In the past, way back in 97 when cable isp service started, cable modems would break. For that reason, I used to rent and was able to get a new cable modem in 1 day. From personal experience with motorola cable modems on Cox. I had two cable modems break. The cable modems were fast and good, but it did break. Cox came out the next day both times and replaced it. Had I bought the cable modem, I would have been up a creak.
Just recently, I had to help others with their cable modem. One was killed because it wasn't on a surge protector. The other one simply wouldn't work with 802.11 router. I tend to prefer renting, because when new cable modems come out, I can get them to come out and switch it. So far the cable company has been good about that, so it's one more reason to not buy the modem.
well, I killed power source in 4 separate systems. One was actually a bad power source, since it actually made a poping sound and started smoking. The other ones the fan died and ended up frying the circuits. When I build systems now, I only get 350 watt or better. I like power source with two fans:)
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Spiderman is a better movie. Now go back to wanking off some place else katz. Go freakin read some Chomsky and learn something about sociology before you open your trap.
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arstechnica has lots of reviews on cases. I've killed 5 power supplies in the last 5 years, so if anything get a good power supply. The other stuff you can skimp on. After all, isn't the power supply the most important part of a case?
all those parked domains and vanity sites mean squat. It's the number of large business sites that really matter. Netcraft needs to update how the surveys are taken.
More Microsoft fights, more credibility they give to open source and Linux. It's a cheesy quote from "A few good men", but I think it applies.
"I strenuously object?" Is that how it's done? Hm? "Objection, your Honor!" "Overruled" "No, no. I STRENUOUSLY object." "Oh! You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider."
Everyone already knows where Microsoft stands on open source, so screaming "unfair" just makes them look desparate and gives open source a leg up.
Umh, no. The thing is these results were all published in the _most_ respected journals in the physical sciences,
Science and Nature. So this was not a case of corporation's versus peer review. This was a case of peer review
breaking down..
obviously peer review is broken, but I hardley think that is the only cause. If there were no pressures to get publish from management, the author might have thought twice. Peer review is suppose to catch these things, but if there are fewer incentives to rush things, it's less likely those papers would be submitted in the first place.
It would appear the whole issue as other have stated is poor design. When computers were used by a few elete people who practiced good security, using passwords wasn't a big deal. Now that PC have proliferated, passwords are no longer desireable. What was designed for highly skilled and disciplined individuals is not the right solution to the problem. I think people are mistaking security as one big problem. It's a lot of specific problems that have drastically different requirements.
Treating it all as the same problem is stupid. Microsoft isn't the only one doing it. Most companies out there are treating it as one problem. A lot of companies in their excitement at riches didn't implement multiple levels of security in their networks. Things like having two layers of security infront of your database and only allowing outside connection to your app and database server from trusted IP's.
you're average windows system shouldn't need hardcore protection, but your excel spreadsheet with you're SS#, account numbers and other sensitive data should. Why in the world should windows have high security if I want to let some one check a website real quick. I'll be damned if every freaking time some one elses uses my system requires I log out and let them login. Windows XP does allow multiple logins, which is a good start, but far from a complete solution.
Why be so quick to declare xbox a failure. As long as MS has to keep forking money out for xbox, that's one more distraction. People instead should be hoping MS keep this up for another 20 years. That 40 billion will start to dwindle and MS won't look so invincible. I don't love microsoft or anything, but the competition is lowering the price of consoles. We should all be happy for that, since it benefits the consumer.
If the author bothered to do research, they would discover that other than imode, no other wireless market is making money off third parties services. The infrastructure is still 2 years from being suitable for consumers. Until all the carriers deploy 3G and improves the coverage significantly, so that atleast all the major freeways and highways are covered in the US, you can forget about wide acceptance. Having worked on it, wireless data isn't reliable enough to support a small third party market.
I don't count paging services for stocks and sport scores as real wireless, atleast not two way client/server type wireless apps.
1. this is total BS and plain old wrong. MS is using terrorist attacks to protect themselves, which is a total slap in the face to those who died. MS should get a bitch slap just for trying that one. Talk about being completely unpatriotic and selfish.
2. close source as protection is a total falicy as everyone in programming knows. probing for hidden API isn't hard and most likely have already been discovered by serious hackers and well funded terrorists. Do you really think a well funded terrorist organization can't get a copy of windows source code. A million or two will easily purchase the source code from an unappreciated employee. Get real!
If anyone seriously believes that line of BS, I have an eiffel tower to sell.
Aside from the obvious question of "is this for real?" It is good to see thing kind of development, even if it might be temporary. It makes aibo a good platform for smart teens to do some pretty advanced stuff.
Not really. Read the F'ing article you morone. It is not available until the end of the year. How can anyone have tried it? I remember and miss the old Slashdote. You people ruine it for everyone.
I wasn't talking about buying it. It's possible there are folks on/. who work for nokia, ericcson, qualcomm or any of the manufacturers. Like engineers who are evaluating it. Atleast have the courage to put your name to your post.
Has anyone actually used this new key layout? I won't pass judgement until I've used it. The only thing I'd be concern about is the phone better have a key lock to prevent accidentally dialing a number. Most phones seem to have key lock, so other than durability I don't see other huge problems.
Makes no sense all the flames about chess, shogi, go and so on. More challenging than all these games is "How does one live their life." Now that is the ultimate game/challenge. Can a computer do that? Life is a far greater game than chess or any variation there of.
Major in something fun that will make you say, "wow, if I never came to college I would have never experienced these things."
Doesn't matter what, just as long as you are passionate about it. Forget the whole "it will help you find a job" line of crap. People change careers and move around. Do what you love first and the rest will take care of itself. A job is only work if you don't love it.
A well written article that tackles the specifics of the movie, minus rants about open source. Thanks for the review. I don't care about spoilers, so anyone who has seen it please provide more detailed critique of the movie.
Every programmer has done it at one point. Making sure those lessons are cemented into one's head is much harder than it would appear. The balance between strict adhearance to OOP principles and practicle designs is more of an issue of scope negotiation with management. Lots of OO projects fail because the scope and requirements fluctuate wildly. Lots of projects fail for that reason. It's not unique to OOP. By virtue of OOP dominance, there's going to be more failures than other languages that are used less or used in environments where requirements are more stable.
Take for example writing serial driver. The functional specs are finite and limited by the hardware. Building a business application is influenced by what sales, marketing, management, QA, programmers and customers think is important. Don't mod me up or down, since this is freakin common sense.
The thing about paranoia is it might be beneficial at first, but after a while the line between reality and fantasy gets blurred. At some point, that paranoia might turn into full blown schizophrenia. Once that happens, it hard to rebuild credibility. I'm not saying that MS is going down that road, but that sometimes it's a natural progression.
But then again, I am biased. The W brothers have been daring and have great visual skills. Their ability to visualize the entire world and how it plays out is above the average director/producer. Plus the use of comic artists in their story boards in no doubt contributes greatly to the final product the audience sees.
Here is a list of what you absolutely have to have in place for it to go successfully. Otherwise, hire some one locally, like some of those x-employee who are still jobless.
1. have some one from your office in India
2. speak hindu. forget the bs about the largest english speaking population outside of US.
3. write very detailed plans, documents and specs
4. have weekly meetings on the phone with the whole team
5. get daily status electronically
6. setup source control, which they have to check in their code at the end of the work day
7. only send grunt work to India, due to communication reasons. When specs and requirements change, the high level decisions need to made locally.
8. get a dedicated telephone line to the office in india. telephone lines are notoriously bad in india.
9. have a well define development process and make them stick to it.
Doing anything less than this will result is total chaos. Considering how monumental it is to setup a development team in India, and the large number of un-employed programmers in the US. Just use contractors and break the project into smaller sub projects to make it easier for yourself to manage and track.
I have several friends who work in the game industry and one of them for Sony. I believe when PS and PS2 came out, they were subsidized. Once they ramped up production, and sold enough units to pay for retooling the factories Sony does make a profit on each console. Then again I could be totally wrong and all that is just pop myth.
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Just recently, I had to help others with their cable modem. One was killed because it wasn't on a surge protector. The other one simply wouldn't work with 802.11 router. I tend to prefer renting, because when new cable modems come out, I can get them to come out and switch it. So far the cable company has been good about that, so it's one more reason to not buy the modem.
Thanks! that was a great laugh. Yeah, it's redundant, but I wanted to say thanks.
well, I killed power source in 4 separate systems. One was actually a bad power source, since it actually made a poping sound and started smoking. The other ones the fan died and ended up frying the circuits. When I build systems now, I only get 350 watt or better. I like power source with two fans :)
Spiderman is a better movie. Now go back to wanking off some place else katz. Go freakin read some Chomsky and learn something about sociology before you open your trap.
arstechnica has lots of reviews on cases. I've killed 5 power supplies in the last 5 years, so if anything get a good power supply. The other stuff you can skimp on. After all, isn't the power supply the most important part of a case?
all those parked domains and vanity sites mean squat. It's the number of large business sites that really matter. Netcraft needs to update how the surveys are taken.
Everyone already knows where Microsoft stands on open source, so screaming "unfair" just makes them look desparate and gives open source a leg up.
obviously peer review is broken, but I hardley think that is the only cause. If there were no pressures to get publish from management, the author might have thought twice. Peer review is suppose to catch these things, but if there are fewer incentives to rush things, it's less likely those papers would be submitted in the first place.
Treating it all as the same problem is stupid. Microsoft isn't the only one doing it. Most companies out there are treating it as one problem. A lot of companies in their excitement at riches didn't implement multiple levels of security in their networks. Things like having two layers of security infront of your database and only allowing outside connection to your app and database server from trusted IP's.
you're average windows system shouldn't need hardcore protection, but your excel spreadsheet with you're SS#, account numbers and other sensitive data should. Why in the world should windows have high security if I want to let some one check a website real quick. I'll be damned if every freaking time some one elses uses my system requires I log out and let them login. Windows XP does allow multiple logins, which is a good start, but far from a complete solution.
Let's be smart and let them duke it out.
Dare I say it. This is what happens when over eager execs push researchers to publish findings before they are ready.
I hardley think this is news.
Voice directories is old stuff, dating back to late 80's.
If the author bothered to do research, they would discover that other than imode, no other wireless market is making money off third parties services. The infrastructure is still 2 years from being suitable for consumers. Until all the carriers deploy 3G and improves the coverage significantly, so that atleast all the major freeways and highways are covered in the US, you can forget about wide acceptance. Having worked on it, wireless data isn't reliable enough to support a small third party market.
I don't count paging services for stocks and sport scores as real wireless, atleast not two way client/server type wireless apps.
1. this is total BS and plain old wrong. MS is using terrorist attacks to protect themselves, which is a total slap in the face to those who died. MS should get a bitch slap just for trying that one. Talk about being completely unpatriotic and selfish.
2. close source as protection is a total falicy as everyone in programming knows. probing for hidden API isn't hard and most likely have already been discovered by serious hackers and well funded terrorists. Do you really think a well funded terrorist organization can't get a copy of windows source code. A million or two will easily purchase the source code from an unappreciated employee. Get real!
If anyone seriously believes that line of BS, I have an eiffel tower to sell.
Aside from the obvious question of "is this for real?" It is good to see thing kind of development, even if it might be temporary. It makes aibo a good platform for smart teens to do some pretty advanced stuff.
Not really. Read the F'ing article you morone. It is not available until the end of the year. How can anyone have tried it? I remember and miss the old Slashdote. You people ruine it for everyone.
I wasn't talking about buying it. It's possible there are folks on /. who work for nokia, ericcson, qualcomm or any of the manufacturers. Like engineers who are evaluating it. Atleast have the courage to put your name to your post.
Has anyone actually used this new key layout? I won't pass judgement until I've used it. The only thing I'd be concern about is the phone better have a key lock to prevent accidentally dialing a number. Most phones seem to have key lock, so other than durability I don't see other huge problems.
Makes no sense all the flames about chess, shogi, go and so on. More challenging than all these games is "How does one live their life." Now that is the ultimate game/challenge. Can a computer do that? Life is a far greater game than chess or any variation there of.
Doesn't matter what, just as long as you are passionate about it. Forget the whole "it will help you find a job" line of crap. People change careers and move around. Do what you love first and the rest will take care of itself. A job is only work if you don't love it.
A well written article that tackles the specifics of the movie, minus rants about open source. Thanks for the review. I don't care about spoilers, so anyone who has seen it please provide more detailed critique of the movie.
Take for example writing serial driver. The functional specs are finite and limited by the hardware. Building a business application is influenced by what sales, marketing, management, QA, programmers and customers think is important. Don't mod me up or down, since this is freakin common sense.
The thing about paranoia is it might be beneficial at first, but after a while the line between reality and fantasy gets blurred. At some point, that paranoia might turn into full blown schizophrenia. Once that happens, it hard to rebuild credibility. I'm not saying that MS is going down that road, but that sometimes it's a natural progression.
But then again, I am biased. The W brothers have been daring and have great visual skills. Their ability to visualize the entire world and how it plays out is above the average director/producer. Plus the use of comic artists in their story boards in no doubt contributes greatly to the final product the audience sees.
1. have some one from your office in India
2. speak hindu. forget the bs about the largest english speaking population outside of US.
3. write very detailed plans, documents and specs
4. have weekly meetings on the phone with the whole team
5. get daily status electronically
6. setup source control, which they have to check in their code at the end of the work day
7. only send grunt work to India, due to communication reasons. When specs and requirements change, the high level decisions need to made locally.
8. get a dedicated telephone line to the office in india. telephone lines are notoriously bad in india.
9. have a well define development process and make them stick to it.
Doing anything less than this will result is total chaos. Considering how monumental it is to setup a development team in India, and the large number of un-employed programmers in the US. Just use contractors and break the project into smaller sub projects to make it easier for yourself to manage and track.
I have several friends who work in the game industry and one of them for Sony. I believe when PS and PS2 came out, they were subsidized. Once they ramped up production, and sold enough units to pay for retooling the factories Sony does make a profit on each console. Then again I could be totally wrong and all that is just pop myth.