Not sure where I read it, but there was an article I read about using good old cheap IDE Raid as a tape replacement. Some guy did it on a large scale for university, and a (relativly low cost). Considering the low cost per GB, and easy scalability, why not?
How long do you have to pay for electricity before tapes are more cost-effective?
When I was in 8th grade I had a horrid science teacher who never read anything that anyone except students he saw as "problem students" wrote. Those who were not on that list turned in nursery rhymes as homework and got A's. Not only was it plagerism, but it was ever off-topic.
I fear that my experience was not unique. I wonder how well I would do if I turned in a chapter of Moby Dick or Les Miserables.... Or maybe a section of Physics and Phylosophy by Heisenberg.
There's other software that can recognize plagarism. Essays could be run through both sets of software.
Two weeks is simply unacceptable. Contrary to their literature, Symantec does *NOT* take security seriously.
The symantec client updates every 1-2 weeks by default. However, you can change this setting to daily. I know this is true in the corporate version
An immediately noticeable and significant change to OpenOffice.org is the complete redesign of the interface. This has been updated to reflect the current look and feel of alternative office suites...
Translation:
OpenOffice.org has been updated to copy the interface and feel of MS Office 2003.
It seems like bluffing wouldn't be very useful against an opponent who paid attention only to probabilities
Actually, from my experience playing against bots, it makes it easier to bluff because you can simply bet an amount higher than what the pot odds enable them to call in other situations. Since you know that they are playing by the numbers, it's easy to tailor your strategy to fit theirs.
However, one selling point maybe the fact that this notebook is just $1,499 - which is quite cheap considering the configuration (and the fact that if you are a gamer, it comes with Nvidia's GeForce FX Go 5200 graphics card).
The article actually says the notebook has a Geforce FX Go5700 which makes it comparable to decent desktop gaming setups.
There was a slashdot article on capitalism in a world with robots. The short version is to give everyone some money to live on so they can pursue creative venues.
I use mapquest most of the time but there are of course problems with actually getting to most efficient route. Recently I was looking up directions from the central coast to davis in california. Almost every single map site listed directions going right through the bay area instead of taking I5. I finally found that expedia listed a more sane route using I5. The problem w/ map sites is most of them use the same database so if theres a problem, it's likely wrong on all of them. Also, I dislike that you can't specify an alternate route using certain freeways.
Not only is flash ram slow, but it has a limited number of read/write cycles which make it impracticle for storing data that frequently changes (ie memory)
What the hell does IPv6 have to do with spam?
Well it makes it much harder to scan for servers that are vulnerable, either for hijacking or open smtp services.
I doubt they are losing money on mice and keyboards or else they would drop them.
That's not necessarily true. I'm not saying that MS does lose money on h/w but it is common business practice to price certain products under the profit line. These products are called lost leaders and are used for marketing.
For example, on each pair of Levi's sold by Mervyns, they lose about $3 (or so). The point of it is to get people in the store so that they will buy accessories also.
How many times have you a promotion involving a Microsoft mouse? And how many ppl do u know that have Linux installed on their machine, and have a Microsoft logo on their mouse/keyboard?
This seems to be on par with other things the government tries to keep tabs on. They can't keep track of paroled felons, the database of people who can't vote is horribly flawed, and the soundex database that the airlines use doesn't work either.
Granted, this needs to change, but this isn't the first time the government has failed to provide adequate information regarding lists of people.
I'm wondering, where is all the money coming from for everyone to have high-speed internet access. I know the government probably takes more taxes than in the US. But, how can a country that was almost bankrupt not too long ago afford this?
People generally don't respond very much to possible consequences. There is a high chance of getting a speeding ticket, yet almost everyone goes above the speed limit, often ignoring the safety of themselves and others. There's not likely much the RIAA can do to make even a slight decrease in file-sharing.
Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system
Information on token ring support for linux is available at www.linuxtr.net
As far as I know ext2 does not really need to be defragmented as performance is not affected as much as it is on fat*/ntfs. Also there are ways to defrag it.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use.
You switched to Linux without reading the copyright?
Not to mention that you only need to release the source code if you modify existing gpl'ed projects.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL...
Now you're just trolling, this is offtopic anyway. The only reason Linux has become successful is because many people add to it...
Maybe this is the start of the next level of Microsoft's trend towards integration. Seeing as how they have $40 billion in cash. Perhaps they plan on buying a large amount of software that is usually coupled with their products. This way they could compete with other operating systems with a large feature list of things that people usually have to buy seperately.
BUT IT'S AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER!!!
I'm sure theres some multi-millionare who thinks it would be cool to own an aircraft carrier.
Perhaps those interested should also check out www.villainsupply.com
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Not sure where I read it, but there was an article I read about using good old cheap IDE Raid as a tape replacement. Some guy did it on a large scale for university, and a (relativly low cost). Considering the low cost per GB, and easy scalability, why not?
How long do you have to pay for electricity before tapes are more cost-effective?
Imagine being able to create an auction that'd show up whenever somebody searches Google for the product's name....
eBay items already show up in Froogle
When I was in 8th grade I had a horrid science teacher who never read anything that anyone except students he saw as "problem students" wrote. Those who were not on that list turned in nursery rhymes as homework and got A's. Not only was it plagerism, but it was ever off-topic.
I fear that my experience was not unique. I wonder how well I would do if I turned in a chapter of Moby Dick or Les Miserables.... Or maybe a section of Physics and Phylosophy by Heisenberg.
There's other software that can recognize plagarism. Essays could be run through both sets of software.
Two weeks is simply unacceptable. Contrary to their literature, Symantec does *NOT* take security seriously.
The symantec client updates every 1-2 weeks by default. However, you can change this setting to daily. I know this is true in the corporate version
An immediately noticeable and significant change to OpenOffice.org is the complete redesign of the interface. This has been updated to reflect the current look and feel of alternative office suites...
Translation:
OpenOffice.org has been updated to copy the interface and feel of MS Office 2003.
This initial release is version is 0.1, not 1.0
It seems like bluffing wouldn't be very useful against an opponent who paid attention only to probabilities
Actually, from my experience playing against bots, it makes it easier to bluff because you can simply bet an amount higher than what the pot odds enable them to call in other situations. Since you know that they are playing by the numbers, it's easy to tailor your strategy to fit theirs.
However, one selling point maybe the fact that this notebook is just $1,499 - which is quite cheap considering the configuration (and the fact that if you are a gamer, it comes with Nvidia's GeForce FX Go 5200 graphics card).
The article actually says the notebook has a Geforce FX Go5700 which makes it comparable to decent desktop gaming setups.
There was a slashdot article on capitalism in a world with robots.
The short version is to give everyone some money to live on so they can pursue creative venues.
I use mapquest most of the time but there are of course problems with actually getting to most efficient route.
Recently I was looking up directions from the central coast to davis in california. Almost every single map site listed directions going right through the bay area instead of taking I5. I finally found that expedia listed a more sane route using I5.
The problem w/ map sites is most of them use the same database so if theres a problem, it's likely wrong on all of them.
Also, I dislike that you can't specify an alternate route using certain freeways.
Not only is flash ram slow, but it has a limited number of read/write cycles which make it impracticle for storing data that frequently changes (ie memory)
if it was in cleartext couldn't you just edit the executable, so long as the new username/password was the same length you'd be set.
Changing the username/pass wouldn't fix anything, they would still be cleartext in the exe.
What the hell does IPv6 have to do with spam?
Well it makes it much harder to scan for servers that are vulnerable, either for hijacking or open smtp services.
I doubt they are losing money on mice and keyboards or else they would drop them.
That's not necessarily true. I'm not saying that MS does lose money on h/w but it is common business practice to price certain products under the profit line. These products are called lost leaders and are used for marketing.
For example, on each pair of Levi's sold by Mervyns, they lose about $3 (or so). The point of it is to get people in the store so that they will buy accessories also.
How many times have you a promotion involving a Microsoft mouse? And how many ppl do u know that have Linux installed on their machine, and have a Microsoft logo on their mouse/keyboard?
This seems to be on par with other things the government tries to keep tabs on. They can't keep track of paroled felons, the database of people who can't vote is horribly flawed, and the soundex database that the airlines use doesn't work either.
Granted, this needs to change, but this isn't the first time the government has failed to provide adequate information regarding lists of people.
I'm wondering, where is all the money coming from for everyone to have high-speed internet access. I know the government probably takes more taxes than in the US. But, how can a country that was almost bankrupt not too long ago afford this?
People generally don't respond very much to possible consequences. There is a high chance of getting a speeding ticket, yet almost everyone goes above the speed limit, often ignoring the safety of themselves and others. There's not likely much the RIAA can do to make even a slight decrease in file-sharing.
Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system
Information on token ring support for linux is available at www.linuxtr.net
As far as I know ext2 does not really need to be defragmented as performance is not affected as much as it is on fat*/ntfs. Also there are ways to defrag it.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use.
You switched to Linux without reading the copyright? Not to mention that you only need to release the source code if you modify existing gpl'ed projects.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL...
Now you're just trolling, this is offtopic anyway. The only reason Linux has become successful is because many people add to it...
Maybe this is the start of the next level of Microsoft's trend towards integration. Seeing as how they have $40 billion in cash. Perhaps they plan on buying a large amount of software that is usually coupled with their products. This way they could compete with other operating systems with a large feature list of things that people usually have to buy seperately.
From The Miss Vermont Story
"She was very schizophrenic about sex."
BUT IT'S AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER!!!
I'm sure theres some multi-millionare who thinks it would be cool to own an aircraft carrier. Perhaps those interested should also check out www.villainsupply.com
Actually we don't care about ppl "kow-towing to american imperialism". We just think french ppl are stupid, and rightly so.