Fortunately or not... human females will tend to prefer the more rotund and nerdy Slashdot-type male when she's not fertile, and very masculine hunks when she is fertile.
Sounds okay to me. But then I read:
And rather than just be fertile at certain times of the year, human females are fertile all year 'round.
OD2 offers a complete end to end solution for the digital sale, promotion and distribution of Music.
The OD2 infrastructure is designed to serve all channels, devices, platforms and formats. This means that the consumer will be able to purchase digital product to their PC, Mobile phone, TV or portable devices - like MP3 players. OD2 provides all the tools required for labels to sell and promote their music digitally and, as the market evolves, OD2 will ensure that the label's music is sold in every viable media.
Performance
* Systems capable of delivering over 1,000,000 streams and downloads per day.
* New European clusters will extend this to over 2,000,000 in Q1 2000.
Reliability
* Full Application and System Monitoring 24x7x365.
* Automated test downloads every 120 seconds.
* Hardware and software redundancy throughout OD2 systems architecture.
* Rigorous development, test and deployment processes. (OD2 is an accredited Microsoft Solutions Provider).
Security
* Digital Rights Management (DRM) based on Microsoft Version 7 Rights Manager.
* Enables a range of distribution and playback controls to be defined.
* Media protected internally and externally using latest security and encryption techniques.
Multi-platform
* Architecture enables new DRM's to be inserted for support of new platforms e.g. Cable TV, ADSL, 3rd Generation Mobile.
Would it be possible to use the Wine code to run hardware driver code written specifically for windows, under linux? I guess it would be nice if this could be done without having the complete "wine" emulator in core, only the necessary components. Perhaps someone could write a windows driver -> linux driver converter, which takes the windows driver object code, and links in the necessary components from wine (only those win32 functions called by the driver, plus dependencies).
Couple of questions. Do they have a (free) runtime environment which runs on Linux? Can I use gcc to compile cellphone applications? If so, I am going to have a look at this stuff.
From a health-perspective... 2.4Ghz is the "resonant" frequency of water (that's why this frequency is also used in microwave ovens). Since the human body consists of mainly water... isn't it a better idea perhaps to use a slightly different frequency?
Here's an idea to filter spam/protect against scams. Note that it requires some getting-used-to.
When someone wants to send you a message by e-mail, the following happens:
1. Person sends you the e-mail (e-mail 1). 2. Your mail receiving daemon generates a digest of this mail, and sends back a mail message (e-mail 2) containing the digest. (Instead of a digest, also some unique code can be used). 3. Now the person has to reply to the mail, or he/she is redirected to a website where he/she should fill in the digest (as an acknowledgement). 4. Your mail reading program only shows mail messages that are acknowledged by the sender.
To check that the sender is really a human being, the daemon could also send some graphically morphed image of the digest code, which the sender should then retype.
For mail from non-human senders (mailing-lists, etc.), you could still use a white-list.
Questions:
A) Would there be any objection against such a system? B) Does an implementation of such a system already exist? Where to find? If it does not already exist, then it would be a great OSS project, IMO.
Extension:
If the person is asked in step 3 to visit a url to enter the digest, your web-server could generate anti-419 html code at this url (i.e., containing links to images on scamming sites, thus wasting their bandwidth). The urls of spammers/scammers could be collected once a day by your web-server from a central location. The overall scheme would then be a two-way mechanism to rule out spamming/scamming.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm ... first I read:
... human females will tend to prefer the more rotund and nerdy Slashdot-type male when she's not fertile, and very masculine hunks when she is fertile.
Fortunately or not
Sounds okay to me. But then I read:
And rather than just be fertile at certain times of the year, human females are fertile all year 'round.
There goes the last bit of hope I had in me.
Looks like this guy has a shower hose running through his computer case.
Infrastructure
OD2 offers a complete end to end solution for the digital sale, promotion and distribution of Music.
The OD2 infrastructure is designed to serve all channels, devices, platforms and formats. This means that the consumer will be able to purchase digital product to their PC, Mobile phone, TV or portable devices - like MP3 players. OD2 provides all the tools required for labels to sell and promote their music digitally and, as the market evolves, OD2 will ensure that the label's music is sold in every viable media.
Performance
* Systems capable of delivering over 1,000,000 streams and downloads per day.
* New European clusters will extend this to over 2,000,000 in Q1 2000.
Reliability
* Full Application and System Monitoring 24x7x365.
* Automated test downloads every 120 seconds.
* Hardware and software redundancy throughout OD2 systems architecture.
* Rigorous development, test and deployment processes. (OD2 is an accredited Microsoft Solutions Provider).
Security
* Digital Rights Management (DRM) based on Microsoft Version 7 Rights Manager.
* Enables a range of distribution and playback controls to be defined.
* Media protected internally and externally using latest security and encryption techniques.
Multi-platform
* Architecture enables new DRM's to be inserted for support of new platforms e.g. Cable TV, ADSL, 3rd Generation Mobile.
Would it be possible to use the Wine code to run hardware driver code written specifically for windows, under linux? I guess it would be nice if this could be done without having the complete "wine" emulator in core, only the necessary components. Perhaps someone could write a windows driver -> linux driver converter, which takes the windows driver object code, and links in the necessary components from wine (only those win32 functions called by the driver, plus dependencies).
Couple of questions. Do they have a (free) runtime environment which runs on Linux? Can I use gcc to compile cellphone applications? If so, I am going to have a look at this stuff.
From a health-perspective ... 2.4Ghz is the "resonant" frequency of water (that's why this frequency is also used in microwave ovens). Since the human body consists of mainly water ... isn't it a better idea perhaps to use a slightly different frequency?
Here's an idea to filter spam/protect against scams. Note that it requires some getting-used-to.
When someone wants to send you a message by e-mail, the following happens:
1. Person sends you the e-mail (e-mail 1).
2. Your mail receiving daemon generates a digest of this mail, and sends back a mail message (e-mail 2) containing the digest. (Instead of a digest, also some unique code can be used).
3. Now the person has to reply to the mail, or he/she is redirected to a website where he/she should fill in the digest (as an acknowledgement).
4. Your mail reading program only shows mail messages that are acknowledged by the sender.
To check that the sender is really a human being, the daemon could also send some graphically morphed image of the digest code, which the sender should then retype.
For mail from non-human senders (mailing-lists, etc.), you could still use a white-list.
Questions:
A) Would there be any objection against such a system?
B) Does an implementation of such a system already exist? Where to find? If it does not already exist, then it would be a great OSS project, IMO.
Extension:
If the person is asked in step 3 to visit a url to enter the digest, your web-server could generate anti-419 html code at this url (i.e., containing links to images on scamming sites, thus wasting their bandwidth). The urls of spammers/scammers could be collected once a day by your web-server from a central location. The overall scheme would then be a two-way mechanism to rule out spamming/scamming.