It doesn't really have to be ONE event to sink it 600 metres below sea level. It could have been many events over time. There is quote a bit of land that was above sea level in that time (before and during the Egyptians) that is now underwater as is there land nowadays that was submerged in ancient times. The land is ever evolving and has never been perfectly stable.
Hey, in a couple thousand years I'm sure someone will be wondering how California got 600 metres below the ocean floor.
> We didn't try Hitler, nor would we have even considered it if we captured him.
I believe many people in his party had some troubles with some "Crimes against humanity" charges at a wee event called the Nuremberg Trials. These were crimes committed during a war yet they were still charge.
Of course they would have tried Hitler, it was a big show to prove the war was justified. It was a huge disappointment (with respect to the trial) that Hitler went out and shot himself.
Granted I'm not an American citizen so I can't say how fast the USPS is but personally I find that it's not that expensive to send things via courier and much quicker. The business that I work for sends most of its mail via a courier service or internally.
Anything that needs to get signed or where a hardcopy is needed (such as the yearly benefit summary) is sent either by the internal mail system or through a courier service. All other notices are done via e-mail. The only thing that I can think of that the company still uses snail mail for is if you don't want your paystub delivered at work.
I don't think that these anthrax cases are going to causes snail mail to die out but I think that slowly a government run mail system may be replaced by a company own service (such as FedEx).
Just a thought.
- Cuyler
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> I really wonder why none of the PC vendors I've seen use a similar swing-out case design.
Well, the main reason is that Apple has a tendency to sue anyone that infringes upon their designs.
The approach would not to be to create a white hat worm to infect a computer to fix the hole since that is considered by many to be as unethical as infecting a computer with harmful intent; It would be to just have a script to download the main page from any host that attempted to attack you (after all, they all run web servers). Then the script would search for any e-mail address (ie. webmaster@....) on the main page, probably at the bottom and then send an e-mail to that address informing them that your server was hit by the Code Red Worm [I | II] from their server.
I don't mind the non-pretty cool logo bootup. The idea that I have with my computer systems is that I boot them one in a while. On my BSD box I've only seen the boot messages twice now and I've had that system for almost 4 months now.
The only real time that I'm booting up the systems are when something has gone wrong (power loss in house for instance) and in that case I'd like to see all the boot up messages. I don't really need to see "Network , brought to you by your friends at Coca-Cola" but it's better than seeing a flashy logo and wondering what exactly my computer is doing.
As an organiser the power of an iPAQ is definatly not needed. I'll give you that. If I used my iPAQ for JUST my school schedule and some phone numbers I would have kept using my Palm IIIe. The thing is, I wanted a device that I could store numerous books that I read on the bus. I read the newspapers while I'm waiting for a class from the economist (300k), the onion (56k), various movie review sites (200k)...all in all just daily new that I wish to read totals about 4 mb. I also use my iPAQ as a map. I use Pocket Streets and have a 1mb map of Ottawa, Canada - with most street addresses. That has has saved me a lot of hassle - I just write the address in and it tells me where it is, even printed maps can't do that.
As for recreation, I do play some games, and I would honestly say with the exception of iGolf none of them would be hard to get on the Palm Pilot - with the exception of the NES Emulator.
I have had good experiences with the iPAQ although it is an annoyance that the IBM 1gb microdrive manufactured after Jan 29th, 2001 currently doesn't work with the iPAQ so I've had to refrain from being able to rip dvds and have a good collection of mp3s to listen to while on the go.
No, but a good part of it is and even then high speed access ia not available everywhere.
I live in Ottawa, for myself the @home service is great. I also had the choice of Sympatico DSL. If I was to move anything more then 20 kilometres south of where I currently live I would not be able to get any highspeed access and my only option for such would have to be an expensive solution like the one this article is about.
In my personal experience the lower end systems are worth the energy to run them. I use the lowest end system in the house (out of 5 computers) to be the router, firewall and fileserver for all the other computers. I've had a low end penitum (150) for a year that worked great. Right now it's a Celeron 600 and performace wise it's not that much of a difference.
I friend of mine is using a 486dx33. He has been using it for about 3 years now. It's always worked. It's not loud since he keeps it in another room and as for the space, his has it behind a shelf which was wasted space before that. I keep my router on top of a filling cabinent.
As for who would do it ("Ans: Only a few geeks would bother"), I can think of many people that have more then two computers that wish to route them. Sure they could buy a $125 (Cdn) router but why not just use the old hardware laying around that I would just give away to a friend that might need it?
It's not a bad idea but I don't see it working it's wonders on me.
On almost every single webpage that I load there is an advertisement of some kind but I have yet to buy something from these ads. I'd honestly say that at most I've visited 1 out of every 200 of the banners' sites.
I'd like to know how sucessful banner ads are? And how much better do you think they could get if they were directed towards you?
It's at the point where when I loaded Slashdot and read the article a thoguht occured to me. I didn't even know what colour the banner at the top of the page was. I automatically skip it.
I can't be sure how they test for the "bad guys" but I would assume that they'd just check an account once, maybe twice to see how the data matched up. If the data matched up the user account could be flagged as good. If there is issues with the data I would expect that they would still enable the account, not notify the user and just flag the data as unusable. So that when the "bad guy" submitted his data it would just get piped out to/dev/null. The "bad guy" wouldn't know that he was found.
Granted I can see how if you owned all the machines then you wouldn't have the same issues of corruption. However, if a user processes 100 packets (not a lot btw) and you check 2 of them and see that they are alirght then you haven't doubled your data. It's kind of like a good old fashion CRC check.
The sad part of this new technology is that it's going to allow game programmers to be even more sloppy. Back in my day (I'm not that old) I had a 128mb hard drive. Games had to be small. Then came along CDRoms, the pentium and 1gb drives and we got games like Lords of the Realm, don't get me wrong I love that game but it did have a huge install base for it's time (~150mb).
Right now, it's not uncommon for a game to require 1/2 gb for install and some are even coming out to require more then that. Imagine what will happen when a 400gb drive is standard -- 75gb installs? Instead of the "Installing data files, this make take a couple of minutes..." are we to see "Install data files...60gb to go, you might as well go have supper then see a short movie." because DVDroms aren't going to be that fast in the near future.
What in the world do you people put on your PDA's (beyond entertainment) that actually require more memory/resolution/processor/color than something from the Palm line?
Lots of things. On my iPAQ I run perl scripts to work problems out. I have Pocket Excel where I have Spreadsheets set up to solve Economic problems along with some Electrical Engineering formula that I use a lot at school. I have a full map of Ottawa (Canada) where I can write in an address and it'll show me where it is. I actually have a PDA that has every address for a city that has 1 million people.
Besides that, I'll admit -- I use it for some games. Come on, if a palm had enough power to emulate a Nintendo (original) w/sound I'm sure you'd be playing Double Dragon II in class and on the bus.
I think it will be quite a distant day before I find a better value with ANY device that uses Windows.
Actually, the robotics department at my university is planning on using the iPAQ as the tool of choive to control the robots. This is to replace the Palm III's that they have been using in the past. The other university in my town is already well into the developement of tools for the iPAQ for many projects, mostly robotics though. In both of these cases it is for iPAQs running Linux.
So, no, the PDAs aren't running Windows however you can choose what OS you want.
Yes, Aimster does say that he (the creator) did get the idea from his daughter while she was using her AOL Instant Messanger and the fact that YES the name is derived from that but come on! The reason behind having such laws is so that other people won't infringe upon the value of your company's name or product.
This would involve name like calling your software "Microsoft Perl 2000". That would imply that the company (in this case Microsoft) either supports the use of the name (and endorses it) or has created it itself. When this is not true the law is needed.
Aimster and AIM are not competing products nor are the two companies involved competing at any level. People will not invest in Aimster because it has a name similar to AOL, in fact the web site (last time I was there) even mentioned that there was absolutly no relation between the two businesses.
This is sad, it really is. How much does a large company need to push? Hell, Archie Comics thinks that they own the rights to the name Veronica. I'm just glad my name hasn't been in a comic book or closely resembling any corporation.
This type of thing disgusts me. I'm 19 years old now and have been playing violent video games ever since I was 10 years old. My parents actually sat down and looked at the games I was playing when I was young. If they didn't like it I couldn't play it. The only game I think they didn't allow me to play was Leisure Suit Larry. They didn't really like Wolfenstien and later Doom but they raise me to be smart enough to know the difference between the real life and video games.
If parents are raising kids that are so influenced by games and fantasy then it's time to step back a maybe ask the question of how these kids are being raised. There will always be bad things in the media whether is be the six o'clock news or the latest video game you can't just make the stuff go away by sueing anyone who put it in a video game that you have end up buying.
Dale Todd, Evan's father, said he hooked up with Thompson through research he did on violent video games. He even obtained a copy of "Doom" and played it himself. He was appalled.
That's great Dale, I'm glad to hear you have an opinion. You are right, kids don't need to be playing violent games. I like violent video games myself. I don't really think it's fair to be taking away video games I like to play just because some kids have bigger problems that a lot of people don't want to admit (maybe the answer is a little close to home) to so they end up pointing the blame to the media.
I can tell you to jump of a bridge but it's your fault if you do it. If children aren't old enough and haven't been taught about the real world then maybe people shouldn't be raising their kids on video games and television. And if they don't have the time to raise their kids properly then maybe they shouldn't be having kids.
But I have to ask, how much is this type of thing going to cost. In Canada the closest PalmOS PDA that I've found to match the capabilities of a PocketPC PDA (the iPAQ) is the HandSpring Visor Prism. It's a nice machine in all but given that it has 8mb of ram, a smaller screen, lower resolution, a much slower processor and no sound I really don't think it should be only $20 ($679 vs $699) cheapear then the Compaq iPAQ (which I am very happy with although fighting the urge to by a 1gb microdrive is getting difficult).
Sure, it'd be nice to have more free software available like the PalmOS has but I'm not going to just give my money to the nice folks at Palm Inc. for a product that can't compete.
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It doesn't really have to be ONE event to sink it 600 metres below sea level. It could have been many events over time. There is quote a bit of land that was above sea level in that time (before and during the Egyptians) that is now underwater as is there land nowadays that was submerged in ancient times. The land is ever evolving and has never been perfectly stable.
Hey, in a couple thousand years I'm sure someone will be wondering how California got 600 metres below the ocean floor.
> We didn't try Hitler, nor would we have even considered it if we captured him.
I believe many people in his party had some troubles with some "Crimes against humanity" charges at a wee event called the Nuremberg Trials. These were crimes committed during a war yet they were still charge.
Of course they would have tried Hitler, it was a big show to prove the war was justified. It was a huge disappointment (with respect to the trial) that Hitler went out and shot himself.
Granted I'm not an American citizen so I can't say how fast the USPS is but personally I find that it's not that expensive to send things via courier and much quicker. The business that I work for sends most of its mail via a courier service or internally.
Anything that needs to get signed or where a hardcopy is needed (such as the yearly benefit summary) is sent either by the internal mail system or through a courier service. All other notices are done via e-mail. The only thing that I can think of that the company still uses snail mail for is if you don't want your paystub delivered at work.
I don't think that these anthrax cases are going to causes snail mail to die out but I think that slowly a government run mail system may be replaced by a company own service (such as FedEx).
Just a thought.
- Cuyler
Well, the main reason is that Apple has a tendency to sue anyone that infringes upon their designs.
The approach would not to be to create a white hat worm to infect a computer to fix the hole since that is considered by many to be as unethical as infecting a computer with harmful intent; It would be to just have a script to download the main page from any host that attempted to attack you (after all, they all run web servers). Then the script would search for any e-mail address (ie. webmaster@....) on the main page, probably at the bottom and then send an e-mail to that address informing them that your server was hit by the Code Red Worm [I | II] from their server.
Just an idea...
I don't mind the non-pretty cool logo bootup. The idea that I have with my computer systems is that I boot them one in a while. On my BSD box I've only seen the boot messages twice now and I've had that system for almost 4 months now.
The only real time that I'm booting up the systems are when something has gone wrong (power loss in house for instance) and in that case I'd like to see all the boot up messages. I don't really need to see "Network , brought to you by your friends at Coca-Cola" but it's better than seeing a flashy logo and wondering what exactly my computer is doing.
-CuylerIf not VNC (which I know is quite slow) then why not use Exceed. Yes, I know it's not free but I've had no problems with it so far.
-Cuyler
Lets point a front page slashdot story to a Tux 2.0 webserver and see how it'll handle the slashdot effect.
As an organiser the power of an iPAQ is definatly not needed. I'll give you that. If I used my iPAQ for JUST my school schedule and some phone numbers I would have kept using my Palm IIIe. The thing is, I wanted a device that I could store numerous books that I read on the bus. I read the newspapers while I'm waiting for a class from the economist (300k), the onion (56k), various movie review sites (200k)...all in all just daily new that I wish to read totals about 4 mb. I also use my iPAQ as a map. I use Pocket Streets and have a 1mb map of Ottawa, Canada - with most street addresses. That has has saved me a lot of hassle - I just write the address in and it tells me where it is, even printed maps can't do that.
As for recreation, I do play some games, and I would honestly say with the exception of iGolf none of them would be hard to get on the Palm Pilot - with the exception of the NES Emulator.
I have had good experiences with the iPAQ although it is an annoyance that the IBM 1gb microdrive manufactured after Jan 29th, 2001 currently doesn't work with the iPAQ so I've had to refrain from being able to rip dvds and have a good collection of mp3s to listen to while on the go.
-CuylerNo, but a good part of it is and even then high speed access ia not available everywhere.
I live in Ottawa, for myself the @home service is great. I also had the choice of Sympatico DSL. If I was to move anything more then 20 kilometres south of where I currently live I would not be able to get any highspeed access and my only option for such would have to be an expensive solution like the one this article is about.
-CuylerIn my personal experience the lower end systems are worth the energy to run them. I use the lowest end system in the house (out of 5 computers) to be the router, firewall and fileserver for all the other computers. I've had a low end penitum (150) for a year that worked great. Right now it's a Celeron 600 and performace wise it's not that much of a difference.
I friend of mine is using a 486dx33. He has been using it for about 3 years now. It's always worked. It's not loud since he keeps it in another room and as for the space, his has it behind a shelf which was wasted space before that. I keep my router on top of a filling cabinent.
As for who would do it ("Ans: Only a few geeks would bother"), I can think of many people that have more then two computers that wish to route them. Sure they could buy a $125 (Cdn) router but why not just use the old hardware laying around that I would just give away to a friend that might need it?
- CuylerHate to nit-pick but single digit billions would be DOUBLE digit Canadian. I'm afraid you may not be aware of the state of our dollar ($0.635 US).
-CuylerIn Canada it is refered to as AOL Canada.
It's not a bad idea but I don't see it working it's wonders on me.
On almost every single webpage that I load there is an advertisement of some kind but I have yet to buy something from these ads. I'd honestly say that at most I've visited 1 out of every 200 of the banners' sites.
I'd like to know how sucessful banner ads are? And how much better do you think they could get if they were directed towards you?
It's at the point where when I loaded Slashdot and read the article a thoguht occured to me. I didn't even know what colour the banner at the top of the page was. I automatically skip it.
- Cuyler
I can't be sure how they test for the "bad guys" but I would assume that they'd just check an account once, maybe twice to see how the data matched up. If the data matched up the user account could be flagged as good. If there is issues with the data I would expect that they would still enable the account, not notify the user and just flag the data as unusable. So that when the "bad guy" submitted his data it would just get piped out to /dev/null. The "bad guy" wouldn't know that he was found.
Granted I can see how if you owned all the machines then you wouldn't have the same issues of corruption. However, if a user processes 100 packets (not a lot btw) and you check 2 of them and see that they are alirght then you haven't doubled your data. It's kind of like a good old fashion CRC check.
- CuylerI just figured that IPN would stand for InterPlantery Network. In that case it'd make sense.
The sad part of this new technology is that it's going to allow game programmers to be even more sloppy. Back in my day (I'm not that old) I had a 128mb hard drive. Games had to be small. Then came along CDRoms, the pentium and 1gb drives and we got games like Lords of the Realm, don't get me wrong I love that game but it did have a huge install base for it's time (~150mb).
Right now, it's not uncommon for a game to require 1/2 gb for install and some are even coming out to require more then that. Imagine what will happen when a 400gb drive is standard -- 75gb installs? Instead of the "Installing data files, this make take a couple of minutes..." are we to see "Install data files...60gb to go, you might as well go have supper then see a short movie." because DVDroms aren't going to be that fast in the near future.
-CuylerLots of things. On my iPAQ I run perl scripts to work problems out. I have Pocket Excel where I have Spreadsheets set up to solve Economic problems along with some Electrical Engineering formula that I use a lot at school. I have a full map of Ottawa (Canada) where I can write in an address and it'll show me where it is. I actually have a PDA that has every address for a city that has 1 million people.
Besides that, I'll admit -- I use it for some games. Come on, if a palm had enough power to emulate a Nintendo (original) w/sound I'm sure you'd be playing Double Dragon II in class and on the bus.
Actually, the robotics department at my university is planning on using the iPAQ as the tool of choive to control the robots. This is to replace the Palm III's that they have been using in the past. The other university in my town is already well into the developement of tools for the iPAQ for many projects, mostly robotics though. In both of these cases it is for iPAQs running Linux.
So, no, the PDAs aren't running Windows however you can choose what OS you want.
-CuylerYes, Aimster does say that he (the creator) did get the idea from his daughter while she was using her AOL Instant Messanger and the fact that YES the name is derived from that but come on! The reason behind having such laws is so that other people won't infringe upon the value of your company's name or product.
This would involve name like calling your software "Microsoft Perl 2000". That would imply that the company (in this case Microsoft) either supports the use of the name (and endorses it) or has created it itself. When this is not true the law is needed.
Aimster and AIM are not competing products nor are the two companies involved competing at any level. People will not invest in Aimster because it has a name similar to AOL, in fact the web site (last time I was there) even mentioned that there was absolutly no relation between the two businesses.
This is sad, it really is. How much does a large company need to push? Hell, Archie Comics thinks that they own the rights to the name Veronica. I'm just glad my name hasn't been in a comic book or closely resembling any corporation.
- Cuyler
This type of thing disgusts me. I'm 19 years old now and have been playing violent video games ever since I was 10 years old. My parents actually sat down and looked at the games I was playing when I was young. If they didn't like it I couldn't play it. The only game I think they didn't allow me to play was Leisure Suit Larry. They didn't really like Wolfenstien and later Doom but they raise me to be smart enough to know the difference between the real life and video games.
If parents are raising kids that are so influenced by games and fantasy then it's time to step back a maybe ask the question of how these kids are being raised. There will always be bad things in the media whether is be the six o'clock news or the latest video game you can't just make the stuff go away by sueing anyone who put it in a video game that you have end up buying.
Dale Todd, Evan's father, said he hooked up with Thompson through research he did on violent video games. He even obtained a copy of "Doom" and played it himself. He was appalled.That's great Dale, I'm glad to hear you have an opinion. You are right, kids don't need to be playing violent games. I like violent video games myself. I don't really think it's fair to be taking away video games I like to play just because some kids have bigger problems that a lot of people don't want to admit (maybe the answer is a little close to home) to so they end up pointing the blame to the media.
I can tell you to jump of a bridge but it's your fault if you do it. If children aren't old enough and haven't been taught about the real world then maybe people shouldn't be raising their kids on video games and television. And if they don't have the time to raise their kids properly then maybe they shouldn't be having kids.
But I have to ask, how much is this type of thing going to cost. In Canada the closest PalmOS PDA that I've found to match the capabilities of a PocketPC PDA (the iPAQ) is the HandSpring Visor Prism. It's a nice machine in all but given that it has 8mb of ram, a smaller screen, lower resolution, a much slower processor and no sound I really don't think it should be only $20 ($679 vs $699) cheapear then the Compaq iPAQ (which I am very happy with although fighting the urge to by a 1gb microdrive is getting difficult).
Sure, it'd be nice to have more free software available like the PalmOS has but I'm not going to just give my money to the nice folks at Palm Inc. for a product that can't compete.