The banks should be paying hit men to kill the phishers. Then it would stop. Failing that, they could take reasonable measures to force the law enforcement officials to do their job.
We, the ordinary people, can not be expected to explain to our elderly relatives that when it says "This is from Barclays Bank" or "Brisish Telecom" and shows all the visual cues they would use to validate that, that it is actually from a bunch of students in the pay of criminals. For one thing, they would have us sent to mental institutions. My family already think I am paranoid because of making this kind of claim!
SQL Server Express is free which is at least twice as much as it is worth. Why use SQLServer when you could use PostgreSQL?
a) Microsoft has bribed you?
b) Bill Gates has a shotgun to your head?
c) You have no experience of a real SQL product?
Free is WAY overpriced, even for the workgroup edition, especially if you want valid data involving dates.
The cell processor is nowhere near as powerful as you're making out. Any you know this because?
I worked for many years designing architectures like this for specialised database operations. I know how powerful this architecture is for certain types of work. I suspect you don't.
as for the person suggesting that I would be using it in a SETI type operations: No, I wont, but I think I know someone who might. (But if I told you, I would have to kill you).
Nope. It was concieved as a component for massively parallel processing, but using it in the playstation was the only way to get the volume production that I need to get the kind of reliability I want for my nuclear simulations.
This chip will be to the Pentium what the Pentium is to the 6502 - once the tool chain is understood by software designers. Actually, better, because Cell architecture uses way less gates than pipelining for way more throughput at the same clock speed and feature size. Hell, I might even retire my Sun Niagras.
Sure it won't run Windows very well, but hell, Windows doesn't run very well anyway, and I Don't Care (TM).
Firstoff, digitizing an embroidery design is itself a creative work
Technically correct, but I have software, supplied with my sewing machine (not a cheap one), which allows me to take a bmp and create an embroidery pattern from it. This is like scanning, in the sense that pretty much anyone can use a scanner, but only a tiny percentage of the population can set the DPI, scaling, colour, gamma correction,etc to the optimum values.
There are people who make a living from emboidery patterns, some of which are even worth paying for, but most designs are not worth the time to download them.
I have a web site from which patterns I created can be downloaded for free, and at one time got quite a few hits from downloaders, but I am not going to mention it here, because the server is an AMD k6, and I dont want it/.ed.
Actually, loads of normal people play loads of games on PCs. However, virtually none of them are the slightest bit interested in paying for insanely expensive kit and the latest games. Get real - the number of people playing Solitaire and MahJongg (the two top games in my house) is astronomical. Most of the world is not going to go out and buy a new game while they are having fun with the one they play now.
Fanatics may be in short supply, and the market for new games, console or otherwise may be drying up, but that does not mean people are losing interest in games.
What I really want is the "Captain Keene" and "Leasure Suit Larry" series on my phone. Then I would give up PC gaming forever. Lets face it, the originals worked fine in 320x240 resolution, just like my phone.
Anyone sell a phone with EGA resolution?... (Thought not).
Not to mention the Sh*t US government who knows the name address and bank account details of the companies doing this, and does f*** all to stop them, while helping the **AA sue grannies and pre-teens. The "war on Terror" should start with the Bush administration!
If they release in the USA, and people in Europe want it, what stops them from simply mail ordering from some US retailer, or for that matter, simply travelling to the US, picking it up in a store, and going home?
LocalisationL Some of Europe doesn't speak English, does not use US keyboards, or store their dates in the wrong order. Luckily, Localisation is done much better by FOSS anyway.
Meanwhile in the real world, older people are more likely to understand the subtle implications of the fine print, while younger people are impatient and will happily sign their lives away.
As for technical... the world moves on.. there are people in their 70s who were programmers in the 1960's. How old are Kernigan and Richie? (IBM's expert witnesses) they are older than me and Bill Gates anyway!
Damn right e-mail is for oldies. The youngsters can use skateboards to visit their friends:-)
Here in Nigeria, not only do the government not collect much information, neither they, nor anyoine else believes a word of it, and most is recorded on soggy bits of paper that are unreadable and soon fall to bits.
Transponders? I laugh at your tranponders -we don't have modern cars, and most of our tyres have no tread, let alone tranponders!
Your definition of "not hard" does not agree with mine. Also, there are companies who will keep "negotiating" until the provisional patent expires, because they want to use the idea, but do not want to pay, and are not afraid of their competition using it (Happened to me).
online gaming sites require a valid gaming/casino licence from the jurisdiction they are based in
And they are real hard to get in Panama, Sierra Leone, and Uzbekistan.
I know you are American, but get a grip - credit cards and the internet are world wide.
And anyone stupid enough to bet in circumstances where he is unable to detect whether he is playing against a computer that is programmed to cheat is probably doomed anyway. Why not send them to an asylum the moment the CIA monitoring shows they placed a bet? a lot of taxpayers dollars could be saved that way. - with Bush in charge, we can expect people to be extradited from places from Afganistan to Zaire for on-line gambling at any moment. I am not sure why America feels the need to import the worlds dumbest criminals, but far be it for me to stop them.
We have several laptop machines running Win98 at work. Why? because they are used for engineering. They have floppy disk drives and serial ports, which are needed for engineering, and new laptops dont have them.
The old machines hare processors and memory which are far to small to run Win2k, and XP is too modern to be considered well enough tested for mission critical work:-)
When I have convinced people that Win98 is a security risk because its EOL'd so all the hackers know its a good virus target, these machines will have NetBSD installed. We cannot scrap them because we need them to support instruments that cost humungous amounts of money, and to run chronically obsolete tool chains to support products with a 30 year life span. - Yes its true - not everything with an embedded process or has a lifespan of 8 months, or even 8 years.
Think about it - some complex systems take two years to specify, and two to build, one for certification, then they take an age to get delivered and installed, possibly requiring a custom designed room, and then users take two years to learn how to use them, after that, people expect a 7 year _minimum_ product life. If you dont believe me, check out diagnostic equipment your local hospital, airport, rail depot, garage, etc.
If there is such a thing as second world, its the USA (and South America and the Carib bean).
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Well, Duh, I have a navigation device that uses speech too (TomTom). There is mountains of prior art here. Yes I know they are talking about navigating menus, but hell, If I have a map of London, can I still patent maps of New York? WTF?
While this is not wrong, there is an additional factor - the interest charged by the bank for the cost of the goods in transit. It was insanely high interest rates that killed the last remaining commercial sailing vessels here in the UK (bulk grain and coal carriers).
I have been saying for a while that with the high cost of fuel, and today's more reaonable interest rates, these ships would be economic today.
About 10 years ago, I worked for a company that made hardware which could rip from video memory in real time, and shove the data on a private bus to another (arbitrary) card. The other card could include a real-time mpeg compressor chip, and SCSI bus port, allowing the data to be streamed to a HD in real time. (You can buy hardware mpeg compressors from regular IC manufacturers - I did that at a different employer, later. Or you can make one youself with a Xilinx chip - I don't think they give out Blue Peter badges for that.)
Hell, I could even make a system that would rip the DVD into a DVD writer faster than real-time - but it would be about 2 man-years work. I think it might be more fun sailing round the carribean with an eyepatch and a bottle of rum - Ar-harr, Jim lad, pass me a shot of the hard stuff, and let the hardware heave to for a while <Sound of timbers shivering> but others, less seafaring than myself might have other ideas...
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The banks should be paying hit men to kill the phishers. Then it would stop. Failing that, they could take reasonable measures to force the law enforcement officials to do their job.
We, the ordinary people, can not be expected to explain to our elderly relatives that when it says "This is from Barclays Bank" or "Brisish Telecom" and shows all the visual cues they would use to validate that, that it is actually from a bunch of students in the pay of criminals. For one thing, they would have us sent to mental institutions. My family already think I am paranoid because of making this kind of claim!
SQL Server Express is free which is at least twice as much as it is worth. Why use SQLServer when you could use PostgreSQL?
a) Microsoft has bribed you?
b) Bill Gates has a shotgun to your head?
c) You have no experience of a real SQL product?
Free is WAY overpriced, even for the workgroup edition, especially if you want valid data involving dates.
I worked for many years designing architectures like this for specialised database operations. I know how powerful this architecture is for certain types of work. I suspect you don't.
as for the person suggesting that I would be using it in a SETI type operations: No, I wont, but I think I know someone who might. (But if I told you, I would have to kill you).
Nope. It was concieved as a component for massively parallel processing, but using it in the playstation was the only way to get the volume production that I need to get the kind of reliability I want for my nuclear simulations.
This chip will be to the Pentium what the Pentium is to the 6502 - once the tool chain is understood by software designers. Actually, better, because Cell architecture uses way less gates than pipelining for way more throughput at the same clock speed and feature size. Hell, I might even retire my Sun Niagras.
Sure it won't run Windows very well, but hell, Windows doesn't run very well anyway, and I Don't Care (TM).
Yes, it does run Linux. What about NetBSD?
Technically correct, but I have software, supplied with my sewing machine (not a cheap one), which allows me to take a bmp and create an embroidery pattern from it. This is like scanning, in the sense that pretty much anyone can use a scanner, but only a tiny percentage of the population can set the DPI, scaling, colour, gamma correction,etc to the optimum values.
There are people who make a living from emboidery patterns, some of which are even worth paying for, but most designs are not worth the time to download them.
I have a web site from which patterns I created can be downloaded for free, and at one time got quite a few hits from downloaders, but I am not going to mention it here, because the server is an AMD k6, and I dont want it /.ed.
Fanatics may be in short supply, and the market for new games, console or otherwise may be drying up, but that does not mean people are losing interest in games.
What I really want is the "Captain Keene" and "Leasure Suit Larry" series on my phone. Then I would give up PC gaming forever. Lets face it, the originals worked fine in 320x240 resolution, just like my phone.
Anyone sell a phone with EGA resolution? ... (Thought not).
Not to mention the Sh*t US government who knows the name address and bank account details of the companies doing this, and does f*** all to stop them, while helping the **AA sue grannies and pre-teens. The "war on Terror" should start with the Bush administration!
The fact that the car park is 4kms from the terminal building tells you all you need to know about Europe.
LocalisationL Some of Europe doesn't speak English, does not use US keyboards, or store their dates in the wrong order. Luckily, Localisation is done much better by FOSS anyway.
As for technical ... the world moves on .. there are people in their 70s who were programmers in the 1960's. How old are Kernigan and Richie? (IBM's expert witnesses) they are older than me and Bill Gates anyway!
Damn right e-mail is for oldies. The youngsters can use skateboards to visit their friends :-)
And the DCMA is American legislation, and also not valid outside the USA.
Transponders? I laugh at your tranponders -we don't have modern cars, and most of our tyres have no tread, let alone tranponders!
Welcome to the land of the free!
long live mechanically injected diesel engines.
Your definition of "not hard" does not agree with mine. Also, there are companies who will keep "negotiating" until the provisional patent expires, because they want to use the idea, but do not want to pay, and are not afraid of their competition using it (Happened to me).
Meanwhile, I shall continue my study of GM flying pigs.
When is President GW Bush going to realise that America is part of the Axis of Evil, and carpet bomb these Adware people back to the stone age?
And they are real hard to get in Panama, Sierra Leone, and Uzbekistan.
I know you are American, but get a grip - credit cards and the internet are world wide.
And anyone stupid enough to bet in circumstances where he is unable to detect whether he is playing against a computer that is programmed to cheat is probably doomed anyway. Why not send them to an asylum the moment the CIA monitoring shows they placed a bet? a lot of taxpayers dollars could be saved that way. - with Bush in charge, we can expect people to be extradited from places from Afganistan to Zaire for on-line gambling at any moment. I am not sure why America feels the need to import the worlds dumbest criminals, but far be it for me to stop them.
The old machines hare processors and memory which are far to small to run Win2k, and XP is too modern to be considered well enough tested for mission critical work :-)
When I have convinced people that Win98 is a security risk because its EOL'd so all the hackers know its a good virus target, these machines will have NetBSD installed. We cannot scrap them because we need them to support instruments that cost humungous amounts of money, and to run chronically obsolete tool chains to support products with a 30 year life span. - Yes its true - not everything with an embedded process or has a lifespan of 8 months, or even 8 years.
Think about it - some complex systems take two years to specify, and two to build, one for certification, then they take an age to get delivered and installed, possibly requiring a custom designed room, and then users take two years to learn how to use them, after that, people expect a 7 year _minimum_ product life. If you dont believe me, check out diagnostic equipment your local hospital, airport, rail depot, garage, etc.
You are on a beach, there are palm trees and a bottle of rum.
Drink Rum
You are on a beach in the shade of palm trees, slightly tipsy. A steel band is playing Soca. You are hoding a bottle of rum
Shoot students.
ok
Assault college
ok
Shout badass things
return to base
Game over
Hell you could play it on a phone with Java capability!
Old World - Thats EU to you
New world - thats you
and third world.
If there is such a thing as second world, its the USA (and South America and the Carib bean).
Well, Duh, I have a navigation device that uses speech too (TomTom). There is mountains of prior art here. Yes I know they are talking about navigating menus, but hell, If I have a map of London, can I still patent maps of New York? WTF?
Varsions that dont intermittently core dump on MacOSX, Windows and FreeBSD would be really cool.
I have been saying for a while that with the high cost of fuel, and today's more reaonable interest rates, these ships would be economic today.
Hell, I could even make a system that would rip the DVD into a DVD writer faster than real-time - but it would be about 2 man-years work. I think it might be more fun sailing round the carribean with an eyepatch and a bottle of rum - Ar-harr, Jim lad, pass me a shot of the hard stuff, and let the hardware heave to for a while <Sound of timbers shivering> but others, less seafaring than myself might have other ideas...
Yes - however its not written down - it is just tradition. People can argue all night what it says because it says everything and nothing.
AFAICT, the cat is not legally responsible for the consequences of its actions.
See EULA kitty,
Click EULA kitty,
nice kitty - here is a piece of catnip!