Well, here is one thing that might have been not thought of. I am making the assumption that "Japanese language school", means you are teaching the Japanese language to people who speak English.
If that is the case, have you thought about getting some movies in which are in Japanese. I don't know your class demographics, but many may enjoy Japanese Anime, or classical Japanese theater, or the many, many other Japanese movies that are out there. I have had four friends learn Japanese so they could better understand anime (no joke, most are very poorly translated, only the major films do a half decent job, but still lose a LOT of the context as well as censoring for cultural differences).
That is what I first though when I saw this. Better still, hold up a photo of Ben Franklin since he was the first Post Master as well as a stouch proponent for privacy.
But before that, they time warped to the future...
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Robbers Scared by GTA
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...to get GTA:San Andres since it was not available back in March when this attack happened. I would guess it was more likely GTA3 or GTA:Vice City.
It was already prooven that DDR2 would not be better then DDR until speeds reached a minimum of 800 Mhz or higher on the FSB. The real difference will be felt at around 1.2 Ghz, which DDR2 can reach, but Intel being Intel (and not actually thinking out tech changes, but believing they can force it down their customers no matter if it is no better then other techs out and more expensive, think RDRAM), has decided to not actually release a chipset to use DDR2 at faster speeds until mid to late 2005. By which time, all customers will have felt the slow performance and get pissed because the PR didn't fit the product. Especially when they are forced to buy something that costs about 1.5-2x the cost of DDR and get no performance gain at all. It is again a case of Intel shooting its foot off in a race because the foot is extra weight, but not realizing that it actually needs that foot to stand on and run with! They have done this many times as of late and it is finally starting to show. Their stock has dropped considerably, their market share has dropped, and God forbid Mr. "I'm in Intel's back pocket" Dell, is going to start selling AMD based systems because companies are demanding it due to lack of progress from Intel over the last 3 years (Intel has been in a stall ever since they released the 3.0C 800FSB P4's, while their competitor has not only ramped up speeds during that time, but also introduced 64bit CPU's as well, which are truely spanking Intel in number crunching, hense why the reason for customer companies' demand for them).
A follow-up, which I forgot to mention. The system administrators must also obtain the a clearance level as high or higher then any/all data being stored or processed by their systems. As such, all the administrators are cleared to be able to view, used, and work with the data following the specified classification restrictions placed on that said data. It almost requires the system administrators to be completely knowledgable with the security measures and proceedures for any and all data being stored on their systems. Including knowing what can and can not be copied. Restrictions on where data can be seen, and proceedures on handling the transport of said data. We work very closely with our data control centers and security officers. You need to, otherwise you can and will very easily find yourself in federal prision (as well as be fired).
Considering this, what security measures are taken to protect data from the superusers? If there's research or work being done that requires a Top Secret clearance, how do they keep it from you?
Simple, all system administrators require the "need to know" of any and all data being stored or processed by those particular systems. It can be a pain, but it is the only way to do it. Bringing in new administrators is a time intensive process as a result of this. It also limits the people who can be system administrators as well, since foreign born, dual-citizens, or non-citizens are explicitly excluded since they can not pass the security requirements. This also means that the administrators have very intense security screening by the government as they do have access to any and all the data on those systems. For absolutely critical data, typewritters and paper are still used. This is rare where I work, but this is the proceedure if it were to occur.
I wanted to express my feeling against this change. There already exists a provision to allow companies to contact people on the Do Not Call List in which the company has an existing relationship with already. But this is limited to actual people placing the calls. By changing this to allow tape recorded calls, the person on the Do Not Call List has no easy means to tell the company calling to NOT call them anymore. The existing relationship clause, has already been stretched to allow many companies to call people who have clearly expressed that they DO NOT WISH TO BE CALLED for marketing purposes. By changing this to allow pre-recorded messages, that person can no longer simply tell the company to take them off their call list. Instead, they will be forced to listen to the recording, hopefully get a company name, find a contact number, call that company, finally get someone on the phone, most likely be transfered around to several departments, and possibly finally get someone who can take them off the call list, but most likely will never be able to do so, because the phone advertising was outsourced to some unknown company which is the one that actually makes the calls, and thus, have no way of knowing that the person being called wants off the call list.
Feel free to copy and/or make slight changes for your own quick and easy comments.
This is what we do. Seriously, we don't let ANYONE have access. If they "need" root for something, they call us up and they tell us what they need to have done and we do it.
I work at for a large government contractor, where root privilage is truely guarded to only those who need to know as there is data that absolutely need to be protected. Allowing random people from random companies access is not an option. It is actually a criminal offense to let someone else use your account who does not also have an account on the system (it is still a security violation even if they do have an account and is possibly subject to disciplanary action, up to and including criminal punishment depending on what it was being used for).
Basically, the only people who have root are the actual system administrators. And that is even locked down in the sense that we are supposed to log in with our regular account first and "su" to root, or otherwise need to call up security and let them know what system you need to log into directly as root (login and audit logs are checked on a regular basis for any discrepencies).
Basically, like I said, if they need root, they go thru one of us to do something.
Yes, but what you both fail to realize is that those numbers are only for "energy-related carbon emissions", i.e. for power plants (this includes automotive power I believe). But what it fails to cover are measurements from the massive underground coal fires in China. Grant it there have been perodic fires there over the last few thousand years, but many of the current ones can be attributed to human action. These fires release millions of tons of CO2 and other harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere each year, yet there is little being done about it. I understand that it is difficult to do a whole lot about some of the fires, but others can and could be contained and eventually extinguished, but the cost of doing so is high, and so China lets them continue to burn. Its just cheaper to move the people to new locations and move the mines to new coal veins then it is to fight the fires, so that is what they are doing...
That is true. Although, the functionality involved in the way this works would almost have to be driven by kernel modules/modifications. At least hardware I/O interupts must be created to handle the event. The kernel must at least interpret the insertion/removal of the smart card and then call the appropriate authorization calls, login calls, and session re-attachment calls for this system to work properly. Since it is an I/O event, (i.e. detect/read from a specific piece of hardware), it would only have made sense to have at least a portion of it as a kernel module, especially when on a workstation, this would be one of the most important activities that it would need to process and act upon. But, you could be correct, and Sun does not open source this part of their operating system, but it has been a basic part for several years now (Solaris 8).
None. Or if they did, Sun Microsystems has been using a similar system for years. Smart card readers are standard equipment on all currently available Sun workstations, and have been for the last 3-4 generations of workstations as well. Sun "deployed" this system at least 4 years ago when it introduced "Sun Rays" back in 2000-2001 timeframe. If MS tried to patent this, Sun is clearly prior art, and if it isn't, it should be construed as simply a logical progression of Sun's system, which means it should not be patentable, but then again, we are talking about people who have let though patents on the wheel in recent years...
Well, considering Sun has been using smart cards for user identification for YEARS, when Solaris 10's source is released under an open source license, open source will have the same capability (well, no need for.NET though).
I read this, but am a little suspect...
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Atlantis Found. Again.
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I also read an article about the same event on CNN I believe (I am too lazy to post the link). In anycase, the side-scanning sonar did pick up what appear to be walls which do fit exactly the description of Atlantis (60-70 exact points corallate directly to the description of Atlantis).
But I say I am skeptical about this discovery. Mainly because of who funded the expedition. It cost about $250k, which was raised by proceedes from book sales and donations, with the largest donation of $60k comming from a "Tourisim" society/acency in Cypris. Well, where does "Atlatis" show up? Off the coast of Cypris...
Just update it. Make it networked multiplayer and updated graphics. The entire series was great. There have been serious lacking for good games in the simulation/action genre for the last few years. The reason people got away from them was because multiplayer took off.
All the old simulator series should be looked at again, now that broadband networking and several years of networking programming in gamming have solved many of the multiplayer networking game problems, simulator's should be playable now (as that was mostly the reason why people didn't play them online, when you can stand there and shoot the enemy and him not take damage frustrated people to no end, which led to players leaving most of this genre). Its time to return...
Is Microsoft opening itself to defending thousands of lawsuits against their customers?
Only is Microsoft stole the source code, but we all know that would never happen *cough* *cough* IP Stack *cough* *cough* (Although that might have been in the public domain...)
Yes, they offer "workstations" and "servers" with AMD CPU's, but where are all the low end ordinary "desktops"? Desktops account for about 60-70% of major corporations' computer purchases. Until they roll these out to "Joe" and "Jane" in accounting and HR, you won't see a major dent at all in terms of AMD's marketshare in the corporate world.
It especially will not make any difference in the general corporate world. Most companies are in longtime buying relationships with certain OEM's and will only purchase through them. Performance can and will make a difference (eventually), but that takes a backseat to current vendor relationships. Unless and until all vendors embrace AMD, you will not see a significant number of them sold to large corporations, and will only see small numbers purchased only with intense demand by individual users (typically engineers who follow actual hardware performance and not market speak).
The best thing that AMD can have happen for them on the corporate front would be to get major vendors like Dell, HP, and IBM to offer their chips in their products.
If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them (sorry, infringing on their copywrite)? I bet I could find a torrent of Garfield the movie if I realy wanted to.
The whole problem is that the "SHITTY FUCKING MOVIES" (SFM for now on) drive up the prices of ALL movies. The price scructure is built so that the costs of a SFM are null and voided by the other movies that are released by the same studio. The whole business is setup so that no SFM ever really hurts anyone. Prices are simply inflated on popular movies to absorb the costs. SFM's are the excuse for higher prices (well, now its piracy, but in the past it was SFM's). The whole problem is that SFM's can not be completely foretold. Now, I think that is not entirely true, but the movie studios say they can't (They can't because they are trying to appease someone, somewhere, somehow... its all politics... Be it getting a role for this or that actor/actress, who might happen to be the son/daughter/niece/nephew of someone else who happens to be your boss, or your boss's boss... etc.) They don't do real audience tests (maybe the screen it, but at that point its more expensive for them to fix a SFM then it is to just release it and make back 1-2 mill on the people who first see the movie). This is the kind of stuff that happens. You wind up with a SFM.
Because of this, and the fact that no one is in the business of lossing money, they inflate the price of their other films to cover their costs, and still make a huge profit. Its a win-win industry if you think about it. Your major production cost is a single non-recurring fixed cost. After that it only costs you about $1 to make a DVD and sell it for $15-19 ($24-35 if its an older movie)...
I've had a knoppix cd in my arsinal for about 2-3 years now. With it and an external CD-RW (now a DVD+/-RW) I've been saving data off corrputed installs of both linux and windows systems. I havn't tried the latest knoppix for a while though since I custom built a CD that included the ability to mount read/write NTFS filesystems (using window's own NTFS drivers). Since then, I havn't seen the need of upgrading the knoppix version since it does everything I need it to do and more.
Gates: More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using.
That's interesting since current statistics are only showing:
2004 IE 6 IE 5 O 7 Moz NN 3 NN 4 NN 7
October 69.8% 6.0% 2.3% 17.0% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
September 69.6% 6.2% 2.3% 16.9% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
In other words, IE5/6 with 75.8%, not Bill's dream of 90% (not anymore). In fact, it has been since Jan 2002 that IE has had a number even close to 90%, when it was at 86.8%.
Bill, get a clue and stop using your PR department for your FUD.
I mean come on. We all know their engineers knew that MHz != better cpu. It just took them this long to finally convince their PR department to give up on the multi-billion dollar investment they have made in making "consumers" know that MHz == better cpu.
One of the biggest issues with changes in Episode IV has always been the "Han shoots first", which in the origional he did, in fact, in the origional, he is the only one to shoot. But in 1977, there was no movie ratings, but now we do have them. Because of this, if Han still did shoot first, the movie would have been rated R for "graphic violence and adult content" (murder). But with having Han shot at, it becomes clear self defence and is just "graphic violence".
Now as to other edits, when you think about it, the cost of adding CG effects to some scenes is miniscule compaired to digitally re-mastering the movie and soundtracks. Especially when you are re-mastering to HD resolution (so Lucas doesn't have to do it again in 3 years when HD TV's and HD DVD/Video formats are the norm). You already have to comb thru each scene when re-mastering, so taking the extra time to add in some CG effects doesn't take very long especially when you own "Industrial Light and Magic"...
Well, also take note that the "red zones" across northern/central US also coorespond very well with the large concentration of coal burning power plants that exist in that area (mainly due to the easily availability of coal in that region).
So, I while car may be the primary producer, the amounts created are able to be dissapated/reduced/reused/stored by the environment/local areas. While coal power plants and coal fires produce a dramatic spike that can not be absorbed by the surrounding environment.
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If that is the case, have you thought about getting some movies in which are in Japanese. I don't know your class demographics, but many may enjoy Japanese Anime, or classical Japanese theater, or the many, many other Japanese movies that are out there. I have had four friends learn Japanese so they could better understand anime (no joke, most are very poorly translated, only the major films do a half decent job, but still lose a LOT of the context as well as censoring for cultural differences).
That is what I first though when I saw this. Better still, hold up a photo of Ben Franklin since he was the first Post Master as well as a stouch proponent for privacy.
...to get GTA:San Andres since it was not available back in March when this attack happened. I would guess it was more likely GTA3 or GTA:Vice City.
It was already prooven that DDR2 would not be better then DDR until speeds reached a minimum of 800 Mhz or higher on the FSB. The real difference will be felt at around 1.2 Ghz, which DDR2 can reach, but Intel being Intel (and not actually thinking out tech changes, but believing they can force it down their customers no matter if it is no better then other techs out and more expensive, think RDRAM), has decided to not actually release a chipset to use DDR2 at faster speeds until mid to late 2005. By which time, all customers will have felt the slow performance and get pissed because the PR didn't fit the product. Especially when they are forced to buy something that costs about 1.5-2x the cost of DDR and get no performance gain at all. It is again a case of Intel shooting its foot off in a race because the foot is extra weight, but not realizing that it actually needs that foot to stand on and run with! They have done this many times as of late and it is finally starting to show. Their stock has dropped considerably, their market share has dropped, and God forbid Mr. "I'm in Intel's back pocket" Dell, is going to start selling AMD based systems because companies are demanding it due to lack of progress from Intel over the last 3 years (Intel has been in a stall ever since they released the 3.0C 800FSB P4's, while their competitor has not only ramped up speeds during that time, but also introduced 64bit CPU's as well, which are truely spanking Intel in number crunching, hense why the reason for customer companies' demand for them).
A follow-up, which I forgot to mention. The system administrators must also obtain the a clearance level as high or higher then any/all data being stored or processed by their systems. As such, all the administrators are cleared to be able to view, used, and work with the data following the specified classification restrictions placed on that said data. It almost requires the system administrators to be completely knowledgable with the security measures and proceedures for any and all data being stored on their systems. Including knowing what can and can not be copied. Restrictions on where data can be seen, and proceedures on handling the transport of said data. We work very closely with our data control centers and security officers. You need to, otherwise you can and will very easily find yourself in federal prision (as well as be fired).
Simple, all system administrators require the "need to know" of any and all data being stored or processed by those particular systems. It can be a pain, but it is the only way to do it. Bringing in new administrators is a time intensive process as a result of this. It also limits the people who can be system administrators as well, since foreign born, dual-citizens, or non-citizens are explicitly excluded since they can not pass the security requirements. This also means that the administrators have very intense security screening by the government as they do have access to any and all the data on those systems. For absolutely critical data, typewritters and paper are still used. This is rare where I work, but this is the proceedure if it were to occur.
I wanted to express my feeling against this change. There already exists a provision to allow companies to contact people on the Do Not Call List in which the company has an existing relationship with already. But this is limited to actual people placing the calls. By changing this to allow tape recorded calls, the person on the Do Not Call List has no easy means to tell the company calling to NOT call them anymore. The existing relationship clause, has already been stretched to allow many companies to call people who have clearly expressed that they DO NOT WISH TO BE CALLED for marketing purposes. By changing this to allow pre-recorded messages, that person can no longer simply tell the company to take them off their call list. Instead, they will be forced to listen to the recording, hopefully get a company name, find a contact number, call that company, finally get someone on the phone, most likely be transfered around to several departments, and possibly finally get someone who can take them off the call list, but most likely will never be able to do so, because the phone advertising was outsourced to some unknown company which is the one that actually makes the calls, and thus, have no way of knowing that the person being called wants off the call list.
Feel free to copy and/or make slight changes for your own quick and easy comments.
I work at for a large government contractor, where root privilage is truely guarded to only those who need to know as there is data that absolutely need to be protected. Allowing random people from random companies access is not an option. It is actually a criminal offense to let someone else use your account who does not also have an account on the system (it is still a security violation even if they do have an account and is possibly subject to disciplanary action, up to and including criminal punishment depending on what it was being used for).
Basically, the only people who have root are the actual system administrators. And that is even locked down in the sense that we are supposed to log in with our regular account first and "su" to root, or otherwise need to call up security and let them know what system you need to log into directly as root (login and audit logs are checked on a regular basis for any discrepencies).
Basically, like I said, if they need root, they go thru one of us to do something.
That is true. Although, the functionality involved in the way this works would almost have to be driven by kernel modules/modifications. At least hardware I/O interupts must be created to handle the event. The kernel must at least interpret the insertion/removal of the smart card and then call the appropriate authorization calls, login calls, and session re-attachment calls for this system to work properly. Since it is an I/O event, (i.e. detect/read from a specific piece of hardware), it would only have made sense to have at least a portion of it as a kernel module, especially when on a workstation, this would be one of the most important activities that it would need to process and act upon. But, you could be correct, and Sun does not open source this part of their operating system, but it has been a basic part for several years now (Solaris 8).
None. Or if they did, Sun Microsystems has been using a similar system for years. Smart card readers are standard equipment on all currently available Sun workstations, and have been for the last 3-4 generations of workstations as well. Sun "deployed" this system at least 4 years ago when it introduced "Sun Rays" back in 2000-2001 timeframe. If MS tried to patent this, Sun is clearly prior art, and if it isn't, it should be construed as simply a logical progression of Sun's system, which means it should not be patentable, but then again, we are talking about people who have let though patents on the wheel in recent years...
Well, considering Sun has been using smart cards for user identification for YEARS, when Solaris 10's source is released under an open source license, open source will have the same capability (well, no need for .NET though).
But I say I am skeptical about this discovery. Mainly because of who funded the expedition. It cost about $250k, which was raised by proceedes from book sales and donations, with the largest donation of $60k comming from a "Tourisim" society/acency in Cypris. Well, where does "Atlatis" show up? Off the coast of Cypris...
Well, they would if the fight ever happened. Only their lawyers would win.
Just update it. Make it networked multiplayer and updated graphics. The entire series was great. There have been serious lacking for good games in the simulation/action genre for the last few years. The reason people got away from them was because multiplayer took off.
All the old simulator series should be looked at again, now that broadband networking and several years of networking programming in gamming have solved many of the multiplayer networking game problems, simulator's should be playable now (as that was mostly the reason why people didn't play them online, when you can stand there and shoot the enemy and him not take damage frustrated people to no end, which led to players leaving most of this genre). Its time to return...
Only is Microsoft stole the source code, but we all know that would never happen *cough* *cough* IP Stack *cough* *cough* (Although that might have been in the public domain...)
Yes, they offer "workstations" and "servers" with AMD CPU's, but where are all the low end ordinary "desktops"? Desktops account for about 60-70% of major corporations' computer purchases. Until they roll these out to "Joe" and "Jane" in accounting and HR, you won't see a major dent at all in terms of AMD's marketshare in the corporate world.
Pick and choose your poison. I am sure one or more will get /.'ed...
The best thing that AMD can have happen for them on the corporate front would be to get major vendors like Dell, HP, and IBM to offer their chips in their products.
The whole problem is that the "SHITTY FUCKING MOVIES" (SFM for now on) drive up the prices of ALL movies. The price scructure is built so that the costs of a SFM are null and voided by the other movies that are released by the same studio. The whole business is setup so that no SFM ever really hurts anyone. Prices are simply inflated on popular movies to absorb the costs. SFM's are the excuse for higher prices (well, now its piracy, but in the past it was SFM's). The whole problem is that SFM's can not be completely foretold. Now, I think that is not entirely true, but the movie studios say they can't (They can't because they are trying to appease someone, somewhere, somehow... its all politics... Be it getting a role for this or that actor/actress, who might happen to be the son/daughter/niece/nephew of someone else who happens to be your boss, or your boss's boss... etc.) They don't do real audience tests (maybe the screen it, but at that point its more expensive for them to fix a SFM then it is to just release it and make back 1-2 mill on the people who first see the movie). This is the kind of stuff that happens. You wind up with a SFM.
Because of this, and the fact that no one is in the business of lossing money, they inflate the price of their other films to cover their costs, and still make a huge profit. Its a win-win industry if you think about it. Your major production cost is a single non-recurring fixed cost. After that it only costs you about $1 to make a DVD and sell it for $15-19 ($24-35 if its an older movie)...
I've had a knoppix cd in my arsinal for about 2-3 years now. With it and an external CD-RW (now a DVD+/-RW) I've been saving data off corrputed installs of both linux and windows systems. I havn't tried the latest knoppix for a while though since I custom built a CD that included the ability to mount read/write NTFS filesystems (using window's own NTFS drivers). Since then, I havn't seen the need of upgrading the knoppix version since it does everything I need it to do and more.
That's interesting since current statistics are only showing:
2004 IE 6 IE 5 O 7 Moz NN 3 NN 4 NN 7
October 69.8% 6.0% 2.3% 17.0% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
September 69.6% 6.2% 2.3% 16.9% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
In other words, IE5/6 with 75.8%, not Bill's dream of 90% (not anymore). In fact, it has been since Jan 2002 that IE has had a number even close to 90%, when it was at 86.8%.
Bill, get a clue and stop using your PR department for your FUD.
I mean come on. We all know their engineers knew that MHz != better cpu. It just took them this long to finally convince their PR department to give up on the multi-billion dollar investment they have made in making "consumers" know that MHz == better cpu.
Now as to other edits, when you think about it, the cost of adding CG effects to some scenes is miniscule compaired to digitally re-mastering the movie and soundtracks. Especially when you are re-mastering to HD resolution (so Lucas doesn't have to do it again in 3 years when HD TV's and HD DVD/Video formats are the norm). You already have to comb thru each scene when re-mastering, so taking the extra time to add in some CG effects doesn't take very long especially when you own "Industrial Light and Magic"...
So, I while car may be the primary producer, the amounts created are able to be dissapated/reduced/reused/stored by the environment/local areas. While coal power plants and coal fires produce a dramatic spike that can not be absorbed by the surrounding environment.