maybe a time signal could be broadcast over the power cables
It's been years since I had a TV, VCR, or alarm clock that didn't sync itself. They are done via radio broadcast or embedded signal in TV broadcast. Having my microwave or clock on my stove grab it from the power grid would also be useful.
For those who couldn't figure out why their VCR's were wrong in the valley a few years ago....here.
You're getting a product for free. If netscape needs information to sell/share to it's partners so it can get more revenue and keep producing great products, that's fine. You don't have to use their browser. A more interesting question is that did you agree to it in the EULA?
I hate to break it to you, but I doubt most students outside of IT and engineering have even heard of "free software".
Hmm, I'd wager a guess that a good many windows users have heard of things like Morphues, Kazaa, and Limewire. Aren't they all based on a "free software" called Gnutella? P2P is probably going to be the killer app that puts free software on the map (as least as far as the general windows user is concerned).
I'd bet you'd even be surprised how many people have heard of Linux. Now, why they would switch or what it can do for them is a different story. I agree with you there. However, I see more and more people starting to not buy into the upgrade early and upgrade often licenese scheme that software companies are enforcing these days. Some of them are activley exploring alternatives. Some not. Perhaps it's just a matter of time...
Of course, the big problem was always getting the system to recognize the new hardware component again
Sun has done a pretty good job at dynamic reconfiguration, just not automatic, dynamic reconfiguration. This is supported in Solaris, just not in all versions of the hardware. I beleive you need the X800 series of Enterprise servers, or a 10/15K. The X500 series is absolutely not hot swappable on the CPU's as it ships from Sun (I know, we lost two CPU's that crashed the box). I'm not aware of any patches necessary other than the standard Solaris patches.
Maybe there is more than one definition of richest nation on earth? Perhaps I define richest as percentage of population with a net worth of one million dollars or more? Or maybe it's not a percentage, maybe it's the number of people worth X amount of dollars or more. In both of those cases, the US is likely to be the richest nation. All depends on if you define richest nation as per capita income. In that case, wouldn't the sovereign nation of Sealand (population of 3-5) have a higher average?
This is the same script that has been out for months here. What's new about it? From what I've read and seen, it's dead on accurate with the officially released trailers, and was posted long before they were released.
You think this is funny, but I was eating at Hooters restaurant (nice atmosphere:) and all the T.V.s had a left-side and bottom advert "frame" with the actual content in the upper right hand side of the screen.
Funny? Nope...sad. You were at Hooters and watched the televsion?
Every other Intel codename in the last several years has referred to a NW US river (Mendocino, Klamath, Merced, Willamette, Tualatin, Coppermine, etc...). It seems much more probable that Yamhill refers to the Yamhill River.
Ummm, you sure that's not Lake Merced in Silicon Valley? Intel has a fairly large prescene their too.
Hell, i'd like to see a Gates vs. Ellison boxing match on pay-per-view, as long as the money didn't go to either of them (and they had to match 1000 to 1). Seeing as they are both a little lanky, it could be interesting. Just let them use physical equivilants of business tactics.
Have you ever met Larry? Or better yet, played a little basketball with him? Trust me, he'd kick Bill's ass up and down the ring. Larry is/was quite the fitness fanatic. He's very athletic and extremely outgoing. While I personally think Oracle is a hunk of junk, I definetly respect the man....something I can't say about Bill.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot view the attachment that you sent to me because it is a Microsoft Word document (.doc extension). Microsoft Word documents are only accessible to people using software that is approved by Microsoft. Please consider using a format that is freely accessible such as HTML, PDF or plain text. This will ensure that files that you send are readable by anyone who receives them."
I think thats a great answer. Usually I reply with "Hey moron, Word is an unacceptable format for passing along info; are you trying to piss me off?" and then simply delete their message.
In all seriousness, I think your message is socially acceptable in a business environment and rather informative as well. I'd mod you up if I could.
It seems like aiming the laser that accurately (within the meter or so you'd have to hit to assasinate someone with it) would be pretty difficult... Besides, how often do you know someone's exact location without having someone present who could just shoot them? (ignoring the unmanned drone situation, which, like you said, was fixed)
Well, I'm not a physicist, so I could be comparing apples and oranges here. NASA bounces lasers off of small mirrors on the moon for things like distance, movement, etc. The mirrors were left by the Apollo astronauts for this purpose. How much more difficult is it to range a space based laser onto earth coordinates. I gotta believe that's solvable. Your point about getting those coordinates in realt-time is quite valid though, which is probably why it's not done. It's far cheaper and simpler to arm the predators. No where as cool though....:-)
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f his post had even a modicum of truth to it, that info would probably be classified. If he did have classified information, he wouldn't be sharing it here, or he'd lose his clearance and end up in a federal prison.
Really, so stating that special forces ground troops have been in afghanistan since after sept 11th is both paranoid and classfied. I think not. The Washington Post reported the same thing. Stating that the goverment witholds information from the US citizens is both paranoid and classified? Again, I think not. People dying on classified missions? Very likely and certainly happend in Vietnam. In fact the first ground troops in Vietnam were UDT teams, the pre-cursor to SEALS. We *know* the seals were the first ones in Iraq, again check the post archives. Is is so far-fetched to assume that they were onthe gound and dying and we don't know? Again, i think not. However, this is my opinion based on my past experiences, your past experiences may differ.
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Do you have anything, other than wild conspiracy theories to back up your assertions?
Well, if he does have inside info, he certainly can't tell you because it's most likely classfied. So, should you believe him? Up to you. I happen to agree with him as I have to have worked for the agencies for a few years and have similar stories. The number one rule of classified information is "only on a need to know basis". Let's face it, we really don't have a need to know where our special forces guys are and aren't (unless of course you do). 99.99% of slashdot readers don't fall into that category. Heck most of the US doesn't fall into that catagory. Will we ever find out? Probably. Things have a way of leaking/declassifying over time.
Why on earth would a government put an unquestionably more expensive space-laser-weapon in orbit if conventional weapons ("daisycutter", anyone?) are already so very effective?
The problem is that they aren't that effective. The turnaround time from intel collection to a conventional bombing run is usally far too long. You need to have bombers in the area, bombs in the arsenal, and generally have a static target that won't move from the time of intel collection to bomb run; generally pointless for taking out personnel; much more effective for equipment. With a space based weapon system (such as lasers), you could more or less pin-point any area under the satellite within a few momements of getting the intel. Throw enough of them above the earth in a geo-synchronous orbit and you could cover all the inhabited portions of the planet. Yes, yes, I'm completing ignoring the political ramifications of a space based assassination system. Remember Real Genius? Well, the movie was quite fantastical, but the theory is sound. Two years ago, a predator drone had a live video feed of Bin Laden in a training camp, sadly they were unarmed and could do nothing but watch him wander about. Any wonder why they are all armed now?
How many software companies have around 40k employees:
He didn't say it was a software company. Coke, United Airlines, Nike, the list goes on and on....
I tend to agree with the parent poster. Any fan of Blizzard games realizes that Blizzard is known for their long development cycle but that they tend to nail it almost every time with great game delivery (read: they do not ship a beta).
Funny, I remember calls for beta testers from both Diablo 2 and Diablo 2:LOD. Here in the Western US, they ship betas.
The department of education has been dissolved for failing to teach proper english, after it was leaked by the FBI that hundreds of thousands of US slashdot posters used both syntatic and grammatically incorrect English....
This is a great idea, but who cares if the servers are physically sercure if the communications lines and/or softare running on the servers isn't? I wonder what the capacity for point-to-point fiber is (running under the assumption that fiber is difficult if not impossible to splice in the middle).
This is just hilarious. Firstly, I doubt that any "three-letter intelligence agency" (there aren't that many) are running XP at this point, or are planning to start doing so. If they're running Windows at all, they'll be on 2000, which is getting pretty secure now that it's been out for a while.
I count five. That's a decent amount.
FBI, NRO, CIA, DIA, NSA.
And yes, some of them have migrated various orginizational desktops to XP; and to linux as well.
What's going to happen if they scan my passport while my portable microwave generator is outputting 100mW?
If you were able to get a portable microwave generator through security, whatever country you're entering has bigger problems than how much cash you have...
A group can spread the risk and potentially produce a less-buggy first cut, but cannot truly innovate, because any group automatically dumbs down.
Wow, what an incredibly scathing comment. Have you ever been part of a good team effort? Sounds like you have had some bad experienecs. By the way, I completely disagree. I don't think groups always dumb down, thats a function of group/project management in my opinion. I've been on several projects as a consultant where I went to the team lead and said "Bob and Susan are pretty good developers, but I don't think they're cut out for this type of project. Their code is always late and poorly documented, but it does work." I had them rotated onto another project and got some developers who could keep up with the pace.
Which amounts to about 5000 lines per week which is phenomenal for any programmer. He is dotGNU's one-man army.
I didn't read the article, so maybe there are more specifics. But um, so what? Are these quality lines of code? Comments? Have they been peer reviewed? Regression tested (you did write test cases before hand, right)? I mean almost any programmer can crank out 5000 lines of crap a week, big deal. If he's producing quality, reasonably bug free code, in this amount, good for him. Otherwise, I'm not so sure I'd be touting this is a big achievement. With one person writing the code, you're only getting one persons views, etc. They're aren't any sanity checks during design decisions or even better, another way of looking at the problem. That's a bad thing in my opinion.
Being the way cool girlfriend that she is, my significant other got me an iPaq 3870. Somehow she just knew that I didn't spend enough time screwing around with linux on my desktop. Unfortunately, it's back ordered until January'ish. Anyone else have similar woes with their iPaq's? It's teasing to get a confirmation printout in your stocking.....
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It's been years since I had a TV, VCR, or alarm clock that didn't sync itself. They are done via radio broadcast or embedded signal in TV broadcast. Having my microwave or clock on my stove grab it from the power grid would also be useful.
For those who couldn't figure out why their VCR's were wrong in the valley a few years ago....here.
You're getting a product for free. If netscape needs information to sell/share to it's partners so it can get more revenue and keep producing great products, that's fine. You don't have to use their browser. A more interesting question is that did you agree to it in the EULA?
Hmm, I'd wager a guess that a good many windows users have heard of things like Morphues, Kazaa, and Limewire. Aren't they all based on a "free software" called Gnutella? P2P is probably going to be the killer app that puts free software on the map (as least as far as the general windows user is concerned).
I'd bet you'd even be surprised how many people have heard of Linux. Now, why they would switch or what it can do for them is a different story. I agree with you there. However, I see more and more people starting to not buy into the upgrade early and upgrade often licenese scheme that software companies are enforcing these days. Some of them are activley exploring alternatives. Some not. Perhaps it's just a matter of time...
Sun has done a pretty good job at dynamic reconfiguration, just not automatic, dynamic reconfiguration. This is supported in Solaris, just not in all versions of the hardware. I beleive you need the X800 series of Enterprise servers, or a 10/15K. The X500 series is absolutely not hot swappable on the CPU's as it ships from Sun (I know, we lost two CPU's that crashed the box). I'm not aware of any patches necessary other than the standard Solaris patches.
Maybe there is more than one definition of richest nation on earth? Perhaps I define richest as percentage of population with a net worth of one million dollars or more? Or maybe it's not a percentage, maybe it's the number of people worth X amount of dollars or more. In both of those cases, the US is likely to be the richest nation. All depends on if you define richest nation as per capita income. In that case, wouldn't the sovereign nation of Sealand (population of 3-5) have a higher average?
Exactly. You can pruchase all your books through Amazon's one-thought-click-to-order through your new edition of Microsoft's Simian EZ....
This is the same script that has been out for months here. What's new about it? From what I've read and seen, it's dead on accurate with the officially released trailers, and was posted long before they were released.
Funny? Nope...sad. You were at Hooters and watched the televsion?
Ummm, you sure that's not Lake Merced in Silicon Valley? Intel has a fairly large prescene their too.
Have you ever met Larry? Or better yet, played a little basketball with him? Trust me, he'd kick Bill's ass up and down the ring. Larry is/was quite the fitness fanatic. He's very athletic and extremely outgoing. While I personally think Oracle is a hunk of junk, I definetly respect the man....something I can't say about Bill.
I think thats a great answer. Usually I reply with "Hey moron, Word is an unacceptable format for passing along info; are you trying to piss me off?" and then simply delete their message.
In all seriousness, I think your message is socially acceptable in a business environment and rather informative as well. I'd mod you up if I could.
Well, I'm not a physicist, so I could be comparing apples and oranges here. NASA bounces lasers off of small mirrors on the moon for things like distance, movement, etc. The mirrors were left by the Apollo astronauts for this purpose. How much more difficult is it to range a space based laser onto earth coordinates. I gotta believe that's solvable. Your point about getting those coordinates in realt-time is quite valid though, which is probably why it's not done. It's far cheaper and simpler to arm the predators. No where as cool though.... :-)
Really, so stating that special forces ground troops have been in afghanistan since after sept 11th is both paranoid and classfied. I think not. The Washington Post reported the same thing. Stating that the goverment witholds information from the US citizens is both paranoid and classified? Again, I think not. People dying on classified missions? Very likely and certainly happend in Vietnam. In fact the first ground troops in Vietnam were UDT teams, the pre-cursor to SEALS. We *know* the seals were the first ones in Iraq, again check the post archives. Is is so far-fetched to assume that they were onthe gound and dying and we don't know? Again, i think not. However, this is my opinion based on my past experiences, your past experiences may differ.
Well, if he does have inside info, he certainly can't tell you because it's most likely classfied. So, should you believe him? Up to you. I happen to agree with him as I have to have worked for the agencies for a few years and have similar stories. The number one rule of classified information is "only on a need to know basis". Let's face it, we really don't have a need to know where our special forces guys are and aren't (unless of course you do). 99.99% of slashdot readers don't fall into that category. Heck most of the US doesn't fall into that catagory. Will we ever find out? Probably. Things have a way of leaking/declassifying over time.
The problem is that they aren't that effective. The turnaround time from intel collection to a conventional bombing run is usally far too long. You need to have bombers in the area, bombs in the arsenal, and generally have a static target that won't move from the time of intel collection to bomb run; generally pointless for taking out personnel; much more effective for equipment. With a space based weapon system (such as lasers), you could more or less pin-point any area under the satellite within a few momements of getting the intel. Throw enough of them above the earth in a geo-synchronous orbit and you could cover all the inhabited portions of the planet. Yes, yes, I'm completing ignoring the political ramifications of a space based assassination system. Remember Real Genius? Well, the movie was quite fantastical, but the theory is sound. Two years ago, a predator drone had a live video feed of Bin Laden in a training camp, sadly they were unarmed and could do nothing but watch him wander about. Any wonder why they are all armed now?
How many software companies have around 40k employees: He didn't say it was a software company. Coke, United Airlines, Nike, the list goes on and on....
Funny, I remember calls for beta testers from both Diablo 2 and Diablo 2:LOD. Here in the Western US, they ship betas.
The department of education has been dissolved for failing to teach proper english, after it was leaked by the FBI that hundreds of thousands of US slashdot posters used both syntatic and grammatically incorrect English....
So where can I buy a "Made in the Ukraine" CDRW?
This is a great idea, but who cares if the servers are physically sercure if the communications lines and/or softare running on the servers isn't? I wonder what the capacity for point-to-point fiber is (running under the assumption that fiber is difficult if not impossible to splice in the middle).
I count five. That's a decent amount.
FBI, NRO, CIA, DIA, NSA.
And yes, some of them have migrated various orginizational desktops to XP; and to linux as well.
If you were able to get a portable microwave generator through security, whatever country you're entering has bigger problems than how much cash you have...
Wow, what an incredibly scathing comment. Have you ever been part of a good team effort? Sounds like you have had some bad experienecs. By the way, I completely disagree. I don't think groups always dumb down, thats a function of group/project management in my opinion. I've been on several projects as a consultant where I went to the team lead and said "Bob and Susan are pretty good developers, but I don't think they're cut out for this type of project. Their code is always late and poorly documented, but it does work." I had them rotated onto another project and got some developers who could keep up with the pace.
I didn't read the article, so maybe there are more specifics. But um, so what? Are these quality lines of code? Comments? Have they been peer reviewed? Regression tested (you did write test cases before hand, right)? I mean almost any programmer can crank out 5000 lines of crap a week, big deal. If he's producing quality, reasonably bug free code, in this amount, good for him. Otherwise, I'm not so sure I'd be touting this is a big achievement. With one person writing the code, you're only getting one persons views, etc. They're aren't any sanity checks during design decisions or even better, another way of looking at the problem. That's a bad thing in my opinion.
Being the way cool girlfriend that she is, my significant other got me an iPaq 3870. Somehow she just knew that I didn't spend enough time screwing around with linux on my desktop. Unfortunately, it's back ordered until January'ish. Anyone else have similar woes with their iPaq's? It's teasing to get a confirmation printout in your stocking.....