If you go to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ it says coming May 2009. Er, I call that uninformative. Its May 2009 now. So when in May 2009... very inexact.
As a human I don't know what the correct answer to "Microsoft Apple?" is. Or "Sydney New York?". Do you want info on running Microsoft Office on Apple Macs? Trying to find if there are a town called Sydney in NY state, etc! I think it would be better if Alpha asked for clarification.
I wonder how it will be done do capture useful info. If its just a PDF of a doctor's hardcopy scribbling... its not very useful. But a list of every drug you have ever taken with dates and times could be useful. For detecting side effects.
There is a Jeopardy category where part of the answer is in the category name. Eg would could it "bee"? Where all the answers have the string "bee" in the answer. That kind of question would be easier for a machine than a person.
So many exceptions. How does the OS decide what counts to the limit and not. By the full path of the EXE? Does the program do a special system call to become exempt? Is there a database of characteristics? All this seems pretty hackable.
It would be better if it showed you the mail you can just written and asked you to confirm. Like Slashdot comments. Perhaps a delay so people can't automatically click on confirm.
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Never head of this company.
suggested name change.
Good point. They should thank the ISP for this alert.
Being able to compare the population of two places doesn't seem so amazing to me. Now, I can get the population of 2 states and compare them myself.
For me the slowest thing in XP is deleting a file/folder. Sometimes it takes minutes to delete a small file.
I guess its it needs to make some room in recycle bin but...come on. How hard can it be to make the recycle bin a database design for this job. Jeeze.
If you go to http://www.wolframalpha.com/
it says coming May 2009. Er, I call that uninformative. Its May 2009 now. So when in May 2009... very inexact.
As a human I don't know what the correct answer to "Microsoft Apple?" is. Or "Sydney New York?".
Do you want info on running Microsoft Office on Apple Macs? Trying to find if there are a town called Sydney in NY state, etc!
I think it would be better if Alpha asked for clarification.
It would be nice if laptops could power down the wifi port after a period of non-use.
I think all Slashdot users can agree it would be terrible if Microsoft got in this game.
If this might happen, show me where to protest!
I suppose electronic records are inevitable.
I wonder how it will be done do capture useful info. ... its not very useful. But a list of every drug you have ever taken with dates and times could be useful. For detecting side effects.
If its just a PDF of a doctor's hardcopy scribbling
Perhaps they only need to keep one copy of each mail and a list of who it went to.
There is a Jeopardy category where part of the answer is in the category name. Eg would could it "bee"? Where all the answers have the string "bee" in the answer. That kind of question would be easier for a machine than a person.
Quite a few in English...
http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=eng&l=English
You can type URLs into Windows Explorer.
I wonder if Microsoft is trying to push everyone to web-based applications!!!
IE doesn't count so you can use gmail, web-based music player, etc.
So many exceptions. How does the OS decide what counts to the limit and not. By the full path of the EXE? Does the program do a special system call to become exempt? Is there a database of characteristics? All this seems pretty hackable.
I am not a bad guy but its interesting to think about other ways to get the info from Verizon.
I recall some old movies where a message was planed in the classified section of a newspaper. It would be pretty hard for the FBI to trace that.
If you want to do the same thing online, tell the blackmailee to post some info in the corner of their very busy homepage.
Why not setup that offshore bank account yourself, tell the backmailee the account number and have them deposit the money.
Too bad its not April Fools Day.
Nice idea. What about a joke you have heard before? Is it still funny?
Everyone's talking about pirates. Seems to me that storms are more likely... the longer you are at sea.
How do you say "not"?
In English one can just add "not" in front in an expression to negate it. But in French isn't
"ne [expression] pas" required?
Do you have a link or some more example code?
It would be better if it showed you the mail you can just written and asked you to confirm.
Like Slashdot comments. Perhaps a delay so people can't automatically click on confirm.
Well, its not ironic. It would be ironic if the ext3/4 authors lost their code in a crash because of the order that the data was written.
That network model looks useful. Too bad there don't seem to be any reality available implementations to try out.
Just to follow up.
I meant Microsoft Visual C++.
It seems it uses 0xCCCCCCCC for uninitialized memory not NULL pointers. Sorry about that.
Here's an article on it:
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/win32/tutorials/article.php/c9535/
Maybe it you try to follow a NULL pointer you end up at uninitialzed memmroy. eg printf("hello %x", *NULL);