First off, there's a big difference between "heavy load" and "attack". You can usually tell the difference by looking at the network traffic, which I'm sure he had done, and seeing if there are lots of matching TCP sequence numbers (the sequence number is constant in the "industry-standard" syn-flooders for Windows).
Second, it's a tad strange that, for every time Bush is not a sure-fire winner, his site is attacked. That could be some bias, but that's what the webmaster says.
Believe it or not, such a business proposal really happened. There's a rare Power Macintosh (Quadra model or something) that came with an Intel chip as an expansion to run Windows 3.1.
How did the big plan work out? Few people wanted it. Almost nobody used it. So, to answer your question, a big fat "NO".
What's so bad about asking for I.D.? There are lots of stores in the United States that do that voluntarily. Most of the so-called consequences being mentioned around here rarely happen when it comes to "underage" game buyers. I would rather not have a 12-year-old buy the latest installment of Final Fantasy XXX-I: Real-time T&A on your Radeon, not because of a fear of "corrupting his mind", but to prevent his parents and the moral majority from burning down my store.
Of course, there's no good substitute for parenting. The one thing we should be worried about is why North America is resorting to political pressure to have businesses do the parenting that parents should have done in the first place. Before we start questioning Canadians, let's start with the people in the U.S.
When I first saw the trailer for the movie, I thought it was crap. I figured it was my political bias talking, so I decided to only watch the parts of the trailer that were just funny (and it was still crap). For a last measure I ignored any words shown in the trailer and muted the sound to get rid of any political bias, and unfortunately...it was still crap.
Why did I think it was crap? Why would I even stoop so low as to disregard a motion picture with only one vulgar word? It couldn't be politics -- I got rid of those. Was it the dialogue? Nope, I muted the sound. Oh wait, I figured it out: puppetry is dead.
Sorry Trey. Sorry Matt. But it looks like you've got nothing but another cheap quick-to-video cult hit on your hands. I would've loved to see the movie if you had chosen some form of expression that's only fit for beaming to the Satellite of Love. Honestly...if you had just put yourselves in the movie like in "Orgasmo", I would've been in line by now.
I thought "hibernate" was a power-management function.
Actually, this entire article is proof of how...
...program names are getting more pointless by the day (Hibernate?), and...
...how most programs are mostly hype (more buzzwords than a Dilbert book).
I'm sorry, but there's no excuse for the utter disregard to using common sense that was exhibited in the "hibernate" developers' group. People wonder why Microsoft can sell shoddy products. Well, I'll tell you why: they give them meaningful names (Word processing: WORD, Development studio: STUDIO).
To the people at hibernate.org: you should be ashamed.
In the mean time, stick with a combination of CSS AND minimal tables.
Don't believe it? FIne, its not my hair that you will pulling out;)
I don't believe it. Consider the following: Internet explorer is the dominant browser...(well over 90%)...and it doesn't support CSS fully.(not much CSS1, and no CSS2)
It's incredibly easy to lay out a complex web site without using table hacks when you use CSS and have a dominant browser that fully supports it. The problem is that only browsers based on Mozilla code (Camino, Firefox, Netscape, etc.) have support for these standards. There's nothing wrong with the standards out there currently, but there is something wrong with the people who don't obey them on the application (server) level.
It's a tad cliche, but Internet Explorer is doing more harm than good without all its serious security problems.
The problem exists just as much in the U.S. as it does anywhere else in the world. For example...
Do you use NAT (a home router)?
Blame your IPv4-based ISP for not having enough address space for you.
Do you run a web-hosting company?
You probably know how expensive address space is.
Neither Japan nor South Korea had to use IPv6. They could've stuck IPv4 and NAT (something that rural broadband companies in the U.S. do, by the way), but they didn't. They chose to solve the problem rather than ignore it.
I built a TiVo-clone on a budget with a "mere" 80 GB hard drive, and I've yet to fill it up. I've used that thing more than I've ever used a VCR, and my strange work hours have resulted in hundreds of tapes lying around. When I finish watching a show, I either burn it to DVD or just delete it.
Even with your recording habits, you've still got 40 hours, or all of Family Guy with room to spare. If you need more space, do what I do and invest in a DVD burner and a decorative cabinet.
Microsoft says it's against piracy yet hands out free/$1 software to universities and governments and creates licenses (Academic License, gimme a break) that discourage, even *preclude* their following.
Mind you that most of Microsoft's employees have degrees in Harvard -- good for doctors and business majors, bad for C.S. degrees.
They know how to make a sale. They also know that college students don't have any money. But they do know that if they give them something for free (or dirt cheap), the student (or any other consumer) will buy it again as soon as they have money. That little tactic is one of the first things you learn in business school, but left out of most Computer Science college curricula.
People who download software rarely will use it more than once or twice. The only business they're losing is business that wasn't their's to begin with.
...it could be that people in the U.S. are no longer interested in spending $400 on a PDA when they can get a cheap $50 Palm with no frills.
Just my two cents.
Is this even admissible as evidence? I'm guessing that either the cellular service provider actually logs every text message (whoa), or that they just took one of the defendent's or plaintiff's phones.
For the former, we should be worried whether or not they had a warrant. For the latter, I couldn't care less as long as they had a warrant.
Did people just visit this site and Slashdot it because there was a link on the front page? I mean, I know kids who friggin' collect the cards and everything, have all the Game Boy games, but don't own or even care about the Pokemon-Mini. I'm guessing that this is something huge in Japan, but not in the U.S. suburbs.
(Also, I think they'll be pulling the "Shout Box" soon.)
I'm assuming you're talking about NICs (I for one need quite a few PCI slots myself for the thing). The newer tower computers (early 2005) will probably have lots of PCI slots, one AGP slot, and one PCI-X slot. Small-form-factor computers will have one of each.
It also kinda irks me when I see that PCI-X will not be in any way compatible with older PCI cards. They ought to change the name. This is a good technology, don't get me wrong; this speed is needed for both the newer video cards and gigabit and 10-gigabit network cards of the future, but when people try to stick in the old PCI cards that their cable/DSL provider gave them into those slots and find that they don't fit, they'll be making a call to the manufacturer wondering why a PCI card doesn't fit in a PCI-X slot.
A bureaucratic nightmare, indeed. Change the name, Mr. Industry, or you'll regret ever inventing tech support.
It should be noted that Mr. Anand mostly focuses on the gaming industry. I knew him back when he was in high school and he only looked at new technology if it would help him get his game on. So for mainstream society and the people who use game consoles instead of PCs, this isn't necessarily news.
...so technically Napster Canada is cheaper than iTunes. But this is assuming you only listen to music on your computer. They charge extra to transfer the song, unlike iTunes, where it's the same price whether you burn it to a CD, transfer it to your iPod, or whatever.
Napster and the others need to deal with the fact that they've been beaten by Apple.
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First off, there's a big difference between "heavy load" and "attack". You can usually tell the difference by looking at the network traffic, which I'm sure he had done, and seeing if there are lots of matching TCP sequence numbers (the sequence number is constant in the "industry-standard" syn-flooders for Windows).
Second, it's a tad strange that, for every time Bush is not a sure-fire winner, his site is attacked. That could be some bias, but that's what the webmaster says.
Believe it or not, such a business proposal really happened. There's a rare Power Macintosh (Quadra model or something) that came with an Intel chip as an expansion to run Windows 3.1.
How did the big plan work out? Few people wanted it. Almost nobody used it. So, to answer your question, a big fat "NO".
What's so bad about asking for I.D.? There are lots of stores in the United States that do that voluntarily. Most of the so-called consequences being mentioned around here rarely happen when it comes to "underage" game buyers. I would rather not have a 12-year-old buy the latest installment of Final Fantasy XXX-I: Real-time T&A on your Radeon, not because of a fear of "corrupting his mind", but to prevent his parents and the moral majority from burning down my store.
Of course, there's no good substitute for parenting. The one thing we should be worried about is why North America is resorting to political pressure to have businesses do the parenting that parents should have done in the first place. Before we start questioning Canadians, let's start with the people in the U.S.
When I first saw the trailer for the movie, I thought it was crap. I figured it was my political bias talking, so I decided to only watch the parts of the trailer that were just funny (and it was still crap). For a last measure I ignored any words shown in the trailer and muted the sound to get rid of any political bias, and unfortunately...it was still crap.
Why did I think it was crap? Why would I even stoop so low as to disregard a motion picture with only one vulgar word? It couldn't be politics -- I got rid of those. Was it the dialogue? Nope, I muted the sound. Oh wait, I figured it out: puppetry is dead.
Sorry Trey. Sorry Matt. But it looks like you've got nothing but another cheap quick-to-video cult hit on your hands. I would've loved to see the movie if you had chosen some form of expression that's only fit for beaming to the Satellite of Love. Honestly...if you had just put yourselves in the movie like in "Orgasmo", I would've been in line by now.
Actually, it looks like a "bank unregulated by the Federal Reserve is doomed to fail" error. Don't tell Badnarik, though...he'll have a heart attack.
Then again, PayPal has had bad service from the start. Maybe this is poetic justice.
Actually, this entire article is proof of how...
- ...program names are getting more pointless by the day (Hibernate?), and...
- ...how most programs are mostly hype (more buzzwords than a Dilbert book).
I'm sorry, but there's no excuse for the utter disregard to using common sense that was exhibited in the "hibernate" developers' group. People wonder why Microsoft can sell shoddy products. Well, I'll tell you why: they give them meaningful names (Word processing: WORD, Development studio: STUDIO).To the people at hibernate.org: you should be ashamed.
you can get access into any gated community with an access code beginning with "911" ("9110", "91100", etc.)
:)
if "privatized" = "stupid" then you're right
I don't believe it. Consider the following:
Internet explorer is the dominant browser... (well over 90%)
It's a tad cliche, but Internet Explorer is doing more harm than good without all its serious security problems.
The problem exists just as much in the U.S. as it does anywhere else in the world. For example... Do you use NAT (a home router)? Blame your IPv4-based ISP for not having enough address space for you. Do you run a web-hosting company? You probably know how expensive address space is. Neither Japan nor South Korea had to use IPv6. They could've stuck IPv4 and NAT (something that rural broadband companies in the U.S. do, by the way), but they didn't. They chose to solve the problem rather than ignore it.
I built a TiVo-clone on a budget with a "mere" 80 GB hard drive, and I've yet to fill it up. I've used that thing more than I've ever used a VCR, and my strange work hours have resulted in hundreds of tapes lying around. When I finish watching a show, I either burn it to DVD or just delete it.
Even with your recording habits, you've still got 40 hours, or all of Family Guy with room to spare. If you need more space, do what I do and invest in a DVD burner and a decorative cabinet.
I don't have that problem and I use the latest version of Firefox. It's obviously a problem on your end, not their's.
You need to learn how to be responsible with maintaining your computer.
Wow! Sounds like a good plan. When do we start seeing these promised results?
Oh, and did anyone read that USA Today article where people would rather pay $400 for local tech support than pay $20 for an offshore call?
Pretty big rumor!
They know how to make a sale. They also know that college students don't have any money. But they do know that if they give them something for free (or dirt cheap), the student (or any other consumer) will buy it again as soon as they have money. That little tactic is one of the first things you learn in business school, but left out of most Computer Science college curricula.
People who download software rarely will use it more than once or twice. The only business they're losing is business that wasn't their's to begin with.
...it could be that people in the U.S. are no longer interested in spending $400 on a PDA when they can get a cheap $50 Palm with no frills. Just my two cents.
I think you mean "lizardburgers", as it's SuSE. In that case, it starts today.
In other news, will SCO be suing them later for either health problems or copyright infringment?
Uncompressed telephone-qualtiy audio as PCM takes up 64 kbps (8 KB/s), just like an ISDN channel.
It will certainly not be as bad, load-wise, as installing high-speed Internet access.
Is this even admissible as evidence? I'm guessing that either the cellular service provider actually logs every text message (whoa), or that they just took one of the defendent's or plaintiff's phones.
For the former, we should be worried whether or not they had a warrant. For the latter, I couldn't care less as long as they had a warrant.
Yes, and this was done by an electronics geek before, too.
Look in the "Fun" section of Very Low Sodium and you too can mess with someone's LED sign!
What, they haven't heard of OpenOffice?
My former slight thoughts of Canada's intelligence are withering.
Yes, Mr. Honeypot called, and he wants his product back.
Did people just visit this site and Slashdot it because there was a link on the front page? I mean, I know kids who friggin' collect the cards and everything, have all the Game Boy games, but don't own or even care about the Pokemon-Mini. I'm guessing that this is something huge in Japan, but not in the U.S. suburbs. (Also, I think they'll be pulling the "Shout Box" soon.)
I'm assuming you're talking about NICs (I for one need quite a few PCI slots myself for the thing). The newer tower computers (early 2005) will probably have lots of PCI slots, one AGP slot, and one PCI-X slot. Small-form-factor computers will have one of each.
It also kinda irks me when I see that PCI-X will not be in any way compatible with older PCI cards. They ought to change the name. This is a good technology, don't get me wrong; this speed is needed for both the newer video cards and gigabit and 10-gigabit network cards of the future, but when people try to stick in the old PCI cards that their cable/DSL provider gave them into those slots and find that they don't fit, they'll be making a call to the manufacturer wondering why a PCI card doesn't fit in a PCI-X slot.
A bureaucratic nightmare, indeed. Change the name, Mr. Industry, or you'll regret ever inventing tech support.
It should be noted that Mr. Anand mostly focuses on the gaming industry. I knew him back when he was in high school and he only looked at new technology if it would help him get his game on. So for mainstream society and the people who use game consoles instead of PCs, this isn't necessarily news.
0.99 USD = $1.37 CDN
...so technically Napster Canada is cheaper than iTunes. But this is assuming you only listen to music on your computer. They charge extra to transfer the song, unlike iTunes, where it's the same price whether you burn it to a CD, transfer it to your iPod, or whatever.
Napster and the others need to deal with the fact that they've been beaten by Apple.