"Both Yahoo and MSN Hotmail upped their storage limits to 250 megabytes for free accounts and 2 gigabytes for paid accounts. Yahoo also acquired e-mail startups Oddpost Inc. and Stata Laboratories Inc. earlier this year. "
my hotmail account is still at 2MB. There is a banner advert at the side of the page proclaiming the upgrade is here. Apparently I now have free virus scanning. When's the real upgrade coming?
It pisses me off how it gets repeated online that hotmail offers 250MB. I have seen no evidence to back this assertion.
That's almost entirely wrong. Sure, in the invasion we destroyed things like bridges. But the vast majority of the work going on in Iraq is on things like the electricity grid and the water network, infrastructures that crumbled under Saddam's woeful misrule.
Baghdad had power and water up until the US invaded. Since then they have had intermittent power and water. Saddam actually kept his country in a fairly decent position compared to other middle eastern countries - women were fairly empowered, hospital provision was good, education was good. At the moment all of these are completely FUCKED along with the utilities and the US-led consortium is losing the battle to win hearts and minds by taking so long to restore basic standards of life. It is no wonder that much of the population is at least sympathetic to the insurgents/rebels/freedom fighters, when the standard of living over the last 2 years has degraded completely. If the US had straight away started improving quality of life then they would probably have the majority of the Iraq-ni-push [for anybody listening to radio 1 around 10am yesterday] population on their side.
Actually lets take as an example, private healthcare. In the U.S. the vast majority of health care is private. The U.S. has the highest healthcare costs in the world, three times as expensive as canada's per capita.
In the UK, the majority of health care is provided by the NHS. I cant find the link on google, but the the UK has one of the lower spends on health care per capita compared to most of the rest of Europe (about half that of france which is > 2000 pounds per capita per annum) and certainly less than the USA.
The argument pro government services is that the hospitals do not need to take a cut to keep their shareholders happy and it certainly seems to work in some cases.
Felser said rich media advertising will be embedded into the free version, and e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services will also offer business opportunities.
so no real business plan here then.
1. e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services 2. ??? 3. profit
> Anyone know why UNIX systems allow wildcards in filenames? Doesn't seem the best design choice to me.
Its not that the filesystem allows wildcards, its that the shells typically allow valid filesystem characters as wildcards.
The filesystem is completely independent of the shells, and there is no reason why shells have to treat * or ? or anything else as a wildcard. It is just convention.
why do we have to ahve these posts to this blog that just reposts other stories?? its useless - all we need are links to the original stories for christ's sake!
a woman at my work just went to a clinic in london and had a different technique than laser eye surgery. I can't remember the name of the companies website, but laser surgery is not the only option.
There ARE problems with laser eye surgery - the night vision problems people have talked about, the risk of infection due to there being a flap in your eye that can trap bacteria, plus the fact that the size of your cornea is reduced. This is troubling as your eye will perhaps be more vulnerable to injuries if things hit it. Also the flap can become detached at any time - as your cornea does not grow it does not heal as such so at any point in the future it can start moving around.
"I call bullshit. Nobody "loves" OpenOffice. People tolerate it..."
I love it because a 300 page document that MSWord one day refused to open having been editing it fine for months, opened in OO, and when I saved it out again it opened fine in MSWord with no difference from the original. I use OO 90% of the time now.
I am rather disappointed by the quality of this article: "I just got a new computer with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card with amazing sound and music capabilities. For example, theres support for 24-bit EAX Advanced HD sound,"
What the fuck is 24 bit EAX Advanced HD Sound? Its not a feature, its a fucking marketing term. EAX may loosely refer to 3D Audio features but the author clearly doesn't know what he's on about.
Firstly let me get something off my chest - creative fucked ME over. my Soundblaster Audigy, a "24 bit" card is nothing of the sort. It only plays 16 bit sounds. Apparently it can (in hardware) mix 24 bit sound down to 16 bit, bypassing the windows functions that do the same, nonetheless marketed to me as a 24 bit card. So of course this means the card is completely useless if bought specifically for audio work.
Also my mate bought a soundblaster live, one of the selling points was that the "liveware" could be upgraded, providing more features/effects/whatever. His original cd came with liveware 3.0, since then (well last time I checked) creative have not bothered updating the SBLive liveware, which is a bit naughty.
Their drivers are SHIT, check this, this and this.
The last link hints on having the same FUCKED UP driver problems that I have been having: the original driver off the cd will install, but none of their updates off their website work. I have been through all the tech support and they have even sent me out a new driver cd (for free) but those drivers wont install. Creative seem to have some sort of fucked up hardware detection routine in the driver installation for every drivers apart from the ones on the original cd, and this hardware detection always tanks stating "No creative product found in this computer. Please ensure it is installed properly."
My mate has a soundblaster live and when he went from win 98 to winXP his SBLive just completely refused to work, with all the drivers from creatives website claiming that he had not soundblaster installed. The CHEEK! If only creative would allow MS' hardware detection to do the work, rather than have their FUCKED UP BUGGY hardware detection fail to find legitimate hardware. My mate now uses unofficial drivers for his soundcard that *arent even written* by creative. This was the only way he could get his sound card (that he paid 180 pounds 5 years ago for) to work.
Once I gave up on getting any semblence of modern drivers working, I moved onto getting 3d audio working in games. Like fuck was that going to work. Every game I tried refused to recognise the existence of EAX hardware. In every game without fail, the EAX option would be unselected. This was particularly galling with halo.
In the end I uninstalled my SB Audigy and used my onboard 5.1 surround. Which is recognised by games, shock horror! Admittedly when theres about 10 people firing at once in halo the sound gets choppy, but at least I have surround.
Also we have to ask about the quality of onboard effects on the soundblaster live. The reverbs are so shit and tinny that you cannot possibly use the for any audio application. This belies their claim that their soundcards are good for musicians.
Finally we have to ask: is the lack of decent 3d support due to game developers not being bothered, or is it due to the 3d support/hardware accelerated sound support being in such a perilous state?
I tend towards the latter. The author of the article states: "Creative Labs has a virtual monopoly, due at least in part to aggressive techniques such as lawsuits or buyouts to take care of most potential competitors....Fortunately, even without competitive market pressures, Creative Labs has developed high quality audio hardware."
" I'm sure some things, like the batteries, are affected by the temperature. In general lower temperatures increase activation energy barriers, so there's a chance the batteries will be weaker as well"
two sides to this coin, the increased activation energy will mean the batteries energy won't leak or discharge as quickly
Given that they have a list of sites to block, they should record every access to those sites, allow them to proceed and inform relevant authorities.Otherwise child pornography users will know that something is amiss and take measures to circumvent them. such as by using a proxy to access child porn. Of course nothing stops them using a proxy to access child porn with my method, but seeing as the accessor would not be given any hints that anything is amiss, they would be unlikely to bother, after they have successfully accessed this material.
"Is if somone ported airsnort to one of these.. Imagine throwing one under a desk for a week, while it cracked the wep key, then having it switch on its radio and broadcast the key as its SSID.."
or make it attack all computers it can reach.. noone would ever find it
"So he thinks that the fact that this game won't be on retail shelves is a bad thing?"
Its funny because he claims that by not having it on the store shelves and only available over the internet, that this is in some way an attempt by the publishers to get their game past parents.
This NEEDS to be said. MOD PARENT UP +5 informative, insightful, underrated. Why did I waste my mod points on the bullshit comments that I did, when I could have given this well written prose the respect it deserved.
not another tiny writeup from bloody piquepaille. whats the point of clicking through to his article when you have to click on the links in that before you get anything worth reading?
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You should dump ALL bounce messages. When was the last time you got a legit bounce message from something YOU sent? Never? Years ago?
Full and mispelled hotmail accounts. fairly frequently.
"Both Yahoo and MSN Hotmail upped their storage limits to 250 megabytes for free accounts and 2 gigabytes for paid accounts. Yahoo also acquired e-mail startups Oddpost Inc. and Stata Laboratories Inc. earlier this year. "
my hotmail account is still at 2MB. There is a banner advert at the side of the page proclaiming the upgrade is here. Apparently I now have free virus scanning. When's the real upgrade coming?
It pisses me off how it gets repeated online that hotmail offers 250MB. I have seen no evidence to back this assertion.
That's almost entirely wrong. Sure, in the invasion we destroyed things like bridges. But the vast majority of the work going on in Iraq is on things like the electricity grid and the water network, infrastructures that crumbled under Saddam's woeful misrule.
Baghdad had power and water up until the US invaded. Since then they have had intermittent power and water.
Saddam actually kept his country in a fairly decent position compared to other middle eastern countries - women were fairly empowered, hospital provision was good, education was good.
At the moment all of these are completely FUCKED along with the utilities and the US-led consortium is losing the battle to win hearts and minds by taking so long to restore basic standards of life.
It is no wonder that much of the population is at least sympathetic to the insurgents/rebels/freedom fighters, when the standard of living over the last 2 years has degraded completely.
If the US had straight away started improving quality of life then they would probably have the majority of the Iraq-ni-push [for anybody listening to radio 1 around 10am yesterday] population on their side.
haha that would get +1 funny if I had any mod points!
It was burglarized in August 2003, and similar robberies occurred this year at telephone facilities in New York City and New Jersey.
I think you mean BURGLED.
or perhaps thefted or robberised ?
Actually lets take as an example, private healthcare. In the U.S. the vast majority of health care is private. The U.S. has the highest healthcare costs in the world, three times as expensive as canada's per capita.
In the UK, the majority of health care is provided by the NHS. I cant find the link on google, but the the UK has one of the lower spends on health care per capita compared to most of the rest of Europe (about half that of france which is > 2000 pounds per capita per annum) and certainly less than the USA.
The argument pro government services is that the hospitals do not need to take a cut to keep their shareholders happy and it certainly seems to work in some cases.
> That's funny, I was thinking of suggesting 'animal', 'vegetable', 'mineral', etc...
> Or perhaps using the 'Kingdom', 'Phylum', 'Class', etc... schema."
Personally I have 14 folders in my home directory, corresponding to the 14 different file classifications:
ThoseThatBelongToTheEmperor
EmbalmedOnes
ThoseThatAreTrained
SucklingPigs
Mermaids
FabulousOnes
StrayDogs
ThoseThatAreIncludedInThisClassification
ThoseThatTrembleAsIfTheyWereMad
InnumerableOnes
ThoseDrawnWithAVeryFineCamel'sHairBrush
Others
ThoseThatHaveJustBrokenAFlowerVase
ThoseThatResembleFliesFromADistance
and can you use sudo?
WTF is a large patch set?
nicorette for fat people?
Felser said rich media advertising will be embedded into the free version, and e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services will also offer business opportunities.
so no real business plan here then.
1. e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services
2. ???
3. profit
> Anyone know why UNIX systems allow wildcards in filenames? Doesn't seem the best design choice to me.
Its not that the filesystem allows wildcards, its that the shells typically allow valid filesystem characters as wildcards.
The filesystem is completely independent of the shells, and there is no reason why shells have to treat * or ? or anything else as a wildcard. It is just convention.
why do we have to ahve these posts to this blog that just reposts other stories?? its useless - all we need are links to the original stories for christ's sake!
a woman at my work just went to a clinic in london and had a different technique than laser eye surgery. I can't remember the name of the companies website, but laser surgery is not the only option.
There ARE problems with laser eye surgery - the night vision problems people have talked about, the risk of infection due to there being a flap in your eye that can trap bacteria, plus the fact that the size of your cornea is reduced. This is troubling as your eye will perhaps be more vulnerable to injuries if things hit it.
Also the flap can become detached at any time - as your cornea does not grow it does not heal as such so at any point in the future it can start moving around.
...now all the films I download will be high quality!
"I call bullshit. Nobody "loves" OpenOffice. People tolerate it..."
I love it because a 300 page document that MSWord one day refused to open having been editing it fine for months, opened in OO, and when I saved it out again it opened fine in MSWord with no difference from the original. I use OO 90% of the time now.
I 8> OO!
I am rather disappointed by the quality of this article:
"I just got a new computer with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card with amazing sound and music capabilities. For example, theres support for 24-bit EAX Advanced HD sound,"
What the fuck is 24 bit EAX Advanced HD Sound? Its not a feature, its a fucking marketing term. EAX may loosely refer to 3D Audio features but the author clearly doesn't know what he's on about.
Firstly let me get something off my chest - creative fucked ME over. my Soundblaster Audigy, a "24 bit" card is nothing of the sort. It only plays 16 bit sounds. Apparently it can (in hardware) mix 24 bit sound down to 16 bit, bypassing the windows functions that do the same, nonetheless marketed to me as a 24 bit card. So of course this means the card is completely useless if bought specifically for audio work.
Also my mate bought a soundblaster live, one of the selling points was that the "liveware" could be upgraded, providing more features/effects/whatever. His original cd came with liveware 3.0, since then (well last time I checked) creative have not bothered updating the SBLive liveware, which is a bit naughty.
Their drivers are SHIT, check this, this and this.
The last link hints on having the same FUCKED UP driver problems that I have been having: the original driver off the cd will install, but none of their updates off their website work. I have been through all the tech support and they have even sent me out a new driver cd (for free) but those drivers wont install. Creative seem to have some sort of fucked up hardware detection routine in the driver installation for every drivers apart from the ones on the original cd, and this hardware detection always tanks stating "No creative product found in this computer. Please ensure it is installed properly."
My mate has a soundblaster live and when he went from win 98 to winXP his SBLive just completely refused to work, with all the drivers from creatives website claiming that he had not soundblaster installed. The CHEEK! If only creative would allow MS' hardware detection to do the work, rather than have their FUCKED UP BUGGY hardware detection fail to find legitimate hardware. My mate now uses unofficial drivers for his soundcard that *arent even written* by creative. This was the only way he could get his sound card (that he paid 180 pounds 5 years ago for) to work.
Once I gave up on getting any semblence of modern drivers working, I moved onto getting 3d audio working in games. Like fuck was that going to work. Every game I tried refused to recognise the existence of EAX hardware. In every game without fail, the EAX option would be unselected. This was particularly galling with halo.
In the end I uninstalled my SB Audigy and used my onboard 5.1 surround. Which is recognised by games, shock horror! Admittedly when theres about 10 people firing at once in halo the sound gets choppy, but at least I have surround.
Also we have to ask about the quality of onboard effects on the soundblaster live. The reverbs are so shit and tinny that you cannot possibly use the for any audio application. This belies their claim that their soundcards are good for musicians.
Finally we have to ask: is the lack of decent 3d support due to game developers not being bothered, or is it due to the 3d support/hardware accelerated sound support being in such a perilous state?
I tend towards the latter. The author of the article states:
"Creative Labs has a virtual monopoly, due at least in part to aggressive techniques such as lawsuits or buyouts to take care of most potential competitors....Fortunately, even without competitive market pressures, Creative Labs has developed high quality audio hardware."
" I'm sure some things, like the batteries, are affected by the temperature. In general lower temperatures increase activation energy barriers, so there's a chance the batteries will be weaker as well"
two sides to this coin, the increased activation energy will mean the batteries energy won't leak or discharge as quickly
Kenneth Brown is president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution .... He is reportedly "not the sharpest knife in the drawer,"
haha thats funny! even the article about him can't resist a sly dig!
Given that they have a list of sites to block, they should record every access to those sites, allow them to proceed and inform relevant authorities.Otherwise child pornography users will know that something is amiss and take measures to circumvent them. such as by using a proxy to access child porn.
Of course nothing stops them using a proxy to access child porn with my method, but seeing as the accessor would not be given any hints that anything is amiss, they would be unlikely to bother, after they have successfully accessed this material.
"Is if somone ported airsnort to one of these.. Imagine throwing one under a desk for a week, while it cracked the wep key, then having it switch on its radio and broadcast the key as its SSID.."
or make it attack all computers it can reach.. noone would ever find it
haha well said
"So he thinks that the fact that this game won't be on retail shelves is a bad thing?"
Its funny because he claims that by not having it on the store shelves and only available over the internet, that this is in some way an attempt by the publishers to get their game past parents.
I hope he doesn't have children.
interesting and set at a reasonable level of understanding.
This NEEDS to be said. MOD PARENT UP +5 informative, insightful, underrated. Why did I waste my mod points on the bullshit comments that I did, when I could have given this well written prose the respect it deserved.
not another tiny writeup from bloody piquepaille. whats the point of clicking through to his article when you have to click on the links in that before you get anything worth reading?