...such as they could be using AWStats which recently provided a possible attack vector. They could have any other unsecure scripts running (phpbb et al). If they are on a shared host that hasn't locked down the environment (according to reverse DNS there's 4 sites on their machine).
Or it may have been drupal, who knows.
From what I've seen Drupal is one of the better written PHP blog/cms/portals out there (John Lim, author of PHP ADODB also seems to think so, pointing out several things like how damn small it is compared to other packages that provide the same functionality).
two that leap to mind are microRNA-mediated viral immunity and gene regulation or epigenetic memory in plants
That's the problem, those titles are nowhere near as snappy as "Cure for cancer and AIDS around the corner". Now, if either of them involved Natalie Portman and hot grits, then they may make it to/.
...they did this to stop any bombs that had a mobile-based detonation method from going off. The upshot however has been to create more panic as people cannot get hold of friends and family. Managed to get through to my brother who's only a few hundred yards away from old-street station on an old fashioned landline.
...vandalism is mindless, any moron can do it, and all it does is tar everyone involved, however remotely, with the same brush.
What I do take offense to is one person taking it upon themselves to stir up trouble without first opening up a meaningful dialogue with indymedia, and the police for failing to act lawfully by respecting their journalistic status.
Also read about the Italian police who had a backdoor into an indymedia server for over a year, that kind of spying on your own people, who's only "crime" tends to be going against the "status quo", deserves to be relegated to a bygone era, unfortunatly, that's patently not the case.
...a previously expelled member, probably still angry over his treatment, decided to take it upon himself to decide what was morally acceptable and contacted the police, which did something that flies in the face of any society that wishes to deem itself ethical, moral and free. This smacks of a dictatorship who wishes to control the media with an iron fist (see Soviet era Russia, current day China (to an extent) and North Korea (on the extreme end of things, although the BBC only showing stirring nationalistic songs about Tony Blair might be amusing, for a while)).
...hosting costs have come down considerably, to where the hosting market is now very commoditised, there are so many one-man-band hosts who'll give you 100GB a month for something stupid like $6.99.
There's also the rise of ISP provided web-space, this used to be very uninteresting back in the day, but (for instance) my ISP now offers dynamic scripting, database driven sites and proper domain names (not http://users.myisp.com/~somereallyhardtorememberus ernamexyz12345).
It's also much cheaper to get a reliable managed service with decent redundant links than it used to be.
Back to the topic at hand though, I use AdBlock but don't block all ads. The only ad regexps that make it onto my blocklist are when I've come across something particularly obnoxious/crazy frog/flashing. I think that's fair, don't abuse the system by shoving flashing, noisy, annoying ads at me, and I'll not block you.
...something like an external sound card, usb/firewire/whatever? Also, my speakers are external to my computer, they are connected to a decent amp which takes output from my m-audio audiophile soundcard.
...prior art - even a borderline retarded patent examiner (unfortunately the norm from some granted patnets I've come across) will have heard about p2p.
...there's the oft touted quote from one of Apple's head architecture honchos that there wouldn't be anything stopping you from running windows on your x86 mac, plus, the dev kits are 100% pc compatible. To keep OSX from running on your beige dell they'll probably be using the TCA features of Intel's next-gen chips.
Yes they do actually, ever heard of the cygwin portability library/distribution.
Because of that I have all manner of unix/linux/bsd utilities that have been recompiled for windows. I can diff, patch, make,./configure, gcc, vi(m), emacs, bash, ksh, lynx, wget, scp, ssh and even use x.org to my hearts content. It's a good compromise when you have to stay on windows for one reason or another.
If you reach that point before the end of the product cycle, IMHO you've then over-charged
No it doesn't, first of all, if you were able to sell that software at that price (and made a profit) then you where charging what the market would sustain. If you didn't shift enough units, then you would have charged too little (or misjudged the need for the app in the first place). You also may have developed the software early and under-budget (hah) so whilst the perceived value of the product is still high, you get your initial investment back sooner.
At the end of the day, companies will be willing to pay big bucks for software for three very good reasons:
It would cost them more to implement themselves
No cheaper/free alternative, or cheaper/free alternative doesn't have all the required features
It will make them money over time
The last point is the most important, Dell used WebObjects to sell who knows how many million units before shifting to something else. WebObjects was probably the best tool for the job at the time, so some part of those sales can probably be attributed to it.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
You should look at the Pentium-M roadmap...
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Apple Switching to Intel
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· Score: 3, Interesting
...cause it's where Intel's headed. They've realised the folly of letting marketing dictate chip design (more megahurtz...joe luser demands it!) and have gone with the intelligent choice, check out wikipedia, especially the bit about Merom, does that timeframe look familiar?;o) So they'll be selling the commodity pieces as x86 machines first, then by 2007 will have a dual-core 64-bit part for their more hardcore machines.
AMD's processor business had another excellent quarter, posting record revenue and profit figures. Overall company revenue was $1.23 billion, slightly higher than the estimates of analysts polled by Thomson First Call. The processor business accounted for $750 million of that revenue in the company's first quarter, which ended on March 27.
So they're going to leave the field to intel when they have a 16.9% market share and have just posted record revenue and profit figures? I think not.
...that once Microsoft decided that it had the browser game all wrapped up it Disbanded the Internet Explorer team. This meant that a lot of long standing bugs are still present in the product, but hey, that really doesn't matter since 99% of people will still use it for years to come.
Now that Microsoft has seen that Firefox could take their proprietary lock-in away they are starting development again.
The thing is, Firefox does have memory leaks, but they are actively fixing them...can the same be said of Microsoft over the last 4 years with ie6? No, it can't, why should they spend money on fixing something that people use regardless.
...to make something photorealistic you need to create extreemly high-poly models, plus you need either humungous texture files or to write a dynamic shader. All that takes lots and lots of time.
The only thing that makes that office render not photorealistic is that a lot of the textures are too "perfect" for want of a better word. Look at the filing cabinet in the background, if this was a real office there would be lots of tiny dings and scratches. That kind of thing takes a lot of time to model.
Re:Apple Already Uses Intel-Intel Uses What Was Ap
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Apple to Use Intel Chips?
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100% of the gaming world will be using PowerPC or PowerPC deritives in the next year - year and a half -
You couldn't be more wrong. 100% of the next-gen console gaming world will be in the next year and a half, however, everyone who plays handhelds (nintendo ds, gameboy advance, sony psp etc) and all us PC gamers (of which there are considerable numbers) will still be using other chips besides PowerPC/CELL
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Seriously, the guy has the inverse midas touch, everything he putts his mitts on turns to crap.
Reminds me of a joke,
You're in a room with Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, James Cameron and have a gun with only two bullets. Who do you shoot?
A: Michael Bay, twice.
Freecycle them
that is all.
...seeing as the main drupal tarball is only ~450k.
...such as they could be using AWStats which recently provided a possible attack vector. They could have any other unsecure scripts running (phpbb et al). If they are on a shared host that hasn't locked down the environment (according to reverse DNS there's 4 sites on their machine).
Or it may have been drupal, who knows.
From what I've seen Drupal is one of the better written PHP blog/cms/portals out there (John Lim, author of PHP ADODB also seems to think so, pointing out several things like how damn small it is compared to other packages that provide the same functionality).
As always, YMMV.
They already have a massive online presence,
Which is sadly being scaled back as we speak. The cult section is being closed as it provides info that's available elsewhere online.
two that leap to mind are microRNA-mediated viral immunity and gene regulation or epigenetic memory in plants
That's the problem, those titles are nowhere near as snappy as "Cure for cancer and AIDS around the corner". Now, if either of them involved Natalie Portman and hot grits, then they may make it to /.
...they did this to stop any bombs that had a mobile-based detonation method from going off. The upshot however has been to create more panic as people cannot get hold of friends and family. Managed to get through to my brother who's only a few hundred yards away from old-street station on an old fashioned landline.
...that this is a vein [sic] attempt at proof of identity.
They must have been vein [sic] thinking their idea was this great.
Badump-crash
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress!
...vandalism is mindless, any moron can do it, and all it does is tar everyone involved, however remotely, with the same brush.
What I do take offense to is one person taking it upon themselves to stir up trouble without first opening up a meaningful dialogue with indymedia, and the police for failing to act lawfully by respecting their journalistic status.
Also read about the Italian police who had a backdoor into an indymedia server for over a year, that kind of spying on your own people, who's only "crime" tends to be going against the "status quo", deserves to be relegated to a bygone era, unfortunatly, that's patently not the case.
...a previously expelled member, probably still angry over his treatment, decided to take it upon himself to decide what was morally acceptable and contacted the police, which did something that flies in the face of any society that wishes to deem itself ethical, moral and free. This smacks of a dictatorship who wishes to control the media with an iron fist (see Soviet era Russia, current day China (to an extent) and North Korea (on the extreme end of things, although the BBC only showing stirring nationalistic songs about Tony Blair might be amusing, for a while)).
...until someone goatse trolls it and you "man ls" just as your boss walks in :o(
...hosting costs have come down considerably, to where the hosting market is now very commoditised, there are so many one-man-band hosts who'll give you 100GB a month for something stupid like $6.99. There's also the rise of ISP provided web-space, this used to be very uninteresting back in the day, but (for instance) my ISP now offers dynamic scripting, database driven sites and proper domain names (not http://users.myisp.com/~somereallyhardtorememberus ernamexyz12345).
It's also much cheaper to get a reliable managed service with decent redundant links than it used to be.
Back to the topic at hand though, I use AdBlock but don't block all ads. The only ad regexps that make it onto my blocklist are when I've come across something particularly obnoxious/crazy frog/flashing. I think that's fair, don't abuse the system by shoving flashing, noisy, annoying ads at me, and I'll not block you.
...something like an external sound card, usb/firewire/whatever? Also, my speakers are external to my computer, they are connected to a decent amp which takes output from my m-audio audiophile soundcard.
...what do you call a soundcard then, or a set of speakers attached to said soundcard?
...prior art - even a borderline retarded patent examiner (unfortunately the norm from some granted patnets I've come across) will have heard about p2p.
...there's the oft touted quote from one of Apple's head architecture honchos that there wouldn't be anything stopping you from running windows on your x86 mac, plus, the dev kits are 100% pc compatible. To keep OSX from running on your beige dell they'll probably be using the TCA features of Intel's next-gen chips.
Yes they do actually, ever heard of the cygwin portability library/distribution.
Because of that I have all manner of unix/linux/bsd utilities that have been recompiled for windows. I can diff, patch, make, ./configure, gcc, vi(m), emacs, bash, ksh, lynx, wget, scp, ssh and even use x.org to my hearts content. It's a good compromise when you have to stay on windows for one reason or another.
If you reach that point before the end of the product cycle, IMHO you've then over-charged
No it doesn't, first of all, if you were able to sell that software at that price (and made a profit) then you where charging what the market would sustain. If you didn't shift enough units, then you would have charged too little (or misjudged the need for the app in the first place). You also may have developed the software early and under-budget (hah) so whilst the perceived value of the product is still high, you get your initial investment back sooner.
At the end of the day, companies will be willing to pay big bucks for software for three very good reasons:
- It would cost them more to implement themselves
- No cheaper/free alternative, or cheaper/free alternative doesn't have all the required features
- It will make them money over time
The last point is the most important, Dell used WebObjects to sell who knows how many million units before shifting to something else. WebObjects was probably the best tool for the job at the time, so some part of those sales can probably be attributed to it.thinking:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
...cause it's where Intel's headed. They've realised the folly of letting marketing dictate chip design (more megahurtz...joe luser demands it!) and have gone with the intelligent choice, check out wikipedia, especially the bit about Merom, does that timeframe look familiar? ;o) So they'll be selling the commodity pieces as x86 machines first, then by 2007 will have a dual-core 64-bit part for their more hardcore machines.
Quoth the article:
AMD's processor business had another excellent quarter, posting record revenue and profit figures. Overall company revenue was $1.23 billion, slightly higher than the estimates of analysts polled by Thomson First Call. The processor business accounted for $750 million of that revenue in the company's first quarter, which ended on March 27.
So they're going to leave the field to intel when they have a 16.9% market share and have just posted record revenue and profit figures? I think not.
...that once Microsoft decided that it had the browser game all wrapped up it Disbanded the Internet Explorer team. This meant that a lot of long standing bugs are still present in the product, but hey, that really doesn't matter since 99% of people will still use it for years to come.
Now that Microsoft has seen that Firefox could take their proprietary lock-in away they are starting development again.
The thing is, Firefox does have memory leaks, but they are actively fixing them...can the same be said of Microsoft over the last 4 years with ie6? No, it can't, why should they spend money on fixing something that people use regardless.
...to make something photorealistic you need to create extreemly high-poly models, plus you need either humungous texture files or to write a dynamic shader. All that takes lots and lots of time.
The only thing that makes that office render not photorealistic is that a lot of the textures are too "perfect" for want of a better word. Look at the filing cabinet in the background, if this was a real office there would be lots of tiny dings and scratches. That kind of thing takes a lot of time to model.
...well made ;o)
100% of the gaming world will be using PowerPC or PowerPC deritives in the next year - year and a half -
You couldn't be more wrong. 100% of the next-gen console gaming world will be in the next year and a half, however, everyone who plays handhelds (nintendo ds, gameboy advance, sony psp etc) and all us PC gamers (of which there are considerable numbers) will still be using other chips besides PowerPC/CELL