the new class, which replaces equations with actual circuit building
Math version of the class: "Class, now calculate the impedance of that condenser, connected to an AC generator, generating 110 volts with a frequency 60Hz (generator considered perfect, without internal resistance). Also, please note on the diagram that the condenser is polarized : can you explain why that circuit isn't correct ?"
Hand-on version of the class: zzzZZZ *BANG* Hey shit what's that goddawful smell ?!
Guess which class will remember that particular lesson best ? go MIT !
Based on latitude and longitude, the NAC system can represent an area the size of a province using two alphanumeric characters.
That's a bummer for gypsies. Maybe there should be a service equivalent to dyndns for them, so they can upgrade their own postcodes themselves on the move ?
1 - Will the zipcode format change every odd years each time M$ feels like doing an upgrade ? with the current "non-universal" postal system, there are people who get mails and postcards delivered sometimes decades after they've been sent. Will posters senders get "can't resolve address" return mails if their postcards isn't delivered in time ?
2 - How much dya bet you'd have to use those longish cryptic zipcodes as registration keys in future Microsoft products ?
You don't need expensive research or fancy nanohairs : just wear ski boots for a full month without taking them off and we'll guarantee your feet will become sticky enough to climb any smooth surface.
The company is eager to create a steadier revenue stream from its software products, particularly its cash cow, Office, and its desktop operating system businesses
You stupid twat. That statement meant that it doesn't play SVCDs. Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension skills, dumbass.
Well, I didn't know old DVD players didn't play VCDs. I've read VCDs since at least 1997 with regular CD players, so I didn't imagine that DVD players, being newer and supposedly better, didn't.
Now I stand corrected and I shall go to bed more informed. As for you Anonymous Coward, I suggest you ask your mother to teach you some manners.
The USSR did a ton of traditional espionage, and a million ton of industrial espionage. Their attempts at landing on the moon was done with a capsule that was a near-perfect copy of the Apollo. Their space shuttle (Buran, or whatever it was called) was an exact replica of the US shuttles. The TU-144, the Russian commercial supersonic airliner, was an exact copy of the Concorde (it was nicknamed the Concordski). Some of the cars destined to the rich russians, like the GAZ Volga, look exactly like US models, etc etc...
This is not limited to the former USSR : all eastern block countries have done it, and China stil does heavy industrial espionage.
Ignorance is bliss, right up until someone with rogue access drives away with your company secrets
Most wardriving is about finding an open network where you can pull your favorite pr0n from your car on your laptop. And probably for the sheer fun of hacking too. Now, if the admin(s) of a company relie on pirates not being able to plug into the physical ethernet socket for his security, he/they surely should be fired.
In most companies, even if someone gains access to the intranet through 802.11b, he's not going to do much, as the real meat of the company will probably be protected even there. He might get to play with some Windows boxes, see hostnames, sniff this or that, but that's all. True, it's very much better if the guy doesn't see anything in the intranet in the first place, but still, in that worst-case scenario, there is a reasonable level of security left in companies with a decent admin.
Now, 802.11b isn't so secure. If you're really worried, don't use it. If you're really worried and you really want wi-fi, run tunnels over it : it's far from ideal but it's quite secure.
Point two: A standards body is often a lousy place in which to invent a technology
No it's not. Standards are there to get the basics out of the way and move forward. For example, you can focus on inventing a time machine without having to figure out if the screws on your machine will fit the holes in your DMC's dashboard, or calculating the power it'll need in gigowatts, instead of number of power-foos that no-one else uses but the power-supply manufacturer you need that precious device from.
Good standards are good. Period. Bad or hard-to-use standards tend to be replaced by better ones. And standards that once were great (like the imperial system) can also be replaced by even better ones (like the metric system). But at any rate, no standards means no communication and no progress. That's a historical fact. Even the language I use to post this reply is a standard.
I've tried getting the movie 3 times with eMule, and each time it wasn't Matrix but a porn movie. The female characters were reloaded alright, but not the Matrix...
Okay, so how much does downloading a movie cost to the isp ? let's be generous : I'll assume every penny I pay them per month is used to pay bandwidth (it's not, but let's say that). So I pay EUR 44 / month for 512/128 dsl. Now, assuming I download a movie at full speed with lmule (I never do, but let's assume), it takes me around 8 hours, so a movie costs me ((44/30)/24) * 8 = EUR.48.
Now let's suppose the global infrastructure of the internet was upgraded significantly, but the end-user bandwidth was throttled to what it is today : the load of P2P would become negligible for ISPs, and they wouldn't lose any money anymore.
So here's an idea : why doesn't the MPAAs and RIAAs pool some of their huge amounts of cash upgrading routers and backbones by subventioning ISPs, and in return ISPs give back money to them on a P2P bandwidth usage basis : I still pay EUR.48 per movie thinking it's free, but some of that cash goes to the MPAA/RIAA, which in turn make a profit and realize they'd better let people do file sharing, and ISPs benefit from the latest and greatest technology, and router makers get to sell more products...
There's been a development project underway for some time, he said, that would have required a SCO license to go forward. Shucks, and the conspiracy theory looks so good in print. Anybody buying this?
That's possible, why not ? after all, I doubt Microsoft developed Passport to run on top of Windows, since it's mission-critical.
In fact, the quality of the transmission was so good, so much like being there, that Telus engineers added a bit of noise to make the call sound, well, more normal.
They should drop calls and overcharge customers too to complete the picture.
You post your story on Slashdot, so why do you have to ask ?
Yes, everybody knows Microsoft is evil, wants to take over the world, and that Bill Gates wants to stick fireants in Linus' and RMS' underwears.
Yes, everybody hates Microsoft, that Windows users are all stupid, that Linuxers have discovered the Virtuous Path.
Yes we know that Microsoft pulls the SCO puppet strings, that they make evil deals with the MPAA and RIAA.
Yes, we know all that by now, Slashdot crew. Can we move along now ? why do we have to read the same Microsoft articles with world-domination overtones over and over again ?
The obvious question is how much mail do you receive in total, how much non-spam, and how many false-positives go completely unnoticed by you?
Well, this is what I can tell you : I've had my corporate email (the one that I really use publicly) for maybe 5 years, and I get maybe 15 mails/day not counting mailing lists, and possibly 300 total, the LKML taking a lot of that extra traffic. During the first year I've worked for my company, I was a support engineer, and I've never had (or heard of) a customer who complained I never answered his email, which would indicate that the filter never rejected a legit email.
It was a real question though, I post on usenet too, on various mailing lists that get indexed on google somehow, I maintain several opensource projects, I have a homepage with my email in plaintext at the bottom, etc... but I almost never get spam. I just wondered why:-)
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the new class, which replaces equations with actual circuit building
: "Class, now calculate the impedance of that condenser, connected to an AC generator, generating 110 volts with a frequency 60Hz (generator considered perfect, without internal resistance). Also, please note on the diagram that the condenser is polarized : can you explain why that circuit isn't correct ?"
: zzzZZZ *BANG* Hey shit what's that goddawful smell ?!
Math version of the class
Hand-on version of the class
Guess which class will remember that particular lesson best ? go MIT !
Based on latitude and longitude, the NAC system can represent an area the size of a province using two alphanumeric characters.
That's a bummer for gypsies. Maybe there should be a service equivalent to dyndns for them, so they can upgrade their own postcodes themselves on the move ?
1 - Will the zipcode format change every odd years each time M$ feels like doing an upgrade ? with the current "non-universal" postal system, there are people who get mails and postcards delivered sometimes decades after they've been sent. Will posters senders get "can't resolve address" return mails if their postcards isn't delivered in time ?
2 - How much dya bet you'd have to use those longish cryptic zipcodes as registration keys in future Microsoft products ?
You don't need expensive research or fancy nanohairs : just wear ski boots for a full month without taking them off and we'll guarantee your feet will become sticky enough to climb any smooth surface.
you can set up your linux-router/linux-switch to prioritize mail over the web over kazaa or gnutella
I vote for more kazaa than mail. Unless someone sends me movies by mail.
The company is eager to create a steadier revenue stream from its software products, particularly its cash cow, Office, and its desktop operating system businesses
Because a near-monopoly isn't enough ?
You play Video CDs in standard CD players?
Sure, why not ? VCDs are normal CDs with VCD files on it.
Wow. I didn't know a CD player could decode MPEG-1 video! And where do you plug in the video-out cable? My CD players all only have audio out!
I'm talking about software decoding. MTV or kplayer do that very well. The audio comes out of the regular soundcard.
You stupid twat. That statement meant that it doesn't play SVCDs. Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension skills, dumbass.
Well, I didn't know old DVD players didn't play VCDs. I've read VCDs since at least 1997 with regular CD players, so I didn't imagine that DVD players, being newer and supposedly better, didn't.
Now I stand corrected and I shall go to bed more informed. As for you Anonymous Coward, I suggest you ask your mother to teach you some manners.
Unfortunately I have a very old DVD player that will only play VCD's
Would that be a CD player ? or did your DVD player catch a cold and never fully recover in its life ?
hint : you can pick up a decent DVD player for $30.
The USSR did a ton of traditional espionage, and a million ton of industrial espionage. Their attempts at landing on the moon was done with a capsule that was a near-perfect copy of the Apollo. Their space shuttle (Buran, or whatever it was called) was an exact replica of the US shuttles. The TU-144, the Russian commercial supersonic airliner, was an exact copy of the Concorde (it was nicknamed the Concordski). Some of the cars destined to the rich russians, like the GAZ Volga, look exactly like US models, etc etc ...
This is not limited to the former USSR : all eastern block countries have done it, and China stil does heavy industrial espionage.
Ignorance is bliss, right up until someone with rogue access drives away with your company secrets
Most wardriving is about finding an open network where you can pull your favorite pr0n from your car on your laptop. And probably for the sheer fun of hacking too. Now, if the admin(s) of a company relie on pirates not being able to plug into the physical ethernet socket for his security, he/they surely should be fired.
In most companies, even if someone gains access to the intranet through 802.11b, he's not going to do much, as the real meat of the company will probably be protected even there. He might get to play with some Windows boxes, see hostnames, sniff this or that, but that's all. True, it's very much better if the guy doesn't see anything in the intranet in the first place, but still, in that worst-case scenario, there is a reasonable level of security left in companies with a decent admin.
Now, 802.11b isn't so secure. If you're really worried, don't use it. If you're really worried and you really want wi-fi, run tunnels over it : it's far from ideal but it's quite secure.
Industrial espionage is a growing reality that you must confront
Is that a fact ? I'd say since the collapse of the USSR, it must have gone better actually.
What is better a standard forced by law [metric system in the UK] or a standard forced the one holding the biggest piece of the pie. [Windows API] ?
there's no clear-cut answer to that question.
Point two: A standards body is often a lousy place in which to invent a technology
No it's not. Standards are there to get the basics out of the way and move forward. For example, you can focus on inventing a time machine without having to figure out if the screws on your machine will fit the holes in your DMC's dashboard, or calculating the power it'll need in gigowatts, instead of number of power-foos that no-one else uses but the power-supply manufacturer you need that precious device from.
Good standards are good. Period. Bad or hard-to-use standards tend to be replaced by better ones. And standards that once were great (like the imperial system) can also be replaced by even better ones (like the metric system). But at any rate, no standards means no communication and no progress. That's a historical fact. Even the language I use to post this reply is a standard.
says that the right approach to all problems is to use a standard. This common wisdom has no basis in fact or history
*COUGH* decimal system *COUGH* metric system *COUGH COUGH* posix *COUGH* TCP/IP *COUGH RAAAHHH RAHHH*
I can share the Matrix on Slashdot. Here :
_O__-._O__
_|\___\|__ Dodge this !
_|_____|__
_/\____/\_
Doesn't this movie simply demand to be seen in some big screen format
Not when I want to watch it in the comfort of my bed in the middle of the night.
I've tried getting the movie 3 times with eMule, and each time it wasn't Matrix but a porn movie. The female characters were reloaded alright, but not the Matrix ...
I guess I'll just go the theater to see it.
Okay, so how much does downloading a movie cost to the isp ? let's be generous : I'll assume every penny I pay them per month is used to pay bandwidth (it's not, but let's say that). So I pay EUR 44 / month for 512/128 dsl. Now, assuming I download a movie at full speed with lmule (I never do, but let's assume), it takes me around 8 hours, so a movie costs me ((44/30)/24) * 8 = EUR .48.
.48 per movie thinking it's free, but some of that cash goes to the MPAA/RIAA, which in turn make a profit and realize they'd better let people do file sharing, and ISPs benefit from the latest and greatest technology, and router makers get to sell more products ...
:-)
Now let's suppose the global infrastructure of the internet was upgraded significantly, but the end-user bandwidth was throttled to what it is today : the load of P2P would become negligible for ISPs, and they wouldn't lose any money anymore.
So here's an idea : why doesn't the MPAAs and RIAAs pool some of their huge amounts of cash upgrading routers and backbones by subventioning ISPs, and in return ISPs give back money to them on a P2P bandwidth usage basis : I still pay EUR
I know I'm just dreaming
There's been a development project underway for some time, he said, that would have required a SCO license to go forward.
Shucks, and the conspiracy theory looks so good in print.
Anybody buying this?
That's possible, why not ? after all, I doubt Microsoft developed Passport to run on top of Windows, since it's mission-critical.
By treating voices and video like any other piece of data, such as e-mail
Soon Canadians will be getting enlarge-your-penis and invest-in-nigeria phone calls.
In fact, the quality of the transmission was so good, so much like being there, that Telus engineers added a bit of noise to make the call sound, well, more normal.
They should drop calls and overcharge customers too to complete the picture.
assimilate everyone into the MS collective ?
You post your story on Slashdot, so why do you have to ask ?
Yes, everybody knows Microsoft is evil, wants to take over the world, and that Bill Gates wants to stick fireants in Linus' and RMS' underwears.
Yes, everybody hates Microsoft, that Windows users are all stupid, that Linuxers have discovered the Virtuous Path.
Yes we know that Microsoft pulls the SCO puppet strings, that they make evil deals with the MPAA and RIAA.
Yes, we know all that by now, Slashdot crew. Can we move along now ? why do we have to read the same Microsoft articles with world-domination overtones over and over again ?
The obvious question is how much mail do you receive in total, how much non-spam, and how many false-positives go completely unnoticed by you?
Well, this is what I can tell you : I've had my corporate email (the one that I really use publicly) for maybe 5 years, and I get maybe 15 mails/day not counting mailing lists, and possibly 300 total, the LKML taking a lot of that extra traffic. During the first year I've worked for my company, I was a support engineer, and I've never had (or heard of) a customer who complained I never answered his email, which would indicate that the filter never rejected a legit email.
Looks like I'm a troll now, geez ...
... but I almost never get spam. I just wondered why :-)
It was a real question though, I post on usenet too, on various mailing lists that get indexed on google somehow, I maintain several opensource projects, I have a homepage with my email in plaintext at the bottom, etc