I have to admit that despite all its security problems, MS did pretty well with the Outlook interface. It worked great syncing up to my Visor.
Then my company got bought out and the new HQ forced GroupWise on us. If I could get a client that had an interface closer to Outlook, interfaced to GroupWise, synced up to my Visor and had the stability of Linux (well, as close as it could get running on Win2k), that would Be Great.
My uncle works for Minnesota Power, and electric utility in northern Minnesota. Apparently they're doing a bit of a side business by selling excess capacity in their microwave relay system that is used to control and monitor their grid. They've also started running fiber with their transmission lines that they've installed in the last few years to expand their broadband capability.
I just got back from visiting a small-town toy store with my son. Of course I had to walk by the Lego section. To the right, Legos. To the left, Technic. Further left, K'nex. And behind us...Erector Sets! They had about eight different sets that were available. Now I just have to wait a few more years so I can justify buying them (he's not quite two).
Does anyone know if there is any technology that exists that can detect caves from above (i.e. spy plane or satellite)? It seems to me that the US had significant problems due to undetected cave systems in Vietnam and the Soviets had similar problems in Afganistan.
If this technology does exist (perhaps via earth-mapping satellites), this could make a huge difference. Then all the US would have to do is systemattically destroy any cave entrences to remove the hiding spots and flush them out where they could be spied on with conventional observasion techniques.
I've seen that as an option to keep the rear windows clean on SUVs. The problem is that it makes the back of the car lighter at high speeds, resulting worse pavement friction
Most cars could be much more aerodynamic. The problem is the stylists who decide how a car should look. Then the engineers are stuck trying to make a car work, get good fuel mileage and ride comfortably. All those "power bulges" and rear spoilers on cars with tiny engines that never go above 75 mph don't provide any mechanical advantages and increase drag.
The real problem is trying to convince designers and the John Q. Public that aerodynamics are "cool", not the body styles with extraneous bulges, scoops and corners.
If it is a seperate place, does a terestrial government have authority over it? A law passed in the US has no force in Great Britain. Is this the beginning of a "virtual country" with a virtual government and laws? This would be established by netizens for the same reasons real-world governments exist--security, infrasturcture, and (for some people) power over others.
You have to consider I/O when you make your statement about the P4 2 GHz being 40x faster than a P 100MHz. To my recolection, the buss speed is 25-66MHz on a P100 and a P4 is, what, 250 MHz? That is only 4-10 times as fast. Unless your application has (reletively) little data and requires lots of computing, a cluster of 40 P100s could beat a single P4 2GHz by a significant margin.
For example, the P4 would probably take prize for a chess game (unless it requires a lot more data than I am thinking it does). On the other hand, for a weather simulation, I would bet on the cluster.
If the EFF is a non-profit organization, a contribution like the above could be classified as a tax write-off (this might make it more palatable to the business-minded people).
Yeah. It was the classic example that we studied in my Computer ethics class. Sounds sort of like the nimd worm in that it had four different methods of spreading. The only thing that stopped it from being even worse than it could have been was a programming error that caused it to fill up memory and eventually cause the infected machine to crash.
Is it "a method for finding cancer by checking for the presence of gene a and b"? As far as I know, you can't patent human genes. That would be like someone trying to patent a new naturally occuring substance. Patents only apply to inventions and methods, not naturally occuring objects.
The part that got me was at the end of the article where it talked about Google "growing up" and becoming a real business. Why does a real business have to have an IPO? I used to work in the IT department of a clothing store chain with 300+ stores. The same family held it and a department store chain-yet it is all privately held and nobody would say that it needed to "grow up".
Why would any company that is growing in the aftermath of the.boom want a parasite on the business in the form of investers wanting ever-growing returns? What do they need the extra capitol for?
I grew up in a rural area where electricity was provided by a coop, with infrastructure funding provided by low or non-interest loans from the government. It seems that companies love to dive in when the infrastructure is inexpensive to set up. When it is expensive, they just move to greener pastures leaving many people behinde.
Compare to electricity and phone service. Before the government stepped in, people outside of large cities were not serviced. It became apparent that eventually, most would be, but only at a high reletive cost. In the case of electricity, people formed coops that took advantage of special government loans. In the case of phone service, the government required phone companies to provide service to all communities in their territory.
So I guess what I'm saying is maybe a coop in which the city government is a partner or main contributer could work. The city would gain by being able to get better prices through volume for its own needs and by having happy citizens who get a service that nobody else will provide. In fact, I think I'll approach my city council and/or neighbors about this.
It seems to me that 4 hours included the time to make a CAD model for the broken pulley. On another note, I wonder how much torque that crescent wrench could take before deforming?
at least one car company (GM I think) makes a climate control with one absolute temp control for the driver and an offset for the passenger. It works...marginally.
Any ideas on why a desktop OS needs floating point coordinates in it's GUI?
So that you don't have to worry about the resolution of the display. Floating point would enably you to say "print object a 10% from the top and 2 * width_of_object from the left". Then you don't have to worry about supporting weird resolutions to get proportions to appear right.
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Then my company got bought out and the new HQ forced GroupWise on us. If I could get a client that had an interface closer to Outlook, interfaced to GroupWise, synced up to my Visor and had the stability of Linux (well, as close as it could get running on Win2k), that would Be Great.
My uncle works for Minnesota Power, and electric utility in northern Minnesota. Apparently they're doing a bit of a side business by selling excess capacity in their microwave relay system that is used to control and monitor their grid. They've also started running fiber with their transmission lines that they've installed in the last few years to expand their broadband capability.
I just got back from visiting a small-town toy store with my son. Of course I had to walk by the Lego section. To the right, Legos. To the left, Technic. Further left, K'nex. And behind us...Erector Sets! They had about eight different sets that were available. Now I just have to wait a few more years so I can justify buying them (he's not quite two).
If this technology does exist (perhaps via earth-mapping satellites), this could make a huge difference. Then all the US would have to do is systemattically destroy any cave entrences to remove the hiding spots and flush them out where they could be spied on with conventional observasion techniques.
I've seen that as an option to keep the rear windows clean on SUVs. The problem is that it makes the back of the car lighter at high speeds, resulting worse pavement friction
The real problem is trying to convince designers and the John Q. Public that aerodynamics are "cool", not the body styles with extraneous bulges, scoops and corners.
If it is a seperate place, does a terestrial government have authority over it? A law passed in the US has no force in Great Britain. Is this the beginning of a "virtual country" with a virtual government and laws? This would be established by netizens for the same reasons real-world governments exist--security, infrasturcture, and (for some people) power over others.
For example, the P4 would probably take prize for a chess game (unless it requires a lot more data than I am thinking it does). On the other hand, for a weather simulation, I would bet on the cluster.
I sure hope you can download executables that run without a hitch. That is no small potatoes for most users.
Try http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/news/ pressreleases/2001/zseries_koreanair_pr_071601.htm l instead.
I'd heard that they pulled it off the market when they found out that the terrorists had trained with it. Can you verify?
Yeah. It was the classic example that we studied in my Computer ethics class. Sounds sort of like the nimd worm in that it had four different methods of spreading. The only thing that stopped it from being even worse than it could have been was a programming error that caused it to fill up memory and eventually cause the infected machine to crash.
Why would any company that is growing in the aftermath of the .boom want a parasite on the business in the form of investers wanting ever-growing returns? What do they need the extra capitol for?
Compare to electricity and phone service. Before the government stepped in, people outside of large cities were not serviced. It became apparent that eventually, most would be, but only at a high reletive cost. In the case of electricity, people formed coops that took advantage of special government loans. In the case of phone service, the government required phone companies to provide service to all communities in their territory.
So I guess what I'm saying is maybe a coop in which the city government is a partner or main contributer could work. The city would gain by being able to get better prices through volume for its own needs and by having happy citizens who get a service that nobody else will provide. In fact, I think I'll approach my city council and/or neighbors about this.
I meant, is Security Focus /.ed or DDOS? I can't get to it right now.
I timed out trying to get to the link. /.ed, or DOD?
I looked all over, but couldn't find what the processor was.
Mr. Fusion, of course!
Nalgene water bottles made of polycarbonate. They can take a lot of abuse and don't deform with time(or leave a funny after-taste).
It seems to me that 4 hours included the time to make a CAD model for the broken pulley. On another note, I wonder how much torque that crescent wrench could take before deforming?
So that you don't have to worry about the resolution of the display. Floating point would enably you to say "print object a 10% from the top and 2 * width_of_object from the left". Then you don't have to worry about supporting weird resolutions to get proportions to appear right.