US gov't passed a law saying no satellite photos newer than 2 years could be provided to the general public.
I thought much of the high resolution stuff was from aerial surveys used by the local government for assesing property taxes. These images most definitely have the resolution to distinguish small structures because the government wants to tax it.
Not just micropayments, but an ebay like system where you bid to watch a show and they decide if they want to sell it to you at your asking price. Puts the consumer back in control of pricing.
But the one flaw is that many channels are not producing original content. Cartoon Network is a prime example of rebroadcasting. They make money selling the same shows over and over and over again. Are you going to pay for a show you have seen or already recorded?
[on that note, yeah, it is excessive for tampon commercials to be piped into a house with 3 20-something guys as the only residents.]
What shows are you watching? I never see those unless my wife is watching "Lifetime" or daytime TV.
Really, you can get an idea for the target audience for a show by watching the ads. Watch late night TV? You must need psychic help so you can decide which work-at-home scheme you want to invest in. At home during the day? You must be an unemployed laborer who was injured on the job and got screwed by the insurance company or you're a homemaker that needs a lot of feminine hygene and cleaning products.
I watch the History channel at night so I am a elderly toothless man, who likes pickup trucks. At least they got the gender right.
But then the rich man waltzes in and says: "You peons have no right to be doing any of this, I own the telephone, the wires, the exchange, and the very idea of people talking to each other, its all mine!".
All the rich man is really saying is that the exchange that he paid the hermit to build is his. He is not claiming the phones or the lines or anything else. Just the exchange.
The townsfolk are free to build their own exchange.
This is NOT about the UN looking out for the best interests of the world population. This is NOT about liberating the internet from the evil Americans. This will NOT impact censorship or any freedoms that we enjoy on the internet.
This is about the UN trying to get control and power where they currently have none. They want this power so that they can be more like a government. The problem is, they are a treaty organization, not a government. They are not elected. They are not accountable to the people they want to govern.
Please stop trying to make the UN into a world government. It is nothing more than a forum for countries to discuss their issues and posture on the international stage. Nothing more, nothing less.
If there was a single global government then it'd be a no-brainer,but since the closest thing we have is the UN then why not?
There is not a global government. The UN is a treaty organization that wants to become a government. Your attitude is to just hand over a national asset to a questionable body that is not accountable to anyone.
Besides, why not do something better? Create alternate directories and advertise the IP numbers for those nameservers. Let software developers work out the problems with multiple top level domains, and now you have your international system. Better yet, it prevents *any* nation from controlling it. Get to work people. Innovate. Create a "new" internet.
Jeez, I get something like 4 phone books delivered to my door. All a root server does is take a name and give me a number. Who says we need only one?
The ascent path to the ISS will be partially or completely dark for the next few months after the window. This is because of the mechanics of the ISS orbit. Basically they have to make sure that the ISS passes reasonably close to the launch pad and that that pass occurs early enough in the day, so that it is still daylight a few thousand miles downrange.
Modern compilers optimize code not just by choosing the instructions, but also by ordering them so that they use the CPU's pipeline logic to the best effect.
So the intel optimized code might have well organized instructions preceding it, whereas the "other" code would have a poorly designed set of instructions preceding it.
The big question is does the compiler source look like
USB is a _bus_. Firewire is a point to point connection. USB is designed to allow multiple items to share the bus in a variety of configurations. And it is designed to be inexpensive - materials wise. If you are going to make hundreds of millions of them, they had better be cheap. Intel knows how to sell things in huge quantities and knows how to make something "good enough". Firewire is technically better, but the costs associated with building it kept it out of most devices (excluding camcorders) until about 2 years ago.
The article seems to indicate that Steve's contracts are short sighted because Apple does not want to risk taking delivery on components for products which might not sell. IBM would not produce excess chips for Apple because the chips Apple ordered were not in demand from IBM's other customers.
If Apple ever ordered chips from Intel, Intel could overproduce and then if Apple never followed up, Intel could sell the excess to another vendor.
Basically, Intel is designing products for personal computer makers. IBM is designing products for embedded or big-iron makers.
Also keep in mind that by having mission control half way across the country, the engineers had to do some pioneering work in communications. Think of them as the first telecommuters. We take it for granted now, but in the 50's, there was not the communications infrastructure needed to do this.
This is ANSI C. It gets refreshed every so often to incorporate some changes. One of the easiest changes to spot is the following...
for(int i = 0; i MAX_COUNT, i++ )
In the olden days, you'd have to declare i before using it in the code. The newer standards let you declare variables at their first use. This serves to clean up the code a little and also lets the programmer see what type it is without having to scroll up to the top of the function.
There's lots of other little changes like that in the various "standards".
The only bad thing about the hardware firewalls is that they do not really monitor outgoing traffic and few of the consumer boxes that I have seen make it easy to block known IPs.
Does anyone know of a simple home router that has the ability to easily blacklist IPs?
you believe the cause of the waves is a thing you have named a "fish" based on the type of motion which caused the waves as you have observed before.
Even though you have never seen this thing named "fish", and you have no other logical explanation, so until further notice, if anyone asks what causes the waves, they would be told is is "the fish".
So what would you do? Keep in mind that you cannot walk out to the lake.
I would be basing my explanation that fish in my aquarium, which I can observe, make similiar patterns in their environment. I have a theory and I can test it in a local environment with experimentation and observation. I would then postulate that the waves in the lake are made by a similiar mechanism. I may even be able to deduce the size and velocity of that organism based on the data collected from my experiments. But until I can walk out to the lake or find some other method to directly observe it, it is still a theory.
Scientists can observe matter and its interactions in the nearby environment and postulate that similiar interactions occur in faraway places. Testing a theory requires good repeatable data and as few assumptions as possible. More data and fewer assumptions lead to better theories. Less data and more assumptions lead to weaker theories.
Dark matter is "observed" indirectly through gravitational effects. It is not that the scientists doubt its existence, it is just that they cannot observe it directly, hence the name "dark".
A crude example would be if you were looking out your window at a lake. You might see waves caused by fish swimming below, but you would not be able to describe the fish, because you only saw the wave.
The image library thing was just a simple example that illustrated that GPL code used for one minor purpose could cause a company to open up its software that does something completely different and unrelated.
For the most part, for each bit of GPL code that you need, you can find another implementation with a more suitable license. Most companies can use open source to their satisfaction. They just need someone to dig around a bit.
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What about Chlorine and Flourine? They are both very reactive.
US gov't passed a law saying no satellite photos newer than 2 years could be provided to the general public.
I thought much of the high resolution stuff was from aerial surveys used by the local government for assesing property taxes. These images most definitely have the resolution to distinguish small structures because the government wants to tax it.
Don't kid yourself. I rather rewatch a good show than watch original filler.
Not just micropayments, but an ebay like system where you bid to watch a show and they decide if they want to sell it to you at your asking price. Puts the consumer back in control of pricing.
But the one flaw is that many channels are not producing original content. Cartoon Network is a prime example of rebroadcasting. They make money selling the same shows over and over and over again. Are you going to pay for a show you have seen or already recorded?
It's like they forgot that the M stands for Music
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[on that note, yeah, it is excessive for tampon commercials to be piped into a house with 3 20-something guys as the only residents.]
What shows are you watching? I never see those unless my wife is watching "Lifetime" or daytime TV.
Really, you can get an idea for the target audience for a show by watching the ads. Watch late night TV? You must need psychic help so you can decide which work-at-home scheme you want to invest in. At home during the day? You must be an unemployed laborer who was injured on the job and got screwed by the insurance company or you're a homemaker that needs a lot of feminine hygene and cleaning products.
I watch the History channel at night so I am a elderly toothless man, who likes pickup trucks. At least they got the gender right.
With all the other simpler features that are being tossed out of Longhorn, I wouldn't worry about this one making the cut.
But then the rich man waltzes in and says: "You peons have no right to be doing any of this, I own the telephone, the wires, the exchange, and the very idea of people talking to each other, its all mine!".
All the rich man is really saying is that the exchange that he paid the hermit to build is his. He is not claiming the phones or the lines or anything else. Just the exchange.
The townsfolk are free to build their own exchange.
This is NOT about the UN looking out for the best interests of the world population. This is NOT about liberating the internet from the evil Americans. This will NOT impact censorship or any freedoms that we enjoy on the internet.
This is about the UN trying to get control and power where they currently have none. They want this power so that they can be more like a government. The problem is, they are a treaty organization, not a government. They are not elected. They are not accountable to the people they want to govern.
Please stop trying to make the UN into a world government. It is nothing more than a forum for countries to discuss their issues and posture on the international stage. Nothing more, nothing less.
If there was a single global government then it'd be a no-brainer,but since the closest thing we have is the UN then why not?
There is not a global government. The UN is a treaty organization that wants to become a government. Your attitude is to just hand over a national asset to a questionable body that is not accountable to anyone.
Besides, why not do something better? Create alternate directories and advertise the IP numbers for those nameservers. Let software developers work out the problems with multiple top level domains, and now you have your international system. Better yet, it prevents *any* nation from controlling it. Get to work people. Innovate. Create a "new" internet.
Jeez, I get something like 4 phone books delivered to my door. All a root server does is take a name and give me a number. Who says we need only one?
Actually, yes.
The ascent path to the ISS will be partially or completely dark for the next few months after the window. This is because of the mechanics of the ISS orbit. Basically they have to make sure that the ISS passes reasonably close to the launch pad and that that pass occurs early enough in the day, so that it is still daylight a few thousand miles downrange.
So the intel optimized code might have well organized instructions preceding it, whereas the "other" code would have a poorly designed set of instructions preceding it.
The big question is does the compiler source look likeWhich is fine, or if it looks likeWhich would indicate some bad behavior on intel's part.
USB is a _bus_. Firewire is a point to point connection. USB is designed to allow multiple items to share the bus in a variety of configurations. And it is designed to be inexpensive - materials wise. If you are going to make hundreds of millions of them, they had better be cheap. Intel knows how to sell things in huge quantities and knows how to make something "good enough". Firewire is technically better, but the costs associated with building it kept it out of most devices (excluding camcorders) until about 2 years ago.
The article seems to indicate that Steve's contracts are short sighted because Apple does not want to risk taking delivery on components for products which might not sell. IBM would not produce excess chips for Apple because the chips Apple ordered were not in demand from IBM's other customers.
If Apple ever ordered chips from Intel, Intel could overproduce and then if Apple never followed up, Intel could sell the excess to another vendor.
Basically, Intel is designing products for personal computer makers. IBM is designing products for embedded or big-iron makers.
Also keep in mind that by having mission control half way across the country, the engineers had to do some pioneering work in communications. Think of them as the first telecommuters. We take it for granted now, but in the 50's, there was not the communications infrastructure needed to do this.
Sorry about the typos. The comparison was there, I just forgot that Slashcode filters it out. I'll chalk the comma mistake up to lazy fingers.
This is ANSI C. It gets refreshed every so often to incorporate some changes. One of the easiest changes to spot is the following...
for(int i = 0; i MAX_COUNT, i++ )
In the olden days, you'd have to declare i before using it in the code. The newer standards let you declare variables at their first use. This serves to clean up the code a little and also lets the programmer see what type it is without having to scroll up to the top of the function.
There's lots of other little changes like that in the various "standards".
A well configured IE browser is just as secure as Firefox.
Is IE 'well configured' by default? How much education is needed to secure it?
Heh.
A slashdotter thinks that the fitness center is crap. Probably explains why he also thinks that the free condoms are useless.
Maybe thats why they duped it. To "refresh" the discussion.
The only bad thing about the hardware firewalls is that they do not really monitor outgoing traffic and few of the consumer boxes that I have seen make it easy to block known IPs.
Does anyone know of a simple home router that has the ability to easily blacklist IPs?
you believe the cause of the waves is a thing you have named a "fish" based on the type of motion which caused the waves as you have observed before.
Even though you have never seen this thing named "fish", and you have no other logical explanation, so until further notice, if anyone asks what causes the waves, they would be told is is "the fish".
So what would you do? Keep in mind that you cannot walk out to the lake.
I would be basing my explanation that fish in my aquarium, which I can observe, make similiar patterns in their environment. I have a theory and I can test it in a local environment with experimentation and observation. I would then postulate that the waves in the lake are made by a similiar mechanism. I may even be able to deduce the size and velocity of that organism based on the data collected from my experiments. But until I can walk out to the lake or find some other method to directly observe it, it is still a theory.
Scientists can observe matter and its interactions in the nearby environment and postulate that similiar interactions occur in faraway places. Testing a theory requires good repeatable data and as few assumptions as possible. More data and fewer assumptions lead to better theories. Less data and more assumptions lead to weaker theories.
Dark matter is "observed" indirectly through gravitational effects. It is not that the scientists doubt its existence, it is just that they cannot observe it directly, hence the name "dark".
A crude example would be if you were looking out your window at a lake. You might see waves caused by fish swimming below, but you would not be able to describe the fish, because you only saw the wave.
The sidebar indicated that he used Red Hat.
The image library thing was just a simple example that illustrated that GPL code used for one minor purpose could cause a company to open up its software that does something completely different and unrelated.
For the most part, for each bit of GPL code that you need, you can find another implementation with a more suitable license. Most companies can use open source to their satisfaction. They just need someone to dig around a bit.