How is this any different any other services attached to a port on your computer? Whenever a listening program has an overflow vulerability there is the potential for "A fully automated worm." Granted there is a lot of IM software out there, but there have been plenty of ports and services on Windows that have been exploited in a fully automated way in the past. At least IM software is a _bit_ more heterogeneous than Windows.
Yes, but a lot of different chips have different overclocking potential. It's interesting to see which can be pushed the furthest, even if its impractical. Beside, since when are geeky pursuits practical?
How do you propose to decide when the Wiki is 'stable' enough for release? Do you expect to get agreement from users? Or would individual articles be marked stable? Even deciding when an individual article is stable would be difficult.
As far as citing a stable version, its my understanding that a link to wikipedia can include a version so that the same text is referenced, regardless of future updates.
Repeat after me, "Cost does not equal value". No one is forcing you to buy inkjet cartridges. The value of something is what the market will bear. These companies are watching their revenue go up as they raise prices. that's their job, maximize revenue. If there is collusion among printer manufacturers, which I doubt, then it is illeagal. Otherwise, buy a laser.
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I think Project Gutenburg would be the best example similar to IMDb. I believe they started around 1976 with the Declaration of Independence. Certainly grew into a world wide collaborative process before the WWW.
I'm not sure that an unconfirmed rumour that they are releasing a web office is beating MS to it. Lets wait until its actually announced or better yet in Beta.
If I remember right, when I first tried Napster I had a 4 or 5 gig hard drive. At 40-60 Mb for an album compressed down to 96 or 128 kbps, gee that's only like 100 albums, and compressed to crappy quality. This music sharing thing will never take off.
OK, now movies don't usually get split up into song sized chunks, but still, I think your view is a little short sighted. Where will hard drives be in 5 years? Even now on a 400 Gb drive if your movies are 2Gb (which I think looks fantastic on a big screen, at least I can't tell the difference) You can store 200 movies. I would say that is much larger than most peoples physical DVD collection.
Yes DVD are still harder to rip than CDs, but I think the Movie industry has a lot to be worried about. Lucky for them the Music industry has led the way and they'll have about 15 years of experience to look back on before technology makes video trading as ubiquitous as music trading.
Nice thought, unfortunately not true. Hydrogen in the form needed is not abundant. Seperating it from water takes a significant amount of energy. Where are you going to get that energy? I don't believe numbers have shown that producing hydrogen is more efficient than gasoline. Maybe producing it is efficient enough that it benefits of no polution during use are worth it, maybe not. At least if this article is true then it might make a good energy delivery system.
Also see this book for a great discussion of what makes a pilot. We're the Astronauts pilots even though a monkey made thier flights first? Not to say that doesn't make them brave, but there was certainly a lack of control.
Compare this with the work being done on the X-15 and centruy series rocket planes. No computer assist, full pilot controled flight to the edge of space and back. Serious Cajones there.
I'm not a big poker player, but how would you cheat online? You can't manipulate the deck, you can't see other peoples , etc. I suppose knowing one other persons hand might give a bit more knowledge about the cards in the deck, but how big an advantage would that be?
I guess if you got into a game with 5 other people who were all working together, they could fleece you?
Are there any sites around for amateur weather forecasters that describe this sort of stuff?
On a much more basic level, I always have a hard time finding my way around the nws site (although it has gotten a lot better). Where can I find good information about the different statistical models, how the differ, what resolution grid they work on etc?
Mainly I am interested in obtaining the highest resolution GRIB file for wind forecasts in a specific are. Thoughts?
Seems like the Google leadership takes a lot of pleasure in messing with investors. The exact number of shares being issued is 14,159,265. Which happen to be the first 8 digits of Pi.
If a nation wants to unplug from the internet, more power to 'em. It will only hurt them, their citizens and economy. Economic forces already tie the internet together, we don't need bureaucrats to keep things together.
I a nation want to unplug from the internet, more power to 'em. It will only hurt them, their citizens and economy. Economic forces already tie the internet together, we don't need bureaucrats to keep things together.
Not sure where you're from but I think you need to substitute "humans" for "Americans" in you last sentence. Not to justify anyones actions, but men have been killing men for land since we built the first stone weapon (probably even before that). Its happened in the West, in the East, everywhere. Very few cultures do not resort to violence when property is disputed.
Ingnoring the fact that MSDN (meaning.NET and MFC I guess) and Apple (meaning Cocoa and Carbon) are not cross platform, you forget that they are distributed by companies that are using them to sell their primary products. Of course they want to make it easy for developers to make applications for their platforms, that's what sells OS's/Computer's.
As someone else mentioned, your only other real choice for non-opensource cross-platform developement is Java and wxWindows.
Time will tell if the price is too high, but most developers who have used QT will tell you that its pretty head and shoulders above any other cross-platform library.
Didn't we already decide that tomagotchi's or whatever they were called are a waste of space? Only in Tokyo would feeding a virtual dog be considered entertainment.
Seems to me with the few models I've used that the bluetooth models suck down more batteries than the dumber RF interfaces. Either way I would go with a recargable solution with a dock. Changing batteries is a hassle.
One of his main points is that one thing RSS does well is provide a good subscription method. IE a well defined standard on, "go here to get an updated version of this calendar". Sounds like he is proposing using RSS with an iCal payload. The idea is to leverage existing support of the iCal into a subscription model.
Maybe because it is hardly worth creating a standard for scheduling if its not supported in Outlook? I would imagine that among people who use a scheduling app on a regular basis, Outlook has an even better lock on the market than IE.
It think so far the KDE frame of mind has paid huge dividends. 3-4 years ago it was entirely unclear who was building a better desktop, Gnome or KDE. KDE it seems went on a spree of doing hardcore behind the scenes work, with a focus on getting APIs and implementations correct. It felt like KDE was stagnating for a while. With 3.2 and now 3.4 KDE users are reaping the rewards of that effort. New applications are developed quickly, the interface is consistent, and system wide usabilty changes work for everyone.
I think one of the strengths of Open Source is that developers are not under economic presure to deliver it yesterday. They have usually taken the approach of getting it right. I think this means products are sometimes longer to market, but its a trade off. Its one that can be made in open source, but isn't always availible to a commercial developer, they often need code now, correct or not.
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How is this any different any other services attached to a port on your computer? Whenever a listening program has an overflow vulerability there is the potential for "A fully automated worm." Granted there is a lot of IM software out there, but there have been plenty of ports and services on Windows that have been exploited in a fully automated way in the past. At least IM software is a _bit_ more heterogeneous than Windows.
Yes, but a lot of different chips have different overclocking potential. It's interesting to see which can be pushed the furthest, even if its impractical. Beside, since when are geeky pursuits practical?
How do you propose to decide when the Wiki is 'stable' enough for release? Do you expect to get agreement from users? Or would individual articles be marked stable? Even deciding when an individual article is stable would be difficult.
As far as citing a stable version, its my understanding that a link to wikipedia can include a version so that the same text is referenced, regardless of future updates.
Repeat after me, "Cost does not equal value". No one is forcing you to buy inkjet cartridges. The value of something is what the market will bear. These companies are watching their revenue go up as they raise prices. that's their job, maximize revenue. If there is collusion among printer manufacturers, which I doubt, then it is illeagal. Otherwise, buy a laser.
I think Project Gutenburg would be the best example similar to IMDb. I believe they started around 1976 with the Declaration of Independence. Certainly grew into a world wide collaborative process before the WWW.
I'm not sure that an unconfirmed rumour that they are releasing a web office is beating MS to it. Lets wait until its actually announced or better yet in Beta.
If I remember right, when I first tried Napster I had a 4 or 5 gig hard drive. At 40-60 Mb for an album compressed down to 96 or 128 kbps, gee that's only like 100 albums, and compressed to crappy quality. This music sharing thing will never take off.
OK, now movies don't usually get split up into song sized chunks, but still, I think your view is a little short sighted. Where will hard drives be in 5 years? Even now on a 400 Gb drive if your movies are 2Gb (which I think looks fantastic on a big screen, at least I can't tell the difference) You can store 200 movies. I would say that is much larger than most peoples physical DVD collection.
Yes DVD are still harder to rip than CDs, but I think the Movie industry has a lot to be worried about. Lucky for them the Music industry has led the way and they'll have about 15 years of experience to look back on before technology makes video trading as ubiquitous as music trading.
Nice thought, unfortunately not true. Hydrogen in the form needed is not abundant. Seperating it from water takes a significant amount of energy. Where are you going to get that energy? I don't believe numbers have shown that producing hydrogen is more efficient than gasoline. Maybe producing it is efficient enough that it benefits of no polution during use are worth it, maybe not. At least if this article is true then it might make a good energy delivery system.
However, its not the silver bullet you describe.
Also see this book for a great discussion of what makes a pilot. We're the Astronauts pilots even though a monkey made thier flights first? Not to say that doesn't make them brave, but there was certainly a lack of control.
Compare this with the work being done on the X-15 and centruy series rocket planes. No computer assist, full pilot controled flight to the edge of space and back. Serious Cajones there.
I'm not a big poker player, but how would you cheat online? You can't manipulate the deck, you can't see other peoples , etc. I suppose knowing one other persons hand might give a bit more knowledge about the cards in the deck, but how big an advantage would that be?
I guess if you got into a game with 5 other people who were all working together, they could fleece you?
Are there any sites around for amateur weather forecasters that describe this sort of stuff?
On a much more basic level, I always have a hard time finding my way around the nws site (although it has gotten a lot better). Where can I find good information about the different statistical models, how the differ, what resolution grid they work on etc?
Mainly I am interested in obtaining the highest resolution GRIB file for wind forecasts in a specific are. Thoughts?
Seems like the Google leadership takes a lot of pleasure in messing with investors. The exact number of shares being issued is 14,159,265. Which happen to be the first 8 digits of Pi.
I dunno, environmentalist who don't want their theories disproved? Despite some good work in this area, many theories are based on faith not facts.
Forget strangers, its friends I'm worried about!
If a nation wants to unplug from the internet, more power to 'em. It will only hurt them, their citizens and economy. Economic forces already tie the internet together, we don't need bureaucrats to keep things together.
I a nation want to unplug from the internet, more power to 'em. It will only hurt them, their citizens and economy. Economic forces already tie the internet together, we don't need bureaucrats to keep things together.
There is plenty of work going on right now to get KDE to compile on Windows. IIRC older versions of KMail already compile.
Not sure where you're from but I think you need to substitute "humans" for "Americans" in you last sentence. Not to justify anyones actions, but men have been killing men for land since we built the first stone weapon (probably even before that). Its happened in the West, in the East, everywhere. Very few cultures do not resort to violence when property is disputed.
Ingnoring the fact that MSDN (meaning .NET and MFC I guess) and Apple (meaning Cocoa and Carbon) are not cross platform, you forget that they are distributed by companies that are using them to sell their primary products. Of course they want to make it easy for developers to make applications for their platforms, that's what sells OS's/Computer's.
As someone else mentioned, your only other real choice for non-opensource cross-platform developement is Java and wxWindows.
Time will tell if the price is too high, but most developers who have used QT will tell you that its pretty head and shoulders above any other cross-platform library.
Didn't we already decide that tomagotchi's or whatever they were called are a waste of space? Only in Tokyo would feeding a virtual dog be considered entertainment.
Seems to me with the few models I've used that the bluetooth models suck down more batteries than the dumber RF interfaces. Either way I would go with a recargable solution with a dock. Changing batteries is a hassle.
One of his main points is that one thing RSS does well is provide a good subscription method. IE a well defined standard on, "go here to get an updated version of this calendar". Sounds like he is proposing using RSS with an iCal payload. The idea is to leverage existing support of the iCal into a subscription model.
Maybe because it is hardly worth creating a standard for scheduling if its not supported in Outlook? I would imagine that among people who use a scheduling app on a regular basis, Outlook has an even better lock on the market than IE.
As a side note, there is a version of SPSS that runs on unix, in fact I've never used it on windows.
It think so far the KDE frame of mind has paid huge dividends. 3-4 years ago it was entirely unclear who was building a better desktop, Gnome or KDE. KDE it seems went on a spree of doing hardcore behind the scenes work, with a focus on getting APIs and implementations correct. It felt like KDE was stagnating for a while. With 3.2 and now 3.4 KDE users are reaping the rewards of that effort. New applications are developed quickly, the interface is consistent, and system wide usabilty changes work for everyone.
I think one of the strengths of Open Source is that developers are not under economic presure to deliver it yesterday. They have usually taken the approach of getting it right. I think this means products are sometimes longer to market, but its a trade off. Its one that can be made in open source, but isn't always availible to a commercial developer, they often need code now, correct or not.