There are more issues to computing than benchmarks, and in the issue of deliverability, Apple won....
hints from the Roanoke times article said availability to get it up in time to make the next top 500 comuter listing we big factors
This is significant because both Virgina Tech and Apple gain from an early delivery. Apple gets to promote it's G5s as being part of a top 10 super computer, and Virgin Tech gets to promote itself both to prospective students and for the purpose of research financing. From the stories of dual G5 users having their ship date delayed, I believe Apple bent over backwards to get a favorable delivery date.
Gas from your home gas line smells because they put in tiny trace amounts of a very strong smelling chemical (supposedly one of the stinkiest chemicals in existance) so people can smell gas leaks.
Usually they use a substance called "mercaptan."
More on what natural gas smells like (as well as its composition) here.
Wrong. A simple firewall will protect a single computer network. However, I know of many networks that have no routable addresses yet were completely infected (one was over 600 workstations). All it took was one person dialing up to the internet, getting infected, then bringing their laptop in to work and plugging in to the company network.
Thank you. I should have added that to my post. Alan Cox has years of experience coding and managing coders on various levels but probably knows little about financing a business, human resources, or business law, for examples. An MBA will augment his intelligence and experience. I'm very interested in seeing what he will use it for.
Apart from being 'funny', honestly why would Alan Cox need any degree or certification? He can go to any Linux development company and put his resume on the table:
Unlike the world of MCSEs and A+ certifications, you don't go and "get" a degree. You earn a degree by learning important skills. He is not going to school just to get a piece of paper. In the case of an MBA, he will learn important management skills that take many years of real-world experience to learn. In business school, that take 1 to 2 years to master many of the skills.
Perhaps he wants to start a business? He is a great coder, good at managing source code trees, but an MBA will teach him about managing a business. Alan obviously isn't just trying to improve his resume, he's trying to improve himself.
At least that's what the preachers say down here in the Bible Belt. Tennessee, where even church bingo is outlawed, is about to get its first lottery. It took years and a constitutional amendment. The money goes to collage scholarships, and now preachers are urging their congregations not to accecpt the "sin money" if their children qualify for the scholarships.
The noise affecting the signal to the external audio device isn't an issue, since it is a digital signal making noise filtering and error correction simple. However, the wires still connect the ground of the computer to the ground of the audio device. This could cause groundloops via analog output between the external audio device and the receiver or amplifier to which analog signal is destined. That is where isolation transformers could help. I imagine isolation transformers on the digital side would not add any (uncorrectable) distortion, but on the analog side they could add distortion. So if you can isolate on the digital side, this is preferred.
Actually, I understand that most dams (floodgates only) in North America are powered by Windows NT based software. They are not internet connected but have remote dial-up. The FBI's InfraGuard program has fixed what used to be a gaping security problem, where once you found the number you could dial straight in to the damn's control computer. In fact, this happened once before in 1998 as this article mentions. The software is called SCADA and was, iirc, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
One other snail-mail related protection you can set up is a 'secure' mail box.
Good point. I should have added that I have a lockable mailbox because I live in an apartment. Unfortunately this doesn't stop my postal carrier from frequently misdelivering my mail labeled "Confidential" or even a box of checks to the wrong addresss. Still, if a criminal can just take it out of your mailbox, he has a huge advantage. You'd be amazed at how much mail has your social security number on it: payroll/benefits information, tax forms, many bank statements (I lobbied my banks to remove the SSN number from statements), investment statements/retirement account statements and health insurance information to name a few. Having someone's social security number is one thing. Having their current address and an account number or two is much worse.
I agree. This is another case of the FEARS Virus. Many cases of identity theft are roomates, sometimes even family, intercepting mail and using their knowledge of your Social Security number or where to find it. In fact, most of the cases labeled as "Identity Theft" are not cases of someone going out and getting a driverse license with their picture and the victim's name. Those cases indeed occur, but are far more rare and usually executed by experienced "professional" criminals.
That aside, I have taken these measures to avoid identity theft:
1) Removed any mention of my social security number from my wallet. This required complaining to my health insurance company to get a new ID Number and renewing my driver's license in person. Well worth it.
2) Destroy all "preapproved" credit card offers. Mostly this means just ripping to shreads the unique IDs/barcodes and addresses that are inkjetted on to the press or laser printed form.
3) Never give passwords or financial information to financial web sites that are not required to complete transactions. This will minimize your exposure to hacking.
Many states have laws allowing you to get a free credit report if you suspect you've been denied credit due to an error in credit bureau records. If you're still nervous without being denied credit, get a low cost credit report for about $30 from a company such as TrueCredit.com.
In Tennessee and Texas, Wrangler® jeans are supposed to be worn with what I would consider a bad fit - that is, so tight you can expect a seriously reduced sperm count. It is so very unattractive.
This is exactly the situation that show us how political goals should not be pursued with technological means. Hardly this thing will change the situation in Chechnya, and those chechenian women that SUICIDED themself couple of days ago causing tens of civil deaths would have certainly found the way to do it without the cellular phone.
Wrong. If we make it hard for terrorist groups to communicate, we break them down. They cannot carry out plans as quickly if they must communicate by horseback courier (see also: Taliban). They must gather in one place to meet. Quick updates about targets are impossible. If the terrorists' leaders suspect that a plan is flawed or compromised, a cell phone call can change it quickly. Financial transactions are hard to carry out when you cannot do them in person and cannot do them over the phone.
I'm not advocating sweeping wiretaps. Ignoring technology that helps criminals and terrorists work more effectively is just not smart.
Not really. The providers are required to have the capabilities in place before the service rollout. Basically they just get a court order for a wiretap, change some switch settings and they can listen in back at HQ.
Before Nashville, Tennessee became Metropolitan Davidson County, there was a conflict about fire protection. People outside of the Nashville city limits received fire coverage from Nashville Fire Department, but none of their taxes went to fire protection. The NFD needed a new truck, so it needed to cut costs. They realized a large portion of their work was for non-paying customers. They brought this to the attention of the county government, who said they couldn't afford a fire department or funding the NFD without raising roperty taxes significantly. Raising taxes in an election year is bad, right?
The Nashville Fire Department came up with a great fundraiser. People who donated $50 or more (I'd have to check the amount to be sure) to the NFD outside of the city limits got a sticker to put in their window or on their mailbox, and had their name on a list. The NFD would no longer fight fires outside of its "jurisdiction" unless they were a paying customer. To make a point, they actually responded to several house fires, making sure the media was there. They just watched the houses burn, because they didn't have their stickers.
Sadly, most of those politicians were also re-elected.
I believe that onboard devices are still part of the PCI bus, even though they're not plugged into a PCI slot. So onboard Gigabit ethernet will still eat into your available PCI bandwith.
Exactly - this is why server chipsets often have two PCI busses.
In some sense ribbon cables are easier to maintain parallel connections through, as well. With a motherboard you want the shortest path possible, the least amount of circuit trace path that is. As you add bus lines you lose circuit real estate, increase EMF output, run in to more problems with capacitance/inductance/resistance varying between lines, and generally increase the headaches of designing a stable motherboard. These all add up to more costly (6+ layer PCB design, more R&D, etc) products for diminishing returns. At least with ribbon cables you can keep the conductor length the same and (other than connector path) take up relatively little PCB real estate.
They've been saying this since at least the McBride interviews started. In fact, he said he wouldn't rule out going after individual linux users as well as linux distributors as well!
Does Scotch have caffeine in it? I hope not, I wouldn't want to cause any permanent damage to my body.
I had a teacher in high school who always had a fresh cup of coffee. The thing was, it got lighter and lighter colored and only the first cup steamed. It must have had an effect on him, because his speech was slurred by the end of the day.
You are correct, the most prepress industry still accepts QuarkXPress 4.x but not inDesign, and many don't even accept Quark 5. Most QuarkXPress users only used version 5 when they ran out of 4.x license and could only by version 5.
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On the upside, Electric cars park free at meters in L.A.
Wow, what an incentive. That will save me what, 75 a month? Assuming I can find an available metered spot in L.A.
The spaced invaders tiles were way more interesting than these.
Invasion of the Space Invader Mosaics?
There are more issues to computing than benchmarks, and in the issue of deliverability, Apple won. ...
hints from the Roanoke times article said availability to get it up in time to make the next top 500 comuter listing we big factors
This is significant because both Virgina Tech and Apple gain from an early delivery. Apple gets to promote it's G5s as being part of a top 10 super computer, and Virgin Tech gets to promote itself both to prospective students and for the purpose of research financing. From the stories of dual G5 users having their ship date delayed, I believe Apple bent over backwards to get a favorable delivery date.
I mean here.
Gas from your home gas line smells because they put in tiny trace amounts of a very strong smelling chemical (supposedly one of the stinkiest chemicals in existance) so people can smell gas leaks.
Usually they use a substance called "mercaptan."
More on what natural gas smells like (as well as its composition) here.
Wrong. A simple firewall will protect a single computer network. However, I know of many networks that have no routable addresses yet were completely infected (one was over 600 workstations). All it took was one person dialing up to the internet, getting infected, then bringing their laptop in to work and plugging in to the company network.
Thank you. I should have added that to my post. Alan Cox has years of experience coding and managing coders on various levels but probably knows little about financing a business, human resources, or business law, for examples. An MBA will augment his intelligence and experience. I'm very interested in seeing what he will use it for.
Apart from being 'funny', honestly why would Alan Cox need any degree or certification? He can go to any Linux development company and put his resume on the table:
Unlike the world of MCSEs and A+ certifications, you don't go and "get" a degree. You earn a degree by learning important skills. He is not going to school just to get a piece of paper. In the case of an MBA, he will learn important management skills that take many years of real-world experience to learn. In business school, that take 1 to 2 years to master many of the skills.
Perhaps he wants to start a business? He is a great coder, good at managing source code trees, but an MBA will teach him about managing a business. Alan obviously isn't just trying to improve his resume, he's trying to improve himself.
Gambling == Satan
At least that's what the preachers say down here in the Bible Belt. Tennessee, where even church bingo is outlawed, is about to get its first lottery. It took years and a constitutional amendment. The money goes to collage scholarships, and now preachers are urging their congregations not to accecpt the "sin money" if their children qualify for the scholarships.
The noise affecting the signal to the external audio device isn't an issue, since it is a digital signal making noise filtering and error correction simple. However, the wires still connect the ground of the computer to the ground of the audio device. This could cause groundloops via analog output between the external audio device and the receiver or amplifier to which analog signal is destined. That is where isolation transformers could help. I imagine isolation transformers on the digital side would not add any (uncorrectable) distortion, but on the analog side they could add distortion. So if you can isolate on the digital side, this is preferred.
Actually, I understand that most dams (floodgates only) in North America are powered by Windows NT based software. They are not internet connected but have remote dial-up. The FBI's InfraGuard program has fixed what used to be a gaping security problem, where once you found the number you could dial straight in to the damn's control computer. In fact, this happened once before in 1998 as this article mentions. The software is called SCADA and was, iirc, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Having someone's social security number is one thing. Having their current address and an account number or two is much worse.
I mean having the account number and social security number at the same time that is.
One other snail-mail related protection you can set up is a 'secure' mail box.
Good point. I should have added that I have a lockable mailbox because I live in an apartment. Unfortunately this doesn't stop my postal carrier from frequently misdelivering my mail labeled "Confidential" or even a box of checks to the wrong addresss. Still, if a criminal can just take it out of your mailbox, he has a huge advantage. You'd be amazed at how much mail has your social security number on it: payroll/benefits information, tax forms, many bank statements (I lobbied my banks to remove the SSN number from statements), investment statements/retirement account statements and health insurance information to name a few. Having someone's social security number is one thing. Having their current address and an account number or two is much worse.
I agree. This is another case of the FEARS Virus. Many cases of identity theft are roomates, sometimes even family, intercepting mail and using their knowledge of your Social Security number or where to find it. In fact, most of the cases labeled as "Identity Theft" are not cases of someone going out and getting a driverse license with their picture and the victim's name. Those cases indeed occur, but are far more rare and usually executed by experienced "professional" criminals.
That aside, I have taken these measures to avoid identity theft:
1) Removed any mention of my social security number from my wallet. This required complaining to my health insurance company to get a new ID Number and renewing my driver's license in person. Well worth it.
2) Destroy all "preapproved" credit card offers. Mostly this means just ripping to shreads the unique IDs/barcodes and addresses that are inkjetted on to the press or laser printed form.
3) Never give passwords or financial information to financial web sites that are not required to complete transactions. This will minimize your exposure to hacking.
Many states have laws allowing you to get a free credit report if you suspect you've been denied credit due to an error in credit bureau records. If you're still nervous without being denied credit, get a low cost credit report for about $30 from a company such as TrueCredit.com.
In Tennessee and Texas, Wrangler® jeans are supposed to be worn with what I would consider a bad fit - that is, so tight you can expect a seriously reduced sperm count. It is so very unattractive.
This is exactly the situation that show us how political goals should not be pursued with technological means. Hardly this thing will change the situation in Chechnya, and those chechenian women that SUICIDED themself couple of days ago causing tens of civil deaths would have certainly found the way to do it without the cellular phone.
Wrong. If we make it hard for terrorist groups to communicate, we break them down. They cannot carry out plans as quickly if they must communicate by horseback courier (see also: Taliban). They must gather in one place to meet. Quick updates about targets are impossible. If the terrorists' leaders suspect that a plan is flawed or compromised, a cell phone call can change it quickly. Financial transactions are hard to carry out when you cannot do them in person and cannot do them over the phone.
I'm not advocating sweeping wiretaps. Ignoring technology that helps criminals and terrorists work more effectively is just not smart.
Not really. The providers are required to have the capabilities in place before the service rollout. Basically they just get a court order for a wiretap, change some switch settings and they can listen in back at HQ.
There is an I405, but it looks like it is a major artery for the east side as well.
Before Nashville, Tennessee became Metropolitan Davidson County, there was a conflict about fire protection. People outside of the Nashville city limits received fire coverage from Nashville Fire Department, but none of their taxes went to fire protection. The NFD needed a new truck, so it needed to cut costs. They realized a large portion of their work was for non-paying customers. They brought this to the attention of the county government, who said they couldn't afford a fire department or funding the NFD without raising roperty taxes significantly. Raising taxes in an election year is bad, right?
The Nashville Fire Department came up with a great fundraiser. People who donated $50 or more (I'd have to check the amount to be sure) to the NFD outside of the city limits got a sticker to put in their window or on their mailbox, and had their name on a list. The NFD would no longer fight fires outside of its "jurisdiction" unless they were a paying customer. To make a point, they actually responded to several house fires, making sure the media was there. They just watched the houses burn, because they didn't have their stickers.
Sadly, most of those politicians were also re-elected.
I believe that onboard devices are still part of the PCI bus, even though they're not plugged into a PCI slot. So onboard Gigabit ethernet will still eat into your available PCI bandwith.
Exactly - this is why server chipsets often have two PCI busses.
In some sense ribbon cables are easier to maintain parallel connections through, as well. With a motherboard you want the shortest path possible, the least amount of circuit trace path that is. As you add bus lines you lose circuit real estate, increase EMF output, run in to more problems with capacitance/inductance/resistance varying between lines, and generally increase the headaches of designing a stable motherboard. These all add up to more costly (6+ layer PCB design, more R&D, etc) products for diminishing returns. At least with ribbon cables you can keep the conductor length the same and (other than connector path) take up relatively little PCB real estate.
They've been saying this since at least the McBride interviews started. In fact, he said he wouldn't rule out going after individual linux users as well as linux distributors as well!
Don't forget the Cuban Trade Embargo. Today their primary exports are refugees and cigars, but before the embargo it was sugar.
Does Scotch have caffeine in it? I hope not, I wouldn't want to cause any permanent damage to my body.
I had a teacher in high school who always had a fresh cup of coffee. The thing was, it got lighter and lighter colored and only the first cup steamed. It must have had an effect on him, because his speech was slurred by the end of the day.
You are correct, the most prepress industry still accepts QuarkXPress 4.x but not inDesign, and many don't even accept Quark 5. Most QuarkXPress users only used version 5 when they ran out of 4.x license and could only by version 5.