While this is all mostly true, NASA hasn't been the answer for decades because all of this happened after Apollo was killed.
Innovation in space flight is going to happen from Burt Rutan et al; as more people actually get to do it, the excitement will return. Or people will realize that it's really boring out there after all. But we have an inner drive to explore. It's not going away...
Networks and other content distributors should simply setup subscription trackers. Problem solved simply and easily. It will work as well as the license fee does in the UK, if not better: if you want to see more of some content, encourage people to sign up.
I don't want to spend $2000 and lug a ton of stuff to do email when traveling, but the treo is just too small for the job. Give me the minimum size and price to type on and wifi to connect. A matching screen for a keyboard big enough to type on is enough to read email and do basic surfing, and should be inexpensive enough to be affordable to boot.
The article says that a switch caused the power outage; if the transmission lines get shut off (perhaps the switch caused a cascading failure, as has happened before), of course power plants (no matter what type) will shut down --- there's nowhere for the power to go!
There weren't enough interesting titles released on HD-DVD to make it worth the time, I'll just go buy the 2 discs again when they come out in Blu-Ray.
What I have yet to see is one that gives you matches that are actually interested in *you* as well, at least in any of the systems that doesn't try to ream you big time. When 99% of what you get specifically states they aren't interested in you, there's not a lot of point in using the system, and I'm not wasting $20/month for something that's likely a waste of time even then.
Speaking of SSL, I updated the SSL certificate for a site we host recently, only to soon thereafter get a complaint from the customer that it wasn't valid. Turned out he had one of those silly Thawte Seals on his site, which needs updated for the new certificate as well. I pointed out to both him and our web developer that those are a really bad idea because they train people to be susceptible to phishing. All I'd have to do is get someone to go to a typosquatted domain, or even even a non-ssl site that looks right with a gif image of that seal (and I could even have it linked to something that looked like it validated the cert like the real seals do). Our web developer commented "it's something my grandmother can understand" and my comment was "your grandmother is exactly the person most at risk from that sort of thing". Trusting content to validate itself is an incredibly stupid idea --- only the browser can do the validation, and people need to be trained to the browser's indicators, not the content.
This has all been known for some time, that's why they're working on other sources for biofuels. I hope the people who are rushing to build corn processing plants are building them with some flexibility...
In my case, the toughest part is organizing it in a way that you can find what you need later, particularly in the early stages when you're doing something new and not quite sure how it's going to fit in. There are often several paths you could be following when you want to find something, many of which you don't realize you'll be following when you're entering the info.
It's more fundamentally BS: there's so much dreck in that article, it was hard to find anything real. The main thing his examples show is that he's got a crappy scheduler in his OS. Not that the fundamental point is wrong: it's well known that it takes a long time to recover from an interruption and get back ontrack when focussed on a problem. And if you're divving up the processor, each process gets fewer cycles. They're not always necessary though. The trick is in the scheduling: for me, I'm very visually oriented. While I have friends who love to sit and listen to music, I get bored if there's nothing to see. When I'm focussing on something, music is a distraction, but if doing boring repetitive stuff, then it's nice to keep me occupied when the visual subsystem is occupied with the task at hand.
IBM is using such a 'on-demand' model for its Series P hardware since a couple of years.
Couple of years? Try several decades. This has been SOP in the mainframe world, and was in many minis as well. You want a faster clock? Pay up and we'll have a rep turn up the dial.
...it's perfectly reasonable to set a standard for how id is verified and secured. The only part that is unreasonable is anything that causes the info to get moved up to the federal level. Though even that's really a lost cause: ssn already provides that, and with the requirement to have passports even to go to canada and mexico, the vast majority of us already have our "papers".
I wonder if it would be possible to do a physical equivalent to openid?
In a sense, we've standardized our "wired power connectors" with the 120V (US) outlets. The devices haven't standardized their power inlets though, so we have a bazillion adapters.
That would be the advantage of the rf method though: even if there were multiple incompatible formats, at least the device could pick up whatever it needed. You'd still have to carry the transmitters around unless they became ubiquitous though. That would be nice, but seems like the long shot, both for health concerns (valid or not) and efficiency reasons.
The most likely "good" option would be a single inductive standard. You carry around a single pad that everything can sit on.
With at least two different inductive systems going at it, I'm not holding my breath, but if there are only two of them, neither of which is a Big Name, there's at least a chance...
Not to mention that when you look at the original link, you find the in the "large" town category, the discrepancy is reversed: the "machine advantage" there went to obama...
One of the big advantages to this idea is not having to have a bazillian different wall warts for every separate device. Usually unlabeled so that 6 months later, you have no idea what goes with what if you haven't rigorously kept things together and/or labeled them yourself, not to mention having to lug around a few kilos of the things when you travel.
Except now they're going to beta/vhs us so some things need this charger and some need the other charger. If you get it wrong 6 months later, you've got a device you absolutely needed charged and you put it on the wrong pad, leaving you stranded high and dry.
If you use Basic Authentication, you *can't* put a logout button on the web site --- it's up to the browser, and I have yet to see a browser that will let you logout from Basic Auth without shutting it down entirely (perhaps "clear all private data" will do it, but that's rather extreme).
Now I wouldn't disagree that *using* Basic Auth for your site means you're being lax or lazy...but so are the browser authors that don't fix that.
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Like they say, nothing new under the sun...
the higher contrast feels much more like reading on paper
Would you really want to read everything on glossy photo paper? No thanks.
While this is all mostly true, NASA hasn't been the answer for decades because all of this happened after Apollo was killed.
Innovation in space flight is going to happen from Burt Rutan et al; as more people actually get to do it, the excitement will return. Or people will realize that it's really boring out there after all. But we have an inner drive to explore. It's not going away...
Networks and other content distributors should simply setup subscription trackers. Problem solved simply and easily. It will work as well as the license fee does in the UK, if not better: if you want to see more of some content, encourage people to sign up.
I don't want to spend $2000 and lug a ton of stuff to do email when traveling, but the treo is just too small for the job. Give me the minimum size and price to type on and wifi to connect. A matching screen for a keyboard big enough to type on is enough to read email and do basic surfing, and should be inexpensive enough to be affordable to boot.
Because life that doesn't find a way to live, doesn't. As a result, all that's left is life that does.
...which explains why optical computing hasn't caught on if it's that power hungry!
There are exceptions to every rule! Though even here, I've found the Brown Sugar Cinnamon variety to occasionally be in short supply...
You can't have both quality and quantity. Searching for the best of the best is bound to return a small number of people.
The article says that a switch caused the power outage; if the transmission lines get shut off (perhaps the switch caused a cascading failure, as has happened before), of course power plants (no matter what type) will shut down --- there's nowhere for the power to go!
That's one. Serenity makes two. Add in the Bourne movies and make it a few instead of 2. And they'll all be out in Blu-Ray lickety split now.
There weren't enough interesting titles released on HD-DVD to make it worth the time, I'll just go buy the 2 discs again when they come out in Blu-Ray.
What I have yet to see is one that gives you matches that are actually interested in *you* as well, at least in any of the systems that doesn't try to ream you big time. When 99% of what you get specifically states they aren't interested in you, there's not a lot of point in using the system, and I'm not wasting $20/month for something that's likely a waste of time even then.
Speaking of SSL, I updated the SSL certificate for a site we host recently, only to soon thereafter get a complaint from the customer that it wasn't valid. Turned out he had one of those silly Thawte Seals on his site, which needs updated for the new certificate as well. I pointed out to both him and our web developer that those are a really bad idea because they train people to be susceptible to phishing. All I'd have to do is get someone to go to a typosquatted domain, or even even a non-ssl site that looks right with a gif image of that seal (and I could even have it linked to something that looked like it validated the cert like the real seals do). Our web developer commented "it's something my grandmother can understand" and my comment was "your grandmother is exactly the person most at risk from that sort of thing". Trusting content to validate itself is an incredibly stupid idea --- only the browser can do the validation, and people need to be trained to the browser's indicators, not the content.
If only we could actually trust the browsers...
This has all been known for some time, that's why they're working on other sources for biofuels. I hope the people who are rushing to build corn processing plants are building them with some flexibility...
The whole point of facebook is to share information; if you want it to be private, don't put it online.
> And because it's never easy, in order to read the archives of the comic you're going to need to install Microsoft's Silverlight.
Obviously, they don't want me to read it then; I'm happy to oblige --- userfriendly is just fine thankyouverymuch...
In my case, the toughest part is organizing it in a way that you can find what you need later, particularly in the early stages when you're doing something new and not quite sure how it's going to fit in. There are often several paths you could be following when you want to find something, many of which you don't realize you'll be following when you're entering the info.
It's more fundamentally BS: there's so much dreck in that article, it was hard to find anything real. The main thing his examples show is that he's got a crappy scheduler in his OS. Not that the fundamental point is wrong: it's well known that it takes a long time to recover from an interruption and get back ontrack when focussed on a problem. And if you're divving up the processor, each process gets fewer cycles. They're not always necessary though. The trick is in the scheduling: for me, I'm very visually oriented. While I have friends who love to sit and listen to music, I get bored if there's nothing to see. When I'm focussing on something, music is a distraction, but if doing boring repetitive stuff, then it's nice to keep me occupied when the visual subsystem is occupied with the task at hand.
IBM is using such a 'on-demand' model for its Series P hardware since a couple of years.
Couple of years? Try several decades. This has been SOP in the mainframe world, and was in many minis as well. You want a faster clock? Pay up and we'll have a rep turn up the dial.
...it's perfectly reasonable to set a standard for how id is verified and secured. The only part that is unreasonable is anything that causes the info to get moved up to the federal level. Though even that's really a lost cause: ssn already provides that, and with the requirement to have passports even to go to canada and mexico, the vast majority of us already have our "papers".
I wonder if it would be possible to do a physical equivalent to openid?
In a sense, we've standardized our "wired power connectors" with the 120V (US) outlets. The devices haven't standardized their power inlets though, so we have a bazillion adapters.
That would be the advantage of the rf method though: even if there were multiple incompatible formats, at least the device could pick up whatever it needed. You'd still have to carry the transmitters around unless they became ubiquitous though. That would be nice, but seems like the long shot, both for health concerns (valid or not) and efficiency reasons.
The most likely "good" option would be a single inductive standard. You carry around a single pad that everything can sit on.
With at least two different inductive systems going at it, I'm not holding my breath, but if there are only two of them, neither of which is a Big Name, there's at least a chance...
Not to mention that when you look at the original link, you find the in the "large" town category, the discrepancy is reversed: the "machine advantage" there went to obama...
One of the big advantages to this idea is not having to have a bazillian different wall warts for every separate device. Usually unlabeled so that 6 months later, you have no idea what goes with what if you haven't rigorously kept things together and/or labeled them yourself, not to mention having to lug around a few kilos of the things when you travel.
Except now they're going to beta/vhs us so some things need this charger and some need the other charger. If you get it wrong 6 months later, you've got a device you absolutely needed charged and you put it on the wrong pad, leaving you stranded high and dry.
If you use Basic Authentication, you *can't* put a logout button on the web site --- it's up to the browser, and I have yet to see a browser that will let you logout from Basic Auth without shutting it down entirely (perhaps "clear all private data" will do it, but that's rather extreme).
Now I wouldn't disagree that *using* Basic Auth for your site means you're being lax or lazy...but so are the browser authors that don't fix that.