Possibly true, however a traceroute shows the traffic taking the exact same path through their network and out via the same gateway to their provider. While they could offer a different service, they don't.
I was a Cox business customer for the last several years, purchased this for their supposed better availability and better support.
Their support "engineers" are typical of many minimum-wage call centers, absolutely useless beyond resetting the modem and verifing TCP/IP settings. When I found that I switched from Cox Business to Cox Residential simply by switching from my assigned static IP to DHCP, I was rather annoyed. How can they guarantee greater uptime for their business network if it all runs over the same hardware? I'm now a Cox Residential customer (I dislike the company, but DSL is not available in my area) and strongly advise against the business service.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of people nearby: The often-active volcano draws tourists by boat but most people do not go ashore on the uninhabited, rumbling island.
Since a timestamped shot is taken only once per hour, it would be easy to set this up without being caught.: To keep a close watch, GNS installed a digital camera on the island and posts a shot taken every hour on its website (www.geonet.org.nz).
While PDFs are pretty well supported, you'll still be storing it as raster data, so there won't be any size decrease over using an image format, such as PNG.
Are there any web-based packages for searching documents, based on OCR-extracted keywords? Obviously with messy hand-written notes, formulas, etc, OCR won't work reliably. For a similar project, I'd like to OCR the files and use the text data solely for keyword searching. Obviously not perfect, but better than just images.
I wonder if the initial price will end up higher than this system was designed to determine.
From my understanding, people bid on it at any price point. When they decide to create X shares, the top bidders will receive those shares, but will pay the price point of the lowest bidder. If this is true, what's to stop me from bidding $500/share to guarantee I get to take part in the IPO? Since I won't have to pay this price, and I probably won't increase the per-share price significantly, an individual doing this could easily be guaranteed as many shares as they like. What happens when a large number of people realize this and it artificially increases the price?
Is there something to prevent this? Is this a desired action (maybe from Google's perspective)? Or am I just completely missing something here....?
Is there a way to get these in the US, besides Ebay? Any Japanese companies that will buy them locally and ship them to you? Would this work on our data networks?
I wonder if such a product exists... something which sits between your phone line and the fax machine, if it sees a certain number, it kills the call.
You could probably cobble something together using an old PC and a modem. Write a script which picks up the modem for a second then hangs up. This may cause them to redial several times, costing them money. Of course, it will tie up your incoming line as well.
Dunno if this would be practical in your case, as caller id from a foreign country can show lots of weird stuff. As long as it's consistent and unique, could be a neat solution.
Call them under a pseudonym, tell them you want to place an order for group travel for your company, have them fax a quote to you. Chances are they will use their real fax machine (programmed with their real phone number) instead of the auto-dial bank. If you can scam them under the pretenses of faxing an order, that's even better. Have a local (or use cheap voip service) to spam them back a copy of their advertisement, marked up liberally with a black marker.
While it probably won't get you off the list, it will make you feel better.
Simple, I keep all the project documentation in my head. Since I admin boxes, this includes passwords, configuration data, etc. They can't replace me without loosing the information, I never seem to find time to write it down, and if they assign me a follower I'll quit, and they know it.
My co-workers may disappear, but I'll be around until the day I die (or document).
I had a similar kit when I was a kid. It was a series of 1" cube green plastic pieces. Four of the edges had puzzle-piece like connectors with embedded metal. Some of the pieces were double-long, to accomodate extra connections. On the face it had the symbol for the component inside. These were really cool, I built hundreds of things from the book, buzzers, lie detectors (galvanic response), light-controlled devices, etc. I can't remember the name, came with about 120 pieces. It was extremely easy to use and was fairly sturdy when assembled. If someone offered blocks in this style for digital electronics, I'd be first in line to buy!
If you have the opportunity to gain market share at virtually no cost, why would you turn it down?
Apple has repeatedly stated that they are breaking even/loosing money on iTunes and they can't have very high profit margins with the iPod. Why not make some cash on licensing fees?
As a side effect, Real's marketing might bring additional customers. If Real succeeds, they make money in licensing fees. If Real fails, Apple can pick up the customers left behind when they fall.
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~ 7.8 kW
I live in an appartment.
My outlets cant handle that much..
Just because they have a 30 second recharge time for a particular capacity, doesn't mean that *every* capacity battery will charge in that time. I somehow doubt that their first development batteries store 4400 mAh. Just judging by the size of the picture, their storage density would have to be more than twice that of existing laptop batteries. Think first, then post.
What happens when a company integrates this software with a huge source of photos taken in the real world. Add OCR and color matching to the picture, could be very interesting....
I wonder if this will advance facial and object recognition? Would be kind of cool to be able choose a picture of a person and see every other image they're in. Even better, thrown in object/character recognition, search for "When was I on State Street" (based on viewing street sign), or "show pictures of my car".
I predict that if this becomes popular, peer to peer networks will pop up which will allow me to register my friends so they can see any pictures that include them. Very neat!
I also predict there's gonna be a shortage of tinfoil hats and face masks in the near future....
If you're gonna build a deck today, check out some of the composite materials that are available. I saw someone building once, was surprised that they could cut it with a saw, pound nails through it, etc, but that it was mostly plastic. I found one online, but I'm sure there are many others.
With the rapid depletion of old wood, it should be reserved for high-end furniture, instruments, etc. This is a fantastic alternative for outside use!
*beep* Doctor Smith, this is the Lab, Mrs. Thompson's results came back positive for chlamydia.
I'd be more impressed with a belt-pack which communicated with a small earbud via bluetooth or similar.
Article also mentions paging for an anesthesiologist and getting the closest one. I wonder if they do that based on the AP, or if they have plans to add a GPS receiver. Considering the amount of interference in a hospital, I can't see GPS working.
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Possibly true, however a traceroute shows the traffic taking the exact same path through their network and out via the same gateway to their provider. While they could offer a different service, they don't.
I was a Cox business customer for the last several years, purchased this for their supposed better availability and better support.
Their support "engineers" are typical of many minimum-wage call centers, absolutely useless beyond resetting the modem and verifing TCP/IP settings. When I found that I switched from Cox Business to Cox Residential simply by switching from my assigned static IP to DHCP, I was rather annoyed. How can they guarantee greater uptime for their business network if it all runs over the same hardware? I'm now a Cox Residential customer (I dislike the company, but DSL is not available in my area) and strongly advise against the business service.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of people nearby:
The often-active volcano draws tourists by boat but most people do not go ashore on the uninhabited, rumbling island.
Since a timestamped shot is taken only once per hour, it would be easy to set this up without being caught.:
To keep a close watch, GNS installed a digital camera on the island and posts a shot taken every hour on its website (www.geonet.org.nz).
While PDFs are pretty well supported, you'll still be storing it as raster data, so there won't be any size decrease over using an image format, such as PNG.
Are there any web-based packages for searching documents, based on OCR-extracted keywords? Obviously with messy hand-written notes, formulas, etc, OCR won't work reliably. For a similar project, I'd like to OCR the files and use the text data solely for keyword searching. Obviously not perfect, but better than just images.
PNG is your friend....
I would have asked for the one port hub just to see what they would have sold you...
If anyone asked me for a one-port hub, I'd sell `em a piece of patch cable and whack `em for $50.
Hey, you never know.....
I wonder if the initial price will end up higher than this system was designed to determine.
From my understanding, people bid on it at any price point. When they decide to create X shares, the top bidders will receive those shares, but will pay the price point of the lowest bidder. If this is true, what's to stop me from bidding $500/share to guarantee I get to take part in the IPO? Since I won't have to pay this price, and I probably won't increase the per-share price significantly, an individual doing this could easily be guaranteed as many shares as they like. What happens when a large number of people realize this and it artificially increases the price?
Is there something to prevent this? Is this a desired action (maybe from Google's perspective)? Or am I just completely missing something here....?
Does this mean that the authors of the Book of Webmin now own the SCO documentation? Cool!
Is there a way to get these in the US, besides Ebay? Any Japanese companies that will buy them locally and ship them to you? Would this work on our data networks?
I wonder if such a product exists... something which sits between your phone line and the fax machine, if it sees a certain number, it kills the call.
You could probably cobble something together using an old PC and a modem. Write a script which picks up the modem for a second then hangs up. This may cause them to redial several times, costing them money. Of course, it will tie up your incoming line as well.
Dunno if this would be practical in your case, as caller id from a foreign country can show lots of weird stuff. As long as it's consistent and unique, could be a neat solution.
Call them under a pseudonym, tell them you want to place an order for group travel for your company, have them fax a quote to you. Chances are they will use their real fax machine (programmed with their real phone number) instead of the auto-dial bank. If you can scam them under the pretenses of faxing an order, that's even better. Have a local (or use cheap voip service) to spam them back a copy of their advertisement, marked up liberally with a black marker.
While it probably won't get you off the list, it will make you feel better.
How long until some tech leaks a copy of this whitelist... hello blocklist!
Simple, I keep all the project documentation in my head. Since I admin boxes, this includes passwords, configuration data, etc. They can't replace me without loosing the information, I never seem to find time to write it down, and if they assign me a follower I'll quit, and they know it.
My co-workers may disappear, but I'll be around until the day I die (or document).
I had a similar kit when I was a kid. It was a series of 1" cube green plastic pieces. Four of the edges had puzzle-piece like connectors with embedded metal. Some of the pieces were double-long, to accomodate extra connections. On the face it had the symbol for the component inside. These were really cool, I built hundreds of things from the book, buzzers, lie detectors (galvanic response), light-controlled devices, etc. I can't remember the name, came with about 120 pieces. It was extremely easy to use and was fairly sturdy when assembled. If someone offered blocks in this style for digital electronics, I'd be first in line to buy!
Foolish foolish foolish.
If you have the opportunity to gain market share at virtually no cost, why would you turn it down?
Apple has repeatedly stated that they are breaking even/loosing money on iTunes and they can't have very high profit margins with the iPod. Why not make some cash on licensing fees?
As a side effect, Real's marketing might bring additional customers. If Real succeeds, they make money in licensing fees. If Real fails, Apple can pick up the customers left behind when they fall.
30 sek
~ 7.8 kW I live in an appartment.
My outlets cant handle that much..
Just because they have a 30 second recharge time for a particular capacity, doesn't mean that *every* capacity battery will charge in that time. I somehow doubt that their first development batteries store 4400 mAh. Just judging by the size of the picture, their storage density would have to be more than twice that of existing laptop batteries. Think first, then post.
What happens when a company integrates this software with a huge source of photos taken in the real world. Add OCR and color matching to the picture, could be very interesting....
I wonder if this will advance facial and object recognition? Would be kind of cool to be able choose a picture of a person and see every other image they're in. Even better, thrown in object/character recognition, search for "When was I on State Street" (based on viewing street sign), or "show pictures of my car".
I predict that if this becomes popular, peer to peer networks will pop up which will allow me to register my friends so they can see any pictures that include them. Very neat!
I also predict there's gonna be a shortage of tinfoil hats and face masks in the near future....
Wow, this perfectly parallels today's Doonesbury strip. Couldn't fit better if they'd planned it.
Doesn't this just end up as a war of attrition, where the company who is most able to sustain gigantic losses comes out on top?
1990 called, they want their business plan back...
If you're gonna build a deck today, check out some of the composite materials that are available. I saw someone building once, was surprised that they could cut it with a saw, pound nails through it, etc, but that it was mostly plastic. I found one online, but I'm sure there are many others.
With the rapid depletion of old wood, it should be reserved for high-end furniture, instruments, etc. This is a fantastic alternative for outside use!
supposed to display over 10,000 pages on a single set of batteries.
Hell, I can display trillions of pages on my 486 laptop.... unfortunately they're only on the screen for a microsecond each...
I'd be more impressed with a belt-pack which communicated with a small earbud via bluetooth or similar.
Hmm... I think I just described the nextel network with a voice-recognition feature available on many high-end phones.
Oh great, I can just see this at the hospital
*beep* Doctor Smith, this is the Lab, Mrs. Thompson's results came back positive for chlamydia.
I'd be more impressed with a belt-pack which communicated with a small earbud via bluetooth or similar.
Article also mentions paging for an anesthesiologist and getting the closest one. I wonder if they do that based on the AP, or if they have plans to add a GPS receiver. Considering the amount of interference in a hospital, I can't see GPS working.
Hmm.... would that be the same as paying Verisign to be at the top of their lists and then waiting for Site Finder to come back?
A great set of photos (hopefully soon to be mirrored) is available here.