Turtle Wax has been granted a patent for "Wax on, Wax off". A federal judge has ruled that "The Karate Kid" cannot be used as prior art in a US court and Ralph Macchio's character was under a "foreign influence" at the time.
How much would it cost to produce that much power?
It seems that nuclear plant construction has been
skyrocketing for decades. At $5 BILLION for a single plant, how much would it cost to replace 50% of all coal-burning plants with nuclear and how long would it take to build them all?
And, if we poured a fraction of what has been given to the nuclear industry over the decades into solar or alternative research, what could be accomplished?
Nice to see Eric is keeping this up to date. I had this displayed in my cubicle back in 2000. If I were to do the same with the latest version, I'd need an office!!
How do we know that the Chinese bloggers aren't government stooges ( all, some or most?). And, in many ways, people are easily led, regardless of their race or origins. If the Chinese government has been telling them for years or decades how the backwards evil monks have been oppressing the Tibetan people and what wonderful advancements have been made since their glorious Communist overlords have driven the demon Dalai Lama from the land, who might they believe?
Ignorance is only too easy to spread. Just look at the sales figures for supermarket tabloids. -- Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity
A lot of our software is very old. Aside from our Windows infrastructure, we have a Novell 4.10 network and a handful of important DOS apps that need some bad hacks in order to keep working with Windows XP.
We have 50 PCs and 5 servers that have Y2K stickers on them, for heaven's sake
Removing admin rights would break a lot ( probably all ) of those hacks and with only one full-time and one part-time admin ( both of us new to the hospital) to support 400 users and maintain the servers and 3 separate networks ( primary, maintenance and patient ), we have our hands full
Same thing you'd do with the user who did loosely equivalent things with paper records etc - you'd fire them.
Once upon a time, when computers were brand new technology, it was reasonable to provide repeated ongoing training, do hand-holding, and expect rough edges as people adopted to the new technology. That was 15-20 years ago. Now, to actually hang on to employees who repeatedly do the equivalent of throwing out needed paper documents (1, 4), damaging company property (2), failure to adhere to fundamental, basic company document storage procedures (3), destroying company documents with legally required retention periods (5), or handing the keys to the office over to any random idiot on the street (6) is, well, not the greatest HR policy I can think of. Yes, of course, there are still plenty of people who will do all of the things on your list - but to deliberately retain them is self-inflicted misery.
Finally, if you do have rigorous IT lockdown designed to protect your worst 10% of users from themselves, in all probability you're impinging on the other 90% of competent users from doing their many and varied jobs in the most effective way possible. Rigorous lockdown doesn't work for us at the hospital where I work. Too many apps that we're locked-in to won't run properly without admin rights. Also, firing users doesn't work when the ones who need the most hand-holding / oversight are as fuckin' amazing at their jobs are they are useless tits with a PC. For a specialized rehab institute such as ours, people with their skills / experience are hard to get and harder to replace - and they know it.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know all that about Creative cards but I did know that they
had no working PCI solution until they snapped up Ensoniq and re-marketed the AudioPCI.
I was an early adopter of the AudioPCI, which wasn't available here at the time in Toronto
as Ensoniq just didn't have the market share.
So after hearing about the card and it's purportedly solid SoundBlaster compatibility,
I called up the company, got them to sell me a few cards and they also sent me hardware
documentation and we were working on a reseller agreement when Creative stepped in and
swallowed them up.
What "everyone" are you talking about. I'd say no more than 5% of ALL Windows users know more than to double-click to launch a program. If the icon is missing, to them it means the program is missing, broken or needs to be re-installed. And, the ones I know are equally confused by Win XP or Vista. I'm tempted install Linux on their machines, customize it to look like XP or Vista and wait to see how long it takes them to notice that it's changed. I bet I'll be nearing retirement before they buy a clue.
If a company has a support contract, it's not that easy to just bail on it.
Some of those enterprise or government contracts are pretty tightly written.
I just finished taking a course at HP and the instructor said that due to
the large installed base of OpenVMS in the US Armed Forces, HP bowed
to the existing requirement that VMS will NEVER be "sunset".
Debatable, sure. More difficult to deal with? Absolutely.
But, more interesting than science - NO WAY!! There are
so many things , physical, theoretical or logical that
I find far more interesting than any aspect of any religion.
I've yet to find anything in religion as interesting
or confounding as Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
And, your description of religion is somewhat off the mark.
What you've described are more correctly referred to as morals
or ethics, which may exist without religion.
Interesting. But Cisco took too long to realize that they needed a change. They were squeezing every drop of performance through microcode programming - that gets really difficult really quickly. Other manufacturers were able to chip away at some of Cisco market share and to create some rather well performing platforms without having to burden themselves with such extreme low-level programming. Not to mention Cisco's customers were getting somewhat tired of being bled dry for upgrades - I remember pricing out RAM upgrades for some 16xx/17xx/26xx - to say they were overcharging is a great understatement.
I can't help but smile after reading your post and your username.
The CIA are not supposed to operate on American soil.
That is the domain of the FBI. It was the police and the FBI
that fought against the Panthers.
Also, the Black Panthers were very probably the main reason
why nearly all police departments became racially integrated
in the late 60s and early 70s.
In many ways, they were misguided and their militant base
may have been seen as more representative of their goals but,
in large part, they were trying to balance the treatment of
people of color by the police.
And, they were capable of change - while they may have started
out as black-centric, they were moving towards a more inclusionary
agenda but, in those times, it's doubtful that a socialist,
predominantly black, militant organization would have succeeded.
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Turtle Wax has been granted a patent for "Wax on, Wax off". A federal judge has ruled that "The Karate Kid" cannot be used as prior art in a US court and Ralph Macchio's character was under a "foreign influence" at the time.
You must be REALLY new around here to post a challenge like that on Slashdot.
Other posters have already provided counterexamples
all of which are well known to regular readers.
Try doing a search next time, please
Prior art wouldn't apply?
How much would it cost to produce that much power?
It seems that nuclear plant construction has been
skyrocketing for decades. At $5 BILLION for a single plant, how much would it cost to replace 50% of all coal-burning plants with nuclear and how long would it take to build them all?
And, if we poured a fraction of what has been given to the nuclear industry over the decades into solar or alternative research, what could be accomplished?
Nice to see Eric is keeping this up to date.
I had this displayed in my cubicle back in 2000.
If I were to do the same with the latest version,
I'd need an office!!
That was well stated.
I'm sure my lethal DoS over my 2 Meg ADSL line will
bring your site to its knees!!!
Mehehehahehahehahhhhhehahhhh!!!!
Not entirely. Google open source BIOS. Some real progress has been made in the last few years.
Have a look here: http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
The Geforce pages on Wikipedia are very informative
regarding processor tech, spec numbers and model classes. But, it's quite a bit of reading.
A Geforce 7900 is a high end 7 Series while a 8600 is a (barely) midrange 8 Series.
The 8 series supports a higher Direct X and Shader model version.
How do we know that the Chinese bloggers aren't government stooges ( all, some or most?).
And, in many ways, people are easily led, regardless of their race or origins.
If the Chinese government has been telling them for years or decades how the backwards evil monks have been oppressing the Tibetan people and what wonderful advancements have been made since their glorious Communist overlords have driven the demon Dalai Lama from the land, who might they believe?
Ignorance is only too easy to spread. Just look at the sales figures for supermarket tabloids.
--
Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity
A lot of our software is very old. Aside from our Windows infrastructure, we have a Novell 4.10 network and a handful of important DOS apps that need some bad hacks in order to keep working with Windows XP.
We have 50 PCs and 5 servers that have Y2K stickers on them, for heaven's sake
Removing admin rights would break a lot ( probably all ) of those hacks and with only one full-time and one part-time admin ( both of us new to the hospital) to support 400 users and maintain the servers and 3 separate networks ( primary, maintenance and patient ), we have our hands full
Once upon a time, when computers were brand new technology, it was reasonable to provide repeated ongoing training, do hand-holding, and expect rough edges as people adopted to the new technology. That was 15-20 years ago. Now, to actually hang on to employees who repeatedly do the equivalent of throwing out needed paper documents (1, 4), damaging company property (2), failure to adhere to fundamental, basic company document storage procedures (3), destroying company documents with legally required retention periods (5), or handing the keys to the office over to any random idiot on the street (6) is, well, not the greatest HR policy I can think of. Yes, of course, there are still plenty of people who will do all of the things on your list - but to deliberately retain them is self-inflicted misery.
Finally, if you do have rigorous IT lockdown designed to protect your worst 10% of users from themselves, in all probability you're impinging on the other 90% of competent users from doing their many and varied jobs in the most effective way possible. Rigorous lockdown doesn't work for us at the hospital where I work. Too many apps that we're locked-in to won't run properly without admin rights.
Also, firing users doesn't work when the ones who need the most hand-holding / oversight are as fuckin' amazing at their jobs are they are useless tits with a PC.
For a specialized rehab institute such as ours, people with their skills / experience are hard to get and harder to replace - and they know it.
See my post here regarding my personal experience with Ensoniq / Creative
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=503796&cid=22904172
Thanks for the info. I didn't know all that about Creative cards but I did know that they
had no working PCI solution until they snapped up Ensoniq and re-marketed the AudioPCI.
I was an early adopter of the AudioPCI, which wasn't available here at the time in Toronto
as Ensoniq just didn't have the market share.
So after hearing about the card and it's purportedly solid SoundBlaster compatibility,
I called up the company, got them to sell me a few cards and they also sent me hardware
documentation and we were working on a reseller agreement when Creative stepped in and
swallowed them up.
Video has been yanked due to copyright infringement claim from Discovery Channel
What "everyone" are you talking about. I'd say no more than 5% of ALL Windows users know more than to
double-click to launch a program. If the icon is missing, to them it means the program is missing, broken
or needs to be re-installed.
And, the ones I know are equally confused by Win XP or Vista. I'm tempted install Linux on their machines,
customize it to look like XP or Vista and wait to see how long it takes them to notice that it's changed.
I bet I'll be nearing retirement before they buy a clue.
Actually, renaming the extension wasn't necessary if you used VLC
as your media player
If a company has a support contract, it's not that easy to just bail on it.
Some of those enterprise or government contracts are pretty tightly written.
I just finished taking a course at HP and the instructor said that due to
the large installed base of OpenVMS in the US Armed Forces, HP bowed
to the existing requirement that VMS will NEVER be "sunset".
A very long time ago
This got modded +5 Insightful? Jeez, 2008 on Slashdot is off to a bad start.
When was the last time you checked?
Debatable, sure. More difficult to deal with? Absolutely.
But, more interesting than science - NO WAY!! There are
so many things , physical, theoretical or logical that
I find far more interesting than any aspect of any religion.
I've yet to find anything in religion as interesting
or confounding as Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
And, your description of religion is somewhat off the mark.
What you've described are more correctly referred to as morals
or ethics, which may exist without religion.
Interesting. But Cisco took too long to realize that they needed a change. They were squeezing every drop
of performance through microcode programming - that gets really difficult really quickly.
Other manufacturers were able to chip away at some of Cisco market share and to
create some rather well performing platforms without having to burden themselves
with such extreme low-level programming.
Not to mention Cisco's customers were getting somewhat tired of being
bled dry for upgrades - I remember pricing out RAM upgrades for some
16xx/17xx/26xx - to say they were overcharging is a great understatement.
Intense radiation - not so bad
Make-believe violence - right up there
with one of the worst health threats of
modern society.
Yah
I can't help but smile after reading your post and your username.
The CIA are not supposed to operate on American soil.
That is the domain of the FBI. It was the police and the FBI
that fought against the Panthers.
Also, the Black Panthers were very probably the main reason
why nearly all police departments became racially integrated
in the late 60s and early 70s.
In many ways, they were misguided and their militant base
may have been seen as more representative of their goals but,
in large part, they were trying to balance the treatment of
people of color by the police.
And, they were capable of change - while they may have started
out as black-centric, they were moving towards a more inclusionary
agenda but, in those times, it's doubtful that a socialist,
predominantly black, militant organization would have succeeded.