Let's compare net worth. On the one hand, we have a cyncical analyst claiming that eBay can't be sustained. On the other hand we have the founder and CEO of eBay.
Seems pretty damn sustainable to me.
I'm reminded of the Dilbert strip where he attends an economics class: "This diagram shows how it is that I have a mastery of economics, yet still dress like a flood victim."
C'mon. Read the terms of the contract, then choose if you want to sign it or not.
I like broadband, and in general I like the terms of cable modems more than I like the terms for DSL, but cable has built a billing model where they charge PER DEVICE connected. If you don't like it, then don't buy from them.
If people abuse the system to get something for nothing (specifically, placing more devices on the network than are paid for) then the MSO is going to design something like this to fight them. Disecting NAT falls into the same camp, BTW.
I happen to think their billing model is absurd, but it's their network and they can decide how to sell it.
Me Too!!1!
I have the cheapest card I could find in 2002 (TRENDnet TEW022 or somesuch) and I found that NetStumbler now supports it, reporting it as a simple NDIS 5.1
Makes me really glad I happened to check on netstumbler.net about 6 hours ago, BEFORE the front-page story here.
>For what
they discuss, OpenBSD handles this extremely well. We'll explain more in a week or so.
That's just because, as netcraft has confirmed, BSD is dying.
In a week or so, they won't HAVE to explain anything, since BSD will have died by that time.
The biblical lesson was to illustrate how Joseph received special insight into the dream from God, of course.
But, if you look at the story in another light, Joseph went on to become a very powerful advisor to the Pharoah.
Which would be very insightful, except it was Daniel, not Joseph who interpreted the dream. Joseph did go on to advise Pharoh though.
Shouldn't that be near hit? Near miss sounds like they hit. "Look those two planes nearly missed."
IIRC, that's a George Carlin bit. The next line should be "Yes, but not quite"
Which of these can I order with it?
- CD changer
- MP3 player
- iPod mount point
- cup holder
- GPS
- climate control (well, for head and shoulders...)
- ashtray
- demister
There was an outfit in CO a few years back which was making lead-acid dry (paste, not liquid) cells using a process which maximized the surface area of the lead.
They also had extremely low internal resistance, so could take a charge essentially as fast as you could put the coulombs in. Like these cells, the lead-acids also had very fast discharge ability.
It's been a few years since I was in touch with anyone there, so I don't know what's become of them. By and large, the most promising clients were big automakers and the military, since it's hard to break into the consumer markets -- it's hard to compete on price with NiMH.
My bad, I misread your original post.
The price tag is actually $99 on top of the $495 application, but it might still be reasonable for what I'm after
Thanks for the tip! Your sig is (unfortunately) a bit too appropriate for me, sorry 'bout that --
I have dBase, bought and paid for. I also have Access, and a number of other Open Source file readers. The issue isn't the file format (which is open and well documented)
What I want is to decrypt a password protected dbase file. I have a reader app, but it displays records one-at-a-time, and I'd like to run queries against the bulk data.
Not illegal, not copyright violation, just not within my area of expertise.
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I can't tell, since FunHi is currently FunSlashdotted, but do you have to buy something before leaving feedba^H^H^H^H^Hbuzz ratings for someone?
Oh, to be one of eBay's lawyers -- the real winners in all this. --
Slashdot looks EXACTLY the same as it did when it first started 6 years ago.
The same godawful color schemes, ugly nexted tables, awful HTML code, etc.
Maybe slashdot should take a cue from google and update themselves.
Not quite true. When I loaded this story page, it had an add for Google between the story and the comments.
Yet at the same time, daytime Long Distance cost over a dollar a minute from NY to California. Phones and telephone equipment had to be rented from the phone company
Well yeah, Nobel Prize-winning researchers don't come cheap.
Damn, do I ever feel old right now.
I understand pointer math. I know how to use (and indeed, have used) 4-dimentional arrays of complex data types, and I've written an infinite loop intentionally (the trick is to use an external event to change the otherwise-infinite boundry condition)
The fun one is taking a pointer to a one-character array, then when you know what size your objects are going to be, cast the pointer to a pointer of the correct size, then do pointer math on a big chunk of memory to build an array of the new objects. Once, this was considered "being a good programmer."
Now, if someone working with me tried any of this crap, I'd push them down a stairwell.
While Toyota's creations are coordinating on a brassy number, GM's robots are sitting in a circle like a group of Ralph Wiggums, playing rubber-band shoebox, wax-paper kazoo, and triangle.
As a fellow BOFH said in a.s.r once upon a (1997) time:
"I used to drink 6 cups of coffee in the morning and 6 in the afternoon.
This worried my cow orkers. Now I've cut down to 4.
Sigh. And what will you do with a browser and email when the power's out?
Back in the day, a guy in Denver ran a BBS on an Apple//c. He got a UPS for it, and advertised as "the only BBS you can call in the dark"
Pay with cycles?
on
Gates on Spam
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
Aren't most spams sent using hijacked PCs anyway? Why wouldn't the spammer be willing to sell cycles on the zombie PCs?
Re:Cha ching, reloaded.
on
Gates on Spam
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· Score: 5, Funny
Also, what is Gates holding in that picture? A joint?
Shhh... It's an
iPod mini
Slashdot Mirror
See, the disassembly guide is Free as in Beer
The reassembly guide is where they make their profit.
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Let's compare net worth. On the one hand, we have a cyncical analyst claiming that eBay can't be sustained.
On the other hand we have the founder and CEO of eBay.
Seems pretty damn sustainable to me.
I'm reminded of the Dilbert strip where he attends an economics class: "This diagram shows how it is that I have a mastery of economics, yet still dress like a flood victim."
--
C'mon. Read the terms of the contract, then choose if you want to sign it or not.
I like broadband, and in general I like the terms of cable modems more than I like the terms for DSL, but cable has built a billing model where they charge PER DEVICE connected. If you don't like it, then don't buy from them.
If people abuse the system to get something for nothing (specifically, placing more devices on the network than are paid for) then the MSO is going to design something like this to fight them. Disecting NAT falls into the same camp, BTW.
I happen to think their billing model is absurd, but it's their network and they can decide how to sell it.
--
Me Too!!1!
I have the cheapest card I could find in 2002 (TRENDnet TEW022 or somesuch) and I found that NetStumbler now supports it, reporting it as a simple NDIS 5.1
Makes me really glad I happened to check on netstumbler.net about 6 hours ago, BEFORE the front-page story here.
Time to send some donation $$ along.
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This is only going to catch the dummies, who most likely have already blown themselves up.
If at first you don't succeed, maybe bombmaking isn't for you.
I had always heard it as 'Skydiving' but it kinda works.
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>For what they discuss, OpenBSD handles this extremely well. We'll explain more in a week or so.
That's just because, as netcraft has confirmed, BSD is dying.
In a week or so, they won't HAVE to explain anything, since BSD will have died by that time.
I've seen that "Not A Toy" warning printed on the inside of trash bags before.
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The biblical lesson was to illustrate how Joseph received special insight into the dream from God, of course.
But, if you look at the story in another light, Joseph went on to become a very powerful advisor to the Pharoah.
Which would be very insightful, except it was Daniel, not Joseph who interpreted the dream. Joseph did go on to advise Pharoh though.
--
Shouldn't that be near hit? Near miss sounds like they hit. "Look those two planes nearly missed."
IIRC, that's a George Carlin bit. The next line should be "Yes, but not quite"
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- friggin' laser
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No, for HIGH speed, you've got to admire the notion of supercavitation, which lets you get torpedos to hypersonic speeds
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There was an outfit in CO a few years back which was making lead-acid dry (paste, not liquid) cells using a process which maximized the surface area of the lead.
They also had extremely low internal resistance, so could take a charge essentially as fast as you could put the coulombs in. Like these cells, the lead-acids also had very fast discharge ability.
It's been a few years since I was in touch with anyone there, so I don't know what's become of them.
By and large, the most promising clients were big automakers and the military, since it's hard to break into the consumer markets -- it's hard to compete on price with NiMH.
Excel as a screen saver
My bad, I misread your original post.
The price tag is actually $99 on top of the $495 application, but it might still be reasonable for what I'm after
Thanks for the tip! Your sig is (unfortunately) a bit too appropriate for me, sorry 'bout that
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I have dBase, bought and paid for. I also have Access, and a number of other Open Source file readers. The issue isn't the file format (which is open and well documented)
What I want is to decrypt a password protected dbase file. I have a reader app, but it displays records one-at-a-time, and I'd like to run queries against the bulk data.
Not illegal, not copyright violation, just not within my area of expertise.
--
I can't tell, since FunHi is currently FunSlashdotted, but do you have to buy something before leaving feedba^H^H^H^H^Hbuzz ratings for someone?
Oh, to be one of eBay's lawyers -- the real winners in all this.
--
Yet at the same time, daytime Long Distance cost over a dollar a minute from NY to California. Phones and telephone equipment had to be rented from the phone company
Well yeah, Nobel Prize-winning researchers don't come cheap.
Damn, do I ever feel old right now.
I understand pointer math. I know how to use (and indeed, have used) 4-dimentional arrays of complex data types, and I've written an infinite loop intentionally (the trick is to use an external event to change the otherwise-infinite boundry condition)
The fun one is taking a pointer to a one-character array, then when you know what size your objects are going to be, cast the pointer to a pointer of the correct size, then do pointer math on a big chunk of memory to build an array of the new objects.
Once, this was considered "being a good programmer."
Now, if someone working with me tried any of this crap, I'd push them down a stairwell.
While Toyota's creations are coordinating on a brassy number, GM's robots are sitting in a circle like a group of Ralph Wiggums, playing rubber-band shoebox, wax-paper kazoo, and triangle.
Needs more cowbell.
As a fellow BOFH said in a.s.r once upon a (1997) time:
"I used to drink 6 cups of coffee in the morning and 6 in the afternoon. This worried my cow orkers. Now I've cut down to 4.
Took me ages to find a cup that big".
Sigh. And what will you do with a browser and email when the power's out? //c. He got a UPS for it, and advertised as "the only BBS you can call in the dark"
Back in the day, a guy in Denver ran a BBS on an Apple
Aren't most spams sent using hijacked PCs anyway?
Why wouldn't the spammer be willing to sell cycles on the zombie PCs?
Also, what is Gates holding in that picture? A joint?
Shhh... It's an iPod mini