Too little cargo space? I think not. I logged six cross-country flights last year, and while I am not the most frequent flier, I do understand that you don't need an entire week of clothing, toiletries, office equipment, reading materials, and corporate reports for any flight less than four hours. Pack it all in a large suitcase, check it in, and carry onboard an attache case with your laptop, a book, a notepad, a bottle of water, and a snack bag, and you'll have more than enough to do for the next four hours.
... my network. Twelve machines. Ten running Win XP Pro. One running FreeBSD 6.2 is a server with no GUI. One running Win XP Home with only IE (my mother-in-law's PC).
Statistics are great, but should never be trusted.
I have had./ as my home page (more recently, a tab) since 1997 and aside from vacations and major life events (having a daughter, losing family, moving) for the whole time I have been among the silent majority who religiously scan all the articles on the main page and read the ones that interest me. Over the years I've checked in with k5, digg and others, but I always come back to./.
After dialing 800-333-9956, you need to enter your Verizon mobile number, your billing zip code, your account password (if configured), and press '9' to confirm opt-out.
If you have another mobile number you wish to opt-out, press '2' then repeat the above process.
The first two tidbits of info could easily be obtained from public searches, the last maybe not so easily. And kudos to Verizon for not forcing me to make a phone call for each number to be opted out.
In any case, I'm okay with opting out, though I'm not okay with the fact that I have to opt out.
Carmageddon is probably one of the least known but bloodiest DOS racing games ever. You can win the race by finishing the race, smashing up your racing opponents' cars so bad they can't race, or running over the hundreds of pedestrians littering the sidewalks and street corners in the game. When I play, I knock out all but one opponent, then go after all the pedestrians. After a tough day, I don't mind knocking off a few hundred cyberpeople.
I am a youth leader at my church and I administer phpbb2 forums on our youth group website where the youth can talk about things online between Sunday nights. In this case, because I know all the youth that have joined or will be joining, I had to hack the phpbb2 code to get rid of the COPPA-related code. I also disabled new members from posting automatically, and I have to approve them before they can post or reply. That way I make sure I know who's joining my youth group forums and it keeps the gambling-site-spammers at bay.
According to about.com, Europe has 134 people per square mile, while North America only has 32 people per square mile.
Simple economics would dictate that for the same monetary equivalent, a provider could serve more people in Europe than they could in North America.
The North American ISPs aren't building out higher speed networks not because their customers don't want it, but rather the expense of extending those networks to their customers over a longer distance could not be realized in a reasonable time with the current pricing structures.
I'm sure MS employees know how to use quotes, operators, and boolean logic to find the answers to their questions through Google, and given that Google is reported to have the largest catalog of results, it can be safely assumed that they're only using Google because they know how to retrieve the information they're searching quickly.
The first time I heard about Google, the first thing I typed into the search window was my name. And when some forum post I had typed up years earlier showed up, I was relieved that it worked. Then I typed in my business name, which showed up in the first page of results. Then I typed in my wife's name, and her Yahoo! profile showed in the list of results. From then I was hooked.
Likewise, I typed in all the same queries to MS's new search engine, and yes, I get results, but none of them are relevant. Searching on my name shows as a first result a message I posted to a club forum that I was in over six years ago. I hardly think anybody else has linked to that particular forum message, so is the whole concept of page popularity, like Google's PageRank, null and void in MS's new search engine? This new search engine reminds me of Yahoo! circa 1994 where any and every result would show up regardless of popularity.
And the "Loading..." reminds me too much of the rotating sand-timer in Windows. I can just see regular Windows users staring at the "Loading..." message for minutes without results, then thinking that their computer stopped responding, forcing a hard-reboot.
After a recent remodel of the restroom facilities campus-wide, university administrators are noticing an decrease in the ability of the male dormitory tenants to properly aim ^H^H^H^H use the facilities. Administrators are currently investigating the cause.
They should land near where the man on the moon lives. Then the astronauts could have a friendly little chat with him to find the best cheese, the best moon rocks, and the best place to land on their next visit.
They want to fix the PTO to ensure that only the best, truly novel inventions get a patent...
Who decides which inventions are the best and truly novel? To note two inventions mentioned in the article, the Blackberry may be great for on-the-road execs, but it doesn't mean squat to my neighbor-lady. The cat exerciser may be great for my neighbor-lady, but the Blackberry won't do her any good.
I would assume that "they" refers to the big companies who want to get "their" patents approved, which I think means that innovation on behalf of the little guy will fall through the cracks even moreso than it does now.
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If any of our clients ever see this article, they're going to start hiring 11-year-olds and pay in comic books.
Too little cargo space? I think not. I logged six cross-country flights last year, and while I am not the most frequent flier, I do understand that you don't need an entire week of clothing, toiletries, office equipment, reading materials, and corporate reports for any flight less than four hours. Pack it all in a large suitcase, check it in, and carry onboard an attache case with your laptop, a book, a notepad, a bottle of water, and a snack bag, and you'll have more than enough to do for the next four hours.
... my network. Twelve machines. Ten running Win XP Pro. One running FreeBSD 6.2 is a server with no GUI. One running Win XP Home with only IE (my mother-in-law's PC).
Statistics are great, but should never be trusted.
You mean the universe didn't start on 01-01-1980?
After disabling the coin requirement, I need to hook one up in the kitchen on the original POTS jack. It would be a great conversation piece.
What my payphone users won't realize is that their call stops traveling on a phone line once the bits hit my packet8 device.
Technology is wonderful. =)
...I can use my cell phone on the plane. But only in Philadelphia.
I have had ./ as my home page (more recently, a tab) since 1997 and aside from vacations and major life events (having a daughter, losing family, moving) for the whole time I have been among the silent majority who religiously scan all the articles on the main page and read the ones that interest me. Over the years I've checked in with k5, digg and others, but I always come back to ./.
./ is A Good Thing.
After dialing 800-333-9956, you need to enter your Verizon mobile number, your billing zip code, your account password (if configured), and press '9' to confirm opt-out. If you have another mobile number you wish to opt-out, press '2' then repeat the above process. The first two tidbits of info could easily be obtained from public searches, the last maybe not so easily. And kudos to Verizon for not forcing me to make a phone call for each number to be opted out. In any case, I'm okay with opting out, though I'm not okay with the fact that I have to opt out.
... automated parking garage and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Carmageddon is probably one of the least known but bloodiest DOS racing games ever. You can win the race by finishing the race, smashing up your racing opponents' cars so bad they can't race, or running over the hundreds of pedestrians littering the sidewalks and street corners in the game. When I play, I knock out all but one opponent, then go after all the pedestrians. After a tough day, I don't mind knocking off a few hundred cyberpeople.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/09/25/183 7254.shtml
I am a youth leader at my church and I administer phpbb2 forums on our youth group website where the youth can talk about things online between Sunday nights. In this case, because I know all the youth that have joined or will be joining, I had to hack the phpbb2 code to get rid of the COPPA-related code. I also disabled new members from posting automatically, and I have to approve them before they can post or reply. That way I make sure I know who's joining my youth group forums and it keeps the gambling-site-spammers at bay.
Changed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Enjoy!
http://www.qcs-rf.com/slashdot/bluemoon.mp4
According to about.com, Europe has 134 people per square mile, while North America only has 32 people per square mile.
Simple economics would dictate that for the same monetary equivalent, a provider could serve more people in Europe than they could in North America.
The North American ISPs aren't building out higher speed networks not because their customers don't want it, but rather the expense of extending those networks to their customers over a longer distance could not be realized in a reasonable time with the current pricing structures.
lorcon info: http://www.802.11mercenary.net/lorcon/e .tar.gz
lorcon d/l: http://802.11ninja.net/code/lorcon-current.tgz
airbase info: http://www.802.11mercenary.net/
airbase d/l: http://www.802.11mercenary.net/code/airbase-stabl
code mirror: http://www.qcs-rf.com/slashdot
I'm sure MS employees know how to use quotes, operators, and boolean logic to find the answers to their questions through Google, and given that Google is reported to have the largest catalog of results, it can be safely assumed that they're only using Google because they know how to retrieve the information they're searching quickly.
The first time I heard about Google, the first thing I typed into the search window was my name. And when some forum post I had typed up years earlier showed up, I was relieved that it worked. Then I typed in my business name, which showed up in the first page of results. Then I typed in my wife's name, and her Yahoo! profile showed in the list of results. From then I was hooked.
Likewise, I typed in all the same queries to MS's new search engine, and yes, I get results, but none of them are relevant. Searching on my name shows as a first result a message I posted to a club forum that I was in over six years ago. I hardly think anybody else has linked to that particular forum message, so is the whole concept of page popularity, like Google's PageRank, null and void in MS's new search engine? This new search engine reminds me of Yahoo! circa 1994 where any and every result would show up regardless of popularity.
And the "Loading..." reminds me too much of the rotating sand-timer in Windows. I can just see regular Windows users staring at the "Loading..." message for minutes without results, then thinking that their computer stopped responding, forcing a hard-reboot.
After a recent remodel of the restroom facilities campus-wide, university administrators are noticing an decrease in the ability of the male dormitory tenants to properly aim ^H^H^H^H use the facilities. Administrators are currently investigating the cause.
They should land near where the man on the moon lives. Then the astronauts could have a friendly little chat with him to find the best cheese, the best moon rocks, and the best place to land on their next visit.
From the article:
They want to fix the PTO to ensure that only the best, truly novel inventions get a patent...
Who decides which inventions are the best and truly novel? To note two inventions mentioned in the article, the Blackberry may be great for on-the-road execs, but it doesn't mean squat to my neighbor-lady. The cat exerciser may be great for my neighbor-lady, but the Blackberry won't do her any good.
I would assume that "they" refers to the big companies who want to get "their" patents approved, which I think means that innovation on behalf of the little guy will fall through the cracks even moreso than it does now.