The graphical screens seem to be more and more CPU/memory intensive. I remember having performance problems on my 1.6Ghz pentium 4 with 256 MB RAM and solution as per MS knowledge base was to change the graphical settings and make screens look more like Win 2000 from Win XP !!
But MS always leaves more to be desired by making an OS such that it obsoletes the increased processing power in 1 or 2 years... so that the cycle or upgrade remains...
Just think about this for a minute (if you have females in your group):
The woman gets called at 2 am. She handles the call and can't go back to sleep. She is single or hubby/bf is either out of town or in deep slumber... She tries to go back to sleep and can't. She needs some clitoral stimulation to relax her to go back to sleep. Then she realizes that the batteries of vibrator died. Then she looks around and notices the cell phone in addition to the cordless landline phone. And yeah, THE CELL PHONE HAS VIBRATE MODE !!
You figure the rest cause you might be using the phone next....:-D
I am waiting to see the effect on Palm and Hangspring Merger on wireless...
No joke, the new name of the Palm company that produces the hardware is called pa1mOne.
A new website ( http://www.palmOne.com ) is live today and features product information and support services previously available at http://www.palm.com.
If you read this page, you might find some interesting info: Ms Ewen said Sony hoped to recreate the strong community that sprung up when the company released Net Yaroze six years ago. Net Yaroze was a specialised version of the original PlayStation that allowed amateur programming. The Net Yaroze software ran on a standard PC where the programmer would compile the code and a serial cable connected the PC to the Net Yaroze console. "It was more limited because it did not access all the capabilities of the machine and there were non-disclosure agreements involved," she said. There were 6000 Net Yaroze consoles sold across the PAL territories, mainly in the UK and Australia." Sony had developed the Linux Kit for PS2 in response to demand in Japan. The company sold 7000 beta copies in Japan last year but the full version was only released there in late April. "
Since most of the Net Yaroze consoles sold across the PAL territories, mainly in the UK and Australia, you might wanna look for websites in these countries...
-- Sig REJECTED STORY: Making real money from virtually nothing on Online games BBC has an interesting article about people making a real living buying and selling goods which only exist in the virtual world of an online fantasy game. A player says that he will declare to the US Internal Revenue Service in April 2004 that his main source of income is the sale of imaginary goods.
-- Sig REJECTED STORY: Making real money from nothing on Online games BBC has an interesting article about people making a real living buying and selling goods which only exist in the virtual world of an online fantasy game. A player says that he will declare to the US Internal Revenue Service in April 2004 that his main source of income is the sale of imaginary goods.
Great, now I am gonna read this tutorial, learn Tivoli and apply for a job with Lego. If you don't know what I am talking about, check this story on eWeek.
-- Sig TODAY'S REJECTED STORY: This story on Reuters says that Linux is gaining ground in India and according to RedHat, about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004. Besides the plain switch of desktop operating systems to Linux, analysts say the bigger worry for Microsoft is the growing use of Linux among India's pool of an estimated 400,000 software developers, many of whom churn out code for giants such as General Motors and American Express. CNET , ZDNet and Hindustan Times are running related stories on the rapid growth of Linux in Asia.
Such is the messy world of affiliate marketing. Jeff Hain, director of marketing for LoanWeb, blamed his firm's involvement in the spam on an affiliate who acted outside the company's policies. The Internet is full of such arrangements, first popularized by Amazon.com years ago. Small Web sites that push traffic and business toward a larger firm get a small slice of the profits. It is often tempting for affiliates to send out spam to create such profitable traffic. "We have thousands of affiliates out there," Hain said.
- Amazon.com still uses the affiliates programs to a great extent and Google searches often lead to sites that are nothing but links to Amazon's site in disguise. Wish Google searches could see through such tactics....
An entirely separate set of companies also benefits from the spam economy -- Internet service providers who carry their traffic. Well-known spam nemesis Ron Scelson filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and a review of bankruptcy documents shows he owes Bell South $56,463 for "circuits" and Cable & Wireless another $4,407 as his "Internet provider." Neither company responded to requests for information about the bills. But it's hardly the first time a big-name Internet provider has been caught in a deal with a spammer. In an embarrassing incident for both AT&T and PSINet three years ago, both firms were caught as participants in secret "pink contracts" with spammers. Long suspected in the spam world, the revelations exposed pink contracts as sweetheart deals for the Internet firms, designed to protect spammers. ISPs get premium, well above normal rates, to sell bandwidth to known spammers. In exchange, the ISP agrees to suffer more than normal complaint rates. In PSINet's contract, revealed on News.com, the firm received an upfront payment of $27,000 from Cajunnet, a marketing firm based in Slidell, La. In exchange, PSINet agreed to permit Cajunnet to send unsolicited email "in mass quantity" through PSINet's lines.
- Is there no legal way to stop ISP's from doing that ?
18 -- Request for Information - Space Lego Project General Information
Document Type: Special Notice Solicitation Number: RFI-SpaceLego Posted Date: Aug 07, 2003 Original Response Date: Sep 08, 2003 Original Archive Date: Sep 23, 2003 Current Archive Date: Classification Code: 18 -- Space vehicles
Contracting Office Address Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, 2251 Maxwell Ave, Kirtland AFB, NM, 87117 Description The Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate is soliciting information and follow-up discussions to support research and development of concepts for rapid-prototyping of space systems based on a kind of space "LEGO_TM". These "LEGOS", also referred to as "protosats", would be a (hopefully small) family of building blocks, from which any complex structure could be built, in this case the skeletal structures of spacecraft. The protosats could, for example, be panels that contain automatic mechanisms for engaging connections when two panels are placed together. The panels could contain wiring resources, computing blocks, etc. that when put together form a superset. The superset can be customized under software control (like FPGAs). A collection of protosats combined to form an assembly are also referred to as "macrosats". In addition to "LEGO" or protosat primitives, we envision the possibility of attaching third party devices (e.g. payload elements) in a modular fashion to the skeleton. The devices could be payload elements, motors (such as reaction wheels, solar panel articulators, etc.) that fit into recesses (perhaps) on the lego panels and engage into the wiring systems. We further seek to develop the feasibility of a concept referred to as "encapsulation". With encapsulation, we seek to build systems in a way that is both decentralized and self-organized. AFRL sponsored projects before in which this idea was demonstrated on the tabletop. In this example, five or more modules, each with processors, are connected together, forming a collective. When one module is removed, the "collective" senses the removal and adjusts accordingly. Temporary masters are "appointed", and if killed, new ones are assigned. The closest things like this in the industry are smart sensor standards (like IEEE 1451.x, LonWorks, HART), which embody some of the "plug and play" principles we seek. Our motivation is to build systems in the most rapid time possible. It takes 5 years minimum and sometimes more than 15 to build a major space system, from thought to orbit. We believe that under the right "framework", even the most complex systems could be assembled and fielded in phenomenally short timeframes, perhaps days. Most of the barriers to this goal are: (1) wiring harnesses, (2) software, (3) human fallibility, and (4) closed, proprietary "standards". By using configurable wiring harnesses, it could be possible to eliminate the need to fabricate them as custom assemblies. We would instead connect "LEGOs" with built-in reconfigurable wiring harnesses (a whole separate discussion), and configure them on the spot. It is our hope that somehow "encapsulation" might eventually eliminate the need for centralized custom flight software. Finally, self-organizing interfaces could negotiate the various elements of a system as it is being assembled, while serving as an open systems scheme to overcome closed approaches. AFRL is considering funding research in this specific technology area and is attempting to gauge industry / academic interest and capability. Responses should be sent to: Air Force Research Laboratory/VSSE, Attn: Space Lego Project, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776. Written and e-mailed responses are acceptable. E-mail information to microsys@kirtland.af.mil. The information can be in the form of white papers, presentations, or proposals. This industry survey does not obligate the government in any manner for any future acquisitions. This is not a notice of intent to contract. The go
I know this first hand because I used the 6 month free AOL that came with my new Dell. AOL would ask you to participate in Beta programs and customers sign up so that they get the new features first... Eventually I got sick of it and stopped participating in their Beta.
The reason why I won't Pay online is simple. Most dot com sites don't take good enough precautions to keep their customer's info secure. To offer better deals, they try to minimize costs as much as they can and your information sits in their database ready to be hacked or sold by some disgruntled employee or company going bust... So I would only pay if there is a centralized (gotta be very secure) payment mechanism which lets me pay for it on any dot com website and before any payments are approved, allows me to log-in to the centralized site and approve the individual transactions....
Most Sun Employees Own Macs Posted by pudge on Wednesday August 06, @12:12PM from the give-all-apple-users-suns-and-we'll-call-it-even dept. An anonymous user writes, "Most Sun Microsystems employees use Apple when they're not at work....
Where is the source of this statement ? Did pudge even verify it before posting it or I am missing something?
A lot of research and ideas and papers have been thrown around to replace SMTP with a better protocol but the costs involved are a major discouraging factor and people don't want to install a system when there is no guarantee that all the recipients have it too.
Maybe servers using a new mail protocol should be designed such that they first attempt to use the new protocol and if connect fails, try the good old SMTP
When you can afford it, get better software
on
Workgroup Messaging?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
We use Peachtree accounting software which is supposedly multi-user. Unfortunately, multi-user does not translate into allowing two people to be in the same module (i.e., accounts receivable) at the same time. Because the users are in different buildings they often crash Peachtree because they don't know that someone else is already in that module. These crashes result in the loss of data since the last backup.
It seems that you are trying an ad-hoc solution instead of looking at the root cause of problem which seems to be the buggy Peachtree accounting software (or maybe their sales folk claimed it to be multi-user while developers didn't get to finish multi-user module properly). When you get your messaging thing working, you might want to call the Peachtree accounting software and bug them until they take care of your problem or if your organization can afford it, get a better package that meets the needs of your organization.
You can either hire a tow truck to pull your car with broken engine (you still sit in the car) for your commute or you can get a car that works !!
Slashdot Mirror
I forgot to mention that my box had shared video memory and not a dedicated Graphics card...
The graphical screens seem to be more and more CPU/memory intensive. I remember having performance problems on my 1.6Ghz pentium 4 with 256 MB RAM and solution as per MS knowledge base was to change the graphical settings and make screens look more like Win 2000 from Win XP !!
But MS always leaves more to be desired by making an OS such that it obsoletes the increased processing power in 1 or 2 years... so that the cycle or upgrade remains...
--Sig
I am telling you, you won't believe this !!
Just think about this for a minute (if you have females in your group):
The woman gets called at 2 am. She handles the call and can't go back to sleep. She is single or hubby/bf is either out of town or in deep slumber...
She tries to go back to sleep and can't. She needs some clitoral stimulation to relax her to go back to sleep. Then she realizes that the batteries of vibrator died. Then she looks around and notices the cell phone in addition to the cordless landline phone. And yeah, THE CELL PHONE HAS VIBRATE MODE !!
You figure the rest cause you might be using the phone next....
With the buyout, will I still be able to get a Visor?
/. posted this story for the link to the website...
You can go on the website and see the product line right now...
See my earlier post before
Sig
I am waiting to see the effect on Palm and Hangspring Merger on wireless...
No joke, the new name of the Palm company that produces the hardware is called pa1mOne.
A new website ( http://www.palmOne.com ) is live today and features product information and support services previously available at http://www.palm.com
Does this affect DMCA in any way ??
Article says...
It was very exciting when the blood samples came back positive for human DNA from four separate individuals
Bet they don't know about the Chimera Twins/Quadruplets
SCO GROUP's Insider & restricted shareholder transactions
The article says that
Near-starvation and castration both bring unusual longevity, but few of us choose either option.
Does anyone know of any human examples for this ??
-- Sig
'Bring us home': GIs flood US with war-weary emails
Just out of curiosity.... do the retinal images of cows never change just the way human finger prints don't change from childhood to death ??
If you read this page, you might find some interesting info:
Ms Ewen said Sony hoped to recreate the strong community that sprung up when the company released Net Yaroze six years ago.
Net Yaroze was a specialised version of the original PlayStation that allowed amateur programming.
The Net Yaroze software ran on a standard PC where the programmer would compile the code and a serial cable connected the PC to the Net Yaroze console.
"It was more limited because it did not access all the capabilities of the machine and there were non-disclosure agreements involved," she said.
There were 6000 Net Yaroze consoles sold across the PAL territories, mainly in the UK and Australia." Sony had developed the Linux Kit for PS2 in response to demand in Japan. The company sold 7000 beta copies in Japan last year but the full version was only released there in late April. "
Since most of the Net Yaroze consoles sold across the PAL territories, mainly in the UK and Australia, you might wanna look for websites in these countries...
Also check out the forums on this website
-- Sig
REJECTED STORY:
Making real money from virtually nothing on Online games
BBC has an interesting article about people making a real living buying and selling goods which only exist in the virtual world of an online fantasy game. A player says that he will declare to the US Internal Revenue Service in April 2004 that his main source of income is the sale of imaginary goods.
Does anyone know how much will it cost ?
-- Sig
REJECTED STORY:
Making real money from nothing on Online games
BBC has an interesting article about people making a real living buying and selling goods which only exist in the virtual world of an online fantasy game. A player says that he will declare to the US Internal Revenue Service in April 2004 that his main source of income is the sale of imaginary goods.
Rejected story with more links - Linux is gaining ground in India
Great, now I am gonna read this tutorial, learn Tivoli and apply for a job with Lego. If you don't know what I am talking about, check this story on eWeek.
-- Sig
TODAY'S REJECTED STORY:
This story on Reuters says that Linux is gaining ground in India and according to RedHat, about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004. Besides the plain switch of desktop operating systems to Linux, analysts say the bigger worry for Microsoft is the growing use of Linux among India's pool of an estimated 400,000 software developers, many of whom churn out code for giants such as General Motors and American Express. CNET , ZDNet and Hindustan Times are running related stories on the rapid growth of Linux in Asia.
Such is the messy world of affiliate marketing. Jeff Hain, director of marketing for LoanWeb, blamed his firm's involvement in the spam on an affiliate who acted outside the company's policies. The Internet is full of such arrangements, first popularized by Amazon.com years ago. Small Web sites that push traffic and business toward a larger firm get a small slice of the profits. It is often tempting for affiliates to send out spam to create such profitable traffic.
"We have thousands of affiliates out there," Hain said.
- Amazon.com still uses the affiliates programs to a great extent and Google searches often lead to sites that are nothing but links to Amazon's site in disguise. Wish Google searches could see through such tactics....
An entirely separate set of companies also benefits from the spam economy -- Internet service providers who carry their traffic.
Well-known spam nemesis Ron Scelson filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and a review of bankruptcy documents shows he owes Bell South $56,463 for "circuits" and Cable & Wireless another $4,407 as his "Internet provider." Neither company responded to requests for information about the bills.
But it's hardly the first time a big-name Internet provider has been caught in a deal with a spammer. In an embarrassing incident for both AT&T and PSINet three years ago, both firms were caught as participants in secret "pink contracts" with spammers. Long suspected in the spam world, the revelations exposed pink contracts as sweetheart deals for the Internet firms, designed to protect spammers. ISPs get premium, well above normal rates, to sell bandwidth to known spammers. In exchange, the ISP agrees to suffer more than normal complaint rates. In PSINet's contract, revealed on News.com, the firm received an upfront payment of $27,000 from Cajunnet, a marketing firm based in Slidell, La. In exchange, PSINet agreed to permit Cajunnet to send unsolicited email "in mass quantity" through PSINet's lines.
- Is there no legal way to stop ISP's from doing that ?
18 -- Request for Information - Space Lego Project
General Information
Document Type: Special Notice
Solicitation Number: RFI-SpaceLego
Posted Date: Aug 07, 2003
Original Response Date: Sep 08, 2003
Original Archive Date: Sep 23, 2003
Current Archive Date:
Classification Code: 18 -- Space vehicles
Contracting Office Address
Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, 2251 Maxwell Ave, Kirtland AFB, NM, 87117
Description
The Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate is soliciting information and follow-up discussions to support research and development of concepts for rapid-prototyping of space systems based on a kind of space "LEGO_TM". These "LEGOS", also referred to as "protosats", would be a (hopefully small) family of building blocks, from which any complex structure could be built, in this case the skeletal structures of spacecraft. The protosats could, for example, be panels that contain automatic mechanisms for engaging connections when two panels are placed together. The panels could contain wiring resources, computing blocks, etc. that when put together form a superset. The superset can be customized under software control (like FPGAs). A collection of protosats combined to form an assembly are also referred to as "macrosats". In addition to "LEGO" or protosat primitives, we envision the possibility of attaching third party devices (e.g. payload elements) in a modular fashion to the skeleton. The devices could be payload elements, motors (such as reaction wheels, solar panel articulators, etc.) that fit into recesses (perhaps) on the lego panels and engage into the wiring systems. We further seek to develop the feasibility of a concept referred to as "encapsulation". With encapsulation, we seek to build systems in a way that is both decentralized and self-organized. AFRL sponsored projects before in which this idea was demonstrated on the tabletop. In this example, five or more modules, each with processors, are connected together, forming a collective. When one module is removed, the "collective" senses the removal and adjusts accordingly. Temporary masters are "appointed", and if killed, new ones are assigned. The closest things like this in the industry are smart sensor standards (like IEEE 1451.x, LonWorks, HART), which embody some of the "plug and play" principles we seek. Our motivation is to build systems in the most rapid time possible. It takes 5 years minimum and sometimes more than 15 to build a major space system, from thought to orbit. We believe that under the right "framework", even the most complex systems could be assembled and fielded in phenomenally short timeframes, perhaps days. Most of the barriers to this goal are: (1) wiring harnesses, (2) software, (3) human fallibility, and (4) closed, proprietary "standards". By using configurable wiring harnesses, it could be possible to eliminate the need to fabricate them as custom assemblies. We would instead connect "LEGOs" with built-in reconfigurable wiring harnesses (a whole separate discussion), and configure them on the spot. It is our hope that somehow "encapsulation" might eventually eliminate the need for centralized custom flight software. Finally, self-organizing interfaces could negotiate the various elements of a system as it is being assembled, while serving as an open systems scheme to overcome closed approaches. AFRL is considering funding research in this specific technology area and is attempting to gauge industry / academic interest and capability. Responses should be sent to: Air Force Research Laboratory/VSSE, Attn: Space Lego Project, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776. Written and e-mailed responses are acceptable. E-mail information to microsys@kirtland.af.mil. The information can be in the form of white papers, presentations, or proposals. This industry survey does not obligate the government in any manner for any future acquisitions. This is not a notice of intent to contract. The go
Sorry, did you say AOL?
oh...
Yes, AOL, free six months of ISP. How much you pay for internet access in 6 months ?
I didn't have to pay anything !
I know this first hand because I used the 6 month free AOL that came with my new Dell. AOL would ask you to participate in Beta programs and customers sign up so that they get the new features first... Eventually I got sick of it and stopped participating in their Beta.
-- Sig
Washington Post - Bush Misuses Science, Report Says
New York Times - Bush Misuses Science, Report Says
And yesterday I was talking about the lax security
The reason why I won't Pay online is simple. Most dot com sites don't take good enough precautions to keep their customer's info secure. To offer better deals, they try to minimize costs as much as they can and your information sits in their database ready to be hacked or sold by some disgruntled employee or company going bust...
So I would only pay if there is a centralized (gotta be very secure) payment mechanism which lets me pay for it on any dot com website and before any payments are approved, allows me to log-in to the centralized site and approve the individual transactions....
First Cloned Horse Announced
Most Sun Employees Own Macs ....
Posted by pudge on Wednesday August 06, @12:12PM
from the give-all-apple-users-suns-and-we'll-call-it-even dept.
An anonymous user writes, "Most Sun Microsystems employees use Apple when they're not at work
Where is the source of this statement ? Did pudge even verify it before posting it or I am missing something?
IBM gets AS/400 running on PSone
A lot of research and ideas and papers have been thrown around to replace SMTP with a better protocol but the costs involved are a major discouraging factor and people don't want to install a system when there is no guarantee that all the recipients have it too.
Maybe servers using a new mail protocol should be designed such that they first attempt to use the new protocol and if connect fails, try the good old SMTP
We use Peachtree accounting software which is supposedly multi-user. Unfortunately, multi-user does not translate into allowing two people to be in the same module (i.e., accounts receivable) at the same time. Because the users are in different buildings they often crash Peachtree because they don't know that someone else is already in that module. These crashes result in the loss of data since the last backup.
It seems that you are trying an ad-hoc solution instead of looking at the root cause of problem which seems to be the buggy Peachtree accounting software (or maybe their sales folk claimed it to be multi-user while developers didn't get to finish multi-user module properly). When you get your messaging thing working, you might want to call the Peachtree accounting software and bug them until they take care of your problem or if your organization can afford it, get a better package that meets the needs of your organization.
You can either hire a tow truck to pull your car with broken engine (you still sit in the car) for your commute or you can get a car that works !!