Those numbers seem a bit high, but what do I know. I think EB locally, maybe even globally, was offering them for $49 with the return of your current GBA. Not a bad deal.
Leonsis, who had testified minutes earlier about how AOL was blocking 2.4 billion pieces of spam per day, did not answer directly.
"We let members opt out" of commercial messages sent by the company and affiliates, he said. And he accused Scelson of violating the company's "terms of use" agreement by using AOL's membership directory as a source for e-mail addresses. Scelson readily agreed.
Hello Pot, this is the kettle, you're black!!
AOL is a bigger part of the problem vs being a bigger part of the solution.
Broadband access is becoming the new extended basic utility.
Just like Gas, Electricity, Water, cable, etc. Instead of Cable coompanies having a monopoly on access, and being about to set there rates as they see fit, I'd welcome a utility regulatory group be put in place.
I must be the only one that doesn't have to have the latest and the greatest. I don't want a game that requires me to have to upgrade my current machine to the hilt just to play it. The original UNREAL & UNREAL Tourn. were great, and they still run on my machine.
My reward for upgrading my machine and getting the latest version of UT will still bring the same result. I'll be FRAG'd repeatedly & often. But that doesn't mean I'll have anymore fun than I do now with a version I already have. No.
I find myself enjoying games like Out Of The Park 5 (www.ootp5.com) where it's all about the game play/story, NOT the 1.5 trillion Polygons that were drawn on my screen in the last 30 miliseconds
I think I'm getting old. ..I've spent to much time away from playing games on my PC 24/7, and mistakingly developed a life!
O-STEP will re-invigorate the software industry and result in more competition by re-balancing the rights between users and producers in a way more appropriate with the incentives framework of the U.S. Constitution, The current intellectual property regime creates vendor lock-ins for critical infrastructure software.
This was listed as a 'news' article in the APRIL edition of PSM. It also stated that ALL games on the PS3 would be cell shaded, and would even convert 'old' games to cell shade technology. The last line refernced that fact that this was an April Fools Joke.
James Clark fights with XSD, pushing his Relax NG. Relax NG is *not* W3C. Let me repeat a background. XML (markup language created by W3C) is a subset of SGML (markup language created by ISO). XML has been created by few smart marginals from SGML world plus some MS politicians Now those MS politicians (and alikes) rule the show in W3C and the smart marginals have left W3C and work for ISO ( OASIS ). XSD is XML Schema language by W3C. Relax NG is XML Schema language by ISO (OASIS). Sofar, Relax NG is the first visible XML applicatuon which belongs not to W3C Now when we have a big picture written down, I would recommend reading the letter from James Clark http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/mail-archive/msg 00 217.html The RELAX NG formalism has a solid basis in tree automata theory. W3C XML Schema has no such basis.
e t.c. BTW, even RELAX NG is definately better than XSD, Relax NG itself is also not that perfect. The 'perfect' solution could be based on regular expressions. Nevermind. In the next years, nothing interesting (except for political battles) would happen in the world of XML Schema.
Antivirus software makers are recycling some old tricks to combat computer viruses proliferating over the Internet. The technique, called "heuristics," checks for suspicious commands within software code to detect potential viruses.
Heuristic techniques can detect new viruses never seen before, so they can keep malicious code from spreading. An older method, called signature-scanning, uses specific pieces of code to identify viruses.
Both methods have down sides. Heuristic techniques can trigger false alarms that flag virus-free code as suspicious. Signature-scanning requires that a user be infected by a virus before an antivirus researcher can create a patch--and the virus can spread in the meantime. Most antivirus vendors use both techniques.
It's time for the industry as a whole to look at different approaches The time-honored method of signature scanning is a little worn and weary given new viruses coming out
Linux will still not be ready for Joe Public as a viable desktop solution. Microsoft will still be Microsoft. PS2 vs. XBox debates will still rage on with the added benefit of PS3 on the horrizon. HALO 2 will finally be released (maybe) MP3 will still be the bain of every music company.
And nothing will mean a hill of beans if some guy in a towel, living in a giant box of kitty liter drop a nuclear/bio bomb anywhere on this planet.
Although the Click-N-Run Warehouse for Lindows is a great idea in theory, real-world users will run smack into the many ragged edges of open-source software. None of the Click-N-Run applications have been developed by Lindows.com, the creator of the Lindows operating system; the company is merely gathering open-source software from elsewhere on the Web and putting it one place for easy access by LindowsOS users. I downloaded several Click-N-Run applications, using my cable modem connected to the Microtel PC through my home network. The downloads were fast and the installation always unfolded smoothly.
But the applications themselves were a decidedly mixed bag.
I first tried out GIMP, a photo-editing program that strives to match the popular Adobe Photoshop. GIMP did indeed have many Photoshop features, and even copied the look of many Photoshop icons, but the onscreen instruction manual was spotty. Instead of feature descriptions, many pages only said: "Our apologies. Sorry, but the help page for this item is not yet written.''
I then installed OpenOffice, the Linux response to Microsoft Office. Again, the look and feel of OpenOffice closely resembled its better known cousin, and the program did succeed in opening Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. But OpenOffice didn't include the same fonts as my documents, forcing the program to select alternate fonts that messed up the spacing between words. When I fixed the spacing and re-opened the documents in Word and PowerPoint, the spacing was now messed up by the return to the original font.
I also tried instant messaging. The first program listed in the instant messaging category of the Click-N-Run Warehouse was Kinkatta Instant Messenger, which claimed compatibility with the very popular America Online Instant Messenger, also known as AIM. But Kinkatta didn't work with my AIM account and I only discovered why in exploring Kinkatta's Web site: a technical change by AOL in February is blocking Kinkatta from communicating with AIM.
So I had to download the second instant messaging program on the Click-N-Run list, called GAIM, to make the AIM connection.
Don't know if you MYSQL users know about the MySQL Control Center application provided by MySQL, but it is pretty cool.
PROS:
1) Sleek User Interface (graphically shows PRI keys and I believe you can map relations (FK), but I haven't figured that out yet, also graphically shows indices).
2) Some queries download faster than web browser and telnet/ssh. Some SQL statements execute quite quickly like DELETE and INSERT.
3) Multi-window display helps to show historical SQL statements and current actions.
CONS:
1) System crashes with "large" queries. Kind of bad that I tried a simple SELECT of one of my "large" tables with 2,500 rows/records and my computer crashed. Yea, I quoted "large" because is is relative between my tables, not to the maximum number of rows that can be stored in MySQL tables. Your mileage may vary as I have really old computer at home - (64 MG/Ram, Pentium I, 32-bit Virtual Memory, Windows 95b).
2) Not very user-friendly in terms of SQL beginners. You have to know SQL in order to operate the application via the SQL pane.
3) Compared to other products like MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager, some of the screens are difficult to interpret (related to #2).
My new Microwave has quite a few nifty features. It even plays a cool *DING* when my dinner is done. I'm sure there is enough computing power, and potential storage space that I could make a digital pictuer pop up, or at least play the new Nirvana MP3.
per Jackson Browne, (Right before backhanding Daryl Hanna)
LAWYERS IN LOVE
I can't keep up with what's been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love
Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon As vacation land for lawyers in love
The same way records can say it 'Contains the #1 Smash HIT XXXXX' There some pretty loose standards here.
It's kinda like when a movie has all of those 'expert' movie reviewers claiming it to be the greatest film of the season, or a sure oscar hit. They are from papers you've never heard of, or *gasp* from WWW sites like Ain't-it-Cool-News!
The less recognizable the reviewer, the bigger the stinker the movie is.
Slashdot Mirror
The best part about $2 bills, is that in a strip club, they look like $20's to the ladies on stage. ....or so I hear
Those numbers seem a bit high, but what do I know.
I think EB locally, maybe even globally, was offering them for $49 with the return of your current GBA. Not a bad deal.
Hello Pot, this is the kettle, you're black!!
AOL is a bigger part of the problem vs being a bigger part of the solution.
With great power, comes great responsibility.
Broadband access is becoming the new extended basic utility.
Just like Gas, Electricity, Water, cable, etc. Instead of Cable coompanies having a monopoly on access, and being about to set there rates as they see fit, I'd welcome a utility regulatory group be put in place.
How do they have screen shots ?! Is it possible that this movie has been leaked out to the INTERNET?!
It's madness I tell you, madness!!!
Still waiting for disc 2 to d/l, so I can verify this for myself. Purely for educational reasons.
I must be the only one that doesn't have to have the latest and the greatest.
.I've spent to much time away from playing games on my PC 24/7, and mistakingly developed a life!
I don't want a game that requires me to have to upgrade my current machine to the hilt just to play it.
The original UNREAL & UNREAL Tourn. were great, and they still run on my machine.
My reward for upgrading my machine and getting the latest version of UT will still bring the same result. I'll be FRAG'd repeatedly & often. But that doesn't mean I'll have anymore fun than I do now with a version I already have. No.
I find myself enjoying games like Out Of The Park 5 (www.ootp5.com) where it's all about the game play/story, NOT the 1.5 trillion Polygons that were drawn on my screen in the last 30 miliseconds
I think I'm getting old. .
O-STEP will re-invigorate the software industry and result in more competition by re-balancing the rights between users and producers in a way more appropriate with the incentives framework of the U.S. Constitution, The current intellectual property regime creates vendor lock-ins for critical infrastructure software.
This was listed as a 'news' article in the APRIL edition of PSM. It also stated that ALL games on the PS3 would be cell shaded, and would even convert 'old' games to cell shade technology. The last line refernced that fact that this was an April Fools Joke.
Guess the real joke was on Bloomberg News.
I'm sure that a Segway is very usefull on the East Coast right now. With all of that snow, the sidewalks are virtually empty.
These things will end up as a rental device at places like the Boardway in Atlantic city, of in Panama City Beach in the summertime.
I'm already looking on Ebay to get one cheap.
42!
. . . no, wait, that's the answer to a different question.
James Clark fights with XSD, pushing his Relax NG. Relax NG is *not* W3C. Let me repeat a background.g 00 217.html
XML (markup language created by W3C) is a subset of SGML (markup language created by ISO).
XML has been created by few smart marginals from SGML world plus some MS politicians
Now those MS politicians (and alikes) rule the show in W3C and the smart marginals have left W3C and work for ISO ( OASIS ).
XSD is XML Schema language by W3C. Relax NG is XML Schema language by ISO (OASIS). Sofar, Relax NG is the first visible XML applicatuon which belongs not to W3C
Now when we have a big picture written down, I would recommend reading the letter from James Clark
http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/mail-archive/ms
The RELAX NG formalism has a solid basis in tree automata theory. W3C XML Schema has no such basis.
e t.c.
BTW, even RELAX NG is definately better than XSD, Relax NG itself is also not that perfect. The 'perfect' solution could be based on regular expressions. Nevermind. In the next years, nothing interesting (except for political battles) would happen in the world of XML Schema.
Antivirus software makers are recycling some old tricks to combat computer viruses proliferating over the Internet.
The technique, called "heuristics," checks for suspicious commands within software code to detect potential viruses.
Heuristic techniques can detect new viruses never seen before, so they can keep malicious code from spreading. An older method, called signature-scanning, uses specific pieces of code to identify viruses.
Both methods have down sides. Heuristic techniques can trigger false alarms that flag virus-free code as suspicious. Signature-scanning requires that a user be infected by a virus before an antivirus researcher can create a patch--and the virus can spread in the meantime. Most antivirus vendors use both techniques.
It's time for the industry as a whole to look at different approaches The time-honored method of signature scanning is a little worn and weary given new viruses coming out
I have an old UNIVAC that IS my spare house!
Linux will still not be ready for Joe Public as a viable desktop solution.
.02
Microsoft will still be Microsoft.
PS2 vs. XBox debates will still rage on with the added benefit of PS3 on the horrizon.
HALO 2 will finally be released (maybe)
MP3 will still be the bain of every music company.
And nothing will mean a hill of beans if some guy in a towel, living in a giant box of kitty liter drop a nuclear/bio bomb anywhere on this planet.
Just my
Although the Click-N-Run Warehouse for Lindows is a great idea in theory, real-world users will run smack into the many ragged edges of open-source software. None of the Click-N-Run applications have been developed by Lindows.com, the creator of the Lindows operating system; the company is merely gathering open-source software from elsewhere on the Web and putting it one place for easy access by LindowsOS users.
I downloaded several Click-N-Run applications, using my cable modem connected to the Microtel PC through my home network. The downloads were fast and the installation always unfolded smoothly.
But the applications themselves were a decidedly mixed bag.
I first tried out GIMP, a photo-editing program that strives to match the popular Adobe Photoshop. GIMP did indeed have many Photoshop features, and even copied the look of many Photoshop icons, but the onscreen instruction manual was spotty. Instead of feature descriptions, many pages only said: "Our apologies. Sorry, but the help page for this item is not yet written.''
I then installed OpenOffice, the Linux response to Microsoft Office. Again, the look and feel of OpenOffice closely resembled its better known cousin, and the program did succeed in opening Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. But OpenOffice didn't include the same fonts as my documents, forcing the program to select alternate fonts that messed up the spacing between words. When I fixed the spacing and re-opened the documents in Word and PowerPoint, the spacing was now messed up by the return to the original font.
I also tried instant messaging. The first program listed in the instant messaging category of the Click-N-Run Warehouse was Kinkatta Instant Messenger, which claimed compatibility with the very popular America Online Instant Messenger, also known as AIM. But Kinkatta didn't work with my AIM account and I only discovered why in exploring Kinkatta's Web site: a technical change by AOL in February is blocking Kinkatta from communicating with AIM.
So I had to download the second instant messaging program on the Click-N-Run list, called GAIM, to make the AIM connection.
Don't know if you MYSQL users know about the MySQL Control Center application provided by MySQL, but it is pretty cool.
PROS:
1) Sleek User Interface (graphically shows PRI keys and I believe you can map relations (FK), but I haven't figured that out yet, also graphically shows indices).
2) Some queries download faster than web browser and telnet/ssh. Some SQL statements execute quite quickly like DELETE and INSERT.
3) Multi-window display helps to show historical SQL statements and current actions.
CONS:
1) System crashes with "large" queries. Kind of bad that I tried a simple SELECT of one of my "large" tables with 2,500 rows/records and my computer crashed. Yea, I quoted "large" because is is relative between my tables, not to the maximum number of rows that can be stored in MySQL tables. Your mileage may vary as I have really old computer at home - (64 MG/Ram, Pentium I, 32-bit Virtual Memory, Windows 95b).
2) Not very user-friendly in terms of SQL beginners. You have to know SQL in order to operate the application via the SQL pane.
3) Compared to other products like MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager, some of the screens are difficult to interpret (related to #2).
Hope this helps
Ummm ....silver screen run off.....
Great, now that guy that was on TECHTV last week with the PC that had 39 O/S's loaded can break the 40 barrier.
This is like watching B.Bonds go for the HR record!
Not all games require the use of a 128Meg NVIDIA card. Something that has been lost in todays wiz-bang game world is game content, and enjoyment.
OOTP4 (Out Of The Park Baseball) is a great example of this. Solid game. Miminal graphics. Rabid fanbase. Solid fun.
Don't fall for all of the eye-candy that is out there!
My new Microwave has quite a few nifty features. It even plays a cool *DING* when my dinner is done. I'm sure there is enough computing power, and potential storage space that I could make a digital pictuer pop up, or at least play the new Nirvana MP3.
per Jackson Browne, (Right before backhanding Daryl Hanna)
LAWYERS IN LOVE
I can't keep up with what's been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful
They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful
Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days
Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves
To the mating calls of lawyers in love
Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will
Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon
And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon
As vacation land for lawyers in love
The same way records can say it 'Contains the #1 Smash HIT XXXXX'
There some pretty loose standards here.
It's kinda like when a movie has all of those 'expert' movie reviewers claiming it to be the greatest film of the season, or a sure oscar hit. They are from papers you've never heard of, or *gasp* from WWW sites like Ain't-it-Cool-News!
The less recognizable the reviewer, the bigger the stinker the movie is.
How can you say that a 64Meg Video card may be obsolete in a year!?
If a piece of hardware is doing what you need it to do, then it is not obsolete. Not every plays/needs/wants the latest UT2003/Doom3 game.
HA!
That's Funny. I was actually more entertained by this post than by any actual Bon Jovi CD.
It's to bad the post didn't have a unique ID that I could use to d/l some cool 'UNRELEASED' jokes about other 80's Hair Bands!
Wouldn't the example of JUNO or NetZero be enough to detour something like this?