Don't worry, when the name looses its appeal, they will make up a new [Devil|Witch|Jew|Nazi|Jap|Commie]. Gotta' have some way to strike up fear and justify war.
You would think that a company that makes a metric arse-load of money selling hardware that *runs* business applications, could invest a bit money to make sure there are some applications to run on that hardware. Not that IBM doesn't invest heavily in FLOSS, but this just sounds like the government whining that taxes are too low.
Vista sales have to make money -different ball game. Linux "penetration" means hardware manufacturers and software producers are forced to pay attention. Apple had MS Office at 3%, I wonder what Linux will have to hit before Microsoft ports?
Your not patenting the patent; you are patenting the physical machine. Of course a patent is not patentable, just like software should not be patentable.
GP was NOT making an analogy, GP was making the assertion that software IS ACTUALLY, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES math.
ISPs need to be reminded that their job is to provide internet service.
Just like the oil companies, they secretly know their cashcow is dying. Think of the networking technologies that have developed over the last decade, particularly wireless technologies (WiMax, Mesh networks). Do you think were going to be reliant on DSL/cable TV connections to send data packets to each other in another decade or two?
The big ISP's want to become content providers, it's that simple.
Why 5 minutes? It usually takes less than a second to run a sync on the disks depending on how active they are. A couple seconds of runtime should be enough to do an "emergency shutdown" and avoid data corruption.
Interesting, pick the right metal and you have a standard (solid) heatsink at cool temperatures, which becomes liquid cooled just as your CPU cranks up.
Suspend to disk can be really fast if there is very little running. The more running, the more has to be swapped out to disk, then reloaded from disk at boot.
Most of Minnesota is considerably further north than Waterloo. In addition, Waterloo also gets a bit of "lake effect" where the air is heated as it comes across the great lakes.
How about turning on the Mic or web cam and start taking recordings and sending them back to your computer, or better yet, email them directly to the police.
The "Free Market" argument doesn't apply here. Bell has been subsidized by the government for the better part of a century, and given guaranteed monopolies in various areas (not to mention the fact that their lines are on public land). Bell does not operate in a free market, and never has.
On top of that, the "Free Market" doesn't work when the consumer is lied to and deliberately misled (there is nothing about traffic shaping in Bell's TOS, or in their contracts with the resellers).
Actually, they do offer dry loop DSL with sympatico. You just have to ask for it, and it's free (most of the resellers have to charge ~$10 for it).
Additionally, there is no reason for Bell to throttle reseller's connections (beyond anti-competitive reasons). It should be up to the reseller to manage their own network. That is the basis of the current CTRC complaint.
I agree with the rest of your comment though. Bell should be allowed to provide either the ISP/phone connections, or media content, not both.
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The first Q&A is posted on one of the organizer's blogs:
http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2008/08/barack_obamas_answers_science.php
Another is here:
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/08/obama_on_science.php and here:
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/08/sciencedebate08_obama_takes_up.php
and our government is eliminating almost all meat inspections.
What? where did you hear that?
The real kicker on that one is that they were probably tainted from... what? animal feces.
Don't worry, when the name looses its appeal, they will make up a new [Devil|Witch|Jew|Nazi|Jap|Commie]. Gotta' have some way to strike up fear and justify war.
"And Im proud to be an American,
where at least I know Im free!"
I love that song. What does he mean by "at least I know," that makes no sense - and you "know" your free why?
Good advice! now where can I get a metal that's softer than flesh? or weaker than calcium phosphate?
If you enjoy ignorance, just pay someone to do if for you. It will probably cost less than an XP licence.
Is this going to break dynamic DNS services like redirectme.net?
woosh
You would think that a company that makes a metric arse-load of money selling hardware that *runs* business applications, could invest a bit money to make sure there are some applications to run on that hardware. Not that IBM doesn't invest heavily in FLOSS, but this just sounds like the government whining that taxes are too low.
handle active scripting in the Operating System.
Unless somethings changed that I don't know about, most people wouldn't consider javascript to be active scripting *in the Operating System*.
Vista sales have to make money -different ball game. Linux "penetration" means hardware manufacturers and software producers are forced to pay attention. Apple had MS Office at 3%, I wonder what Linux will have to hit before Microsoft ports?
Your not patenting the patent; you are patenting the physical machine. Of course a patent is not patentable, just like software should not be patentable.
GP was NOT making an analogy, GP was making the assertion that software IS ACTUALLY, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES math.
ISPs need to be reminded that their job is to provide internet service.
Just like the oil companies, they secretly know their cashcow is dying. Think of the networking technologies that have developed over the last decade, particularly wireless technologies (WiMax, Mesh networks). Do you think were going to be reliant on DSL/cable TV connections to send data packets to each other in another decade or two?
The big ISP's want to become content providers, it's that simple.
That's what we though in Canada, until Bell started doing just that. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2782/125/
Why 5 minutes? It usually takes less than a second to run a sync on the disks depending on how active they are. A couple seconds of runtime should be enough to do an "emergency shutdown" and avoid data corruption.
####@johncash:~$ time sync
real 0m0.004s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s
From what I see on Google, the nslu2 has only usb and network ports. Are you sure it has a VGA out?
Interesting, pick the right metal and you have a standard (solid) heatsink at cool temperatures, which becomes liquid cooled just as your CPU cranks up.
Happily participating as the slowest machine on the Botnet!
Suspend to disk can be really fast if there is very little running. The more running, the more has to be swapped out to disk, then reloaded from disk at boot.
Most of Minnesota is considerably further north than Waterloo. In addition, Waterloo also gets a bit of "lake effect" where the air is heated as it comes across the great lakes.
How about turning on the Mic or web cam and start taking recordings and sending them back to your computer, or better yet, email them directly to the police.
That might work, except when the schoolage daughter is given an assignment in a .doc[x] file.
The "Free Market" argument doesn't apply here. Bell has been subsidized by the government for the better part of a century, and given guaranteed monopolies in various areas (not to mention the fact that their lines are on public land). Bell does not operate in a free market, and never has.
On top of that, the "Free Market" doesn't work when the consumer is lied to and deliberately misled (there is nothing about traffic shaping in Bell's TOS, or in their contracts with the resellers).
Actually, they do offer dry loop DSL with sympatico. You just have to ask for it, and it's free (most of the resellers have to charge ~$10 for it).
Additionally, there is no reason for Bell to throttle reseller's connections (beyond anti-competitive reasons). It should be up to the reseller to manage their own network. That is the basis of the current CTRC complaint.
I agree with the rest of your comment though. Bell should be allowed to provide either the ISP/phone connections, or media content, not both.