Every time I read about a shrinkage of form factors, I wonder how many you could fit in the volume of a standard 42u rack, ala blade servers.
Now I'm wondering if this form factor isn't aimed at being able to add more processor power via a Cardbus slot, as the dimensions are within a millimeter of a PCMCIA card. Or perhaps aimed at mating directly to a SSD device. Fully equipped PC the size of a deck of cards, just add input and output.
Chances are the teacher was using some sort of process monitor to see what was running on the kids' computers.
Chances are also good that the teacher never saw the screen of the kid in question.
And, if the kid installed Firefox, he could have also uninstalled it, deleting all history. Any kid savvy enough to install Firefox is also probably savvy enough to have a good reason to avoid admin lockdowns in IE that prevent one from deleting your browsing history.
Worse? If the program running really *was* Foxfire.exe, not Firefox. I see no one has entertained the possibility that the kid was running malware. Also simple enough to rename utorrent.exe to foxfire.exe.
However, all of the above aside, aren't kids *supposed* to be supervised while on the net?
Essentially by running Firefox, the kid could've gotten around blocked sites, bypassed proxies, and been browsing pr0n with no accountability.
And as a sysadmin having dealt with too many users having installed things on work computers they shouldn't have (did the kid install the Google desktop with FF?), I'm completely on the teacher's side.
The thinking and legal justification goes like this:
You get what basically amounts to a 44.1 KHz two channel encoded audio file. If you make an MP3 out of that, you cannot turn that MP3 back into that exact same 44.1 KHz bit pattern. Therefore the MP3 is not a backup. It is "derivative", and can be argued that it doesn't fall under fair useage that allows you to make a backup copy. If you made just one copy of the CD, you'd likely be completely covered under fair use. If you made a.wav (.pcm, whatever) file in 44.1 KHz stereo that corresponded to the audio tracks and kept that on a hard drive, you'd still probably be covered under the backup clause, as you could re-create the CD as distributed to you.
Closest analogy I can come up with is modifying GPL source code. If you made changes, you must release the source for those changes because even though the basic functionality or output may not have changed, there are differences.
It's a strange concept, because most people think 'if it sounds the same, it's the same song, right?', even though the bits and bytes that make up the sounds are different.
The telling point in the article for me was the implication that leveraging their internet presence took them from losing 7 million a year to being 28 million in the black.
I remember being frustrated at researching a purchase, only to find links to CR articles which I couldn't access. Sans web, I'd have forgotten about CR, or if I remembered, might not have bothered subscribing because the information I wanted was in a back issue, and libraries are free.
What I'd really like to see is a study or report on ad revenue changes based on a site switching dropping required registration, like the NY Times did.
Biggest problem with using a 'float height' generation system is the bottom anchor. The seafloor isn't all that sturdy to support constant tugging. Plus, the conservationists will have a point in that the bottom anchors will be disruptive to the seafloor ecology.
Quoted: "students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work"
The problem there lies in referencing something which is changeable.
You reference it, Someone edits the article, Your reference is potentially no longer valid.
Referencing the 2006 edition of Britannica is fairly straightforward.
Referencing the 7:13 AM EST July 24th, 2007 version of a Wiki article on the other hand....
Now, his comment about how Wikipedia should be seen as a 'stepping stone' to other sources is 100% on the mark. Great for a basic understanding and the in-text links to related material make for better overall understanding.
There shouldn't be a correlation at all between voter turnout percentage and the percentage that voted for Putin's party.
It's like saying "all of candidate A's supporters voted, only half of candidate B's supporters voted (or were allowed, enabled, not intimidated into not voting, etc.).
A laser powerful enough to ionize the air sufficiently will also render it non-transparent to laser frequencies, thus stopping it from working for more than a few feet.
It's been proposed to use an ultra short pulse laser for this purpose (picosecond laser), however in that picosecond the laser must deliver enough power to ionize an expanding cone of air a kilometer high. Currently not workable, although it's been demonstrated in the lab over shorter (~1 meter) distances.
Google for something like triggered lightning strike laser and you'll get some good info.
Ozone blocks ultraviolet, water vapor absorbs strongly in the infrared, dust particles et al emit in infrared too, causing a huge loss of contrast.
Sadly, the atmosphere isn't really as transparent as it looks once you get outside the visible spectrum, and that's where 50% (a statistic made up on the spot) of astronomy breakthroughs are.
Future scopes in space are likely to be infrared (Webb), ultraviolet, radio and x-ray specific. Plus, adaptive optics are still only a band-aid(R) compared to viewing outside the atmosphere.
NVidia 8800 GT can be had for about $200 to $250 depending on the bundle, and is currently rated the best card to have, beating out even the 8800 GTS and other $400+ cards.
It was free at the very beginning. Mostly because it was all handwritten on paper then typed into a text file. Registering went something like "Hey Jack, can ya write me into the hosts file?"
The privacy policy reads like a DRM license. Seriously. Your public chat is just that... public.
*Now* I see what the GPL controversy is all about. I wouldn't want my public speech to be released under policies as strict as those. Next thing you know, someone will be slamming Google or Yahoo! for offering cached versions of blogs.
I love cool little gimmicky inventions like this. Unfortunately, it seems to be a solution that was applied to a problem that didn't need solving.
Now, perhaps if they linked the sloshing behavior to the amount of milk left in the carton as reported via my networked refrigerator, they'd have me interested.
I was really expecting to see some sort of design whereby the waste heat from the datacenter was used to heat homes or apartment buildings. Charging a price that's half of what it would normally cost to heat a building, and supplying the waste heat from the data center would lead to significantly reduced operating costs for the datacenter, and lower cost heating for neighboring structures. Sounds like a win/win situation if done right.
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Every time I read about a shrinkage of form factors, I wonder how many you could fit in the volume of a standard 42u rack, ala blade servers.
Now I'm wondering if this form factor isn't aimed at being able to add more processor power via a Cardbus slot, as the dimensions are within a millimeter of a PCMCIA card. Or perhaps aimed at mating directly to a SSD device. Fully equipped PC the size of a deck of cards, just add input and output.
Oh great, next they'll invent SkyNet.
If one of those guys goes by the nick 'Neo', I'm gonna get worried.
"If you have a long-lived ocean, it's going to have salt in it,"
Just like Lake Michigan?
Chances are the teacher was using some sort of process monitor to see what was running on the kids' computers.
Chances are also good that the teacher never saw the screen of the kid in question.
And, if the kid installed Firefox, he could have also uninstalled it, deleting all history. Any kid savvy enough to install Firefox is also probably savvy enough to have a good reason to avoid admin lockdowns in IE that prevent one from deleting your browsing history.
Worse? If the program running really *was* Foxfire.exe, not Firefox. I see no one has entertained the possibility that the kid was running malware. Also simple enough to rename utorrent.exe to foxfire.exe.
However, all of the above aside, aren't kids *supposed* to be supervised while on the net?
Essentially by running Firefox, the kid could've gotten around blocked sites, bypassed proxies, and been browsing pr0n with no accountability.
And as a sysadmin having dealt with too many users having installed things on work computers they shouldn't have (did the kid install the Google desktop with FF?), I'm completely on the teacher's side.
pants == NULL
This code will never run
It's obviously not his pants because he isn't wearing any.
The thinking and legal justification goes like this:
.wav (.pcm, whatever) file in 44.1 KHz stereo that corresponded to the audio tracks and kept that on a hard drive, you'd still probably be covered under the backup clause, as you could re-create the CD as distributed to you.
You get what basically amounts to a 44.1 KHz two channel encoded audio file.
If you make an MP3 out of that, you cannot turn that MP3 back into that exact same 44.1 KHz bit pattern. Therefore the MP3 is not a backup. It is "derivative", and can be argued that it doesn't fall under fair useage that allows you to make a backup copy.
If you made just one copy of the CD, you'd likely be completely covered under fair use.
If you made a
Closest analogy I can come up with is modifying GPL source code. If you made changes, you must release the source for those changes because even though the basic functionality or output may not have changed, there are differences.
It's a strange concept, because most people think 'if it sounds the same, it's the same song, right?', even though the bits and bytes that make up the sounds are different.
Thus the MP3s are 'unauthorized' copies.
You forgot to tell us about their clothing. Woolens, silk, colors and styles, please.
The telling point in the article for me was the implication that leveraging their internet presence took them from losing 7 million a year to being 28 million in the black.
I remember being frustrated at researching a purchase, only to find links to CR articles which I couldn't access. Sans web, I'd have forgotten about CR, or if I remembered, might not have bothered subscribing because the information I wanted was in a back issue, and libraries are free.
What I'd really like to see is a study or report on ad revenue changes based on a site switching dropping required registration, like the NY Times did.
Biggest problem with using a 'float height' generation system is the bottom anchor. The seafloor isn't all that sturdy to support constant tugging. Plus, the conservationists will have a point in that the bottom anchors will be disruptive to the seafloor ecology.
If they made it a Newtonian, would it be the TMNT?
Quoted: "students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work"
The problem there lies in referencing something which is changeable.
You reference it,
Someone edits the article,
Your reference is potentially no longer valid.
Referencing the 2006 edition of Britannica is fairly straightforward.
Referencing the 7:13 AM EST July 24th, 2007 version of a Wiki article on the other hand....
Now, his comment about how Wikipedia should be seen as a 'stepping stone' to other sources is 100% on the mark. Great for a basic understanding and the in-text links to related material make for better overall understanding.
His argument boils down to this:
There shouldn't be a correlation at all between voter turnout percentage and the percentage that voted for Putin's party.
It's like saying "all of candidate A's supporters voted, only half of candidate B's supporters voted (or were allowed, enabled, not intimidated into not voting, etc.).
This is begging a reference to the 'cut corner' on punch cards.
Man, I'm showing my age.
A laser powerful enough to ionize the air sufficiently will also render it non-transparent to laser frequencies, thus stopping it from working for more than a few feet.
It's been proposed to use an ultra short pulse laser for this purpose (picosecond laser), however in that picosecond the laser must deliver enough power to ionize an expanding cone of air a kilometer high. Currently not workable, although it's been demonstrated in the lab over shorter (~1 meter) distances.
Google for something like triggered lightning strike laser and you'll get some good info.
Ozone blocks ultraviolet, water vapor absorbs strongly in the infrared, dust particles et al emit in infrared too, causing a huge loss of contrast.
Sadly, the atmosphere isn't really as transparent as it looks once you get outside the visible spectrum, and that's where 50% (a statistic made up on the spot) of astronomy breakthroughs are.
Future scopes in space are likely to be infrared (Webb), ultraviolet, radio and x-ray specific. Plus, adaptive optics are still only a band-aid(R) compared to viewing outside the atmosphere.
NVidia 8800 GT can be had for about $200 to $250 depending on the bundle, and is currently rated the best card to have, beating out even the 8800 GTS and other $400+ cards.
It was free at the very beginning. Mostly because it was all handwritten on paper then typed into a text file. Registering went something like "Hey Jack, can ya write me into the hosts file?"
So is it free or not free?
The privacy policy reads like a DRM license. Seriously. Your public chat is just that... public.
*Now* I see what the GPL controversy is all about. I wouldn't want my public speech to be released under policies as strict as those. Next thing you know, someone will be slamming Google or Yahoo! for offering cached versions of blogs.
Oh, wait...
Amazon's numbers aren't right.
Overall MP3 list shows 80GB iPod at #4. This is a hard drive based player, no? It's the highest ranked HD based player on the 'complete' list.
Yet, if you narrow it down to show only HD based players, suddenly the Zune is beating it.
*Amazon* seems a bit confused, no wonder the press is too.
What's that old joke?
Dear Weatherperson,
I'm writing to let you know I just finished shoveling 20 inches of 'partly cloudy' off of my back porch.
Yours truly...
The case involves the way Microsoft marketed PCs
Since when has MS been a computer retailer?
I'd think that the class action would be against PC builders, who in turn would go after MS for misleading them into labeling a PC as Vista capable.
I love cool little gimmicky inventions like this.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a solution that was applied to a problem that didn't need solving.
Now, perhaps if they linked the sloshing behavior to the amount of milk left in the carton as reported via my networked refrigerator, they'd have me interested.
some people might not be happy having their movie-renting history publicly available
Being able to "see other ratings by this user" yields their movie rental history, algorithms or no. Is this what the big fuss is about?
I was really expecting to see some sort of design whereby the waste heat from the datacenter was used to heat homes or apartment buildings. Charging a price that's half of what it would normally cost to heat a building, and supplying the waste heat from the data center would lead to significantly reduced operating costs for the datacenter, and lower cost heating for neighboring structures. Sounds like a win/win situation if done right.
Don't forget to remove functionality to make your PC more like a Mac, like that 'other' mouse button.