I think your argument is reasonable, but giving the Administrator account a backdoor is a very bad idea. While someone should have the ability to recover the data, that ability shouldn't be bundled in with all the other powers of the Administrator account. There are plenty of classes of sensitive information that some random geek in the IT department should never be able to access.
Bad presumption. Many people have lost fortunes on Wall Street in the mistaken belief that economic models that predict past behavior can be used to predict future behavior. I can write an equation that almost perfectly predicts the behavior of X (temperature, rainfall, GNP, etc.) over the last 100 years. That same equation has absolutely no predictive value for the future.
Many of these systems used to be on private networks built from dedicated leased data lines. That was expensive.
One day, some bright person discovered that they could save a ton of money by switching to a public network. Management said "Hot Shit! Another vacation home in the Alps!" and it was done.
He has a point. The world has too many software zealots who loudly proclaim that X is the cure to all of your problems, even if something else is a better choice. They are more interested in promoting X than solving your problem.
There are plenty of authors who create great works of art over the course of a lifetime. The same can be said for actors, directors, screenplay writers, composers and musicians.
If your profession is dependent on your body, like a dancer or an actress in Hollywood, then you have a problem.
Common carriers are required to offer their services to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. That is something that most businesses are unwilling to do. Your local telephone company is a common carrier. Your local ISP, as a general rule, is not a common carrier.
Since when did Linus Torvalds become an expert in the design of new operating systems? I'm serious.
He's a very smart guy and a gifted programmer, but he has restricted himself to a niche, implementing UNIX compatible operating systems on Intel architecture computers.
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It isn't that expensive to produce a custom keyboard. Most of the parts are standardized items.
I like the use of color for groups of related keys.
It's better than the soul-destroying beige that most companies use.
Fallout levels depend on whether they are ground or air bursts, and weather patterns. Fallout radiation levels decay quickly. Very little land would be uninhabitable for long periods of time. Contamination is relative. People can live and farm on land that is heavily contaminated by modern radiation safety standards without immediate and severe health problems. Human populations are surprisingly resilient when exposed to non-fatal levels of radiation. If you survive the first 60 days after the event, you will probably live a normal life.
Let's say that Pakistan and India go to war, and it escalates to nuclear war. Each side is estimated to have roughly 70 small fission weapons. Even if all of these weapons were assembled, delivered and detonated, the global environmental effects would be minimal. A substantial number of Indians and Pakistanis would be killed or injured, and the political and economic consequences would probably be severe for the region, but there would still be very large human populations in the area. Life would suck, even more than usual, for the survivors. The cities would be rebuilt and life would continue.
It isn't a revenue source for the NWS. The federal government doesn't work that way. All of the money collected by the NWS, or any other government agency, goes into the general fund. The only way for the NWS to get money from the general fund is through the congressional budget process.
You pay those high prices because the market for the software is small. Niche software can't be economically produced at mass market prices. Even if they sold the software at cost, it would still be expensive.
I can't help thinking that they are going to get laughed out of court by the judge. Their suit presumes a bunch of "rights" that I've never heard of. If I'm a patent holder, I can be a total bastard about licensing the patent. If the prospective licensees don't like it, too bad.
The article assumes that Chinese DVD makers are paying licensing fees on their current products. I've read that many don't pay or are way behind in their payments. That's part of the reason that their products are so cheap.
Audio coders can have the advantage of simplicity. For example, delta modulation, which is easy to implement, has very low latency and degrades gracefully on high BER channels.
-48 VDC is the open-circuit voltage. When the phone goes off-hook, the voltage seen at the phone will be dependent on the loop current and resistance of the telephone, since the phone is in the center of a series resistor circuit. The central office battery still supplies -48 VDC, the voltage drops in the circuit just change when the loop current changes.
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I think your argument is reasonable, but giving the Administrator account a backdoor is a very bad idea. While someone should have the ability to recover the data, that ability shouldn't be bundled in with all the other powers of the Administrator account. There are plenty of classes of sensitive information that some random geek in the IT department should never be able to access.
Bad presumption. Many people have lost fortunes on Wall Street in the mistaken belief that economic models that predict past behavior can be used to predict future behavior. I can write an equation that almost perfectly predicts the behavior of X (temperature, rainfall, GNP, etc.) over the last 100 years. That same equation has absolutely no predictive value for the future.
Many of these systems used to be on private networks built from dedicated leased data lines. That was expensive.
One day, some bright person discovered that they could save a ton of money by switching to a public network. Management said "Hot Shit! Another vacation home in the Alps!" and it was done.
I suppose you've never been at a demonstration where all of the cops "spontaneously" decide to cover up the numbers on their badges.
He has a point. The world has too many software zealots who loudly proclaim that X is the cure to all of your problems, even if something else is a better choice. They are more interested in promoting X than solving your problem.
If your profession is dependent on your body, like a dancer or an actress in Hollywood, then you have a problem.
Common carriers are required to offer their services to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. That is something that most businesses are unwilling to do. Your local telephone company is a common carrier. Your local ISP, as a general rule, is not a common carrier.
I can ban you from my business if I don't like you.
He's a very smart guy and a gifted programmer, but he has restricted himself to a niche, implementing UNIX compatible operating systems on Intel architecture computers.
I like the use of color for groups of related keys. It's better than the soul-destroying beige that most companies use.
Different source. Different mix of isotopes. Different political system, economy and land usage.
Getting reliable numbers for the effects of Chernobyl is almost impossible.
Fallout levels depend on whether they are ground or air bursts, and weather patterns. Fallout radiation levels decay quickly. Very little land would be uninhabitable for long periods of time. Contamination is relative. People can live and farm on land that is heavily contaminated by modern radiation safety standards without immediate and severe health problems. Human populations are surprisingly resilient when exposed to non-fatal levels of radiation. If you survive the first 60 days after the event, you will probably live a normal life.
See http://www.rerf.or.jp/top/qae.htm for data on radiation effects from Japan.
Let's say that Pakistan and India go to war, and it escalates to nuclear war. Each side is estimated to have roughly 70 small fission weapons. Even if all of these weapons were assembled, delivered and detonated, the global environmental effects would be minimal. A substantial number of Indians and Pakistanis would be killed or injured, and the political and economic consequences would probably be severe for the region, but there would still be very large human populations in the area. Life would suck, even more than usual, for the survivors. The cities would be rebuilt and life would continue.
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It isn't a revenue source for the NWS. The federal government doesn't work that way. All of the money collected by the NWS, or any other government agency, goes into the general fund. The only way for the NWS to get money from the general fund is through the congressional budget process.
You pay those high prices because the market for the software is small. Niche software can't be economically produced at mass market prices. Even if they sold the software at cost, it would still be expensive.
That's what you think. You forgot "allegedly".
You can't call up your local software reseller and ask for Evil Empire IV, originally developed for the KGB.
The article assumes that Chinese DVD makers are paying licensing fees on their current products. I've read that many don't pay or are way behind in their payments. That's part of the reason that their products are so cheap.
Audio coders can have the advantage of simplicity. For example, delta modulation, which is easy to implement, has very low latency and degrades gracefully on high BER channels.
-48 VDC is the open-circuit voltage. When the phone goes off-hook, the voltage seen at the phone will be dependent on the loop current and resistance of the telephone, since the phone is in the center of a series resistor circuit. The central office battery still supplies -48 VDC, the voltage drops in the circuit just change when the loop current changes.
It's usually -48 VDC, supplied by a bank of batteries in the central office.
I've updated the firmware on my camera several times, to fix bugs and improve performance.
Fuel surcharges were common.
They are. However, the operator has the final responsibility for operating the radio in accordance with FCC regulations.