1) Have a good adress for personal email. -> only give this to real people 2) Have a shopping adress for websites who ask for it when you buy shit 3) Have a registration email for websites you sign up to like slashdot.
2 and 3 will get spammed to hell but you wont miss anything important if you redirect them to/dev/null unless you know you have a order confirmation. or a welcome email coming for you. The one for friends wont get spammed.
flash would work too, if its just a presentation it doesn't matter. Director adds more interactive functionality but flash has actionscript which is quite powerful in its own right.
I download music, I know i am riping off the artists, the labels, the stores and my ISP (bandwidth).
And do you know why I do it, because if I can save a few pounds, with no chance of getting caught. Not because CDs are expensive; not because its more convenient.
I just don't give a fuck.
At&t labs, great contributer to computing.
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AT&T Labs' Brain Drain
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· Score: 5, Informative
It is very sad to see AT&T labs whittle away like this, over the years they were responsible for a number of great inventions:
My enjoyment everyday comes in the form of looking forward to the weekend when I spend my free time geocaching with my friends or myself.
Its just you (and maybe some friends), no real pressure. Plus its an actual trek (ranges from in-city, to some caches are ones that need Scuba or moutain gear or whatever).
And with geocaching you've just got your GPS, a compass, and maybe a topographic map (if you can get one). None of this fancy cell phones with internet to tell you answers stuff;-)
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Microsoft is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Microsoft community when IDC confirmed that Microsoft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Microsoft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Microsoft 's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Microsoft because Microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Microsoft . As many of us are already aware, Microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Microsoft Corporation is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Microsoft Corporation developers Steve Jobs and Theo De Raadt only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Microsoft Corporation is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Micro$soft leader Bill Gates states that there are 7000 users of Micro$soft. How many users of Windows XP are there? Let's see. The number of Micro$soft versus Windows XP posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows XP users. Windows 98 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows XP posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Windows 98. A recent article put Microsoft Corporation at about 80 percent of the Microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Microsoft Corporation users. This is consistent with the number of Microsoft Corporation Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Wal*Mart, abysmal sales and so on, Microsoft Corporation went out of business and was taken over by Toys R Us who sell another troubled OS. Now Toys R Us is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Microsoft is dead.
Ah, Tom's Hardware. Not trying to be negative, but IMHO, they are a terrible source for tech information, and the bulk of their reviews contain startling errors, conclusions that defy reason, glaring omissions, and sensationalized reporting. The majority of those writing the reviews clearly have no idea what they are talking about, at least regarding the subject they are reporting on. Overall, I would rate them slightly above HotHardware.com.
Tom himself, as far as I can tell, is on the ball and knows his stuff VERY well, but he doesn't write articles much anymore, and obviously doesn't read them either. It is a common practice among hardware enthusiasts to quote Tom's for the humor value, trying to see if the author of the latest article is even more clueless than he was in his (or her) last article.
To be fair, they do have some excellent articles occasionally, and were the first ones to dare publish information on Intel's unstable Pentium III 1.13GHz processor, but unfortunately these seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
Also, as has already been stated, XGI is hardly a new company. Of course, these bits of SiS and Trident are in completely new territory if they are trying to compete in the high-end gamer's market. Considering that this is their first real foray into that market, I think they have done an amazing job. I'd say give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise. Remember, even the (once) most respected companies in the field can faulter, and that XGI has something that is even in the same ballpark as the most seasoned of players is an impressive feat.
Google news already uses a similar technique to decide what to put in the summary beneath the headline, it does not paraphrase but it does actually extract a summary.
Also if you have Microsoft Word lying about there is a feature called Auto-summary which is suprisingly good, amost as effective as going through a document yourself looking for the main points.
This is the worst consumer electronics product that I have ever bought. After reading a review in the NY Times, I picked Replay over Tivo. Here is my experience to date:
The first unit shipped to me broke within 24 hours, but not before I had signed up for their listings service. I had to ship the product back at my expense in the original box (with the UPC code attached - see later). Once I got the new box, I literally spent over one week with numerous reps at Replay in order to move my service from my original unit to the one they shipped back to me.
I then decided to cash in the $50 rebate that Replay was promoting. No way. I no longer had the bar code from the package - it was shipped back with the broken unit and the box they sent back had no bar code. Add $50 to the cost!
Then there is the experience of downloading the channel guide... I get a success rate under 5% - that means I have to try over 20 times before their service will download the updated channel guide information. (I use a cable modem connection - not a problem on my end as I am able to surf the Net via the same connection.)
All in all, a great disappointment. I strongly recommend that you stay away from this company and its products. Even moreso now they are up to these stupid tricks.
Did anyone else notice the somewhat biased nature of the timeline? Obviously this was put together by someone who didn't feel comfortable with marking down some of Linux's losses as well as its gains.
It's biased almost to the point of being propaganda, even. Almost every reference to Microsoft is either exaggerated against the company or in some way worded so as to make Linux appear superior. Sure, in some cases this is fact, but in others, not so much.
Also, what do things like Lexmar sueing Smartek have to do with linux?
Maybe I listen to Art Bell too much, but it seems pretty strange that so many probes to Mars have failed in some fashion. Perhaps the Martians don't want us messing up their planet?
*Watched too many x-files* Back to reality:
Or maybe Mars is a long way away and it's really hard to build a machine that can be expected to work for months on end whilst being baked and simultaneously frozen after being placed in a vacuum and bombarded with radiation. Then to put this complicated device on top of hundreds of tonnes of high explosive so that you can get it moving fifteen times faster than a rifle bullet with the objective of placing it somewhere near a body only slightly larger than the Moon?
Well, the Diamond/Rio ogg player that was on here earlier also had FLAC support. Would be nice for more portable players to have that now that the disks are getting huge.
I own a creative jukebox, but I don't use it that often mainly because it doesn't support ogg files (which most of my music is now encoded as) Ever since I found out about the OGG file format i've been encoding my music to it. I sensed immediately that I got better sound quality with it - and I was right. http://ekei.com/audio/ has links to various comparisons, and in general the OGG encoder handles the mid range much better than, say, lame mp3. This is great because afaik headphones don't have the greatest highs...
But wanting to move onto a more professional setup I have purchased a bose sound system for my living room, it cost $1300. I can now tell the difference between the original CD and my OGG Files, because of this I have started to re-reip my whole collection to FLAC and would be glad if the new players had this sort of support.
Quick review.
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Systemantics
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· Score: -1, Troll
Having had this book since college (1986) I have come to depend on it.
There is no better book, with more startlingly accurate insights into one's current predicament.
It has the slight failing that it can't quite decide if it ought to be another _Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown_ or not, so there's a few paragraphs to skip here and there.
The rest is great.
I can quote from memory my favorite system axioms:
``Systems grow, and as they grow they encroach.''
``Systems attract systems-people.''
``Intra-system goals come first.''
``Reality is whatever is reported to the system.''
``Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safe.''
My favorite chapter is ``Administrative Encirclement,'' where each researcher is asked to write out his objectives.
The deepest insight, very subtle indeed, is Orwell's Inversion: the confusion of input and output:
``Example: A giant program is to Conquer Cancer is begun. At the end of five years, cancer has not been conquered, but one thousand research papers have been published. In addition, one million copies of a pamphlet entitled ``You and the War Against Cancer'' have been distributed. Those publications will absolutely be regarded as Output rather than Input.''
Nobody who knows the book will be surprised that the biggest killers of dogs today are humane societies.
People who follow the book will understand why the small early version _General Systemantics_ (1975), privately published, is an absolute gem; this version is pretty good, almost the same; and today's version (_...the underground text..._) is expanded beyond belief. The author has made it a system.
The real problem with roaming and Wi-Fi lies with customers who try to cheat the system.
I could quite easily open an account with the cheapest wISP I could find (say the caniadian one so I can save because of the exchange rate) then use a local wISP for access.
This is quite bad for wISP as they would introduce free market competition where they once held a monopoly.
The only was I can see this working is that if you are roming you have a limited service, say access to only port 80. Which would stop people from trying to abuse the roming system.
Slashdot Mirror
when somone trys to tailgate me I floor it and hit 120mph. I laugh at them if they try to keep up.
rolloffle
Then there is the OPML and OML duo which provides nice and flexible documents and their outlines.
You could even consider GNML which is a wacky markup language which uses non-letter chars as tags. It tries stay out of your way as much as possible.
I personaly would make a markup language which suited my style using XML and DTD
sorry my link was taken down for some reason and all referencs from the site removed. Here is a working demo
and recently my browser was getting hijacked by spyware. Sigh, even we are not safe anymore. I found a guide on how it works and how to remove it HERE
1) Have a good adress for personal email.
/dev/null unless you know you have a order confirmation. or a welcome email coming for you.
-> only give this to real people
2) Have a shopping adress for websites who ask for it when you buy shit
3) Have a registration email for websites you sign up to like slashdot.
2 and 3 will get spammed to hell but you wont miss anything important if you redirect them to
The one for friends wont get spammed.
This is a huge amount of space warez groups will no doubt use this to distribute material.
It is quite easy to do, asuming the atticment size limit is 1mb, split iso's into 650 chunks and email them to yourself.
Get your friends to sign up and forward the iso to everyone using CC.
flash would work too, if its just a presentation it doesn't matter. Director adds more interactive functionality but flash has actionscript which is quite powerful in its own right.
55 mph hahah.
I drive 110mph and its legal. Suck my eurocock
I download music, I know i am riping off the artists, the labels, the stores and my ISP (bandwidth).
And do you know why I do it, because if I can save a few pounds, with no chance of getting caught. Not because CDs are expensive; not because its more convenient.
I just don't give a fuck.
- VNC - which is a multiplatform Remote administration tool.
- Text to speach.
- Multimodal data access
- Handwriting recognition.
- Wlan technologies
Probably many more which I cant even remember.Its just you (and maybe some friends), no real pressure. Plus its an actual trek (ranges from in-city, to some caches are ones that need Scuba or moutain gear or whatever).
;-)
And with geocaching you've just got your GPS, a compass, and maybe a topographic map (if you can get one). None of this fancy cell phones with internet to tell you answers stuff
FP PROPZ to the gnaa kru how u nigs been
Better break out the liquid nitrogen cooling system.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Microsoft is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Microsoft community when IDC confirmed that Microsoft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Microsoft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Microsoft 's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Microsoft because Microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Microsoft . As many of us are already aware, Microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Microsoft Corporation is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Microsoft Corporation developers Steve Jobs and Theo De Raadt only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Microsoft Corporation is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Micro$soft leader Bill Gates states that there are 7000 users of Micro$soft. How many users of Windows XP are there? Let's see. The number of Micro$soft versus Windows XP posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows XP users. Windows 98 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows XP posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Windows 98. A recent article put Microsoft Corporation at about 80 percent of the Microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Microsoft Corporation users. This is consistent with the number of Microsoft Corporation Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Wal*Mart, abysmal sales and so on, Microsoft Corporation went out of business and was taken over by Toys R Us who sell another troubled OS. Now Toys R Us is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Microsoft is dead.
Fact: Microsoft is dying
Ah, Tom's Hardware. Not trying to be negative, but IMHO, they are a terrible source for tech information, and the bulk of their reviews contain startling errors, conclusions that defy reason, glaring omissions, and sensationalized reporting.
The majority of those writing the reviews clearly have no idea what they are talking about, at least regarding the subject they are reporting on. Overall, I would rate them slightly above HotHardware.com.
Tom himself, as far as I can tell, is on the ball and knows his stuff VERY well, but he doesn't write articles much anymore, and obviously doesn't read them either.
It is a common practice among hardware enthusiasts to quote Tom's for the humor value, trying to see if the author of the latest article is even more clueless than he was in his (or her) last article.
To be fair, they do have some excellent articles occasionally, and were the first ones to dare publish information on Intel's unstable Pentium III 1.13GHz processor, but unfortunately these seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
Also, as has already been stated, XGI is hardly a new company. Of course, these bits of SiS and Trident are in completely new territory if they are trying to compete in the high-end gamer's market. Considering that this is their first real foray into that market, I think they have done an amazing job. I'd say give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise. Remember, even the (once) most respected companies in the field can faulter, and that XGI has something that is even in the same ballpark as the most seasoned of players is an impressive feat.
Google news already uses a similar technique to decide what to put in the summary beneath the headline, it does not paraphrase but it does actually extract a summary.
Also if you have Microsoft Word lying about there is a feature called Auto-summary which is suprisingly good, amost as effective as going through a document yourself looking for the main points.
With the DMCA allowing anyone to get sued nowerdays I have mirrored this site just in case.
Add this to your bookmarks.
This is the worst consumer electronics product that I have ever bought. After reading a review in the NY Times, I picked Replay over Tivo. Here is my experience to date:
The first unit shipped to me broke within 24 hours, but not before I had signed up for their listings service. I had to ship the product back at my expense in the original box (with the UPC code attached - see later). Once I got the new box, I literally spent over one week with numerous reps at Replay in order to move my service from my original unit to the one they shipped back to me.
I then decided to cash in the $50 rebate that Replay was promoting. No way. I no longer had the bar code from the package - it was shipped back with the broken unit and the box they sent back had no bar code. Add $50 to the cost!
Then there is the experience of downloading the channel guide...
I get a success rate under 5% - that means I have to try over 20 times before their service will download the updated channel guide information. (I use a cable modem connection - not a problem on my end as I am able to surf the Net via the same connection.)
All in all, a great disappointment. I strongly recommend that you stay away from this company and its products. Even moreso now they are up to these stupid tricks.
Did anyone else notice the somewhat biased nature of the timeline? Obviously this was put together by someone who didn't feel comfortable with marking down some of Linux's losses as well as its gains.
It's biased almost to the point of being propaganda, even. Almost every reference to Microsoft is either exaggerated against the company or in some way worded so as to make Linux appear superior. Sure, in some cases this is fact, but in others, not so much.
Also, what do things like Lexmar sueing Smartek have to do with linux?
Maybe I listen to Art Bell too much, but it seems pretty strange that so many probes to Mars have failed in some fashion. Perhaps the Martians don't want us messing up their planet?
*Watched too many x-files*
Back to reality:
Or maybe Mars is a long way away and it's really hard to build a machine that can be expected to work for months on end whilst being baked and simultaneously frozen after being placed in a vacuum and bombarded with radiation. Then to put this complicated device on top of hundreds of tonnes of high explosive so that you can get it moving fifteen times faster than a rifle bullet with the objective of placing it somewhere near a body only slightly larger than the Moon?
Well, the Diamond/Rio ogg player that was on here earlier also had FLAC support. Would be nice for more portable players to have that now that the disks are getting huge.
I own a creative jukebox, but I don't use it that often mainly because it doesn't support ogg files (which most of my music is now encoded as) Ever since I found out about the OGG file format i've been encoding my music to it. I sensed immediately that I got better sound quality with it - and I was right. http://ekei.com/audio/ has links to various comparisons, and in general the OGG encoder handles the mid range much better than, say, lame mp3. This is great because afaik headphones don't have the greatest highs...
But wanting to move onto a more professional setup I have purchased a bose sound system for my living room, it cost $1300. I can now tell the difference between the original CD and my OGG Files, because of this I have started to re-reip my whole collection to FLAC and would be glad if the new players had this sort of support.
Why did you click a link which says "how to get a date".
Go explain that to your wife.
FP
Having had this book since college (1986) I have come to depend on it.
There is no better book, with more startlingly accurate insights into one's current predicament.
It has the slight failing that it can't quite decide if it ought to be another _Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown_ or not, so there's a few paragraphs to skip here and there.
The rest is great.
I can quote from memory my favorite system axioms:
``Systems grow, and as they grow they encroach.''
``Systems attract systems-people.''
``Intra-system goals come first.''
``Reality is whatever is reported to the system.''
``Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safe.''
My favorite chapter is ``Administrative Encirclement,'' where each researcher is asked to write out his objectives.
The deepest insight, very subtle indeed, is Orwell's Inversion: the confusion of input and output:
``Example: A giant program is to Conquer Cancer is begun. At the end of five years, cancer has not been conquered, but one thousand research papers have been published. In addition, one million copies of a pamphlet entitled ``You and the War Against Cancer'' have been distributed. Those publications will absolutely be regarded as Output rather than Input.''
Nobody who knows the book will be surprised that the biggest killers of dogs today are humane societies.
People who follow the book will understand why the small early version _General Systemantics_ (1975), privately published, is an absolute gem; this version is pretty good, almost the same; and today's version (_...the underground text..._) is expanded beyond belief. The author has made it a system.
The real problem with roaming and Wi-Fi lies with customers who try to cheat the system.
I could quite easily open an account with the cheapest wISP I could find (say the caniadian one so I can save because of the exchange rate) then use a local wISP for access.
This is quite bad for wISP as they would introduce free market competition where they once held a monopoly.
The only was I can see this working is that if you are roming you have a limited service, say access to only port 80. Which would stop people from trying to abuse the roming system.