This could be interesting for genealogy research. You could track down relatives. This would be of special interest to those who were adopted. It could also be used to see how often children really are the offspring of their alleged parents--that could have interesting implications.
Can't you just unzip the.exe file as if it were a.zip? I've had no problem doing that on self-extracting zip files in the past, though that was from Linux (where I couldn't easily execute the.exe to begin with).
People wonder why tech workers have a tradition of changing jobs. This is one reason. When you move to a new job, you rarely have any legacy projects to support in addition to the one you're assigned to.
We're starting to see PCs ship with 10/100/Gig ethernet standard. Within a year or two, it won't be unreasonable to run GigE to every desktop in the building.
Now consider what iSCSI offers the system admins. You can use the network boot option on the desktop systems and run them diskless. This means you can centralize your storage. No longer to you face the daily panic of a user desperate to recover a file they only saved on their local hard drive. If someone is having trouble with their system, you just give them a fresh boot image; if the problem persists, it's hardware. If I were a sysadmin, I would be pushing hard for iSCSI.
And from the technology standpoint of iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel, I expect that ethernet speeds will outpace Fibre Channel speeds; it's a larger market, so the R&D investment will go there first.
[Disclaimer: I work for a data storage company, but everything stated here is based on general observations and opinions, not insider information.]
My understanding was that you don't convert between mass and energy. Mass and energy are one. It all depends on how you observe it. If my understanding here is correct, then energy produces gravity, just like any other mass. However, because of the huge c^2 factor, it would take a huge amount of energy to test this; sounds like another good experiment.
If it's instantaneous, then that would provide a means of faster-than-light communication. Of course, it's probably impractical, as the amount of mass we would have to move to be detectable at a significant distance would be prohibitive....unless you had some way to implement gravity shielding, and turn it on and off like smoke signals.
Fun to think about. Probably more practical for a science fiction story than reality.
Does this mean that we can get free fonts from PDF files?
To be fair about it, we should only grab fonts out of PDF files distributed by the copyright holders of the fonts in question. The most likely candidates for such use would be files from Microsoft and Apple.
And it's legal--they own the fonts, they gave them to us, and they didn't even have a click-through license on them.
This is the sort of lawsuit where the end settlement pays off huge for the lawyers, while the end users typically get a rebate good for future purchases.
Remember the lawsuit over monitors that said they were of a given size but had a smaller viewable size?
I would put the odds of end consumers getting to see any actual cash at less than 10%.
If only I could get a grant to fund doing this sort of "research." I want to do war sailing. I intend to chart all the unsecured access points I can find in the middle of the ocean.
With all students getting a full scholarship, the school can more easily compete for the best students. Most of the Ivy League schools have large enough endowments to significantly reduce or eliminate their tuition fees, but they don't because they don't have to. Perhaps schools like this one will help push them in that direction.
While I realize that the output won't be constant, an average output would be more interesting to most people (at least to me). With 8766 hours per year, the plant is producing on average about 76 megawatts. I seem to recall that the average house draws 2 kilowatts, so that's only 38,000 homes, not 200,000 homes. So their numbers are wrong, my information is wrong, or Australian homes use only one fifth the power of an average American home.
If it were just a matter of scheduling releases (which is the most often cited reason for the coding), then they wouldn't include region coding except on recent movies. But look at DVDs of classic movies; they're all region coded.
Why?
They want to maximize profit by charging different prices in different markets. They know that if they set the price 50% or 100% higher in some region, then people will import from the cheaper region. Region coding is supposed to stop that. In practice, this is the main reason that people want to bypass region coding--cheaper discs from other regions.
You can't short stocks that are trading below $5/share. SBLU is trading at 0.40/share now (down 9% for the day).
[All quotes delayed by however long it takes from when I checked them to when you read my post.]
Hence, if I'm ever in charge of a profitable company, I'll keep doing stock splits to keep the share price in that range. [Well, there may be an exception if the market cap is over a certain level.]
Read Heinlein's "The Door into Summer." In that book, they've solved the technological issues, cryonics is a part of the culture--people freezing themselves for a decade or two, but not for medical reasons, for financial reasons. The idea is to pre-pay for the cryonics and put the rest of your assets into investments so that you're rich when you wake up. Not to mention that you escape your pathetic personal problems.
I actually know someone who has two cable modems because he didn't get enough bandwidth with just one, so I assumed that the question was about two DSL links from the same ISP. If they're with different ISPs, then you're right, you can't load-balance outgoing connections on a per-packet basis, only on a per-connection basis. (Unless one ISP isn't filtering, but let's hope not; I have no idea how common such filtering really is.)
If you own a gun shop, you don't have to ask why the person wants to buy a gun. (You have to do a background check, but that's the limit of your responsibility.) If you rent cars, you don't have to make sure your car isn't used to violate traffic laws.
In most areas, you're free to conduct business selling merchandise that can be used in an illegal manner, provided you are not advocating illegal usage of your product.
"With power comes responsibility." I agree. The customer has the power, and the responsibility lies with them.
(Now if the cyber cafe was advertising in such a way as to encourage illegal activities, then it's a different story.)
Of course this won't work, because due to the correctly paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets with an incorrect IP address as source address will be dropped at the soonest possible opportunity.
The most likely setup in this case is two DSL lines from the same ISP. Hence, the source IP will be from a valid internal IP address. Most likely, the filtering that the ISP has in place is at a slightly higher level in the network where it can't tell the difference.
Of course, that's just a guess, and you'll only be able to find out by testing it. If you have a box outside the ISP where you can monitor packets, then send it ping packets that are configured with a wrong source IP, but within the ISP's network. See if they get through. (I'm not sure what tool to use to do this; I happen to be looking for a packet generator to see if I can send unprompted ping-responses back through a firewall; I'm sure there's a good packet-generator program out there.)
Outgoing packets can be sent out either connection. Unless there's some really paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets are routed without any concern for the source IP, so there's no theoretical reason why you can't have 100% load balancing across your connections for outgoing traffic.
Incoming packets are routed by your ISP to a particular IP address. That address is normally tied to a particular physical connection. Hence, you have very little ability to load balance. All hope is not lost, though. If you are load-balancing outgoing connections, then connections that you establish will be randomly distributed between your physical connections, giving an approximate load balancing. For incoming connections, you can use DNS to list multiple IP addresses for your hostname, allowing some load balancing across the connections.
Now the exact software configuration to acheive what is theoretical possible is a good question; I don't know.
Ultimately, we're talking about solar energy here. A plant uses photosynthesis in pulling CO2 out of the air, releasing the O2 while constructing more useful molecules out of the carbon. We then use some energy of our own to process this plant and the solar-generated molecules into a form where we can release the energy.
So it's not surprising that if you leave out the sun, your equations will indicate that we're creating energy out of nothing.
My understanding is that applications have to be recompiled (and possibly modified) to run natively under OS X. Most major applications now have native OS X versions, but there are a lot of older programs that don't. To run those applications, you have to run OS 9, which is why OS 9 is included when you buy OS X. Now what I don't follow completely is whether you can somehow run OS 9 and OS X at the same time, or if you have to reboot to switch between native and legacy applications.
Mine randomly goes away at times and then comes back. No big deal. Sometimes they don't have extra-special offers for you. Half the time when they do, at least one is sold out by the time you get to it. I doubt they discontinued the program--it's a great way to unload the last few units of discontinued items.
The real demand for using the smaller feature size is in two areas--low power and high performance. In the low-power market, you have all sorts of consumer electronics like cell phones. In the high performance, you're talking CPUs. Personally, I would love to see them build PowerPC chips.
From the article, it sounds like they'll be operating the plan under contract from other companies, so it will most likely be making chipsets for pagers and cell phones.
Of course, the market can be expected to change significantly between now and when the plant is actually ready to build chips.
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This could be interesting for genealogy research. You could track down relatives. This would be of special interest to those who were adopted. It could also be used to see how often children really are the offspring of their alleged parents--that could have interesting implications.
Can't you just unzip the .exe file as if it were a .zip? I've had no problem doing that on self-extracting zip files in the past, though that was from Linux (where I couldn't easily execute the .exe to begin with).
See "Feldercarb."
People wonder why tech workers have a tradition of changing jobs. This is one reason. When you move to a new job, you rarely have any legacy projects to support in addition to the one you're assigned to.
We're starting to see PCs ship with 10/100/Gig ethernet standard. Within a year or two, it won't be unreasonable to run GigE to every desktop in the building.
Now consider what iSCSI offers the system admins. You can use the network boot option on the desktop systems and run them diskless. This means you can centralize your storage. No longer to you face the daily panic of a user desperate to recover a file they only saved on their local hard drive. If someone is having trouble with their system, you just give them a fresh boot image; if the problem persists, it's hardware. If I were a sysadmin, I would be pushing hard for iSCSI.
And from the technology standpoint of iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel, I expect that ethernet speeds will outpace Fibre Channel speeds; it's a larger market, so the R&D investment will go there first.
[Disclaimer: I work for a data storage company, but everything stated here is based on general observations and opinions, not insider information.]
My understanding was that you don't convert between mass and energy. Mass and energy are one. It all depends on how you observe it. If my understanding here is correct, then energy produces gravity, just like any other mass. However, because of the huge c^2 factor, it would take a huge amount of energy to test this; sounds like another good experiment.
Or is my understanding whacked?
If it's instantaneous, then that would provide a means of faster-than-light communication. Of course, it's probably impractical, as the amount of mass we would have to move to be detectable at a significant distance would be prohibitive. ...unless you had some way to implement gravity shielding, and turn it on and off like smoke signals.
Fun to think about. Probably more practical for a science fiction story than reality.
Does this mean that we can get free fonts from PDF files?
To be fair about it, we should only grab fonts out of PDF files distributed by the copyright holders of the fonts in question. The most likely candidates for such use would be files from Microsoft and Apple.
And it's legal--they own the fonts, they gave them to us, and they didn't even have a click-through license on them.
This is the sort of lawsuit where the end settlement pays off huge for the lawyers, while the end users typically get a rebate good for future purchases.
Remember the lawsuit over monitors that said they were of a given size but had a smaller viewable size?
I would put the odds of end consumers getting to see any actual cash at less than 10%.
If only I could get a grant to fund doing this sort of "research." I want to do war sailing. I intend to chart all the unsecured access points I can find in the middle of the ocean.
With all students getting a full scholarship, the school can more easily compete for the best students. Most of the Ivy League schools have large enough endowments to significantly reduce or eliminate their tuition fees, but they don't because they don't have to. Perhaps schools like this one will help push them in that direction.
What a strange measure.
While I realize that the output won't be constant, an average output would be more interesting to most people (at least to me). With 8766 hours per year, the plant is producing on average about 76 megawatts. I seem to recall that the average house draws 2 kilowatts, so that's only 38,000 homes, not 200,000 homes. So their numbers are wrong, my information is wrong, or Australian homes use only one fifth the power of an average American home.
Or is my math wrong?
If it were just a matter of scheduling releases (which is the most often cited reason for the coding), then they wouldn't include region coding except on recent movies. But look at DVDs of classic movies; they're all region coded.
Why?
They want to maximize profit by charging different prices in different markets. They know that if they set the price 50% or 100% higher in some region, then people will import from the cheaper region. Region coding is supposed to stop that. In practice, this is the main reason that people want to bypass region coding--cheaper discs from other regions.
Maybe I'm confused with shortable and marginable. Maybe I'm confused between my broker's rules and the market's rules. Sorry.
Anyway, at $.40/share, shorting is essentially a gamble that the company will go broke.
True, having institutional investors willing to invest is a much larger issue than short selling, especially for profitable companies.
Mostly I was making a joke, but I was also pointing out how arbitrary per-share price limits without regard to market cap are silly.
You can't short stocks that are trading below $5/share. SBLU is trading at 0.40/share now (down 9% for the day).
[All quotes delayed by however long it takes from when I checked them to when you read my post.]
Hence, if I'm ever in charge of a profitable company, I'll keep doing stock splits to keep the share price in that range. [Well, there may be an exception if the market cap is over a certain level.]
Read Heinlein's "The Door into Summer." In that book, they've solved the technological issues, cryonics is a part of the culture--people freezing themselves for a decade or two, but not for medical reasons, for financial reasons. The idea is to pre-pay for the cryonics and put the rest of your assets into investments so that you're rich when you wake up. Not to mention that you escape your pathetic personal problems.
I actually know someone who has two cable modems because he didn't get enough bandwidth with just one, so I assumed that the question was about two DSL links from the same ISP. If they're with different ISPs, then you're right, you can't load-balance outgoing connections on a per-packet basis, only on a per-connection basis. (Unless one ISP isn't filtering, but let's hope not; I have no idea how common such filtering really is.)
I disagree.
If you own a gun shop, you don't have to ask why the person wants to buy a gun. (You have to do a background check, but that's the limit of your responsibility.) If you rent cars, you don't have to make sure your car isn't used to violate traffic laws.
In most areas, you're free to conduct business selling merchandise that can be used in an illegal manner, provided you are not advocating illegal usage of your product.
"With power comes responsibility." I agree. The customer has the power, and the responsibility lies with them.
(Now if the cyber cafe was advertising in such a way as to encourage illegal activities, then it's a different story.)
Of course this won't work, because due to the correctly paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets with an incorrect IP address as source address will be dropped at the soonest possible opportunity.
The most likely setup in this case is two DSL lines from the same ISP. Hence, the source IP will be from a valid internal IP address. Most likely, the filtering that the ISP has in place is at a slightly higher level in the network where it can't tell the difference.
Of course, that's just a guess, and you'll only be able to find out by testing it. If you have a box outside the ISP where you can monitor packets, then send it ping packets that are configured with a wrong source IP, but within the ISP's network. See if they get through. (I'm not sure what tool to use to do this; I happen to be looking for a packet generator to see if I can send unprompted ping-responses back through a firewall; I'm sure there's a good packet-generator program out there.)
Outgoing packets can be sent out either connection. Unless there's some really paranoid packet filtering going on at your ISP, outgoing packets are routed without any concern for the source IP, so there's no theoretical reason why you can't have 100% load balancing across your connections for outgoing traffic.
Incoming packets are routed by your ISP to a particular IP address. That address is normally tied to a particular physical connection. Hence, you have very little ability to load balance. All hope is not lost, though. If you are load-balancing outgoing connections, then connections that you establish will be randomly distributed between your physical connections, giving an approximate load balancing. For incoming connections, you can use DNS to list multiple IP addresses for your hostname, allowing some load balancing across the connections.
Now the exact software configuration to acheive what is theoretical possible is a good question; I don't know.
Ultimately, we're talking about solar energy here. A plant uses photosynthesis in pulling CO2 out of the air, releasing the O2 while constructing more useful molecules out of the carbon. We then use some energy of our own to process this plant and the solar-generated molecules into a form where we can release the energy.
So it's not surprising that if you leave out the sun, your equations will indicate that we're creating energy out of nothing.
I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to OS X.
My understanding is that applications have to be recompiled (and possibly modified) to run natively under OS X. Most major applications now have native OS X versions, but there are a lot of older programs that don't. To run those applications, you have to run OS 9, which is why OS 9 is included when you buy OS X. Now what I don't follow completely is whether you can somehow run OS 9 and OS X at the same time, or if you have to reboot to switch between native and legacy applications.
Can someone enlighten me?
Mine randomly goes away at times and then comes back. No big deal. Sometimes they don't have extra-special offers for you. Half the time when they do, at least one is sold out by the time you get to it. I doubt they discontinued the program--it's a great way to unload the last few units of discontinued items.
The real demand for using the smaller feature size is in two areas--low power and high performance. In the low-power market, you have all sorts of consumer electronics like cell phones. In the high performance, you're talking CPUs. Personally, I would love to see them build PowerPC chips.
From the article, it sounds like they'll be operating the plan under contract from other companies, so it will most likely be making chipsets for pagers and cell phones.
Of course, the market can be expected to change significantly between now and when the plant is actually ready to build chips.