I'm surprised that no one mentioned this: it is well understood in the security community that companies usually pay off instead of letting the news out.
my theory is, Western Union and others have probably have payed off numerous times before and finally realized that they can't pay crackers to buy silence anymore.
security measure? How about maxing out your credit card:))
Otherwise, Microsoft can sue fvwm95, gnome, kde for "look and feel" imitation. NeXT could have sued Windowmaker and Afterstep. That's one step back in technology.
So the guy stole the interface, so what? the important thing is the EXECUTION.
Look, a standard is a stanard. No one should pay for implementing a standard. Apple does not have a dominating market share; so why should intel be dumb enough to let Apple lead thier way?
Why would all intel users in the world pay loyalty to Apple? Is USB really a huge "technology breakthrough" that deserves this much credit?
By not charging money for USB, Apple can encourage more USB product on the market. In the long run, that's what Apple really wants.
As a paying user of SuSE for more than two years, I'm very disapointed about this news. I'm sure none of the experienced SuSE users want to buy the "Home user" version. In that aspect, the price hike is unacceptable. Sure. I have a dual oc-3 backbone that I never have to worry about download time, but I am not willing to USE and hence PROMOTE SuSE under this "Power user scam."
...Especially after dealing with so many problems including wordperfect, real audio, acrobat reader, netscape's strange behavior and random crashes. These all appear on the SuSE boxes regardless of our effort to download the latest software. The redhat boxes have no such problems.
... The king is dead; long live the king.
Some more serious problem with SuSE.
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In a recent project, me and four other linux programmers tried to install XFree4.0 from Suse's instruction - it doesn't work. Even from a fresh install, it doesn't work. (At least it doesn't work when we follow thier instruction. I didn't bother to try more and simply bought the new video card.)
On another note. SuSE seems to have "chronical" problem in some unknown lib. This is why we can't get netscape to display color at www.fileangel.org on a SuSE machine. Wierd thing is, the new Netscape even displays Flash without a problem.
I have run SuSE since 5.2, transfered from the stuborn libc5 Slackware. There are quite a few other problems:
- Acrobat reader (from thier distro) never works. I have never bothered to try compile it but some told me they don't even compile on a SuSE. - Wordperfect never works. Period. So many people got disasterous result for trying to fix it. - RealAudio also never works.
For the above reasons, I can't recommand SuSE to a Windows newbie. (How will they live without Acrobat, realaudio, wordperfect...) I still use SuSE because of all the other wonderful things it has: the clear configuration. The huge selection. The excellent manual. Most of all, every GUI configured file is seperated from hand-configurable files and they are clearly marked. Good job. (So please, you guys, fix this. I paid for every install.)
Another complain: On the box set, I expect a bootable live filesystem "rescue" CD. They do not include it anymore and state that we can purchase these CDs from thier site. Well, they never even mention it on the web site.
Server busy or unable to fulfill request. The server is unable to fulfill your request due to extremely high traffic or an unexpected internal error. Please attempt your request again (if you are repeatedly unsuccessful you should notify the site administrator). (Location Code: 25)
1. Search do not always return things you want. When I searched for french legend Edith Piaf's song, one of the songs that I downloaded was actually Jeff Buckley's live cover of her song. Which is why I started to listen to Jeff Buckley's.
2. It's true the lawsuit does not prevent him from publishing his songs on his web site. But the lawsuit also do not prevent him from going door-to-door selling his music. The musician will try every channel to sell. Napter happens to be one of them.
Napster will NEVER set enough kill filters. It's too easy to break.
But I suspect that users will simply switch to another more distributed mp3 network. Just like the earlier poster's analysis, Napster is unlikely to come out alive.
Variable Bitrate decoding is most important for high quality music. Judging from the "gangster rap/script kiddie" style review, I would imagine that these guys don't know what it means.
Any review based on "How thin the plaster is" will not be respected.
I have studied on WAP at work for a month. Here's what I find:
Dispise the fact that WAP protocol has a lot of problems others listed, telco have no time to wait to push the products into the market. It's the next piece of pie to fight for.
A WAP phone is not used like your netscape on a PC. But it is useful for circumstances where you don't have a PC or a palm with you. For instance, if you have a WAP enabled wrist watch, you can set it to alert you when something important happens. The one I'm working on is the fileangel project at www.fileangel.org which will let you choose to be contacted when something happens to your file via a WAP device. Another example is that you can set up your program to call you on your WAP phone when your stock price is at a certain level and prompt you to buy/sell. It can prompt you to read an email when a certain important email is recieved. These things are related to real-time communication applications. I feel that it is quite useful.
As of whether WAP is a temporary technology, it depends. Sure, displays are getting better, CPUs are getting smaller and less power consuming, but things are shrinking at the same rate. For example, maybe one day we will be able to carry a watch, or a pen, which acts as a phone, pager, emailer, voice recognizer, digital camera, scanner, GPS and mp3 player ALL at once.
Or maybe one day we will stick this wearable screen on top of one eye and get all of the previoes example's features, plus a full-size, see-thru screen. (How ever playing movies out of our penny sized CD storage?)
The point is, there is no end to our need for smaller, more powerful devices. There is a chance that WAP may survive.
I just bought a Tivo last night. Has anyone successfully added another big drive in thier Tivo?
Another Question: Tivo has released thier patches to Linux kernel and other GNU utilities, but they are not releasing thier Tivo source code, right?
By the way, they have a $50 dollars off the $200 dollars life time subscription program ending the end of this month. You can get a serial number from one of the tivo advocate sites.
Lastly, a comment: First we saw i-opener being hacked, now that Tivo is getting hacked. I am not sure if this is a good thing for linux. It gives the industry an example: "Do anything with them Linux, you'd be hacked silly." Of course we know that it isn't that simple, but not many people understand it.
a few years back i heard from someone in Uwaterloo that QNX went and gave thier students copies for free. well so i email and said i wanted them. no response.
so as the years go by, more and more people are ditching QNX for linux.
Then one day, someone cracked thier password encription... they now pay for the CD shipping.
Yes, AT&T is merging back, but the entire market is still operating in a competitive fashion. thousands of phone cards, long distance cariers, phone solicitation... everything shows there isn't a monopoly situtation.
If microsoft would hire people to call consumers to "switch to Windows" then we are talking.
Game theory does not say that they won't work together. Game theory usually makes the assumption that
1. Cartel is illegal. 2. Each player do not know what other player is doing. Or, the party that cheats will not be caught cheating.
that's not true in the software industry.
1. cheating is expensive. app companies have to pay a great deal to port to other OS. Usually the cartel example is oil industry, in which they can cheat and sell more without being caught out in the open, plus, it doesn't take much to cheat.
2. Unless the babies have strong competitors, the incentive to break cartel is not high. Each babies are still monopoly. Your assumption shows that each player in the game is PERFECTLY COMPETITIVE. That is not true.
there are other holes in your claim, i'll list after i hear rebuttle.
>sexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsex >flood detected: all signals ignored for 5 minutes >signal resume >sexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsex >flood detected: all signals ignored for 5 minutes....
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judging from the size of the key, yes. if we knew the length of the key it would have been easily cracked brute force.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned this: it is well understood in the security community that companies usually pay off instead of letting the news out.
:))
my theory is, Western Union and others have probably have payed off numerous times before and finally realized that they can't pay crackers to buy silence anymore.
security measure? How about maxing out your credit card
Otherwise, Microsoft can sue fvwm95, gnome, kde for "look and feel" imitation. NeXT could have sued Windowmaker and Afterstep. That's one step back in technology.
So the guy stole the interface, so what? the important thing is the EXECUTION.
They forgot to count Melissa, bubble boy, I Love U series and alike. There are much more then this estimation.
By not charging money for USB, Apple can encourage more USB product on the market. In the long run, that's what Apple really wants.
As a paying user of SuSE for more than two years, I'm very disapointed about this news. I'm sure none of the experienced SuSE users want to buy the "Home user" version. In that aspect, the price hike is unacceptable. Sure. I have a dual oc-3 backbone that I never have to worry about download time, but I am not willing to USE and hence PROMOTE SuSE under this "Power user scam."
...Especially after dealing with so many problems including wordperfect, real audio, acrobat reader, netscape's strange behavior and random crashes. These all appear on the SuSE boxes regardless of our effort to download the latest software. The redhat boxes have no such problems.
... The king is dead; long live the king.
In a recent project, me and four other linux programmers tried to install XFree4.0 from Suse's instruction - it doesn't work. Even from a fresh install, it doesn't work. (At least it doesn't work when we follow thier instruction. I didn't bother to try more and simply bought the new video card.)
On another note. SuSE seems to have "chronical" problem in some unknown lib. This is why we can't get netscape to display color at www.fileangel.org on a SuSE machine. Wierd thing is, the new Netscape even displays Flash without a problem.
I have run SuSE since 5.2, transfered from the stuborn libc5 Slackware. There are quite a few other problems:
- Acrobat reader (from thier distro) never works. I have never bothered to try compile it but some told me they don't even compile on a SuSE.
- Wordperfect never works. Period. So many people got disasterous result for trying to fix it.
- RealAudio also never works.
For the above reasons, I can't recommand SuSE to a Windows newbie. (How will they live without Acrobat, realaudio, wordperfect...) I still use SuSE because of all the other wonderful things it has: the clear configuration. The huge selection. The excellent manual. Most of all, every GUI configured file is seperated from hand-configurable files and they are clearly marked. Good job. (So please, you guys, fix this. I paid for every install.)
Another complain: On the box set, I expect a bootable live filesystem "rescue" CD. They do not include it anymore and state that we can purchase these CDs from thier site. Well, they never even mention it on the web site.
i can't get to RIAA.com .
Here's what thier server spits out.
Error Diagnostic Information
Server busy or unable to fulfill request. The server is unable to fulfill your request due to extremely
high traffic or an unexpected internal error. Please attempt your request again (if you are
repeatedly unsuccessful you should notify the site administrator). (Location Code: 25)
2. It's true the lawsuit does not prevent him from publishing his songs on his web site. But the lawsuit also do not prevent him from going door-to-door selling his music. The musician will try every channel to sell. Napter happens to be one of them.
Napster will NEVER set enough kill filters. It's too easy to break.
But I suspect that users will simply switch to another more distributed mp3 network. Just like the earlier poster's analysis, Napster is unlikely to come out alive.
Variable Bitrate decoding is most important for high quality music. Judging from the "gangster rap/script kiddie" style review, I would imagine that these guys don't know what it means.
Any review based on "How thin the plaster is" will not be respected.
I have studied on WAP at work for a month. Here's what I find:
Dispise the fact that WAP protocol has a lot of problems others listed, telco have no time to wait to push the products into the market. It's the next piece of pie to fight for.
A WAP phone is not used like your netscape on a PC. But it is useful for circumstances where you don't have a PC or a palm with you. For instance, if you have a WAP enabled wrist watch, you can set it to alert you when something important happens. The one I'm working on is the fileangel project at www.fileangel.org which will let you choose to be contacted when something happens to your file via a WAP device. Another example is that you can set up your program to call you on your WAP phone when your stock price is at a certain level and prompt you to buy/sell. It can prompt you to read an email when a certain important email is recieved. These things are related to real-time communication applications. I feel that it is quite useful.
As of whether WAP is a temporary technology, it depends. Sure, displays are getting better, CPUs are getting smaller and less power consuming, but things are shrinking at the same rate. For example, maybe one day we will be able to carry a watch, or a pen, which acts as a phone, pager, emailer, voice recognizer, digital camera, scanner, GPS and mp3 player ALL at once.
Or maybe one day we will stick this wearable screen on top of one eye and get all of the previoes example's features, plus a full-size, see-thru screen. (How ever playing movies out of our penny sized CD storage?)
The point is, there is no end to our need for smaller, more powerful devices. There is a chance that WAP may survive.
Another Question: Tivo has released thier patches to Linux kernel and other GNU utilities, but they are not releasing thier Tivo source code, right?
By the way, they have a $50 dollars off the $200 dollars life time subscription program ending the end of this month. You can get a serial number from one of the tivo advocate sites.
Lastly, a comment: First we saw i-opener being hacked, now that Tivo is getting hacked. I am not sure if this is a good thing for linux. It gives the industry an example: "Do anything with them Linux, you'd be hacked silly."
Of course we know that it isn't that simple, but not many people understand it.
Look, just stop listening to those artists that are going to sue you.
Like, Mozart.
a few years back i heard from someone in Uwaterloo that QNX went and gave thier students copies for free. well so i email and said i wanted them. no response.
so as the years go by, more and more people are ditching QNX for linux.
Then one day, someone cracked thier password encription... they now pay for the CD shipping.
install everything you asked.
D U H !
There is no way to program the fourth button useful AFAIK. it's not the same button as fourth. I use a MarbleFX, couldn't get it working.
for a color postscript, you can get buy.com Lexmark Optra 40.
as of other stuffs, go read how-to's. i.e. RTFM!
To avoid whining dumb fucks hanging around.
MCSD= Microsoft Certified System Developer?
Yes, AT&T is merging back, but the entire market is still operating in a competitive fashion. thousands of phone cards, long distance cariers, phone solicitation... everything shows there isn't a monopoly situtation.
If microsoft would hire people to call consumers to "switch to Windows" then we are talking.
Game theory does not say that they won't work together. Game theory usually makes the assumption that
1. Cartel is illegal.
2. Each player do not know what other player is doing. Or, the party that cheats will not be caught cheating.
that's not true in the software industry.
1. cheating is expensive. app companies have to pay a great deal to port to other OS. Usually the cartel example is oil industry, in which they can cheat and sell more without being caught out in the open, plus, it doesn't take much to cheat.
2. Unless the babies have strong competitors, the incentive to break cartel is not high. Each babies are still monopoly. Your assumption shows that each player in the game is PERFECTLY COMPETITIVE. That is not true.
there are other holes in your claim, i'll list after i hear rebuttle.
>sexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsex
>flood detected: all signals ignored for 5 minutes
>signal resume
>sexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsex
>flood detected: all signals ignored for 5 minutes....
.. I think I'll buy one for my girlfriend.
could it be, "sexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsexsex ..."
http://www.nikonusa.com/assets/coolpix950rebatefor m.pdf
? cycle_id=240545
well it saves youy $100 bucks. that can't be bad.
and, an extra plug.http://www.mobshop.com/washingtonpost/cycles
with promo code CWORKS to get 20% discount. coolpix 800 ain't bad either.
But then again, who would have thought that computers would be so popular?
Yeah me too. I don't know where Katz get the idea of using "the cool word" from. We need someone to proof read his stuffs. Is that book online?