They decide to switch to "open standards-based software and systems", and decide on Apple, a company which makes Microsoft look like a bastion of openness?
I mean, no offense to Apple fans out there... Apple's niche of success is BUILT on having complete control over their hardware... Wouldn't a Linux or *BSD solution, ultimately, be what they should have gone with?
Unless you manually clean them (Or have your browser set to automatically clean them), the cookie actually expires on Jan. 17, 2038.
There's a tin-foil type site called Google Watch with a bunch of information about Google.
As I said in the grand-parent, I'm a larger-than-average fan of Google, so I believe most of the claims on the site are a bunch of paranoid rantings, but they do raise legitimate points about possibilities.
heck they plan on hardware failure, and if a box drops dead, they do not even pull it out of the line up until sometime the following week.
Actually, it was my understanding that the system is designed around the fact that on a server farm that size, it's actually easier and more cost effective to let the box die and leave it in place, and simply add more, than to try and hunt the dead box down to replace it.
or decide to start logging all search queries to a user-specific cookie...
Erm. Hate to break this to you, but they kinda already do. Your google cookie has a unique user ID... I love Google, well, probably MORE than the next guy, but this *is* something they do.
Have you even TRIED to get a connection in Little Hall? It's not going to happen. I think I've actually gotten reception twice, neither was long enough or strong enough to transfer any data.
And yes, I've tried in Library West too. Same deal, no dice. Hell, check the map you listed... Both buildings I mentioned are listed as without coverage. Gee, I wonder why...
The same thing happened with Unisys and the LZW patent and their attempt to charge fees on GIFs. My bet is the same thing will happen in the end... their strategy of ignoring the use of their pattern until the format becomes ubiquitous to start charging backfires, as the widespread usage pretty much places it in the public domain... Then again, I ain't a lawyer. Just random musings...
The only place I ever have a problem is, oddly enough, in the ACM lab in CSE, but I think that's been resolved. Even old buildings like Larson have it now. Where do you have class with no signal?
Little Hall, for one... the Libraries also don't have wireless, which is odd because they have banks of wired computers...
As a student at the University of Florida, all I can say is it's no shock that it doesn't even rate in the top 50...
Newer buildings, and some of the larger older buildings and lecture halls, have Wireless, but the majority of the campus, including a couple of large buildings of classrooms, are completely devoid. In a lot of places where there is wireless, it's spotty and has a weak signal...
Mr. Smith: I've come to patent a theory. I call it "Smith's Theory of Relativity". Einstein thumbs through the papers.
Enistein knocks out Mr. Smith, and runs.
Did they decide to extend the mission because people love following it and want to keep it going? Or are they extending it because they haven't found anything "big" to report on yet?
Neither. They 'extended' it because they're still working. If they're still working when Mars comes out of the Sun's "shadow", they'll 'extend' the mission again then, too, until they break, or no more useful information can be extracted from them.
Err, this is off topic and I'll probably get modded down as a result, but KaZaA is lousy for getting... well... anything. They use a hashing scheme which only hashes 300kB chunks with an increasing offset between hashed chunks of 300kB*X where X is the number of hashed chunks so far (IE: Hashes the first 300kB, skip 300kB, hashes another 300kB, skips 600kB...). As a result, there are an inordinate number of bad and corrupt files on the network, some of which are intentional for reasons easy to imagine.
Check out any of the plethora of other networks, like Gnutella2, Overnet, eMule's Kademlia based network, or BitTorrent...
Unless you were in an airplane, or bus, or a van and weren't in the front seat, or were any place where you had no access to electricity.
You may have thought it superior, but the majority of people didn't. That's why it failed. I felt, and still feel, that it's inferior to the original gameboy simply because it's battery consumption was god-awful. I honestly once went through fresh batteries in under half an hour with the Game Gear, whereas the Gameboy would last seemly endlessly on only two AA's. Which brings me back to my original point. Battery consuption is a very important thing to consider when you're dealing with a Portable Gaming console. The Game Gear simply wasn't portable, it was something you only brought when you knew you could plug it in, and it failed as a result.
As a *mobile gaming platform*, One of the most important things to consider is battery life. You COULD NOT take a Game Gear on, say, a road trip, unless you brought 2 extra 64 packs of batteries to feed it when it got hungry...
And, that is why it failed as a *mobile gaming platform*. You couldn't USE it unless it was plugged into the wall, unless you had a MAJOR battery budget.
I guess you had enough cash to replace all 8 AA batteries ever half hour of game play... I mean, that thing sucked down batteries like a friggin' bat outta hell...
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They decide to switch to "open standards-based software and systems", and decide on Apple, a company which makes Microsoft look like a bastion of openness?
I mean, no offense to Apple fans out there... Apple's niche of success is BUILT on having complete control over their hardware... Wouldn't a Linux or *BSD solution, ultimately, be what they should have gone with?
Unless you manually clean them (Or have your browser set to automatically clean them), the cookie actually expires on Jan. 17, 2038.
There's a tin-foil type site called Google Watch with a bunch of information about Google.
As I said in the grand-parent, I'm a larger-than-average fan of Google, so I believe most of the claims on the site are a bunch of paranoid rantings, but they do raise legitimate points about possibilities.
And yet, I'm sure they could find a link which *would* trip the spam filter
So do they now pull boxes, or am I hallucinating?
And how quickly after they did this would spammers use it to trash people's pagerank?
Have a gripe with Slashdot? Spam a few billion Gmail users with a link to slashdot, and wham. Instant PageRank death.
List of things which cause 'brain damage':
Sex...
Drugs...
Rock and Roll...
Alcohol...
*rereads parent*
Slashdot...
Have you even TRIED to get a connection in Little Hall? It's not going to happen. I think I've actually gotten reception twice, neither was long enough or strong enough to transfer any data.
And yes, I've tried in Library West too. Same deal, no dice. Hell, check the map you listed... Both buildings I mentioned are listed as without coverage. Gee, I wonder why...
The same thing happened with Unisys and the LZW patent and their attempt to charge fees on GIFs. My bet is the same thing will happen in the end... their strategy of ignoring the use of their pattern until the format becomes ubiquitous to start charging backfires, as the widespread usage pretty much places it in the public domain... Then again, I ain't a lawyer. Just random musings...
Microsoft's patent on SUGAR and PROTEIN also being reviewed after a mysterious figure known only as 'god' claimed to invent them...
Don't be too hard on him... he's under double secret probation...
But that would go against Intel's current Centrino marketing! GOD FORBID, you HEATHEN!
*blink* Oh, sorry. Marketing demons possessed me for a second.
As a student at the University of Florida, all I can say is it's no shock that it doesn't even rate in the top 50...
Newer buildings, and some of the larger older buildings and lecture halls, have Wireless, but the majority of the campus, including a couple of large buildings of classrooms, are completely devoid. In a lot of places where there is wireless, it's spotty and has a weak signal...
1 GBP = 1.79127 USD
59 pence = $1.05685
That'd be the Pepsi "Joy of Cola" song.
Mr. Smith: I've come to patent a theory. I call it "Smith's Theory of Relativity".
Einstein thumbs through the papers.
Enistein knocks out Mr. Smith, and runs.
"SUPPORT THE VIETNAM WAR", eh?
Well, I don't think we have much to worry about then...
Err, this is off topic and I'll probably get modded down as a result, but KaZaA is lousy for getting... well... anything. They use a hashing scheme which only hashes 300kB chunks with an increasing offset between hashed chunks of 300kB*X where X is the number of hashed chunks so far (IE: Hashes the first 300kB, skip 300kB, hashes another 300kB, skips 600kB...). As a result, there are an inordinate number of bad and corrupt files on the network, some of which are intentional for reasons easy to imagine.
Check out any of the plethora of other networks, like Gnutella2, Overnet, eMule's Kademlia based network, or BitTorrent...
Unless you were in an airplane, or bus, or a van and weren't in the front seat, or were any place where you had no access to electricity.
You may have thought it superior, but the majority of people didn't. That's why it failed. I felt, and still feel, that it's inferior to the original gameboy simply because it's battery consumption was god-awful. I honestly once went through fresh batteries in under half an hour with the Game Gear, whereas the Gameboy would last seemly endlessly on only two AA's. Which brings me back to my original point. Battery consuption is a very important thing to consider when you're dealing with a Portable Gaming console. The Game Gear simply wasn't portable, it was something you only brought when you knew you could plug it in, and it failed as a result.
You missed my point.
As a *mobile gaming platform*, One of the most important things to consider is battery life. You COULD NOT take a Game Gear on, say, a road trip, unless you brought 2 extra 64 packs of batteries to feed it when it got hungry...
And, that is why it failed as a *mobile gaming platform*. You couldn't USE it unless it was plugged into the wall, unless you had a MAJOR battery budget.
Sega's Game Gear was better?
I guess you had enough cash to replace all 8 AA batteries ever half hour of game play... I mean, that thing sucked down batteries like a friggin' bat outta hell...