NO WAY! The keyboard is one of the biggest advantages of going with Treo vs. the P900. I should know because I have a Treo 600 and had to decide between the two.
You know how inconvenient it is to always have to whip out the stylus? My friend has a P800 and he looks like an absoulte geek every time he tries to do anything. Plus it's such a hassle to take the stylus out, make sure it doesn't fall, and have to use both hands to operate the thing for every little task.
1) Offering up larger number of shares can have disastrous effects on the market cap of Google. If they issue too many and the prices get too low, their cap would be lowered undesirably.
2) 40 shares at a lower price, or 12 shares at a higher price, it still adds up to be the same. Only the Joe Shmuck investor thinks he got a better deal with his 40 shares vs. 12 shares. With that said, there are a LOT of Joe Shmucks out there, so it probably will have some effect.
It would save a lot more time, money, and effort to just have the USPTO do it right to begin with, as opposed to them approving a patent, then allowing lawyers and corporations with deep pockets to come along and easily blow it apart.
How would you like to have a patent, only to have a multi-billion dollar corporation basically say, "oh screw them let's just violate it, then use or deep pockets to blow it apart later".
I see some people have suggested using rackmount cases. While this is a good solution, it only makes sense if you have a server cabinet/rack to put them in. Otherwise they will take up lots of horizontal space.
Also, depending on the rackmount case you get, heat can become a factor. Since everything is cramped so close together you will need multiple fans. I have a few servers, and when I test them in my house, they are SO LOUD it's unbearable. Yes 7 fans in a 2U case will seriously annoy you.
Only comes with a 1 year warranty? I'm sorry, but if I'm gonna be spending over $1,000 for a storage solution, it better come with a 3 or 5 year warranty at the least. Heck all of the new Seagate drives come with 5 years warranty!
This story is about a year too late! I was there when Dovebid sold all those Enron balls, pens, and even a HUGE sign that used to hang outside their headquarters.
I didn't buy anything though, because everything was bid up to and obscene amount.
Google is what it is today because it concentrated on what it does best, SEARCHING. All this talk about Google adding auctions, IM, chat, etc etc is just gonna distract Google.
Remember all of those other search engines turned "portal" (buzzword of the dot com days)? What happened to them? They all took a turn for the worst and got sideswiped by a little unknown company named Google. Let's stop it with trying to add "sticky" features. Stickiness and portals went out with the dot bombs.
What I wanna know is, why is that guy holding his steadycam near the toilet? Is he filming his lady friend running toward the potty while taking her pants off... for that inevitable diarhea?
Go here and click the demo link to see what it's all about. The popup is relatively small and un-intrusive, so stop exaggerating things and find out for yourself.
I see some people comparing this to Microsoft's failed "Smart Text". However there's a HUGE difference. Here it is the web site owners that are receiving the revenues and deciding whether or not to put these text ads. With Smart Text it was Microsoft that decided universally what a user sees on ALL websites, while no ad revenues go to the respective site owners.
I for one don't see a problem with this model. Here are my reasons:
#1. The rightful people are receiving the rewards for their hard work. And why not? The more ad dollars you allow them, the better and more content we all get. Do you really want more subscription-based content sites, or is free more appealing to you?
#2. How annoying exactly is it? Ok I agree that the inline popups can be annoying, but then you're reading the article. Why in the world would you go mouse exploring all over the words if you're not interested in their ads? To me this type of advertising is NOT annoying at all. Much better than the popups or the skyscraper ads that pollute your screen.
#3. Whenever the issue of advertising arises, you see a boatload of people whining about how ads are not remotely interesting nor pertinent to their interests. Guys would be presented with tampon banners, etc. Well, here you have context-specific ads. If you happen to be reading an article about cars and you see a link for Mercedes (and you just so happen to be interested in that), you can now click on it and be happy!
Considering the U.S. government is prone to pulling dirty tricks via deliberate sabotage of software code, I don't blame any of these countries to want to use open-source software. At least there they can audit the code.
The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book's revelations are "rubbish."
Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War.
According to Reed, the Reagan administration faced a choice in 1981 when it "gained access to a KGB agent in their technical intelligence directorate" and discovered that Soviet theft of American technology had been "massive."
"In essence, the Pentagon had been in an arms race with itself," Reed said in a phone interview.
Rather than arrest everyone they could to try to close the operation down and halt further espionage, CIA director William Casey and National Security Council staffer Gus Weiss cooked up a better plan: They turned into hackers.
"(Soviet agents) stole stuff, and we knew what they were going to steal," Reed said. "Every microchip they stole would run fine for 10 million cycles, and then it would go into some other mode. It wouldn't break down, it would start delivering false signals and go to a different logic."
The most spectacular result of this hacking, according to Reed, was a massive explosion during the summer of 1982 in the controversial pipeline delivering Siberian natural gas to Western Europe.
Soviet spies stole software needed to operate the pipeline, not knowing that "it had a few lines of software added that constituted a Trojan horse," said Reed. "They checked it out, it looked fine, and ran just fine for a few months. But the Trojan horse was programmed to let it run for four or five months and then the pumps and compressors are told, 'Today is the day we are going to run a pressure test at some significantly increased pressure.'"
He continued: "We expected that the pipeline would spring leaks all the way from Siberia to Germany, but that wasn't what happened. Instead the welds all blew apart. It was a huge explosion. The Air Force thought it was a 3-kiloton blast."
Former KGB agent Vasily Pchelintsev, who was reportedly head of the KGB office in the area of the 1982 blast, told the English-language Moscow Times in a recent interview that Reed's account was inaccurate. "What the Americans have written is rubbish," the former agent said.
Pchelintsev said the only explosion that occurred in Siberia that year came in April, not during the summer, and was near the city of Tobolsk in the Tyumen region. A government investigation blamed the explosion -- which was not disclosed in public until after Reed's book -- on construction violations, Pchelintsev said.
The former KGB agent added that no one was killed in the explosion, the damage was repaired within one day and the pipeline in question supplied gas locally, to the city of Chelyabinsk, not to Western Europe along the Urengoi-Uzhgorod pipeline.
Would people stop talking about this overhyped, overpriced mp3 player already? I mean geez there are tons of better buys out there, yet the media and slashdot just has to bring this stupid little gadget up for discussion every damn week.
It's JUST a regular mp3 player for more money. Don't be a sucker.
This is just another get-rich-quick scheme by businesses to extract more money from unsuspecting domain name whores. They want you to pay money for thin air basically.
I don't get how another new domain will curb spam. People want to send emails at the same domain as the web sites.
And what about open relays, mom-and-pop websites that won't want to go through the trouble, hacked servers, spoofed email addresses? This "new" method solves none of these things.
The.porn/.xxx domains didn't work, and neither will this. Don't get suckered into paying more money on a pipe dream.
If you have RedHat and can't do the up2date any longer, here's what I did to make mine work:
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7d.tar.g z tar xvfz openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz cd openssl-0.9.7d./config shared --prefix=/usr make make test make install
Configure with "shared" because it will install the shared library, which is needed for other programs such as SSHD. The prefix is where RedHat put its *.so files that's needed by OpenSSH.
Not sure if it's required or not, but I just restarted SSHD (uses OpenSSL) after that just in case.
Btw, the above is just what I did. I make no warranties. Follow it at your own risk.:)
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NO WAY! The keyboard is one of the biggest advantages of going with Treo vs. the P900. I should know because I have a Treo 600 and had to decide between the two.
You know how inconvenient it is to always have to whip out the stylus? My friend has a P800 and he looks like an absoulte geek every time he tries to do anything. Plus it's such a hassle to take the stylus out, make sure it doesn't fall, and have to use both hands to operate the thing for every little task.
1) Offering up larger number of shares can have disastrous effects on the market cap of Google. If they issue too many and the prices get too low, their cap would be lowered undesirably.
2) 40 shares at a lower price, or 12 shares at a higher price, it still adds up to be the same. Only the Joe Shmuck investor thinks he got a better deal with his 40 shares vs. 12 shares. With that said, there are a LOT of Joe Shmucks out there, so it probably will have some effect.
Patching a sinking ship isn't a good idea.
It would save a lot more time, money, and effort to just have the USPTO do it right to begin with, as opposed to them approving a patent, then allowing lawyers and corporations with deep pockets to come along and easily blow it apart.
How would you like to have a patent, only to have a multi-billion dollar corporation basically say, "oh screw them let's just violate it, then use or deep pockets to blow it apart later".
My aimbot owns them all.
I see some people have suggested using rackmount cases. While this is a good solution, it only makes sense if you have a server cabinet/rack to put them in. Otherwise they will take up lots of horizontal space.
Also, depending on the rackmount case you get, heat can become a factor. Since everything is cramped so close together you will need multiple fans. I have a few servers, and when I test them in my house, they are SO LOUD it's unbearable. Yes 7 fans in a 2U case will seriously annoy you.
Just some things to consider before jumping in.
Only comes with a 1 year warranty? I'm sorry, but if I'm gonna be spending over $1,000 for a storage solution, it better come with a 3 or 5 year warranty at the least. Heck all of the new Seagate drives come with 5 years warranty!
This story is about a year too late! I was there when Dovebid sold all those Enron balls, pens, and even a HUGE sign that used to hang outside their headquarters.
I didn't buy anything though, because everything was bid up to and obscene amount.
That article is using an overly exaggerated headline to grab readership. But of course, the slashdot people aren't known to eat it up like candy...
I disagree. If you can't tell the difference between a picture on a screen vs. someone in real life, then there's something wrong with you.
Yours is the same argument the politians have used on the gaming/movie industry for the longest time. It's pure BS.
Google is what it is today because it concentrated on what it does best, SEARCHING. All this talk about Google adding auctions, IM, chat, etc etc is just gonna distract Google.
Remember all of those other search engines turned "portal" (buzzword of the dot com days)? What happened to them? They all took a turn for the worst and got sideswiped by a little unknown company named Google. Let's stop it with trying to add "sticky" features. Stickiness and portals went out with the dot bombs.
Or has our memory faded so quickly?
What I wanna know is, why is that guy holding his steadycam near the toilet? Is he filming his lady friend running toward the potty while taking her pants off... for that inevitable diarhea?
Go here and click the demo link to see what it's all about. The popup is relatively small and un-intrusive, so stop exaggerating things and find out for yourself.
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I see some people comparing this to Microsoft's failed "Smart Text". However there's a HUGE difference. Here it is the web site owners that are receiving the revenues and deciding whether or not to put these text ads. With Smart Text it was Microsoft that decided universally what a user sees on ALL websites, while no ad revenues go to the respective site owners.
I for one don't see a problem with this model. Here are my reasons:
#1. The rightful people are receiving the rewards for their hard work. And why not? The more ad dollars you allow them, the better and more content we all get. Do you really want more subscription-based content sites, or is free more appealing to you?
#2. How annoying exactly is it? Ok I agree that the inline popups can be annoying, but then you're reading the article. Why in the world would you go mouse exploring all over the words if you're not interested in their ads? To me this type of advertising is NOT annoying at all. Much better than the popups or the skyscraper ads that pollute your screen.
#3. Whenever the issue of advertising arises, you see a boatload of people whining about how ads are not remotely interesting nor pertinent to their interests. Guys would be presented with tampon banners, etc. Well, here you have context-specific ads. If you happen to be reading an article about cars and you see a link for Mercedes (and you just so happen to be interested in that), you can now click on it and be happy!
Considering the U.S. government is prone to pulling dirty tricks via deliberate sabotage of software code, I don't blame any of these countries to want to use open-source software. At least there they can audit the code.
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62806,00
The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book's revelations are "rubbish."
Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War.
According to Reed, the Reagan administration faced a choice in 1981 when it "gained access to a KGB agent in their technical intelligence directorate" and discovered that Soviet theft of American technology had been "massive."
"In essence, the Pentagon had been in an arms race with itself," Reed said in a phone interview.
Rather than arrest everyone they could to try to close the operation down and halt further espionage, CIA director William Casey and National Security Council staffer Gus Weiss cooked up a better plan: They turned into hackers.
"(Soviet agents) stole stuff, and we knew what they were going to steal," Reed said. "Every microchip they stole would run fine for 10 million cycles, and then it would go into some other mode. It wouldn't break down, it would start delivering false signals and go to a different logic."
The most spectacular result of this hacking, according to Reed, was a massive explosion during the summer of 1982 in the controversial pipeline delivering Siberian natural gas to Western Europe.
Soviet spies stole software needed to operate the pipeline, not knowing that "it had a few lines of software added that constituted a Trojan horse," said Reed. "They checked it out, it looked fine, and ran just fine for a few months. But the Trojan horse was programmed to let it run for four or five months and then the pumps and compressors are told, 'Today is the day we are going to run a pressure test at some significantly increased pressure.'"
He continued: "We expected that the pipeline would spring leaks all the way from Siberia to Germany, but that wasn't what happened. Instead the welds all blew apart. It was a huge explosion. The Air Force thought it was a 3-kiloton blast."
Former KGB agent Vasily Pchelintsev, who was reportedly head of the KGB office in the area of the 1982 blast, told the English-language Moscow Times in a recent interview that Reed's account was inaccurate. "What the Americans have written is rubbish," the former agent said.
Pchelintsev said the only explosion that occurred in Siberia that year came in April, not during the summer, and was near the city of Tobolsk in the Tyumen region. A government investigation blamed the explosion -- which was not disclosed in public until after Reed's book -- on construction violations, Pchelintsev said.
The former KGB agent added that no one was killed in the explosion, the damage was repaired within one day and the pipeline in question supplied gas locally, to the city of Chelyabinsk, not to Western Europe along the Urengoi-Uzhgorod pipeline.
This is the first time I've seen so many comments modded as "Funny" on slashdot.
April Fools!
If you don't like it, DON'T USE IT!
Would people stop talking about this overhyped, overpriced mp3 player already? I mean geez there are tons of better buys out there, yet the media and slashdot just has to bring this stupid little gadget up for discussion every damn week.
It's JUST a regular mp3 player for more money. Don't be a sucker.
If they're already able to log your clipboard, then you have something bigger to worry about. Like keylogging, trojans, etc etc.
People are still using Network Solutions to register domains these days?
Give me their names, because I have an iPod I wanna sell to them for $2000.
Don't forget inflation!
This is just another get-rich-quick scheme by businesses to extract more money from unsuspecting domain name whores. They want you to pay money for thin air basically.
.porn/.xxx domains didn't work, and neither will this. Don't get suckered into paying more money on a pipe dream.
I don't get how another new domain will curb spam. People want to send emails at the same domain as the web sites.
And what about open relays, mom-and-pop websites that won't want to go through the trouble, hacked servers, spoofed email addresses? This "new" method solves none of these things.
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Ok slashdot has messed with my formatting. Anyways the config line is to be on a line by itself. Separate it from the cd openssl-0.9.7d.
If you have RedHat and can't do the up2date any longer, here's what I did to make mine work:
g z ./config shared --prefix=/usr
:)
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7d.tar.
tar xvfz openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.7d
make
make test
make install
Configure with "shared" because it will install the shared library, which is needed for other programs such as SSHD. The prefix is where RedHat put its *.so files that's needed by OpenSSH.
Not sure if it's required or not, but I just restarted SSHD (uses OpenSSL) after that just in case.
Btw, the above is just what I did. I make no warranties. Follow it at your own risk.