A similar finding occured in Florida in the late 17 century. Back then (like today), people could not decide if it was a whale or an octopus. You can take a look at some pics here
How practical is this?
1. As you said it, it would allow you to drop babybell (at least on selected numbers), and hence save you a couple bucks in your LD calls.
2. It would kill the need to do the POTS cabling and plating.
3. It would allow you to connect your telephones to any ether port.
4. It would allow for an intercom system within the house and probably serve also as a doorbell.
Are you speaking of a general IPPOTS that perhaps others could use, or a gateway just for your home
Not sure what you mean by IPPOTS. The idea would be a IP telephony-POTS gateway for me to reach the world and the world to use to reach me.
Can you give a pointer on the general topic that won't show in the first few terms of a google search?
Something like this might suite the bill.
1 Gb Ethernet, Cat 6 cabling, 19 inch rack? I know big corporations whose network is put to shame by this setup.
Still, I would be looking for something more in the "ideal" home network, such as a POTS to IP-telephony gateway, and a cable/air TV - video server gateway. Why waste effort cabling an ugly coax and telephone cable when everything could run on top of the ether? This would also simplify the plate setup as his contracter suggested. I know that IP telephones are still expensive, but as I see it, money is not an issue in this setup.
Another point, I hope he OWNS this house. Can you imagine his landlord saying "well, I don't think I'll renew your contract next year."... GGHHHAAAAAA!!!!
You are forgetting all the popup ads that come with netscape. Since 7.0 Netscape offers a popup killer, which you can set depending on the domain you are visiting.
You are basically blacklisting a large ammount of create-and-drop email addresses. Very few spammers will send you more than one message with the same return address. You might as well store the database in/dev/null.
-0.28 is nothing, SCOX stock was plumbing down like a free falling anvil just a couple of hours before they announced their lawsuit. It was either follow on their sharade or face a major stock value colapse. Interestingly enough, IBM's value remained rock solid.
Given that Mcbride owns a fair chunk of actions, you can expect the little weasel to see this through as long as he still owns any actions in SCO. Expect to see him keep slowly "diversifying" his stock portafolio throughout the sharade.
Given that you seem to like his work, let me point you out to Tesla's Museum Webpage in Belgrade.
Been to the museum myself; it is not big, but there are quite a numbre of experiments set up you can reproduce and explanaition of the phenomena you are observing. The last experiment consists of his wireless transmission of power idea he had. You hold up a fluorescent lamp below a big power generator, the lights dim out and you actually see the lamp light up. Its a bit frightening because of the size of the whole thing and all the crackling. His ashes are also located there.
Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole.
Je je je... seems we just found the next President of the U.S. It seems you do have what it takes to fill the cowboy's boots.
Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes
What makes you think I listen to the democrats? Or even better, what makes you think I am an american. Have you considered there are many, many other people outside the US who strongly oppose your actions?
I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation. Ahh... nothing like some good old american hyporcresy. Invading without UN approval? Kyoto? Geneve convention regarding POW treatment? Exclusion of Hague tribunal for war crimes to G.I.'s? The list is long boy.
Evil Islamic terrorists woke the US up on Sept. 11. Have you forgotten already?
How could we. BTW have you found their evil master? Not yet? Not after bombing two nations without any provocation? Mhhhh... better start training those marines for the Siria/Iran/Saudi Arabia search.
I would prefer that the US stay alert and defend itself! Trouble is this defensive concept of yours is starting to look much more like multiple offensive invasion.
Then I intentionally went into my router and told it to put the win2k box on the DMZ, totally naked.
Nah nah nah... this is slashdot. Unless you want everybody to troll you, you should say "I implemented a Win 2K honeypot to see if I can attract any hackers and connected it to my DMZ."
The system here in Mexico the system is setup in a PPP-AAA-NNNNNNNNN. In Mexico PPP is either 001 (internationa LD), 01 (national LD), 044 (pay per call to a local phone) or a set of other services. AAA is the local area code and NNNNNNNNN is the local phone number. if you want to dail to a sandard phone, you ommit the PPP-AAA part. I was undert the impresion that the Mexican and American dailing were very similar
Any extra prefixes on the front indicat either a toll call or an international call. Which is precisley what we are trying to do. A call to pay per call phone is a toll call.
For years there was plenty of equipment out there that couldn't handle the new numbers. Maybe now with the new equipment this would not be as hard to implement
I am not a telco engineer, I only know that the Mexican system was set up in a very similar way as the American one. The alternative would be to change gazillion of already in use phone numbers. I think it is worth the effort. The rewards are evident. In Mexico there are already more cell phones than land phones.
...to get around this problem, all cell phones would have to be issued new area codes. and that would be pretty chaotic.
If your telephone system is digital (and I would certainly expect this in the US), it would only require a special prefix to call to a pay per call telephone. In Mexico all the cell phones have the same area code than land lines, but if you try to call a cell phone in your same area without first dailing this prefix a recorder will announce to you that you must dail a 044. On the other hand, if you choose to activate your phone in a pay per reception basis, you will no longer have to dail the 044 prefix. This way you get the most flexible system.
It has worked wonderfully and the number of cell phones have sky-rocketed ever since this modality was activated. Currently there are more cell phones than landlines now a days in Mexico.
Actually I am considering on setting up Spamassasin as well over other propietary solutions. The only trouble is that my available hardware are all Win boxes. Is your shop a hybrid one (win/unix) or pure win one? How did you setup SA? Did you use the documented method here: http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa250.html ?
Once, while in college, one of our assignments was to create a compiler for a language of our choice. Being naive and adventurous instead of writting the 1000th variation of some imperative language I chose to write a postscript compiler (I later found out it needed to be an interpreter for it to function correctly). The main goal of it (besides getting a decent grade) was to follow Adobe's design as close a posible.
Surprises flew along the way, I ended up doing just a subset of the supported instruction of postscript (ommited drawing letters along with some other stuff). One of the final requirements was to do a "case" statement. Postscript does not support "cases". Either I broke Adobe's design or figured a clever way out. I wrote a little function that would dynamically emulate a "case" returing a function based on "if"'s. This is when I really understood the true beauty of functional languages and how imperatives dwarf to the flexibility offered by functionals.
I must confess the teacher was stunned when I showed it to her and the way the case worked. I ended up with my decent grade and respeting Adobe's design.
Re:Gator is a program to slow your computer down
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Gator along with other spyware has been responsible of 50%-60% of all unresponsive PCs I have had to deal with. It is a no-fun program that should be ranked right next to KLEZ or FunLove (probably even higher).
Last time I checked gator didn't provide an unistall feature. If you were going to get it out of your system you had to hunt it down manually in the filesystem and the registry. Fortunately the folks at Lavasoft provide an excelent cure for non comercial use. Ideally they should integrate their product with a decent AV scanner, and thus offer a truly complete solution.
If people can't add things like this 18cent coins are out of the question.
18 cents? Bah! If you really want to make things interesting why not base your coin values on primes? 1, 3, 5, 7, or better yet, the fractional part of irrational values like e and pi. It would probably not solve anything, but you would have a kick everytime you pay cash.
you zealots will be happy to know that he too, hates the Microsoft Wonder if he reads slashdot
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The original poster probably meant neural networks more than perceptrons. By the time his paper was published (1969) neural networks were far more advanced than a simple perceptron, and had easily overcomed the linear separation problem. Some people claim he along with Papert engineered this paper to get a juicy DARPA grant that was just about to be assigned. His paper efectively killed research in this area for almost 20 years.
Minsky has always been a bit of a weasel and knows very well how to pull the strings of power (cash flow) to favour his research and grants. This last statement of his does not come as a surprise to me.
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Bottled water is more expensive than wine.... Crab, what a great place to go out for a party!
A similar finding occured in Florida in the late 17 century. Back then (like today), people could not decide if it was a whale or an octopus. You can take a look at some pics here
http://belps.freewebsites.com/
Sadly this guy didn't eliminate them with all the prejudice I would like; but still, I get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I see this site.
How practical is this?
1. As you said it, it would allow you to drop babybell (at least on selected numbers), and hence save you a couple bucks in your LD calls.
2. It would kill the need to do the POTS cabling and plating.
3. It would allow you to connect your telephones to any ether port.
4. It would allow for an intercom system within the house and probably serve also as a doorbell.
Are you speaking of a general IPPOTS that perhaps others could use, or a gateway just for your home
Not sure what you mean by IPPOTS. The idea would be a IP telephony-POTS gateway for me to reach the world and the world to use to reach me.
Can you give a pointer on the general topic that won't show in the first few terms of a google search?
Something like this might suite the bill.
1 Gb Ethernet, Cat 6 cabling, 19 inch rack? I know big corporations whose network is put to shame by this setup.
Still, I would be looking for something more in the "ideal" home network, such as a POTS to IP-telephony gateway, and a cable/air TV - video server gateway. Why waste effort cabling an ugly coax and telephone cable when everything could run on top of the ether? This would also simplify the plate setup as his contracter suggested. I know that IP telephones are still expensive, but as I see it, money is not an issue in this setup.
Another point, I hope he OWNS this house. Can you imagine his landlord saying "well, I don't think I'll renew your contract next year."... GGHHHAAAAAA!!!!
You are forgetting all the popup ads that come with netscape.
Since 7.0 Netscape offers a popup killer, which you can set depending on the domain you are visiting.
You are basically blacklisting a large ammount of create-and-drop email addresses. Very few spammers will send you more than one message with the same return address. You might as well store the database in /dev/null.
-0.28 is nothing, SCOX stock was plumbing down like a free falling anvil just a couple of hours before they announced their lawsuit. It was either follow on their sharade or face a major stock value colapse. Interestingly enough, IBM's value remained rock solid.
Given that Mcbride owns a fair chunk of actions, you can expect the little weasel to see this through as long as he still owns any actions in SCO. Expect to see him keep slowly "diversifying" his stock portafolio throughout the sharade.
My wife has not read the book, and she also suffers from the "isn't he lovely?" syndrome.
I constantly tease her telling her that Legolas will be disfigured in the RoTK trying to save Frodo. Je je je. It always gets her.
Given that you seem to like his work, let me point you out to Tesla's Museum Webpage in Belgrade.
Been to the museum myself; it is not big, but there are quite a numbre of experiments set up you can reproduce and explanaition of the phenomena you are observing. The last experiment consists of his wireless transmission of power idea he had. You hold up a fluorescent lamp below a big power generator, the lights dim out and you actually see the lamp light up. Its a bit frightening because of the size of the whole thing and all the crackling. His ashes are also located there.
Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole.
Je je je... seems we just found the next President of the U.S. It seems you do have what it takes to fill the cowboy's boots.
Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes
I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation.What makes you think I listen to the democrats? Or even better, what makes you think I am an american. Have you considered there are many, many other people outside the US who strongly oppose your actions?
Ahh... nothing like some good old american hyporcresy. Invading without UN approval? Kyoto? Geneve convention regarding POW treatment? Exclusion of Hague tribunal for war crimes to G.I.'s? The list is long boy.
Troll.
I rest my point
Evil Islamic terrorists woke the US up on Sept. 11. Have you forgotten already?
How could we. BTW have you found their evil master? Not yet? Not after bombing two nations without any provocation? Mhhhh... better start training those marines for the Siria/Iran/Saudi Arabia search.
I would prefer that the US stay alert and defend itself!
Trouble is this defensive concept of yours is starting to look much more like multiple offensive invasion.
Then I intentionally went into my router and told it to put the win2k box on the DMZ, totally naked.
Nah nah nah... this is slashdot. Unless you want everybody to troll you, you should say "I implemented a Win 2K honeypot to see if I can attract any hackers and connected it to my DMZ."
Oh man, you certainly do not work in sales. Besides, OS/2 is still king in the regional IBM where I used to work.
The system here in Mexico the system is setup in a PPP-AAA-NNNNNNNNN. In Mexico PPP is either 001 (internationa LD), 01 (national LD), 044 (pay per call to a local phone) or a set of other services. AAA is the local area code and NNNNNNNNN is the local phone number. if you want to dail to a sandard phone, you ommit the PPP-AAA part. I was undert the impresion that the Mexican and American dailing were very similar
Any extra prefixes on the front indicat either a toll call or an international call.
Which is precisley what we are trying to do. A call to pay per call phone is a toll call.
For years there was plenty of equipment out there that couldn't handle the new numbers.
Maybe now with the new equipment this would not be as hard to implement
I am not a telco engineer, I only know that the Mexican system was set up in a very similar way as the American one. The alternative would be to change gazillion of already in use phone numbers. I think it is worth the effort. The rewards are evident. In Mexico there are already more cell phones than land phones.
If your telephone system is digital (and I would certainly expect this in the US), it would only require a special prefix to call to a pay per call telephone. In Mexico all the cell phones have the same area code than land lines, but if you try to call a cell phone in your same area without first dailing this prefix a recorder will announce to you that you must dail a 044. On the other hand, if you choose to activate your phone in a pay per reception basis, you will no longer have to dail the 044 prefix. This way you get the most flexible system.
It has worked wonderfully and the number of cell phones have sky-rocketed ever since this modality was activated. Currently there are more cell phones than landlines now a days in Mexico.
Mmhhh... next thing these guys will come up with is a full rubber suit for woman. =)
Maybe this is not that bad afterall.
Actually I am considering on setting up Spamassasin as well over other propietary solutions. The only trouble is that my available hardware are all Win boxes. Is your shop a hybrid one (win/unix) or pure win one? How did you setup SA? Did you use the documented method here: http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa250.html
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Once, while in college, one of our assignments was to create a compiler for a language of our choice. Being naive and adventurous instead of writting the 1000th variation of some imperative language I chose to write a postscript compiler (I later found out it needed to be an interpreter for it to function correctly). The main goal of it (besides getting a decent grade) was to follow Adobe's design as close a posible.
Surprises flew along the way, I ended up doing just a subset of the supported instruction of postscript (ommited drawing letters along with some other stuff). One of the final requirements was to do a "case" statement. Postscript does not support "cases". Either I broke Adobe's design or figured a clever way out. I wrote a little function that would dynamically emulate a "case" returing a function based on "if"'s. This is when I really understood the true beauty of functional languages and how imperatives dwarf to the flexibility offered by functionals.
I must confess the teacher was stunned when I showed it to her and the way the case worked. I ended up with my decent grade and respeting Adobe's design.
Gator along with other spyware has been responsible of 50%-60% of all unresponsive PCs I have had to deal with. It is a no-fun program that should be ranked right next to KLEZ or FunLove (probably even higher).
Last time I checked gator didn't provide an unistall feature. If you were going to get it out of your system you had to hunt it down manually in the filesystem and the registry. Fortunately the folks at Lavasoft provide an excelent cure for non comercial use. Ideally they should integrate their product with a decent AV scanner, and thus offer a truly complete solution.
If people can't add things like this 18cent coins are out of the question.
18 cents? Bah! If you really want to make things interesting why not base your coin values on primes? 1, 3, 5, 7, or better yet, the fractional part of irrational values like e and pi. It would probably not solve anything, but you would have a kick everytime you pay cash.you zealots will be happy to know that he too, hates the Microsoft
Wonder if he reads slashdot
The original poster probably meant neural networks more than perceptrons. By the time his paper was published (1969) neural networks were far more advanced than a simple perceptron, and had easily overcomed the linear separation problem. Some people claim he along with Papert engineered this paper to get a juicy DARPA grant that was just about to be assigned. His paper efectively killed research in this area for almost 20 years.
Minsky has always been a bit of a weasel and knows very well how to pull the strings of power (cash flow) to favour his research and grants. This last statement of his does not come as a surprise to me.
Anybody else had flashbacks of the Pentium FDIV bug and this excelent post?
Actually, the interviewer sounded to me like a rookie covering an assigned story.