'You know what Google needs? A "Was this result helpful in your search?" button for each link returned'
Yes! Genius! That's it! Google needs some kind of system of rating results to modify future results returned--a system of 'mods' if you will.
Of course some people will 'mod' stuff down just because they don't like the viewpoint expressed, or they're in a perennial bad mood because their favorite operating system is dead, so we'll need to have a system of allowing people to rate the moderations--'meta-mod' if I may be so bold.
It sounds crazy, I know, but I think we could do this.
Yet whenever I go to Windows Update, I see 0 critical updates (Win2K). Am I really up to date?
The security update for this issue is a month old even though this particular exploit is just hitting the news. If you're not sure, windows update has "View installation history."
Look for "Security Update for Windows XP (KB835732)"
I have the Belkin USB-to-PS/2 Y-adapter to use my olde style keyboard and mouse with my laptop. Worked perfectly right out of the box with no reboots.
Keyboard is a Gateway AnyKey from '94, the mouse is a Tobshiba from somewhere in the late 90s. The PS/2 ends of the adapter go to my KVM cables; the USB end into a Compaq laptop. If USB-to-PS/2 works there, I'd expect it to work most places.
One thought, I don't know if the USB-to-PS/2 adapter makes the PS/2 items hot-swappable like USB items. It's no big deal to plug in a USB mouse or drive into a running MS windows system. Normally a PS/2 mouse or keyboard has to be plugged in when you boot the system. I don't know off hand if PS/2-through-USB follows the USB rules or PS/2 rules. Just a thought.
Absolutely. I'm not saying running MS windows doesn't involve reboots; it does. Heck, after posting here Thursday I set up a new laptop with win XP--not an install, just updating and configuring pre-installed windows--that involved 4 reboots. And that was without doing anything with the media player or DirectX.
However, it is not true that every update requires a reboot. If someone running win 2000 or XP has to reboot everyday or is getting BSOD (BSsOD?) all the time, then there is something wrong with that person's system. It may be window's default configuration has left them open to worms and spyware and other stuff that cause those problems. So there. Linux rulez, MS droolz, BSD is dead. Quack, quack.
The only thing I'd change is put Lacey Chabert back as the voice of Meg, when I hear Mila Kunis' whiny voice, I think of Jackie, not Meg.
Ug no! Lacey was horrible. Her episodes are dreadful. They're just not funny. I don't know if there was a coinciding turn-over in writers or what, but I can't even watch the Lacey episodes.
Mila's episodes are all hilarious. The Jackie connection doesn't bother me. Maybe the writers gave one better material over the other, but when I hear Lacey I change the channel; when I hear Mila I laugh.
"Not that I'm knocking Microsoft for XP needing a reboot after a patch."
FUD.
XP (and 2000 and 2003, for that matter) do not need a reboot after a patch, or at least not after most hotfixes, security updates, and application installs.
Yes, there's a reboot after service packs and some patches, but NT 4 was a long time ago.
So we asked Doug about the implications of that report (now that the dust has settled), the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and how to think about the future of climate change.
It's like sitting down with an expert on nuclear energy to discuss the latest advances in reactor designs and the movie The Hulk.
I've been working on computers (hardware, software, and as a trainer) since the early 70s. I've NEVER heard of a byte being defined as anything other than 8 bits
What about overhead? Even with 8 bits in a byte, that doesn't mean you're getting 8 bits of information for every byte received.
That doesn't explain why the OP was seeing more bits/byte than usual and certainly doesn't make the original tech support explaination correct, but if you've been working on computers since the early 70s, I presume at some point you tried to calculate transfer time for some information. If you knew your file size in bytes and transfer rate in bits/sec and used 8 bits/byte, you probably calculted incorrectly.
"Latest word is the strike is now planned for Friday night through next Tuesday."
Workers' rights, my ass. They just want the long weekend. Come on down to Billy's Bear Barn where we're on strike every night! Tuesdays women strike for half price! Yee-haw!
Talk to a couple professors. It always helps to have a champion on the inside.
Find someone who's work interests you and show up during office hours. Do a little research, read some recent journal articles as an ice breaker ("I have some questions about the implications of the algorithm you developed in the piece from last month's Journal") but don't feel the need to bullshit--don't pretend you understand more than you do. And don't hide your intent. You're not a colleague there to discuss the latest developments; you're a prospective student looking for information.
Hopefully you'll get a couple things from this meeting. First, some insight into the admissions process at that school. As much as some people like to mystify this process, it comes down a small committee reads your application, reviews the transcripts, and says yea or nay. They look at grades, test scores, etc, but it is not a strictly by the numbers decision. If you've been identified by your current school and identify yourself as having some learning impediment, then you probably (presumption on my part) come up a little short of the published admissions guidelines. You may get some nugget such as, the admissions committee is de-emphasizing SAT scores, or they've had several students from your high school come through the department after taking Mr. Smith's class, and all did very well. A recommendation from Mr. Smith would be a big plus in your file.
Second, what can the department do for you once you've been admitted and decide to attend. Almost every department of every college has some sort of do-it-yourself major where you build your own course of study with an advisor. Almost every department of every college keeps this fact a secret. A state university with 30,000 students is not equipped to track 30,000 different majors. If you walk in with 'I want to do C.S. but I don't want to take any math,' you'll get, 'MIS. Two buildings down. 1uz3r.' If you walk in with 'I have an interest in C.S. but have a real condition preventing me some completing some requirements,' they'll probably work with you.
Third, whatever else you can pick up. Maybe they had someone in the same situation a year or two ago, and you can look at that person's study track. Maybe you'll get a recommendation for a school with a low profile in the general public but high regard in your field of interest. Maybe the prof you pick will be an asshole, and at least you'll know who to avoid if you attend that school.
And maybe you'll get that champion on the inside, or at least get a foundation in place. From admissions on through graduation and beyond, it ALWAYS helps to have friend in the right place. (This is true for the workplace, as well.)
Be prepared. Be up front about your purpose for this meeting. Be honest about your situation. And be brief. An unscheduled initial meeting should run 15 to 20 minutes, tops. You can always plan to meet again.
*raises hand* I am. And I'm not alone. Google predates googol, as was discussed in the May 9 Sunday Boston Globe, Feelin' Googly. Jan Freeman traces the life of google from 1380 to the present day. It seems more likely googol sprang from google, than other way round.
The founders of Google admit they were inspired by googol, but as words of the english language, google predates, and most likely inspired, googol. Google should sue!
"The results, he argues, would 'make the consequences of the first-generation Internet seem quaint.'"
Sort of like how the Geneva Convention is
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I modded up your reply from yesterday (specifically for the point about the goggle cache and ad banners), but to pick the nit that brought out the flames, a site's creator or admin directing visitors to freecache as remedy for the/. effect is OK./. itself employing freecache, as you seemed to be suggesting, is generally thought of as a Bad Thing and ain't gonna happen.
As was covered in this past Sunday's Boston Globe,
Feelin' Googly. Jan Freeman traces the life of google from 1380 to the present day. It seems more likely googol sprang from google, than other way round.
The OED claims that google for goggle is obsolete, and refuses to commit itself on whether the variations from the dawn of the 20th century -- google-eyed (wearing glasses), googly-eyed (staring), goo-goo eyes (sappy lovers' looks) -- are revivals or new creations. But either way, they predate the googol by decades; the googly rolling peepers we associate with the "Sesame Street" crowd were familiar in America by the `20s, when the dictionary records an allusion to "movable googly eyes in hand-painted faces."
'I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".'
Just to further clarify, that quote is from an internal Diebold meno. Ok? This is someone in Diebold saying to someone else in Diebold, we took over 16 thousand votes away from Gore in the 2000 election.
***
'The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."'
***
'In mid-August, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100 wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.'
***
'Diebold's CEO, Wally O'Dell, is a proud pioneer (read: he donated more than $100,000 to the GOP's reelection bid) who has publicly announced he "is committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."'
***
'I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".'
***
'If Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has his way, Diebold will receive a contract to supply touch screen electronic voting machines for much of the state. None of these Diebold machines will provide a paper receipt of the vote.
Diebold, located in North Canton, Ohio, does its primary business in ATM and ticket-vending machines. Critics of Diebold point out that virtually every other machine the company makes provides a paper trail to verify the machine's calculations. Oddly, only the voting machines lack this essential function.'
How is that, "adequately be explained by incompetence"???
Online voting is just going to encourage a bunch of one-issue wackos to vote for whatever politicans promises to (Legalize Pot | Raise the Minimum Wage to $10 | Invade Canada), instead of limiting the likely voter pool to people who actually follow politics and have half a clue about what the hell is going on in the world.
I love voting, and think every who can, should. I hate the low voter turnout we see in the US of A.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course. Such frivolity has no place on the internet. This is a forum for intellectual discourse and the unfettered sharing of ideas.
Oh, and I need a place for pr0n when the hotel movies are $9.99 a pop but the net access is free :D
'You know what Google needs? A "Was this result helpful in your search?" button for each link returned'
Yes! Genius! That's it! Google needs some kind of system of rating results to modify future results returned--a system of 'mods' if you will.
Of course some people will 'mod' stuff down just because they don't like the viewpoint expressed, or they're in a perennial bad mood because their favorite operating system is dead, so we'll need to have a system of allowing people to rate the moderations--'meta-mod' if I may be so bold.
It sounds crazy, I know, but I think we could do this.
The security update for this issue is a month old even though this particular exploit is just hitting the news. If you're not sure, windows update has "View installation history."
Look for "Security Update for Windows XP (KB835732)"
I have the Belkin USB-to-PS/2 Y-adapter to use my olde style keyboard and mouse with my laptop. Worked perfectly right out of the box with no reboots.
Keyboard is a Gateway AnyKey from '94, the mouse is a Tobshiba from somewhere in the late 90s. The PS/2 ends of the adapter go to my KVM cables; the USB end into a Compaq laptop. If USB-to-PS/2 works there, I'd expect it to work most places.
One thought, I don't know if the USB-to-PS/2 adapter makes the PS/2 items hot-swappable like USB items. It's no big deal to plug in a USB mouse or drive into a running MS windows system. Normally a PS/2 mouse or keyboard has to be plugged in when you boot the system. I don't know off hand if PS/2-through-USB follows the USB rules or PS/2 rules. Just a thought.
Absolutely. I'm not saying running MS windows doesn't involve reboots; it does. Heck, after posting here Thursday I set up a new laptop with win XP--not an install, just updating and configuring pre-installed windows--that involved 4 reboots. And that was without doing anything with the media player or DirectX.
However, it is not true that every update requires a reboot. If someone running win 2000 or XP has to reboot everyday or is getting BSOD (BSsOD?) all the time, then there is something wrong with that person's system. It may be window's default configuration has left them open to worms and spyware and other stuff that cause those problems. So there. Linux rulez, MS droolz, BSD is dead. Quack, quack.
Ug no! Lacey was horrible. Her episodes are dreadful. They're just not funny. I don't know if there was a coinciding turn-over in writers or what, but I can't even watch the Lacey episodes.
Mila's episodes are all hilarious. The Jackie connection doesn't bother me. Maybe the writers gave one better material over the other, but when I hear Lacey I change the channel; when I hear Mila I laugh.
"Not that I'm knocking Microsoft for XP needing a reboot after a patch."
FUD.
XP (and 2000 and 2003, for that matter) do not need a reboot after a patch, or at least not after most hotfixes, security updates, and application installs.
Yes, there's a reboot after service packs and some patches, but NT 4 was a long time ago.
It may not be 100% wrong...but I don't think it's quite what the original poster meant
It's like sitting down with an expert on nuclear energy to discuss the latest advances in reactor designs and the movie The Hulk.
on how many pictures will have a dinosaur?
What's the story here? American Greeting?
What about overhead? Even with 8 bits in a byte, that doesn't mean you're getting 8 bits of information for every byte received.
That doesn't explain why the OP was seeing more bits/byte than usual and certainly doesn't make the original tech support explaination correct, but if you've been working on computers since the early 70s, I presume at some point you tried to calculate transfer time for some information. If you knew your file size in bytes and transfer rate in bits/sec and used 8 bits/byte, you probably calculted incorrectly.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF02
"Latest word is the strike is now planned for Friday night through next Tuesday."
Workers' rights, my ass. They just want the long weekend. Come on down to Billy's Bear Barn where we're on strike every night! Tuesdays women strike for half price! Yee-haw!
Talk to a couple professors. It always helps to have a champion on the inside.
Find someone who's work interests you and show up during office hours. Do a little research, read some recent journal articles as an ice breaker ("I have some questions about the implications of the algorithm you developed in the piece from last month's Journal") but don't feel the need to bullshit--don't pretend you understand more than you do. And don't hide your intent. You're not a colleague there to discuss the latest developments; you're a prospective student looking for information.
Hopefully you'll get a couple things from this meeting. First, some insight into the admissions process at that school. As much as some people like to mystify this process, it comes down a small committee reads your application, reviews the transcripts, and says yea or nay. They look at grades, test scores, etc, but it is not a strictly by the numbers decision. If you've been identified by your current school and identify yourself as having some learning impediment, then you probably (presumption on my part) come up a little short of the published admissions guidelines. You may get some nugget such as, the admissions committee is de-emphasizing SAT scores, or they've had several students from your high school come through the department after taking Mr. Smith's class, and all did very well. A recommendation from Mr. Smith would be a big plus in your file.
Second, what can the department do for you once you've been admitted and decide to attend. Almost every department of every college has some sort of do-it-yourself major where you build your own course of study with an advisor. Almost every department of every college keeps this fact a secret. A state university with 30,000 students is not equipped to track 30,000 different majors. If you walk in with 'I want to do C.S. but I don't want to take any math,' you'll get, 'MIS. Two buildings down. 1uz3r.' If you walk in with 'I have an interest in C.S. but have a real condition preventing me some completing some requirements,' they'll probably work with you.
Third, whatever else you can pick up. Maybe they had someone in the same situation a year or two ago, and you can look at that person's study track. Maybe you'll get a recommendation for a school with a low profile in the general public but high regard in your field of interest. Maybe the prof you pick will be an asshole, and at least you'll know who to avoid if you attend that school.
And maybe you'll get that champion on the inside, or at least get a foundation in place. From admissions on through graduation and beyond, it ALWAYS helps to have friend in the right place. (This is true for the workplace, as well.)
Be prepared. Be up front about your purpose for this meeting. Be honest about your situation. And be brief. An unscheduled initial meeting should run 15 to 20 minutes, tops. You can always plan to meet again.
*raises hand* I am. And I'm not alone. Google predates googol, as was discussed in the May 9 Sunday Boston Globe, Feelin' Googly. Jan Freeman traces the life of google from 1380 to the present day. It seems more likely googol sprang from google, than other way round.
The founders of Google admit they were inspired by googol, but as words of the english language, google predates, and most likely inspired, googol. Google should sue!
Sort of like how the Geneva Convention is quaint .
I modded up your reply from yesterday (specifically for the point about the goggle cache and ad banners), but to pick the nit that brought out the flames, a site's creator or admin directing visitors to freecache as remedy for the /. effect is OK. /. itself employing freecache, as you seemed to be suggesting, is generally thought of as a Bad Thing and ain't gonna happen.
(ObSimpsons)
Poison...Poison...Tasty fish!
As was covered in this past Sunday's Boston Globe, Feelin' Googly. Jan Freeman traces the life of google from 1380 to the present day. It seems more likely googol sprang from google, than other way round.
Shouldn't that read, the labels are responsible for giving the artist their royalties, so they (the artists) may owe most than a penny?
Yes, it will involve considerable searching. But when you find two women at such a geekfest that will let you rub them together, it'll be worth it.
'I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".'
Just to further clarify, that quote is from an internal Diebold meno. Ok? This is someone in Diebold saying to someone else in Diebold, we took over 16 thousand votes away from Gore in the 2000 election.
Want to buy that magazine now?
Google: diebold bush deliver votes
*** 'The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."'
*** 'In mid-August, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100 wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.'
*** 'Diebold's CEO, Wally O'Dell, is a proud pioneer (read: he donated more than $100,000 to the GOP's reelection bid) who has publicly announced he "is committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."'
*** 'I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb".'
*** 'If Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has his way, Diebold will receive a contract to supply touch screen electronic voting machines for much of the state. None of these Diebold machines will provide a paper receipt of the vote.
Diebold, located in North Canton, Ohio, does its primary business in ATM and ticket-vending machines. Critics of Diebold point out that virtually every other machine the company makes provides a paper trail to verify the machine's calculations. Oddly, only the voting machines lack this essential function.'
How is that, "adequately be explained by incompetence"???
I love voting, and think every who can, should. I hate the low voter turnout we see in the US of A.
But at the same time, I don't need to see Hank the angry dwarf as president.