If they started doing this, I'm pretty sure they'd piss off just as many people as they'd make happy. Lots of people make money from hits on their sites, and may be able to use the "numbers" when negotiating for better ad deals. Caching is great, but the content provider loses some control, and lots of providers may not like that.
I'd say if it was going to go to hardware it would go to the BIOS, which can be updated with new virus definitions. I'm pretty sure you can't update your CPU currently and I haven't heard of any plans to change that in the future.
Back in the day (maybe now too) some BIOS's watched the boot sector of the computer for viruses that tried to install themselves there.
There's NOTHING on the mysql site about this, although there's a big thing on SCO's homepage
If you were mysql would you admit to this deal on your site? I sure as hell wouldn't. You are right that we should hear what mysql has to say about it, though.
The reason it's flamebait in my opinion is because string theory is a theory like any other, and is open to changes. Saying that it's a problem that they change the theory when the model doesn't work just isn't a smart comment. String theory is dealing with stuff that we don't understand, and they'd better be open to changing the model when needed. There's actually many different models anyway if I remember correctly.
I'm sure many of our current scientific theories with sound models went through a few non-working models as well.
I just RTFA and now I understand what the user was talking about. I take back my amen.:) Their site definitely makes it look like the Burgertime game was a Fuddrucker's deal. (except for the briggster links at the bottom of the game). I'm going neutral on this one.:)
Yes. We should make this the next slashdot poll.:) When there is a 100% (99.9999999%) chance of storms like this happening again, we shouldn't have to bail these people out. They chose to live there. It'd be interesting to know how much in taxes New Orleans pays to the Federal Gov't (deducting refunds of course). It sounds like they are a fairly big drain not only when there are storms like this, but in just keeping them out of the water from day to day.
I read the msnbc.com article on this. The gist of it I believe was that Microsoft filed the patent after the iPod came out, and Apple was slow to file for the patent. Apparently prior art means nothing to the patent office.
Once the laws start pouring in, we'll create the Virtual Internet inside the Internet, where porn will once again rein free, and nerds will be nerds rather than 13 year old girls!! Either that or Internet2 which the Universities use will become the new Internet of nerds, and everyone will switch over later.
DISCLAIMER: Hmmm, I have no clue how a smoke detector works, but thought I'd add this. Maybe someone who has more detailed information on this can englighten me.
In any case, testing a smoke detector by putting actual smoke under it seems to be a bad idea to me, because you are probably reducing its capability to sense smoke. After a while it might get clogged with smoke, and not be able to detect it.
LOL! I can hit the enter key perfectly in slightly less than shift key size. Why the heck there is a need for it to take up half the keyboard, I have no idea.
I blame it on getting off work. At that point you're just begging for something to be funny and you'll accept anything.;) For example I laughed at what you said. Then again, making fun of someone else's crappy joke is a true formula for funny, right?:) Too bad I have no mod points.;)
Some of us are just more efficient at wasting time on Slashdot when we should be getting work done.;) Don't worry, there's always room for improvement in that department.;)
I hate keyboards with the ginormous enter key! If they can do it with a normal small sized one I'd be more interested. Then again, maybe it's more customizable and I might actually like it. Having a small shift key on the right side probably wouldn't bother me either as I never really use that anyway.
The best thing about this would be if I could progmatically control all the displays of the keyboards. Then when I get a new IM, I could display the messages on the keyboard, and or flash other cool messages for when I get email or scripts/jobs finish!! (I already do this with keyboard led's in the plugin I made for Trillian.) This has definite potential to be very useful. Hopefully it wouldn't cost too much! I'd probably pay up to 250 dollars for a keyboard like that if I could control the display of the keys via an API.
Wow, that sucks. That 17meg transfer would take 3 seconds or less on my drives.:) I'm guessing there is a bug or something. 17 megs in 20 minutes is not right at all.
This seems to be standard practice in life. How much publicity has there been over the TOP-SECRET Harry Potter. People want what they can't have, and this is a perfect example. I'm kind of tired of seeing stories about Harry Potter leaks, and all the special techniques they're using to guard the books. Wake me up when something really important happens in the world.
chewing on the leather band
-- Actually the watch was a computer, and the band contained short range antennas that transferred the meeting through Bill's fillings directly into his brain.
sitting sideways in his chair
-- The watch just needed to be positioned correctly to receive the most data. Sitting sideways did exactly this for Bill.
rocking back and forth
-- This ancient direct-to-brain method had the side effect of causing your fillings to go crazy. Something akin to the sensation people with fillings get when they chew tin foil.:)
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Agreed. I was going to say this same thing myself. Too bad I have no mod points currently. This guy makes it sound like reading through assembly code to implement a complex system is easy. Yeah right. It's a hell of a lot easier to just write your own system, and less prone to errors as well.
Just download OpenOffice which is free. You can also search for "Microsoft Office Word Viewer", and download a free viewer from Microsoft. Here's the 2003 edition
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If they started doing this, I'm pretty sure they'd piss off just as many people as they'd make happy. Lots of people make money from hits on their sites, and may be able to use the "numbers" when negotiating for better ad deals. Caching is great, but the content provider loses some control, and lots of providers may not like that.
I guess they'll have to up their storage space. Their new storage plan will probably be called:
infinity + infinity + 1
or
my dad's bigger than yours
I'd say if it was going to go to hardware it would go to the BIOS, which can be updated with new virus definitions. I'm pretty sure you can't update your CPU currently and I haven't heard of any plans to change that in the future.
Back in the day (maybe now too) some BIOS's watched the boot sector of the computer for viruses that tried to install themselves there.
There's NOTHING on the mysql site about this, although there's a big thing on SCO's homepage
If you were mysql would you admit to this deal on your site? I sure as hell wouldn't. You are right that we should hear what mysql has to say about it, though.
The reason it's flamebait in my opinion is because string theory is a theory like any other, and is open to changes. Saying that it's a problem that they change the theory when the model doesn't work just isn't a smart comment. String theory is dealing with stuff that we don't understand, and they'd better be open to changing the model when needed. There's actually many different models anyway if I remember correctly.
I'm sure many of our current scientific theories with sound models went through a few non-working models as well.
I just RTFA and now I understand what the user was talking about. I take back my amen. :) Their site definitely makes it look like the Burgertime game was a Fuddrucker's deal. (except for the briggster links at the bottom of the game). I'm going neutral on this one. :)
Amen brother. I'd mod you up if I could.
Yes. We should make this the next slashdot poll. :) When there is a 100% (99.9999999%) chance of storms like this happening again, we shouldn't have to bail these people out. They chose to live there. It'd be interesting to know how much in taxes New Orleans pays to the Federal Gov't (deducting refunds of course). It sounds like they are a fairly big drain not only when there are storms like this, but in just keeping them out of the water from day to day.
I read the msnbc.com article on this. The gist of it I believe was that Microsoft filed the patent after the iPod came out, and Apple was slow to file for the patent. Apparently prior art means nothing to the patent office.
Let's just hope they don't cross the streams or we're all doomed!
Good News Everyone!
Once the laws start pouring in, we'll create the Virtual Internet inside the Internet, where porn will once again rein free, and nerds will be nerds rather than 13 year old girls!! Either that or Internet2 which the Universities use will become the new Internet of nerds, and everyone will switch over later.
DISCLAIMER: Hmmm, I have no clue how a smoke detector works, but thought I'd add this. Maybe someone who has more detailed information on this can englighten me.
In any case, testing a smoke detector by putting actual smoke under it seems to be a bad idea to me, because you are probably reducing its capability to sense smoke. After a while it might get clogged with smoke, and not be able to detect it.
Thoughts?
LOL! I can hit the enter key perfectly in slightly less than shift key size. Why the heck there is a need for it to take up half the keyboard, I have no idea.
Hilarious, isn't it? A real knee-slapper!
;) For example I laughed at what you said. Then again, making fun of someone else's crappy joke is a true formula for funny, right? :) Too bad I have no mod points. ;)
I blame it on getting off work. At that point you're just begging for something to be funny and you'll accept anything.
Some of us are just more efficient at wasting time on Slashdot when we should be getting work done. ;) Don't worry, there's always room for improvement in that department. ;)
I hate keyboards with the ginormous enter key! If they can do it with a normal small sized one I'd be more interested. Then again, maybe it's more customizable and I might actually like it. Having a small shift key on the right side probably wouldn't bother me either as I never really use that anyway.
The best thing about this would be if I could progmatically control all the displays of the keyboards. Then when I get a new IM, I could display the messages on the keyboard, and or flash other cool messages for when I get email or scripts/jobs finish!! (I already do this with keyboard led's in the plugin I made for Trillian.) This has definite potential to be very useful. Hopefully it wouldn't cost too much! I'd probably pay up to 250 dollars for a keyboard like that if I could control the display of the keys via an API.
I don't think there's a "+1 Transformer's Reference", but if there was, I'd give it to ya. ;)
Wow, that sucks. That 17meg transfer would take 3 seconds or less on my drives. :) I'm guessing there is a bug or something. 17 megs in 20 minutes is not right at all.
This seems to be standard practice in life. How much publicity has there been over the TOP-SECRET Harry Potter. People want what they can't have, and this is a perfect example. I'm kind of tired of seeing stories about Harry Potter leaks, and all the special techniques they're using to guard the books. Wake me up when something really important happens in the world.
From what I've read he had 30,000 entries, but there were repeats in there.
LOL. I miss Futurama. I think Bender said that (minus political party) in the second episode when they make that delivery to the moon.
chewing on the leather band
:)
-- Actually the watch was a computer, and the band contained short range antennas that transferred the meeting through Bill's fillings directly into his brain.
sitting sideways in his chair
-- The watch just needed to be positioned correctly to receive the most data. Sitting sideways did exactly this for Bill.
rocking back and forth
-- This ancient direct-to-brain method had the side effect of causing your fillings to go crazy. Something akin to the sensation people with fillings get when they chew tin foil.
Agreed. I was going to say this same thing myself. Too bad I have no mod points currently. This guy makes it sound like reading through assembly code to implement a complex system is easy. Yeah right. It's a hell of a lot easier to just write your own system, and less prone to errors as well.
I'm sure Nokia has hundreds of patents that could be useful for open source developers!
This will only be of use to open source developers of the Linux Kernel. It is not for all of Linux.
Just download OpenOffice which is free. You can also search for "Microsoft Office Word Viewer", and download a free viewer from Microsoft. Here's the 2003 edition