"Is it me or in the last 8 years or so has popular music sucked?"
welcome to the wonderful world we call 'getting older';)
There's plenty of good music around, there's some good pop music around, you just have to sort through a lot of dross to find it. Music is always regarded with a certain nostalgia - there will be hits from the late 90's and 00's that we will be listening to in 20 years time. I'm a big fan of Kaiser Chiefs at the moment - its pure pop but great fun - and I'm basically a hip-hop and techno head (although nothing that charts). Jay-Z and Kayne West suck royally - but for every one of them there's a K-Os or Buck 65... you pay your money (or not;)) and takes your choice..
Thankyou thats the funniest thing I've ever read on/. I only wish I had some mod points for you
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Hmm yes, 1995 was also my year of conversion to Linux. Never assumed it was anything to do with the release of Windows 95, more like all the tools I needed to work on my PhD were UNIX based, and I wanted practice.
As I recall Linux wasn't *particularly* easy to install at the time;) Those were the days where I knew the figures for my hard drive geometry off the top of my head, now I couldn't even tell you which manufacturer made them. The difference 10 years makes!
At the risk of some karma burn - none of the recent stories appear to have any comments! Maybe everyone has taken the day off posting but I doubt that:)
This must be a more common habit than I thought, I too use yahoo.com as my default 'lets ping for connectivity check'. Had no idea it was a phenomenon, I guess Yahoo! is still fondly remembered by people my age (32, been online since '91) as a useful hub of information and a once ideal webmail client... Gmail all the way now though..
I browse at +3 and get much the same! I get fairly frequent mod points, I metamod daily, I haven't had a sniff of mod points this week, which is unusual..
I think in the future there will be a lot more music floating around for free of *real* quality simply because there's a lot of artists who wont put up with all this corporate bullshit.
ack.. i just realised that you meant x86 Linux rather than.. oh... god the shame of failing to understand a short post on/. on a Friday afternoon. Apologies to parent, I just totally misread what you wrote:$
Having just had one of these *incredibly noisy* things to test, I can quite happily confirm they run Solaris... I'm not sure where you're getting your info from but it sure as hell isn't Sun..
I already waste enough time at work reading your hallowed pages. Pointing me to 20 page articles is not helping my productivity one bit. Now I've commented I'll RTFA for a while, maybe comment again in 20 minutes time;)
In the UK I've had the... pleasure (?)... of knowing some exceedingly dodgy people with very good technical skills. This information has been available to criminals with the requistite amount of cash as long as hackers (sorry crackers) decided they could make a fast buck doing companies rather than pootling around insecure university networks.
Nothing new here and it certianly isn't limited to dodgy stalls in Moscow markets or corrupt outsourced callcentre employees.
Except the website doesn't demand personal information before they let you read the story. Which story were you clicking on?
Have TFA anyway, if it makes you feeel any better
LoJack for Your Computer
By Michael Jaffe July 6, 2005
Last week, LoJack (Nasdaq: LOJN) announced the dawning of a new era in data recovery.
What? Is the groundbreaking gorilla of stolen vehicle recovery committing Peter Lynch's cardinal sin of deworsification into the unrelated field of hard-drive hacking? Not really.
LoJack is licensing its brand name to Absolute Software, which provides Computrace -- soon to be known as the "LoJack for Laptops" line of computer theft recovery systems. When a stolen Computrace-equipped system is connected to the Internet, it automatically and silently sends locating data to Absolute Software, which then calls out the law. In some cases, Absolute Software customers are eligible for a $1,000 guarantee payment when a stolen system is not recovered within 60 days.
In my opinion, LoJack investors should be pleased for at least two reasons. First, without committing any capital or assets, LoJack is collecting a licensing fee, as well as warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of Absolute Software, with a $2 per-share exercise price. Assuming that LoJack can capitalize on its option to buy shares profitably (Absolute Software shares are trading at around $2 each), LoJack investors might be looking at the elusive free lunch. As long as Absolute Software delivers on quality control and customer service, thereby maintaining its reputation, downside risk is relatively limited.
Second, and more importantly, the LoJack brand name is gaining free exposure in the laptop market, catering to a higher-middle-income individual and business population, which happens to be a major segment of LoJack's automotive target customer base. Ostensibly, LoJack's status as a recognized brand and market leader in its field stands to be confirmed and enhanced. If companies take note (and mass appeal exists), there might be more licensing revenue to come.
To be sure, in a business that depends on brand awareness and customer confidence, a deal like this carries tempered risks because a company's brand equity is tantamount to the success or failure of a product. That said, successful licensing also offers the possibility for even greater rewards.
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Unfortunately genome sequencing projects don't really lend themselves to a BOINC like infrastructure - what you're doing is assembling millions of short strands of DNA into a contiguous sequence. Consequently you need all the avaialable strands close by to compare each other against and fit them into the scaffold. Thats why these things tend to be done on big localised compute clusters and not distributed.
Genome annotation (actually marking out features in the DNA) is a different matter - it would be quite sensible to farm out "chunks" of assembled DNA to multiple machines for various gene prediction algorithms.
If you're interested in doing genome based distributed computation I'm sure Genome@Home w ould be delighted to hear from you.
Bizarre, I've been buying from Amazon for years, and they have never, not once, sent me unsolicited email. I've never had anything other than an order confirmation from them.
And as for being illegal in the UK - I'd love to know if it was, I'm on a slew of mailshots courtesy of online ticket sales sites for gigs and theatre and I can't get a single damn one of them to stop sending me crap.
The Secunia test does not work if you open the sites as tabs as opposed to new browser 'windows'. Mind you this is the first time I've seen one of the Secunia advisories actually work on a machine. The potential for badness is quite high with this one methinks..
Well the nice thing about the Wellcome Trust is that they are an independent charity and the largest non-corporate non-governmental source of biomedical research funding in the UK.
Sure theres a chance that things can get tied up in the hands of companies - but lets look at the human genome project. The best data came out of the academic sector, the private data (held by Celera) didn't turn out to be too profitable after all (or even better quality) and is now in the public domain. I worry about the commercialisation of science as much as the next man, but lets face it, business just doesn't care unless there's a drug to sell at the end. Data is still just data.
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It would be nice if any of them were actually amusing. ALthough I will forgive you Diesel Sweeties.
:-)
PA, VGcats and Lil' Gamers - what more do you need?
New study by scientists disagrees with programme made by television professionals to give the illusion of education to the masses?
;)
Shocking!
"Is it me or in the last 8 years or so has popular music sucked?"
;)
;)) and takes your choice..
welcome to the wonderful world we call 'getting older'
There's plenty of good music around, there's some good pop music around, you just have to sort through a lot of dross to find it. Music is always regarded with a certain nostalgia - there will be hits from the late 90's and 00's that we will be listening to in 20 years time. I'm a big fan of Kaiser Chiefs at the moment - its pure pop but great fun - and I'm basically a hip-hop and techno head (although nothing that charts). Jay-Z and Kayne West suck royally - but for every one of them there's a K-Os or Buck 65... you pay your money (or not
Where can I find Linux porters?
I live in Newcastle, it's a long, long way away ;)
Hmm try going in Leicester Square - it's more than £7.50 I can assure you. Most Odeons are more than £4.80 for sure. You must live in the North :)
Thankyou thats the funniest thing I've ever read on /. I only wish I had some mod points for you
Hmm yes, 1995 was also my year of conversion to Linux. Never assumed it was anything to do with the release of Windows 95, more like all the tools I needed to work on my PhD were UNIX based, and I wanted practice.
;) Those were the days where I knew the figures for my hard drive geometry off the top of my head, now I couldn't even tell you which manufacturer made them. The difference 10 years makes!
As I recall Linux wasn't *particularly* easy to install at the time
At the risk of some karma burn - none of the recent stories appear to have any comments! Maybe everyone has taken the day off posting but I doubt that :)
Platts patent is here I personally cant see the relevance of the patents to each other but IANAPL :)
This must be a more common habit than I thought, I too use yahoo.com as my default 'lets ping for connectivity check'. Had no idea it was a phenomenon, I guess Yahoo! is still fondly remembered by people my age (32, been online since '91) as a useful hub of information and a once ideal webmail client... Gmail all the way now though..
more to the point that report was from October 2002
I browse at +3 and get much the same! I get fairly frequent mod points, I metamod daily, I haven't had a sniff of mod points this week, which is unusual..
and labels, are releasing stuff under Creative Commons licences.
You like techno? I heartily recommend Avionix Records
I think in the future there will be a lot more music floating around for free of *real* quality simply because there's a lot of artists who wont put up with all this corporate bullshit.
ack.. i just realised that you meant x86 Linux rather than.. oh... god the shame of failing to understand a short post on /. on a Friday afternoon. Apologies to parent, I just totally misread what you wrote :$
Having just had one of these *incredibly noisy* things to test, I can quite happily confirm they run Solaris... I'm not sure where you're getting your info from but it sure as hell isn't Sun..
I already waste enough time at work reading your hallowed pages. Pointing me to 20 page articles is not helping my productivity one bit. Now I've commented I'll RTFA for a while, maybe comment again in 20 minutes time ;)
In the UK I've had the ... pleasure (?) ... of knowing some exceedingly dodgy people with very good technical skills. This information has been available to criminals with the requistite amount of cash as long as hackers (sorry crackers) decided they could make a fast buck doing companies rather than pootling around insecure university networks.
Nothing new here and it certianly isn't limited to dodgy stalls in Moscow markets or corrupt outsourced callcentre employees.
Except the website doesn't demand personal information before they let you read the story. Which story were you clicking on?
Have TFA anyway, if it makes you feeel any better
LoJack for Your Computer
By Michael Jaffe
July 6, 2005
Last week, LoJack (Nasdaq: LOJN) announced the dawning of a new era in data recovery.
What? Is the groundbreaking gorilla of stolen vehicle recovery committing Peter Lynch's cardinal sin of deworsification into the unrelated field of hard-drive hacking? Not really.
LoJack is licensing its brand name to Absolute Software, which provides Computrace -- soon to be known as the "LoJack for Laptops" line of computer theft recovery systems. When a stolen Computrace-equipped system is connected to the Internet, it automatically and silently sends locating data to Absolute Software, which then calls out the law. In some cases, Absolute Software customers are eligible for a $1,000 guarantee payment when a stolen system is not recovered within 60 days.
In my opinion, LoJack investors should be pleased for at least two reasons. First, without committing any capital or assets, LoJack is collecting a licensing fee, as well as warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of Absolute Software, with a $2 per-share exercise price. Assuming that LoJack can capitalize on its option to buy shares profitably (Absolute Software shares are trading at around $2 each), LoJack investors might be looking at the elusive free lunch. As long as Absolute Software delivers on quality control and customer service, thereby maintaining its reputation, downside risk is relatively limited.
Second, and more importantly, the LoJack brand name is gaining free exposure in the laptop market, catering to a higher-middle-income individual and business population, which happens to be a major segment of LoJack's automotive target customer base. Ostensibly, LoJack's status as a recognized brand and market leader in its field stands to be confirmed and enhanced. If companies take note (and mass appeal exists), there might be more licensing revenue to come.
To be sure, in a business that depends on brand awareness and customer confidence, a deal like this carries tempered risks because a company's brand equity is tantamount to the success or failure of a product. That said, successful licensing also offers the possibility for even greater rewards.
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Fool contributor Michael Jaffe owns no shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article. Click here to see The Motley Fool's disclosure policy. The Motley Fool is investors writing for investors.
Unfortunately genome sequencing projects don't really lend themselves to a BOINC like infrastructure - what you're doing is assembling millions of short strands of DNA into a contiguous sequence. Consequently you need all the avaialable strands close by to compare each other against and fit them into the scaffold. Thats why these things tend to be done on big localised compute clusters and not distributed.
Genome annotation (actually marking out features in the DNA) is a different matter - it would be quite sensible to farm out "chunks" of assembled DNA to multiple machines for various gene prediction algorithms.
If you're interested in doing genome based distributed computation I'm sure Genome@Home w ould be delighted to hear from you.
Bizarre, I've been buying from Amazon for years, and they have never, not once, sent me unsolicited email. I've never had anything other than an order confirmation from them.
And as for being illegal in the UK - I'd love to know if it was, I'm on a slew of mailshots courtesy of online ticket sales sites for gigs and theatre and I can't get a single damn one of them to stop sending me crap.
Nice lift from wikipedia there ;) I guess that's what it's there for, plagarising for that all important +5 Informative?
Plenty of Perl modules too to do interesting Quantum like things:
& mode=all
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Quantum%3A%3A
The Secunia test does not work if you open the sites as tabs as opposed to new browser 'windows'. Mind you this is the first time I've seen one of the Secunia advisories actually work on a machine. The potential for badness is quite high with this one methinks..
Well the nice thing about the Wellcome Trust is that they are an independent charity and the largest non-corporate non-governmental source of biomedical research funding in the UK.
Maybe you'd like to read their constitution: here
Sure theres a chance that things can get tied up in the hands of companies - but lets look at the human genome project. The best data came out of the academic sector, the private data (held by Celera) didn't turn out to be too profitable after all (or even better quality) and is now in the public domain. I worry about the commercialisation of science as much as the next man, but lets face it, business just doesn't care unless there's a drug to sell at the end. Data is still just data.