"Texas is 266,807 square miles. That's 1,408,740,960 square feet."
You multiplied the number of square miles times 5,280, the number of feet in a mile. But that's only the number of square feet along a one-foot-wide strip of a square mile.
266,807 square miles times 5,280 feet (one side of a square mile) times 5,280 feet (the number of one-foot strips in a square mile) is 7,438,152,268,800 square feet. Now do the division by the number of people. 1,213 square feet per person.
Actually, the Earth has often been warmer than now. We haven't yet returned to the temperature before the last Ice Ages. It's fun watching people trying to prove that Evil Humans are causing temperature changes, except when people with power take them seriously.
GeneWeb has a web interface (usable with or without HTTP server). It has its own database, and as the example database has 70,000 people (try looking up a member of royalty), capacity should not be a problem. You'll have to decide if the features match your needs.
So you're saying the problem is creeping featurism. What used to be called an "Intelligent NIC" is now just an ordinary NIC -- and intelligence is now indicated by other features, such as encryption in firmware/hardware.
Oh, you gravity parochial, you. If they can survive in low gravity conditions, why would they need to visit Earth? There's plenty of room and sunlight Out There. And gold, platinum, zinc...
Or you don't connect the zero-G area to the rotating station. Just park zero-G workshops nearby. It changes the problem from rotating couplers into safe and convenient short-range transport (teleoperation can be used in either case, so that is not specific to either problem).
Standing will make the tiny hits tap against the end of the bone, which is the same direction as the shock of walking.
If you sit on the vibrating surface, the vibrations on the thigh bones will hit at 90 degrees of the impact of walking. Maybe that will stimulate your thigh bones to grow to resist the force of sitting, but not of walking. Is that what you want?
DCS1000? Why, did they have a Y2K naming failure and DCS2000 rolled over to DCS1000? What kind of customer marketing decided on a 000 prefix? We should get better products from our government money. (Of course, I also don't appreciate the expense of their having to change all those Carnivor business cards, letterhead, pamphlets, and billboards)
Crowded? If you put every human on the planet in Texas, everyone would have more square feet of space than you have in your dorm room. Don't get out much, do you?
Oh, you're worried about a hundred years from now? Become a teacher. More education reduces population growth rates.
The Environmental Protection Administration is seeking to make this encryption technology illegal. Speciation of two such closely related creatures crowds their environmental niche, increasing the chance of one of the species becoming endangered. The EPA intends to order the Wolbachia bacterium to cease its encryption immediately. Aware that EPA restrictions are limited to the USA, it also ordered the Wolbachia to stay at least 500 miles away from other countries.
The bacterium has spawned lawyers which are suing the EPA. They claim that the EPA's action threatens the Wolbachia, which entitles it to protection as an endangered species. Senator Clinton has requested that Central Park be declared Wolbachia National Park and bacterium feeding programs be started immediately.
You could redirect the beam with a reflector or an IR repeater. One possible use would be to bounce the beam from the top of the PDA toward the side, with the phone next to the PDA.
This configuration can be more portable by fastening it on a board, such as Velcro loops to hold the two devices -- and the Velcro fastened to the board (or passed through slots on the board). There are small clipboards which may be useful.
Also note that by using a reflector, the phone can be mounted in a vertical position and held in place with a belt clip or cradle.
For the reflector, I suggest polished copper. Copper is a very good IR reflector. You can get copper sheets at hobby and craft shops -- although it's easy to test with a shiny copper coin just to see if it works. Copper should be coated with a sealer to protect it from oxidation, unless you find that an old penny works for you.
The security staff should be able to check everything, but change nothing. Grant them read-only administrator permissions. System administrators have security responsibilities, but they should be monitored.
Look at accounting procedures: the amount on checks compared to amount on deposit slip, compared to totals from clerks opening bill-paying envelopes, compared to amounts credited to people's accounts for payments, compared to number of envelopes given to the clerks who open the envelopes, compared to the total number of envelopes from the bill-payment P.O. box. Confirmations of confirmations.
The software only shows the limits and capabilities of the software. Image analysis software is a substitute for the human eye and brain. Knowing the limits of computer software does not tell you how many human eyeballs are studying images of what an adversary is doing.
As for the GPL, that only requires that they release the source code of any executable programs which they release outside their organization. And it only requires that the source code be released to the holder of their executable program. The GPL does not allow restriction of what the recipient does with the source code. So if someone used GPL code only inside an organization they don't have to release the source code to anyone -- but they lose the contributions which others might have made.
Actually, we seem to get a significant hit every several million years. If we see them coming, we can put a mass driver (or some other engine) on them and move them to a new orbit. After a billion years of doing this, we should have moved a lot of asteroids and moving another one will be routine.
So give Squid a memory of what has been read in the past, and prefetch the one link which tends to get read after the one just fetched. Now you get to figure out "after" algorithms: 24th link from the top on this site, while after the CNN.com frontpage the BBC Science page is most likely...
I've used netdev, which involves configuring various LILO boot configurations (and your network boot scripts then test for the boot configuration name).
I think Divine is a better concept. A configuration file tells it what servers exist on your various networks, and it then looks for the servers and sets the network configuration appropriately. But Divine doesn't know about DHCP yet.
It's a matter of what the BIOS is able to boot from. PC-104 systems often have various bootable flash devices, and there are IDE-compatible flash cards that I've booted from. Haven't seen a bootable USB yet...although it would be nice.
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You multiplied the number of square miles times 5,280, the number of feet in a mile. But that's only the number of square feet along a one-foot-wide strip of a square mile.
266,807 square miles times 5,280 feet (one side of a square mile) times 5,280 feet (the number of one-foot strips in a square mile) is 7,438,152,268,800 square feet. Now do the division by the number of people. 1,213 square feet per person.
Actually, the Earth has often been warmer than now. We haven't yet returned to the temperature before the last Ice Ages. It's fun watching people trying to prove that Evil Humans are causing temperature changes, except when people with power take them seriously.
GeneWeb has a web interface (usable with or without HTTP server). It has its own database, and as the example database has 70,000 people (try looking up a member of royalty), capacity should not be a problem. You'll have to decide if the features match your needs.
So you're saying the problem is creeping featurism. What used to be called an "Intelligent NIC" is now just an ordinary NIC -- and intelligence is now indicated by other features, such as encryption in firmware/hardware.
Oh, you gravity parochial, you. If they can survive in low gravity conditions, why would they need to visit Earth? There's plenty of room and sunlight Out There. And gold, platinum, zinc...
Or you don't connect the zero-G area to the rotating station. Just park zero-G workshops nearby. It changes the problem from rotating couplers into safe and convenient short-range transport (teleoperation can be used in either case, so that is not specific to either problem).
Just because you can create a five-minute Flash flyover of Washington D.C. to play before anyone can get into your site does not mean you should.
If you sit on the vibrating surface, the vibrations on the thigh bones will hit at 90 degrees of the impact of walking. Maybe that will stimulate your thigh bones to grow to resist the force of sitting, but not of walking. Is that what you want?
DCS1000? Why, did they have a Y2K naming failure and DCS2000 rolled over to DCS1000? What kind of customer marketing decided on a 000 prefix? We should get better products from our government money. (Of course, I also don't appreciate the expense of their having to change all those Carnivor business cards, letterhead, pamphlets, and billboards)
Make sure you don't make a backup using entangled photons...
Oh, you're worried about a hundred years from now? Become a teacher. More education reduces population growth rates.
As I mentioned there, Christopher Browne's List is a good starting point. Note that a number of the multi-module accounting packages include POS modules.
Also mentioned were Samco, and Proven Choice Accounting.
The bacterium has spawned lawyers which are suing the EPA. They claim that the EPA's action threatens the Wolbachia, which entitles it to protection as an endangered species. Senator Clinton has requested that Central Park be declared Wolbachia National Park and bacterium feeding programs be started immediately.
This configuration can be more portable by fastening it on a board, such as Velcro loops to hold the two devices -- and the Velcro fastened to the board (or passed through slots on the board). There are small clipboards which may be useful.
Also note that by using a reflector, the phone can be mounted in a vertical position and held in place with a belt clip or cradle.
For the reflector, I suggest polished copper. Copper is a very good IR reflector. You can get copper sheets at hobby and craft shops -- although it's easy to test with a shiny copper coin just to see if it works. Copper should be coated with a sealer to protect it from oxidation, unless you find that an old penny works for you.
Oh, China knows the rocks. We published what is in the rocks. The head of the China space agency said they intend to use what is on the Moon.
It is best to isolate various tasks, so failures at one level don't propagate through everything. One example of a failure is a network administrator deleting PC files, server files, and the backups are missing (verdict later set aside).
Look at accounting procedures: the amount on checks compared to amount on deposit slip, compared to totals from clerks opening bill-paying envelopes, compared to amounts credited to people's accounts for payments, compared to number of envelopes given to the clerks who open the envelopes, compared to the total number of envelopes from the bill-payment P.O. box. Confirmations of confirmations.
As for the GPL, that only requires that they release the source code of any executable programs which they release outside their organization. And it only requires that the source code be released to the holder of their executable program. The GPL does not allow restriction of what the recipient does with the source code. So if someone used GPL code only inside an organization they don't have to release the source code to anyone -- but they lose the contributions which others might have made.
Well, if the police are going to behave that way, I think I won't rescue any hostages tonight...
Can I help with that link?
China is going to land men on the Moon. Suppose India will get in a race?
Solution: Nasty Men made illegal.
Actually, we seem to get a significant hit every several million years. If we see them coming, we can put a mass driver (or some other engine) on them and move them to a new orbit. After a billion years of doing this, we should have moved a lot of asteroids and moving another one will be routine.
So give Squid a memory of what has been read in the past, and prefetch the one link which tends to get read after the one just fetched. Now you get to figure out "after" algorithms: 24th link from the top on this site, while after the CNN.com frontpage the BBC Science page is most likely...
I think Divine is a better concept. A configuration file tells it what servers exist on your various networks, and it then looks for the servers and sets the network configuration appropriately. But Divine doesn't know about DHCP yet.
It's a matter of what the BIOS is able to boot from. PC-104 systems often have various bootable flash devices, and there are IDE-compatible flash cards that I've booted from. Haven't seen a bootable USB yet...although it would be nice.