That description sounds too noble for an activity like this. More appropriate headlines would be Making Spam Slick as Owlshit or Infusing Spam with Satanic Strength.
I wish the media would concentrate more on their criminal past. Maybe then people would get a clue and not do any business with them.
The sort of people mindless enough to actually look into a badly-worded spam for increased penis size, longer orgasms, debt consolidation, or what-have-you aren't likely to notice or care about the past histories of the people that have ensnared them.
To survive the frigid Martian night, MER computers are housed in warm electronics boxed heated by a combination of electric heaters, eight radioisotope heater units as well as the natural warmth from the electronics themselves.
Just leave off the heatsinks and fans, and everything should be fine.
"The strength of the Internet does not come from centralistic or hierarchical designs but from de-centralised and distributed design and engineering," noted Karrenberg.
Personally, I'm torn between the cushy redundancy offered by decentralization, and the cushy security of having most of the servers in a stable, well-protected country.
...instead of the flaming and crude jokes that I know are going to happen anyway, is a serious discussion of exactly what Bill Gates has done to earn an honor of this magnitude.
What I mean is an examination from an alternative viewpoint, not for the sake of making a favorable impression of Microsoft -- but as an academic exercise.
I'm well aware that Microsoft, especially on this forum, is seen as one of the most evil entities to ever exist. With that in mind, I'm going to rush right into Godwin's Law and make the following comparison with Hitler's Germany: In just a few years, Hitler managed to transform Germany from an highly agricultural, economically decrepit country into a modern, industrial, profitable one. This was all before the Holocaust, and during that period, he enjoyed immense public support.
Now examine Microsoft. They are a convicted monopolist, and continue to enjoy unparalleled control over the domestic software (and to an extent, hardware) market. But what has arisen from this that would lead their chairman to be considered for an honorary knighthood? Thrust aside the seething hate for a second and just look. What accomplishments have arisen? Computers running software whose price/performance is fantastic? One of the easiest-to-develop-for video game consoles ever? Highly capable web servers that run some of the busiest sites--Dell.com, Nasdaq.com, MSNBC.com? Software conformity (and all the positives and negatives that result)?
As I said, this is intended to be an exercise, not a trumpeting endorsement, in the interests of shedding new light on this piece of news.
Engineers guessed that Spirit's troubles were in its Flash memory and set about sending the rover a complex series of instructions to see if they could get it to bypass the corrupted memory. Theisinger said engineers sent Spirit a command just before its daily "waking up," telling it to shut down and restart in what is known as "cripple mode," using RAM instead of Flash for its start-up instructions.
Some people may take this sort of thing for granted, but I for one find it remarkable that we can essentially reboot and perhaps even fix a system that is on a whole other planet.
Just wait until we have Interplanetary, Interstellar, Intergalactic Remote Desktop. I'm only half-joking.
"The interconnectedness you get from the cell phone is a very positive thing,... The downside of that is that you sometimes want to be alone," said Lemelson Center Director Merton C. Flemings.
it is clear that it is very different from any of the three previous Mars landing sites explored by Vikings 1 and 2 and Pathfinder. For example, those plains all had about 20 per cent of their surfaces covered with rocks. Around Spirit, the figure is just three per cent.
Looks like our previous visits have made them clean up for company.
There is... no indication that any other developer qualified to do the job and sufficiently self-motivated and -disciplined to get it done exists.
In the vast herd of OSS developers, there are surely some that would qualify in both skill and motivation. Granted, one wouldn't be able to assemble a team of dozens, but that's not altogether necessary--even Linux doesn't have that.
Even if... another developer or group of developers volunteered to undertake the task, the prospects for such a program would not justify the investment of time.
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Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters
That description sounds too noble for an activity like this. More appropriate headlines would be Making Spam Slick as Owlshit or Infusing Spam with Satanic Strength.
"Eeetsa 404!"
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is designed to address the most demanding needs of technical workstation users who require large amounts of memory
System Requirements:
PC with an AMD Athlon64 or Opteron processor
256MB RAM
Yeah, I know they're minimum requirements, but it's amusing to think that anyone who needed this OS would actually have to refer to them.
I wish the media would concentrate more on their criminal past. Maybe then people would get a clue and not do any business with them.
The sort of people mindless enough to actually look into a badly-worded spam for increased penis size, longer orgasms, debt consolidation, or what-have-you aren't likely to notice or care about the past histories of the people that have ensnared them.
Push hard enough and they will fit in any hole.
And exactly what sort of holes does one stuff whole women into?
I'll wager there are a lot of guys out there who have asked themselves on more than one occasion which screw are you REALLY supposed to use where,
Hey, if she doesn't complain...
Which Screw Goes Where?
Apparently the bunkermentality.net webserver could use a few more.
To survive the frigid Martian night, MER computers are housed in warm electronics boxed heated by a combination of electric heaters, eight radioisotope heater units as well as the natural warmth from the electronics themselves.
Just leave off the heatsinks and fans, and everything should be fine.
"The strength of the Internet does not come from centralistic or hierarchical designs but from de-centralised and distributed design and engineering," noted Karrenberg.
Personally, I'm torn between the cushy redundancy offered by decentralization, and the cushy security of having most of the servers in a stable, well-protected country.
"Service quality and security is not always proportional to money spent."
Time until someone makes a Windows-Linux parallel: 5... 4...
Inexplicably, some of these relics still manage to survive.
If you think that's amazing, check this out: the Pinto has its own domain name and cult following.
Asked for a comment, SCO was quoted as saying "There's gotta be some blood in one of these stones."
If you squeeze a stone hard enough, you'll break your hand.
...instead of the flaming and crude jokes that I know are going to happen anyway, is a serious discussion of exactly what Bill Gates has done to earn an honor of this magnitude.
What I mean is an examination from an alternative viewpoint, not for the sake of making a favorable impression of Microsoft -- but as an academic exercise.
I'm well aware that Microsoft, especially on this forum, is seen as one of the most evil entities to ever exist. With that in mind, I'm going to rush right into Godwin's Law and make the following comparison with Hitler's Germany: In just a few years, Hitler managed to transform Germany from an highly agricultural, economically decrepit country into a modern, industrial, profitable one. This was all before the Holocaust, and during that period, he enjoyed immense public support.
Now examine Microsoft. They are a convicted monopolist, and continue to enjoy unparalleled control over the domestic software (and to an extent, hardware) market. But what has arisen from this that would lead their chairman to be considered for an honorary knighthood? Thrust aside the seething hate for a second and just look. What accomplishments have arisen? Computers running software whose price/performance is fantastic? One of the easiest-to-develop-for video game consoles ever? Highly capable web servers that run some of the busiest sites--Dell.com, Nasdaq.com, MSNBC.com? Software conformity (and all the positives and negatives that result)?
As I said, this is intended to be an exercise, not a trumpeting endorsement, in the interests of shedding new light on this piece of news.
Engineers guessed that Spirit's troubles were in its Flash memory and set about sending the rover a complex series of instructions to see if they could get it to bypass the corrupted memory. Theisinger said engineers sent Spirit a command just before its daily "waking up," telling it to shut down and restart in what is known as "cripple mode," using RAM instead of Flash for its start-up instructions.
Some people may take this sort of thing for granted, but I for one find it remarkable that we can essentially reboot and perhaps even fix a system that is on a whole other planet.
Just wait until we have Interplanetary, Interstellar, Intergalactic Remote Desktop. I'm only half-joking.
the Network Operations Center, the "NORAD" of the Internet's traffic monitoring,
I'll say. Did you see that photo? It looks like something out of WarGames. God help us if those computers decide to play games.
"The interconnectedness you get from the cell phone is a very positive thing, ... The downside of that is that you sometimes want to be alone," said Lemelson Center Director Merton C. Flemings.
So turn it off.
No, they shouldn't.
Microsoft shipped Internet Explorer 4.0 with Windows 98. Consumers had a choice then on whether or not to use IE... but they used IE.
Now iTunes is shipping with Windows on HP machines. Consumers have a choice on whether or not to use iTunes.
Sounds like the same "choice" as before--so what could Microsoft possibly be worried about? What reason do they have to worry?
You get three guesses, and the first two don't count.
it is clear that it is very different from any of the three previous Mars landing sites explored by Vikings 1 and 2 and Pathfinder. For example, those plains all had about 20 per cent of their surfaces covered with rocks. Around Spirit, the figure is just three per cent.
Looks like our previous visits have made them clean up for company.
Water is believed to be a pre-requisite for life.
Well, that and a 1x4x9 ebon slab.
and of course, that the switch is never going to happen anyway
Oh, whatever. Tell that to people when we are finally no longer able to effective manage the IP addresses that we've run out of.
"Lit by LEDs, inhabited by virgins."
RTFA
You're new here, aren't you?
You know what I meant--a more "official" passing of the development torch.
There is ... no indication that any other developer qualified to do the job and sufficiently self-motivated and -disciplined to get it done exists.
... another developer or group of developers volunteered to undertake the task, the prospects for such a program would not justify the investment of time.
In the vast herd of OSS developers, there are surely some that would qualify in both skill and motivation. Granted, one wouldn't be able to assemble a team of dozens, but that's not altogether necessary--even Linux doesn't have that.
Even if
Well, why not let them decide that?