Except that you need to track their consumer Windows versions in order:
Windows 3.1 - Good, Win95 - Bad (Then OK with SP2), Win98 - Good, WinME - Very Bad, WinXp - Good, Visa - Bad, Win7 - Good, Win8 - Bad Bad.
(Don't put WinME out of order and don't mix in Win2k if you aren't also going to include Windows NT)
OK, I'll give you that: in order to be a logged in user or to post comments, the connection should be encrypted. But there is no reason I should need SSL just to view the page. One could argue that on an unsecured connection, I could be shown content that didn't really come from the slashdot servers. But I don't trust anything I get from slashdot anyway.
Indeed, there is a lot of traffic on the web that has no need to be private. This slashdot page for example. But encrypting communications takes extra CPU cycles, and extra CPU cycles take extra energy, and will require more servers. Sure there is a lot of web traffic which should be encrypted, but the rest of it shouldn't be, for the sake of the environment and for the sake of that battery powered device in my pocket.
I spent a lot of time coding a good checkout solution that worked with Google Checkout, so I was pretty mad when all the work I did went down the drain when they discontinued it. I was fortunate to had already integrated Paypal and Amazon checkout before it was discontinued, so the business impact was pretty small.
But it did teach me to be 10 times more careful when investing time to integrate with a third party platform.
But this also shows an interesting trend away from APIs and "Mashups." 5 to 10 years ago, providing an API for your startup was considered an essential way to promote your platform by having it integrated all over the place. I suspect too many developers got burned in the way that I was with Google Checkout, and stopped trying to "mashup" APIs to the point where there was no longer much benefit to provide them.
According to the article, "the loss is believed to have occurred between October 2008 and March 2009." Thus, the hard drive could have been lost during the Obama presidency.
The 10 cents per song allows you to listen to the song unlimitedly through a web browser. If you want to download a DRM-free version of the song (for your iPod or other device), you pay another 79 cents.
There is an add-on to Firefox called SQLite Manager that makes managing your own little database quite a bit easier than typing sql commands on a command line: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817
Yeah, no kidding. I've watched instant Netflix movies through their Internet Explorer client, and even with 1.5 Mbps DSL, the quality is at their lowest "Basic" level, which I consider worse that TV quality.
Their selection of titles is also pretty miserable. I could flip through 100 cable channels and be more likely to find something I like than browsing through their "Instant" films.
If they could improve both quality and selection, then they would definitely have a cool product. As it is, I find myself more likely to watch content from Hulu.com than from Netflix.
I don't think this number figures in the possible 100,000 people who might have lost their lives due to the cyclone in Myanmar. That could set the clock back by a whole have a day. I think its important that we remember all those who have lost their lives or are in danger of doing so.
I'll gladly sell you 50% efficient fuel at $2/gal. Steps:
Take 1 gallon of 100% efficient fuel at $3.26/gal
Add 1 gallon of water at $0/gal
Result: 2 gallons of 50% efficient fuel costing $3.25
Sell to you for $2/gal = $4 total.
Profit!
Re:class action lawsuit in the works?
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I think this guy has Verizon somewhat scared. I mean, the audio he has is pretty condemning, and seems to make it clear that point zero zero two cents is the standard quote that they give all their customers. That is why they've emailed him with an offer to take half off his bill. They're giving him a settlement where he agrees that Verizon is right. If he pays half, which agrees that Verizon is right, then none of the audio or other evidence he's collected could really be used it court. In no way does Verizon want to make any appearances that they were wrong, or they would leave themselves wide open to a class action lawsuit.
I used to the the webmaster for the BYU Chemistry Department. I just had a few thoughts. First, you really should read the official press release from BYU about this if you want more information or if you want high resolution photos. One of the things that makes this particular story more interesting than others I've dealt with is that the primary researcher is an undergraduate student. I'm told that it is fairly uncommon for undergraduates to be involved so deeply with this type of research.
Oh, and by the way, the BYU Chemistry Department is a big supporter of open source software.
Sure there are a lot of people majoring in physical education, it is a required course in a lot of high schools. Computer programming is rarely a required course in high school. Perhaps it should be. If it were, it might spark a lot of interest and talent developement in a lot of people before they even go to college and think about choosing a major.
The big problem with teaching computer science in high school (or a lot of other things) is that teachers make a lot less money than computer programmers. Most people who are qualified enough to teach computer science would find they can make a whole lot more money doing something other than teaching.
So until you can pay for good CS high school teachers, you aren't going to find a lot of people entering college with an interest in CS. Especially if all their computer experiences have been with a dumb Windows computer.
So are they trying to save money by using open source software, or are they only going to "explore" open source alternatives in order to make Microsoft desparate enough to give them discounts?
Perhaps they saw what Testra did to get their discounts and they think they can save their money by doing something similar.
A lot of people tend to forget that Linux is good for people who use Windows because it forces Microsoft to be competitive in the market. Not only does it force Microsoft to continue to compete with their technology offerings, but also to compete with their prices. Even if Telstra didn't switch to Linux, its still a Linux victory because of the position it puts Microsoft in.
Its just too bad Linus won't be getting any thank you cards saying "Thanks Linus for making Microsoft better just to compete with your Linux." (Although they should send him cards like that).
The old version of this book was used as a textbook for CS 240 at BYU, which is an advanced programming/slash/ C++ course.
I find it great that some professor is actually teaching coding standards. Imagine my surprise of discovering JavaDoc commenting after haven taken 3 Java classes and not one of them ever mentioned JavaDoc.
I haven't taken CS 240 yet, but I plan to this fall. I already talked to the professor about the textbooks he plans to use, and he said that if they came out with the new edition (which they did) then he would probably use the new edition for class. This means though that current students with the book now will have a hard time selling the book, and future students will have a harder time finding used book deals on it. I guess I should start saving my college student pennies.
This engine has a long ways to go, but is fairly updated.
I did a search for the BYU Ham Radio Club. Google only started returning the proper site as a result about a week or two ago. This MSN engine seemed to have scanned the whole site and was very good about returning the correct site. The problem is, that it returned too much of the site. The whole first page of the search results contained different pages from the site.
I thought it was pretty elementary to make sure that search results only returned the most relevant page or two from a particular site. Who knows how many intel.com results it might give me if I searched for "intel pentium"
Its a good thing that the search "feature" in windows does blow like this search engine. Oh, wait..... doh!
Do you think that they could use this same technology in many cars to automatically photograph signs showing gas prices?
Think, a car drives by a gas station. The camera snaps a picture of the gas prices. The image is uploaded somewhere where the image is processed and the gas price information extracted. You have many cars driving around normally automatically doing this so that you are constantly getting the current information. The location/price is then available to users/drivers (perhaps on their cell phone). So the next time you are out of gas, you could look up on your cell phone and see which local station currently has the best price.
I'm rather disappointed in many of the responses I've seen here. It seems like most people just googled answers, rather than actually knowing. For example, an earlier post said: Tualain is also a burb of Portland
While this is true, I live in Hillsboro along with several thousand other Intel-ites, and Hillsboro is the tualatin valley, which was named after that tualatin river.
Interestingly enough, as I was taught in elementary school, tualatin is a Native American word meaning lazy or slow moving, as the tualatin river doesn't go very fast. I wonder if Intel thought about this when trying to come up with the name.
I'm sorry if this is a little off topic, but while following links from this story, I found the install instructions for XD2: # Open a terminal window. # Using the su command, become superuser (root). # Type the following command or cut and paste it into your terminal: wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh
Does this seem like a bad thing to anyone? Wouldn't this give complete control over the entire system to some script from who knows exactly where without at least being able to look at it first?
Slashdot Mirror
Except that you need to track their consumer Windows versions in order: Windows 3.1 - Good, Win95 - Bad (Then OK with SP2), Win98 - Good, WinME - Very Bad, WinXp - Good, Visa - Bad, Win7 - Good, Win8 - Bad Bad.
(Don't put WinME out of order and don't mix in Win2k if you aren't also going to include Windows NT)
OK, I'll give you that: in order to be a logged in user or to post comments, the connection should be encrypted. But there is no reason I should need SSL just to view the page. One could argue that on an unsecured connection, I could be shown content that didn't really come from the slashdot servers. But I don't trust anything I get from slashdot anyway.
Indeed, there is a lot of traffic on the web that has no need to be private. This slashdot page for example. But encrypting communications takes extra CPU cycles, and extra CPU cycles take extra energy, and will require more servers. Sure there is a lot of web traffic which should be encrypted, but the rest of it shouldn't be, for the sake of the environment and for the sake of that battery powered device in my pocket.
I spent a lot of time coding a good checkout solution that worked with Google Checkout, so I was pretty mad when all the work I did went down the drain when they discontinued it. I was fortunate to had already integrated Paypal and Amazon checkout before it was discontinued, so the business impact was pretty small.
But it did teach me to be 10 times more careful when investing time to integrate with a third party platform.
But this also shows an interesting trend away from APIs and "Mashups." 5 to 10 years ago, providing an API for your startup was considered an essential way to promote your platform by having it integrated all over the place. I suspect too many developers got burned in the way that I was with Google Checkout, and stopped trying to "mashup" APIs to the point where there was no longer much benefit to provide them.
According to the article, "the loss is believed to have occurred between October 2008 and March 2009." Thus, the hard drive could have been lost during the Obama presidency.
The 10 cents per song allows you to listen to the song unlimitedly through a web browser. If you want to download a DRM-free version of the song (for your iPod or other device), you pay another 79 cents.
There is an add-on to Firefox called SQLite Manager that makes managing your own little database quite a bit easier than typing sql commands on a command line:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817
"Quality is not great, even at 2.2 Mbps"
Yeah, no kidding. I've watched instant Netflix movies through their Internet Explorer client, and even with 1.5 Mbps DSL, the quality is at their lowest "Basic" level, which I consider worse that TV quality.
Their selection of titles is also pretty miserable. I could flip through 100 cable channels and be more likely to find something I like than browsing through their "Instant" films.
If they could improve both quality and selection, then they would definitely have a cool product. As it is, I find myself more likely to watch content from Hulu.com than from Netflix.
I don't think this number figures in the possible 100,000 people who might have lost their lives due to the cyclone in Myanmar. That could set the clock back by a whole have a day. I think its important that we remember all those who have lost their lives or are in danger of doing so.
I think this guy has Verizon somewhat scared. I mean, the audio he has is pretty condemning, and seems to make it clear that point zero zero two cents is the standard quote that they give all their customers. That is why they've emailed him with an offer to take half off his bill. They're giving him a settlement where he agrees that Verizon is right. If he pays half, which agrees that Verizon is right, then none of the audio or other evidence he's collected could really be used it court. In no way does Verizon want to make any appearances that they were wrong, or they would leave themselves wide open to a class action lawsuit.
I think the Google calculator really makes things very clear.
Also, I can't help but ask what the average math completion level is for call center people in that particular industry.
I used to the the webmaster for the BYU Chemistry Department. I just had a few thoughts. First, you really should read the official press release from BYU about this if you want more information or if you want high resolution photos. One of the things that makes this particular story more interesting than others I've dealt with is that the primary researcher is an undergraduate student. I'm told that it is fairly uncommon for undergraduates to be involved so deeply with this type of research. Oh, and by the way, the BYU Chemistry Department is a big supporter of open source software.
Sure there are a lot of people majoring in physical education, it is a required course in a lot of high schools. Computer programming is rarely a required course in high school. Perhaps it should be. If it were, it might spark a lot of interest and talent developement in a lot of people before they even go to college and think about choosing a major.
The big problem with teaching computer science in high school (or a lot of other things) is that teachers make a lot less money than computer programmers. Most people who are qualified enough to teach computer science would find they can make a whole lot more money doing something other than teaching.
So until you can pay for good CS high school teachers, you aren't going to find a lot of people entering college with an interest in CS. Especially if all their computer experiences have been with a dumb Windows computer.
Perhaps they saw what Testra did to get their discounts and they think they can save their money by doing something similar.
A lot of people tend to forget that Linux is good for people who use Windows because it forces Microsoft to be competitive in the market. Not only does it force Microsoft to continue to compete with their technology offerings, but also to compete with their prices. Even if Telstra didn't switch to Linux, its still a Linux victory because of the position it puts Microsoft in.
Its just too bad Linus won't be getting any thank you cards saying "Thanks Linus for making Microsoft better just to compete with your Linux." (Although they should send him cards like that).
The old version of this book was used as a textbook for CS 240 at BYU, which is an advanced programming /slash/ C++ course.
I find it great that some professor is actually teaching coding standards. Imagine my surprise of discovering JavaDoc commenting after haven taken 3 Java classes and not one of them ever mentioned JavaDoc.
I haven't taken CS 240 yet, but I plan to this fall. I already talked to the professor about the textbooks he plans to use, and he said that if they came out with the new edition (which they did) then he would probably use the new edition for class. This means though that current students with the book now will have a hard time selling the book, and future students will have a harder time finding used book deals on it. I guess I should start saving my college student pennies.
This engine has a long ways to go, but is fairly updated. I did a search for the BYU Ham Radio Club. Google only started returning the proper site as a result about a week or two ago. This MSN engine seemed to have scanned the whole site and was very good about returning the correct site. The problem is, that it returned too much of the site. The whole first page of the search results contained different pages from the site. I thought it was pretty elementary to make sure that search results only returned the most relevant page or two from a particular site. Who knows how many intel.com results it might give me if I searched for "intel pentium" Its a good thing that the search "feature" in windows does blow like this search engine. Oh, wait..... doh!
Do you think that they could use this same technology in many cars to automatically photograph signs showing gas prices?
Think, a car drives by a gas station. The camera snaps a picture of the gas prices. The image is uploaded somewhere where the image is processed and the gas price information extracted. You have many cars driving around normally automatically doing this so that you are constantly getting the current information. The location/price is then available to users/drivers (perhaps on their cell phone). So the next time you are out of gas, you could look up on your cell phone and see which local station currently has the best price.
I'm rather disappointed in many of the responses I've seen here. It seems like most people just googled answers, rather than actually knowing. For example, an earlier post said:
Tualain is also a burb of Portland
While this is true, I live in Hillsboro along with several thousand other Intel-ites, and Hillsboro is the tualatin valley, which was named after that tualatin river.
Interestingly enough, as I was taught in elementary school, tualatin is a Native American word meaning lazy or slow moving, as the tualatin river doesn't go very fast. I wonder if Intel thought about this when trying to come up with the name.
I'm sorry if this is a little off topic, but while following links from this story, I found the install instructions for XD2:
# Open a terminal window.
# Using the su command, become superuser (root).
# Type the following command or cut and paste it into your terminal:
wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh
Does this seem like a bad thing to anyone? Wouldn't this give complete control over the entire system to some script from who knows exactly where without at least being able to look at it first?