I know youre joking but theres a trend now in the UK for stats analysts and newsreaders to crank out comments no less ridiclous than that.
'congestion on our roads costs so many billions in lost productivity' '3 squillion work days are lost due to people taking sickies' blah blah blah
a classic comment I heard reported was how many millions of monday mornings were lost to the economy due to people going out on a sunday night, getting smashed and taking the day off. Its only bean counters who are arsed. I mean who really gives a shit? Virus writers are just part of the social fabric unfortunately, the same as a lot of things. If we made pariahs and convicts out of every minor inconvenient pain in the arse who walks the planet thered be nobody left outside to complain.
JP Aerospace, self-billed as a volunteer organization, has operated since 2002. PongSats are micropayloads the size of a ping-pong ball. Over 1,500 PongSats have flown to date
~The only thing they forgot to mention is the launch vehicle is a 500 foot long baseball bat and costs 2 million dollars.
Actually a copy-protect feature has been in place since the 70s to prevent people wanting to record off the radio. It's called "inane commercial DJ drowning out and talking over the inroduction to a song with verbal diarrhea" and it works by deteriating the sound quality so much, it doesn't matter if it's digital, analogue or sonar, it still sounds awfull
Of course, it also means the radio becomes a pain to listen to also.
Customer: "But I've been using that modem for over a year in Windows 3.11, and it never gave me any problems." Tech Support: "Well it doesn't work now." Customer: "If it worked before, why would it not work now?" Tech Support: "Lightning must have hit it, and now it won't work in anything but Windows 95."
I once went to PC world in the UK to buy a pair of network cards for a uni project.
I asked the guy at the desk if he knew if they were linux compatible.
his reply was "they should work fine as long as both computers youre connecting have the same operating system"
oookaay.
another sales guy in maplin electronics i once visited for an obscure rated fuse had to shout into the back storeroom to ask a colleague how many millimaps were in an amp.
No. just 10 minutes typing a few paragraphs of plain text info would have been enough. there isnt any information on the site bar a handful of pictures and a lame map of the northern atlantic. what route did it take? how far? how long did it take? its a fantastic project- it travelled 3000 miles sucessfully. a few words more than 'we did it' wouldnt have been much work.
CB / HAM, the points moot. its inefficient spectrum use because the transmission power is so high you cant locally recycle frequencies as well as low power cellular phones do. you tie up the spectrum over a vast area.
compared with modern multimedia communications Its a waste of bandwidth if all youre transmitting around the world is your own voice. (Consider the improvements made in video transmission and compression over 20Khz landlines. - its not HAM radio driving these technologies) much better to provide service to the general population.
im not trolling her but ive always thought CB radio is a shocking waste of spectrum anyway. its really more of a niche compared to the flexibility of the internet. no offence to any CBers here. if people can get more use out of broadband using the same spectrum space then so be it.
Perhaps if citizens radio was modernised to more spectrally efficient and used compression methods and error correction like the myriad internet protocols and cellular phone protocols it wouldnt matter so much.
the gibberish you see in the subject header and the to/from headers are designed to fool Bayesian filters. These filters provide weighted probabilities that a message is spam by examining the content. Using gubberish words and random text instead of words like 'sex', 'porn' or 'teens' is an attempt to fool the filter with words it wont recognise from its active database.
..when I saw that the mentor for the spammer responsible for pinacle snake oil was
'a former neo-Nazi leader who turned to the spam business..'
gees that man must have NO social life. I mean his conversation must be a killer at parties:
"so what do you do then Mr Hawke?"
"Oh I annoy millions of strangers every day by sending semi pornographic emails and sell fake medication. In my spare time I terrorise ethnic minorities"
technology overkill if you ask me. Ive got a handheld organiser which is space efficient, competitively priced, theoretically infinite storage, its components recycle well, and it uses minimum power. Its not quite multimedia but I use it for all the killer apps -- address book, organiser, calendar and diary. Its called a sheet of paper.
Its funny but I can see the acronym FUD extending to areas outside of tech forums and appearing in main news items as adopted slang. In political circles and news its simply called "spin", and youre either good at being a spin doctor or youre not. Microsoft are very much the latter.
"It is not a religious discussion, it is a business model discussion," Taylor said "We kind of defaulted (to emotion) because we could not think about Linux in the right way."
Not- 'we could think about it the right way' but 'we attacked it in completely the wrong way.'
MS are behaving less like an innovative and modern tech company and behaving more like a dinosaur political party on the wane.
I thought the article was brilliant. The bit about virtual world crime was just too much I cant believe people are actually trying to changes gamer's behaviour and placing artificial boundries in virtual worlds where the is no natural physical limits to what you can and cant do.
I can imagine the description about the virtual world fraud and killing etc would concern politicians, psychologists and other scaremongers but the whole point of visiting a virtual environment is that you _know_its_not_real and behave accordingly. total freedom for an hour then turn off your PC and snap back to the real world. I cant see the problem. It might reduce crime and thrill seekers in the real world if you ask me. A bit tongue in cheek, but nobody complains about the millions of deaths of computer game characters every year. Some get shot, burned, fragged, melted in acid, run over by crazy taxis, vanished, or turned into inanimate objects. But people only complain if the characters that die belong to someone else. Its descrimination if you also ask me.
aw man that is one of the dullest articles ive ever read. And judging by the number of comments to this thread im not the only one. The first 10 pages of the article are a desciption about the article. it reminds me of them self absorbed bloggers whos content pages are filled to the brim on their website about what changes theyve made to their website.
I read the article, and it always amazes me how (although basically simple concepts) complicated open licences and copyright structures are when theyre actually written down by a lawyer. Now wonder SCO is having some success with nervous and uninformed organisations. There always seems to be a disclaimer with articles like this that the author is not giving legal advice - is it an American thing? For the author not to be responsible for any legal action you take after reading such information?
from the article: 'In an effort to better understand its main source of competition'
IMO The problem with MS is they no longer understand the customer
the Peltier effect is cool!
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I thought those ideas were a bit lame. I know the mouse fan was a joke, but I wouldnt want the fan generating all sorts of harmonics on the 5v power line anyway. Screw all the signals up I reckon. Especially on the optical variety which uses signal processing. A Peltier cooling device on the 'other hand' (no pun intended) would be ideal and it can be molded to almost any shape mouse, and it uses constant current. Utilised in this project
True, but even the worst written application in the world shouldnt bring any operating system to its knees should it? The OS should sandbox the applications, and protect itself instead of relying heavily on deep integration. I remember a story a while ago about Linus Torvalds. He was discussing work on an operating system (I dont think it was Linux) with another programmer who told him "I wrote a application last night that crashed the OS". Linus replied "oh ive got something like that......its called 'explorer'.
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Yeah and in the sequel, I heard the Atlantians return to prosecute the scientists for breaking their early form of the DMCA (digitial millenium copyright of atlantis) coded within the buckyballs.
No. the data protection act (1984?) does not allow private companies to release any information about specific people or any information which would identify specific people without a court order.( In fact it is an offence to do so). Ie a specific court order would need to be presented for each specific individual, not a 'blanket' claim for ISP user information.it seems the much lower burden of proof in the USA for organisations like the RIAA protects us..... for now.
When we went to see matrix 2 we were told by the cashier to wait till after the film had finished and wed be rewarded with a trailer for part 3. After the film, the credits must have lasted 15 minutes while every person connected with the film got a mention. I thought to myself 'whats the fkin POINT of displaying every name?' now I know-
theres a reference in respect copyrightsthat explains there are '1,943 people rewarded in the credits in reloaded' So its obviously a more subtle approach to show how many people actually do contribute to a film and are affected by digital copying..
-Tho a cynical person might say it lengthens the film by 15 minutes so makes it difficult to fit a decent rip onto a 700MB disk;)
Scientific American has an article: here about a service available in the UK called "shazam" which is used to identify pieces of music. You can dial up the Shazam network, point your mobile phone at the source of music and the database will reply to your phone a few minutes later with an SMS containing the artist name, and track title. It is amazingly resilient to different recordings and quality of the same piece of music.
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I know youre joking but theres a trend now in the UK for stats analysts and newsreaders to crank out comments no less ridiclous than that.
'congestion on our roads costs so many billions in lost productivity'
'3 squillion work days are lost due to people taking sickies'
blah blah blah
a classic comment I heard reported was how many millions of monday mornings were lost to the economy due to people going out on a sunday night, getting smashed and taking the day off.
Its only bean counters who are arsed. I mean who really gives a shit?
Virus writers are just part of the social fabric unfortunately, the same as a lot of things. If we made pariahs and convicts out of every minor inconvenient pain in the arse who walks the planet thered be nobody left outside to complain.
wed be no better off.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/1_20Atm_2e
from the article~
JP Aerospace, self-billed as a volunteer organization, has operated since 2002. PongSats are micropayloads the size of a ping-pong ball. Over 1,500 PongSats have flown to date
~The only thing they forgot to mention is the launch vehicle is a 500 foot long baseball bat and costs 2 million dollars.
Actually a copy-protect feature has been in place since the 70s to prevent people wanting to record off the radio. It's called "inane commercial DJ drowning out and talking over the inroduction to a song with verbal diarrhea" and it works by deteriating the sound quality so much, it doesn't matter if it's digital, analogue or sonar, it still sounds awfull
Of course, it also means the radio becomes a pain to listen to also.
Same here... I once helped our local priest to get online.
Before then, every time he tried to connect all he got was -
"Host not found..."
..every time it BSODs its easier to throw across the room and stamp on than a dekstop..!
that site is class!
Customer: "But I've been using that modem for over a year in Windows 3.11, and it never gave me any problems."
Tech Support: "Well it doesn't work now."
Customer: "If it worked before, why would it not work now?"
Tech Support: "Lightning must have hit it, and now it won't work in anything but Windows 95."
comic genius.
I once went to PC world in the UK to buy a pair of network cards for a uni project. I asked the guy at the desk if he knew if they were linux compatible. his reply was "they should work fine as long as both computers youre connecting have the same operating system" oookaay. another sales guy in maplin electronics i once visited for an obscure rated fuse had to shout into the back storeroom to ask a colleague how many millimaps were in an amp.
No. just 10 minutes typing a few paragraphs of plain text info would have been enough. there isnt any information on the site bar a handful of pictures and a lame map of the northern atlantic. what route did it take? how far? how long did it take? its a fantastic project- it travelled 3000 miles sucessfully. a few words more than 'we did it' wouldnt have been much work.
CB / HAM, the points moot. its inefficient spectrum use because the transmission power is so high you cant locally recycle frequencies as well as low power cellular phones do. you tie up the spectrum over a vast area.
compared with modern multimedia communications Its a waste of bandwidth if all youre transmitting around the world is your own voice. (Consider the improvements made in video transmission and compression over 20Khz landlines. - its not HAM radio driving these technologies) much better to provide service to the general population.
im not trolling her but ive always thought CB radio is a shocking waste of spectrum anyway. its really more of a niche compared to the flexibility of the internet. no offence to any CBers here. if people can get more use out of broadband using the same spectrum space then so be it.
Perhaps if citizens radio was modernised to more spectrally efficient and used compression methods and error correction like the myriad internet protocols and cellular phone protocols it wouldnt matter so much.
the gibberish you see in the subject header and the to/from headers are designed to fool Bayesian filters. These filters provide weighted probabilities that a message is spam by examining the content. Using gubberish words and random text instead of words like 'sex', 'porn' or 'teens' is an attempt to fool the filter with words it wont recognise from its active database.
Paul graham has done some brilliant and sucessful work using Bayesian filters
..when I saw that the mentor for the spammer responsible for pinacle snake oil was
'a former neo-Nazi leader who turned to the spam business..'
gees that man must have NO social life.
I mean his conversation must be a killer at parties:
"so what do you do then Mr Hawke?"
"Oh I annoy millions of strangers every day by sending semi pornographic emails and sell fake medication. In my spare time I terrorise ethnic minorities"
technology overkill if you ask me. Ive got a handheld organiser which is space efficient, competitively priced, theoretically infinite storage, its components recycle well, and it uses minimum power. Its not quite multimedia but I use it for all the killer apps -- address book, organiser, calendar and diary.
Its called a sheet of paper.
Its funny but I can see the acronym FUD extending to areas outside of tech forums and appearing in main news items as adopted slang. In political circles and news its simply called "spin", and youre either good at being a spin doctor or youre not.
Microsoft are very much the latter.
"It is not a religious discussion, it is a business model discussion," Taylor said "We kind of defaulted (to emotion) because we could not think about Linux in the right way."
Not- 'we could think about it the right way' but 'we attacked it in completely the wrong way.'
MS are behaving less like an innovative and modern tech company and behaving more like a dinosaur political party on the wane.
I thought the article was brilliant. The bit about virtual world crime was just too much I cant believe people are actually trying to changes gamer's behaviour and placing artificial boundries in virtual worlds where the is no natural physical limits to what you can and cant do.
I can imagine the description about the virtual world fraud and killing etc would concern politicians, psychologists and other scaremongers but the whole point of visiting a virtual environment is that you _know_its_not_real and behave accordingly. total freedom for an hour then turn off your PC and snap back to the real world. I cant see the problem. It might reduce crime and thrill seekers in the real world if you ask me.
A bit tongue in cheek, but nobody complains about the millions of deaths of computer game characters every year. Some get shot, burned, fragged, melted in acid, run over by crazy taxis, vanished, or turned into inanimate objects. But people only complain if the characters that die belong to someone else. Its descrimination if you also ask me.
aw man that is one of the dullest articles ive ever read. And judging by the number of comments to this thread im not the only one.
The first 10 pages of the article are a desciption about the article. it reminds me of them self absorbed bloggers whos content pages are filled to the brim on their website about what changes theyve made to their website.
I read the article, and it always amazes me how (although basically simple concepts) complicated open licences and copyright structures are when theyre actually written down by a lawyer. Now wonder SCO is having some success with nervous and uninformed organisations.
There always seems to be a disclaimer with articles like this that the author is not giving legal advice - is it an American thing? For the author not to be responsible for any legal action you take after reading such information?
from the article: 'In an effort to better understand its main source of competition'
IMO The problem with MS is they no longer understand the customer
I thought those ideas were a bit lame. I know the mouse fan was a joke, but I wouldnt want the fan generating all sorts of harmonics on the 5v power line anyway. Screw all the signals up I reckon. Especially on the optical variety which uses signal processing.
A Peltier cooling device on the 'other hand' (no pun intended) would be ideal and it can be molded to almost any shape mouse, and it uses constant current. Utilised in this project
True, but even the worst written application in the world shouldnt bring any operating system to its knees should it?
The OS should sandbox the applications, and protect itself instead of relying heavily on deep integration.
I remember a story a while ago about Linus Torvalds. He was discussing work on an operating system (I dont think it was Linux) with another programmer who told him "I wrote a application last night that crashed the OS".
Linus replied "oh ive got something like that......its called 'explorer'.
Yeah and in the sequel, I heard the Atlantians return to prosecute the scientists for breaking their early form of the DMCA (digitial millenium copyright of atlantis) coded within the buckyballs.
No. the data protection act (1984?) does not allow private companies to release any information about specific people or any information which would identify specific people without a court order.( In fact it is an offence to do so).
Ie a specific court order would need to be presented for each specific individual, not a 'blanket' claim for ISP user information.it seems the much lower burden of proof in the USA for organisations like the RIAA protects us..... for now.
When we went to see matrix 2 we were told by the cashier to wait till after the film had finished and wed be rewarded with a trailer for part 3. After the film, the credits must have lasted 15 minutes while every person connected with the film got a mention.
;)
I thought to myself 'whats the fkin POINT of displaying every name?'
now I know- theres a reference in respect copyrightsthat explains there are '1,943 people rewarded in the credits in reloaded'
So its obviously a more subtle approach to show how many people actually do contribute to a film and are affected by digital copying..
-Tho a cynical person might say it lengthens the film by 15 minutes so makes it difficult to fit a decent rip onto a 700MB disk
Scientific American has an article: here about a service available in the UK called "shazam" which is used to identify pieces of music.
You can dial up the Shazam network, point your mobile phone at the source of music and the database will reply to your phone a few minutes later with an SMS containing the artist name, and track title.
It is amazingly resilient to different recordings and quality of the same piece of music.