"The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm."
See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/widespread
Main Entry: widespread
Pronunciation: 'wId-'spred
Function: adjective
1 : widely diffused or prevalent - ex: "widespread public interest"
2 : widely extended or spread out - ex: "low, widespread hood and fenders"br>
The Grammar Nazis never miss a chance at spoiling an event.
I have had better conversations with this worm than I did with 'sxybutterfly23' in AIM.
At least I got something out of the conversation other than humiliation and unrequited love.
Since they are redoing the CDs, maybe they can change the names too?
Alicia Keys - Unplugged, but still Infected
Amici - Forever Defined as Dishonest
Britney Spears - Hitme, but Don't RipMe
Cassidy - I'm A Hustla in Your PC
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion Since your PC has a Rootkit
Faithless - Forever Faithless Sony
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself, I Love Rootkits
Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps to Uninstall the Rootkit
Raheem Devaughn - The Hate Experience
Santana - All That I Am Allowed to Copy
Stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted PC
Various - So Annoying: An All Star Tribute To Rootkits
Wakefield - Which Side Are You On? Sony or the Public?
YoungBloodZ - Everybody Know Me, Nobody Copy Me
Anyone want to join me in a lawsuit? I own an island off the coast of Tasmania and I am really tired of having to look at Windows Messenger and Media Player every time I turn on my PC. I think I will iniate a lawsuit and win. Just look at it as payment for all the innovation and competition that Microsoft has stifled in the programming world.
"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr DeMarse said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."
Straight into a mountainside?
I am sorry, but I do not want to be on a plane and suddenly hear a tone and, "Hello, this is your neural cluster speaking."
As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions. If Microsoft later becomes aware of any such necessary patent claims, Microsoft also agrees to offer a royalty-free patent license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to any such patent claims for the purpose of publishing and consuming the extensions set out in the specification. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sse/ )
Since millions of tunes sit on servers waiting to be downloaded, the vast majority of them quite obscure, sellers would benefit because it would create increased demand for music that would otherwise sit unpurchased. If a single climbed to $5, consumers couldn't complain that it costs too much, since they would be the ones driving up the price.
Consumers couldn't complain? Why, because they have no choice but to download 'unpopular' music?
Also, what if a company was able to figure out a way to artificially inflate sales or download figures? You say it couldn't happen? I am not so sure. Who would be checking these statistics anyway? The RIAA? The guy in the Slate article talks as if the Stock Market is essentially a fair model, but for whom? Is there a limit as to how high a song could go? 99 cents may be a better price after all.
I would say that driving up the prices of the most popular songs will only provide an incentive to download these songs for free elsewhere.
Student writes blog
Blog pisses off school admin
Student admits it was in bad taste
School suspends student for fall semester
Student is punished harshly having to eat that semester's $14,000
Justice is served?
Instead, the school should just make him write a 5000-word essay about why he wants to be a Dentist.
"One of the photos clearly shows the length of the tail and how muscley it is; civets use their tails to balance in trees, so this new animal may spend chunks of its time up trees too."
"Coffee drinkers have twice the rate of kidney failure than non coffee drinkers."
See? You can't win with these scientific studies. That's why I drink Irish Coffee, there is a neglible chance that my liver will be saved, but if not, at least I will be too drunk to notice otherwise.
-# of non-numerical constants
-# of ( ),{ },\/,#,; characters in code
-time spent debugging/compiling
-total hours spent in production
-gallons of coffee consumed
-hours of daylight seen
-# of relationships destroyed
I am not sure if it was the configuration of the different CPUs, or just the ability of the operating system, but from the result charts there is significant improvement for graphics rendering applications but not as much for other applications. The benchmark tests showed significant improvement as well.
It would have been nice if they had tested the same CPUs in all of their tests, but overall I would say the more cores the better.
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"The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm."
See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/widespread
Main Entry: widespread
Pronunciation: 'wId-'spred
Function: adjective
1 : widely diffused or prevalent - ex: "widespread public interest"
2 : widely extended or spread out - ex: "low, widespread hood and fenders"br>
The Grammar Nazis never miss a chance at spoiling an event.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. I do not chat with bots or viruses, really.
I have had better conversations with this worm than I did with 'sxybutterfly23' in AIM.
At least I got something out of the conversation other than humiliation and unrequited love.
Since they are redoing the CDs, maybe they can change the names too?
Alicia Keys - Unplugged, but still Infected
Amici - Forever Defined as Dishonest
Britney Spears - Hitme, but Don't RipMe
Cassidy - I'm A Hustla in Your PC
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion Since your PC has a Rootkit
Faithless - Forever Faithless Sony
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself, I Love Rootkits
Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps to Uninstall the Rootkit
Raheem Devaughn - The Hate Experience
Santana - All That I Am Allowed to Copy
Stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted PC
Various - So Annoying: An All Star Tribute To Rootkits
Wakefield - Which Side Are You On? Sony or the Public?
YoungBloodZ - Everybody Know Me, Nobody Copy Me
Anyone want to join me in a lawsuit? I own an island off the coast of Tasmania and I am really tired of having to look at Windows Messenger and Media Player every time I turn on my PC. I think I will iniate a lawsuit and win. Just look at it as payment for all the innovation and competition that Microsoft has stifled in the programming world.
Just click here: http://www.lumenlab.com/
It doesn't cost a thing, except for 3 seconds of your time. You may wish to try again at a later time.
"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr DeMarse said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."
Straight into a mountainside?
I am sorry, but I do not want to be on a plane and suddenly hear a tone and, "Hello, this is your neural cluster speaking."
To block searches is to kill the idea of the search engine itself.
or just contact google directly at http://www.google.com/privacy.html ?
As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions. If Microsoft later becomes aware of any such necessary patent claims, Microsoft also agrees to offer a royalty-free patent license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to any such patent claims for the purpose of publishing and consuming the extensions set out in the specification. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sse/ )
What?
Since millions of tunes sit on servers waiting to be downloaded, the vast majority of them quite obscure, sellers would benefit because it would create increased demand for music that would otherwise sit unpurchased. If a single climbed to $5, consumers couldn't complain that it costs too much, since they would be the ones driving up the price.
Consumers couldn't complain? Why, because they have no choice but to download 'unpopular' music?
Also, what if a company was able to figure out a way to artificially inflate sales or download figures? You say it couldn't happen? I am not so sure. Who would be checking these statistics anyway? The RIAA? The guy in the Slate article talks as if the Stock Market is essentially a fair model, but for whom? Is there a limit as to how high a song could go? 99 cents may be a better price after all.
I would say that driving up the prices of the most popular songs will only provide an incentive to download these songs for free elsewhere.
Sirius: Howard Stern, NPR, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Hawk
XM: Opie & Anthony, Fox News, Nascar, PGA Tour
Just an observation.
I thought 'camsnuffling' was breathing heavily through the nose while taking a picture?
Student writes blog
Blog pisses off school admin
Student admits it was in bad taste
School suspends student for fall semester
Student is punished harshly having to eat that semester's $14,000
Justice is served?
Instead, the school should just make him write a 5000-word essay about why he wants to be a Dentist.
Why not offer some episodes for free as an incentive to download the others?
For example, why not offer some freebies of more unpopular shows as an incentive to download the popular ones?
Why can't NBC/SciFi/Steve Jobs just give some things away as a way of saying thanks for all the millions of dollars they make?
The two seem to go hand-in-hand.
Now if IBM can just write a program to fully document how and where the money was spent on the Big Dig.
As long as we are fixing things, why not just go all the way? Oh well, I guess we all can dream.
I will be surfing over to http://labs.google.com/ just in case.
"As for musicians, we are left to wonder how many more people could be listening to our music if it weren't such a hassle"
Ok, go here: http://www.okgo.net/music_music.asp
Best of luck to the band!
you may become severely burned
"One of the photos clearly shows the length of the tail and how muscley it is; civets use their tails to balance in trees, so this new animal may spend chunks of its time up trees too."
It also sends chunks to the ground.
Now you can have square wheels to go with your box car
We can do better then this.
'Than' would be better than then, then?
"Coffee drinkers have twice the rate of kidney failure than non coffee drinkers."
See? You can't win with these scientific studies. That's why I drink Irish Coffee, there is a neglible chance that my liver will be saved, but if not, at least I will be too drunk to notice otherwise.
microsoft has cucarachas?
-# of non-numerical constants /,#,; characters in code
-# of ( ),{ },\
-time spent debugging/compiling
-total hours spent in production
-gallons of coffee consumed
-hours of daylight seen
-# of relationships destroyed
I am not sure if it was the configuration of the different CPUs, or just the ability of the operating system, but from the result charts there is significant improvement for graphics rendering applications but not as much for other applications. The benchmark tests showed significant improvement as well.
It would have been nice if they had tested the same CPUs in all of their tests, but overall I would say the more cores the better.
And, is it possible to detect a $sys$ file with these?