For some it might be, but other people enjoy flash because it is versatile medium. where would candystand.com be without flash and shockwave? homestarrunner.com? If you don't use flash, you have animated gifs(not versatile) or movies. I enjoy flash content. Who cares if it is in the page? I have a decent connection. The only annoyance to me is popups and google is very effective at blocking those.
You shouldn't be worried about Wellborn recovering his legal fees. Felstein will have to pay up otherwise he will be in contempt of court. Even if the case is withdrawn, Wellborn has access to the charges filed by Felstein. And that is what he meant by saying that he is going to go after Felstein's clients.
As somebody else stated, once this case is settled,it will set a precedent.
"New Password should not match with any of the previous 5 passwords. It should have minimum 8 characters. It should contain at least one capital letter (UPPER CASE), one small letter (lower case), one digit(0-9) placed in between the letters".
Why not just have an 8 character alphanumeric combination instead of compulsorily having a captial letter and no numbers at the end of the password?
. I am in another country right now and I'm paying 80 $ for 128k cable 2 GB. Prior to this, I had 512k DSL & 768k cable for 18$ & 24$ respectively in the US. For 2 years.
To some point you might be right but your statement is too generalized. Where do you think chip innovation is coming from? Intel, AMD, IBM... Are these small firms? No. Universities and small firms can only do so much research because as the sizes of transistors and chips decreases, fabrication and research costs increase exponentially. And if you read the article, it says that 12.5 million was provided by the govt and matching funds by HP.
Do you think HP is breaking the bank by providing that kind of money? This endeavor is not Itanium sized in terms of a cash sink. You got to start somewhere. If you think the microprocessor industry is where it is without its share of research and faliures, its not true.
on the NHK channel(Japanese TV, nhk.or.jp). It is actually a very spiffy car. It looks sleek and more like a mini-minivan than the regular Prius. Also, this model was black in color. In the demonstration the man driving the Prius stopped the car a little ahead of a parking spot, then on the LCD screen, pressed the left & right buttons(Im guessing, cuz it was in japanese and too small to read) and then the car parked itself right on the spot intended. The driver at that time was "look ma, no hands". There were front and rear cameras and while parking the car was emitting a sound similar to the "put seatbelt on" one.
I hope somebody really got fired for this. 100 Mbits/sec is no joke.
I own one of the wireless netgear routers(MR814v2) and I checked his website to see if it was listed and it only mentions MR814 there. Just to be sure, I did mail this guy to clarify it. My router does not have a provison to change the date and time( it still shows Jan 1, 03). And even after the firmware upgrade, I cannot update the date.
With this being such a serious problem, you would have expected Netgear to have put up a notification section on the index page of their website. Maybe they don't want additional bad publicity. More details here(I hope somebody really got fired for this. 100 Mbits/sec is no joke. --- Otherwise, the card and router work fine.
because there are millions of laptops that are not equipped with USB 2 ports. Thats why there are PCMCIA USB 2 cards. Many laptops have only 1 USB port( those made before 2002). If you already have a USB mouse, where can you plug in that webcam, USB external keyboard etc? Many laptops made before 2002 do not have Firewire ports. If you want to use the iPod and camcorders, you need a Firewire PCMCIA card.
Take 56k modems and 10/100 ethernet ports. Again, older laptops do not have them onboard. You need PCMCIA cards for that. Then you have the case of wi-fi. Unless your laptop is a Centrino, there is no way of going wifi without a wireless card.
Firewire 800 is "only" in the Macs now. It might come to the PC soon but it will take a while to come to laptops(~6 months). Firewire 400 is the norm for laptops.
What will SCO do if the users declare to see the code and DO NOT sign the NDA? That essentially means that the lawsuit is invalid?
Lets use this analogy. Just an example. Say XY company claims JKL company stole some widget designs from them. JKL manufacturers those designs. 1500 people have bought those widgets. XY decides to sue those 1500 people. If XY took this to court, would this case be valid? Probably not.
Read the reports in various newspapers, you will have come across many articles saying how antiquated the power transmission system has become.
Power companies have specifically stated that putting in new power grids is very problematic because people don't want this anywhere near their property. This view is exactly like those bastards at Cape Cod. They scream themselves hoarse that they are enviornmentalists and then fscking say no to wind mills 6 miles off the shore.
Same thing with this power grid. Companies that want to lay new power grids cannot go foward and lay lines because the residents will not waste anytime taking them to court. "We don't want it in our backyard". Well, somebody has to pickup the cost.
Also, Canada has an excess of power generation capacity. If the US had better lines, it could have taken up the excess power Canada generates.
[ "The strain on transmission capacity is particularly acute in New York State, which is known in the industry for having far too few high-voltage power lines",
"community resistance to new lines has been high and continues to prevent new lines from being built, particularly in high-density areas like the northeast. While the federal government can step in and insist on construction of natural gas pipelines, it has no such power related to electrical transmission lines. "People want more power, but they don't want those lines"".
"Most of New York City's and Long Island's power at peak times must be generated in the city and on the Island, because it is physically impossible to transmit that much power into the area along the existing lines." ]
so now it will be-
Diamonds are a geek's bust friend ? Offer a diamond ring to your gf without
emptying your pockets?
--
Seriously though, if diamond experts have difficulty saying its not earth
extracted diamonds then what effect, if any will it have on the diamond hoard of
2 billion $ that De Beers has under its headquarters in SA/London?
Here's a
article from the Guardian,
article in the Forbes.
Wow, if these new diamonds become popular, then platinum will be the only
cool thing to hoard.
You're right about that SSN stuff. I bank at Wells Fargo and until a few months(2-3) back, I only had the option of using my SSN instead of a username.
I've used a key logger on my computer for ~2 years now(legal reasons). Whenever my friends visited my apartment, they would ask me to login so that they could check their email etc. I used to flatly refuse and tell them my machine had a key logger in it.
One way to check if a machine has a keylogger is to type some stuff like "yakyak", reboot and do a search for text files containing that term. I had to do this a few times to convince my friends and sometimes explain what a key logger was.
In my department, somebody had installed Half life and what not on computers running NT. It never occured to me at that time that somebody might also run keyloggers in the dept computers. 2 reasons. One- Eventhough the admin never came down to the basement lab(mostly used by MS, Phd students), he kept meticulous logs. Two- I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to risk their freedom(expulsion, jail, maybe deportation) doing such stuff and again because of the logs.
So if your at a friend's house or some public library/cybercafe, its possible that a key logger might be installed. So in this case you might have to "pulpify" somebody's head.:)
Also, if your bank/credit card company offers online only statements, definitely sign up. It's saved me the headaches of keeping them safe. I can always ask my bank for previous statements if I need them.
"ISPS MAKE MONEY, TOO
An entirely separate set of companies also benefits from the spam economy -- Internet service providers who carry their traffic... In exchange, the ISP agrees to suffer more than normal complaint rates. In PSINet's contract, revealed on News.com, the firm received an upfront payment of $27,000 from Cajunnet, a marketing firm based in Slidell, La. In exchange, PSINet agreed to permit Cajunnet to send unsolicited email "in mass quantity" through PSINet's lines."
Maybe this might drum some sense into somethingawful.com's heads.
I made a comment 2 days earlier about this. If you do business with ISP's that work hand in glove with spammers, don't go around whining that SPEWS is the one to blame.
"Last year, Calgary, Alberta (population 904,987), began putting some of these measures to the test. Engineers downsized the high-pressure sodium lights in several neighborhoods, substituted 100-watt for 200-watt bulbs and 150-watters for 250s, and installed flat lenses that focus the light downward. Streetlighting coordinator Barry Poon says elderly citizens howled that less lighting would boost crime. "But police told us there's no correlation between light levels and crime. Breaking and enterings actually occur in daytime when people aren't in." The results agreed: The crime rate in the areas with the new lights went unchanged. Now, Poon reports, "I'd say we get 10 positive responses for every negative one." Budget watchers were also pleased; the conversion, which will cost 4.5 million U.S. dollars, will save $1.3 million in electricity each year. "
Power is cheap in America. My college town is lit up like a christmas tree even though its pop. is about 8000. Last year around this time I went to my college's observatory(this place was about 10 miles away from any decent light source).
It was a new moon. We saw Venus a few minutes before it disappeared. After that we saw quite a few star formations, iridium satellites, the milky way(beautiful) and I forget what not.
All this heavenly stuff made me want to study astrophysics. After that night I was even planning to buy a telescope but decided against it as I was planning to move.
I agree to some extent. When I was in the US, I used to spend 2 hours daily reading the wsj. When I left the US, I asked wsj is they provided a subscription to the country I was going to. They did- 3500 $ a year and the paper would arrive 3 days later. So the next best alternative? wsj.com. Id still have to say that wsj.com is a pale comparison to its paper version.
Those who question whether something is worth paying could take one look at google news. There may be 300 news sources for a particular story but 270-280 of them would barely be different from reuters or AP.
Take nytimes for example. Articles in the nytimes is rarely direct reproductions from AFP or AP. Articles might be a few hours late or even a day late but when you read articles there, it is better researched and more detailed than you would find elsewhere.
There are lots of people who cannot afford not to subscribe to their business news etc.
I agree with the parent post. I went to google groups and did this
search. Browse though. Cogentco is not having trouble with spews for the
first time. Take a look at this
quote-
"Looks to me like they are still providing
spam support service and
are
going to a lot of trouble to ensure their spammer has no down time.
How spam friendly is
that?"
Something Awful's to blame for staying with spam friendly CogentCo.
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For some it might be, but other people enjoy flash because it is versatile medium.
where would candystand.com be without flash and shockwave? homestarrunner.com?
If you don't use flash, you have animated gifs(not versatile) or movies.
I enjoy flash content. Who cares if it is in the page? I have a decent connection.
The only annoyance to me is popups and google is very effective at blocking those.
You shouldn't be worried about Wellborn recovering his legal fees.
Felstein will have to pay up otherwise he will be in contempt of court.
Even if the case is withdrawn, Wellborn has access to the charges filed by Felstein.
And that is what he meant by saying that he is going to go after Felstein's clients.
As somebody else stated, once this case is settled,it will set a precedent.
"New Password should not match with any of the previous 5 passwords. It should have minimum 8 characters. It should contain at least one capital letter (UPPER CASE), one small letter (lower case), one digit(0-9) placed in between the letters".
Why not just have an 8 character alphanumeric combination instead of compulsorily having a captial letter and no numbers at the end of the password?.
I am in another country right now and I'm paying 80 $ for 128k cable 2 GB.
Prior to this, I had 512k DSL & 768k cable for 18$ & 24$ respectively in the US. For 2 years.
You don't miss something unless you lose it.
To some point you might be right but your statement is too generalized.
Where do you think chip innovation is coming from? Intel, AMD, IBM... Are these small firms? No.
Universities and small firms can only do so much research because as the sizes of transistors and chips decreases, fabrication and research costs increase exponentially.
And if you read the article, it says that 12.5 million was provided by the govt and matching funds by HP.
Do you think HP is breaking the bank by providing that kind of money?
This endeavor is not Itanium sized in terms of a cash sink.
You got to start somewhere. If you think the microprocessor industry is where it is without its share of research and faliures, its not true.
.
Maybe these laptops might be my saviour when the cop pulls me over in Mi and asks whats that bottle of Everclear for.
on the NHK channel(Japanese TV, nhk.or.jp). It is actually a very spiffy car. It looks sleek and more like a mini-minivan than the regular Prius. Also, this model was black in color.
In the demonstration the man driving the Prius stopped the car a little ahead of a parking spot, then on the LCD screen, pressed the left & right buttons(Im guessing, cuz it was in japanese and too small to read) and then the car parked itself right on the spot intended. The driver at that time was "look ma, no hands". There were front and rear cameras and while parking the car was emitting a sound similar to the "put seatbelt on" one.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
I hope somebody really got fired for this. 100 Mbits/sec is no joke.
I own one of the wireless netgear routers(MR814v2) and I checked his website to see if it was listed and it only mentions MR814 there. Just to be sure, I did mail this guy to clarify it.
My router does not have a provison to change the date and time( it still shows Jan 1, 03). And even after the firmware upgrade, I cannot update the date.
With this being such a serious problem, you would have expected Netgear to have put up a notification section on the index page of their website. Maybe they don't want additional bad publicity. More details here(I hope somebody really got fired for this. 100 Mbits/sec is no joke.
---
Otherwise, the card and router work fine.
because there are millions of laptops that are not equipped with USB 2 ports. Thats why there are PCMCIA USB 2 cards.
Many laptops have only 1 USB port( those made before 2002).
If you already have a USB mouse, where can you plug in that webcam, USB external keyboard etc?
Many laptops made before 2002 do not have Firewire ports. If you want to use the iPod and camcorders, you need a Firewire PCMCIA card.
Take 56k modems and 10/100 ethernet ports. Again, older laptops do not have them onboard. You need PCMCIA cards for that.
Then you have the case of wi-fi. Unless your laptop is a Centrino, there is no way of going wifi without a wireless card.
Firewire 800 is "only" in the Macs now. It might come to the PC soon but it will take a while to come to laptops(~6 months). Firewire 400 is the norm for laptops.
Projectj. Its only the main page.
What will SCO do if the users declare to see the code and DO NOT sign the NDA? That essentially means that the lawsuit is invalid?
Lets use this analogy. Just an example. Say XY company claims JKL company stole some widget designs from them. JKL manufacturers those designs.
1500 people have bought those widgets. XY decides to sue those 1500 people. If XY took this to court, would this case be valid? Probably not.
Just read about about it on the BBC
It was taken from here and here. Both links are non-registration.
Read the reports in various newspapers, you will have come across many articles saying how antiquated the power transmission system has become.
Power companies have specifically stated that putting in new power grids is very problematic because people don't want this anywhere near their property.
This view is exactly like those bastards at Cape Cod. They scream themselves hoarse that they are enviornmentalists and then fscking say no to wind mills 6 miles off the shore.
Same thing with this power grid. Companies that want to lay new power grids cannot go foward and lay lines because the residents will not waste anytime taking them to court. "We don't want it in our backyard".
Well, somebody has to pickup the cost.
Also, Canada has an excess of power generation capacity. If the US had better lines, it could have taken up the excess power Canada generates.
[ "The strain on transmission capacity is particularly acute in New York State, which is known in the industry for having far too few high-voltage power lines",
"community resistance to new lines has been high and continues to prevent new lines from being built, particularly in high-density areas like the northeast. While the federal government can step in and insist on construction of natural gas pipelines, it has no such power related to electrical transmission lines. "People want more power, but they don't want those lines"".
"Most of New York City's and Long Island's power at peak times must be generated in the city and on the Island, because it is physically impossible to transmit that much power into the area along the existing lines." ]
Be careful what you wish for. If she's not computer savvy, she might get her diamond laced mother on board.
God bless you then.so now it will be-
Diamonds are a geek's bust friend ? Offer a diamond ring to your gf without emptying your pockets?
--
Seriously though, if diamond experts have difficulty saying its not earth extracted diamonds then what effect, if any will it have on the diamond hoard of 2 billion $ that De Beers has under its headquarters in SA/London?
Here's a article from the Guardian, article in the Forbes.
Wow, if these new diamonds become popular, then platinum will be the only cool thing to hoard.
You're right about that SSN stuff. I bank at Wells Fargo and until a few months(2-3) back, I only had the option of using my SSN instead of a username.
:)
I've used a key logger on my computer for ~2 years now(legal reasons). Whenever my friends visited my apartment, they would ask me to login so that they could check their email etc. I used to flatly refuse and tell them my machine had a key logger in it.
One way to check if a machine has a keylogger is to type some stuff like "yakyak", reboot and do a search for text files containing that term.
I had to do this a few times to convince my friends and sometimes explain what a key logger was.
In my department, somebody had installed Half life and what not on computers running NT. It never occured to me at that time that somebody might also run keyloggers in the dept computers.
2 reasons. One- Eventhough the admin never came down to the basement lab(mostly used by MS, Phd students), he kept meticulous logs.
Two- I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to risk their freedom(expulsion, jail, maybe deportation) doing such stuff and again because of the logs.
So if your at a friend's house or some public library/cybercafe, its possible that a key logger might be installed.
So in this case you might have to "pulpify" somebody's head.
Also, if your bank/credit card company offers online only statements, definitely sign up. It's saved me the headaches of keeping them safe. I can always ask my bank for previous statements if I need them.
You'll save yourself some grief if you get yourself a wireless card. ;)
I got myself one too. No regrets.
An entirely separate set of companies also benefits from the spam economy -- Internet service providers who carry their traffic... In exchange, the ISP agrees to suffer more than normal complaint rates. In PSINet's contract, revealed on News.com, the firm received an upfront payment of $27,000 from Cajunnet, a marketing firm based in Slidell, La. In exchange, PSINet agreed to permit Cajunnet to send unsolicited email "in mass quantity" through PSINet's lines."
Maybe this might drum some sense into somethingawful.com's heads.
I made a comment 2 days earlier about this. If you do business with ISP's that work hand in glove with spammers, don't go around whining that SPEWS is the one to blame.Maybe you should RTFA?
Power is cheap in America. My college town is lit up like a christmas tree even though its pop. is about 8000.
Last year around this time I went to my college's observatory(this place was about 10 miles away from any decent light source).
It was a new moon. We saw Venus a few minutes before it disappeared. After that we saw quite a few star formations, iridium satellites, the milky way(beautiful) and I forget what not.
All this heavenly stuff made me want to study astrophysics. After that night I was even planning to buy a telescope but decided against it as I was planning to move.
I agree to some extent. When I was in the US, I used to spend 2 hours daily reading the wsj. When I left the US, I asked wsj is they provided a subscription to the country I was going to. They did- 3500 $ a year and the paper would arrive 3 days later. So the next best alternative? wsj.com.
Id still have to say that wsj.com is a pale comparison to its paper version.
Those who question whether something is worth paying could take one look at google news. There may be 300 news sources for a particular story but 270-280 of them would barely be different from reuters or AP.
Take nytimes for example. Articles in the nytimes is rarely direct reproductions from AFP or AP. Articles might be a few hours late or even a day late but when you read articles there, it is better researched and more detailed than you would find elsewhere.
There are lots of people who cannot afford not to subscribe to their business news etc.
I agree with the parent post. I went to google groups and did this search. Browse though. Cogentco is not having trouble with spews for the first time. Take a look at this quote-
"Looks to me like they are still providing spam support service and are
going to a lot of trouble to ensure their spammer has no down time.
How spam friendly is that?"
Something Awful's to blame for staying with spam friendly CogentCo.
That's quite some time for Nintendo to get serious with its Gameboy.