At one point, the Blizzard representative likened my request to buying an empty milk jug and returning to the store to demand more milk for free so I can use the jug.
Get a cow. It won't mind if you take an empty milk jug to it and demand more milk from it every day.
RE: Firefox Users IE 7 is coming
In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Other link
IE 7 Code!!!!!!!
http://dean.edwards.name/
i think these are real developers on early stages
the work has begun i'm sure of that!
Not really sure what's going on here...but don't have time to dig in further right now.
As I understand it, Google Groups is just one more interface to Usenet, like zillion others offered by ISPs, schools, and other servers. The propogation mechanism of messages is still the same, and they just offered a way for people to access News using a web based interface (lots of other sites offer this) rather than through a regular News reader (rtin, etc).
I'm fine with Google offering a faster mirror/interface to Wikipedia, because mirroring of information is always good. From the last/. article on the subject, I gathered that Google would offer their faster processing power and ub3r bandwidth to Wikipedia....but that doesn't necessarily mean they get to hijack the content....they'd just provide a faster way to get to information that's mirrored elsewhere.
As GM of a major corporation, you must be expected to be aware of your competition, it's products and what they're saying about you, etc. Linux is different from routine competition, in that you don't have any single company to listen to (press releases, etc) to figure out what they're up to.
Q. Do you frequent Slashdot and the other Linux boards to say what your competition's saying about you?
That's 0.002 times the speed of light or only about 1/500th the speed of light.
Plugging 670*10^3m/s into Lorent'z equation:
t = t'/(sqrt(1-(v^2/c2)) where v=6.7*10^5m/s and c = 2.99*10^8,
I got a time dilation of factor of 1.00000249. That is, time in the moving system (the star) will be observed by a stationary observer to be running slower by a factor of 1.00000249.
Not as impressive as I hoped it would be when I started the calculations.
Google India launches Google India Code Jam 2005 with a payoff of Rs. 3lakh (roughly enquivalent to $20k (my estimate after adjusting for cost of living and annual salaries)). This contest is also being organized by TopCoder.
The Google India News page also links to this news article about Anurag Acharya, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technlogy and the engineer behind Google Scholar. Incidentally, Krishan Bharat the Principle Scientist at Google who created Google News is also an IIT graduate.
I think a lot of questions are being asked about blogs because of all the publicty they've been getting lately.
I don't see how they're any different from personal websites, which have been around for a while. I would think that you would be bound by the agreement with which the website or blog is hosted. For example, if the webpage exists on Geocities, you are bound by their Terms of Service, which among other things states:
7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on your Yahoo GeoCities Site, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities Site on Yahoo's Internet properties.
But that's just Yahoo's TOS, which would obviously differ from company to company.
Blogs work (or atleast work) the same way, with you being bound by the TOS of blogspot or blogger, or any other service.
The main difference I see between personal websites and blogs, is that a majority of blogs seem to be hosted on popular websites offering blogging services like blogspot, blogger, etc. On the other hand, a significant percent of personal websites seem to be hosted on personal machines/servers.
If a blog (or webpage) is hosted on your employer or school's server, then it is bound by their TOS, like it should be.
I really don't see any major difference between the two...nobody's stopping people from putting up their own machines to host their blog. They should be fine as long as they operate independently of their employer/school or any webhosting service. Otherwise tough luck.
Microsoft links to an explanation of benefits of the new MSN where they list the top (first) feature as being "Faster load time". Not sure what the old HTML file size was, but it would be interesting to have as a comparison.
According to the Wayback machine, file size doesn't seemed to have changed (or reduced) that much. This old version from July 2004 is actually smaller (33.95kb) than the current one which is 40.55kb. Note that this is from Firefox's "View Page Info" which does not take the total size of the images, etc into account (I think).
But then there are several factors other than raw filesize leading to slower load times.
It's nice to see webpage developers at Microsoft aware of standards, and trying to adhere to them. From this comment:
At 6:29pm on 1 Feb 2005, Venkat Narayanan wrote:
Guys,
I work on the MSN.com Homepage team. Thanks for all of this feedback.
We know that there are still some validation errors. There are still some accessibility issues. We will be working to fix those issues as soon as possible. Please let us know what you think.
I think it only needs standards awareness from a few of the low-level developers to bring about a change. Even if the high level management/QA may not know or care about standards, a developer could make the work standards friendly without foregoing any of the performance/features. It would help, though to have management promote standards awareness, and devote resources to make sure they're complied with. Good for Microsoft if they're doing this. On the other hand, it may only be these few standards aware developers trying to do the right job.
The Sun has launched a pay-as-you-go service which will allow customers requiring huge solar power to rent it by the hour.
Solar power costs users $1 (53p) for an hour's worth of light and heating power on land covered by Sun.
So-called fusion reaction is the latest buzz phrase in a solar system which believes that solar energy is as important a commodity as hardware and software.
The Sun likened fusion reactions to the development of electricity.
'Buck an hour'
The system could mature in the same way utilities such as electricity and water have developed, said the Sun.
"Why generate your own power when you can use ours for a buck an hour?" he asked in an address launching Sun's quarterly solar eclipse event in the center of the Solar System.
The star will have to persuade the entire galaxy to adopt a new model but it said it already had interest from planets in the milkyway, andromeda and B53 stellar clusters.
Some of them want to book capacity of more than 5,000 TeraWatts each, Sun said.
Mr Sun ran a demonstration of the service, showing how fusion could be performed on elements.
Hundreds of atoms were fused simultaneously, generating energy for a few seconds each.
Most of the competitors to the iPod use Microsoft software:
Of course, Microsoft's software is used by dozens of competing music players from manufacturers like Creative Technology, Rio and Sony. Its Windows Media Audio, or WMA, format is supported by several online music stores, including Napster, Musicmatch and Wal-Mart.
Why do most Open Source developers, hackers and software hobbyists appear to be male? The bias is easily visible on most open source websites, discussion boards (/.), and even in the Credits/Contributors list of Linux and other projects.
Not intended to be flamebait, and from a quick readthrough, the article did not seem to address this inequality. We do hear a bevy of jokes about no females reading/....but what really is the reason?
Slashdot Mirror
Is it now illegal for a husband to insert his hardware into the wife's plug'n'play ports?
It'll be interesing to see where it goes from here.
I predict it'll be going downhill....if there's any downhill left, that is.
/\ \o/
\ | <--- Darryl
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...the cast and crew of the New York LUG for their special achievements in realistically geeky costume design and visual effects.
The proper way to avoid flatulence (colloq: farting) is through a controlled diet, avoiding beans, cabbage etc. Drilling is apt to get them nowhere.
Get a cow. It won't mind if you take an empty milk jug to it and demand more milk from it every day.
Your cow won't judge you.
This page is mentioned in an interview transcript at Microsoft and also on "Windows XP Central" and I quote:
RE: Firefox Users IE 7 is coming
In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Other link
IE 7 Code!!!!!!!
http://dean.edwards.name/
i think these are real developers on early stages the work has begun i'm sure of that!
Not really sure what's going on here...but don't have time to dig in further right now.
I'm fine with Google offering a faster mirror/interface to Wikipedia, because mirroring of information is always good. From the last /. article on the subject, I gathered that Google would offer their faster processing power and ub3r bandwidth to Wikipedia....but that doesn't necessarily mean they get to hijack the content....they'd just provide a faster way to get to information that's mirrored elsewhere.
Armed with the night vision scope and shopping cart, we can make those nightly dumpster scavenging rounds really fruitful.
lynx...is there anything it can't do?
Q. Do you frequent Slashdot and the other Linux boards to say what your competition's saying about you?
Plugging 670*10^3m/s into Lorent'z equation:
t = t'/(sqrt(1-(v^2/c2))
where v=6.7*10^5m/s
and c = 2.99*10^8,
I got a time dilation of factor of 1.00000249. That is, time in the moving system (the star) will be observed by a stationary observer to be running slower by a factor of 1.00000249.
Not as impressive as I hoped it would be when I started the calculations.
Google India launches Google India Code Jam 2005 with a payoff of Rs. 3lakh (roughly enquivalent to $20k (my estimate after adjusting for cost of living and annual salaries)). This contest is also being organized by TopCoder.
The Google India News page also links to this news article about Anurag Acharya, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technlogy and the engineer behind Google Scholar. Incidentally, Krishan Bharat the Principle Scientist at Google who created Google News is also an IIT graduate.
I'm building a roof for my cubicle.
I don't see how they're any different from personal websites, which have been around for a while. I would think that you would be bound by the agreement with which the website or blog is hosted. For example, if the webpage exists on Geocities, you are bound by their Terms of Service, which among other things states:
7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site. By submitting Content to Yahoo for inclusion on your Yahoo GeoCities Site, you grant Yahoo the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Yahoo GeoCities Site on Yahoo's Internet properties.
But that's just Yahoo's TOS, which would obviously differ from company to company.
Blogs work (or atleast work) the same way, with you being bound by the TOS of blogspot or blogger, or any other service.
The main difference I see between personal websites and blogs, is that a majority of blogs seem to be hosted on popular websites offering blogging services like blogspot, blogger, etc. On the other hand, a significant percent of personal websites seem to be hosted on personal machines/servers.
If a blog (or webpage) is hosted on your employer or school's server, then it is bound by their TOS, like it should be.
I really don't see any major difference between the two...nobody's stopping people from putting up their own machines to host their blog. They should be fine as long as they operate independently of their employer/school or any webhosting service. Otherwise tough luck.
Oh maybe that's why they called it a "Brief History".
News for Shoppers. Ways to save.
According to the Wayback machine, file size doesn't seemed to have changed (or reduced) that much. This old version from July 2004 is actually smaller (33.95kb) than the current one which is 40.55kb. Note that this is from Firefox's "View Page Info" which does not take the total size of the images, etc into account (I think).
But then there are several factors other than raw filesize leading to slower load times.
It's nice to see webpage developers at Microsoft aware of standards, and trying to adhere to them. From this comment:
At 6:29pm on 1 Feb 2005, Venkat Narayanan wrote:
Guys,
I work on the MSN.com Homepage team. Thanks for all of this feedback.
We know that there are still some validation errors. There are still some accessibility issues. We will be working to fix those issues as soon as possible. Please let us know what you think.
I think it only needs standards awareness from a few of the low-level developers to bring about a change. Even if the high level management/QA may not know or care about standards, a developer could make the work standards friendly without foregoing any of the performance/features. It would help, though to have management promote standards awareness, and devote resources to make sure they're complied with. Good for Microsoft if they're doing this. On the other hand, it may only be these few standards aware developers trying to do the right job.
The Sun has launched a pay-as-you-go service which will allow customers requiring huge solar power to rent it by the hour.
Solar power costs users $1 (53p) for an hour's worth of light and heating power on land covered by Sun.
So-called fusion reaction is the latest buzz phrase in a solar system which believes that solar energy is as important a commodity as hardware and software.
The Sun likened fusion reactions to the development of electricity.
'Buck an hour'
The system could mature in the same way utilities such as electricity and water have developed, said the Sun.
"Why generate your own power when you can use ours for a buck an hour?" he asked in an address launching Sun's quarterly solar eclipse event in the center of the Solar System.
The star will have to persuade the entire galaxy to adopt a new model but it said it already had interest from planets in the milkyway, andromeda and B53 stellar clusters.
Some of them want to book capacity of more than 5,000 TeraWatts each, Sun said.
Mr Sun ran a demonstration of the service, showing how fusion could be performed on elements.
Hundreds of atoms were fused simultaneously, generating energy for a few seconds each.
Sigh....too much time and an agile mind.
Of course, Microsoft's software is used by dozens of competing music players from manufacturers like Creative Technology, Rio and Sony. Its Windows Media Audio, or WMA, format is supported by several online music stores, including Napster, Musicmatch and Wal-Mart.
Not intended to be flamebait, and from a quick readthrough, the article did not seem to address this inequality. We do hear a bevy of jokes about no females reading /....but what really is the reason?
Too many connections
Line #31 certainly has to go.
Just kidding folks...no need to get your panties all in a bunch.
I mean sheesh...whatever will they think of next.