Another number that I heard quoted in a previous story is that there will be more IPv6 addresses than there are particles in the known universe. Whether this is true, I have no way of telling, but doing a comparison with the number of stars, it seems like a modestly reasonable claim.
I wonder if they ever considered the addiction effect of late night gaming as well. I know personally that I've lost numerous hours of sleep to EQ, Civ, or even Freecell. Whether this was the affect of the brightness of the screen or adrenaline, or some other chemical I don't know. Howevert it was very easy to go from being groggy to getting very alert and into a game in a short period of time and then play for hours before fatique set in again.
Actually EQ has been losing users for the last year or two, from its peak of over 500k. Generally they see a spike with each new expansion. It is true that EQ took time to build to that 500,000+ users, but its initial sales, before its first expansion gave it well over 200k users, and that was in about a year. The problem with EQ these days is that its getting a little bit dated, and hence the planned release of EQ2. IMO the 97k users for the Sim's online is a GIANT dissappointment, both because those ARE weak numbers for an online game (though not terrible), and are compounded by the phenominal success of the single player version, which lead to the assumption that this interest would carry over to the multiplayer version. Of course I'm too lazy to get links to any of this, but a simple google search should turn up a fair amount of the info.
Except that the hydrogen is obtained through electrolysis, which decreases the amount of water. Not to mention the earth as a whole could definately benefit from more fresh water in many places.
I believe Debian is still the distro of choice, but this is simply a second Linux offering. Previous to now HP would not provide support for Red Hat on its systems.
Perhaps you missed the point he was trying to make. While the "its a feature, not a bug" argument is valid in many cases, this is not one of them. The whole argument can be ended with the simple fact that you need physical access for this "exploit". As mentioned in the article, and as anyone who follows computer security knows, once an attacker has physical access to a machine its game over. With that as a given, administrators WANT tools that allow them access to a system like this, its been included in systems back to the VMS days that I know of, and probably older.
I believe the rational way to view these types of articles is to look at what they're saying and actually stop to think about it, rather than flying off on blind tangents about bias. While it may be true that the author often defends Microsoft for whatever reason, this particular article is based on solid points that make a very compelling point on this specific issue.
The other thing I've noticed about these places, Jillian's particular, is the number of vintage games. The Jillian's here in Worcester MA, has gotten a number of old games, including tetris, arkanoid, galaga and a few others. As well as some nice early 90s pinball machines that I fondly remember wasting my high school days playing. Add to this the latest DDR craze, and the arcade is certainly not dead. However I will miss the good ole days of blowing a few bucks at the old dingy arcade at the mall where the attendants used to go smoke up in the back room, and the games were always a quarter.
The difference here is that these are only temporary residents. If a person intended to immigrate and become a citizen or permanent resident, then they would obtain a different visa, and green card. These visas are intended to help fill gaps, until they can be filled with a suitable US applicant, but as the law is no nearly as strict as it should be on the enforcement, this is not how they are used.
Just because they all spoke english does not mean they spoke it well. I've had personal experience with project were understanding people who's native language was not english, was very difficult. This can be even worse in a setting involving a great deal of phone conversation.
Also, this is the reason many graduate programs are begining to require spoken-english tests for people applying for TA positions. Simply because someone can speak english, when it is not their native language does not make it easy to communicate in english. A prime example is that TA many of us had in college, who nobody could understand, and became very frustrated with.
"And if you go up in the tree, you can't come down for anything, not a phish concert, not even for Burning Man"
At least now they can communicate a bit more with the world while sitting in the trees. Though one has to wonder how they recharge their laptops? Those would need to be some pretty long extension cords.
Based on the response to the initial announcement, I'm thinking it might be prudent to mirror the pictures. Anyone get them before the raging hordes incinerate the server?
The problem with this scenario was mentioned in the article. The owners of copyrights have the ability to transfer them to a corporation. In the case of many of these works, music and movies especially. The corporations own the copyright. This percentage comprises far more than 1% of all creative works. Additionally, most authors who make good livings are currently passing their copyrights down through their estates. The intention behind copyright was not for Hemignway's great great grandchildren to be living off his royalties, but for that work to be available for free once he died. Or if he died unexpectedly for his family to be taken care of.
Once someone has the address, all you'd need is some searching to find out what telco his T1 is on and use a little social engineering to get his IPs. Then everyone can set up mail bounces and send all their spam right to his basement. Damn I just realized that even my constructive ideas sound spiteful and angry when it comes to spam, maybe thats a sign of how twisted this guy is, that he can just ignore the massive outrage.
I believe you're mistaken on this point. While it is true that Sony NOW makes a profit on the PS2 consoles it sells, that was not the initial case. All major console vendors sell their initial units at a loss, in order to build market presence. The price to produce each console eventually goes down once the development costs are recovered and as the production is optomized. During the products life cycle the consoles slowlyy begin to become profitable. The PS2 reached this point a while ago, while MS will get there eventually. The key advantage that MS has is that it has massive cash reserves ($45 billion or something sick like that) which it can dip into, and never really has to worry about making a profit on the consoles. A company like Sega doesn't have this option, and is forced to withdraw its console offering if it doesn't begin to turn a profit, as happened with the Dreamcast. So MS's advantage comes in their ability to stick around longer than most companies in this market.
Another thing people may not have noticed, but along with MIT, there were 2 corporations that were granted Class A address spaces for their work on TCP/IP. Those companies being Hewlett Packard, and Digital Equipment Corp. If you throw in the Class B space from Compaq, the new HP accounts for a very very sizable chunk of the worlds address space.
Well as far as the AOL CDs, send them to these guys. Their web design skills aren't great, but they have a cool idea for all those spam CDs. I found the statistics about how much space and weight all those CDs take up to be rather interesting. Would be fun to see the look on the faces of the AOL execs if these guys ever get around to delivering these.
This is very dependant on the type of application that is being done. A big use of supercomputing power these days is genome research, and from what I've seen in this field, these applications are very data intensive, moving around massive amounts of data related to the sequences being processed. I'm also rather sure that applications like nuclear explosion and earth motion modeling require manipulating very large amounts of data that have a need for lots of memory bandwidth.
I don't think the cold is the biggest challenge in this, I imagine they have decent experience with cold electronics. The biggest problem as I see it, is the movement of the ice. The tension placed on that cable in specific locations will be immense. I forsee the cable binding with the ice in spots and as those locations move stressing the cable. And its not like the ice will just move under the entire cable, as a cable that length will weigh many tons.
The earth's rotation is slowing anyway. This is the reason that they insert those "leap seconds" every few years to compensate for the lost time. To my knowledge like 16 leap seconds have been added since the government started tracking time with atomic clocks. I'm to lazy to find a link now though, as its just about time to drive home;)
I just can't see a VNC server on that "got to have" feature list, and I can't see it not increasing the cost enough to get quickly axe'd from the "nice to have" list. Even using an additional 128 or 256 bytes (yes, bytes, not Mbytes, not kbytes, but individual bytes) will almost certainly push a "normal" 8-bit microcontroller project up to a chip that costs $1 to $2 more. That's a lot of money when you go into production and start shipping thousands every month!!
I don't know, even if you figure each unit costs $2 more each, if all other things are equal, distribution costs, etc... Then a $5 increase in wholesale price would cover this and then some. And for a "new tech gadget", its not unusual to see an increase in cost of at least this size. In the cheapest case (likely the toaster) The increase in cost would be maybe 5%-10% to the consumer, in a something more expensive, like a VCR, that percentage is much less.
Personally, I'd pay the extra money for the ability to control all kinds of gadgets in my home, from the browser on my wireless PDA. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'm so confused, 2 Boston meetings, which one will I pick. Do I follow the larger crowd and go to the North Boston Suburb, or should I stick to the actual Boston meeting. Kinda wierd that there isn't just a Greater Boston meeting with all 90 or so people instead of 2 meetings 5 miles apart. This is why geeks and social functions don't mix;)
According to this article from CNN, Dell's printer sales only account for 2 days worth of all of HP's printer sales for a year. So this isn't a major loss. Add to that, the fact that Dell will likely still by HP printers for some of its customer, just not directly from HP, and HP could potentially make MORE money off of Dell, depending on demand for the HP printers from Dell customers.
The Voyager probes and Pioneer 10 are all well outside the orbit of pluto and Neptune was observed in like 1988 by Voyager 2. As for analyzing Pluto. There is currently a mission being planned, but it is in danger of being cut for financial reasons. This article covers a little bit about the Pluto probe.
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Another number that I heard quoted in a previous story is that there will be more IPv6 addresses than there are particles in the known universe. Whether this is true, I have no way of telling, but doing a comparison with the number of stars, it seems like a modestly reasonable claim.
You mean like HP which now has two Class A's (HP and DEC) and a couple of class C's from the combine companies.
I wonder if they ever considered the addiction effect of late night gaming as well. I know personally that I've lost numerous hours of sleep to EQ, Civ, or even Freecell. Whether this was the affect of the brightness of the screen or adrenaline, or some other chemical I don't know. Howevert it was very easy to go from being groggy to getting very alert and into a game in a short period of time and then play for hours before fatique set in again.
Actually EQ has been losing users for the last year or two, from its peak of over 500k. Generally they see a spike with each new expansion. It is true that EQ took time to build to that 500,000+ users, but its initial sales, before its first expansion gave it well over 200k users, and that was in about a year. The problem with EQ these days is that its getting a little bit dated, and hence the planned release of EQ2. IMO the 97k users for the Sim's online is a GIANT dissappointment, both because those ARE weak numbers for an online game (though not terrible), and are compounded by the phenominal success of the single player version, which lead to the assumption that this interest would carry over to the multiplayer version. Of course I'm too lazy to get links to any of this, but a simple google search should turn up a fair amount of the info.
Except that the hydrogen is obtained through electrolysis, which decreases the amount of water. Not to mention the earth as a whole could definately benefit from more fresh water in many places.
I believe Debian is still the distro of choice, but this is simply a second Linux offering. Previous to now HP would not provide support for Red Hat on its systems.
Perhaps you missed the point he was trying to make. While the "its a feature, not a bug" argument is valid in many cases, this is not one of them. The whole argument can be ended with the simple fact that you need physical access for this "exploit". As mentioned in the article, and as anyone who follows computer security knows, once an attacker has physical access to a machine its game over. With that as a given, administrators WANT tools that allow them access to a system like this, its been included in systems back to the VMS days that I know of, and probably older.
I believe the rational way to view these types of articles is to look at what they're saying and actually stop to think about it, rather than flying off on blind tangents about bias. While it may be true that the author often defends Microsoft for whatever reason, this particular article is based on solid points that make a very compelling point on this specific issue.
The other thing I've noticed about these places, Jillian's particular, is the number of vintage games. The Jillian's here in Worcester MA, has gotten a number of old games, including tetris, arkanoid, galaga and a few others. As well as some nice early 90s pinball machines that I fondly remember wasting my high school days playing. Add to this the latest DDR craze, and the arcade is certainly not dead. However I will miss the good ole days of blowing a few bucks at the old dingy arcade at the mall where the attendants used to go smoke up in the back room, and the games were always a quarter.
The difference here is that these are only temporary residents. If a person intended to immigrate and become a citizen or permanent resident, then they would obtain a different visa, and green card. These visas are intended to help fill gaps, until they can be filled with a suitable US applicant, but as the law is no nearly as strict as it should be on the enforcement, this is not how they are used.
Just because they all spoke english does not mean they spoke it well. I've had personal experience with project were understanding people who's native language was not english, was very difficult. This can be even worse in a setting involving a great deal of phone conversation.
Also, this is the reason many graduate programs are begining to require spoken-english tests for people applying for TA positions. Simply because someone can speak english, when it is not their native language does not make it easy to communicate in english. A prime example is that TA many of us had in college, who nobody could understand, and became very frustrated with.
"And if you go up in the tree, you can't come down for anything, not a phish concert, not even for Burning Man"
At least now they can communicate a bit more with the world while sitting in the trees. Though one has to wonder how they recharge their laptops? Those would need to be some pretty long extension cords.
Based on the response to the initial announcement, I'm thinking it might be prudent to mirror the pictures. Anyone get them before the raging hordes incinerate the server?
The problem with this scenario was mentioned in the article. The owners of copyrights have the ability to transfer them to a corporation. In the case of many of these works, music and movies especially. The corporations own the copyright. This percentage comprises far more than 1% of all creative works. Additionally, most authors who make good livings are currently passing their copyrights down through their estates. The intention behind copyright was not for Hemignway's great great grandchildren to be living off his royalties, but for that work to be available for free once he died. Or if he died unexpectedly for his family to be taken care of.
Once someone has the address, all you'd need is some searching to find out what telco his T1 is on and use a little social engineering to get his IPs. Then everyone can set up mail bounces and send all their spam right to his basement. Damn I just realized that even my constructive ideas sound spiteful and angry when it comes to spam, maybe thats a sign of how twisted this guy is, that he can just ignore the massive outrage.
I believe you're mistaken on this point. While it is true that Sony NOW makes a profit on the PS2 consoles it sells, that was not the initial case. All major console vendors sell their initial units at a loss, in order to build market presence. The price to produce each console eventually goes down once the development costs are recovered and as the production is optomized. During the products life cycle the consoles slowlyy begin to become profitable. The PS2 reached this point a while ago, while MS will get there eventually. The key advantage that MS has is that it has massive cash reserves ($45 billion or something sick like that) which it can dip into, and never really has to worry about making a profit on the consoles. A company like Sega doesn't have this option, and is forced to withdraw its console offering if it doesn't begin to turn a profit, as happened with the Dreamcast. So MS's advantage comes in their ability to stick around longer than most companies in this market.
Another thing people may not have noticed, but along with MIT, there were 2 corporations that were granted Class A address spaces for their work on TCP/IP. Those companies being Hewlett Packard, and Digital Equipment Corp. If you throw in the Class B space from Compaq, the new HP accounts for a very very sizable chunk of the worlds address space.
Well as far as the AOL CDs, send them to these guys. Their web design skills aren't great, but they have a cool idea for all those spam CDs. I found the statistics about how much space and weight all those CDs take up to be rather interesting. Would be fun to see the look on the faces of the AOL execs if these guys ever get around to delivering these.
I believe one of the female leads from either the movie of the show went insane and possibly committed suicide, but I'm not completely sure.
This is very dependant on the type of application that is being done. A big use of supercomputing power these days is genome research, and from what I've seen in this field, these applications are very data intensive, moving around massive amounts of data related to the sequences being processed. I'm also rather sure that applications like nuclear explosion and earth motion modeling require manipulating very large amounts of data that have a need for lots of memory bandwidth.
I don't think the cold is the biggest challenge in this, I imagine they have decent experience with cold electronics. The biggest problem as I see it, is the movement of the ice. The tension placed on that cable in specific locations will be immense. I forsee the cable binding with the ice in spots and as those locations move stressing the cable. And its not like the ice will just move under the entire cable, as a cable that length will weigh many tons.
The earth's rotation is slowing anyway. This is the reason that they insert those "leap seconds" every few years to compensate for the lost time. To my knowledge like 16 leap seconds have been added since the government started tracking time with atomic clocks. I'm to lazy to find a link now though, as its just about time to drive home ;)
I just can't see a VNC server on that "got to have" feature list, and I can't see it not increasing the cost enough to get quickly axe'd from the "nice to have" list. Even using an additional 128 or 256 bytes (yes, bytes, not Mbytes, not kbytes, but individual bytes) will almost certainly push a "normal" 8-bit microcontroller project up to a chip that costs $1 to $2 more. That's a lot of money when you go into production and start shipping thousands every month!!
I don't know, even if you figure each unit costs $2 more each, if all other things are equal, distribution costs, etc... Then a $5 increase in wholesale price would cover this and then some. And for a "new tech gadget", its not unusual to see an increase in cost of at least this size. In the cheapest case (likely the toaster) The increase in cost would be maybe 5%-10% to the consumer, in a something more expensive, like a VCR, that percentage is much less.
Personally, I'd pay the extra money for the ability to control all kinds of gadgets in my home, from the browser on my wireless PDA. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'm so confused, 2 Boston meetings, which one will I pick. Do I follow the larger crowd and go to the North Boston Suburb, or should I stick to the actual Boston meeting. Kinda wierd that there isn't just a Greater Boston meeting with all 90 or so people instead of 2 meetings 5 miles apart. This is why geeks and social functions don't mix ;)
According to this article from CNN, Dell's printer sales only account for 2 days worth of all of HP's printer sales for a year. So this isn't a major loss. Add to that, the fact that Dell will likely still by HP printers for some of its customer, just not directly from HP, and HP could potentially make MORE money off of Dell, depending on demand for the HP printers from Dell customers.
The Voyager probes and Pioneer 10 are all well outside the orbit of pluto and Neptune was observed in like 1988 by Voyager 2. As for analyzing Pluto. There is currently a mission being planned, but it is in danger of being cut for financial reasons. This article covers a little bit about the Pluto probe.