Except given the US record in the past with DVD-CSS, internet gambling etc, foreign radio station owners will have to either block US IP addresses from listening, or risk arrest next time they visit or transit through the US, or any of the tinpot dictatorships they conduct extraordinary renditions from.
Do you realize how rare shootings from people with CCPs are?
Do you realize how rare shootings from people living in countries with strong gun control laws are? Your theory also sounds great, but the actual data we have strongly contradicts it.
Would guns on campus have prevented more people from getting shot?
It seems likely to me that there may well have been fewer casualties in this particular event if guns were widely carried by the students. Overall though, there would probably be a background of a shooting every couple of months when someone lost it momentarily and just happened to have a firearm handy.
They sure are. Try explaining to a two year old that he can't watch Barney until he's sat through 3 minutes of MPAA warnings and video company self promotions sometime.
"Defective by Design" refers to systems intentionally created with defects such as DRM
...or kernel modules that taint the kernel by loading binary blobs, supposedly to keep the FCC happy by limiting the frequencies the wireless card can transmit on.
You may have got the bugfix via aptitude, but did you build it and install it? Because it's a kernel module, because the kernel ABI is not stable, and because it taints the kernel due to the binary blob radio firmware, the madwifi module is distributed as source only by Debian. This means aptitude will NOT update your running copy for you, only a source tarball which you then need to unpack, build against your running kernel and install.
What baudrate is your fax transmitting at, and what bitrate and compression algorithm are you using for the VOIP connection? G.711 could probably do it, because that is what the trunk lines of POTS will be using, and maybe some of the wideband encodings like AMR-WB/G.722, but most VOIP encodings will be too lossy to use for data.
VOIP uses lossy compression that is heavily tuned for voice. Of course it is going to be lousy for lossless data transmission. If you wound the baudrate down low enough (say 2400baud), you might have some success, but I wouldn't guarantee it.
Apparently these Intelsat satellites are already armed.
Asked whether al-Qaeda could use the same satellite for the purpose of an attack against the United States, Spector said it was only a hypothetical situation. But when pressed for an answer, Spector said it was technically possible.
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Linux may not have been around if there was no cheap commodity 386 platform, but maybe that would have provided the motivation to finish the GNU Hurd.
The whole idea of a PDF is to preserve precise paper-based formatting. Working with that on a handheld is awkward at best.
I'm not sure whether your PDA is Windows Mobile or PalmOS, but for Windows Mobile there are two popular choices for PDF reading. Clearvue came preinstalled on my PDA, it keeps the paper-based formatting, which is annoying, as you either need to zoom out until the text is unreadable, or you need to scroll sideways as well as down through the document. Adobe's own reader, which is a free download, reformats the document for your display by default (it also has the page view mode as an option for the few times you need it), and is much easier to use.
So far, I've never seen a cell phone that will let me look at my calendar while I'm talking on the phone.
You can't have looked very hard. All the phones I've used in the past 5 years allow you to use other features while talking.
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I guess this is a rather new situation for Microsoft (at least in the OS business.)
The same happened with ME, I think - they'd reached the end of what they could do with the Windows 95 codebase, and they recognized that and moved to XP "Home" for the next consumer release. As an upgrade from Windows 2000, XP wasn't any better than Vista from XP, so it was probably only XP Home that saved them from this last time around.
If they'd delivered the Vista they were busy telling everyone about 5 years ago, they would have had some significant changes to upgrade to, but almost everything of note was dropped and they've gone and released a confusing array of different versions of Vista, all crippled in different ways. Is it any wonder that noone wants it?
one event in the entire US, compared to three in Europe
Obviously Google consider an ability to count to be a prerequisite for holding a developers' day in your area. Do your homework, and you might have better luck next time.
Its mainly about developing using Google's APIs. KML, AJAX, Atom, that sort of thing. Sure, the tips and tricks are already known, but its still useful to have an intensive session where they are presented to you by the people involved in their creation, rather than spending untold hours filtering through the crap on online forums to find the useful tips.
Is that what he's really talking about though? Note the critical use of the word "competitive" in the summary - which is misleadingly missing from the title. I think this is more a case of doing a search for "Red Hat Linux" and getting a page plastered with advertisements for Windows Vista.
I think you can save a lot more than 5 minutes a day once you build up some work habits around your dual-head setup. The productivity boost from using one monitor for your coding and a second for documentation or other reference is amazing. Two Alt-Tabs and a pause while you read some docs becomes a glance at the other monitor, your typing doesn't even need to slow down a lot of the time. The main boost is not from not needing to Alt-Tab, its more that you don't get distracted or lose track of where you were after looking up the docs, reading email or other secondary tasks, because your main work is still there in front of you.
If you think that's bad, to Vodafone UK, "unlimited" means 15Mb. Yes mega, though that's per day, not per month. It also doesn't include IM, VOIP or P2P. This is according to their new price plans that start in June, with a "£1 per day flat rate for internet usage".
What about cows, pigs and sheep? Chickens? Fish? Insects? Plants? Bacteria? Where do you draw the line, and what justification is there for treating any living organism differently from another?
Skype is based in Belgium, where Verizon's patents won't hold water. They could still get some sort of injunction to stop any US based activities that Skype engages in, but they are not as lucrative and straightforward a target as Vonage.
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Except given the US record in the past with DVD-CSS, internet gambling etc, foreign radio station owners will have to either block US IP addresses from listening, or risk arrest next time they visit or transit through the US, or any of the tinpot dictatorships they conduct extraordinary renditions from.
Do you realize how rare shootings from people living in countries with strong gun control laws are? Your theory also sounds great, but the actual data we have strongly contradicts it.
It seems likely to me that there may well have been fewer casualties in this particular event if guns were widely carried by the students. Overall though, there would probably be a background of a shooting every couple of months when someone lost it momentarily and just happened to have a firearm handy.
They sure are. Try explaining to a two year old that he can't watch Barney until he's sat through 3 minutes of MPAA warnings and video company self promotions sometime.
You may have got the bugfix via aptitude, but did you build it and install it? Because it's a kernel module, because the kernel ABI is not stable, and because it taints the kernel due to the binary blob radio firmware, the madwifi module is distributed as source only by Debian. This means aptitude will NOT update your running copy for you, only a source tarball which you then need to unpack, build against your running kernel and install.
There's funambol for syncml support, though its not exactly easy to set up.
What baudrate is your fax transmitting at, and what bitrate and compression algorithm are you using for the VOIP connection? G.711 could probably do it, because that is what the trunk lines of POTS will be using, and maybe some of the wideband encodings like AMR-WB/G.722, but most VOIP encodings will be too lossy to use for data.
VOIP uses lossy compression that is heavily tuned for voice. Of course it is going to be lousy for lossless data transmission. If you wound the baudrate down low enough (say 2400baud), you might have some success, but I wouldn't guarantee it.
No self-destruct, but hard enough enryption for all but the most sensitive secret data.
Apparently these Intelsat satellites are already armed.
Linux may not have been around if there was no cheap commodity 386 platform, but maybe that would have provided the motivation to finish the GNU Hurd.
I'm not sure whether your PDA is Windows Mobile or PalmOS, but for Windows Mobile there are two popular choices for PDF reading. Clearvue came preinstalled on my PDA, it keeps the paper-based formatting, which is annoying, as you either need to zoom out until the text is unreadable, or you need to scroll sideways as well as down through the document. Adobe's own reader, which is a free download, reformats the document for your display by default (it also has the page view mode as an option for the few times you need it), and is much easier to use.
You can't have looked very hard. All the phones I've used in the past 5 years allow you to use other features while talking.
The same happened with ME, I think - they'd reached the end of what they could do with the Windows 95 codebase, and they recognized that and moved to XP "Home" for the next consumer release. As an upgrade from Windows 2000, XP wasn't any better than Vista from XP, so it was probably only XP Home that saved them from this last time around.
If they'd delivered the Vista they were busy telling everyone about 5 years ago, they would have had some significant changes to upgrade to, but almost everything of note was dropped and they've gone and released a confusing array of different versions of Vista, all crippled in different ways. Is it any wonder that noone wants it?
Obviously Google consider an ability to count to be a prerequisite for holding a developers' day in your area. Do your homework, and you might have better luck next time.
Language differences are more important than geographical ones. And I count 5 in Europe, not 3.
Its mainly about developing using Google's APIs. KML, AJAX, Atom, that sort of thing. Sure, the tips and tricks are already known, but its still useful to have an intensive session where they are presented to you by the people involved in their creation, rather than spending untold hours filtering through the crap on online forums to find the useful tips.
Is that what he's really talking about though? Note the critical use of the word "competitive" in the summary - which is misleadingly missing from the title. I think this is more a case of doing a search for "Red Hat Linux" and getting a page plastered with advertisements for Windows Vista.
I think you can save a lot more than 5 minutes a day once you build up some work habits around your dual-head setup. The productivity boost from using one monitor for your coding and a second for documentation or other reference is amazing. Two Alt-Tabs and a pause while you read some docs becomes a glance at the other monitor, your typing doesn't even need to slow down a lot of the time. The main boost is not from not needing to Alt-Tab, its more that you don't get distracted or lose track of where you were after looking up the docs, reading email or other secondary tasks, because your main work is still there in front of you.
If you think that's bad, to Vodafone UK, "unlimited" means 15Mb. Yes mega, though that's per day, not per month. It also doesn't include IM, VOIP or P2P. This is according to their new price plans that start in June, with a "£1 per day flat rate for internet usage".
What about cows, pigs and sheep? Chickens? Fish? Insects? Plants? Bacteria? Where do you draw the line, and what justification is there for treating any living organism differently from another?
I think that refers to the "free" in "leader of the free world".
Skype is based in Belgium, where Verizon's patents won't hold water. They could still get some sort of injunction to stop any US based activities that Skype engages in, but they are not as lucrative and straightforward a target as Vonage.
It interferes with the profit centers on the plane.