It is too early to know if we will or will not be hit by this MN4. It was too early yesterday to realistically think we actually had a one in thirty-seven chance of getting hit and it is too early today to think that we are in the clear. Interest in the matter has been sufficiently raised to make a point, now reduce the risk so the rocket scientists can refine their calculations in peace. With the publicity that was generated over the last week, there will now be money available to collect the data, propose solutions, and do the math, money that would not have been available otherwise.
I support this study. I think it is a good thing. But I don't think anyone wants to do the work that has to be done over the next year or two with likes of CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, and others covering this issue like they did OJ or Scott Petersen.
Cory Doctorow posts a version of his book at his website that displays the text, one and only one word at a time, in a sufficient size and resolution that allows for quick and easy reading, which can be displayed at a speed selectable by the reader providing a new reading experience. After reading in this manner it occurred to me that if the speed were to be varied in a subtle manner such that it might impart to the reader a since of timing and pacing, perhaps similar to music, which would, if probably applied, enhance the experience of the read. My guess is that such a single word by single word approach would make reading poetry much easier that I often find such works to be.
FLIP fuel is a promising technology. It is too bad nuclear technology is dead in the country until there are significant energy shortages that will allow this technology to once more be seen as a viable option. I believe nuclear has a future, and that the US messed it up in the 1970s, for that short sighted work American has had to suffer the issues associated with dependence on oil.
What if you selected NO on the EULA? I have not found a store that will let you return software if you read the GD EULA and find it to be a unacceptable. Seems like it may be a hard agreement to enforce since you can not refuse to buy the product if you do not like the agreement cause you can not read the agreement unless you buy the product and then it is too late to return.
If Bidders Edge simply leaves Ebay out of there line-up of sites is Ebay harmed? Does Bidder's Edge help Ebay by bring to the attention of potential bidders low options in the Ebay domain? I would never encourage any one to go to a web site that that was hostile to me. In fact I would want to encourage and promote their competition
The long arm of the law is powerful and can scare the devil out of most of us, in fact, that is its purpose, to scare the devil out of us. But eBay is not going to stop us from looking through their database and "stealing" their cycles, provided we do not try to build a business using their public presence, it just makes sense they want a piece. I can't tell who is right or who is wrong. But I would rather see the battle fought in the courts than a real tech war where Ebay or whoever attacks Bidder's Edge my stealing their cycles with even bigger "bots".
The first IP phones to be commericial and of course the ones using the internet had and have terrible quality. The problem is that transfer of packets within the IP devices can vary greatly in the time required to get through a device. When you have different parts of a voice stream arrive out of order or at an unsteady pace the sound will sound bad. So if the network has a steady and fast speed that it can move voice packets through its devices it can have excellent sound. You can do this three ways that I know of: one: provision lots of bandwidth and make a private very robust network...expensive two: apply IP version 6 Level three grooming of IP traffic using very high performance switches...new technology, best solution three: deploy ATM on a private network...cool technology, expensive
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It is too early to know if we will or will not be hit by this MN4. It was too early yesterday to realistically think we actually had a one in thirty-seven chance of getting hit and it is too early today to think that we are in the clear. Interest in the matter has been sufficiently raised to make a point, now reduce the risk so the rocket scientists can refine their calculations in peace. With the publicity that was generated over the last week, there will now be money available to collect the data, propose solutions, and do the math, money that would not have been available otherwise.
I support this study. I think it is a good thing. But I don't think anyone wants to do the work that has to be done over the next year or two with likes of CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, and others covering this issue like they did OJ or Scott Petersen.
Cory Doctorow posts a version of his book at his website that displays the text, one and only one word at a time, in a sufficient size and resolution that allows for quick and easy reading, which can be displayed at a speed selectable by the reader providing a new reading experience. After reading in this manner it occurred to me that if the speed were to be varied in a subtle manner such that it might impart to the reader a since of timing and pacing, perhaps similar to music, which would, if probably applied, enhance the experience of the read. My guess is that such a single word by single word approach would make reading poetry much easier that I often find such works to be.
FLIP fuel is a promising technology. It is too bad nuclear technology is dead in the country until there are significant energy shortages that will allow this technology to once more be seen as a viable option. I believe nuclear has a future, and that the US messed it up in the 1970s, for that short sighted work American has had to suffer the issues associated with dependence on oil.
What if you selected NO on the EULA? I have not found a store that will let you return software if you read the GD EULA and find it to be a unacceptable. Seems like it may be a hard agreement to enforce since you can not refuse to buy the product if you do not like the agreement cause you can not read the agreement unless you buy the product and then it is too late to return.
If Bidders Edge simply leaves Ebay out of there line-up of sites is Ebay harmed? Does Bidder's Edge help Ebay by bring to the attention of potential bidders low options in the Ebay domain? I would never encourage any one to go to a web site that that was hostile to me. In fact I would want to encourage and promote their competition
The long arm of the law is powerful and can scare the devil out of most of us, in fact, that is its purpose, to scare the devil out of us. But eBay is not going to stop us from looking through their database and "stealing" their cycles, provided we do not try to build a business using their public presence, it just makes sense they want a piece. I can't tell who is right or who is wrong. But I would rather see the battle fought in the courts than a real tech war where Ebay or whoever attacks Bidder's Edge my stealing their cycles with even bigger "bots".
The first IP phones to be commericial and of course the ones using the internet had and have terrible quality. The problem is that transfer of packets within the IP devices can vary greatly in the time required to get through a device. When you have different parts of a voice stream arrive out of order or at an unsteady pace the sound will sound bad. So if the network has a steady and fast speed that it can move voice packets through its devices it can have excellent sound. You can do this three ways that I know of: one: provision lots of bandwidth and make a private very robust network...expensive two: apply IP version 6 Level three grooming of IP traffic using very high performance switches...new technology, best solution three: deploy ATM on a private network...cool technology, expensive