There are a lot of things that someone might want to hide for a short while. It could work well on networks, too, using a predictive coding scheme like Trellis. The message would be almost impossible to detect. On the other hand, the sender and receiver need to be intimately involved, and in there lies the rub.
1) Shake roofs not designed to support the weight and collapse during high winds
2) Solar + Shake roof = roof rats nest, chew through shingles, invade attic
3) Solar + Shake roof = shade and, therefore, mold
Once laws were published so citizens could read them, governments learned three things --
1) Make them vague, as specific laws are easiest to circumvent
2) Make them plentiful, as you never know when you might need one
3) Make them byzantine, as the government should be the only one who can decide what they really mean
This may seem diabolical, but it is merely the consequence of having to manage a large population of humans. One last rule -- if a law is truly wrong to the point of threatening the stability of the nation, change it and admit culpability but only after everyone who was affected by it has died, including those who enforced it.
Of course, this sounds silly, but then trying to get a third of a billion people to behave sounds silly, too.
It means inclement weather; it rains; it pours; it delays air traffic; it's gloomy. You can look up at it and see whatever you can imagine, but it is not real. It goes away when you most need it. It is all wet.
It is good for kids to learn about history, but a slide rule would be a better way to do it. By the way, need a graphing calculator? There's an app for that -- http://www.appcylon.com/ !
Like many things that are too hard to grasp or solve at a technical level, people tend to shift focus to something more discernible. In this case, it is the fact that millions of people who are a part of SSL need to be persuaded to change. This is called "the devil you know verses the devil you don't know" choice. Since most of the unknown devils are of the same paradigm as the known devil, then the status quo will remain. True, there may be a catastrophe that frightens everyone to adopt whatever seems like a safe harbor at the moment. Barring that, it will probably take a new paradigm, perhaps a transparent network that can converge very very fast, making most catastrophic exploits ephemerally limited in scope. True, that would be far from perfect, but then, what is close to perfect?
If everything is relative, wouldn't we need to know what is relevant? The earth rotates and revolves around the sun while the sun revolves around the galaxy while the galaxy moves through the universe. That is a lot of movement. Relative to the center of the universe, the one who moves fastest might be the one who sits still. More importantly, the relative difference in momentum between any two of us might be infinitesimal when compared to the whole. Nanoseconds might seem like millennia by comparison. But I know, it is all relatively unimportant when selling an iPhone app. What's really important is what's cool. This app will definitely get someone laid. Too bad all that movement will probably make it seem too short.
Last year, I attended a meeting in Mountain View, CA hosted by Nokia to announce their new app store, Ovi, and 'open' platform based on JavaScript, the language everyone loves to hate. It seemed like a sincere attempt to recruit talented programmers to join a trip on the Titanic. There were a lot of sincere people making excuses and promising to do whatever it took to take on Microsoft. "We are the largest mobile phone company in the world, and we will respond accordingly," or something like that. I will say that the food was good.
They did respond like the largest mobile phone manufacturer, sinking their 'open' platform and joining up with the largest proprietary OS manufacturer. It is like a binary star system imploding into a black hole. Ironic, too, since Microsoft will buy RIM in Q4 for $39B, effectively screwing this deal. If this were fiction, then nobody would read it. Reality has such a wonderful way of making an acid trip seem like a lukewarm bath.
Adobe, like Intuit and Microsoft, has worked for decades to establish a dominant position in their market. They are entitled to milk it as hard as they want, reap the benefits and suffer the consequences. I've seen drug companies do the same with drugs protected by patents. Once they establish an installed base with a dependency, they raise their prices, sometimes ten- to fifty-fold. Their customers have fewer options, too. Of course, once the patent rights expire, the drug price drops like a rock.
Adobe walks a fine line, seeing pressure from public domain programs like gimp and competitors like Microsoft. They do it their way at the risk of someone offering an easier/cheaper alternative. The cost of their software is not just the product price. Many spend far more on training. CS5 is very complex and not many know it end-to-end. Actually, they benefit from the high cost, as those who have mastered it can earn a good living off it. There is a whole ecosystem behind keeping this business model.
If Apple continues to innovate as it has, then the iPad will be a fad because they will supplant it with something more fashionable. That is why Apple is where it is at today; it is not afraid to compete against itself. Of course, that will change once Mr. Jobs is gone.
I don't know how hot nuclear fuel gets, but concrete starts to breakdown at about 1500C, depending on the mix. I know if the fuel reaches 3000C, then all bets are off.
The perfectly non-blocking network is very asymmetrical -- every node would have inbound bandwidth equal to the sum of all outbound bandwidth from every node - e.g., a thousand node network, each node having a gigabit input and a megabit output. While this asymmetry is impractical in all but the smallest networks, it still influences networks architectures for the obvious reason.
BTW, the phone company (a.k.a., AT&T) has a business model based upon measured services, a 100-year tradition. They even built their network - not the Internet, rather SONET/ATM - with the ability to account for every bit transmitted. They lost that battle but never gave up on the networking war. Eventually, they will charge for every bit. You can count on it.
They are milking their cash cow. Pharmaceuticals do this with drugs as they head off-patent, jacking up the price until they lose their monopoly to generics. It is good in a way, as others will be able to more easily justify a competitive business model. However, the change can seem glacial, like the shift from oil to alternative energy.
Companies like Clear should be able to make hay from this. Their bandwidth offers actual throughput equal to DSL. The problem with wireless is that their reliability is not equal to DSL, as shared wireless bandwidth quality can vary more than wired should.
I've been using AT&T DSL for about three years, costing almost $50 with basic phone service that we never use. This might be just enough to dump them for Clear or something else.
Eventually, our DNA became our ID. It was a long time coming, as the process gradually became much more reliable and cost effective. Finally, when enough people had their lives destroyed by identity theft (we're talkin' about a billion), then it was no longer a choice. In fact, the tipping point came at an election, where electronic votes were stolen en masse, and an outcome was invalidated by the court. The irony was that DNA ID would not have prevented the fraud, but so many were clamoring for it that the outrage from the scandal tipped the balance. Life is funny that way.
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There are a lot of things that someone might want to hide for a short while. It could work well on networks, too, using a predictive coding scheme like Trellis. The message would be almost impossible to detect. On the other hand, the sender and receiver need to be intimately involved, and in there lies the rub.
1) Shake roofs not designed to support the weight and collapse during high winds
2) Solar + Shake roof = roof rats nest, chew through shingles, invade attic
3) Solar + Shake roof = shade and, therefore, mold
All true. Caveat emptor.
. . . fighting the drone wars - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-sends-drones-to-libya/story-e6frg6so-1226043520342 and over Pakistan, fighting the rebels - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-promises-Pak-mini-drones-but-launches-mega-attack/articleshow/8059928.cms to bother with Amazon. That is the problem when you mix movie plots.
BTW, It is a PR nightmare when a single military can be compared to imperial forces and sentient killer machines in the same satirical reference.
Not only is this anecdotal, it has been known by EVERYBODY who's anybody for years -- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042111-iphone-tracking-researcher.html -- it is the worst kept secret since the hula hoop. When Network World says it is old news, archeologists take notice.
Once laws were published so citizens could read them, governments learned three things --
1) Make them vague, as specific laws are easiest to circumvent
2) Make them plentiful, as you never know when you might need one
3) Make them byzantine, as the government should be the only one who can decide what they really mean
This may seem diabolical, but it is merely the consequence of having to manage a large population of humans. One last rule -- if a law is truly wrong to the point of threatening the stability of the nation, change it and admit culpability but only after everyone who was affected by it has died, including those who enforced it.
Of course, this sounds silly, but then trying to get a third of a billion people to behave sounds silly, too.
Yes, a bug -- See article I guess the bug knows how to write files.
It means inclement weather; it rains; it pours; it delays air traffic; it's gloomy. You can look up at it and see whatever you can imagine, but it is not real. It goes away when you most need it. It is all wet.
Plasma gasification, after a few seconds at 14,000C, there is not much left. Even works with BluRay(R), and you do not have to pay Sony.
Just have the Wall Street financial computers destroy the economy, then buy US in a short sale. "Oh, that could never happen!"
Amazing, something that seems so painfully hot when eaten can be used as an analgesic.
It is good for kids to learn about history, but a slide rule would be a better way to do it. By the way, need a graphing calculator? There's an app for that -- http://www.appcylon.com/ !
Like many things that are too hard to grasp or solve at a technical level, people tend to shift focus to something more discernible. In this case, it is the fact that millions of people who are a part of SSL need to be persuaded to change. This is called "the devil you know verses the devil you don't know" choice. Since most of the unknown devils are of the same paradigm as the known devil, then the status quo will remain. True, there may be a catastrophe that frightens everyone to adopt whatever seems like a safe harbor at the moment. Barring that, it will probably take a new paradigm, perhaps a transparent network that can converge very very fast, making most catastrophic exploits ephemerally limited in scope. True, that would be far from perfect, but then, what is close to perfect?
If everything is relative, wouldn't we need to know what is relevant? The earth rotates and revolves around the sun while the sun revolves around the galaxy while the galaxy moves through the universe. That is a lot of movement. Relative to the center of the universe, the one who moves fastest might be the one who sits still. More importantly, the relative difference in momentum between any two of us might be infinitesimal when compared to the whole. Nanoseconds might seem like millennia by comparison. But I know, it is all relatively unimportant when selling an iPhone app. What's really important is what's cool. This app will definitely get someone laid. Too bad all that movement will probably make it seem too short.
Where else could be be but hacker heaven?
Last year, I attended a meeting in Mountain View, CA hosted by Nokia to announce their new app store, Ovi, and 'open' platform based on JavaScript, the language everyone loves to hate. It seemed like a sincere attempt to recruit talented programmers to join a trip on the Titanic. There were a lot of sincere people making excuses and promising to do whatever it took to take on Microsoft. "We are the largest mobile phone company in the world, and we will respond accordingly," or something like that. I will say that the food was good.
They did respond like the largest mobile phone manufacturer, sinking their 'open' platform and joining up with the largest proprietary OS manufacturer. It is like a binary star system imploding into a black hole. Ironic, too, since Microsoft will buy RIM in Q4 for $39B, effectively screwing this deal. If this were fiction, then nobody would read it. Reality has such a wonderful way of making an acid trip seem like a lukewarm bath.
How about Hawaii or, maybe, Singapore, but who wants to hang in the London fog? We're talking really tight code, if you get my drift.
. . .counting my punch cards and listening to Elvis on paper tape. Oh, the good old days.
Adobe, like Intuit and Microsoft, has worked for decades to establish a dominant position in their market. They are entitled to milk it as hard as they want, reap the benefits and suffer the consequences. I've seen drug companies do the same with drugs protected by patents. Once they establish an installed base with a dependency, they raise their prices, sometimes ten- to fifty-fold. Their customers have fewer options, too. Of course, once the patent rights expire, the drug price drops like a rock. Adobe walks a fine line, seeing pressure from public domain programs like gimp and competitors like Microsoft. They do it their way at the risk of someone offering an easier/cheaper alternative. The cost of their software is not just the product price. Many spend far more on training. CS5 is very complex and not many know it end-to-end. Actually, they benefit from the high cost, as those who have mastered it can earn a good living off it. There is a whole ecosystem behind keeping this business model.
I'll drink to that.
If Apple continues to innovate as it has, then the iPad will be a fad because they will supplant it with something more fashionable. That is why Apple is where it is at today; it is not afraid to compete against itself. Of course, that will change once Mr. Jobs is gone.
. . . because he did not have an installed base.
I don't know how hot nuclear fuel gets, but concrete starts to breakdown at about 1500C, depending on the mix. I know if the fuel reaches 3000C, then all bets are off.
The perfectly non-blocking network is very asymmetrical -- every node would have inbound bandwidth equal to the sum of all outbound bandwidth from every node - e.g., a thousand node network, each node having a gigabit input and a megabit output. While this asymmetry is impractical in all but the smallest networks, it still influences networks architectures for the obvious reason.
BTW, the phone company (a.k.a., AT&T) has a business model based upon measured services, a 100-year tradition. They even built their network - not the Internet, rather SONET/ATM - with the ability to account for every bit transmitted. They lost that battle but never gave up on the networking war. Eventually, they will charge for every bit. You can count on it.
They are milking their cash cow. Pharmaceuticals do this with drugs as they head off-patent, jacking up the price until they lose their monopoly to generics. It is good in a way, as others will be able to more easily justify a competitive business model. However, the change can seem glacial, like the shift from oil to alternative energy. Companies like Clear should be able to make hay from this. Their bandwidth offers actual throughput equal to DSL. The problem with wireless is that their reliability is not equal to DSL, as shared wireless bandwidth quality can vary more than wired should. I've been using AT&T DSL for about three years, costing almost $50 with basic phone service that we never use. This might be just enough to dump them for Clear or something else.
Eventually, our DNA became our ID. It was a long time coming, as the process gradually became much more reliable and cost effective. Finally, when enough people had their lives destroyed by identity theft (we're talkin' about a billion), then it was no longer a choice. In fact, the tipping point came at an election, where electronic votes were stolen en masse, and an outcome was invalidated by the court. The irony was that DNA ID would not have prevented the fraud, but so many were clamoring for it that the outrage from the scandal tipped the balance. Life is funny that way.