According to Mike Daisy, who worked at Amazon.com for 3 years, he actually was paid to review toys. This does not mean he was paid to review toys favourably, just to review them.
Perhaps Gale is a professional reviewer. Perhaps she's also manic when she writes her reviews, too. That would explain the constant 5 stars.
On a side note, his book gives a very funny account of the insanity that is(was?) Amazon.com during the boom.
Are you joking? I mean seriously, are you joking? If you are, I can understand the AC's comment being modded down; however, I could not catch any sarcasm in your comment.
...an 'intellgent personal robotic companion.' It can be wirelessly connected to your home Internet connection, has a built-in camera and speech recognition software.
Ah, yes. But can it post submissions to/. without glaring spelling errors? That'll be the day.
Around this time DT became public, or less privatised is better to say. There was a huge public offering in Germany and almost everybody invested in it. These huge debts and the burst have sent the stock price plummeting with no sign of recovering soon. Lot's of people lost big money on this deal.
But the cultural differences still shine through: Worldcom lies about demand, DT tries to find other sources of revenue.
I time it perfectly: Study in Germany for 8 weeks that coincide with the Linuxbierwanderung and maybe pick up a little German (or two) while I'm there...
...Then they move it to Ireland. Why, oh, why did my ancestors migrate to America?!
Most clustering applications depend on the latency of the network, not the overall speed. A majority of the applications written do not require massive amounts of data to be transferred in order to distribute jobs to the nodes.
What is optimal is a low-latency network protocol that can quickly pass jobs to other nodes. If you're into clustering applications that require the movement of large amounts of data AND want low latency, then products like Myrinet are a good choice. Be prepared to shell out some cash for it, though.
It's been impossible to avoid the hype on this film. Even if you avoid TV, the whole web has been bursting with bits, ranging from eBay to CNN.com.
Funny, I didn't see any hype for this movie. I didn't even know it existed until the/. post. Of course, not actually living in the US can be a handicap. Or blessing, now that I think about it from the media hype-standpoint.
Xerox did have overlapping windows. Atkinson was trying to develop clipping, which is only constructing the part of the window that is not covered by another, as opposed to constructing the entire window, and then covering it with another overlapping window. Clipping therefore saves considerable processing time. Atkinson thought Xerox had developed the algorithms for clipping, but in actuality had not.
Don't forget to put books in for the non-computer user, not just for sysadmins and computer science majors. Not everyone is looking for computer programming help. I suggest even putting some "Beginning Windows" books. There will be people looking for this information, too. A public library is a place for information, even unpopular (or "evil") information.
"Children in search of music on file-sharing programs are directed to pornographic files. Even if children innocently use these programs with the goal of obtaining music or video from their favorite artist, they can encounter pornography."
Since when was "obtaining music or video" online considered "innocent" by the government? Check it out. It's on page four of the report.:)
Assuming the non-booting drive defaults to "slave" if there are no jumpers set on that drive. Of course, you knew that since the article stated it (it's in the back).
I read it to say that you cannot distribute their product in conjunction with any open source software. That's completely different from saying you can't use it.
Perhaps I interpreted incorrectly. If that's the case, then I wonder how the average joe user is going to handle this legalese.
"...the company is considering legal action against the senders due to inconveniences caused to its customers and harm to the popularity of mobile Internet."
Or they could admit their failure and fix the damn hole. These exploits are made as a wake-up to show the importance of security to the company as well as the consumer! Why can't they get over it and audit their system to prevent further exploits in the future and protect their customers!
People, let's remember that this bill has only been introduced. It hasn't been passed yet. And it's up to us to write to our congress(wo)men and tell them how we feel about the issue so they can put this down.
And please, people, vote these types of idiots out next election!
As long as people respond to unsolicited spam, it'll keep coming.
Exactly who is responding to SPAM? I don't know anyone who has ever bought anything from a spammer. Obviously someone is, but who? And where can I get their address? I've got a bridge to sell....
Incidently, I posted this to "Ask/." a month back. Don't recall it ever being posted.
I can relate. At my "college prep" school (which I just finished my final exam for about 40 minutes ago!) refuses to offer an classes such as shop since "It does not contribute to a college career." They even went as far as denying me the chance to do work-study, even though the institution would have awarded me a college scholarship at the end of the program. The guidance counsellor said it "was against policy and there was nothing she could do."
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According to Mike Daisy, who worked at Amazon.com for 3 years, he actually was paid to review toys. This does not mean he was paid to review toys favourably, just to review them.
Perhaps Gale is a professional reviewer. Perhaps she's also manic when she writes her reviews, too. That would explain the constant 5 stars.
On a side note, his book gives a very funny account of the insanity that is(was?) Amazon.com during the boom.
Nur wenn man seine Nachbarn hasst.
Und wer nicht?
Are you joking? I mean seriously, are you joking? If you are, I can understand the AC's comment being modded down; however, I could not catch any sarcasm in your comment.
Please, tell me you are joking.
Oh, and don't mod me down, I really want to know.
...an 'intellgent personal robotic companion.' It can be wirelessly connected to your home Internet connection, has a built-in camera and speech recognition software.
/. without glaring spelling errors? That'll be the day.
Ah, yes. But can it post submissions to
$.99 a song? That's great! For a CD with 15 songs, why that's only ... $15 ...
Hey, wait a minute!
It gives a whole new meaning to "hands around the world". Now where to find volunteers...
Around this time DT became public, or less privatised is better to say. There was a huge public offering in Germany and almost everybody invested in it. These huge debts and the burst have sent the stock price plummeting with no sign of recovering soon. Lot's of people lost big money on this deal.
But the cultural differences still shine through: Worldcom lies about demand, DT tries to find other sources of revenue.
I time it perfectly: Study in Germany for 8 weeks that coincide with the Linuxbierwanderung and maybe pick up a little German (or two) while I'm there...
...Then they move it to Ireland. Why, oh, why did my ancestors migrate to America?!
When reading the comments for this story, I saw this quote at the bottom of the page:
"What I tell you three times is true. -- Lewis Carroll"
In light of the redundancy of this news item and its dubious source(s), perhaps this is all a joke?
Blah
More than one virus != viruses
Virii, people, virii.
Most clustering applications depend on the latency of the network, not the overall speed. A majority of the applications written do not require massive amounts of data to be transferred in order to distribute jobs to the nodes.
What is optimal is a low-latency network protocol that can quickly pass jobs to other nodes. If you're into clustering applications that require the movement of large amounts of data AND want low latency, then products like Myrinet are a good choice. Be prepared to shell out some cash for it, though.
Or you could use a laptop. If you're using a mixing board, it's not like you're going to need portability.
The half-Qwerty would be nice, except the software costs US$400 per single user copy.
Little steep, I should think.
It's been impossible to avoid the hype on this film. Even if you avoid TV, the whole web has been bursting with bits, ranging from eBay to CNN.com.
/. post. Of course, not actually living in the US can be a handicap. Or blessing, now that I think about it from the media hype-standpoint.
Funny, I didn't see any hype for this movie. I didn't even know it existed until the
Xerox did have overlapping windows. Atkinson was trying to develop clipping, which is only constructing the part of the window that is not covered by another, as opposed to constructing the entire window, and then covering it with another overlapping window. Clipping therefore saves considerable processing time. Atkinson thought Xerox had developed the algorithms for clipping, but in actuality had not.
Don't forget to put books in for the non-computer user, not just for sysadmins and computer science majors. Not everyone is looking for computer programming help. I suggest even putting some "Beginning Windows" books. There will be people looking for this information, too. A public library is a place for information, even unpopular (or "evil") information.
"Children in search of music on file-sharing programs are directed to pornographic files. Even if children innocently use these programs with the goal of obtaining music or video from their favorite artist, they can encounter pornography."
:)
Since when was "obtaining music or video" online considered "innocent" by the government? Check it out. It's on page four of the report.
Assuming the non-booting drive defaults to "slave" if there are no jumpers set on that drive. Of course, you knew that since the article stated it (it's in the back).
According to /., you are User #213387.
Have a nice day.
I read it to say that you cannot distribute their product in conjunction with any open source software. That's completely different from saying you can't use it.
Perhaps I interpreted incorrectly. If that's the case, then I wonder how the average joe user is going to handle this legalese.
"...the company is considering legal action against the senders due to inconveniences caused to its customers and harm to the popularity of mobile Internet."
Or they could admit their failure and fix the damn hole. These exploits are made as a wake-up to show the importance of security to the company as well as the consumer! Why can't they get over it and audit their system to prevent further exploits in the future and protect their customers!
Well, it's certainly not Lynx compliant....
People, let's remember that this bill has only been introduced. It hasn't been passed yet. And it's up to us to write to our congress(wo)men and tell them how we feel about the issue so they can put this down.
And please, people, vote these types of idiots out next election!
As long as people respond to unsolicited spam, it'll keep coming.
/." a month back. Don't recall it ever being posted.
Exactly who is responding to SPAM? I don't know anyone who has ever bought anything from a spammer. Obviously someone is, but who? And where can I get their address? I've got a bridge to sell....
Incidently, I posted this to "Ask
I can relate. At my "college prep" school (which I just finished my final exam for about 40 minutes ago!) refuses to offer an classes such as shop since "It does not contribute to a college career." They even went as far as denying me the chance to do work-study, even though the institution would have awarded me a college scholarship at the end of the program. The guidance counsellor said it "was against policy and there was nothing she could do."
At least I'm free, now.