The network operates between 10gb and 40gb a second... with current hard-disk technology it must have been a challenge to collate enough equipment at each end of the link to generate that much bandwidth without bottle-necking.
Do network speed tests rely on clusters of machines?
6 months after MS Passport was introduced on eBay I started using it. I gave up using it 3 months later after missing numerous sales due to passport authentication fscking up and logging me in moments after the bid deadline ended
Eventually, I got a new login and walked away from one with 20 favourable reviews on it thanks to that damned system. Hope it fries in hell.
This guy is selling software called Mail King Pro. Mail List Management Software.
He's be entitled to more sympathy if he wasn't selling software that irritates the crap out of people by helping to bombard us with junk mail.... What's that old saying about parasites feeding off each other?
Re:"no one has..survived a landing without a chute
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The guy I'm talking about fell from a still-complete aeroplane with no protection at all. Perhaps there were two such incidents? Or perhaps it's wartime propaganda that's survived:-p
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Lieutenant Chisov survived mainly through being unconscious - he landed on the side of an extremely steep ravine filled with snow several feet deep and slid through the snow all the way to the bottom, where he awoke with serious bruises, a few fractures and presumably a sense of bewilderment. The British gunner survived in near-identical circumstances but was totally unhurt. The Germans refused to believe his story....
"no one has..survived a landing without a chute"
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Not strictly true - the following is one of several true stories of WW2 bomber crew jumping without chutes and surviving.. in this case because he landed on a glass-roofed railwsy station and was slowed by successive levels of shattering glass
Also: "The greatest fall without "riding" a piece of wreckage goes to Russian Lt. I.M. Chisov, who bailed out of his Ilyushin 4 bomber at 22,000 feet in January 1942, after being attacked by German fighters. His plan was to free-fall to 1,000 feet before opening his parachute, thus limiting his exposure to enemy fire while still in the air. Unfortunately he lost consciousness on the way down, and never opened his parachute. Like Vulovic, he landed in snow and survived, returning to duty three months later". - link
There was also a British gunner from a Lancaster bomber who fell from his aircraft during an attack and was saved by fir trees and deep snow.
That said, I still think this guy's a loon. Nobody ever volunteered to jump without a parachute before.
Using a translation engine to compare how the same text looks in two languages might be a good way for a system to "learn" context.. which does, after all, rely upon understanding the other possible meanings of a word
meeting requests can be dragged onto a day, mails can be dragged onto the "notes" panel and become a yellow post-it, that sort of thing. Outlook's pretty context-aware
"limited" comes to mind... the extension opens Calendar in a separate window, when what I really want is a drag-and-drop aware calendar within the TBird user interface. Seems others felt the same way:-)
The developer prototype for the next-gen XboX is an Apple G5 running a heavily-updated Windows NT:PPC, they're already in the wild. This may be why MS bought Connectix, makers of VirtualPC
One thing works in our favour: Opensource isn't hamstrung by the CS ethic of a yearly release cycle.
During 2004, Thunderbird went from 0.7.x to 1.0, releases which as well as tidying up a lot of residual glitches which were never fixed in Netscape-Mozilla due to the small user-base, added serious new functionality
Release often, build public nightlies, involve the end user in the development/testing/reporting process and you can progress a great deal faster than in a closed testing system where you have to introduce many new features together to a firm timetable.
It also helps that the people behind Lightning are aiming to clone the competitor's functionality rather than develop new uses for their application, it saves a lot of time conceptualising and researching.
I use Thunderbird and Sunbird already: I migrated to it from Outlook 2002 and will stick with TB until something better comes along, Lightning may just be that development as I've long hoped for integration of Calendar and Mail into one app. (without using the Suite, I mean) They aren't, perhaps, as mature as Outlook was but the rate of development has been amazing.
dude, you were using a hack which Apple said from the first day it was announced that they would do everything that they legally could to prevent from being used. They issued public warnings that they would not support Real music and that it was wasted money.
And you bought Real's music anyway. More fool you.
offtopic, and this is too.. but I'll point out to you that this site is of no use whatsoever to anyone who has the good luck not to live in the USA, nor is it actually P2P.
All that will happen is that torrent sites will move to Chinese servers where Western laws are nothing more than an amusing concept. I'm looking forward to it, should make it much easier to get files.
If you overclock any CPU by 24% it'll be strained.
Or charred
Re:Confused...Terror. not Tera
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You misread
It's the Terror Bit, a packet-data monster. You deploy it at the network perimeter, when hackers try to get in it sneaks up behind them and goes "Boo". Then it stabs them through the crotch with an ice-pick.
Why would you rate the proprietary PDF format - which isn't supported on all platforms except by third-party viewers - a "proper" one and the free-libre OOo format improper?
I should have added - I know that Word Viewer exists because Microsoft Word is pricy, and OpenOffice suite is itself free, but the time and connection charges incurred by downloading the full OpenOffice.Org makes it pricy to a significant proportion of the world's dial-up internet users.
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I think its a lot easier to detect and track a 3,000 ton ship than a single human being.
The network operates between 10gb and 40gb a second... with current hard-disk technology it must have been a challenge to collate enough equipment at each end of the link to generate that much bandwidth without bottle-necking.
Do network speed tests rely on clusters of machines?
It does have the ring of "post-Sep-11th-paranoia" about it, doesn't it?
6 months after MS Passport was introduced on eBay I started using it. I gave up using it 3 months later after missing numerous sales due to passport authentication fscking up and logging me in moments after the bid deadline ended
Eventually, I got a new login and walked away from one with 20 favourable reviews on it thanks to that damned system. Hope it fries in hell.
This guy is selling software called Mail King Pro. Mail List Management Software.
He's be entitled to more sympathy if he wasn't selling software that irritates the crap out of people by helping to bombard us with junk mail....
What's that old saying about parasites feeding off each other?
The guy I'm talking about fell from a still-complete aeroplane with no protection at all. Perhaps there were two such incidents? Or perhaps it's wartime propaganda that's survived :-p
Lieutenant Chisov survived mainly through being unconscious - he landed on the side of an extremely steep ravine filled with snow several feet deep and slid through the snow all the way to the bottom, where he awoke with serious bruises, a few fractures and presumably a sense of bewilderment. The British gunner survived in near-identical circumstances but was totally unhurt. The Germans refused to believe his story....
Not strictly true - the following is one of several true stories of WW2 bomber crew jumping without chutes and surviving.. in this case because he landed on a glass-roofed railwsy station and was slowed by successive levels of shattering glass
Man Survived 22,000-Foot Fall Out of Bomber
Also:
"The greatest fall without "riding" a piece of wreckage goes to Russian Lt. I.M. Chisov, who bailed out of his Ilyushin 4 bomber at 22,000 feet in January 1942, after being attacked by German fighters. His plan was to free-fall to 1,000 feet before opening his parachute, thus limiting his exposure to enemy fire while still in the air. Unfortunately he lost consciousness on the way down, and never opened his parachute. Like Vulovic, he landed in snow and survived, returning to duty three months later". - link
There was also a British gunner from a Lancaster bomber who fell from his aircraft during an attack and was saved by fir trees and deep snow.
That said, I still think this guy's a loon. Nobody ever volunteered to jump without a parachute before.
Do you think his domain (CubeOwner.com) should be pronounced "Cue Boner..." ?
Using a translation engine to compare how the same text looks in two languages might be a good way for a system to "learn" context.. which does, after all, rely upon understanding the other possible meanings of a word
A quick google for "XboX G5 dev" would provide countless reports, however here's one just for you: Gamesindustry.biz
meeting requests can be dragged onto a day, mails can be dragged onto the "notes" panel and become a yellow post-it, that sort of thing. Outlook's pretty context-aware
"limited" comes to mind... the extension opens Calendar in a separate window, when what I really want is a drag-and-drop aware calendar within the TBird user interface. Seems others felt the same way :-)
The developer prototype for the next-gen XboX is an Apple G5 running a heavily-updated Windows NT:PPC, they're already in the wild. This may be why MS bought Connectix, makers of VirtualPC
One thing works in our favour: Opensource isn't hamstrung by the CS ethic of a yearly release cycle.
During 2004, Thunderbird went from 0.7.x to 1.0, releases which as well as tidying up a lot of residual glitches which were never fixed in Netscape-Mozilla due to the small user-base, added serious new functionality
Release often, build public nightlies, involve the end user in the development/testing/reporting process and you can progress a great deal faster than in a closed testing system where you have to introduce many new features together to a firm timetable.
It also helps that the people behind Lightning are aiming to clone the competitor's functionality rather than develop new uses for their application, it saves a lot of time conceptualising and researching.
I use Thunderbird and Sunbird already: I migrated to it from Outlook 2002 and will stick with TB until something better comes along, Lightning may just be that development as I've long hoped for integration of Calendar and Mail into one app. (without using the Suite, I mean) They aren't, perhaps, as mature as Outlook was but the rate of development has been amazing.
Thunderbird on Symbian would be better - one mail app - anywhere, easy sync between Mac, PC and PDA, etc
BBC News: Sony denies plasma TV withdrawal
Someone hopefully will remember the name, but I saw an article on CD Writers which could etch a label onto a disk over a year ago.
dude, you were using a hack which Apple said from the first day it was announced that they would do everything that they legally could to prevent from being used. They issued public warnings that they would not support Real music and that it was wasted money.
And you bought Real's music anyway. More fool you.
offtopic, and this is too.. but I'll point out to you that this site is of no use whatsoever to anyone who has the good luck not to live in the USA, nor is it actually P2P.
All that will happen is that torrent sites will move to Chinese servers where Western laws are nothing more than an amusing concept. I'm looking forward to it, should make it much easier to get files.
If you overclock any CPU by 24% it'll be strained.
Or charred
You misread
It's the Terror Bit, a packet-data monster. You deploy it at the network perimeter, when hackers try to get in it sneaks up behind them and goes "Boo". Then it stabs them through the crotch with an ice-pick.
Why would you rate the proprietary PDF format - which isn't supported on all platforms except by third-party viewers - a "proper" one and the free-libre OOo format improper?
I should have added - I know that Word Viewer exists because Microsoft Word is pricy, and OpenOffice suite is itself free, but the time and connection charges incurred by downloading the full OpenOffice.Org makes it pricy to a significant proportion of the world's dial-up internet users.