Well, it wasn't really my memory I was concerned with, it's a combination of that and my bandwidth. And memory, in addition to size, has a speed. The combination leads to your overall experience. That's why I only visit about:blank -- I've yet to find a site that has a better experience.:)
Is there an estimated opening price for this? Maybe it will open at the same price that VA Linux did -- but I hope for MySQL's sake that their stock does just a tad better one year later.
This reminds me of Theo de Raadt's letter to the OLPC project. What good is code that contains an array of bytes consisting of basically pre-compiled source code? What happens when a bug is discovered which crashes your system? How do you go about fixing those bytes if the person who wrote it and was under NDA is no longer available?
No, it sounds like his bitterness towards Telus is due to their "crappy service". He says as much in plain English using the words "crappy service". Sheesh, didn't you read his post? Caveat emptor would have fixed the majority of the issues that poster was experiencing and we would have read a different post that simply said "Yeah, Telus service is crappy and I moved on long ago" without all the irrelevant details about how he locked himself into using them, paying $5/month extra, etc.
They charge a $5 per month 'long distance admin fee' on your telephone service. It is just a money grab. If you opt out of their expensive long distance service, then your internet charges go up by...you guessed it...$5 per month.
My internet service will cost over $40 per month for the 1.5/.5 connection when my "price protection plan" ends. I'm locked into their crappy service and they said it will cost me $240 if I choose to bail out early. Sounds like you made some poor decisions regarding your ISP. Blame yourself.
Their webmail uses unencrypted web pages, so you can't use it from wireless hot-spots. Or pretty much anywhere you don't trust the intermediate ISP(s). It probably isn't safe to use anywhere but from home, so what's the point? It's rather bizarre that you use your ISP's email -- what if you have to change your ISP? Go with a GMail account; it's free, ISP neutral, and allows you to use SSL for everything. Plus, GMail gives you way more storage and likely better spam filtering. Or spend a few bucks and get your own domain name and choose a provider that meets your requirements.
It sounds like your bitterness towards Telus is all due to your own poor choices.
Was the offer made in writing? If so, they are obligated to honor it and you'll need to take whatever steps you deem prudent to see that they do. Taking a new employer to court might start things off on the wrong foot, but you shouldn't let them walk all over you especially if it's a larger company. Check into whether or not there are any government agencies who can intervene on your behalf. If the offer wasn't in writing, you're probably screwed for the most part.
The server side isn't much better. We have an ASP.NET application running on.NET..NET is running on the userland Windows subsystems. These subsystems are running on the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware. It gets worse. That hardware is running on electricity. Electricity is running often on fossil fuels. Those fossil fuels are running on dinosaurs. Those dinosaurs run on other dinosaurs and vegetation. The vegetation runs on nutrients and photosynthesis. Photosynthesis runs on solar energy. Solar energy is powered by the Sun.
And I'm not sure what Sun had to do with the.NET framework.
No-one said it was open source, but it's interesting that people assume "source available" means "open source".
Also interesting is that you assumed his statement of fact that it's not open source implies an expectation that it was.:)
Before you do something, ask yourself "what would happen if a million people did this"? Well, if a million people jumped off a cliff then it would only be a small drop before I landed a mountain of soft pillowy bodies.
Intuition doesn't have anything to do with it. SHA-512 has not been cracked and so it meets the definition of a "secure" hash function. Which is exactly why I said: "If there aren't any weaknesses in SHA-512, then it would have more security". However, if there are as-of-yet undiscovered weaknesses in SHA-512 (remember, SHA-1 was also thought to be a secure hash function prior to this discovery) then it really depends on the nature of the weakness as to whether finding a collision in one hash algorithm by taking advantage of one weakness is easier than finding a collision across three hash algorithms by taking advantage of three separate weaknesses.
This is total crap. I can't believe anyone would give any second thought to Chinese propaganda. The correct term is that it's broken. The term "cracked" is actually Slashdot propaganda. Will you now give a second thought to the research regardless of the researchers' nationality?
While that's definitely interesting, it's still not the case that SHA-1 is an encryption scheme. I mean, if you encrypt all your data with SHA-1 then I suppose you ought to be really happy that researchers have found a way to potentially reduce the monumental decryption effort.
Honestly, using SHA-512 is probably more secure than using a bunch of hashes concatenated together. Probably? I'll grant you that the output of SHA-512 is going to be longer than combining several small hashes, but I don't intuitively see that it's necessarily more secure. If there aren't any weaknesses in SHA-512, then it would have more security, but if there are weaknesses that could be exploited to find identical hashes is that more or less difficult than exploiting weaknesses in multiple smaller hash functions?
That appeared to me to be a nice illustration of "shock diamonds".
You can get some really interesting designs out of high-speed flows, especially when you throw in some bright combustion.:) Awesome, thanks for the link.
Anyone know why the various images shows a kind of banding, almost as if the thrust had vertebrae? I'd expect to see one, but it's an interesting pattern that repeats all the way down.
Not to mention that you can't "boil off" chlorine; boiling is only to kill harmful bacteria in the water. Nothing actually leaves the water when you boil it, except for some steam. Anything that has a lower boiling point than water will exit the pot as part of the steam.
...to send some tube steak to my (female) friends (with benefits) when I'm not there in person!
Hmmmm... A poster on slashdot with access to a friend with benefits...Somehow I doubt it, unless the benefits you're referring to are access to a Segway and a D&D partner... I hear the friend is a bit of a dumptruck.
After watching the video of a 3D printer posted a few days back, I don't really understand how they do the top of things. What do they do when the top is flat. The way some 3D printers for rapid prototyping work is that they mix a type of glue with the material the object is made of -- let's say it's sand. So when you're building something, the printer is effectively outputting a cube of sand layer by layer but for each layer, where the object's structure is there's the cross-section of glue also laid down. I'm probably not explaining it that well, but I hope it makes sense. A flat surface will be supported by all of the sand that's beneath it. When the last layer is done, you let it set for a while so that the glue hardens and then you take some compressed air and blow away all the sand, leaving the structure of the object behind.
The article was vague so I'm not sure what method is used, but I doubt you'll be blowing away 500 cubic meters of concrete and gypsum powder to reveal your house structure at the end. So I'm also wondering about any flat surfaces.
There are tens of thousands of teachers who make $35,000 after spending 5-7 years in college with no means to increase their salary... I've always wondered about that. Is this a result of poor career planning? I mean, if you're going to spend that long studying to become something, wouldn't you invest the effort up-front to see if the rewards match your expectations? Anybody who is now considering becoming a teacher can look at that $35,000 figure and see if that career move makes sense for them. If it doesn't, then isn't it their fault for choosing to enter a field in which there is little pay and typically only one single employer?
Maybe there are people out there who'd like to stock shelves at Walmart and make $50K/year doing it. But if they spend 5-7 years in shelf stocking school and then go work for Walmart, should they be surprised that they have no means to increase their salary as they toil in their shitty unappreciated job? Note that I'm not saying stocking shelves compares to teaching -- I'm using this as an analogy where someone (seemingly) blindly goes into a profession with a single employer and expects more than the profession pays.
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Actually, it'd be +1 blonde and some might appreciate the misspelling of lose.
This reminds me of Theo de Raadt's letter to the OLPC project. What good is code that contains an array of bytes consisting of basically pre-compiled source code? What happens when a bug is discovered which crashes your system? How do you go about fixing those bytes if the person who wrote it and was under NDA is no longer available?
Same thing that killed the guy who used to drive around bringing ice so your grandparents could keep the food in their icebox cold.
My internet service will cost over $40 per month for the 1.5/.5 connection when my "price protection plan" ends. I'm locked into their crappy service and they said it will cost me $240 if I choose to bail out early. Sounds like you made some poor decisions regarding your ISP. Blame yourself. Their webmail uses unencrypted web pages, so you can't use it from wireless hot-spots. Or pretty much anywhere you don't trust the intermediate ISP(s). It probably isn't safe to use anywhere but from home, so what's the point? It's rather bizarre that you use your ISP's email -- what if you have to change your ISP? Go with a GMail account; it's free, ISP neutral, and allows you to use SSL for everything. Plus, GMail gives you way more storage and likely better spam filtering. Or spend a few bucks and get your own domain name and choose a provider that meets your requirements.
It sounds like your bitterness towards Telus is all due to your own poor choices.
Was the offer made in writing? If so, they are obligated to honor it and you'll need to take whatever steps you deem prudent to see that they do. Taking a new employer to court might start things off on the wrong foot, but you shouldn't let them walk all over you especially if it's a larger company. Check into whether or not there are any government agencies who can intervene on your behalf. If the offer wasn't in writing, you're probably screwed for the most part.
And I'm not sure what Sun had to do with the
Also interesting is that you assumed his statement of fact that it's not open source implies an expectation that it was.
Shouldn't that be Pwn Your Own Garden?
A mashup is a music term, meaning a song made up from the parts of other songs.
Sort of like how spam was Hormel's canned spiced ham product before this whole junk email marketing thing?including that one? See also: "no joke is left unexplained" truism.
While that's definitely interesting, it's still not the case that SHA-1 is an encryption scheme. I mean, if you encrypt all your data with SHA-1 then I suppose you ought to be really happy that researchers have found a way to potentially reduce the monumental decryption effort.
You can get some really interesting designs out of high-speed flows, especially when you throw in some bright combustion.
Anyone know why the various images shows a kind of banding, almost as if the thrust had vertebrae? I'd expect to see one, but it's an interesting pattern that repeats all the way down.
Hmmmm... A poster on slashdot with access to a friend with benefits...Somehow I doubt it, unless the benefits you're referring to are access to a Segway and a D&D partner... I hear the friend is a bit of a dumptruck.
The article was vague so I'm not sure what method is used, but I doubt you'll be blowing away 500 cubic meters of concrete and gypsum powder to reveal your house structure at the end. So I'm also wondering about any flat surfaces.
Maybe there are people out there who'd like to stock shelves at Walmart and make $50K/year doing it. But if they spend 5-7 years in shelf stocking school and then go work for Walmart, should they be surprised that they have no means to increase their salary as they toil in their shitty unappreciated job? Note that I'm not saying stocking shelves compares to teaching -- I'm using this as an analogy where someone (seemingly) blindly goes into a profession with a single employer and expects more than the profession pays.