Something that would filter out crap sites like experts-exchange.com and others that require you to sign in to see the content. Also filter sites that do fast redirects so you can't use the back button.
...not really. Commercial companies that use and contribute to open source projects are just opening themselves up to litigation due to GPL and copyright violations. Hopefully they'll learn that using closed, proprietary designs is the safest way to go.
I've written countless GIS/Mapping applications and within the past few years have found that Google's free API provides different data than what they serve up at maps.google.com and the data the serve up is HORRIBLY inaccurate at times. If you want to provide a service that is as good as what Google uses on their own pages you need to go to their sources like Telcontar, SDE, NavTech, etc.....which cost a small fortune. Microsoft's Mappoint Web Service and to some extend MS Virtual Earth provide better data, fewer restrictions and are much easier to use (if you're a.net programmer).
United States Position: We want to build a way to defend ourselves and our "friends" from being attacked by some rogue states.
Russia Position: We don't want you protecting your civilians from our missles and we want to build new offensive weapons to defeat your defensive weapons so we can kill whoever we want.
If Russia wants to maintain a balance of power then they should join in on the USA's efforts and try to build a global missle defense shield that makes all airborne threats, regardless of who they're from, obsolete....then eveybody is on a level playing field.
I wrote an application many years ago that would do authentication based on keyboard input and mouse movement and daily practices. I even filed for a patent for the idea but never followed through on it. My system would record time between keyboard strokes for the password as well as watch the user's actions over a given period of time to determine if really was the authenticated user.....so even if somebody knew your password and could replicate your timing they could still be caught when they try to do abnormal tasks and the keyboard/mouse input didn't match with the authenticated user.
Just switch to electronic transactions....this will continue to be a problem until the end of time until we do that. There probably isn't any material left on the planet the is worth less than a penny now, so you won't be able to build any new currency....eventually it'll happen to the nickle, dime, quarter and so on. If you use electronic transactions for everything then there is nothing to worry about.
This is clearly a large threat to Windows Vista because of how efficient it is.....I mean whenever choose my operating system I base my decision on how efficient it is, not the software it's capable of running. (FYI, I'm being sarcastic)
Telerik and ComponentArt both utilize AJAX in their ASP.net controls and from what I've seen are by far the best examples of what AJAX can really do.....the stuff scalix was demoing was not impressive.
The "network" stuff isn't really centrally located at Y-12, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of "server rooms" some of which contain very large computers...some are physically protected, some are not. So there is a chance he/she may have seen either some other large computer system (that may look like a cray) or a Cray that wasn't fully online (ie in a testing phase).
I think a better restaurant in Oak Ridge WAS Buffalo Grille....their Y-12 hot wing sauce was arguably the hottest food you can probably get at a restaurant anywhere....definitely a legal liability on their part. That stuff burned going in you and would burn for days coming out.
Big Ed's pizza isn't anything special besides the fact that they replace the tomato sauce with molten lava. This leaves you with a typical Big Ed's 3rd degree burn in your mouth and you can't eat anything for several days. They're also really paranoid about security...they have 15-20 security cameras for the 15 tables in the restraunt.
Commerce Park is an industrial park that has several private businesses and some federal run facilities. Including BWXT Y-12's Advanced Technologies group (they change the name about every 8 months) where they do Windows, Linux, and some lame SAP stuff....I used to work there for a little while. There's no real "park" there either. There is however Clark's Park which is down the road (1-2 miles) toward's Bethel Valley Road & ORNL. You can picnic there....but I'm 99% certain that the water in the area has the typical "No Fishing & Avoid Contact With Water" signs you see near most water in Oak Ridge.
And how can Apple get away with bundling all of these "extra" applications. They're using their monopoly of the PPC desktop to push their products like Quicktime, Stock Ticker, Address Book, & iSync which they are using to squeeze the small time software developers/vendors out of the PPC market. Once they've run their competition out of business, they'll start to add features like "Buy Printing Supplies" and force users to spend even more money on Apple products.
Ok, there are a couple features that are probably new...but the rest are worthless little applications, minor updates, and/or freely available tools anyway.
Looking over the list I see stuff like GCC (openly available), About This Mac (I would have expected this in MacOS v1.0), AIM Profile Editor (ehh?), PDF Viewer(acrobat not working on MacOS??), Buy Printing Supplies (sounds like bloatware to me).....
If you remove the BS from the list of 200 features you're reduced to:
-Spotlight
-Development tools freely available elsewhere
-Misc bug patches and featuers you'd expect in an OS
-Misc features, like stock ticker, that don't belong in an OS but they're including them anyway
I was looking over the list of new features in this release of MacOS X and didn't see anything that's really new. Sure they've added some flashy graphics and some lame little widget applications, but I don't see anything that has changed in the OS. To me, this should be a free optional download, not an expensive "upgrade".
So how does this "price drop" actually work?? Nokia sells the phone to the carriers, they determine the price and sell the device. Which from what I've seen it ranges from -$200 to $150 with service and $200 with prepaid service.
Some providers will pay you take one....check amazon.
NGage needs more but it's still not bad...
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N-Gage Here To Stay?
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I've been generally pleased with my NGage (I had the original and used it as a taco phone and now I've got a QD and use it only for games/development). I think the NGage's use of S60 was kind of a bad idea since most gaming consoles (don't know of any besides the Vectrex) that use a tall screen instead of a widescreen....don't get me wrong, it's a nice OS. I think the NGage would have had more success had they either not used S60 or modified it for widescreen use and it would have been nice to have 1) faster processor, 2) more internal memory, and/or 3) some kind of 3D accelerator. As for the games, I feel that NGage has quite a few quality games (only portable system in the US right now with a real playable version of Tony Hawk) and if they continue the trend I can't imagine them not being successful...I'd like mention that I actually have more fun with my NGage than my Nintendo DS. Overall it's not a bad system.
What I'm hoping to see from future NGages is: more mem, faster proc, true 3D, and less emphasis on that fact that it's a phone. It would also be nice if they would offer an alternative means to getting online with the device...using expensive, slow GPRS isn't really acceptable for online gaming. Perhaps they should offer wifi and/or strong arm cellular companies into offering discounts on GPRS (or better yet CDMA).
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Something that would filter out crap sites like experts-exchange.com and others that require you to sign in to see the content. Also filter sites that do fast redirects so you can't use the back button.
...not really. Commercial companies that use and contribute to open source projects are just opening themselves up to litigation due to GPL and copyright violations. Hopefully they'll learn that using closed, proprietary designs is the safest way to go.
Stream it over the internet.
If you've spent $2100 on any computer in the past 5 years, it's more than capable of running Vista w/o any problems.
I've written countless GIS/Mapping applications and within the past few years have found that Google's free API provides different data than what they serve up at maps.google.com and the data the serve up is HORRIBLY inaccurate at times. If you want to provide a service that is as good as what Google uses on their own pages you need to go to their sources like Telcontar, SDE, NavTech, etc.....which cost a small fortune. Microsoft's Mappoint Web Service and to some extend MS Virtual Earth provide better data, fewer restrictions and are much easier to use (if you're a .net programmer).
United States Position: We want to build a way to defend ourselves and our "friends" from being attacked by some rogue states.
Russia Position: We don't want you protecting your civilians from our missles and we want to build new offensive weapons to defeat your defensive weapons so we can kill whoever we want.
If Russia wants to maintain a balance of power then they should join in on the USA's efforts and try to build a global missle defense shield that makes all airborne threats, regardless of who they're from, obsolete....then eveybody is on a level playing field.
I've got a charter set top box that is powered by Microsoft and doesn't AT&T also use Microsoft's IPTV product?
I wrote an application many years ago that would do authentication based on keyboard input and mouse movement and daily practices. I even filed for a patent for the idea but never followed through on it. My system would record time between keyboard strokes for the password as well as watch the user's actions over a given period of time to determine if really was the authenticated user.....so even if somebody knew your password and could replicate your timing they could still be caught when they try to do abnormal tasks and the keyboard/mouse input didn't match with the authenticated user.
Just switch to electronic transactions....this will continue to be a problem until the end of time until we do that. There probably isn't any material left on the planet the is worth less than a penny now, so you won't be able to build any new currency....eventually it'll happen to the nickle, dime, quarter and so on. If you use electronic transactions for everything then there is nothing to worry about.
This is clearly a large threat to Windows Vista because of how efficient it is.....I mean whenever choose my operating system I base my decision on how efficient it is, not the software it's capable of running. (FYI, I'm being sarcastic)
Telerik and ComponentArt both utilize AJAX in their ASP.net controls and from what I've seen are by far the best examples of what AJAX can really do.....the stuff scalix was demoing was not impressive.
You jumped on it too after I clearly indicated that part of it was starting to sink.
I think if you read this report http://www.radioactivist.org/ORR%20report%20pdfabl e.pdf (it's somewhat biased) you'll see that the problem isn't just mecury flowing down stream.
The "network" stuff isn't really centrally located at Y-12, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of "server rooms" some of which contain very large computers...some are physically protected, some are not. So there is a chance he/she may have seen either some other large computer system (that may look like a cray) or a Cray that wasn't fully online (ie in a testing phase).
I think a better restaurant in Oak Ridge WAS Buffalo Grille....their Y-12 hot wing sauce was arguably the hottest food you can probably get at a restaurant anywhere....definitely a legal liability on their part. That stuff burned going in you and would burn for days coming out.
Big Ed's pizza isn't anything special besides the fact that they replace the tomato sauce with molten lava. This leaves you with a typical Big Ed's 3rd degree burn in your mouth and you can't eat anything for several days. They're also really paranoid about security...they have 15-20 security cameras for the 15 tables in the restraunt.
Commerce Park is an industrial park that has several private businesses and some federal run facilities. Including BWXT Y-12's Advanced Technologies group (they change the name about every 8 months) where they do Windows, Linux, and some lame SAP stuff....I used to work there for a little while. There's no real "park" there either. There is however Clark's Park which is down the road (1-2 miles) toward's Bethel Valley Road & ORNL. You can picnic there....but I'm 99% certain that the water in the area has the typical "No Fishing & Avoid Contact With Water" signs you see near most water in Oak Ridge.
So much for the govt. using PDF...looks like they'll have to switch back to ASCII text documents.
And how can Apple get away with bundling all of these "extra" applications. They're using their monopoly of the PPC desktop to push their products like Quicktime, Stock Ticker, Address Book, & iSync which they are using to squeeze the small time software developers/vendors out of the PPC market. Once they've run their competition out of business, they'll start to add features like "Buy Printing Supplies" and force users to spend even more money on Apple products.
Ok, there are a couple features that are probably new...but the rest are worthless little applications, minor updates, and/or freely available tools anyway. Looking over the list I see stuff like GCC (openly available), About This Mac (I would have expected this in MacOS v1.0), AIM Profile Editor (ehh?), PDF Viewer(acrobat not working on MacOS??), Buy Printing Supplies (sounds like bloatware to me)..... If you remove the BS from the list of 200 features you're reduced to: -Spotlight -Development tools freely available elsewhere -Misc bug patches and featuers you'd expect in an OS -Misc features, like stock ticker, that don't belong in an OS but they're including them anyway
I was looking over the list of new features in this release of MacOS X and didn't see anything that's really new. Sure they've added some flashy graphics and some lame little widget applications, but I don't see anything that has changed in the OS. To me, this should be a free optional download, not an expensive "upgrade".
Can't buy something that is not for sale.
So how does this "price drop" actually work?? Nokia sells the phone to the carriers, they determine the price and sell the device. Which from what I've seen it ranges from -$200 to $150 with service and $200 with prepaid service.
Some providers will pay you take one....check amazon.
I've been generally pleased with my NGage (I had the original and used it as a taco phone and now I've got a QD and use it only for games/development). I think the NGage's use of S60 was kind of a bad idea since most gaming consoles (don't know of any besides the Vectrex) that use a tall screen instead of a widescreen....don't get me wrong, it's a nice OS. I think the NGage would have had more success had they either not used S60 or modified it for widescreen use and it would have been nice to have 1) faster processor, 2) more internal memory, and/or 3) some kind of 3D accelerator. As for the games, I feel that NGage has quite a few quality games (only portable system in the US right now with a real playable version of Tony Hawk) and if they continue the trend I can't imagine them not being successful...I'd like mention that I actually have more fun with my NGage than my Nintendo DS. Overall it's not a bad system. What I'm hoping to see from future NGages is: more mem, faster proc, true 3D, and less emphasis on that fact that it's a phone. It would also be nice if they would offer an alternative means to getting online with the device...using expensive, slow GPRS isn't really acceptable for online gaming. Perhaps they should offer wifi and/or strong arm cellular companies into offering discounts on GPRS (or better yet CDMA).