... well ok, not quite, but still!
There's an ATM at my school which embodies the mother of all WTFs in my oppinion.
It's a DIEBOLD ATM with a _headphone jack_ which usually displays the Windows XP login screen with a big error message saying that the bank domain is not available!
If you think I'm making this up I wish to present to you... the evidence:
http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=wmbbbwi8otsxgqlmi93u.jpg
Well, actually... I think it's the other way around really.
QuickTime and other Apple products do not behave as annoyingly on Mac OS X, so you have to wonder if they are actually doing this to make Microsoft look bad. I'm not really sure that the majority of computer users associate the lameness of QT on Windows with Apple... I'm pretty sure they rather tend to curse Microsoft, or at least wonder why it's so much better on their friends computer, which is an Apple.
How is OpenSolaris connected to this Indiana thingy and what is the difference between Indiana and Nexenta?
My take is that Nexenta is compiling the GNU software tools and providing them in their repositories. Is Indiana doing this as well or are they just trying to mimic the package management system itself but providing no GNU software?
One potential advantage would be the ability to purchase support from the company that "makes" the distribution like you can with RedHat. I'm sure there are companies that provide similar services for Debian but maybe someone would be more at ease to deal directly with the people who actually make the distro.
I don't know what the "Server Support package" includes but it sounds fancy.
I hope this will result in YouTube adding speed control to their player. I hate watching lectures in 1.0x speed. Pitch control would be nice too... although sounding like Alvin the chipmunk can make dull lecturers more interesting.
As has been pointed out the "watermark method" must be doomed to fail.
The article implies that the whole media file has to be downloaded and if that's the case there's a much better way of doing this. There are algorithms out there that can efficiently calculate a "signature" for the content of the file (for images, the "best" such algorithm is probably the SIFT algorithm, and there exist algorithms for other media files). These "signatures" are usually so called "multidimensional descriptors" that have the characteristic to be invariant to changes in the media (such as compression in images/audio/video or stretching, cropping and various other manipulations of image files etc).
The major obstacle so far has been how to perform an efficient search on a large collection of such signatures. That really isn't an obstacle any more.
My masters degree thesis (which I have just started working on) actually deals with further improvements to a new indexing architecture that has been developed at my school to deal with just such multidimensional descriptors. The improvement from previous ways of multidimensional descriptor indexing is huge. As an example, our test database contains descriptors for over 300,000 images and searching for a similar image took 2 hours with previous techniques. Using the new index type it takes 2 seconds, and the best part is that the query speed is not dependent on the size of the database.
For heavens sake don't give up your citizenship. We need people like you to retain their right to vote in the US to prevent a disaster like this from ever happening again.
Did you ask to yourself why there is no such service?
Actually there is: http://openwengo.com/
Wengos application is GPL and it uses SIP as its protocol. Behind it, there's a french phone company I believe which seems to think that this may somehow pay off for them (I don't know much more about their business model though).
"Martin's team laid the groundwork for Wednesday's operation in October 2003, with an operation on a 0.5 millimetre-wide (.01 inch) rat tail's artery."
Yeah, I should have stated the obvious that I am not a JavaScript programmer at all. Good to know that this isn't some terrible hack but I think I'm beginning to see what people don't like about AJAX. No matter whether this is standard practice or not, it really doesn't look too good to the uninitiated.
The article on the other hand seems to misunderstand and say "the combined application" and imply they're building one big Thunderbird/Sunbird conglomerate. I don't think this is the case, reading the roadmap. Anyone have more data on this?
As I understand it, Lightning is a plugin for Thunderbird that will provide Sunbirt capability from within the mail application.
The difference in age has something to do with it... you can't say that the "score" is 45 - 0 because the 45 vulnerabilities have been reported over 9 years for Sun. However, the chart clearly shows that in its first three years the Java platform was already up to 15 vulnerabilities while.NET is still at 0 after 3 years out.
Yup, we here in Iceland have that problem too. In my school we had to do without trashcans for a few months because the architect had chosen some designer trashcans from Italy and instead of puttin in "ugly" replacements we had to wait until the Italian ones arrived!
I went to a lecture given by one of the top guys of CCP, an Icelandic company that developed the MMORPG Eve-Online. For those who have no idea, Eve basically creates an alternate persona for its players. You can choose a profession (everything from a miner to a pirate) and you basically earn your living inside the game. Well, that's what they thought to begin with at least... until they heard of a man in Eastern Europe who got up at 9 a.m. to play Eve. He stopped playing at 6 p.m. after a whole day of mining minerals from astroid belts (or something). Then he went to ebay and sold his "space bucks" (or whatever the currency in Eve is) for real money, went out and bought his family some food!
In a very interesting lecture he also told us about how the economy in Eve-Online is being researched by economists to monitor the "birth" of an economy.
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... well ok, not quite, but still! There's an ATM at my school which embodies the mother of all WTFs in my oppinion. It's a DIEBOLD ATM with a _headphone jack_ which usually displays the Windows XP login screen with a big error message saying that the bank domain is not available! If you think I'm making this up I wish to present to you... the evidence: http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=wmbbbwi8otsxgqlmi93u.jpg
hey... I said _eventually_!
Great, now even the comments are making copies of themselves - and mutating... so eventually we must get intelligent... uhm... comments?!
as if they haven't been through enough with the explosion and fire and all... you just had to rub it in and slashdot their forum as well... kudos!
Well, actually... I think it's the other way around really. QuickTime and other Apple products do not behave as annoyingly on Mac OS X, so you have to wonder if they are actually doing this to make Microsoft look bad. I'm not really sure that the majority of computer users associate the lameness of QT on Windows with Apple... I'm pretty sure they rather tend to curse Microsoft, or at least wonder why it's so much better on their friends computer, which is an Apple.
How is OpenSolaris connected to this Indiana thingy and what is the difference between Indiana and Nexenta?
My take is that Nexenta is compiling the GNU software tools and providing them in their repositories. Is Indiana doing this as well or are they just trying to mimic the package management system itself but providing no GNU software?
Anyone know?
I don't know what the "Server Support package" includes but it sounds fancy.
YOU MEAN LIKE THIS?
I hope this will result in YouTube adding speed control to their player. I hate watching lectures in 1.0x speed.
Pitch control would be nice too... although sounding like Alvin the chipmunk can make dull lecturers more interesting.
subject says it all.
Yeah... but this is exactly what allows the Java generics to be backwards compatible. You win some, you loose some.
IMO the worst thing about the Java generics though is that you can't create a generic exception class. That really blows!
As has been pointed out the "watermark method" must be doomed to fail.
The article implies that the whole media file has to be downloaded and if that's the case there's a much better way of doing this. There are algorithms out there that can efficiently calculate a "signature" for the content of the file (for images, the "best" such algorithm is probably the SIFT algorithm, and there exist algorithms for other media files). These "signatures" are usually so called "multidimensional descriptors" that have the characteristic to be invariant to changes in the media (such as compression in images/audio/video or stretching, cropping and various other manipulations of image files etc).
The major obstacle so far has been how to perform an efficient search on a large collection of such signatures. That really isn't an obstacle any more.
My masters degree thesis (which I have just started working on) actually deals with further improvements to a new indexing architecture that has been developed at my school to deal with just such multidimensional descriptors. The improvement from previous ways of multidimensional descriptor indexing is huge. As an example, our test database contains descriptors for over 300,000 images and searching for a similar image took 2 hours with previous techniques. Using the new index type it takes 2 seconds, and the best part is that the query speed is not dependent on the size of the database.
For heavens sake don't give up your citizenship. We need people like you to retain their right to vote in the US to prevent a disaster like this from ever happening again.
Wengos application is GPL and it uses SIP as its protocol. Behind it, there's a french phone company I believe which seems to think that this may somehow pay off for them (I don't know much more about their business model though).
"Martin's team laid the groundwork for Wednesday's operation in October 2003, with an operation on a 0.5 millimetre-wide (.01 inch) rat tail's artery."
The entire jump? Where exactly are you writing from???
I miss bittorrent from that list.
Yeah, I should have stated the obvious that I am not a JavaScript programmer at all. Good to know that this isn't some terrible hack but I think I'm beginning to see what people don't like about AJAX. No matter whether this is standard practice or not, it really doesn't look too good to the uninitiated.
Is it just me or does the 2.355 line rcube_webmail() function bother anyone else?
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http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/roundcubema
As I understand it, Lightning is a plugin for Thunderbird that will provide Sunbirt capability from within the mail application.
I just hope you did it in a more polite way.
Around $7.15 per gallon.
The difference in age has something to do with it... you can't say that the "score" is 45 - 0 because the 45 vulnerabilities have been reported over 9 years for Sun. However, the chart clearly shows that in its first three years the Java platform was already up to 15 vulnerabilities while .NET is still at 0 after 3 years out.
And don't dare mod this as funny! It's true!
I went to a lecture given by one of the top guys of CCP, an Icelandic company that developed the MMORPG Eve-Online. For those who have no idea, Eve basically creates an alternate persona for its players. You can choose a profession (everything from a miner to a pirate) and you basically earn your living inside the game. Well, that's what they thought to begin with at least... until they heard of a man in Eastern Europe who got up at 9 a.m. to play Eve. He stopped playing at 6 p.m. after a whole day of mining minerals from astroid belts (or something). Then he went to ebay and sold his "space bucks" (or whatever the currency in Eve is) for real money, went out and bought his family some food!
In a very interesting lecture he also told us about how the economy in Eve-Online is being researched by economists to monitor the "birth" of an economy.
So I guess the virtual world is closing in on us.