Of course, the problem you're talking about is the fact that if two people want the same video stream, the stream travels twice through the pipe. Same stream, same bits. If they could have distributed caches so that they only need to send the data to those caches, from where people download them, a lot of the traffic would disappear. The nearer (hops-wise) to the receiving end it is, the more traffic it avoids, but also the more caches you need. The way I see it, ISPs could 'suscribe' to video feeds, for which the users pay per view. In fact, if any venture capitalist is reading this, please send me a few millions, and I'll put it to personal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H good use immediately.
I said they got sued, not that they were found guilty. Being sued tends to make you spend money and effort, whether you're found guilty or not. IBM can afford that, Linus may not be able to (well, okay, we'd all help him if it were the case, but still).
If you were to start saying that "It's free, but only to people we like", you're becoming worse than that certain company. AFAIK, they'll sell to pretty much anyone...
So did Big Blue way back in WWII. And they got sued for it. I can only hope that no stupid idiots decide to sue Linus on behalf of the exploited people in all those countries.
Yes it does. He doesn't mean that users don't care, he means that users help Microsoft. Not necessarily out of malice, or even knowingly, but that they help.
I'm curious as to how a DVR/PVR can detect the end of show / beginning of a commercial
It has speech recognition and a library of common commercial phrases ("not-so-fresh feeling", "order now and get an extra...", etc) as well as voice recgnition (can tell the kid from the Gateway commercial from the characters of your favorite show).
Nope. No sliding either. Just a regular keyboard. That's just my point: all it is, is a new layout. The fact that they optimized it for speed using a certain type of input (one stylus instead of whatever number of fingers you use -since you made me go there, do anonymous cowards have opposable thumbs?) doesn't make it a revolutionary method.
Some posters are saying it's just the same concept used in other schemes. From what I gather reading the article, it's not. It's a standard 'press one key at a time' keyboard, which everyone knows how to use, but they have optimized the layout so going from one key to the next is as fast as possible on average (in English writing, that is). Then they made up the required buzzwords for the PHBs of the world, the whole 'molecular synergy paradigm' crap.
I could fool experts right now with a simple cassette tape, a LOT of taped 18-month-old comments and a quick hand with a playback button. That doesn't mean my stereo is going to human in 10 years.
Actually, I remember watching a TV program where the host, as a demo/prank, called a company asking for a person, and carried out a normal conversation, using only prerecorded messages he selected with a piano keyboard (things like 'hi', 'yes', 'no', and 'Is Bob there?'). I forget how many keys one of those things has, but not that many. He pulled it off. Anyhow.
Well, I haven't read the article, where it may explain, but I thought maybe, since those pictures must have been taken at different times, it has to do with schedules, timezones, and all that. The light in CDT at 1 am versus the one in MDT at 12 or something. Or maybe that's where one picture ends and the other starts, and they are from different times/days.
ROT-13. As seen on Slashdot!
For high privacy, national security, etc, use ROT-14...that ought to confuse the (few) experts that are able to crack ROT-13.
Pig Latin may also work for text-only data.
Oh? What? The people who want to crack it are not under the age of 5? My bad.
The nine committee members [...] had voted July 27 to take another week for company lawyers to review the standard.
WTF? Since when are lawyers qualified to decide on technology issues? I'd understand if they were to review the legalities of the standard (patents and all that crap), but the standard itself?
Next time I need to design a computer bus I'll ask my mother (a law professor). But first I'll teach her how to use scrollbars...
As usual, I should point out that if the root were run properly, allowing any TLD to be added, this squabbling over an artificially-limited resource would be eliminated.
I definitely want this web site to be accesed as http://slashdot.orgy in that case.
I just downloaded and installed ad-aware. That will teach them!
But I'm still a bit confused, and need some help. What exactly are the files that ad-aware installed along with itself? They're in c:\windows and they're called 'make_money_fast.exe' 'enlarge_your_penis.dll' 'lose_weight.vxd' 'herbal_viagra.com' 'send_all_your_data_to_our_company.vbs' and 'popup_x10.js', and they're set to run on startup...
If you were stuck on a desert island, this is the best choice. Not only does it cover Sendmail, but it is large enough to be used as a deadly weapon!
That's the last thing we need. As soon as some kid in the library uses it to take out a dozen other kids, politicians will start trying to get computer books banned.
I've been saying this for years. But of course, there is also a problem/feature (depends what side you're on): since they can be easily blocked, as soon as we cathegorize web pages by content into TLDs, we may run into large ISPs who block the whole TLD. I understand companies may want to block their employees from pr0n at work, but what when AOL decides to censor 1/2 the web because it contains stuff that's "bad" (like stuff that makes you *think*)?
And as long as we're there, why not reserve a subnet for pr0n when IPv6 comes? And also subnets for each country. That ought to make it easy enough to block French people from buying nazi stuff. Thoughts on that, anybody?
I recall that a while back there was a discovery of cosmic clouds of what was basically alchohol in space, spanning satires based on star trek with spock as the designated driver.
...and also editorial cartoons about Yelstin wanting to revamp the Russian Space Program to get a great vodka supply (in some English newspaper?). Or of the alcohol cloud emanating from the Kremlin (in a Spanish newspaper). Yes, I remember that one.
Damn good question. My suspicion is that if there are people selling "How To Make A Million Really Fast In Internet Porn" classes, then we're probably pretty close to the saturation point.
What you don't know is that he's making this offer after attending a "How to make money fast selling 'how to make money fast' courses" course.
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Of course, the problem you're talking about is the fact that if two people want the same video stream, the stream travels twice through the pipe. Same stream, same bits. If they could have distributed caches so that they only need to send the data to those caches, from where people download them, a lot of the traffic would disappear. The nearer (hops-wise) to the receiving end it is, the more traffic it avoids, but also the more caches you need. The way I see it, ISPs could 'suscribe' to video feeds, for which the users pay per view.
In fact, if any venture capitalist is reading this, please send me a few millions, and I'll put it to personal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H good use immediately.
I said they got sued, not that they were found guilty. Being sued tends to make you spend money and effort, whether you're found guilty or not. IBM can afford that, Linus may not be able to (well, okay, we'd all help him if it were the case, but still).
So did Big Blue way back in WWII. And they got sued for it. I can only hope that no stupid idiots decide to sue Linus on behalf of the exploited people in all those countries.
Yes it does. He doesn't mean that users don't care, he means that users help Microsoft. Not necessarily out of malice, or even knowingly, but that they help.
It has speech recognition and a library of common commercial phrases ("not-so-fresh feeling", "order now and get an extra...", etc) as well as voice recgnition (can tell the kid from the Gateway commercial from the characters of your favorite show).
Nope. No sliding either. Just a regular keyboard. That's just my point: all it is, is a new layout. The fact that they optimized it for speed using a certain type of input (one stylus instead of whatever number of fingers you use -since you made me go there, do anonymous cowards have opposable thumbs?) doesn't make it a revolutionary method.
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(and you thought script kiddies' typing was useless... sheesh).
Some posters are saying it's just the same concept used in other schemes. From what I gather reading the article, it's not. It's a standard 'press one key at a time' keyboard, which everyone knows how to use, but they have optimized the layout so going from one key to the next is as fast as possible on average (in English writing, that is). Then they made up the required buzzwords for the PHBs of the world, the whole 'molecular synergy paradigm' crap.
What international version of Windows are you using? The ones I've tried all use CTRL-V.
Naah. No fire stations, they got confused. They mean fire hydrants, because nowadays everybody and their dog has e-mail.
Actually, I remember watching a TV program where the host, as a demo/prank, called a company asking for a person, and carried out a normal conversation, using only prerecorded messages he selected with a piano keyboard (things like 'hi', 'yes', 'no', and 'Is Bob there?'). I forget how many keys one of those things has, but not that many. He pulled it off. Anyhow.
WFT is that "Bad Apples" story title? Seems to me this is a GOOD Apple
For some reason the word "bad" has started being used to mean "very good". As is "bad-ass". Ah, kids today...
2002? Gee, by that time the characters will have developed new technology, and it will be nothing but Starcraft all over again...
Well, I haven't read the article, where it may explain, but I thought maybe, since those pictures must have been taken at different times, it has to do with schedules, timezones, and all that. The light in CDT at 1 am versus the one in MDT at 12 or something. Or maybe that's where one picture ends and the other starts, and they are from different times/days.
ROT-13. As seen on Slashdot!
For high privacy, national security, etc, use ROT-14...that ought to confuse the (few) experts that are able to crack ROT-13.
Pig Latin may also work for text-only data.
Oh? What? The people who want to crack it are not under the age of 5? My bad.
The nine committee members [...] had voted July 27 to take another week for company lawyers to review the standard.
WTF? Since when are lawyers qualified to decide on technology issues? I'd understand if they were to review the legalities of the standard (patents and all that crap), but the standard itself?
Next time I need to design a computer bus I'll ask my mother (a law professor). But first I'll teach her how to use scrollbars...
As usual, I should point out that if the root were run properly, allowing any TLD to be added, this squabbling over an artificially-limited resource would be eliminated.
I definitely want this web site to be accesed as http://slashdot.orgy in that case.
I'll just wait till they release the underwearable computer, which ought to be *lots* more fun... ;-)
I just downloaded and installed ad-aware. That will teach them!
But I'm still a bit confused, and need some help. What exactly are the files that ad-aware installed along with itself? They're in c:\windows and they're called 'make_money_fast.exe' 'enlarge_your_penis.dll' 'lose_weight.vxd' 'herbal_viagra.com' 'send_all_your_data_to_our_company.vbs' and 'popup_x10.js', and they're set to run on startup...
If you were stuck on a desert island, this is the best choice. Not only does it cover Sendmail, but it is large enough to be used as a deadly weapon!
That's the last thing we need. As soon as some kid in the library uses it to take out a dozen other kids, politicians will start trying to get computer books banned.
I've been saying this for years. But of course, there is also a problem/feature (depends what side you're on): since they can be easily blocked, as soon as we cathegorize web pages by content into TLDs, we may run into large ISPs who block the whole TLD. I understand companies may want to block their employees from pr0n at work, but what when AOL decides to censor 1/2 the web because it contains stuff that's "bad" (like stuff that makes you *think*)?
And as long as we're there, why not reserve a subnet for pr0n when IPv6 comes? And also subnets for each country. That ought to make it easy enough to block French people from buying nazi stuff. Thoughts on that, anybody?
I recall that a while back there was a discovery of cosmic clouds of what was basically alchohol in space, spanning satires based on star trek with spock as the designated driver.
...and also editorial cartoons about Yelstin wanting to revamp the Russian Space Program to get a great vodka supply (in some English newspaper?). Or of the alcohol cloud emanating from the Kremlin (in a Spanish newspaper). Yes, I remember that one.
Damn good question. My suspicion is that if there are people selling "How To Make A Million Really Fast In Internet Porn" classes, then we're probably pretty close to the saturation point.
What you don't know is that he's making this offer after attending a "How to make money fast selling 'how to make money fast' courses" course.
It's 10^9 if you're selling, and 2^30 if you're buying ;-)
Guess what free operating system's name will redirect consumers to that page, if Microsoft has its way? ;-)