People think billboards are sight pollution, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. Ten years from now, you won't be able to walk down a city street without a bombardment of media messages.
I am gonna learn some farming and move to the boonies !!
How about a process where we have a central authority (or more than one or a few per country) giving out signatures for a nominal fee after verification of basic identifiable information. The signatures follow a new RFC standard. All new mail server and client programs written to handle the new signature logic such that emails with verified signatures come to the inbox and rest go to the Bulk/Spam folder (or however you want to set up) and mail client program can be set up to just ignore/autodelete all emails missing signatures or not in 'allowed address list'. The free mail websites would have to follow this too. Some major ISPs like AOL/Comcast etc (maybe all ISPs) could provide Free signatures to their customers as a part of their signup bonus for the service.
Also, the signatures can have certain bits to categorize them into Personal signatures, Business signatures (sub categories - unsolicitated, etc) and you can pick and choose which signature to use per email. The mail client programs could just look at the signatures and split the emails into separate folders based on category/subcategory).
Oh well, it's all so vague, it probably won't work and spammers will find a way to beat it anyway. The only option I see is that ISPs have to make sure that there is no outgoing spam from their systems. If ISP allows unsolicitated spam to go out, warn the ISP and if they still let that happen, revoke their ISP license.
But wait, I can't buy Yopy 3700 Linux PDA in US. (The Yopy 3700 is developed in South Korea and is currently available in France, Austria and the UK for a MSRP of $499 US.)
I want to win the Powerball® jackpot which is estimated at $250 million. Does anyone know of a good formula/solution? The requirements are this, I want to win this Powerball® jackpot (but the forumla should ideally apply such that out of the N times I play, I should win at least N-1 times). Sound like a good thesis/research problem for someone? By the way, Google comes up with a lot of pages if you search for lucky Powerball® numbers. Tisk tisk.
Not to sound like trolling but looking at the number of lawsuits being filed these days, legal profession seems very appealing compared to IT and so far it hasn't been affected by outsourcing either !!
"It sounds to me as if SCO is nailing its own coffin shut from the inside: why ever would an organization continue to do business with a vendor that threatens to sue everyone in sight?"
Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) wrote a long and detailed article
Well, here's the conclusion (even the conclusion is long enough !!) from the article: x86 is not what it's sold as. x86 benchmarks very well but benchmarks can and are twisted to the advantage of the manufacturer. RISC still has an advantage as the RISC cores present in x86 CPUs are only a marketing myth. An instruction converter cannot remove the inherent complexity present in the x86 instruction set and consequently x86 is large and inefficient and is going to remain so. x86 is still outgunned at the high end and perhaps surprisingly also at the low end - you can't make an x86 fast and run cool. There is a lot of marketing goes into x86 and the market -technical people included- just lap it up.
x86 has the desktop market and there are many large companies who depend on it. Indeed it has been speculated that inefficient or not, the market momentum of x86 is such that even Intel, it's creator may not be able to drag us away from it [14]. The volume of x86 production makes them very low cost and the amount of software available goes without saying. Microsoft and Intel's domination of the PC world has meant no RISC CPU has ever had success in this market aside from the PowerPCs in Apple systems and their market share is hardly huge.
In the high end markets, RISC CPUs from HP, SGI, IBM and Sun still dominate. x86 has never been able to reach these performance levels even though they are sometimes a process generation or two ahead. RISC vendors will always be able to make a faster, smaller CPUs. Intel however can make many more CPUs for less.
x86 CPUs have been getting faster and faster for the last few years, threatening even the server vendors. HP and SGI may have given up but IBM has POWER5 and POWER6 on the way and Sun is set to launch CPUs which handle up to 32 threads. Looks like the server vendors are fighting back.
Things are changing, Linux and other Operating Systems are becoming increasingly popular and these are not locked into x86 or any other platform. x86 is running into problems and PowerPC looks like it is going to increasingly become a real, valid alternative to x86 CPUs both matching and exceeding the performance without the increasingly important power consumption or heat issues.
Just yesterday night I was watching this show on the Science channel about the Stars.
They showed the interview of guy who went to space in Apollo mission. He talked about his experience with Cosmic rays. He was telling that if he closed his eyes, he could see fast flashes of light moving across. They didn't know what it was. Later they found out that it was Cosmic rays (high energy particles from a supernova explosion). When they looked at their helmets under magnification, they saw trails where the cosmic ray particles had passed. They said those cosmic ray nuclei were so powerful that they could pass through the spaceship unhindered. He was saying that if he had stayed in that environment for a long period of time, his brain probably would be fried.
I don't know how exactly our atmosphere stops such high energy particles but I am glad it does !!
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.
The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.
Scientists and privacy experts are concerned about the potential impact of the emerging DARPA technologies if they are applied to civilians by commercial or government agencies outside the Pentagon.
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Has anyone come up with the ringtone to keep your Boss three feet away from your desk when you are on /. ??
-- Sig
After Bush posed for photographs with his hand on an elephant tusk in Africa and climbed back into the truck, one of the elephants mounted his mate. That prompted the president to whisper something to his wife. The first lady responded by slapping him on the leg.
"Linux makes it so easy to create a supercomputer.""
BARC unveils Linux based 202 GFLOPS supercomputer
People think billboards are sight pollution, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. Ten years from now, you won't be able to walk down a city street without a bombardment of media messages.
I am gonna learn some farming and move to the boonies !!
How about a process where we have a central authority (or more than one or a few per country) giving out signatures for a nominal fee after verification of basic identifiable information. The signatures follow a new RFC standard. All new mail server and client programs written to handle the new signature logic such that emails with verified signatures come to the inbox and rest go to the Bulk/Spam folder (or however you want to set up) and mail client program can be set up to just ignore/autodelete all emails missing signatures or not in 'allowed address list'. The free mail websites would have to follow this too. Some major ISPs like AOL/Comcast etc (maybe all ISPs) could provide Free signatures to their customers as a part of their signup bonus for the service.
Also, the signatures can have certain bits to categorize them into Personal signatures, Business signatures (sub categories - unsolicitated, etc) and you can pick and choose which signature to use per email. The mail client programs could just look at the signatures and split the emails into separate folders based on category/subcategory).
Oh well, it's all so vague, it probably won't work and spammers will find a way to beat it anyway. The only option I see is that ISPs have to make sure that there is no outgoing spam from their systems. If ISP allows unsolicitated spam to go out, warn the ISP and if they still let that happen, revoke their ISP license.
So true !!
But wait, I can't buy Yopy 3700 Linux PDA in US.
(The Yopy 3700 is developed in South Korea and is currently available in France, Austria and the UK for a MSRP of $499 US.)
I want to win the Powerball® jackpot which is estimated at $250 million.
Does anyone know of a good formula/solution? The requirements are this, I want to win this Powerball® jackpot (but the forumla should ideally apply such that out of the N times I play, I should win at least N-1 times). Sound like a good thesis/research problem for someone? By the way, Google comes up with a lot of pages if you search for lucky Powerball® numbers. Tisk tisk.
Not to sound like trolling but looking at the number of lawsuits being filed these days, legal profession seems very appealing compared to IT and so far it hasn't been affected by outsourcing either !!
I liked this comment:
"It sounds to me as if SCO is nailing its own coffin shut from the inside: why ever would an organization continue to do business with a vendor that threatens to sue everyone in sight?"
The PPC won't soar until someone other than Apple starts pushing it real big
Well, if someone else starts selling PPC based PC's Intel might use it's muscle to dissuade them !
Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) wrote a long and detailed article
Well, here's the conclusion (even the conclusion is long enough !!) from the article:
x86 is not what it's sold as. x86 benchmarks very well but benchmarks can and are twisted to the advantage of the manufacturer. RISC still has an advantage as the RISC cores present in x86 CPUs are only a marketing myth. An instruction converter cannot remove the inherent complexity present in the x86 instruction set and consequently x86 is large and inefficient and is going to remain so. x86 is still outgunned at the high end and perhaps surprisingly also at the low end - you can't make an x86 fast and run cool. There is a lot of marketing goes into x86 and the market -technical people included- just lap it up.
x86 has the desktop market and there are many large companies who depend on it. Indeed it has been speculated that inefficient or not, the market momentum of x86 is such that even Intel, it's creator may not be able to drag us away from it [14]. The volume of x86 production makes them very low cost and the amount of software available goes without saying. Microsoft and Intel's domination of the PC world has meant no RISC CPU has ever had success in this market aside from the PowerPCs in Apple systems and their market share is hardly huge.
In the high end markets, RISC CPUs from HP, SGI, IBM and Sun still dominate. x86 has never been able to reach these performance levels even though they are sometimes a process generation or two ahead. RISC vendors will always be able to make a faster, smaller CPUs. Intel however can make many more CPUs for less.
x86 CPUs have been getting faster and faster for the last few years, threatening even the server vendors. HP and SGI may have given up but IBM has POWER5 and POWER6 on the way and Sun is set to launch CPUs which handle up to 32 threads. Looks like the server vendors are fighting back.
Things are changing, Linux and other Operating Systems are becoming increasingly popular and these are not locked into x86 or any other platform. x86 is running into problems and PowerPC looks like it is going to increasingly become a real, valid alternative to x86 CPUs both matching and exceeding the performance without the increasingly important power consumption or heat issues.
How about this:
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http://www.asp.net/customers/default.aspx?tabInde
Check this out
Not to sound like trolling but interesting to note that the price is not 499 units is any of the currencies of countries where it is sold !!
The Yopy 3700 is developed in South Korea and is currently available in France, Austria and the UK for a MSRP of $499 US .
Just yesterday night I was watching this show on the Science channel about the Stars.
They showed the interview of guy who went to space in Apollo mission. He talked about his experience with Cosmic rays. He was telling that if he closed his eyes, he could see fast flashes of light moving across. They didn't know what it was. Later they found out that it was Cosmic rays (high energy particles from a supernova explosion). When they looked at their helmets under magnification, they saw trails where the cosmic ray particles had passed. They said those cosmic ray nuclei were so powerful that they could pass through the spaceship unhindered. He was saying that if he had stayed in that environment for a long period of time, his brain probably would be fried.
I don't know how exactly our atmosphere stops such high energy particles but I am glad it does !!
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Free Energy = Laser wars
A New Laser For War And Peace
I mean, did in all the years of Microsoft history ever a promise come true?
Well, not a promise but Bill Gates said this in 1981:
"640KB should be enough for anybody"
I have actually seen two websites use it
http://www.donotcall.gov/Register/Reg.aspx is built using Microsoft ASP.NET
I bet 2 cents that this will be on P2P within a week of release !!
PS: I don't use Mac or P2P
(I make my own music using Prodikeys).
File Swappers to RIAA: Download This!
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Vegas® 4.0
Makes me wonder if I can load VNC on PocketPC yet... cause if I can, I would be able to use WinXP wirelessly from:
Windows in your hands
Government Warns of Mass Hacker Attacks
DARPA Develops Urban Surveillance System
B AA_03-15_CTS_PIP.pdf
Develops Urban Surveillance System
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.
The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.
Scientists and privacy experts are concerned about the potential impact of the emerging DARPA technologies if they are applied to civilians by commercial or government agencies outside the Pentagon.
DARPA Develops Urban Surveillance System
DARPA contracting document: http://dtsn.darpa.mil/ixo/solicitations/CTS/file/