Yes, we do need a declaration of war from Congress to make it a war. All sorts of really great stuff kicks in if you're actually at war, including treaties and other international law, an expectation by the people of sunset clauses on emergency laws, and so forth.
Which is why there hasn't been a declaration of war in 50 years.
I don't think it's accurate to say that Windows suffers a usability problem.
I think it is accurate. However, we have become used to the usability problems and don't think of them any more. Going to 'Start' to shutdown a system is not logical. The difference in behaviour of ctrl-alt-delete between NT and 9x confuses people. There is no logic between which programs have full task bar buttons, which one have system tray icons, and which have none. Some programs use MDE, some don't. There are at least 4 different ways to have programs start automatically on boot. It's damm hard to change file associations. The close button is too easy to hit when you mean maximize. State is imperfectly saved between shutdown & startup - some programs restart as they were, some have to be manually restarted. There is no easy way to cut & paste between a DOS program and a Windows program. That's just a few I've thought of in the time to type this up. There are hundreds more.
An ISP can choose whatever policies it likes. If it thinks that it can get most customers by blocking everyone except users with the username 'banana' then they're allowed to do that. If you don't like that policy, then go to another ISP.
Sure I do. They can decide they don't like the service and not use it.
I don't really care how inaccurate they are. As long as they stop at least 1 item of spam ever then they have paid for the effort putting them in (Not much at all).
That's fine, but they are not saying that you are required to read all mail that comes into your server.
Yes they are. They're saying that all the filtering should happen at the end user end, when the spam has already cost money. To give a REAL example, I had someone sending mail to over 30,000 random names @domain in one night, all starting with the letter a, before I blocked them. These were names which had never existed in our system. If I adopted the EFF's position, then all of my users would have had a month of bad service, or I'd have to get a much bigger mail server.
You can now get 2megapixels for about $200 US. I got one a couple of weeks ago, and I don't think I could find a use for anything greater. 2megapixels is 1200x1600, which is full screen at the resolution I run at.
Before we worry about cyber-terrorism, can we at least establish that it actually exists?
Dispite dire warnings from the usual suspects, nothing since the Morris worm has had any significant effect on the Internet as a whole. Code Red & the mafiaboy attacks have had effects on some sites, but these have been self-limitting - the knowledge that Code Red is possible has resulted in people installing the patches, and made future occurances less likely. None of these are what I'd call terrorism either, any more than someone getting all their friends to flush their toilets or call the same phone number at the same time is.
I'd go further. Close it down totally. It's become nothing more than a paper making shop, spending 20 years redesigning the ISS to end up with nothing better than Skylab or Mir. The Space Shuttle has been a disaster, costing MORE than disposible rockets.
I don't know about this specific instance, but in general, optical is better than electrical because it's not vunerable to electromagnetic interference causing noise on the signal. I also know that modern CPUs and other high speed components generate a lot of noise - ever tried to use an AM radio next to a computer, it's not easy. This noise both consumes power, and makes it difficult to route connections, if they are too close then they will interfere with each other and not work. If the route is too long, then it won't work either. Using optical connections could mean that the layout of boards could be simplified, and therefore use less power.
There comes a time when you stop saying "It'll be ready when it's ready" and start asking "How do we make it ready?"
I'd say that's day 1. If you don't have a plan for getting ready, you just spend forever doing side tasks and non-important stuff. Obviously on day 1 won't be detailed, but you should evolve your plan as the project progresses.
Sometimes the exec gets a chance to jump just before the trouble hits. For example, if you are an exec in Lucent, you can jump to HP just before it's obvious that the paper earnings are artifically inflated because you're loaning customers money to buy equipment. Did I mention it was mainly her program?
I have a similar program hooked up to an irc channel, and it's interesting to watch people interact with the program. It's hard to tell, but I'd say that a fair percentage of people never realize that they're not interacting with a human, and even those who know it's a program think that some particularly responses have been entered manually by a human.
It's actually very easy to reverse the picture, all you need to do is to swap the deflector yoke connections, so that when the TV diverts the beam to the top left of the picture, it diverts to the bottom right of the tube.
The alternative, of installing the tube upside down is not possible in most systems, as the tube & the casing are not symetrical.
This is actually a sound engineering practice. If you know that a component has an accuratly known MTBF rate than a component that has a possibly lower, but untrusted MTBF rate. If you know that your drives are going to fail every 33 to 39 months, you can simply plan to replace them every 32 months. If you know they might fail at any time from 1 week to 100 months, then you've got a problem.
Yes, but the BBC was in charge of the message transmission, and they were acting in direct concert with the people who wished to send the message. This is a very different situation to the alleged use of broadcast media by bin Laden.
The problem is, Polaroid has NOTHING that compares to a decent 35mm setup with professional-grade color print film.Not in our budget, anyway.
Of course it doesn't, and never will. There are design constraints that polaroid film has to accept that normally developed film doesn't have to. For example, the chemicals are never washed off the print.
I think that a part of the problem is delayed effects from Y2k. A lot of companies threw out perfectly good equipment and replaced it with new stuff because of Y2k concerns. The whole supply chain grew because of this, and had to collapse when demand fell to lower than normal levels.
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That patent was invalidated because of the prior art of Joseph Swan.
Which is why there hasn't been a declaration of war in 50 years.
I think it is accurate. However, we have become used to the usability problems and don't think of them any more. Going to 'Start' to shutdown a system is not logical. The difference in behaviour of ctrl-alt-delete between NT and 9x confuses people. There is no logic between which programs have full task bar buttons, which one have system tray icons, and which have none. Some programs use MDE, some don't. There are at least 4 different ways to have programs start automatically on boot. It's damm hard to change file associations. The close button is too easy to hit when you mean maximize. State is imperfectly saved between shutdown & startup - some programs restart as they were, some have to be manually restarted. There is no easy way to cut & paste between a DOS program and a Windows program. That's just a few I've thought of in the time to type this up. There are hundreds more.
I disagee. It's unethical to not operate a system in the best interests of the owners, who are not the users.
An ISP can choose whatever policies it likes. If it thinks that it can get most customers by blocking everyone except users with the username 'banana' then they're allowed to do that. If you don't like that policy, then go to another ISP.
I don't really care how inaccurate they are. As long as they stop at least 1 item of spam ever then they have paid for the effort putting them in (Not much at all).
And our SLA states that email is not a gauranteed delivery service, and we can and will drop any message we feel like.
Yes they are. They're saying that all the filtering should happen at the end user end, when the spam has already cost money. To give a REAL example, I had someone sending mail to over 30,000 random names @domain in one night, all starting with the letter a, before I blocked them. These were names which had never existed in our system. If I adopted the EFF's position, then all of my users would have had a month of bad service, or I'd have to get a much bigger mail server.
But not many people print 8x10s. 4x5 or 5x6 is as big as the average person goes.
Your right to send mail stops at my mail server, I can refuse to accept mail based upon anything I feel like, including irrational reasons.
You can now get 2megapixels for about $200 US. I got one a couple of weeks ago, and I don't think I could find a use for anything greater. 2megapixels is 1200x1600, which is full screen at the resolution I run at.
Dispite dire warnings from the usual suspects, nothing since the Morris worm has had any significant effect on the Internet as a whole. Code Red & the mafiaboy attacks have had effects on some sites, but these have been self-limitting - the knowledge that Code Red is possible has resulted in people installing the patches, and made future occurances less likely. None of these are what I'd call terrorism either, any more than someone getting all their friends to flush their toilets or call the same phone number at the same time is.
I'd go further. Close it down totally. It's become nothing more than a paper making shop, spending 20 years redesigning the ISS to end up with nothing better than Skylab or Mir. The Space Shuttle has been a disaster, costing MORE than disposible rockets.
I don't know about this specific instance, but in general, optical is better than electrical because it's not vunerable to electromagnetic interference causing noise on the signal. I also know that modern CPUs and other high speed components generate a lot of noise - ever tried to use an AM radio next to a computer, it's not easy. This noise both consumes power, and makes it difficult to route connections, if they are too close then they will interfere with each other and not work. If the route is too long, then it won't work either. Using optical connections could mean that the layout of boards could be simplified, and therefore use less power.
I used Windows 1.0. It was a nightmare.
I'd say that's day 1. If you don't have a plan for getting ready, you just spend forever doing side tasks and non-important stuff. Obviously on day 1 won't be detailed, but you should evolve your plan as the project progresses.
Sometimes the exec gets a chance to jump just before the trouble hits. For example, if you are an exec in Lucent, you can jump to HP just before it's obvious that the paper earnings are artifically inflated because you're loaning customers money to buy equipment. Did I mention it was mainly her program?
I have a similar program hooked up to an irc channel, and it's interesting to watch people interact with the program. It's hard to tell, but I'd say that a fair percentage of people never realize that they're not interacting with a human, and even those who know it's a program think that some particularly responses have been entered manually by a human.
The alternative, of installing the tube upside down is not possible in most systems, as the tube & the casing are not symetrical.
This is actually a sound engineering practice. If you know that a component has an accuratly known MTBF rate than a component that has a possibly lower, but untrusted MTBF rate. If you know that your drives are going to fail every 33 to 39 months, you can simply plan to replace them every 32 months. If you know they might fail at any time from 1 week to 100 months, then you've got a problem.
Yes, but the BBC was in charge of the message transmission, and they were acting in direct concert with the people who wished to send the message. This is a very different situation to the alleged use of broadcast media by bin Laden.
Of course it doesn't, and never will. There are design constraints that polaroid film has to accept that normally developed film doesn't have to. For example, the chemicals are never washed off the print.
Also Moff Tarkin dismisses Vader's fears about the Jedi by saying "You're all that remains of that ancient religion"
I think that a part of the problem is delayed effects from Y2k. A lot of companies threw out perfectly good equipment and replaced it with new stuff because of Y2k concerns. The whole supply chain grew because of this, and had to collapse when demand fell to lower than normal levels.
I've only heard that discussed when the ISP has an agreement with the spammer that they won't be tossed for spam, the so called pink contracts.