Lieberman's go-l site had some absolutely smoking hot boxes. I thought these overclocked hotrods were
toys cobbled together by rich highschool and college nerds but here they are, 64bit, liquid cooled, 5 and 10 GB of ram and a host of RAID options ALL OFF THE SHELF. Also, though not strictly needed to run a server, a 92 inch display [4 video cards!].
Oh, you have budget? never mind.
well, gotta go, there's drool all over my keyboard.
someone point me to a FAQ or help page that will
tell me how to permanently remove MS instant messaging? If its typical MS crap, the devil is in
the DLLs.
for the big companies to simultaneously make the electronics that do the copying and own the copyrights to the movies, songs and games that get copied. Sony figured this out years ago.
Thats funny but in fact the people who like the patriot act just don't think like/.ers. The Washington Post put together a
fair and detailed account of the developments leading up to the call for a supreme court case [for freely registered readers]. Toward the end of the report they cover Orrin Hatch's idiotic Induce Act as congress's lame industry-sponsored fix for the whole copywrong mess. But this the same who put up a bill to
protect gun manufacturers and sellers from liability for what guns do. The glaring difference between the two pieces of legislature is the way one finds only the users at fault and the other blames the manufacturer of of the equipment and not its users. Where is the logic?
This if totally f__ked up. Though these are supposedly the legistlative work of one mind, it is clear as desert daylight that they are simply work done at the behest of two different industries that Mr. Hatch either likes or takes money from. Lets hope the courts can do better at finding justice than Mr. Hatch. They have so far.
Well, there you have it One person on whom to concentrate your hatred.
was my first job: cleaning out the incinerator at an animal disease laboratory...sometimes they shut off the gas before the rabid dog carcasses were completely burnt. After that, even my job as an operator at the student services counter for my university's computer center seemed like a real move up in the world. How many days a week can you constantly deal with the software problems of people who should never have been given anything more complicated than a bottle of beer and still think you have a great job?
India is not the only place where hightech can leapfrog the usual progression of roads, electrification, waterworks and other infrastructure development. Though
Worldchanging.org is relatively overexposed on/. , you may enjoy reading a
short and inspiring piece there about how much a modest budget and some dedicated nerds can do to bring the internet to remote villages in S.E. asia [and what people who haven't got two floppies to rub together or even electricity find useful about internet connection.]
And I'd actually like to have that laptop when I go camping so I wouldn't suffer those infamous internet withdrawals.
Careful there. If the huge deposits of frozen
methane hydrate that rely on the low temps and high pressure of the deep ocean for their stability are disturbed
by some ocean stiring project, or just plain warmer water, we could have a frothing burst of methane outgassing from the ocean that would greatly increase the green house gas content of our atmosphere.
well, maybe not yet. Way down in the middle of the
artlcle (you all read it in full, of course;) it says:
Measurements of CO2 levels in Australia and at the south pole were slightly lower, he said, so it looked as though something unusual had occurred in the northern hemisphere.
Since the observatory from which the alarming data is drawn is roughly downwind from China and China has been identified as the source of increasing atmospheric soot loads deposited as far away as Oregon AND China's ramping industrial output [hey Walmart has
a lot of shelves to fill] will have been putting ever more CO2 in the air, maybe the data are a bit atypical of the earth as a whole? Where's the model for the natural decay curve for a CO2 spike from a point source? The sky may be falling but the data are so damn hard to interpret.
ads, editorials and any other "information with
an adgenda" will take you in unless you are already well informed and view all things with a healthy
dose of skepticism. Is anybody here really surprised that blogs are sometimes plugs?
Among the reasons I dumped AOL was that unholy combination of IE and AOL insinuating themselves
into the registry. I am sure AOL retains some real marketing geniuses who know some reason why this is a good move but it is beyond me entirely.
I agree with most of the posts citing
organizational and management techniques as the
most fruitfull areas for improvement of software
quality. But technical fixes don't require changing attitudes or otherwise fighting human nature. It seems to me, since the Sun's,
IBM's and MicroSoft's of the world are spending tons of money to give us slickly integrated or widely applicable software development tools, that they would do themselves and us developers a favor to incorporate some of the oldest "lessons learned" into the tools. We have had so many "revolutionary" languages come and go that we seem to have forgotton just what array bounds checking and strict type enforcement save the average programmer from having to think about. In my current project, I am porting Ada code to C++.
Yes, Ada is a language only its Mother, the DOD, could love but we shouldn't have tossed out the baby with the bath water when everyone dropped their support for it. There were vendors of quality assurance tools to be used on top of the qualitity built into the language because the customers and the developement culture all emphasized reliability of the finished product. How did we manage to so thoroughly get away from those objectives?
for mozilla users. The artcle says the bug works differently for Mozilla than for IE browser.
OK, seperate but equal will have to do. Anybody got a list of asp.net servers they want to open up?
its a game you dolt! [but then, the economic impacts may be similar to those that affect movies]
A smutty game huh? Where did you say that fileshare URL is?
a justification for "sharing" movies that is more than the rantings of larcenists in denial. Am I correct in assuming that the Oz-thorities have by their actions placed a defacto ban on this movie? If so that is a serious financial blow to the producer. The exposure gained for his movie through the movie "sharing" networks may have the effect of salvaging some demand for the film where the ratings authority meant to suppress demand.
We verge off topic here, but since the issue is on our minds...As communication and information technologies evolve, a neverending crop of new avenues of abuse are offered. If your ethic is "If I can steal that which only costs me exposure of an email identity then steal it I will", you are either judging that anonymity is an adequate cloak and excuse for petty larceny and are no different from the looters in a riot or you are judging that privacy policies have no meaning and all who merely wish to know who is taking their wares harbor nasty plans for that information. You may have no idea what it costs to field reporters, pay writers and host websites carrying the stories but you can't possibly imagine the publishers are getting rich when market and technological developments have forced them to give you the content and make what they can by convincing the advertizers that you did read it. These publishers have not started out by assuming all internet use is a [sometimes not so] genteel form of thievery but are, bit by bit, driven to lock up more content as they run out of readership evidence for their sponsors. I would be able to post far fewer stories to/. and generally, all of us would be the poorer for it if we had to get publishers permission to quote entire features to which we had personal registered access were those publishers to begin locking the content with real password protection instead of some of the various "open sesame" URL args many now accept.
The honor system is the least expensive choice for all concerned, always has been. Don't break it!
I wonder why they mention this discovery as leading to cures for cancer. What is brought much closer to cure by this understanding are a clutch of fairly uncommon metabolic diseases in which the body fails to get rid of certain by-product proteins and their subsequent build-up produces one or more nasty symptoms. Cholesterol degredation would be perhaps the most medically significant areas in which to seek cures.
Since/. won't let me comment again for a few minutes, I'll respond here to the "Like Programming?" post . Yes. Just like that. ribosomes are just like compilers, proteosomes are garbage collection deamons...the parallels between software and molecular biology go way beyond "virus".
Let me put his another way: "cloned" software gets the cloner sued by the clonee, "work-alike" software has a shot at the market share it deserves and nobody cares who wrote the requirements/specs for the product; those just a wish list and you can't get sued for makeing a wish come true just because some other guy did the wishing.
This is a nit-pick but we should not be sloppily using the term Clone, which the biotech folks have given a precise meaning. If you have built a product to an open and published spec from scratch rather than by borrowing or reusing library or other component software, I'd say you have co-evolved software. Your implementation could wind up being very different, under the hood, from whatever MS eventualy delivers in fulfillment of its spec. A clone is a copy at the implementation level in biology, not at the feature level. We will drive the polymath/. crowd mad much more slowly if all of software's borrowings [virus, worm, infection etc] from biology map consistently onto their wetware metaphores.
passed on his gmail invite still gets notification
of your new e-mail address, you are STILL going to
find that your pristine gmail address can become an instant spam magnet. A "feature" they need to add is opt-out on letting the ultimate benefactor know you have accepted. My gmail account was instantly polluted because it was passed to me by somebody I knew but ultimatately came from some lowlife spammer or address hawker.
I checked the article...it actually looks like ViXs is selling a full-up MPEG core. I hope some enterprising manufacturer that is talking up convergence [are you listening GateWay?] puts this
thing in a laptop with a good built in camera. I could have my video's edited by the time I got back to the office. The capabilities include:
High quality dual encoding at low bit rates
High-speed transrating and transcoding
3D comb filtering and analog noise filtering
Mini-PCI or PCI interface
Multistream MPEG reprocessing, format conversion and bit rate reduction at 8x-to-24x real time
Support for multiple analog and digital (including HDTV) video streams
Programmable Audio encoding into MP3, MPEG2 L2, AC3, AAC formats
When the day comes that 4-term senator is refused
permission to board a plane in the capitol of the state he has represented because some kid born
after he was first elected can't find his name on
some computer's list...we don't have what I could
call a technology advantage. The problem however is more often the stupidity of the user than the untrustworthyness of the technolgy.
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Lieberman's go-l site had some absolutely smoking hot boxes. I thought these overclocked hotrods were toys cobbled together by rich highschool and college nerds but here they are, 64bit, liquid cooled, 5 and 10 GB of ram and a host of RAID options ALL OFF THE SHELF. Also, though not strictly needed to run a server, a 92 inch display [4 video cards!].
Oh, you have budget? never mind.
well, gotta go, there's drool all over my keyboard.
[chuckle chuckle] yes, I think that would solve all my problems with MS
someone point me to a FAQ or help page that will tell me how to permanently remove MS instant messaging? If its typical MS crap, the devil is in the DLLs.
for the big companies to simultaneously make the electronics that do the copying and own the copyrights to the movies, songs and games that get copied. Sony figured this out years ago.
Thats funny but in fact the people who like the patriot act just don't think like /.ers. The Washington Post put together a
fair and detailed account of the developments leading up to the call for a supreme court case [for freely registered readers]. Toward the end of the report they cover Orrin Hatch's idiotic Induce Act as congress's lame industry-sponsored fix for the whole copywrong mess. But this the same who put up a bill to
protect gun manufacturers and sellers from liability for what guns do. The glaring difference between the two pieces of legislature is the way one finds only the users at fault and the other blames the manufacturer of of the equipment and not its users. Where is the logic?
This if totally f__ked up. Though these are supposedly the legistlative work of one mind, it is clear as desert daylight that they are simply work done at the behest of two different industries that Mr. Hatch either likes or takes money from. Lets hope the courts can do better at finding justice than Mr. Hatch. They have so far.
Well, there you have it One person on whom to concentrate your hatred.
was my first job: cleaning out the incinerator at an animal disease laboratory...sometimes they shut off the gas before the rabid dog carcasses were completely burnt. After that, even my job as an operator at the student services counter for my university's computer center seemed like a real move up in the world. How many days a week can you constantly deal with the software problems of people who should never have been given anything more complicated than a bottle of beer and still think you have a great job?
India is not the only place where hightech can leapfrog the usual progression of roads, electrification, waterworks and other infrastructure development. Though Worldchanging.org is relatively overexposed on /. , you may enjoy reading a
short and inspiring piece there about how much a modest budget and some dedicated nerds can do to bring the internet to remote villages in S.E. asia [and what people who haven't got two floppies to rub together or even electricity find useful about internet connection.]
And I'd actually like to have that laptop when I go camping so I wouldn't suffer those infamous internet withdrawals.
Careful there. If the huge deposits of frozen methane hydrate that rely on the low temps and high pressure of the deep ocean for their stability are disturbed by some ocean stiring project, or just plain warmer water, we could have a frothing burst of methane outgassing from the ocean that would greatly increase the green house gas content of our atmosphere.
ads, editorials and any other "information with an adgenda" will take you in unless you are already well informed and view all things with a healthy dose of skepticism. Is anybody here really surprised that blogs are sometimes plugs?
Among the reasons I dumped AOL was that unholy combination of IE and AOL insinuating themselves into the registry. I am sure AOL retains some real marketing geniuses who know some reason why this is a good move but it is beyond me entirely.
I agree with most of the posts citing organizational and management techniques as the most fruitfull areas for improvement of software quality. But technical fixes don't require changing attitudes or otherwise fighting human nature. It seems to me, since the Sun's, IBM's and MicroSoft's of the world are spending tons of money to give us slickly integrated or widely applicable software development tools, that they would do themselves and us developers a favor to incorporate some of the oldest "lessons learned" into the tools. We have had so many "revolutionary" languages come and go that we seem to have forgotton just what array bounds checking and strict type enforcement save the average programmer from having to think about. In my current project, I am porting Ada code to C++. Yes, Ada is a language only its Mother, the DOD, could love but we shouldn't have tossed out the baby with the bath water when everyone dropped their support for it. There were vendors of quality assurance tools to be used on top of the qualitity built into the language because the customers and the developement culture all emphasized reliability of the finished product. How did we manage to so thoroughly get away from those objectives?
for mozilla users. The artcle says the bug works differently for Mozilla than for IE browser.
OK, seperate but equal will have to do. Anybody got a list of asp.net servers they want to open up?
its a game you dolt! [but then, the economic impacts may be similar to those that affect movies]
A smutty game huh? Where did you say that fileshare URL is?
a justification for "sharing" movies that is more than the rantings of larcenists in denial. Am I correct in assuming that the Oz-thorities have by their actions placed a defacto ban on this movie? If so that is a serious financial blow to the producer. The exposure gained for his movie through the movie "sharing" networks may have the effect of salvaging some demand for the film where the ratings authority meant to suppress demand.
We verge off topic here, but since the issue is on our minds...As communication and information technologies evolve, a neverending crop of new avenues of abuse are offered. If your ethic is "If I can steal that which only costs me exposure of an email identity then steal it I will", you are either judging that anonymity is an adequate cloak and excuse for petty larceny and are no different from the looters in a riot or you are judging that privacy policies have no meaning and all who merely wish to know who is taking their wares harbor nasty plans for that information. You may have no idea what it costs to field reporters, pay writers and host websites carrying the stories but you can't possibly imagine the publishers are getting rich when market and technological developments have forced them to give you the content and make what they can by convincing the advertizers that you did read it. These publishers have not started out by assuming all internet use is a [sometimes not so] genteel form of thievery but are, bit by bit, driven to lock up more content as they run out of readership evidence for their sponsors. /. and generally, all of us would be the poorer for it if we had to get publishers permission to quote entire features to which we had personal registered access were those publishers to begin locking the content with real password protection instead of some of the various "open sesame" URL args many now accept.
I would be able to post far fewer stories to
The honor system is the least expensive choice for all concerned, always has been. Don't break it!
that the kids and librarian's weren't using the internet access exclusively for browsing http://www.georgebush.com/
And maybe it will enhance anti-virals for AIDs treatment....still looking for how it helps fight cancer.
I wonder why they mention this discovery as leading to cures for cancer. What is brought much closer to cure by this understanding are a clutch of fairly uncommon metabolic diseases in which the body fails to get rid of certain by-product proteins and their subsequent build-up produces one or more nasty symptoms. Cholesterol degredation would be perhaps the most medically significant areas in which to seek cures. /. won't let me comment again for a few minutes, I'll respond here to the "Like Programming?" post .
Since
Yes. Just like that. ribosomes are just like compilers, proteosomes are garbage collection deamons...the parallels between software and molecular biology go way beyond "virus".
Let me put his another way: "cloned" software gets the cloner sued by the clonee, "work-alike" software has a shot at the market share it deserves and nobody cares who wrote the requirements/specs for the product; those just a wish list and you can't get sued for makeing a wish come true just because some other guy did the wishing.
This is a nit-pick but we should not be sloppily using the term Clone, which the biotech folks have given a precise meaning. If you have built a product to an open and published spec from scratch rather than by borrowing or reusing library or other component software, I'd say you have co-evolved software. Your implementation could wind up being very different, under the hood, from whatever MS eventualy delivers in fulfillment of its spec. A clone is a copy at the implementation level in biology, not at the feature level. We will drive the polymath /. crowd mad much more slowly if all of software's borrowings [virus, worm, infection etc] from biology map consistently onto their wetware metaphores.
passed on his gmail invite still gets notification of your new e-mail address, you are STILL going to find that your pristine gmail address can become an instant spam magnet. A "feature" they need to add is opt-out on letting the ultimate benefactor know you have accepted. My gmail account was instantly polluted because it was passed to me by somebody I knew but ultimatately came from some lowlife spammer or address hawker.
Today's Daily Wireless has piece about a chip that can be added to a lop top to give it decent video [I am assuming playback not capture] capability.
When the day comes that 4-term senator is refused permission to board a plane in the capitol of the state he has represented because some kid born after he was first elected can't find his name on some computer's list...we don't have what I could call a technology advantage. The problem however is more often the stupidity of the user than the untrustworthyness of the technolgy.