It actually was the case in the Ford Pinto that it would of been cheaper to recall the cars then to pay the lawsuits (before they got hit with the really big punative ones). They completely miscalculated the cost of replacing the part and made the decision not to replace it based on that fault analysis.
Except that you then realize you did the math for X wrong or Y wrong and its really true that Y > X. It also fails to account for all the bad PR generated by not just doing Y to begin with or having a trial where your X estimate is competely destroyed. Sometimes it's just cheaper and easier to do the right thing.
When it was decided that all shuttle missions must go to the space station to justify the space station's funding. It's a two or three year old mandate. The last mission that didn't go to the space station ran into trouble, furthur justifying the justification of the space station's budget. Yea it makes no sense and it's pointless, but NASA doesn't like bad PR like when re-entering there is really no escape if something goes wrong.
There are only three copies in the United States. It's currently believed that only 51 out of the original 200 copies still exist. The sad part about this story is that the British Museum has two complete copies and put them on the webalmost 3 years ago. So UTexas posting them really adds nothing to the web, except provide another mirror.
88 Mbits is about the max actual speed of swicthed 100 Mbits ethernet. If he's getting 88 Mbits off the card, he's not going to be able to get that much more.
My school did the same thing. Spent millions of dollars moving everything to PeopleSoft just so they could have "on-line" enrollment. Which is sad, because what they call "on-line" still causes me to have to generate paperwork off-line and go through the same troubles I had before. For what's changed they could of added a Web Interface to the old enrollment system and it would of been just fine.
Err...what the government bought to run its systems should have no business in this matter. If a government is depending on a third-party for its software and the software stops being produced then it's the government's fault for being silly. It's not like Oracle is going to prevent people from running the versions of PeopleSoft that they are currently using. It's just that there would be no new versions after the merger. I doubt even then that the SEC could do anything about it. It's not like they can force a company to offer a product.
Also, companies do all sorts of things that cause their customers grief. (For instance, have you ever tried to use PeopleSoft?) It's because they only have one master, Wall Street. The customers who give them money are just an annoyance.
If you've ever used PeopleSoft you'd know the only thing that would reassure you is that you'd never have to use it ever again. Now Oracle is making sure you NEVER have to use it again and everyone should be estatic.
Or you could go back to the implemented version of java.sql.PreparedStatement and implement the new methods. It would allow the system to compile and wouldn't hurt jdk1.3. It would just ignore them. By not implementing them and even trying to run them on a 1.4 system you'll run the risk of not having them around when a system SQL process tries to use the interface.
You now are moving into the realm of what a vast majority of users will never do or never need to do. Besides in your first example, the cable provider can now specificly look up your web server and block it. One could no longer stay just below the radar.
How does this add anything? Since the services like www and mail are already using fixed well-known ports, adding a SRV record doesn't add anything at all?
It is. You get the "rage" from watching the first movie and over and over again. Then the sci-fi end of the world stuff kicks into high gear after everyone has gone nuts from the bad dialog of "28 Days"
There is a huge difference between writing an application FOR an OS and writing code that is a PART of the OS.
Microsoft sees no difference between the two. Remember how IE started out as an application for an OS. And then there's Media Player. Things on Windows have a habit of starting out as something for and winding up as something as a part of. If I were McAfee, I'd be afraid of being sued, since Microsoft just bought a Virus scanner. Prboably will wind up as part of the OS and everyone who makes the same part will be in big trouble.
JFS was a direct port of the OS/2 implementation. The OS/2 implemenation was a new implementation of the AIX version of JFS. Hopefully that clears up what happened.
If you look at the "Asian" plants in the United States they tend not to treat their workers like crap and pay them very well. The management isn't seperated from the workers and values their input in the production process. This leads the workers not to form a union. If they treated the workers like complete crap, the plants would be unionized in no time flat. Unions only start to form when the workers are being treated poorly, a fact that is lost on many in the management of American companies.
Use some forward thinking. Just because the current grid is divided into three parts (one of which does cover 60% of the country already). There is nothing procluding a national grid. No does generating all the power proclude using the exact same system with more powerful HVDC converter in place. Besides, AC power doesn't need to be insync with anything. It only need to be in phase with the other two signals. It's the phase and frequency that counts, not the synchronization.
The 1/3 phase thing makes no sense because AC power is transmitted as "three phase power". Instead of one cycle of AC power being sent over the lines, three different cycles are sent each 1/3 of a cycle seperate from each other. That means that converting "East Coast" power to "West Coast" power is trivial. (Besides who says the phases need to be synced at all?) So saying that they'd need to be converted to DC and then reconverted back to AC makes me doubt your statement even more. Look here to find out how power transmission really works.
It's not the voltage that kills but the current. And the kill zone is in two places. From 6 milliamps to 9 milliamps will kill (due to screwing with your heart and locking other mussles into place so you don't let go) and then 100 milliamps and up starts the second kill zone. You may ask why there is a 90 milliamp gap. It's because in that gap the current is enough to knock you back causing you to let go before any real damage is done.
No, war is now only possible if J2EE is attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction. If they already have WMD, then war is again out of the question.
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It actually was the case in the Ford Pinto that it would of been cheaper to recall the cars then to pay the lawsuits (before they got hit with the really big punative ones). They completely miscalculated the cost of replacing the part and made the decision not to replace it based on that fault analysis.
Except that you then realize you did the math for X wrong or Y wrong and its really true that Y > X. It also fails to account for all the bad PR generated by not just doing Y to begin with or having a trial where your X estimate is competely destroyed. Sometimes it's just cheaper and easier to do the right thing.
When it was decided that all shuttle missions must go to the space station to justify the space station's funding. It's a two or three year old mandate. The last mission that didn't go to the space station ran into trouble, furthur justifying the justification of the space station's budget. Yea it makes no sense and it's pointless, but NASA doesn't like bad PR like when re-entering there is really no escape if something goes wrong.
There are only three copies in the United States. It's currently believed that only 51 out of the original 200 copies still exist. The sad part about this story is that the British Museum has two complete copies and put them on the webalmost 3 years ago. So UTexas posting them really adds nothing to the web, except provide another mirror.
88 Mbits is about the max actual speed of swicthed 100 Mbits ethernet. If he's getting 88 Mbits off the card, he's not going to be able to get that much more.
As does PeopleSoft. Neither company is winning any awards in UI design.
My school did the same thing. Spent millions of dollars moving everything to PeopleSoft just so they could have "on-line" enrollment. Which is sad, because what they call "on-line" still causes me to have to generate paperwork off-line and go through the same troubles I had before. For what's changed they could of added a Web Interface to the old enrollment system and it would of been just fine.
Err...what the government bought to run its systems should have no business in this matter. If a government is depending on a third-party for its software and the software stops being produced then it's the government's fault for being silly. It's not like Oracle is going to prevent people from running the versions of PeopleSoft that they are currently using. It's just that there would be no new versions after the merger. I doubt even then that the SEC could do anything about it. It's not like they can force a company to offer a product.
Also, companies do all sorts of things that cause their customers grief. (For instance, have you ever tried to use PeopleSoft?) It's because they only have one master, Wall Street. The customers who give them money are just an annoyance.
If you've ever used PeopleSoft you'd know the only thing that would reassure you is that you'd never have to use it ever again. Now Oracle is making sure you NEVER have to use it again and everyone should be estatic.
Or you could go back to the implemented version of java.sql.PreparedStatement and implement the new methods. It would allow the system to compile and wouldn't hurt jdk1.3. It would just ignore them. By not implementing them and even trying to run them on a 1.4 system you'll run the risk of not having them around when a system SQL process tries to use the interface.
You now are moving into the realm of what a vast majority of users will never do or never need to do. Besides in your first example, the cable provider can now specificly look up your web server and block it. One could no longer stay just below the radar.
How does this add anything? Since the services like www and mail are already using fixed well-known ports, adding a SRV record doesn't add anything at all?
It is. You get the "rage" from watching the first movie and over and over again. Then the sci-fi end of the world stuff kicks into high gear after everyone has gone nuts from the bad dialog of "28 Days"
Um, yes they do.
Sadly, so does Windows default permissions
I wouldn't put it past them.
There is a huge difference between writing an application FOR an OS and writing code that is a PART of the OS.
Microsoft sees no difference between the two. Remember how IE started out as an application for an OS. And then there's Media Player. Things on Windows have a habit of starting out as something for and winding up as something as a part of. If I were McAfee, I'd be afraid of being sued, since Microsoft just bought a Virus scanner. Prboably will wind up as part of the OS and everyone who makes the same part will be in big trouble.
JFS was a direct port of the OS/2 implementation. The OS/2 implemenation was a new implementation of the AIX version of JFS. Hopefully that clears up what happened.
MSNBC as well
As it has been said before, "To our knowledge, no one watches MSNBC". That's probably why no one ever noticed the bias on MSNBC before. No viewers.
If you look at the "Asian" plants in the United States they tend not to treat their workers like crap and pay them very well. The management isn't seperated from the workers and values their input in the production process. This leads the workers not to form a union. If they treated the workers like complete crap, the plants would be unionized in no time flat. Unions only start to form when the workers are being treated poorly, a fact that is lost on many in the management of American companies.
Use some forward thinking. Just because the current grid is divided into three parts (one of which does cover 60% of the country already). There is nothing procluding a national grid. No does generating all the power proclude using the exact same system with more powerful HVDC converter in place. Besides, AC power doesn't need to be insync with anything. It only need to be in phase with the other two signals. It's the phase and frequency that counts, not the synchronization.
The 1/3 phase thing makes no sense because AC power is transmitted as "three phase power". Instead of one cycle of AC power being sent over the lines, three different cycles are sent each 1/3 of a cycle seperate from each other. That means that converting "East Coast" power to "West Coast" power is trivial. (Besides who says the phases need to be synced at all?) So saying that they'd need to be converted to DC and then reconverted back to AC makes me doubt your statement even more. Look here to find out how power transmission really works.
Hmm, considering we already have a long distance transmission system in this country I don't think it'll be much of a problem.
It's not the voltage that kills but the current. And the kill zone is in two places. From 6 milliamps to 9 milliamps will kill (due to screwing with your heart and locking other mussles into place so you don't let go) and then 100 milliamps and up starts the second kill zone. You may ask why there is a 90 milliamp gap. It's because in that gap the current is enough to knock you back causing you to let go before any real damage is done.
No, war is now only possible if J2EE is attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction. If they already have WMD, then war is again out of the question.
I'm sure this is going to really f*** SCO's credibility
Hard to f*** up something that doesn't exist.