The 9/11 reports have confirmed that it wasn't the jet fuel that directly caused the supports to melt. The jet fuel is essentially like lighter fluid, and burned up almost instantly. The problems were that it caused a huge fire to start, and that the force of the planes blew the fire retardant off the support beams, exposing them to the newly created fire.
I would if this would be practical for somebody who only drives on weekends. Somebody who takes public transportation to work on weekdays, and then drives for errands on weekends. The car could separate more than enough hydrogen throughout the week to run the car for typical weekend errands.
Just to clarify, it was NOT delayed. Somebody is speculating that it will be delayed, which is probably true, but not yet fact.
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Except there is likely no permanent storage on the device itself, so at most it could get into memory, or possibly the save game area on the cart you are currently using.
Based upon that, I would guess that if there were an exploit, it would be caused by a specific game, and could at most ruin that specific cart. In which case, it serves the developer right...
With everything that new cell phones do, though, I'm curious as to how Blackberry devices differentiate themselves. (I've never used one myself.) Mine can send and receive e-mail messages and it was a cheapo T226.
Blackberry devices are indented for corporate email environments. Using additional server software, they can sync with an exchange environment (at least email and calendar), among other corporate email solutions.
Good Technology does a much better job of synchronizing with exchange in my opinion, unfortunately their software doesn't work on many devices that have a full thumboard (just a treo 600 which is a really pitiful thumboard).
Ok the article that is linked to explicitly says that it does NOT send SMS to premium numbers, only regular SMS messages, and that it does no other damage. So explain to me how this is so very "Destructive"?
How about the obvious, limit the number of password attempts. If an IP address is locked out for 15 minutes after 5 attempts it doesn't really matter how long your password is.
Although the article had just about zero details. My guess would be that Microsoft has simply convinced Yahoo and AOL (read: give big piles of cash to) to connect to the already existing Microsoft Live Communications Server.
I *think* that Live Communications Server uses "Session Initiation Protocol" which I *think* is a public standard. I would guess that, theoretically any IM client could implement it and connect to Live Communications Server. Although that is purely speculation, there might be licensing fees associated with SIP or Microsoft might have "adjusted" the standard in their own special way.
So why does Microsoft *want* Yahoo and AOL to integrate with Live Communications Server you ask? Probably because Microsoft's IM market share is so small that nobody really wants to use Live Communications Server. And really, there is not much money in basic instant messaging. However, at $700 for the server, and then an additional $25 per user on the server, there is a lot of money in Live Communications Server.
We recently installed the trial version and it's crap. The only real thing it gives over basic instant messaging is the ability to archive all messages on the server, which is a necessity for some business. Although they don't give you any way to search through archived messages, it's just a SQL database full of records. Not exactly worth $25 per person.
No... there are really good reasons to restate your previous earnings. Well... really just one I guess. If you don't restate the old ones, then when you claim the income from the contracts now and in the future, you're a claiming income that you also claimed in the past (profits x 2!)
You need to go back and fix everything before you can go forwards.
The best programmers are not paid crap. Maybe by crappy companies, but most of the companies know what the really good programmers are worth, and the best programmers aren't going to stick around crappy companies for very long.
Mediocre programmers are paid a decent amount of money, but not when compared to some of the hours they have to work. Most of these are people who THINK they are the best programmers, but in reality only know basic data structures and algorithms and probably write code that is not reusable or documented well (although they THINK that it is both).
A lot of this stems from current Computer Science departments in Universities. These classes are 75% full of people who don't and probably won't get it. The other 25% (the mediocre programmers) look around and see how much better they are than everybody else, and assume they are friggin savants or something.
The unfortunate thing is that many of these mediocre programmers have the potential to be good/great programmers but they don't get the education and training they need. Instead they just get the idea that they are great and have no need to really learn anything advanced. In fact, most of them don't even know that advanced topics exist.
The decision is not as simple as you make it. Sure RAID-5 gives you the most space while still giving you redundancy, but what happens if 2 drives fail? In a mirrored configuration you can lose multiple drives as long as you don't loose a mirrored pair.
I'm relying on intro college biology here, but I don't think current DNA samples are unique anyway.
They just have an enzyme that cuts the DNA at specific markers which appear at different locations in the DNA for different people, normally there's a dozen or so of these cuts. And then they run some water over them that pushes the different segments along a plate. The longer the string of DNA that was cut, the heavier it is and the shorter the distance it goes along the plate. So you end up with a banding pattern at the end of the test.
This banding pattern does NOT produce a unique signature, there's only a dozen or so bars on it across a 6-12" area. What you do get is probability when using it as evidence. For example, the odds of the DNA found at a crime scene and the odds of a suspect having the same banding pattern is very slim unless it's the same DNA.
DNA evidence is NOT good for proving people guilty, but only for proving people innocent.
Although yoda looked cool, I didn't think the scene was a very good one. There was pretty much no fight choreography for Count Dooku, he just stands there the entire time and they just animated yoda bouncing around him.
I guess it may take slightly longer to open a file, but that seems like it would be worth it in my opinion.
That would seem to defeat the purpose to me. The main reason you want to avoid fragmentation of the data is that fragmented data takes longer to pull from the disk. So if by preventing fragmentation you slow down pulling data from the disk, you have just defeated your purpose.
I remember an article, might even have been on Slashdot, a year or so back where a guy created a very accurate monitor of MPG. He found that accelerating slowly actual gave a worse MPG than accelerating quickly because engines are designed to be most fuel efficient at 55 mph or so. So if you accelerate with the same RPM's that your car goes 55 mph at, it's probably most efficient.
Of course this was not a hybrid car, so their designed peak efficiency could be way off.
I certainly don't think that this is what most people are thinking though when they floor it at a green light only to have to break hard at the stop sign a block away though. Maybe that would be a good "Ask Slashdot" "Why are people dumb?"
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The 9/11 reports have confirmed that it wasn't the jet fuel that directly caused the supports to melt. The jet fuel is essentially like lighter fluid, and burned up almost instantly. The problems were that it caused a huge fire to start, and that the force of the planes blew the fire retardant off the support beams, exposing them to the newly created fire.
However, we all know that the X-Prize works based on donations.
This is true only if you replace "donations" with "insurance money"
Not quite, Weekly Reader predicted (or rather the kids did) that Bush senior would beat Clinton.
I would if this would be practical for somebody who only drives on weekends. Somebody who takes public transportation to work on weekdays, and then drives for errands on weekends. The car could separate more than enough hydrogen throughout the week to run the car for typical weekend errands.
Just to clarify, it was NOT delayed. Somebody is speculating that it will be delayed, which is probably true, but not yet fact.
Except there is likely no permanent storage on the device itself, so at most it could get into memory, or possibly the save game area on the cart you are currently using.
Based upon that, I would guess that if there were an exploit, it would be caused by a specific game, and could at most ruin that specific cart. In which case, it serves the developer right...
That's fair. "No walls" is the primary difference between the two.
I guess what I was going for was that the lack of wind creates a larger impact on experience than lack of walls itself... at least in my opinion.
But I did not word that opinion correctly in my first message.
In case anyone's interested, skydiving is a cheaper way of obtaining a similar experience. The primary difference with skydiving is the lack of walls.
I would say the primary difference with skydiving is the wind... which you would not experience if you were inside a box/plane.
With everything that new cell phones do, though, I'm curious as to how Blackberry devices differentiate themselves. (I've never used one myself.) Mine can send and receive e-mail messages and it was a cheapo T226.
Blackberry devices are indented for corporate email environments. Using additional server software, they can sync with an exchange environment (at least email and calendar), among other corporate email solutions.
Good Technology does a much better job of synchronizing with exchange in my opinion, unfortunately their software doesn't work on many devices that have a full thumboard (just a treo 600 which is a really pitiful thumboard).
Having Word fix corrupted Word documents
File -> Open
Click on corrupted file, click on pull down menu on the "Open" button, select "Open and Repair"
It's not that big of a stretch, they are in the same Family. I believe it was intended to be a joke.
I think maybe a better headline would have been "First Mobile Phone Virus To Cost Money In The Wild"
Except that's not even true, since there have been viruses before that did that.
So I guess that headline should have been "New Destructive Virus, not really destructive or new though"
Ok the article that is linked to explicitly says that it does NOT send SMS to premium numbers, only regular SMS messages, and that it does no other damage. So explain to me how this is so very "Destructive"?
How about the obvious, limit the number of password attempts. If an IP address is locked out for 15 minutes after 5 attempts it doesn't really matter how long your password is.
Although the article had just about zero details. My guess would be that Microsoft has simply convinced Yahoo and AOL (read: give big piles of cash to) to connect to the already existing Microsoft Live Communications Server.
I *think* that Live Communications Server uses "Session Initiation Protocol" which I *think* is a public standard. I would guess that, theoretically any IM client could implement it and connect to Live Communications Server. Although that is purely speculation, there might be licensing fees associated with SIP or Microsoft might have "adjusted" the standard in their own special way.
So why does Microsoft *want* Yahoo and AOL to integrate with Live Communications Server you ask? Probably because Microsoft's IM market share is so small that nobody really wants to use Live Communications Server. And really, there is not much money in basic instant messaging. However, at $700 for the server, and then an additional $25 per user on the server, there is a lot of money in Live Communications Server.
We recently installed the trial version and it's crap. The only real thing it gives over basic instant messaging is the ability to archive all messages on the server, which is a necessity for some business. Although they don't give you any way to search through archived messages, it's just a SQL database full of records. Not exactly worth $25 per person.
No... there are really good reasons to restate your previous earnings. Well... really just one I guess. If you don't restate the old ones, then when you claim the income from the contracts now and in the future, you're a claiming income that you also claimed in the past (profits x 2!)
You need to go back and fix everything before you can go forwards.
The best programmers are not paid crap. Maybe by crappy companies, but most of the companies know what the really good programmers are worth, and the best programmers aren't going to stick around crappy companies for very long.
Mediocre programmers are paid a decent amount of money, but not when compared to some of the hours they have to work. Most of these are people who THINK they are the best programmers, but in reality only know basic data structures and algorithms and probably write code that is not reusable or documented well (although they THINK that it is both).
A lot of this stems from current Computer Science departments in Universities. These classes are 75% full of people who don't and probably won't get it. The other 25% (the mediocre programmers) look around and see how much better they are than everybody else, and assume they are friggin savants or something.
The unfortunate thing is that many of these mediocre programmers have the potential to be good/great programmers but they don't get the education and training they need. Instead they just get the idea that they are great and have no need to really learn anything advanced. In fact, most of them don't even know that advanced topics exist.
The decision is not as simple as you make it. Sure RAID-5 gives you the most space while still giving you redundancy, but what happens if 2 drives fail? In a mirrored configuration you can lose multiple drives as long as you don't loose a mirrored pair.
I'm relying on intro college biology here, but I don't think current DNA samples are unique anyway.
They just have an enzyme that cuts the DNA at specific markers which appear at different locations in the DNA for different people, normally there's a dozen or so of these cuts. And then they run some water over them that pushes the different segments along a plate. The longer the string of DNA that was cut, the heavier it is and the shorter the distance it goes along the plate. So you end up with a banding pattern at the end of the test.
This banding pattern does NOT produce a unique signature, there's only a dozen or so bars on it across a 6-12" area. What you do get is probability when using it as evidence. For example, the odds of the DNA found at a crime scene and the odds of a suspect having the same banding pattern is very slim unless it's the same DNA.
DNA evidence is NOT good for proving people guilty, but only for proving people innocent.
Although yoda looked cool, I didn't think the scene was a very good one. There was pretty much no fight choreography for Count Dooku, he just stands there the entire time and they just animated yoda bouncing around him.
I guess it may take slightly longer to open a file, but that seems like it would be worth it in my opinion.
That would seem to defeat the purpose to me. The main reason you want to avoid fragmentation of the data is that fragmented data takes longer to pull from the disk. So if by preventing fragmentation you slow down pulling data from the disk, you have just defeated your purpose.
I remember an article, might even have been on Slashdot, a year or so back where a guy created a very accurate monitor of MPG. He found that accelerating slowly actual gave a worse MPG than accelerating quickly because engines are designed to be most fuel efficient at 55 mph or so. So if you accelerate with the same RPM's that your car goes 55 mph at, it's probably most efficient.
Of course this was not a hybrid car, so their designed peak efficiency could be way off.
I certainly don't think that this is what most people are thinking though when they floor it at a green light only to have to break hard at the stop sign a block away though. Maybe that would be a good "Ask Slashdot" "Why are people dumb?"
http://www.gametutorials.com/
GameTutorials also has some great OpenGL/Programming tutorials.
They already did....
Either that or the guy who runs their ftp server is in REALLY big trouble.