But how can we possibly conceive what aliens *want* to hear before we have met one? We can only go by what we, as humans, know. What we know is that if we were on the receiving end, we would like some coordinates, some pictures, some sounds, etc.
Out of print books online is a great idea, but what I can't understand is why google doesn't have a page that just lists the books they have in full-text. They compare it to a bookstore, but in a bookstore you can see books you have never heard of. You can't do that with google's library because you can only search for books that you know.
Wikipedia is a living example of how information demands to be free. This has already taken place for a long time in the scientific community, and wikipedia extends that idea to everyone on the internet.
I have to disagree with you on your assesment of halo 1 levels. Remember the last few levels, especially the library? The library has to be the worst level design in history. Then the one right after it was just running through an earlier level in reverse. Its obvious that the game was rushed out the door and level design took a back seat to other matters.
I differ in opinion with you. Can a company force gamespot.com to down a negative review of their game? No. Can a company force cnn.com to not report bad news about them? No. It's freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Exactly they are shooting themselves in the foot. This is just like Apple suing their fan base, and other companies suing sites for deep linking - all of this merely reduces their fan base and reduces their advertisement dollars - they are the losers.
There is no way for a Windows sysadmin to deploy and manage firefox on a large number of workstations. At my current job (at a university), I would love to put firefox in all the labs and deploy firefox to all of the faculty workstations, but I can't manage like I can with IE. Using group policies, I can set the home page for all users with a click of a button. I can set security features for all users without leaving my desk.
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
There is no way for a Windows sysadmin to deploy and manage firefox on a large number of workstations. At my current job (at a university), I would love to put firefox in all the labs and deploy firefox to all of the faculty workstations, but I can't manage like I can with IE. Using group policies, I can set the home page for all users with a click of a button. I can set security features for all users without leaving my desk.
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
There is no way for a Windows sysadmin to deploy and manage firefox on a large number of workstations. At my current job (at a university), I would love to put firefox in all the labs and deploy firefox to all of the faculty workstations, but I can't manage like I can with IE. Using group policies, I can set the home page for all users with a click of a button. I can set security features for all users without leaving my desk.
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
I fail to see how google boosting its own search rankings is "evil". They are not spamming you, breaking your computer, or stealing from you. Yes, I know this appears to be an accident. Hypothetically, what if this hadn't been accident? So google undertakes an action to try to keep you on their web page. Like I said a few days ago - google is in the business of making money, not helping you find things on the internet - that is just a side effect.
As far as the slashdot thing goes, well, they do use linux clusters - what would you expect?:-)
Absolutely. People tend to forget that google is a corporation. They can do whatever they want with their search engine. Their goal in life is to keep you looking at their pages and using their> search engine so that they can show you more ads! Its all about money. Google is not making a search engine out of the goodness of their heart.
They must have started counting at 0. Stupid off-by-1 errors.;-)
Seriously, though, I have been seeing many servers start to come in with SATA drives. Right now it is low end and off-brand servers. Dell even ships SATA drives in their cheapest server line. Sure SCSI has high spin rates & throughput, but they are freakin expensive. A good SCSI raid controller costs close to $1000 and a good SCSI hard drive can cost $400. It is so expensive, that it is reallly worth it sometimes to get the SATA drives in servers. I haven't seen that reliability of SATA over SCSI is a problem. I'm truly hoping that SCSI goes the way of the dodo. Its a pain to use. Who know what kind of cable you're supposed to use with that external SCSI device. SCSI, in its current form, is just opening itself up to becoming antiquated.
Yeah, you are correct. I was just so upset over the patent claim on user logins, that my mind forgot the other insidiously stupid patent claim made by the same company.
Read the part at the bottom that says "demanding Apple a reasonable license fee, 12% of gross sales of iTunes music tracks and iPods". They don't just want ipods - they want itunes because money because of apple's method of verifying user accounts before they purchase a song. Read the linked page.
Read the article dude. They are claiming a patent on user login. Straight from their site:
Everyone knows that iTunes allows a user to play purchased music tracks to up to 5 computers, without repeated payment, under the condition that the computers are registered. The computer registration involves a process of identity verification in which a user is required to key in into the computer the correct Apple ID and password he used to purchase the song.
This is certainly a patentable technology. If iTunes does not patent it, there must be a very good reason for them not to do so- someone else has patented this.
This company is patenting USER LOGINS OVER THE INTERNET! This is a basic, fundamental technology of today's Internet. Obviously they are full of crap, but how do we stop patent-whoring companies who can steamroller anyone using the US Court system?
Considering that Intel has been at 3.6GHz for quite a while now, it is no surprise they are focusing on processor power instead of just raw GHz. Apple, Motorola, IBM, and especially AMD have all been doing this for years - time for Intel to join the future.
What's interesting is that on a new computer box, the processor type is mentioned in bold lettering, but the GHz is now in really tiny type - it used to be the exact opposite. Moore's law will have to be fulfilled in new, unique ways.
Unfortunately, the UN is about as anti-US as they come. The move to take control of the Internet goes along with the rest of the UN's practices - to break down boundaries of countries and slowly form a single world government. While that sounds like a good idea, the UN is a little too socialist for my likes. They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN. This will mean censorship of the Internet and probably will cause coutries to isolate themselves from the rest of the world to avoid the negative effects of a UN run Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053636/web.icq. com/
1.5 is beta, dude. 1.0.7 is the latest final release of firefox. 1.0.7 is like 1 month old.
No, its March 1967.
But how can we possibly conceive what aliens *want* to hear before we have met one? We can only go by what we, as humans, know. What we know is that if we were on the receiving end, we would like some coordinates, some pictures, some sounds, etc.
They could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman wearing white gloves
Out of print books online is a great idea, but what I can't understand is why google doesn't have a page that just lists the books they have in full-text. They compare it to a bookstore, but in a bookstore you can see books you have never heard of. You can't do that with google's library because you can only search for books that you know.
Well, the link requires a single click to view - Amazon already owns a patent on that, so pay up Slashdot!
Wikipedia is a living example of how information demands to be free. This has already taken place for a long time in the scientific community, and wikipedia extends that idea to everyone on the internet.
I have to disagree with you on your assesment of halo 1 levels. Remember the last few levels, especially the library? The library has to be the worst level design in history. Then the one right after it was just running through an earlier level in reverse. Its obvious that the game was rushed out the door and level design took a back seat to other matters.
I differ in opinion with you. Can a company force gamespot.com to down a negative review of their game? No. Can a company force cnn.com to not report bad news about them? No. It's freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Exactly they are shooting themselves in the foot. This is just like Apple suing their fan base, and other companies suing sites for deep linking - all of this merely reduces their fan base and reduces their advertisement dollars - they are the losers.
Fire up your Project Xanadu browser and check out the link on Hurd and DNF!!
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
The point is that Mozilla is ignoring corporate users. Remember that corporations are a much bigger market than home users. Mozilla needs to concentrate on this.
I just hope it can achieve the high standard set by CatWoman!
As far as the slashdot thing goes, well, they do use linux clusters - what would you expect? :-)
Absolutely. People tend to forget that google is a corporation. They can do whatever they want with their search engine. Their goal in life is to keep you looking at their pages and using their> search engine so that they can show you more ads! Its all about money. Google is not making a search engine out of the goodness of their heart.
Seriously, though, I have been seeing many servers start to come in with SATA drives. Right now it is low end and off-brand servers. Dell even ships SATA drives in their cheapest server line. Sure SCSI has high spin rates & throughput, but they are freakin expensive. A good SCSI raid controller costs close to $1000 and a good SCSI hard drive can cost $400. It is so expensive, that it is reallly worth it sometimes to get the SATA drives in servers. I haven't seen that reliability of SATA over SCSI is a problem. I'm truly hoping that SCSI goes the way of the dodo. Its a pain to use. Who know what kind of cable you're supposed to use with that external SCSI device. SCSI, in its current form, is just opening itself up to becoming antiquated.
Yeah, you are correct. I was just so upset over the patent claim on user logins, that my mind forgot the other insidiously stupid patent claim made by the same company.
http://www.pat-rights.com/nsD03_01_2005_T1235.htm
Read the part at the bottom that says "demanding Apple a reasonable license fee, 12% of gross sales of iTunes music tracks and iPods". They don't just want ipods - they want itunes because money because of apple's method of verifying user accounts before they purchase a song. Read the linked page.
which refers to this patent: Patent 6,665,797
This company is patenting USER LOGINS OVER THE INTERNET ! This is a basic, fundamental technology of today's Internet. Obviously they are full of crap, but how do we stop patent-whoring companies who can steamroller anyone using the US Court system?
What's interesting is that on a new computer box, the processor type is mentioned in bold lettering, but the GHz is now in really tiny type - it used to be the exact opposite. Moore's law will have to be fulfilled in new, unique ways.
Unfortunately, the UN is about as anti-US as they come. The move to take control of the Internet goes along with the rest of the UN's practices - to break down boundaries of countries and slowly form a single world government. While that sounds like a good idea, the UN is a little too socialist for my likes. They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN. This will mean censorship of the Internet and probably will cause coutries to isolate themselves from the rest of the world to avoid the negative effects of a UN run Internet.