Space missions that have lived beyond their usefulness should be shutdown, sometimes crafts work longer than initially planned. In this case however, the non-NASA affiliated scientists that rank the usefulness of old missions want it to continue. Where did the money in the budget go for the voyager's? Lets raise a couple million and help em' out.
I think a split off would be a good thing to happen, sometimes as products grow they need to be focused on independently. Firefox gets the product to the people, and it will funnel some users back to the mozilla project. Splitting it off doesn't mean there wouldn't be communication between the two projects, just more focus. This is similar to when apple made a hardware unit to focus on the ipod. S'all good in da hood.
This is a huge deal, but it's bound to happen. I should be bitter because I've had my identity stolen (somehow, may not be similar). What is this going to do to LexisNexis? They keep track of they keep track of government, law, and company data? I see some stock going down...
Streaming's inefficient use of network bandwidth is an Achilles heel.
Streaming is not inefficient, it still transfers the same amount of information as nonstreaming. The problem does not lie in efficiency. Datagram networks (the internet) is notorious for bad streaming content because the packets can take different routes and because of network jitter. I agree that a tivo setup will dominate like he says, but that doesn't make streaming inefficient!
Being a big fan of Randal Schwartz's Perl column, I bought this book when it first came out. I find his writing clear and concise, and easy to understand even for beginners. The best part of this particular book is chapter 3 which I used to learn how Perl was used on the web, and it helped me to create many of the scripts that I use for my own website.
I actually own the ConvertX PVR from plextor. It's very nice actually and I would recommend it to anyone. It's now time to hookup a linux box PVR system, hazah!
I work at an AMC theater here in Pennsylvania, and I know that our theater is going to be carrying steamboy. I have a feeling that no matter how good the movie is it will be hard to convince people to come see and appreciate anime.
Watch out when trying to build a passme, I've tried to build one myself, and after I soldered it up it did not work no matter what I did. I think it might have been because I held the soldering iron on the pads too long. Just don't be too pissed off if you try to build it and it doesn't work, mine was a dud.
As a former corel employee I'm to finally see the governement switching to our WP. Our talks to sell our products to the justice department began over two years ago, but by the time I was layed off I was sure that they were never going to follow through. We were not just in talks about Word Perfect so be sure to watch out for other Corel products being adopted by some government agencies soon.
It's about time, the Government is so slow to announce standards. Suite B has been in the works for years now. ECDH and ECMQV were invented and refined in the 90's. Maybe they were waiting on the ECDSA? Certicom licensed it to the NSA last year, but they waited this long to ratify the standard. Now that they have the standard how long will it be before they employ the technology.
They would be competeing with the new phone radio market, which I think some of us agree would be huge. Of course if it wasn't huge they would raise their prices or probably be allowed to merge.
As stated in the Wall Street Journal, Virgin actually attempted to acquire Sirus radio early in 2004, however they could not settle on an amount and the deal fell through. This must be Virgins plan to twart satellite radio, and maintain their hold on the communications market. XM and Sirus should merge to stay competitive in the market and drop their prices. Only time will tell where they go with this one.
Indeed i do not have to goto this website and do the stats for myself. I goto pennstate university and I work at the MBNA career center building where we find jobs for graduating students. We actually do our own job statistics for different departments to attempt to find out what we should push in their ciriculum. For instance we did notice that solaris has been declining for a few years now giving way to linux use, so the computer engineering/ comp sci department has switch to developing for linux from solaris. Using the data we get from recruiters, we try to keep our students top notch as far as demanded job skills.
I'm so tired of treckies raving about enterprise. I've watched it, and it was just a poorly written show. I loved the origional star treck and TNG was also good, but sometime things just go back even with a good name backing it. ex. Starwars episode 1.
The first rule of marketing is 'stick with what you know' which is why they're always remaking things, and I'm just getting sick of it. I'm tired of corporations and tv stations bastardizing things that we used to love.
I think this is a horrible idea. When you have to offer bounties to encourage people to alter open source, then you're basically hiring and paying programmers... Open source isn't about hiring and paying people, it's about everyone working together to make better software for themselves. I think it's great that they're going to fix these problems, but can't we think of other ways to motivate people besides money?
My mother rides these german trains frequently, and even though she's an IT manager and would direclty benefit from this feature, I don't think that she would end up using it. She is technically skilled, being an IT manager, but the overhead of trying to figure out how to use the service, how to get your work to reimburse you for it, etc would cause her to not even bother. Will it make enough money from the people willing to use it? I dunno, maybe.
This is not the first time this has happend to a huge company, in the summer of 2002 amazon had a similarly large security hole. Can consumers trust large companies anymore? I think so, but you are always taking your chances with security. Sometimes companies become so large that things get easily overlooked.
We used ALAC all the time at the studio where I worked, but alas, some of our software was linux only and would not compile under OS X. This was very frustrating and required multiple computers. Finally with this system we can move over to this software as a solution. I love linux and would rather use it, but of the people I work with don't want to learn it claiming that it is more complex. Anyway, thats great that we can do the job with ALAC decoder! I'm sure other studios forced to use ALAC will be very happy with all of this.
It's about time they upgraded Michael to president, he's been in the deal long enough to deserve the promotion and I think it will lend a lot to the open source movement. Since OSI is taking on more work these days they're expanding their board. Only specualtion can tell us who they're going to bring in next, will it be Bob Rose? Hopefully, but we'll see how it plays out. Go Open Source!
Apples preliminary lawsuit subpeona thing they just won is the tip of the iceburge. They were justified though, i love to see rumor sites get whats coming to them. They always ruin the product announcement suprises for me, and I dont have enough will power to keep myself from going to them. In any case apple is just trying to protect itself as it grows. I think they still care about the customers and will continue to use good design philosophy to develop products that will more than just compete.
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I work with small autonomous robots who accomplish basic tasks by working together. As a computer engineer I handle both the hardare and software, so I understand how they would appear 'smart' and 'guilded'. The trick is all in the programming, so that they work together to complete the task without proper communication. As long as they can react well enough to their surroundings (by reacting to eachother) and know what task they are to accomplish, it will look like they are working together as a guilded collective when really they're independant and autonomous.
In 2003 the district courts allowed companies to block different types of malicious traffic- so I thought blocking of different tracknig was allowed? I guess since this isn't malicious they should have a case.
how is this new and exciting news? Yes yes, we've known linux is good for years, and we've known that it can work in business. Do I have to keep hearing about it all the time? I've used debian before, it's a great distro. I do think it's great how it's making it's rounds in asia, but linux needs to make serious inroads into India. In India linux usage hasn't increased much in the past year I've read.
My friend here at PennState University is working on face recognition research. He and I were suprised that such a technology was announced without us hearing about it ahead of time. Normally face recognition would not be useful for this purpose (security clearance). It is either too sensitive (not shaving, wearing sunglasses, etc) screws it up, or it's not sensitive enough to make it secure. Research here at the university was trying to find ways to fix these downfalls, but research on the subject is not even close to complete yet. I can't see this in anyway being as useful or complete as promised.
So why are they skipping around so much? we go from a to b to g to n? what the hell! after they use up all the letters in this half as order are they going to go back to the ones they're skipping and make it totally confusing? 802.11c is 50 times faster than 802.11z!
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Space missions that have lived beyond their usefulness should be shutdown, sometimes crafts work longer than initially planned. In this case however, the non-NASA affiliated scientists that rank the usefulness of old missions want it to continue. Where did the money in the budget go for the voyager's? Lets raise a couple million and help em' out.
I think a split off would be a good thing to happen, sometimes as products grow they need to be focused on independently. Firefox gets the product to the people, and it will funnel some users back to the mozilla project. Splitting it off doesn't mean there wouldn't be communication between the two projects, just more focus. This is similar to when apple made a hardware unit to focus on the ipod. S'all good in da hood.
This is a huge deal, but it's bound to happen. I should be bitter because I've had my identity stolen (somehow, may not be similar). What is this going to do to LexisNexis? They keep track of they keep track of government, law, and company data? I see some stock going down...
Streaming is not inefficient, it still transfers the same amount of information as nonstreaming. The problem does not lie in efficiency. Datagram networks (the internet) is notorious for bad streaming content because the packets can take different routes and because of network jitter. I agree that a tivo setup will dominate like he says, but that doesn't make streaming inefficient!
Being a big fan of Randal Schwartz's Perl column, I bought this book when it first came out. I find his writing clear and concise, and easy to understand even for beginners. The best part of this particular book is chapter 3 which I used to learn how Perl was used on the web, and it helped me to create many of the scripts that I use for my own website.
I actually own the ConvertX PVR from plextor. It's very nice actually and I would recommend it to anyone. It's now time to hookup a linux box PVR system, hazah!
I work at an AMC theater here in Pennsylvania, and I know that our theater is going to be carrying steamboy. I have a feeling that no matter how good the movie is it will be hard to convince people to come see and appreciate anime.
Watch out when trying to build a passme, I've tried to build one myself, and after I soldered it up it did not work no matter what I did. I think it might have been because I held the soldering iron on the pads too long. Just don't be too pissed off if you try to build it and it doesn't work, mine was a dud.
As a former corel employee I'm to finally see the governement switching to our WP. Our talks to sell our products to the justice department began over two years ago, but by the time I was layed off I was sure that they were never going to follow through. We were not just in talks about Word Perfect so be sure to watch out for other Corel products being adopted by some government agencies soon.
It's about time, the Government is so slow to announce standards. Suite B has been in the works for years now. ECDH and ECMQV were invented and refined in the 90's. Maybe they were waiting on the ECDSA? Certicom licensed it to the NSA last year, but they waited this long to ratify the standard. Now that they have the standard how long will it be before they employ the technology.
They would be competeing with the new phone radio market, which I think some of us agree would be huge. Of course if it wasn't huge they would raise their prices or probably be allowed to merge.
As stated in the Wall Street Journal, Virgin actually attempted to acquire Sirus radio early in 2004, however they could not settle on an amount and the deal fell through. This must be Virgins plan to twart satellite radio, and maintain their hold on the communications market. XM and Sirus should merge to stay competitive in the market and drop their prices. Only time will tell where they go with this one.
Indeed i do not have to goto this website and do the stats for myself. I goto pennstate university and I work at the MBNA career center building where we find jobs for graduating students. We actually do our own job statistics for different departments to attempt to find out what we should push in their ciriculum. For instance we did notice that solaris has been declining for a few years now giving way to linux use, so the computer engineering/ comp sci department has switch to developing for linux from solaris. Using the data we get from recruiters, we try to keep our students top notch as far as demanded job skills.
I'm so tired of treckies raving about enterprise. I've watched it, and it was just a poorly written show. I loved the origional star treck and TNG was also good, but sometime things just go back even with a good name backing it. ex. Starwars episode 1. The first rule of marketing is 'stick with what you know' which is why they're always remaking things, and I'm just getting sick of it. I'm tired of corporations and tv stations bastardizing things that we used to love.
I think this is a horrible idea. When you have to offer bounties to encourage people to alter open source, then you're basically hiring and paying programmers... Open source isn't about hiring and paying people, it's about everyone working together to make better software for themselves. I think it's great that they're going to fix these problems, but can't we think of other ways to motivate people besides money?
My mother rides these german trains frequently, and even though she's an IT manager and would direclty benefit from this feature, I don't think that she would end up using it. She is technically skilled, being an IT manager, but the overhead of trying to figure out how to use the service, how to get your work to reimburse you for it, etc would cause her to not even bother. Will it make enough money from the people willing to use it? I dunno, maybe.
This is not the first time this has happend to a huge company, in the summer of 2002 amazon had a similarly large security hole. Can consumers trust large companies anymore? I think so, but you are always taking your chances with security. Sometimes companies become so large that things get easily overlooked.
We used ALAC all the time at the studio where I worked, but alas, some of our software was linux only and would not compile under OS X. This was very frustrating and required multiple computers. Finally with this system we can move over to this software as a solution. I love linux and would rather use it, but of the people I work with don't want to learn it claiming that it is more complex. Anyway, thats great that we can do the job with ALAC decoder! I'm sure other studios forced to use ALAC will be very happy with all of this.
It's about time they upgraded Michael to president, he's been in the deal long enough to deserve the promotion and I think it will lend a lot to the open source movement. Since OSI is taking on more work these days they're expanding their board. Only specualtion can tell us who they're going to bring in next, will it be Bob Rose? Hopefully, but we'll see how it plays out. Go Open Source!
Apples preliminary lawsuit subpeona thing they just won is the tip of the iceburge. They were justified though, i love to see rumor sites get whats coming to them. They always ruin the product announcement suprises for me, and I dont have enough will power to keep myself from going to them. In any case apple is just trying to protect itself as it grows. I think they still care about the customers and will continue to use good design philosophy to develop products that will more than just compete.
I work with small autonomous robots who accomplish basic tasks by working together. As a computer engineer I handle both the hardare and software, so I understand how they would appear 'smart' and 'guilded'. The trick is all in the programming, so that they work together to complete the task without proper communication. As long as they can react well enough to their surroundings (by reacting to eachother) and know what task they are to accomplish, it will look like they are working together as a guilded collective when really they're independant and autonomous.
In 2003 the district courts allowed companies to block different types of malicious traffic- so I thought blocking of different tracknig was allowed? I guess since this isn't malicious they should have a case.
how is this new and exciting news? Yes yes, we've known linux is good for years, and we've known that it can work in business. Do I have to keep hearing about it all the time? I've used debian before, it's a great distro. I do think it's great how it's making it's rounds in asia, but linux needs to make serious inroads into India. In India linux usage hasn't increased much in the past year I've read.
My friend here at PennState University is working on face recognition research. He and I were suprised that such a technology was announced without us hearing about it ahead of time. Normally face recognition would not be useful for this purpose (security clearance). It is either too sensitive (not shaving, wearing sunglasses, etc) screws it up, or it's not sensitive enough to make it secure. Research here at the university was trying to find ways to fix these downfalls, but research on the subject is not even close to complete yet. I can't see this in anyway being as useful or complete as promised.
So why are they skipping around so much? we go from a to b to g to n? what the hell! after they use up all the letters in this half as order are they going to go back to the ones they're skipping and make it totally confusing? 802.11c is 50 times faster than 802.11z!