I just wonder if they've put something in the 'agreement' about other media formats? I know many of you are saying M$ is just positioning for the future, and you may be correct. On the other hand, it wouldnt surprise me to see some exclusivity (sp) clause in the WMA license agreement.
Many DVD players now supprt MP3 media. It would not surprised if M$ would say that WMA can only exist in players that do not support MP3. I say this because havent they developed their own, new, 'better' media format to compete with/displace MP3?
I'm just skeptical and trust that company as far as I can throw Bill Gate's net worth in a single roll of small bills.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it;)
I'll make sure I tell my boss that we have that as an option when we next discuss backups.
I'm just trying to figure out which one of us would have to explain to the board how our clients' customers' credit card numbers ended up all over the 'net.
I'm taking this off-topic, but this struck a nerve...sorry.
Maybe it is up to producers to encourage a higher moral standard instead of a lower one.
Why should the producers be held accountable for morals? Maybe their morals differ from yours.
If people in this world (more specifically this country, and I mean the US) would take responsibility for themselves rather than spend time throwing the blame at music, TV, movies, Howard Stern and anything else they dont like I think we'd all be better off!
Your argument basically tells producers/networks/whatever that because the content they support/produce/distribute is 'wrong' by some moral standard that they do not have the right excercice their freedom of speech.
They have every right to go out and start a pay channel with all the nudity in the world. As long as they offer Free TV with advertising being their source of revenue they are going to have to follow the rules set forth essentially by the advertisors.
I think most of the 'rules' that they have to follow are put in place by the FCC. And, to borrow a statement from Geoarge Carlin, the FCC alone has decided that the 1st Ammendment does not apply to TV or radio.
Granted, however, that many advertisers will pull ads from shows that present things they disagree with - remember when Ellen came out of the closet and Wendy's and a few others pulled their ads from the show?
I'm trying to get my certificate to be a private pilot. I read the article stating that the computer would control the planes in 'non-radar' space and 'non-towered' airports...is this thing going to have speech recognition and natural language recognition as well?
What I'm getting at, is that the above airspaces pretty much control themselves. If I'm departing from a non-towered airfield, I announce via radio...is this thing going to be able to track and avoid other aircraft that are being flown the old fashioned way?
I wonder if the new versions of IE will have something like:
The end user shall not view anti-MS material with this browser
The end user shall not post anti-MS statements in chat rooms or on message boards with this browser
The end user shall not visit any site promoting products of any company other than MS
The end user shall not install any other web browsing software on the computer where this browser resides, unless the other browser is a newer version of IE
By downloading and installing this browser you have agreed to the terms of this license retroactively to the date of your birth
If you are found in contempt of this agreement you agree to render all personal worth to MS, and to spend the rest of your natural life imprisoned in a facility of the choosing of MS
In all seriousness, dont use it if you dont like the license. The thing I dislike about most EULs and that sort of thing is that most of the time when you're buying software you can't agree to the license before heading to the checkout line. Additionally, most companies (esp MS) like to hide the language that limits the use of the software from the end user. Or making it where once you've been able to read the EUL it's too late (I think MS got in trouble for that one already).
Instead, I think what prevents some companies from fully embracing Linux is customer base. If my company makes a computer product, and only 1% of all interested users say they would like to use my product with Linux, why should I bother to support it?
How accurate is your 1%? I really dont know, but I assumed that since Linux is freely downloadable, and there are so many distros and 'flavors' that a count was impossible.
Anyway, there are a few reasons to support Linux. These reasons may be looked at as a gamble, but most new ventures in business (esp technology) are. There's the whole, "We did it first," thing (only good if it cathces on). Of course, there's also the CEO who is willing to take a slight hit on the bottom line if his desires of supporting Linux are met.
If it were my decison to make for a company, I would support Linux as well most other OS's (if possible). Maybe I'd support non-proprietary OS's because I'm a Linux fan, but I think I'd take a look at what IBM is doing (link) and figure out why they are doing it, then copy-cat them.
If a comapny with the reputation IBM has is supporting Linux (the OS as well as having 'Linux affinity' in their new OS), then why should I?
The majority of the movie is a crappy love story that could have come from a second rate romance novel.
Well, I've not seen the movie simply because I've heard so many bad things about it. I'm one that's a fan of historical accuracy, and I've heard (from people who were in Pearl Harbor during the attack) that the U.S. ships in the movie were not the right type (the models used were more modern than the ships that were actually there), the hull numbers were 3 and 4 digits (every ship in the 1940's only had 2), the ships were in the wrong position, there were just too many bombs in the movie (which is acceptable since it is Hollywood and people, myself included, like to watch things explode), the way the USS Arizona sunk was wrong (not the cause, just the actual sinking), and many other things were just wrong.
This same person (who just happened to be on one of the three ships that made it out of Pearl Harbor) that gave me this tidbit of info, also told me that the main characters (at least the ones involved in the love story) are real people and that there really was some sort of romance going on between them - so aside from the details, that part is accurate. I guess they were fairly well known people among those they served with.
Too bad for us that the part of the story that impacted the U.S. was totally out to lunch.
It turns out Coriolis effects do come into play when firing missles
Actually, Coriolis was a French mathematician who 'discovered' the curved paths of artillery shells (I believe). He made this discovery in the 19th century.
When travelling north and south, things (artillery rounds, winds, whatever) dont really turn. They maintain their path and the earth moves below them.
For instance, let's assume a round is fired in the northern hemisphere (let's say New York City) and it is heading due south (geographic, not magnetic). Let's assume that it maintains a constant distance between it and the surface of the earth (so we need to disregard surface topology).
The surface of the earth near the equator has a higher velocity than the surface near New York (just like the wheels on a car travel at different rates when turning - the outside wheels turn fater than the inside wheels).
The east/west velocity of the round is zero relative to its point of origin, meaning it has the same east/west velocity as its point of origin. The east/west velocity of the surface near the equator is much higher, so it appears that the round turns to the right since the surface is rotating faster below it to toward the east than it did in New York, but it's actually travelling in a straight line.
As it crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere, the reverse is true and it will appear to turn to the left.
Man, I hope that makes sense to you since I'm off topic from the original post.
Or 4: Someone who went to college and worked 2 jobs (in IT) to make ends meet. The jobs might not have been glamour, and may not have a ton to do with a persons' current carrear path...but it shows dedication, motivation, hard work, and many other personal characteristics that employers like to see.
Let's not forget that HR departments sometimes make these decisions, and will not pass the resume on to the manager. Many times these decisions are not made by the people who are actually hiring the employee.
I, however, went to college. Go ahead and tell me I waisted my time. IT was MY time and I think it's paying off right now.
Everyone accepts that they are responsible for their actions in the world
I must disagree with you on that point. As much as I wish it were true, it's not.
If this were the case, then nobody would be taking game companies to court because a kid who plays Quake goes on a shooting spree in their school. This is a classic case of not taking responsibilty for their actions and trying to make someone else responsible.
Anyway, had to make my voice heard after that statement, but I'm off topic. I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
DeCSS is a tool with both legal and illegal uses, but the crime is in the specific uses, not the tool.
Just like a baseball bat, crowbar (just like someone else posted), rifle, handgun, cars, knives, telephones, computers in general, snail mail, your hands, rocks, dirt, wooden sticks and any number of things that can be used for malicious intent.
Please dont take these statements as a proposal to abolish these things. To suggest such a thing would be as ignorant as the DMCA.
If we were only heads in jars then we wouldnt have to worry about devices we could use for physical malicious intent...but we're not, so we have to put up with laws made by people who tend to not understand the technology they are governing.
by letting the parents back into their lives instead of shutting them out as much as possible.
Nobody is taking the parents out of their children's lives. The parents are doing that to themselves.
I have seen too many times parents who are literally afraid to discipline their child. They are afraid that the kid will retaliate either physically or claim that there was some sort of abuse. The reason they are afraid is that they waited too late in the child's life to correct their misbehaviors...now it's too late and the kid thinks they should be able to get away with anything and will defend the ability to get away with anything any way they can, even if it hurts their parents.
I grew up with fear of making my parents angry, because I knew what the consequences were and it was more than being grounded (let me just say that going after a switch from the tree was not uncommon). I loved my parents (still do), but that level of fear (which is still there in a small degree) kept me in line.
I think the 'dumbing of America' as someone put it is a direct product of the wussifying of America where people suffered no real consequences when they messed up as a kid. The people who fall under these categories seem to band together and claim that the person who comitted a horrible crime is not responsible, that <fill in industry here> is responsible.
Sun's bread nd butter is big machines. People have to program those big machines.
Yeah, the thing is that I'm a sysadmin at a shop that has some big machines (2 E10Ks, multiple 4500s, and a few small ones like 450s, 250, 420Rs and 220Rs).
I have to use NT to get to EVERY one of our machines, because most companies dont put UNIX workstations on the desktops because of cost (and I'd use linux but was told that I couldnt install it)...that and people are stuck on the evil-Bill 'Exchange' produet.
Drawback - you'd have little green/blue/whatever crack lines one the hood of your (otherwise) nice looking car from where trucks would flip up ricks and debris on your car.
A self-healing Vette would be just great for someone who live where it was a rather constant temperature all year.
But what if you live in say, the Midwest, or in south central Texas (or anywhere else that applies) where temperatures can reach extremes? Will my Vette stop healing itself in February when it's -10 degrees F outside? Or will it never 'set' properly if it's 130 in the shade? How about on an airliner that takes off from Phoenix in August and climbs to 40k feet where the temperature is possibly well (read VERY MUCH) below freezing? Will this extreme change in temperature affect these materials?
These are just temperatures, what about vibration during the drying of the resin. What about humidity or rain? Then consider the combinations of these.
This is an amazing technology, and I realize these questions will be answered with more research and further testing, but the article never really metioned these possible limitations.
In response to the statement about running anything but solaris on a Sun box...I must agree.
You're nuts to run linux on Sun hardware, unless you absolutely dont care about any support from Sun. If you run linux and get a kernel panic (which we've seen a lot from UE 400+MHz boxes here at work - actually ECACHE errors) and you have a support contract (good idea IMO), Sun will probably refuse to analyze the core file because you're running an unsupported OS.
This is, ultimately, a business decision, but an easy on IMO.
As far as the number of linux jobs out there...I've never seen one posted on Monster for my town, at least there were no linux sysadmin jobs that I could find. I can find tons of Solaris jobs though.
I know a guy who has 2 or 3 years experience of running his own company setting up linux and Free/OpenBSD boxes for companies as a firewall, router, mailserver, whatever. He had trouble finding a linux job, still is having trouble actually.
Maybe it's different here, maybe I'm just blind...but Solaris is where it's at right now (according to a SANS survey, Solaris admins are the best paid, and Cisco IOS folks are second).
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Because each region elects only a single Member of Parliment, you only mark off one circle.
We dont have that issue (read luxury) in the US since we have 2 branches of congress and 1 executive to vote for. We got this because the Articles of Confederation were tried out for 10 years or so and they just didnt work, so when the Constitution was drafted it ended up being a mass compromise between the interested parties.
Compromise 1: To make sure that each state has equal representation, there are 2 senators (with 6 year terms) from each of the 50 states, and there are senator(s) from Puerto Rico (I think, and maybe others). They get to speak and be heard, but dont get to vote because they are not an official state. If I remember 8th grade history correctly, this is because the reps from the less populous states felt they would get the shaft if the system was based on population (see compromise below)
Compromise 2: To make sure that there was a representation based on population (see above)
Congressional districts were created based on population, each with 1 rep (with a 2yr term). This was demanded by reps from more populous states who felt that since they were home to more people that they deserved more votes (greater good of the Union and all that). These districts are rearranged every 10 years (shortly after that census thing).
Parlimentary systems work well, but I think when the Constition was drafted people were bitter against the Brits (wonder why?) and wanted something different. I'm not well versed on British history, but was Parliment very functional then, or did the monarchy have most of the power still? Selection of the exuctive head by the people just makes the most sense to me since I get a direct vote for out leader, rather than an indirect vote through a representative.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
...actually Santos Dumont did the first powered takeoff and landing of a heavier than aircraft.
Just not true...
According to http://www.maria-brazil.org/SDumont.htm he flew in 1905 (other than his dirigibles). So if you take the weight of the aircraft, without the lifting gas inside, then yes it was heavier than air...but it's basically a balloon with a motor and balloons had been around for years before he did this.
According to http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/wright/wrights.html (and countless other sources) the Wrights flew in December 1903. I dont have any formal education that would allow me to call myself an authority on temporal physics, and I do understand that time is relative, but this is 12+ months between the two events. Dumont was in in France if I read correctly, and I know the French are different than us Americans, but I think time still works the same there.
I know people who grew up in the Soviet Union and *they* were told that the Wright brothers were the first at powered (and controlled) flight of a heavier than air device, so why is it others have problems accepting this? They accept it and were educated by the US's greatest adversary (and I know we were told/taught things about them that are false too).
I'm not trying to take away from Dumont's achievement, it's impressive nonetheless, but it's just not factual the way you stated it.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Unless you're running an ad blocker proxy, it's going to get really hard to
ignore ads on the web soon."
This is exactly why my/etc/nsswitch.conf checks files before DNS and my/etc/hosts has 40+ entries in it that are doubleclick.com, adserver, adforce et al, and they all point to 127.0.0.1. I've heard rumors that you can do the same thing in a (lm?)hosts file in Win systems, but have no experience trying this.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Hmmm...I think what was meant was 1 milibit PER SECOND. So, over 1000 seconds (every 16min 40seconds) you get one bit.
Dont know that I'd call that broadband, but I think it's faster than my dialup access used to be.
I just realized that this throughput would require 2 hours, 13 minutes and 20 seconds to send ONE BYTE! You'd be better off driving your buddy's place and TELLING them your 'email' message and driving home. Then you can wait a few hours while they drive to your place with a response. It's hell on gas, but it might do wonders for some of us to get out sometimes.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
just don't see broadband as an essential service that needs to be regulated for QoS like the phone network.
The original post mentioned business as the focus, although it did say that consumers were in mind. I work for a company that would consider its broadband connection essential (it's an e-fulfillment company). With more and more of these popping up around the world (especially in North America) the governments should support them, more companies tends to mean more business, which tends to mean more revenue from taxes and it also tends to mean more jobs, which means less money spent on unemployment (if your country offers such a thing), which means more tax money saved. Also, these extra jobs means more income tax, more people have more money and are more willing to spend it (they're buying your stuff aren't thay?) which means a healthier economy.
One reason I can see the US government not doing this sort of thing is that there is already too much public interest. why should they spend their (admittedly - *our*) money on something like this when we're spending our own on it already? The USA is the home to excessiveness, we've got to have to biggest, brightest, baddest, fasest, coolest looking, nasiest thingamajig around (at least I do) and the government knows this, so why should they keep me from spending my own money on it?
CAD50 is somehwere arouns $32-35US right? I spend more than that anyway on my cable modem ($40). As much as I'd like the government to step in a cap prices, it'd probably be higher than what I'm paying anyway, which would mean that my company would raise rates and say that new government regulation caused the increase.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
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I just wonder if they've put something in the 'agreement' about other media formats? I know many of you are saying M$ is just positioning for the future, and you may be correct. On the other hand, it wouldnt surprise me to see some exclusivity (sp) clause in the WMA license agreement.
Many DVD players now supprt MP3 media. It would not surprised if M$ would say that WMA can only exist in players that do not support MP3. I say this because havent they developed their own, new, 'better' media format to compete with/displace MP3?
I'm just skeptical and trust that company as far as I can throw Bill Gate's net worth in a single roll of small bills.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
I'll make sure I tell my boss that we have that as an option when we next discuss backups.
I'm just trying to figure out which one of us would have to explain to the board how our clients' customers' credit card numbers ended up all over the 'net.
On second thought, I'll stick to tape.
I'm taking this off-topic, but this struck a nerve...sorry.
Maybe it is up to producers to encourage a higher moral standard instead of a lower one.
Why should the producers be held accountable for morals? Maybe their morals differ from yours.
If people in this world (more specifically this country, and I mean the US) would take responsibility for themselves rather than spend time throwing the blame at music, TV, movies, Howard Stern and anything else they dont like I think we'd all be better off!
Your argument basically tells producers/networks/whatever that because the content they support/produce/distribute is 'wrong' by some moral standard that they do not have the right excercice their freedom of speech.
They have every right to go out and start a pay channel with all the nudity in the world. As long as they offer Free TV with advertising being their source of revenue they are going to have to follow the rules set forth essentially by the advertisors.
I think most of the 'rules' that they have to follow are put in place by the FCC. And, to borrow a statement from Geoarge Carlin, the FCC alone has decided that the 1st Ammendment does not apply to TV or radio.
Granted, however, that many advertisers will pull ads from shows that present things they disagree with - remember when Ellen came out of the closet and Wendy's and a few others pulled their ads from the show?
This scares the bejeezus out of me!
I'm trying to get my certificate to be a private pilot. I read the article stating that the computer would control the planes in 'non-radar' space and 'non-towered' airports...is this thing going to have speech recognition and natural language recognition as well?
What I'm getting at, is that the above airspaces pretty much control themselves. If I'm departing from a non-towered airfield, I announce via radio...is this thing going to be able to track and avoid other aircraft that are being flown the old fashioned way?
So....there's a runway on the Apple campus? The way it read to me was that you would be able to get from runway to runway....
In all seriousness, dont use it if you dont like the license. The thing I dislike about most EULs and that sort of thing is that most of the time when you're buying software you can't agree to the license before heading to the checkout line. Additionally, most companies (esp MS) like to hide the language that limits the use of the software from the end user. Or making it where once you've been able to read the EUL it's too late (I think MS got in trouble for that one already).
Instead, I think what prevents some companies from fully embracing Linux is customer base. If my company makes a computer product, and only 1% of all interested users say they would like to use my product with Linux, why should I bother to support it?
How accurate is your 1%? I really dont know, but I assumed that since Linux is freely downloadable, and there are so many distros and 'flavors' that a count was impossible.
Anyway, there are a few reasons to support Linux. These reasons may be looked at as a gamble, but most new ventures in business (esp technology) are. There's the whole, "We did it first," thing (only good if it cathces on). Of course, there's also the CEO who is willing to take a slight hit on the bottom line if his desires of supporting Linux are met.
If it were my decison to make for a company, I would support Linux as well most other OS's (if possible). Maybe I'd support non-proprietary OS's because I'm a Linux fan, but I think I'd take a look at what IBM is doing (link) and figure out why they are doing it, then copy-cat them.
If a comapny with the reputation IBM has is supporting Linux (the OS as well as having 'Linux affinity' in their new OS), then why should I?
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
The majority of the movie is a crappy love story that could have come from a second rate romance novel.
Well, I've not seen the movie simply because I've heard so many bad things about it. I'm one that's a fan of historical accuracy, and I've heard (from people who were in Pearl Harbor during the attack) that the U.S. ships in the movie were not the right type (the models used were more modern than the ships that were actually there), the hull numbers were 3 and 4 digits (every ship in the 1940's only had 2), the ships were in the wrong position, there were just too many bombs in the movie (which is acceptable since it is Hollywood and people, myself included, like to watch things explode), the way the USS Arizona sunk was wrong (not the cause, just the actual sinking), and many other things were just wrong.
This same person (who just happened to be on one of the three ships that made it out of Pearl Harbor) that gave me this tidbit of info, also told me that the main characters (at least the ones involved in the love story) are real people and that there really was some sort of romance going on between them - so aside from the details, that part is accurate. I guess they were fairly well known people among those they served with.
Too bad for us that the part of the story that impacted the U.S. was totally out to lunch.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
It turns out Coriolis effects do come into play when firing missles
Actually, Coriolis was a French mathematician who 'discovered' the curved paths of artillery shells (I believe). He made this discovery in the 19th century.
When travelling north and south, things (artillery rounds, winds, whatever) dont really turn. They maintain their path and the earth moves below them.
For instance, let's assume a round is fired in the northern hemisphere (let's say New York City) and it is heading due south (geographic, not magnetic). Let's assume that it maintains a constant distance between it and the surface of the earth (so we need to disregard surface topology).
The surface of the earth near the equator has a higher velocity than the surface near New York (just like the wheels on a car travel at different rates when turning - the outside wheels turn fater than the inside wheels).
The east/west velocity of the round is zero relative to its point of origin, meaning it has the same east/west velocity as its point of origin. The east/west velocity of the surface near the equator is much higher, so it appears that the round turns to the right since the surface is rotating faster below it to toward the east than it did in New York, but it's actually travelling in a straight line.
As it crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere, the reverse is true and it will appear to turn to the left.
Man, I hope that makes sense to you since I'm off topic from the original post.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
Or 4: Someone who went to college and worked 2 jobs (in IT) to make ends meet. The jobs might not have been glamour, and may not have a ton to do with a persons' current carrear path...but it shows dedication, motivation, hard work, and many other personal characteristics that employers like to see.
Let's not forget that HR departments sometimes make these decisions, and will not pass the resume on to the manager. Many times these decisions are not made by the people who are actually hiring the employee.
I, however, went to college. Go ahead and tell me I waisted my time. IT was MY time and I think it's paying off right now.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
Everyone accepts that they are responsible for their actions in the world
I must disagree with you on that point. As much as I wish it were true, it's not.
If this were the case, then nobody would be taking game companies to court because a kid who plays Quake goes on a shooting spree in their school. This is a classic case of not taking responsibilty for their actions and trying to make someone else responsible.
Anyway, had to make my voice heard after that statement, but I'm off topic.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
DeCSS is a tool with both legal and illegal uses, but the crime is in the specific uses, not the tool.
Just like a baseball bat, crowbar (just like someone else posted), rifle, handgun, cars, knives, telephones, computers in general, snail mail, your hands, rocks, dirt, wooden sticks and any number of things that can be used for malicious intent.
Please dont take these statements as a proposal to abolish these things. To suggest such a thing would be as ignorant as the DMCA.
If we were only heads in jars then we wouldnt have to worry about devices we could use for physical malicious intent...but we're not, so we have to put up with laws made by people who tend to not understand the technology they are governing.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
by letting the parents back into their lives instead of shutting them out as much as possible.
Nobody is taking the parents out of their children's lives. The parents are doing that to themselves.
I have seen too many times parents who are literally afraid to discipline their child. They are afraid that the kid will retaliate either physically or claim that there was some sort of abuse. The reason they are afraid is that they waited too late in the child's life to correct their misbehaviors...now it's too late and the kid thinks they should be able to get away with anything and will defend the ability to get away with anything any way they can, even if it hurts their parents.
I grew up with fear of making my parents angry, because I knew what the consequences were and it was more than being grounded (let me just say that going after a switch from the tree was not uncommon). I loved my parents (still do), but that level of fear (which is still there in a small degree) kept me in line.
I think the 'dumbing of America' as someone put it is a direct product of the wussifying of America where people suffered no real consequences when they messed up as a kid. The people who fall under these categories seem to band together and claim that the person who comitted a horrible crime is not responsible, that <fill in industry here> is responsible.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
Sun's bread nd butter is big machines. People have to program those big machines.
Yeah, the thing is that I'm a sysadmin at a shop that has some big machines (2 E10Ks, multiple 4500s, and a few small ones like 450s, 250, 420Rs and 220Rs).
I have to use NT to get to EVERY one of our machines, because most companies dont put UNIX workstations on the desktops because of cost (and I'd use linux but was told that I couldnt install it)...that and people are stuck on the evil-Bill 'Exchange' produet.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
Drawback - you'd have little green/blue/whatever crack lines one the hood of your (otherwise) nice looking car from where trucks would flip up ricks and debris on your car.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
A self-healing Vette would be just great for someone who live where it was a rather constant temperature all year.
But what if you live in say, the Midwest, or in south central Texas (or anywhere else that applies) where temperatures can reach extremes? Will my Vette stop healing itself in February when it's -10 degrees F outside? Or will it never 'set' properly if it's 130 in the shade? How about on an airliner that takes off from Phoenix in August and climbs to 40k feet where the temperature is possibly well (read VERY MUCH) below freezing? Will this extreme change in temperature affect these materials?
These are just temperatures, what about vibration during the drying of the resin. What about humidity or rain? Then consider the combinations of these.
This is an amazing technology, and I realize these questions will be answered with more research and further testing, but the article never really metioned these possible limitations.
I suffer from apathy, but I just don't care.
Wait for the idiot to be sworn in and then start prattling on about how shite Bush-baby is going to be for tech and free speech et al.
Where have you been? He was sworn in on the 20th!
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
In response to the statement about running anything but solaris on a Sun box...I must agree.
You're nuts to run linux on Sun hardware, unless you absolutely dont care about any support from Sun. If you run linux and get a kernel panic (which we've seen a lot from UE 400+MHz boxes here at work - actually ECACHE errors) and you have a support contract (good idea IMO), Sun will probably refuse to analyze the core file because you're running an unsupported OS.
This is, ultimately, a business decision, but an easy on IMO.
As far as the number of linux jobs out there...I've never seen one posted on Monster for my town, at least there were no linux sysadmin jobs that I could find. I can find tons of Solaris jobs though.
I know a guy who has 2 or 3 years experience of running his own company setting up linux and Free/OpenBSD boxes for companies as a firewall, router, mailserver, whatever. He had trouble finding a linux job, still is having trouble actually.
Maybe it's different here, maybe I'm just blind...but Solaris is where it's at right now (according to a SANS survey, Solaris admins are the best paid, and Cisco IOS folks are second).
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Because each region elects only a single Member of Parliment, you only mark off one circle.
We dont have that issue (read luxury) in the US since we have 2 branches of congress and 1 executive to vote for. We got this because the Articles of Confederation were tried out for 10 years or so and they just didnt work, so when the Constitution was drafted it ended up being a mass compromise between the interested parties.
Compromise 1: To make sure that each state has equal representation, there are 2 senators (with 6 year terms) from each of the 50 states, and there are senator(s) from Puerto Rico (I think, and maybe others). They get to speak and be heard, but dont get to vote because they are not an official state. If I remember 8th grade history correctly, this is because the reps from the less populous states felt they would get the shaft if the system was based on population (see compromise below)
Compromise 2: To make sure that there was a representation based on population (see above) Congressional districts were created based on population, each with 1 rep (with a 2yr term). This was demanded by reps from more populous states who felt that since they were home to more people that they deserved more votes (greater good of the Union and all that). These districts are rearranged every 10 years (shortly after that census thing).
Parlimentary systems work well, but I think when the Constition was drafted people were bitter against the Brits (wonder why?) and wanted something different. I'm not well versed on British history, but was Parliment very functional then, or did the monarchy have most of the power still? Selection of the exuctive head by the people just makes the most sense to me since I get a direct vote for out leader, rather than an indirect vote through a representative.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
...actually Santos Dumont did the first powered takeoff and landing of a heavier than aircraft.
l (and countless other sources) the Wrights flew in December 1903. I dont have any formal education that would allow me to call myself an authority on temporal physics, and I do understand that time is relative, but this is 12+ months between the two events. Dumont was in in France if I read correctly, and I know the French are different than us Americans, but I think time still works the same there.
Just not true...
According to http://www.maria-brazil.org/SDumont.htm he flew in 1905 (other than his dirigibles). So if you take the weight of the aircraft, without the lifting gas inside, then yes it was heavier than air...but it's basically a balloon with a motor and balloons had been around for years before he did this.
According to http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/wright/wrights.htm
I know people who grew up in the Soviet Union and *they* were told that the Wright brothers were the first at powered (and controlled) flight of a heavier than air device, so why is it others have problems accepting this? They accept it and were educated by the US's greatest adversary (and I know we were told/taught things about them that are false too).
I'm not trying to take away from Dumont's achievement, it's impressive nonetheless, but it's just not factual the way you stated it.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Unless you're running an ad blocker proxy, it's going to get really hard to ignore ads on the web soon."
/etc/nsswitch.conf checks files before DNS and my /etc/hosts has 40+ entries in it that are doubleclick.com, adserver, adforce et al, and they all point to 127.0.0.1. I've heard rumors that you can do the same thing in a (lm?)hosts file in Win systems, but have no experience trying this.
This is exactly why my
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Wow. A milibit. How do you divide a bit?
Hmmm...I think what was meant was 1 milibit PER SECOND. So, over 1000 seconds (every 16min 40seconds) you get one bit.
Dont know that I'd call that broadband, but I think it's faster than my dialup access used to be.
I just realized that this throughput would require 2 hours, 13 minutes and 20 seconds to send ONE BYTE! You'd be better off driving your buddy's place and TELLING them your 'email' message and driving home. Then you can wait a few hours while they drive to your place with a response. It's hell on gas, but it might do wonders for some of us to get out sometimes.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
just don't see broadband as an essential service that needs to be regulated for QoS like the phone network.
The original post mentioned business as the focus, although it did say that consumers were in mind. I work for a company that would consider its broadband connection essential (it's an e-fulfillment company). With more and more of these popping up around the world (especially in North America) the governments should support them, more companies tends to mean more business, which tends to mean more revenue from taxes and it also tends to mean more jobs, which means less money spent on unemployment (if your country offers such a thing), which means more tax money saved. Also, these extra jobs means more income tax, more people have more money and are more willing to spend it (they're buying your stuff aren't thay?) which means a healthier economy.
One reason I can see the US government not doing this sort of thing is that there is already too much public interest. why should they spend their (admittedly - *our*) money on something like this when we're spending our own on it already? The USA is the home to excessiveness, we've got to have to biggest, brightest, baddest, fasest, coolest looking, nasiest thingamajig around (at least I do) and the government knows this, so why should they keep me from spending my own money on it?
CAD50 is somehwere arouns $32-35US right? I spend more than that anyway on my cable modem ($40). As much as I'd like the government to step in a cap prices, it'd probably be higher than what I'm paying anyway, which would mean that my company would raise rates and say that new government regulation caused the increase.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games
Oh god no. I give it 5 years for Aol-Time Warner- Microsoft to buy them. Can anyone see the day when we have one company to entertain us?
But think of the innovations in entertainment they could deliver without having to worry about those pesky competing entertainment companies!!
They could also claim that the web browser was integrated into (and part of) their entertainment, and therefore not illegally distributed.
I've grown sick of the world and its people's mindless games