It's about congresscritters marketing themselves to you.
It was created not because of some right to be informed, but because they want to deduct their suits and have clips of themselves being mendacious and fervent about it to show the voters back home.
Book Time is there simply because Congress forgot to allow commercial spots to be sold. Otherwise, it'd be Lifestyles of the Profligate and Incumbent.
/. should send in its forces to bust into a few homes to take their un-Linuxian operating systems and make sure they understand the virtues of an open-source society.
I mean, that sort of think is working well for the Bush administration, isn't it?
Again, no, because you haven't proved that having "consistent and flexible code" improves on having economical development and security.
Frankly, the study is moot. All Microsoft needs to do is look at the original Bell Labs dictum of orthogonality for UNIX development to see where Linux inherits its (putative) elegance.
His idea in that article was that the economics and vulnerability of distributed development were inferior, not that the kernel was technically flawed.
Anyone can learn something from any other piece of code.
You'll sometimes see them munged for marketability:
+0 to +70 Commercial -20 to +75 Extended -40 to +85 Industrial -55 to +125 Military
And sometimes there will be "storage" temperatures in the spec.
There's no reason to believe that a manufacturer bothered to test outside the ranges he lists in his specs.
And Sun boxen used to dominate military acquisitions for all but clerical purchases (where DEC was favored) because they used to be significantly more powerful than PCs, much more stable (rebooting a Wintel PC twice a day is poor performance), and they were familiar to the software developers, few of whom had learned to program serious code on PCs. Plus Sun used to have a clue, or had made a lucky strategic decision, about marketing computers. None of those things is true any more.
If it weren't about making money by shutting down competitors, the businesses wouldn't get involved. They'd just report it to the police and then forget about it.
But it is cutting into their profits, so it's a holy war with them.
Multi-GHz signals (e.g., 802.11 and cellular phones) go right through masonry, wood, and sheetrock.
You get problems in and around buildings with steel framing and roofs or enormous amounts of wiring.
I have no problem believing you can get enough of these signals to identify them at 1400 feet. The question is getting reliable communications out of it. The SNR is probably very low, so the BER is probably very high.
The voting machine scandal should be raised to the level of a public outrage. It's clear that nefarious corporate interests are foisting inadequately engineered products on the state election commisssions, in their usual, cynical, "good enough for government work" way.
In the weeks after the 2000 Presidential election, I wrote a letter to my congresspeople recommending that the system be rendered electronically by individuals who know about safety-critical, high-availability software. Airplane code, gambling-device code, medical-device code, etc.
This is not by any means new technology or new processes. But because the states see a great need, it has become a new scam for brainless, heartless business jerks to exploit.
Write your state and national legislators. Get the laws changed to ensure that the design and implementation of e-democracy includes the same care that is used when re-counting paper ballots.
Lunar regolith isn't weathered like the surface debris on Earth. Consequently, it's got sharp edges. It's less like play-sand and more like crushed glass.
The astronauts reported that the stuff got into their suits between the hermetic joints, grinding into their skin. It also chewed up the lunar rovers.
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IT'S NOT FAIR!
We have to steal our users' privacy to make any money!
WE'LL SUE!
C-SPAN isn't about whether you want to see it.
It's about congresscritters marketing themselves to you.
It was created not because of some right to be informed, but because they want to deduct their suits and have clips of themselves being mendacious and fervent about it to show the voters back home.
Book Time is there simply because Congress forgot to allow commercial spots to be sold. Otherwise, it'd be Lifestyles of the Profligate and Incumbent.
/. should send in its forces to bust into a few homes to take their un-Linuxian operating systems and make sure they understand the virtues of an open-source society.
/.
I mean, that sort of think is working well for the Bush administration, isn't it?
No?
Jeez.
I need to read more news and less
Again, no, because you haven't proved that having "consistent and flexible code" improves on having economical development and security.
Frankly, the study is moot. All Microsoft needs to do is look at the original Bell Labs dictum of orthogonality for UNIX development to see where Linux inherits its (putative) elegance.
Nothing OSS about UNIX at Bell Labs.
In defense of Rob Enderle:
I don't see him being inconsistent.
His idea in that article was that the economics and vulnerability of distributed development were inferior, not that the kernel was technically flawed.
Anyone can learn something from any other piece of code.
Wow, what a load of hooey.
The traditional temperature ranges are
-40 to +85C Commercial
-55 to +125C Military
You'll sometimes see them munged for marketability:
+0 to +70 Commercial
-20 to +75 Extended
-40 to +85 Industrial
-55 to +125 Military
And sometimes there will be "storage" temperatures in the spec.
There's no reason to believe that a manufacturer bothered to test outside the ranges he lists in his specs.
And Sun boxen used to dominate military acquisitions for all but clerical purchases (where DEC was favored) because they used to be significantly more powerful than PCs, much more stable (rebooting a Wintel PC twice a day is poor performance), and they were familiar to the software developers, few of whom had learned to program serious code on PCs. Plus Sun used to have a clue, or had made a lucky strategic decision, about marketing computers. None of those things is true any more.
Minimum operating temperature is specified only because they test them to that temperature.
They have no idea at all how much lower they can go before they fail.
Same with maxima.
The thing looks almost exactly like the red-headed bastard child of a Telebit Qblazer modem, although I can't find a pic...
I want my HP-15C.
If you're looking at the "Bush vs. ____" polls before the Democrats have selected a nominee, then I'll give you 8:1.
I love a sucker.
>It's not irrelevent to the people of Iraq. Try to explain to a widow of a Saddam victim that the war is illegal.
That's illogical.
Try to explain to Saddam that his mass graves were illegal.
See? He'll never believe it either. But it is.
That's why there's an impartial system of courts; to sort out law from emotion.
>US stock markets surge Monday.
A lock. Dolla.
>The US detains Saddam indefinitely to prevent Iraqis from assassinating him.
Two dolla.
>Bush gets re-elected.
Fitty dolla. Against.
Don't be so naive.
If it weren't about making money by shutting down competitors, the businesses wouldn't get involved. They'd just report it to the police and then forget about it.
But it is cutting into their profits, so it's a holy war with them.
It's only faster than digital communications if there's no wire anywhere near where you release the pigeon.
Woopie-ding-shit.
What a bunch of hoo-ha.
Multi-GHz signals (e.g., 802.11 and cellular phones) go right through masonry, wood, and sheetrock.
You get problems in and around buildings with steel framing and roofs or enormous amounts of wiring.
I have no problem believing you can get enough of these signals to identify them at 1400 feet. The question is getting reliable communications out of it. The SNR is probably very low, so the BER is probably very high.
Your $1 is a scam.
"They still look very new and shiny?"
I've never seen a casino die that was shiny.
Bring along a magnetosphere.
Program it to read all of the books and upload them to an online server.
Then it can retire and take up a hobby, like infinite looping or virus collecting.
It's considered dirty cricket to post your own link. Mmm-kay?
Physics? Don't make me laugh.
When I was a kid we had Religious Dogma, 7 periods a day, both ways, in the snow.
And we LIKED it.
Man. It was effing boring when it was the real movie, and it's 9X as effing boring when it's a Microsoft parody food product.
Thanks to Computer Technology, nobody will ever have to repeat a topic on Slashdot.
"Pretty maps of the Internet."
Oboy!
<*click*>
The voting machine scandal should be raised to the level of a public outrage. It's clear that nefarious corporate interests are foisting inadequately engineered products on the state election commisssions, in their usual, cynical, "good enough for government work" way.
In the weeks after the 2000 Presidential election, I wrote a letter to my congresspeople recommending that the system be rendered electronically by individuals who know about safety-critical, high-availability software. Airplane code, gambling-device code, medical-device code, etc.
This is not by any means new technology or new processes. But because the states see a great need, it has become a new scam for brainless, heartless business jerks to exploit.
Write your state and national legislators. Get the laws changed to ensure that the design and implementation of e-democracy includes the same care that is used when re-counting paper ballots.
Empty space isn't made of lunar regolith.
Lunar regolith isn't weathered like the surface debris on Earth. Consequently, it's got sharp edges. It's less like play-sand and more like crushed glass.
The astronauts reported that the stuff got into their suits between the hermetic joints, grinding into their skin. It also chewed up the lunar rovers.