I'm thinking if you paid to go to a Website, they wouldn't call it stealing then. I do pay to go to a website. I have to pay my ISP for bandwidth. If I go to a web site that is full of bandwidth-sucking ads, I am paying to download those ads. In fact, I have always been amazed that bandwidth get's charged double, that is they pay for hosting bandwidth, and I pay for ISP bandwidth, on the other end of the same pipe. The fact is, with advertising, the web site is paying extra for the bandwidth to serve those ads. Since, like other posters have mentioned, I am not going to click on their stupid flash-based ads anyway, so they are already losing money by paying for the bandwidth to send them to me. Instead of adblock, I propose that sites block their own ads at the server level, saving theirs and my bandwidth, but sadly that will probably not happen.
They GIVE it to you? No. In the case of DSL, it's built into the costs, especially the activation fees. For cable, you rent it or buy it. They don't just give it to you. This is exactly what happened to me. I signed up for comcast, and did not want to rent a cable modem from them. The technician came to install the service, and I told him to just connect the jack, and I would be installing my own cable modem. He said not to worry about it, went to his truck, got a cable modem, and just gave it to me (and checked customer-owned modem on the paperwork). This might not be official policy though, or it might have been some promotion they were having.
A school, isolated from the normal society, that lets kids with special abilities learn and interact socially with others as gifted as them. Admittedly, being very intelligent is not quite the same as being able to do magic, Clarke's third law notwithstanding, but it is still a valid analogy in the social aspect of growing up gifted.
Whoever designed the SATA data and power connectors should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves - they're terrible. They don't lock, they're flimsy and they break if a lateral force is applied to the cable. At least IDE's bulletproof. I have to agree with you on this one. The SATA cables in my systems are always coming undone with just the slightest touch. Also, the cables are only good for about 50 connect / disconnect cycles. At least eSATA (the external SATA connector) addresses a few of these issues. I wish more devices used it, but for now it seems like most external devices are still USB or FireWire.
I hear a commercial on the radio, they say, or visit us online at www.example.com backslash somestuff. That really annoys me. I want to call the radio station and beg them to fire their advertising director for allowing that kind of commercial on the air. '/' is a slash.
Yeah, I love phone calls about stupid typos. Like, "Oh shit... do you have an archive of the source code? I just did 'rm -f *.c' instead of rm -f *.o'"
Let's not discuss how awful our old clean make system was. Or how it wasn't built into Makefile. Or why we weren't using a versioning system. Or the lack of proper backups. When I was in college, I was working with several other people on a group project. We were using CVS as the version control system. Well, one time I decided to make a backup copy of the CVS repository, but I forgot that the directory I was backing it up to (via ftp) was actually the same as the source directory (mounted via nfs or smb), so every file was completely zeroed out. Oops. Our project was pretty much completely hosed at that point. Fortunately, the project happened to be a java applet, and we were able to recover a copy of the applet from someone's browser cache, and decompile it back into source.
It was at that point that I realized the value of never messing with the repository directly but always using a client interface.
Lets put it this way. More care goes into checking tickets at a rock concert.
Your paper ticket has a barcode on it. The nice people at the turnstile scan it, the number is checked in the database and you get a nice instant feedback if the ticket has been used or is totally bogus. They handle thousands of people crushing into the gate in the space of minutes, on the outside hours. And they use off the shelf equipment and standard DSL or T1 lines. Not to mention the fact that the database has total concurrency with independent (presumably networked) scanner-terminals. In fact, Diebold should ask ticketmaster who made their database system and use it.
If you can search for the leaves you're interested in (and a distributed Bloom filter can make that very efficient indeed), you'll get matches from not just the file you wanted, but any identical blocks found in any other files - the same bits by any other name would smell as sweet. So peers with slightly different files can provide partial seeds to the swarm too, and vice versa.
Would this work if you add a byte at the beginning or middle of the file? I am pretty sure that the rsync protocol does support this, so it would be cool if the tree hash supports a similar feature. Any thoughts?
Do data centers really use as much power cooling the server farms as running them?
Yes. If you have a computer using, for instance, 300W of power, that is 300W of heat that must be removed from the data center. However, that heat is still present in the case of oil submersion, merely transferred more efficiently from the computer to the environment.
(Thinks of Sellafield (AKA Windscale, aka "Perfectly safe just don't visit the beach") reactor catching fire and the burning graphite sending plutonium particles up the shaft and out into the atmosphere...) lol, so how do you make a pebble bed pogo stick?:-) On a somewhat more interesting note, could you take this same process from the pogo stick and put several of them together, making an engine? I mean it is almost like a piston. I doubt such an engine would be as effecient as the normal steam turbine method, but I don't have any numbers to back that up.
This does not work everywhere, for example on vanilla OS X. True, the unit suffix option is, as far as I know, only available on GNU tools. This is the default on just about every linux system, but other unix flavors would likely use the BSD tools, or other ones. For a more portable solution, I suggest using "at" so instead of "sleep ${3}m" which relies on a GNU extension, use the POSIX "at now + $3 minutes" which should work on just about any system. Note that the syntax of at is different from sleep, so you will have to either provide stdin containing the commands to be executed, or a file as specified by the "-f" option.
I had a crash of an early beta reiser4 file system (yes, I was a moron for using a beta fs, but it was mostly data that I didn't care about or could recreate), and recovered all my mp3s, but with no filenames. It was pretty easy to write a script that used id3 tag reading tools to rename all the files. It would not be that hard to write such a script on windows either. At least easier than re-ripping his entire CD collection.
sleep $(echo "$3 * 60" | bc)
sleep $(($3*60))? I am not nitpicking, it's just that you might want to know. (Or does your version do something extra?)sleep ${3}m
-- Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
You are correct, any wifi in the store would most likely redirect you to the internal website. The solution is to bring your smartphone or other GSM/CDMA internet connected computer into the store.
I think that the kernel's NTFS write support, for only writing to (and not creating or changing the size of) existing files was considered stable for quite some time. Apparently that's all this distro uses, a large file on the existing NTFS or FAT32 partition that is loop mounted, so it would not be a problem. The file would never change size or anything like that.
Okay, I admit, I didn't realize that the phone company was government-owned, but that doesn't change much. This is more or less like net neutrality taken to an extreme degree, since presumably those call centers have already paid for the bandwidth they are using.
Intriguing, do you have the entire song as your ringtone? or just part of it?
Of course, now that you have provided me with the inspiration for using firefly as a ringtone, the Hero of Canton seems like it would work well (especially if your name happened to be jayne, which alas, mine is not).
I'm currently using the "Fruity Oaty Bar" song as my ringtone:-)
I expected this was a phone company wanting to maintain their monopoly, but apparently it's the government wanting to capitalize on taxing VOIP services, and American (and other) providers are obviously not going to pay taxes to the government of India.
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Yes, and it is a great annoyance to me when I try to visit some sites on my Palm (Treo 650) and they totally fail to render. Some sites really look bad. Wikipedia, for instance, with its combination of table-based and css-based layout is unusably bad in Blazer, Palm's default browser. I actually have to put my browser in wide mode (I normally use optimized mode), and try to find the login link on the page, and try to click on it (it's behind the wikipedia logo). Once I am logged in, I have a different default wikipedia skin that renders fine on my Palm.
That's not even to mention the sites that only work with javascript/ajax (my bank for instance) and have no straight html fallback. I love gmail just because it has a very nice plain html format (of course when I am on a desktop, the fancy AJAX version is quite nice).
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A school, isolated from the normal society, that lets kids with special abilities learn and interact socially with others as gifted as them. Admittedly, being very intelligent is not quite the same as being able to do magic, Clarke's third law notwithstanding, but it is still a valid analogy in the social aspect of growing up gifted.
I can think of at least one way that a bad NIC can take out other hardware... Etherkiller. Kids, don't try this at home!
BURN HIM!!!! ah, but won't burning him increase CO2 emissions?
without Ivanova? Ivanova is always right.
I will listen to Ivanova.
I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations.
Ivanova is god.
I hear a commercial on the radio, they say, or visit us online at www.example.com backslash somestuff. That really annoys me. I want to call the radio station and beg them to fire their advertising director for allowing that kind of commercial on the air. '/' is a slash .
One of the best fictional depictions of perpetual copyrights is Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants".
It's a good idea, but it will never happen. (slow down, cowboy...)
Let's not discuss how awful our old clean make system was. Or how it wasn't built into Makefile. Or why we weren't using a versioning system. Or the lack of proper backups. When I was in college, I was working with several other people on a group project. We were using CVS as the version control system. Well, one time I decided to make a backup copy of the CVS repository, but I forgot that the directory I was backing it up to (via ftp) was actually the same as the source directory (mounted via nfs or smb), so every file was completely zeroed out. Oops. Our project was pretty much completely hosed at that point. Fortunately, the project happened to be a java applet, and we were able to recover a copy of the applet from someone's browser cache, and decompile it back into source.
It was at that point that I realized the value of never messing with the repository directly but always using a client interface.
Your paper ticket has a barcode on it. The nice people at the turnstile scan it, the number is checked in the database and you get a nice instant feedback if the ticket has been used or is totally bogus. They handle thousands of people crushing into the gate in the space of minutes, on the outside hours. And they use off the shelf equipment and standard DSL or T1 lines. Not to mention the fact that the database has total concurrency with independent (presumably networked) scanner-terminals. In fact, Diebold should ask ticketmaster who made their database system and use it.
On a somewhat more interesting note, could you take this same process from the pogo stick and put several of them together, making an engine? I mean it is almost like a piston. I doubt such an engine would be as effecient as the normal steam turbine method, but I don't have any numbers to back that up.
I had a crash of an early beta reiser4 file system (yes, I was a moron for using a beta fs, but it was mostly data that I didn't care about or could recreate), and recovered all my mp3s, but with no filenames. It was pretty easy to write a script that used id3 tag reading tools to rename all the files. It would not be that hard to write such a script on windows either. At least easier than re-ripping his entire CD collection.
just imagine if a really fat guy got on the nuclear pogo stick, and brought the two subcritical pieces together, BOOM!
You are correct, any wifi in the store would most likely redirect you to the internal website. The solution is to bring your smartphone or other GSM/CDMA internet connected computer into the store.
I think that the kernel's NTFS write support, for only writing to (and not creating or changing the size of) existing files was considered stable for quite some time. Apparently that's all this distro uses, a large file on the existing NTFS or FAT32 partition that is loop mounted, so it would not be a problem. The file would never change size or anything like that.
Okay, I admit, I didn't realize that the phone company was government-owned, but that doesn't change much. This is more or less like net neutrality taken to an extreme degree, since presumably those call centers have already paid for the bandwidth they are using.
I expected this was a phone company wanting to maintain their monopoly, but apparently it's the government wanting to capitalize on taxing VOIP services, and American (and other) providers are obviously not going to pay taxes to the government of India.
Yes, and it is a great annoyance to me when I try to visit some sites on my Palm (Treo 650) and they totally fail to render. Some sites really look bad. Wikipedia, for instance, with its combination of table-based and css-based layout is unusably bad in Blazer, Palm's default browser. I actually have to put my browser in wide mode (I normally use optimized mode), and try to find the login link on the page, and try to click on it (it's behind the wikipedia logo). Once I am logged in, I have a different default wikipedia skin that renders fine on my Palm.
That's not even to mention the sites that only work with javascript/ajax (my bank for instance) and have no straight html fallback. I love gmail just because it has a very nice plain html format (of course when I am on a desktop, the fancy AJAX version is quite nice).