We don't know how much artificial gravity humans need to stay healthy. That's been one of the concerns about trying to go to Mars. Presumably if they went there they would stay for some time. So they are in some very reduced or zero gravity environment for the trip to and from Mars, and then at a 0.3g (I think that's the number) environment while on Mars. Can that be done and have people stay healthy? That's something they keep working on.
Yep, because the thing a company that is going out of business worries about the most is keeping happy the customers that bought a product long ago. We all believe that, right?
Actually, yes.. Just that kind of thing can happen when planes land to refuel or a plane that had no intention to land in the USA can be forced to land because of mechanical problems.
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The issue isn't that companies want to create a profit. I think everyone understands this. What has happened over the past few decades is that companies have begun to focus on the short term profits. So they will cut costs/workers in order to make the numbers for this quarter look good. Even if they know that the money they are saving is going to hurt profits next year.
Except for the fact that the guy didn't plan on selling the stocks at this time. So it was a paper loss until the bank panicked. If he hadn't been discovered he would have held onto the stocks and in time the stocks would probably have gone back up. Possibly enough to make the bank quite a bit of money when they were liquidated.
But he didn't steal. The money never left the bank, and from all accounts he never intended to take any of the money. He did conduct fraud within the confines of the bank but it was done to make himself look better. I'm not sure that he broke any laws. Although I'm certain he broke rules that the bank had that's not the same as the criminal acts of fraud and theft.
As to him still being on the bank's staff I don't see that it makes much difference if he isn't allowed in the office, and isn't getting paid. He's effectively a non-employee at this time, from the sound of it.
I understand what you are saying about DPI but the problem you describe with web sites sounds more like a problem with a caching server. If there caching server is misbehaving, or is overloaded then you could have problems with certain sites given that you will be directed to the caching server and not directly to the web site. Given that the proxy server worked for you (and I presume you were still on your normal ISP at the time) it does tend to enforce the idea that it's a caching server issue.
BT traffic can impact traffic but it can't lock someone out. THE CMTS will make room give a new CM a slot in the next pass. The big thing to keep in mind is that Comcast doesn't allow any cable modem enough upload bandwidth to saturate a node no matter what kind of traffic they are sending. Now if enough people on a node were trying to seed torrents they could effectively saturate the node, though other people could get in but their available upstream bandwidth would be severely limited.
The problem with priorities is that there is no real difference in the traffic coming from a PC doing web browsing or sending an email versus someone uploading via BT. Even if they tried to do a priortization of traffic via ports used, or type of data (TCP vs. UDP) there's the high likelihood that BT would just shift to use that method. DOCSIS does allow for priortization but how do you prevent BT from using the method that's implemented to let HTTP traffic get through?
The real issue Comcast seems to have is how much off network traffic someone uses(that is the traffic that goes from Comcast's network to off the network.) There's no easy way to limit that at the cable modem so if Comcast feels they have to limit this traffic and they can't use something like Sandvine, then I suspect their next step will be to implement some form of throttling like limiting your upstream bandwidth once you go over a certain amount of upstream usage. The problem is they know their customers won't like the change, and their competitors will use it against them. No competitor is going to try and use the BT throttling against Comcast (it's too difficult to summarize in a sound bite) and the majority of customers don't care (or even understand the issue) so Comcast probably feels this is their best option.
Unfortunately most people don't have a university library near by. What they do have nearby is the local public library which will have none or very few of the university press offerings. I suppose it is possible to retrieve some of those university publications through the inter-library loan programs but that's not going to be obvious to most people. Nor will most people even know what they might want to get from another library. Lastly, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that university libraries are more particular about who comes in so it might be hard to get in if you don't have proper ID.
At some point in time. The problem is that corporations are pushing for the IP protections to last long beyond when the IP was created. I can see patents lasting for 19 years, but should they be extended to last 95 years like copyright (for businesses.) The idea behind IP is to provide some protection for the creator but there was a limit put on it so the creation could go into the public for the public good. I think we've lost sight of that in an effort to protect companies like Disney.
Personally I think Disney is creative enough to keep people interested in their products and visiting their theme parks even if the copyright on their characters was over. However it seems unlikely that will ever happen because they (and others) push Congress to extend the life of a copyright every time we get close to their creations entering the public domain. I don't believe the idea behind copyright was ever to protect a business forever.
So to get back your business it's right to give your business time to develop your product and market, but it's not right to grant your company a right to that idea in perpetuity. The question becomes how long is reasonable. For patents 19 years seems more than long enough. For copyright, I'm not sure what number is right, but it seems like 50 years is more than long enough to develop a market and rake in any profits. Heck, it's longer than the average person will be in the workforce and it's certainly longer than many companies will be around. So what is gained by extending the copyright duration beyond some value like 50 years?
They don't have to mandate the music gets released in only MP3 format. Just that MP3 is available. That way everyone can get it in MP3 format, and they have the option of going for a higher quality version in some other format such as AAC or FLAC or whatever the hot codec of the month might be.
It wasn't because of the study, as I recall. People worked harder when the environment changed. After a while productivity would drop back to the normal level. If they kept changing things on a regular basis (lighting levels, painting walls, perhaps moving some people around) it could keep the productivity at a higher level. Obviously there's a limit on what things can be changed since some changes (too much noise) could have a negative impact on productivity.
Actually that's probably not far from wrong. Almost any technical book these people are likely to need can be found in an electronic form, and it might prove worthwhile for the company to buy them in electronic form and provide access to them for the employees. I know my former company did that (though they didn't advertise it very well.) Still, I have to say that I like having the hard copy book available, or some times I find having a hard copy of code available helps me to work on a problem.
I suspect what the original poster was talking about is the use of more parts of the animals that we don't tend to use in the USA. It's stuff that gets used quite a bit in high end restaurants but at home you won't tend to find people using sweetbreads or other bits of offal that may be used quite often in other countries.
As to the other parts of your post I can't say I find the food disgusting in either country. Sure, if you go to a fast food place you will get lots fat and lots of sugar. That can win over people if the taste isn't there from other sources and it's cheap and easy to do so the food factories choose that path. However in actual restaurants in Spain and in the USA I have found real food which tastes good. Yes, you will find more sweet choices in the USA but you don't have to go for those choices. Also people complain about the portion sizes, but there's no need to eat all of what they offer if you don't want it.
You are forgetting one of the most important factors in business. Time to market. A fantastic product that's been optimized as much as possible is wonderful, but it won't matter if someone else already has a similar product and controls the marketplace (See how hard AMD has to work to take market share from Intel, or Apple from Microsoft.) Once someone has the market (and the mind share) it's very hard to win it back.
So businesses concentrate on getting their product to market as quickly as possible. Yes, that means that products like the Penryn may not be as efficient as possible, but if they are good enough and in the marketplace soon enough, then that is enough to make the company money. Also keep in mind, as I understand it, the back end of the Intel processors may be changing greatly ever few years if the engineers find a better way to speed up their processors. So the underlying micro-code may only have a few years to be worked on before it is replaced with something new. That will greatly limit the amount of time the engineers have to optimize the code, and limit the amount of time and money the company wants to put in to such efforts.
That works well (using dry ice) but who is in a situation where they need home made ice cream right this minute? I mean, if I have to go to the grocery store to pick up the dry ice, why not pick up some ice cream at the same time.
I think what food chemists (and chefs using food chemistry) is great, but some of what they do isn't really practical for home use, or even for most chefs. Things like liquid nitrogen are nice toys but they aren't the sort of thing you are likely to have around the house. Though it is wonderful what liquid nitrogen can do to food. Since it quickly freezes food the textures stay almost exactly the same. It's not the sort of thing most chefs use, but it's great for frozen food packagers.
I wouldn't read too much into it. It's probably just based on the idea that most of the developers of the product that are on Windows are using XP. So they feel most confident it will work well on XP. Though it may work great on the other versions of Windows.
Yes, but as you say the guy is play WoW. Other games have much more intense graphic demands which would run very slowly on the existing graphics hardware. That's why people want something beefier in the way of graphics hardware. If you don't play recent games then that may not be an issue, which is why Apple hasn't rushed out a new solution. They think the existing market is big enough they don't need to address the needs of people with heavier graphic needs since they have larger systems that can address those needs.
It works now, but from what I've read it appears that Comcast plans to encrypt those HD channels. So while you may be able to receive them today, that may change tomorrow. In any case, a new customer should check if the local HD channels are broadcast in the clear on their cable system or not.
Keep in mind the OP was calling from the number he wanted disconnected. So the phone company knew he was in the house. That's usually taken as a enough of a sign that the person is authorized to change the service contract.
Maybe he was just talking about how it is sometimes wise to check in with the embassy so they know you are in the area. I can see that being wise in areas that aren't stable and where kidnappings are common. That way the embassy knows you are in the area and may be able to take action if you disappear.
It's not as good as what you get but Comcast offer something like it for an introductory rate of around $99 for HS Internet (probably the 6 MBit package for most of the nation though some areas might get the 16Mbit if there is competition), Digital Phone service (free long distance through the US and some other locations) and Digital TV service. I think the rate goes to around $120/month after the first year when the introductory rate is over.
Interesting. I hadn't heard anything about it, but I also didn't see anything that suggested they were using the new technology. I had Americast from Bellsouth years ago (probably 1999 or so) until MediaOne took over the service to my complex, and then got bought out by Comcast. I also don't see anything about the combined services so I think what Atlanta is getting is the old fiber delivery to the node that Americast used back then, and not the VDSL service that AT&T is likely using for the new system.
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We don't know how much artificial gravity humans need to stay healthy. That's been one of the concerns about trying to go to Mars. Presumably if they went there they would stay for some time. So they are in some very reduced or zero gravity environment for the trip to and from Mars, and then at a 0.3g (I think that's the number) environment while on Mars. Can that be done and have people stay healthy? That's something they keep working on.
Yep, because the thing a company that is going out of business worries about the most is keeping happy the customers that bought a product long ago. We all believe that, right?
Actually, yes.. Just that kind of thing can happen when planes land to refuel or a plane that had no intention to land in the USA can be forced to land because of mechanical problems.
That's just a sign of how secure it is.
The issue isn't that companies want to create a profit. I think everyone understands this. What has happened over the past few decades is that companies have begun to focus on the short term profits. So they will cut costs/workers in order to make the numbers for this quarter look good. Even if they know that the money they are saving is going to hurt profits next year.
Except for the fact that the guy didn't plan on selling the stocks at this time. So it was a paper loss until the bank panicked. If he hadn't been discovered he would have held onto the stocks and in time the stocks would probably have gone back up. Possibly enough to make the bank quite a bit of money when they were liquidated.
But he didn't steal. The money never left the bank, and from all accounts he never intended to take any of the money. He did conduct fraud within the confines of the bank but it was done to make himself look better. I'm not sure that he broke any laws. Although I'm certain he broke rules that the bank had that's not the same as the criminal acts of fraud and theft. As to him still being on the bank's staff I don't see that it makes much difference if he isn't allowed in the office, and isn't getting paid. He's effectively a non-employee at this time, from the sound of it.
I understand what you are saying about DPI but the problem you describe with web sites sounds more like a problem with a caching server. If there caching server is misbehaving, or is overloaded then you could have problems with certain sites given that you will be directed to the caching server and not directly to the web site. Given that the proxy server worked for you (and I presume you were still on your normal ISP at the time) it does tend to enforce the idea that it's a caching server issue.
BT traffic can impact traffic but it can't lock someone out. THE CMTS will make room give a new CM a slot in the next pass. The big thing to keep in mind is that Comcast doesn't allow any cable modem enough upload bandwidth to saturate a node no matter what kind of traffic they are sending. Now if enough people on a node were trying to seed torrents they could effectively saturate the node, though other people could get in but their available upstream bandwidth would be severely limited.
The problem with priorities is that there is no real difference in the traffic coming from a PC doing web browsing or sending an email versus someone uploading via BT. Even if they tried to do a priortization of traffic via ports used, or type of data (TCP vs. UDP) there's the high likelihood that BT would just shift to use that method. DOCSIS does allow for priortization but how do you prevent BT from using the method that's implemented to let HTTP traffic get through?
The real issue Comcast seems to have is how much off network traffic someone uses(that is the traffic that goes from Comcast's network to off the network.) There's no easy way to limit that at the cable modem so if Comcast feels they have to limit this traffic and they can't use something like Sandvine, then I suspect their next step will be to implement some form of throttling like limiting your upstream bandwidth once you go over a certain amount of upstream usage. The problem is they know their customers won't like the change, and their competitors will use it against them. No competitor is going to try and use the BT throttling against Comcast (it's too difficult to summarize in a sound bite) and the majority of customers don't care (or even understand the issue) so Comcast probably feels this is their best option.
Unfortunately most people don't have a university library near by. What they do have nearby is the local public library which will have none or very few of the university press offerings. I suppose it is possible to retrieve some of those university publications through the inter-library loan programs but that's not going to be obvious to most people. Nor will most people even know what they might want to get from another library. Lastly, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that university libraries are more particular about who comes in so it might be hard to get in if you don't have proper ID.
At some point in time. The problem is that corporations are pushing for the IP protections to last long beyond when the IP was created. I can see patents lasting for 19 years, but should they be extended to last 95 years like copyright (for businesses.) The idea behind IP is to provide some protection for the creator but there was a limit put on it so the creation could go into the public for the public good. I think we've lost sight of that in an effort to protect companies like Disney. Personally I think Disney is creative enough to keep people interested in their products and visiting their theme parks even if the copyright on their characters was over. However it seems unlikely that will ever happen because they (and others) push Congress to extend the life of a copyright every time we get close to their creations entering the public domain. I don't believe the idea behind copyright was ever to protect a business forever. So to get back your business it's right to give your business time to develop your product and market, but it's not right to grant your company a right to that idea in perpetuity. The question becomes how long is reasonable. For patents 19 years seems more than long enough. For copyright, I'm not sure what number is right, but it seems like 50 years is more than long enough to develop a market and rake in any profits. Heck, it's longer than the average person will be in the workforce and it's certainly longer than many companies will be around. So what is gained by extending the copyright duration beyond some value like 50 years?
They don't have to mandate the music gets released in only MP3 format. Just that MP3 is available. That way everyone can get it in MP3 format, and they have the option of going for a higher quality version in some other format such as AAC or FLAC or whatever the hot codec of the month might be.
It wasn't because of the study, as I recall. People worked harder when the environment changed. After a while productivity would drop back to the normal level. If they kept changing things on a regular basis (lighting levels, painting walls, perhaps moving some people around) it could keep the productivity at a higher level. Obviously there's a limit on what things can be changed since some changes (too much noise) could have a negative impact on productivity.
Actually that's probably not far from wrong. Almost any technical book these people are likely to need can be found in an electronic form, and it might prove worthwhile for the company to buy them in electronic form and provide access to them for the employees. I know my former company did that (though they didn't advertise it very well.) Still, I have to say that I like having the hard copy book available, or some times I find having a hard copy of code available helps me to work on a problem.
I suspect what the original poster was talking about is the use of more parts of the animals that we don't tend to use in the USA. It's stuff that gets used quite a bit in high end restaurants but at home you won't tend to find people using sweetbreads or other bits of offal that may be used quite often in other countries. As to the other parts of your post I can't say I find the food disgusting in either country. Sure, if you go to a fast food place you will get lots fat and lots of sugar. That can win over people if the taste isn't there from other sources and it's cheap and easy to do so the food factories choose that path. However in actual restaurants in Spain and in the USA I have found real food which tastes good. Yes, you will find more sweet choices in the USA but you don't have to go for those choices. Also people complain about the portion sizes, but there's no need to eat all of what they offer if you don't want it.
You are forgetting one of the most important factors in business. Time to market. A fantastic product that's been optimized as much as possible is wonderful, but it won't matter if someone else already has a similar product and controls the marketplace (See how hard AMD has to work to take market share from Intel, or Apple from Microsoft.) Once someone has the market (and the mind share) it's very hard to win it back. So businesses concentrate on getting their product to market as quickly as possible. Yes, that means that products like the Penryn may not be as efficient as possible, but if they are good enough and in the marketplace soon enough, then that is enough to make the company money. Also keep in mind, as I understand it, the back end of the Intel processors may be changing greatly ever few years if the engineers find a better way to speed up their processors. So the underlying micro-code may only have a few years to be worked on before it is replaced with something new. That will greatly limit the amount of time the engineers have to optimize the code, and limit the amount of time and money the company wants to put in to such efforts.
That works well (using dry ice) but who is in a situation where they need home made ice cream right this minute? I mean, if I have to go to the grocery store to pick up the dry ice, why not pick up some ice cream at the same time. I think what food chemists (and chefs using food chemistry) is great, but some of what they do isn't really practical for home use, or even for most chefs. Things like liquid nitrogen are nice toys but they aren't the sort of thing you are likely to have around the house. Though it is wonderful what liquid nitrogen can do to food. Since it quickly freezes food the textures stay almost exactly the same. It's not the sort of thing most chefs use, but it's great for frozen food packagers.
Someone already came up with solutions that seem to work for both Windows and Linux For Windows: http://redhatcat.blogspot.com/2007/09/beating-sandvine-on-windows-with-wipfw.html For Linux http://redhatcat.blogspot.com/2007/09/beating-sandvine-with-linux-iptables.html
I wouldn't read too much into it. It's probably just based on the idea that most of the developers of the product that are on Windows are using XP. So they feel most confident it will work well on XP. Though it may work great on the other versions of Windows.
Yes, but as you say the guy is play WoW. Other games have much more intense graphic demands which would run very slowly on the existing graphics hardware. That's why people want something beefier in the way of graphics hardware. If you don't play recent games then that may not be an issue, which is why Apple hasn't rushed out a new solution. They think the existing market is big enough they don't need to address the needs of people with heavier graphic needs since they have larger systems that can address those needs.
It works now, but from what I've read it appears that Comcast plans to encrypt those HD channels. So while you may be able to receive them today, that may change tomorrow. In any case, a new customer should check if the local HD channels are broadcast in the clear on their cable system or not.
Keep in mind the OP was calling from the number he wanted disconnected. So the phone company knew he was in the house. That's usually taken as a enough of a sign that the person is authorized to change the service contract.
Maybe he was just talking about how it is sometimes wise to check in with the embassy so they know you are in the area. I can see that being wise in areas that aren't stable and where kidnappings are common. That way the embassy knows you are in the area and may be able to take action if you disappear.
It's not as good as what you get but Comcast offer something like it for an introductory rate of around $99 for HS Internet (probably the 6 MBit package for most of the nation though some areas might get the 16Mbit if there is competition), Digital Phone service (free long distance through the US and some other locations) and Digital TV service. I think the rate goes to around $120/month after the first year when the introductory rate is over.
Interesting. I hadn't heard anything about it, but I also didn't see anything that suggested they were using the new technology. I had Americast from Bellsouth years ago (probably 1999 or so) until MediaOne took over the service to my complex, and then got bought out by Comcast. I also don't see anything about the combined services so I think what Atlanta is getting is the old fiber delivery to the node that Americast used back then, and not the VDSL service that AT&T is likely using for the new system.