I believe this becomes a problem for companies that have gone to the stock market. When a young company is started, it is managed by people who believe in its vision and fortunately, they own all stocks.
When more money is needed, the stock market is used to to so, but as a result other people own the shares of the company and expect too much from it: they think that the company can still grow as much as it did during itsstartup. When it fails to do so, they blame the management (of course) and replace it in order to make as much profit as possible and in a short time frame.
From the website:
This site is to promote the science of nuclear physics, both small and large.... With this machine, the student can encounter many of the same features, frustrations, and breakthroughs of the nuclear physicist.
From version 4.0.3, PHP 4 accesses SAP DB via PHP's Unified ODBC and the SAP DB ODBC-driver. Similar to Perl, this can be performed using a driver manager.
So, there is no native interface from PHP to SAP DB, but you can go via ODBC. Of course, this is only easy to do under Windows.
Maybe this explains what really happened to the scientists discovering the tomb of Tutanchamon. The tomb might have been used to store the nuclear waste of the Egyptians.
The problem is that those JAR files are trusted, since they are loaded from the local classpath and the threads running in them have all possible privileges.
I even think they contain native code, so they can do anything they like with the VM.
This reminds me of a number of problem we had with Java API's supplied by IBM (for instance the ones you can download from their website or the ones supplied with WebSphere).
After simply including the API's on our classpath, the Java VM stopped behaving normally. Execution would suddenly jump from one class to the second(!) line of an exception handler in another class. After removing the API's things returned to normal.
I don't know if IBM is planning to buy Sun, but they certainly have their own ideas about Java.
Instead of renting music (where you lose the ability to play the music when you stop paying the rent), it would be nice if you could lease the music. After having leased the music for a while, you would own it and wouldn't have to pay for listening to it anymore.
Of course, it would be very hard to implement such a scheme and even more difficult (if not impossible) to make it unbreakable.
Here in Belgium, payphones are now being used for a variety of reasons:
to store money on your Proton card (a Proton card is a chipcard containing an electronic wallet).
to increase the amount of money on the pre-pay card of your cellular telephone (you use the payphone once in a while to make sure your cellular keeps working).
I'm sure other applications can be thought of. Another good reason for keeping them is to make sure that people can call the police when their cellphone is stolen.
It's true that electrons travel at a speed of a few meters per second, but the electrical current goes about 200.000 km/sec. Usually the difference between c and 2/3 c can be neglected.
Besides, there are already other technologies (such as fiber and transfer through satellites) that use light (or electromagnetic waves) as a medium. They don't seem to be much faster.
I think it will behave quite nicely in the rain, especially when the distances are not too large.
In my opinion the chance of a very small laser beam being hit by a rain drop are very small. Network protocols should be able to cope with that.
Maybe the eruption of a vulcano could distort the laser beam, but I don't think Internet access is your first concern in that case.
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I believe this becomes a problem for companies that have gone to the stock market. When a young company is started, it is managed by people who believe in its vision and fortunately, they own all stocks.
When more money is needed, the stock market is used to to so, but as a result other people own the shares of the company and expect too much from it: they think that the company can still grow as much as it did during itsstartup. When it fails to do so, they blame the management (of course) and replace it in order to make as much profit as possible and in a short time frame.
I must admit that today is Debian's big day: new installer, new desktop environment, new users (thanks to /.).
remember the configuration the user entered, to make it possible for him to automatically get the next kernel version.
send reminders whenever a new version is available (you could also send the kernel to him, but I don't think that's a good idea.
Of course, CPU utilization will be your biggest problem (especially if this becomes successful).
From the website: This site is to promote the science of nuclear physics, both small and large. ... With this machine, the student can encounter many of the same features, frustrations, and breakthroughs of the nuclear physicist.
This sounds like a nice invention for burglars. Now they no longer have to make noise when trying to break the window.
Next week on /.: invention of a burglar alarm that can detect microwaves.
I'm certainly Ready-to-Run away from it.
they don't mean that kind of wind.
The second population accounts for 80% to 90% of the comments :-)
- From version 4.0.3, PHP 4 accesses SAP DB via PHP's Unified ODBC and the SAP DB ODBC-driver. Similar to Perl, this can be performed using a driver manager.
So, there is no native interface from PHP to SAP DB, but you can go via ODBC. Of course, this is only easy to do under Windows.Everyone knows that nothing can beat a Jedi Knight in combat.
This is already the fourth time that his website gets slashdotted.
Maybe this explains what really happened to the scientists discovering the tomb of Tutanchamon. The tomb might have been used to store the nuclear waste of the Egyptians.
The Computer Science department of the K.U.Leuven also has a museum online, although the computers in there are not as old as the ones in the UVA computer museum.
As long as they don't make the traditional mistakes about computers (see Computers in Movie's and Userfriendly's Movie OS).
Look here for its press release.
The problem is that those JAR files are trusted, since they are loaded from the local classpath and the threads running in them have all possible privileges.
I even think they contain native code, so they can do anything they like with the VM.
This reminds me of a number of problem we had with Java API's supplied by IBM (for instance the ones you can download from their website or the ones supplied with WebSphere).
After simply including the API's on our classpath, the Java VM stopped behaving normally. Execution would suddenly jump from one class to the second(!) line of an exception handler in another class. After removing the API's things returned to normal.
I don't know if IBM is planning to buy Sun, but they certainly have their own ideas about Java.
I believe that was the way to do it (unless someone else knows better).
You had to apply the same trick in Police Quest 1, while playing poker with the bad guys.
Instead of renting music (where you lose the ability to play the music when you stop paying the rent), it would be nice if you could lease the music. After having leased the music for a while, you would own it and wouldn't have to pay for listening to it anymore.
Of course, it would be very hard to implement such a scheme and even more difficult (if not impossible) to make it unbreakable.
Hell, I wouldn't trust any large scale software project I've ever worked on to count my vote.
I suppose you're a Microsoft employee?
And, best of all, no one would get hurt.
Unless you had an adequate form of force-feedback!
Here in Belgium, payphones are now being used for a variety of reasons:
to store money on your Proton card (a Proton card is a chipcard containing an electronic wallet).
to increase the amount of money on the pre-pay card of your cellular telephone (you use the payphone once in a while to make sure your cellular keeps working).
I'm sure other applications can be thought of. Another good reason for keeping them is to make sure that people can call the police when their cellphone is stolen.
Especially the output of the nmap scan of the modem is interesting, since a huge number of security problems can be spotted, e.g.
open echo and chargen UDP ports (nice for a DOS attack)
very easy to do TCP sequence prediction (ideal for TCP spoofing to the device)
I'm glad I don't have such a modem at home!
It's true that electrons travel at a speed of a few meters per second, but the electrical current goes about 200.000 km/sec. Usually the difference between c and 2/3 c can be neglected.
Besides, there are already other technologies (such as fiber and transfer through satellites) that use light (or electromagnetic waves) as a medium. They don't seem to be much faster.
I think it will behave quite nicely in the rain, especially when the distances are not too large.
In my opinion the chance of a very small laser beam being hit by a rain drop are very small. Network protocols should be able to cope with that.
Maybe the eruption of a vulcano could distort the laser beam, but I don't think Internet access is your first concern in that case.