Consider this: 1. Most PC's still only come with IE, 2. IE is the # 1 browser in terms of usage. 3. The Vista ones will come with IE 7. 4. If people search using the search box in IE 7, a lot of traffic will not go to Google.
I'm not sure if a court needs to be involved to make MS give people the choice, but it would be nice.
On the other hand..
considering that most PC's come with IE 6 pre-installed, and the default homepage is some MSN Smorgasboard, and Google is still #1, it makes you wonder if people are savvy enough to change their default pages to go to Google, and if they'll be savvy enough to change the search box.
This behaviour suggests, people are either changing their default home page, or actually going to Google, to search for something. In this case, Google has nothing to worry about.. the average user has become smarter.. plus Google could make deals with OEMs, install IE 7, make Google the default engine.. something like the Opera deal.
Yea, I thought it was something similar as well. But, what about the top coders in high school or college ? I'm sure the ones that are employed in US or Europe didn't really even attempt. But, what about the college kids, who are shepherded into competitions like this ?
Now the "scandalous" question, where the entries from US programmers ranked. Last year, the winner was from Argentina, this year from Poland. So, all the talk about US losing the science front could be true. I don't want to take away from the people who won, or the countries and institutions that are educating them, but I live in USA, and I'm curious, how the contestants from here did.
And if you charge every viewer $5/month to view the game, and part of that money goes towards the Mavericks.. yes it would.
How you make money off of this is entirely upto you.
But if the Mavericks agreed to a fee from you for broadcasting the game, and you took that cost + your own profit and only decided to charge $5 per viewer. Then the mavericks can't turn around and fine someone who scalped a ticket or even better, stole the tickets from the box office and gave the tickets away, $1000 per ticket.
Yea, but the point of the guy who originally said "Sports are important in practically every country" is:
There is nothing inherently wrong with sports.
A lot of what we see from other countries about their "bright students" is what they want you to see.
I come from India, and lot of people who failed classes, or didn't do as well as others were looked down upon. Are they dumb ? Or are they just not interested in what was being taught ?
All these comments about x country is smarter or better than y country because of some tests, are just stupid.
If you seriously take the best and brightest from both countries, you'll see they're on par. We're all human, not humans vs robots.
Chinese people cannot calculate faster than american people.
Thats exactly the problem though. If you are willing to work for $22/hr. You need to get a job with TCS first, and then get sent to Citi. Now it's a lot like going to work a staffing firm based in the US, who has a contract with another company in the US...
How easy is it for you to get a job with TCS if you are already based in America ? Not very easy. Plus if a company like USAA and Citibank have given exclusive contracts to TCS, then it makes it extremely hard for local recruiting agencies and talent to get the job. How come every company that has a contract with TCS ends up having 20-30 new indian contractors ? Something needs to be done about these exclusive contracts, and TCS needs to be told to first look for local talent. I know lots of people who have lowered their rates, just to compete with the Indians, but these exclusive contracts to companies who naturally are averted to experienced local candidates (can't exploit them as well), needs to be changed.
PS: I am an indian immigrant myself, I moved here when I was 13. And, I am competing for my job with classmates I had in India. I'm not racist or a bigot. I haven't lost my job to an outsourcing firm etc, but thats because I rarely work for large firms that can afford outsourcing in the first place.
Just picked up two units. One was a pre-order at EB, and one a walk in at Target. So far.. I am VERY impressed with sound quality, and aesthetics. Ridge Racer and Need for Speed Rivals look awesome.
Very easy to use and comfortable grip. The screen is so high gloss/brite whatever. It makes you hesitant to breath on it though. So shiny..
Geeks are just as materialistic as any other human. Gotta have the fastest compile speeds, gotta have the coolest gadgets. Highest FPS in Half Life 2 et etc. Those aren't Zen goals, they are materialistic goals. Unless you wrote the driver or video card yourself, having the highest FPS and telling people about it, does not make you above anyone else who you think is "materialistic". It's just a different material.
Theres nothing wrong with wanting the best, it's what you do to obtain it is what matters.
Getting the highest FPS in HL2, or having the highest overclocked computer in your school, does not make you one step closer to your $Deity.
When everyone is geeky, there will be more geeks, who will not agree with your view of the nicest society.
theres a sony vaio 17 inch with 1920x1200 screen.. but it costs $2200 because sony calls it a media center laptop, comes with XP MC, dociking station with tv tuner and a bunch of other crap.. I almost bought it but didn't wanna pay that much:)
The m6805 needs a bios update , go to www.notebookforums.com/org and follow the lead from there, theres also a Fedora developer who did a lot of work on the emachines to work under linux.
If you use Gentoo, when you boot type emachines as the kernel type and it'll detect everything for you.
I had a m6809 Gentoo was up and running from stage 2 in 5 hrs (X,fluxbox,firefox,thunderbird)..mucho faster than intel. I gave up the laptop because I needed a higher res screen and eMachines doesn't seem to be interested in catering to us.. I would've gladly paid a few hundred more but oh well.
so if I convert the script of The Matrix to something keygrip etc could parse... would I be prosecuted for stealing the IP of the wachowsky(sp) brothers ?
Specially if someone started charging for said movies to cover bandwidth/cpu costs etc.
I'll refrain from any wise cracks about the ability of bots to act better than Keanu.. or will I ?:).
Just curious, what do you guys think would happen if someone took the sims engine, or quake engine and made a forest gump, or saving private ryan with the Battlefield 1942 engine.. or a story very similar to that ? Is that art or pure theft ?
you do realize, most people in the US are envious of you ?
Specially those who've never used the iPAQ 6315. Tmobile sent me the unit the day they did the pre-sale (late august).. I returned it promptly after using it for a week and having to do hard resets 5 times.
I now have an M1000 from Orange (unlocked) and am using it with Tmobile, it's great You lose the built in Wifi, but GPRS is fine for me, specially on my plan, plus you get +64MB ram and a faster processor. The M1000 costs less, and is should have been the iPAQ, but oh well.
Try to sell it on Ebay, and buy the m1000 from someone else on ebay:/
Aside from that, the Samsung 3GB player I think is rumored to use Stereo BT, so you will get wireless stereo music.. that in itself will be awesome.. something Apple may want to get into as well, specially since their laptops all have BT, next logical step for the PAN, small bt headsets..
rapists and murderers are attacking individuals..and law enforcement goes after them too.
Apart from the 15 year sentence for his activities, I see nothing wrong with it. Law Enforcement people should be used to enforce the law, no matter how non violent the crime is.
How can these companies file civil suits when the entire warez scene needs to be penetrated legally, via a warrant etc. Corporations do not have the power and should never have the power to look up the kind of information and the way the Law enforcement agencies do.
It's not a wasted resource. Going after these guys helps make all the traffic on p2p networks legal, if you cut the source, the networks won't get any of the material. For all who think the movies etc are overpriced...
No one is forcing you to watch them, no one forces you to play roller coaster tycoon 3. The inner workings of the Warez scene have a lot to do with people's self esteem getting a major boost when they get the 0 second warez.. it's being THE man who's got his finger on the pulse of piracy scene, and then he's l33t. 70% of the people who will get busted further in this sting, will never have played/installed/watched any of the titles they pirated. But, due to their actions lots of people who would've normally paid for these titles, will not.
To top it off, some of the software titles and even some of the better movies will be taken and sold on the streets of third world countries where the piraters are going to make the profit, not the studios.
Wether you think the industry makes more money than it should, or doesn't is irrelevant. I would be pissed off if someone took my program that I sell for $60, took it to india and was selling it to people for $10, without ever asking me, or even sharing money with me. I did all the work, these pirates have no right to my work.
Of course, I can also say, sales generated from pirated videos/games etc are used to fund terrorists.. so maybe going after the source is fighting terrorism.. just like drugs.. But thats stretching it..:).
the amount of internet cafe's, plus NRI's (Non Resident Indians).. the amount of Indians online who want to know about how the national indian cricket team is doing is larger than the population of New England. Plus add to that, the this is whats popular on Google, not the world. American sports, or anything televised on american tv, comes with a website.. mlb.com, nba.com, nfl.com.. cricket.com is a parked page for someone looking to make millions from a domain sale. Same reason why Euro 2004 was so high, europeans in the US and other places where it may not have been televised, or televised at a sane hour.. we don't know if this involves google news queries.. people may just want to be checkin up on scores etc. My original post just wanted to state that Cricket is more popular than the original poster may think, and probably on the minds of lot s of people who don't get cricket news on espn/local sports news.
maybe because there is a world outside the US ? And the world series for cricket really does mean world series, not all the teams in the US and 4 from Canada.. North America isn't the world.
So you take the population of India about 1/4th and ask them what their favorite pasttime is.. it's cricket. combine that with sri lanka, south africa, australia, england etc.. and you get a lot of people who have internet access etc, know about google and search for events regarding a sport thats played by more people than who play baseball/american football, or polo:/
Forum defacing is for the script kiddies, I've seen variations of the unserialized exploit used, to upload files into paths writeable by the apache user, and reading files accessible by the apache user, you can do mysqldumps, upload zombie scripts etc, one of my clients was made part of a zombie network as the user nobody, and redirect scripts were added to many posts, as the posts are stored in the db, and the kid found the mysql user/pass to access the forum.
I find autocomplete sometimes to be annoying, I hope this feature will be optional with a google cookie or something. Autocomplete can sometimes be just as annoying as clippy.. imho.
disabled hunters.. survival of the fittest ?
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In a real world situation where we would still need to hunt.. wouldn't a disabled hunter.. be helped by other able hunters, if he/she is alone.. then they umm just die ? survival of the fittest and all ?
Or is hunting today still being done for survival of the village/town ?
Another one.. distribute the /. effect.. ?
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isn't there also the problem with land being left to children that, just because they have the land doesn't mean they will reap the benefits.
they bought the land or somehow got to legally claim ownership of the land.. they didn't build it..
but what do you do when something becomes public domain, like say the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.. and a publishing company makes profit off his work.. yet his kids don't ?.. isn't that a bit unfair ?
i don't know much about law as you could tell.. but it seems both points can be argued.. ?
Whats the advantage of the SL 5 series over an ipaq ?
I used to have the SL5000D, it was a cool gadget, but even syncing with Linux/Evolution was a chore/pain.. and was actually done by someone else, there was no support from Sharp directly.
Secondly, the cost/market for a PDA that costs $500 is very little. How many top of the line ipaqs etc are bought ? I've seen a steady decline of models even from Compaq/HP along with Toshiba/Samsung.. maybe the smartphone market is to blame as well ?
I have an AT&T MpX200 this is an awesome phone, which syncs with an exchange server.. period. No tweaking, nothing. MS Smartphone 2003 (I upgraded, I know the default is 2002), is a great OS for a phone.
MS PocketPC Phone Edition on the other hand, sucks. I tested the HP iPAQ 6315 when it was pre-released to T-Mobile customers, for $499 the phone wouldn't even turn off when I pressed the off button. And, I had to do a hard reset on the phone 3 times in 2 days.. Needless to say, the phone was returned immediately.
The operating system alone is not a driving factor for a device to sell, QA and easy to use features are. The Zaurus 5000 was cool, but it was hard to sync, the iPAQ Phone sucks, but has really cool features.. too bad they don't work.
I'm waiting on the Motorola Linux Phones to be released in the US so I can compare them.
But, an OS alone does not sell a device.. most users do not, and should not care what OS the device is, and should not be used to advertise in marketing a brand new device. Wether the OS is free or not should also never be a factor in pricing the product.
I just bought a desktop replacement AMD 64 3200+ Laptop. It's got top of the line hardware, and has never gotten warmer than say me rubbing my hands together for a little while. It's not the blazing hot like my old thinkpad (p4 2.0 ghz), and it's not loud like my old desktop an amd 2200. It's amazing this much power and so cool.
Battery life may be suckier than a centrino, but this is a desktop replacement, or a portable desktop for me. It rocks.
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Consider this:
1. Most PC's still only come with IE,
2. IE is the # 1 browser in terms of usage.
3. The Vista ones will come with IE 7.
4. If people search using the search box in IE 7, a lot of traffic will not go to Google.
I'm not sure if a court needs to be involved to make MS give people the choice, but it would be nice.
On the other hand..
considering that most PC's come with IE 6 pre-installed, and the default homepage is some MSN Smorgasboard, and Google is still #1, it makes you wonder if people are savvy enough to change their default pages to go to Google, and if they'll be savvy enough to change the search box.
This behaviour suggests, people are either changing their default home page, or actually going to Google, to search for something. In this case, Google has nothing to worry about.. the average user has become smarter.. plus Google could make deals with OEMs, install IE 7, make Google the default engine.. something like the Opera deal.
Yea, I thought it was something similar as well. But, what about the top coders in high school or college ? I'm sure the ones that are employed in US or Europe didn't really even attempt. But, what about the college kids, who are shepherded into competitions like this ?
By their schools, or their own egos ?
First of all,
Congratulations to the winners.
Now the "scandalous" question, where the entries from US programmers ranked. Last year, the winner was from Argentina, this year from Poland. So, all the talk about US losing the science front could be true.
I don't want to take away from the people who won, or the countries and institutions that are educating them, but I live in USA, and I'm curious, how the contestants from here did.
And if you charge every viewer $5/month to view the game, and part of that money goes towards the Mavericks.. yes it would.
How you make money off of this is entirely upto you.
But if the Mavericks agreed to a fee from you for broadcasting the game, and you took that cost + your own profit and only decided to charge $5 per viewer.
Then the mavericks can't turn around and fine someone who scalped a ticket or even better, stole the tickets from the box office and gave the tickets away, $1000 per ticket.
I think thats what Mark Cuban is saying.
Yea, but the point of the guy who originally said "Sports are important in practically every country"
is:
There is nothing inherently wrong with sports.
A lot of what we see from other countries about their "bright students" is what they want you to see.
I come from India, and lot of people who failed classes, or didn't do as well as others were looked down upon. Are they dumb ? Or are they just not interested in what was being taught ?
All these comments about x country is smarter or better than y country because of some tests, are just stupid.
If you seriously take the best and brightest from both countries, you'll see they're on par. We're all human, not humans vs robots.
Chinese people cannot calculate faster than american people.
Thats exactly the problem though. If you are willing to work for $22/hr. You need to get a job with TCS first, and then get sent to Citi. Now it's a lot like going to work a staffing firm based in the US, who has a contract with another company in the US...
How easy is it for you to get a job with TCS if you are already based in America ? Not very easy. Plus if a company like USAA and Citibank have given exclusive contracts to TCS, then it makes it extremely hard for local recruiting agencies and talent to get the job. How come every company that has a contract with TCS ends up having 20-30 new indian contractors ? Something needs to be done about these exclusive contracts, and TCS needs to be told to first look for local talent. I know lots of people who have lowered their rates, just to compete with the Indians, but these exclusive contracts to companies who naturally are averted to experienced local candidates (can't exploit them as well), needs to be changed.
PS: I am an indian immigrant myself, I moved here when I was 13. And, I am competing for my job with classmates I had in India. I'm not racist or a bigot. I haven't lost my job to an outsourcing firm etc, but thats because I rarely work for large firms that can afford outsourcing in the first place.
Just picked up two units. One was a pre-order at EB, and one a walk in at Target. So far.. I am VERY impressed with sound quality, and aesthetics. Ridge Racer and Need for Speed Rivals look awesome.
:).
Very easy to use and comfortable grip. The screen is so high gloss/brite whatever. It makes you hesitant to breath on it though. So shiny..
Ok back to playing.
Check out my site for more reviews later. Nothing there right now
Geeks are just as materialistic as any other human. Gotta have the fastest compile speeds, gotta have the coolest gadgets. Highest FPS in Half Life 2 et etc. Those aren't Zen goals, they are materialistic goals. Unless you wrote the driver or video card yourself, having the highest FPS and telling people about it, does not make you above anyone else who you think is "materialistic". It's just a different material.
Theres nothing wrong with wanting the best, it's what you do to obtain it is what matters.
Getting the highest FPS in HL2, or having the highest overclocked computer in your school, does not make you one step closer to your $Deity.
When everyone is geeky, there will be more geeks, who will not agree with your view of the nicest society.
theres a sony vaio 17 inch with 1920x1200 screen.. but it costs $2200 because sony calls it a media center laptop, comes with XP MC, dociking station with tv tuner and a bunch of other crap.. I almost bought it but didn't wanna pay that much :)
The m6805 needs a bios update , go to www.notebookforums.com/org and follow the lead from there, theres also a Fedora developer who did a lot of work on the emachines to work under linux.
If you use Gentoo, when you boot type emachines as the kernel type and it'll detect everything for you.
I had a m6809 Gentoo was up and running from stage 2 in 5 hrs (X,fluxbox,firefox,thunderbird)..mucho faster than intel. I gave up the laptop because I needed a higher res screen and eMachines doesn't seem to be interested in catering to us.. I would've gladly paid a few hundred more but oh well.
so if I convert the script of The Matrix to something keygrip etc could parse... would I be prosecuted for stealing the IP of the wachowsky(sp) brothers ?
:).
Specially if someone started charging for said movies to cover bandwidth/cpu costs etc.
I'll refrain from any wise cracks about the ability of bots to act better than Keanu.. or will I ?
Just curious, what do you guys think would happen if someone took the sims engine, or quake engine and made a forest gump, or saving private ryan with the Battlefield 1942 engine.. or a story very similar to that ? Is that art or pure theft ?
you do realize, most people in the US are envious of you ?
:/
Specially those who've never used the iPAQ 6315. Tmobile sent me the unit the day they did the pre-sale (late august).. I returned it promptly after using it for a week and having to do hard resets 5 times.
I now have an M1000 from Orange (unlocked) and am using it with Tmobile, it's great You lose the built in Wifi, but GPRS is fine for me, specially on my plan, plus you get +64MB ram and a faster processor. The M1000 costs less, and is should have been the iPAQ, but oh well.
Try to sell it on Ebay, and buy the m1000 from someone else on ebay
Aside from that, the Samsung 3GB player I think is rumored to use Stereo BT, so you will get wireless stereo music.. that in itself will be awesome.. something Apple may want to get into as well, specially since their laptops all have BT, next logical step for the PAN, small bt headsets..
rapists and murderers are attacking individuals..and law enforcement goes after them too.
...
Apart from the 15 year sentence for his activities, I see nothing wrong with it. Law Enforcement people should be used to enforce the law, no matter how non violent the crime is.
How can these companies file civil suits when the entire warez scene needs to be penetrated legally, via a warrant etc. Corporations do not have the power and should never have the power to look up the kind of information and the way the Law enforcement agencies do.
It's not a wasted resource. Going after these guys helps make all the traffic on p2p networks legal, if you cut the source, the networks won't get any of the material. For all who think the movies etc are overpriced
No one is forcing you to watch them, no one forces you to play roller coaster tycoon 3. The inner workings of the Warez scene have a lot to do with people's self esteem getting a major boost when they get the 0 second warez.. it's being THE man who's got his finger on the pulse of piracy scene, and then he's l33t. 70% of the people who will get busted further in this sting, will never have played/installed/watched any of the titles they pirated. But, due to their actions lots of people who would've normally paid for these titles, will not.
To top it off, some of the software titles and even some of the better movies will be taken and sold on the streets of third world countries where the piraters are going to make the profit, not the studios.
Wether you think the industry makes more money than it should, or doesn't is irrelevant. I would be pissed off if someone took my program that I sell for $60, took it to india and was selling it to people for $10, without ever asking me, or even sharing money with me. I did all the work, these pirates have no right to my work.
Of course, I can also say, sales generated from pirated videos/games etc are used to fund terrorists.. so maybe going after the source is fighting terrorism.. just like drugs.. But thats stretching it..:).
I think India won... in a 4 day test series ..
the amount of internet cafe's, plus NRI's (Non Resident Indians).. the amount of Indians online who want to know about how the national indian cricket team is doing is larger than the population of New England. Plus add to that, the this is whats popular on Google, not the world. American sports, or anything televised on american tv, comes with a website.. mlb.com, nba.com, nfl.com .. cricket.com is a parked page for someone looking to make millions from a domain sale. Same reason why Euro 2004 was so high, europeans in the US and other places where it may not have been televised, or televised at a sane hour.. we don't know if this involves google news queries.. people may just want to be checkin up on scores etc. My original post just wanted to state that Cricket is more popular than the original poster may think, and probably on the minds of lot s of people who don't get cricket news on espn/local sports news.
maybe because there is a world outside the US ?
:/
And the world series for cricket really does mean world series, not all the teams in the US and 4 from Canada.. North America isn't the world.
So you take the population of India about 1/4th and ask them what their favorite pasttime is.. it's cricket. combine that with sri lanka, south africa, australia, england etc.. and you get a lot of people who have internet access etc, know about google and search for events regarding a sport thats played by more people than who play baseball/american football, or polo
Try looking at http://www.fedoralegacy.org
They will more than likely have patches for PHP/Apache.
Forum defacing is for the script kiddies, I've seen variations of the unserialized exploit used, to upload files into paths writeable by the apache user, and reading files accessible by the apache user, you can do mysqldumps, upload zombie scripts etc, one of my clients was made part of a zombie network as the user nobody, and redirect scripts were added to many posts, as the posts are stored in the db, and the kid found the mysql user/pass to access the forum.
Hurrah for Nightly MySQL dumps.
I find autocomplete sometimes to be annoying, I hope
this feature will be optional with a google cookie or something. Autocomplete can sometimes be just as annoying as clippy.. imho.
In a real world situation where we would still need to hunt.. wouldn't a disabled hunter.. be helped by other able hunters, if he/she is alone.. then they umm just die ? survival of the fittest and all ?
Or is hunting today still being done for survival of the village/town ?
http://mirrors.linuxpowered.com/WhoWroteSobig.pdf
isn't there also the problem with land being left to children that, just because they have the land doesn't mean they will reap the benefits.
.. isn't that a bit unfair ?
they bought the land or somehow got to legally claim ownership of the land.. they didn't build it..
but what do you do when something becomes public domain, like say the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.. and a publishing company makes profit off his work.. yet his kids don't ?
i don't know much about law as you could tell.. but it seems both points can be argued..
?
Whats the advantage of the SL 5 series over an ipaq ?
I used to have the SL5000D, it was a cool gadget, but even syncing with Linux/Evolution was a chore/pain.. and was actually done by someone else, there was no support from Sharp directly.
Secondly, the cost/market for a PDA that costs $500 is very little. How many top of the line ipaqs etc are bought ? I've seen a steady decline of models even from Compaq/HP along with Toshiba/Samsung.. maybe the smartphone market is to blame as well ?
I have an AT&T MpX200 this is an awesome phone, which syncs with an exchange server.. period. No tweaking, nothing. MS Smartphone 2003 (I upgraded, I know the default is 2002), is a great OS for a phone.
MS PocketPC Phone Edition on the other hand, sucks. I tested the HP iPAQ 6315 when it was pre-released to T-Mobile customers, for $499 the phone wouldn't even turn off when I pressed the off button. And, I had to do a hard reset on the phone 3 times in 2 days.. Needless to say, the phone was returned immediately.
The operating system alone is not a driving factor for a device to sell, QA and easy to use features are. The Zaurus 5000 was cool, but it was hard to sync, the iPAQ Phone sucks, but has really cool features.. too bad they don't work.
I'm waiting on the Motorola Linux Phones to be released in the US so I can compare them.
But, an OS alone does not sell a device.. most users do not, and should not care what OS the device is, and should not be used to advertise in marketing a brand new device. Wether the OS is free or not should also never be a factor in pricing the product.
just my HO.
seems like the server is getting slaughtered.. for people who just care for the images (not very impressive)..
http://mirrors.linuxpowered.com/sidekick2/
get em while it's hot..or before my server crashes.
I just bought a desktop replacement AMD 64 3200+ Laptop. It's got top of the line hardware, and has never gotten warmer than say me rubbing my hands together for a little while. It's not the blazing hot like my old thinkpad (p4 2.0 ghz), and it's not loud like my old desktop an amd 2200. It's amazing this much power and so cool.
Battery life may be suckier than a centrino, but this is a desktop replacement, or a portable desktop for me. It rocks.