Time to replace existing BWRs in Japan with ESBWR reactors, with their PASSIVE safety systems, requiring no mechanical operation - loss of off-site and backup power would have much less impact.
How about sugar beets also.... Especially in the Red River Valley of the North where sugar beets grow so well that they contemplate plowing some of the crop under many years because there is more sugar in the crop than government subsidies will pay for...The "extra" crop could be turned into ethanol
You can put dynamic range compressors on your gear...As a Dolby engineer will tell you, an airplane or gunshot is much louder in real life than conversation, so the movies are accurately representing the sounds.
This is my question...Broadcasters will have to kill dynamic range to be compliant? Would a commercial after a quiet movie scene be considered too loud?
I don't see how this can be enforceable
Agree totally...I tried to transfer (via ftp) an mp3 file (a personal recording, not a copyrighted recording), from my android to my son's ipod touch, and the only thing the ipod touch can do with it is play it from the ftp stream, one can't save it in the file system or add it to the playlists without firing up the bloated itunes (also no wireless sync in the 3rd gen ipod touch) - a big turnoff to me. I can download media files onto the android device and add them to playlists immediately - no need to find a fat client (win or OS x - no linux application available), fire up a bloated app, find the non standard USB interface cable, acknowledge the new TOS for the itunes store, wait for the backup sync to finish, add the file to the itunes library, resync, acknowledge that some files have moved or disappeared - and they will no longer be available on the portable device, start the sync (which takes many minutes on a larger device)
Cookies are at least a "honest" way to track. you can easily see them in your cookie jar (or whatever term is used by your browser), and you have at least some information about who wrote it. Cookies are not always bad - hidden images, browser/OS fingerprinting, and other 'hidden' means are much worse for privacy.
Going to college (or any kind of schooling) != educated.
I know people who ace every test, and go to school for years after years, and still don't have basic problem solving and critical thinking abilities. I know many tradesmen who brighter than most BA grads. I think if one wants to learn they will on their own - whether in school or "self study". With the wealth of ready information available to most people very inexpensively today, motivated people can be educated without the piece of paper from an institution.
I see many (especially recent high school grads) attending universities simply because it is expected of them, and are doing just that attending. It is very apparent when one reads wedding announcements in the newspaper (or checking on old friends in Facebook) and see that large number of people BA/BS and MA/MS degrees working long term in retail or food service.
Since the NRC hasn't allowed any new plants to be built for 40 years (all the plants in operation now are based on 1960's designs), we've been stuck extending the life of our first generation commercial plants - well beyond the original design life of them, instead of building safer, more efficient plants as we learn and develop new technologies (like the ESBWR)
It won't be wide spread because Free-TV in cell phones is lost revenue for phone companies. Why would they promote a device with a receiver in it that provides a service they may sell (VCAST style services or extra bandwidth charges)?
From what I've heard, most bomb sniffing dogs would have detected the explosive. I think instead of an unproven technology, train more dogs...
Also, the guy paid CASH for his ticket (I think I heard it was a one way ticket), didn't check any luggage, and had a few other flags that should have put him under suspicion...More of the millimeter scanners will only be good for L3 IMHO.
I liked Sonicwall (I run 3060s on my networks), but they really pissed me off last fall when all security services stopped because Sonicwall's license activation servers went down for a day (I just renewed the licenses about a month earlier) - apparently if they don't see the activation servers they immediately stop.
I'm looking at alternatives now....
I've found ASSP to be very effective in our organization of 150 mailboxes. Supports Greylisting, Bayesian filtering, SPF, RBL, REGEX, and more...It is a two-way filter, so recipients of mail sent from your organization will be whitelisted for a period of time, and SPAM is stopped at the SMTP level (resulting in a SMTP failure), so no messages should be lost...end users can submit spam messages by simply forwarding them to a specific address (e.g. asspspam@domain). All spam can also be sent to a specific email address for easy retrieval of false positives (although after the Bayesian filter is trained properly, there is VERY little), in addition, all legit messages can be cc'd to another email address, which we use for email archiving (maildir is tar.gz'd weekly)
ICA, RDP, and some X variants work well over slow connections. Do applications need to be executed locally, or can you run a farm of application servers with fast connections to the storage. Then put diskless, fanless thin clients (I typically use Wyse V50s), which DHCP configured to give them a config file to load on each startup. This gives you data security (no data is stored locally, or even at a branch office like your situation - someone steals a thin client, you are only out the hardware, application roll outs and updates are centrally managed, no rouge software can be installed (i.e. no weather bugs, cutsy screensavers, etc) by users, and many more advantages.
I publish applications via Citrix (Windows Apps.) and X (*nix apps)...They run on the same thin client desktops and the user knows no difference as to which server the application is actually running on - it appears local to them...I've also experimented with publishing OS X applications via vnc, but that requires the whole OS X desktop be served (not just the application)
What if a student's household only has a Mac or Linux computer
Maybe the school district should serve applications over the internet to students using Citrix, or MS terminal server, so everyone is on the same version, wether it is on the latest Windows PC, an iPhone, Mac, Linux, BSD, MSDOS
If they want tight control and security, why not deliver the applications using RDP, VNC, X, or ICA. There are simple JAVA applet clients that can be embedded into a webpage for any of those protocols. There's even a Java applet to tunnel those thru ssh is they don't support encryption natively..
Most people don't know how to use Microsoft Office properly Very well put....I think the offices I maintain IT for would be more productive replacing Word (and clones) with web forms (with some rich text capabilities like HTMLAREA or other script that uses designmode() to do underlines, boldface, etc.)...so there is a consistant look to communications and the effort is in the content of the document and not the layout.
There was a product called Yeah Write that came out a few years ago that tried to change the desktop word processor into a useful tool, but has been unsuccessful in making an impact..
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Time to replace existing BWRs in Japan with ESBWR reactors, with their PASSIVE safety systems, requiring no mechanical operation - loss of off-site and backup power would have much less impact.
A bunch of us should put up Asterisk servers and polish up some open source SIP clients (SIP can support video and text also)
I'll restate my comment above...Can Sugar Beets be used to make ethanol efficiently also?
How about sugar beets also.... Especially in the Red River Valley of the North where sugar beets grow so well that they contemplate plowing some of the crop under many years because there is more sugar in the crop than government subsidies will pay for...The "extra" crop could be turned into ethanol
You can put dynamic range compressors on your gear...As a Dolby engineer will tell you, an airplane or gunshot is much louder in real life than conversation, so the movies are accurately representing the sounds.
This is my question...Broadcasters will have to kill dynamic range to be compliant? Would a commercial after a quiet movie scene be considered too loud? I don't see how this can be enforceable
Agree totally...I tried to transfer (via ftp) an mp3 file (a personal recording, not a copyrighted recording), from my android to my son's ipod touch, and the only thing the ipod touch can do with it is play it from the ftp stream, one can't save it in the file system or add it to the playlists without firing up the bloated itunes (also no wireless sync in the 3rd gen ipod touch) - a big turnoff to me. I can download media files onto the android device and add them to playlists immediately - no need to find a fat client (win or OS x - no linux application available), fire up a bloated app, find the non standard USB interface cable, acknowledge the new TOS for the itunes store, wait for the backup sync to finish, add the file to the itunes library, resync, acknowledge that some files have moved or disappeared - and they will no longer be available on the portable device, start the sync (which takes many minutes on a larger device)
I recommend bash or csh..
Cookies are at least a "honest" way to track. you can easily see them in your cookie jar (or whatever term is used by your browser), and you have at least some information about who wrote it. Cookies are not always bad - hidden images, browser/OS fingerprinting, and other 'hidden' means are much worse for privacy.
Apple Genius? That requires no knowledge or experience
Going to college (or any kind of schooling) != educated. I know people who ace every test, and go to school for years after years, and still don't have basic problem solving and critical thinking abilities. I know many tradesmen who brighter than most BA grads. I think if one wants to learn they will on their own - whether in school or "self study". With the wealth of ready information available to most people very inexpensively today, motivated people can be educated without the piece of paper from an institution. I see many (especially recent high school grads) attending universities simply because it is expected of them, and are doing just that attending. It is very apparent when one reads wedding announcements in the newspaper (or checking on old friends in Facebook) and see that large number of people BA/BS and MA/MS degrees working long term in retail or food service.
Since the NRC hasn't allowed any new plants to be built for 40 years (all the plants in operation now are based on 1960's designs), we've been stuck extending the life of our first generation commercial plants - well beyond the original design life of them, instead of building safer, more efficient plants as we learn and develop new technologies (like the ESBWR)
I haven't tried it on my Android yet, but do they make attempts to block those calls?
It won't be wide spread because Free-TV in cell phones is lost revenue for phone companies. Why would they promote a device with a receiver in it that provides a service they may sell (VCAST style services or extra bandwidth charges)?
From what I've heard, most bomb sniffing dogs would have detected the explosive. I think instead of an unproven technology, train more dogs... Also, the guy paid CASH for his ticket (I think I heard it was a one way ticket), didn't check any luggage, and had a few other flags that should have put him under suspicion...More of the millimeter scanners will only be good for L3 IMHO.
I liked Sonicwall (I run 3060s on my networks), but they really pissed me off last fall when all security services stopped because Sonicwall's license activation servers went down for a day (I just renewed the licenses about a month earlier) - apparently if they don't see the activation servers they immediately stop. I'm looking at alternatives now....
I've found ASSP to be very effective in our organization of 150 mailboxes. Supports Greylisting, Bayesian filtering, SPF, RBL, REGEX, and more...It is a two-way filter, so recipients of mail sent from your organization will be whitelisted for a period of time, and SPAM is stopped at the SMTP level (resulting in a SMTP failure), so no messages should be lost...end users can submit spam messages by simply forwarding them to a specific address (e.g. asspspam@domain). All spam can also be sent to a specific email address for easy retrieval of false positives (although after the Bayesian filter is trained properly, there is VERY little), in addition, all legit messages can be cc'd to another email address, which we use for email archiving (maildir is tar.gz'd weekly)
ICA, RDP, and some X variants work well over slow connections. Do applications need to be executed locally, or can you run a farm of application servers with fast connections to the storage. Then put diskless, fanless thin clients (I typically use Wyse V50s), which DHCP configured to give them a config file to load on each startup. This gives you data security (no data is stored locally, or even at a branch office like your situation - someone steals a thin client, you are only out the hardware, application roll outs and updates are centrally managed, no rouge software can be installed (i.e. no weather bugs, cutsy screensavers, etc) by users, and many more advantages.
I publish applications via Citrix (Windows Apps.) and X (*nix apps)...They run on the same thin client desktops and the user knows no difference as to which server the application is actually running on - it appears local to them...I've also experimented with publishing OS X applications via vnc, but that requires the whole OS X desktop be served (not just the application)
1 Problem:
MIMA
Man in the Middle Attack
What if a student's household only has a Mac or Linux computer
Maybe the school district should serve applications over the internet to students using Citrix, or MS terminal server, so everyone is on the same version, wether it is on the latest Windows PC, an iPhone, Mac, Linux, BSD, MSDOS
It would simply give apple one less competitor for appleworks and iWork
Also give Apple ports of OOo higher popularity...
They do use data from State DOT roadside sensors (such as found at rwis.state.mn.us (nearly every state's dot uses these google "RWIS and your state"), APRS stations such as those found at findu.com, and Citizen Weather Observer Program
The northern plains produce much sugar from Sugar Beets
see American Crystal Sugar or Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative
If they want tight control and security, why not deliver the applications using RDP, VNC, X, or ICA. There are simple JAVA applet clients that can be embedded into a webpage for any of those protocols. There's even a Java applet to tunnel those thru ssh is they don't support encryption natively..
There was a product called Yeah Write that came out a few years ago that tried to change the desktop word processor into a useful tool, but has been unsuccessful in making an impact..