Thankfully this guy has finally appeared to be cured or on the road to being cured. That was one scary story we all read just a month or two ago and it is great to hear all turned out well in the end.
Too bad they aren't scanning newspapers from say the revolutionary war period. I think it would have been really interesting to read the war and the general thoughts about it at the time.
I'm sure OCR technology will advance quickly enough to allow the scanning of these newspapers.
At least Google has announced that it is going to make the effort to get its desktop search to support Firefox, Thunderbird, and maybe other third-party products.
I would be very surprised if Microsoft makes this work with anything other then their products.
That is why they are going to be taking out an ad in the New York Times and are most likely working on other projects. Their target now isn't the geeks (they have most/all of those), but everyday internet users.
Works for my Fleet (now Bank of America) bank web site.
Most web sites if they are coded properly see the browser as "Gecko" which is the rendering engine that Netscape 6+, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox use. In fact, sites search for Gecko if needed so much that Safari identifies itself with not only "Safari" but "like Gecko"
I don't understand why news sites would have an issue with Google News.
Think about it...
1) Google isn't copying the full-text of an article. At most, its the headline and a paragraph...most of the time it is the headline and a sentence.
2) Since Google doesn't post the entire article, you have to click a link that takes you directly to the publisher of the article. Google News is therefor generating millions of direct hits per month to various news sites.
3) These millions of direct hits to these news sites means more advertising dollars for THOSE sites. Since I click link on a NYT Headline listed on Google News, I view *gasp* the NYT web site and its particular article. Which means, any ad dollars I generate there go to the NYT. The horror, the NYT is making more money thanks to Google News then without it (not to mention spreading its name out to more readers, who could purchase even subscriptions).
So am I missing something? Why would news publishers have issues with a site sending millions of hits per month at the news publisher's sites, generating far more money then if Google News didn't exist.
The majority of Slashdot readers seem to be pissed about the greatest trilogy of all-time being released on the most popular video format right now.
Yes I know it isn't the original trilogy. But the SE is damn close to being it. Some of Lucas' "improvements" are *gasp* actually improvements! Yes, I know it isn't what was originally released, but this is Lucas' story and he owns the rights, so he is allowed to tinker with it until he is satisfied.
When I watch the SE, I don't vomit, I don't cry, I don't think about some part of my childhood slipping away. The great parts of the movie are still there. Luke meeting Obi-wan, the sunset, meeting Han, saving Leia, Obi-wan vs. Vader, "I am your father", the final duel, etc. It is all there still, just like it was back in the day.
The movies still give me that chill during certain scenes, where they just touch some part inside that you never knew you had.
Yes it might not be the originals, but I'll take 99% of the original on DVD over nothing. Maybe if you don't agree you should go watch again with an open mind. Instead of saying "why the fuck did Lucas change this! It isn't the same!" ask yourself "there must be a good reason for this."
Now I am going to go watch my copy of the trilogy...on DVD!
1) Talk to your roommate(s) and get a guarentee from them that they will lock the door if they are the last one leaving your place, even if it is to take a dump. You wouldn't believe how stupid many students are...many students at my university actually left their doors unlocked at ALL times (because they were lazy).
2) If you have a laptop, some dorms come with lockable dresser drawers. You can get a combination or padlock and lock your laptop in there if you plan to be away for the night or longer. Only catch with this is you probably wouldn't be able to leave the laptop on while doing this.
3) If you have a desktop, they make these cords that actually stick (or as I put it, practically wield itself) to the side of the computer and then you wrap them around something that can't be moved easily (desk, dresser, even bed). You can then lock it, preventing anyone from stealing your desktop without actually physically moving the piece of furnature it is attached to (thus raising the risk of being caught) or cutting the wire (which is extremely tough to do, requires heavy duty clippers that most college students don't own).
4) See if you can get theft insurance. You might be able to get this for relatively cheap. If you keep regular backups (yeah yeah, I know, a big if), you should be safe.
5) Have tough passwords on your OS's. At least that way if the computer gets stolen, they can't get to your data as easily (if they are good with computers) or at all (if they are dumb and plan to drop out of college).
Disney apparently didn't get the memo about patents. They are supposed to hold onto them, write out thousands more of them in much more fuzzy terms, and then sue every person/company on the face of the earth if they have a one letter resemblence.
By far the best way to secure a job out of college is to get an internship. I worked various computer jobs, doing everything from tech support to help desk to web site stuff since high school. At the end of my junior year in high school I secured an internship with a network consulting company. A few months ago, when I was a month from graduating college, I was offered a job from them. The salary wasn't from the dot-com era, but the chances of advancing thanks to getting certified and real world experience were too much to pass up. I was given the opprotunity to start small and really grow. Quite frankly, I have not been more happier with any job.
So basically, your best bet is to get an internship, get some real world experience from it, hope they offer a job when you graduate, if they don't you will have something that looks much better on your resume combined with your new degree.
So you ask us/.'ers to not/. MozillaZine, yet you provide THREE links to MozillaZine.
Kinda ironic eh?
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And it is as legal as the black market. Just what I want. I like getting visits from men in dark suits after downloading 100 songs from Russia that are 100% legal. Sign me up!
Seems like Gmail only filters approx. 50% of spam. That is not very impressive, since the top anti-spam software and e-mail clients (such as Outlook 2003 and Mozilla Thunderbird) can easily reach 95% accuracy in spam filtering.
I am starting to second guess whether I should transfer everything to my Gmail account.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a search on Slashdot for previous articles before posting and/or approving articles!
Going to the Search page, typing "Rugrat", and clicking the "Search" button already brings up a story about the first 64-bit Windows virus from Thursday, May 27th, 2004.
Unbelievable. Took me 2 seconds to do the search and would save a dupe.
Slashdot's habit of duplicating stories is getting pretty rediculous.
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Thankfully this guy has finally appeared to be cured or on the road to being cured. That was one scary story we all read just a month or two ago and it is great to hear all turned out well in the end.
Apparently my area is not available yet...and I live in the biggest city in NH.
Too bad they aren't scanning newspapers from say the revolutionary war period. I think it would have been really interesting to read the war and the general thoughts about it at the time.
I'm sure OCR technology will advance quickly enough to allow the scanning of these newspapers.
At least Google has announced that it is going to make the effort to get its desktop search to support Firefox, Thunderbird, and maybe other third-party products.
I would be very surprised if Microsoft makes this work with anything other then their products.
That is why they are going to be taking out an ad in the New York Times and are most likely working on other projects. Their target now isn't the geeks (they have most/all of those), but everyday internet users.
Works for my Fleet (now Bank of America) bank web site.
Most web sites if they are coded properly see the browser as "Gecko" which is the rendering engine that Netscape 6+, Mozilla, and Mozilla Firefox use. In fact, sites search for Gecko if needed so much that Safari identifies itself with not only "Safari" but "like Gecko"
I have heard wonders about the G4/G5 optimized builds for Firefox.
Where is Jar Jar's award!?!?!?!
I don't understand why news sites would have an issue with Google News.
Think about it...
1) Google isn't copying the full-text of an article. At most, its the headline and a paragraph...most of the time it is the headline and a sentence.
2) Since Google doesn't post the entire article, you have to click a link that takes you directly to the publisher of the article. Google News is therefor generating millions of direct hits per month to various news sites.
3) These millions of direct hits to these news sites means more advertising dollars for THOSE sites. Since I click link on a NYT Headline listed on Google News, I view *gasp* the NYT web site and its particular article. Which means, any ad dollars I generate there go to the NYT. The horror, the NYT is making more money thanks to Google News then without it (not to mention spreading its name out to more readers, who could purchase even subscriptions).
So am I missing something? Why would news publishers have issues with a site sending millions of hits per month at the news publisher's sites, generating far more money then if Google News didn't exist.
The majority of Slashdot readers seem to be pissed about the greatest trilogy of all-time being released on the most popular video format right now.
Yes I know it isn't the original trilogy. But the SE is damn close to being it. Some of Lucas' "improvements" are *gasp* actually improvements! Yes, I know it isn't what was originally released, but this is Lucas' story and he owns the rights, so he is allowed to tinker with it until he is satisfied.
When I watch the SE, I don't vomit, I don't cry, I don't think about some part of my childhood slipping away. The great parts of the movie are still there. Luke meeting Obi-wan, the sunset, meeting Han, saving Leia, Obi-wan vs. Vader, "I am your father", the final duel, etc. It is all there still, just like it was back in the day.
The movies still give me that chill during certain scenes, where they just touch some part inside that you never knew you had.
Yes it might not be the originals, but I'll take 99% of the original on DVD over nothing. Maybe if you don't agree you should go watch again with an open mind. Instead of saying "why the fuck did Lucas change this! It isn't the same!" ask yourself "there must be a good reason for this."
Now I am going to go watch my copy of the trilogy...on DVD!
For us Slashdot members who spend 40+ hours a week posting on Slashdot to qualify under these overtime rules.
Are these the originals or special editions?
A few suggestions:
1) Talk to your roommate(s) and get a guarentee from them that they will lock the door if they are the last one leaving your place, even if it is to take a dump. You wouldn't believe how stupid many students are...many students at my university actually left their doors unlocked at ALL times (because they were lazy).
2) If you have a laptop, some dorms come with lockable dresser drawers. You can get a combination or padlock and lock your laptop in there if you plan to be away for the night or longer. Only catch with this is you probably wouldn't be able to leave the laptop on while doing this.
3) If you have a desktop, they make these cords that actually stick (or as I put it, practically wield itself) to the side of the computer and then you wrap them around something that can't be moved easily (desk, dresser, even bed). You can then lock it, preventing anyone from stealing your desktop without actually physically moving the piece of furnature it is attached to (thus raising the risk of being caught) or cutting the wire (which is extremely tough to do, requires heavy duty clippers that most college students don't own).
4) See if you can get theft insurance. You might be able to get this for relatively cheap. If you keep regular backups (yeah yeah, I know, a big if), you should be safe.
5) Have tough passwords on your OS's. At least that way if the computer gets stolen, they can't get to your data as easily (if they are good with computers) or at all (if they are dumb and plan to drop out of college).
Not just in Boston, but all of New England will be extremely unproductive during day games.
Except this patch was needed a few weeks ago (and the exploit if I remember right has been known for months).
Someone didn't get the memo from old Billy boy to not diss company products.
Disney apparently didn't get the memo about patents. They are supposed to hold onto them, write out thousands more of them in much more fuzzy terms, and then sue every person/company on the face of the earth if they have a one letter resemblence.
'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'
He really seems like a nice guy...honestly...I'm not joking...
By far the best way to secure a job out of college is to get an internship. I worked various computer jobs, doing everything from tech support to help desk to web site stuff since high school. At the end of my junior year in high school I secured an internship with a network consulting company. A few months ago, when I was a month from graduating college, I was offered a job from them. The salary wasn't from the dot-com era, but the chances of advancing thanks to getting certified and real world experience were too much to pass up. I was given the opprotunity to start small and really grow. Quite frankly, I have not been more happier with any job.
So basically, your best bet is to get an internship, get some real world experience from it, hope they offer a job when you graduate, if they don't you will have something that looks much better on your resume combined with your new degree.
So you ask us /.'ers to not /. MozillaZine, yet you provide THREE links to MozillaZine.
Kinda ironic eh?
And it is as legal as the black market. Just what I want. I like getting visits from men in dark suits after downloading 100 songs from Russia that are 100% legal. Sign me up!
Your kidding right? Google would never erase everyone's accounts and start over when the beta is done. That is a public relations nightmare.
Seems like Gmail only filters approx. 50% of spam. That is not very impressive, since the top anti-spam software and e-mail clients (such as Outlook 2003 and Mozilla Thunderbird) can easily reach 95% accuracy in spam filtering.
I am starting to second guess whether I should transfer everything to my Gmail account.
You forgot the golden rule of monopolies. The more customers, the higher the prices!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a search on Slashdot for previous articles before posting and/or approving articles!
Going to the Search page, typing "Rugrat", and clicking the "Search" button already brings up a story about the first 64-bit Windows virus from Thursday, May 27th, 2004.
Unbelievable. Took me 2 seconds to do the search and would save a dupe.
Slashdot's habit of duplicating stories is getting pretty rediculous.
In the future there still will be web sites that cannot withstand the great and mighty slashdot effect.