Read the other replys to my comment. apparently this is a money issue caused by Fox screwing over the actors and giving the syndication to Fox affiliates. I saw a great interview on PBS with Charlie Rose and David. He really has the right attitude. As far as the conflict between personal life and work, we all have this problem. Balance is important.
Hardly an excuse since they moved the show to California for him. As far a beating a dead horse, there are virtually no limits to what stories they can persue. Unlinke a lot of shows where the characters are limited by either storyline continuity or setting, X-Files could do anything.
What i used to really like about X-Files was that the show wasn't serial. You could watch any episode as a stand-alone mini-movie. Then two years ago they started turning it into a soap opera. Recent episodes have been better, but the stories seem to lack the same creative inspiration of the origional stories. For awhile I thought they were shifting more from space alien stuff to the supernatural. But recent episodes seem to be all over the place.
Its sad to see that Duchovney(sp) is being such a prick. I've seen him in numerous interviews and he is a really sharp, funny guy. His movies have been flops for the most part so I wonder why he is dissing the show that made him. If he could manage to get the right movie role he could become much more sucessful, but until then he really should give his old fans some respect. In this respect Clooney from ER is really a cool guy. I hardly ever watched ER buy most of his movies have been great. The days of actors having to choose beteen a screen career or TV career are over.
"demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system compared to the single-G4 Power Mac"
I thought one of the basic facts about SMP is that parallel processors only give 60-70% or their total performance. So in this case the best that could be hoped for is %170 performance of a single CPU. Any ideas? Is this just another gimmick or abreviated benchmarking?
If only I had taken that typing class in highschool. The need to be within the first 60 posts for your comment to be read compounds the problem. As a side note, if you understood my writing well enough to comprehend what I was trying to say then I'm happy.
I read an in depth article once about the MS extension of Kerebros. Basically, the functional part of the spec involves a string of values. Lets say the spec string had 30 characters. The Kerebros group decided to use only 26 of the characters, leaving the last four unused. MS decided to use these spaces.
I guess the first step would be to identify what I spend too much of my own time "thinking" about while I'm online.
Idea 1: The WebScreen.
I know with the rapidly expaning of the web that finding new sources of good information about any particular topic has become more difficult. Search engines and news sites have become generic ad-agencies, yet I know that there ar very good sources of information available. Getting to them is the hard part. The process I ussually follow invoves going to the few selected trusted information sources. When that doesn't work I usually go to one ow two types of search engines. Those that index the web by keyword (Google, Raging, Altavista, Snap, Infoseek) and try to think of unique keyworks that will produce the best results. The second is a web index that categorizes the web by topic/ subtopic such as Yahoo or the ODP. Then I review the result summaries for promising sentences.
Idea2 Security Abuser.
It seems to me that most security holes in servers and other software fall into specific categoeies. 1)Backdoors intentionally installed during development 2)Workarounds not accounted for in the programming logic 3)Weak spots in the software infrastructure that can be exploited 4)Using a tool/command/software for other than its intended purpose. If a smart program could be written to scan and debug software with this in mind it would save a lot of heartache. The debugger would have to scan and debug the software code and "abuse" the running program to check for weaknesses.
This is a really great letter. Unfortunately we're talking about a company that practices deciept as a standard business tactic. Even if they did release the document under an open licence, they would simply install another catch elsewhere. Perhaps modify the standard yet again or find another method to stop W2K from "hearing" other non-MS applications. I surely don't blame all MS employees. I surely do blame MS managment.
Referring to the capitalist versus people-oriented: Private companies benefitting from public research would not be a problem if we didn't already havea mixed system. In this particular case the company not only enjoys the benefits of public research but also private intellectual rights. In a purely capatilist system the company wouln't enjoy patent privledge. That is probably true of the people-oriented system also since in this case the public good of many companies using this technology would outweigh the single company's good. Under the present system we have the worst of both worlds. Capaitalists protected against people's rights/needs under a system created to protect the intellectual property of the individual.
Frankly when they announced the merger I thought it was a bad deal. Wheras Corel markets to the consumer market, Imprise markets to developers and software integrators. IMHO they both would have dragged each other down. As far as working capital concerns it is a non-issue. As the most noticible software company in Canada they are practically a national icon. Financing will be no problem. The bigger concern is probably a takeover bid. But as their shareprice was as low as $2 last fall, if somone didn't swallow them then, they aren't likely to now. I've heard that there is a poison pill ready for any potential hostile takeovers. You have to be seen in public shaking hands with Cowpland and his wife.
The study does not mention the impact of secure sites. For that matter, any site that the search engine couldn't crawl. For instace, what abot PHP, ASP or other script generated sites? Do these show up as "outs" or strongly connected or dead links? I have not seen anything in the paper addressing this. I have to imagine there are a fairly large number of scripted pages and secure websites. What about AD-click links, does this make the web appear more connected just because Ads appear on a otherwise dead end page? There may be reasons to question the validity of any such reasearch done using web-bots since the nature of web-content has rapidly changed over the last few years.
The study does not mention the impact of secure sites. For that matter, any site that the search engine couldn't crawl. For instace, what abot PHP or other script generated sites? Do these show up as "outs" or strongly connected or dead links? I have not seen anything in the paper addressing this. I have to imagine there are a fairly large number of scripted pages and secure websites.
Bow-tie? Must be a StarWars fan. What a great visualization technique. Should have called it the sloppy dogbone model instead. Then instead of disconnected and tendril nodes you could have drewl nodes and spittle.
Looks like sombody need a reesearch project to justify a raise. I just read the paper, what a load of crapola. How is this supposed to make web searching and indexing better?
I noticed a few posts talking about what a great thing it is for great people to set up a website. I think the truth of the matter is that many people could be sharing their knowledge. Just think of the millions of elderly wasting away in retirement homes. Engineers, architects, plumbers...wasted knowledge. The flip side of this is that havin your own piece of the web is getting tougher. Though the price of technology for setting up a webserver has gone down (i.e. and pentuim class computer with Linux installed could do the job) the government acting in concert with big business is constantly raising the hurdle. Just try to get an IP from your local Baby Bell, Cable-Internet or DSL provider. Think you could afford it on a fixed income?
One could argue that there are tons of free Hosts out there, but that puts you at the mercy and content policies. What if some 80 year old dude wants to talk about his life in the KKK. What if a retired hacker wants to share the knowledge. As recent events have shown, getting your content yanked by your Host takes little more than filling out an online abuse report or making a phonecall. Does anyone know of a way to get a free IP so you can run your own server from home?
If only they would set up an Anti-Katz Troll filter. I'm sick of trolls complaining about Katz even though he is one of the most widly read/. writers. Not to mention one of the few writers providing origional editorial content. Personally, I like reading things that I don't agree with more than stuff i do agree with.
The moon is not a planet, just a satellite. Maybe after nuking it it would pull out of Earth's orbit and start revolving around the sun asa smapp planet.
Another point to ponder is that the internet wouldn't be here without the cold war.
INAL but you should idg up some gereric stff you did long ago, find the same stuff in their generated code and countersue them for infringment. Then post the name of the company on SlashDot so we can slam their website.
I've used it for four years. The only two times I considered giving it up wer when MS bought them (and immediately added nifty little features like defaulting to MSN, passports, and having to tab twice to enter username and password) and when I started getting spammed really bad by Email.com, AOL and Yahoo users. But then I realized that if I switched to any of the other big ones previosly mentioned it would probable get worse.
As a person who has read many,many sci-fi novels, there is a big distinction between Hardcore and Soft Sci Fi. Soft Sci-Fi simply uses the future as a backdrop for telling the story and Hardcore usually focuses on applying cutting edge sceintific theory to the human equation. Some writers mix both styles. For instance, Orson Scott Card's Enders Game revolved around using virtual reality technology in war and the loss of innocence of a genious child unknowingly destryoing an entire alien race. Rebecca Ore's Being Alien puts the main character in a position of seeing the human race through the eyes of an alien.
Both types of Sci-fi have something to offer humanity. Speculation about what technologies may be in our future and how they will impact our lives, and introspection into the human psyche. This second one may be even more important since the layer of abstraction provived when the reader "suspends his or her disbelief" and maybe sees things through the eyes of another. Even a subconscious prejudice may be revealed. Since one can have empathy/sympathy for a green-skinned, pointy eared alien, maybe we can come to some understanding aout life for the stranger living around the corner.
I'm not adverse to a secure CVS archive. Its the development environment that I find cumbersome. BTW there are faster ways of getting a response from the maintainers, but circumventing the system probably isn't a really cool thing to do.
Hi Chris, I appreciate the suggestion for me to hack an insecure version of SF but that would be the easy part. Providing the server hardware and bandwidth is the hard part. I've got three kids and a wife to support so my personal resources are a little thin (at least for now). Willing to provide the server and bandwidth? We'll call in SourceSmelter to reflect the cruder development process. Then add a SourceAnneal where projects can be tested.
When SF started I assumed it was simiar to LinuxBox, my previous host. I just assumed that besides hosting they would provide additional services. But, as I mentioned I found SF all but unusable in collaborative efforts. Not to mention the amount of time and hassle using secure tools was adding to the workload. As far as getting hacked is concerned, this is more an exception than the rule. Damaging hacks are few and far between. Long ago i learned not to put anything up on the web that I didn't have a copy of elsewhere. At any rate, I've stuck with LinuxBox, though they have combined with LinuxAve(in no small part due to the MassLinux fiasco I'm sure) they give me a place to hang my hat with a minimum of hastle.
By the way, whatever happened to installfest.com? When I type the URL all I get is Thunder.net Communications logo. I've looked at the feasibility of providing installfest kits (ditro cds and basic setup instructions.) and I figured they could be produced for $2.50-$3.00 apiece. I'd be willing to spend the time (along with my wife) putting the kits together if we were sure to get the level of participation to make the effort worthwhile. Any ideas?
I think that critiquing free services and Software is valid. Unless people complain then nothing changes and is SourceForge doesn't satisfy their customers they will go elsewhere.
My 2cents says that Sourceforge is a great concept but between SSL and SSH the security measures make it so cumbersome to use that many part-time developers become discouraged. SSH at least should be optional. I con understand from a server maintainer aspect this level of security makes life easier, but for people who just want someplace to go and help with projects this level of security makes it too much of a pain. CVS aside, I think many groups would rather have someplace where they can upload and share files without all the hastle. It seems that in its current configuration Sourceforge is little more than a well designed secure CVS.
What is really needed is a playground where developers can interract with a minimum of hastle. On a side note, every time that I have requested assistance it was provived very quickly. I didn't always get the answer I wanted but I definitly got an answer fast. Their efforts are worthy of praise and I hope they iron out the bugs before long. Until then though, I've found another host that gives me much more flexibility buy without the level of resources that SourceForge could be providing.
Sure PHPBuilder is great but personally I've found Sourceforge all but useless(at least for development). SSL limits what browser I can use so I had to backdoor upgrade my IE to 5.0 so that I could even log in at woork (my company uses 4.0 because 5.0 causes problems). SSH is a pain in the butt for doing updates. When you spend more time trying to update then development close to nothing gets done. Not to mention how discouraging it is to the bulk of part-time developers. Security is a fine thing but this is overkill. I've moved my project over to another server that provides free hosting for now. sure I'm sacrificing a little stability and security but at least I can get somthing done.
Though they haven't registerd the Trademark they still own the Trademark. Registering a Trademark only means that you have more Federally protected rights. That said, you have to only consider if you registered the mark in good faith. Since you were aware that the domain had a recent owner you shoud have been prepared for that phonecall.
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Read the other replys to my comment. apparently this is a money issue caused by Fox screwing over the actors and giving the syndication to Fox affiliates. I saw a great interview on PBS with Charlie Rose and David. He really has the right attitude. As far as the conflict between personal life and work, we all have this problem. Balance is important.
Hardly an excuse since they moved the show to California for him. As far a beating a dead horse, there are virtually no limits to what stories they can persue. Unlinke a lot of shows where the characters are limited by either storyline continuity or setting, X-Files could do anything.
Its sad to see that Duchovney(sp) is being such a prick. I've seen him in numerous interviews and he is a really sharp, funny guy. His movies have been flops for the most part so I wonder why he is dissing the show that made him. If he could manage to get the right movie role he could become much more sucessful, but until then he really should give his old fans some respect. In this respect Clooney from ER is really a cool guy. I hardly ever watched ER buy most of his movies have been great. The days of actors having to choose beteen a screen career or TV career are over.
I feel sorry for those poor Canadians when some junk mailer gets hold of the list. Ed McMahon is commin' yer way.
"demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system compared to the single-G4 Power Mac"
I thought one of the basic facts about SMP is that parallel processors only give 60-70% or their total performance. So in this case the best that could be hoped for is %170 performance of a single CPU. Any ideas? Is this just another gimmick or abreviated benchmarking?
If only I had taken that typing class in highschool. The need to be within the first 60 posts for your comment to be read compounds the problem. As a side note, if you understood my writing well enough to comprehend what I was trying to say then I'm happy.
I read an in depth article once about the MS extension of Kerebros. Basically, the functional part of the spec involves a string of values. Lets say the spec string had 30 characters. The Kerebros group decided to use only 26 of the characters, leaving the last four unused. MS decided to use these spaces.
Idea 1: The WebScreen.
I know with the rapidly expaning of the web that finding new sources of good information about any particular topic has become more difficult. Search engines and news sites have become generic ad-agencies, yet I know that there ar very good sources of information available. Getting to them is the hard part. The process I ussually follow invoves going to the few selected trusted information sources. When that doesn't work I usually go to one ow two types of search engines. Those that index the web by keyword (Google, Raging, Altavista, Snap, Infoseek) and try to think of unique keyworks that will produce the best results. The second is a web index that categorizes the web by topic/ subtopic such as Yahoo or the ODP. Then I review the result summaries for promising sentences.
Idea2 Security Abuser.
It seems to me that most security holes in servers and other software fall into specific categoeies. 1)Backdoors intentionally installed during development 2)Workarounds not accounted for in the programming logic 3)Weak spots in the software infrastructure that can be exploited 4)Using a tool/command/software for other than its intended purpose. If a smart program could be written to scan and debug software with this in mind it would save a lot of heartache. The debugger would have to scan and debug the software code and "abuse" the running program to check for weaknesses.
This is a really great letter. Unfortunately we're talking about a company that practices deciept as a standard business tactic. Even if they did release the document under an open licence, they would simply install another catch elsewhere. Perhaps modify the standard yet again or find another method to stop W2K from "hearing" other non-MS applications. I surely don't blame all MS employees. I surely do blame MS managment.
Referring to the capitalist versus people-oriented: Private companies benefitting from public research would not be a problem if we didn't already havea mixed system. In this particular case the company not only enjoys the benefits of public research but also private intellectual rights. In a purely capatilist system the company wouln't enjoy patent privledge. That is probably true of the people-oriented system also since in this case the public good of many companies using this technology would outweigh the single company's good. Under the present system we have the worst of both worlds. Capaitalists protected against people's rights/needs under a system created to protect the intellectual property of the individual.
Frankly when they announced the merger I thought it was a bad deal. Wheras Corel markets to the consumer market, Imprise markets to developers and software integrators. IMHO they both would have dragged each other down. As far as working capital concerns it is a non-issue. As the most noticible software company in Canada they are practically a national icon. Financing will be no problem. The bigger concern is probably a takeover bid. But as their shareprice was as low as $2 last fall, if somone didn't swallow them then, they aren't likely to now. I've heard that there is a poison pill ready for any potential hostile takeovers. You have to be seen in public shaking hands with Cowpland and his wife.
The study does not mention the impact of secure sites. For that matter, any site that the search engine couldn't crawl. For instace, what abot PHP, ASP or other script generated sites? Do these show up as "outs" or strongly connected or dead links? I have not seen anything in the paper addressing this. I have to imagine there are a fairly large number of scripted pages and secure websites. What about AD-click links, does this make the web appear more connected just because Ads appear on a otherwise dead end page? There may be reasons to question the validity of any such reasearch done using web-bots since the nature of web-content has rapidly changed over the last few years.
The study does not mention the impact of secure sites. For that matter, any site that the search engine couldn't crawl. For instace, what abot PHP or other script generated sites? Do these show up as "outs" or strongly connected or dead links? I have not seen anything in the paper addressing this. I have to imagine there are a fairly large number of scripted pages and secure websites.
Bow-tie? Must be a StarWars fan. What a great visualization technique. Should have called it the sloppy dogbone model instead. Then instead of disconnected and tendril nodes you could have drewl nodes and spittle.
Looks like sombody need a reesearch project to justify a raise. I just read the paper, what a load of crapola. How is this supposed to make web searching and indexing better?
One could argue that there are tons of free Hosts out there, but that puts you at the mercy and content policies. What if some 80 year old dude wants to talk about his life in the KKK. What if a retired hacker wants to share the knowledge. As recent events have shown, getting your content yanked by your Host takes little more than filling out an online abuse report or making a phonecall. Does anyone know of a way to get a free IP so you can run your own server from home?
If only they would set up an Anti-Katz Troll filter. I'm sick of trolls complaining about Katz even though he is one of the most widly read /. writers. Not to mention one of the few writers providing origional editorial content. Personally, I like reading things that I don't agree with more than stuff i do agree with.
Another point to ponder is that the internet wouldn't be here without the cold war.
INAL but you should idg up some gereric stff you did long ago, find the same stuff in their generated code and countersue them for infringment. Then post the name of the company on SlashDot so we can slam their website.
I've used it for four years. The only two times I considered giving it up wer when MS bought them (and immediately added nifty little features like defaulting to MSN, passports, and having to tab twice to enter username and password) and when I started getting spammed really bad by Email.com, AOL and Yahoo users. But then I realized that if I switched to any of the other big ones previosly mentioned it would probable get worse.
Both types of Sci-fi have something to offer humanity. Speculation about what technologies may be in our future and how they will impact our lives, and introspection into the human psyche. This second one may be even more important since the layer of abstraction provived when the reader "suspends his or her disbelief" and maybe sees things through the eyes of another. Even a subconscious prejudice may be revealed. Since one can have empathy/sympathy for a green-skinned, pointy eared alien, maybe we can come to some understanding aout life for the stranger living around the corner.
I'm not adverse to a secure CVS archive. Its the development environment that I find cumbersome. BTW there are faster ways of getting a response from the maintainers, but circumventing the system probably isn't a really cool thing to do.
Hi Chris, I appreciate the suggestion for me to hack an insecure version of SF but that would be the easy part. Providing the server hardware and bandwidth is the hard part. I've got three kids and a wife to support so my personal resources are a little thin (at least for now). Willing to provide the server and bandwidth? We'll call in SourceSmelter to reflect the cruder development process. Then add a SourceAnneal where projects can be tested.
When SF started I assumed it was simiar to LinuxBox, my previous host. I just assumed that besides hosting they would provide additional services. But, as I mentioned I found SF all but unusable in collaborative efforts. Not to mention the amount of time and hassle using secure tools was adding to the workload. As far as getting hacked is concerned, this is more an exception than the rule. Damaging hacks are few and far between. Long ago i learned not to put anything up on the web that I didn't have a copy of elsewhere. At any rate, I've stuck with LinuxBox, though they have combined with LinuxAve(in no small part due to the MassLinux fiasco I'm sure) they give me a place to hang my hat with a minimum of hastle.
By the way, whatever happened to installfest.com? When I type the URL all I get is Thunder.net Communications logo. I've looked at the feasibility of providing installfest kits (ditro cds and basic setup instructions.) and I figured they could be produced for $2.50-$3.00 apiece. I'd be willing to spend the time (along with my wife) putting the kits together if we were sure to get the level of participation to make the effort worthwhile. Any ideas?
My 2cents says that Sourceforge is a great concept but between SSL and SSH the security measures make it so cumbersome to use that many part-time developers become discouraged. SSH at least should be optional. I con understand from a server maintainer aspect this level of security makes life easier, but for people who just want someplace to go and help with projects this level of security makes it too much of a pain. CVS aside, I think many groups would rather have someplace where they can upload and share files without all the hastle. It seems that in its current configuration Sourceforge is little more than a well designed secure CVS.
What is really needed is a playground where developers can interract with a minimum of hastle. On a side note, every time that I have requested assistance it was provived very quickly. I didn't always get the answer I wanted but I definitly got an answer fast. Their efforts are worthy of praise and I hope they iron out the bugs before long. Until then though, I've found another host that gives me much more flexibility buy without the level of resources that SourceForge could be providing.
Sure PHPBuilder is great but personally I've found Sourceforge all but useless(at least for development). SSL limits what browser I can use so I had to backdoor upgrade my IE to 5.0 so that I could even log in at woork (my company uses 4.0 because 5.0 causes problems). SSH is a pain in the butt for doing updates. When you spend more time trying to update then development close to nothing gets done. Not to mention how discouraging it is to the bulk of part-time developers. Security is a fine thing but this is overkill. I've moved my project over to another server that provides free hosting for now. sure I'm sacrificing a little stability and security but at least I can get somthing done.
Though they haven't registerd the Trademark they still own the Trademark. Registering a Trademark only means that you have more Federally protected rights. That said, you have to only consider if you registered the mark in good faith. Since you were aware that the domain had a recent owner you shoud have been prepared for that phonecall.