From The Artical: "Perhaps weeks or months later, she might have zipped through them to figure out when she last saw a particular colleague or what bottle of wine she had been drinking that night."
Two THOUSAND pictures a day? ZIP through them?
This thing looks larger than my Cybershot-U (which much better pictures than what I saw on Microsoft's site from it), and seems like it would require a _lot_ of work to constantly maintain and keep organized the hundreds to thousands of photos taken everyday. Let alone time to download them on a regular basis... There are defiently some cool things on that Microsoft page though, this just isn't one of them =P
If it is anything near as obnoxious as the MS paperclip I'm staying the hell away from Copenhagen. (At least the OpenOffice light bulb dosen't dance and make noise.)
This seems to me to be going quite a bit overboard...
If the purpose is to provide a useful resource to the people who will engage
these ghosts, then I see far to much work going into the AI. A helpful
computer contains what you want to know and provides an effecient interface
for extracting the information.
Not that this project is not of great interest to me from a research standpoint,
but perhaps the most useful faceless computer interface wouldn't be one that
is trying to gain popularity and lock the morons in the closet.
But customers should get that 200 they thought they paid for! Wouldn't you be mad if you got 200 less than what you paid for?! 200 is a big number... hmm which leads me to speculate. Perhaps the laptop chip was called the 9000 and the higher model number in the desktop card was the 9002... then the customers would feel they only are out 2 instead of 200, and probably would be making much less noise.
Case modding is such a wonderful waste of time though! Do not forget that man who put neon lights in two Sun Fire 15K's. I'm engineering software for a startup company right now and we will also be building servers that ship with our software, and you had better believe that our boxes are gunna be eye shocking. After seening so many racks and racks of crap in so many server rooms, all I know is "I want it to be NEON! and Blink!" =D
Oh god I haven't rubbed all the crust out of my eyes yet, If you get rid of the "to" in that sentance I quoted you get to see what I was really replying to;)
"practical advice, like why not to window mod hard drives."
I can think of a good reason not to window mod your hard drive, lest one not know what RMA stands for... Besides, why risk lessening the life of a drive by breaking the clean room sealed environment? The link was/.ed before I could peep it but I'm a little disturbed that window modding a hard drive and practical advice are in the same sentence here... I'll stick to modding things without 105 million transistor microchips, things that don't have parts that rotate at over thrice my truck's redline, and things that don't convert 550 watts of power.
All I know is that CI Host is a worthless hate spreading worm garden. My host, OC Hosting (ochosting.com), bless their souls they are such wonderfull people to be a client of, has had trouble with CI Host in the past.
About a year ago when OC Hosting pulled out of renting space at CI's data centers, CI told them that they couldn't get in the building even to take their machines out without signing a year contract for the space they used. Because of this I (foreverdreaming.net) and other OC customers could not get our files because CI was holding the servers.
After this I have had a constantly living anamosity for CI that ignighted like a torch when I read this article. I hope AOL wins and finds a way to file a counter-claim and hopefully wipe the worthless hate spreading scum that is CI off the face of this beautiful planet.
haha - for a year I've hated you and now I get a chance to express it in public forum, yay!
I've had my land line replaced with a cellular phone now for quite some time. My bill is really straight foreward, the same number follows me wherever I go, I don't pay any long distance charges, and 911 maps to my local dispatch.
I don't know exactly how the government treats cellular providers but it seems to me that everything about the Vonage VoIP phones that is exciting all my colleagues applies to my cellular service. And because I live in Minnesota I'm really liking the stability of my cellular service's governmental regulation
"(they don't tell you that kind of thing at Slashdot, though, they'd rather cry without looking for facts)"
I'm sorry, I think I missed where SlashDot expressed an opinion...
joejg writes "As FootNotes is reporting, the developers at Gaim have responded to the ban Microsoft is placing upon users of third-party clients accessing the MSN protocol. It appears that starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in South Korea." Gaim's site is more optimistic, saying they may still be able to connect, only without a license to do so.
Microsoft deserves a compensation for their service, but it does not necessarily mean through either adverisements or directly collecting revenues from its users.
If you have purchased a copy of Windows you have generated revenues for Microsoft, and thus compensated them for your indefinite use of their messageing service (along with every other service and small piece of software for Windows that Microsoft provides)
This is the same reason that Sun offers a download of Solaris 9 at no charge for SPARC platforms but for x86 platforms there is a fee of $20. If you are downloading the SPARC version of the software you have already compensated Sun though the purchase of SPARC based hardware.
The only way that we can complain about this move by Microsoft is that it is depriving their customers of their right to talk to me. I am almost certain that Microsoft has the funds to maintain their messaging service no matter how many third party clients are connecting. AOL initially provided its messenger service to non AOL users as a service to their paying customers.
Everyone I know from my college uses MSN messenger because my college distributes laptops to each student with Windows (thus MSN Messenger) pre-installed. Telling everyone / getting everyone I know who uses MSN to switch to something else just because myself and a few others are no longer going to be able to use it would be ludicrous.
Microsoft should be allowing me and everyone else who uses third party clients for MSN Messenger to continue connecting to their servers not as a service to us, but as a service to all those who run Windows and pay great deals of money to do so.
Isn't that the truth. Don't get me wrong I love the software but (to play off that delightful "crash different" video) I feel as thought I'm not operating Samba, rather just sharing in the Samba experience. Should I happen to get XP to actually open one of my remote directories while the system is willing, all the better.
This is based off an experience I've had two time where after configuring Samba I got errors from XP when connecting to that server. I play around for about 2 hours to no avail, then all of a sudden things start working after I don't make any changes for a little bit...
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From The Artical:
"Perhaps weeks or months later, she might have zipped through them to figure out when she last saw a particular colleague or what bottle of wine she had been drinking that night."
Two THOUSAND pictures a day? ZIP through them?
This thing looks larger than my Cybershot-U (which much better pictures than what I saw on Microsoft's site from it), and seems like it would require a _lot_ of work to constantly maintain and keep organized the hundreds to thousands of photos taken everyday. Let alone time to download them on a regular basis... There are defiently some cool things on that Microsoft page though, this just isn't one of them =P
Well, actually...
5 Volt DC Power Supply, Jameco Part Number 112070
1.9" x 2.2" x 1.95"
Full height file cabinet, Office Mac Item Number 01200578
52" x 25" x 15"
So you could fit about 2392 of them in that file cabinet... SORRY I'M BORED!!
Haha! Just imagine: Mead producing yellow paper ledgers with these to compete with tablet PCs =D
If it is anything near as obnoxious as the MS paperclip I'm staying the hell away from Copenhagen. (At least the OpenOffice light bulb dosen't dance and make noise.)
This seems to me to be going quite a bit overboard...
If the purpose is to provide a useful resource to the people who will engage these ghosts, then I see far to much work going into the AI. A helpful computer contains what you want to know and provides an effecient interface for extracting the information.
Not that this project is not of great interest to me from a research standpoint, but perhaps the most useful faceless computer interface wouldn't be one that is trying to gain popularity and lock the morons in the closet.
But customers should get that 200 they thought they paid for! Wouldn't you be mad if you got 200 less than what you paid for?! 200 is a big number... hmm which leads me to speculate. Perhaps the laptop chip was called the 9000 and the higher model number in the desktop card was the 9002... then the customers would feel they only are out 2 instead of 200, and probably would be making much less noise.
My host for my web server charges me $5 for a lot of 3 gigs of transfer. So for me the cost of a gig is $1.67. Not much in my opinion...
Case modding is such a wonderful waste of time though! Do not forget that man who put neon lights in two Sun Fire 15K's. I'm engineering software for a startup company right now and we will also be building servers that ship with our software, and you had better believe that our boxes are gunna be eye shocking. After seening so many racks and racks of crap in so many server rooms, all I know is "I want it to be NEON! and Blink!" =D
Both. I was referring to a pair 15K SCSI U320 drives I know and my 488 in^3 98' Magnum V10 is reving its brains out at about 4800.
Oh god I haven't rubbed all the crust out of my eyes yet, If you get rid of the "to" in that sentance I quoted you get to see what I was really replying to ;)
"practical advice, like why not to window mod hard drives."
I can think of a good reason not to window mod your hard drive, lest one not know what RMA stands for... Besides, why risk lessening the life of a drive by breaking the clean room sealed environment? The link was /.ed before I could peep it but I'm a little disturbed that window modding a hard drive and practical advice are in the same sentence here... I'll stick to modding things without 105 million transistor microchips, things that don't have parts that rotate at over thrice my truck's redline, and things that don't convert 550 watts of power.
All I know is that CI Host is a worthless hate spreading worm garden. My host, OC Hosting (ochosting.com), bless their souls they are such wonderfull people to be a client of, has had trouble with CI Host in the past.
About a year ago when OC Hosting pulled out of renting space at CI's data centers, CI told them that they couldn't get in the building even to take their machines out without signing a year contract for the space they used. Because of this I (foreverdreaming.net) and other OC customers could not get our files because CI was holding the servers.
After this I have had a constantly living anamosity for CI that ignighted like a torch when I read this article. I hope AOL wins and finds a way to file a counter-claim and hopefully wipe the worthless hate spreading scum that is CI off the face of this beautiful planet.
haha - for a year I've hated you and now I get a chance to express it in public forum, yay!
I've had my land line replaced with a cellular phone now for quite some time. My bill is really straight foreward, the same number follows me wherever I go, I don't pay any long distance charges, and 911 maps to my local dispatch.
I don't know exactly how the government treats cellular providers but it seems to me that everything about the Vonage VoIP phones that is exciting all my colleagues applies to my cellular service. And because I live in Minnesota I'm really liking the stability of my cellular service's governmental regulation
"(they don't tell you that kind of thing at Slashdot, though, they'd rather cry without looking for facts)"
I'm sorry, I think I missed where SlashDot expressed an opinion ...
joejg writes "As FootNotes is reporting, the developers at Gaim have responded to the ban Microsoft is placing upon users of third-party clients accessing the MSN protocol. It appears that starting October 15th I will not be able to talk to my MSN friend in South Korea." Gaim's site is more optimistic, saying they may still be able to connect, only without a license to do so.
Microsoft deserves a compensation for their service, but it does not necessarily mean through either adverisements or directly collecting revenues from its users.
If you have purchased a copy of Windows you have generated revenues for Microsoft, and thus compensated them for your indefinite use of their messageing service (along with every other service and small piece of software for Windows that Microsoft provides)
This is the same reason that Sun offers a download of Solaris 9 at no charge for SPARC platforms but for x86 platforms there is a fee of $20. If you are downloading the SPARC version of the software you have already compensated Sun though the purchase of SPARC based hardware.
The only way that we can complain about this move by Microsoft is that it is depriving their customers of their right to talk to me. I am almost certain that Microsoft has the funds to maintain their messaging service no matter how many third party clients are connecting. AOL initially provided its messenger service to non AOL users as a service to their paying customers.
Everyone I know from my college uses MSN messenger because my college distributes laptops to each student with Windows (thus MSN Messenger) pre-installed. Telling everyone / getting everyone I know who uses MSN to switch to something else just because myself and a few others are no longer going to be able to use it would be ludicrous.
Microsoft should be allowing me and everyone else who uses third party clients for MSN Messenger to continue connecting to their servers not as a service to us, but as a service to all those who run Windows and pay great deals of money to do so.
Hmm, makes paid by the hour consulting sound pretty good for Windows techs :D
This is why I have a 5-port switch for every couch in my house -- I like wires they tend to stay in style longer...
Not like wireless would be any good here... My renter told me there was probably no lead paint in the house but my WiFi card tends to disagree.
Isn't that the truth. Don't get me wrong I love the software but (to play off that delightful "crash different" video) I feel as thought I'm not operating Samba, rather just sharing in the Samba experience. Should I happen to get XP to actually open one of my remote directories while the system is willing, all the better. This is based off an experience I've had two time where after configuring Samba I got errors from XP when connecting to that server. I play around for about 2 hours to no avail, then all of a sudden things start working after I don't make any changes for a little bit...