Comment The people have spoken (Score 1) 224
So the truth finally comes out: now one gives a flying fluck.
Not even surprising enough to warrant a sarcastic choke on the next sip of my coffee.
-paul
Comment I have a solution (Score 1) 385
I have the exact requirements as you, so I spent the last six months developing a
solution. It converts SentBoxes, Inboxes, gmail, PST files and regular mbox.
It archives and indexes everything and provides full text search with google-like
phrase grouping and exclude phrases.
It normalizes addresses, eliminates duplicates, understands every character set and
can display any email within it's web GUI with proper inlining of pics-in-html.
For me it can index 8 gigs of emails within a couple of hours.
We are pilot testing this solution at an ISP for our customers.
Would you like to try it out?
My email http://2038bug.com/email.gif
-paul
Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 322
Esther Schindler writes "After a lengthy gestation period, the third generation of the Universal Serial Bus is making its way to the market. USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second. That's even faster than the 3Gb/sec of SATA hard drives and 1Gb/sec of high-end networking in the home. USB 3.0: Everything You Need to Know goes into plenty of the techie details. But is it already obsolete — will LightPeak make USB 3.0 irrelevant?"
Sit Longer, Die Sooner 341
mcgrew writes "Bad news for most of us here — The Chicago Tribune is reporting that even if you get plenty of exercize, sitting down all day reduces your lifespan. From the article: 'Even after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) and smoking, the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die.
People who exercise regularly had a lower risk, but still significant, risk of dying. Those who sat a lot and moved less than three and a half hours per day are the most likely to die early: researchers found a 94 percent increased risk for women and 48 percent increase for men, they announced recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology.'"
Comment Alien signals from space (Score 5, Interesting) 386
Whatever you do, don't make any broadcasts to alien vessels.
Also, any signals you receive from the alien's should not be made public,
or else YOU and your satelite dish will dissapear curtesy of secret UFO coverup agencies etc.
Eat this message.
-paul
Comment Re:The real problem is using seconds for everythin (Score 1) 470
This draft standard smooths out Unix Time around the moment of a leap second:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/utc-sls/
-paul
Comment Re:Poor solution (Score 1) 470
Comment Europe trains vs US and the challenge (Score 1) 1139
High-speed rail between cities works in Europe because when you arrive by HS rail you can get from the main station to whereever by light-train, tram, or bus and only have to walk five minutes. High speed rail won't work if you have to hire a car once you get there, or pay for an expensive cab, in order to complete the last leg of your journey, where you wouldn't have had to do so if you had jost drove your car the whole way.
Most of the US does not have high-density high-frequency public transport: meaning you usually have to walk for really long distances and wait a really long time.
Comment Similar case successfully defended (Score 1) 357
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-05-27-laugh-it-off-wins-case-against-sab
"T-shirt maker Laugh It Off has won its fight against South African Breweries (SAB) over its right to mock the Carling Black Label brand."
This was quite a widely publicized law suite at the time and set a legal precident.
In the US however you don't have legal precidents. *sigh*
-paul
Comment Oracle will win (Score 0, Flamebait) 510
Sun developed Java for embedded systems, and then further for business systems,
investing enormous amounts of capital to create better technology. This was done
over the period of over a decade. For this they deserve IP protection.
The fact that Google is so closely copying their method means that *whatever*
patents Sun had on the Java VM, could easily be said to be infringed upon.
The details of course will play a part, but on the face of it myself I side
with Oracle. If Google wanted to do Java on the android, they should have
licensed the VM like everyone else, not stolen it.
What Google has done is exactly what the patent system was invented to
protect agaist.
-paul
Comment Coal miners are unhappy with their salaries... (Score 1) 1018
they point out that they get paid only $10,000 a year, whereas the coal
they mine produces $100,000,000 a year in electricity revenues.
-paul
Comment Russian rolette (Score 4, Interesting) 326
Image 13 boxes each containing 13 revolvers.
One revolver has one bullet in it.
Now imagine being offered $100,000 to pick a box, and then pick a revolver and then shoot yourself with it.
That 1000:1 odds.
-paul
Comment And the largest solar power plant currently is... (Score 5, Insightful) 635
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
Now considering that one nuclear power station usually generates 1 to 5 GIGAwatts, and these generate in the order of TENS OF MEGAwatts, it is inconceivable to me how anyone can compare Solar to Nuclear.
Comment You are welcome to start your own fork any time. (Score 5, Insightful) 239
The Linux kernel is not a company. Free software projects are a new kind of entity.
The debate is still open about whether it is correct to level "They should..." instructions at this kind of entity.
Possibly "I should..." statements are more appropriate.
-paul
Submission + - China renews license for uncensored google.com.hk (cnn.com)
AbbeyRoad writes: "Google said Friday that it has renewed its license with the Chinese government to continue operating in that country, ending a standoff over censorship. "We are very pleased that the government has renewed our [Internet content provider] license and we look forward to continuing to provide Web search and local products to our users in China," said Google on its blog. Google did not make any concessions regarding censorship, Tokyo-based Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said. "I don't think we gave anything up," she said. "We asked the government to renew our license to make some products that don't require any censorship. We are going to continue to offer uncensored Web search with google.com.hk.""
