In the movie TRON, TRON was a program designed to crack security and free the computer from an overpowering OS that became self-aware and was plotting to take over everything. In the end TRON was victorious.
It's not hard to draw obvious parallels...
Hearing that M$ went out of the way to block TRON from being used on this side of the pond brought back found memories of said movie. Give that program one of those cool disks from the movie and see what happens...
With Netscape circling the drain for so long, it was just a matter of time. Netscape was too far gone to be salvageable anyway. Mozilla has been a much better browser, almost from go, than Netscape ever was, which is a little surprising since they were based on the same code base.
On a related topic, I have fiddled with Mozilla and Opera and compared them, and I think it's safe to say that Opera's claim of being the fastest browser out there is incorrect.
Now that AOL has made a deal with the devil, Netscape's demise went from anticipated to guaranteed. I hate to see Netscape go, as it was a viable alternative at one time and some people out there still prefer it.
As long as there are Department of Defense contracts, there will be some availability of jobs in the US. Programming that requires a security clearance to access the system on which the code will run, for example, won't be farmed out to India or Malaysia because of the security issue. In this, us IT guys can at least take some comfort.
From where I sit (commercial sector at the moment, working for a retailer), most of the work being exported is help desk and call center stuff. I do know of other places though that are exporting programming work to the far east.
What is my opinion? I think that the commercial sector will eventually bring some of the work back here, depending on how much greed appears abroad and how hungry the workforce gets here. Those in DoD do not need to be as concerned, regardless -- DoD spending is assured for at least a while.
While both the VHS and DVD will be priced for sale to consumers, the DVD includes several bonus features that should boost sales, such as a behind-the-scenes look at how the freeway chase scene was crafted and shot and the humorous parody of "The Matrix Reloaded" that was featured on the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
The extra content, in this case anyway, might well be worth the investment in the DVD. Any word on "Easter Eggs" on this one like there was in the original??
...a three-year-old with a box of crayons! And he'll even color directly on the walls, no paper needed! Maintenance is a little high, but rarely needs repair.;-)
I have a mobo with the CMedia chip on it and it does sound just fine. Previously I had a SB128 PCI, and the onboard does a better job than that old card did... That said, sure, you'll have better sound out of an Audigy card or the like, but then it's a question of whether or not you really have to have top-notch sound.
The problem is...
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...it's a single frequency sound, not music. That said, it still sounds better than that crap coming from the car next to you at the stoplight...
Didn't Voyager and Galileo take advantage of the solar wind to get way out there in a short time? How different a concept is using a "sail" to go if it's riding the same (or related) mechanism?
Saw a news clip a while back about I guy whose job it is to push performance cars to the point where they blow their engines. I watched him blow the hood off a Ferrari -- all that white smoke pouring out of the engine of this candy-apple red flashmobile was cool. And he did it by just crazy driving on a closed course.
Blowing things up? I think that runs a very close second to stressing sports cars by driving them to breakdown. Sure, the explosions are cool, but you can't drive a blender...
It is not uncommon to have multiple spinoffs from the main source tree. Each branch will have a different path to maturity in the lifecycle of development. All things being equal, each branch should acheive the same quality as all the others, but this isn't always the case.
I have seen open source programs that actually got worse over time as well, but that was due to being passed around like a hot potato as far as maintainer was concerned.
So we'll have poor contries with WiFi that exceeds that of more developed countries (and as noted by another here, no one will be able to afford to use it), meanwhile the more developed countries will be too busy funding the development elsewhere and their own WiFi will suffer. That way, everyone loses -- what a great idea.
Yeah, that's what AMD's press-release doesn't tell you... The new processor will generate enough heat to roast a turkey if left near the computer for more than 10-15 minutes...
It can be, if the gamers in question are always logged on as root instead of setting up a user account with normal user access...
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Your site looks like it is off to a good start. Considering that there are thousands upon thousands of titles, how do you add a title that is not in the database? Do you have an automated process, or are you stuck adding titles and authors by hand? If you are doing this via hand and you get, say, 100 submissions per month for a new title, you will be a busy bee (and very well might burn out before you really get going). If there is an automated process, how do you access it?
We have been streaming voice data over fiber-optic lines for a while now, and even digital data signals for networking. This sounds like fiber-optic transmission without the actual fiber-optic line! Very cool, indeed.
Perhaps this is the future of truly wireless computing?
One thing the article states is that the current range is about 11 km. This seems a little short. However, considering this is a line-of-sight type of thing, that does make sense. Give 'em time, and they'll get it down to hundres of miles with good reliability, and then I think we'd see a bit move towards it for WAN technology and business usage.
For years, we have heard of the coming possibility of chips embedded into our own skins, to allow easier identification, better retention of personal data, and all that jazz... I have not heard about such in a few months, but is this, perhaps, a first step towards that? Agreed, this goes *way* beyond a simple ID chip, but then again, we're talking dead insects, not live people...
So, now that the post office is not a government agency but is actually a privately held organization/business, how will the regulations for it change?
Other experts say that even if cloning were possible, the babies would likely be born with defects. Cloning research has produced many deformed and dead animals. The first mammal to be cloned -- in 1997 -- was a sheep named Dolly, who later developed arthritis at an abnormally young age.
If the clones are supposed to be exact replicas, why do the clones have defects? This suggests we're missing something...Perhaps they're not exact after all?
I guess we have all outgrown the days of C-Robots and CoreWars... *sigh* I know, I know, it was just real cheesy pseudo-animation, but for its day it was pretty cool.
The author states that it's for OpenBSD. Any clue if he plans to port it to other flavors of Unix, such as Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, IRIX, etc? This sounds like a useful honeypot tool, I would be curious to see how well it works in actual production (translation -- I'd like some stats).
Not too terribly long ago I read about some guy that is a patent lawyer that is going around patenting processes that the actual inventors have not bothered to file patents on, and then demanding license and royalty fees. eBay is one of his targets, and he patented their process of concluding auctions in the manner that eBay was doing. (Anybody got a link for that?) Now he's trying to extort from eBay, based on this after-the-fact patent.
If Amazon does not patent this idea, they're likely to have the same kind of crap done to them. No, I don't think they should have to patent their process like that, but if it keeps them from getting sued, they're being smart, not greedy.
Will they sue others using one-click purchasing? Dunno. That's a different issue.
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In the movie TRON, TRON was a program designed to crack security and free the computer from an overpowering OS that became self-aware and was plotting to take over everything. In the end TRON was victorious.
It's not hard to draw obvious parallels...
Hearing that M$ went out of the way to block TRON from being used on this side of the pond brought back found memories of said movie. Give that program one of those cool disks from the movie and see what happens...
With Netscape circling the drain for so long, it was just a matter of time. Netscape was too far gone to be salvageable anyway. Mozilla has been a much better browser, almost from go, than Netscape ever was, which is a little surprising since they were based on the same code base.
On a related topic, I have fiddled with Mozilla and Opera and compared them, and I think it's safe to say that Opera's claim of being the fastest browser out there is incorrect.
Now that AOL has made a deal with the devil, Netscape's demise went from anticipated to guaranteed. I hate to see Netscape go, as it was a viable alternative at one time and some people out there still prefer it.
As long as there are Department of Defense contracts, there will be some availability of jobs in the US. Programming that requires a security clearance to access the system on which the code will run, for example, won't be farmed out to India or Malaysia because of the security issue. In this, us IT guys can at least take some comfort.
From where I sit (commercial sector at the moment, working for a retailer), most of the work being exported is help desk and call center stuff. I do know of other places though that are exporting programming work to the far east.
What is my opinion? I think that the commercial sector will eventually bring some of the work back here, depending on how much greed appears abroad and how hungry the workforce gets here. Those in DoD do not need to be as concerned, regardless -- DoD spending is assured for at least a while.
From the article:
While both the VHS and DVD will be priced for sale to consumers, the DVD includes several bonus features that should boost sales, such as a behind-the-scenes look at how the freeway chase scene was crafted and shot and the humorous parody of "The Matrix Reloaded" that was featured on the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
The extra content, in this case anyway, might well be worth the investment in the DVD. Any word on "Easter Eggs" on this one like there was in the original??
How many of them do you suppose answered the ones for discount Viagra and penis enlargement? Oh, wait, nevermind...
...a three-year-old with a box of crayons! And he'll even color directly on the walls, no paper needed! Maintenance is a little high, but rarely needs repair. ;-)
I have a mobo with the CMedia chip on it and it does sound just fine. Previously I had a SB128 PCI, and the onboard does a better job than that old card did... That said, sure, you'll have better sound out of an Audigy card or the like, but then it's a question of whether or not you really have to have top-notch sound.
...it's a single frequency sound, not music. That said, it still sounds better than that crap coming from the car next to you at the stoplight...
Didn't Voyager and Galileo take advantage of the solar wind to get way out there in a short time? How different a concept is using a "sail" to go if it's riding the same (or related) mechanism?
Saw a news clip a while back about I guy whose job it is to push performance cars to the point where they blow their engines. I watched him blow the hood off a Ferrari -- all that white smoke pouring out of the engine of this candy-apple red flashmobile was cool. And he did it by just crazy driving on a closed course.
Blowing things up? I think that runs a very close second to stressing sports cars by driving them to breakdown. Sure, the explosions are cool, but you can't drive a blender...
It makes good sense, to a point.
It is not uncommon to have multiple spinoffs from the main source tree. Each branch will have a different path to maturity in the lifecycle of development. All things being equal, each branch should acheive the same quality as all the others, but this isn't always the case.
I have seen open source programs that actually got worse over time as well, but that was due to being passed around like a hot potato as far as maintainer was concerned.
So we'll have poor contries with WiFi that exceeds that of more developed countries (and as noted by another here, no one will be able to afford to use it), meanwhile the more developed countries will be too busy funding the development elsewhere and their own WiFi will suffer. That way, everyone loses -- what a great idea.
Yeah, that's what AMD's press-release doesn't tell you... The new processor will generate enough heat to roast a turkey if left near the computer for more than 10-15 minutes...
It can be, if the gamers in question are always logged on as root instead of setting up a user account with normal user access...
Your site looks like it is off to a good start. Considering that there are thousands upon thousands of titles, how do you add a title that is not in the database? Do you have an automated process, or are you stuck adding titles and authors by hand? If you are doing this via hand and you get, say, 100 submissions per month for a new title, you will be a busy bee (and very well might burn out before you really get going). If there is an automated process, how do you access it?
We have been streaming voice data over fiber-optic lines for a while now, and even digital data signals for networking. This sounds like fiber-optic transmission without the actual fiber-optic line! Very cool, indeed.
Perhaps this is the future of truly wireless computing?
One thing the article states is that the current range is about 11 km. This seems a little short. However, considering this is a line-of-sight type of thing, that does make sense. Give 'em time, and they'll get it down to hundres of miles with good reliability, and then I think we'd see a bit move towards it for WAN technology and business usage.
For years, we have heard of the coming possibility of chips embedded into our own skins, to allow easier identification, better retention of personal data, and all that jazz... I have not heard about such in a few months, but is this, perhaps, a first step towards that? Agreed, this goes *way* beyond a simple ID chip, but then again, we're talking dead insects, not live people...
No, it just means getting laid is 3rd highest on his priorities list. ;-)
Shall we assume you meant second to none? If you really meant "next to none" then it's a wonder anyone uses it at all!
So, now that the post office is not a government agency but is actually a privately held organization/business, how will the regulations for it change?
Now if they could just get Bernard Shifman to show up...
As per the article:
Other experts say that even if cloning were possible, the babies would likely be born with defects. Cloning research has produced many deformed and dead animals. The first mammal to be cloned -- in 1997 -- was a sheep named Dolly, who later developed arthritis at an abnormally young age.
If the clones are supposed to be exact replicas, why do the clones have defects? This suggests we're missing something...Perhaps they're not exact after all?
I guess we have all outgrown the days of C-Robots and CoreWars... *sigh* I know, I know, it was just real cheesy pseudo-animation, but for its day it was pretty cool.
The author states that it's for OpenBSD. Any clue if he plans to port it to other flavors of Unix, such as Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, IRIX, etc? This sounds like a useful honeypot tool, I would be curious to see how well it works in actual production (translation -- I'd like some stats).
Amazon is playing smart, I think.
Not too terribly long ago I read about some guy that is a patent lawyer that is going around patenting processes that the actual inventors have not bothered to file patents on, and then demanding license and royalty fees. eBay is one of his targets, and he patented their process of concluding auctions in the manner that eBay was doing. (Anybody got a link for that?) Now he's trying to extort from eBay, based on this after-the-fact patent.
If Amazon does not patent this idea, they're likely to have the same kind of crap done to them. No, I don't think they should have to patent their process like that, but if it keeps them from getting sued, they're being smart, not greedy.
Will they sue others using one-click purchasing? Dunno. That's a different issue.