I know, these wacky Americans. Still, I know of beaches in the UK where the enterprising local council has built a car park on the main approach for which they charge an arm and a leg.
It's quite common for accountants to register companies at their address so that papers can be issued there for a client. A registered company's address can be pretty much anywhere - I used to have a company that was registered at my house, even had the brass plaque and everything. My current one is registered in London with a management service. Their office wall must be covered in little brass plaques.
Something was nagging me at the back of my mind about the name... European cheap supermarket chain Aldi sell computers with a very similar name, Medion, but their cheapest laptops are around £300. Coincidence?
I can recall seeing Doom running on a Psion 5 eight or nine years ago. Granted the Psion had to be connected to a PC which served the WAD file but it looked good. I have a fairly convincing looking turn based version on my Sony Ericsson W810i too.
I thought that the first time I read it, but then I read it again a couple of years ago and realised that he got a bit stuck in trying to resolve his different strands of story and had to finish a couple of them a bit abruptly. Then again he did the same with Cryptomnicon, and as far as I can see hasn't managed to finish the Baroque cycle at all (joke).
The only way of getting genuinely reliable web metrics would be to sniff and count every packet across the network. Which is why I propose that Echelon should set up a commercial wing to utilise that equipment that is allegedly installed everywhere.
As has been no doubt said, web metrics is as imprecise an art as TV metrics, and in the end it only serves as a wet finger in the air to provide rough data to another industry that thrives on educated guesses. I haven't used Alexa for years (I've been Linux or Mac and Firefox/Mozilla/whatever for a long time) but I recall back then that the toolbar didn't just do whatever it did, but was crammed with third party apps which could only be described as spyware and which on occasion could pull down a machine while the various bits called home but even now it seems that there is no alternative to a degree of spying either on the desktop or on the server side, and while it's a service that advertisers think they need, it's one that they will pay for and for which web developers will put their hands in the stream to catch some of the money. Also, to be fair, Alexa helped found The Wayback Machine so they have returned something to the web.
If you look about two thirds down the comments, the author describes his methodology, and the word 'random' appears a little too often. At the moment about 80% of the spam that I receive in my spamtrap account has an attachment and consists of random strings of text. While I have seen that Hotmail is far too ready to dump legitimate mail into the Junk folder and let junk through, I don't believe that it does so at the level by which the author describes.
In addition, why use Hotmail? There are better free services and have been for some time. For reliability of delivery, I would never trust a free service. In fact I was stunned to read about the person in the replies who uses Hotmail to save backups! The rule is caveat emptor. If your mail is being eaten by your provider, then take it somewhere where it won't be.
The picture on boingboing looks like a commercial machine. It would be interesting to find out if there was any feedback from the military machine to the commercial machine though as it was the donation of a Polish commercial machine to the British Army that set British Intelligence on the track of decoding the messages.
I think it's partially a generational thing. Here in the UK, our national general music station, BBC Radio 2, long had a reputation of playing sixties music by day and jazz and big band music by night. Its target audience was generally the over 40s. These days it has pulled its audience back to the over 30s and has actually paid attention to what the over 30s listen to, and has become the best station in the country. But then again, I'm well over 30.
Broadly speaking, most Linux distros have the same core, the Linux kernel plus the tools to build whatever you need. This is basically what Slackware is. The distros add their choice of application management and distribution, GUI and overall philosophy to Linux, which is a strength, not a weakness. This is basically what the other 394 distros are. If you assume that all have the same sets of headers and libraries available to them (they don't, but there is a common set), you will find that many binaries will compile and run on every distribution. For the rest, there's always VMWare.
If this piece of pointless fluff is in the paper edition of Information Week, there are number of the more clue-free CTOs in this world reading it and going 'hmmm, maybe I shouldn't listen to the sysadmins and put this new application on Windows Server 2003 instead of Debian Linux'. Microsoft win another couple of licenses and the CTO gains a few more enemies. This sort of article has 'FNORD' overprinted on it in invisible ink. The answer, as always, is to be more prepared than the bosses.
To be honest, I stopped reading computer magazines because of the sort of irrelevant ramblings that often appeared in them. While everyone can write a blog, ultimately only the ones that have any worth will be relevant, just as in printed media. Yes, it will come back to reputation.
This has mystified me for ages. A monthly magazine can be something like three months out of date by the time it's published. It's not the Wireds and Red Herrings of the world that suffer from this so, but Computer World and PC User and such, who have to plan ahead for their reviews and for the component sales ads, who must have to make a prediction on how much they will have to charge in two months for volatile items such as memory. Either that or they are wasting their money on two page adverts which have been superceded by their websites.
I can only think that they must be there for the kind of CEO who still has his email printed off by his secretary every morning and who dictates replies on a dictaphone, but who still thinks that he needs to be on the cutting edge.
That's a rather unique view of the Ubuntu model. Whatever Canonical's plans are, I would strongly doubt that many people install software when they need it and then delete it when they have finished with it unless they're really strapped for space. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft's concept of 'software on demand' went any further than remote storage and a.NET version of Word delivered to the web browser, replacing the java version of Word Perfect that was around ten years ago.
The ice and permafrost will have melted and shifted a little recently to expose the body. This isn't to say anything about global warming as it's a fairly regular occurence in the trans-polar regions. Mammoths and lost mountaineers are lost and exposed all the time.
Depends what you call mission critical. Excel was used in voting systems in the Scottish and local elections in the UK this year, and Diebold's GEMS system uses Access as a database. High tech indeed.
Can we please, please stop with this astroturf? Pundits don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone, you don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone, it's probably likely that Apple don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone beyond a couple of OS fixes. The two things that are interesting about the iPhone are the interface and the fact that it runs OS X. Period. It might get more interesting as it develops but at the moment it's a crippled phone on a crippled network that is probably going to prove to be the biggest tech disappointment of 2007. This time next week it will 'iPhone could add two inches to your manhood' or 'iPhone could enable owner to travel in time and space' at this rate.
that Hotmail and Yahoo accounts are being created. Couldn't it just be a low level spoof that makes mail look like it's coming from Hotmail or Yahoo accounts, or worse still, someone has found a way to override whatever security MS and Yahoo have on their SMTP servers?
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I know, these wacky Americans. Still, I know of beaches in the UK where the enterprising local council has built a car park on the main approach for which they charge an arm and a leg.
It's quite common for accountants to register companies at their address so that papers can be issued there for a client. A registered company's address can be pretty much anywhere - I used to have a company that was registered at my house, even had the brass plaque and everything. My current one is registered in London with a management service. Their office wall must be covered in little brass plaques.
Something was nagging me at the back of my mind about the name... European cheap supermarket chain Aldi sell computers with a very similar name, Medion, but their cheapest laptops are around £300. Coincidence?
MAME in 10...9...8...
I can recall seeing Doom running on a Psion 5 eight or nine years ago. Granted the Psion had to be connected to a PC which served the WAD file but it looked good. I have a fairly convincing looking turn based version on my Sony Ericsson W810i too.
'Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail'. In that case every platform evolves until it can run Doom...
I thought that the first time I read it, but then I read it again a couple of years ago and realised that he got a bit stuck in trying to resolve his different strands of story and had to finish a couple of them a bit abruptly. Then again he did the same with Cryptomnicon, and as far as I can see hasn't managed to finish the Baroque cycle at all (joke).
As has been no doubt said, web metrics is as imprecise an art as TV metrics, and in the end it only serves as a wet finger in the air to provide rough data to another industry that thrives on educated guesses. I haven't used Alexa for years (I've been Linux or Mac and Firefox/Mozilla/whatever for a long time) but I recall back then that the toolbar didn't just do whatever it did, but was crammed with third party apps which could only be described as spyware and which on occasion could pull down a machine while the various bits called home but even now it seems that there is no alternative to a degree of spying either on the desktop or on the server side, and while it's a service that advertisers think they need, it's one that they will pay for and for which web developers will put their hands in the stream to catch some of the money. Also, to be fair, Alexa helped found The Wayback Machine so they have returned something to the web.
If you look about two thirds down the comments, the author describes his methodology, and the word 'random' appears a little too often. At the moment about 80% of the spam that I receive in my spamtrap account has an attachment and consists of random strings of text. While I have seen that Hotmail is far too ready to dump legitimate mail into the Junk folder and let junk through, I don't believe that it does so at the level by which the author describes.
In addition, why use Hotmail? There are better free services and have been for some time. For reliability of delivery, I would never trust a free service. In fact I was stunned to read about the person in the replies who uses Hotmail to save backups! The rule is caveat emptor. If your mail is being eaten by your provider, then take it somewhere where it won't be.
Dude, Michael Bolton? Carrot Top? You septics don't even know what taste *is*.
Of course it is, I'm posting from the machine hall on Kinakuta. Oh, wait a minute, no I'm not.
The picture on boingboing looks like a commercial machine. It would be interesting to find out if there was any feedback from the military machine to the commercial machine though as it was the donation of a Polish commercial machine to the British Army that set British Intelligence on the track of decoding the messages.
I think it's partially a generational thing. Here in the UK, our national general music station, BBC Radio 2, long had a reputation of playing sixties music by day and jazz and big band music by night. Its target audience was generally the over 40s. These days it has pulled its audience back to the over 30s and has actually paid attention to what the over 30s listen to, and has become the best station in the country. But then again, I'm well over 30.
Broadly speaking, most Linux distros have the same core, the Linux kernel plus the tools to build whatever you need. This is basically what Slackware is. The distros add their choice of application management and distribution, GUI and overall philosophy to Linux, which is a strength, not a weakness. This is basically what the other 394 distros are. If you assume that all have the same sets of headers and libraries available to them (they don't, but there is a common set), you will find that many binaries will compile and run on every distribution. For the rest, there's always VMWare.
If this piece of pointless fluff is in the paper edition of Information Week, there are number of the more clue-free CTOs in this world reading it and going 'hmmm, maybe I shouldn't listen to the sysadmins and put this new application on Windows Server 2003 instead of Debian Linux'. Microsoft win another couple of licenses and the CTO gains a few more enemies. This sort of article has 'FNORD' overprinted on it in invisible ink. The answer, as always, is to be more prepared than the bosses.
Hang on a minute, you're suggesting that John Kerry is left wing? I do despair of some Americans. The ones that inhabit Fark, mostly.
To be honest, I stopped reading computer magazines because of the sort of irrelevant ramblings that often appeared in them. While everyone can write a blog, ultimately only the ones that have any worth will be relevant, just as in printed media. Yes, it will come back to reputation.
This has mystified me for ages. A monthly magazine can be something like three months out of date by the time it's published. It's not the Wireds and Red Herrings of the world that suffer from this so, but Computer World and PC User and such, who have to plan ahead for their reviews and for the component sales ads, who must have to make a prediction on how much they will have to charge in two months for volatile items such as memory. Either that or they are wasting their money on two page adverts which have been superceded by their websites.
I can only think that they must be there for the kind of CEO who still has his email printed off by his secretary every morning and who dictates replies on a dictaphone, but who still thinks that he needs to be on the cutting edge.
That's a rather unique view of the Ubuntu model. Whatever Canonical's plans are, I would strongly doubt that many people install software when they need it and then delete it when they have finished with it unless they're really strapped for space. .NET version of Word delivered to the web browser, replacing the java version of Word Perfect that was around ten years ago.
It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft's concept of 'software on demand' went any further than remote storage and a
was "We're building a cloudbase from which I will RULE THE WORLD"
In fact, they should put them in Picasa and let Google store them.
>>coat.
The ice and permafrost will have melted and shifted a little recently to expose the body. This isn't to say anything about global warming as it's a fairly regular occurence in the trans-polar regions. Mammoths and lost mountaineers are lost and exposed all the time.
Depends what you call mission critical. Excel was used in voting systems in the Scottish and local elections in the UK this year, and Diebold's GEMS system uses Access as a database. High tech indeed.
Can we please, please stop with this astroturf? Pundits don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone, you don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone, it's probably likely that Apple don't know what's going to happen to the iPhone beyond a couple of OS fixes. The two things that are interesting about the iPhone are the interface and the fact that it runs OS X. Period. It might get more interesting as it develops but at the moment it's a crippled phone on a crippled network that is probably going to prove to be the biggest tech disappointment of 2007. This time next week it will 'iPhone could add two inches to your manhood' or 'iPhone could enable owner to travel in time and space' at this rate.
that Hotmail and Yahoo accounts are being created. Couldn't it just be a low level spoof that makes mail look like it's coming from Hotmail or Yahoo accounts, or worse still, someone has found a way to override whatever security MS and Yahoo have on their SMTP servers?