...are available from the handful of TorrentBits sites that offer stats on the popularity of movie torrents. I'll bet that the number of completed torrents for a given movie would track post-release DVD sales. Is there a way for the public to buy/sell future or options on movie releases? Any chance that entertainment products could ever be directly publicly owned?
I won't respond in kind to your expletive, but I will acknowledge that the right of an infant to safety and the chance of a healthy birth does indeed supersede rationalizations against and attempts to cut that life short. Support the rights of unborn women just as much as those who were born. Infanticide is barbaric, even moreso than war. Unfortunately, this is off-topic here. Slashdot should consider posting an abortion issue in the politics section. This is, after all, the primary issue of the 2004 campaign for a very large and growing number of Americans.
Through thick and thin for the past eight years, I have made a career out of software (development, project management, systems design). Stories like this about a million downloads in less than five days is why. The sheer volume of people that you can touch with your work is huge and growing every year. Consider the cost to buy a million people lunch. Now consider that within ten days a prominent piece of software like this can be downloaded by a million people in a week, many of whom are likely to spend more time with it than they did eating lunch. This is such a power rush. For better or worse, I love this business. The network won't replace cable news service, but it will provide the intelligent, literate masses with a means of communication that cannot be wrested from them.
Oh, since this is slashdot, don't forget to vote for pro-life George W. Bush on Nov. 2.:)
...is to put up a white sheet on your window and then aim a nice bright projector at it. This lets your neighbors enjoy your video (albeit inverted left-to-right) and works suprisingly well.
Why CNN/Money is taking a stance on how long someone will work is beyond me. There's honest reporting and then there's implying that Id Software is not going somewhere because its founder has a new baby and a hobby building rockets. I mean, if you want to know what John Carmack's plans are, can't somebody just ask the guy? Geez.
This isn't a "Republicans" article. By pretending to be fair and having both a Republicans and a Democrats section here, the clearly left-leaning editors can encourage their friends and berate their enemies to their hearts content. Seriously, this is my last/. politics post. I'm banning Democrats, Republicans, and Politics from my homepage. When I want real politics news and discussion I know where to get it. Not here.
You may not be in the minority - it could be me. With a 400mghz laptop as my primary machine, if a web page loads one of those damned.swf ads, then my whole web experience slows to a crawl. Being able to effectively kill off those ads makes web browsing enjoyable again.
Pssssst. What really revolutionized my browsing and will make it very hard for me to switch away from FireFox is AdBlock. Right-click on any image, flash animation, or iframe, and you can permanently add it to a block list. (Sshhhhh Don't tell anyone, but I don't see ads on slashdot, CNN, NYTimes, or any of my favorite periodicals any more.) If there was a way to keep a centralized list of blocked sites or an easy way to import and export the lists, then you'd have a real-time distributed content-blocking system.
They get a marketing database filled full of people who were using older (late nineties) hardware that would be ripe for upgrades. At the same time that they're collecting the data, it makes IBM look responsible, it gives IBM a chance to talk to their customers with said older hardware, and casts FUD on the reliability of equipment that is out of warranty. The true cost of the power adapters in bulk is easily less than $5. Hell, shipping the thing out probably cost more than the adapter itself! This is timed to give IBM customer information just in time for holidays 2005. The must smell a replacement season coming on. When it comes to direct/consumer marketing, you can't be too paranoid.
The book is divided into five parts, organized as follows:
Part I, Overview
Three introductory chapters provide the context for the complete operating system and for the rest of the book.
History and Goals, sketches the historical development of the system, emphasizing the system's research orientation.
Design Overview of FreeBSD, describes the services offered by the system, and outlines the internal organization of the kernel. It also discusses the design decisions that were made as the system was developed.
Kernel Services, explains how system calls are done, and describes in detail several of the basic services of the kernel.
Part II, Processes
Process Management, lays the foundation for later chapters by describing the structure of a process, the algorithms used for scheduling the execution of the threads that make up a process, and the synchronization mechanisms used by the system to ensure consistent access to kernel-resident data structures.
Memory Management, the virtual-memory-management system is discussed in detail.
Part III, I/O System
I/O System Overview, explains the system interface to I/O and describes the structure of the facilities that support this interface.
Following this introduction are four chapters that give the details of the main parts of the I/O system.
Devices, gives a description of the I/O architecture of the PC, describes how the I/O subsystem is managed, and how the kernel initially maps out and later manages the arrival and departure of connected devices.
Local Filesystems, details the data structures and algorithms that implement filesystems as seen by application programs as well as how local filesystems are interfaced with the device interface described earlier.
The Network Filesystem, explains the network filesystem from both the server and client perspectives.
Terminal Handling, discusses support for character terminals, and provides a description of the pseudo-terminal device driver.
Part IV, Interprocess Communication
Interprocess Communication, describes the mechanism for providing communication between related or unrelated processes.
Network Communication and Network Protocols, are closely related, as the facilities explained in the former are implemented by specific protocols, such as the TCP/IP protocol suite, explained in the latter.
Part V, System Operation
Startup and Shutdown, discusses system startup and shutdown and explains system initialization at the process level, from kernel initialization to user login.
how about ab-initio protein folding?
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The online shops have been dumping the D-LINK model DWL-122 which is a USB dongle wireless adapter (that happens to work with Linux.) I picked up one for $29 from TigerDirect or somesuchplace. Pretty good bang for the buck: it worked plug and play without the need for additional drivers in a WinXP box I tried it with. Definitely a handy little device to have hanging around, but it doesn't do access point stuff like the current generation does. Any word on Linux-workability for the newer model mentioned in this story??
One thing that any law must possess in order to be a law is that it can be enforced. You can't rule that breathing air is illegal because the law enforcement couldn't follow the law and still make it take effect. How could Congress ever enforce a BitTorrent ban? Copying certain types of data (terrorism communications or child pornography) can be limited and the enforcement of these sorts of transgressionsn is relatively routine now, but in the absence of enforceability, don't look for anti-BitTorrent legislation in the near future. Larry Rosen is right, there is reason to be optimistic about the ability for law to protect our freedoms.
No comparison of Bayesian systems would be complete without some method to normalize the training of them. In other words, different Bayesian approaches to anti-spam will learn differently from a different training set. So ironically, this comparison is only as good as the completeness of the spam used to train the filters.
Did the survey start with a long list of domain names, then seek out the DNS servers hosting them, or was it an IP scan, to randomly sample DNS servers, Netcraft-style. The choice of methods here will make a big difference on how your results turn out, especially given any biases which will be inherent in a domain name list. Thanks to Don Moore for the work, the DNS-server version percentage breakdowns were particularly revealing. More than half of bind installs are release candidates? Also, the prevalence of Windows2000 over other Windows flavors in doman name server roles says a LOT about how the "trustworthy computing" initiative is playing out for Microsoft. Now matter how you slice it (availability, confidentiality, integrity), the domain name system is one component of any networked security strategy.
SpamAssassin is a good start. If you're really wanting to reduce false positives, consider bringing dspam into the mix. "DSPAM presently peaks at 99.985% accuracy, which is ten times more accurate than a human being and is presently being used on implementations as large as 125,000+ mailboxes." bogofilter is another advanced project in the same functional space.
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...are available from the handful of TorrentBits sites that offer stats on the popularity of movie torrents. I'll bet that the number of completed torrents for a given movie would track post-release DVD sales. Is there a way for the public to buy/sell future or options on movie releases? Any chance that entertainment products could ever be directly publicly owned?
I won't respond in kind to your expletive, but I will acknowledge that the right of an infant to safety and the chance of a healthy birth does indeed supersede rationalizations against and attempts to cut that life short. Support the rights of unborn women just as much as those who were born. Infanticide is barbaric, even moreso than war. Unfortunately, this is off-topic here. Slashdot should consider posting an abortion issue in the politics section. This is, after all, the primary issue of the 2004 campaign for a very large and growing number of Americans.
Through thick and thin for the past eight years, I have made a career out of software (development, project management, systems design). Stories like this about a million downloads in less than five days is why. The sheer volume of people that you can touch with your work is huge and growing every year. Consider the cost to buy a million people lunch. Now consider that within ten days a prominent piece of software like this can be downloaded by a million people in a week, many of whom are likely to spend more time with it than they did eating lunch. This is such a power rush. For better or worse, I love this business. The network won't replace cable news service, but it will provide the intelligent, literate masses with a means of communication that cannot be wrested from them.
:)
Oh, since this is slashdot, don't forget to vote for pro-life George W. Bush on Nov. 2.
...is to put up a white sheet on your window and then aim a nice bright projector at it. This lets your neighbors enjoy your video (albeit inverted left-to-right) and works suprisingly well.
anyone tried this with SprintPCS CDMA cards?
Why CNN/Money is taking a stance on how long someone will work is beyond me. There's honest reporting and then there's implying that Id Software is not going somewhere because its founder has a new baby and a hobby building rockets. I mean, if you want to know what John Carmack's plans are, can't somebody just ask the guy? Geez.
This isn't a "Republicans" article. By pretending to be fair and having both a Republicans and a Democrats section here, the clearly left-leaning editors can encourage their friends and berate their enemies to their hearts content. Seriously, this is my last /. politics post. I'm banning Democrats, Republicans, and Politics from my homepage. When I want real politics news and discussion I know where to get it. Not here.
You may not be in the minority - it could be me. With a 400mghz laptop as my primary machine, if a web page loads one of those damned .swf ads, then my whole web experience slows to a crawl. Being able to effectively kill off those ads makes web browsing enjoyable again.
Pssssst. What really revolutionized my browsing and will make it very hard for me to switch away from FireFox is AdBlock. Right-click on any image, flash animation, or iframe, and you can permanently add it to a block list. (Sshhhhh Don't tell anyone, but I don't see ads on slashdot, CNN, NYTimes, or any of my favorite periodicals any more.) If there was a way to keep a centralized list of blocked sites or an easy way to import and export the lists, then you'd have a real-time distributed content-blocking system.
They get a marketing database filled full of people who were using older (late nineties) hardware that would be ripe for upgrades. At the same time that they're collecting the data, it makes IBM look responsible, it gives IBM a chance to talk to their customers with said older hardware, and casts FUD on the reliability of equipment that is out of warranty. The true cost of the power adapters in bulk is easily less than $5. Hell, shipping the thing out probably cost more than the adapter itself! This is timed to give IBM customer information just in time for holidays 2005. The must smell a replacement season coming on. When it comes to direct/consumer marketing, you can't be too paranoid.
The book is divided into five parts, organized as follows:
Part I, Overview
Three introductory chapters provide the context for the complete operating system and for the rest of the book.
History and Goals, sketches the historical development of the system, emphasizing the system's research orientation.
Design Overview of FreeBSD, describes the services offered by the system, and outlines the internal organization of the kernel. It also discusses the design decisions that were made as the system was developed.
Kernel Services, explains how system calls are done, and describes in detail several of the basic services of the kernel.
Part II, Processes
Process Management, lays the foundation for later chapters by describing the structure of a process, the algorithms used for scheduling the execution of the threads that make up a process, and the synchronization mechanisms used by the system to ensure consistent access to kernel-resident data structures.
Memory Management, the virtual-memory-management system is discussed in detail.
Part III, I/O System
I/O System Overview, explains the system interface to I/O and describes the structure of the facilities that support this interface.
Following this introduction are four chapters that give the details of the main parts of the I/O system.
Devices, gives a description of the I/O architecture of the PC, describes how the I/O subsystem is managed, and how the kernel initially maps out and later manages the arrival and departure of connected devices.
Local Filesystems, details the data structures and algorithms that implement filesystems as seen by application programs as well as how local filesystems are interfaced with the device interface described earlier.
The Network Filesystem, explains the network filesystem from both the server and client perspectives.
Terminal Handling, discusses support for character terminals, and provides a description of the pseudo-terminal device driver.
Part IV, Interprocess Communication
Interprocess Communication, describes the mechanism for providing communication between related or unrelated processes.
Network Communication and Network Protocols, are closely related, as the facilities explained in the former are implemented by specific protocols, such as the TCP/IP protocol suite, explained in the latter.
Part V, System Operation
Startup and Shutdown, discusses system startup and shutdown and explains system initialization at the process level, from kernel initialization to user login.
Odds: 10^91023 to 1
Don't you think? That they link to their biggest competitor Yahoo for the Google stock quote?
The online shops have been dumping the D-LINK model DWL-122 which is a USB dongle wireless adapter (that happens to work with Linux.) I picked up one for $29 from TigerDirect or somesuchplace. Pretty good bang for the buck: it worked plug and play without the need for additional drivers in a WinXP box I tried it with. Definitely a handy little device to have hanging around, but it doesn't do access point stuff like the current generation does. Any word on Linux-workability for the newer model mentioned in this story??
One thing that any law must possess in order to be a law is that it can be enforced. You can't rule that breathing air is illegal because the law enforcement couldn't follow the law and still make it take effect. How could Congress ever enforce a BitTorrent ban? Copying certain types of data (terrorism communications or child pornography) can be limited and the enforcement of these sorts of transgressionsn is relatively routine now, but in the absence of enforceability, don't look for anti-BitTorrent legislation in the near future. Larry Rosen is right, there is reason to be optimistic about the ability for law to protect our freedoms.
No comparison of Bayesian systems would be complete without some method to normalize the training of them. In other words, different Bayesian approaches to anti-spam will learn differently from a different training set. So ironically, this comparison is only as good as the completeness of the spam used to train the filters.
Ummm, that "game" sounds a lot like Longhorn.
This is almost as good as the powerbook overclocking notes.
What you describe here is also a good part of the rationale behind TCP wrappers.
I was visitor 12245, and it's still ticking....
pnet.darwinports.com/
WinGIMP once carried a story about a high school digital photography class that made use of the GIMP to, among other things, fix basic errors.
... use a high-signal white noise generator.
Did the survey start with a long list of domain names, then seek out the DNS servers hosting them, or was it an IP scan, to randomly sample DNS servers, Netcraft-style. The choice of methods here will make a big difference on how your results turn out, especially given any biases which will be inherent in a domain name list. Thanks to Don Moore for the work, the DNS-server version percentage breakdowns were particularly revealing. More than half of bind installs are release candidates? Also, the prevalence of Windows2000 over other Windows flavors in doman name server roles says a LOT about how the "trustworthy computing" initiative is playing out for Microsoft. Now matter how you slice it (availability, confidentiality, integrity), the domain name system is one component of any networked security strategy.
SpamAssassin is a good start. If you're really wanting to reduce false positives, consider bringing
dspam into the mix. "DSPAM presently peaks at 99.985% accuracy, which is ten times more accurate than a human being and is presently being used on implementations as large as 125,000+ mailboxes." bogofilter is another advanced project in the same functional space.