FTFA "The device's makers compares its shrill tone to that of smoke detectors, only much louder. It can be as loud as about 150 decibels, while smoke alarms are about 80 to 90 decibels."
Isn't that loud enough to burst an eardrum? That is pretty painful.
Man mod this guy up. This is a trick I learned a long time ago when I first started writing serious code in college. Doing this forces you to think through the steps of the algorothm/process your using. For me it makes it easier when I write the actual code to have these predefined steps already in place.
I think they're all crooked. I think they all get some kind of kick backs from publishers to get good reviews. The only thing that ever gets labeled as shit or just mediocre is the really really bad stuff no one should ever play.
I was in paris for a few days in September this year and happended to see a can of energy beer. This is nothing new it seems to have been done before. This thing has like 9% alcohol. Too bad it tasted like shit. Beer and energy drinks don't mix IMO.
Actually it was announced the ewok movies are coming out on DVD. I don't recall the exact source but it seemed legit. The holiday special with the coked out her mind carrie fisher and bea arthur can rest in the special seat in hell it deserves.
I too used to work for eBay and in that very department and know this smoke shack you speak of. The phishing problem there was terrible but they were getting better. And not only was there phishing but a big problem was assholes that would embed torjan viruses in their auction listings that would install keystroke loggers, etc on peoples machines. But that is another post and whole other thread.
I know how the toolbar program worked. It worked on scanning the HTML source and based on various factors would tell the user via the toolbar if it thought the site was a spoof site. It wouldn't work in outlook email but I caught a lot of sites that users would see in their web email. If it thought the site was a spoof the user could report it to whole security , visit the site, or just leave. If they reported the site it would get put into a black list. This black list contained a huge list of reported sites. This black list was reviewed by reps on a daily basis. Sites that were spoof/phishing were permanently added to the black list of bad sites. Non spoof sites were added to a white list of good sites.
As far as prosecuting eBay did work with the FBI and secret service but they can only do things if the host country gives a shit. Since most of this stuff happens in Romania, Russia, India and is being run by pro mafia dudes there's nothing they can do. Just be smart and don't fall for the scam. Never give out personal info via email.
Yes but you hit a point where the time spent pirating isn't worth the smaller amount of money spent on the game. I have a friend who burns DVD's like made. He has told me if they cost less it wouldn't be worth his time to burn them and he would buy legit copies. The same goes for software. If the cost is sufficiently low enough people will simply buy it because it isn't worth their time to pirate it. Unless of course the pirated version is sitting on the store shelf ala Hong Kong but in the USA where I live I don't see that;)
This would explain the error 27 I was getting while trying to search. And I just got an email to not even open webmail from my work. Guess this thing is pretty bad.
Ditto several places I used to work for had huge automated 30 tape backup systems that would back up the entire server drives every 24 hours. They had to pay a monkey to go in and fill the tape resevoir once in a while when it ran out.
The version I had was 9i and was full featured. It had everything the paid for version did. I double checked this and posted a reply to someone already that explains how it works. You can't use it for any real purpose other then to lean how to use Oracle it seems.
I've used Oracle in Enterprise applications and it seems to have the same toolset. I think the big difference is you couldn't use it for business purposes. After digging around on the Oracle site I was able to download the 10g Database free of charge. But from the licensing agreement:
"You man NOT:
?use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of a single prototype of your application;
?use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data processing or commercial or production purposes without securing an appropriate license from us;
?continue to develop your application after you have used it for any internal data processing, commercial or production purpose without securing an appropriate license from us, or an Oracle reseller;
?remove or modify any program markings or any notice of our proprietary rights;
?make the programs available in any manner to any third party;
?use the programs to provide third party training;
?assign this agreement or give or transfer the programs or an interest in them to another individual or entity;
?cause or permit reverse engineering (unless required by law for interoperability), disassembly or decompilation of the programs;
?disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent;"
You would think so. I did some comparisons against Oracle and mySQL for a software engineering project and found some interesting results. Granted I was using the personal free version of Oracle not the 30K version. But yeah Oracle and mySQL are pretty equal in speed. Oracle is defintately no slouch but mySQL wasn't the ultra speed demon I was expecting either. I would say they were pretty close to equal. However Oracle did much better in one department and that was the number of concurrent users. No matter how many concurrent connections I threw at it it stayed at a steady speed. However mySQL started to slow down pretty bad as more users got added. This might not be the case on server hardware but on a fairly normal PC mySQL bogged down after too many connections were in use.
But man that wasn't much of a review. It was little more then a rant about the way the window manager works. I agree that you should be able to change preferneces like that easily but come on give some more evidence other then that for trashing the system.
"If you only read the title you have no idea what the patent actually covers or how it is implemented"
I read through both the title and description but the not the full claim. How could the system work if the title has nothing to do with what the patent covers. I could see the implementation being somewhat different due to technical problems but the description and title should be very indicative of what the patent covers. Otherwise I'm going to invent a new computer chip or some material and call the patent title flying assbags.
Everyone knows patents are bad blah blah blah but let's take a look at these patents in question.
5,206,951 - Integration of data between typed objects by mutual, direct invocation between object managers corresponding to object types
5,421,012 - Multitasking computer system for integrating the operation of different application programs which manipulate data objects of different types
5,226,161 - Integration of data between typed data structures by mutual direct invocation between data managers corresponding to data types .
This just looks like object oriented programming to me. So how can they sue SUN over Java. I was under the impression you couldn't patent things like this.
I essentially do this for free by utlizing my public library. They offer a huge selection of CDs which you can check out for free. I take it home and listen to it and if I like I burn it. If not I take it back and am out nothing. It's very rare they don't have music I want. Then of course I am forced to go buy or do as you have suggested. 99% of my music collection is now a copy from a local public resource.
Man after reading the article, I couldn't agree with you more. I was all for electronic voting until I read the article. Diebold is not the company I thought, not even close. Talk about being slimy and trying to weasel their way into use. It looks like California might be forced into using their software/hardware at this point in time. Get private companies out of the voting software business, let the NSA or someone else do the job. These guys are just after as much money as they can get.
Any database worth its salt that isn't complete shit should be able to handle multiple writes hitting it at the same time. If not the software should be able to recognize this and wait for it to be free before it just starts going all wonky.
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FTFA "The device's makers compares its shrill tone to that of smoke detectors, only much louder. It can be as loud as about 150 decibels, while smoke alarms are about 80 to 90 decibels."
Isn't that loud enough to burst an eardrum? That is pretty painful.
Man mod this guy up. This is a trick I learned a long time ago when I first started writing serious code in college. Doing this forces you to think through the steps of the algorothm/process your using. For me it makes it easier when I write the actual code to have these predefined steps already in place.
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
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A little offtopic but still revelant
I got this in my computer world email subscrib, a bit more info then then CNN article. Computer World
So are these worth the time and cost to go to these? I woud have to fly or drive in from Utah and don't want to waste my time.
I think they're all crooked. I think they all get some kind of kick backs from publishers to get good reviews. The only thing that ever gets labeled as shit or just mediocre is the really really bad stuff no one should ever play.
I believe it's pronounced nucular.
I was in paris for a few days in September this year and happended to see a can of energy beer. This is nothing new it seems to have been done before. This thing has like 9% alcohol. Too bad it tasted like shit. Beer and energy drinks don't mix IMO.
Actually it was announced the ewok movies are coming out on DVD. I don't recall the exact source but it seemed legit. The holiday special with the coked out her mind carrie fisher and bea arthur can rest in the special seat in hell it deserves.
I too used to work for eBay and in that very department and know this smoke shack you speak of. The phishing problem there was terrible but they were getting better. And not only was there phishing but a big problem was assholes that would embed torjan viruses in their auction listings that would install keystroke loggers, etc on peoples machines. But that is another post and whole other thread.
I know how the toolbar program worked. It worked on scanning the HTML source and based on various factors would tell the user via the toolbar if it thought the site was a spoof site. It wouldn't work in outlook email but I caught a lot of sites that users would see in their web email. If it thought the site was a spoof the user could report it to whole security , visit the site, or just leave. If they reported the site it would get put into a black list. This black list contained a huge list of reported sites. This black list was reviewed by reps on a daily basis. Sites that were spoof/phishing were permanently added to the black list of bad sites. Non spoof sites were added to a white list of good sites.
As far as prosecuting eBay did work with the FBI and secret service but they can only do things if the host country gives a shit. Since most of this stuff happens in Romania, Russia, India and is being run by pro mafia dudes there's nothing they can do. Just be smart and don't fall for the scam. Never give out personal info via email.
Yes but you hit a point where the time spent pirating isn't worth the smaller amount of money spent on the game. I have a friend who burns DVD's like made. He has told me if they cost less it wouldn't be worth his time to burn them and he would buy legit copies. The same goes for software. If the cost is sufficiently low enough people will simply buy it because it isn't worth their time to pirate it. Unless of course the pirated version is sitting on the store shelf ala Hong Kong but in the USA where I live I don't see that ;)
Hey I know that, but the PHB's sent out the mass email.
This would explain the error 27 I was getting while trying to search. And I just got an email to not even open webmail from my work. Guess this thing is pretty bad.
Ditto several places I used to work for had huge automated 30 tape backup systems that would back up the entire server drives every 24 hours. They had to pay a monkey to go in and fill the tape resevoir once in a while when it ran out.
The version I had was 9i and was full featured. It had everything the paid for version did. I double checked this and posted a reply to someone already that explains how it works. You can't use it for any real purpose other then to lean how to use Oracle it seems.
Besides 30,000 US dollars I'm not entirely sure ;)
I've used Oracle in Enterprise applications and it seems to have the same toolset. I think the big difference is you couldn't use it for business purposes. After digging around on the Oracle site I was able to download the 10g Database free of charge. But from the licensing agreement:
"You man NOT:
?use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of a single prototype of your application;
?use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data processing or commercial or production purposes without securing an appropriate license from us;
?continue to develop your application after you have used it for any internal data processing, commercial or production purpose without securing an appropriate license from us, or an Oracle reseller;
?remove or modify any program markings or any notice of our proprietary rights;
?make the programs available in any manner to any third party;
?use the programs to provide third party training;
?assign this agreement or give or transfer the programs or an interest in them to another individual or entity;
?cause or permit reverse engineering (unless required by law for interoperability), disassembly or decompilation of the programs;
?disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent;"
You would think so. I did some comparisons against Oracle and mySQL for a software engineering project and found some interesting results. Granted I was using the personal free version of Oracle not the 30K version. But yeah Oracle and mySQL are pretty equal in speed. Oracle is defintately no slouch but mySQL wasn't the ultra speed demon I was expecting either. I would say they were pretty close to equal. However Oracle did much better in one department and that was the number of concurrent users. No matter how many concurrent connections I threw at it it stayed at a steady speed. However mySQL started to slow down pretty bad as more users got added. This might not be the case on server hardware but on a fairly normal PC mySQL bogged down after too many connections were in use.
But man that wasn't much of a review. It was little more then a rant about the way the window manager works. I agree that you should be able to change preferneces like that easily but come on give some more evidence other then that for trashing the system.
"If you only read the title you have no idea what the patent actually covers or how it is implemented"
I read through both the title and description but the not the full claim. How could the system work if the title has nothing to do with what the patent covers. I could see the implementation being somewhat different due to technical problems but the description and title should be very indicative of what the patent covers. Otherwise I'm going to invent a new computer chip or some material and call the patent title flying assbags.
Everyone knows patents are bad blah blah blah but let's take a look at these patents in question.
5,206,951 - Integration of data between typed objects by mutual, direct invocation between object managers corresponding to object types
5,421,012 - Multitasking computer system for integrating the operation of different application programs which manipulate data objects of different types
5,226,161 - Integration of data between typed data structures by mutual direct invocation between data managers corresponding to data types .
This just looks like object oriented programming to me. So how can they sue SUN over Java. I was under the impression you couldn't patent things like this.
I essentially do this for free by utlizing my public library. They offer a huge selection of CDs which you can check out for free. I take it home and listen to it and if I like I burn it. If not I take it back and am out nothing. It's very rare they don't have music I want. Then of course I am forced to go buy or do as you have suggested. 99% of my music collection is now a copy from a local public resource.
Man after reading the article, I couldn't agree with you more. I was all for electronic voting until I read the article. Diebold is not the company I thought, not even close. Talk about being slimy and trying to weasel their way into use. It looks like California might be forced into using their software/hardware at this point in time. Get private companies out of the voting software business, let the NSA or someone else do the job. These guys are just after as much money as they can get.
I imagined a choose your own adventure novel online. If you pick the machine gun turn to page 36 if you pick the rocket launcher turn to page 54.
Any database worth its salt that isn't complete shit should be able to handle multiple writes hitting it at the same time. If not the software should be able to recognize this and wait for it to be free before it just starts going all wonky.