... when the user requests it, have lava read the file into memory, and stream it directly to the browser.
First they would need to install the lava plug in for their browser. Also, Java Applets are slow to start on older machines, and are often blocked by firewalls. However, it's not a bad idea, but if someone uses this technique, they should beef up their help desk.
I think you should have read more as a kid - the tortoise DOES beat the hare
Only because the hare is lazy and over confident. Properly motivated and in a fair race, a hare will wipe the floor with a tortoise any day of the week!
But you wouldn't say more then 1 download per day would you?
I would if we are using the 'price is right' model!
Jezze you people are way to critical, I was just poking fun at his rounding.
Yes, by being overly critical of a minor point. So when you didn't say 'nearly 600,000' we jumped on you, after all, your post did critique the precision of his math skills.
As we all know there is no life in the sea. If mecury levels in fish are too high for you, just wait til you need a gieger counter just for a fishing trip, or better yet a trip to the supermarket.
You do realize that there is _virtually_ no chance that a rocket carrying nuclear waste could cause a thermo nuclear explosion right?
But I certainly wouldn't want to be downwind of an exploding rocket carrying nuclear waste, and when I say 'downwind' I mean an area of thousands of miles. That stuff is pretty nasty. It would be the functional equilivant of a dirty bomb attack.
Usually starts by someone having to hit their brakes at the head of a queue because some dipsh!t is changing lanes to get into a more advantageous lane
That's what I call a weaver, the ones they like to pull in front of generally are gappers, those who need to have several car lenghts of empty space in front of them, yet insist on being in the 'fast lane'. Granted, it's a little unnerving to be doing 70 with only a car length and a half ahead of you, but when the traffic is only going 25 the really isn't the need for much space, as long as you pay attention.
At least both Chinese and north koreans know that their government is opressive and corrupt. You won't find too many people from those countries that are so "patriotic" towards their leaders or believe what their governments tell them...
Nice quessing, but I guess that the chinese maybe know some of their problems, but the north koreans are kept well in the dark.
The US, while not quite on the same level, is deteriorating quickly , yet the majority of the US population loves their government and believes all the BS about freedom and democracy.
I hate Bush and what he has done to my country, but I would hardly say 'deteriorating quickly', perhaps that's just wishful thinking on your part. Also, I LOVE my country, while I don't always agree with how it is run I do like my government. We started this modern age of the power of the people, and we still have a lot more in us.
He checked an article which he knew was likely to have a problem based on his experience with Britannica. And indeed found that Wikipedia had a problem.
And did you notice that the best he could come up with was some date confusion. I'm sure that he wanted to say something was completely untrue, false, or misleading. I find that it's pretty damn useful for free site which hasn't been open for 4 years. I am not sure of the history of Britannica, but I would guess that 3 years into it's development, it was nowhere near as complete.
Eventually, it will be much harder to add entries, and edit text for 'established' entries, but for now it works great.
My best example of where 'increased security' actually defeats it's purpose is rapid password expiration. I've seen password policies which force a user to change their password every thirty days The problem is that most users have trouble remembering passwords. This 'forces' users to do two things,
create a series of passwords, which may be as simple as adding a number to the end.
or, write down passwords
System Admins and Managers can force unique passwords, keep a long password history, and check desks, but then the burdon falls more heavly on their help desk system.
No matter what the password policy eventually users will need to have a password reset, each time is a cost on the tech support system.
Proper security whould have a security officer phyically identify each user before reset but that would be costly, so they instead ask a couple of profile questions.
Which open up social engineering issues. So generally, the harder your password policies are, then the easier your reset policies need to be, (unless cost really isn't an issue).
The fact that there were native people here (in the Americas), does not change the fact that they made the voyage and colonized primarily for the raw materials. The didn't come over here for the purpose of trading with the natives, but to get the raw materials. Trading is just one way of accomplishing it.
...some of which were more advanced in practically every way other than the wheel, the horse, guns and ships
I know tobacco and cocaine, were quite advanced... AKA, of course there were many things they were more advanced, but that isn't the point.
The point is, Europeans colonized the Americas looking for raw materials to send back home. Many of them made the effort to uproot themselves and move to a distant land, in order to harvest the materials for export back to the 'old' country for economic gain. Space doesn't have any natives which to set up for a quick trade (at least none that I know of), but the people who colonize space , will be looking for raw material for export back to earth. Some of the first production will be microgravity 'processed' materials including pharmacuticals, but mining will(?) quickly become the biggest industry.
If you can find any 'space natives' to trade with it would probally set us forward into colonizing space by 100 years, but I suppose that our civilization would end up like the Azetecs (now that would be ironic).
All recent colonization (past few thousand years) has been an effort to connect with other people already living in remote locations, and prior "aboriginal" colonization was apparently due to exhausting resources (or social conflict) in the original location.
Was Europe used up when they started colonize the Americas? Life in colonial America was much tougher than England, even the voyage itself was dangerous. Sure some people moved here for more freedom or to convert the natives, but most did it for the economic oppurtunity. The business men (including the Kings) of Europe paid for it because of the raw materials (gold, cotton, wood, fur, etc).
SpaceX is the third company founded by Mr. Musk. Prior to SpaceX, he co-founded PayPal, the world's leading electronic payment system, and served as the company's chairman and CEO. PayPal has over twenty million customers in 38 countries, processes several billion dollars per year and went public on the NASDAQ under PYPL in early 2002. Mr. Musk was the largest shareholder of PayPal until the company was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.
Before PayPal, Mr. Musk co-founded Zip2 Corporation in 1995, a leading provider of enterprise software and services to the media industry, with investments from The New York Times Company, Knight-Ridder, MDV, Softbank and the Hearst Corporation. He served as Chairman, CEO and Chief Technology Officer and in March 1999 sold Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million in an all cash transaction.
Mr. Musk's early experience extends across a spectrum of advanced technology industries, from high energy density ultra-capacitors at Pinnacle Research to software development at Rocket Science and Microsoft. He has a physics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a business degree from Wharton and originally came out to California to pursue graduate studies in high energy density capacitor physics & materials science at Stanford.
I can't find it right now, but as I remember it x.com was founded as an incubator for 'some kinda' financial service, and after a few months it turned into paypal.
Each state had the opportunity in selecting the candidate. Iowa comes first because its a small state (candidates can meet the people that they are trying to win the votes of) and ad time is relatively cheap. Winning Iowa != winning the nomination in many cases - George HW Bush beat Ronald Reagan here in 1980.
And that was the last time the Iowa didn't pick the canidate (Hint, that was 24 years ago), Reagan came in a close second, and then won New Hampshire. New Hampshire (another tiny state with lots of power) by state law has the first primary. In essence the people in New Hampshire get to individually vote on the people whom Iowa caucuses 'Nominated'.
While it may not be a 'sure thing' winning Iowa is so very important, that in the next few months you'll see many high ranking party members making 'stops' there, also look who is traveling to 'visit' New Hampshire and you'll have a list of 90% of the presidential hopefuls.
While we're on crazy (yet strangly appealing) voting systems...
Each canidate fills out a profile about what policies and laws they consider important, and when people go to the polls they do the same. Then we could find the canidate who is most like their electorate.
The system is broken... I agree, but let's repair it to its original design...
So then, slaves would count as 3/5 a person?
It's an interesting idea, but then instead of one race we'd have 500 or so vote for me because I'd vote for him races. Technically the electors can already vote for anyone they want, in practice it has only happened a couple of times.
Personally, what I think is broken is the primary system itself. While I still think that Kerry is a much better man than Bush (it's not all that hard), we could have come out with a better canidate (one with fewer 'negatives'), but Kerry was real agressive in Iowa, and that's who they picked.
I'd guess that I look like a Barry to them, but next time I walk into best buy, I'm wearing a name tag "Buzz", just so they don't get it wrong.
When I was working in the service industry, I used to tell my trainees "The Customer isn't always right, but it's not my job to tell them that."
I wrote to three persons in Clark county, Ohio and explained them who this election affects much, much more than themselves and why Bush is a bad republican.
I'm curious, did it work, or did you just motivate 3 more Bush voters to go to the polls? As a Kerry supporter (I did call center work), I found that most people had their minds made up, the real difference is how motivated they were to get out and vote.
For future reference, if you want to make a difference in an American Election, give money to the canidate, or to 527 groups so they can buy advertisements and do it early in the election process. If you do the 527 groups, make sure you pick ones that are willing to put out outragous slanderous charges; most American's will tell you that the 'truth is somewhere in the middle', if you say someone is the 'son of satan' they will think that he's just a first cousin or something.
Obviously "Tainted Love" was the pinnacle of musical creativity in the world, and CD sales were bound to decline.
Funny, but there may be some truth in it. "Timeless" is a quality assessed to many tunes from quality artists, well maybe not "tainted love", but the Beatles, Elvis, Nivarna, Rolling Stones, the Clash, and many, many others. Thanks to recorded music each new generation of artists must compete against all of the work which has come before, not to mention their own work.
Just remember, recorded music is a relatively new product, the record companies 'ace in the hole' was reprints of popular ablums (like Dark Side of the Moon). The (semi) permance of CDs and now the ultimate convience of mass storgage has only accelerated the 'stockpiling' of music.
Assuming that copyright laws stay the same, I could see families fighting over the rights to a decesed individual's music collection. Perhaps even long term storage business for those who only needs them as proof of purchase by some long dead ansestor.
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when I was in like 9th grade, I had a project that used dry ice, unfortunately the project didn't work, but everyone loved the dry ice.
Most likely the original poster is running a spam spewing zombie.
Then you would have to deal with those pesky inner planets. May I suggest the Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
Using the "the price is right" model for estimation, the closest without going over wins, your bid of 600,000/day is over by a hair.
Eventually, it will be much harder to add entries, and edit text for 'established' entries, but for now it works great.
- create a series of passwords, which may be as simple as adding a number to the end.
- or, write down passwords
System Admins and Managers can force unique passwords, keep a long password history, and check desks, but then the burdon falls more heavly on their help desk system.No matter what the password policy eventually users will need to have a password reset, each time is a cost on the tech support system. Proper security whould have a security officer phyically identify each user before reset but that would be costly, so they instead ask a couple of profile questions. Which open up social engineering issues. So generally, the harder your password policies are, then the easier your reset policies need to be, (unless cost really isn't an issue).
The point is, Europeans colonized the Americas looking for raw materials to send back home. Many of them made the effort to uproot themselves and move to a distant land, in order to harvest the materials for export back to the 'old' country for economic gain. Space doesn't have any natives which to set up for a quick trade (at least none that I know of), but the people who colonize space , will be looking for raw material for export back to earth. Some of the first production will be microgravity 'processed' materials including pharmacuticals, but mining will(?) quickly become the biggest industry.
If you can find any 'space natives' to trade with it would probally set us forward into colonizing space by 100 years, but I suppose that our civilization would end up like the Azetecs (now that would be ironic).
While it may not be a 'sure thing' winning Iowa is so very important, that in the next few months you'll see many high ranking party members making 'stops' there, also look who is traveling to 'visit' New Hampshire and you'll have a list of 90% of the presidential hopefuls.
Each canidate fills out a profile about what policies and laws they consider important, and when people go to the polls they do the same. Then we could find the canidate who is most like their electorate.
Colorado rejected a bill to split by popular vote, and Maine and Nebraska already split by house district.
It's an interesting idea, but then instead of one race we'd have 500 or so vote for me because I'd vote for him races. Technically the electors can already vote for anyone they want, in practice it has only happened a couple of times.
Personally, what I think is broken is the primary system itself. While I still think that Kerry is a much better man than Bush (it's not all that hard), we could have come out with a better canidate (one with fewer 'negatives'), but Kerry was real agressive in Iowa, and that's who they picked.
I'd guess that I look like a Barry to them, but next time I walk into best buy, I'm wearing a name tag "Buzz", just so they don't get it wrong. When I was working in the service industry, I used to tell my trainees "The Customer isn't always right, but it's not my job to tell them that."
For future reference, if you want to make a difference in an American Election, give money to the canidate, or to 527 groups so they can buy advertisements and do it early in the election process. If you do the 527 groups, make sure you pick ones that are willing to put out outragous slanderous charges; most American's will tell you that the 'truth is somewhere in the middle', if you say someone is the 'son of satan' they will think that he's just a first cousin or something.
Just remember, recorded music is a relatively new product, the record companies 'ace in the hole' was reprints of popular ablums (like Dark Side of the Moon). The (semi) permance of CDs and now the ultimate convience of mass storgage has only accelerated the 'stockpiling' of music.
Assuming that copyright laws stay the same, I could see families fighting over the rights to a decesed individual's music collection. Perhaps even long term storage business for those who only needs them as proof of purchase by some long dead ansestor.