Sol is far too small to become a supernova. A type II supernova would have to be at least 8 times the mass of Sol. A type Ib or Ic is at least 20 times, and a Type Ia requires a binary system.
The Someone was Alex North, well known score composer (Spartacus, Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf, Cleopatra etc). You can purchase his version of the 2001 score as Alex North's 2001.
We had several defunct satellite dishes up there for years, just taking up space. No one knew nor cared.
This doesn't suprise me. Most buildings aren't short of roof space, and removing them would take effort & dollars. However, if a building did get short on roof space, I guarantee that an audit of what's up there would take place, and anything that a tenant wouldn't justify & probably pay for, would be removed.
how many web pages are being viewed and how many radius clients are connecting simultaniously at maximum capacity, and pay client licenses for all of them.
Except when Microsoft say you must pay client licenses for each unique user who may possibly connect, as happened with Alaska in the story.
I wonder how many Christians have actually read the entire bible and considered what it really has to say about other religions if taken literally.
Read in the original languges too. While our knowledge of ancient Aramic is obviously not perfect, there is considerable schollarly opinion that Ex. 22:18 would be better translated as 'Thou shalt not Suffer a poisoner to live'.
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The real question is how long have TR & Ethernet been competing? Not too long from my point of view. It used to be that IBM shops used TR, DEC shops used Ethernet, and smaller places used other properiatary technologies such as Arcnet and Applenet.
Ethernet killed the properiatary technologies, and moved into the TR shops, and as soon as it did that, people started standardizing on one standard, which was Ethernet.
Would smaller be an advantage to the average person? I found cassettes to be fiddly, because their size was too small, and memory sticks and compactFlash & other similar technologies are VERY fiddly. The size of the CD seems to me to be within the optimum range of acceptable sizes.
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There is room for both approachs, just as there is room for both ethernet (802.3) and token-ring (802.5) LAN technologies.
Except that there apparently isn't room for both ethernet & token-ring, because token-ring is dying.
4 years after the High Speed Token Ring Alliance (HSTRA) was set up, even IBM, the champion of TR, barely support 100Mb TR. Other members, for example 3 Com, don't seem to support it at all, and some, eg Olicom, have got out of the TR business totally.
It's much older than that too. Basically as soon as standardized computers came out, there was software written and exchanged between users of the new systems. Field Service engineers were often the way that programs were exchanged, as they tended to visit all the sites which had that particular system.
That's not true at all. We have evolved from tree climbers. If you are going to go from branch to branch, you want binocular vision so that you can accuratly judge the distance. You'll find binocular vision in lemurs, squirrels, and other similar creatures.
Looks like Hormel isn't going to get what they want then is it?
Trying to control any mentions of anything remotely related to your trademark is not reasonable. You have the right to prevent others from using it to represent their products. That is all. Slashdot does not sell meat products, and therefore Hormel has no justification in complaining.
DirecTV was one of the very first
large distributors of smart card technology in their product.
This may be true in the US, but it's not true in Europe. Sky Television has been using smart cards to control access to their DTH channels since it launched in the early 90's (The company was founded in 89, I belive it started transmitting the next year).
Sky also has had it's battles with pirates breaking their encryption, and periodically have to send out new cards to their subscribers whenever the losses become too high.
Actually, when 1-888 started, owners of 1-800 numbers were given first refusal over the equivilant 1-888 number. Totally stupid, and the reason why 1-888 filled up so quickly.
I like to compare engineering a system with real engineering.
If you are building a bridge, and the specifications to make it safe & robust are 4 pillars each supporting 200 tonnes each, then you don't built it with 2 pillars supporting 600 each.
A good systems architech should give a range of options, from cheapest to best, and a recommendation of which one to choose. However, each of those options should be appropriate, which for critical systems means redundancy.
In both those cases, the advert was made from using existing stock, digitially modified to remove & insert objects. In the Fred Astaire case, a hat stand was replaced with the vaccum cleaner. The actor wasn't CGI.
This comment is marked funny, but it's undoubtable that in time, computers will be used to creat actors. If you trace the history of CGI you can see that it's gone from non-realistic non-interacting stationary objects, to moving objects, to interacting characters, to photorealistic non-human characters, to humanoids. Humans are the next step. I'd expect that due to the SAG & other unions, it will probably be first seen with the likeness of a dead actor or actors, in an advert, probably for a superbowl Sunday. Quite possibly Marilyn Monroe or James Dean.
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Isn't that a bit of an insult to toddlers?
Sol is far too small to become a supernova. A type II supernova would have to be at least 8 times the mass of Sol. A type Ib or Ic is at least 20 times, and a Type Ia requires a binary system.
Cars are very far from idiot proof. It takes a long training procedure to operate & care for a car.
The Someone was Alex North, well known score composer (Spartacus, Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf, Cleopatra etc). You can purchase his version of the 2001 score as Alex North's 2001.
This doesn't suprise me. Most buildings aren't short of roof space, and removing them would take effort & dollars. However, if a building did get short on roof space, I guarantee that an audit of what's up there would take place, and anything that a tenant wouldn't justify & probably pay for, would be removed.
Except when Microsoft say you must pay client licenses for each unique user who may possibly connect, as happened with Alaska in the story.
Retraining? I work for a big company and never got any training on Win9x. Basically the management seems to belive in 'trickle down' knowledge.
Read in the original languges too. While our knowledge of ancient Aramic is obviously not perfect, there is considerable schollarly opinion that Ex. 22:18 would be better translated as 'Thou shalt not Suffer a poisoner to live'. (Reposted due to accidentally hiting the anonymous coward button)
Ethernet killed the properiatary technologies, and moved into the TR shops, and as soon as it did that, people started standardizing on one standard, which was Ethernet.
But distributing it in order to allow interoperability is explicitly allowed.
Would smaller be an advantage to the average person? I found cassettes to be fiddly, because their size was too small, and memory sticks and compactFlash & other similar technologies are VERY fiddly. The size of the CD seems to me to be within the optimum range of acceptable sizes.
Except that there apparently isn't room for both ethernet & token-ring, because token-ring is dying.
4 years after the High Speed Token Ring Alliance (HSTRA) was set up, even IBM, the champion of TR, barely support 100Mb TR. Other members, for example 3 Com, don't seem to support it at all, and some, eg Olicom, have got out of the TR business totally.
OS/390 is certifed as Unix 95. That makes it exactly like Unix(tm) by definition.
It's much older than that too. Basically as soon as standardized computers came out, there was software written and exchanged between users of the new systems. Field Service engineers were often the way that programs were exchanged, as they tended to visit all the sites which had that particular system.
That's not true at all. We have evolved from tree climbers. If you are going to go from branch to branch, you want binocular vision so that you can accuratly judge the distance. You'll find binocular vision in lemurs, squirrels, and other similar creatures.
All nutritionists are into food faddism. It's a defining charateristic of the job.
Trying to control any mentions of anything remotely related to your trademark is not reasonable. You have the right to prevent others from using it to represent their products. That is all. Slashdot does not sell meat products, and therefore Hormel has no justification in complaining.
If you have the specific information, you can create the general information, the reverse is not true.
This may be true in the US, but it's not true in Europe. Sky Television has been using smart cards to control access to their DTH channels since it launched in the early 90's (The company was founded in 89, I belive it started transmitting the next year).
Sky also has had it's battles with pirates breaking their encryption, and periodically have to send out new cards to their subscribers whenever the losses become too high.
Funny, cause I don't.
NPR is trying to protect their turf, just as every other qango does. They see LPR as a threat, and will attempt to stop it.
Actually, when 1-888 started, owners of 1-800 numbers were given first refusal over the equivilant 1-888 number. Totally stupid, and the reason why 1-888 filled up so quickly.
If you are building a bridge, and the specifications to make it safe & robust are 4 pillars each supporting 200 tonnes each, then you don't built it with 2 pillars supporting 600 each.
A good systems architech should give a range of options, from cheapest to best, and a recommendation of which one to choose. However, each of those options should be appropriate, which for critical systems means redundancy.
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In both those cases, the advert was made from using existing stock, digitially modified to remove & insert objects. In the Fred Astaire case, a hat stand was replaced with the vaccum cleaner. The actor wasn't CGI.
This comment is marked funny, but it's undoubtable that in time, computers will be used to creat actors. If you trace the history of CGI you can see that it's gone from non-realistic non-interacting stationary objects, to moving objects, to interacting characters, to photorealistic non-human characters, to humanoids. Humans are the next step. I'd expect that due to the SAG & other unions, it will probably be first seen with the likeness of a dead actor or actors, in an advert, probably for a superbowl Sunday. Quite possibly Marilyn Monroe or James Dean.