Do you want to be sitting on an airliner that was designed from the ground up in a mere 18 month's? I sure don't. That's not a very long time to do thorough testing. Your thinking of software and computer, that move so fast. Software and computers that are always crashing, need reboots, and full of security holes. I would also think it would be awefully hard to get all those custom engineered parts designed and built that quickly, especially when you have to build, or retrofit a huge factory to make them.
The problem is that people don't think that they matter. The person they voted for in my state, and won by a large margin, isn't the president, so their vote doesn't matter. They can't afford to send "gifts" to senators, so they don't matter to them. How many people have you heard that wouldn't even think of voting for a 3rd party candidate, because it was wasting a vote? In a land of 300 million, people have a hard time believing that their one small voice matters. They need a way to realize that there are more out there that think the same, and if they get together, they can be a large voice.
I mean, look at the Parent Television Council (I think thats their name) That one group of ultra conservative parents is responsible for something like 97% of complaints to the FCC for indecency in broadcasting, and has almost single handedly changed the policies of the FCC. Although I totaly disagree with what they are trying to do, (kill all the people you want on TV, but don't show love!) I think its amazing that they have bonded together, and been very loud until they got what they wanted. As much as I disagree with their tactics and message, I have to admire the fact that they can do it, and have a little more hope that maybe others will do something similar for what they believe.
A lexus is only safer than a Pinto at 120MPH if you are talking from the point of view of the driver of that vehicle.. I'd much rather be T-boned by a pinto at that speed than a Lexus! Not to mention, at 120MPH, a Pinto's tires would fall off, and it would skid to a stop along the road, using its underside as a very, very large brake.. (and that darn gas tank)
So of course, you do the American thing, by a big SUV, which makes you safer, and hurts others worse.. I give us 20 years until soccer mom's are driving schoolbusses, because their safer!
I have done some powerpoint presentations in Office 2003, then loaded em up on OO running on my linux laptop. The only issue I have seen is the templates can get a little goofy. I have had the background pictures and lines get moved a little, even sometimes off the side of the page, but its pretty simple, to move them back. I am impressed that they still look the same, just the object placement seems to be off. When I put the objects back where I want them in OO, then that same file looks the same in both OO and office 2003. I have also noticed a few things with bullets, ie, square bullets become triangles, but that is not a big deal to me.
I have a 1972 Ford Pickup in my front yard, (4 of them actually, 2 on blocks). It is not currently running, and is full of rust, but between the 4, Someone could get 1 of them to work. I hate to throw it out, cause I keep telling my wife, and her parents, and her sister and her family (that all live with us) that one of these days, I'm going to get it to work. I also have a few "spare" washing machines out in the front yard. Do you know of someone that I could "give" these to, so I don't have to take the trouble of disposing of them properly? I hate to throw them out, as someone could, with a bit of work, have a working washing machine and 72 pickup.
Man, the poster sounds like the packrat rednecks that live in my town..
It should be ask the US Government, but technically, (in a happy world that doesn't exist anymore) the government is simply a representative of the people. By asking slashdot, their skipping a step and saving time!
They walk into a hanger, and see that Nasa and the military has assembled a drill that looks amazingly like something he had come up with.. Bruce Willis: "What, did you raid the patent office and steal my designs?" The Man: "Yep"
most CS degrees are theoretical. They are the "art" of computer science. Hardware programs at theory based schools usually run under the electronics (EET) programs. You might want to search local schools (in state) that have EET programs, as some specialize in hardware design. Some schools, like my current one [shameless_plug] OIT [/shameless_plug] have an actual hardware program, CSET (Computer Systems Engineering Technology) that is applied, not theoretical. They also offer software, and dual (hardware and software). It has been noticed at our school that hardware majors get paying better jobs, as there is more demand for them. (lots of companies can find VB or java programers anywhere...) These guys are pretty hardcore, going from actual assembly on microprocessors and embedded systems, to C, to VLSI.. (think CAD for chips!) Keep in mind that there are many kinds of hardware jobs.. You have the guy designing the actual chips (or programming if your buying a FPLD or something) and Electronics guys responsible for connecting it to the rest of systems, power systems, etc..
feel free to ask me questions off thread if you want, I was a Junior in the Dual program before I changed to IT.
Good work.. I did love the site, even with the wally world graphics removed. one thing to keep in mind, with all this "advice" getting thrown around, is that this is slashdot, the same people that said that ipod would never sell!
The only real, pertinent advice to listen to would be the person that is representing you. On a bit of an aside, you mentioned that this is a school related project, have you talked to your schools attorney?
what do you think absorbs the readiation from the sun? (hint, its our atmosphere) that big ball in the sky that is the solar systems largest reactor (although its fusion, not fission). Honestly, do you think it's light that heats the earth? no, it radiation. Any radiation from a little spacecraft up in space is miniscule!
But if they only allow people to go that have contributed to the other party, isn't that ethically and morally wrong, possibly being illegal? That becomes bribery? Oh, wait, this is America.. Wave your flag, cheer on your country.
exactly! The only way to make this speed be used is to "daisy-chain" the drives. Who cares if it can transmit at 3Gb/s, when they are only speaking about between the controller and the 8MB cache? The only way RAID fills the bus is that when one drive is reading, the others are seeking! that doesn't happen with one drive..
Besides, if they started adding raid 5 into more SATA controllers, the performance would go through the roof. I would much rather have 3 100GB SATA drives, giving me 200GB of storage, than 1 300GB drive.. Sure it has a 5 year warranty, but thats only for the drive, not the data on it. I don't want to lose all of that data over a stinking $150 part..
wouldn't it be nice though if drives came with a little DDR ram slot on the bottom? pop in a 512MB ram chip? that would be sweet!
because their the NSTA. (National Science Teachers Association). IFF they added "of America" to the end, that would make them an evil *AA, and they would have to sue the pants of anyone and everyone that has ever thought of a scientific idea!
Thats cause were version 1.0 Somewhere, there has to be a version 1.1 or greater, because after thousands of years, we still haven't learned a few basic things, like love your neighbor....
Most pro Digital camera's have a 1.8" LCD on the back.. This is enough of a screen to see if you've over-exposed, under-exposed, got your whitebalance correct, and check shadows. That is about it. There is not enough real estate on the screen to see detail. A serious photographer doesn't want to take the time to check every shot, you will setup a few test shots, look at them, dial in the camera, then shoot away. From then, you wait until you load up photoshop to see how they really look.
The idea of a screen on these hard drives is kinda pointless, what are you going to do? touch up an image on a 2 inch screen? Besides, the ones without hard drives are around 60Gb and larger (laptop drives) The biggest point of having one of these, is that you carry 2 micro drives with you (1-4GB), when one fills, you slap the other in, and put the full one in the drive and start a mass copy. That is a hell of alot of images, even in RAW mode. The thing that photographers want is battery life. you don't want to have to carry chargers for the batteries for you camera, flash(es), hard drive, light meter, etc. on a trip into the wilderness, or over the pond to europe.
of course, my girlfriend, the real photographer (I just play one on TV) says that one handy thing about the LCD screens is discreetly passing them around weddings with order forms..
How can they say that they've been monitoring for 9 months, and then state that it has 278% year over year growth?
Besides, my web site had 1000% growth, I went from me viewing it to a few relatives looking at a picture I put up from them (40% female, 60% male), so, obviously, my website is faster growing that firefoxes!
I actually agree with you, as unpopular as it might be.. Send him for 1 year. That's plenty of deterrent. Do we really want people thinking, "well, i could get rich spamming but the punishment is pretty high, guess I'll just deal crack?!"
While I agree with what you said, I have 1 distinct wish, that they would drop the sale price from buying off of steam 5 bucks. Seems like if they sold it for $5 less, they'd still make a killing, by not having to pay for packaging, cd's, trucks to deliver them, stores cut of profits, etc.. And I would love to see them publicly state somewhere that if, some day in the future, they decide not to keep a game working with steam, (abondonware?!) they will release a patch that lets it still work standalone.
if the attacker is redirecting the windowsupdate.microsoft.com domain, wouldn't it be possible to redirect the domain for the CA that signs those packages? I'm certainly not very knowledgeable on signing and certs, but couldn't they just setup a cert-server running somewhere that says "yep, thats microsoft"?
Forgot to mention, the cheaper solution is to just use the inverters, and the deep cycle batteries.. It would work the same, but the batteries wouldn't get charged by the sun for free, or for long outages.
I know this would drastically increase the cost, but you could model it after "on grid" solar homes. You throw some solar cells on the roof, tie in a few large, deep cycle batteries (you would want to get those in africa, they're heavy) and an inverter made for running a house. (like sunny boy inverters, google for them).
During the day, the solar cells and power from outside charge the deep cycle batteries. if the power from the grid sags (brownout) the inverter starts adding power from the battery bank, or the solar arrays. (depending on time of day, not much solar power at 3am) Many of these inverters have serial ports, and tell you the status of what is going on (brownouts, battery life left, etc). You can setup a computer to poll this, and if the thresholds get too low, have that one system force the others to shut down.
This is probably the most reliable way to setup a power system to have clean power, in the US, or in africa. Depending on how far you are from your trip, you could start hitting BP solar (or someone else, like GE, or phillips) for donations. They might jump at the chance to send you a couple of PV arrays.
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Do you want to be sitting on an airliner that was designed from the ground up in a mere 18 month's? I sure don't. That's not a very long time to do thorough testing. Your thinking of software and computer, that move so fast. Software and computers that are always crashing, need reboots, and full of security holes. I would also think it would be awefully hard to get all those custom engineered parts designed and built that quickly, especially when you have to build, or retrofit a huge factory to make them.
I mean, look at the Parent Television Council (I think thats their name) That one group of ultra conservative parents is responsible for something like 97% of complaints to the FCC for indecency in broadcasting, and has almost single handedly changed the policies of the FCC. Although I totaly disagree with what they are trying to do, (kill all the people you want on TV, but don't show love!) I think its amazing that they have bonded together, and been very loud until they got what they wanted. As much as I disagree with their tactics and message, I have to admire the fact that they can do it, and have a little more hope that maybe others will do something similar for what they believe.
So of course, you do the American thing, by a big SUV, which makes you safer, and hurts others worse.. I give us 20 years until soccer mom's are driving schoolbusses, because their safer!
I have done some powerpoint presentations in Office 2003, then loaded em up on OO running on my linux laptop. The only issue I have seen is the templates can get a little goofy. I have had the background pictures and lines get moved a little, even sometimes off the side of the page, but its pretty simple, to move them back. I am impressed that they still look the same, just the object placement seems to be off. When I put the objects back where I want them in OO, then that same file looks the same in both OO and office 2003. I have also noticed a few things with bullets, ie, square bullets become triangles, but that is not a big deal to me.
Mom,
I told you to stop posting to slashdot! Please keep our family life out of this!
Man, the poster sounds like the packrat rednecks that live in my town..
It should be ask the US Government, but technically, (in a happy world that doesn't exist anymore) the government is simply a representative of the people. By asking slashdot, their skipping a step and saving time!
They walk into a hanger, and see that Nasa and the military has assembled a drill that looks amazingly like something he had come up with..
Bruce Willis: "What, did you raid the patent office and steal my designs?"
The Man: "Yep"
feel free to ask me questions off thread if you want, I was a Junior in the Dual program before I changed to IT.
The only real, pertinent advice to listen to would be the person that is representing you. On a bit of an aside, you mentioned that this is a school related project, have you talked to your schools attorney?
what do you think absorbs the readiation from the sun? (hint, its our atmosphere) that big ball in the sky that is the solar systems largest reactor (although its fusion, not fission). Honestly, do you think it's light that heats the earth? no, it radiation. Any radiation from a little spacecraft up in space is miniscule!
But if they only allow people to go that have contributed to the other party, isn't that ethically and morally wrong, possibly being illegal? That becomes bribery? Oh, wait, this is America.. Wave your flag, cheer on your country.
The only way to make this speed be used is to "daisy-chain" the drives. Who cares if it can transmit at 3Gb/s, when they are only speaking about between the controller and the 8MB cache? The only way RAID fills the bus is that when one drive is reading, the others are seeking! that doesn't happen with one drive..
Besides, if they started adding raid 5 into more SATA controllers, the performance would go through the roof. I would much rather have 3 100GB SATA drives, giving me 200GB of storage, than 1 300GB drive.. Sure it has a 5 year warranty, but thats only for the drive, not the data on it. I don't want to lose all of that data over a stinking $150 part..
wouldn't it be nice though if drives came with a little DDR ram slot on the bottom? pop in a 512MB ram chip? that would be sweet!
because their the NSTA. (National Science Teachers Association). IFF they added "of America" to the end, that would make them an evil *AA, and they would have to sue the pants of anyone and everyone that has ever thought of a scientific idea!
Thats cause were version 1.0 Somewhere, there has to be a version 1.1 or greater, because after thousands of years, we still haven't learned a few basic things, like love your neighbor....
Yet Another Freakin Pointless Seqel?
Whats wrong with People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms? Is it that hard?
The idea of a screen on these hard drives is kinda pointless, what are you going to do? touch up an image on a 2 inch screen? Besides, the ones without hard drives are around 60Gb and larger (laptop drives) The biggest point of having one of these, is that you carry 2 micro drives with you (1-4GB), when one fills, you slap the other in, and put the full one in the drive and start a mass copy. That is a hell of alot of images, even in RAW mode. The thing that photographers want is battery life. you don't want to have to carry chargers for the batteries for you camera, flash(es), hard drive, light meter, etc. on a trip into the wilderness, or over the pond to europe.
of course, my girlfriend, the real photographer (I just play one on TV) says that one handy thing about the LCD screens is discreetly passing them around weddings with order forms..
Besides, my web site had 1000% growth, I went from me viewing it to a few relatives looking at a picture I put up from them (40% female, 60% male), so, obviously, my website is faster growing that firefoxes!
I actually agree with you, as unpopular as it might be.. Send him for 1 year. That's plenty of deterrent. Do we really want people thinking, "well, i could get rich spamming but the punishment is pretty high, guess I'll just deal crack?!"
While I agree with what you said, I have 1 distinct wish, that they would drop the sale price from buying off of steam 5 bucks. Seems like if they sold it for $5 less, they'd still make a killing, by not having to pay for packaging, cd's, trucks to deliver them, stores cut of profits, etc.. And I would love to see them publicly state somewhere that if, some day in the future, they decide not to keep a game working with steam, (abondonware?!) they will release a patch that lets it still work standalone.
They are using their own RBL on their mail server.. thats all.. Thats why they never got you message!
if the attacker is redirecting the windowsupdate.microsoft.com domain, wouldn't it be possible to redirect the domain for the CA that signs those packages? I'm certainly not very knowledgeable on signing and certs, but couldn't they just setup a cert-server running somewhere that says "yep, thats microsoft"?
Forgot to mention, the cheaper solution is to just use the inverters, and the deep cycle batteries.. It would work the same, but the batteries wouldn't get charged by the sun for free, or for long outages.
During the day, the solar cells and power from outside charge the deep cycle batteries. if the power from the grid sags (brownout) the inverter starts adding power from the battery bank, or the solar arrays. (depending on time of day, not much solar power at 3am) Many of these inverters have serial ports, and tell you the status of what is going on (brownouts, battery life left, etc). You can setup a computer to poll this, and if the thresholds get too low, have that one system force the others to shut down.
This is probably the most reliable way to setup a power system to have clean power, in the US, or in africa. Depending on how far you are from your trip, you could start hitting BP solar (or someone else, like GE, or phillips) for donations. They might jump at the chance to send you a couple of PV arrays.