No. Insurance doesn't claim to be anything other than, well, insurance. If something goes wrong, your insurance company should pay out. But they don't claim that they will take your money and give it back to you later on - Unless you get a term life policy or similar.
A patent application has been filed with the USPTO for a concept involving using discs to facilitate transport.
The process has the discs rotating along their edge against a horizontal or inclined surface.
Containerise them. Lift the entire container off the back of the truck in one hit and off the truck goes again. You could cut unload time down to a couple of minutes.
Reminds me of the supermarket distribution plants. Trucks are allocated time slots that are 10 minutes long, and the trucks must arrive exactly on time or they miss out. One forklift unloads the entire truck, and another shifts the pallets into the shelving system. The one nearest me has 20 bays and runs 24x7.
Never underestimate the ability of a logistics facility to chew through trucked goods.
What's the delivery mechanism for this? Is it like Cisco's unused pairs method for their in-line powered phones? Kinda rules out using it in conjunction with Gig-E in that case.
Also, the available power will be pretty minimal. IIRC it's a max of 65W, and the gauge of Cat5/6 cable isn't up to high current applications.
Oh and I can't see this working with Base-FX either, funnily enough.
No, I actually mean it.
This is a great way to get the penetration without the risk of people fucking up the configuration of innumerable devices. No more battling with IOS or iptables. No more wrestling with the choice of sendmail, exim or qmail. Now, someone else does all the grunt work, you just sign up users - And you get money for it.
Software Images. They're not there for you. They're there for their major account - Microsoft.
Excuse me, this is Slashdot. What the hell do you think you're doing? correctly using their, there and they're - And all in the same sentence.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Next we'll be getting people putting facts in their followup posts.
And the dependancy hell I've heard about? Never noticed it.
Lucky you. Last place I worked had three RH6.1 boxes.
The serious SSL exploit that came out last year had us completely fucked. We couldn't update the version of ssl on any of them. We couldn't use rpm because we couldn't get all the dependencies. We couldn't compile new versions because we couldn't get all the dependencies for the required version of gcc (a new version was needed).
In the end we just ignored them, locked them up as far as possible, and told management to put them onto an upgrade path to debian. The debian boxes were all fed "apt-get update" "apt-get upgrade" and they worked. No drama. No fucking around for hours searching for libraries and rpm versions and trying to work out what was installed.
Short version - My experience of RH is that it is an absolute pig of a system to maintain if you get an older, legacy system. If you get something new, fine, but a lot of people walk into jobs maintaining versions of RedHat that date back several years. debian doesn't care that it is now five years out of date, but good luck getting an RH5 box into a secure state in less than a few days of long hours.
Fine, he's good at mobilising the troops. There's no doubt about that. However, when he speaks to the politicians he takes aim squarely at both feet with heavy artillery.
Motivating the geeks is important, nay essential. But motivating the geeks isn't enough. One must sway the MEPs, and RMS's petulant, vitriolic attacks on IP are not the way to go about it.
This is indeed good news.
However, for it to actually make the slightest bit of difference the points raised in the parent article must be noted.
Abusing the MEPs is not a good use of time. Neither is trying to sway them using the David-and-Goliath argument.
In a perfect world, RMS would keep his mouth shut. The man does far more damage to the cause than he does good. If someone's willing to lock him in a sound-proof room 'til after the vote, it might be a good idea.
Given that Finland is an EU member, and Linus is a Finn (assuming he hasn't become a US citizen), he would be a very good person to get to speak to MEPs. As a constituent, he has a legitimate voice. As a highly visible, respected figure within the community that will be most affected by this law change, his opinions will carry weight. He is also known as something of a moderate (contrast his relatively muted statements with the vitriol of RMS, for example), and politicians are more likely to listen to moderates than extremists unless the extremist position is amenable to their own.
For a $471 million contract, Microsoft would easily be convinced to put special terms into the contract. No one does a contract of that size without some guarantee that things will be taken care of if there's a problem.
Not only that, the contract is with the Army! You know, people with access to lots of guns and cool toys that shoot stuff.
At an intellectual level I'm sure the sales rep knows that the military won't assault Redmond because of a few BSoDs. But at the gut level, would you really want to take the risk?
but ususally when I see how much a congressman has been paid by a business, it's a fairly small amount, like $20K, and I think, is that all it takes?
That's $20K times a lot of polly tubbies, though.
Sure, $20K isn't much, but xxAA don't just buy one pet polly they buy dozens of them. Suddenly you're talking six or seven figures to even equal their investment - And you will always need to have one more pet polly than they do to be sure of success. Suddenly it's down to a war of attrition and the side with the deepest pockets (Hint: It's not the non-profits) has an enormous advantage.
Unfortunatly most people just don't give a fuck, and _that_ is the problem.
Bingo!
Apathetic sheeple who don't give a fuck about the damage corporations are doing are the root cause. They don't educate themselves about the issues, and vote for the politicians who can afford the most airtime - One thing I'm very thankful for about the NZ electoral system is that money for TV advertising is tax-payer funded and strictly apportioned, meaning that our elections don't just come down to a publicity contest.
The one benefit political groups have going for them is the ratio. If you buy a $20 CD, less than $1 is probably going towards the RIAA's legal efforts, probably a _lot_ less than $1. On the other hand, if you give $20 to the EFF a much larger portion of that money is going towards legal/political effots.
Sure, but how many CDs are sold each year? Hundreds of millions, no? Let's say that 200 million CDs get sold, and 10c from each CD goes to RIAA's "defence" fund. 200,000,000x$0.10=$20,000,000. That's a million people donating $20 to the EFF.
These numbers are totally pulled out of my arse, and I'm sure that the CD sales figures are out by a couple of multiples of 10, but they're a fair demonstration of the kind of money we're fighting against - Remember, it's not just RIAA but also MPAA.
It's not completely impossible to imagine that that kind of money could be obtained. After all, where do corporations get their money from? That's right, you and me.
Sure, but they get that money in return for providing goods and/or services.
Political lobbying might be a good service, but most people don't care enough to donate much - Certainly not the kind of money that xxAA can throw at tame politicians.
how come the bad guys are smart enough to heavily influence politics with their money but the good guys aren't?
It's not about smart, it's about money.
The "good guys" generally don't have the money to take on the "bad guys". The "bad guys" are "bad" because they have money - LOTS of money. The "good guys" are "good", generally, because they don't.
Case in point, IBM vs SCO. There've been a number of (admittedly piss-taking) posts on here from people who say "Who do I support? IBM's mega-rich, but SCO're a bunch of fucktards."
Until the "good guys" have the financial wherewithal to take on the "bad guys", corrupt governments will be more easily influenced by the corporations - The exact groups that should have precisely zero say in anything to do with how a country is run.
Why is RFID, on its own, such a "big brother" concern? It's not like stores can't already tell what you buy (umm, hello, those barcodes aren't just pretty decorations), and match it back to a person - You don't really think your EFTPOS transaction is anonymous, do you?
Ohhhhhhhh, so now the government can scan your house via satellite and tell that you buy Libra g-string liners ("Alert, alert. There's a g-string wearer at 325 Main St. Alert, alert")? For fuck's sake, WHO FUCKING CARES!?
RFID won't allow anything that's not already possible, it'll just make it very, very slightly easier. Tracking peoples' purchases is already possible - Not just possible, easy. The cops do it all the time as part of investigations.
If you don't want your purchasing habits to be tracked, use cash. Wear a disguise. If you use any kind of electronic payment method, or some kind of loyalty card, your button obsession is already known.
You will only see a benefit if the software is multi-threaded. A process with a single thread will not be able to take advantage of multi-processor systems.
See my earlier post, asking how old FritzMark is, because the article says that it only uses one processor - ie: It's not a multi-threaded app.
How old is this software that it's not multi-threaded?
Software to examine chess games would be a perfect example of the major performance improvements to be had with multi-threading. A new thread per processor, with each thread examining different possible move paths, would give dramatic speed gains.
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No. Insurance doesn't claim to be anything other than, well, insurance. If something goes wrong, your insurance company should pay out. But they don't claim that they will take your money and give it back to you later on - Unless you get a term life policy or similar.
The process has the discs rotating along their edge against a horizontal or inclined surface.
Containerise them. Lift the entire container off the back of the truck in one hit and off the truck goes again. You could cut unload time down to a couple of minutes.
Reminds me of the supermarket distribution plants. Trucks are allocated time slots that are 10 minutes long, and the trucks must arrive exactly on time or they miss out. One forklift unloads the entire truck, and another shifts the pallets into the shelving system. The one nearest me has 20 bays and runs 24x7.
Never underestimate the ability of a logistics facility to chew through trucked goods.
It's a fucking TROLL!
How fucking STUPID are the shee^H^H^H^Hmoderators these days!?
Also, the available power will be pretty minimal. IIRC it's a max of 65W, and the gauge of Cat5/6 cable isn't up to high current applications.
Oh and I can't see this working with Base-FX either, funnily enough.
You're old fashioned :P
No, I actually mean it.
This is a great way to get the penetration without the risk of people fucking up the configuration of innumerable devices. No more battling with IOS or iptables. No more wrestling with the choice of sendmail, exim or qmail. Now, someone else does all the grunt work, you just sign up users - And you get money for it.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Next we'll be getting people putting facts in their followup posts.
The serious SSL exploit that came out last year had us completely fucked. We couldn't update the version of ssl on any of them. We couldn't use rpm because we couldn't get all the dependencies. We couldn't compile new versions because we couldn't get all the dependencies for the required version of gcc (a new version was needed).
In the end we just ignored them, locked them up as far as possible, and told management to put them onto an upgrade path to debian. The debian boxes were all fed "apt-get update" "apt-get upgrade" and they worked. No drama. No fucking around for hours searching for libraries and rpm versions and trying to work out what was installed.
Short version - My experience of RH is that it is an absolute pig of a system to maintain if you get an older, legacy system. If you get something new, fine, but a lot of people walk into jobs maintaining versions of RedHat that date back several years. debian doesn't care that it is now five years out of date, but good luck getting an RH5 box into a secure state in less than a few days of long hours.
Fine, he's good at mobilising the troops. There's no doubt about that. However, when he speaks to the politicians he takes aim squarely at both feet with heavy artillery.
Motivating the geeks is important, nay essential. But motivating the geeks isn't enough. One must sway the MEPs, and RMS's petulant, vitriolic attacks on IP are not the way to go about it.
However, for it to actually make the slightest bit of difference the points raised in the parent article must be noted.
Abusing the MEPs is not a good use of time. Neither is trying to sway them using the David-and-Goliath argument.
In a perfect world, RMS would keep his mouth shut. The man does far more damage to the cause than he does good. If someone's willing to lock him in a sound-proof room 'til after the vote, it might be a good idea.
Given that Finland is an EU member, and Linus is a Finn (assuming he hasn't become a US citizen), he would be a very good person to get to speak to MEPs. As a constituent, he has a legitimate voice. As a highly visible, respected figure within the community that will be most affected by this law change, his opinions will carry weight. He is also known as something of a moderate (contrast his relatively muted statements with the vitriol of RMS, for example), and politicians are more likely to listen to moderates than extremists unless the extremist position is amenable to their own.
At an intellectual level I'm sure the sales rep knows that the military won't assault Redmond because of a few BSoDs. But at the gut level, would you really want to take the risk?
Sure, $20K isn't much, but xxAA don't just buy one pet polly they buy dozens of them. Suddenly you're talking six or seven figures to even equal their investment - And you will always need to have one more pet polly than they do to be sure of success. Suddenly it's down to a war of attrition and the side with the deepest pockets (Hint: It's not the non-profits) has an enormous advantage.
Apathetic sheeple who don't give a fuck about the damage corporations are doing are the root cause. They don't educate themselves about the issues, and vote for the politicians who can afford the most airtime - One thing I'm very thankful for about the NZ electoral system is that money for TV advertising is tax-payer funded and strictly apportioned, meaning that our elections don't just come down to a publicity contest.
These numbers are totally pulled out of my arse, and I'm sure that the CD sales figures are out by a couple of multiples of 10, but they're a fair demonstration of the kind of money we're fighting against - Remember, it's not just RIAA but also MPAA.
Political lobbying might be a good service, but most people don't care enough to donate much - Certainly not the kind of money that xxAA can throw at tame politicians.
The "good guys" generally don't have the money to take on the "bad guys". The "bad guys" are "bad" because they have money - LOTS of money. The "good guys" are "good", generally, because they don't.
Case in point, IBM vs SCO. There've been a number of (admittedly piss-taking) posts on here from people who say "Who do I support? IBM's mega-rich, but SCO're a bunch of fucktards."
Until the "good guys" have the financial wherewithal to take on the "bad guys", corrupt governments will be more easily influenced by the corporations - The exact groups that should have precisely zero say in anything to do with how a country is run.
It's a shame there isn't a "-1: Religious War Initiation" mod.
Ohhhhhhhh, so now the government can scan your house via satellite and tell that you buy Libra g-string liners ("Alert, alert. There's a g-string wearer at 325 Main St. Alert, alert")? For fuck's sake, WHO FUCKING CARES!?
RFID won't allow anything that's not already possible, it'll just make it very, very slightly easier. Tracking peoples' purchases is already possible - Not just possible, easy. The cops do it all the time as part of investigations.
If you don't want your purchasing habits to be tracked, use cash. Wear a disguise. If you use any kind of electronic payment method, or some kind of loyalty card, your button obsession is already known.
See my earlier post, asking how old FritzMark is, because the article says that it only uses one processor - ie: It's not a multi-threaded app.
Software to examine chess games would be a perfect example of the major performance improvements to be had with multi-threading. A new thread per processor, with each thread examining different possible move paths, would give dramatic speed gains.