IIRC, counties in the EU are allowed to ACCEPT their native currency for some period of time, but must give change bak in Euros. On my last visit to Austria, the prices of "native" stores were all in ATS and Euro, but I never saw anyone actually USE the ATS.
There is no/lib in current FreeBSD systems. You have to create one to go along with this patch, and several dlls will be placed in it.
The only thing this realy gets you (other than NSS) is a smaller memory footprint at a (theoretical) cost in speed, as well as a little unsafeness in the case of one of your/lib libraries going bad.
And you've got to remember not to put/lib on a non-root mounted partition. No big deal there.
128k in two channels, one of which can be used for voice. Must be 3.5km from the CO. 2M in 64k channels, each of which can be dropped out for a telephone. Max length: 2km from the CO.
There is lifeline capability, but only through an external product.
Data connection: Ethernet. Not Fast Ethernet, just plain old Ethernet. Or two E1s. My guess is that the real throughput of the box is along the lines of 6-8 Mbps. Voice connection: 2 E1s or 240 copper pair.
All in all, it looks like it's a simple system that any telco guy should be able to use to provide "instant" DSL. For true cheap high-speed access, it's worthless.
Your geo metro had about the same power engine as the Civic. The civic loses mpg because it's a much larger car than the metro was. I get my milage with an automatic transmission. The manual gets slightly better mileage(but not MUCH more, as the auto has a continuously variable transmission).
We weren't given the chance. The local Toyota dealer wouldn't let us drive it. We were expected to purchase it on faith.
The Prius was pretty small, and would have been a step down from our existing car (another civic). Combined with the price, the civic was a better car.
Note that I own both a Toyota and a Honda, so I wasn't leaning towards the Honda simply from customer loyalty. In the end, the size of the car and the price were the deciding factors. The Prius had a markup, and the Civic didn't, so the civic was about 2k less than the prius.
I've had a civic hybrid for almost a year now. Overall, it's averaging 41 mpg. Not incredible, but I live in a hilly, HOT area. A/C drags down the fuel effeciency considerably. I pull about 45 mpg without A/C. On long trips over relativley flat roads, I get about 47 mpg.
And, just to contradict myself, I also own a 2000 Toyota Celica That get 28-30mpg in the summer (with A/C) and has gotten as high as 35-38 mpg on long trips.
There's a problem with your statement "They're unique and everyone already has one." First, not everyone has one. You were not legaly required to have an SSN until 20 or so years ago. Of course, without one you can't get social security benefits.
A bigger problem is that everyone assumes SSNs are unique. They aren't. At best they can only uniquely identify 1 billion people. "Easy," you say, "There aren't 1 billion people in the United States." There were 281 million in 2000. The birth rate is 14.5 per 1000, and the death rate is 8.7 per 1000. While the birth rate is declining, the life expectancy of a person is lengthening. Additionally, it can not be expected that the birth rate will continue to decline to 0. This means that, while it won't happen any time soon, eventually there will be more than 1 billing people in the US. The next problem is that when you die, your SSN is NOT REUSED until your estate is closed, at a minimum. My mother's estate was not closed for nearly two YEARS after her death, and hers was a simple estate. Some accounting setups could cause you SSN to be used for many years after your death.
X servers listen for connections on a variety of different communica-
tions channels (network byte streams, shared memory, etc.). Since
there can be more than one way of contacting a given server, The host-
name part of the display name is used to determine the type of channel
(also called a transport layer) to be used. X servers generally sup-
port the following types of connections:
So, while you might be correct in some cases, you're not always correct. If you're connecting to a remote host, odds are good that you're using TCP.
When I get an unknown call, I always make sure and get their full name as well as their company name. I then give them a short speech about how they are in violation of Texas telecommunications law and ask what their supervisor's name is. I then ask to speak with that supervisor.
One of these days I may actually sue one of these jokers in small claims court, but the maximum allowed damages in Texas are pretty low. By giving the person calling a hard time, I end up keeping them off someone elses line for 10 minutes or so.
In Texas, law explicitly requires callers to identify themselves in CallerID with a phone number the business can be reached at (NOT attached to an autodialer), or if the equipment is not capable of presenting a number, they must state their company name and callback number in the first 30 seconds of a call.
Note that by having ANY id, your equipment can obviously present callerID.
You're not alone. The problem is in resolution. Text printed at less than 150 dpi has a comprehension rate 50-75% less than test at above 150dpi. In general, the books you find in a bookstore are printed at 1200dpi.
My significant other works at a publisher. When she told me about this, it helped explain a lot.
Stephenson has a very hard time actually finishing a book. Cryptonomicon never really ended, it seemed. Stephenson got 8 or 9 hundred pages in and realized he needed to start wrapping things up or people would never read the book, so he just "finished." Snowcrash had that same feeling -- "Time's up, gotta wrap up now." In that sense, Stephenson doesn't match up to Gibson.
That said, neither Gibson nor Sterling have had their best works lately. IMO, they both shone their brightest in The Difference Engine -- another long book, but one that combined the best of both Gibson and Sterling. Interestingly enough, the storyline is set in the past, not the future, with subtle changes that still make it a futurist-type book.
5 9's is the requirement for the overall solution, not an individual component. How many times have you seen a 5E rebooted? I've witnessed only one. Ever. When was the last time you picked up a handset and got no dialtone (let's ignore "line down" issues)?
The only line cards I've ever dealt with in "real" Telco (not a Digiboard POS) have 4 lines per side, with two sides per card. You're supposed to be able to fail over a line from one linecard to another line card, although I never actually saw anything use that facility (I dealt with T1 bundles and SS7, so I never dealt with the physical line cards). Those cards are then placed in shelves, each of which can fail over. Those shelves are placed in cabinets, each of which can fail over. Those cabinets communicate over two busses, each of which can fail over, and those busses talk to any of a number of CPUs, each of which can fail over.
At any rate, I've NEVER seen a 5 9's single component, but I HAVE seen 5 9's systems.
For those not familar: Leslie is a (pseudo) homeless cross-dresser in Austin. He/She has run for mayor in every election I've witnessed, and consistantly pulls in some votes. He/She is a true example of how Austin still holds on to some of what makes it special. For a little slideshow of leslie, go to this slide show
A: The HyWire isn't a hybrid. B: Today's hybrid gas/electrics AREN'T bubble cars.
OK, I'll give you the Insight is a bubble car. But it's also a two-seater semi-concept car. The Prius is closer to a real car, but I swear to god it looks like an Echo. The Civic, on the other hand, is just a Civie EX with a fancy transmission and electric moter. Obviously, it's got some other differences, but the only noticible one on mine is the the back seats don't fold down (that's where the batteries are).
What I find interesting is the cost. The chip is only $40. The board is a damn sight more expensive, but then again, it's a developer board. Production runs could easily float close to the processor cost.
As much as I hate to say this: imagine a Beowolfe cluster of these. You could probably fit 40 of these puppies in a standard PC case space.
The problem with the "I can keep it all in my head" philosophy is that your head is not protected very well from being hit by a bus. Additionally, noone can read your thoughts. If you have to collaborate with anyone else, you need to write down the design and layout.
In relation to your design methodology comment: Source code comments are not a replacement for good design and communication -- they are a part of it.
Lastly, remember that design may matter all the time, but it matters incredibly when your site design is part of a multimillion dollar product.
My wife works for a not-to-be-named textbook company. Their online companion to one of their books was getting incredibly poor remarks. She was in a group working on the problem, so she asked to see the site map. The answer from the web-design group was "site map? We don't have one." So she clarified that she was talking about a design site map. They didn't have one of those, either.
I wonder how many sites with no site map actually don't even have a design map? I would venture quite a few. Web design is similar to software enginerring: without a good plan, you're gonna get crap out of the process.
And your change in routing policy is going to affect spanning tree how?
How do you handle mobile users? What about dialup static IP addresses from multiple RAS devices? Hand-editing of routing tables works only in the most simple of networks.
G.721 and G.729 are CODECs, not VOIP protocols. g.729 came out of the cellphone arena, and 721 is the standard for logarithmic bit-encoding used for T1, etc.
The problem is that as a company, I can't go out and buy a Ogg codec chip. I CAN with g.721/729. When drawing up circuits, I can place a black box in my diagrams and label it "coding happens here." Until that's available for Ogg, AND you can convince large telcos to switch to it, it won't take off.
In theory, a judge wants to change law as little as possible when making a judgement. In this case, the judge was saying, "Your patent doesn't apply in this case," not, "your patent is invalid." The BT patent is probably very valid for a very specific use (as patents should be).
Judicial rulings should be like debugging someone elses software: change as little as you absolutely have to, lest you break something subtle that you just didn't notice.
Updating packages and update the system are two different things. A weekly portupgrade -a is one thing. A cvsup and rebuild of world weekly would be overkill. However, it's so easy to do, I could see people doing it.
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IIRC, counties in the EU are allowed to ACCEPT their native currency for some period of time, but must give change bak in Euros. On my last visit to Austria, the prices of "native" stores were all in ATS and Euro, but I never saw anyone actually USE the ATS.
There is no /lib in current FreeBSD systems. You have to create one to go along with this patch, and several dlls will be placed in it.
/lib libraries going bad.
/lib on a non-root mounted partition. No big deal there.
The only thing this realy gets you (other than NSS) is a smaller memory footprint at a (theoretical) cost in speed, as well as a little unsafeness in the case of one of your
And you've got to remember not to put
Highlights:
128k in two channels, one of which can be used for voice. Must be 3.5km from the CO.
2M in 64k channels, each of which can be dropped out for a telephone. Max length: 2km from the CO.
There is lifeline capability, but only through an external product.
Data connection: Ethernet. Not Fast Ethernet, just plain old Ethernet. Or two E1s. My guess is that the real throughput of the box is along the lines of 6-8 Mbps.
Voice connection: 2 E1s or 240 copper pair.
All in all, it looks like it's a simple system that any telco guy should be able to use to provide "instant" DSL. For true cheap high-speed access, it's worthless.
Your geo metro had about the same power engine as the Civic. The civic loses mpg because it's a much larger car than the metro was. I get my milage with an automatic transmission. The manual gets slightly better mileage(but not MUCH more, as the auto has a continuously variable transmission).
We weren't given the chance. The local Toyota dealer wouldn't let us drive it. We were expected to purchase it on faith.
The Prius was pretty small, and would have been a step down from our existing car (another civic). Combined with the price, the civic was a better car.
Note that I own both a Toyota and a Honda, so I wasn't leaning towards the Honda simply from customer loyalty. In the end, the size of the car and the price were the deciding factors. The Prius had a markup, and the Civic didn't, so the civic was about 2k less than the prius.
Here, here!
I've had a civic hybrid for almost a year now. Overall, it's averaging 41 mpg. Not incredible, but I live in a hilly, HOT area. A/C drags down the fuel effeciency considerably. I pull about 45 mpg without A/C. On long trips over relativley flat roads, I get about 47 mpg.
And, just to contradict myself, I also own a 2000 Toyota Celica That get 28-30mpg in the summer (with A/C) and has gotten as high as 35-38 mpg on long trips.
There's a problem with your statement "They're unique and everyone already has one." First, not everyone has one. You were not legaly required to have an SSN until 20 or so years ago. Of course, without one you can't get social security benefits.
A bigger problem is that everyone assumes SSNs are unique. They aren't. At best they can only uniquely identify 1 billion people. "Easy," you say, "There aren't 1 billion people in the United States." There were 281 million in 2000. The birth rate is 14.5 per 1000, and the death rate is 8.7 per 1000. While the birth rate is declining, the life expectancy of a person is lengthening. Additionally, it can not be expected that the birth rate will continue to decline to 0. This means that, while it won't happen any time soon, eventually there will be more than 1 billing people in the US.
The next problem is that when you die, your SSN is NOT REUSED until your estate is closed, at a minimum. My mother's estate was not closed for nearly two YEARS after her death, and hers was a simple estate. Some accounting setups could cause you SSN to be used for many years after your death.
And of course, I learn my own moral: read the post you're responding to more carefully. It was about local connectivity. *smack*
Um, no.
From `man X`:
X servers listen for connections on a variety of different communica-
tions channels (network byte streams, shared memory, etc.). Since
there can be more than one way of contacting a given server, The host-
name part of the display name is used to determine the type of channel
(also called a transport layer) to be used. X servers generally sup-
port the following types of connections:
So, while you might be correct in some cases, you're not always correct. If you're connecting to a remote host, odds are good that you're using TCP.
Moral: read the man page.
When I get an unknown call, I always make sure and get their full name as well as their company name. I then give them a short speech about how they are in violation of Texas telecommunications law and ask what their supervisor's name is. I then ask to speak with that supervisor.
One of these days I may actually sue one of these jokers in small claims court, but the maximum allowed damages in Texas are pretty low. By giving the person calling a hard time, I end up keeping them off someone elses line for 10 minutes or so.
In Texas, law explicitly requires callers to identify themselves in CallerID with a phone number the business can be reached at (NOT attached to an autodialer), or if the equipment is not capable of presenting a number, they must state their company name and callback number in the first 30 seconds of a call.
Note that by having ANY id, your equipment can obviously present callerID.
For once, Texas has a useful law.
You're not alone. The problem is in resolution. Text printed at less than 150 dpi has a comprehension rate 50-75% less than test at above 150dpi. In general, the books you find in a bookstore are printed at 1200dpi.
My significant other works at a publisher. When she told me about this, it helped explain a lot.
Stephenson has a very hard time actually finishing a book. Cryptonomicon never really ended, it seemed. Stephenson got 8 or 9 hundred pages in and realized he needed to start wrapping things up or people would never read the book, so he just "finished." Snowcrash had that same feeling -- "Time's up, gotta wrap up now." In that sense, Stephenson doesn't match up to Gibson.
That said, neither Gibson nor Sterling have had their best works lately. IMO, they both shone their brightest in The Difference Engine -- another long book, but one that combined the best of both Gibson and Sterling. Interestingly enough, the storyline is set in the past, not the future, with subtle changes that still make it a futurist-type book.
5 9's is the requirement for the overall solution, not an individual component. How many times have you seen a 5E rebooted? I've witnessed only one. Ever. When was the last time you picked up a handset and got no dialtone (let's ignore "line down" issues)?
The only line cards I've ever dealt with in "real" Telco (not a Digiboard POS) have 4 lines per side, with two sides per card. You're supposed to be able to fail over a line from one linecard to another line card, although I never actually saw anything use that facility (I dealt with T1 bundles and SS7, so I never dealt with the physical line cards). Those cards are then placed in shelves, each of which can fail over. Those shelves are placed in cabinets, each of which can fail over. Those cabinets communicate over two busses, each of which can fail over, and those busses talk to any of a number of CPUs, each of which can fail over.
At any rate, I've NEVER seen a 5 9's single component, but I HAVE seen 5 9's systems.
For those not familar: Leslie is a (pseudo) homeless cross-dresser in Austin. He/She has run for mayor in every election I've witnessed, and consistantly pulls in some votes. He/She is a true example of how Austin still holds on to some of what makes it special. For a little slideshow of leslie, go to this slide show
A: The HyWire isn't a hybrid.
B: Today's hybrid gas/electrics AREN'T bubble cars.
OK, I'll give you the Insight is a bubble car. But it's also a two-seater semi-concept car. The Prius is closer to a real car, but I swear to god it looks like an Echo. The Civic, on the other hand, is just a Civie EX with a fancy transmission and electric moter. Obviously, it's got some other differences, but the only noticible one on mine is the the back seats don't fold down (that's where the batteries are).
Their stated target is embedded devices.
What I find interesting is the cost. The chip is only $40. The board is a damn sight more expensive, but then again, it's a developer board. Production runs could easily float close to the processor cost.
As much as I hate to say this: imagine a Beowolfe cluster of these. You could probably fit 40 of these puppies in a standard PC case space.
Perhaps by adding DDR memory? It's got a 4G capable MMU and a 32b address space.
*duh*
The problem with the "I can keep it all in my head" philosophy is that your head is not protected very well from being hit by a bus. Additionally, noone can read your thoughts. If you have to collaborate with anyone else, you need to write down the design and layout.
In relation to your design methodology comment: Source code comments are not a replacement for good design and communication -- they are a part of it.
Lastly, remember that design may matter all the time, but it matters incredibly when your site design is part of a multimillion dollar product.
My wife works for a not-to-be-named textbook company. Their online companion to one of their books was getting incredibly poor remarks. She was in a group working on the problem, so she asked to see the site map. The answer from the web-design group was "site map? We don't have one." So she clarified that she was talking about a design site map. They didn't have one of those, either.
I wonder how many sites with no site map actually don't even have a design map? I would venture quite a few. Web design is similar to software enginerring: without a good plan, you're gonna get crap out of the process.
And your change in routing policy is going to affect spanning tree how?
How do you handle mobile users? What about dialup static IP addresses from multiple RAS devices?
Hand-editing of routing tables works only in the most simple of networks.
G.721 and G.729 are CODECs, not VOIP protocols. g.729 came out of the cellphone arena, and 721 is the standard for logarithmic bit-encoding used for T1, etc.
The problem is that as a company, I can't go out and buy a Ogg codec chip. I CAN with g.721/729. When drawing up circuits, I can place a black box in my diagrams and label it "coding happens here." Until that's available for Ogg, AND you can convince large telcos to switch to it, it won't take off.
In theory, a judge wants to change law as little as possible when making a judgement. In this case, the judge was saying, "Your patent doesn't apply in this case," not, "your patent is invalid." The BT patent is probably very valid for a very specific use (as patents should be).
Judicial rulings should be like debugging someone elses software: change as little as you absolutely have to, lest you break something subtle that you just didn't notice.
Updating packages and update the system are two different things. A weekly portupgrade -a is one thing. A cvsup and rebuild of world weekly would be overkill.
However, it's so easy to do, I could see people doing it.
I read the headline as "Silicon Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead." And I thought, "a bridge out of silicon? That doesn't make sense."