Wouldn't it be cool if they had a "drop down" ability to use something like Gelernter's stream concept (example in scopeware vision) to search for, and jump to regions or areas (files/folders) instantly.. In a p2p environment, that'd basically be a search mechanism across a network.. K-rad.
We've been able to monitor our citizens long enough for it not to be an issue. Why this continually surprises people in our country is beyond me.
What should anger you is now we're able to do it without judicial oversight. That's the primary difference between the "patriot" act and similar legislation in our past (i.e. FISA in 1978ish). Remember, no matter how much we love privacy, it's an entirely "made up" right enforced solely by the courts.. Remove that pesky judicial branch and viola!
I only mention this becuase I think we're fighting the wrong fight. We'll never get rid of the patriot act or big brother oversight. The fight we can probably win, is the fight to put judicial oversight back into its priority seating..
Checks and balances baby, checks and balances.
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Everyone mentioning that the iraqi's should rebuild are forgetting the obligation of the "winning" side to take responsibility for the damage they've caused..
"Yeah! Your 'free' now! Get to work rebuilding everything we blew up, we aren't going to help you! Yeah!"
In this country, it just so happens that these types of activities are best left to private enterprise. We don't trust our government doing these things here, why should we there?
That was before "the little space ship that could".. Cat's out of the bag, privatized space flight is finally here. If NASA doesn't accept it with open arms, they'll get steam rolled.
They still sell something extremely similar at Disney World. Incrediably cool at first, for about 3 minutes, then you realize how retarded you look waving a plastic stick with mouse ears on.:(
It's not too bad, basically SuSE as you've read before. My wheel mouse didn't work out of the box, and sound stuff didn't start automatically -- both of which would be really annoying to the common user.
The interface is gorgeous though, and sun studio isn't a bad alternative to eclipse. Why they include netbeans and studio is beyond me though, they're the same thing as far as I can tell. And I can't type "javac" directly from my home directory, which I'd imagine the average user would need to be able to do without changing anything
I'd like to see more of a sun supported community for JDS. I can't even find user forums or anything of the like to discuss the pitfalls I've found, etc. Hard to build a desktop user base if they are only going to marginally own up to it existing in the first place. I feel like I'm the only person in the world using it. Maybe it's just too early...
On the money except for the 2 hour battery life. Go Centrino, or don't bother at all. My first college laptop was a pain in the ass to bring to class, I'd have to plug in near a wall everytime. My Dell 600m has the extra battery in the drive bay and I get about 7 hours of life now. With most major colleges hooked up with WiFi, it's the perfect student solution. Oh and, people are bringing laptops to class these days, at least here at UCF in the upper level courses.
I got this e-mail saying I was eligible for the class action settlement..
Does anyone else view $5 off of my next purchase as a coupon, instead of a reward? If register.com is so evil, then shouldn't I not be given reasons to continue shopping with them?
Here in Orlando, it's roughly $10 a box. Here's the catch though: It's in addition to the rental fee your already paying, so..
We have two digital cable boxes and pay something like $6 for the first upgrade, and $12 for the second.
Overall, I love mine. TiVO has a better interface by far though, but it kicks the crap out of the ReplayTV we have in the living room. The best part is the dual tuner and the picture in picture.
Oh.. And.. Check this out.. On the box, hit the button between the direction arrows and the enter button and hold it until it beeps. At that point, hit them again.. It's the diagnostic screen where you can view the units IP and all sorts of fun stuff. It looks like it might not be long before cable modems and your cable box become the same unit.
Seriously, My company (atqui.com) filed a patent some time ago on challenge/response as a defensive measure. The application was pulled due to a wealth of prior art that we came across. If anyone is looking for information concerning this, let me know and I'll see what I can provide.
You can't be serious? They laughed in your face not because of what you knew, but because they didn't care.
I used linux like every good geek should in highschool, but the reason I was friends with the "popular" kids is because I understood social dynamics and didn't bother broadcasting it.
You weren't smarter, and obviously still aren't smarter than most of the "popular" kids. Your just another social retard.
The need for the label isn't disappearing, it's changing. We'll see the majors start contracting instead of expanding just like every other industry affected by technology. More outsourcing specific tasks (a&r for example). The label will take on a more management style role, and will become more of a "branding" issue. (Think punk scene: you know what a fat records band is going to sound like before you even press play). We'll also see labels start providing health insurance and accounting assistance to aid future MC Hammers. Ahhh, the possible return of the career artist
People love entertainment, people love music. It'll always be around, and there will always be money in it. It's just going to take some restructuring, even if it costs a whole lot of people their jobs.
The author seems to make a claim, then dwell on it for entirely too long -- boring you to tears. If the book was rewritten, I imagine it'd be half as long, if not shorter.
Honestly, how long does it take to explain the kevin bacon theory? He seems to think its profound that the "degrees of seperation" are getting smaller as we become more interconnected. I appreciate the effort, but it's common friggin' sense.
All in all? An interesting read if all your other books are finished and theres nothing on TV. Even in that scenerio, I'd still probably end up reading (okay okay, looking at the pictures) in Wolfram's book instead;)
The reason spam works is because it's cheap. If the spammer has to download the image, and spend time decoding it.. It's not really worth the time/bandwidth investment anymore..
Me and a buddy of mine actual started a company a year ago using this very technique. We were probably one of the first, if not the (according to our research), doing this with commercial intent.
It works GREAT -- if you don't mind the concept of, in essence, reverse spam. We've tweaked the system to rely not just on auto-verify techniques, but other spam filtering concepts, and it seems to provide a decent blend. The only real problem so far as been a few small mailing lists we've run into that handle oddly.
I'll tell ya what though, the most gratifying thing so far has been getting auto-acknowledgement e-mails from the support centers of people trying to spam me:)
Anyway, check it out if your curious -- theres a free trial and all that jazz.. http://www.atqui.com
did you even read the original statement to begin with? I'm not talking about whats supported and what's not, I'm talking about what things make mozilla/netscape look somewhat "off" compared to the way they look in IE. Want some straight up facts? How about the example I've already given -- form buttons. They are cleaner in IE. Want another one? Style sheets -- mozilla doesn't seem to handle borders all to well on tags.
mozilla has a LOT of promise. But right now, it's still just that. If I were still running linux, I'd undoubtedly be using it. But for now, I'm pretty comfortable with IE.
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Wouldn't it be cool if they had a "drop down" ability to use something like Gelernter's stream concept (example in scopeware vision) to search for, and jump to regions or areas (files/folders) instantly.. In a p2p environment, that'd basically be a search mechanism across a network.. K-rad.
We've been able to monitor our citizens long enough for it not to be an issue. Why this continually surprises people in our country is beyond me.
What should anger you is now we're able to do it without judicial oversight. That's the primary difference between the "patriot" act and similar legislation in our past (i.e. FISA in 1978ish). Remember, no matter how much we love privacy, it's an entirely "made up" right enforced solely by the courts.. Remove that pesky judicial branch and viola!
I only mention this becuase I think we're fighting the wrong fight. We'll never get rid of the patriot act or big brother oversight. The fight we can probably win, is the fight to put judicial oversight back into its priority seating..
Checks and balances baby, checks and balances.
Everyone mentioning that the iraqi's should rebuild are forgetting the obligation of the "winning" side to take responsibility for the damage they've caused..
"Yeah! Your 'free' now! Get to work rebuilding everything we blew up, we aren't going to help you! Yeah!"
In this country, it just so happens that these types of activities are best left to private enterprise. We don't trust our government doing these things here, why should we there?
That was before "the little space ship that could".. Cat's out of the bag, privatized space flight is finally here. If NASA doesn't accept it with open arms, they'll get steam rolled.
They still sell something extremely similar at Disney World. Incrediably cool at first, for about 3 minutes, then you realize how retarded you look waving a plastic stick with mouse ears on. :(
It's not too bad, basically SuSE as you've read before. My wheel mouse didn't work out of the box, and sound stuff didn't start automatically -- both of which would be really annoying to the common user.
The interface is gorgeous though, and sun studio isn't a bad alternative to eclipse. Why they include netbeans and studio is beyond me though, they're the same thing as far as I can tell. And I can't type "javac" directly from my home directory, which I'd imagine the average user would need to be able to do without changing anything
I'd like to see more of a sun supported community for JDS. I can't even find user forums or anything of the like to discuss the pitfalls I've found, etc. Hard to build a desktop user base if they are only going to marginally own up to it existing in the first place. I feel like I'm the only person in the world using it. Maybe it's just too early...
Publicity is publicity, no matter the form. Thanks SCO! If linux wasn't a household name before..
Sense of humor called, said this is the reason you guys broke up to begin with. Go outside.
Karl Marx called.. he wants his failed idea back.
On the money except for the 2 hour battery life. Go Centrino, or don't bother at all. My first college laptop was a pain in the ass to bring to class, I'd have to plug in near a wall everytime. My Dell 600m has the extra battery in the drive bay and I get about 7 hours of life now. With most major colleges hooked up with WiFi, it's the perfect student solution. Oh and, people are bringing laptops to class these days, at least here at UCF in the upper level courses.
You buy a TV, only to pay for cable, whats the difference?
I got this e-mail saying I was eligible for the class action settlement..
Does anyone else view $5 off of my next purchase as a coupon, instead of a reward? If register.com is so evil, then shouldn't I not be given reasons to continue shopping with them?
Here in Orlando, it's roughly $10 a box. Here's the catch though: It's in addition to the rental fee your already paying, so..
We have two digital cable boxes and pay something like $6 for the first upgrade, and $12 for the second.
Overall, I love mine. TiVO has a better interface by far though, but it kicks the crap out of the ReplayTV we have in the living room. The best part is the dual tuner and the picture in picture.
Oh.. And.. Check this out.. On the box, hit the button between the direction arrows and the enter button and hold it until it beeps. At that point, hit them again.. It's the diagnostic screen where you can view the units IP and all sorts of fun stuff. It looks like it might not be long before cable modems and your cable box become the same unit.
Seriously, My company (atqui.com) filed a patent some time ago on challenge/response as a defensive measure. The application was pulled due to a wealth of prior art that we came across. If anyone is looking for information concerning this, let me know and I'll see what I can provide.
hah. i had to watch brother from another planet as a form of hazing when i joined my fraternity.
Here in orlando Mc'ds is already wifi equipped, it shouldn't be to much more work for them to implement this.
They stand out in the streets with pda's taken your order while your in the drive through line. Makes things a hell of a lot faster.
you might have had first post, but I saw it 20 minutes before you did. Muhaha.
You can't be serious? They laughed in your face not because of what you knew, but because they didn't care. I used linux like every good geek should in highschool, but the reason I was friends with the "popular" kids is because I understood social dynamics and didn't bother broadcasting it. You weren't smarter, and obviously still aren't smarter than most of the "popular" kids. Your just another social retard.
The need for the label isn't disappearing, it's changing. We'll see the majors start contracting instead of expanding just like every other industry affected by technology. More outsourcing specific tasks (a&r for example). The label will take on a more management style role, and will become more of a "branding" issue. (Think punk scene: you know what a fat records band is going to sound like before you even press play). We'll also see labels start providing health insurance and accounting assistance to aid future MC Hammers. Ahhh, the possible return of the career artist
People love entertainment, people love music. It'll always be around, and there will always be money in it. It's just going to take some restructuring, even if it costs a whole lot of people their jobs.
Just a thought..
The author seems to make a claim, then dwell on it for entirely too long -- boring you to tears. If the book was rewritten, I imagine it'd be half as long, if not shorter. Honestly, how long does it take to explain the kevin bacon theory? He seems to think its profound that the "degrees of seperation" are getting smaller as we become more interconnected. I appreciate the effort, but it's common friggin' sense. All in all? An interesting read if all your other books are finished and theres nothing on TV. Even in that scenerio, I'd still probably end up reading (okay okay, looking at the pictures) in Wolfram's book instead ;)
Very similar to Atqui
Sigh.. just what big corporations need..
The reason spam works is because it's cheap. If the spammer has to download the image, and spend time decoding it.. It's not really worth the time/bandwidth investment anymore..
Sure he, in theory, could do OCR, but why?
atqui spam filter
Me and a buddy of mine actual started a company a year ago using this very technique. We were probably one of the first, if not the (according to our research), doing this with commercial intent. It works GREAT -- if you don't mind the concept of, in essence, reverse spam. We've tweaked the system to rely not just on auto-verify techniques, but other spam filtering concepts, and it seems to provide a decent blend. The only real problem so far as been a few small mailing lists we've run into that handle oddly. I'll tell ya what though, the most gratifying thing so far has been getting auto-acknowledgement e-mails from the support centers of people trying to spam me :)
Anyway, check it out if your curious -- theres a free trial and all that jazz.. http://www.atqui.com
did you even read the original statement to begin with? I'm not talking about whats supported and what's not, I'm talking about what things make mozilla/netscape look somewhat "off" compared to the way they look in IE. Want some straight up facts? How about the example I've already given -- form buttons. They are cleaner in IE. Want another one? Style sheets -- mozilla doesn't seem to handle borders all to well on tags. mozilla has a LOT of promise. But right now, it's still just that. If I were still running linux, I'd undoubtedly be using it. But for now, I'm pretty comfortable with IE.