I'd be surprised if they even let electric cars drive into a gas station, let alone let them fill up... the risk of sparks leading to fire/explosion is way too great. These will have to be purpose built electric stations.
At a 45 minute fill up time they'll have to be *big* to accomodate all the waiting cars, too.. and provide refereshments/food.
I presume you missed the news when the outbreak first appeared? Mexico became a pariah almost instantly... Flights going there were cancelled, holidays were cancelled. It was shut down, and damn the tourist dollars.
It was only when it was realized that it was actually pretty mild that everyone just backtracked and got on with their lives. Everything since then has basically been scaremongering because they're too embarassed that they mistook an ordinary flu for a killer zombie virus.
Not really - in 1918 WW1 finished and tens (hundreds?) of thousands of soldiers who were living in insanitary conditions all went home, spreading the diseases they had caught to every country of the world. We also knew nothing about how disease spread, and had no drugs to combat bacteria let alone viruses. Something bad was almost bound to hit given that combination of events.
We're not more mobile than that scale of movement of people.. and we have worldwide communications so we can shut down travel fairly quickly if something really bad hits (eg. Sars, where places like Toronto were effectively sealed off based on a few cases).
It was never *that* effective, just better than nothing.
The press make out like it's some kind of miracle flu cure but nothing could be further than the truth - on average it lessens the length of an attack of flu by a couple of days, and makes you marginally less likely to get it in the first place.
We're waiting for the vaccine. Tamiflu is a stopgap.
Very, very few phones support email, and those that do mostly don't come with setups to talk to a compliant SMTP server, because nobody uses it. I once tried to make a nokia do it.. 'its easy' said the fanboys. 3 days later I gave up.. and that's with control of my own SMTP server and the ability to reflash the firmware to enable the email options.
Email is dead, anway. If you want to wade through penis enlargement adverts sure keep using email. Everyone else has moved on.
Indeed. my wife has a unibody macbook pro. Looks nice, until you remember that as it's one piece of metal it's effectively *all* heatsink.. once it's been on for an hour you can't touch the area around the keyboard without serious risk of burning yourself. It overheats randomly as well (as do, from a very unscientific straw poll of friends, all the unibody macs).
They've allowed the site (particularly its reputation) to be essentially destroyed and GGF may not even complete the deal... they simply mess about for a few months then walk away claiming 'no funding'. TPB owners are serving their jail sentence by that time and there's nobody to rescue the remains.
1. They were going to find ways to get people to pay for content 2. They were ditching bittorrent for a proprietary solution
The two are probably linked.. but whatever they my say in a blog (TPB is down again.. can't read it) you can't do those two things and end up with anything that resembles the existing site.
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Yeah but a dev phone has one purpose - for development.
If you buy a phone from a retailer it is *not* a dev phone, and unlocked or not will work fine with all apps.
The dock connector already accepts USB charging.. they just need to produce an adapter cable - which knowing apple will be an optional accessory costing arm+leg.
The market at least in the EU had already pretty much standardised on USB charging.. every non-nokia phone I've had used it. Nokia of course had to be different, but there's only 2 nokia charging standards and adapters are readily available (and since ~70% of the phones you see around are Nokias, it's a sort of standard).
What this does is codify what was already happening.
Prices never reflect cost of production. Prices reflect what the consumer is willing to pay.
As far as the dollar price, I'd expect exchange rates in Japan/China having more of an affect on production cost at least for Hardware. For Software duplication can happen anywhere.. I expect for something like Win7 they'll be duplicating it in Europe and selling it internally (thus avoiding import duties).
32/64 on the same DVD? If the MSDN RC builds are to be believed that isn't true.. each version takes up a DVD of its own. It's possible the retail ships with two DVDs but I've never seen a retail package.
There was a time where to buy OEM windows you had to buy something else like a mouse to make it a 'bundle' but that hasn't been true for years.
OTOH only geeks generally but OEM Windows - the major stores sell at full retail (sometimes considerably higher, with 'free' support) as there's more profit in it.
Yeah I was going to buy CS3 for my wife who has dreams of making money in web design. Then I found out the cost... *then* I found out the cost in the US and realized it would be far cheaper to fly to the US, buy it there and fly back. We dropped the idea..
I think Wal-Mart have a pretty big database about most citizens in the US. I remember reading they're not even the biggest. The credit reference agencies probably have data on most citizens in the western world.
Most governments have databases about their citizens.. Where do you think social security numbers come from?
You can get wildcard certs. for HTTP as well. They cost lots and lots of $$$
You wonder how much getting a domain signed is going to cost... thing Verisign is going to turn down a cash cow that big? I'd be surprised if they charge less than $1000 per domain.
Ultimately, as Verisign signs the root, all paths (and all money) leads to them - and that's why they're pushing DNSSEC so much.
Oh and I'd add the thing is f..ing *hideously* complex to setup, with multiple competing implementations that aren't compatible with each other because some have special DNS tags, some use TXT records, the formats keep changing, etc. Spent 4 days on it once.. I got maybe 10% of the available dnssec testers to even recognize that I implemented their brand of dnssec.
1. Without an unbroken chain of trust to the root, it's worthless. Self signed DNSSEC is no better than no DNSSEC. 2. It's vulnerable to MITM attacks - just strip the DNSSEC information from the returned packets and return a normal (modified) DNS reply. 3. Because of the chain of trust setting it up will cost $$$ - probably going to Verisign, as usual. 4. Until absolutely everyone in the world uses DNSSEC the fallback to normal DNS cannot be removed, so 2. remains a problem. 3. guarantees that this will never happen.
If the current is $employee[0], then logically $employee[-1] is the previous one. I'm guessing the $ signs mean perl.. I haven't used negative indexes like that in years, didn't know any other language than C supported them.
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I'd be surprised if they even let electric cars drive into a gas station, let alone let them fill up... the risk of sparks leading to fire/explosion is way too great. These will have to be purpose built electric stations.
At a 45 minute fill up time they'll have to be *big* to accomodate all the waiting cars, too.. and provide refereshments/food.
Our government stockpiled 30 million doses of the stuff.
Sure, we get it free.. but we already paid for this snakeoil. And the press keep treating it like it's a vaccine.
I presume you missed the news when the outbreak first appeared? Mexico became a pariah almost instantly... Flights going there were cancelled, holidays were cancelled. It was shut down, and damn the tourist dollars.
It was only when it was realized that it was actually pretty mild that everyone just backtracked and got on with their lives. Everything since then has basically been scaremongering because they're too embarassed that they mistook an ordinary flu for a killer zombie virus.
Not really - in 1918 WW1 finished and tens (hundreds?) of thousands of soldiers who were living in insanitary conditions all went home, spreading the diseases they had caught to every country of the world. We also knew nothing about how disease spread, and had no drugs to combat bacteria let alone viruses. Something bad was almost bound to hit given that combination of events.
We're not more mobile than that scale of movement of people.. and we have worldwide communications so we can shut down travel fairly quickly if something really bad hits (eg. Sars, where places like Toronto were effectively sealed off based on a few cases).
It was never *that* effective, just better than nothing.
The press make out like it's some kind of miracle flu cure but nothing could be further than the truth - on average it lessens the length of an attack of flu by a couple of days, and makes you marginally less likely to get it in the first place.
We're waiting for the vaccine. Tamiflu is a stopgap.
Very, very few phones support email, and those that do mostly don't come with setups to talk to a compliant SMTP server, because nobody uses it. I once tried to make a nokia do it.. 'its easy' said the fanboys. 3 days later I gave up.. and that's with control of my own SMTP server and the ability to reflash the firmware to enable the email options.
Email is dead, anway. If you want to wade through penis enlargement adverts sure keep using email. Everyone else has moved on.
Wrong on both counts.
1. iPhones do SMS
2. MMS is not HTTP.. not even close.
They also claimed passive smoking didn't exist and their GM programme should have had 'Sponsored by Monsanto' on the credits.
It's a comedy show.. it's not *supposed* to make sense.
Indeed. my wife has a unibody macbook pro. Looks nice, until you remember that as it's one piece of metal it's effectively *all* heatsink.. once it's been on for an hour you can't touch the area around the keyboard without serious risk of burning yourself. It overheats randomly as well (as do, from a very unscientific straw poll of friends, all the unibody macs).
Could the TPB owners be that naive?
They've allowed the site (particularly its reputation) to be essentially destroyed and GGF may not even complete the deal... they simply mess about for a few months then walk away claiming 'no funding'. TPB owners are serving their jail sentence by that time and there's nobody to rescue the remains.
Worrried? Nope. There are plenty of other sites.
Their press release said 2 things:
1. They were going to find ways to get people to pay for content
2. They were ditching bittorrent for a proprietary solution
The two are probably linked.. but whatever they my say in a blog (TPB is down again.. can't read it) you can't do those two things and end up with anything that resembles the existing site.
Yeah but a dev phone has one purpose - for development.
If you buy a phone from a retailer it is *not* a dev phone, and unlocked or not will work fine with all apps.
The dock connector already accepts USB charging.. they just need to produce an adapter cable - which knowing apple will be an optional accessory costing arm+leg.
The market at least in the EU had already pretty much standardised on USB charging.. every non-nokia phone I've had used it. Nokia of course had to be different, but there's only 2 nokia charging standards and adapters are readily available (and since ~70% of the phones you see around are Nokias, it's a sort of standard).
What this does is codify what was already happening.
Prices never reflect cost of production. Prices reflect what the consumer is willing to pay.
As far as the dollar price, I'd expect exchange rates in Japan/China having more of an affect on production cost at least for Hardware. For Software duplication can happen anywhere.. I expect for something like Win7 they'll be duplicating it in Europe and selling it internally (thus avoiding import duties).
32/64 on the same DVD? If the MSDN RC builds are to be believed that isn't true.. each version takes up a DVD of its own. It's possible the retail ships with two DVDs but I've never seen a retail package.
There was a time where to buy OEM windows you had to buy something else like a mouse to make it a 'bundle' but that hasn't been true for years.
OTOH only geeks generally but OEM Windows - the major stores sell at full retail (sometimes considerably higher, with 'free' support) as there's more profit in it.
Yeah I was going to buy CS3 for my wife who has dreams of making money in web design. Then I found out the cost... *then* I found out the cost in the US and realized it would be far cheaper to fly to the US, buy it there and fly back. We dropped the idea..
I think Wal-Mart have a pretty big database about most citizens in the US. I remember reading they're not even the biggest. The credit reference agencies probably have data on most citizens in the western world.
Most governments have databases about their citizens.. Where do you think social security numbers come from?
Clearly the boogie is to blame.
You can get wildcard certs. for HTTP as well. They cost lots and lots of $$$
You wonder how much getting a domain signed is going to cost... thing Verisign is going to turn down a cash cow that big? I'd be surprised if they charge less than $1000 per domain.
Ultimately, as Verisign signs the root, all paths (and all money) leads to them - and that's why they're pushing DNSSEC so much.
Oh and I'd add the thing is f..ing *hideously* complex to setup, with multiple competing implementations that aren't compatible with each other because some have special DNS tags, some use TXT records, the formats keep changing, etc. Spent 4 days on it once.. I got maybe 10% of the available dnssec testers to even recognize that I implemented their brand of dnssec.
DNSSEC has two big problems:
1. Without an unbroken chain of trust to the root, it's worthless. Self signed DNSSEC is no better than no DNSSEC.
2. It's vulnerable to MITM attacks - just strip the DNSSEC information from the returned packets and return a normal (modified) DNS reply.
3. Because of the chain of trust setting it up will cost $$$ - probably going to Verisign, as usual.
4. Until absolutely everyone in the world uses DNSSEC the fallback to normal DNS cannot be removed, so 2. remains a problem. 3. guarantees that this will never happen.
If the current is $employee[0], then logically $employee[-1] is the previous one. I'm guessing the $ signs mean perl.. I haven't used negative indexes like that in years, didn't know any other language than C supported them.
What? There are only, like 100 of the damned things.
This isn't like the US where the ISPs have carved out local monopolies.