remotely related to it. This is just like BT claiming that they owned the hyperlink or Apple claiming that Microsoft stole the're "Look and Feel". What's next, CueCat claiming that the've patented speach recognition because of a system to "change an analog signal into a textual website address". It's sad to see an entirely new audio compression format squashed by a big company just because it uses similar principles. If IIS can sue for MP3, couldn't Unisys sue the users of ZIP or GZIP for using "similar compression technology"? This is rediculous. IIS does not hold a patent on all music compression technology. If some developers want to write a free standard that's as good or better than MP3, then let them. The're not stealing the technology or the code.
Didn't Microsoft prove that you can't patent a principle, like the GUI or compression in the're case against Apple? Let's be real here, people. You can not patent audio compression. You can patent a form of compression, like MP3, but you can't patent every form of compression. If the Wright Brother's wing was a priciple, than audio compression is a principle.
Oh, and saying that the authors "must have" burrowed code from IIS software isn't good enough. We need to see the IIS code and the code for the free format and compare them.
The factual part:
To make a transistor like that work, it would have to have incredibly low resistance, gold anyone? Actually, gold would be ideal, as it can easily be made into a 3 atom thick surface. However, it could not be done with today's primitive photographic procedures. One solution would be to use a stream of electrons to shape the chip, but this is all smoke and mirrors for now.
The funny [offtopic] part:
New CueCat 2000b! Now with more features and the power of a new 1THZ (1,000,000 MHZ) processor thanks to Intel technology! Scan barcodes like never before - over 50% are scanned correctly! The most ultra-secure encryption technology protects your private information from everyone but us!
Later that day, hackers get ahold of CueCat 2000b.
Hacker: So the're still using Base64+XOR?
Hacker #2: Yep
The other funny [offtopic] part New I-Opener 3000a! Now with the power of a 1THZ (1,000,000 MHZ) processor thanks to new Intel technology! New ultra-high tech security measures dependent on the Intel processer make the I-Openter 3000a Unhackable! This product is rock solid, with Iron Clad Security (tm)!
Later that day, hackers get ahold of the I-Opener 3000a Hacker: Goop on the BIOS again? Hacker #2: Yep.
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The clause about scripts running in the background was stolen from another web-hosting company - WestHost. It's not just similar - it's identical letter for letter!
From the WestHost TOS:
(http://www.westhost.com/policy.html)
"We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed."
From the Page Creators TOS:
(Google cached version)
"We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed."
What's wrong with a fan? Low power is useful, I admit, but there are already (farily) low power solutions from Transmeta, Intel, and AMD. Also, most of the laptop's battery is used to power the display, not the CPU (although that may change).
Fans may have failed you, but they have never failed me. Also, my desktop doesn't need a "high reliability" CPU, it nees one that is cheap so I can spend my money elsewhere.
Answer: It doesn't. Unless the new processor is priced substantially lower than Intel or AMD processors, it will fail. Above the 1.1GHZ Ahalon, no greater amount of 2d or 3d speed really matters - for now. So unless the product offers an advantage other than preformance over the 1.1 GHZ Atalon or 1.0 GHZ Pentium III, it will fail. Another important factor is that no one reckognises the Cyrix brand - they haven't made any widely-used CPU's in years. AMD is the "budget alternative", and Intel is the "fastest preformance". So where is Cyrix? Nowhere.
I don't care if the new chip outpreforms an Athalon 1.1GHZ 2:1. If it's not cheap enough and Cyrix can't shake the "no-name" reputation, the chip will end up like all of their other processors - forgotton.
This comment is meaningless. Any meaning is purly an act of coincidence.
1: Lose the profanities
2: Yes, they do. TIME WARNER owns the CABLE INTRENET SERVICE in many states ("RoadRunner"). AOL now owns a virtual monopoly over the internet market in those areas. TIME WARNER owns some of the most visited websites on the internet - CNN.com comes to mind, it's #4 - AOL now holds a virtual monopoly over the news services. CNNHN and CNN are the #1 and #2 most watched news channels. AOL.com and CNN.com are the #1 and #2 most used internet news "portals". AOL.com + CNN.com = GIANT NEWS SITE.
Get the idea?
This is VERY BAD for consumers. In the past, competition between 3DFX and NVidia who both shared the lead position in the 3D card battle have helped prices crashed. Now, it's just NVidia, ATI, and Matrox. Matrox can't really harm anyone with their current 3D technology, and ATI can't convince people that RAEDON cards are up to the level of Geforce2 or Vodoo5 cards. It's really a dissapointment.
Outlook for the future:
NVidia will rule the graphics card business. The Geforce3 will be at least $400 and will stay that way due to the lack of an alternative. I can only hope that ATI or Matrox can come out with a comperablie card at a lower price, or we'll all be paying a lot more for 3D cards.
Doesn't this sound like AOL TIME WARNER? Two giant industry leaders joining together to become a giant? Monopoly is bad for consumers, with media or 3D cards. Like I said, this is bad.
Saving a few dollars is worth destroying a small part of the economy :-)
Actually, the store was Barnes and Nobel, so nothing was lost. B&N has enough money to survive the reviloution
The internet has not "peaked", but it is "maturing". The internet may not be as "new" and "stunning" as it was in '92 (when I got my hands on a copy of Mosaic), but it's becoming a place where work, play, and learn.
So what does the future hold for the internet? More wireless technology, of course. Yesterday I was in a bookstore looking at a book. Using my cellphone, I looked up a review for the book, searched the internet for the best prices, and purchased the book for $15 less then it cost in the bookstore. Wonderful. Stunning. This is the future - not just a faster internet, but an internet that is integrated into our lives.
The internet as we know it, however, has peaked. The internet will become less and less technology oriented and more and more information oriented. It will, and has already started to, cease to be the "nerd" internet that we knew in '92. It will be the people's internet. People will forget the "coolness" factor and start figuring out that the internet can actually be useful.
I don't like the future - but as the proud owner of three palmtops, five graphing calculators, four computers (all > 600MHZ, 192MB of ram, 20GB of HDD), a broadband connection (2mbits), and 100baseT switched networking, I'm a littie biased.
Oh well, as long as I can read slashdot...
This is slashdot. Remember, we're talking about people who drink more pop then water. :-)
Oh, and I didn't want to offend anyone. However, even if I'm not sexist, the quiz shows are. 86% of "Who Wants to be a Millionare" contestents are male. That % was even higher during the beginning of the show, but people complained. It's a shame, really.
I'm glad that Deja ditched the're "Preciscion Buying Service". I think that I used it once in two years. We already have epinions.com, CNET, ZDNet, and half.com, so there's no need for YAPIS (yet another product information service)
Just read about this on my cellphone, actually :-)
Anyway, what MS was doing would be horrible in any company, but it is especially horrible in a company is rich as Microsoft.
Warning: Sensibility filter off. The following is a [crazy] theory [guess]. Do not take it seriouslly.
However, this "permatemp" thing does explain how MS can release a browser for free - and how it can be so buggy. They hire temp workers and set them to work at low pay (by MS standards) on the next Internet Explorer. The workers are unhappy without their benifits, and so they write poor code.
Sensibility filter re-activated
It's good that MS decided to settle, and I wish that they would do so with the DOJ. 14 years is a long time to be a "temp" worker.
This comment makes no sene, just like my other comments
This is all fine and dandy, except for one problem - you're probably more likely to win the "Do you want to play for a Billion dollars? That's right, we said Billion" prize. Also, I'm 6'1"!!! Wait a minute... I know how they choose contestints, "23 years of age, under 6', under 180 pounds"! That rules out (100 - Difference in Florida vote)% of the people in the country. (If you can't subtract, that's about 99.991%). However, it's cool that someone might get to go to the ISS, but Survivor 2 is gonig to send someone to MIR... if it's still orbiting in another six months!
The only thing worse than bad humor is really bad humor - that includes this comment
This makes me mad. Any company can get a patent for a general purpose, and then inflict it on any product that is remotely related to it. This is just like BT claiming that they owned the hyperlink or Apple claiming that Microsoft stole the're "Look and Feel". What's next, CueCat claiming that the've patented speach recognition because of a system to "change an analog signal into a textual website address". It's sad to see an entirely new audio compression format squashed by a big company just because it uses similar principles. If IIS can sue for MP3, couldn't Unisys sue the users of ZIP or GZIP for using "similar compression technology"? This is rediculous. IIS does not hold a patent on all music compression technology. If some developers want to write a free standard that's as good or better than MP3, then let them. The're not stealing the technology or the code.
Didn't Microsoft prove that you can't patent a principle, like the GUI or compression in the're case against Apple? Let's be real here, people. You can not patent audio compression. You can patent a form of compression, like MP3, but you can't patent every form of compression. If the Wright Brother's wing was a priciple, than audio compression is a principle.
Oh, and saying that the authors "must have" burrowed code from IIS software isn't good enough. We need to see the IIS code and the code for the free format and compare them.
The factual part:
To make a transistor like that work, it would have to have incredibly low resistance, gold anyone? Actually, gold would be ideal, as it can easily be made into a 3 atom thick surface. However, it could not be done with today's primitive photographic procedures. One solution would be to use a stream of electrons to shape the chip, but this is all smoke and mirrors for now.
The funny [offtopic] part:
New CueCat 2000b! Now with more features and the power of a new 1THZ (1,000,000 MHZ) processor thanks to Intel technology! Scan barcodes like never before - over 50% are scanned correctly! The most ultra-secure encryption technology protects your private information from everyone but us!
Later that day, hackers get ahold of CueCat 2000b.
Hacker: So the're still using Base64+XOR?
Hacker #2: Yep
The other funny [offtopic] part
New I-Opener 3000a! Now with the power of a 1THZ (1,000,000 MHZ) processor thanks to new Intel technology! New ultra-high tech security measures dependent on the Intel processer make the I-Openter 3000a Unhackable! This product is rock solid, with Iron Clad Security (tm)!
Later that day, hackers get ahold of the I-Opener 3000a
Hacker: Goop on the BIOS again?
Hacker #2: Yep.