500,000 Libraries of Congress, huh? I've always had several problems (SI questions aside) with this unit of measurement. The Library of Congress is constantly expanding & adding new material. What year Library of Congress do they mean? I imagine they aren't working w/ up to the minute data and that the libary is expanding much faster now. Not to mention the fact that everyone always makes exabytes ~2.4% smaller than they really are (and with numbers this big, it actually makes a difference!)... So call me the new number nazi troll already and get it over with...
Yahoo! Maps suck. They remain completely (and perhaps blissfully) unaware of the existance of the Hutchinson River Parkway, a relatively important North-South highway for those in the Bronx/Westchester/Long Island area. For those not in the know, the Hutch (as it's called) leads to the Whitestone Bridge, one of the 3 major crossings from the Bronx to Long Island. This lack causes all manner of directions to indicate the Throggs Neck Bridge or the Triboro Bridge, both of which end up 10-20 miles away (and it's a very slow, highly trafficked and under permanent construction 10-20 miles -- At least 30 minutes extra travel time). Going from the Bronx to Mount Vernon (Westchester), it went so far as to steer me through all manner of back roads & alleys as I passed (to my shock) multiple exits from the Hutch. It is this lack that convinced me to never trust Yahoo! Maps again. Even stranger, this bug existed even when Yahoo! was powered by Mapquest....
I understand that HTML is useful for SP4M to be ExC1tInG!!, but HTML (especially tables) can be an excellent resource to indicate tone of voice, to save time, and to add a little variety to something that's a generally unpleasant experience for most people.
Guys, how hard did you have to look to find an article without pictures?! I remember reading the original stories on/. and wanting to see pictures then too! I mean, how odd is it that an article about display technology doesn't have pictures? Wasn't that everyone's first thought? I wanna see if it's any good so that I can buy one. It's like buying a guitar without ever hearing what it sounds like. Or, like buying a CD without ever hearing the band... Ummm. Never mind that last, but you understand.
Blockquoteth the poster (while recalling the entire thread):
...However, I'd have to manually manipulate the window sizes in order to make the most of that space.
...and with two easy clicks, I now have both my apps each making maximum use of my viewing space, without having to carefully drag window borders around manually.
I can do it in ONE click (and am filing for a patent... FUCK AMAZON!) in the lowly Windows 98 and higher! Right-click the taskbar and choose Tile Windows Horizontically or Vertically. Either way, no resizing windows.
...This may sound like a small thing, but the few seconds you waste clicking on window borders and resizing quickly becomes an irritating and unnecessary annoyance.
Takes me about a fraction of a second. It even has a hotkey Tile Windows &Horizontally (although it's weird that it's V&ertically and took me longer to remember and V does nothing). And I'm using Windows, not Linux. How long does it take in Linux? =0)
Something I've always found strange is that laptop carrying cases don't ever seem to advertise how well they PROTECT the laptop
Laptop cases CANNOT protect a laptop at all. Most of the pieces that can be damaged are inside the laptop. Weakly connected pieces, the hard drive's read/write head, the precision laser for your DVD/CD ROM drive, the keys on the keyboard, the LCD screen, etc. are all INSIDE your laptop when it falls. A case will not stop the jarring impact after the fall, though it might keep the exterior spiffy...
Yes. Because this only represents one industry at a time, it is called the business cycle. Every industry has five stages of growth. Initially, most new industries grow quickly and lots of new companies jump in. In a new industry, there is the highest demand for your product. Front runners will not have resources to meet this demand yet so more and more competitors will dive into the industry, lowering profit margins for all. These falling profit margins will lead to a shakeout, the period of time when competition is beginning to heat up. Weak companies will fail; an oligarchy of powerful companies will begin to form as the industry enters maturity. Now, most people who want your product own it already; new features must be added rapidly. Competition enters its fiercest phase as companies must Adapt or Die(TM). Now marketing plays a huge roles as more and more promotional techniques are needed to continuously improve the product refining it into what will become its final form. Now even some of the strong companies will begin to collapse as demand for the product is either entirely met or shifted towards substitute or alternative products. Finally, the last company will fall.
Note that at any time this cycle can begin again if a new feature or new development changes the role of the product in society.
YOUR pet theory?!?! It's called the business cycle, and every undergrad business student in the country hears about it their first semester! It's shape is an upside-down parabola with the first y intercept=first x intercept, with x measuring time and y measuring revenue, profit, or unemployment in its simplist form.
Why is everyone worrying about unemployment when talking about the economy? Unemployment figures are not the key to understanding true unemployment. True unemployment may be defined as the number of jobs permanently lost in the economy. For example, the horse and buggy industry's lost unemployment would NOT be included in true unemployment because those jobs will never reappear in the horse and buggy industry but the auto industry sure employs way more than the horse and buggy guys ever could. Jobs out-sourced to India are included in true unemployment because that work has been done already and does not need repeating.
The easiest way to estimate true unemployment is by taking the ratio GDP/GNP. Remember that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is only the value of the goods/services produced within the borders of the country; GNP (Gross National Product) is the value of all goods/services produced by companies who claim the nationality of the country. Happy economics lesson everyone! BTW, soloport, how can you possibly run a business without knowing this?
In great Slashdot tradition, I have the article open in another Mozilla tab and holy shit! I've never seen a picture of The Holy One before and my god he looks like David Hasselhoff (after he'd had his face flattened by a bad Photoshop session). No wonder he's having so much trouble talking to others about Linux! What he needs is a really good looking spokesman... I'd suggest Sean Connery. What a Trekster (Trekkie?) dream come true. Open Source + Captain Picard = Mindshare people!
At 1,000,000 tags per second, how long would it take to manufacture 2^96 tags? 7,922,162,514,264,337,593,543 seconds. That's 2,512,308,552,583,217 years.
No one said we needed them all at once, did they?
I'm also fairly sure that they won't just start at 0 (or would it be 1?) and ID++ forever... They'll probably skip the first few million to get at least a 10 digit number. So, that reduces your total to 2,512,308,551,583,217 years (79,228,162,482,728,331,312e4 seconds), which makes a big difference somehow, I guess...
If you had to authenticate accounts, that would verify their existance. Verifying their existance means that all I need is a password cracker and all your bases belong to us.
IANAProgrammer, but my idea about the spam situation is relatively simple. Scan the text of all incoming mail and compare them. If more than $x ppl are receiving mail that is similar to within $y characters, block that e-mail. You'd probably want to mess with some numbers to come up with optimal values of $x and $y. This would definately increase delivery time though...
So, combine it with a whitelist of trusted senders. This trusted senders list could be implemented by using the receiver's address book and list of most recent received (int z;) messages from unique senders.
Now, the big problem is still false positives on valid e-mails. But, there should not be many of these, simply because of the first comparison check.
It is my understanding that IMAP(?) implements server-side mailboxes, so I believe this idea is possible.
I work at a medium-sized real estate firm in New York. Our secretary and our receptionist are both computer-incompetant; the comptroller has difficulty with spreadsheets in Excel; and there is one Unix box sitting alone in the corner of what I like to call the Miracle of Legacy Technology Room. This room contains a typewriter, an old green-and-white continuous-feed printer about 4 feet tall, and a Unix computer bought sometime in the 1980s. All of our legacy database information is in one program that we are terrified of losing. There are really bad methods of exporting it to Excel, all of which involve combined columns, lost rows, and ALL TEXT BEING LIKE%THIS!ocASionally. We have no way of fixing this behavior. We are afraid to update the OS for fear of losing this valuable software in the New York City rent-controlled/stabilized environment. Afraid of someone installing Linux? Not in this group of techno-morons.
I went through all 6 pages of results and found nothing. Ditto for searches on any of the terms individually. I imagine that searches on individual sites might be what the author is actually talking about, but have no independant means of verifying this. This FUD detected by Entropy248. Wow. I just RTFA and tried it at home...
Titanium is in Group 4. Oxygen in Group 16. Presuming that they can in fact make nanotubes, my electron addition (from CHEM 101) tells me that there's no place for any of oxygen's valence electrons.
P.S. I'm a pre-law student. Should I stick to law based on my chemistry?
Let's pretend that everyone has an equal chance of being born on any given day of the year (366). There are 99999 possible ZIP codes, and not all of them are used. You are either M or F (trans-gender issues aside). 366*2*99999 = 73,199,268. Why is this news exactly? Who couldn't figure this out before now?
Blockquoteth the lawyers: Our interest in technology explains why so many of us are frequent Slashdot readers, and why working at CCIPS sparked our interest in the first place.
At least our side of the debate is being heard...
[insert obligatory/. reader joke here]
This agreement says nothing new at all. Why the fuck doesn't anyone here realize that? Since you still can't sue over security holes, why else would you be sued for using MS products? The only reason that I can see is that they'll protect you if someone sues you for not using Linux, for example, the US Government. Many people have talked of suing governments for not using Open Source s/w because it's free as in speech, and everything the government has should be free (beer & speech). This is definately way oversimplified, but you get the idea...
The new versions contain several features designed to foil scanning attempts. PeerGuardian attempts to catalog a range of IP addresses used by or suspected to be used by labels, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and other agencies. The database is built by contributions of individual users, although the methodology used to determine and verify the IP addresses is unclear.
Stop trying to flood my P2P network... Now we have blacklisting and whitelisting (through Sig2DAT). Though both of these methods together would seem to defeat P2P "spammers", the easiest way for them to get around this might be to spam the whitelist. The next move in the P2P wars remains uncertain.
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500,000 Libraries of Congress, huh? I've always had several problems (SI questions aside) with this unit of measurement. The Library of Congress is constantly expanding & adding new material. What year Library of Congress do they mean? I imagine they aren't working w/ up to the minute data and that the libary is expanding much faster now. Not to mention the fact that everyone always makes exabytes ~2.4% smaller than they really are (and with numbers this big, it actually makes a difference!)... So call me the new number nazi troll already and get it over with...
Yahoo! Maps suck. They remain completely (and perhaps blissfully) unaware of the existance of the Hutchinson River Parkway, a relatively important North-South highway for those in the Bronx/Westchester/Long Island area. For those not in the know, the Hutch (as it's called) leads to the Whitestone Bridge, one of the 3 major crossings from the Bronx to Long Island. This lack causes all manner of directions to indicate the Throggs Neck Bridge or the Triboro Bridge, both of which end up 10-20 miles away (and it's a very slow, highly trafficked and under permanent construction 10-20 miles -- At least 30 minutes extra travel time). Going from the Bronx to Mount Vernon (Westchester), it went so far as to steer me through all manner of back roads & alleys as I passed (to my shock) multiple exits from the Hutch. It is this lack that convinced me to never trust Yahoo! Maps again. Even stranger, this bug existed even when Yahoo! was powered by Mapquest....
Why is parent Insightful?
I understand that HTML is useful for S P 4M to be ExC1tInG!!, but HTML (especially tables) can be an excellent resource to indicate tone of voice, to save time, and to add a little variety to something that's a generally unpleasant experience for most people.
FUCK! Sorry, I forgot my link to an article with a picture.
Guys, how hard did you have to look to find an article without pictures?! I remember reading the original stories on /. and wanting to see pictures then too! I mean, how odd is it that an article about display technology doesn't have pictures? Wasn't that everyone's first thought? I wanna see if it's any good so that I can buy one. It's like buying a guitar without ever hearing what it sounds like. Or, like buying a CD without ever hearing the band... Ummm. Never mind that last, but you understand.
I can do it in ONE click (and am filing for a patent... FUCK AMAZON!) in the lowly Windows 98 and higher! Right-click the taskbar and choose Tile Windows Horizontically or Vertically. Either way, no resizing windows.
Takes me about a fraction of a second. It even has a hotkey Tile Windows &Horizontally (although it's weird that it's V&ertically and took me longer to remember and V does nothing). And I'm using Windows, not Linux. How long does it take in Linux? =0)
Something I've always found strange is that laptop carrying cases don't ever seem to advertise how well they PROTECT the laptop
Laptop cases CANNOT protect a laptop at all. Most of the pieces that can be damaged are inside the laptop. Weakly connected pieces, the hard drive's read/write head, the precision laser for your DVD/CD ROM drive, the keys on the keyboard, the LCD screen, etc. are all INSIDE your laptop when it falls. A case will not stop the jarring impact after the fall, though it might keep the exterior spiffy...
Yes. Because this only represents one industry at a time, it is called the business cycle. Every industry has five stages of growth. Initially, most new industries grow quickly and lots of new companies jump in. In a new industry, there is the highest demand for your product. Front runners will not have resources to meet this demand yet so more and more competitors will dive into the industry, lowering profit margins for all. These falling profit margins will lead to a shakeout, the period of time when competition is beginning to heat up. Weak companies will fail; an oligarchy of powerful companies will begin to form as the industry enters maturity. Now, most people who want your product own it already; new features must be added rapidly. Competition enters its fiercest phase as companies must Adapt or Die(TM). Now marketing plays a huge roles as more and more promotional techniques are needed to continuously improve the product refining it into what will become its final form. Now even some of the strong companies will begin to collapse as demand for the product is either entirely met or shifted towards substitute or alternative products. Finally, the last company will fall. Note that at any time this cycle can begin again if a new feature or new development changes the role of the product in society.
YOUR pet theory?!?! It's called the business cycle, and every undergrad business student in the country hears about it their first semester! It's shape is an upside-down parabola with the first y intercept=first x intercept, with x measuring time and y measuring revenue, profit, or unemployment in its simplist form.
Why is everyone worrying about unemployment when talking about the economy? Unemployment figures are not the key to understanding true unemployment. True unemployment may be defined as the number of jobs permanently lost in the economy. For example, the horse and buggy industry's lost unemployment would NOT be included in true unemployment because those jobs will never reappear in the horse and buggy industry but the auto industry sure employs way more than the horse and buggy guys ever could. Jobs out-sourced to India are included in true unemployment because that work has been done already and does not need repeating.
The easiest way to estimate true unemployment is by taking the ratio GDP/GNP. Remember that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is only the value of the goods/services produced within the borders of the country; GNP (Gross National Product) is the value of all goods/services produced by companies who claim the nationality of the country. Happy economics lesson everyone! BTW, soloport, how can you possibly run a business without knowing this?
In great Slashdot tradition, I have the article open in another Mozilla tab and holy shit! I've never seen a picture of The Holy One before and my god he looks like David Hasselhoff (after he'd had his face flattened by a bad Photoshop session). No wonder he's having so much trouble talking to others about Linux! What he needs is a really good looking spokesman... I'd suggest Sean Connery. What a Trekster (Trekkie?) dream come true. Open Source + Captain Picard = Mindshare people!
At 1,000,000 tags per second, how long would it take to manufacture 2^96 tags? 7,922,162,514,264,337,593,543 seconds. That's 2,512,308,552,583,217 years.
No one said we needed them all at once, did they?
I'm also fairly sure that they won't just start at 0 (or would it be 1?) and ID++ forever... They'll probably skip the first few million to get at least a 10 digit number. So, that reduces your total to 2,512,308,551,583,217 years (79,228,162,482,728,331,312e4 seconds), which makes a big difference somehow, I guess...
This technique does not, however, protect your servers from a severe /.ing! 30 comments and already down... Woo hoo! Way to go guys!
If you had to authenticate accounts, that would verify their existance. Verifying their existance means that all I need is a password cracker and all your bases belong to us.
That's why I suggested a whitelist too. Read the entire comment before replying, please.
IANAProgrammer, but my idea about the spam situation is relatively simple. Scan the text of all incoming mail and compare them. If more than $x ppl are receiving mail that is similar to within $y characters, block that e-mail. You'd probably want to mess with some numbers to come up with optimal values of $x and $y. This would definately increase delivery time though...
So, combine it with a whitelist of trusted senders. This trusted senders list could be implemented by using the receiver's address book and list of most recent received (int z;) messages from unique senders.
Now, the big problem is still false positives on valid e-mails. But, there should not be many of these, simply because of the first comparison check.
It is my understanding that IMAP(?) implements server-side mailboxes, so I believe this idea is possible.
I work at a medium-sized real estate firm in New York. Our secretary and our receptionist are both computer-incompetant; the comptroller has difficulty with spreadsheets in Excel; and there is one Unix box sitting alone in the corner of what I like to call the Miracle of Legacy Technology Room. This room contains a typewriter, an old green-and-white continuous-feed printer about 4 feet tall, and a Unix computer bought sometime in the 1980s. All of our legacy database information is in one program that we are terrified of losing. There are really bad methods of exporting it to Excel, all of which involve combined columns, lost rows, and ALL TEXT BEING LIKE%THIS!ocASionally. We have no way of fixing this behavior. We are afraid to update the OS for fear of losing this valuable software in the New York City rent-controlled/stabilized environment. Afraid of someone installing Linux? Not in this group of techno-morons.
I don't think so.
I went through all 6 pages of results and found nothing. Ditto for searches on any of the terms individually. I imagine that searches on individual sites might be what the author is actually talking about, but have no independant means of verifying this. This FUD detected by Entropy248. Wow. I just RTFA and tried it at home...
Titanium is in Group 4. Oxygen in Group 16. Presuming that they can in fact make nanotubes, my electron addition (from CHEM 101) tells me that there's no place for any of oxygen's valence electrons.
P.S. I'm a pre-law student. Should I stick to law based on my chemistry?
Did anyone else read the book based on Douglas Adams' computer game, Titania? More importantly, did anyone else immediately think of that?
Following the advice of a previous article...
Let's pretend that everyone has an equal chance of being born on any given day of the year (366). There are 99999 possible ZIP codes, and not all of them are used. You are either M or F (trans-gender issues aside). 366*2*99999 = 73,199,268. Why is this news exactly? Who couldn't figure this out before now?
Blockquoteth the lawyers:
/. reader joke here]
Our interest in technology explains why so many of us are frequent Slashdot readers, and why working at CCIPS sparked our interest in the first place.
At least our side of the debate is being heard...
[insert obligatory
This agreement says nothing new at all. Why the fuck doesn't anyone here realize that? Since you still can't sue over security holes, why else would you be sued for using MS products? The only reason that I can see is that they'll protect you if someone sues you for not using Linux, for example, the US Government. Many people have talked of suing governments for not using Open Source s/w because it's free as in speech, and everything the government has should be free (beer & speech). This is definately way oversimplified, but you get the idea...
No, it's more of a let's see if we can fuck with alternatives to Windows move. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
No, because MS doesn't make P2P software. Sean Fanning does.
The new versions contain several features designed to foil scanning attempts. PeerGuardian attempts to catalog a range of IP addresses used by or suspected to be used by labels, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and other agencies. The database is built by contributions of individual users, although the methodology used to determine and verify the IP addresses is unclear.
Stop trying to flood my P2P network...
Now we have blacklisting and whitelisting (through Sig2DAT). Though both of these methods together would seem to defeat P2P "spammers", the easiest way for them to get around this might be to spam the whitelist. The next move in the P2P wars remains uncertain.