... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him.
Maybe I wouldn't recognize him by name but I damn sure know that photo, and could easily look up who it was if you had shown it to me and asked. (I recognize it as the first untethered spacewalk with the MMU, type "MMU" into wikipedia, and the captioned picture is right there on top). Thus, he's easily identifiable, if at least not easily recognizable.
Incidentally, I'd say that that picture is one of the top 4 most famous space pictures, the others being the Blue Marble, Earthrise and the one with Aldrin and the US flag on the moon.
Keep in mind you're just removing the dissolved oxygen, not atmospheric oxygen, so it's not like you're taking it out of the air tanks. If you could find a way to extract that prior the the fermentation process, it could even be a net gain. The excess CO2 isn't atmospheric, so it wouldn't be a safety threat - you could either scrub it or find a way to utilize it - some kind of pressurized thruster or something or even just vent it into space. Eventually, we'll probably have full ecospheres in zero-g habitats so you'd just pipe it to your green house module and let the plants take care of it.
And is definitely showing it's age. There's been a big cry for years from those working at the really high end of networking that we need to replace (really just extend) TCP because it doesn't work well with high bandwidth-delay-product links. This is because the max window size and ramp-up algorithm (slow start) don't allow you to saturate the pipe quickly enough or even at all. There are several proposed extensions floating around to fix the problem but none of them have widespread adoption.
This actually is the case with a lot of our old networking protocols - yes, they were incredibly well designed at the time, but many are showing that they need to be upgraded to reflect modern technology. Back to our original case, the original DNS protocol does have a lot of problems that have surfaced lately (think about the sequence number prediction stuff from a couple years back) which inspired the roll-out of DNSSEC. IPv4 is hitting it's limits, but we're having trouble rolling out IPv6. How much easier would fighting spam be if SMTP had a strong authentication system for sent messages? Even HTTP, which has undergone several revisions, is again showing limitations, hence Google rolling out SPDY which allows predictive pushes, stream parallelism, etc.
I don't think anyone seeks to criticize the designers of these protocols, and the protocols have excelled and scaled far, far beyond anyone's wildest expectations. That being said, they have been showing cracks lately as technology has grown, and nothing looks like it did back when they were written. However, we have hit a point where the difficulty in upgrading or replacing them is actually starting to hold us back.
The new 787 that's currently undergoing airworthiness testing has significantly larger windows. I think the 747-8i, which uses a lot of 787 technologies is also supposed to get them.
Depending on whereslashdot's failed to distinguish UTF-8, that's either in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Italy or on a glacier near the Chinia/Mongolia border. Either way dude, slashdot's a US-centric site, so don't expect us to be much help.
Not true. In this case, it'd be a work for hire, and the copyright would rest with the company that paid the authors, not the authors itself. (As a side note, you can also assign the copyrights to another party, the FSF requires people working on stuff like gcc and other GNU software to assign their copyrights to the FSF). Thus, the entity, in this case Sun/Oracle could change the license at will.
The tricky part was determining if the work was derived from something else, under a restrictive copyright. The copyright still belongs to Sun but they could be bound by contractual terms to other parties because of the way the works originated. Incidentally, this is the reason NVidia always gives for not open sourcing their 3D drivers for Linux.
That's assuming they're directly charging the credit cards. More likely, they're going to either a.) sell the credit card info as part of a huge list or b.) use the card info to purchase stuff from other (reputable) places online. With enough work, you can track them using b, but it's harder. Most techniques for doing so involve tracking based on the shipping address, but a smart criminal can make it so that it takes a lot of resources to actually track them. (For example, you can find someone who's on vacation and have the goods shipped to their house, then just walking off with them after they are delivered. To actually track this would require surveillance.)
I'll be honest, I didn't RTFA yet, but there's a lot of things that can influence a teacher's performance if it's measured using test score. I know a very good teacher that had really pissed off the school administration who was "rewarded" for her past excellence by having every problematic student with behavioral issue, a bunch of mainstreamed special ed kids and remedial students all put in her class. That year her test scores showed the students did not perform at expected grade level. Gee, I wonder why?
I had another teacher who taught math for the kids on the advanced track. For her to perform properly under whatever metrics they had, these students had to show year-to-year growth on the standardized tests. Only one problem: because these were advanced students, they were already near the top of the test's score range and the required growth was some kind of simple percentage. The end result was, the only way for her to meet her expected growth was for a large number of the students to score better than perfect on these tests.
By that logic Osama bin Laden can not be held liable to US law for the 9/11 attack because he wasn't in the US.
First, murder is illegal pretty much everywhere - he'd be liable under pretty much any law. Second, there's a huge difference in that the acts actually took place on US soil. He's guilty of conspiracy to commit murder because the actual crime happened on US soil and he knew that the actions he was conspiring to commit were illegal there. In the cases we're talking about, the companies are not knowingly acting unlawfully.
Otherwise mail order companies could e.g. send you illegal prescription drugs with impunity, as long as they're not illegal where they came from.
Why should they be responsible? They're not doing anything illegal where they are. So long as they accurately describe the contents of what they're selling, it's the responsibility of the buyer to not purchase them or customs to stop them at the border and refuse the shipment.
One improvement you missed is pixel density. Think of stuff like the new Apple "Retina Display" but at a larger scale. You can get higher quality graphics on the same size screen with a higher resolution at a higher DPI.
I fail to see how this gives ANY advantage over a streetcar (Think above-ground subway) or light rail. Because it's elevated, it requires designated stations, so you don't have the ease of bus stops - just like a street car. It requires special infrastructure all over the street (like those height limiting loops), even worse than a street car would require. It still interacts with cars at intersections, so you're not gaining anything there. All it does is take the bus out of the interaction of the traffic flow on a single section of street, just like a streetcar would. An electric street car or light rail would be significantly cheaper, more energy efficient, would be far less distracting to drivers and have much less interaction with them, and would utilize existing technology.
I fail to see any point to this other than it looks cool.
As someone else posted in this thread, you specifically grant them permission to manage access equipment as part of your contract (it's in the Terms of Service).
But if they didn't include the Spain/France comparison, Europeans would be up in arms for giving a US-specific size metric that once again demonstrates/.'s US-centrism.:-P
It's even easier than that. Since leap seconds have to be tracked for the system clocks to work right, *nix stores a list of when every single one occurs. This is updated with your timezone data (which has to be kept up-to-date anyway since various regions constantly change their daylight savings times). Thus, it's trivial to do the conversion.
Besides which, NTP is designed to take an external clock source like GPS anyway. Where do you think the tier-1 NTP servers get their accuracy from? I've worked at a company that used *very* accurate GPS units to keep time, and they routed them through ntpd.
Well, keep in mind that using tar can cause all kinds of sticky problems when transferring masses. I'd suggest some kind of catapult or trebuchet instead.
Did you even read the decision? The court has minimized the "privileges and immunities" clause since the Slaughter House cases in the 19th century. They specifically and reflectively refused to reverse that decision and refused to use that clause to apply the 2nd amendment to the states as was hoped for in McDonald v. Chicago. Instead, they used the due process clause like all the other incorporations.
I just can't take the article seriously. You would think the top 100 'best places to work in IT' would include Google somewhere near the top, but it didn't even make the list. The United States Postal Service is a better place to work IT than Google? Ya right. This from a survey that claims 93% of respondents say the most important factor is the work environment. It's missing all the top tech companies - Google, Amazon, Microsoft, any of the gaming companies, Sun, etc. etc. None of the top tech companies make the list at all? Complete and utter bullshit.
First: Contrast the behavior of big companies like Verizon who consistenly reduce their level of service with that of companies like Linode, who consistently increase the level of service offered to their customers for no additional charge: http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-increase. THAT is how you ensure customer loyalty. Sometimes squeezing every last penny out of customers isn't the best way to do business.
Woah... as a Linode customer who hadn't yet seen the announcement, thank you very much. Rebooted my server and got more allocated memory - awesome!
The ggp who asked the question specifically asked for a breadth-first-search. If you're doing a BFS, you have to keep the whole tree in memory somehow since you can't eliminate a branch without fully traversing it and you're doing your traversal horizontally rather than vertically. Thus, not possible without more storage than the universe offers.
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... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him.
Maybe I wouldn't recognize him by name but I damn sure know that photo, and could easily look up who it was if you had shown it to me and asked. (I recognize it as the first untethered spacewalk with the MMU, type "MMU" into wikipedia, and the captioned picture is right there on top). Thus, he's easily identifiable, if at least not easily recognizable.
Incidentally, I'd say that that picture is one of the top 4 most famous space pictures, the others being the Blue Marble, Earthrise and the one with Aldrin and the US flag on the moon.
Keep in mind you're just removing the dissolved oxygen, not atmospheric oxygen, so it's not like you're taking it out of the air tanks. If you could find a way to extract that prior the the fermentation process, it could even be a net gain. The excess CO2 isn't atmospheric, so it wouldn't be a safety threat - you could either scrub it or find a way to utilize it - some kind of pressurized thruster or something or even just vent it into space. Eventually, we'll probably have full ecospheres in zero-g habitats so you'd just pipe it to your green house module and let the plants take care of it.
And is definitely showing it's age. There's been a big cry for years from those working at the really high end of networking that we need to replace (really just extend) TCP because it doesn't work well with high bandwidth-delay-product links. This is because the max window size and ramp-up algorithm (slow start) don't allow you to saturate the pipe quickly enough or even at all. There are several proposed extensions floating around to fix the problem but none of them have widespread adoption.
This actually is the case with a lot of our old networking protocols - yes, they were incredibly well designed at the time, but many are showing that they need to be upgraded to reflect modern technology. Back to our original case, the original DNS protocol does have a lot of problems that have surfaced lately (think about the sequence number prediction stuff from a couple years back) which inspired the roll-out of DNSSEC. IPv4 is hitting it's limits, but we're having trouble rolling out IPv6. How much easier would fighting spam be if SMTP had a strong authentication system for sent messages? Even HTTP, which has undergone several revisions, is again showing limitations, hence Google rolling out SPDY which allows predictive pushes, stream parallelism, etc.
I don't think anyone seeks to criticize the designers of these protocols, and the protocols have excelled and scaled far, far beyond anyone's wildest expectations. That being said, they have been showing cracks lately as technology has grown, and nothing looks like it did back when they were written. However, we have hit a point where the difficulty in upgrading or replacing them is actually starting to hold us back.
The new 787 that's currently undergoing airworthiness testing has significantly larger windows. I think the 747-8i, which uses a lot of 787 technologies is also supposed to get them.
2) Charge less for texting (I haven't seen anybody dispute that texting fees are pure profit).
I'd dispute that. There really are various infrastructure and capacity expenses involved. They're only 99.999999% profit.
Depending on whereslashdot's failed to distinguish UTF-8, that's either in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Italy or on a glacier near the Chinia/Mongolia border. Either way dude, slashdot's a US-centric site, so don't expect us to be much help.
And the resulting 0.3 grams of material will hardly be missed.
The copyright notice was explicitly in the name of Sun Microsystems, as someone else pasted from the header file in another comment.
Not true. In this case, it'd be a work for hire, and the copyright would rest with the company that paid the authors, not the authors itself. (As a side note, you can also assign the copyrights to another party, the FSF requires people working on stuff like gcc and other GNU software to assign their copyrights to the FSF). Thus, the entity, in this case Sun/Oracle could change the license at will.
The tricky part was determining if the work was derived from something else, under a restrictive copyright. The copyright still belongs to Sun but they could be bound by contractual terms to other parties because of the way the works originated. Incidentally, this is the reason NVidia always gives for not open sourcing their 3D drivers for Linux.
That's assuming they're directly charging the credit cards. More likely, they're going to either a.) sell the credit card info as part of a huge list or b.) use the card info to purchase stuff from other (reputable) places online. With enough work, you can track them using b, but it's harder. Most techniques for doing so involve tracking based on the shipping address, but a smart criminal can make it so that it takes a lot of resources to actually track them. (For example, you can find someone who's on vacation and have the goods shipped to their house, then just walking off with them after they are delivered. To actually track this would require surveillance.)
I'll be honest, I didn't RTFA yet, but there's a lot of things that can influence a teacher's performance if it's measured using test score. I know a very good teacher that had really pissed off the school administration who was "rewarded" for her past excellence by having every problematic student with behavioral issue, a bunch of mainstreamed special ed kids and remedial students all put in her class. That year her test scores showed the students did not perform at expected grade level. Gee, I wonder why?
I had another teacher who taught math for the kids on the advanced track. For her to perform properly under whatever metrics they had, these students had to show year-to-year growth on the standardized tests. Only one problem: because these were advanced students, they were already near the top of the test's score range and the required growth was some kind of simple percentage. The end result was, the only way for her to meet her expected growth was for a large number of the students to score better than perfect on these tests.
By that logic Osama bin Laden can not be held liable to US law for the 9/11 attack because he wasn't in the US.
First, murder is illegal pretty much everywhere - he'd be liable under pretty much any law. Second, there's a huge difference in that the acts actually took place on US soil. He's guilty of conspiracy to commit murder because the actual crime happened on US soil and he knew that the actions he was conspiring to commit were illegal there. In the cases we're talking about, the companies are not knowingly acting unlawfully.
Otherwise mail order companies could e.g. send you illegal prescription drugs with impunity, as long as they're not illegal where they came from.
Why should they be responsible? They're not doing anything illegal where they are. So long as they accurately describe the contents of what they're selling, it's the responsibility of the buyer to not purchase them or customs to stop them at the border and refuse the shipment.
One improvement you missed is pixel density. Think of stuff like the new Apple "Retina Display" but at a larger scale. You can get higher quality graphics on the same size screen with a higher resolution at a higher DPI.
I fail to see how this gives ANY advantage over a streetcar (Think above-ground subway) or light rail. Because it's elevated, it requires designated stations, so you don't have the ease of bus stops - just like a street car. It requires special infrastructure all over the street (like those height limiting loops), even worse than a street car would require. It still interacts with cars at intersections, so you're not gaining anything there. All it does is take the bus out of the interaction of the traffic flow on a single section of street, just like a streetcar would. An electric street car or light rail would be significantly cheaper, more energy efficient, would be far less distracting to drivers and have much less interaction with them, and would utilize existing technology.
I fail to see any point to this other than it looks cool.
As someone else posted in this thread, you specifically grant them permission to manage access equipment as part of your contract (it's in the Terms of Service).
But if they didn't include the Spain/France comparison, Europeans would be up in arms for giving a US-specific size metric that once again demonstrates /.'s US-centrism. :-P
Any luck? I'd love to read this...
It's even easier than that. Since leap seconds have to be tracked for the system clocks to work right, *nix stores a list of when every single one occurs. This is updated with your timezone data (which has to be kept up-to-date anyway since various regions constantly change their daylight savings times). Thus, it's trivial to do the conversion.
Besides which, NTP is designed to take an external clock source like GPS anyway. Where do you think the tier-1 NTP servers get their accuracy from? I've worked at a company that used *very* accurate GPS units to keep time, and they routed them through ntpd.
Did you even read the subject line of his post - or yours?
Well, keep in mind that using tar can cause all kinds of sticky problems when transferring masses. I'd suggest some kind of catapult or trebuchet instead.
Did you even read the decision? The court has minimized the "privileges and immunities" clause since the Slaughter House cases in the 19th century. They specifically and reflectively refused to reverse that decision and refused to use that clause to apply the 2nd amendment to the states as was hoped for in McDonald v. Chicago. Instead, they used the due process clause like all the other incorporations.
I just can't take the article seriously. You would think the top 100 'best places to work in IT' would include Google somewhere near the top, but it didn't even make the list. The United States Postal Service is a better place to work IT than Google? Ya right. This from a survey that claims 93% of respondents say the most important factor is the work environment. It's missing all the top tech companies - Google, Amazon, Microsoft, any of the gaming companies, Sun, etc. etc. None of the top tech companies make the list at all? Complete and utter bullshit.
First: Contrast the behavior of big companies like Verizon who consistenly reduce their level of service with that of companies like Linode, who consistently increase the level of service offered to their customers for no additional charge: http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-increase. THAT is how you ensure customer loyalty. Sometimes squeezing every last penny out of customers isn't the best way to do business.
Woah... as a Linode customer who hadn't yet seen the announcement, thank you very much. Rebooted my server and got more allocated memory - awesome!
"enumerate" was the word I missed.
The ggp who asked the question specifically asked for a breadth-first-search. If you're doing a BFS, you have to keep the whole tree in memory somehow since you can't eliminate a branch without fully traversing it and you're doing your traversal horizontally rather than vertically. Thus, not possible without more storage than the universe offers.