They could have pointed the cameras at the rear of vehicles, that would get bikes as well as cars.
The BMF and MAG organised email and letter campaigns to Ken and cronies to explain why bikes should be excluded.
The accident rate for motorcyclists within London is 100 x that outside. I got hit last week, the bike's off the road and I'll be stuck in a car for a few weeks till it's fixed. The danger is just something you have to accept, plan for and live with if you ride a bike.
If you see some code, think "so *that's* how it's done" and write similar code using the same algorithm, then it's yours. Unless it's patented of course.
The plastic panels for the whole car can be replaced with an entirely different colour for £500, around $750. So, should you have the cash and also be a fashio victim you can make it look like whatever you like, as often as you like.
0 -> 60 is irrelevant, it's a city car. Cold weather has no more effect on the car than any other vehicle.
It is group 2 insurance, the petrol version does 60mpg[1] and the Diesel version does 85mpg, so it is very very cheap to run in a country where insurance and fuel prices are sky rocketing.
Every week, the proxy logs were automatically collated and sorted by userid[1] and bandwidth used, then posted to a web site. All completely automatically. It took about 30mins to set up. The logs linked from the internal corporate web site so everyone in the company can see them and all the employees (several tens of thousands) were informed that their web viewing habits would be published.
There was a couple of porn sites and some *serious* bandwidth hogs the first few weeks, but nothing since. I can't imagine a reason to hire people specifically to do this kind of crap, sounds like someone has too much money.
For space exploration to reach the masses, the technology has to be cheap, monopolies don't do cheap. There is no incentive for NASA to create a cheap method of space travel.
NASA's purpose has to change. They shouldn't be building rockets, shouldn't be flying rockets. That's what the commercial organisations are for.
The stagnation, in fact, regression in space travel over the last 30 years is down to the governmental monopoly.
No floppy drive is a pain, cos it makes deploying several hundred diskless workstations/Xterms ala the linux terminal server project (http://k12ltsp.org/) much more difficult.
It means you need boot proms in the network cards or some other simple low capacity, low cost bootable media.
You'll have something which just about performs the same as a VCR does now, but still doesn't have consistent, reliable, international scheduling information which means no season passes, wishlists, channel highlights, suggestions.
Says 50kW, so I don't think it's just bit's of microwave oven.
The disclaimer at the top of their page says:
"KITS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO SERIOUS CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONICS"
Basically, you've got to know what you're doing. Here's the blurb on the "rifle":
"DMEMPR Directional Microwave EMP Rifle (PARTIAL KIT) Partial kit. This partial kit will include a 50,000W (yes it says 50KW) Watt X-band military microwave magnetron with complete spec sheets from two manufacturers and operational information to make it work (about 30 pages), EMP rifle plans (over 49 pages), and qty:3 (12KV @ 1A) rectifiers. A device such as this can be made the size of a super soaker water gun, it operates at 9.2GHz and with a properly tuned horn antenna will have an effective range of over 300 yards (possibly more with larger antenna). Such a device could possibly cause semiconductors to burn out, microprocessors to malfunction, inductors to counter induce and create CEMF, induce RF noise, cause ionization of air or gases, cause junction rectification and erase computer data on hard drives, disk and solid state device. Operating such a device may be in violation of State or Federal Laws, consult your Local authority before operating such a device. UPS GROUND SHIPPING ONLY DUE TO INTENSE MAGNETIC FIELD FROM MAGNETRON. Do not purchase this kit if it is illegal to own or operate in your area."
Middleware exists because people who "quickly write some scripts to communicate between" are basically amateurs who create systems and applications, which look very much like a pile of knotted wool. Getting useful business information out of such systems is like attempting to unknot said pile of wool. Design and architect are not words which are part of their vocabulary.
Middleware removes the complexity, it turns X*Y levels of complexity into X+Y. If you want a quick idea of how middleware helps, this bloke's done a web page which gives an idea: http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/middlewar e/
Choose your poison...
NNTP, IRC, SMTP if you want to roll your own out of components not specifically designed for the purpose.
Bond, XMLBlaster, Nirvana, Jabber and the rest, for open source systems designed for the job.
And the commercial boys all support Linux now, so if you want some accountability, features and support, MQseries, webmethods etc are also available.
I suspect the reason you're having problems getting your point across because you're wrong in almost every respect.
Like most of NASA's projects, it'll go massively over budget, eat vast amounts of cash, take several times longer than anticipated and ultimately fail to deliver.
By partitioning things into multiple layers you can mange the complexity of your computing environment.
e.g. You have 5 different graphics card to support? You create a driver and write to it's API.
Want to schedule the execution of multiple applications, you create a service and write to it's API.
Operating systems are tools for managing complexity.
*That's* the fundamental logic of the way things are.
If you integrate these kinds of features into a single language, you still have an operating system underneath managing the complexity, it's just a language specific operating system, and *that* doesn't make any fundamental sense.
They should use p2p like a radio broadcast, put low bitrate encoded versions up for free, advertise sites where the high quality encodings can be purchased for $0.50.
Energy storage is the issue with electric vehicles, chemical storage like petroleum and methanol which can be reformed into CO2 and hydrogen for use in a fuel cell are the best methods found so far, but the problem with these is the manufacture from oil or highly intensive farming and the greenhouse gases which are produced as byproducts.
So you go out and spend £50,000 on a top of the range Mitsubishi Evo or Subaru Imprezza, then spend money on chip mods and reprogramming the engine manangement to get the maximum possible performance.
And then some wee nyaff on an out of the box, bog standard £5k Suzuki GSXR-600 comprehensively blows your car away with respect to performance.
Oh dearie me.
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I presume then that you specifically exclude your log files from your nightly backups then, cos if you don't and your log files are on your backup tapes then you might have broken the law.
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They could have pointed the cameras at the rear of vehicles, that would get bikes as well as cars.
The BMF and MAG organised email and letter campaigns to Ken and cronies to explain why bikes should be excluded.
The accident rate for motorcyclists within London is 100 x that outside. I got hit last week, the bike's off the road and I'll be stuck in a car for a few weeks till it's fixed. The danger is just something you have to accept, plan for and live with if you ride a bike.
A fairly concerted campaign pointing out the congestion reducing characteristics of motorcycles made sure of that.
That's why all the bike safety adverts are on the TV and cinema.
http://www.nofiver.com/freelondon.html
After all, Motorola standardised on Intel and Windows NT.
Hey, i like the idea.
Verbatim code, you're a thief.
If you see some code, think "so *that's* how it's done" and write similar code using the same algorithm, then it's yours. Unless it's patented of course.
The plastic panels for the whole car can be replaced with an entirely different colour for £500, around $750. So, should you have the cash and also be a fashio victim you can make it look like whatever you like, as often as you like.
0 -> 60 is irrelevant, it's a city car. Cold weather has no more effect on the car than any other vehicle.
It is group 2 insurance, the petrol version does 60mpg[1] and the Diesel version does 85mpg, so it is very very cheap to run in a country where insurance and fuel prices are sky rocketing.
[1] UK gallons.
Every week, the proxy logs were automatically collated and sorted by userid[1] and bandwidth used, then posted to a web site. All completely automatically. It took about 30mins to set up. The logs linked from the internal corporate web site so everyone in the company can see them and all the employees (several tens of thousands) were informed that their web viewing habits would be published.
There was a couple of porn sites and some *serious* bandwidth hogs the first few weeks, but nothing since. I can't imagine a reason to hire people specifically to do this kind of crap, sounds like someone has too much money.
[1] You have to login to the gateway proxies.
For space exploration to reach the masses, the technology has to be cheap, monopolies don't do cheap. There is no incentive for NASA to create a cheap method of space travel.
NASA's purpose has to change. They shouldn't be building rockets, shouldn't be flying rockets. That's what the commercial organisations are for.
The stagnation, in fact, regression in space travel over the last 30 years is down to the governmental monopoly.
No floppy drive is a pain, cos it makes deploying several hundred diskless workstations/Xterms ala the linux terminal server project (http://k12ltsp.org/) much more difficult.
It means you need boot proms in the network cards or some other simple low capacity, low cost bootable media.
Razor / pyzor etc.
You'll have something which just about performs the same as a VCR does now, but still doesn't have consistent, reliable, international scheduling information which means no season passes, wishlists, channel highlights, suggestions.
Yah, it all makes sense now.
Says 50kW, so I don't think it's just bit's of microwave oven.
The disclaimer at the top of their page says:
"KITS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO SERIOUS CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONICS"
Basically, you've got to know what you're doing. Here's the blurb on the "rifle":
"DMEMPR Directional Microwave EMP Rifle (PARTIAL KIT) Partial kit. This partial kit will include a 50,000W (yes it says 50KW) Watt X-band military microwave magnetron with complete spec sheets from two manufacturers and operational information to make it work (about 30 pages), EMP rifle plans (over 49 pages), and qty:3 (12KV @ 1A) rectifiers. A device such as this can be made the size of a super soaker water gun, it operates at 9.2GHz and with a properly tuned horn antenna will have an effective range of over 300 yards (possibly more with larger antenna). Such a device could possibly cause semiconductors to burn out, microprocessors to malfunction, inductors to counter induce and create CEMF, induce RF noise, cause ionization of air or gases, cause junction rectification and erase computer data on hard drives, disk and solid state device. Operating such a device may be in violation of State or Federal Laws, consult your Local authority before operating such a device. UPS GROUND SHIPPING ONLY DUE TO INTENSE MAGNETIC FIELD FROM MAGNETRON. Do not purchase this kit if it is illegal to own or operate in your area."
Cellphones, computers, car engine management systems, etc etc etc. Anything with relatively delicate circuitry.
They claim a 300 yard effective range.
EMP "rifle"
http://www.plans-kits.com/
Know all those speed cameras? Congestion charging cameras? CCTV cameras? Whap, they don't work anymore.
http://www.geocities.com/congestioncharge/freel
Will go live in February... The signs and cameras are up already.
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http://www.cclondon.com/
and some of the resistance which is beginning.
http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.hinkley/opini
In a miriad of forms, and it exists for a reason.
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Middleware exists because people who "quickly write some scripts to communicate between" are basically amateurs who create systems and applications, which look very much like a pile of knotted wool. Getting useful business information out of such systems is like attempting to unknot said pile of wool. Design and architect are not words which are part of their vocabulary.
Middleware removes the complexity, it turns X*Y levels of complexity into X+Y. If you want a quick idea of how middleware helps, this bloke's done a web page which gives an idea:
http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/middlewa
Choose your poison...
NNTP, IRC, SMTP if you want to roll your own out of components not specifically designed for the purpose.
Bond, XMLBlaster, Nirvana, Jabber and the rest, for open source systems designed for the job.
And the commercial boys all support Linux now, so if you want some accountability, features and support, MQseries, webmethods etc are also available.
I suspect the reason you're having problems getting your point across because you're wrong in almost every respect.
Hope this Helps.
Like most of NASA's projects, it'll go massively over budget, eat vast amounts of cash, take several times longer than anticipated and ultimately fail to deliver.
And it's not arbitrary, traditional or cultural.
Simply, it's complexity management.
By partitioning things into multiple layers you can mange the complexity of your computing environment.
e.g.
You have 5 different graphics card to support? You create a driver and write to it's API.
Want to schedule the execution of multiple applications, you create a service and write to it's API.
Operating systems are tools for managing complexity.
*That's* the fundamental logic of the way things are.
If you integrate these kinds of features into a single language, you still have an operating system underneath managing the complexity, it's just a language specific operating system, and *that* doesn't make any fundamental sense.
They should use p2p like a radio broadcast, put low bitrate encoded versions up for free, advertise sites where the high quality encodings can be purchased for $0.50.
Energy storage is the issue with electric vehicles, chemical storage like petroleum and methanol which can be reformed into CO2 and hydrogen for use in a fuel cell are the best methods found so far, but the problem with these is the manufacture from oil or highly intensive farming and the greenhouse gases which are produced as byproducts.
/ o mp /methanol.html
Now, using these technologies,
http://www.astronomynow.com/breaking/990326mars
http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/chem/dolchem/html/c
It may be possible to make methanol fuel for a fuel cell out of thin air. Use solar energy to provide the power required to drive the reaction.
So you go out and spend £50,000 on a top of the range Mitsubishi Evo or Subaru Imprezza, then spend money on chip mods and reprogramming the engine manangement to get the maximum possible performance.
And then some wee nyaff on an out of the box, bog standard £5k Suzuki GSXR-600 comprehensively blows your car away with respect to performance.
Oh dearie me.
I presume then that you specifically exclude your log files from your nightly backups then, cos if you don't and your log files are on your backup tapes then you might have broken the law.
You do perform daily backups? No?
What are you on? Show examples of Microsoft's behavior having had any significant consequences at all.
It just won't happen. Some judge will talk very sternly at them for a couple of hours and that'll be it.