It all depends on how much redundancy is in the data, and it's big YMMV. De-duplication is potentially a very powerful technique. Let's say you're backing up an office full of desktop PCs. There's no need to store multiple copies of the OS files. Just store a token referring to a certain file that belongs to Windows or whatever. Back in the mid 90s there was a service called @backup that backed up your PC over a dialup link. It used this exact technique for uploading files of the OS and common applications.
It's not hypocrisy. The parent poster is already making a bigger contribution than most compact car drivers ever will. He lives close to work. A gas tax is advantageous for short distance commuters with less efficient cars, but it achieves the same results in taxing energy use, and also makes long distance commuting less economical.
Actually I have a correction to make myself. TFA says the quasar data is used to add randomness to a stream cipher like a salt. This sounds less and less like a one-time pad.
I didn't mean all $9 of the ticket goes to the studios. I meant after paying expenses, the theaters break even on ticket sales. The profit comes from popcorn, drinks and commercials.
"The movies where I'm at are $9.00 per ticket (IIRC the theater gets none of that)"
That's true. Movie theaters more or less break even on ticket sales after paying the studios for the movies. Their profit is in concessions and 15 minutes of commercials before the trailers.
This always disheartens me a little, and my response is usually just "Huh. Well, the PSP may be trailing the DS in total market share and trailing the GBA in day-to-day sales, and it may have a game library roughly as vibrant as the Jaguar, but I guess those UMD sales must be really popular. After all, if they weren't popular, why else would Wal-Mart be giving then so much well-placed shelf space?"
The obvious guess would be that Sony is paying for shelf space. It's a common arrangement in retail.
I haven't kept up with this distro recently, but a few years ago it was unsure if Trustix was going to stay free or go to a paid version. One of the community forks was Tinysofa server. In its time Trustix was a good, bloat-free RPM distro compared to Redhat 7/8/9. I figured it would have faded into obscurity by now.
"Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?"
Meaning forced by the negotiating position of the vendor. iPods are popular enough that Walmart needs Apple more than Apple needs Walmart. In the vast majority of cases the positions are reversed when dealing with Walmart as a vendor.
"They don't have any suppliers by the balls. Target, Costco, Sears, and a bunch of other companies are right there in the yellow pages if the suppliers want to go elsewhere."
You don't seem the understand the size of Walmart. They're by far the biggest retailer, $312B in annual revenue compared to $81B for the next biggest retailer, Home Depot. Target had $52B in revenue last year. No vendor of mass market consumer goods can ignore Walmart. Some people say that their market power approaches a monopsony, a market with only one buyer.
OK, fair enough. Maybe I shoulda responded to the GP post. Electronics retailing is very competitive. Even if Walmart stocks the name brands like Apple and Sony, their regular price are the same as most stores and definitely more expensive than the deals online.
I have a PS2 slim myself. The quality is fine, but I'm not thrilled with the 90 day warranty. Besides that I don't buy any Sony electronics. They used to make good TVs maybe 20-30 years ago (good in both picture quality and build quality). They coasted on their brand and some interesting designs (cool looking cases) in the 90s.
I've compared it before, and it's not a big difference. The worst problem I've seen with analog VGA is some horizontal ghosting, and that only happens with long runs or cheap quality cables. In any case I'm not losing half the resolution the way HD gets degraded on analog outputs.
Umm, my LCD monitor looks fine at 1280x1024 with an analog VGA signal. This is not about a signalling limitation of the analog interface. This is about intentional degradation of the signal.
Maybe you mean this story? The sequence of events is actually reversed. The botnet operator had control of all these home PCs. He rented them out for DDoS and spam, and later he installed 180solutions adware to collect the affiliate fees.
I don't have an extremely common name, but it's common enough. When I google myself, none of the results on the first page are me. One of them has the same middle initial, and one of them even has a similar bio (birthplace and childhood). Someone might find me if they search my name combined with other associations, but not easily. If I google my name and my university I find another (more recent) student with my name.
Unless you have a very unique name or you're dumb enough to put your full name in your public myspace profile, you probably don't have a lot to worry about.
There has been a similar project before. MkLinux for 68K Macs was a port of a Linux to the Mach microkernel (same microkernel used by OSF/1, Nextstep, and OS X).
"Citrin's breach of his duty of loyalty terminated his agency relationship (more precisely, terminated any rights he might have claimed as IAC's agent--he could not by unilaterally terminating any duties he owed his principal gain an advantage!) and with it his authority to access the laptop, because the only basis of his authority had been that relationship..."
They're trying to argue that when Citrin resigned and went into business for himself, he violated his employment contract (probably a non-compete clause) and therefore was no longer an authorized user.
For the people in the Southwest US, another green feature to consider is low-water landscaping: rocks, cactus and desert plants instead of watering a big green lawn.
Not likely. The DVDs usually have the extended or director's cut because theater releases are cut down to fit in around 100 minutes running time. Very rarely is there a theater release over 2 hours long.
"Personally, I don't think you could ever do anything more then punish the poor with a large gas tax. Rich people will be more then happy to pay a few extra bucks a month to remain in their suburban homes and not be stacked up in expensive and claustrophobic apartment complexes. The poor on the other hand will simply be taxed so severely that they will not be able to afford to use cars."
It may be true that a gas tax is regressive just like any sales tax, but there is a huge amount of slack and inefficiency in the way passenger cars are used. Gas is cheap enough that even lower middle class workers can afford to buy big trucks as fashion statements. You can halve fuel costs by driving a small car instead of a truck. You can save a lot of trips by combining shopping trips in one area instead of driving all over town checking out the different sales or driving 70 miles to an outlet mall.
Also, the cost of fuel is a small fraction of the costs of owning a car. 10,000 mi a year at 20 mpg and $2.50/gal is $1,250 per year. How does that compare to the cost of financing/depreciation on a new car, repairs/maintenance on an old car, insurance, registration, and the risk of fender-benders and traffic tickets? If gas is more expensive (either through taxes or market forces), poor people on the low end might be priced out of driving, but everyone else could still buy a cheaper car and keep on driving.
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It all depends on how much redundancy is in the data, and it's big YMMV. De-duplication is potentially a very powerful technique. Let's say you're backing up an office full of desktop PCs. There's no need to store multiple copies of the OS files. Just store a token referring to a certain file that belongs to Windows or whatever. Back in the mid 90s there was a service called @backup that backed up your PC over a dialup link. It used this exact technique for uploading files of the OS and common applications.
Actually they're still around: @backup
It's not hypocrisy. The parent poster is already making a bigger contribution than most compact car drivers ever will. He lives close to work. A gas tax is advantageous for short distance commuters with less efficient cars, but it achieves the same results in taxing energy use, and also makes long distance commuting less economical.
Actually I have a correction to make myself. TFA says the quasar data is used to add randomness to a stream cipher like a salt. This sounds less and less like a one-time pad.
OK, even if the keyspace is pretty large, what you have now is a symmetrical cipher. You still have to distribute that key securely.
The name of the quasar and time to start monitoring are the cryptographic keys. That doesn't sound like a lot of bits in the keyspace.
I didn't mean all $9 of the ticket goes to the studios. I meant after paying expenses, the theaters break even on ticket sales. The profit comes from popcorn, drinks and commercials.
"The movies where I'm at are $9.00 per ticket (IIRC the theater gets none of that)"
That's true. Movie theaters more or less break even on ticket sales after paying the studios for the movies. Their profit is in concessions and 15 minutes of commercials before the trailers.
This always disheartens me a little, and my response is usually just "Huh. Well, the PSP may be trailing the DS in total market share and trailing the GBA in day-to-day sales, and it may have a game library roughly as vibrant as the Jaguar, but I guess those UMD sales must be really popular. After all, if they weren't popular, why else would Wal-Mart be giving then so much well-placed shelf space?"
The obvious guess would be that Sony is paying for shelf space. It's a common arrangement in retail.
The factories were already in China when the Thinkpad division was owned by IBM.
I haven't kept up with this distro recently, but a few years ago it was unsure if Trustix was going to stay free or go to a paid version. One of the community forks was Tinysofa server. In its time Trustix was a good, bloat-free RPM distro compared to Redhat 7/8/9. I figured it would have faded into obscurity by now.
SELinux is a kernel extension to support mandatory access controls. It's not a distro, but many distros have included SELinux as a feature.
"Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?"
Meaning forced by the negotiating position of the vendor. iPods are popular enough that Walmart needs Apple more than Apple needs Walmart. In the vast majority of cases the positions are reversed when dealing with Walmart as a vendor.
"They don't have any suppliers by the balls. Target, Costco, Sears, and a bunch of other companies are right there in the yellow pages if the suppliers want to go elsewhere."
You don't seem the understand the size of Walmart. They're by far the biggest retailer, $312B in annual revenue compared to $81B for the next biggest retailer, Home Depot. Target had $52B in revenue last year. No vendor of mass market consumer goods can ignore Walmart. Some people say that their market power approaches a monopsony, a market with only one buyer.
OK, fair enough. Maybe I shoulda responded to the GP post. Electronics retailing is very competitive. Even if Walmart stocks the name brands like Apple and Sony, their regular price are the same as most stores and definitely more expensive than the deals online.
I have a PS2 slim myself. The quality is fine, but I'm not thrilled with the 90 day warranty. Besides that I don't buy any Sony electronics. They used to make good TVs maybe 20-30 years ago (good in both picture quality and build quality). They coasted on their brand and some interesting designs (cool looking cases) in the 90s.
Yeah,and that PS2 cost $149.99, the same as any other store that sells PS2s. The only difference is you had that great Walmart shopping experience.
I've compared it before, and it's not a big difference. The worst problem I've seen with analog VGA is some horizontal ghosting, and that only happens with long runs or cheap quality cables. In any case I'm not losing half the resolution the way HD gets degraded on analog outputs.
Umm, my LCD monitor looks fine at 1280x1024 with an analog VGA signal. This is not about a signalling limitation of the analog interface. This is about intentional degradation of the signal.
Maybe you mean this story? The sequence of events is actually reversed. The botnet operator had control of all these home PCs. He rented them out for DDoS and spam, and later he installed 180solutions adware to collect the affiliate fees.
I don't have an extremely common name, but it's common enough. When I google myself, none of the results on the first page are me. One of them has the same middle initial, and one of them even has a similar bio (birthplace and childhood). Someone might find me if they search my name combined with other associations, but not easily. If I google my name and my university I find another (more recent) student with my name.
Unless you have a very unique name or you're dumb enough to put your full name in your public myspace profile, you probably don't have a lot to worry about.
What a coincidence because milk could increase the risk of prostate cancer.
There has been a similar project before. MkLinux for 68K Macs was a port of a Linux to the Mach microkernel (same microkernel used by OSF/1, Nextstep, and OS X).
Yes, there's an automated installer called Automatix. It's only for Ubuntu Breezy, but there should be a new one when Dapper is final.
From TFA,
"Citrin's breach of his duty of loyalty terminated his agency relationship (more precisely, terminated any rights he might have claimed as IAC's agent--he could not by unilaterally terminating any duties he owed his principal gain an advantage!) and with it his authority to access the laptop, because the only basis of his authority had been that relationship..."
They're trying to argue that when Citrin resigned and went into business for himself, he violated his employment contract (probably a non-compete clause) and therefore was no longer an authorized user.
For the people in the Southwest US, another green feature to consider is low-water landscaping: rocks, cactus and desert plants instead of watering a big green lawn.
Not likely. The DVDs usually have the extended or director's cut because theater releases are cut down to fit in around 100 minutes running time. Very rarely is there a theater release over 2 hours long.
"Personally, I don't think you could ever do anything more then punish the poor with a large gas tax. Rich people will be more then happy to pay a few extra bucks a month to remain in their suburban homes and not be stacked up in expensive and claustrophobic apartment complexes. The poor on the other hand will simply be taxed so severely that they will not be able to afford to use cars."
It may be true that a gas tax is regressive just like any sales tax, but there is a huge amount of slack and inefficiency in the way passenger cars are used. Gas is cheap enough that even lower middle class workers can afford to buy big trucks as fashion statements. You can halve fuel costs by driving a small car instead of a truck. You can save a lot of trips by combining shopping trips in one area instead of driving all over town checking out the different sales or driving 70 miles to an outlet mall.
Also, the cost of fuel is a small fraction of the costs of owning a car. 10,000 mi a year at 20 mpg and $2.50/gal is $1,250 per year. How does that compare to the cost of financing/depreciation on a new car, repairs/maintenance on an old car, insurance, registration, and the risk of fender-benders and traffic tickets? If gas is more expensive (either through taxes or market forces), poor people on the low end might be priced out of driving, but everyone else could still buy a cheaper car and keep on driving.