I often told people that Microsoft (or any software vendor really) only has to make their products "good enough."
There's an old saying that says good enough is the enemy of great. In the mid-nineties, good enough meant that is was good enough to have Word crash a few times a day. After all, the competitors crashed too. The OSS movement, in its preference of great over good enough, raised the bar of how good commercial vendors have to be for people to still call them good enough. NT5.0 (aka Win2000) is much better than NT4.0 because of OSS.
From personal experience: The boarding controls at Waterloo Station (the northern end of the Paris to London via the Eurostar) and Gare du Nord (the Southern end) were quite strict. I would imagine that EU to non-EU controls would be stricter yet.
The best comparison is the air travel experience. One buys a ticket in advance, provides immigration documents before boarding.
I suppose it would be fair to expect that there might be a problem of transient and migrant people camped outside station who can't get in.
I agree, mostly. This really a non-event in the grand scheme of things.
Let's turn it arround. Let's imagine Iraqis conquered the US, Bush goes into hiding, they take over various governmental functions.
All over the country, Red Blooded Americans start uprising. Not because of Bush, but because there are Iraqis running our country. Now the Iraqis captured Bush.
Do you really think Red Blooded Americans would suddenly say, "Oh, they got Bush. I guess I better get back to work now."
If more people thought, "Well what would an American do if the situation were reversed?" And stopped thinking like imperialists, then I think there would be far less blood spilt in the Cradle of Civilization.
SciFi has been showing brief bursts of episodes for some of their shows, then long intervals of "crap." (I know - one mans crap...)
I think a good formula could be to only try to do eight or so two-hour episodes per season. Sort of reminds me of what they did with Columbo a few nears ago.
Curious: ServerMask is a port80 product. A product whose big selling point is to confuse script kiddies into thinking you've got a platform that you don't.
I don't think Corporate Bigwigs (and trade associations bigwigs) wake up each morning with new designs of how to screw "little people." However, I do think business entities are becoming increasingly amoral. Note the fine distinction between amoral an immoral. Immoral being dishonourable or depraved, while Amoral is lacking morals good or bad.
I realise that broad statements like this is like painting a postcard using a mop, but I think it does reveal a trend that cannot be easily dismissed as hollow or rhetorical.
I believe that Business no longer factors neither good nor bad morality into its choices. The principle factor is the profit factor. Ethical decisions seem to only be the result of bodies of law and public opinion which might adversely affect profit.
The pattern is a cyclical games of brinksmanship. One firm lowers its priciples slightly in favour of higher dividends and the stock markets reward the firm. In order to be competive, other firms in the sector must respond or risk being marginalised. It's a de facto arms race.
You say, "Hold each group accountable." You don't say Who should hold each group accountable. What is truely lacking it adaquate competition not between peer organizations, but between business and regulation. Government, in theory, is uniqely positioned to place moral goals above fiscal avarice.
In the past, there were well understood limits that no one crossed. The so-called Social Contract. As social pressure is no long adaquate to protect society, it is really incumbant for governance to start holding groups accountable for their actions.
That's fair. I suppose it's like trying to explain the difference between centripital acceration (which is real) and centrifugal force (which is fictional) It's often easier to just accept that most people will never give upcommon misperceptions and explain that going around a curve your pushed outward against the side of a car (centrefugal) versus the car pushing inward against you (centripital).
Thanks for getting my head turned around straight.
I don't know. However, a small front coated mirror on an end table and use the rear projection feature to correct the reversal problem caused by the mirror.
If you have a higher tollerance for distortion, a cheap cosmetic mirror (non-magnifying) would do too and save you the cost of front coated optics.
At university, over a dozen years ago, we had a VAX750 that ran "classic" VMS. Please allow for some fractured memories.
The version number auto rotated. The most recent file was always "FILE.TXT;1" what was implicitly selected if you just used "FILE.TXT". A directory property allow you to set the maximum number of versions a file could have. Since our disk quotas were set at 500 blocks (yes 250 Kilo bytes) we often set it to one.
The version rotation only occured if an application overwrote a file like text editors, compilers and linkers would do. However, a program that modified an existing file would not rotate the version.
Another interesting feature is that you could define simple indexing on a file that was implemented by the operating system. The OS managed the record storage. The similar GNU idea is gdb.
Most of the $100 DSL/Cable appliances from Linksys, Belkin, 3com and similar vendors perform NAT out of the box. Plug it in and go. They DHCP to the ISP to get the public address and provide RFC1918 addresses internally via a built-in DHCP server. For small/ customers who don't have static address from their ISP, these devices also provide IP address stability internally. I can assign printers static addresses and know that I won't be subject to the whim of the dynamicly assigned number from the ISP. Most home users are probably unaware, at least at any level of detail, of the fact that they are being NAT'ed. I've even recommended these devices to people as cheap firewalls.
Not really, The binary is smaller, the execution loader caches the common code, both in memory and from disk. By increasing the amount of common code, those utilities should actually load faster.
And the other thing is that 80% (or more) of the US commercial aircraft in service still use mechanical linkage from the controls to the controled surfaces. The autopilot and hydraulics assist the pilot in moving the control surfaces.
This includes the aircraft that were used in the attacks. Airbus and the Boeing 777 are planes that are designed as true fly-by-wire.
I think it's more a case that some stories, like this one, don't show up on the default front page. It is nice to be able to see an article now and again that's not swamped with too many comments. They tend to degredate the signal to noise ratio.
And... Diesel is close cousins to Jet-A. Both Diesel and turbine engines use compression ignition.
There WILL be something down the line to replace it. The question in my mind is how much engine modification will need to occur and will imcumbent technology manufacturers lead or stiffle that progress.
I wonder if the standard controls will be smaller too. I heard a lot of people complain that the size of the controller made it difficult to handle for people with small hands. My five year old prefers to put it on the carpet rather than hold it.
For me, its a problem that Apple likes to put the tactile reference spots on the "D" and "K" keys and not the "F" and "J" keys like nearly everyone else.
I feel that the keyboard is the most important interface between Human and machine. In a multi-system invironment, like my basement, I want every keyboard to have the same keys in the same layout.
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If IBM put pieces of the code from System V/AIX/SCOunix into Linux, it can defend through either saying the code and algorithms presented were defacto optimal solutions obvious to anyone educated, and thus it is unprovable they themselves leaked it.
The idea is to use a lower value note, say a one, then bleach the old ink off of it. Use your handy-dandy inkjet to print a twenty note on the paper that used to be a one. The one is well suited to false promotion because it doesn't have a florescent nylon strip that a bartender could positively verify the paper isn't a twenty.
Since all US notes are the same size, feel the same, and mostly look the same it's easy to fake. I know the French franc, prior to the Euro, used different sized paper for different values.
As a side note, if you've never seen the movie
The Grifters there's a scene where John Cusack flashes a twenty at a bartender, asks for a beer, then pulls a slight-of-hand leaving a ten on the counter expecting the bartender to remember the twenty and give change as such.
I know folks in the US complain about the Monopoly-esque look of other currency, but it's a hell-of-a-lot tougher to copy, easier for the blind to judge denomination from size, and easier for visitors to manager. Put a dime in front of a visitor and ask him the worth of it. He can't. Nowhere does it say "ten cents" or "10 cents." It just say "One Dime."
They are part of the same spectrum. Visible light is just a tiny fragment of all light including infrared and ultraviolet. Our eyes are just limited in what they can detect.
When a prism is used to split "white" light into components there is infra-red beyond red and ultra-violet beyond violet (thus the names.)
An ETC Source 4 (a modern fixed location theatre light) burns at about 3200K and emits several colors. Which is why you can put a red filter (Gel if you like) or Blue filter and have both work. The Electromagnetic Spectrum if graphed, is mostly a bell curve with the peak of the bell curve in the infrared range. This radiant energy is useless for being able to see what it hits.
My take on the article is that they could shift the frequency of light up or down the spectrum. This would allow the shifting of the bell curve. This would make less waste of infrared radiant energy.
I'm a theatrical lighting designer. I think these things are really neat! The reflector of the light is a borosilicate with a dichroic coating at allows 90% of infrared energy to pass through it and 95% of visible light to be reflected into the lens assembly. See
Source 4 Datasheet
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There's an old saying that says good enough is the enemy of great. In the mid-nineties, good enough meant that is was good enough to have Word crash a few times a day. After all, the competitors crashed too. The OSS movement, in its preference of great over good enough, raised the bar of how good commercial vendors have to be for people to still call them good enough. NT5.0 (aka Win2000) is much better than NT4.0 because of OSS.
The best comparison is the air travel experience. One buys a ticket in advance, provides immigration documents before boarding.
I suppose it would be fair to expect that there might be a problem of transient and migrant people camped outside station who can't get in.
Let's turn it arround. Let's imagine Iraqis conquered the US, Bush goes into hiding, they take over various governmental functions. All over the country, Red Blooded Americans start uprising. Not because of Bush, but because there are Iraqis running our country. Now the Iraqis captured Bush. Do you really think Red Blooded Americans would suddenly say, "Oh, they got Bush. I guess I better get back to work now."
If more people thought, "Well what would an American do if the situation were reversed?" And stopped thinking like imperialists, then I think there would be far less blood spilt in the Cradle of Civilization.
Sounds like BitTorrent.
I think a good formula could be to only try to do eight or so two-hour episodes per season. Sort of reminds me of what they did with Columbo a few nears ago.
I remember Peter Norton's "Pink Shirt" book had very detailed information on FAT classic.
I think these patents basically cover Micros~1 issues with long filena~1 problems
It's also been said that Calvin Kline didn't even know that his name had been used in the movie until someone pointed it out.
Curious: ServerMask is a port80 product. A product whose big selling point is to confuse script kiddies into thinking you've got a platform that you don't.
I realise that broad statements like this is like painting a postcard using a mop, but I think it does reveal a trend that cannot be easily dismissed as hollow or rhetorical.
I believe that Business no longer factors neither good nor bad morality into its choices. The principle factor is the profit factor. Ethical decisions seem to only be the result of bodies of law and public opinion which might adversely affect profit.
The pattern is a cyclical games of brinksmanship. One firm lowers its priciples slightly in favour of higher dividends and the stock markets reward the firm. In order to be competive, other firms in the sector must respond or risk being marginalised. It's a de facto arms race.
You say, "Hold each group accountable." You don't say Who should hold each group accountable. What is truely lacking it adaquate competition not between peer organizations, but between business and regulation. Government, in theory, is uniqely positioned to place moral goals above fiscal avarice.
In the past, there were well understood limits that no one crossed. The so-called Social Contract. As social pressure is no long adaquate to protect society, it is really incumbant for governance to start holding groups accountable for their actions.
Thanks for getting my head turned around straight.
If you have a higher tollerance for distortion, a cheap cosmetic mirror (non-magnifying) would do too and save you the cost of front coated optics.
The version number auto rotated. The most recent file was always "FILE.TXT;1" what was implicitly selected if you just used "FILE.TXT". A directory property allow you to set the maximum number of versions a file could have. Since our disk quotas were set at 500 blocks (yes 250 Kilo bytes) we often set it to one.
The version rotation only occured if an application overwrote a file like text editors, compilers and linkers would do. However, a program that modified an existing file would not rotate the version.
Another interesting feature is that you could define simple indexing on a file that was implemented by the operating system. The OS managed the record storage. The similar GNU idea is gdb.
Most of the $100 DSL/Cable appliances from Linksys, Belkin, 3com and similar vendors perform NAT out of the box. Plug it in and go. They DHCP to the ISP to get the public address and provide RFC1918 addresses internally via a built-in DHCP server. For small/ customers who don't have static address from their ISP, these devices also provide IP address stability internally. I can assign printers static addresses and know that I won't be subject to the whim of the dynamicly assigned number from the ISP. Most home users are probably unaware, at least at any level of detail, of the fact that they are being NAT'ed. I've even recommended these devices to people as cheap firewalls.
Not really, The binary is smaller, the execution loader caches the common code, both in memory and from disk. By increasing the amount of common code, those utilities should actually load faster.
And the other thing is that 80% (or more) of the US commercial aircraft in service still use mechanical linkage from the controls to the controled surfaces. The autopilot and hydraulics assist the pilot in moving the control surfaces. This includes the aircraft that were used in the attacks. Airbus and the Boeing 777 are planes that are designed as true fly-by-wire.
My biggest disappointment is the noise level. There are three fans in the thing: CPU, PS, and Case.
I can't really speak to power since I power on/off the unit as I need it.
I think it's more a case that some stories, like this one, don't show up on the default front page. It is nice to be able to see an article now and again that's not swamped with too many comments. They tend to degredate the signal to noise ratio.
There WILL be something down the line to replace it. The question in my mind is how much engine modification will need to occur and will imcumbent technology manufacturers lead or stiffle that progress.
I wonder if the standard controls will be smaller too. I heard a lot of people complain that the size of the controller made it difficult to handle for people with small hands. My five year old prefers to put it on the carpet rather than hold it.
I feel that the keyboard is the most important interface between Human and machine. In a multi-system invironment, like my basement, I want every keyboard to have the same keys in the same layout.
Four years ago, IBM Announced Linux support under AIX. Four years ago
What if that code, based upon Linux code and not the other way round, leaked out of IBM when SCO and IBM were working on IA-64.
Is it IBM who should be sueing SCO for GPL violations?
The idea is to use a lower value note, say a one, then bleach the old ink off of it. Use your handy-dandy inkjet to print a twenty note on the paper that used to be a one. The one is well suited to false promotion because it doesn't have a florescent nylon strip that a bartender could positively verify the paper isn't a twenty.
Since all US notes are the same size, feel the same, and mostly look the same it's easy to fake. I know the French franc, prior to the Euro, used different sized paper for different values.
As a side note, if you've never seen the movie The Grifters there's a scene where John Cusack flashes a twenty at a bartender, asks for a beer, then pulls a slight-of-hand leaving a ten on the counter expecting the bartender to remember the twenty and give change as such.
I know folks in the US complain about the Monopoly-esque look of other currency, but it's a hell-of-a-lot tougher to copy, easier for the blind to judge denomination from size, and easier for visitors to manager. Put a dime in front of a visitor and ask him the worth of it. He can't. Nowhere does it say "ten cents" or "10 cents." It just say "One Dime."
Sorry for ranting.
When a prism is used to split "white" light into components there is infra-red beyond red and ultra-violet beyond violet (thus the names.)
An ETC Source 4 (a modern fixed location theatre light) burns at about 3200K and emits several colors. Which is why you can put a red filter (Gel if you like) or Blue filter and have both work. The Electromagnetic Spectrum if graphed, is mostly a bell curve with the peak of the bell curve in the infrared range. This radiant energy is useless for being able to see what it hits.
My take on the article is that they could shift the frequency of light up or down the spectrum. This would allow the shifting of the bell curve. This would make less waste of infrared radiant energy.
I'm a theatrical lighting designer. I think these things are really neat! The reflector of the light is a borosilicate with a dichroic coating at allows 90% of infrared energy to pass through it and 95% of visible light to be reflected into the lens assembly. See Source 4 Datasheet