One thing I discovered quickly with a netbook is that a 600 pixel high screen resolution sucks. The MINIMUM vertical screen res needs to be 768. There are too many websites and applications to where anything smaller than that causes overlap and scrolling.
1024 x 600 is a pain to use for any length of time for any app not specifically customized to the smaller screen size.
All Reagan needed to do was continue the tried-and-true containment policies Harry S. Truman began and all subsequent presidents employed.
Maybe, but I argue that Reagan's excessive military spending hurried the end result. Would it have been the same otherwise? Yes. The Soviet economic model was deeply flawed.
As that page said, by 1980 the Soviets were looking at cutting military spending but Reagan wouldn't make it easy on them...
By 1980, the Soviet Union was trying to cut its own defense spending. Reagan made it harder for them to do so.
Reagan's increased spending on the military and related programs (SDI, etc.) was a contributing factor.
Yes, poor economic planning, large economic inefficiencies, crop failures, and poor industrial output played major roles in the collapse of the Soviet empire. But their heavy spending on the military and space programs, in an attempt to keep up with the U.S., was also a factor.
He was, however, better than the Soviet and Eastern European equivalents. Reagan's profligate spending and heavy military investment contributed markedly to the bankrupting of the Soviet Union and their satellite States. Keeping up with the Jones' has its price.
Too bad we haven't learned that lesson. We're going to bankrupt ourselves trying to outspend imaginary enemies.
2. Will this hinder future versions of DirectX or are they backwards compatible in a way that there would be large chunks in hardware and new changes made as firmware revisions or software implementations?
When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome You give us those nice bright colors You give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew When I was single And brought them all together for one night I know they'd never match My sweet imagination And everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome You give us those nice bright colors You give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome Mama, don't take my Kodachrome Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome Mama, don't take my Kodachrome Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (Leave your boy so far from home) Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Yeah. The U.S. has just last week made a WTO complaint against China for their heavy subsidization of the wind energy sector. Wind turbine manufacturing in specific.
His two biggest issues were distribution and the ever decreasing price of natural gas.
First was where he was putting a bunch of the turbines. This was northern Texas and Oklahoma. Lots of flat plains and wind there, but no serious energy distribution grid. Pickens specifically lamented the lack of transmission capability.
The second was as the processes of recovering natural gas from shale and other sources becomes cheaper and more efficient, the price of natgas dropped like a rock.
From what I understand, it is even lower in 2010. Pickens was touting competitiveness of wind with an electric power price of $7 or greater on natural gas. In 2008 it was over $9 and had been rising, but today it is hovering around $4.
Because crypto is hard math and an absolute bitch to get right. The e-mail talks about inserting side-channel key-leaking mechanisms. Finding these may be nigh unto impossible because they simply could be a property of a specific mathematical function that has a subtle weakness.
In short, 99% of coders could audit this all day long and find absolutely nothing. You have to be a coder and a mathematician and a crypto specialist or you're probably just wasting your time.
This is why, time and again, companies that implement their own crypto invariably get burned.
No, but it was part of the post-Wassenaar agreement (Dec. 1998) that de-weaponized open source crypto. 10 years ago would have been around OpenBSD 2.8 (12/1/2000) which introduced AES and was the first release after the expiration of the RSA patent.
v2.7 saw the introduction of hardware-accelerated IPSec only 6 months before.
They were moving fast and furious on IPSec. This would have been an opportune time to spike them.
Considering OpenBSD has performed extensive code audits and this is part of the core code, this is going to bring the argument about the importance of security code audits to the forefront.
They have their place, but...10 years and by one of the most anal-retentive, paranoid coding groups out there. Ouch.
Not really. Had they actually disrupted Visa & MasterCard's *authorization* network, that would have been impressive. As is, DDoSing their websites by getting a lot of morons to download a script-kiddie tool and enter a target IP isn't impressive.
Daft as a hairbrush, the Ravenous Anonymous Beast of 4chan is arguably the most insanely idiotically dense creature in existence. It believes that if you can't see it, it can't see you. Therefore, if you are faced by the horrid (yes, horrid, in spite of its intelligence, or lack of) Beast you should wrap your towel around your head (you do have one, don't you!?) to TEMPORARILY ward off the Beast's voracious appetite and furious... fury... sorry.
The ability to transmit VHF (TV) into the hinterlands had as much to do with multi-kilowatt signals as it did with frequency. Pump 60 Kw into a 2.4 GHz wifi transmitter with a good directional antenna placed on a high tower and I'll bet the punters in the outback can find a working hotspot -- probably one in China at that power.
Many, if not most, public government buildings already have guest-access Internet ports. Some are wifi, some are wired. That means the connection and most maintenance costs are already provided for.
As for who would use it...any public person who has to do business with the gov't and needs internet access. Don't like the idea of a gov't run connection? Set up a VPN and tunnel.
-me (a gov't employee, speaking from personal experience)
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One thing I discovered quickly with a netbook is that a 600 pixel high screen resolution sucks. The MINIMUM vertical screen res needs to be 768. There are too many websites and applications to where anything smaller than that causes overlap and scrolling.
1024 x 600 is a pain to use for any length of time for any app not specifically customized to the smaller screen size.
Or, maybe the USSR could have cut spending enough to focus on other problems and they could have lasted much longer.
I'd rather see a slightly longer threat with the end result of no USSR than a reduced short-term threat and the survival of the Soviet Union.
I forgot about that page. Thanks.
However, they speculate.
All Reagan needed to do was continue the tried-and-true containment policies Harry S. Truman began and all subsequent presidents employed.
Maybe, but I argue that Reagan's excessive military spending hurried the end result. Would it have been the same otherwise? Yes. The Soviet economic model was deeply flawed.
As that page said, by 1980 the Soviets were looking at cutting military spending but Reagan wouldn't make it easy on them...
By 1980, the Soviet Union was trying to cut its own defense spending. Reagan made it harder for them to do so.
Reagan's increased spending on the military and related programs (SDI, etc.) was a contributing factor.
Yes, poor economic planning, large economic inefficiencies, crop failures, and poor industrial output played major roles in the collapse of the Soviet empire. But their heavy spending on the military and space programs, in an attempt to keep up with the U.S., was also a factor.
To be pedantic, they weren't "sensitive US locations", they were locations considered of critical importance to the U.S.
Many are located outside the United States, such as the mine in the Congo and the Straits of Hormuz.
He was, however, better than the Soviet and Eastern European equivalents. Reagan's profligate spending and heavy military investment contributed markedly to the bankrupting of the Soviet Union and their satellite States. Keeping up with the Jones' has its price.
Too bad we haven't learned that lesson. We're going to bankrupt ourselves trying to outspend imaginary enemies.
Read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein for a good story with this basic premise.
1. Will this in any way benefit OpenGL?
2. Will this hinder future versions of DirectX or are they backwards compatible in a way that there would be large chunks in hardware and new changes made as firmware revisions or software implementations?
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
(Leave your boy so far from home)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)
Yeah. The U.S. has just last week made a WTO complaint against China for their heavy subsidization of the wind energy sector. Wind turbine manufacturing in specific.
I wonder if there is a connection... :-)
His two biggest issues were distribution and the ever decreasing price of natural gas.
First was where he was putting a bunch of the turbines. This was northern Texas and Oklahoma. Lots of flat plains and wind there, but no serious energy distribution grid. Pickens specifically lamented the lack of transmission capability.
The second was as the processes of recovering natural gas from shale and other sources becomes cheaper and more efficient, the price of natgas dropped like a rock.
Look here, especially at the drop in the last column for 2009: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm
From what I understand, it is even lower in 2010. Pickens was touting competitiveness of wind with an electric power price of $7 or greater on natural gas. In 2008 it was over $9 and had been rising, but today it is hovering around $4.
It looks like it is handled directly thru the gov't.
http://www.ec.gc.ca/energie-energy/default.asp?lang=En&n=6766D86C-1
Are your electric companies gov't owned up there? Or are they gov't regulated, but privately owned?
Alien or The Brood from X-Men?
As far as I could tell, they were identical.
And for all you young whipper-snappers, I mean X-Men the comic book from back in the 80s.
The real reason is so we can now have sponsored elements. For example:
Nitrogen, brought to you by Air Liquide!
and
Gold, from Kitco. And now a word from Glen Beck on why you should by your gold from us!
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
4chan is the very definition of stupidity.
What about "your" instead of "you're". He should be driving the grammar nazis absolutely bananas.
Because crypto is hard math and an absolute bitch to get right. The e-mail talks about inserting side-channel key-leaking mechanisms. Finding these may be nigh unto impossible because they simply could be a property of a specific mathematical function that has a subtle weakness.
In short, 99% of coders could audit this all day long and find absolutely nothing. You have to be a coder and a mathematician and a crypto specialist or you're probably just wasting your time.
This is why, time and again, companies that implement their own crypto invariably get burned.
No, but it was part of the post-Wassenaar agreement (Dec. 1998) that de-weaponized open source crypto. 10 years ago would have been around OpenBSD 2.8 (12/1/2000) which introduced AES and was the first release after the expiration of the RSA patent.
v2.7 saw the introduction of hardware-accelerated IPSec only 6 months before.
They were moving fast and furious on IPSec. This would have been an opportune time to spike them.
Considering OpenBSD has performed extensive code audits and this is part of the core code, this is going to bring the argument about the importance of security code audits to the forefront.
They have their place, but...10 years and by one of the most anal-retentive, paranoid coding groups out there. Ouch.
Not really. Had they actually disrupted Visa & MasterCard's *authorization* network, that would have been impressive. As is, DDoSing their websites by getting a lot of morons to download a script-kiddie tool and enter a target IP isn't impressive.
Daft as a hairbrush, the Ravenous Anonymous Beast of 4chan is arguably the most insanely idiotically dense creature in existence. It believes that if you can't see it, it can't see you. Therefore, if you are faced by the horrid (yes, horrid, in spite of its intelligence, or lack of) Beast you should wrap your towel around your head (you do have one, don't you!?) to TEMPORARILY ward off the Beast's voracious appetite and furious... fury... sorry.
40+ comments so far and *nothing* about his birth certificate? Where are all the right-wing nutjobs? Is it their nap time already?
The ability to transmit VHF (TV) into the hinterlands had as much to do with multi-kilowatt signals as it did with frequency. Pump 60 Kw into a 2.4 GHz wifi transmitter with a good directional antenna placed on a high tower and I'll bet the punters in the outback can find a working hotspot -- probably one in China at that power.
Many, if not most, public government buildings already have guest-access Internet ports. Some are wifi, some are wired. That means the connection and most maintenance costs are already provided for.
As for who would use it...any public person who has to do business with the gov't and needs internet access. Don't like the idea of a gov't run connection? Set up a VPN and tunnel.
-me
(a gov't employee, speaking from personal experience)
That would be the "Ugly bags of mostly water!" comment.