At first glance, it looks good. But start comparing some of its routes to other mapping programs (Rand McNally, for example) and you'll see Yahoo! tends to miss a lot of details and makes you change roads unneccessarily. I've done better than both Yahoo! and PC-based programs just looking at a plain old paper map. A relatively small nitpick about Yahoo! - it figures your time based on a 55MPH average. If you're driving long highway miles, you're going to average a lot better than that.
I just checked 2 routes on Yahoo! Maps, one trip that I've personally driven completely and another that I've done about halfway. One was from my home to Arlington, VA. Where's it take you? Across most of the major highways in southern Pennsylvania, then right down the Baltimore-DC corridor. And then (get this) right through DC and down Pennsylvania Avenue! Get comfy - you'll be sitting still for a while there. I plotted my own route which was faster, shorter, and had much less traffic.
The second route was Boston to Seattle. Still a lot of excess road-switching, and oddly, it didn't route through Ontario between Buffalo, NY and Detroit, MI, which is my preferred route. You miss a number of cities going that way. Also, it keeps you off of I-90 for the majority of the trip, which just about the most direct route.
I'll be sticking with paper maps for a while. If you've got someone riding with you, let them read. And whether you're solo or driving with someone, a stop every few hours along the way to get out and stretch your legs is good for you anyway.
Someone's been sleeping at the wheel then. I heard about this about a year ago when we found a site my company was to start hosting or hooking into had left the "sa" account/password wide open.
Stability, performance, hell, everything in Mozilla improves daily. If you're basing your opinion of it on M14, you're doing yourself and the project a disservice.
On the same hardware, it is faster...it jsut requires more to get kick-started. I have a friend who has compared, side-by-side, a dual P3-500/256MB running NT4 against a single P3-600/256MB running Win2K. The single CPU box running W2K beat the SMP NT4 box hands-down; the "typical" performance increase of SMP vs. 1 CPU (at the same clock speed) on NT 4 is greater than 20% (which is the MHz difference on the 2 boxes).
Very shortly after MS acquired Hotmail, they attempted to migrate it to Windows NT Server 4. It collapsed spectacularly under the very heavy load that Hotmail gets, forcing MS to restore the original servers running BSD and/or Solaris. It was rather embarassing for them.
At least this time they're taking it slow, a few servers at a time, rather than just pulling the plug on the old boxes. Before we write off Hotmail, let's see how Win2K handles it. Everyone I've talked to who's used Win2K has found it to be significantly faster and more reliable than NT4. They may be able to pull this off - I suspect these 5%-10% will be used to work out the kinks before migrating the whole service.
You're correct, but the USPS has jurisdiction only because pyramid schemes which use the USPS constitute mail fraud. It has nothing to do with email vs. paper mail. If the money doesn't go through the USPS, they can't nail you for mail fraud - you're not using "the mail."
I really hope Cobalt doesn't win (actually, I hope it doesn't even get to trial), but I'm glad they're filing the suit. If only to demonstrate to Apple how stupid the idea is.
Do you see DaimlerChrysler suing Ford for stealing styling ideas on pickup trucks? Or Kenworth, International, et. al. suing DaimlerChrysler for borrowing styling from big rig trucks? Actually, the auto industry in general - there's a LOT of "stealing" of features and styling cues. But no one suing. Because that industry has matured past that point.
I think that's what's causing all these lawsuits - the immaturity (I don't mean "childish") of this new consumer industry. It will pass once it's demonstrated how foolish these lawsuits really are.
The person(s) who did this cracked a lot of boxen to launch this attack, from what I understand. Just because they've been stopped from slamming Kuro5in doesn't mean the threat's over. What might they launch next from these systems? What other systems have they infiltrated? It could turn out to be far, far bigger than this.
I just "discovered" Kuro5hin about 2 weeks ago, and was finally getting into it. Damn those bastards. Damn them to hell. Maybe we'll see them burning with Satan in tonight's South Park.
I went to the site last night (after seeing the note on Blues' News about it) and was presented with no content and a very nice pop-up message telling me to come back with a different browser. Here's the JS reason why:
var Name = navigator.appName;//That'd be the browser's name var Version = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);//That'd be the browser's version
if (Name == "Netscape" && Version <= 4) { alert("Please come back with a CSS-compliant browser, such as IE or Netscape 6 (or Lynx)"); }
So, basically, unless I use a pre-beta browser, or a text-only browser, I'm SOL as a Linux user. The mod itself runs on Linux Q3:A - you just can't view their site with the currently most usable browser (that says a lot about the state of browsers on Linux, doesn't it?).
Due to the various agreements Netscape signed to get code from outside sources, the code they released in 1998 wasn't even compilable (they couldn't release everything in there).
Even if it were all there, it's pure spaghetti (with bits dating back to NS2 or older) and not worth trying to fix.
x-no-archive has been around a long time. However, Deja is working on a new one called "x-no-productlinks" which will allow your posts to be archived by Deja AND avoid the smelly auto-linking.
If everyone used x-no-archive then Deja would be useless - and it does come in handy for research at times.
I think it's pretty obvious that they have no intention of putting up a billboard on every highway telling the world about the opt-out. And they'll probably make it somewhat difficult to find the opt-out, and still more difficult to actually sign up. After all, that would work against their best interests (making money). Future posts you can stop from getting ad-linked, but again, you have to know the secret password and they'll not make it easy to find out.
Have a look at the source of your favorite newsreader (assuming it's open in the first place) and patch it to insert the header for you. Then submit that patch back to the maintainer. Your future posts, the problem is solved.
The problem is that if I make a Usenet post, and Deja collects it, they will make every attempt to link MY words to THEIR advertising/sales, thus using me to boost their sales and effectively altering my post without my consent. And unless your newsreader supports this new x-header they're in the process of creating (I get the impression it's not done), there's nothing you can do about it.
Fortunately, the open-source community will likely have a fast implementation of these x-headers in most newsreaders that are out there. Netscape Messenger will probably never support it, and Outlook Express...who knows?
I'm hoping there's a copyright issue at play here. Does the author get to keep the copyright on Usenet posts? If so, does this linking violate that copyright?
Besides, when there are only 5 or so 3D games for Linux, why bother worrying about it? Windows has game dominance for the forseeable future.
And Linux won't get much more than 5 3D games unless we DO "bother worrying about it." If the hardware support (including drivers) is there, the games are a lot easier to sell, and thus will become more numerous. And the hardware support should improve dramatically if it's OSS. If you allow Windows to have dominance "for the forseeable future," allow that to be the excuse to not have good 3D in Linux, and are complacent with that, gaming in Linux will never even approach Windows in terms of the number of good gaming titles.
It's the pot calling the kettle black. I quit reading any of ZDNet's reviews and most of their editorials. It became very, very obvious that the more money MS put into print advertising, the more ZD published glowing reviews. They even went so far, in one Linux/BSD/Windows comparison, to say (paraphrasing) "even though it's less stable, more expensive, less secure, and performs worse, we have to give the nod to NT."
You know your car requires oil and coolant, right? You know that when it won't turn over, you probably have a dead battery. You know that if you leave the lights on, you'll run your battery down. You know that the gas goes from the tank into the engine, mixes with air, gets ignited by a spark, and that's what makes the power, right? And I'm sure you're familiar with what happens when you move/adjust each knob, lever and pedal. There are some very basic troubleshooting processes that you know whether you know it or not.
That's a LOT more than the average computer user knows about their computer. They know that the "E" on their desktop is "the internet" and they know how to turn the system on and off. If you opened the hood of your car, I bet you could easily identify a dozen parts, and yet you claim to know knothing about how your car works. Can the average computer user even ID FOUR parts inside their computer?
I believe that the requirements for obtaining a driver's license (at least in my state) are a bit "easy" - at the very least, require that people demonstrate how to change a tire and handle one or 2 other roadside emergencies. Should all of society be denied access to computers because they aren't geeky enough? No. However, with the proliferation of viruses that prey on user stupidity/error, and the increasing toll these viruses take on the rest of the computing world, and the increasing complexity of, well, everything, I think there does need to be a "curb" for people to get over before they can play in the sandbox.
The headline reads "RIT," as does the article. Now, I know cCranium is the one who wrote it, but TImothy really should have corrected the "Rochester University" bit there. There is no Rochester university.
When you get down to it, a "new" (just off the assembly line) nuclear device is relatively controlled and predictable. It won't blow up until you tell it to, and you know how it'll react when you push the button.
As they age, though, you don't really know what'll happen. And that's why we have simulators. As others have pointed out, there's only 2 ways to know if a device that's been stockpiled for 15 years will work - simulate it or take it out to the desert. Now, since we can't exactly take one out back and set it off, we buy a bigass computer and simulate it.
Or would you prefer that one just randomly go off while sitting at the dock inside an Ohio-class submarine at Groton, CT? Or maybe, if we return to the 50s mindset of 24-hour alert for bomber crews fully loaded for WWIII, with the occasional scrambling to test readiness, that B2 flying over Topeka hits some turbulance and levels half of the already-flat state of Kansas?
All I really want to know is, will it be faster than 5.1 on my box at home? I'm running a P2-266/64MB and it takes about 2 minutes to fire up, and ends up sucking down all my RAM. Not exactly a convenient application. I tried one of the tricks posted before about running just the word processor or spreadsheet but it still loaded the whole thing.
I'm running October GNOME right now (possibly a little newer). I have yet to see anything explaining why I should (or, for that matter, shoudn't) upgrade to 1.2.
And I mean real reasons, but because it'll make me a 1337-@$$ d00d.
Elsewhere it was mentioned that compression is used in this setup. How well will an alternating binary stream compress? I'd rather see a test done with realistic data - even if you're just streaming an insane amount of MP3s down the wire, it's a closer representation of actual data that might be send over it.
As fatter and fatter pipes appear on the "high end," the smaller pipes will hopefully get cheaper. Really...do you need 40Gb/sec, or would you be happy with getting your own T3 for half today's going rate? Look at CPUs. As faster ones are introduced, the slower ones have the prices cut. Not a perfect comparison, but it's close.
Set up a big cluster and/or network on one end and start flooding the pipe? One box can't supply the data at that rate, but enough boxes operating together could.
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I just checked 2 routes on Yahoo! Maps, one trip that I've personally driven completely and another that I've done about halfway. One was from my home to Arlington, VA. Where's it take you? Across most of the major highways in southern Pennsylvania, then right down the Baltimore-DC corridor. And then (get this) right through DC and down Pennsylvania Avenue! Get comfy - you'll be sitting still for a while there. I plotted my own route which was faster, shorter, and had much less traffic.
The second route was Boston to Seattle. Still a lot of excess road-switching, and oddly, it didn't route through Ontario between Buffalo, NY and Detroit, MI, which is my preferred route. You miss a number of cities going that way. Also, it keeps you off of I-90 for the majority of the trip, which just about the most direct route.
I'll be sticking with paper maps for a while. If you've got someone riding with you, let them read. And whether you're solo or driving with someone, a stop every few hours along the way to get out and stretch your legs is good for you anyway.
Someone's been sleeping at the wheel then. I heard about this about a year ago when we found a site my company was to start hosting or hooking into had left the "sa" account/password wide open.
Stability, performance, hell, everything in Mozilla improves daily. If you're basing your opinion of it on M14, you're doing yourself and the project a disservice.
And I just spec'd a new box last night with a 64MB DDR GeForce II GTS. Back to the drawing board...
But then you'd end up with circular logic.
On the same hardware, it is faster...it jsut requires more to get kick-started. I have a friend who has compared, side-by-side, a dual P3-500/256MB running NT4 against a single P3-600/256MB running Win2K. The single CPU box running W2K beat the SMP NT4 box hands-down; the "typical" performance increase of SMP vs. 1 CPU (at the same clock speed) on NT 4 is greater than 20% (which is the MHz difference on the 2 boxes).
At least this time they're taking it slow, a few servers at a time, rather than just pulling the plug on the old boxes. Before we write off Hotmail, let's see how Win2K handles it. Everyone I've talked to who's used Win2K has found it to be significantly faster and more reliable than NT4. They may be able to pull this off - I suspect these 5%-10% will be used to work out the kinks before migrating the whole service.
You're correct, but the USPS has jurisdiction only because pyramid schemes which use the USPS constitute mail fraud. It has nothing to do with email vs. paper mail. If the money doesn't go through the USPS, they can't nail you for mail fraud - you're not using "the mail."
I really hope Cobalt doesn't win (actually, I hope it doesn't even get to trial), but I'm glad they're filing the suit. If only to demonstrate to Apple how stupid the idea is.
Do you see DaimlerChrysler suing Ford for stealing styling ideas on pickup trucks? Or Kenworth, International, et. al. suing DaimlerChrysler for borrowing styling from big rig trucks? Actually, the auto industry in general - there's a LOT of "stealing" of features and styling cues. But no one suing. Because that industry has matured past that point.
I think that's what's causing all these lawsuits - the immaturity (I don't mean "childish") of this new consumer industry. It will pass once it's demonstrated how foolish these lawsuits really are.
The person(s) who did this cracked a lot of boxen to launch this attack, from what I understand. Just because they've been stopped from slamming Kuro5in doesn't mean the threat's over. What might they launch next from these systems? What other systems have they infiltrated? It could turn out to be far, far bigger than this.
I just "discovered" Kuro5hin about 2 weeks ago, and was finally getting into it. Damn those bastards. Damn them to hell. Maybe we'll see them burning with Satan in tonight's South Park.
I went to the site last night (after seeing the note on Blues' News about it) and was presented with no content and a very nice pop-up message telling me to come back with a different browser. Here's the JS reason why:
//That'd be the browser's name //That'd be the browser's version
var Name = navigator.appName;
var Version = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
if (Name == "Netscape" && Version <= 4)
{
alert("Please come back with a CSS-compliant browser, such as IE or Netscape 6 (or Lynx)");
}
So, basically, unless I use a pre-beta browser, or a text-only browser, I'm SOL as a Linux user. The mod itself runs on Linux Q3:A - you just can't view their site with the currently most usable browser (that says a lot about the state of browsers on Linux, doesn't it?).
Due to the various agreements Netscape signed to get code from outside sources, the code they released in 1998 wasn't even compilable (they couldn't release everything in there).
Even if it were all there, it's pure spaghetti (with bits dating back to NS2 or older) and not worth trying to fix.
x-no-archive has been around a long time. However, Deja is working on a new one called "x-no-productlinks" which will allow your posts to be archived by Deja AND avoid the smelly auto-linking.
If everyone used x-no-archive then Deja would be useless - and it does come in handy for research at times.
I think it's pretty obvious that they have no intention of putting up a billboard on every highway telling the world about the opt-out. And they'll probably make it somewhat difficult to find the opt-out, and still more difficult to actually sign up. After all, that would work against their best interests (making money). Future posts you can stop from getting ad-linked, but again, you have to know the secret password and they'll not make it easy to find out.
Have a look at the source of your favorite newsreader (assuming it's open in the first place) and patch it to insert the header for you. Then submit that patch back to the maintainer. Your future posts, the problem is solved.
Fortunately, the open-source community will likely have a fast implementation of these x-headers in most newsreaders that are out there. Netscape Messenger will probably never support it, and Outlook Express...who knows?
I'm hoping there's a copyright issue at play here. Does the author get to keep the copyright on Usenet posts? If so, does this linking violate that copyright?
It's the pot calling the kettle black. I quit reading any of ZDNet's reviews and most of their editorials. It became very, very obvious that the more money MS put into print advertising, the more ZD published glowing reviews. They even went so far, in one Linux/BSD/Windows comparison, to say (paraphrasing) "even though it's less stable, more expensive, less secure, and performs worse, we have to give the nod to NT."
You know your car requires oil and coolant, right? You know that when it won't turn over, you probably have a dead battery. You know that if you leave the lights on, you'll run your battery down. You know that the gas goes from the tank into the engine, mixes with air, gets ignited by a spark, and that's what makes the power, right? And I'm sure you're familiar with what happens when you move/adjust each knob, lever and pedal. There are some very basic troubleshooting processes that you know whether you know it or not.
That's a LOT more than the average computer user knows about their computer. They know that the "E" on their desktop is "the internet" and they know how to turn the system on and off. If you opened the hood of your car, I bet you could easily identify a dozen parts, and yet you claim to know knothing about how your car works. Can the average computer user even ID FOUR parts inside their computer?
I believe that the requirements for obtaining a driver's license (at least in my state) are a bit "easy" - at the very least, require that people demonstrate how to change a tire and handle one or 2 other roadside emergencies. Should all of society be denied access to computers because they aren't geeky enough? No. However, with the proliferation of viruses that prey on user stupidity/error, and the increasing toll these viruses take on the rest of the computing world, and the increasing complexity of, well, everything, I think there does need to be a "curb" for people to get over before they can play in the sandbox.
The headline reads "RIT," as does the article. Now, I know cCranium is the one who wrote it, but TImothy really should have corrected the "Rochester University" bit there. There is no Rochester university.
When you get down to it, a "new" (just off the assembly line) nuclear device is relatively controlled and predictable. It won't blow up until you tell it to, and you know how it'll react when you push the button.
As they age, though, you don't really know what'll happen. And that's why we have simulators. As others have pointed out, there's only 2 ways to know if a device that's been stockpiled for 15 years will work - simulate it or take it out to the desert. Now, since we can't exactly take one out back and set it off, we buy a bigass computer and simulate it.
Or would you prefer that one just randomly go off while sitting at the dock inside an Ohio-class submarine at Groton, CT? Or maybe, if we return to the 50s mindset of 24-hour alert for bomber crews fully loaded for WWIII, with the occasional scrambling to test readiness, that B2 flying over Topeka hits some turbulance and levels half of the already-flat state of Kansas?
All I really want to know is, will it be faster than 5.1 on my box at home? I'm running a P2-266/64MB and it takes about 2 minutes to fire up, and ends up sucking down all my RAM. Not exactly a convenient application. I tried one of the tricks posted before about running just the word processor or spreadsheet but it still loaded the whole thing.
I'm running October GNOME right now (possibly a little newer). I have yet to see anything explaining why I should (or, for that matter, shoudn't) upgrade to 1.2.
And I mean real reasons, but because it'll make me a 1337-@$$ d00d.
Elsewhere it was mentioned that compression is used in this setup. How well will an alternating binary stream compress? I'd rather see a test done with realistic data - even if you're just streaming an insane amount of MP3s down the wire, it's a closer representation of actual data that might be send over it.
As fatter and fatter pipes appear on the "high end," the smaller pipes will hopefully get cheaper. Really...do you need 40Gb/sec, or would you be happy with getting your own T3 for half today's going rate? Look at CPUs. As faster ones are introduced, the slower ones have the prices cut. Not a perfect comparison, but it's close.
Set up a big cluster and/or network on one end and start flooding the pipe? One box can't supply the data at that rate, but enough boxes operating together could.