Well according to this, ink costs about the same as Chanel No. 5 Eau Du Parfum, but when was the last time you tried to print porn with parfume or champagne?
Well I like your outlook, but that is almost 1/2 a billion (not trillion). You may be forgiven for this error, as computers most likely do your math for you. On the other hand, considering the US has $376B budgeted for military spending in 2003, this is less than 1/2 of one percent of the budget.
On the other hand, with the cost of a smart bomb of about $20K, this comes to something like 23.55K smart bombs that the govt isn't spending. The US dropped over 30000 smart-bombs in the first 12 days of this recent war, meaning the purchase of MS computers may cause about 11 days of relative peace...
... or it may cause a more aggressive nuclear plan because the smart bombs are not around...
Well according to this page, their email client is KMail, the increasingly popular Outlook -styled-email.
While I applaud their efforts, and I am sure I am nit-picking, wouldn't it be like a Eudora-styled-email-client, or at least an Outlook Express-styled-email-client? I mean Outlook is more like a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM), for better or worse...
Text based installer guides you through setting up your system
The article says "... we have added our installer". They make no mention that it is better or fancy eye candy. I don't want to knock. There is nothing wrong with text-based installers, but don't think that this is a fancy pretty installer.
"The record companies indicated right from the beginning that they were amenable to settling this case," said Howard Ende, a
Drinker Biddle, and Reath attorney representing Princeton sophomore Daniel Peng
I think I would be hesitant going to this attorney's office, though he is a college student
It hasn't been too nice for Open Source recently though has it?
It is interesting you say this, and I think this is to blame for a good amount of FUD on both sides.
First off, anyone thinking there will make an uncrackable system is both naïve and asking for someone to break into their system. No one will make an unbreakable system (and plugged in), it is just that harder systems will take longer to break.
In this same vein, the nature of a piece of software's security can not be measured only in security updates or patches. You are right, OSS has had cracks recently, but the fact that you know about them and that (most) of them are fixed is reassuring. I would venture to say that something that didn't have patches or updates was simply not worth hacking, or not maintained (i.e. MS has not sent out patches/security updates for Win3.1, but does that mean there are no more problems with it?)
On the other hand, This believe must be mitigated by the understanding that more vulnerabilites announced are also not necessarily a good thing, and may reflect in shoddy programming.
This is the double edged sword that we must cut ourselves with. The real "tell" (I believe) is the level of sophistication in (most of) the vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing, so I leave it up to others to tell me how bad they are. I guess it is a good thing I am not a sysadmin.
Have you *REALLY* read these ideas?
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THE SETUP LINE:
If you have a unique idea and are passionate about making it happen, you're in the right place.
Whether it's something you've been working on for a while, or an idea that hatched yesterday, we
want you to pitch it for your chance at $25,000.
...and some of the pitches...
In just over 6 months I will be getting married to the most wonderful woman in the world. We will
both be in our senior year of college at Seattle Pacific University. While we do have our financial
situation figured out. We have had to cut a number of corners and one of those corners will be our
honeymoon. With this money I would surprise my fiance with an incredible honeymoon that we could
both enjoy and appreciate because we know that we are not going broke because of it. I would also
give a large portion of the money to my brother to keep him attending a special school where they
specialize in teaching dyslexic people. He is such a great kid and so much fun but it breaks my
heart to see him struggling with his reading. My parent have been sending him to this school for a
couple of years now but they are coming to the point where they can't afford to send him there any
more. With the money left over I would buy my fiance a better car. She has had to put over a
thousand dollars into her car in the past four months just to keep it on the road and in this next
year we are not going to be able to afford the seemingly neverending repairs.
I have had to sit back and watch while my parents struggle to pay for bills regarding my fathers
bout with cancer and otherwise for many years now. I want to finally quit watching and do
something. I hope to win this money so I can help my parents pay off their bills. This has been
something that I want to do for them in return for everything that they have done for me.
If I had $25K to do whatever I wanted with, I would have to obviously give half of the money to my
parents. Obviously my parents deserve at least half for the support, financially, mentally, and
physically that they have giving me over the years. Then, I would have to save some money for
school, just a little, and with the money I have left, I would either travel back to my homeland, or
lift my Jeep even more. I figure having a huge jeep makes it original and makes me happy. I love
going off road and having too much money invested into my hobby. My hobby is what sets me apart from
everyone else. I love my jeep and it loves me back, now I'm not a psycho that thinks my car talks
back to me or anything, but it does! So pick me and you'll see the biggest Jeep in the northwest!
I am sure Microsoft is chomping at the bit to get these ideas. These people are dolts for not
patenting these gems. I am writing disclosures as we speak. Is "off roading" prior art?
Re:Anybody look at the site?
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You may also want to read the fine print. According to the "pitch button":
Accepted entries will be posted at ideasHappen.com, where users can view pitches and weigh in.
(NOTE: Users' opinions at this time are used only to determine our ongoing Top 10 List, and have no
bearing on the selection process.)
So if you search for some of the non "cure cancer", "help 'mental youths'" (what exactly is a mental
youth?), you get to the "Email, Inc", "Jazz Club", or my favorite "Slum Lord" (see this page for what are admittedly sucky
ideas).
No... I am sorry. I didn't read "install", I read "bootup". I suppose ther is a significant difference, huh? I meant it to be a real question, but asking real idiotic questions isn't much better than trolling.
It is funny that is got modded up to a 3 though, right?
A nice feature for authors of documentation (such as myself) is the ability to take
screenshots during the installation via SHIFT+PrntScrn. The images are placed in/root/anaconda-
screenshots/. Previously large hoops had to be jumped through to get screenshots of the installation
process.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a hole waiting for a compromiser? Does anyone know of if there a way to
turn this off?
So it is an article that for the most part says nothing
For the/. laziody, the synopsys is as follows:
Microsoft, while maybe not the most secure operating system in the world, is
trying, vis-a-vis the whole "trusted computer" thing
not really to blame for many of the egregious stuff as of late, as they have issued many security patches that would take care of problems. They are blaming lazy sysadmins for not updating machines.
But the real story is... what is with that picture? It consists of two guys looking at a screen. I can understand the difficulty of coming up with a picture that has anything to do with this article, but maybe you can leave a picture off this article instead of putting random images in the article
The caption of the picture says:
CJ Saretto, left, lead program manager with Microsoft, and Eugene Mesgar, program engineer with Microsoft, demonstrate Microsoft's Threedegrees software in Seattle, Wednesday, March 19, 2003. The software is geared for teenagers that has instant messaging, group chat rooms, shared music and photos.
It says its SoundVU technology distributes frequencies evenly across a room, producing what audio buffs call a universal "sweet spot".
Well thank goodness for this technology. I have been waiting for a product that will allow me to bother everyone in the room while playing video games.
This post is probably* more useful than the original links to CDM optics website. In fact, there is a link on there to some of their papers.
From some of their "interactive" pages, (namingly this page), it seems as if they are using the "waviness" (I am still unclear about this) to do some amount of tomography.
This is the same thing that goes on when you get put into one of those CAT scan things at the hospital (I believe CAT stands for computer assisted tomography). It takes a volume (3-D) and projects various 2-D images. From these 2D images, one can then reconstruct the 3-D volume if enough projections are taken. If this is the case however, the downside is losing a great amount of spatial frequencies in the "depth" direction. These projections may be taken with a diffraction grating like thing (sort of a wavey pattern). The images seen on the above page look similar to pre-processed computed tomography images that I have done in some of my classes.
Of course, I could be wrong here too. I didn't read the entire articles mentioned above.
*I say this not knowing what is on the CDM website (unavailable) and guessing because the university is bound to divulge more info than a company
I know this is really off topic, but it is on, if the topic is "reasonibly absurd science". In Nature last December, they decided to publish a short note about an Austrailian matehmatician's work on The Best Way To Lace Your Shoelaces
It I am not sure how this is article bestows very interesting or novel information. Granted, the article mentions the
wavelengths used are "visible", and "red". My guess is that they are emitting somewhere between 600
and 800 nm (typical visibly range is from 400 nm (purpleish) to 700 nm (red) however this is not a
strict cut off, and if bright enough, even above 830 nm is visiblish).
Most telecom takes place at about 1550 nm, well into the infrared, but this is primarily because
the typical fiber has nice properties in this range (absorption and dispersion). Therefore I am not
sure there is much fundamental difference between infrared light telecom and visible telecom.
Indeed they use very similar laser material (GaAs-based or InP-based diodes), are modulated the same
way, etc.
Possibly this is neat because it is free-space optical stuff. However this (as pointed
out previously) is not new. There are
companies that are inplaceaswespeek. Maybe
deregulation may be of interest, but if the light it kept at the same wavelength as in fiber, then
there is no need for an electronic klugey transceiver (detect the light in the fiber at 1550nm and
drive a laser to re-emit the same signal at 6xx nm). Instead, an add-drop filter could be slapped
on to the end, pick off the right wavelength, and feed that to a fiber which could be collimated as
the source. This collimated beam then could travel over kilometers with no trouble. An all optical
solution has a much
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Well according to this, ink costs about the same as Chanel No. 5 Eau Du Parfum, but when was the last time you tried to print porn with parfume or champagne?
Well I like your outlook, but that is almost 1/2 a billion (not trillion). You may be forgiven for this error, as computers most likely do your math for you. On the other hand, considering the US has $376B budgeted for military spending in 2003, this is less than 1/2 of one percent of the budget.
On the other hand, with the cost of a smart bomb of about $20K, this comes to something like 23.55K smart bombs that the govt isn't spending. The US dropped over 30000 smart-bombs in the first 12 days of this recent war, meaning the purchase of MS computers may cause about 11 days of relative peace...
... or it may cause a more aggressive nuclear plan because the smart bombs are not around...
Well according to this page, their email client is KMail, the increasingly popular Outlook -styled-email.
While I applaud their efforts, and I am sure I am nit-picking, wouldn't it be like a Eudora-styled-email-client, or at least an Outlook Express-styled-email-client? I mean Outlook is more like a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM), for better or worse...
Can you check under the bed... I left my wallet in El Segundo
I think I would be hesitant going to this attorney's office, though he is a college student
here is the boeing line of how interference causes "anomalous events" during flights.
I keep looking for the "I'm sure it is right but I can't follow the argument" choice in the mod drop-down box, but I can't weem to find it.
It is interesting you say this, and I think this is to blame for a good amount of FUD on both sides.
First off, anyone thinking there will make an uncrackable system is both naïve and asking for someone to break into their system. No one will make an unbreakable system (and plugged in), it is just that harder systems will take longer to break.
In this same vein, the nature of a piece of software's security can not be measured only in security updates or patches. You are right, OSS has had cracks recently, but the fact that you know about them and that (most) of them are fixed is reassuring. I would venture to say that something that didn't have patches or updates was simply not worth hacking, or not maintained (i.e. MS has not sent out patches/security updates for Win3.1, but does that mean there are no more problems with it?)
On the other hand, This believe must be mitigated by the understanding that more vulnerabilites announced are also not necessarily a good thing, and may reflect in shoddy programming.
This is the double edged sword that we must cut ourselves with. The real "tell" (I believe) is the level of sophistication in (most of) the vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing, so I leave it up to others to tell me how bad they are. I guess it is a good thing I am not a sysadmin.
...and some of the pitches...
I am sure Microsoft is chomping at the bit to get these ideas. These people are dolts for not patenting these gems. I am writing disclosures as we speak. Is "off roading" prior art?
According to the infoworld article and the computerworld article:
not staroffice, as theNo... I am sorry. I didn't read "install", I read "bootup". I suppose ther is a significant difference, huh? I meant it to be a real question, but asking real idiotic questions isn't much better than trolling.
It is funny that is got modded up to a 3 though, right?
Is it just me, or does this seem like a hole waiting for a compromiser? Does anyone know of if there a way to turn this off?
So it is an article that for the most part says nothing
For the /. laziody, the synopsys is as follows:
Microsoft, while maybe not the most secure operating system in the world, is
But the real story is... what is with that picture? It consists of two guys looking at a screen. I can understand the difficulty of coming up with a picture that has anything to do with this article, but maybe you can leave a picture off this article instead of putting random images in the article
The caption of the picture says:
I wish I had more to say on the subject
Well thank goodness for this technology. I have been waiting for a product that will allow me to bother everyone in the room while playing video games.
Article taken down as interest has petered off.
If you are still interested, the article is reproduced without high-resolution pictures here
is this one of those 5 line haikus?
This post is probably* more useful than the original links to CDM optics website. In fact, there is a link on there to some of their papers.
From some of their "interactive" pages, (namingly this page), it seems as if they are using the "waviness" (I am still unclear about this) to do some amount of tomography.
This is the same thing that goes on when you get put into one of those CAT scan things at the hospital (I believe CAT stands for computer assisted tomography). It takes a volume (3-D) and projects various 2-D images. From these 2D images, one can then reconstruct the 3-D volume if enough projections are taken. If this is the case however, the downside is losing a great amount of spatial frequencies in the "depth" direction. These projections may be taken with a diffraction grating like thing (sort of a wavey pattern). The images seen on the above page look similar to pre-processed computed tomography images that I have done in some of my classes.
Of course, I could be wrong here too. I didn't read the entire articles mentioned above.
*I say this not knowing what is on the CDM website (unavailable) and guessing because the university is bound to divulge more info than a companyI know this is really off topic, but it is on, if the topic is "reasonibly absurd science". In Nature last December, they decided to publish a short note about an Austrailian matehmatician's work on The Best Way To Lace Your Shoelaces
No joke.
His theoretical work laid the groundwork for students designing a pancake-tossing machine, which could one day become a feature in every home.
Someone's already in the process of beating you to the punch.
light in NZ very precious As it's all black
I am pretty sure this is funny, but I really don't know why
It I am not sure how this is article bestows very interesting or novel information. Granted, the article mentions the wavelengths used are "visible", and "red". My guess is that they are emitting somewhere between 600 and 800 nm (typical visibly range is from 400 nm (purpleish) to 700 nm (red) however this is not a strict cut off, and if bright enough, even above 830 nm is visiblish).
Most telecom takes place at about 1550 nm, well into the infrared, but this is primarily because the typical fiber has nice properties in this range (absorption and dispersion). Therefore I am not sure there is much fundamental difference between infrared light telecom and visible telecom. Indeed they use very similar laser material (GaAs-based or InP-based diodes), are modulated the same way, etc.
Possibly this is neat because it is free-space optical stuff. However this (as pointed out previously) is not new. There are companies that are in place as we speek. Maybe deregulation may be of interest, but if the light it kept at the same wavelength as in fiber, then there is no need for an electronic klugey transceiver (detect the light in the fiber at 1550nm and drive a laser to re-emit the same signal at 6xx nm). Instead, an add-drop filter could be slapped on to the end, pick off the right wavelength, and feed that to a fiber which could be collimated as the source. This collimated beam then could travel over kilometers with no trouble. An all optical solution has a much
just a thought