It's not pretty obvious; it's not obvious at all. For example, I just logged in to comment and realized it was time I changed my password.
I use uMatrix and (kind of) know what I'm doing. I ended up allowing all third-party domains temporarily just to change my password. Go take a look yourself at the ridiculous number of domains NOT named slashdot.org that slashdot.org uses.
The patient does not have the skills, knowledge of the device's internal hardware/firmware/software design, testing tools, or the time to make sure an update is safe and won't break the device. Only the manufacturer can do that.
Besides, "signed" doesn't necessarily mean the same certificate-based chain-of-trust process that most people are familiar with. It could be much simpler (and usually is for firmware or software on embedded devices).
Making water from alcohol! Alchemists have been trying to transmute one element into another for hundreds of years! Neither water nor alcohol are elements.
still noone will have invented a better use of all that silicone than adding yet another core Plastic surgeons have already invented a better use for silicone. But your statement still applies - two fake boobs is enough for one PC (personal companion).
Were these content publishers only able to publish these intellectual works for 17 years, it's true that many wouldn't take a chance at producing works such as Waterworld or Lord of the Rings. The money spent on these productions might take an exceptional amount of time to recoup, much less profit from.
Really? LoTR has more than re-couped its production costs. And by my watch they'd still have at least 11 more years to cash in if copyright was limited to 17 years.
You've missed my point. The parent of my reply tried to make an argument about economic collapse given a device that completely changes our current idea of an economy.
If we have the technology for such a device, let's go all the way and assume it will be so amazing it can use any atoms as raw material. So, just dump some dirt in the input spigot. There's a lot of it on this planet. Or go to another planet. Or another galaxy. There's an awful lot of matter out there. Or recycle your old stuff into new stuff. In any case, "resources" will be unlimited for any given "consumer" as defined by any human economy up to now. Of course the construct we call an "economy" right now won't survive. The argument is meaningless.
What is going to happen to our economy if we get to the point where you can build devices and even vehicles using some sort of nano replicator?
This is a rediculous argument.
If (and that's a big IF) such a device is invented, I doubt we will have much need for an economy at all. Economies are about dividing scarce resources - this device would ultimately make all resources unlimited. And don't tell me the designs for stuff this replicator can make have monetary value. When all other resources are unlimited, money has no meaning.
For fun, let's ride your argument all the way down the slippery slope. Everyone could make music and movies all day because they don't have to work anymore. The recording industry is still out business!
That aside, human economies have changed many times in the past. I liken the RIAA/MPAA to fuedal lords losing their clout as capitalism took hold in Europe.
After months of hearing of how a certain influential team in Windows was going to cause the Vista release to slip, I [...] had at last the chance to speak with two of the team's key managers, asking them how they could be so [...] ignorant as to proper estimation of software schedules. Turns out they're actually great project managers. They knew months in advance that the schedule would never work. So they told their VP. And he [...] summarily sent the managers back to "figure out how to make it work." The managers re-estimated, nipped and tucked, liposuctioned, did everything short of a lobotomy - and still did not have a schedule that fit. The VP was not pleased. "You're smart people. Find a way!" This went back and forth for weeks, whereupon the intrepid managers finally understood how to get past the dilemma. They simply stopped telling the truth. "Sure, everything fits. We cut and cut, and here we are. Vista by August or bust. You got it, boss."
My God, this exactly describes my last job (at a large three-letter-acronym addicted company whose name is a two letter acronym). The developers gave their manager a realistic schedule, the manager gave the schedule-pushing weenies that schedule, but once it got up to the project manager whose bonus was riding on a release date, all was lost. Any hint of truth never made it above that level.
It wasn't just a problem for the SW developers. I moved from the SW department to run clinical testing and user-centered design and I'd get the same response. "This product has new features that haven't been tested in an operating room," I'd say. "We need at the very least 2 clinical test rounds with time between for the development team to implement and test the changes. That will take 2 months for each round." The project manager responded, "no way. Get creative, you're smart. You have 4 weeks." (Of course that 4 weeks was dependent on the mechanical, EE, and SW teams completing their untruthful schedules on time.)
Time passes, and the date for prototype release is coming. The engineering VP and company CEO were actually surprised when the project manager stood up and told them the project was going to be late. The manager blamed some people under him, so the VP replaced those people and the madness started all over again.
I learned, just as the managers in the article, to stop telling the truth to people who don't want to hear it. Truth is no match for a man who wants his bonus.
If the download is interrupted, just enter the command again from the same directory and rsync will continue where it left off. Another advantage is rsync will compress the download on the fly.
(I hope I didn't just start the first rsync DoS from/.!)
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It's not pretty obvious; it's not obvious at all. For example, I just logged in to comment and realized it was time I changed my password.
I use uMatrix and (kind of) know what I'm doing. I ended up allowing all third-party domains temporarily just to change my password. Go take a look yourself at the ridiculous number of domains NOT named slashdot.org that slashdot.org uses.
You answered your own question at the beginning of your post: "I am 35".
Absolutely not.
The patient does not have the skills, knowledge of the device's internal hardware/firmware/software design, testing tools, or the time to make sure an update is safe and won't break the device. Only the manufacturer can do that.
Besides, "signed" doesn't necessarily mean the same certificate-based chain-of-trust process that most people are familiar with. It could be much simpler (and usually is for firmware or software on embedded devices).
Hey! Our regular, for-human-use world wide web is cloud based, too!
You forgot the "Customer is Coming Tomorrow to Pick It Up" option. Quite common at my job lately.
The latest version of VMD uses CUDA to speed things up by 100 times or more. VMD is released under the UIUC Open Source License.
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Really? LoTR has more than re-couped its production costs. And by my watch they'd still have at least 11 more years to cash in if copyright was limited to 17 years.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120737/business
http://imdb.com/title/tt0167261/business
http://imdb.com/title/tt0167260/business
As much as Waterworld doesn't deserve to make money (IMHO), it did too. Of course there'd be only 5 more years to collect on that gem.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/business
You've missed my point. The parent of my reply tried to make an argument about economic collapse given a device that completely changes our current idea of an economy.
If we have the technology for such a device, let's go all the way and assume it will be so amazing it can use any atoms as raw material. So, just dump some dirt in the input spigot. There's a lot of it on this planet. Or go to another planet. Or another galaxy. There's an awful lot of matter out there. Or recycle your old stuff into new stuff. In any case, "resources" will be unlimited for any given "consumer" as defined by any human economy up to now. Of course the construct we call an "economy" right now won't survive. The argument is meaningless.
This is a rediculous argument.
If (and that's a big IF) such a device is invented, I doubt we will have much need for an economy at all. Economies are about dividing scarce resources - this device would ultimately make all resources unlimited. And don't tell me the designs for stuff this replicator can make have monetary value. When all other resources are unlimited, money has no meaning.
For fun, let's ride your argument all the way down the slippery slope. Everyone could make music and movies all day because they don't have to work anymore. The recording industry is still out business!
That aside, human economies have changed many times in the past. I liken the RIAA/MPAA to fuedal lords losing their clout as capitalism took hold in Europe.
Wow. Are you sure you're in the right profession?
My God, this exactly describes my last job (at a large three-letter-acronym addicted company whose name is a two letter acronym). The developers gave their manager a realistic schedule, the manager gave the schedule-pushing weenies that schedule, but once it got up to the project manager whose bonus was riding on a release date, all was lost. Any hint of truth never made it above that level.
It wasn't just a problem for the SW developers. I moved from the SW department to run clinical testing and user-centered design and I'd get the same response. "This product has new features that haven't been tested in an operating room," I'd say. "We need at the very least 2 clinical test rounds with time between for the development team to implement and test the changes. That will take 2 months for each round." The project manager responded, "no way. Get creative, you're smart. You have 4 weeks." (Of course that 4 weeks was dependent on the mechanical, EE, and SW teams completing their untruthful schedules on time.)
Time passes, and the date for prototype release is coming. The engineering VP and company CEO were actually surprised when the project manager stood up and told them the project was going to be late. The manager blamed some people under him, so the VP replaced those people and the madness started all over again.
I learned, just as the managers in the article, to stop telling the truth to people who don't want to hear it. Truth is no match for a man who wants his bonus.
What is the state of Texas going to do with 5 million coupons for a free Sony CD?
Try rsync'ing it from a mirror. Find one that supports rsync on http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html, then do:
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0 /en/iso/ .
/.!)
rsync -Pzrv --size-only rsync://(rsync site you found)/(path to site's iso dir)/
to download all 6(?) ISOs under the local directory.
For example, to download from mcs.anl.gov, type:
rsync -Pzrv --size-only rsync://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/redhat/redhat/linux/8.
If the download is interrupted, just enter the command again from the same directory and rsync will continue where it left off. Another advantage is rsync will compress the download on the fly.
(I hope I didn't just start the first rsync DoS from