You moved from IMAP to web only email? Heh For me its the other way.. I have a gmail account but its only for novelty. Gmail users started getting invites quite regularly from last week or so.. Gmail's nice(damn fast) but I need one feature it doesn't offer-IMAP mail. I have a 1GB hosting account and only 50MB is used for hosting.. so the rest is available for email. A few days back, my yahoo account was near its limit and I received a warning about it. The very next email was from yahoo again, this time to notify that my storage had increased.
But the madness for gmail accounts is amazing. In orkut there are like 40 communities setup to beg for invitations. The largest is 1000 odd members and there's even 1 that says "we hate gmail" so that some gmail member with invites might stop by and have pity on those pathetics(is that a word?).
My wild guess about when gmail is available to the public?- About a week before Google's IPO. It would give users enough time to use gmail and probably become interested in buying a few shares( this reasoning's wrong but who knows). The other guess is that gmail will not become public until a much later time. Once it becomes open to the public, millions will sign up for accounts.. maybe google wants to do it in a phased manner. Invites might continue to increase from say 3 a day to 10-20. This is a lot more orderly and won't overburden the servers.. I don't know, I'm just talking out of my ass.
3-4 years back I downloaded a post it like program called freenote(90KB). I tried the official post-it software program from 3M but it was like 3MB and too bloated. Freenote works fine but some notes might get misplaced(especially if you place too many on the desktop) after 10-15 days. For a bigger list of similar programs, just go to download.com and enter post it or freenote in the search box.
Sky Sports(UK) has a race day program(1 hour) before every formula1 race starts. Once every 2-3 races, they examine the technical aspects of formula1 racing. The steering wheel is discussed twice during the racing year. The steering wheel costs more than your average luxury sedan. For this 2004 season, FIA made manual shifting mandatory but the top teams still manage to work their way around it and have part of it computer controlled.
About sponsorships, formula1 car workings, upto date news- see BBC Formula1 Many articles on the RHS. For those who don't get Speed Channel, you can follow live timing(and a lot more) and unbiased commentary on the formula1.com website. If you are a car collector, you can buy actual parts of the BAR forumla1 car from the pure racing club at BAR(flash). Also take a look at its quarterly magazine( its nice). I hven't read the article yet but there is a lot of money sloshing around in F1. Ferrari alone spends 500 million$ a year(and this was 2 years back). BMW vaulted to one of the top teams because they put some of their best engineers and spent a buttload of money(350 million+) initializing the team. Even Minardi which is the poorest team in f1 spends as much or more than the top Indy racing teams. During 2000-2002 there was a lot of controversy regarding sale of global tv rights to Kirch(German media company). A lot of F1 teams threatened to form a new series of their own from 2008. The threats aren't so loud now but the issue still simmers.
"because even one false positive can get them in trouble?"
You should probably go take a class on probability. When you're dealing with millions of email, there are going to be some false positives. What's the alternative, hand sort them? Yeah, that's a good idea right? But with bayesian filtering, you can do a lot of refining when you're dealing with millions of email. And who says that you need to use the same filters for the health dept and the transport dept.
Jesus christ, there are lots of companies that already do this. Its not like Baltimore's the only city with millions of old email. This is not a mars mission, this is judicious use of existing technology- bayesian filters(or whatever fits the profile) and enterprise storage solutions. Its better off spending a few hundred thousand(or less) on archiving the mails than spend a million or two on lawyers and court 5 years later defending the decision to delete the data after some citizen sues them for records etc.
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yeah, how else will those nigerian spammers get their message across that they have FORTY MILLION DOLLARS(40,000,000 $) AND ARE WILLING TO GIVE YOU A SHARE OF IT IF YOU ARE A NOOB.
An interesting paragraph- "According to the filing, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt made $ 250,000 in salarly and got a $301,556 bonus last year, plus other compensation of $2,894. Co-founders Mr. Brin, now president of technology and Mr. Page, now president of products, both got salaries of $150,000 and bonuses of 206,556.".
And you can compare the pay with other US companies. Other companies can learn from google here.
For those worried that Google will become a wall street pawn, here's what the founders are doing about it- "The offering documents were filed with a lengthy letter, called the "Owner's Manual" for the company. In it, co-founder Larry Page said he and co-founder Sergey Brin have worried that the "standard structure of public ownership may jeopardize the independence and focused objectivity that have been most important in Google's past success and that we consider most fundamental for its future."
As a result, the founders "have designed a corporate structure that will protect Google's ability to innovate and retain its most distinctive characteristics." Part of that will be a dual-class structure, in which the founders will hold a higher-vote class of stock that will allow them to control much of the company's fate.".
Bottom line? Once you go public, wall street makes you ride to its tunes. Preventing that at google will establish it not only as the intelligent company but a financially astute one too.
Side note-Berkshire hathaway is planning to soak up as many shares are available. Any ideas what Google will do with the money it raises?
Probably not. Jobs himself said that video on a handheld device like the iPod is not what the majority of people are looking for. And at 7-800 $. Too high. Might make a nice christmas gift for the 2005 Christmas though.
This gender specific stuff is idiotic. Printers for women only? What are they going to do? Print on politically correct 6 by 8 inches paper? Each printout will have a pink boundary? It will be tuned to your biological clock and avoid printing in red for a few days? Photos containing photos of violence, guns etc will be left out like that currency thing? This printer can fit in your handbag you purchased for 1200 from prada? If you're ugly, will it make you look good? Epson's next going to come out with wood color printers that look like ammo boxes for the guys? I mean wtf is this?
actually this wsj story cannot be published in
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this manner.
I read this article yesterday and was planning to post it to slashdot but read this "REMINDER: This service is for personal, non-commercial use only. For commercial reprints, Web links , e-mailings and other permission types, please visit our copyright and reprint center here."(reprints.dowjones.com). Reprint permission for this story would cost 350 $ for 3 months.
True. Take a look at this. Scroll down and read the customer comments on that page. Scary. I agree Dell and HP are not too good either but they are surely better than the junk Gateway is offering. Unless they improve quality or drastically reduce pricing, they will be looking at exiting the market in 2-3 years or getting bought out.
Bullshit. EV1 is not a small company. This is like daylight robbery..
And he mentions that sco has 60 million.. that money can last for a while yet because quite a bit of sco's resources are directed at lawsuits. But last I heard sco had 10-20 million. Where did the remaining come from? Short selling of its own stock?
There are many on slashdot who won't even register for nyt. Just read this and it will make you privacy panaroids cringe.
"This is a complicated business. Each party's databank has the name of every one of the 168 million or so registered voters in the country, cross-indexed with phone numbers, addresses, voting history, income range and so on -- up to as many as several hundred points of data on each voter. The information has been acquired from state voter-registration rolls, census reports, consumer data-mining companies and direct marketing vendors. The parties have also amassed detailed information about the political and social beliefs that you might have shared with canvassers who have phoned or knocked on the door over the past few years. While specifics vary, a typical voter profile like my own, for instance, would show my age, address, phone numbers; which elections I've voted in over the past 10 or 15 years and whether I've ever voted on an absentee ballot; and my e-mail address. It would include my New Jersey party registration (Democrat), whether I've ever made a political donation (none that I recall), my approximate income, my ethnicity, my marital status and the number of children living in my house. Thanks to the ready availability of subscriber lists, mortgage data and product warranty information, the parties might use records of the newspapers I read (this one), the computer I work on (a Macintosh), the men's-wear catalogs I receive (Brooks Brothers, Land's End) and the loan-to-value ratio of my home."
And you guys spew vitriol over website registrations? That's the least of your worries...
2.5 Gbit/s is enough to cause MS network admin's pagers to start beeping. You could even try it with sco. You can send them to their doom within 10 minutes.
Ya know, once you mess with MS, you'll get a 1 inch law book and a 25 page letter from their legal department which you can then sell on ebay! You'll have reams of newsprint discussing your DDoS attempt. Its a win win situation for you(from jail);)
According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics.
Ok. Who watches CPAN here? Time to throw out our congressmen(and women) and take their places on capitol hill. And make our congressmen code monkeys. Don't be surprised if you frag down your senator on CS then.
I don't even prefer a pc anymore. Forget home theatre pc's. I value mobility way more than high end video cards and expandibility. And the fact that I don't like crt's. Thats why I stick to a laptop. Price is initally higher but so is its resale value.
companies like de beers etc violate human rights. They are worse off than microsoft.
What servers and firewalls are used for censorship? It can't be windows. Some of it has to be unix, linux too.. that means you're going to demonize ibm, sun, hp, apache, red hat etc??
Beijing Targets Technology To Track Shipped Goods Using Radio Frequencies By CHARLES HUTZLER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BEIJING -- China is opening a front in its campaign to set global technology standards by trying to influence an emerging inventory-tracking technology -- a move that could unsettle major foreign investors.
The government last week announced the formation of an interagency group to draft standards for the tracking technology, known as radio frequency identification, or RFID. The technology, which allows retailers and suppliers to track shipping containers and pallets as they make their way around the world, eventually could be applied to billions of dollars in goods traded globally.
A team of Chinese bureaucrats and experts will visit the U.S. and Japan next month to meet companies and government agencies promoting competing and potentially incompatible RFID standards, said Edward Zeng, chairman of Sparkice Inc., an electronic-commerce and Internet-cafe chain, and a member of the Chinese task force.
Beijing has been spurred into action by calls from international retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, Ark., and Metro Group AG of Germany to begin applying RFID to goods exported from China, possibly requiring huge outlays by Chinese manufacturers.
Nearly 70% of Wal-Mart's world-wide procurement consists of Chinese-made products, and the retailer wants suppliers to begin using RFID to track shipping containers and pallets beginning in 2005. Metro said last week that its biggest 100 suppliers should start rolling out the technology in November.
The retailers and other proponents of RFID say the technology will spawn a revolution in commerce, helping companies better manage their supply chains, from manufacturers to consumers. RFID involves an array of technologies, including tiny computer chips that are affixed to each product or shipping container and that transmit radio signals, equipment that reads the signals, and servers that store the information for retrieval on Web-based networks. Initially, the technology is expected to be used only to track shipments and inventories, but it eventually could help companies chart purchases by individual consumers, allowing them to amass loads of information on personal preferences.
"Eventually, this will be the DNA of global commerce," Mr. Zeng said. He noted that China's $438 billion in exports last year and its growing role as a world-wide manufacturing hub give the country a say in determining RFID standards.
China's interest in RFID is part of a broader push to determine technology standards and reverse the flow of royalties paid by Chinese companies to license foreign technology. In recent months, the government has announced domestic encryption standards for local wireless computer networks, and it is promoting or developing homegrown technical standards for next-generation DVD players, third-generation mobile-phone networks and household networks that will run entertainment systems and appliances. The campaign has drawn criticism from foreign industry executives who say China's standards won't produce viable, leading-edge technologies and are a form of protectionism.
A bevy of standards needs to be worked out for RFID, from uniform frequencies and compatible signal-reading equipment to formats for data. The U.S. and Japan are allocating different ultrahigh frequency radio bands for RFID, potentially creating a headache for manufacturers that supply both countries.
Some manufacturers also question whether the technology backed by Wal-Mart and other U.S. businesses is inferior to other standards, said Loh Kin Wah, who heads Asian-Pacific operations for chip maker Infineon Technologies AG.
Mr. Zeng, of Sparkice, said China is hoping to avoid friction with foreign companies over RFID. His appointment as the working group's sole private entrepreneur is a sign of the government's intentions, he s
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Is there any comparison between Defcon and this conference?
You moved from IMAP to web only email? Heh
For me its the other way.. I have a gmail account but its only for novelty. Gmail users started getting invites quite regularly from last week or so.. Gmail's nice(damn fast) but I need one feature it doesn't offer-IMAP mail. I have a 1GB hosting account and only 50MB is used for hosting.. so the rest is available for email.
A few days back, my yahoo account was near its limit and I received a warning about it. The very next email was from yahoo again, this time to notify that my storage had increased.
But the madness for gmail accounts is amazing. In orkut there are like 40 communities setup to beg for invitations. The largest is 1000 odd members and there's even 1 that says "we hate gmail" so that some gmail member with invites might stop by and have pity on those pathetics(is that a word?).
My wild guess about when gmail is available to the public?- About a week before Google's IPO.
It would give users enough time to use gmail and probably become interested in buying a few shares( this reasoning's wrong but who knows).
The other guess is that gmail will not become public until a much later time. Once it becomes open to the public, millions will sign up for accounts.. maybe google wants to do it in a phased manner. Invites might continue to increase from say 3 a day to 10-20. This is a lot more orderly and won't overburden the servers.. I don't know, I'm just talking out of my ass.
3-4 years back I downloaded a post it like program called freenote(90KB). I tried the official post-it software program from 3M but it was like 3MB and too bloated.
Freenote works fine but some notes might get misplaced(especially if you place too many on the desktop) after 10-15 days.
For a bigger list of similar programs, just go to download.com and enter post it or freenote in the search box.
Some more stuff-
Sky Sports(UK) has a race day program(1 hour) before every formula1 race starts. Once every 2-3 races, they examine the technical aspects of formula1 racing. The steering wheel is discussed twice during the racing year.
The steering wheel costs more than your average luxury sedan. For this 2004 season, FIA made manual shifting mandatory but the top teams still manage to work their way around it and have part of it computer controlled.
About sponsorships, formula1 car workings, upto date news- see BBC Formula1 Many articles on the RHS.
For those who don't get Speed Channel, you can follow live timing(and a lot more) and unbiased commentary on the formula1.com website.
If you are a car collector, you can buy actual parts of the BAR forumla1 car from the pure racing club at BAR(flash).
Also take a look at its quarterly magazine( its nice).
I hven't read the article yet but there is a lot of money sloshing around in F1. Ferrari alone spends 500 million$ a year(and this was 2 years back). BMW vaulted to one of the top teams because they put some of their best engineers and spent a buttload of money(350 million+) initializing the team.
Even Minardi which is the poorest team in f1 spends as much or more than the top Indy racing teams.
During 2000-2002 there was a lot of controversy regarding sale of global tv rights to Kirch(German media company). A lot of F1 teams threatened to form a new series of their own from 2008. The threats aren't so loud now but the issue still simmers.
He probably got tired of all the silicone and no forest. ;)
"because even one false positive can get them in trouble?"
You should probably go take a class on probability. When you're dealing with millions of email, there are going to be some false positives.
What's the alternative, hand sort them?
Yeah, that's a good idea right? But with bayesian filtering, you can do a lot of refining when you're dealing with millions of email.
And who says that you need to use the same filters for the health dept and the transport dept.
Jesus christ, there are lots of companies that already do this. Its not like Baltimore's the only city with millions of old email.
This is not a mars mission, this is judicious use of existing technology- bayesian filters(or whatever fits the profile) and enterprise storage solutions.
Its better off spending a few hundred thousand(or less) on archiving the mails than spend a million or two on lawyers and court 5 years later defending the decision to delete the data after some citizen sues them for records etc.
yeah, how else will those nigerian spammers get their message across that they have FORTY MILLION DOLLARS(40,000,000 $) AND ARE WILLING TO GIVE YOU A SHARE OF IT IF YOU ARE A NOOB.
DDR.
;)
This definition of DDR too should help you lose weight if you do it regularly.
some brothas are going to beat you black and blue. :)
Here's the wsj article(for subscribers).
An interesting paragraph-
"According to the filing, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt made $ 250,000 in salarly and got a $301,556 bonus last year, plus other compensation of $2,894. Co-founders Mr. Brin, now president of technology and Mr. Page, now president of products, both got salaries of $150,000 and bonuses of 206,556.".
And you can compare the pay with other US companies. Other companies can learn from google here.
For those worried that Google will become a wall street pawn, here's what the founders are doing about it-
"The offering documents were filed with a lengthy letter, called the "Owner's Manual" for the company. In it, co-founder Larry Page said he and co-founder Sergey Brin have worried that the "standard structure of public ownership may jeopardize the independence and focused objectivity that have been most important in Google's past success and that we consider most fundamental for its future."
As a result, the founders "have designed a corporate structure that will protect Google's ability to innovate and retain its most distinctive characteristics."
Part of that will be a dual-class structure, in which the founders will hold a higher-vote class of stock that will allow them to control much of the company's fate.".
Bottom line? Once you go public, wall street makes you ride to its tunes. Preventing that at google will establish it not only as the intelligent company but a financially astute one too.
Side note-Berkshire hathaway is planning to soak up as many shares are available.
Any ideas what Google will do with the money it raises?
all you need is the photo of the one on fire to figure out which one they were using as their webserver.
Probably not. Jobs himself said that video on a handheld device like the iPod is not what the majority of people are looking for. And at 7-800 $. Too high.
Might make a nice christmas gift for the 2005 Christmas though.
This gender specific stuff is idiotic. Printers for women only? What are they going to do?
Print on politically correct 6 by 8 inches paper?
Each printout will have a pink boundary?
It will be tuned to your biological clock and avoid printing in red for a few days?
Photos containing photos of violence, guns etc will be left out like that currency thing?
This printer can fit in your handbag you purchased for 1200 from prada?
If you're ugly, will it make you look good?
Epson's next going to come out with wood color printers that look like ammo boxes for the guys?
I mean wtf is this?
this manner.
I read this article yesterday and was planning to post it to slashdot but
read this
"REMINDER: This service is for personal, non-commercial use only. For commercial reprints, Web links , e-mailings and other permission types, please visit our copyright and reprint center here."(reprints.dowjones.com).
Reprint permission for this story would cost 350 $ for 3 months.
True.
Take a look at this. Scroll down and read the customer comments on that page. Scary. I agree Dell and HP are not too good either but they are surely better than the junk Gateway is offering. Unless they improve quality or drastically reduce pricing, they will be looking at exiting the market in 2-3 years or getting bought out.
Its like stating "64k cable broadband" or a "a fast tortoise"..
16lbs and notebook used in the same sentence. Hah
Bullshit. EV1 is not a small company.
This is like daylight robbery..
And he mentions that sco has 60 million.. that money can last for a while yet because quite a bit of sco's resources are directed at lawsuits.
But last I heard sco had 10-20 million. Where did the remaining come from? Short selling of its own stock?
The sco saga may not be over anytime soon.
Read this article from the NYT.
There are many on slashdot who won't even register for nyt. Just read this and it will make you privacy panaroids cringe.
"This is a complicated business. Each party's databank has the name of every one of the 168 million or so registered voters in the country, cross-indexed with phone numbers, addresses, voting history, income range and so on -- up to as many as several hundred points of data on each voter. The information has been acquired from state voter-registration rolls, census reports, consumer data-mining companies and direct marketing vendors. The parties have also amassed detailed information about the political and social beliefs that you might have shared with canvassers who have phoned or knocked on the door over the past few years. While specifics vary, a typical voter profile like my own, for instance, would show my age, address, phone numbers; which elections I've voted in over the past 10 or 15 years and whether I've ever voted on an absentee ballot; and my e-mail address. It would include my New Jersey party registration (Democrat), whether I've ever made a political donation (none that I recall), my approximate income, my ethnicity, my marital status and the number of children living in my house. Thanks to the ready availability of subscriber lists, mortgage data and product warranty information, the parties might use records of the newspapers I read (this one), the computer I work on (a Macintosh), the men's-wear catalogs I receive (Brooks Brothers, Land's End) and the loan-to-value ratio of my home."
And you guys spew vitriol over website registrations? That's the least of your worries...
2.5 Gbit/s is enough to cause MS network admin's pagers to start beeping.
You could even try it with sco. You can send them to their doom within 10 minutes.
Ya know, once you mess with MS, you'll get a 1 inch law book and a 25 page letter from their legal department which you can then sell on ebay!
You'll have reams of newsprint discussing your DDoS attempt.
Its a win win situation for you(from jail);)
damn.. I knew I was missing a letter or so.. I even googled for it.
According to the author we spend too much time with our systems and not enough with politics.
Ok. Who watches CPAN here? Time to throw out our congressmen(and women) and take their places on capitol hill.
And make our congressmen code monkeys. Don't be surprised if you frag down your senator on CS then.
I don't even prefer a pc anymore. Forget home theatre pc's.
I value mobility way more than high end video cards and expandibility. And the fact that I don't like crt's.
Thats why I stick to a laptop. Price is initally higher but so is its resale value.
a little OT but in spring,01 I took that class. :)
My paper's there too
In my view, probably one of the best classes I took while I was there..
companies like de beers etc violate human rights. They are worse off than microsoft.
What servers and firewalls are used for censorship? It can't be windows. Some of it has to be unix, linux too..
that means you're going to demonize ibm, sun, hp, apache, red hat etc??
nothing sensational, move on.
China Opens Front
In Standards Debate
Beijing Targets Technology
To Track Shipped Goods
Using Radio Frequencies
By CHARLES HUTZLER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BEIJING -- China is opening a front in its campaign to set global technology standards by trying to influence an emerging inventory-tracking technology -- a move that could unsettle major foreign investors.
The government last week announced the formation of an interagency group to draft standards for the tracking technology, known as radio frequency identification, or RFID. The technology, which allows retailers and suppliers to track shipping containers and pallets as they make their way around the world, eventually could be applied to billions of dollars in goods traded globally.
A team of Chinese bureaucrats and experts will visit the U.S. and Japan next month to meet companies and government agencies promoting competing and potentially incompatible RFID standards, said Edward Zeng, chairman of Sparkice Inc., an electronic-commerce and Internet-cafe chain, and a member of the Chinese task force.
Beijing has been spurred into action by calls from international retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, Ark., and Metro Group AG of Germany to begin applying RFID to goods exported from China, possibly requiring huge outlays by Chinese manufacturers.
Nearly 70% of Wal-Mart's world-wide procurement consists of Chinese-made products, and the retailer wants suppliers to begin using RFID to track shipping containers and pallets beginning in 2005. Metro said last week that its biggest 100 suppliers should start rolling out the technology in November.
The retailers and other proponents of RFID say the technology will spawn a revolution in commerce, helping companies better manage their supply chains, from manufacturers to consumers. RFID involves an array of technologies, including tiny computer chips that are affixed to each product or shipping container and that transmit radio signals, equipment that reads the signals, and servers that store the information for retrieval on Web-based networks. Initially, the technology is expected to be used only to track shipments and inventories, but it eventually could help companies chart purchases by individual consumers, allowing them to amass loads of information on personal preferences.
"Eventually, this will be the DNA of global commerce," Mr. Zeng said. He noted that China's $438 billion in exports last year and its growing role as a world-wide manufacturing hub give the country a say in determining RFID standards.
China's interest in RFID is part of a broader push to determine technology standards and reverse the flow of royalties paid by Chinese companies to license foreign technology. In recent months, the government has announced domestic encryption standards for local wireless computer networks, and it is promoting or developing homegrown technical standards for next-generation DVD players, third-generation mobile-phone networks and household networks that will run entertainment systems and appliances. The campaign has drawn criticism from foreign industry executives who say China's standards won't produce viable, leading-edge technologies and are a form of protectionism.
A bevy of standards needs to be worked out for RFID, from uniform frequencies and compatible signal-reading equipment to formats for data. The U.S. and Japan are allocating different ultrahigh frequency radio bands for RFID, potentially creating a headache for manufacturers that supply both countries.
Some manufacturers also question whether the technology backed by Wal-Mart and other U.S. businesses is inferior to other standards, said Loh Kin Wah, who heads Asian-Pacific operations for chip maker Infineon Technologies AG.
Mr. Zeng, of Sparkice, said China is hoping to avoid friction with foreign companies over RFID. His appointment as the working group's sole private entrepreneur is a sign of the government's intentions, he s