Note: You'll need a Gnutella program that supports magnet links to download this. I personally use Shareaza. It's not the newest version of Knoppix, but I've found it to be pretty stable.
Actually, they were seriously considering that as a cause. Electrical strikes on a space shuttle are a very real possibility. As the shuttle moves through the atmosphere at a high rate of speed, it creates a trail of ionized air. This causes a buildup of charge on the space shuttle that may reach a high enough level to essentially cause a large electric strike. This is the same type of thing that causes lightning.
The irony is that Columbia photographed from space for the first time strange electrical phenomena above clouds. They're a lot stranger than lightning between the clouds and earth.
It's called context. When Epic found out, they assigned a programmer to it. That guy screwed up. However, Epic isn't afraid of critiquing their own performance. Ever since the security error was widely publicized (about a week ago), Epic has been nothing less than forthcoming about the magnitude of the error.
It's a very understandable situation, one that's happened before even to good companies. They didn't try to cover it up, or call it a feature. They've just been working their pants off trying to get out a patch that fixes the problem w/o causing even more havoc.
But did 3DFX have guaranteed revenue from sales of MS consoles? That may actually end up saving Nvidia in the short term, giving them enough time to get their act together.
Yeah, I thought the story was amazing too. Then I re-read the Lord of the Rings, and read for the first time The Silmarillion and realized that pretty much the whole story was a rip off of Tolkien. But then again, so is pretty much the whole genre...
... but it's the equivalent of 10 Music Industry CEOs in RIAA math.
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It's vector graphics written using XML-ish code and are thus human readable. And plus, the specification is much more "open-source" than Macromedia's SWF file format is. It also has support for mobile devices, and is just so darned pretty.
Google uses (at the last count I've seen) over 50 different factors in deciding what ranking a website should get on a certain search term. Part of their monthly rankings dance is rebalancing the importance of these factors to try to maintain the integrity of the results. Searchking's earlier lawsuit was over the effects of one earlier dance. PageRank is only the most visible of the components deciding a page's score, due to it's ingeniousness and to it being the only quantitative data released about the evaluation process (because of the google toolbar).
Also, don't forget about google's wildly successful Pigeon rank system.
Shareaza. It's easy to use, and has no spyware of any kind. It's not open source, but that's mainly to discourage spammers and such from taking the program and corrupting the source code, adding spyware and such. And there's Gnucleus for such things.
There is a bit of controversy surrounding Shareaza, though. Since the first version has came out, Shareaza has been a order of magnitude faster in coming out with new versions, new features, etc. Unfortunately, it could only go on so long before hitting the limitations of the Gnutella protocol. So, Mike (the developer), came up with a new and improved version and released a beta version of Shareaza testing the protocol, making sure it would work before he released a serious spec sheet. Many of the ruling elite (The Gnutella Developers Forum) were offended by this. Their main complaints were due to the new version being called Gnutella 2 (somewhat of a PR mistake) and a formally open standard being released beforehand or simultaneously. This has somewhat divided the Gnutella world.
However, development cranks on, and a new version was released at the beginning of the year. Specs should be released when the protocol implementation in Shareaza is finalized. Until then, you can download the 1.7 beta version at the website linked above.
Luckily, even non-members can view the Voting results page. Amazingly enough, it seems that even among the "geek"-biased club, many votes are for multimedia-related applications. Whether this may be due to important non-multimedia applications being labeled as vital and automatically included, or through a real shift in the users of linux.
Even if this doesn't work out for Mandrake, it'll still serve as an interesting sociological experiment and good precedent for other linux distros to design and improve accordingly.
They wittily insult the plantiff in their legal documents:
The PageRank values assigned by Google are not susceptible to being proved true or false by objective evidence. How could SearchKing ever "prove" that its ranking should "truly" be a 4 or a 6 or a 8? Certainly, Search King is not suggesting that each one of the billions of web pages ranked by Google are subject to another "truer" evaluation? If it believes so, it is certainly free to develop its own search services using the criteria it deems most appropriate.
The difference is that liberal science only serves to accelerate its progress. Conservative science usually serves to stop, or reverse its progress. I'm afraid this is part of a disturbing trend of conservative policies masquerading as "science".
Of course, in a few decades the pendulum will probably swing to the other side...
If Divx is such a joke, then how come Blizzard, a company with games renowned for their amazing cutscenes, chose Divx as the video technology for Warcraft III?
Knoppix is one of the more amazing things that you can show a non-user. First, it's easy to jump into since you don't have to know anything about re-partitioning your drive. Also, watch their faces as an entire operating system along with tons of useful apps boots from just one CD. Plus, it's virtually idiot-proof, as all you have to do to get back to windows if you mess up is just log-out and remove the CD.
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If garabage collecters can be "sanitation engineers" and housewives can be "domestic engineers" then why the hell not programmers.
But "Parents' Basement engineers" doesn't have quite the same ring to it...
They said the same thing when our governer ran for President, but that turned out all right.
At least Texas is still the laughingstock of the spelling-nazi community.
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:Y2YAXRLP4RZSMEYSWQMIQPBYP5 GSJLKA.ST2KW6VMR5CX6XG5K4CQBQOBHLECCZFEGEALOTQ&dn= KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-23-EN.iso
Note: You'll need a Gnutella program that supports magnet links to download this. I personally use Shareaza. It's not the newest version of Knoppix, but I've found it to be pretty stable.
Actually, they were seriously considering that as a cause. Electrical strikes on a space shuttle are a very real possibility. As the shuttle moves through the atmosphere at a high rate of speed, it creates a trail of ionized air. This causes a buildup of charge on the space shuttle that may reach a high enough level to essentially cause a large electric strike. This is the same type of thing that causes lightning. The irony is that Columbia photographed from space for the first time strange electrical phenomena above clouds. They're a lot stranger than lightning between the clouds and earth.
Yeah, but you could always torture and interrogate them using the LEDs.
"There are four lights!"
Gnutella 2 link for Win32 version on Sharelive.
I've posted up a Gnutella 2 link on Sharelive. Download using Shareaza.
And your homework is to preemptively slashdot at least one site this week...
I just posted a Shareaza-compatible link for it at Sharelive.
What's the point of continuing with an inferior technology, even if it is more 'open'?
What's the point of continuing to develop an application, even if there are others on the market that have more features?
To Make It Better!
I just hope the transitions from film to cartoon and back to film are seamless.
Well, the movies are already pretty much computer-animated cartoons, so I don't think the transition will be too terribly hard.
It's called context. When Epic found out, they assigned a programmer to it. That guy screwed up. However, Epic isn't afraid of critiquing their own performance. Ever since the security error was widely publicized (about a week ago), Epic has been nothing less than forthcoming about the magnitude of the error.
It's a very understandable situation, one that's happened before even to good companies. They didn't try to cover it up, or call it a feature. They've just been working their pants off trying to get out a patch that fixes the problem w/o causing even more havoc.
But did 3DFX have guaranteed revenue from sales of MS consoles? That may actually end up saving Nvidia in the short term, giving them enough time to get their act together.
No, they're trying to get the page slashdotted (and taken out of commission) for the good of the entire ad industry.
Yeah, I thought the story was amazing too. Then I re-read the Lord of the Rings, and read for the first time The Silmarillion and realized that pretty much the whole story was a rip off of Tolkien. But then again, so is pretty much the whole genre...
... but it's the equivalent of 10 Music Industry CEOs in RIAA math.
It's vector graphics written using XML-ish code and are thus human readable. And plus, the specification is much more "open-source" than Macromedia's SWF file format is. It also has support for mobile devices, and is just so darned pretty.
Yes, but where does Kevin Bacon get involved?
Google uses (at the last count I've seen) over 50 different factors in deciding what ranking a website should get on a certain search term. Part of their monthly rankings dance is rebalancing the importance of these factors to try to maintain the integrity of the results. Searchking's earlier lawsuit was over the effects of one earlier dance. PageRank is only the most visible of the components deciding a page's score, due to it's ingeniousness and to it being the only quantitative data released about the evaluation process (because of the google toolbar).
Also, don't forget about google's wildly successful Pigeon rank system.
Shareaza. It's easy to use, and has no spyware of any kind. It's not open source, but that's mainly to discourage spammers and such from taking the program and corrupting the source code, adding spyware and such. And there's Gnucleus for such things.
There is a bit of controversy surrounding Shareaza, though. Since the first version has came out, Shareaza has been a order of magnitude faster in coming out with new versions, new features, etc. Unfortunately, it could only go on so long before hitting the limitations of the Gnutella protocol. So, Mike (the developer), came up with a new and improved version and released a beta version of Shareaza testing the protocol, making sure it would work before he released a serious spec sheet. Many of the ruling elite (The Gnutella Developers Forum) were offended by this. Their main complaints were due to the new version being called Gnutella 2 (somewhat of a PR mistake) and a formally open standard being released beforehand or simultaneously. This has somewhat divided the Gnutella world.
However, development cranks on, and a new version was released at the beginning of the year. Specs should be released when the protocol implementation in Shareaza is finalized. Until then, you can download the 1.7 beta version at the website linked above.
Luckily, even non-members can view the Voting results page. Amazingly enough, it seems that even among the "geek"-biased club, many votes are for multimedia-related applications. Whether this may be due to important non-multimedia applications being labeled as vital and automatically included, or through a real shift in the users of linux.
Even if this doesn't work out for Mandrake, it'll still serve as an interesting sociological experiment and good precedent for other linux distros to design and improve accordingly.
The difference is that liberal science only serves to accelerate its progress. Conservative science usually serves to stop, or reverse its progress. I'm afraid this is part of a disturbing trend of conservative policies masquerading as "science".
Of course, in a few decades the pendulum will probably swing to the other side...
If Divx is such a joke, then how come Blizzard, a company with games renowned for their amazing cutscenes, chose Divx as the video technology for Warcraft III?
Knoppix is one of the more amazing things that you can show a non-user. First, it's easy to jump into since you don't have to know anything about re-partitioning your drive. Also, watch their faces as an entire operating system along with tons of useful apps boots from just one CD. Plus, it's virtually idiot-proof, as all you have to do to get back to windows if you mess up is just log-out and remove the CD.