Well, its not reallyl a MMORPG, but look at Magic Online. The online version of the Collectible Card Game Magic (Wizards.com)
You buy virtual "boosters", gain virtual cards, which you, if you collect entire sets, can convert to real paper-cards, with "real" value. And I cant remember seeing any restrictions on selling these for real cash as well.
Actually, both your (US) and my (.se) military is already using model aircraft and other small unmanned devices in active duty. They are called UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and perform a variety of missions.
They were used in the Balkan, controlled from Carriers and could circle for over a week at relatively low altitide sending back high quality images and live feeds.
Some of them also carry a Hellfire missile (guess why;-).
In Gulf War II, small underwater devices equipped with a kilogram of explosives made their way through mine fields... kamikaze!
The horse was actually used far into WW2, mostly to pull equipment, but also artillery pieces and to carry soldiers. (Yes, I am talking about the regular army, not small fractions).
Look at operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Russia), horses worked far better than Machines when fuel ran out, and soldies even ate their horses when food supplies ran short. Try eat that tank...;-)
Wonder what would have happened if Wehrmacht was Tux-powered! How does a penguin taste ? How many penguins are needed to pull an haubits?
The beauty of SQL is that it's incredibly easy to migrate from one database engine to another.
Unfortunately you are not entirely correct. It is true that basic SQL functionality follows either SQL92 sometimes even SQL99 in most DBMS. But rarely do you have a database which ONLY utilizes the very basic (insert, select, update) commands.
There are triggers, active databases, temporal databases, rules, orders, transactions, timeliness, atomic actions etc. And these are often not "smooth transactions" from one DBMS to another.
You miss the issue. Try reading the "POST" atleast:-)
You suddenly find yourself working 50-60 hour weeks, put on call with no compensation, given unreasonable amounts of work and generally treated like dirt. You get the feeling that the company is just going to take advantage of you no matter how and what happens.
Why would any employee ever feel any form of compassion/care at all about a company that acts like this. Of course you have to tell your boss how you feel, give the company a chance to correct its faults. (the entire company is working on overtime?).
When you buy a new car, do you look for the one with the engine featuring the highest RPM ? (thougth not)
The comparison is not as stupid as it sounds, your argument is actually a lot worse. Not trying to flame here, but seriously, do you really think the amount of Ghz is what really counts nowdays ?
Have to agree. Linux wont be mainstream until John Doe can bring a copy home, install it with a few curses and reboots, and then install all the crappy software/games on "2003 Demo Game PC Gamers" DVD and run them without a huzz. Its kinda absurd to choose an OS based on personal affection rather than knowing it supports the applications you want to run. I can actually understand why companies run Windows. They like (ms) office, (ms) office runs on windows, they run windows. Quite easy.
Its actually more complicated than that. Depending on the environment in which an organism resides, the number of genes (and the size of the genome) required to survive does vary. The article mentions ~27000 to ~40000 Genes in the human genome. Another well studied organism, the Hordeum Vulgare, has about 5 times the size of our genome. Would you say its more complex than you are? The ability to move makes us need far less genes than the H. Vulgare and many of its fellows. Its stuck in the ground, and have to survive climate changes without being able to wear an extra piece of clothing or moving the the riviera:-)
Btw.. H. Vulgare is "wheat".
not exactly what I heard on their briefing...
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I think you are missing one important product, even though you might be right about lowend servers. I attended a Sun marketing meeting a week back, where they showed off all products to come in within a year or so, and I remember the Opterons. Although they did not mention them in lowend servers but rather in blade tech. 12 dual opteron blade servers in a 3U "rack-in-a-rack", perfect for fast calculations.
So, expect AMD CPUs in blade configurations but not in servers, the SPARC arch is still going strong in SUNs business model (dont remember any AMD cpu's in any server models actually).
Have to agree on this. I have no reason to make negative remarks on my ISP. I live in Sweden, using a company called Bostream as supplier. For ~$50/month, i get 2.5/1 Mbit (and i actually get that bandwidth anytime of the day), static IP. I am the same way as parent poster encouraged to share my bandwidth, firewalls are recommended and suggested. They support nonwindowsOS, no fuzz, no blur, very few downtimes and no questions asked. Just my ISP.
They are soo good i'm here making advertisement for them;-). I'd be very surprised if they had any claims to make regarding what I say about them, but that is ofcourse because I dont have no reason to say anything bad. And I agree, I have not read through the TOS.
Furhter.. you mention Korea 1950-1953. Funny, i'd say atleast half of Korea (South) is a democracy. But i guess you dont agree.. you even talk about "Korea" as one nation.
Now lets see.. Taiwan, Hong Kong ? No direct bombs, but severe threats from the US kept those two countries free. (Hong Kong's lease contract ran out though, not much to do about it, but it was great in 99 years atleast)
You are right on the spot. If you do pay the tax, then you must also be allowed to download music.
Either it has to be legal to download at a cost, and then the issue is from where those money comes (PC Purchases, CD-R Tax, CD Price, Concerts or whatever).
OR it is ILLEGAL to make and download illegal copies, and in that case it is a crime that should be punishable through courts. This is the case now, but in some strange way, the Music industri think it has the right to make a certain amount of money from every citizen, regardless of s/he wishes to buy their records or not.
Really bizarre actually... To conclude.. either I pay the tax and then i'm free to download whatever music I want (like a one time fee for all the music you want), OR i continue to pay per album/song as I do now. But i wont do both.. no way
There's a good chance that raids like this can do far greater financial damage than the piracy they are trying to combat. How many online businesses will be affected?
Most likely none.. Ever heard of backups ? I find it very unlikely that a major ISP would not have the user data backed up on tape. When the police grabs the server they just restore the data to another server taking over. Or even more likely, the ISP already have 2 or more servers running with the same content, so the only thing that happens is that things may get a little slow for a while. If you really think that 1) The dont have backup 2) They dont have redundant servers, then I think you should not do business with that ISP again.
Whatever happened to comparing apples to apples? Hum.. as far as I know.. Apple was not even a part of the TCO... sorry
Every student "needs" a 2.8ghz Dell, err, not.
Totally agree on this point. Still, it might be cheaper go get your hands on those than older P3's.. especially if you intend to run the systems for 3-4 years, by the time a P3 will feel as slow as an old Pentium (Still usable, but breaking...). I mean.. if i in four years could choose between a P4 2.8 Ghz and a P3 500 Mhz.. im quite sure which I would choose.
Still I think the author misses the point totally. Has s/he ever heard the word "ergonomy?". Ever worked in a room with 25 P4 2.8 Ghz PCs ? Ever worked in a room with 25 SunRay 1 ? Seriously.. i dont care about how fast [MS Word|Star Office|Open Office] runs, but i do care about the ambient temperature, atleast when its rising above 25C:-) Is it getting hot in here or is it just my 2.8Ghz powered Satan-the-Paperclip undressing ?
In an educational environment, ergonomy is everything and performance is quite meaningless.
... make the competition more suitable to the./ crowd.
*Mental Picture*
Ok, guys.. You got 10 hours to build a PC that will run Quake2 in 60 FPS or more. Good luck !
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Slashdot over IPv6
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-... eliminates the need of NAT with special "local" addresses.
Just a question on this one. I do agree that there will be enough IP addresses that there is no need to use special local addresses. Bit i actually find it very useful. It makes it easy to see where I am located, is it behind NAT, behind a firewall or just through a proxy ?. Currenty I can figure some of this out just by looking at my IP address, but without local IP subnets, things will get more confusing.
And furthermore, i'd say the "end of NAT" is a bit too much. I find it very useful to use a NAT gateway/firewall and put insecure clients behind that. It reduces the need to think secure on the local network. I can for instance export my fileserver data rw onto 192.168 without much consern. Wouldn't wanna do that if they were all "real" IP's.
IPv6 is great and it will allow those who DONT want to be behind NAT to get a "real" IP address, but its not the end of NAT.
About right. On the DNA strand (2 single stranded rows of nucleotides) there are always an AT and CG relation. (A = adenine, T = thymine, C = cytosine, G = guanine)
There is actually a 5th character used, U (uracil). It exists in mRNA (messenger RNA, represents DNA code when transported from the cell core to the ribosome). T is replaced by U.
It seems like the author of the article confused nucleotides (A,C,T,G) with Amino acids (22 of them).
with streams of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs, letters that represent the four amino acids that make up the DNA fragments that relate to the kinases.
Amino acids consist of 3 nucleotides, so a series of nucleotides convert into N/3 amino acids. As an example, the nucleotide sequence "GCA" transforms into the amino acid alanine (A) and so forth.
I think the whole process is moving away from patenting a gene to patenting a use of that gene. About a year ago I attended a presentation by the President of Decode Genetics (Decode.is) and the main issue there was that, at the time, it was all a race about "finding" a gene, patent it, and moving on. Noone cared by the time to find out what the genes really did, because then there were less genes left to research for later. They had to prove some sort of use for the gene before a patent could be issued, so what they did was that they mixed some substance including the gene into catfood (yes.. catfood). They put up a video camera and waited until Mr Cat preferred eating the modified food, and bang they had their "use", thus their patent.
This allowed very fast gene patenting and allowed stockpiling genes for later use/research.
This whole thing with overthrowing/invalidating patents is not a big surprise, instead of having a universal patent for the gene, many companies now have loads of new ingredients for catfood, while others can go on about their business. Bon apetit Mr Cat:-)
If you think this sound too unlikely/silly, have a look in the patent registry files:-)
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Adopt a KDE Geek
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Do I get some pictures I can put in my wallet, and a certificate telling me where he lives
I'd be much more interrested in knowing where she lives. Let me adopt a lady and i'll consider it =)
... because it seems a universal garage opener could be used for ill purposes, like opening someone elses garage and steal his stuff, or close the garage port onto someones car when driving in/out. Sounds like making a universal key that can unlock any lock... that wouldn't be appreciated either, would it ?
Then again, i dont think you can make a universal key, so someone must have been doing some bad thinking if they designed garage door remotes like this.
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As long as there is a "CowboyNeal" option i'll use it!
All you have to do is to sign up, voila, no more unsolicited emails :-)
Alternatively, you could raise an additional $7.6M for him, so he wont have to send even more mails.
Well, its not reallyl a MMORPG, but look at Magic Online. The online version of the Collectible Card Game Magic (Wizards.com)
You buy virtual "boosters", gain virtual cards, which you, if you collect entire sets, can convert to real paper-cards, with "real" value. And I cant remember seeing any restrictions on selling these for real cash as well.
Actually, both your (US) and my (.se) military is already using model aircraft and other small unmanned devices in active duty. They are called UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and perform a variety of missions.
;-).
They were used in the Balkan, controlled from Carriers and could circle for over a week at relatively low altitide sending back high quality images and live feeds.
Some of them also carry a Hellfire missile (guess why
In Gulf War II, small underwater devices equipped with a kilogram of explosives made their way through mine fields... kamikaze!
Look at operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Russia), horses worked far better than Machines when fuel ran out, and soldies even ate their horses when food supplies ran short. Try eat that tank...
Wonder what would have happened if Wehrmacht was Tux-powered! How does a penguin taste ? How many penguins are needed to pull an haubits?
Unfortunately you are not entirely correct. It is true that basic SQL functionality follows either SQL92 sometimes even SQL99 in most DBMS. But rarely do you have a database which ONLY utilizes the very basic (insert, select, update) commands.
There are triggers, active databases, temporal databases, rules, orders, transactions, timeliness, atomic actions etc. And these are often not "smooth transactions" from one DBMS to another.
You suddenly find yourself working 50-60 hour weeks, put on call with no compensation, given unreasonable amounts of work and generally treated like dirt. You get the feeling that the company is just going to take advantage of you no matter how and what happens.
Why would any employee ever feel any form of compassion/care at all about a company that acts like this.
Of course you have to tell your boss how you feel, give the company a chance to correct its faults. (the entire company is working on overtime?).
The comparison is not as stupid as it sounds, your argument is actually a lot worse. Not trying to flame here, but seriously, do you really think the amount of Ghz is what really counts nowdays ?
*Prays his bandwidth will survivs*
Have to agree. Linux wont be mainstream until John Doe can bring a copy home, install it with a few curses and reboots, and then install all the crappy software/games on "2003 Demo Game PC Gamers" DVD and run them without a huzz.
Its kinda absurd to choose an OS based on personal affection rather than knowing it supports the applications you want to run. I can actually understand why companies run Windows. They like (ms) office, (ms) office runs on windows, they run windows. Quite easy.
H. Vulgare is "barley", while Triticum Aestivum is "bread wheat".
Sorry about that.
Btw.. H. Vulgare is "wheat".
So, expect AMD CPUs in blade configurations but not in servers, the SPARC arch is still going strong in SUNs business model (dont remember any AMD cpu's in any server models actually).
They are soo good i'm here making advertisement for them
Japan 1941-1945
Germany 1941-1945
Italy 1941-1945
Does these dates ring a bell ?
Furhter.. you mention Korea 1950-1953. Funny, i'd say atleast half of Korea (South) is a democracy. But i guess you dont agree.. you even talk about "Korea" as one nation.
Now lets see.. Taiwan, Hong Kong ? No direct bombs, but severe threats from the US kept those two countries free. (Hong Kong's lease contract ran out though, not much to do about it, but it was great in 99 years atleast)
Either it has to be legal to download at a cost, and then the issue is from where those money comes (PC Purchases, CD-R Tax, CD Price, Concerts or whatever).
OR it is ILLEGAL to make and download illegal copies, and in that case it is a crime that should be punishable through courts. This is the case now, but in some strange way, the Music industri think it has the right to make a certain amount of money from every citizen, regardless of s/he wishes to buy their records or not.
Really bizarre actually... To conclude.. either I pay the tax and then i'm free to download whatever music I want (like a one time fee for all the music you want), OR i continue to pay per album/song as I do now. But i wont do both.. no way
There's a good chance that raids like this can do far greater financial damage than the piracy they are trying to combat. How many online businesses will be affected?
Most likely none.. Ever heard of backups ? I find it very unlikely that a major ISP would not have the user data backed up on tape. When the police grabs the server they just restore the data to another server taking over. Or even more likely, the ISP already have 2 or more servers running with the same content, so the only thing that happens is that things may get a little slow for a while.
If you really think that 1) The dont have backup 2) They dont have redundant servers, then I think you should not do business with that ISP again.
Hum.. as far as I know.. Apple was not even a part of the TCO... sorry
Every student "needs" a 2.8ghz Dell, err, not.
Totally agree on this point. Still, it might be cheaper go get your hands on those than older P3's.. especially if you intend to run the systems for 3-4 years, by the time a P3 will feel as slow as an old Pentium (Still usable, but breaking...). I mean.. if i in four years could choose between a P4 2.8 Ghz and a P3 500 Mhz.. im quite sure which I would choose.
Still I think the author misses the point totally. Has s/he ever heard the word "ergonomy?". Ever worked in a room with 25 P4 2.8 Ghz PCs ? Ever worked in a room with 25 SunRay 1 ?
Seriously.. i dont care about how fast [MS Word|Star Office|Open Office] runs, but i do care about the ambient temperature, atleast when its rising above 25C
In an educational environment, ergonomy is everything and performance is quite meaningless.
There are lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics.
There are even books on the topic "How to lie with statistics". (Uses as course literature for to-be journalists).
... make the competition more suitable to the ./ crowd.
*Mental Picture*
Ok, guys.. You got 10 hours to build a PC that will run Quake2 in 60 FPS or more. Good luck !
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Just a question on this one. I do agree that there will be enough IP addresses that there is no need to use special local addresses. Bit i actually find it very useful. It makes it easy to see where I am located, is it behind NAT, behind a firewall or just through a proxy ?. Currenty I can figure some of this out just by looking at my IP address, but without local IP subnets, things will get more confusing.
And furthermore, i'd say the "end of NAT" is a bit too much. I find it very useful to use a NAT gateway/firewall and put insecure clients behind that. It reduces the need to think secure on the local network. I can for instance export my fileserver data rw onto 192.168 without much consern. Wouldn't wanna do that if they were all "real" IP's.
IPv6 is great and it will allow those who DONT want to be behind NAT to get a "real" IP address, but its not the end of NAT.
There is actually a 5th character used, U (uracil). It exists in mRNA (messenger RNA, represents DNA code when transported from the cell core to the ribosome). T is replaced by U.
It seems like the author of the article confused nucleotides (A,C,T,G) with Amino acids (22 of them).
with streams of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs, letters that represent the four amino acids that make up the DNA fragments that relate to the kinases.
Amino acids consist of 3 nucleotides, so a series of nucleotides convert into N/3 amino acids. As an example, the nucleotide sequence "GCA" transforms into the amino acid alanine (A) and so forth.
This allowed very fast gene patenting and allowed stockpiling genes for later use/research.
This whole thing with overthrowing/invalidating patents is not a big surprise, instead of having a universal patent for the gene, many companies now have loads of new ingredients for catfood, while others can go on about their business. Bon apetit Mr Cat
If you think this sound too unlikely/silly, have a look in the patent registry files :-)
I'd be much more interrested in knowing where she lives. Let me adopt a lady and i'll consider it =)
Then again, i dont think you can make a universal key, so someone must have been doing some bad thinking if they designed garage door remotes like this.