To be useful, for me it had to be: - Extremely low on the cpu - keep the database small (10'000 webpages in 50MB or less) - fast. Let me search in 2seconds tops.
Anyobdy already working on this?
I am, but mine has the following specs: - Extremely cpu intensive - huge 5 GB Database per year archived - extremely slow with frequent system crashes, at least 50 minutes per search and the search program gets set to the highest priority so nothing else can function
A big problem for cable companies is that they now have no real excuse to not have plans like this. Before digital cable they could at least claim some technological difficulties in setting up such a system. Now I would guess that it would involve minor changes to their infrastructure and users should easily be able to add or remove channels directly through their cable box.
are busy making it harder to sue and capping awards under the guise of so-called tort reform
So you agree that many doctors should have to have malpractice insurance that runs $50,000 - $100,000 a year?
Interesting.
Why shouldn't there be a cap? I suffered due to a mistake so now I deserve to be filthy rich? Give me a break.
My father died because a doctor misdiagnosed a problem with his heart. I have failed to see how my mother or I would should be allowed to sue for $X million because of that.
Nor will they be, until you can ante up a few million in bribes. Sorry, donations.
Why do you think we're still in this situation? Because of the bribes the lawyers groups feed our politicians.
But the US hasn't been the 1000 gorilla since the 1990's (if not the 1980's). No one doubts the US's (and USSR's) dominance in international affairs for all of the 80's and most of the 90's.
Nuclear nations are sprouting all over the place. What are all these new nuclear nations sprouting everywhere? Pakistan and India? And who else? Maybe Iran and North Korea. I think you need to take a look at this page here.
Our tech is no longer superior. What of our technology is no longer superior? Military? Amazingly superior. Computers? Still superior. Medical? Still superior. Please, enlighten me.
pissing people off that can easily take us out. Who could "easily take us out"? Again, I point you to this page.
If you're dreaming about China posing a possible threat to us in the future, keep dreaming. China has no aircraft carriers (the most important piece of military hardware outside of nuclear weapons) and possibly 1 or 2 nuclear subs. The military is hopelessly outdated and they just had to reduce their forces by 200,000 - 300,000 men because they hardly had equipment for them.
I don't quite get this fascination with China that people have. It's like they're excited by the idea that having China as the most powerful nation on the planet would somehow be a good thing. We all love forced abortions and crushing of political dissidents, don't we?
Remember when Microsoft first scoffed at the internet as a whole, and then finally got in the act with their cute little "Internet Explorer" browser? Remember how we all laughed at them, and pointed at how much better Netscape was? I mean, Netscape Navigator 3.01 vs. IE 2.0 and 3.0. Think about it... then IE did infact become the better browser. Now we finally have the new Mozilla and Firefox and while they are again superior products (I can't stand not having tabs) the game is over.
Are we now doing the same thing with search engines? It's like MS is late to the party again and we're too busy laughing at the car they came in to notice that they are eating all of our food.
Interesting mods... it is now "flamebait" to warn someone not to click on a link that shows naked a male wrestler holding another man's ass near his face with a fork in his hand. F'en idiots.
Unless your downloading your music than sending a couple of dollars to the Artists your just another p2p'r justifying his theft.
Strange... the music (live trance sets) I download are almost always posted and/or approved by the artists themselves. My other main source was MP3.com (which I bought CDs from) and am still trying to find a nice replacement for that.
Am I the only one not busting a nut at the chance of paying $0.99 to download one song? Or $9.99 to download an album? To me this is hardly an improvement over current pricing. Maybe it's just that the stuff I listen to isn't typically available (live trance sets) but I really can't see paying much more than $0.25 for a single downloadble track. Maybe $0.50 if I really enjoyed the artist.
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To be useful, for me it had to be:
- Extremely low on the cpu
- keep the database small (10'000 webpages in 50MB or less)
- fast. Let me search in 2seconds tops.
Anyobdy already working on this?
I am, but mine has the following specs:
- Extremely cpu intensive
- huge 5 GB Database per year archived
- extremely slow with frequent system crashes, at least 50 minutes per search and the search program gets set to the highest priority so nothing else can function
In my town, digital cable costs extra.
I've seen this posted several times now. Kind of suprising. Time Warner digital cable is slightly cheaper than analog for it's mid-range packages.
A big problem for cable companies is that they now have no real excuse to not have plans like this. Before digital cable they could at least claim some technological difficulties in setting up such a system. Now I would guess that it would involve minor changes to their infrastructure and users should easily be able to add or remove channels directly through their cable box.
are busy making it harder to sue and capping awards under the guise of so-called tort reform
So you agree that many doctors should have to have malpractice insurance that runs $50,000 - $100,000 a year?
Interesting.
Why shouldn't there be a cap? I suffered due to a mistake so now I deserve to be filthy rich? Give me a break.
My father died because a doctor misdiagnosed a problem with his heart. I have failed to see how my mother or I would should be allowed to sue for $X million because of that.
Nor will they be, until you can ante up a few million in bribes. Sorry, donations.
Why do you think we're still in this situation? Because of the bribes the lawyers groups feed our politicians.
But the US hasn't been the 1000 gorilla since the 1990's (if not the 1980's).
No one doubts the US's (and USSR's) dominance in international affairs for all of the 80's and most of the 90's.
Nuclear nations are sprouting all over the place.
What are all these new nuclear nations sprouting everywhere? Pakistan and India? And who else? Maybe Iran and North Korea. I think you need to take a look at this page here.
Our tech is no longer superior.
What of our technology is no longer superior? Military? Amazingly superior. Computers? Still superior. Medical? Still superior. Please, enlighten me.
pissing people off that can easily take us out.
Who could "easily take us out"? Again, I point you to this page.
If you're dreaming about China posing a possible threat to us in the future, keep dreaming. China has no aircraft carriers (the most important piece of military hardware outside of nuclear weapons) and possibly 1 or 2 nuclear subs. The military is hopelessly outdated and they just had to reduce their forces by 200,000 - 300,000 men because they hardly had equipment for them.
I don't quite get this fascination with China that people have. It's like they're excited by the idea that having China as the most powerful nation on the planet would somehow be a good thing. We all love forced abortions and crushing of political dissidents, don't we?
We don't "let" them. They have the sovereign right to do so.
Sort of. They have the right to do it, but the states also have the right to forbid their citizens from gambling.
So, they can build all the wonderful casinos they want to, but they're going to be empty until the state allows for it.
Remember when Microsoft first scoffed at the internet as a whole, and then finally got in the act with their cute little "Internet Explorer" browser? Remember how we all laughed at them, and pointed at how much better Netscape was? I mean, Netscape Navigator 3.01 vs. IE 2.0 and 3.0. Think about it... then IE did infact become the better browser. Now we finally have the new Mozilla and Firefox and while they are again superior products (I can't stand not having tabs) the game is over.
Are we now doing the same thing with search engines? It's like MS is late to the party again and we're too busy laughing at the car they came in to notice that they are eating all of our food.
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From the article:
Microsoft will challenge the ruling, a process that could keep the battle rumbling until 2009, it said.
Weee.... so, this will finish up right after SCO wins its lawsuit, right?
does that scare you?
The outside is nice... and warm.. high of 65 today!
I don't understand this now semi-frequent first posts... but it strangely amuses me.
it's a lot harder to buy a few politicians
So it's more expensive then?
He was appointed by the same people who appointed Jesse Jackson to represent African-americans.
Interesting mods... it is now "flamebait" to warn someone not to click on a link that shows naked a male wrestler holding another man's ass near his face with a fork in his hand. F'en idiots.
Offtopic, yes, but flamebait?
Follow the link and see what I'm talking about.
Troll... don't click link..
blah blah blah
Unless your downloading your music than sending a couple of dollars to the Artists your just another p2p'r justifying his theft.
Strange... the music (live trance sets) I download are almost always posted and/or approved by the artists themselves. My other main source was MP3.com (which I bought CDs from) and am still trying to find a nice replacement for that.
I don't use p2p software.
on an unrelated note... autopr0n.com is awesome =p
Am I the only one not busting a nut at the chance of paying $0.99 to download one song? Or $9.99 to download an album? To me this is hardly an improvement over current pricing. Maybe it's just that the stuff I listen to isn't typically available (live trance sets) but I really can't see paying much more than $0.25 for a single downloadble track. Maybe $0.50 if I really enjoyed the artist.
More likely, the update to AIM you install will magically turn it into MSN messenger
Yeah, just like how AOL did with ICQ when it acquired it.
Did AOL just buy ICQ to kill it?
there are over 3010 comments right now... this is probably about number 3015...
holy fuck
it looks like he just cut and pasted a number of sentence fragments from the review
A Clie's scroll wheel would nice for this type of app. In this software the scroll wheel is emulated on the screen itself.
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Yeah... it's an f'en review of five calc books. The author should be committed and never allowed to enter society again.
Another good book in the same vein is Counter Hack by Ed Skoudis. It can be slightly dated, but still informative.
Here's amazon's page on it. It's ranked 5 out of 5 stars.
You're thinking of dual pistols. No assault rifle in the original UT. That appeared first in UT2K3.