This was debunked the last time some other gullible person brought it up.
The old lady who bought the coffee placed it between her legs, took the top off and spilled it. The sob story was that McDonald's was serving risky coffee and it was a miracle anyone made it out alive. (Because, after all, everyone knows that coffee is supposed to be served lukewarm. Right?)
In reality, simple math shows that the claim of 700 previous cases reflects a miniscule percentage of their customer base as that's over a 10 year period. Do the math - even if each McDonald's store sold only 10 cups of coffee a day during those ten years, you're looking at something like.003% of their customers having problems.
You could make a better case suing them over the health effects of eating their food.
One other nice thing about InetMail is that incoming mail is stored in multiple files, so the POP3 server doesn't have to churn through large mailspools when fetching mail.
This ignores that most of the video game manufacturers collect royalties off of game sales. I've heard that the Playstation is actually sold at cost or slightly below to keep the market for games high.
This would of help in the old P5 days of 16k or 32k cache memory. But it doesn't help too much in these celeron 128k cache days.
As always when performance is involved, that should have a large "YMMV" caption. Whether or not it helps depends on whether you run apps which shove lots of data around or run more than one app at a time.
It's kind of interesting that this post is marked up as "insightful". Fact is that Win95 uses DOS (IO.SYS) as pretty much a boot loader only. It's like judging Linux on LILO.
Go read schulman's book where he debunked this bit of propaganda. NT was something new; 95 is still DOS in a clown suit.
I think there should be two scales, one measuring how on-topic a post is and the other whether it was worth reading. For example, someone who posts a message with a ton of information related to the subject at hand should be scored up because it's useful. Someone who posts something hilarious that may be veering off into off-topic land would be scored down on topicality but could still be scored up if moderators thought it was entertaining.
This would allow a more complex filtering system (okay, maybe that's not a good thing in your opinion. I happen to like it.) where a more serious user would want to see only on-topic posts while some others (e.g. the people who read everything on/.) would be more interested in entertaining posts.
For instance, in San Diego cable modems are much cheaper, much more available and (at least with Cox @Home) very fast (1+MB/s in / 300+KB/s out) & rather reliable (I've had ~5 hours downtime in a YEAR with a system running 24x7). The last time I priced it, equivalent DSL would be ~$250 a month assuming it was offered where I live, which it isn't.
OTOH, other places have cable companies who haven't been in the same time zone as a clue for years. (the same holds for DSL) I think we need to setup a clueful provider registry so people can check to see who to avoid.
If you read BUGTRAQ & similar lists, it quickly becomes apparent that many vulnerable systems just have insecure defaults. You can take advantage of the average script kiddie's inability to adapt to unusual operating systems by running something a little different. Instead of Linux on intel, why not run one of the BSDs (esp. OpenBSD) or something even more exotic (e.g. OS/2, VMS, BeOS). If you run a webserver, consider something other than Apache or at least heavily check the config files. (repeat for every other necessary server daemon)
Please - don't think I'm advocating security by obscurity as that isn't my intent at all. I just think that anyone attacking one of my servers should have to do a little more than download the latest exploit script. Even a simple file path/name modification is beyond an amazing number of script monkeys.
Also, there is also the issue of age/perspective. It is again easier to say you would work for less when you aren't facing mortgage payments now and college tuitions in the next few years. It _will_ happen to you some day, even if you don't believe it at 22!
Depends on circumstances - at 20 I just bought a place to save a ton of money over rent and I'm making a comfortable salary, but less than I could get. The difference is that I love the place I work at & work is decidedly not a drag. The best thing that's happened to me so far was getting laid off at the last place...
No, he's a crook. Businessmen do it legally...
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Excuse me? He's a businessman. And regardless of the morality or legality of some of the things he has done, he is running a business. He is being prosecuted under antitrust, a body of law that is so vague that he has no way of knowing what is and is not a crime.
It's a good thing that he made such flagrant abuses of the law that even with "vague" antitrust laws there's not much wiggle room.
Oh, and before you continue to embarass yourself in public, head over to Caldera and take a look at their finding of fact filed in the lawsuit their inhereited from DRI. These are not the actions of any ethical company and are at best dubious under antitrust law and were not "perfectly legal at the time".
Finally, not everyone has choices. We're all happy you have them at home. Try talking with people who work at places that gone with Microsoft because it's too painful to do otherwise and deal with all the barriers Microsoft has erected to prevent such a thing. There's a good reason why Microsoft breaks compatibility with every version of their products.
If Jane Dark's diatribe is any indication, the Village Voice has become a discriminatory publication. It seems that if you're a geek, you're white and a member in good standing of the White Male Power Elite. I find this amusing as, although I am a white male, many of my friends were not. My Asian & Indian friends belonged to families with considerably more money and influence than we had. At least among the geeks I knew, the white male was the poorer minority.
No question about it, someone at the White Male Power Elite coordinating center screwed up and forgot to send us our membership cards and jackboots and my bank certainly never received that "Financial Elite" transfer. (Not that it mattered as we worry about financial status or skin color. Something about living in a world where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.")
According to Jane Dark, you just can't suffer if you're white. What's next - you can't be poor if you a Jew? Students (most assuredly not all white or male, either) describe daily abuse ranging from "merely" being a social outcast to severe physical and emotional trauma. Oh wait, according to Jane, they're geeks, so they're white, so they're card-carrying members of The Establishment, so it doesn't matter because it can't be real. I wonder how she feels about the Holocaust - it seems like she'd fit right in with the the revisionists who claim it never happened. They're also noted for never letting mere facts interfere with a position...
tachyon.net is promising >T1 level access for ~$400/mo. That's probably quite competitive just on rates and it'd be a US company. This could be a real opportunity for a satellite provider...
Yes - IBM's networks for the Olympics have been pretty impressive. In particular, that WOMPLEX system does seem like prior-art:
Although the final product has not yet been named, it is based on a system called WOMPLEX (Web object model-plex), itself based on a high-performance Web server called WOMBeast. The system is specifically designed to allow a Web site supported by multiple servers to determine, based on a surfer's Internet Protocol address, which server can offer the best performance at a given moment and then direct the user to that machine.
The 1996 Olympic Internet applications built by IBM are good examples of this type of massive multi-server environment. The WOMplex built for the Olympics involved over 100 individual computers, across five sites on the globe, acting as a single web server, www.atlanta.olympic.org
Im getting quite sick of these patents are evil, everything should be free garbage. For the most part (and this means you fellow American) our society could *not* be where it is today without patents and trademarks. They are what helped form and shape our capitalistic society. If you don't like the way its done look at the alternatives... they aren't doing so well.
You're missing the point. Very few people are saying that the idea of patenting is bad. What is bad is the exceptionally broad patents being granted to companies without concern for years or decades of prior art. If this company got a patent on their specific way of distributing requests, it would be significantly less annoying than the PO giving them a patent covering all ways of doing something. The Patent Office has not been doing a good job of rewarding inventors or even their employers. They've been stifling innovation by granting patents which cover an entire field of work.
Uh-huh, that's why all these models/actresses are rushing to have their implants removed, because there aren't any health effects.
Yes, I try to get all of my science from models and actresses too. After all, it's not like they might emotionally follow trends or anything.
Millions of people choose to smoke, drink, eat fatty foods or have risky sex lives, too. It doesn't mean these activities aren't dangerous...
Just because no one has found any evidence doesn't mean that there isn't any to be found.
No, but the fact that no scientific investigation has found any evidence after years of intensive study does suggest this is the case. Or are you one of those conspiracy lunatics who thinks that every single investigator is controlled by a Large Evil Corporation?
You are aware that your CRT displays color using three separate pixels, right? There's nothing that would prevent them from putting multi-colored balls in clusters...
I think most of it is that nVidia has an incompetent web designer who relies on Net Objects Fusion for page layout. Did you notice how many 1 pixel images were used for spacing? That's usually a good sign that the "designer" doesn't understand HTML tables and doesn't care about anything other than 648x480 (and Lynx users, of course, are invited to perform anatomically improbable acts with a goat. nVidia doesn't care about them...). Oh, and they really need a basic JavaScript tutorial, particularly RollOvers 101 as it's painfully obvious the "designer" didn't understand preloading.
But - it's not fast. In fact, it's jolly slow. (w|wout debugging, w|wout optimization - the difference in speed is not appreciable).
It has nothing to do with optimization or debugging code.
Define optimization. You are referring to compiler optimizations. The Mozilla team is starting to perform algorithm optimization which can does lead to dramatic performance improvements.
I do think it is great that the strip will be published by O'Reilly, but unless the comics are new, and not published on the web, I can't see why I would buy them. One of the things I really like about the online strip is that I can read them for free, and print out the ones I want to stick up in my cubicle...
I don't know about you, but I'd pay just to get high-resolution versions. The ones he has on the website are way too small (and yes, I'm talking about the full-sized version in the archives, not the even smaller daily static version). Not to mention the oft-remarked difficulties in dragging a PC into the bathroom...
Am I the only one who's waiting for a t-shirt or jacket made of this material? Of course it'd probably be a legal nightmare if you got sued by the people who drove off the road while watching the scrolling message on your back...
I still go out to dinner, and will not ever put my card# on the web.
You seem to have decided that ecommerce is dangerous based on one idiot's comically bad study. Did you ever find some real numbers? Take a look at how many credit card numbers have been stolen on the web other than by wankers giving their number to a corrupt porn site operator. It's much less likely than giving it to a dishonest waitron.
Have any of the people who've been investigated contacted a lawyer or some group like the ACLU? If any police department is so poorly educated and so grossly negligent in their duties to investigate people on the charges Katz has been listing, they deserve to be slapped down hard. School administrators also seem to need a reminder that they are not the KGB...
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This was debunked the last time some other gullible person brought it up.
.003% of their customers having problems.
The old lady who bought the coffee placed it between her legs, took the top off and spilled it. The sob story was that McDonald's was serving risky coffee and it was a miracle anyone made it out alive. (Because, after all, everyone knows that coffee is supposed to be served lukewarm. Right?)
In reality, simple math shows that the claim of 700 previous cases reflects a miniscule percentage of their customer base as that's over a 10 year period. Do the math - even if each McDonald's store sold only 10 cups of coffee a day during those ten years, you're looking at something like
You could make a better case suing them over the health effects of eating their food.
One other nice thing about InetMail is that incoming mail is stored in multiple files, so the POP3 server doesn't have to churn through large mailspools when fetching mail.
This ignores that most of the video game manufacturers collect royalties off of game sales. I've heard that the Playstation is actually sold at cost or slightly below to keep the market for games high.
This would allow a more complex filtering system (okay, maybe that's not a good thing in your opinion. I happen to like it.) where a more serious user would want to see only on-topic posts while some others (e.g. the people who read everything on /.) would be more interested in entertaining posts.
OTOH, other places have cable companies who haven't been in the same time zone as a clue for years. (the same holds for DSL) I think we need to setup a clueful provider registry so people can check to see who to avoid.
Please - don't think I'm advocating security by obscurity as that isn't my intent at all. I just think that anyone attacking one of my servers should have to do a little more than download the latest exploit script. Even a simple file path/name modification is beyond an amazing number of script monkeys.
Oh, and before you continue to embarass yourself in public, head over to Caldera and take a look at their finding of fact filed in the lawsuit their inhereited from DRI. These are not the actions of any ethical company and are at best dubious under antitrust law and were not "perfectly legal at the time".
Finally, not everyone has choices. We're all happy you have them at home. Try talking with people who work at places that gone with Microsoft because it's too painful to do otherwise and deal with all the barriers Microsoft has erected to prevent such a thing. There's a good reason why Microsoft breaks compatibility with every version of their products.
No question about it, someone at the White Male Power Elite coordinating center screwed up and forgot to send us our membership cards and jackboots and my bank certainly never received that "Financial Elite" transfer. (Not that it mattered as we worry about financial status or skin color. Something about living in a world where people "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.")
According to Jane Dark, you just can't suffer if you're white. What's next - you can't be poor if you a Jew? Students (most assuredly not all white or male, either) describe daily abuse ranging from "merely" being a social outcast to severe physical and emotional trauma. Oh wait, according to Jane, they're geeks, so they're white, so they're card-carrying members of The Establishment, so it doesn't matter because it can't be real. I wonder how she feels about the Holocaust - it seems like she'd fit right in with the the revisionists who claim it never happened. They're also noted for never letting mere facts interfere with a position...
Besides, it's his movie and his choice. You're more than welcome to film your own movies but you have no rights over someone else's work.
Visit www.gnu.org - it's on the front page.
Yes, I try to get all of my science from models and actresses too. After all, it's not like they might emotionally follow trends or anything.
Millions of people choose to smoke, drink, eat fatty foods or have risky sex lives, too. It doesn't mean these activities aren't dangerous...
No, but the fact that no scientific investigation has found any evidence after years of intensive study does suggest this is the case. Or are you one of those conspiracy lunatics who thinks that every single investigator is controlled by a Large Evil Corporation?
You are aware that your CRT displays color using three separate pixels, right? There's nothing that would prevent them from putting multi-colored balls in clusters...
I think most of it is that nVidia has an incompetent web designer who relies on Net Objects Fusion for page layout. Did you notice how many 1 pixel images were used for spacing? That's usually a good sign that the "designer" doesn't understand HTML tables and doesn't care about anything other than 648x480 (and Lynx users, of course, are invited to perform anatomically improbable acts with a goat. nVidia doesn't care about them...). Oh, and they really need a basic JavaScript tutorial, particularly RollOvers 101 as it's painfully obvious the "designer" didn't understand preloading.
Am I the only one who's waiting for a t-shirt or jacket made of this material? Of course it'd probably be a legal nightmare if you got sued by the people who drove off the road while watching the scrolling message on your back...
Have any of the people who've been investigated contacted a lawyer or some group like the ACLU? If any police department is so poorly educated and so grossly negligent in their duties to investigate people on the charges Katz has been listing, they deserve to be slapped down hard. School administrators also seem to need a reminder that they are not the KGB...