I'd rather bring an old locked down linux box with eight 250GB internal drives, and allow library patrons to hot plug their USB hard disks into it and share thier warez back and forth. Put a big sign next to the box that says "insert USB hard disk cable here --->" and allow everyone to sync their data with the warez mothership of ISO images.
Ok, I've went to the site, I've glanced over the FAQ, I've even been to the "Project Site", and still it is not clear to me what use a piece of software like this is useful for.
It sounds to me like this project, like many others before it, is headed down a spiral of software uselessness really fast. They've already lost my vote. It seems pretty useless to me.
The problem with voice recognition is that almost 70% of the physicians who are dictating are foreign with thick accents. On standard english voices without accents, voice recognition has a 40% success rate without training. With training, it can get as high as 90%. Add a thick foreign accent, and these rates drop bigtime.
I think the term "Spyware" and its associated definition fit Gator corporation just nicely. I would counter sue them for false advertising, deceptive advertising, and 15 other crimes which they are guilty of but I forgot to mention in this post.
Too bad the article did not talk about any difficult recovery scenario, like when part of the physical platters are destroyed. All that article talks about is how to recover deleted files or slack space.
That guy Eric Allman purposely puts bugs in his code so he can write exploits and crack into machines. He's been doing it since the late 80's. We cracked his box years ago and found an unpublished exploit THAT HE WROTE for the current version of sendmail sitting in his home directory. Coincidence?
I see serious questions regarding privacy and copyright. If this were a standalone tool (something similar to lint or weblint), this software might be effective and useful. The fact that this is not a standalone tool, the fact that this is a web-based interface, means you have to upload your work into this system. This raises lots of questions. Are they hoarding essays and term papers? What are they doing with this data? They should releast it open-source and just release the tool itself, offer the web interface as an option, but offer the tool standalone.
Previously on slashdot there was a story about an article from The Tech Report that is really helpful regarding making a decision about IDE RAID card price/performance. From examining the article, it is obvious that 3Ware comes in with a better card for the money.
How about open standards for cell phone protocols? Who cares about taking pictures on a cell phone. They should first make the protocol (CDMA) open, at least give people an API to work with. I want to see software that runs on my Linux based cell phone that can (for instance) take Caller-ID information and based on that, totally control the functionality of the phone (i.e. dial another phone number, play some PCM WAV audio out the port, etc etc).. This is long overdue.
Could you at least give a reason for your statement?
Who in their right mind would want to make their application execution 4-20 times slower by writing it in an interpreted language like C# or Java. If this wasn't bad enough, how can you require your users to download a 25MB library just to be able to run your "hello world" script. Thats retarded. I'll stick to C/C++ thank you.
A big requirement for inclusion in any packaged distribution is the usefulness of the package. This package does not seem useful, from what I've seen already.
Bulk emailing your resume makes you look like an idiot. Jobspam is a service that will send your resume to jobs based on a complex scoring system. If the job reaches a threshold score, your resumes get sent to that job. Using it on a daily basis, you only respond to jobs that match the score threshold and it can be tweaked on the fly to improve its accuracy. Its a good tool, and it works really well for that purpose.
Its hard to get a video clip to play on Windows Media Player 9 (the newest version) without it seg faulting. I've been using RealOne Player with success (at least it doesnt segfault).
Next you will have some moron compiling under vmware or bochs or plex86. If you don't care about the abstraction or the 60% degradation in performance, and the fact that you have to rewrite all your make files to use vc++ nmake, this is for you. Its a convoluted mess IMHO. Using cross gcc for win32 on linux is a much cleaner way of doing this.
Wireless can be denial-of-serviced much easier than CAT5 can. It would really suck if your playing at a concert and someone in the room overloads your own wireless bandwidth to knock your equipment off the air.
The fact that the LARGEST banking company in the united states relies on the public internet for ATM transactions is totally disturbing to me. I don't know about the rest of you, but I will never use Bank of America as long as I live becaues of a statement like that. I tried to use a Bank of America ATM earlier this morning, and the transaction timed out. That's BULLSHIT. They should rely on private (telephone, x.25) networks, not the internet, like they always have done previously. I know the Internet is cheaper, but the reliability of financial transactions is at stake here.
Besides the "kewl" factor, what is the point of ever modifying an Xbox? Games that once ran on the Xbox will not longer run. TuxRacer is fun, but come on.
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I'd rather bring an old locked down linux box with eight 250GB internal drives, and allow library patrons to hot plug their USB hard disks into it and share thier warez back and forth. Put a big sign next to the box that says "insert USB hard disk cable here --->" and allow everyone to sync their data with the warez mothership of ISO images.
The FAT filesystem limits filename lengths to eight characters, plus a three character extension.
Qwest was never an RBOC, will never be an RBOC, and the notion that they ever were an RBOC is laughable at best.
use vmware and image the disk as one big .vmx file... when the stuff breaks, just copy a vmx file across the network and you're done.
Ok, I've went to the site, I've glanced over the FAQ, I've even been to the "Project Site", and still it is not clear to me what use a piece of software like this is useful for.
It sounds to me like this project, like many others before it, is headed down a spiral of software uselessness really fast. They've already lost my vote. It seems pretty useless to me.
The problem with voice recognition is that almost 70% of the physicians who are dictating are foreign with thick accents. On standard english voices without accents, voice recognition has a 40% success rate without training. With training, it can get as high as 90%. Add a thick foreign accent, and these rates drop bigtime.
I think the term "Spyware" and its associated definition fit Gator corporation just nicely. I would counter sue them for false advertising, deceptive advertising, and 15 other crimes which they are guilty of but I forgot to mention in this post.
-brian
Too bad the article did not talk about any difficult recovery scenario, like when part of the physical platters are destroyed. All that article talks about is how to recover deleted files or slack space.
That guy Eric Allman purposely puts bugs in his code so he can write exploits and crack into machines. He's been doing it since the late 80's. We cracked his box years ago and found an unpublished exploit THAT HE WROTE for the current version of sendmail sitting in his home directory. Coincidence?
I see serious questions regarding privacy and copyright. If this were a standalone tool (something similar to lint or weblint), this software might be effective and useful. The fact that this is not a standalone tool, the fact that this is a web-based interface, means you have to upload your work into this system. This raises lots of questions. Are they hoarding essays and term papers? What are they doing with this data? They should releast it open-source and just release the tool itself, offer the web interface as an option, but offer the tool standalone.
Previously on slashdot there was a story about an article from The Tech Report that is really helpful regarding making a decision about IDE RAID card price/performance. From examining the article, it is obvious that 3Ware comes in with a better card for the money.
To accept that you are to hold them harmless for any future antitrust issues is outright illegal.
Unfortunately GSM is not the dominant protocol used in wireless networks. Thanks for playing, try again later.
How about open standards for cell phone protocols? Who cares about taking pictures on a cell phone. They should first make the protocol (CDMA) open, at least give people an API to work with. I want to see software that runs on my Linux based cell phone that can (for instance) take Caller-ID information and based on that, totally control the functionality of the phone (i.e. dial another phone number, play some PCM WAV audio out the port, etc etc).. This is long overdue.
Who in their right mind would want to make their application execution 4-20 times slower by writing it in an interpreted language like C# or Java. If this wasn't bad enough, how can you require your users to download a 25MB library just to be able to run your "hello world" script. Thats retarded. I'll stick to C/C++ thank you.
A big requirement for inclusion in any packaged distribution is the usefulness of the package. This package does not seem useful, from what I've seen already.
Bulk emailing your resume makes you look like an idiot. Jobspam is a service that will send your resume to jobs based on a complex scoring system. If the job reaches a threshold score, your resumes get sent to that job. Using it on a daily basis, you only respond to jobs that match the score threshold and it can be tweaked on the fly to improve its accuracy. Its a good tool, and it works really well for that purpose.
When you buy a connection to an ISP, you pay for a pipe. What you do with that pipe is your business.
I would never type in a search term into a search engine owned by Microsoft.
Thats like buying a gun from Walt Disney.
Its hard to get a video clip to play on Windows Media Player 9 (the newest version) without it seg faulting. I've been using RealOne Player with success (at least it doesnt segfault).
RFC 3515 specifies the Ethnic Origin Identifier (EOID) flag added to IPv4 packets.
Next you will have some moron compiling under vmware or bochs or plex86. If you don't care about the abstraction or the 60% degradation in performance, and the fact that you have to rewrite all your make files to use vc++ nmake, this is for you. Its a convoluted mess IMHO. Using cross gcc for win32 on linux is a much cleaner way of doing this.
Wireless can be denial-of-serviced much easier than CAT5 can. It would really suck if your playing at a concert and someone in the room overloads your own wireless bandwidth to knock your equipment off the air.
The fact that the LARGEST banking company in the united states relies on the public internet for ATM transactions is totally disturbing to me. I don't know about the rest of you, but I will never use Bank of America as long as I live becaues of a statement like that. I tried to use a Bank of America ATM earlier this morning, and the transaction timed out. That's BULLSHIT. They should rely on private (telephone, x.25) networks, not the internet, like they always have done previously. I know the Internet is cheaper, but the reliability of financial transactions is at stake here.
Besides the "kewl" factor, what is the point of ever modifying an Xbox? Games that once ran on the Xbox will not longer run. TuxRacer is fun, but come on.