Google always has stuff in beta, while it first comes out. I think it's just their way of saying "this isn't necessarily going to be part of our site for good, we're seeing how this works out, and if you like it, we might end up keeping it". I can remember when google images was in beta. However, even most of these things that google brings out are completely functional while they are in beta. Oh, and they usually have a couple of projects that they're also demoing in the Google Labs area.
On the other hand, I tried out friendster the other day, and can see why they call it a beta. It has been out for quite some time now, but some of it's functions do not work very well. I got and e-mail telling me I recieved a message from a friend, and I went to friendsters site to read it, only to discover that it wasn't there. After looking around friendsters site I find out that this is a known issue, and I have to wait some time before reading it. This site seems like it is still in beta, and not completely functional.
I was going to europe a few weeks ago, and having heard about several friends' cameras being stolen, I was really worried about my new Nikon D70 camera. I called up my insurance company, and asked them if there was any way I could insure my camera, and they said I could insure my $1500 camera for $30/year, which I did. So, regardless of where I have my camera, if something happens to it, being my fault or someone elses, it is covered under this insurance, which is called scheduled personal property. I don't know if they do it for smaller items, but if you have anything that's quite expensive, you might want to look into this.
Oh, and by the way, I'm back from europe, and my camera is fine. =)
This has happened to some of our customers using handheld barcode scanners as they network equuipment could not perform the handoff between access pints quick enough, logging the radio user off.
This is called a hard handoff. An example of a soft handoff is a cell phone, where you can switch between different cell towers and not be disconnected. However with current wireless networking implementations you are only able to do hard handoffs, where you will be disconnected when you go from one AP to another. Although, some manufacturers are coming up with devices that perform soft handoffs.
Well, I payed with online billing once, and little did I know, I was signing myself up for paperless billing! I gave them my e-mail address that I use for non-personal correspondence, and I've been locked out of that mailbox for a while now, so I have been recieving bills and didn't realize it until the electric company sent me a disconnect notice!
Yeah... you know how a capitalism works, right? Competition was hampered, because many people did not to change phone numbers, therefore they didn't change services.
However, lets just say, for argument's sake, Cingular comes out with unlimited minutes for $100. In order to compete with Cingular, all the other wireless companies would have to lower their prices or offer similar plans, otherwise many of their customers would probably leave their current wireless company and transfer their number to cingular.
Are you saying that there is a centralized cellular database though? I'm no expert on these issues, but it would seem like each cellular company (Cingular, Verizon, etc) has there own database of numbers. If I moved from Cingular to Verizon, Cingular would have to remove my entry from their database and add mine to Verizon's. The cell phone companies would have to create a central database or a procedure for transferring. I don't think it's as simple as you think.
He's not speaking in the context of P2P when he mentions print piracy.
And text, well, text is even worse because it is easiest of all to steal. My columns are published in newspapers and websites and handed-in as college essays all over the world and there is almost nothing I can do about it because tracking down the perps costs me more than does their crime. From the perspective of the established publishers, there is also the horrible possibility that people might actually come to prefer material they find for free on the Internet -- not just pirated material but even original material. This column, after all, is free, and my Mother claims to find some value in it from time to time.
Also, as a photographer you own a photograph you take of someone. However, a person has certain rights to his/her likeness. For example, if you were to take a photograph of someone and use it commercially, you could be sued if you did not have the subject sign a talent release.
I wouldn't be too suprised if Microso$t just did this because it's cheaper for them and then somebody pointed out to them how modchips didn't work. Then micro$oft, being the not so bright little kid he is, will ask "come again, mod chip?". Somebody proceeded to explain to microsoft what a mod chip is and then microsoft was like "of course, i knew that all along, it's a security feature!"
Ok, yes, as stated, DVD-R and DVD+R are not compatible (by compatible i mean that you can't burn '-R' discs in a '+R' burner and vice versa. However, a DVD+R is a DVD+RW minus the rewriteable aspect. DVD+RW was released first, and then they released DVD+Rs, which are cheaper than the DVD+RW discs. However, not all DVD+RWs can burn DVD+Rs. Only the newer ones can.
Although the article doesn't mention this, I'm guessing that since they have a custom linux installation, that the modded dreamcast won't be able to run its normal dreamcast functions. What would make this seem even more inncuous would be to allow it play games too.
Actually, it depends. I just bought a nice HDTV and I love the quality... even on analog broadcasts. I do have digital cable, but as you said, it's not that great of quality.
However, in some markets like LA they actually have HD signals via Digital Cable, just as they have some HD signals via sat.
If history repeats itself, I think this is how it will happen. Microsoft may release a bugfix in the next few months. However, they won't publicize it much, partially due to the fact that they don't even think it's a bug. Eventually, i'd say three months later, a virus creator stumbles along this bug, makes a virus like code red, and then it gets big media coverage, while everyone tries to patcht their systems.
It's not that we can't find the terrorists, the problem is that they are working individually, not together.
Reffering back to the movie "The siege", they kept mentioning independant terrorist cells. If one cell is caught, the other cells are not affected. That is why, just like in the seige, it is so hard to track these people down. There is not always a heirarchy in these type of organizations. It was easy for the government to infiltrate the mafia, because this is organization has a very well defined chain of command, which makes it much easier to tap their conversations and to find out what is going on.
The truth is, we are fighting an invisible enemy. That is why, like in the movie the siege, it will be difficult to retaliate; it is hard to retaliate against an enemy which is unknown. So, it would not be prudent to start attacking arbitray countries and incite WWIII.
P.S. If we start attacking "every known, suspected or rumored terrorist hangout, EVERYWHERE in the world", there wouldn't be much left.
Well, right now a lot of people are sending their logs to Dshield, who then notify the owners of the infected machines.
grep default.ida access_log* | mail -s 'APACHE' redalert@dshield.org
Katz referd to the attention economy as a new phenomenom, but is it really? I mean, the basis of our economy has always been competetion, where there will always be some little guy fighting to steal the business away from the bigger companies. With this type of ideology, isn't it inevitable to have very few products in the mainstream, yet MANY more products avaliable?
Another aspect of products that are thriving in a time of information glut: speed. James Glick has a really good book on the subject, called Faster which I recommend reading.
Actually the school I attend does this on windows 9x machines fairly well. They use norton ghost, which can make a disk image from one computer, and then the program can "ghost" all (or selected) computers on the network, which basically just loads the disk image onto them. It's a pretty effective solution.
@Home usually costs most people $40 a month, and this fee includes the leasing of the cable modem. However, if you own a cable modem, you only have to pay $30 a month.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd like to see some spam haikus.
Google always has stuff in beta, while it first comes out. I think it's just their way of saying "this isn't necessarily going to be part of our site for good, we're seeing how this works out, and if you like it, we might end up keeping it". I can remember when google images was in beta. However, even most of these things that google brings out are completely functional while they are in beta. Oh, and they usually have a couple of projects that they're also demoing in the Google Labs area.
On the other hand, I tried out friendster the other day, and can see why they call it a beta. It has been out for quite some time now, but some of it's functions do not work very well. I got and e-mail telling me I recieved a message from a friend, and I went to friendsters site to read it, only to discover that it wasn't there. After looking around friendsters site I find out that this is a known issue, and I have to wait some time before reading it. This site seems like it is still in beta, and not completely functional.
I was going to europe a few weeks ago, and having heard about several friends' cameras being stolen, I was really worried about my new Nikon D70 camera. I called up my insurance company, and asked them if there was any way I could insure my camera, and they said I could insure my $1500 camera for $30/year, which I did. So, regardless of where I have my camera, if something happens to it, being my fault or someone elses, it is covered under this insurance, which is called scheduled personal property . I don't know if they do it for smaller items, but if you have anything that's quite expensive, you might want to look into this.
Oh, and by the way, I'm back from europe, and my camera is fine. =)
This has happened to some of our customers using handheld barcode scanners as they network equuipment could not perform the handoff between access pints quick enough, logging the radio user off.
This is called a hard handoff. An example of a soft handoff is a cell phone, where you can switch between different cell towers and not be disconnected. However with current wireless networking implementations you are only able to do hard handoffs, where you will be disconnected when you go from one AP to another. Although, some manufacturers are coming up with devices that perform soft handoffs.
DC Press release
Space saver company
SCO is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the creator(s) of the mydoom virus.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/200401 10/ap_on_hi_te/copying_dollars_6
Well, I payed with online billing once, and little did I know, I was signing myself up for paperless billing! I gave them my e-mail address that I use for non-personal correspondence, and I've been locked out of that mailbox for a while now, so I have been recieving bills and didn't realize it until the electric company sent me a disconnect notice!
You would know about the 17 year old with a fake id, wouldn't you?
Just kidding. But seriously folks, is that a sex offense, urinating in public??
Yeah... you know how a capitalism works, right? Competition was hampered, because many people did not to change phone numbers, therefore they didn't change services.
However, lets just say, for argument's sake, Cingular comes out with unlimited minutes for $100. In order to compete with Cingular, all the other wireless companies would have to lower their prices or offer similar plans, otherwise many of their customers would probably leave their current wireless company and transfer their number to cingular.
The cycle repeats. Hence price warring.
It's the same concept in adults and kids. Your brain activity is supposed to be pushed so high that it peaks and settles down at a normal level.
Are you saying that there is a centralized cellular database though? I'm no expert on these issues, but it would seem like each cellular company (Cingular, Verizon, etc) has there own database of numbers. If I moved from Cingular to Verizon, Cingular would have to remove my entry from their database and add mine to Verizon's. The cell phone companies would have to create a central database or a procedure for transferring. I don't think it's as simple as you think.
He's not speaking in the context of P2P when he mentions print piracy.
And text, well, text is even worse because it is easiest of all to steal. My columns are published in newspapers and websites and handed-in as college essays all over the world and there is almost nothing I can do about it because tracking down the perps costs me more than does their crime. From the perspective of the established publishers, there is also the horrible possibility that people might actually come to prefer material they find for free on the Internet -- not just pirated material but even original material. This column, after all, is free, and my Mother claims to find some value in it from time to time.
Also, as a photographer you own a photograph you take of someone. However, a person has certain rights to his/her likeness. For example, if you were to take a photograph of someone and use it commercially, you could be sued if you did not have the subject sign a talent release.
I wouldn't be too suprised if Microso$t just did this because it's cheaper for them and then somebody pointed out to them how modchips didn't work. Then micro$oft, being the not so bright little kid he is, will ask "come again, mod chip?". Somebody proceeded to explain to microsoft what a mod chip is and then microsoft was like "of course, i knew that all along, it's a security feature!"
Ok, yes, as stated, DVD-R and DVD+R are not compatible (by compatible i mean that you can't burn '-R' discs in a '+R' burner and vice versa. However, a DVD+R is a DVD+RW minus the rewriteable aspect. DVD+RW was released first, and then they released DVD+Rs, which are cheaper than the DVD+RW discs. However, not all DVD+RWs can burn DVD+Rs. Only the newer ones can.
Info on DVD+R/+RWs
Although the article doesn't mention this, I'm guessing that since they have a custom linux installation, that the modded dreamcast won't be able to run its normal dreamcast functions. What would make this seem even more inncuous would be to allow it play games too.
Actually, it depends. I just bought a nice HDTV and I love the quality... even on analog broadcasts. I do have digital cable, but as you said, it's not that great of quality.
However, in some markets like LA they actually have HD signals via Digital Cable, just as they have some HD signals via sat.
If history repeats itself, I think this is how it will happen. Microsoft may release a bugfix in the next few months. However, they won't publicize it much, partially due to the fact that they don't even think it's a bug. Eventually, i'd say three months later, a virus creator stumbles along this bug, makes a virus like code red, and then it gets big media coverage, while everyone tries to patcht their systems.
It's not that we can't find the terrorists, the problem is that they are working individually, not together.
Reffering back to the movie "The siege", they kept mentioning independant terrorist cells. If one cell is caught, the other cells are not affected. That is why, just like in the seige, it is so hard to track these people down. There is not always a heirarchy in these type of organizations. It was easy for the government to infiltrate the mafia, because this is organization has a very well defined chain of command, which makes it much easier to tap their conversations and to find out what is going on.
The truth is, we are fighting an invisible enemy. That is why, like in the movie the siege, it will be difficult to retaliate; it is hard to retaliate against an enemy which is unknown. So, it would not be prudent to start attacking arbitray countries and incite WWIII.
P.S. If we start attacking "every known, suspected or rumored terrorist hangout, EVERYWHERE in the world", there wouldn't be much left.
Well, right now a lot of people are sending their logs to Dshield, who then notify the owners of the infected machines. grep default.ida access_log* | mail -s 'APACHE' redalert@dshield.org
Katz referd to the attention economy as a new phenomenom, but is it really? I mean, the basis of our economy has always been competetion, where there will always be some little guy fighting to steal the business away from the bigger companies. With this type of ideology, isn't it inevitable to have very few products in the mainstream, yet MANY more products avaliable?
Another aspect of products that are thriving in a time of information glut: speed. James Glick has a really good book on the subject, called Faster which I recommend reading.
Actually the school I attend does this on windows 9x machines fairly well. They use norton ghost, which can make a disk image from one computer, and then the program can "ghost" all (or selected) computers on the network, which basically just loads the disk image onto them. It's a pretty effective solution.
@Home usually costs most people $40 a month, and this fee includes the leasing of the cable modem. However, if you own a cable modem, you only have to pay $30 a month.