Interestingly enough, the Cassini Orbiter's landing probe, the Huygens, which landed on Titan a few years back, was designed with floatation devices, just in case it hit liquid instead land (ultimately it hit land). An interesting fact about Titan: the high density of the atmosphere, combined with a much lower gravitational force than that of earth results in very soft probe landings. In fact, it is hypothesized that on Titan, a human could strap fake wings on his arms and fly -- now if only we breathed methane and could survive at temperatures colder than -200F...
According to Daniel Garcia-Castellanos' paper in Nature, the sill at the Straight of Gibraltar gave way rather suddenly, with 40 cm of rock eroding and the water level rising by 10 m per day at its peak.
I'm relieved to know the Strait of Gibraltar is not gay; I was convinced he was hitting on me the other day.
No. Akamai offers many services and features beyond 'giving' boxes to ISPs. For instance, they have their own global CDN unrelated to any ISP which you can pay to have your content served across. They'll host it or reverse proxy/cache it. They also can multicast live streaming media, on demand streaming media, etc. You get the picture. In once sentence, Akamai is a high availability, high capacity provider of bandwidth. And they accomplish that in a variety of ways other than just putting boxes in ISPs.
AOL actually does something similar to this with their TopSpeed technology, and it does work very, very well. It has introduced features like multiplexed persistent connections to the intermediary layer, sending down just object deltas since last visit (for if-modified-since requests), and applying gzip compression to uncompressed objects on the wire. It's one of the best technologies they've introduced. And, in full disclosure, I was proud to be a part of the team that made it all possible. It's too bad all of this is specific to the AOL software, so I'm glad a name like Google is trying to open up these kind of features to the general internet.
Apple's target market aren't going to put up with the kinds of shenanigans it takes to get a hackintosh running, whether or not they pull this kind of stuff.
Actually some of them work with Snow Leopard almost right out of the box. The Dell Mini 10v comes to mind.
"Stole" my ass! I'm not sure where all the Apple FanBoys came up with the myth that the $29 Snow Leopard disc is an "upgrade." (Note, I'm a fanboy; I am currently typing on my new 27" iMac).
I walked across the street to the Apple Store the day Snow Leopard was released, and paid $49 for my 5-user Family Pack edition. Nothing on the box, in the printed EULA, printed documentation, or electronic EULA at install time indicates my copy is intended to be an upgrade. In fact, I completely wiped a hard drive and installed it from scratch without any request for a disc containing a previous version. The requirements on my retail box state that it requires a "Mac computer with an Intel processor." That's it. Nothing about a previous OS is mentioned anywhere. Bottom line is it's a fully licensed copy, and purchasing and installing it one time (or five times in the case of the family pack) is not stealing.
So stop calling this an upgrade only. It's not.
I understand Apple's desire to keep OS X limited to their own hardware. The EULA is intended to prevent people like Psystar from making a dime on Apple's IP. Does Apple care about home enthusiasts getting the OS on unauthorized systems? Highly unlikely, if those enthusiasts are handing over $30 for the Snow Leopard disc. It's $30 in their pocket they wouldn't have had, to entertain someone's harmless fun. The removal of the Atom support is likely another cat and mouse game with the likes of Psystar more than it is with the home enthusiast community.
It's interesting that you bring up Pan Am, as AOL Headquarters used to be the Pan Am headquarters about 15 years ago, and the "Creative Center 1" building was converted from one of the old Pan Am airplane hangars.
Did anyone bother to take a look at the date of this article? Seems a little outdated given the continuing advancements in disk storage over the past year.
Considering the previous 10 ST films have averaged about $70M each for their entire runs, I don't think surpassing that figure the first weekend is terribly bad at all. It's a great movie, and word of mouth is powerful. It will continue to do well.
Last year, as the first trailer rolled at the beginning of Cloverfield, I was sitting there completely giddy and in awe of it. And my friends with me were laughing their asses off at me for being such a geek. They had never seen a Star Trek movie, but those same friends ended up going to the midnight showing on Thursday with me, and we're all going back to see it again this Thursday with an even larger group. All of thse folks are being introduced to Trek for the first time and love it already.
From the article:
Oh, and if you're wondering why some of your colleagues showed up late for work yesterday, it's because many devices-even patched devices-shifted an hour ahead Sunday, when the change would have normally taken place. They actually would have shown up an hour early, no?
Any recent (e.g., last 4 years) factory stereo has a special port on the back for connecting a CD Changer to the unit. Some ingenious companies have figured out ways to use this port to bridge any music player into the stereo system -- essentially fooling the head unit by emulating a cd changer with an iPod or whathaveyou. These bridges generally include a true iPod cable connector which allows the iPod to be controlled directly at the head unit, so using your ipod is about as safe as changing CD tracks.
Most also include a less-safe option of an RCA bypass jack that you can use with other players. Online car stereo places sell good quality ones for between $100 and $200 depending upon your model of car. Not bad for CD-quality sound out of your ipod, through your car, when the Griffin iTrip FM adapter costs about $95 these days.
AOL user's actual IPs do not change mid-session, but the web proxy server that is making requests on behalf of the user changes all the time; my server logs even show certain objects on a single page for the same user are requested by different cache-*.aol.com servers.
Lots of info about that is here.. including the proxy IP list, etc... http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html they say specfically "When a member requests multiple documents for multiple URLs, each request may come from a different proxy server. Since one proxy server can have multiple members going to one site, webmasters should not make assumptions about the relationship between members and proxy servers when designing their web site."
Hmm, well TFA was speaking to DSL users, who generally connect via PPPoE. PPPoE, while it does dish out IPs a la DHCP, does not have a lease file that associates user mac addresses with the IP they were handed on previous connections; users generally will get a different one every time they connect just like dial-up (aka PPP). I would say router-based PPPoE connections drop and reconnect at least once per week on average.
Hmmm so many steps are taken to prevent moderators from pushing THEIR agenda, but Rob gets to use the 'from the' section carte blanche. Interesting. Well Rob, AOL actually has some good assets, and almost every financial analyst with any notariety has gone on record saying the upcoming web portal is going to be a HUGE moneymaker for Time Warner. And from time to time AOL does get things right (Live8, spam campaign, SPF, to name a few). Good thing you're not running Google since your mind is already made up though...
Actually the Tier 1 providers (read: backbones) have settlement-free peering agreements anyway so no bits are talled to be billed, and no money exchanges hands for peering with each other.
> The only time peering should involve an ongoing...
> exchange of money for bandwidth should be when a...
> network is primarily serving as an intermediary between...
> other networks, such as long haul or backbone networks.
> Does this mean that AOL will never complete its
> planned switch from IE to the browser it owns
> (Netscape)?
Don't know where you get your information, but there was never any public discussion of a planned switch. The Compuserve and Mac clients use Gecko, and while it was tested in the WIndows client, an official plan to switch has never been publicly acknowledged. I can assure you AOL will be using IE as the core browser for many years to come (and that was true even prior to the MSN deal talks).
> Google says they're sending invitation codes
> by SMS to prevent spammers from obtaining Gmail
> accounts.
> I call shenanigans. What good is a Gmail
>account in comparison to a zombie?
I agree this is utter bullshit. A spammer just has to get one friend to innocently send him a gmail invite and he can make an unlimited number of gmail accounts from the ~50 invites that each new account gets (which seems to now be replenishing daily). Until they end the invites model and go to strictly mobile-based registrations, there's not a chance in hell of protecting gmail from spammer subs.
>Of course every server is powerful enough that CPU
>time can't possibly become an issue, right?
On moderately busy servers, most have found that mod_gzip helps with both CPU and RAM, since users stay connected to your server for shorter durations, resulting in overall fewer concurrent connections.
I'm trying to understand how this would help because if everyone would incorporate generally accepted practices with regard to the HTTP protocol into their XML generation script (e.g., including Last-Modified and/or Expires headers, providing an e-tag, etc) the aggregators could use Get If-Modified-Since requests to save an unthinkable amount of bandwidth. As it is right now, since most RSS feeds are generated on the fly from some database, that doesn't happen and the aggregators just have to pull the entire XML at regular intervals to ensure nothing was missed. I find it silly that some basic functionality of the WWW like smart caching rules started being ignored when RSS came along.
How much bandwidth is required? A lot less if everyone would take the 5 minutes required to implement GZip compression on their Apache servers. It saves you bandwidth, it speeds up your site for users (especially those on dialup), and saves the bandwidth of aggregators (assuming they advertise an Accept-Encoding header for gzip; deflate)
So my plea to the internet community today.. make sure your web server is configured to send gzipped content. TFA says he doesn't know how many RSS feeds can support gzip. The answer is easy really, any feed being served by Apache (plus a LOT of other webservers. AOLserver even added gzip support recently). Here's how to setup Apache and here's where to check if your site is using GZip or and get an idea of the bandwidth savings you should see get. If you're site isn't gzipping, show your admin (if it's someone else) the 'how-to' above and ask them to implement it -- it's an absolute no-brainer win-win for everyone that takes no time at all to setup really. It's really absurd IMO that it's not enabled in Apache by default.
I see robots from yahoo and inktomi search (owned by Yahoo) hitting my web servers several times daily, as opposed to weekly (or even more sparse) hits from google.
Very surprising to me is that amongst all these British nominees, there was not even a nod for Rowling's fifth book in the Harry Potter series (HP & The Order of the Phoenix), given that book #4 in the series was the Hugo Best Novel Winner when it was released in 2001.
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Interestingly enough, the Cassini Orbiter's landing probe, the Huygens, which landed on Titan a few years back, was designed with floatation devices, just in case it hit liquid instead land (ultimately it hit land). An interesting fact about Titan: the high density of the atmosphere, combined with a much lower gravitational force than that of earth results in very soft probe landings. In fact, it is hypothesized that on Titan, a human could strap fake wings on his arms and fly -- now if only we breathed methane and could survive at temperatures colder than -200F...
According to Daniel Garcia-Castellanos' paper in Nature, the sill at the Straight of Gibraltar gave way rather suddenly, with 40 cm of rock eroding and the water level rising by 10 m per day at its peak.
I'm relieved to know the Strait of Gibraltar is not gay; I was convinced he was hitting on me the other day.
No. Akamai offers many services and features beyond 'giving' boxes to ISPs. For instance, they have their own global CDN unrelated to any ISP which you can pay to have your content served across. They'll host it or reverse proxy/cache it. They also can multicast live streaming media, on demand streaming media, etc. You get the picture. In once sentence, Akamai is a high availability, high capacity provider of bandwidth. And they accomplish that in a variety of ways other than just putting boxes in ISPs.
AOL actually does something similar to this with their TopSpeed technology, and it does work very, very well. It has introduced features like multiplexed persistent connections to the intermediary layer, sending down just object deltas since last visit (for if-modified-since requests), and applying gzip compression to uncompressed objects on the wire. It's one of the best technologies they've introduced. And, in full disclosure, I was proud to be a part of the team that made it all possible. It's too bad all of this is specific to the AOL software, so I'm glad a name like Google is trying to open up these kind of features to the general internet.
Apple's target market aren't going to put up with the kinds of shenanigans it takes to get a hackintosh running, whether or not they pull this kind of stuff.
Actually some of them work with Snow Leopard almost right out of the box. The Dell Mini 10v comes to mind.
"Stole" my ass! I'm not sure where all the Apple FanBoys came up with the myth that the $29 Snow Leopard disc is an "upgrade." (Note, I'm a fanboy; I am currently typing on my new 27" iMac). I walked across the street to the Apple Store the day Snow Leopard was released, and paid $49 for my 5-user Family Pack edition. Nothing on the box, in the printed EULA, printed documentation, or electronic EULA at install time indicates my copy is intended to be an upgrade. In fact, I completely wiped a hard drive and installed it from scratch without any request for a disc containing a previous version. The requirements on my retail box state that it requires a "Mac computer with an Intel processor." That's it. Nothing about a previous OS is mentioned anywhere. Bottom line is it's a fully licensed copy, and purchasing and installing it one time (or five times in the case of the family pack) is not stealing. So stop calling this an upgrade only. It's not. I understand Apple's desire to keep OS X limited to their own hardware. The EULA is intended to prevent people like Psystar from making a dime on Apple's IP. Does Apple care about home enthusiasts getting the OS on unauthorized systems? Highly unlikely, if those enthusiasts are handing over $30 for the Snow Leopard disc. It's $30 in their pocket they wouldn't have had, to entertain someone's harmless fun. The removal of the Atom support is likely another cat and mouse game with the likes of Psystar more than it is with the home enthusiast community.
Check the article title.
It's interesting that you bring up Pan Am, as AOL Headquarters used to be the Pan Am headquarters about 15 years ago, and the "Creative Center 1" building was converted from one of the old Pan Am airplane hangars.
Did anyone bother to take a look at the date of this article? Seems a little outdated given the continuing advancements in disk storage over the past year.
Considering the previous 10 ST films have averaged about $70M each for their entire runs, I don't think surpassing that figure the first weekend is terribly bad at all. It's a great movie, and word of mouth is powerful. It will continue to do well.
Last year, as the first trailer rolled at the beginning of Cloverfield, I was sitting there completely giddy and in awe of it. And my friends with me were laughing their asses off at me for being such a geek. They had never seen a Star Trek movie, but those same friends ended up going to the midnight showing on Thursday with me, and we're all going back to see it again this Thursday with an even larger group. All of thse folks are being introduced to Trek for the first time and love it already.
Sorry, you are wrong. AOL did, in fact, acquire (read: purchase) Time Warner.
Any recent (e.g., last 4 years) factory stereo has a special port on the back for connecting a CD Changer to the unit. Some ingenious companies have figured out ways to use this port to bridge any music player into the stereo system -- essentially fooling the head unit by emulating a cd changer with an iPod or whathaveyou. These bridges generally include a true iPod cable connector which allows the iPod to be controlled directly at the head unit, so using your ipod is about as safe as changing CD tracks.
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Most also include a less-safe option of an RCA bypass jack that you can use with other players. Online car stereo places sell good quality ones for between $100 and $200 depending upon your model of car. Not bad for CD-quality sound out of your ipod, through your car, when the Griffin iTrip FM adapter costs about $95 these days.
Read more info here:
http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/ProdGroup.asp?
i have one for my new corolla... took about 10 minutes to install and works flawlessly.
AOL user's actual IPs do not change mid-session, but the web proxy server that is making requests on behalf of the user changes all the time; my server logs even show certain objects on a single page for the same user are requested by different cache-*.aol.com servers.
Lots of info about that is here.. including the proxy IP list, etc... http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html they say specfically "When a member requests multiple documents for multiple URLs, each request may come from a different proxy server. Since one proxy server can have multiple members going to one site, webmasters should not make assumptions about the relationship between members and proxy servers when designing their web site."
Hmm, well TFA was speaking to DSL users, who generally connect via PPPoE. PPPoE, while it does dish out IPs a la DHCP, does not have a lease file that associates user mac addresses with the IP they were handed on previous connections; users generally will get a different one every time they connect just like dial-up (aka PPP). I would say router-based PPPoE connections drop and reconnect at least once per week on average.
Hmmm so many steps are taken to prevent moderators from pushing THEIR agenda, but Rob gets to use the 'from the' section carte blanche. Interesting. Well Rob, AOL actually has some good assets, and almost every financial analyst with any notariety has gone on record saying the upcoming web portal is going to be a HUGE moneymaker for Time Warner. And from time to time AOL does get things right (Live8, spam campaign, SPF, to name a few). Good thing you're not running Google since your mind is already made up though...
I remember being shown a 4 inch square of that stuff that held... a kilobit. Yes, that's right, 256 bytes filling the size of your hand.
Actually, no, that's wrong. Last I checked, a kilobit is 128 bytes...
Actually the Tier 1 providers (read: backbones) have settlement-free peering agreements anyway so no bits are talled to be billed, and no money exchanges hands for peering with each other.
> The only time peering should involve an ongoing...
> exchange of money for bandwidth should be when a...
> network is primarily serving as an intermediary between...
> other networks, such as long haul or backbone networks.
> Does this mean that AOL will never complete its > planned switch from IE to the browser it owns > (Netscape)?
Don't know where you get your information, but there was never any public discussion of a planned switch. The Compuserve and Mac clients use Gecko, and while it was tested in the WIndows client, an official plan to switch has never been publicly acknowledged. I can assure you AOL will be using IE as the core browser for many years to come (and that was true even prior to the MSN deal talks).
> Google says they're sending invitation codes
> by SMS to prevent spammers from obtaining Gmail
> accounts.
> I call shenanigans. What good is a Gmail
>account in comparison to a zombie?
I agree this is utter bullshit. A spammer just has to get one friend to innocently send him a gmail invite and he can make an unlimited number of gmail accounts from the ~50 invites that each new account gets (which seems to now be replenishing daily). Until they end the invites model and go to strictly mobile-based registrations, there's not a chance in hell of protecting gmail from spammer subs.
>Of course every server is powerful enough that CPU >time can't possibly become an issue, right? On moderately busy servers, most have found that mod_gzip helps with both CPU and RAM, since users stay connected to your server for shorter durations, resulting in overall fewer concurrent connections.
I'm trying to understand how this would help because if everyone would incorporate generally accepted practices with regard to the HTTP protocol into their XML generation script (e.g., including Last-Modified and/or Expires headers, providing an e-tag, etc) the aggregators could use Get If-Modified-Since requests to save an unthinkable amount of bandwidth. As it is right now, since most RSS feeds are generated on the fly from some database, that doesn't happen and the aggregators just have to pull the entire XML at regular intervals to ensure nothing was missed. I find it silly that some basic functionality of the WWW like smart caching rules started being ignored when RSS came along.
How much bandwidth is required? A lot less if everyone would take the 5 minutes required to implement GZip compression on their Apache servers. It saves you bandwidth, it speeds up your site for users (especially those on dialup), and saves the bandwidth of aggregators (assuming they advertise an Accept-Encoding header for gzip; deflate)
So my plea to the internet community today.. make sure your web server is configured to send gzipped content. TFA says he doesn't know how many RSS feeds can support gzip. The answer is easy really, any feed being served by Apache (plus a LOT of other webservers. AOLserver even added gzip support recently). Here's how to setup Apache and here's where to check if your site is using GZip or and get an idea of the bandwidth savings you should see get. If you're site isn't gzipping, show your admin (if it's someone else) the 'how-to' above and ask them to implement it -- it's an absolute no-brainer win-win for everyone that takes no time at all to setup really. It's really absurd IMO that it's not enabled in Apache by default.
I see robots from yahoo and inktomi search (owned by Yahoo) hitting my web servers several times daily, as opposed to weekly (or even more sparse) hits from google.
Very surprising to me is that amongst all these British nominees, there was not even a nod for Rowling's fifth book in the Harry Potter series (HP & The Order of the Phoenix), given that book #4 in the series was the Hugo Best Novel Winner when it was released in 2001.