GE did bid for Westinghouse. Some 13 companies including GE, Framatome ANP, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Daewoo, Shaw Group, Hitachi, all bid for Westinghouse. Toshiba just won the bidding. However, they're discussing a partnership with Shaw Group to allay US Government fears (the US government backed the GE bid).
CANDU reactors (as currently constructed in Canada) have a positive void coefficient and can't be licensed in the US. A next-generation design (the ACR-700) is undergoing licensing in the US but is not drawing much attention as its competitors (Framatome's EPR, GE's ABWR & ESBWR, Westinghouse's AP-1000) are all higher power output reactors.
Sounds like some sort of bastardization of Cantonese. Surely you realize that the national language of the PRC is Mandarin, Cantonese is the "prestige dialect" in the southeastern province of Guangdong as well as Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. Searching in cantonese jyutping wouldn't be understandable to most of the country.
English: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Cantonese jyutping: jat ji saam sei ng luk cat baat gau sap Cantonese (english speaker) yat ee sam say ng lock gat baht gao sahp Mandarin (pin-yin): yi er san si wu liu chi ba jiu shi Mandarin (as pronounced by English speaker): ee er san sll wu liu chee ba jiu sher
No, his Triumph Spitfire would have had Zenith-Stromberg carbs. In the early to mid 60's (before the formation of British Leyland) there were 2 primary auto manufactures in the UK, British Motor Corp (BMC) and Standard-Triumph. As I've heard it told BMC owned SU who made the carbs and decided to stop selling them to Standard-Triumph, who quickly came up with a design that wouldn't violate the SU patents by using a diaphragm to control piston motion and convinced Zenith/Solex to manufacture it as the Zenith-Stromberg (Stromberg was the Standard-Triumph person behind the design). In the late 60's/early 70's British Leyland was formed by the merger of BMC & Standard-Triumph but Triumphs (like his Triumph Spitfire) kept using Zenith-Stromberg carburettors. Incidently the Z-S 175CD (most common) and SU HS6 (most common) are directly interchangeable as are other models I believe.
What have you heard bad about Keenspot? Granted, the only webcomic I read on their servers with any regularity is Nukees but I haven't heard any real problems with them. Not that I've been looking either (just a reader, not an artist).
What's your point? The contest is hosted by the Psi Chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity, the national engineering fraternity, not by PSPE or even NSPE. It started as a competition between different clubs at Purdue and has expanded beyond it to some other universities, but is still largely a Purdue event. It makes sense then that Purdue tends to do well, groups at Purdue have been building these for decades competing against each other.
but come on guys, would you really want Linux supporting your nuclear arsonal
I can't speak for the nuclear arsonal, but Linux is supporting reactor systems at at least some power plants, we had a speaker on it last semester at one of the Purdue Chapter of the American Nuclear Society meetings. And quite frankly I don't have a problem with it. Nor does the software author who chose Linux specifically because it was open source so he knew exactly what he was putting in place and trusted it.
Shell IS at www.shell.com, but they are an international conglomerate, made up of many smaller companies opperating in different nations. They may want www.shell.de for their Shell Oil Germany or something.
Actually, according to the FAQ on Ximian's site (don't have an exact URL, but it's on the help menu in the latest nightly build), you CAN use Outlook with the Windows PC's and be compatible with Evolution. All you have to do is use the standard protocols (LDAP, etc) instead of the MSFT proprietary ones. Just a little food for thought as your business is growing away from Windows (now if only ALL businesses would...)
If the west was so smart in its nuclear power strategy Three Mile Island would never have been choosen as a site with Manhattan right next door.
Forgive me if I misconstrued your statement, but Three Mile Island is by Harrisburg, PA in Southern PA (the area I live in). Manhattan is roughly 150 miles away (not large on a Global scale, but somewhere like Philadelphia would have been a greater concern)
As the devil's advocate, the US Government says that a plane owned by the US Government was in international waters. The Chinese government says the plane was in China. The Pentagon is not releasing their communications between the pilots and them. Isn't there the possiblity that our spy plane was spying in China's airspace, and we don't want to/can't admit it?
First of all, the Neomagic chipsets are on Vaio laptops, his question was about the desktops, but never mind.
As for the Neomagic chipset, all but one of the chipsets used are supported under XFree86 3.3.6, and all of them are supported with all features under XFree86 4.0. The Direct3D question I can't answer though.
Check Linux on Laptops for more info (I don't have a link, but there is one on my page for the Vaio F540 - http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~ ole nik/vaioF-540.html
Actually, in the US you CAN register a "no vote". I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it as an option. What you do is you go to the polls, enter, then vote for any local officials you want to, but do not choose a presidential candidate. It is recorded that you voted, and did not choose ANY candidate for President.
I may be misreading this, so let me know if I'm wrong, but I believe it sounds like Bruce Schneier is against Bluetooth. I don't know the reasons behind it, or why he believes there are "too many things that can go wrong", but here are my feelings on the issue.
1) This is a protocol issue. It's basically saying that in the current form of the protocol, a machine's identity could be marked. Big deal. This is a completely new technology which is still being developed. When holes are discovered in technologies in wide use, there's a problem. When they are discovered in a yet-to-be released product, the problems can be fixed. Bruce is premature in his attack on Bluetooth.
2) Kudos to the Lucent team who discovered the problem. Not only did they search and find the problem, showing they are dedicated to this project and its security, but they told the world. It would have been all too easy to hide the problem and fix it, but they spread the word, even though the technology is not really in active use. This says to me again that they are dedicated to fixing the problems and keeping Bluetooth secure, which makes me more interested in using it. I'm not paranoid, nor do I feel like I'm a particular target for espionage, however, I enjoy my freedoms just as much as anyone else, including my right to privacy, and if Lucent and the rest of the developers are working to make sure I continue to enjoy that privacy, I'm just a little bit happier. Congratulations to the Lucent team and keep up the good work.
>Perhaps someone more conversant in interstate commerce than I can enlighten us as to how this works with mailorder catalogs
>right now? That would seem to be the closest guidline that I can think of.
I used to work for a mail-order store in Pennsylvania. We charged the PA 6% tax for Pennsylvania residents, and for anyone who picked up the products at our warehouse. Everyone else got off tax free. If you are having an internet tax, I don't see how it could be any other way than this.
From looking over the posts about the FreePad, I get the same message over and over again. If it's not "free as in beer", we're not interested; it's not powerful enough; etc... Some people need to realize that there IS a word larger than the geek compound. Sure, the open source community would be happier if it used XFree86 and an open-source browser. However, what about this closed source stuff? Most open-source is GPL'd, which they might have trouble with if they need to make substantial modifications to the programs for use on their embedded systems. Remember, they designed their distro from scratch. They have access to the source for Opera and Nano-X, and they said code will be released into the community. Perhaps Opera and Nano-X will be released as Netscape was, from closed to open. And as for the power issue. These systems are not targeting the geeks of the world with their 1ghz servers and Transmeta laptops. They are targeting John Doe's grandmother, who is 78 years old and has never used a computer. They are targeting Jim Corporate who discovers that he can use this instead of lugging projectors and overheads around the office for presentations. They are targeting everyday people, trying to make their lives better. And they are doing it with Linux. What does this mean? This means that, if it catches on, a whole generation of suits will be given a reason to start using open-source software. This means that people may start to realize that open-source/= security problem. This is a chance to get Linux into the hands of the people who WILL make a difference, the consumers. We can try all we want to force Linux on the world, but unless your average consumer starts asking for Linux, it won't make it in a Wintel world. Let's give FreePad a chance, and hope it sets the world on fire.
From 2600's site:
"On August 17, 2000, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York confirmed that offering, providing, or trafficking in DeCSS, or any other device designed to circumvent CSS, violates the DMCA. The district court granted a permanent injunction against (1) posting on any Internet site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in DeCSS or any other technology primarily designed to circumvent CSS,
and..."
I didn't look up the actual text in the ruling, but here's an intersting thought. My VAIO came with software in Windows called the "Sony Media Bar." Among other things, it plays DVD's. From my understanding of the ruling, the Sony Media Bar, and any other "licensed" DVD player, hardware OR software, is a "technology primarily designed to circumvent CSS" since that is how a DVD is played. Does this make the very act of using an "Oritron" DVD player sold at Walmart for $124.94 just as illegal as using LIVID in Linux, or the Sony Media Bar under Windows? Listen up MPAA, you'd better go Sony and Walmart now, they're violating your intellectual property rights under the DMCA.
--"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is not a path and leave a trail." - Muriel Strode
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GE did bid for Westinghouse. Some 13 companies including GE, Framatome ANP, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Daewoo, Shaw Group, Hitachi, all bid for Westinghouse. Toshiba just won the bidding. However, they're discussing a partnership with Shaw Group to allay US Government fears (the US government backed the GE bid).
CANDU reactors (as currently constructed in Canada) have a positive void coefficient and can't be licensed in the US. A next-generation design (the ACR-700) is undergoing licensing in the US but is not drawing much attention as its competitors (Framatome's EPR, GE's ABWR & ESBWR, Westinghouse's AP-1000) are all higher power output reactors.
What dialect is that?
Sounds like some sort of bastardization of Cantonese. Surely you realize that the national language of the PRC is Mandarin, Cantonese is the "prestige dialect" in the southeastern province of Guangdong as well as Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. Searching in cantonese jyutping wouldn't be understandable to most of the country.
English: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten
Cantonese jyutping: jat ji saam sei ng luk cat baat gau sap
Cantonese (english speaker) yat ee sam say ng lock gat baht gao sahp
Mandarin (pin-yin): yi er san si wu liu chi ba jiu shi
Mandarin (as pronounced by English speaker): ee er san sll wu liu chee ba jiu sher
No, his Triumph Spitfire would have had Zenith-Stromberg carbs. In the early to mid 60's (before the formation of British Leyland) there were 2 primary auto manufactures in the UK, British Motor Corp (BMC) and Standard-Triumph. As I've heard it told BMC owned SU who made the carbs and decided to stop selling them to Standard-Triumph, who quickly came up with a design that wouldn't violate the SU patents by using a diaphragm to control piston motion and convinced Zenith/Solex to manufacture it as the Zenith-Stromberg (Stromberg was the Standard-Triumph person behind the design). In the late 60's/early 70's British Leyland was formed by the merger of BMC & Standard-Triumph but Triumphs (like his Triumph Spitfire) kept using Zenith-Stromberg carburettors. Incidently the Z-S 175CD (most common) and SU HS6 (most common) are directly interchangeable as are other models I believe.
Don't forget the crackers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Red Hat logo a red fedora, hence the name Fedora for their community project?
What have you heard bad about Keenspot? Granted, the only webcomic I read on their servers with any regularity is Nukees but I haven't heard any real problems with them. Not that I've been looking either (just a reader, not an artist).
What's your point? The contest is hosted by the Psi Chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity, the national engineering fraternity, not by PSPE or even NSPE. It started as a competition between different clubs at Purdue and has expanded beyond it to some other universities, but is still largely a Purdue event. It makes sense then that Purdue tends to do well, groups at Purdue have been building these for decades competing against each other.
but come on guys, would you really want Linux supporting your nuclear arsonal
I can't speak for the nuclear arsonal, but Linux is supporting reactor systems at at least some power plants, we had a speaker on it last semester at one of the Purdue Chapter of the American Nuclear Society meetings. And quite frankly I don't have a problem with it. Nor does the software author who chose Linux specifically because it was open source so he knew exactly what he was putting in place and trusted it.
Shell IS at www.shell.com, but they are an international conglomerate, made up of many smaller companies opperating in different nations. They may want www.shell.de for their Shell Oil Germany or something.
Actually, according to the FAQ on Ximian's site (don't have an exact URL, but it's on the help menu in the latest nightly build), you CAN use Outlook with the Windows PC's and be compatible with Evolution. All you have to do is use the standard protocols (LDAP, etc) instead of the MSFT proprietary ones. Just a little food for thought as your business is growing away from Windows (now if only ALL businesses would...)
Forgive me if I misconstrued your statement, but Three Mile Island is by Harrisburg, PA in Southern PA (the area I live in). Manhattan is roughly 150 miles away (not large on a Global scale, but somewhere like Philadelphia would have been a greater concern)
First of all, the Neomagic chipsets are on Vaio laptops, his question was about the desktops, but never mind.
As for the Neomagic chipset, all but one of the chipsets used are supported under XFree86 3.3.6, and all of them are supported with all features under XFree86 4.0. The Direct3D question I can't answer though.
Check Linux on Laptops for more info (I don't have a link, but there is one on my page for the Vaio F540 - http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~ ole nik/vaioF-540.html
Actually, in the US you CAN register a "no vote". I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it as an option. What you do is you go to the polls, enter, then vote for any local officials you want to, but do not choose a presidential candidate. It is recorded that you voted, and did not choose ANY candidate for President.
1) This is a protocol issue. It's basically saying that in the current form of the protocol, a machine's identity could be marked. Big deal. This is a completely new technology which is still being developed. When holes are discovered in technologies in wide use, there's a problem. When they are discovered in a yet-to-be released product, the problems can be fixed. Bruce is premature in his attack on Bluetooth.
2) Kudos to the Lucent team who discovered the problem. Not only did they search and find the problem, showing they are dedicated to this project and its security, but they told the world. It would have been all too easy to hide the problem and fix it, but they spread the word, even though the technology is not really in active use. This says to me again that they are dedicated to fixing the problems and keeping Bluetooth secure, which makes me more interested in using it. I'm not paranoid, nor do I feel like I'm a particular target for espionage, however, I enjoy my freedoms just as much as anyone else, including my right to privacy, and if Lucent and the rest of the developers are working to make sure I continue to enjoy that privacy, I'm just a little bit happier. Congratulations to the Lucent team and keep up the good work.
I used to work for a mail-order store in Pennsylvania. We charged the PA 6% tax for Pennsylvania residents, and for anyone who picked up the products at our warehouse. Everyone else got off tax free. If you are having an internet tax, I don't see how it could be any other way than this.
"On August 17, 2000, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York confirmed that offering, providing, or trafficking in DeCSS, or any other device designed to circumvent CSS, violates the DMCA. The district court granted a permanent injunction against (1) posting on any Internet site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in DeCSS or any other technology primarily designed to circumvent CSS, and..."
I didn't look up the actual text in the ruling, but here's an intersting thought. My VAIO came with software in Windows called the "Sony Media Bar." Among other things, it plays DVD's. From my understanding of the ruling, the Sony Media Bar, and any other "licensed" DVD player, hardware OR software, is a "technology primarily designed to circumvent CSS" since that is how a DVD is played. Does this make the very act of using an "Oritron" DVD player sold at Walmart for $124.94 just as illegal as using LIVID in Linux, or the Sony Media Bar under Windows? Listen up MPAA, you'd better go Sony and Walmart now, they're violating your intellectual property rights under the DMCA.
--"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is not a path and leave a trail." - Muriel Strode