The reason a touch screen is impractical is the old "Gorilla Arm Syndrome". After any real duration using a touch screen, your arm gets REAL tired. Keyboard entry is damn near perfect for PoS entry, as long as the interface is well designed.
Rofl. Like that's gonna happen. That would be like some asshole patenting hyperlinks, then forcing the entire web to shut down due to unauthorized use.:P
Netscape/Sparc/Linux is available. As for java, I bet that either sun makes a JVM for sparc linux, or you can get a 3rd party interpreter, like IBMs or Blackdown's. Or you can also get KDE 2.x, it's got SSL and everything built into Konqueror
It gets more complicated than that. The IP protection defeaters are also using stegonography in order to bypass protectionist laws passed by the MPAA, RIAA, etc, and the MPAA, RIAA, etc are using crypto to try protecting their works. How will this all end? The optimist in me says that we'll go back to the old, capitalistic system of short copyright protection and legalized thinking. The pessimist in me thinks that we'll end up going to hell in a handbasket, with the RIAA, etc eventually buying even more blatantly unconstitutional laws.
Jon, Stegonography has been discussed quite often here, even had another
book reviewed here a few months back. The book in question is much more affordable than the lengthy tome you linked to, is fairly in depth, and a great primer. Stego is actually pretty widely discussed nowadays, at least in tech/privacy circles.
It's simple capitalism. Offer something the other guy can't. The ISP market is pretty much a commodity, where if you've dialed one, you've dialed them all. So, offer something they can't like a cheaper price, or on-site tech support (probably for the masochistic only), or perhaps what could be the coolest for a rural ISP, fixed wireless. You aren't going to make it via advertising fewer disconnects - rural phone lines would probably be improved if they used tin cans and a string. But you do need to set youself apart and get ready for 6-12 very tough months getting started; everybody loses money for the first.5-1 year.
Well, when digging up streets in a fscking expensive city like new york, even a few miles of free conduit can save millions of dollars. And considering that these tubes were designed to be used basically like rifle tubes, I'd be willing to wager that they're probably still in pretty good shape, barring a once over with a good pressure hose.
Secondly, would the tubes have to be converted in any way at all?
Other than the forementioned spring cleaning, probably not. All these guys are looking for is a cheap place to lay underground cable, similar to how in the US most early transcontinential telephone and telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks - the right of way was already established, the investment on their end is pretty much just laying the cable.
Thirdly, are the tubes still readily accessible?
That's why this is just a theory. Right now the guys doing the grunt work to see if it's cheap enough to be feasable. If it isn't, then he's out a few weeks of probably fascinating history research. If it is feasable, he'll probably become a millionaire when everything is said and done.
Dilligence is being done here. Abandoned infrastructure is commonplace in any installation, and if you can reuse it, you're saving resources and time that could be better spent elsewhere.
Actually Ebert's review is already out, and he went along with Katz, totally missing the fact that it was supposed to be a cheesy film with a high camp factor. I'll agree it might not be worth the $9.00 us for the evening show, but it was worth the $5.75 matinee price.
I think you hit the nail right on the head here. This movie was good schlock, plain and simple. It wasn't designed to enlighten people, or make them think about the world's problems, it was designed to give a little bit of fun, nothing more, nothing less.
And I guess the theaters show different trailers, because for once I didn't see that Fucking Pearl Harbor trailer (tm). If I see that trailer one more time, I swear I will jump into the projection booth, strangle the projectionist with the film, and eat his brains.
Two things: First off, suppose the converse is also true, that the mother had a beneficial mutation. Perhaps she had an activated gene that made her immune to AIDS, and the defective mitochondria means that the genetic enhancement dies along with the mother.
Second off, even if there is such a horrible disease that kills shortly after giving birth, it probably isn't going to be passed on for very long. I knew someone back in high school who is a carrier for spina bifida, and she won't have children simply because she knows that she is a carrier for a potentially devestating disease, and she wouldn't want to pass that on to her children. I'd imagine if this disease were to create such defects as you are talking about, the children would decide to either not have children, or the disease would affect them before the get the chance to pass the gene along.
Ever since a professor at the University of Arkansas told him that such [ultra-wideband] pulses could not be used to transmit a clear signal from one antenna to another, Fullerton had been obsessed with proving they could.
God I love people like this. They're told it can't be done, and they obsess until they develop a solution. These are usually the greatest inventions, IMAO, because they shake up the world, and hopefully make people think a bit farther outside of the box.
The EFF has some excellent speakers, and would probably be more than happy to get a guest speaker for a college audience. Whenever you've got a situation like this, eff is usually a good place to start.
Most businesses go under. Period. It doesn't matter if you're a tech company or a pet store, you've got to have enough cash reserves to lose money for six months before you can even think about breaking even; even still, most companies lose money until the day they die. Running a business is a huge risk, one which has ruined people in the past, and will ruin people in the future. Just because it ends in.com doesn't change the laws of economics.
I don't know about the rest of the loaders, as my experience is more with x86 boxes, but the newer revs of LILO support booting from a reiser root partition. However, the problems remains as to how to handle a new partition type. I don't know about what other people do, but the what I do on my Linux boxes is to create a ~10MB ext2 partition on the first available sectors as a/boot partition. You really don't need to worry about corruption, because the only real time you need to read/write to it is when you're booting or upgrading the kernel; the rest of the time it's idle.
An added benefit of placing the/boot partition is you can boot your hard drive off of any box without having to worry about broken bioses, etc, which can't handle past certain "magic" disk setups.
Sorry, prior art. Mandatory key escrow cries failed once in the US, and they'll fail again. The day escrow is required is the day I renounce my citizenship.
You're probably getting worked up for nothing. DB2 simply needs the scripting features of the Korn shell, don't have the program so I don't know why. The P(ublic) D(omain) Korn shell is simply the shell program they decided to throw in. Nothing evil about it
This keyboard doesn't. Most people want a windows keyboard, so that's the first thing they show. You check out the links on the side, however, you see that only a couple of their keyboards are of the windows variety; most are of the 101/103 key variety
...please show me an example of a successful boycott of a large corporation.
Okay. How about the Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. There was no government involvement (other than arresting protesters), and the idiotic policy of segregation was changed because it was hurting the bottom line.
Well, it's great 3 year old humor, however, it's now hopelessly outdated, as the Psycho Fiends Notwork, like so many dot.coms, is now dead, god bless its pagan soul. However, I suggest as a follow up, they call up that one West Indian Psychic lady who advertises on the cable channels; though, personally, that lady scares me.
And as soon as we get really good with the genetic engineering, I want my own half height clone to mow my lawn.
Everybody knows that the early adopters in a field such as this will obviously be the porno industry. Imagine your own personal Pam Anderson/Robert Redford (back when he was young and handsome)/Pat/whatever to be with. Or, better yet, a giant clone of yourself to do the yard chores.
I know you're being silly, but there was talk a few years back about actually using microscopic vacuum tubes for certain very high speed application. IIRC, the tubes were supposed to be less succeptable to interferance, hence allowing them to be driven faster. Of course, this was about 2-3 years ago, and I haven't heard a lick about it since, so it was probably just some nostalgic hacker's pipe dream.
You're probably right. Tariff laws are confusing and convoluted, as governments around the world seem to take a perverse pleasure in creating confusion in their populace
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The reason a touch screen is impractical is the old "Gorilla Arm Syndrome". After any real duration using a touch screen, your arm gets REAL tired. Keyboard entry is damn near perfect for PoS entry, as long as the interface is well designed.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
Netscape/Sparc/Linux is available. As for java, I bet that either sun makes a JVM for sparc linux, or you can get a 3rd party interpreter, like IBMs or Blackdown's. Or you can also get KDE 2.x, it's got SSL and everything built into Konqueror
It gets more complicated than that. The IP protection defeaters are also using stegonography in order to bypass protectionist laws passed by the MPAA, RIAA, etc, and the MPAA, RIAA, etc are using crypto to try protecting their works. How will this all end? The optimist in me says that we'll go back to the old, capitalistic system of short copyright protection and legalized thinking. The pessimist in me thinks that we'll end up going to hell in a handbasket, with the RIAA, etc eventually buying even more blatantly unconstitutional laws.
Jon, Stegonography has been discussed quite often here, even had another book reviewed here a few months back. The book in question is much more affordable than the lengthy tome you linked to, is fairly in depth, and a great primer. Stego is actually pretty widely discussed nowadays, at least in tech/privacy circles.
It's simple capitalism. Offer something the other guy can't. The ISP market is pretty much a commodity, where if you've dialed one, you've dialed them all. So, offer something they can't like a cheaper price, or on-site tech support (probably for the masochistic only), or perhaps what could be the coolest for a rural ISP, fixed wireless. You aren't going to make it via advertising fewer disconnects - rural phone lines would probably be improved if they used tin cans and a string. But you do need to set youself apart and get ready for 6-12 very tough months getting started; everybody loses money for the first .5-1 year.
Dilligence is being done here. Abandoned infrastructure is commonplace in any installation, and if you can reuse it, you're saving resources and time that could be better spent elsewhere.
Actually Ebert's review is already out, and he went along with Katz, totally missing the fact that it was supposed to be a cheesy film with a high camp factor. I'll agree it might not be worth the $9.00 us for the evening show, but it was worth the $5.75 matinee price.
And I guess the theaters show different trailers, because for once I didn't see that Fucking Pearl Harbor trailer (tm). If I see that trailer one more time, I swear I will jump into the projection booth, strangle the projectionist with the film, and eat his brains.
Second off, even if there is such a horrible disease that kills shortly after giving birth, it probably isn't going to be passed on for very long. I knew someone back in high school who is a carrier for spina bifida, and she won't have children simply because she knows that she is a carrier for a potentially devestating disease, and she wouldn't want to pass that on to her children. I'd imagine if this disease were to create such defects as you are talking about, the children would decide to either not have children, or the disease would affect them before the get the chance to pass the gene along.
God I love people like this. They're told it can't be done, and they obsess until they develop a solution. These are usually the greatest inventions, IMAO, because they shake up the world, and hopefully make people think a bit farther outside of the box.
The EFF has some excellent speakers, and would probably be more than happy to get a guest speaker for a college audience. Whenever you've got a situation like this, eff is usually a good place to start.
Most businesses go under. Period. It doesn't matter if you're a tech company or a pet store, you've got to have enough cash reserves to lose money for six months before you can even think about breaking even; even still, most companies lose money until the day they die. Running a business is a huge risk, one which has ruined people in the past, and will ruin people in the future. Just because it ends in .com doesn't change the laws of economics.
An added benefit of placing the /boot partition is you can boot your hard drive off of any box without having to worry about broken bioses, etc, which can't handle past certain "magic" disk setups.
Sorry, prior art. Mandatory key escrow cries failed once in the US, and they'll fail again. The day escrow is required is the day I renounce my citizenship.
You're probably getting worked up for nothing. DB2 simply needs the scripting features of the Korn shell, don't have the program so I don't know why. The P(ublic) D(omain) Korn shell is simply the shell program they decided to throw in. Nothing evil about it
This keyboard doesn't. Most people want a windows keyboard, so that's the first thing they show. You check out the links on the side, however, you see that only a couple of their keyboards are of the windows variety; most are of the 101/103 key variety
oops... s/lawsuit/boycott/
Texaco big enough for you? Jesse Jackson and his boys sure did a good job changing policy with the mere threat of a lawsuit. Any more challenges?
Okay. How about the Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. There was no government involvement (other than arresting protesters), and the idiotic policy of segregation was changed because it was hurting the bottom line.
Well, it's great 3 year old humor, however, it's now hopelessly outdated, as the Psycho Fiends Notwork, like so many dot.coms, is now dead, god bless its pagan soul. However, I suggest as a follow up, they call up that one West Indian Psychic lady who advertises on the cable channels; though, personally, that lady scares me.
I know you're being silly, but there was talk a few years back about actually using microscopic vacuum tubes for certain very high speed application. IIRC, the tubes were supposed to be less succeptable to interferance, hence allowing them to be driven faster. Of course, this was about 2-3 years ago, and I haven't heard a lick about it since, so it was probably just some nostalgic hacker's pipe dream.
You're probably right. Tariff laws are confusing and convoluted, as governments around the world seem to take a perverse pleasure in creating confusion in their populace