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I've always thought that the way PVRs will simply delete old shows is not right. What they should do is re-encode old recordings to a lower quality, thereby taking up less space and making room for new recordings. The change could be gradual, e.g. go from "best" to "high" to "normal" to "low", and then finally delete the recording. The advantage would be that a recording could still be watched after many weeks, even if at a lower quality. Of course, none of these PVRs have the horsepower to do this, but if you have a desktop computer available somewhere, the recoding could be offloaded to it.
The "department of professional employees" claims to represent over 4 million people. The "communication workers of America" claims to represent over 700000 people. So combined, that means about 4.7 million people. Furthermore, they see that as many as half a million" H-1B workers are in the US currently. Now, let's for a moment assume that ALL of those H-1B workers took away a job from an American worker, and that each such worker belonged to either of the two mentioned unions. In that extreme case, just over 10% of their members will have lost their jobs due to H-1B "imports".
Now, in my experience, most high-tech (which is what most H-1B visa are issued for) workers do not belong to a union, meaning that the (members of) above two unions aren't even impacted significantly by the presence of H-1B workers.
Let's therefore forget about those unions. There are currently about 5 million high tech jobs. The majority of H-1B visas are issued for high tech jobs. If every H-1B worker took a job away from an American, half a million American high tech workers would be out of a job, representing 10% of the total.
Let's play with those numbers a bit more, and consider Silicon Valley.
Let's pretend that Santa Clara county's record 7.9% unemployment rate applies to the entire SF Bay Area, that all 5 million hightech jobs are available there, and all.5 million H-1B workers work there, taking jobs away from Americans.
In this worst-case scenario, we have 5 million total jobs, with 4.5 million of those occupied by Americans, and.5 million occupied by H-1B workers.
Since unemployment rate is 7.9% we can calculate that there is a total of 4,886,000 American workers available, 386,000 of them (7.9%) being unemployed in this sector.
You could theoretically achieve 100% employment by sending home 386,000 H-1B employees, and replacing them with Americans. You would still need 114,000 H-1B employees to fill all jobs.
However, if we consider that even an extremely healthy economy will have an unemployment rate of 1-2%, we don't need to go that far. In order to bring unemployment among American high tech workers down to 1%, you would send 337,000 H-1B workers away. You would then have 4,837,000 American workers, 163,000 H-1B employees, and 49000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Of course, the US economy is not healty at all. If we restate our goal to reducing unemployment in the high tech sector to the same level as the rest of the economy, the numbers change again. In order to bring unemployment in our high tech example down to 5% (nationwide average is 5.8), we only need to send home 142,000 H-1B workers, leaving 358,000 H-1B workers, 4,642,000 Americans working, and 244,000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Note that for item 4, they give no government studies to support their claim, like they do for the others. Probably they couldn't find any reliable source to support their claim, but wanted to include a blurb about this to appease their members.
... how US citizens would like nothing more than to kick all foreigners out, while at the same time they are all descendents of foreigners (with the exception of native Americans, but look where they are today). It's even funnier when you consider that the BAD guy in "Gangs of New York" is the anti-immigrant thug. Hypocrisy lifted to new heights...
Other than that, the article does a good job of listing some of the problems that have occured, and then greatly exagerating them.
Slashdot has kind of grandfathered in the New York Times. We always linked to them in the past even though they required registration, and we're not going to stop now. But other sites that require it, we don't (usually) link to.
Why? Does the NYTimes pay you, and the others don't?
If you object to registration for some reason, at least don't be a hypocrite about it. Either you don't link to such sites at all, or you link to all of them. It's bad enough that slashdot keeps extolling the virtues of linux and the GPL (after all, it's "news for nerds, stuff that matters", NOT "news for linux-nerds, stuff that matters for GPL-fans"), please don't start telling us which news-sites are kosher for viewing by followers of the Grand Doctrine...
backing up these onto DDS or DLT tapes is slow and manual to do
DLT drives are available with stackers/autoloaders (sometimes they call 'm "tape library"). Plop in a set of tapes, and you're set for a week (or more, if you use incremental backups). Also, your puny 220 GB will take maybe 2 hours on a fast DLT drive, much less if you use incremental backups.
There's another tape format called LTO that has similar specs.
They would have gotten better pictures if they had photographed the scenes from far away using a telephoto lens. The way they did it for this webpage, perspective is still way too visible, and makes some of the "pillars" easily recognizable as non-vertical. By moving the camera further away, this effect is reduced.
The above response was originally posted in response to the "newton's principia stolen" article. Several times now I've seen my own comments and those of others become magically attached to some other story. Cowboy Neal needs to fix is. Or something.
A more effective way of infection would be for dual-boot systems (don't most linux users have a windows partition for playing games?). A linux-aware worm/virus that is run on Windows could access the linux partition (it would have to include filesystem code, but that shouldn't add too much code) and infect any executable there without being bothered by linux security at all. Next time you boot linux, your infected bash runs with full root priviliges. Similarly (but less likely), a windows-aware virus/worm running on linux could try to infect windows-partitions, thereby bypassing any windows-based virusscanner.
The mentioned size is the size of the event horizon, which is the (spherical) collection of points beyond which even light can not escape. Others have commented on "singularity" version "non-singularity". The truth is that we do not (and can not) know what is behind the event-horizon, since we can never observe it. We can treat a black hole as though there is a true singularity (a point-mass) in its center. Then, the event-horizon becomes simply the distance from the singularity at which the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light, i.e. the distance at which the gravitational pull of the singularity dips below a certain point.
This is why the mass and size of the black hole seem at odds with each other: the size of the event horizon and the size of whatever is iside it (singularity or not) do not have to be the same, the former can be larger than the latter.
We normally assume that there is in fact a point-mass inside the black hole, since when we do the math, it tells us that the gravitational attraction between the particles is greater than the forces keeping them apart, causing a collapse into a point-mass. What is REALLY inside a black hole will never be known, and is, in fact, irrelevant.
In order to reasonably support the people expected to make social security claims over the next thirty years, taxes would have to be doubled at a minimum
Which would bring them up to about average European level. Now who was it that said that capitalism is better than socialism?
... it'll be just as big, slow and bloated as any other full-featured browser. People want features. Features come at a price: size and speed. The only way to get both the features and the speed is by using beefier hardware.
Secondly, the range is highly unlikely for any electric car right now, especially one
with a top speed so questionably high
I agree with that. Even the electric drag racers don't go that fast, and they're specifically built for acceleration and speed.
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How can you say such a thing after the 9/11 attacks?
Easy: 9/11 did nothing to right the wrongs that the US did and continues doing. If anything, the US are even more fucked up now, all in the name of "fighting terrorism", of course.
This is no different from the skill to select 'windows update' on a Windows machine. In both cases, you'd still have to wait for someone else to find and fix the problem and make an update available.
with open source software one has the ability to go in and fix the problem rather than waiting for some vendor to do it for you. That's where the power lies
How many webserver administrators have the skills to look at the Apache sourcecode (or in this case, the OpenSSL sourcecode), find the bug, and fix it? If they had such skills they probably wouldn't be working as webserver administrators to begin with. The often tauted ability to "go in and fix things" or even to simply "contribute" is highly overrated. Who found and fixed this bug? Was it some random user, or one of the original developers?
So your debian is running on an old redhat then? Or did you use UML only to install debian while running redhat, and then you rebooted into debian natively?
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I've always thought that the way PVRs will simply delete old shows is not right. What they should do is re-encode old recordings to a lower quality, thereby taking up less space and making room for new recordings. The change could be gradual, e.g. go from "best" to "high" to "normal" to "low", and then finally delete the recording. The advantage would be that a recording could still be watched after many weeks, even if at a lower quality. Of course, none of these PVRs have the horsepower to do this, but if you have a desktop computer available somewhere, the recoding could be offloaded to it.
Now, in my experience, most high-tech (which is what most H-1B visa are issued for) workers do not belong to a union, meaning that the (members of) above two unions aren't even impacted significantly by the presence of H-1B workers. .5 million H-1B workers work there, taking jobs away from Americans.
In this worst-case scenario, we have 5 million total jobs, with 4.5 million of those occupied by Americans, and .5 million occupied by H-1B workers.
Since unemployment rate is 7.9% we can calculate that there is a total of 4,886,000 American workers available, 386,000 of them (7.9%) being unemployed in this sector.
You could theoretically achieve 100% employment by sending home 386,000 H-1B employees, and replacing them with Americans. You would still need 114,000 H-1B employees to fill all jobs.
Let's therefore forget about those unions. There are currently about 5 million high tech jobs. The majority of H-1B visas are issued for high tech jobs. If every H-1B worker took a job away from an American, half a million American high tech workers would be out of a job, representing 10% of the total.
Let's play with those numbers a bit more, and consider Silicon Valley. Let's pretend that Santa Clara county's record 7.9% unemployment rate applies to the entire SF Bay Area, that all 5 million hightech jobs are available there, and all
However, if we consider that even an extremely healthy economy will have an unemployment rate of 1-2%, we don't need to go that far. In order to bring unemployment among American high tech workers down to 1%, you would send 337,000 H-1B workers away. You would then have 4,837,000 American workers, 163,000 H-1B employees, and 49000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Of course, the US economy is not healty at all. If we restate our goal to reducing unemployment in the high tech sector to the same level as the rest of the economy, the numbers change again. In order to bring unemployment in our high tech example down to 5% (nationwide average is 5.8), we only need to send home 142,000 H-1B workers, leaving 358,000 H-1B workers, 4,642,000 Americans working, and 244,000 high tech unemployed Americans.
Note that for item 4, they give no government studies to support their claim, like they do for the others. Probably they couldn't find any reliable source to support their claim, but wanted to include a blurb about this to appease their members.
... how US citizens would like nothing more than to kick all foreigners out, while at the same time they are all descendents of foreigners (with the exception of native Americans, but look where they are today).
It's even funnier when you consider that the BAD guy in "Gangs of New York" is the anti-immigrant thug.
Hypocrisy lifted to new heights...
Other than that, the article does a good job of listing some of the problems that have occured, and then greatly exagerating them.
Why? Does the NYTimes pay you, and the others don't?
If you object to registration for some reason, at least don't be a hypocrite about it. Either you don't link to such sites at all, or you link to all of them. It's bad enough that slashdot keeps extolling the virtues of linux and the GPL (after all, it's "news for nerds, stuff that matters", NOT "news for linux-nerds, stuff that matters for GPL-fans"), please don't start telling us which news-sites are kosher for viewing by followers of the Grand Doctrine...
A (small) picture of one of these ships can be found here.
DLT drives are available with stackers/autoloaders (sometimes they call 'm "tape library"). Plop in a set of tapes, and you're set for a week (or more, if you use incremental backups). Also, your puny 220 GB will take maybe 2 hours on a fast DLT drive, much less if you use incremental backups. There's another tape format called LTO that has similar specs.
let the pr0n flow!
(yeah, I know physics department != NOC, but this guy isn't very bright)
They would have gotten better pictures if they had photographed the scenes from far away using a telephoto lens. The way they did it for this webpage, perspective is still way too visible, and makes some of the "pillars" easily recognizable as non-vertical. By moving the camera further away, this effect is reduced.
The above response was originally posted in response to the "newton's principia stolen" article. Several times now I've seen my own comments and those of others become magically attached to some other story. Cowboy Neal needs to fix is. Or something.
Since the O2 site seems to be overloaded or pulled the story, here's the CNN story
In related news, RealNetworks, Inc (RNWK) stock was down 7.22% for the day.
When sending an email to your senator in the future, you might consider using a spellchecker.
"get out of dept", sheesh...
A more effective way of infection would be for dual-boot systems (don't most linux users have a windows partition for playing games?). A linux-aware worm/virus that is run on Windows could access the linux partition (it would have to include filesystem code, but that shouldn't add too much code) and infect any executable there without being bothered by linux security at all. Next time you boot linux, your infected bash runs with full root priviliges. Similarly (but less likely), a windows-aware virus/worm running on linux could try to infect windows-partitions, thereby bypassing any windows-based virusscanner.
The mentioned size is the size of the event horizon, which is the (spherical) collection of points beyond which even light can not escape.
Others have commented on "singularity" version "non-singularity". The truth is that we do not (and can not) know what is behind the event-horizon, since we can never observe it. We can treat a black hole as though there is a true singularity (a point-mass) in its center. Then, the event-horizon becomes simply the distance from the singularity at which the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light, i.e. the distance at which the gravitational pull of the singularity dips below a certain point.
This is why the mass and size of the black hole seem at odds with each other: the size of the event horizon and the size of whatever is iside it (singularity or not) do not have to be the same, the former can be larger than the latter.
We normally assume that there is in fact a point-mass inside the black hole, since when we do the math, it tells us that the gravitational attraction between the particles is greater than the forces keeping them apart, causing a collapse into a point-mass. What is REALLY inside a black hole will never be known, and is, in fact, irrelevant.
Which would bring them up to about average European level. Now who was it that said that capitalism is better than socialism?
You ask this question in a forum that is populated by GPL-advocates. What kind of answers do you think you will get?
... it'll be just as big, slow and bloated as any other full-featured browser. People want features. Features come at a price: size and speed. The only way to get both the features and the speed is by using beefier hardware.
I agree with that. Even the electric drag racers don't go that fast, and they're specifically built for acceleration and speed.
Easy: 9/11 did nothing to right the wrongs that the US did and continues doing. If anything, the US are even more fucked up now, all in the name of "fighting terrorism", of course.
This is no different from the skill to select 'windows update' on a Windows machine. In both cases, you'd still have to wait for someone else to find and fix the problem and make an update available.
How many webserver administrators have the skills to look at the Apache sourcecode (or in this case, the OpenSSL sourcecode), find the bug, and fix it? If they had such skills they probably wouldn't be working as webserver administrators to begin with. The often tauted ability to "go in and fix things" or even to simply "contribute" is highly overrated. Who found and fixed this bug? Was it some random user, or one of the original developers?
So your debian is running on an old redhat then? Or did you use UML only to install debian while running redhat, and then you rebooted into debian natively?