And it's not just doing those things individually, but all together. Having your PC record your HDTV like a Tivo, while you do some video editing of your kid's birthday party with good voice recognition.
For the near future, there is demand for faster chips. And having more power allows for idea's that just weren't possible a few years ago. The company I work for does a CCTV DVR product. We can with great ease make a P4 3.2 drop to it's knees and beg for a day off. Having more power would be very, very welcomed by us.
Here is a resume sample:
Experance:
Three year apprenticeship with Donald Trump, most of time spent on knees, lips firmly attached to rear.
Two years being a research assistant, over 12,000 facts made up, 10,000 quotes completely made up, 3,000 slashdot posts defending MS.
Education:
Sold soul to devil for these sponge dinosaurs...
Boycott never worked (except for Gandhi) and will not work. Silly
Montgomery Bus Boycott. Worked fairly well for what it's goals were. God I have to stop and check my posts.
I haven't done a formal study, but doesn't it feel like there are alot less "distructive" viruses in the wild? It seems like the major viruses come in two flavors of late. Outlook viruses, and zombie bot viruses. Both of which make the net a worse place, but don't really damage thier host much.
They have plans to defeat that now. The goal is to produce music that the masses will listen to, but that makes geeks and audiophiles sick. Those with the skills to use the Analog hole will become violently ill when listening to RIAA produced music.;)
Except that people walking by would see someone winning. That makes them think that they could win too. So you lose a little on the nickel slots, but the people comming in go and lose on the quarter slots. It doesn't take much time to make your money back and not much more beyond that to make a profit. It all comes down to seeing how often people win.
More like a bad guess on my part. I was looking at a paper on the slashdot effect and worked the math backwards. But I made a faulty guess at the percentage. I did some googling and I see some older numbers guessing that slashdot has between 700,000 to a million readers. So far more people read the stories then anyone is really willing to belive.
Well it's pretty simple. I've seen figures that put slashdot at 15 million or so readers at any given time. If 1% read the article, we're talking about 150,000 hits at one time. But I think the figure is closer to 4 or 5 % reading the articles. So that is three quarters of a million hits within 20 seconds. That's a pretty good DDOS attack. God help the site that has a story intresting enough for 50% of the readers to read the story.
It's going to depend on how often you defrag and how much reading/writing you do to the drive. I used defrag monthly on my machine and saw little effect. My wife let hers go for about a year and a half without a defrag and she noticed a large differance. I've had clients that let it go for a few years and they noticed a huge differance. It's one of those things that creeps up slowly and regular maintance can prevent. Now all of those were on FAT32/16 drives. NTFS seems a bit more robust.
Why is it again that elections can only be held once every four years and every possible decision must be made at the same time?
Elections aren't just held every four years. National elections are held every two years. Senators are elected for six year terms, and every two years, one-third of them have to run for office again. Members of the house serve two year terms. States can also have special elections, and many cities will have a number of referendums during the year. It's only when you have presidental elections that you have alot more intrest in voting.
Now what kind of intrest do you charge for that kind of loan? I'm thinking maybe a percentage of the mass per month? And can we select what kind of mass we get back, cause we could get some cheap beer that way....
Except that your logic is flawed. For this analogy to work, you would have to change it from ISP's doing the blocking, to the backbone service providers. If I chose to get phone service from a company that blocks all calls coming from all companies (yes, I know how foolish it is) that is my right as a consumer. If I chose to use an ISP that blocks all spam, that is also my right as a consumer. If I as an ISP decide I don't want to deal with companies I don't like, that is the ISP's right. What you want is business's to have an inherant right to do business with everyone, even if you don't want to do busines with them. ISP's pay to have to deal with spammers. They have to pay for the connection, pay for the bandwith, pay for the usage of the mail servers. Even if the costs from spam are a few pennies a day, they still have to pay. Are you suggesting that companies should be able to bill you for the time they spend telemarketing? Or bill you for a cold call even if you don't use thier product/service?
The use of spam filters is pure, unadulterated capitalism. A company does something annoying, another company offers a service to offset that behavior and make a profit (or not as they choose). Some times capitalism is harmful, but sometimes the system is self-correcting.
Hell, Sean Comb's house was on MTV cribs for christ sake. How hard is it for the RIAA to call MTV and ask, "Hey, where did you shoot that episode?" And Dolly Parton has a freaking theme-park...
You and I may not take it seriously, but the courts will. They have the right to do it and taking time to enforce it doesn't lessen one's right. I'm sure the defense can argue that it's a late attempt at extortion, but it doesn't change the fact of violation. Now this all assumes it's a vaild patent, which I'm not sure it is. They could wait ten years to file suit and still have just as high a chance of success.
That doesn't remove the possiblity of a lawsuit. If you violate a patent while it's still in effect, you can still be sued after it expires. Now what you can get changes, but they could still collect past damages.
Um, no. Congress doesn't oversee the day to day activities of the FCC, but it does oversee it's funding. If the FCC upsets congress (as was threated during the last round of discussion the FCC had on deregulation.) then Congress can state in it's appropration's bill that the FCC may spend up to the massive sum of $0 to enforce what ever rule is annoying Congress. I also think you need to review the concept of checks and balances in the goverment. The FCC is under the exectutive branch, as are all regulatory bodies. But those bodies get thier mandate from Congress. Generally in vauge terms like "make sure that the people can get access to the airwaves...", and the FCC makes the regulations about it. The Congress makes the rules, the President enforces them, the Supreme Court (and lower courts) rule on the consituationality of them.
You're swatting a fly with a baseball bat. There is a Mozilla extension that will do that for you without having to go through that trouble. Just google for Flash-click-to-play.
If you use Mozilla, there is a great little add on called "Flash-click-to-play." It allows you to control the flash you see. Bad banner ad? Don't click it. Nav bar for a site? Click it and it pops up.
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For the near future, there is demand for faster chips. And having more power allows for idea's that just weren't possible a few years ago. The company I work for does a CCTV DVR product. We can with great ease make a P4 3.2 drop to it's knees and beg for a day off. Having more power would be very, very welcomed by us.
Here is a resume sample: Experance: Three year apprenticeship with Donald Trump, most of time spent on knees, lips firmly attached to rear. Two years being a research assistant, over 12,000 facts made up, 10,000 quotes completely made up, 3,000 slashdot posts defending MS. Education: Sold soul to devil for these sponge dinosaurs...
Boycott never worked (except for Gandhi) and will not work. Silly Montgomery Bus Boycott. Worked fairly well for what it's goals were. God I have to stop and check my posts.
Boycott never worked (except for Gandhi) and will not work. Silly Montgomery Bus Boycott. Worked fairly well for what it's goals were.
I haven't done a formal study, but doesn't it feel like there are alot less "distructive" viruses in the wild? It seems like the major viruses come in two flavors of late. Outlook viruses, and zombie bot viruses. Both of which make the net a worse place, but don't really damage thier host much.
They have plans to defeat that now. The goal is to produce music that the masses will listen to, but that makes geeks and audiophiles sick. Those with the skills to use the Analog hole will become violently ill when listening to RIAA produced music. ;)
Because the error code won't go away. It's going to stay on till it's reset.
Except that people walking by would see someone winning. That makes them think that they could win too. So you lose a little on the nickel slots, but the people comming in go and lose on the quarter slots. It doesn't take much time to make your money back and not much more beyond that to make a profit. It all comes down to seeing how often people win.
Dude, look up. That shadow is the point going right over your head.
More like a bad guess on my part. I was looking at a paper on the slashdot effect and worked the math backwards. But I made a faulty guess at the percentage. I did some googling and I see some older numbers guessing that slashdot has between 700,000 to a million readers. So far more people read the stories then anyone is really willing to belive.
Well it's pretty simple. I've seen figures that put slashdot at 15 million or so readers at any given time. If 1% read the article, we're talking about 150,000 hits at one time. But I think the figure is closer to 4 or 5 % reading the articles. So that is three quarters of a million hits within 20 seconds. That's a pretty good DDOS attack. God help the site that has a story intresting enough for 50% of the readers to read the story.
You must be new.
It's going to depend on how often you defrag and how much reading/writing you do to the drive. I used defrag monthly on my machine and saw little effect. My wife let hers go for about a year and a half without a defrag and she noticed a large differance. I've had clients that let it go for a few years and they noticed a huge differance. It's one of those things that creeps up slowly and regular maintance can prevent. Now all of those were on FAT32/16 drives. NTFS seems a bit more robust.
Power cord.
Why is it again that elections can only be held once every four years and every possible decision must be made at the same time? Elections aren't just held every four years. National elections are held every two years. Senators are elected for six year terms, and every two years, one-third of them have to run for office again. Members of the house serve two year terms. States can also have special elections, and many cities will have a number of referendums during the year. It's only when you have presidental elections that you have alot more intrest in voting.
Now what kind of intrest do you charge for that kind of loan? I'm thinking maybe a percentage of the mass per month? And can we select what kind of mass we get back, cause we could get some cheap beer that way....
Except that your logic is flawed. For this analogy to work, you would have to change it from ISP's doing the blocking, to the backbone service providers. If I chose to get phone service from a company that blocks all calls coming from all companies (yes, I know how foolish it is) that is my right as a consumer. If I chose to use an ISP that blocks all spam, that is also my right as a consumer. If I as an ISP decide I don't want to deal with companies I don't like, that is the ISP's right. What you want is business's to have an inherant right to do business with everyone, even if you don't want to do busines with them. ISP's pay to have to deal with spammers. They have to pay for the connection, pay for the bandwith, pay for the usage of the mail servers. Even if the costs from spam are a few pennies a day, they still have to pay. Are you suggesting that companies should be able to bill you for the time they spend telemarketing? Or bill you for a cold call even if you don't use thier product/service?
The use of spam filters is pure, unadulterated capitalism. A company does something annoying, another company offers a service to offset that behavior and make a profit (or not as they choose). Some times capitalism is harmful, but sometimes the system is self-correcting.
Hell, Sean Comb's house was on MTV cribs for christ sake. How hard is it for the RIAA to call MTV and ask, "Hey, where did you shoot that episode?" And Dolly Parton has a freaking theme-park...
You and I may not take it seriously, but the courts will. They have the right to do it and taking time to enforce it doesn't lessen one's right. I'm sure the defense can argue that it's a late attempt at extortion, but it doesn't change the fact of violation. Now this all assumes it's a vaild patent, which I'm not sure it is. They could wait ten years to file suit and still have just as high a chance of success.
That doesn't remove the possiblity of a lawsuit. If you violate a patent while it's still in effect, you can still be sued after it expires. Now what you can get changes, but they could still collect past damages.
Can we keep the BSD promotions to a minamum please? ;)
Um, no. Congress doesn't oversee the day to day activities of the FCC, but it does oversee it's funding. If the FCC upsets congress (as was threated during the last round of discussion the FCC had on deregulation.) then Congress can state in it's appropration's bill that the FCC may spend up to the massive sum of $0 to enforce what ever rule is annoying Congress. I also think you need to review the concept of checks and balances in the goverment. The FCC is under the exectutive branch, as are all regulatory bodies. But those bodies get thier mandate from Congress. Generally in vauge terms like "make sure that the people can get access to the airwaves...", and the FCC makes the regulations about it. The Congress makes the rules, the President enforces them, the Supreme Court (and lower courts) rule on the consituationality of them.
Crap...next thing we'll see is a mail virus claiming to be a "customer tracking" program. Then watch the virus writer sue Norton.
You're swatting a fly with a baseball bat. There is a Mozilla extension that will do that for you without having to go through that trouble. Just google for Flash-click-to-play.
If you use Mozilla, there is a great little add on called "Flash-click-to-play." It allows you to control the flash you see. Bad banner ad? Don't click it. Nav bar for a site? Click it and it pops up.