This will be even less expensive than getting "real" modems, and will make your boss smile... It'll make some of the purchasers curse like sailors, but hey...
"The Client owns the Domain Name registered. Gandi simply acts on the Client's behalf."
No, I'm not affiliated with Gandi, but I do use them for my registration services. They're the only company who makes such a statement in their contract (AFAIK).
Buy 'em for a dime apiece, stick each one in its own Zip-loc bag, then put 'em away for 20 years. At the end of that time, you ought to be able to sell them for a whole quarter!
I'm more worried about ANTARCTIC ice. You know, the big ice cap stuck on top of a field of active volcanoes, down South? A little bit of extra activity could really ruin our millennium.
This sort of thing happens all the time, and often it's only astroturfing. But assuming it isn't, and this situation doesn't look like it could be, EMI wouldn't be treating it seriously if there weren't anything about it.
So yeah, when I read the Slashdot article, I visited a w4r3z site and found a torrent for it, and downloaded it. And no, I'm not a big fan of rap, but it's not that bad.
This "troll" makes an excellent point. Wireless has its benefits and drawbacks, and especially in an urban environment the drawbacks are enormous. Something as stupid as a neighbor's leaky microwave oven can drive one to tears. A wired ethernet connection is faster, more reliable and more secure.
I don't think the issue is actually cost here, the issue is that the shuttle is too unsafe to fly for any reason at all. Clearly if it is safe enough to fly thirty odd missions for the space station it is safe enough to do one mission to save Hubble.
I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that we're one shuttle short, the gov't doesn't want to spend money building yet another when they're so badly obsolete, and there are too many more important tasks to give time and space for a Hubble mission.
Current organisms are DESIGNED to evolve; DNA and its replication system are subject to all sorts of interesting errors, and there are even mechanisms in place that control the error rate. A mechanical replicator can be designed with sufficient redundancy that it would be practically impossible for evolution to take place.
We don't even really know how to build nanobots and already we're talking about failsafes. I agree that adding a failsafe is a good idea, even in a nanobot that can't replicate, but unless you know how you're going to build something you can't know the best way to throw a wrench in the works. It may not even be possible to add a particular failsafe to a nanobot because of engineering constraints. First build a few, THEN figure out where to stick the self-destruct.
It's obvious to me that there are plenty of safety precautions that can be used to allow refueling of spacecraft at a space station.
(1) Use binary fuels. E.G, LH/LOX. On Earth liquid hydrogen is seriously flammable, and liquid oxygen will make other things ignite. In space, liquid hydrogen will find no oxidizer to make it burn, and liquid oxygen will disperse into vacuum too quickly to make objects around it burn very well.
(2) Use breakaway tethers. The other major hazard with using volatile fuels is that fuel components from a punctured tank may jet away, imparting kinetic energy to its source. An incident like this with a spacecraft or fuel storage tank hard-docked to a space station might potentially deorbit both. By attaching both fuel reservoir and spacecraft (while fueling) to the station with a breakaway tether, this danger is significantly reduced.
It's not that there's no market for simple phones, it's that the microprocessor revolution has reached the point that there's so much excess capacity in the cheapest phones they can make they might as well throw in some doodads.
Find me one cellular company -- just ONE -- whose cheapest phone doesn't have some basic games onboard.
He's right, and not just about pr0n; there are lots of activities that are better on a huge screen. If you decide not to hook up a TV tuner, it's still fun.
Slashdot Mirror
Doing a whois of proboards21.com at whois.internic.net:
Domain Name: PROBOARDS21.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS.PROBOARDS.COM
Name Server: NS4.PROBOARDS.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 25-feb-2004
Creation Date: 17-mar-2003
Expiration Date: 17-mar-2007
So he *should* be able to transfer it away, so long as godaddy.com doesn't specifically block the transfer...
This will be even less expensive than getting "real" modems, and will make your boss smile... It'll make some of the purchasers curse like sailors, but hey...
https://www.gandi.net/contract.en.txt
"The Client owns the Domain Name registered. Gandi simply acts on the Client's behalf."
No, I'm not affiliated with Gandi, but I do use them for my registration services. They're the only company who makes such a statement in their contract (AFAIK).
Buy 'em for a dime apiece, stick each one in its own Zip-loc bag, then put 'em away for 20 years. At the end of that time, you ought to be able to sell them for a whole quarter!
X-Windows?
I'm more worried about ANTARCTIC ice. You know, the big ice cap stuck on top of a field of active volcanoes, down South? A little bit of extra activity could really ruin our millennium.
This sort of thing happens all the time, and often it's only astroturfing. But assuming it isn't, and this situation doesn't look like it could be, EMI wouldn't be treating it seriously if there weren't anything about it.
So yeah, when I read the Slashdot article, I visited a w4r3z site and found a torrent for it, and downloaded it. And no, I'm not a big fan of rap, but it's not that bad.
20-30, and then tell them you're using 10% of the line's capacity.
I forgot to make a joke about a record number of court martials for people trying to get out of the army by getting shot in the foot.
Oh great, let's make our troopers into marching Xmas trees, why don't we? "Don't fire until you see the lights of their feet!"
This "troll" makes an excellent point. Wireless has its benefits and drawbacks, and especially in an urban environment the drawbacks are enormous. Something as stupid as a neighbor's leaky microwave oven can drive one to tears. A wired ethernet connection is faster, more reliable and more secure.
It's likely to get them in trouble with Time Warner.
Thank you for the hoist, petard. And it's "he".
It's not all from AIX. Some of it came from Dynix/ptx, which apparently came from Sequent. (p.29 of PDF)
Just FYI, NSIS stands for the product's original name, the "Nullsoft Super-PIMP Install System", before AOL made them change it.
I don't think the issue is actually cost here, the issue is that the shuttle is too unsafe to fly for any reason at all. Clearly if it is safe enough to fly thirty odd missions for the space station it is safe enough to do one mission to save Hubble.
I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that we're one shuttle short, the gov't doesn't want to spend money building yet another when they're so badly obsolete, and there are too many more important tasks to give time and space for a Hubble mission.
"Hey Sal! The marketing people want to know the minimum system requirements."
"Uhh, I dunno. We need a 3D video accelerator, and I dunno what else."
"Well, marketing wants it 5 minutes ago, they're designing the box right now!"
"Bah, stupid marketing people. Um, hang on a minute. Fred, how fast is your machine?"
Current organisms are DESIGNED to evolve; DNA and its replication system are subject to all sorts of interesting errors, and there are even mechanisms in place that control the error rate. A mechanical replicator can be designed with sufficient redundancy that it would be practically impossible for evolution to take place.
We don't even really know how to build nanobots and already we're talking about failsafes. I agree that adding a failsafe is a good idea, even in a nanobot that can't replicate, but unless you know how you're going to build something you can't know the best way to throw a wrench in the works. It may not even be possible to add a particular failsafe to a nanobot because of engineering constraints. First build a few, THEN figure out where to stick the self-destruct.
It's obvious to me that there are plenty of safety precautions that can be used to allow refueling of spacecraft at a space station.
(1) Use binary fuels. E.G, LH/LOX. On Earth liquid hydrogen is seriously flammable, and liquid oxygen will make other things ignite. In space, liquid hydrogen will find no oxidizer to make it burn, and liquid oxygen will disperse into vacuum too quickly to make objects around it burn very well.
(2) Use breakaway tethers. The other major hazard with using volatile fuels is that fuel components from a punctured tank may jet away, imparting kinetic energy to its source. An incident like this with a spacecraft or fuel storage tank hard-docked to a space station might potentially deorbit both. By attaching both fuel reservoir and spacecraft (while fueling) to the station with a breakaway tether, this danger is significantly reduced.
It's not that there's no market for simple phones, it's that the microprocessor revolution has reached the point that there's so much excess capacity in the cheapest phones they can make they might as well throw in some doodads.
Find me one cellular company -- just ONE -- whose cheapest phone doesn't have some basic games onboard.
He's right, and not just about pr0n; there are lots of activities that are better on a huge screen. If you decide not to hook up a TV tuner, it's still fun.
Hey eval! Haven't been able to find you...
Building a HTPC only makes sense if it can do something better than any other commercially available solution...
Two words: Half Life.
Bubbles in the structure? Maybe it'll form a geodesic? Then we can have Buckminsterfullerium!