I think you may be getting confused with a different murder of a 15 year old, in Glasgow, where the boy was randomly taken and killed in revenge for someone being killed of the killer's ethnicity. The accused are already in court for that one (and it was purely racially motivated, and nothing else).
I've been building a switch mode power supply recently (to step 12 volts DC up to 170 volts DC), and the inductor will make a high pitched whistling noise - the frequency being the switch's frequency (and the more power you dump into it, the louder it gets).
I can still hear those supposedly only-heard-by-teenagers tones. When Radio 4 played it, a large number of people (some in their 60s!) called in and said they could still hear the 'Mosquito'. Certainly, the percentage of people over a certain age who can hear these frequencies falls off, but for the frequency this ring tone and the 'Mosquito' operates at, anecdotally, at least a third of people over 30 can still hear them perfectly well.
We had a MS support contract - it was US $40,000 per year for a handful of developers. I don't think the summary was really comparing like for like. Downloading CentOS for free gets you the same level of support as the $140 for Windows XP. To get real support from Microsoft you need to pay quite a lot of money.
The UK is *much* larger than the US's smallest state - the UK is about the size of North Carolina and South Carolina combined (neither of which is the smallest state).
Neither do the vast majority of bands published by the megacorps.
DRM isn't necessary for a band to be successful either. The most famous recent example (in Britain) is the Arctic Monkeys. Their music is sold on eMusic without DRM.
Think of it this way: if your son gets his sexual gratification from inserting objects up his rectum, then at least he won't get anyone pregnant!
If there's anything to go by, human sexual behaviour is so varied such that most people have kinks and fetishes. I would imagine that the number of people whose sole sexual fantasies rest in the "misssionary position" are in single digit percentages.
And I submit that you don't remember what it was like being a child.
I do - I'm trying not to forget what it was like. I know that both myself and my friends would try and do things that were verboten when we thought adults weren't watching, from a very young age. Quite often BECAUSE they were verboten.
Drifting off topic a bit, but I know a lot of people who don't do more on their computers than they did a few years ago. Many of them are running quite happily on pre-year 2000 machines of around 500MHz, with just some extra memory. Running a web browser and an email client and occasionally a word processor just doesn't require masses of computing horsepower. And that is basically what most people do on a desktop PC.
I used to change my computer about every 18 months. My current one, though, will be 4 years old in January and it's still entirely adequate for what I do on it (some software development, and a few games that aren't too taxing on the GPU). Indeed, it's got faster - Fedora Core 5 is considerably snappier than Red Hat 8 (which is what it was first loaded with).
The funny thing? After I left Houston in 2002 for another country - when I went back for a visit this year, they were playing EXACTLY the same shit on the radio! The very limited play list had barely changed in 4 years!
But when it first does, expect newly multithreaded applications to be very buggy and unstable. Writing multithreaded applications that work well is a technique often not understood by developers who up until now have been doing everything singlethreadedly. Race conditions and deadlocks will abound, and I'm sure there will be new classes of security exploits.
PAL was in many case totally neutered - the air force required the code to be set to the same as your luggage (i.e. all the zeros) so they could launch them in a hurry! We are here through pure luck - this kind of stupidity was repeated over and over in the cold war.
The celebration (if any) is about an end-user (the person using the equipment) recognising that it had an error. The laptop analogy would be if your employee realised the laptop wasn't charging correctly and unplugged it before it blew up, and thus saved your office from burning down. You'd criticise Michael Dell's company, but you'd praise your employee. As far as I can see, the original article wasn't about praising the maker of the faulty equipment, but praising the man who had the experience and judgement to realise the equipment was faulty.
We are also talking about temperature increases of at most only a couple of percent, too. No one is talking about the Earth becoming Venus - we are talking about the Earth trapping maybe less than 1% more solar energy, but this is enough to cause plenty of chaos to humans. In the long term we aren't going to 'destroy the Earth' (in fact, it can be argued we are helping life in the long term by releasing carbon that had been permanently locked up and 'lost' by prehistoric life) - the point is what kind of unpleasantness will the changes make for civilization.
A random interjection - I live in the Isle of Man (over 55 degrees north), and this year I successfully grew jalapeno peppers outside in my garden. I also have palm trees in my garden.
OK, so the yield of my jalapeno plants wasn't particularly high, but what they lacked in quantity they made up with in scoville heat index.
That's not the point though. The British climate is about the worst indicator you can have of global climate trends. In the Isle of Man, we have mature cordyline australis - some over 40 feet tall (often called Manx Palms, but they aren't really palms, they are related to yucca) which are not very hardy - so for at least the last 300 years, the winters have been at least as mild as they are now. The British Isles climate is absolutely dominated by the position of the jet stream and the gulfstream. A move in the jet stream (to an on average more southerly track) in 1975 has resulted in the string of very hot summers and very mild winters since then. The brief "mini ice ages" and "mini tropical ages" in the British Isles are all about how the gulf stream and jet streams have interacted, and bear little relation to average global temperature. There is also huge variation just around the British Isles - where I am in the middle of the Irish Sea has always been much milder than, say, Berkshire in the south of England, despite being a lot further north. You can grow windmill palms in western Scotland, but the winters in East Anglia would probably finish them off.
The kid in American Beauty summed it up the best. "Never underestimate the power of denial".
People don't like feeling guilty about driving their cars on unnecessary journeys. They would rather live in denial than either changing their behaviour, or driving around in the full knowledge that they are personally contributing to the problem.
The vast majority of businesses and people in the United States and Europe work for small to medium sized businesses. Most of these businesses will have no more than a couple of 100Mbit/sec LAN segments and at best a couple of low speed (T1 or ADSL style) internet connections. Inexpensive commodity hardware is entirely appropriate for these kinds of setups - and redundancy can be inexpensively built in (two commodity hardware systems running OpenBSD with pfsync+carp) - all for a fraction of the price of a non-redundant Cisco setup which is vastly over-specified for the business in question.
For us, being able to use inexpensive commodity parts and being able to have a hot-swap that can be connected in less than 5 minutes strongly trumps a hugely expensive router and 4 hour fix commitment.
This might not work for everyone. But for the typical office with maybe 100 people working in it, with a couple of internet connections, an OpenBSD system with pfsync+carp (i.e. a spare box and automatic fail-over) will trump a single Cisco router most times and save significant amounts of money. The Cisco user will be without a network for up to 4 hours, whereas the guy with a redundant setup plus a hot spare that can be simply plugged in will probably not even go down.
This setup doesn't work for everybody - it's not a silver bullet. But then again, for many small to medium sized businesses, Cisco is far from being a silver bullet.
In all large cities I've been to with a metro rail system on dedicated lines (subways, London Underground, Chicago 'L' etc.), taking the metro rail system takes about *half* the time that driving does most of the day because you're not stuck in traffic jams.
If it's time you're worried about, you'll be using grocery store home deliveries anyway because it not only saves you the time getting to and from the grocery store, it also saves you the time of actually shopping.
All the things you talk of are corner cases, though. If you live in a large city like NYC - just how often are you buying items that need a car to get home? How often are you going out to places that aren't easily accessable (walking distance or a quick bus ride)? How many of you are severely disabled with 600 lbs of life support (in which case you aren't going to be driving yourself in the first place)?
Even though I live in a fairly rural area, the times where a car would be utterly indispensible number perhaps one or two _per year_. And that's in a rural area. Everything else is just convenience, because I could manage the same on a bicycle. If I gave up the car altogether, I would save significant amounts of money, even if I paid for my groceries to be delivered. I have a car because it's so extrodinarily convenient. Absolutely necessary? Hardly.
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I think you may be getting confused with a different murder of a 15 year old, in Glasgow, where the boy was randomly taken and killed in revenge for someone being killed of the killer's ethnicity. The accused are already in court for that one (and it was purely racially motivated, and nothing else).
I've been building a switch mode power supply recently (to step 12 volts DC up to 170 volts DC), and the inductor will make a high pitched whistling noise - the frequency being the switch's frequency (and the more power you dump into it, the louder it gets).
I can still hear those supposedly only-heard-by-teenagers tones. When Radio 4 played it, a large number of people (some in their 60s!) called in and said they could still hear the 'Mosquito'. Certainly, the percentage of people over a certain age who can hear these frequencies falls off, but for the frequency this ring tone and the 'Mosquito' operates at, anecdotally, at least a third of people over 30 can still hear them perfectly well.
We had a MS support contract - it was US $40,000 per year for a handful of developers. I don't think the summary was really comparing like for like. Downloading CentOS for free gets you the same level of support as the $140 for Windows XP. To get real support from Microsoft you need to pay quite a lot of money.
The UK is *much* larger than the US's smallest state - the UK is about the size of North Carolina and South Carolina combined (neither of which is the smallest state).
Bugging an office has never been easier, now that data cables run into all of them!
Neither do the vast majority of bands published by the megacorps.
DRM isn't necessary for a band to be successful either. The most famous recent example (in Britain) is the Arctic Monkeys. Their music is sold on eMusic without DRM.
Think of it this way: if your son gets his sexual gratification from inserting objects up his rectum, then at least he won't get anyone pregnant!
If there's anything to go by, human sexual behaviour is so varied such that most people have kinks and fetishes. I would imagine that the number of people whose sole sexual fantasies rest in the "misssionary position" are in single digit percentages.
And I submit that you don't remember what it was like being a child.
I do - I'm trying not to forget what it was like. I know that both myself and my friends would try and do things that were verboten when we thought adults weren't watching, from a very young age. Quite often BECAUSE they were verboten.
Have they considered DISCIPLINE? If I'd tried that as a kid, I'd have had some kind of punishment.
Drifting off topic a bit, but I know a lot of people who don't do more on their computers than they did a few years ago. Many of them are running quite happily on pre-year 2000 machines of around 500MHz, with just some extra memory. Running a web browser and an email client and occasionally a word processor just doesn't require masses of computing horsepower. And that is basically what most people do on a desktop PC.
I used to change my computer about every 18 months. My current one, though, will be 4 years old in January and it's still entirely adequate for what I do on it (some software development, and a few games that aren't too taxing on the GPU). Indeed, it's got faster - Fedora Core 5 is considerably snappier than Red Hat 8 (which is what it was first loaded with).
The funny thing? After I left Houston in 2002 for another country - when I went back for a visit this year, they were playing EXACTLY the same shit on the radio! The very limited play list had barely changed in 4 years!
In that kind of scenario, a wind-up TRANSCIEVER would be much better than a receive only device.
But when it first does, expect newly multithreaded applications to be very buggy and unstable. Writing multithreaded applications that work well is a technique often not understood by developers who up until now have been doing everything singlethreadedly. Race conditions and deadlocks will abound, and I'm sure there will be new classes of security exploits.
Possibly because the person asking the question is a noob to VPNs in general, and is a little confused about it.
PAL was in many case totally neutered - the air force required the code to be set to the same as your luggage (i.e. all the zeros) so they could launch them in a hurry! We are here through pure luck - this kind of stupidity was repeated over and over in the cold war.
What a silly bunch of non-sequitors!
The celebration (if any) is about an end-user (the person using the equipment) recognising that it had an error. The laptop analogy would be if your employee realised the laptop wasn't charging correctly and unplugged it before it blew up, and thus saved your office from burning down. You'd criticise Michael Dell's company, but you'd praise your employee. As far as I can see, the original article wasn't about praising the maker of the faulty equipment, but praising the man who had the experience and judgement to realise the equipment was faulty.
We are also talking about temperature increases of at most only a couple of percent, too. No one is talking about the Earth becoming Venus - we are talking about the Earth trapping maybe less than 1% more solar energy, but this is enough to cause plenty of chaos to humans. In the long term we aren't going to 'destroy the Earth' (in fact, it can be argued we are helping life in the long term by releasing carbon that had been permanently locked up and 'lost' by prehistoric life) - the point is what kind of unpleasantness will the changes make for civilization.
A random interjection - I live in the Isle of Man (over 55 degrees north), and this year I successfully grew jalapeno peppers outside in my garden. I also have palm trees in my garden.
OK, so the yield of my jalapeno plants wasn't particularly high, but what they lacked in quantity they made up with in scoville heat index.
That's not the point though. The British climate is about the worst indicator you can have of global climate trends. In the Isle of Man, we have mature cordyline australis - some over 40 feet tall (often called Manx Palms, but they aren't really palms, they are related to yucca) which are not very hardy - so for at least the last 300 years, the winters have been at least as mild as they are now. The British Isles climate is absolutely dominated by the position of the jet stream and the gulfstream. A move in the jet stream (to an on average more southerly track) in 1975 has resulted in the string of very hot summers and very mild winters since then. The brief "mini ice ages" and "mini tropical ages" in the British Isles are all about how the gulf stream and jet streams have interacted, and bear little relation to average global temperature. There is also huge variation just around the British Isles - where I am in the middle of the Irish Sea has always been much milder than, say, Berkshire in the south of England, despite being a lot further north. You can grow windmill palms in western Scotland, but the winters in East Anglia would probably finish them off.
The kid in American Beauty summed it up the best. "Never underestimate the power of denial".
People don't like feeling guilty about driving their cars on unnecessary journeys. They would rather live in denial than either changing their behaviour, or driving around in the full knowledge that they are personally contributing to the problem.
They have boosted fission type devices - about two to three times the power of the Nagasaki bomb.
The vast majority of businesses and people in the United States and Europe work for small to medium sized businesses. Most of these businesses will have no more than a couple of 100Mbit/sec LAN segments and at best a couple of low speed (T1 or ADSL style) internet connections. Inexpensive commodity hardware is entirely appropriate for these kinds of setups - and redundancy can be inexpensively built in (two commodity hardware systems running OpenBSD with pfsync+carp) - all for a fraction of the price of a non-redundant Cisco setup which is vastly over-specified for the business in question.
It depends, really, on your network.
For us, being able to use inexpensive commodity parts and being able to have a hot-swap that can be connected in less than 5 minutes strongly trumps a hugely expensive router and 4 hour fix commitment.
This might not work for everyone. But for the typical office with maybe 100 people working in it, with a couple of internet connections, an OpenBSD system with pfsync+carp (i.e. a spare box and automatic fail-over) will trump a single Cisco router most times and save significant amounts of money. The Cisco user will be without a network for up to 4 hours, whereas the guy with a redundant setup plus a hot spare that can be simply plugged in will probably not even go down.
This setup doesn't work for everybody - it's not a silver bullet. But then again, for many small to medium sized businesses, Cisco is far from being a silver bullet.
In all large cities I've been to with a metro rail system on dedicated lines (subways, London Underground, Chicago 'L' etc.), taking the metro rail system takes about *half* the time that driving does most of the day because you're not stuck in traffic jams.
If it's time you're worried about, you'll be using grocery store home deliveries anyway because it not only saves you the time getting to and from the grocery store, it also saves you the time of actually shopping.
All the things you talk of are corner cases, though. If you live in a large city like NYC - just how often are you buying items that need a car to get home? How often are you going out to places that aren't easily accessable (walking distance or a quick bus ride)? How many of you are severely disabled with 600 lbs of life support (in which case you aren't going to be driving yourself in the first place)?
Even though I live in a fairly rural area, the times where a car would be utterly indispensible number perhaps one or two _per year_. And that's in a rural area. Everything else is just convenience, because I could manage the same on a bicycle. If I gave up the car altogether, I would save significant amounts of money, even if I paid for my groceries to be delivered. I have a car because it's so extrodinarily convenient. Absolutely necessary? Hardly.