If you read the various followups to that posting you linked to, you'll see that there are two separate IPv8s. One was a proposal that competed with IPv6 and lost. It's dead. The other is a joke.
So the deal is that there is not, in fact, a serious IPv8 effort underway.
Yes, but current houses are far more leaky than they need to be. I would love to have perfect insulation under the floors and in the ceilings. Even if we had it in the walls, the windows probably leak enough to provide sufficient ventilation.
They still haven't given up on the lander, so 1-0 for the orbiter is right. I think the BBC was reporting that the lander hasn't reached the time for its final automatic attempted means of contact.
So yes, we expect it to soon be 1-1 (or 0-0-1, depending on how you count), but not just yet.
Good point. Display resolution can cause noticable pixelation. There were a few scenes when we saw Star Wars episode 2 in a digital theater where you would notice it. It was also quite apparent in the credits.
There are actually (at least) two different digital theater systems. We saw Star Wars episode 1 in a different digital theater, and the picture was amazing. Apparently that system didn't catch on due to cost.
For made-for-TV movies, you're probably right, unless they've been made in the last few years.
But for real movies, you're completely off. Movies are generally filmed on film. They make DVDs by scanning the film. They make HDTV versions of the movies (for HBO, HD-DVDs, or whatever) by the same process, only they scan at a higher resolution.
HDTV is still lower resolution than normal movie film. (It's higher resolution than some of the digital projectors being used in theaters, though, which is why you'll notice compression artifacts in digital theaters.)
So a properly-made HD-DVD of any movie that was shown in the theaters should be vastly superior to the traditional DVD.
That depends on what you mean by IT. If you're going for a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree, there are jobs. If you're going for an Information Technology degree, forget it. The former will get you a job programming. The latter will get you in a line with all the other former support staff.
Exactly. The point isn't to improve security. The point is to make the public belive that they are secure and the the government is taking action.
Initially after 11 September, people were afraid to fly, so the government did everything possible to save the airline industry by providing the appearance of security. Now we're reaching the point where the added security is discouraging people from flying, so the government is looking for new ways of handling security. Unfortunately, they don't understand that it's not just a matter of how much time the checkpoints take, but the overall feeling of being treated as a suspect. Also, the people in the new DoHS want to feel important, so they want to have new security measures to show that they're doing something.
I expect they meant to use a tilda ('~') instead of a minus ('-'), so as to indicate "about" instead of "negative."
The best a heatsink can ever hope for is to cool to the ambient air temperature, and we won't see anything aproach that until we have superconducting heatsinks. (Imagine a large superconducting mass in the ground with a superconducting cable connecting it to the CPU to draw off heat: power outlets with a pin for cooling, superconducting traces on circuit boards for cooling, and no need for fans.)
I've never heard of a problem with re-using your own work. I've only had one case where I was able to do that (in 9th grade, and I told the teachers)--usually the asignments for a given class are too specific to allow for recycling writings.
With college application essays, everyone uses the same essay for all their applications (with a few adjustments). For scholarships, the same thing would be expected.
Get a remote with a JP1 connector. Then you can upload and download codes to it with a cheaply-built connector to your computer's parallel port. Many of the Radio Shack remotes include the JP1 connector.
You can start your research into JP1 at the Yahoo JP1 Forum.
I've been using an old P120 laptop as a firewall/router for my house for the past several years running 2.2.something. I wondered why it rebooted after noticing an uptime of only a day or two, but found that instead I was experiencing the uptime rollover bug (at about 500 days; Windows used to crash on a similar bug after 48 days). About a month ago, it stopped giving out DHCP addresses. I went downstairs to investigate, as I couldn't log in remotely, and found that the hard drive was making that nasty clicking sound. I eventually managed to ssh in (sshd and sh were in ram; I just waited for the logging to time out). I was able to kill syslog and cron, and now dhcp is again giving out addresses.
It's been running just fine for a month now with a dead hard drive.
(Yes, I'm getting a replacement because it won't survive an extended power outage on that ancient battery.)
The foam insulation is supposed to keep the tanks from getting too cold (with all that liquid oxygen and hyrdogen). If they are able to use heaters that don't stay with the tanks on launch, it will reduce the weight. Even if the heaters are included in the launch weight, they might weigh less than the foam.
It was a while ago when we hit one billion seconds. There was some concern that this would cause bugs in programs that printed the time in seconds using only nine digits. Much like Y2K, I don't remember anyone talking about it afterwords as having caused real problems.
I bought two family members those USB keyring drives. Both of them use computers in two places and still use floppies. It's a level of technology that they'll be comfortable with, and it's something that they'll find useful.
Seriously, I've been thinking it would be cool to have an emacs mode for MP3 files. The raw data wouldn't be displayed, but the ID3 tags would be available for editing.
On the surface, this is about protecting consumers from pharmacies that will fill perscriptions without a doctor's approval.
What it's really about is protecting profit margins.
Sure, there are businesses out there selling questionable or illegal products, but the real concern is the cross-boarder drug purchases. Americans are increasingly re-importing perscription drugs from foreign countries (mostly Canada) where laws and market conditions keep the prices lower than in the United States. The popularity of re-imported drugs has started to impact the profits of the drug companies, and they're fighting back. They're doing everything the can to stop the flow of drugs from Canada. I wouldn't be surprised if they're pushing for the Medicare drug coverage, because once seniors aren't paying for their own drugs, they won't bother ordering them from Canada. (Obviously, the big market for Canadian drugs is uninsured seniors.)
Exactly. I've had a ReplayTV for several years and I've almost forgotten what ads were like. And that's with an older model where I have to use the 2-minute and 30-second skip buttons (I reprogrammed a remote to add the 2-minute skip).
Soon I'll build a MythTV system and use the auto-commercial detection.
And it's really nice for shows like this (or "24") to be able to save them up and watch the parts together.
You can get quite a bit of video on a 120GB hard drive. (I see now that you're trolling the spelling, but I can see 120GB being thought of as small.)
I have a 120GB drive on my ReplayTV, and most of my recording is at 1GB/hour. With MythTV, you can do offline transcoding to mpeg4, so you can store a lot more on there.
Of course, if you're using an ATSC source, you'll need a lot more storage (ATSC is the HDTV broadcast standard). I think that's upto 8 or 9GB/hour.
I'm going to start with a 200GB drive for my MythTV system (I'm going to order the parts within a week).
Comparing the potential success of a manned mission to that of unmanned missions isn't valid. With a manned mission, the margins of safety are completely different.
With an unmanned mission, they can save weight and money by not including redundant backup systems. It's cheaper to send two probes and have one fail than to send one probe with redundant backups on all systems. With a manned mission, everything changes. Systems have backups. Margin for error is reduced.
Perhaps in old Soviet Russia...:)
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Back when people were using Unix systems without shadow password files (or using NIS, which does the same thing), people could get access to the encrypted passwords and do an offline dictionary attack. Simple passwords were bad.
Now with most systems, you can't get at the encrypted passwords unless you've already compramised the system. Hence, any brute-force attack should be detected by the number of failed login attempts, and a full-fledged dictionary attack can be defeated by simply adding a second or two to the response from the authentication server.
So all you should need is a password that won't be guessed on the first few tries.
On the other hand, the overhead in shipping a book to a customer is something libraries are already set up for--it's not much different than sending books out for inter-library loan, and it's hardly different at all from books that they mail to shut-in patrons.
Also, if a library is doing this instead of an annual sale, the work can be spread out over an entire year. If they only do one or two a day, it's not a big deal, but it amounts to the same thing and the big annual sale.
SVideo is limited to NTSC or PAL resolutions. You'll need something better than that. You can get video cards with DVI or component outputs. You can also get converters that will give you component hookups from a VGA port.
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If you read the various followups to that posting you linked to, you'll see that there are two separate IPv8s. One was a proposal that competed with IPv6 and lost. It's dead. The other is a joke.
So the deal is that there is not, in fact, a serious IPv8 effort underway.
Yes, but current houses are far more leaky than they need to be. I would love to have perfect insulation under the floors and in the ceilings. Even if we had it in the walls, the windows probably leak enough to provide sufficient ventilation.
They still haven't given up on the lander, so 1-0 for the orbiter is right. I think the BBC was reporting that the lander hasn't reached the time for its final automatic attempted means of contact.
So yes, we expect it to soon be 1-1 (or 0-0-1, depending on how you count), but not just yet.
Good point. Display resolution can cause noticable pixelation. There were a few scenes when we saw Star Wars episode 2 in a digital theater where you would notice it. It was also quite apparent in the credits.
There are actually (at least) two different digital theater systems. We saw Star Wars episode 1 in a different digital theater, and the picture was amazing. Apparently that system didn't catch on due to cost.
Porn. Porn is filmed cheaply, so they'll have to make new content specifically for HDTV.
For made-for-TV movies, you're probably right, unless they've been made in the last few years.
But for real movies, you're completely off. Movies are generally filmed on film. They make DVDs by scanning the film. They make HDTV versions of the movies (for HBO, HD-DVDs, or whatever) by the same process, only they scan at a higher resolution.
HDTV is still lower resolution than normal movie film. (It's higher resolution than some of the digital projectors being used in theaters, though, which is why you'll notice compression artifacts in digital theaters.)
So a properly-made HD-DVD of any movie that was shown in the theaters should be vastly superior to the traditional DVD.
That depends on what you mean by IT. If you're going for a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree, there are jobs. If you're going for an Information Technology degree, forget it. The former will get you a job programming. The latter will get you in a line with all the other former support staff.
Exactly. The point isn't to improve security. The point is to make the public belive that they are secure and the the government is taking action.
Initially after 11 September, people were afraid to fly, so the government did everything possible to save the airline industry by providing the appearance of security. Now we're reaching the point where the added security is discouraging people from flying, so the government is looking for new ways of handling security. Unfortunately, they don't understand that it's not just a matter of how much time the checkpoints take, but the overall feeling of being treated as a suspect. Also, the people in the new DoHS want to feel important, so they want to have new security measures to show that they're doing something.
Hmmm. I guess I can't believe everything I read in science fiction books.
I expect they meant to use a tilda ('~') instead of a minus ('-'), so as to indicate "about" instead of "negative."
The best a heatsink can ever hope for is to cool to the ambient air temperature, and we won't see anything aproach that until we have superconducting heatsinks. (Imagine a large superconducting mass in the ground with a superconducting cable connecting it to the CPU to draw off heat: power outlets with a pin for cooling, superconducting traces on circuit boards for cooling, and no need for fans.)
I've never heard of a problem with re-using your own work. I've only had one case where I was able to do that (in 9th grade, and I told the teachers)--usually the asignments for a given class are too specific to allow for recycling writings.
With college application essays, everyone uses the same essay for all their applications (with a few adjustments). For scholarships, the same thing would be expected.
You can start your research into JP1 at the Yahoo JP1 Forum.
I've been using an old P120 laptop as a firewall/router for my house for the past several years running 2.2.something. I wondered why it rebooted after noticing an uptime of only a day or two, but found that instead I was experiencing the uptime rollover bug (at about 500 days; Windows used to crash on a similar bug after 48 days). About a month ago, it stopped giving out DHCP addresses. I went downstairs to investigate, as I couldn't log in remotely, and found that the hard drive was making that nasty clicking sound. I eventually managed to ssh in (sshd and sh were in ram; I just waited for the logging to time out). I was able to kill syslog and cron, and now dhcp is again giving out addresses.
It's been running just fine for a month now with a dead hard drive.
(Yes, I'm getting a replacement because it won't survive an extended power outage on that ancient battery.)
The foam insulation is supposed to keep the tanks from getting too cold (with all that liquid oxygen and hyrdogen). If they are able to use heaters that don't stay with the tanks on launch, it will reduce the weight. Even if the heaters are included in the launch weight, they might weigh less than the foam.
A different, but related problem:
It was a while ago when we hit one billion seconds. There was some concern that this would cause bugs in programs that printed the time in seconds using only nine digits. Much like Y2K, I don't remember anyone talking about it afterwords as having caused real problems.
I bought two family members those USB keyring drives. Both of them use computers in two places and still use floppies. It's a level of technology that they'll be comfortable with, and it's something that they'll find useful.
Seriously, I've been thinking it would be cool to have an emacs mode for MP3 files. The raw data wouldn't be displayed, but the ID3 tags would be available for editing.
My thought exactly. Of course, with a tunnel, they don't have to argue about putting in guardrails.
On the surface, this is about protecting consumers from pharmacies that will fill perscriptions without a doctor's approval.
What it's really about is protecting profit margins.
Sure, there are businesses out there selling questionable or illegal products, but the real concern is the cross-boarder drug purchases. Americans are increasingly re-importing perscription drugs from foreign countries (mostly Canada) where laws and market conditions keep the prices lower than in the United States. The popularity of re-imported drugs has started to impact the profits of the drug companies, and they're fighting back. They're doing everything the can to stop the flow of drugs from Canada. I wouldn't be surprised if they're pushing for the Medicare drug coverage, because once seniors aren't paying for their own drugs, they won't bother ordering them from Canada. (Obviously, the big market for Canadian drugs is uninsured seniors.)
Exactly. I've had a ReplayTV for several years and I've almost forgotten what ads were like. And that's with an older model where I have to use the 2-minute and 30-second skip buttons (I reprogrammed a remote to add the 2-minute skip).
Soon I'll build a MythTV system and use the auto-commercial detection.
And it's really nice for shows like this (or "24") to be able to save them up and watch the parts together.
You can get quite a bit of video on a 120GB hard drive. (I see now that you're trolling the spelling, but I can see 120GB being thought of as small.)
I have a 120GB drive on my ReplayTV, and most of my recording is at 1GB/hour. With MythTV, you can do offline transcoding to mpeg4, so you can store a lot more on there.
Of course, if you're using an ATSC source, you'll need a lot more storage (ATSC is the HDTV broadcast standard). I think that's upto 8 or 9GB/hour.
I'm going to start with a 200GB drive for my MythTV system (I'm going to order the parts within a week).
Comparing the potential success of a manned mission to that of unmanned missions isn't valid. With a manned mission, the margins of safety are completely different.
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With an unmanned mission, they can save weight and money by not including redundant backup systems. It's cheaper to send two probes and have one fail than to send one probe with redundant backups on all systems. With a manned mission, everything changes. Systems have backups. Margin for error is reduced.
Perhaps in old Soviet Russia...
Back when people were using Unix systems without shadow password files (or using NIS, which does the same thing), people could get access to the encrypted passwords and do an offline dictionary attack. Simple passwords were bad.
Now with most systems, you can't get at the encrypted passwords unless you've already compramised the system. Hence, any brute-force attack should be detected by the number of failed login attempts, and a full-fledged dictionary attack can be defeated by simply adding a second or two to the response from the authentication server.
So all you should need is a password that won't be guessed on the first few tries.
Volunteers?
On the other hand, the overhead in shipping a book to a customer is something libraries are already set up for--it's not much different than sending books out for inter-library loan, and it's hardly different at all from books that they mail to shut-in patrons.
Also, if a library is doing this instead of an annual sale, the work can be spread out over an entire year. If they only do one or two a day, it's not a big deal, but it amounts to the same thing and the big annual sale.
SVideo is limited to NTSC or PAL resolutions. You'll need something better than that. You can get video cards with DVI or component outputs. You can also get converters that will give you component hookups from a VGA port.