Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent.
If they can change a vote, why do you think that they couldn't also add votes? Being able to corrupt the database one way makes it likely they can do it in other ways too.
By the time I pick up the controller, SCO has already shot itself in the foot, head, and assorted other body parts. It's not much fun blasting at something that has only one hit point left, and refuses to die.
It could also be the fact that any new machines bought to replace dead/broken ones came pre-installed with XP. As more of these cheap machines died or locked up due to virus attacks, as they frequently do, XP gained seats.
Now, as these XP machines are brought down by virus, and since they do not come with install media for such a case, you can either pay $300 for a new copy of XP to reinstall (which will be missing all of the important device drivers), then spend the next two weeks trying to get everything to work again; or pay $500 for a completely new machine with shiney buttons and everything already set up.
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Who really believes that any of these things are "innovative", instead of being incremental changes to existing products. Microsoft has apparently beaten the word "innovative" to death, so it no longer has its original meaning.
So, changing the menus on one program is much more innovative than designing a new game console (ps3, wii). I think this looks more like a "who paid the most" advertisement.
The crowds are a little static, but look alive enough to be believable
What's with that? Last time I watched a race, they had this gorilla throwing barrels down a series of ramps, and all the fans had to climb ladders or jump over the barrels on the ramps. When a fan reached the top, the ramps rearranged themselves, and it all started over again. What's with these lasy fans nowadays?
instead of using something nasty like citric acid on your pet, try squirting water first. It usually works quite well, and doesn't leave a sticky mess that will start to rot and smell later.
As I understand it, Google just uses the raw OCR. It's usually good enough for searching, which is what they are intrested in, and requires a lot less manpower than corrected OCR. If you want corrected OCR, you need to look at places like Project Gutenberg (and distributed proofreading).
If you came back with a number as high as 0.1%, I'd be suspicious of your math.
But that will cause GLOBAL WARMING! Total destruction of the Earth in 7 years! Massive extinction rates! We must think of the children! We have a consensus! Brad Pitt says so, so we must believe! What if it were true! We cannot take a chance and wait for proof! Stop the madness!
Instead of a central cluster, why not have it set up so that it is hosted by "selected"[*] fans, each one hosting a specific "area" of the world. This would distribute the load over the network, and depending on the number of active players at any given time, should give decent responsiveness. Cross a line, and you automatically switch to another server. That provider would be responsable for the contents of his area, but should allow for outside developement.
You might get areas hosted by companies as advertisements. An hotel company might create a city around a hotel with their name splashed all over it. A motorcycle company could have you riding their machines all over a sand dune. Have an online ski resort. A college based site. An area devoted to a TV show (24?, Farscape?, Oprah?). Done right, it could be a fun way to do advertisements. Done wrong, a horrible nightmare (but might still be intresting in a "plan-9 from outer space" sort of way).
[*] The selection would be on the basis of being a known "good host", have a decent starting area, and a minimum bandwidth, processor, storage, etc. Probably by a panel created for that specific purpose.
Will we be getting hundreds of horror movies from this, like they do with nuclear power plants?
"Sheltered from the destroying wind by the turbine farm, the flesh eating larva thrived in the darkness created by the solar panels, coming out at night to feast on human flesh...."
Personally, at the moment, I quite like Wind Farms because they're unusual and interesting to look at but once every square metre of the countryside is covered in them I suspect this opinion might change.
They're also a great place to get "chicken" burger. Catch it before it hits the ground, so you know it's fresh.
Would you like to be able to buy plain bread; or would you prefer to be required to buy bread with peanut butter, spam, spinich, raw eggs, jello, string, and super hot sauce (mustard and pickeled pigsfeet available for additional cost). If you want to make your own sandwich, you have to buy this sandwhich, scrape off the "vendor installed" fillings, then you can put your own fillings on it. But you still have to pay for the vendor's fillings, as well as your own. And you cannot use any of the vendors fillings on anything else.
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Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent.
Change that "spam", and then I'd believe it.
If they can change a vote, why do you think that they couldn't also add votes? Being able to corrupt the database one way makes it likely they can do it in other ways too.
And it only took a year and a half for anyone to notice. It must have been quite amazing. No wonder Florida has disappeared under the waters.
By the time I pick up the controller, SCO has already shot itself in the foot, head, and assorted other body parts. It's not much fun blasting at something that has only one hit point left, and refuses to die.
I'm Microsoft's ideal early adopter:
Summary: Willing to buy something that doesn't work, awed by bright colors and shiney buttons, fearful of anything different.
It could also be the fact that any new machines bought to replace dead/broken ones came pre-installed with XP. As more of these cheap machines died or locked up due to virus attacks, as they frequently do, XP gained seats.
Now, as these XP machines are brought down by virus, and since they do not come with install media for such a case, you can either pay $300 for a new copy of XP to reinstall (which will be missing all of the important device drivers), then spend the next two weeks trying to get everything to work again; or pay $500 for a completely new machine with shiney buttons and everything already set up.
I wonder how much of a load this article is adding to those servers?
Next article: Most innovative grocery store items: Generic beer: tastes, smells, and looks just like Billy Beer, but costs 10 cents less per pallet.
Who really believes that any of these things are "innovative", instead of being incremental changes to existing products. Microsoft has apparently beaten the word "innovative" to death, so it no longer has its original meaning.
Does it also automatically upgrade all your access files to the new version, making them unreadable by anyone not using this lastest version of word?
Free trial, then you are forced to update everyone in your office because of the automatic updates to all your data files.
So, changing the menus on one program is much more innovative than designing a new game console (ps3, wii). I think this looks more like a "who paid the most" advertisement.
Doesn't everyone at least try to play this game in all of the Adventure games they get?
Let's see what happens when we push that stupid git Legolas into the path of the marauding monster?
The crowds are a little static, but look alive enough to be believable
What's with that? Last time I watched a race, they had this gorilla throwing barrels down a series of ramps, and all the fans had to climb ladders or jump over the barrels on the ramps. When a fan reached the top, the ramps rearranged themselves, and it all started over again. What's with these lasy fans nowadays?
I'm not going to play my Wii with myself.
Afraid of going blind?
instead of using something nasty like citric acid on your pet, try squirting water first. It usually works quite well, and doesn't leave a sticky mess that will start to rot and smell later.
Nope. That was the prototype XBox. You know how long it takes MicroSoft to go from a prototype to a usable version?
I always liked to stack the cards together, so that when you flipped through them you got to watch your entire game as a movie.
As I understand it, Google just uses the raw OCR. It's usually good enough for searching, which is what they are intrested in, and requires a lot less manpower than corrected OCR. If you want corrected OCR, you need to look at places like Project Gutenberg (and distributed proofreading).
I'm not a biologist so does anyone know if the second head is fully functional?
Ummm... It's long dead and fossilized. I really doubt if it's still functional.
Didn't they disable one of the cells? That would definately keep you from using 100% of its capabilities.
If you came back with a number as high as 0.1%, I'd be suspicious of your math.
But that will cause GLOBAL WARMING! Total destruction of the Earth in 7 years! Massive extinction rates! We must think of the children! We have a consensus! Brad Pitt says so, so we must believe! What if it were true! We cannot take a chance and wait for proof! Stop the madness!
Instead of a central cluster, why not have it set up so that it is hosted by "selected"[*] fans, each one hosting a specific "area" of the world. This would distribute the load over the network, and depending on the number of active players at any given time, should give decent responsiveness. Cross a line, and you automatically switch to another server. That provider would be responsable for the contents of his area, but should allow for outside developement.
You might get areas hosted by companies as advertisements. An hotel company might create a city around a hotel with their name splashed all over it. A motorcycle company could have you riding their machines all over a sand dune. Have an online ski resort. A college based site. An area devoted to a TV show (24?, Farscape?, Oprah?). Done right, it could be a fun way to do advertisements. Done wrong, a horrible nightmare (but might still be intresting in a "plan-9 from outer space" sort of way).
[*] The selection would be on the basis of being a known "good host", have a decent starting area, and a minimum bandwidth, processor, storage, etc. Probably by a panel created for that specific purpose.
Will we be getting hundreds of horror movies from this, like they do with nuclear power plants?
"Sheltered from the destroying wind by the turbine farm, the flesh eating larva thrived in the darkness created by the solar panels, coming out at night to feast on human flesh...."
Personally, at the moment, I quite like Wind Farms because they're unusual and interesting to look at but once every square metre of the countryside is covered in them I suspect this opinion might change.
They're also a great place to get "chicken" burger. Catch it before it hits the ground, so you know it's fresh.
Just enough to run my Delorian.
Consider the sandwich:
Would you like to be able to buy plain bread; or would you prefer to be required to buy bread with peanut butter, spam, spinich, raw eggs, jello, string, and super hot sauce (mustard and pickeled pigsfeet available for additional cost). If you want to make your own sandwich, you have to buy this sandwhich, scrape off the "vendor installed" fillings, then you can put your own fillings on it. But you still have to pay for the vendor's fillings, as well as your own. And you cannot use any of the vendors fillings on anything else.