I guess I've just not been paying attention. WD dropped SCSI several years ago. I didn't realise that they had come back. Now I guess they're dropping SCSI again. Oh well. They obviously weren't much of a contender in the SCSI market anyway.
Someone needs to introduce @Home to the "Exponential Backoff" feature of INN.
The way it works is you set a threshold for the max reasonable number of postings from one IP. After that, each posting takes n times longer than the last, where n is setable. If a user a is trying to spam it will start getting *real* slow. Normal users are not affected.
Given that Exponential Backoff has been available in INN since before 2.0 (current release is 2.2.2), there really is no excuse for being a spam injection source.
The constitution says that a state can not interfere with Interstate commerce. I find it hard to beleive that taxing in state and out of state transactions equally qualifies. Further, if the purchaser is in California and the merchant is in Nevada, how is that a tax imposed by Nevada is taxing interstate commerce and a tax imposed by California is not? They both apply to interstate transaction.
There is exactly zero difference between ordering online and ordering by phone. It's all mail order. It's nothing new. The solution for all mail is simply to change tax in the state where the mail order firm is located. There. No difference between ordering online then if I drove myself across the state line to buy it in person. Which is the way it should be.
It's an MMDS Internet Access service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Multiple ISP's are available. It's been operating for almost two years now. It's Ok if you can't get DSL but it's hardly the new age of Internet. Our servive at my previous company was actually a bit flakey. The "modem" kept freezing up and needed to be power cycled once or twice per day.
Really. I've had mechanical work flawlessly through years of heavy use and abuse that were never cleaned. Too bad so many mice are crap, including the expensive ones.
Optical mice really do suck. You have to keep them aligned with their special pad. They don't roll. They skid. And when the felt on their pads starts to wear out (they do *not* last forever) they're worse than the dirtiest mechanical mouse and there's nothing you can do about it.
Invariably, "cyber" anything is an attempt by people who don't understand a thing to describe a thing. Either it's because the person simply uninformed or, like the above becuase the idea itself has little substance.
Much like cyberspace. There is no cyberspace. There never has been a cyberspace. There is no sign that cyberspace is comming any time soon. What we have simply the Internet: a usefull tool for people and machines, both full containted in the real world, to communicate.
My advice: If the best desription you can give for something is "cyber"something, stop, and rethink the problem, you haven't got it yet and maybe "it" doesn't really exist.
Generally, people link to other sites that have more detailed and definitive information. This isn't necessarily site run by a big company. By sorting by the number of links, you are more likely to find the primary source and not have to wade through all the derivitives.
Because intelegence isn't the only limit on technological growth. If you partly remove the intelgence limit than the pace will instead be limitd by energy, infrastructure, and other factors. The pace will certainly be faster, but it will not be a singularity.
You can't build an Alpha using only stone knives and bear skin, no matter how smart you are.
The test isn't all that hard. If you are a reasonably competent student you will pass it without the class.
As for the value of a PE. It's really not much unless you are working on construction type projects. There, they might want a PE to sign off on the wiring so they can have some assurances that it won't kill somebody. For Civil Engineers this is normal. For EE's though, it is not.
I have never seen a job rec that specified a PE, though though I'm sure they must exist. None of the EE's that I know, myself included, are PE's.
Base10 probably happened because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes. It's not a *bad* choice but base12 is probably better. More divisors. In base12, 1/3 is 0.4 exactly. 1/2 is is 0.6 1/4 is 0.3 1/5 is funky but 1/5 really isn't use that much.
Base8 and base16 are only really good for computers. All the uglies of base10 + you can't divide by 5 evenly.
I generally prefer metric but I really don't see how celcius is all that much better. Kelven is useful since the base is absolute zero. No need to adjust when doing thermodynamic calculations. But what does celcius buy you? Nothing really, except being a little easier to convert to Kelvin. In Farenheit, freezing is 32 and boiling is 212. I learned that when I was knee high to a grass hopper. The numbers are aren't pretty but who cares? You don't do any calculations on them anyway.
From a climate standpoint, farenheight may actually be better. The range is more reasonable. 100 is very hot, but it happens. 0 is very cold, but it happens. Negative numbers are reserved for very cold. Middling temperatures are near the middle of the range.
Contrast with Celcius. Negative numbers normal in the winter? And how often do you see temperatures above 50C?
If I remember my conversions right, 100 parsecs would be 326 light years. So, we are seeing light that left 326 years ago. 326 years ago, Earth looked about the same as it does now, apart from a little smog.
Sure, if there exists a civilization there, it may have change significantly in 300 years. But who cares? We don't have the kind of data that is likely to change in such a short time. We just have a vague idea of the planet's mass. And even that may be wrong. The planet may not even exist.
In their original form they are both insults and neither implies any kind of social skills.
Now it's the 90's and nerds and geeks (as well as other technically competent people who weren't ever called nerd or geek) are getting money and power. So, rather than say "I'm sorry for insulting you", contemporary society has chosen to redefine the terms so it looks like the insults never happened.
I think it's rather insulting to call an Altair a "PC". That abmomidable acronym didn't come into common use until the introduction of the IBM PC. And, for the most part, is still refers to the decendents of the IBM PC, and not to other small computers.
Old working personal computer, yes. Oldest working microcomputer, probably. Oldest PC, no.
Poor choice of words, "Real Legend" makes more sense. That is, that this a real story told by people who live in that region, rather than something made up by the film makers.
It's a good start but it doesn't really do very much. Trademark holders already have legal recourse. If the name is not trademarked, the bill doesn't seem to help.
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I agree. Spam is worse. Per hit, the cost is smaller but far far more people pay for spam than for cybersquating. But that's not really the reason. Spam has changed the way people interact on the net. Prior to spam, people handed out their email addresses at every oportunity. No one filtered. Now we have filters, RBL, ORBS, address munging, and the use of flat out bogus addresses, just to keep the spammers out.
However, as bad as spam is, that doesn't mean cybersquating is ok. Far from it. Both need to go and there is no need to "choose" which one to get rid of.
A single dominent operating system or a single *anything* will stifle creativity and limit advancement. It's not just about openness. It's about understanding that there is more than one way to attack a problem.
Just like the old saw: "If all you have is a hammer, than every problems looks like a nail". If all we have is Linux than only Linux solutions will be considdered. Linux may be the wrong tool! Worse, the Linux solution may be impractical even though the problem is quite feasible to solve.
I don't want a generation of programmers to grow up with only one example of an operating system. It's bad enough that today few see beyond Windows, Unix, and Macintosh.
Trying to run all the software from all the other operating systems just means adding their bloat to yours with addtional bloat to handle the interfacing. You get a huge, slow, difficult to maintain mess. We'll never get out of the 70's this way.
Personally, I haven't even heard of a plausible mechanisim. This is a far cry from ciggeretes where major components, like nicotine, are known carcinigens.
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I guess I've just not been paying attention. WD dropped SCSI several years ago. I didn't realise that they had come back. Now I guess they're dropping SCSI again. Oh well. They obviously weren't much of a contender in the SCSI market anyway.
Someone needs to introduce @Home to the "Exponential Backoff" feature of INN.
The way it works is you set a threshold for the max reasonable number of postings from one IP. After that, each posting takes n times longer than the last, where n is setable. If a user a is trying to spam it will start getting *real* slow. Normal users are not affected.
Given that Exponential Backoff has been available in INN since before 2.0 (current release is 2.2.2), there really is no excuse for being a spam injection source.
Not just likely. They're commited to doing it.
Multicast NTSC durring the daytime (for children's shows) and HDTV at night.
Quote the case.
The constitution says that a state can not interfere with Interstate commerce. I find it hard to beleive that taxing in state and out of state transactions equally qualifies. Further, if the purchaser is in California and the merchant is in Nevada, how is that a tax imposed by Nevada is taxing interstate commerce and a tax imposed by California is not? They both apply to interstate transaction.
There is exactly zero difference between ordering online and ordering by phone. It's all mail order. It's nothing new. The solution for all mail is simply to change tax in the state where the mail order firm is located. There. No difference between ordering online then if I drove myself across the state line to buy it in person. Which is the way it should be.
This was Australia. Australia does not export oil. (IIRC, there isn't any oil in aus). That tanker was carrying oil for Australian consumption.
It's an MMDS Internet Access service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Multiple ISP's are available. It's been operating for almost two years now. It's Ok if you can't get DSL but it's hardly the new age of Internet. Our servive at my previous company was actually a bit flakey. The "modem" kept freezing up and needed to be power cycled once or twice per day.
Really. I've had mechanical work flawlessly through years of heavy use and abuse that were never cleaned. Too bad so many mice are crap, including the expensive ones.
Optical mice really do suck. You have to keep them aligned with their special pad. They don't roll. They skid. And when the felt on their pads starts to wear out (they do *not* last forever) they're worse than the dirtiest mechanical mouse and there's nothing you can do about it.
Invariably, "cyber" anything is an attempt by people who don't understand a thing to describe a thing. Either it's because the person simply uninformed or, like the above becuase the idea itself has little substance.
Much like cyberspace. There is no cyberspace. There never has been a cyberspace. There is no sign that cyberspace is comming any time soon. What we have simply the Internet: a usefull tool for people and machines, both full containted in the real world, to communicate.
My advice: If the best desription you can give for something is "cyber"something, stop, and rethink the problem, you haven't got it yet and maybe "it" doesn't really exist.
Generally, people link to other sites that have more detailed and definitive information. This isn't necessarily site run by a big company. By sorting by the number of links, you are more likely to find the primary source and not have to wade through all the derivitives.
Because intelegence isn't the only limit on technological growth. If you partly remove the intelgence limit than the pace will instead be limitd by energy, infrastructure, and other factors. The pace will certainly be faster, but it will not be a singularity.
You can't build an Alpha using only stone knives and bear skin, no matter how smart you are.
The test isn't all that hard. If you are a reasonably competent student you will pass it without the class.
As for the value of a PE. It's really not much unless you are working on construction type projects. There, they might want a PE to sign off on the wiring so they can have some assurances that it won't kill somebody. For Civil Engineers this is normal. For EE's though, it is not.
I have never seen a job rec that specified a PE, though though I'm sure they must exist. None of the EE's that I know, myself included, are PE's.
Base10 probably happened because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes. It's not a *bad* choice but base12 is probably better. More divisors. In base12, 1/3 is 0.4 exactly. 1/2 is is 0.6 1/4 is 0.3 1/5 is funky but 1/5 really isn't use that much.
Base8 and base16 are only really good for computers. All the uglies of base10 + you can't divide by 5 evenly.
I generally prefer metric but I really don't see how celcius is all that much better. Kelven is useful since the base is absolute zero. No need to adjust when doing thermodynamic calculations.
But what does celcius buy you? Nothing really, except being a little easier to convert to Kelvin.
In Farenheit, freezing is 32 and boiling is 212. I learned that when I was knee high to a grass hopper. The numbers are aren't pretty but who cares? You don't do any calculations on them anyway.
From a climate standpoint, farenheight may actually be better. The range is more reasonable. 100 is very hot, but it happens. 0 is very cold, but it happens. Negative numbers are reserved for very cold. Middling temperatures are near the middle of the range.
Contrast with Celcius. Negative numbers normal in the winter? And how often do you see temperatures above 50C?
If I remember my conversions right, 100 parsecs would be 326 light years. So, we are seeing light that left 326 years ago. 326 years ago, Earth looked about the same as it does now, apart from a little smog.
Sure, if there exists a civilization there, it may have change significantly in 300 years. But who cares? We don't have the kind of data that is likely to change in such a short time. We just have a vague idea of the planet's mass. And even that may be wrong. The planet may not even exist.
No, not the storm itself. That's not funny.
Putting a web cam up to virtualy "brave the storm", THAT's funny.
In their original form they are both insults and neither implies any kind of social skills.
Now it's the 90's and nerds and geeks (as well as other technically competent people who weren't ever called nerd or geek) are getting money and power. So, rather than say "I'm sorry for insulting you", contemporary society has chosen to redefine the terms so it looks like the insults never happened.
In 2001, the Amiga will have been dead longer than it was ever alive.
I think it's rather insulting to call an Altair a "PC". That abmomidable acronym didn't come into common use until the introduction of the IBM PC. And, for the most part, is still refers to the decendents of the IBM PC, and not to other small computers.
Old working personal computer, yes. Oldest working microcomputer, probably. Oldest PC, no.
Poor choice of words, "Real Legend" makes more sense. That is, that this a real story told by people who live in that region, rather than something made up by the film makers.
It's a good start but it doesn't really do very much. Trademark holders already have legal recourse. If the name is not trademarked, the bill doesn't seem to help.
I agree. Spam is worse. Per hit, the cost is smaller but far far more people pay for spam than for cybersquating. But that's not really the reason. Spam has changed the way people interact on the net. Prior to spam, people handed out their email addresses at every oportunity. No one filtered. Now we have filters, RBL, ORBS, address munging, and the use of flat out bogus addresses, just to keep the spammers out.
However, as bad as spam is, that doesn't mean cybersquating is ok. Far from it. Both need to go and there is no need to "choose" which one to get rid of.
A single dominent operating system or a single *anything* will stifle creativity and limit advancement. It's not just about openness. It's about understanding that there is more than one way to attack a problem.
Just like the old saw: "If all you have is a hammer, than every problems looks like a nail". If all we have is Linux than only Linux solutions will be considdered. Linux may be the wrong tool!
Worse, the Linux solution may be impractical even though the problem is quite feasible to solve.
I don't want a generation of programmers to grow up with only one example of an operating system. It's bad enough that today few see beyond Windows, Unix, and Macintosh.
Gee. Have you learned nothing from SVR4?
Trying to run all the software from all the other operating systems just means adding their bloat to yours with addtional bloat to handle the interfacing. You get a huge, slow, difficult to maintain mess. We'll never get out of the 70's this way.
Personally, I haven't even heard of a plausible mechanisim. This is a far cry from ciggeretes where major components, like nicotine, are known carcinigens.