In the past it has been the insurance companies that take the hit. Of course, with each failure to achieve orbit, insurance prices have risen and risen, such that now, there is a reasonable chance that Boeing has self-insured this satellite.
Come on, you're being gratuitously cynical. Why wouldn't we want our emergency agencies to have access to the latest and greatest information, regardless of the source?
During 1992, I was involved with building the LA Fire Department's new 911 system (uh, that was a debacle but that's another story). The Emergency Operations Center had three or four 12 foot across big screen TVs that could be used to display maps, computer displays, CNN or the local media.
During last week's 9/11 special on CBS, it was commented on how TV viewers and web surfers around the world knew more about what was going on in and around the towers than the firemen in the lobby.
And then consider how many devices, sensors, or applications these folks have to get to that may only have web interfaces....
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As I recall from my reading (about fifteen years ago) of
Stages to Saturn, part of the reason the F-1 burned kerosene was that hydrogen rocket technology was just a lot newer, a lot more untested, and a lot riskier when building the Saturn V.
One memorable anecdote: workers on the third stage had to worry about hydrogen leaks causing invisible and undetectable hydrogen fires. They would walk along the stage holding wooden brooms out ahead of them. If the end of the broom caught fire....
I believe this is what Bitzi provides (or was supposed to?) -- a way to register files and lookup various pieces of information:
With Bitzi:
* You can look up descriptions, comments, and ratings about your files - or contribute such info yourself
* Our precise digital fingerprints match info to exact files, so you can distinguish between similar files and search for the very best versions
* Future file-sharing tools can assure you of a file's contents before you begin downloading
* Infected or mislabeled files can be flagged, and so discovered or ignored before doing any harm
The Bitzi catalog is an open resource built by a community of fans, developers, and creators. To get started:
If we really want to get hard-core scientific here, we've got to say that climate prediction is not a 'science' until we can accurately predict weather in any part of the globe, at least three days in advance. We can't do that yet, let alone in a hundred or a hundred thousand years.
When I pedal down the road, or when I examine a topo map, over large distances I can accurately predict whether the road will be rising or falling. But I can't tell you what the road will be doing for the next 100 feet.
Security has never been an absolute. The value of security has always been judged as a comparison of security costs versus the value of what is being secured.
Do you always lock your car door? Do you always lock your hose door? Do you always use landline phones? Do you always try to pick a decently hard pin for your ATM cards? (No, no, no, yes). How come?
That's interesting. The past few days with Mozilla 0.9.8, abcnews.com has had just such a large gap at the top of its page. Either abcnews fixed their problem, or Mozilla 0.9.9 fixed its problem, but the gap is gone as of this moment.
Yes the behavior is wonderful. When I am forced to use to IE now, I always find myself mouse-middle -- oops.
At 0.9.7, I had Mozilla dieing many times per day. With Mozilla 0.9.8, I've had only one crash at all, that was yesterday.
Still I've seen Mozilla on some pages just not work. these contain I suspect, some IE javascript. the result is that the page never loads completely. (Other pages get page loading infinite loops!) I've also seen problems painting the screen with various artifacts, almost always when I've been scrolling with a wheel mouse. And it has some problem launching urls out of eudora.
Of course, don't forget one of the nicest features of Mozilla -- server by server image blocking -- I wish they would generalize that to regexp image blocking.
Heh. What if Congress and your 1040 were like the Reality TV Show Big Brother? Each year at the bottom of each 1040 the audience could vote out one member of Congress.
You fall into a trap when you engage in zero-sum games. Must it be "either or"? How come it can't be both?
If you save a buck from NASA's budget, do you believe this administration or this congress is going to fund UNESCO? Or do you kinda sorta suspect they are going to give that buck to a favorite corporate son?
They came by Ghost through acquisition in 1999, I recall. So from 1995 until 1999 they were out of the market. As was FastBack. As was Central Point Systems, or something like that. All exiting because they couldn't compete with the bundled program, regardless of how incomplete it was.
Also, I am not that familiar with Ghost, but it strikes me as a disk/partition imaging program. Backup programs usually let you backup in various manners, full, incremental, daily,...; keep searchable directories of what was archived and when so that you can retrieve what you need and only what you need; etc. Can Ghost do that? (Honest question, I don't know the answer.)
Back in the earliest days of DOS, I was upset that Microsoft didn't supply a backup program with DOS. But they didn't and up sprang many third party backup programs. You might say there was a truly competitive market that formed around backup programs that competed on price, features, and support.
Sometime near when Windows came out, Microsoft did have a backup program, but it was not very good. I recall it was rumored that your backups had to be restored with the same exact version of the backup program. So still there was a healthy market for backup programs.
Windows 95 or NT comes out, and Microsoft claims to have bundled in a useful, featurific backup program. By that time, the healthy market was down to two or three brand competitors including Norton. With the release of 95 or NT, Norton completely exits the market for backup programs as they believe there is no way of competing with a useful backup program from MS.
And as folks have noted, throughout the years Windows has always cost about $200.
So why would consumers not want bundled in features? Because intelligent consumers know they do better when competition is healthy.
In addition to being an anonymous coward you seem to be a moron.
You say you wouldn't want to download updates for your two year old nic? Why not? Most of the rest of us relatively faithfully look forward to new and updated drivers. What do you think those drivers are?
I download/upload new firmware to my motherboard (that has given me support for SMP and faster processors). I download/upload new firmware and drivers for my various video cards (Matrox esp.). I bet those with winmodem download/upload new firmware and drivers for their winmodems. I know many of us downloaded/uploaded new firmware when our modems went through that 33Kbaud -> KFlex/Foo/56Kbaud nonsense years back.
If you have a high performance SCSI board there's a very good chance you're on the download/upload track for that board.
Gosh there really is little difference between a card for a PC and any other piece of equipment.
And yet, my sonicwall firewall works exactly that way. I bought it three years ago, it's out of warranty, and still it faithfully tells me each time there is new firmware available. That firmware may fix bugs, counter new attacks, or add other features.
I believe the enabling technology is that sonicwall chose to build on a extendible, scalable platform themselves. A big benefits is that their systems do get better over time, unlike most pieces of hardware or software in which each new device/version often moves the users back down the reliability curve until the bugs get worked out.
We're not talking Brown and Williams, tobacco smoking gun. It's not Kenny Boy and accounting mismanagement smoking gun.
It's an anonymous coward seeking to make you believe he has credibility by claiming to have signed an NDA. What makes you think anything he says is accurate?
If you are ever in charge of a tech startup, or if you ever have an original invention, or a truly innovative device, how would you feel about random employees violating your NDAs or releasing your trade secrets?
If you are ever employed in a tech startup with tight funding, who would you prefer handle corporate product announcements, the CEO, your marketing department, or random employees who know how to post to a website?
Why do companies have to carefully handle preannouncements of products that might compete with their existing products? Why do you think Intel doesn't want news of Yamhill let out?
If you had invested in a company that had legit worries about competitors, or maybe legit worries about getting the information to the market at the right moment so as not to cannibalize prior products, how would you feel about the employees you had funded leaking all sorts of information?
What is your word worth? How much value was added to the slashdot community by that post? Was that value equal to or greater than what you want to believe your word is worth?
Like I should have to explain this to you? Jeez, get real. If you can't keep your trap shut, don't sign the NDA.
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While watching the movie chrisd got his ass kicked with a society that is fascist and hudled under domes. Exactly how do you assault someone with a society?
See Horton Hears a Who or Men in Black for details.
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Because each fresco is numbered, and each number corresponds to a picture of a box drawn underneath it, it is Dr. Jacobelli's theory that the depictions may have served as a kind of memory aid for customers who might have been more apt to forget that their clothes were in Locker 6, for example, than that they were in the box right under the group sex scene.
I'm saddened that Salon is trying to turn the Internet into TV (compulsory and intrusive ads). I would like a world in which a Salon would succeed, but not as much as I want a world in which compulsory and intrusive ads fail.
I think they are striving to become 60 Minutes III, and not an online journalism site.
Anyway, turning off JavaScript for the site salon.com will stop all pop up and interstiche ads from Salon. This is very easy to do in Internet Explorer (put Salon in the restricted sites zone.) It's probably easy to do in Mozilla 0.9.4 as well.
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In the past it has been the insurance companies that take the hit. Of course, with each failure to achieve orbit, insurance prices have risen and risen, such that now, there is a reasonable chance that Boeing has self-insured this satellite.
Come on, you're being gratuitously cynical. Why wouldn't we want our emergency agencies to have access to the latest and greatest information, regardless of the source?
During 1992, I was involved with building the LA Fire Department's new 911 system (uh, that was a debacle but that's another story). The Emergency Operations Center had three or four 12 foot across big screen TVs that could be used to display maps, computer displays, CNN or the local media.
During last week's 9/11 special on CBS, it was commented on how TV viewers and web surfers around the world knew more about what was going on in and around the towers than the firemen in the lobby.
And then consider how many devices, sensors, or applications these folks have to get to that may only have web interfaces....
One memorable anecdote: workers on the third stage had to worry about hydrogen leaks causing invisible and undetectable hydrogen fires. They would walk along the stage holding wooden brooms out ahead of them. If the end of the broom caught fire ....
In creating his clocks, John Harrison invented the bi-metallic strip, fundamental to most thermostats.
"And I used to encrypt everything."
Security has never been an absolute. The value of security has always been judged as a comparison of security costs versus the value of what is being secured.
Do you always lock your car door? Do you always lock your hose door? Do you always use landline phones? Do you always try to pick a decently hard pin for your ATM cards? (No, no, no, yes). How come?
No, all you need is one psychic alien!
Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King
That's interesting. The past few days with Mozilla 0.9.8, abcnews.com has had just such a large gap at the top of its page. Either abcnews fixed their problem, or Mozilla 0.9.9 fixed its problem, but the gap is gone as of this moment.
Yes the behavior is wonderful. When I am forced to use to IE now, I always find myself mouse-middle -- oops.
At 0.9.7, I had Mozilla dieing many times per day. With Mozilla 0.9.8, I've had only one crash at all, that was yesterday.
Still I've seen Mozilla on some pages just not work. these contain I suspect, some IE javascript. the result is that the page never loads completely. (Other pages get page loading infinite loops!) I've also seen problems painting the screen with various artifacts, almost always when I've been scrolling with a wheel mouse. And it has some problem launching urls out of eudora.
Of course, don't forget one of the nicest features of Mozilla -- server by server image blocking -- I wish they would generalize that to regexp image blocking.
Heh. What if Congress and your 1040 were like the Reality TV Show Big Brother? Each year at the bottom of each 1040 the audience could vote out one member of Congress.
You fall into a trap when you engage in zero-sum games. Must it be "either or"? How come it can't be both?
If you save a buck from NASA's budget, do you believe this administration or this congress is going to fund UNESCO? Or do you kinda sorta suspect they are going to give that buck to a favorite corporate son?
They came by Ghost through acquisition in 1999, I recall. So from 1995 until 1999 they were out of the market. As was FastBack. As was Central Point Systems, or something like that. All exiting because they couldn't compete with the bundled program, regardless of how incomplete it was.
...; keep searchable directories of what was archived and when so that you can retrieve what you need and only what you need; etc. Can Ghost do that? (Honest question, I don't know the answer.)
Also, I am not that familiar with Ghost, but it strikes me as a disk/partition imaging program. Backup programs usually let you backup in various manners, full, incremental, daily,
Back in the earliest days of DOS, I was upset that Microsoft didn't supply a backup program with DOS. But they didn't and up sprang many third party backup programs. You might say there was a truly competitive market that formed around backup programs that competed on price, features, and support.
Sometime near when Windows came out, Microsoft did have a backup program, but it was not very good. I recall it was rumored that your backups had to be restored with the same exact version of the backup program. So still there was a healthy market for backup programs.
Windows 95 or NT comes out, and Microsoft claims to have bundled in a useful, featurific backup program. By that time, the healthy market was down to two or three brand competitors including Norton. With the release of 95 or NT, Norton completely exits the market for backup programs as they believe there is no way of competing with a useful backup program from MS.
And as folks have noted, throughout the years Windows has always cost about $200.
So why would consumers not want bundled in features? Because intelligent consumers know they do better when competition is healthy.
What is they do that anyone finds sufficient value in to support anything they do?
In addition to being an anonymous coward you seem to be a moron.
You say you wouldn't want to download updates for your two year old nic? Why not? Most of the rest of us relatively faithfully look forward to new and updated drivers. What do you think those drivers are?
I download/upload new firmware to my motherboard (that has given me support for SMP and faster processors). I download/upload new firmware and drivers for my various video cards (Matrox esp.). I bet those with winmodem download/upload new firmware and drivers for their winmodems. I know many of us downloaded/uploaded new firmware when our modems went through that 33Kbaud -> KFlex/Foo/56Kbaud nonsense years back.
If you have a high performance SCSI board there's a very good chance you're on the download/upload track for that board.
Gosh there really is little difference between a card for a PC and any other piece of equipment.
And yet, my sonicwall firewall works exactly that way. I bought it three years ago, it's out of warranty, and still it faithfully tells me each time there is new firmware available. That firmware may fix bugs, counter new attacks, or add other features.
I believe the enabling technology is that sonicwall chose to build on a extendible, scalable platform themselves. A big benefits is that their systems do get better over time, unlike most pieces of hardware or software in which each new device/version often moves the users back down the reliability curve until the bugs get worked out.
Jeez taco, I do spend too much of my time here, moderated, and never trolled. In all fairness, I should be someone interested in supporting slashdot.
Except that I modded one post up as interesting and got punished for it. You know the post.
As so many have noted, you took away mod privs from all of us that honestly thought the post was interesting, and fairly modded it up.
What can I say, I'd see you fail before I send you any money. You're either abusive, hypocritical, or dense. Pick two of three.
We're not talking Brown and Williams, tobacco smoking gun. It's not Kenny Boy and accounting mismanagement smoking gun.
It's an anonymous coward seeking to make you believe he has credibility by claiming to have signed an NDA. What makes you think anything he says is accurate?
If you are ever in charge of a tech startup, or if you ever have an original invention, or a truly innovative device, how would you feel about random employees violating your NDAs or releasing your trade secrets?
If you are ever employed in a tech startup with tight funding, who would you prefer handle corporate product announcements, the CEO, your marketing department, or random employees who know how to post to a website?
Why do companies have to carefully handle preannouncements of products that might compete with their existing products? Why do you think Intel doesn't want news of Yamhill let out?
If you had invested in a company that had legit worries about competitors, or maybe legit worries about getting the information to the market at the right moment so as not to cannibalize prior products, how would you feel about the employees you had funded leaking all sorts of information?
What is your word worth? How much value was added to the slashdot community by that post? Was that value equal to or greater than what you want to believe your word is worth?
Like I should have to explain this to you? Jeez, get real. If you can't keep your trap shut, don't sign the NDA.
Why would you sign an NDA and then leak the information?
Why would you post the information anonymously?
Who wants to be free here, you or the information?
Jerry
lin-at-x => linatix => lunatics!
While watching the movie chrisd got his ass kicked with a society that is fascist and hudled under domes. Exactly how do you assault someone with a society? See Horton Hears a Who or Men in Black for details.
I'm saddened that Salon is trying to turn the Internet into TV (compulsory and intrusive ads). I would like a world in which a Salon would succeed, but not as much as I want a world in which compulsory and intrusive ads fail.
I think they are striving to become 60 Minutes III, and not an online journalism site.
Anyway, turning off JavaScript for the site salon.com will stop all pop up and interstiche ads from Salon. This is very easy to do in Internet Explorer (put Salon in the restricted sites zone.) It's probably easy to do in Mozilla 0.9.4 as well.
Rendezvous with Rama