It's more like, who is interested in Time Warner content enough to pay $40/mo for a specific ISP.
Joe {citizen|company} may risk several things by switching from one ISP to another:
Connectivity speed -- Maybe they're accustomed to a T1, or they work at a major ISP themselves. Then again, maybe thier favorite sites lie electronically closer to them with their current ISP than with AOL/TW. At one job, I'm seven or eight hops from Slashdot. At my other job, I'm thirty hops away.
Connectivity predictability -- Maybe they already know the reliability of their current connection, and don't want to jump into an unknown situation.
ISP relations -- Maybe they know the customer service reps personally, or maybe they have a dedicated service representative who sees to it they get good service.
All it takes to produce good music is talent. And both of those are actually optional.
It costs a lot of money to build a Ferrari, and only a couple cents to press a CD. With this service, that cost actually goes up. (Contrary to popular opinion, large chunks of bandwidth ain't cheap.)
The biggest cost should be paying the salaries of the music company (Which only needs to be a few executives and a good team of technicians, not the bloated beuracracy you normally saw in the 90s and, to some extent, today.), and then maybe fifteen or twenty cents (per track) for the artist.
Even if the artist only sells a mere 1,00,000 tracks, (more likely, considering unwanted tracks will no longer be a deterrant from buying an album), that's still $150,000. For more popular artists, or artists who'd rather release better stuff, but less often, you could raise that by ten cents and they'd have $250,000 to hold them over while they produce their next batch.
At this point, even niche artists make a good living, while consumers pay only a fraction of the cost they pay now.
I work at Grand Rapids Community College, and I have to say that most of the people I've met here are from India have better grammar than any American I knew in high school.
Think about it, an Indian, after three years of English courses, speaks better English than an American who spends their entire life in an English-speaking environment, and who is required to take four years of English courses in secondary school.
I'm not a purist, but I find that a nation that spawned at least one language ("Ebonics," which is officially recognized. Yooperspeak is similar, but not recognized.) needs youth with better language skills, especially in an age with international cooperation (read, "open-source development") reaching a crescendo.
Just because Jonny Doe was given a PC so he can use it for school doesn't mean he's not going to use it for games.
Really, it's not black-and-white. What about the people who got an X-Box for the online games, then learned about modchips and running Linux? What about the people who got an X-Box to serve as a PVR, and decided that playing online games was also Cool?
If Microsoft does implement all features into its Office 11 XML format, then you'll see things like VBScript and VBA.
Word Macro viruses can already modify external files, and the problem will, as you mentioned, be limited to unprotected clients.
I expect there will be a new, competitively important question: Will applications like OpenOffice and AbiWord solve the security issues by implementing a setting deep in configuration dialogs, will they solve the issues by disabling the problematic features, or will they find a way to put security and convenience on the same side of the coin?
Visual formatting is only one use for XML. It's probably more useful for data storage (and mining.).
It takes a load of complexity out of the file format, and lets you break down your data in a consistent, data-oriented fashion. This makes sorting a snap.
For example, one of my projects uses XML to hold the entire structure of logic networks.
Funny. I just made a "hello world" document using Word 2000 and it was 19 KB.;-)
I don't doubt it. But on FAT32, technically, a 19KB document takes up the same amount of space as a 1-byte document: 32KB (The size of a cluster on a FAT32 filesystem. Don't know about NTFS, though.)
Almost the same thing is true on most Linux machines, which run ext2. On ext2, the inode size ("inode" is to ext2 as "cluster" is to FATxx) 4KB. That means that every file, unless it contains 0 bytes of data, takes 4KB in the filesystem.
The only place where small files' size makes a difference is in archives, or when downloading. (As anybody on a dial-up connection can tell you.)
Has it occured to anyone that we may soon see a new type of cross-media virus?
I know there've been viruses that could spread via multiple media, like email and ISS cracks, combined, but there really haven't been any that could insert Word macros.
I know this sounds like a security-by-obscurity argument, but it isn't. Hear me out:
With an open format, it not only becomes possible to infect documents from outside MS Office, but it'll be possible for viruses to use that medium as a back door to gain entrance to other platforms entirely, (like unprotected *nixes and Apple products. Heck, even BeOS.) with whatever privelidges the opener of the document has.
Even mail clients with OfficeML (my name for it) support may be at risk.
Just something to keep in mind next time you receive a document as email. And one more reason to redirect root's mail to a normal user.
It requires oxygen to ignite, but does not require it to continue burning. See the firefighting section of the MSDS ("Right To Know") sheet. Look at the entry under "Flammability Limits in Air."
It can only be 2.2% of the gas in a given volume of normal atmosphere, to ignite, but, once started, it can continue to burn even after it is the only volatile gas left.
...forgetting that the contents are mostly flammable, (ie carpet, paint, some ceiling tiles).
I thought about that, but I presumed that the materials would be somewhat spaced out; distance between couches for comfort, room between rows of computers (in labs) for safety. Things like that.
All the actors I've met in person (none that you'd recognize, but still) are very intelligent. The fact that glamor goes with the job isn't their fault. Most of them enjoy it. I know I enjoyed the plays I was in in HS.
Considering that the pyrolysis reaction for each compound is different, I find it's rather difficult to know how to break down each reaction without displacing oxygen--the common component in nearly all fires.
(I say "nearly" because, once it's started, acetylene doesn't require oxygen to continue burning. They get away with using it for welding because the gas escapes the cylinder faster than the fire can creap up the stream. At least, that's how it was explained to me.)
Dry-pipe sprinklers aren't new...I've got a ten-year old Firefighter's training book at home that describes their effectiveness and how to turn them off after the fire is knocked down.
Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, any cable that passes through the heater system has to be Plenum. And considering that, at Greybar, you have a choice between Plenum and riser-cable, most of the new (as in, last twenty years) telecom wiring in Grand Rapids is fire-resistant. The insulation of Plenum will liquify before it burns...
I don't doubt it. That's a Class IV construction; I.e. mostly concrete and steel. It's really hard for fire to spread in buildings like that; You'd have to have notably flammable materials in any direction the spreads.
An excellent example of Class IV construction would be any recently build NFL stadium. I haven't been in one often, but I was struck by how far apart any flammable material (food carts, etc.) is. Even the hallway ceiling I saw was actually the bottom of the concrete steps above.
I suspect that if you divided all computer users into students and non-students, you'd find that a greater percentage of students play 3D games than non-students.:)
I don't have to worry about TSRs...Linux runs fine on it.
Linux supports all the onboard stuff. And if you'd rather use your new SoundBlaster Audigy instead of the AC97 onboard audio, don't load the module for AC97. Or do load it, but use it as a secondary device.
However, it is sad when you learn much more about your machine with "cat/proc/cpu" than by looking at the CMOS. (I don't think Murphy himself could screw up what few BIOS settings are available.)
I'd rather see multiple bombs. Preferably as close to the surface as possible. (but not underneath)
The idea would be for each bomb to form a crater, and push against the large surface area that makes available.
If I'm not mistaken, the only reason nuclear weapons exert a push is that they vaporize surfaces exposed to them, and those gases push against the surface as they expand. So, you really want two things: 1) Vaporize as much material as possible and 2) ensure that all the gases expand in the same direction.
Note that the gasses should expand in the direction opposite that which you want the asteroid to go.
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You have a choice between several celebrities' faces.
:)
Or you could mix n match your own.
...require extremely little configuration.
PAP lets me set up a customer's computer to dial into our system and get all the settings automatically. Really nice.
It's more like, who is interested in Time Warner content enough to pay $40/mo for a specific ISP.
Joe {citizen|company} may risk several things by switching from one ISP to another:
All it takes to produce good music is talent. And both of those are actually optional.
It costs a lot of money to build a Ferrari, and only a couple cents to press a CD. With this service, that cost actually goes up. (Contrary to popular opinion, large chunks of bandwidth ain't cheap.)
The biggest cost should be paying the salaries of the music company (Which only needs to be a few executives and a good team of technicians, not the bloated beuracracy you normally saw in the 90s and, to some extent, today.), and then maybe fifteen or twenty cents (per track) for the artist.
Even if the artist only sells a mere 1,00,000 tracks, (more likely, considering unwanted tracks will no longer be a deterrant from buying an album), that's still $150,000. For more popular artists, or artists who'd rather release better stuff, but less often, you could raise that by ten cents and they'd have $250,000 to hold them over while they produce their next batch.
At this point, even niche artists make a good living, while consumers pay only a fraction of the cost they pay now.
I work at Grand Rapids Community College, and I have to say that most of the people I've met here are from India have better grammar than any American I knew in high school.
Think about it, an Indian, after three years of English courses, speaks better English than an American who spends their entire life in an English-speaking environment, and who is required to take four years of English courses in secondary school.
I'm not a purist, but I find that a nation that spawned at least one language ("Ebonics," which is officially recognized. Yooperspeak is similar, but not recognized.) needs youth with better language skills, especially in an age with international cooperation (read, "open-source development") reaching a crescendo.
I know it was a joke, but still: Nobody is going to convince me that Red Hat 8 is better than Debian 3.0
:P)
(The punchline: Don't bother flaming me. You won't convince me.
It's already intuitively obvious he's an idiot in some ways; He probably swallowed some salesman's pitch for their new software.
The salesman wouldn't even have to be clueless.
(If you think people who send spam are unscrupulous, just imagine the people who develop and sell software intended for that purpose.)
Just because Jonny Doe was given a PC so he can use it for school doesn't mean he's not going to use it for games.
Really, it's not black-and-white. What about the people who got an X-Box for the online games, then learned about modchips and running Linux? What about the people who got an X-Box to serve as a PVR, and decided that playing online games was also Cool?
If Microsoft does implement all features into its Office 11 XML format, then you'll see things like VBScript and VBA.
Word Macro viruses can already modify external files, and the problem will, as you mentioned, be limited to unprotected clients.
I expect there will be a new, competitively important question: Will applications like OpenOffice and AbiWord solve the security issues by implementing a setting deep in configuration dialogs, will they solve the issues by disabling the problematic features, or will they find a way to put security and convenience on the same side of the coin?
Visual formatting is only one use for XML. It's probably more useful for data storage (and mining.).
It takes a load of complexity out of the file format, and lets you break down your data in a consistent, data-oriented fashion. This makes sorting a snap.
For example, one of my projects uses XML to hold the entire structure of logic networks.
Funny. I just made a "hello world" document using Word 2000 and it was 19 KB. ;-)
I don't doubt it. But on FAT32, technically, a 19KB document takes up the same amount of space as a 1-byte document: 32KB (The size of a cluster on a FAT32 filesystem. Don't know about NTFS, though.)
Almost the same thing is true on most Linux machines, which run ext2. On ext2, the inode size ("inode" is to ext2 as "cluster" is to FATxx) 4KB. That means that every file, unless it contains 0 bytes of data, takes 4KB in the filesystem.
The only place where small files' size makes a difference is in archives, or when downloading. (As anybody on a dial-up connection can tell you.)
Has it occured to anyone that we may soon see a new type of cross-media virus?
I know there've been viruses that could spread via multiple media, like email and ISS cracks, combined, but there really haven't been any that could insert Word macros.
I know this sounds like a security-by-obscurity argument, but it isn't. Hear me out:
With an open format, it not only becomes possible to infect documents from outside MS Office, but it'll be possible for viruses to use that medium as a back door to gain entrance to other platforms entirely, (like unprotected *nixes and Apple products. Heck, even BeOS.) with whatever privelidges the opener of the document has.
Even mail clients with OfficeML (my name for it) support may be at risk.
Just something to keep in mind next time you receive a document as email. And one more reason to redirect root's mail to a normal user.
It requires oxygen to ignite, but does not require it to continue burning. See the firefighting section of the MSDS ("Right To Know") sheet. Look at the entry under "Flammability Limits in Air."
It can only be 2.2% of the gas in a given volume of normal atmosphere, to ignite, but, once started, it can continue to burn even after it is the only volatile gas left.
As a former fire fighter and fire inspector
:)
...forgetting that the contents are mostly flammable, (ie carpet, paint, some ceiling tiles).
Explains your username.
I thought about that, but I presumed that the materials would be somewhat spaced out; distance between couches for comfort, room between rows of computers (in labs) for safety. Things like that.
All in all, though, good point.
All the actors I've met in person (none that you'd recognize, but still) are very intelligent. The fact that glamor goes with the job isn't their fault. Most of them enjoy it. I know I enjoyed the plays I was in in HS.
Interesting that almost all the pics there are in time-sequence...You could make an animation out of it.
I don't know how, but I encourage other people to try.
Considering that the pyrolysis reaction for each compound is different, I find it's rather difficult to know how to break down each reaction without displacing oxygen--the common component in nearly all fires.
(I say "nearly" because, once it's started, acetylene doesn't require oxygen to continue burning. They get away with using it for welding because the gas escapes the cylinder faster than the fire can creap up the stream. At least, that's how it was explained to me.)
Dry-pipe sprinklers aren't new...I've got a ten-year old Firefighter's training book at home that describes their effectiveness and how to turn them off after the fire is knocked down.
Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, any cable that passes through the heater system has to be Plenum. And considering that, at Greybar, you have a choice between Plenum and riser-cable, most of the new (as in, last twenty years) telecom wiring in Grand Rapids is fire-resistant. The insulation of Plenum will liquify before it burns...
I don't doubt it. That's a Class IV construction; I.e. mostly concrete and steel. It's really hard for fire to spread in buildings like that; You'd have to have notably flammable materials in any direction the spreads.
An excellent example of Class IV construction would be any recently build NFL stadium. I haven't been in one often, but I was struck by how far apart any flammable material (food carts, etc.) is. Even the hallway ceiling I saw was actually the bottom of the concrete steps above.
I suspect that if you divided all computer users into students and non-students, you'd find that a greater percentage of students play 3D games than non-students. :)
I don't have to worry about TSRs...Linux runs fine on it.
/proc/cpu" than by looking at the CMOS. (I don't think Murphy himself could screw up what few BIOS settings are available.)
Linux supports all the onboard stuff. And if you'd rather use your new SoundBlaster Audigy instead of the AC97 onboard audio, don't load the module for AC97. Or do load it, but use it as a secondary device.
However, it is sad when you learn much more about your machine with "cat
Actually, Milo (in Antitrust) was involved in several obviously sexual scenes.
It'd be a cool life experience, if NURV wasn't killing people and trying to exploit me...
His point was that they equate to the same thing, no matter which way you look at it.
I'd rather see multiple bombs. Preferably as close to the surface as possible. (but not underneath)
The idea would be for each bomb to form a crater, and push against the large surface area that makes available.
If I'm not mistaken, the only reason nuclear weapons exert a push is that they vaporize surfaces exposed to them, and those gases push against the surface as they expand. So, you really want two things: 1) Vaporize as much material as possible and 2) ensure that all the gases expand in the same direction.
Note that the gasses should expand in the direction opposite that which you want the asteroid to go.