That seems like an unusal slip up for SecurityFocus. I have been trying to get to the article since this was first posted. There were no comments and it was already/.ed. Sure would like to read the article to verify this.
Hold a lottery. Sell tickets at $20 or so a piece. The winner gets to go to ISS. Use a Superball type lottery. Hit 4 numbers and win a trip to FLA to watch the shuttle take off. Hit all 5 and get to go into space on board the shuttle. Hit all 6 and you get to go on the ISS.
Price for the tickets would have to be evaluated. I would pay 20 or 30.
When I left Kmart in 1990 we ordered stock by counting goods on the shelf. Those numbers where then entered on a paper sheet that went back to the office where a worker would enter the numbers into the computer...the next day.
Started at Wal-Mart 6 months later. Ordering new stock went like this. Look at the item on the shelf. Is the count less than low stock count set by the department merchandise manager? If so, scan the barcode label. The scanner then wirelessly sends that information to the computer in the office where an order is sent to Bentonville. About a day or two later new stock hits the shelf. Wham, bam, order placed. And their distribution warehouses...damn little stock. Most items go out just as fast as it comes in, the logistics are phenomenal. Lots of conveyer belts with scanners directing stock, leading from supply trucks to Wal-Mart trucks.
The late Sam Walton knew technology was important to stay ahead of the competition.
Kmart never got it. Now haven't they have filed for Chapter 11 protection? Needed to hire some 'puter nerds I guess.
They have always gotten people to upgrade software for the newest features. This will be the way they can get people to buy the latest software. Their products are so bloated with useless features that no one sees a reason to upgrade what they have, but to stay secure? People might buy that "feature"
The revenue stream has to stay flowing and this will force IT people to upgrade. If they don't and they get hit by some nasty bug/virus/worm the CEOs will have their heads.
But does this leave MS open to lawsuits...nah not likely what with their EULA
Yeah, well if they weren't pushing all the boy bands down everyones throats maybe sales might have been better. Blame everyone for poor album sales... maybe they should look at the dreck they are foisting on the consumer.
You still can't record a show using a tape like you can with a VHS tape.
Actually you can here. It is pricey though. I bought one to archive camcorder DV footage.
I recently went to look at the demos, and I wasn't impressed. The pictures were a little fuzy, and you need to be a mile away to see the picture clearly.
Yeah, the first time I looked I thought the same thing. Turns out the dealer was running the HDTV sat signal out to the TVs via coax cable. With their sat system that downconverted the signal to standard definition TV. Went back when they had a new manager and had the TVs set up properly. You will see the difference just like I did. Whether or not it is enough to get you to shell the bucks only you know. Just check to make sure they are really showing you the HDTV signal. I can now look at an electronics store display and tell you if the set is displaying HDTV without looking at the connections on the back of the set.
From your fuzzy picture comment it sounds like the same thing happened to you...that or the TV needed work. On a big set with a standard definition signal, you do need to sit a mile away to see the picture clearly otherwise you will see the scan lines. I sit nine feet away from my HDTV and don't see any scan lines. The picture is like looking out a window.
I will not buy an HDTV till I can go into Best Buy, AMES, or K-Mart to buy one because that will mean that the HDTVs have become more common, the cost will have gone down, there will be a decent way to record the signals like the VHS tapes, and the cost will have gone down.
Best Buy is where I went to see the demos. They are now selling HDTV monitors (needs a HDTV turner) for just under $2000. I got my Toshiba two years ago at UBid for $1783. At that time the same set at Best Buy was $2700.
I bought the set to watch DVDs. When I was shopping for a new TV, I found that the TVs that gave the best DVD performance were the HDTVs. So I spent a little more than I had intended, but I have been very happy with this set.
I have only recently added an HDTV DirecTV box to get HBO HD and HDNet. DirecTV is in talks with Showtime to add Showtime's HDTV channel. Yeah, high def Stargate SG1.
I think you are right. While this is an old book, many people have not read the book. As an example,
at the end of the movie, which ends just where the book ends, I heard lots of comments like "why did they end it there?" Which means that in the sold out crowd, at a 1:00PM showing on a workday, many people probably had not read the books.
I first read the trilogy when I was 14 in 1977, and have read it several times since then. I thought for sure the movie would be awful. It wasn't. I am still amazed that they were able to make normal sized actors look natural when they made them hobbit sized or dwarf sized in the case of John
Rhys-Davies.
In addition, I thought I would hate the Aragorn and Arwen thread inserted into the movie from the book's appendex. While it is a distraction, my wife loved this storyline. So if your girlfriend won't go tell her there is a love story in the movie...something for everyone.
In addition, the ease of porting a PC platform game to the Xbox will certainly add to the pitch. Can anyone verify that it does in fact use the DirectX APIs. I have read that it does but I have not verified this for myself yet.
I bought an XBox yesterday and have not even opened the damn thing yet. Couldn't believe they had ONE at the local WalMart. A 320 (with tax) impulse buy...doh
We are using OS/2 on a system running our voice mail software. The system supports about 4000 mail boxes on a PENTIUM 200 with 64MB of RAM. This system has only crashed once in six years of operation. Other than that the system has been shut down for a hardware upgrade (to the current 200Mhz processor), when a hard drive failed, when the system was upgraded to OS/2 ver. 3, and when the power was out long enough that our 30KW battery backup shut all the servers down three times over the past five years (we added the module to shut down the servers a year after the battery backup was added...we are a small university and couldn't afford it all at once). It was in continuous operation for close to three years before the hard drive crashed.
Never let it be said that IBM doesn't know how to create an operating system.
That this end of the Excite business is profitable and that bad investments are dragging down Excite@home?
On the ScreenSavers last night Leo Laporte stated that an insider told him that the service is extremely profitable and that the cable services are waiting for Excite to tank to take over the service for themselves.
After the pullout, the conflict didn't cease immediately. The overwhelming poverty in Ireland gave the IRA a large pool of unemployed young men to recruit. Border skirmishes, assignations and other acts of terror continued off and on for years.
Along the border they still hate each other, but there is less conflict today because so many people are working. IMHO if everybody keeps working long enough, the old hatreds might stand a chance of cooling off to the point that they can really get along.
From the point of view of the Americans, they feel like they are caught between the rock and the proverbial hard place.
After WWII, many in the Middle East saw the US as the country to emulate. They saw the US as a country that exuded freedom, wealth, and modernity and so on. We said great. Here is aid in the form of education resources, health resources, money etc. The various leaders in the Middle East squandered these opportunities. When their people began to rebel and complain, their leaders moved to suppress these dissenters. This powerless underclass was ripe pickings for the various religious leaders spewing hatred for the west.
The big mistake the US made? The mistake was being loyal to those leaders that had promised freedom. Always have been loyal...loyal to a fault.
It is happening again in Israel. They are getting funding from the US and preaching freedom, but they treat the Palestinians that work in Israel like crap. Arrested and detained without being charged for months at a time.
Israel is so close. They need to look to Ireland. Years of conflict that has gone quiet because the young male population that was throwing fire bombs, what else was there to do, are now employed and making money.
TI has/had (have not spoken to the math dept in a while) a program to supply Instructors with calculators if they recommend/require them in their classes.
At the University where I work one of the Math Profs has gotten pre-release (read beta) TI calc units to test because he writes so many programs for the TI.
If you are a Corporate user, you are issued a one fits all number that never requires activation. No matter how many upgrades.
The only user hurt by the new MS leash is the home user that loves hardware upgrades.
That is, unless he goes to South East Asia and picks up a copy of XP that has been hacked...they are going cheap. Last I heard you could pick up a cracked copy of XP in Hong Kong for under $10 US.
The kind of provincial attitude that you have shown is what IMHO has made so much of a mess of the world today. You had some good points but you seem to be as "ignorant" and maybe more close minded than the Americans you blast.
Every country is capable of turning out a few great people. Einstein, Gandhi
Every country is capable of turning out a few horrible people. Adolph Hitler, Thomas Quick, Ted Bundy, Bin Laden
Every country is capable of turning out a Bell's curve worth of average people.
The point being, no one country has an absolute pure and spotless record. Each country should be judged on the sum of the parts.
60+ % of the american population wanted to put arab-americans in camps, restricting their freedom of movement. That was featured in a Wolf Blitzer column, I can dig it up if you didn't see it. I stand by my comment about ignorant americans:)
Post the link I cannot find this and don't really believe this is true.
While the paint on the outer skin may have started the fire, the diesel fuel used to power the engines actually caused most of the deaths due to fire.
The outer skin burned very fast, the hydrogen burned up, but the diesel fuel tanks ruptured when the skeleton buckled. This fire rained down on those that managed to survive the fall.
I cannot remember the actual amount of reserve fuel on board, but it was substantial.
Granted this solution is really two buttons, but it works for me.
Mine is an on/off button. I do make an assumption that the device is starting in an off state. I have a page that has the discrete on code assigned to the power button. On pressing that button, I go to a page that looks exactly the same but has the off code assigned to the power button. For those times when the Pronto locks up, I have a very small button at the bottom of the page that loads the alternate page. If the device is on and the pronto locks up, the pronto will start with the page that assumes the device is off. I hit the toggle button to load the page with the off function.
Yes it is a hack, but it is the closest I can get to that same functionality of the original remote. Maybe if the Pronto ran Linux, it would not ever lock up and this would never be a problem.
Even with that short coming the Pronto is still my favorite remote. I mean this thing will control nearly everything. The best thing is that with the FOUR IR LEDs on front, I don't have to aim the remote at any device I want to control...not even my rear projection TV. With other universal remotes you have to point the remote at exactly the right spot on the front of th TV screen, and even then it is a hit or miss proposition.
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That seems like an unusal slip up for SecurityFocus. I have been trying to get to the article since this was first posted. There were no comments and it was already /.ed. Sure would like to read the article to verify this.
NASA is having budget problems.
Hold a lottery. Sell tickets at $20 or so a piece. The winner gets to go to ISS. Use a Superball type lottery. Hit 4 numbers and win a trip to FLA to watch the shuttle take off. Hit all 5 and get to go into space on board the shuttle. Hit all 6 and you get to go on the ISS.
Price for the tickets would have to be evaluated. I would pay 20 or 30.
a Yottabyte is equal to one trillion terabytes
I have worked both Wal-Mart and Kmart.
When I left Kmart in 1990 we ordered stock by counting goods on the shelf. Those numbers where then entered on a paper sheet that went back to the office where a worker would enter the numbers into the computer...the next day.
Started at Wal-Mart 6 months later. Ordering new stock went like this. Look at the item on the shelf. Is the count less than low stock count set by the department merchandise manager? If so, scan the barcode label. The scanner then wirelessly sends that information to the computer in the office where an order is sent to Bentonville. About a day or two later new stock hits the shelf. Wham, bam, order placed. And their distribution warehouses...damn little stock. Most items go out just as fast as it comes in, the logistics are phenomenal. Lots of conveyer belts with scanners directing stock, leading from supply trucks to Wal-Mart trucks.
The late Sam Walton knew technology was important to stay ahead of the competition.
Kmart never got it. Now haven't they have filed for Chapter 11 protection? Needed to hire some 'puter nerds I guess.
They have always gotten people to upgrade software for the newest features. This will be the way they can get people to buy the latest software. Their products are so bloated with useless features that no one sees a reason to upgrade what they have, but to stay secure? People might buy that "feature"
The revenue stream has to stay flowing and this will force IT people to upgrade. If they don't and they get hit by some nasty bug/virus/worm the CEOs will have their heads.
But does this leave MS open to lawsuits...nah not likely what with their EULA
Oh well
They want to insert their own "secure" hole into your network. They're unofficially calling it "CAT," for "Cable Address Translator."
From here
Thought wow 2 MBytes. That is a whole lot of bandwidth out of an item that small...It is 2 Mbit per second.
Oh well, tone down excitement. Bad editor, bad, bad editor, got me all excited.
Reservoir Dogs?
Yeah, well if they weren't pushing all the boy bands down everyones throats maybe sales might have been better. Blame everyone for poor album sales ... maybe they should look at the dreck they are foisting on the consumer.
You still can't record a show using a tape like you can with a VHS tape.
Actually you can here. It is pricey though. I bought one to archive camcorder DV footage.
I recently went to look at the demos, and I wasn't impressed. The pictures were a little fuzy, and you need to be a mile away to see the picture clearly.
Yeah, the first time I looked I thought the same thing. Turns out the dealer was running the HDTV sat signal out to the TVs via coax cable. With their sat system that downconverted the signal to standard definition TV. Went back when they had a new manager and had the TVs set up properly. You will see the difference just like I did. Whether or not it is enough to get you to shell the bucks only you know. Just check to make sure they are really showing you the HDTV signal. I can now look at an electronics store display and tell you if the set is displaying HDTV without looking at the connections on the back of the set.
From your fuzzy picture comment it sounds like the same thing happened to you...that or the TV needed work. On a big set with a standard definition signal, you do need to sit a mile away to see the picture clearly otherwise you will see the scan lines. I sit nine feet away from my HDTV and don't see any scan lines. The picture is like looking out a window.
I will not buy an HDTV till I can go into Best Buy, AMES, or K-Mart to buy one because that will mean that the HDTVs have become more common, the cost will have gone down, there will be a decent way to record the signals like the VHS tapes, and the cost will have gone down.
Best Buy is where I went to see the demos. They are now selling HDTV monitors (needs a HDTV turner) for just under $2000. I got my Toshiba two years ago at UBid for $1783. At that time the same set at Best Buy was $2700.
I bought the set to watch DVDs. When I was shopping for a new TV, I found that the TVs that gave the best DVD performance were the HDTVs. So I spent a little more than I had intended, but I have been very happy with this set.
I have only recently added an HDTV DirecTV box to get HBO HD and HDNet. DirecTV is in talks with Showtime to add Showtime's HDTV channel. Yeah, high def Stargate SG1.
I think you are right. While this is an old book, many people have not read the book. As an example,
at the end of the movie, which ends just where the book ends, I heard lots of comments like "why did they end it there?" Which means that in the sold out crowd, at a 1:00PM showing on a workday, many people probably had not read the books.
I first read the trilogy when I was 14 in 1977, and have read it several times since then. I thought for sure the movie would be awful. It wasn't. I am still amazed that they were able to make normal sized actors look natural when they made them hobbit sized or dwarf sized in the case of John
Rhys-Davies.
In addition, I thought I would hate the Aragorn and Arwen thread inserted into the movie from the book's appendex. While it is a distraction, my wife loved this storyline. So if your girlfriend won't go tell her there is a love story in the movie...something for everyone.
Them's the funniest looking mushrooms I'm ever a seeing ... argle bargle morble woosh ... coiling into a six foot parking meter now
In addition, the ease of porting a PC platform game to the Xbox will certainly add to the pitch. Can anyone verify that it does in fact use the DirectX APIs. I have read that it does but I have not verified this for myself yet.
I bought an XBox yesterday and have not even opened the damn thing yet. Couldn't believe they had ONE at the local WalMart. A 320 (with tax) impulse buy...doh
We are using OS/2 on a system running our voice mail software. The system supports about 4000 mail boxes on a PENTIUM 200 with 64MB of RAM. This system has only crashed once in six years of operation. Other than that the system has been shut down for a hardware upgrade (to the current 200Mhz processor), when a hard drive failed, when the system was upgraded to OS/2 ver. 3, and when the power was out long enough that our 30KW battery backup shut all the servers down three times over the past five years (we added the module to shut down the servers a year after the battery backup was added...we are a small university and couldn't afford it all at once). It was in continuous operation for close to three years before the hard drive crashed.
Never let it be said that IBM doesn't know how to create an operating system.
That this end of the Excite business is profitable and that bad investments are dragging down Excite@home?
...
On the ScreenSavers last night Leo Laporte stated that an insider told him that the service is extremely profitable and that the cable services are waiting for Excite to tank to take over the service for themselves.
Who knows for sure
After the pullout, the conflict didn't cease immediately. The overwhelming poverty in Ireland gave the IRA a large pool of unemployed young men to recruit. Border skirmishes, assignations and other acts of terror continued off and on for years.
Along the border they still hate each other, but there is less conflict today because so many people are working. IMHO if everybody keeps working long enough, the old hatreds might stand a chance of cooling off to the point that they can really get along.
The greatest Evil
From the point of view of the Americans, they feel like they are caught between the rock and the proverbial hard place.
After WWII, many in the Middle East saw the US as the country to emulate. They saw the US as a country that exuded freedom, wealth, and modernity and so on. We said great. Here is aid in the form of education resources, health resources, money etc. The various leaders in the Middle East squandered these opportunities. When their people began to rebel and complain, their leaders moved to suppress these dissenters. This powerless underclass was ripe pickings for the various religious leaders spewing hatred for the west.
The big mistake the US made? The mistake was being loyal to those leaders that had promised freedom. Always have been loyal...loyal to a fault.
It is happening again in Israel. They are getting funding from the US and preaching freedom, but they treat the Palestinians that work in Israel like crap. Arrested and detained without being charged for months at a time.
Israel is so close. They need to look to Ireland. Years of conflict that has gone quiet because the young male population that was throwing fire bombs, what else was there to do, are now employed and making money.
Oh well The greatest Evil
Yeah $22,000 isn't much
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TI has/had (have not spoken to the math dept in a while) a program to supply Instructors with calculators if they recommend/require them in their classes.
At the University where I work one of the Math Profs has gotten pre-release (read beta) TI calc units to test because he writes so many programs for the TI.
If you are a Corporate user, you are issued a one fits all number that never requires activation. No matter how many upgrades.
The only user hurt by the new MS leash is the home user that loves hardware upgrades.
That is, unless he goes to South East Asia and picks up a copy of XP that has been hacked...they are going cheap. Last I heard you could pick up a cracked copy of XP in Hong Kong for under $10 US.
The kind of provincial attitude that you have shown is what IMHO has made so much of a mess of the world today. You had some good points but you seem to be as "ignorant" and maybe more close minded than the Americans you blast.
:)
Every country is capable of turning out a few great people. Einstein, Gandhi
Every country is capable of turning out a few horrible people. Adolph Hitler, Thomas Quick, Ted Bundy, Bin Laden
Every country is capable of turning out a Bell's curve worth of average people.
The point being, no one country has an absolute pure and spotless record. Each country should be judged on the sum of the parts.
60+ % of the american population wanted to put arab-americans in camps, restricting their freedom of movement. That was featured in a Wolf Blitzer column, I can dig it up if you didn't see it. I stand by my comment about ignorant americans
Post the link I cannot find this and don't really believe this is true.
Err
Buffer Overrun...yeah
Typing to fast thinking to slow, meant September of course
No, you are not being a purist.
Calling virus writers terrorists trivializes what happened on the 11th of October.
This is just wrong...on too many levels
While the paint on the outer skin may have started the fire, the diesel fuel used to power the engines actually caused most of the deaths due to fire.
The outer skin burned very fast, the hydrogen burned up, but the diesel fuel tanks ruptured when the skeleton buckled. This fire rained down on those that managed to survive the fall.
I cannot remember the actual amount of reserve fuel on board, but it was substantial.
Granted this solution is really two buttons, but it works for me.
Mine is an on/off button. I do make an assumption that the device is starting in an off state. I have a page that has the discrete on code assigned to the power button. On pressing that button, I go to a page that looks exactly the same but has the off code assigned to the power button. For those times when the Pronto locks up, I have a very small button at the bottom of the page that loads the alternate page. If the device is on and the pronto locks up, the pronto will start with the page that assumes the device is off. I hit the toggle button to load the page with the off function.
Yes it is a hack, but it is the closest I can get to that same functionality of the original remote. Maybe if the Pronto ran Linux, it would not ever lock up and this would never be a problem.
Even with that short coming the Pronto is still my favorite remote. I mean this thing will control nearly everything. The best thing is that with the FOUR IR LEDs on front, I don't have to aim the remote at any device I want to control...not even my rear projection TV. With other universal remotes you have to point the remote at exactly the right spot on the front of th TV screen, and even then it is a hit or miss proposition.