We have a very obvious prior art right here staring us all in the face... the moderation system on/.
There is no way a computer (at this time) could actually rate posts as off-topic, funny etc so people (of various educational backgrounds) are assigned by the computer to process the information and return the result to the computer. This is then verified by others doing the same thing, as well as meta moderated and all the other bits that go into who gets selected to get mod points in the future.
Gratz Amazon on patenting the/. moderation system...
'Woman' is malware that will take over your hardware and software, reorder your contacts and friends lists, removing any that 'Woman' finds unsuitable then inserts other friends and contacts into your address book that you have no wish to ever deal with. Finally 'woman' takes complete control of your schedule and finances leaving you with no control over your own life.
'Woman' will also, if left unchecked, upgrade automatically from 'friend 9.2' to 'girlfriend 3.4' and eventually to 'wife 1.0'. If this happens the only way to get rid of 'woman' is via very expensive software... 'divorce 1.0' which will leave you with even less money than when you had 'wife 1.0' problems.
kitten engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power
Have you ever had kittens? clean, quiet and cost effective? Kittens forget to use the litter box, meow constantly and cost a fortune in replacement curtains/furniture/wallpaper/carpets not to mention the vet bills and food.
nononono... MS use Fidonet to distribute license information....
WaZOO protocol Warp-zillion Opus-to-Opus. Fidonet's session layer protocol. Although it mentions Opus (a specific BBS from the 1980s), WaZOO is the session protocol used for the Fidonet network. Because WaZOO is much more efficient than other mechanisms (e.g., FTP), it is sometimes used for automated or batch communications in other parts of the Internet. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wazoo
Two scenarios instantly spring to mind here on why this is Bad...
Scenario 1: MySpace has a grudge against a site (possibly a competitor or some site that gives a bad review). To get the site pulled all they have to do is post a list of (possibly fake) user/pass pairs on the site that has upset them and complain....
Scenario 2: A third party that has a grudge against a site (such as a hacker against a security site that has killed a botnet or something) posts a list of (again possibly fake) user/pass pairs and reports it to MySpace.
Either case would result in you pulling a site that is innocent of any wrongdoing, and which could be down for days or weeks if your customer is away on business or on holiday.
What mySpace *should* have done is blocked the usernames and passwords from continued access, have the leaked passwords reset by the account owners and contacted/dealt with the offending site by other (slower and less drastic) means. They could have gone one step further and logged who tried to access those accounts and go after anyone trying to use the password list. Even if the list was only up for a few seconds the information is already in the wild and potently now in the hands of many, many undesirables. "Shutting the door after the horse has bolted" springs to mind.
A lack of A/V inputs isn't a problem. There are digital STBs with RF out (with a selectable channel), these can be made to work (with a little effort to find a frequency without interference) on any older TV.
Set top boxes will extend the life of these TVs until they break... while they are not able to tune to a digital channel themselves they CAN still display them.... digital != only HDTV.... and just make sure the set top box has a timer function so the good old VHS recorder will still be useful too;)
mAh is the measure of how much charge they hold, a 100mAh battery could in theory throw out 1000's of amps for a very brief time tho most chemical batteries of the size you would get in a Walkman etc can't do this as the chemical reaction that powers them is for the most part too slow. These are the type of batteries I would put in the 'toy' category.
Watch out for 'real batteries' that you get in things like cars and the banks of them that you get in forklift trucks etc... they are rated in 100's of Amps peak and can pack a huge whack of power if shorted or otherwise messed with.
The real question should be why wasn't the (presumably) newer hardware on the ground specified to be compatible with the legacy hardware (i.e. the shuttle)....
IIRC there was not much reverse engineering needed to make an "IBM PC Compatible" as IBM took a bunch of off the shelf components, 'bolted' them all together then released the specs for things like IO ports, the AT interface bus, and even the sizes of screws needed to fix stuff to the case so that other companies could make peripherals for the computer.
It didn't take long for other companies to engineer their own products using the same off the shelf components with the same spec... the only difference being the type of 'bolts' they used.
This would be the same as Apple having taken an MP3 then encrypting it with PGP then telling the world this is what they had done.
Playing on one of the launch day relms that has been 'full' for some time we are begining to struggle with people leaving to other games and *gasp* Real Life commitments. With new players joining the newer realms, the number of active players (on the horde side which has always been outnumbered 4:1) is begining to drop and the pool of good players is getting shallower, making recruitment a problem and getting 40 man raids together tricky.
We also have players that from time to time stop playing WoW for another game for a few weeks (normaly random console games) but once they complete the game they are back playing WoW which means either the game lacks something WoW has or just didn't have continued content (from player interactions) that WoW has.
While WoW has been a great hit since launch players are beginning to tire of it and looking for new challange elsewhere, nothing lasts forever.
If a new game was to come along that realy was *better* (or even just as good) I'm sure a large portion of the WoW playerbase would consider moving.
How could this possibly be a good idea now ? Maybe if it had been there all along, or was introduced in a new release (XP, Vista, whatever)... but why spring it on the unsuspecting masses mid-cycle? That just screams massive user migration.
Microsoft are probably hoping that everyone is going to run out and buy XP now and ALSO upgrade to Vista giving 2 sales for the price of one.... if they waited till Vista was live they would only get 1 sale.
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...is when is BlizzConEurope?
We have a very obvious prior art right here staring us all in the face... the moderation system on /.
/. moderation system...
There is no way a computer (at this time) could actually rate posts as off-topic, funny etc so people (of various educational backgrounds) are assigned by the computer to process the information and return the result to the computer. This is then verified by others doing the same thing, as well as meta moderated and all the other bits that go into who gets selected to get mod points in the future.
Gratz Amazon on patenting the
someone should have reversed the polarity of the neutron flow
I'm going to re-patent this but when used 'over the internet'.
No profit for you since you missed out the dig at Microsoft/DRM/SCO/software patents....
'Woman' is malware that will take over your hardware and software, reorder your contacts and friends lists, removing any that 'Woman' finds unsuitable then inserts other friends and contacts into your address book that you have no wish to ever deal with. Finally 'woman' takes complete control of your schedule and finances leaving you with no control over your own life.
'Woman' will also, if left unchecked, upgrade automatically from 'friend 9.2' to 'girlfriend 3.4' and eventually to 'wife 1.0'. If this happens the only way to get rid of 'woman' is via very expensive software... 'divorce 1.0' which will leave you with even less money than when you had 'wife 1.0' problems.
kitten engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power
Have you ever had kittens? clean, quiet and cost effective? Kittens forget to use the litter box, meow constantly and cost a fortune in replacement curtains/furniture/wallpaper/carpets not to mention the vet bills and food.
nononono... MS use Fidonet to distribute license information....
WaZOO protocol
Warp-zillion Opus-to-Opus. Fidonet's session layer protocol. Although it mentions Opus (a specific BBS from the 1980s), WaZOO is the session protocol used for the Fidonet network. Because WaZOO is much more efficient than other mechanisms (e.g., FTP), it is sometimes used for automated or batch communications in other parts of the Internet. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wazoo
Two scenarios instantly spring to mind here on why this is Bad...
Scenario 1: MySpace has a grudge against a site (possibly a competitor or some site that gives a bad review). To get the site pulled all they have to do is post a list of (possibly fake) user/pass pairs on the site that has upset them and complain....
Scenario 2: A third party that has a grudge against a site (such as a hacker against a security site that has killed a botnet or something) posts a list of (again possibly fake) user/pass pairs and reports it to MySpace.
Either case would result in you pulling a site that is innocent of any wrongdoing, and which could be down for days or weeks if your customer is away on business or on holiday.
What mySpace *should* have done is blocked the usernames and passwords from continued access, have the leaked passwords reset by the account owners and contacted/dealt with the offending site by other (slower and less drastic) means. They could have gone one step further and logged who tried to access those accounts and go after anyone trying to use the password list. Even if the list was only up for a few seconds the information is already in the wild and potently now in the hands of many, many undesirables. "Shutting the door after the horse has bolted" springs to mind.
A lack of A/V inputs isn't a problem. There are digital STBs with RF out (with a selectable channel), these can be made to work (with a little effort to find a frequency without interference) on any older TV.
Set top boxes will extend the life of these TVs until they break... while they are not able to tune to a digital channel themselves they CAN still display them.... digital != only HDTV.... and just make sure the set top box has a timer function so the good old VHS recorder will still be useful too ;)
No! not the people! It's the intelligent EO-1 satellites that need to check their Gmail!
mAh is the measure of how much charge they hold, a 100mAh battery could in theory throw out 1000's of amps for a very brief time tho most chemical batteries of the size you would get in a Walkman etc can't do this as the chemical reaction that powers them is for the most part too slow. These are the type of batteries I would put in the 'toy' category.
Watch out for 'real batteries' that you get in things like cars and the banks of them that you get in forklift trucks etc... they are rated in 100's of Amps peak and can pack a huge whack of power if shorted or otherwise messed with.
In other news... Ballmer Says "The moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat"
The real question should be why wasn't the (presumably) newer hardware on the ground specified to be compatible with the legacy hardware (i.e. the shuttle)....
I still can't figure how in the USA the RIAA is legal but online gambling isn't yet it is constanly claimed that the USA is a 'free' country.
IIRC there was not much reverse engineering needed to make an "IBM PC Compatible" as IBM took a bunch of off the shelf components, 'bolted' them all together then released the specs for things like IO ports, the AT interface bus, and even the sizes of screws needed to fix stuff to the case so that other companies could make peripherals for the computer.
It didn't take long for other companies to engineer their own products using the same off the shelf components with the same spec... the only difference being the type of 'bolts' they used.
This would be the same as Apple having taken an MP3 then encrypting it with PGP then telling the world this is what they had done.
Its just a publicity push for the new series starting on sunday here in the UK (and the rest of europe I would guess)
They confuse Managment with . Just because the managment don't know how to do it who knows what the guy who changes the lightbulbs can do....
43. Masturbation
44. Wonder Woman
Possible link between these two?
Playing on one of the launch day relms that has been 'full' for some time we are begining to struggle with people leaving to other games and *gasp* Real Life commitments. With new players joining the newer realms, the number of active players (on the horde side which has always been outnumbered 4:1) is begining to drop and the pool of good players is getting shallower, making recruitment a problem and getting 40 man raids together tricky.
We also have players that from time to time stop playing WoW for another game for a few weeks (normaly random console games) but once they complete the game they are back playing WoW which means either the game lacks something WoW has or just didn't have continued content (from player interactions) that WoW has.
While WoW has been a great hit since launch players are beginning to tire of it and looking for new challange elsewhere, nothing lasts forever.
If a new game was to come along that realy was *better* (or even just as good) I'm sure a large portion of the WoW playerbase would consider moving.
Microsoft are probably hoping that everyone is going to run out and buy XP now and ALSO upgrade to Vista giving 2 sales for the price of one.... if they waited till Vista was live they would only get 1 sale.
I think however that they are rather deluded....
Edinburgh,Scotland has had this for over a year now (as have other places in the UK), welcome to 2005 America!
After all the internet is for porn....