In general, I think e-books are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, except in one case: college textbooks. It would be great to have all the books for your entire degree in a single e-book reader thing, fully searchable and with animation/video as appropriate. Surely that would end up cheaper than the hundred and hundreds of dollars people end up spending every term. They could even set the books to expire after your degree ends, since in general few people use them after that anyway.
The heck with contacting the ISP, I want it to interface with those secret laser satellites and vapourize the spamming computer. They've got the target icon on eMailTrackerPro already. Now THAT would be satisfaction.
In Halifax Canada there is pretty good competition between the cable Internet,
EastLink
and the DSL Internet,
Mpowered.
Free install, special offers etc.
They're both about Can$40 a month.
I have no idea about up/down speeds.
Maybe between 100 kilobytes/s and 300 KB/s for a fast site. As far as I know the cable is symmetric. I upload tens of megs of digital photos plenty fast enough for me, anyway.
You misunderstand.
One way to design software is to assume it will be bug free.
Another, more secure way to design software is to assume that it will have bugs, and plan for failure. Design your software so that it will gracefully degrade in secure ways, even when the inevitable bugs arise.
Actually NBtel falls under the Aliant umbrella, and Aliant is rolling out VibeVision in Nova Scotia and NB currently.
In Halifax NS, we have two full-featured high-speed choices: telephone, television and Internet over DSL, or the same combination over cable. Whatever works best for you.
Ok, so the next time a prof asks me, "what is the most expensive point in the development process to fix bugs?" I guess the correct answer is "Bill Gates fixes them all after the product is released".
Or to put it another way:
"For 28 hours the Titanic Engineers switched from developing new ship features to patching existing holes. The ship sank anyway, due to a combination of bad design, arrogance, and bad luck."
Security is not primarily a coding issue. Security is primarily a DESIGN issue.
Not only is this a duplicate story, but the first one is only 6 items down in my Science stories list. People, do a search first before submitting/accepting stories.
now I'm thinking hybrid gas-electric is more practical, at least until we get to fuel-cell cars. Not that it isn't great there are lots of options now, but I still think something like the Toyota Prius or the Honda Insight would work better for combined city/highway driving.
E.M. Forster was writing about people isolated by technology in "The Machine Stops", 90 years ago.
So it's not a new concept that our machines are isolating us from one another, and that we get addicted to connecting with our gadgets, not with each other.
Enough with the shuttle and space station already, unless it's used as a stepping stone to space missions. The shuttle, which was supposed to be a space truck but turns out to be a space ferrari (in terms of cost, not performance) goes up a couple hundred km and then comes back. At least it has somewhere to go now, instead of just floating around, but still. It's boring.
Robots to everywhere.
Mine the asteroids.
Move industry into outer space where possible.
The CISSP seems to be reasonably well-recognized in the North American IT security community, but personally I think most certifications are primarily money-making ventures for the certification organizations.
It doesn't sound like you have been following the Canadian Copyright Reform Process, which has some proposals with similiarities to aspects of the DMCA.
Not a direct answer, but as I remember it, the first magazines to carry computer coverage were electronics "what's new" and hobby magazines, stuff like Popular Electronics. I actually still have most of them in a box somewhere.
RCA COSMAC VIP, be still my heart:)
It's a bit more specifically about network cabling, but try
TIA/EIA-606. "Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Infrastructure of Commercial Buildings". It's one of their top 10 selling standards:)
Anixter has a great reference guide that covers the EIA/TIA cabling and labelling standards.
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With a name like Warhol, obviously this isn't a virus, it's a form of art.
In general, I think e-books are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, except in one case: college textbooks. It would be great to have all the books for your entire degree in a single e-book reader thing, fully searchable and with animation/video as appropriate. Surely that would end up cheaper than the hundred and hundreds of dollars people end up spending every term. They could even set the books to expire after your degree ends, since in general few people use them after that anyway.
The heck with contacting the ISP, I want it to interface with those secret laser satellites and vapourize the spamming computer. They've got the target icon on eMailTrackerPro already. Now THAT would be satisfaction.
They're both about Can$40 a month. I have no idea about up/down speeds. Maybe between 100 kilobytes/s and 300 KB/s for a fast site. As far as I know the cable is symmetric. I upload tens of megs of digital photos plenty fast enough for me, anyway.
On my cable modem, I got an average of one CD worth of music every 11 minutes from Emusic.com
* MusicNet - AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI
* pressplay - Sony, Vivendi Universal
for more information on (legally) downloading music in Canada, you can visit my page at
http://www.akerman.ca/digimusic.html
Personally, I like Emusic.com the best. Real MP3s. One price for unlimited downloads. Artists get compensated. Sweet.
Another, more secure way to design software is to assume that it will have bugs, and plan for failure. Design your software so that it will gracefully degrade in secure ways, even when the inevitable bugs arise.
In Halifax NS, we have two full-featured high-speed choices: telephone, television and Internet over DSL, or the same combination over cable. Whatever works best for you.
Ok, so the next time a prof asks me, "what is the most expensive point in the development process to fix bugs?" I guess the correct answer is "Bill Gates fixes them all after the product is released".
Or to put it another way:
"For 28 hours the Titanic Engineers switched from developing new ship features to patching existing holes. The ship sank anyway, due to a combination of bad design, arrogance, and bad luck."
Security is not primarily a coding issue. Security is primarily a DESIGN issue.
Not only is this a duplicate story, but the first one is only 6 items down in my Science stories list. People, do a search first before submitting/accepting stories.
now I'm thinking hybrid gas-electric is more practical, at least until we get to fuel-cell cars. Not that it isn't great there are lots of options now, but I still think something like the Toyota Prius or the Honda Insight would work better for combined city/highway driving.
E.M. Forster was writing about people isolated by technology in "The Machine Stops", 90 years ago. So it's not a new concept that our machines are isolating us from one another, and that we get addicted to connecting with our gadgets, not with each other.
Enough with the shuttle and space station already, unless it's used as a stepping stone to space missions. The shuttle, which was supposed to be a space truck but turns out to be a space ferrari (in terms of cost, not performance) goes up a couple hundred km and then comes back. At least it has somewhere to go now, instead of just floating around, but still. It's boring.
Robots to everywhere.
Mine the asteroids.
Move industry into outer space where possible.
Men to Mars.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The CISSP seems to be reasonably well-recognized in the North American IT security community, but personally I think most certifications are primarily money-making ventures for the certification organizations.
It doesn't sound like you have been following the Canadian Copyright Reform Process, which has some proposals with similiarities to aspects of the DMCA.
Apple's New iMac
in sending your logs as long as you filter out any personally identifiable information, e.g. your IP address.
That way, they can still do analysis, hacker at IP x.y.z.w is attacking [someone] at port P, but they don't get any detailed info about your setup.
Sony C1 Picturebook. 2.2 lbs. Crusoe chip. Nifty.
This Classic Computers site is probably a good starting place.
Not a direct answer, but as I remember it, the first magazines to carry computer coverage were electronics "what's new" and hobby magazines, stuff like Popular Electronics. I actually still have most of them in a box somewhere. :)
RCA COSMAC VIP, be still my heart
It's a bit more specifically about network cabling, but try TIA/EIA-606. "Administration Standard for the Telecommunications Infrastructure of Commercial Buildings". It's one of their top 10 selling standards :)
Anixter has a great reference guide that covers the EIA/TIA cabling and labelling standards.
Does that mean it can go visit Laika?
Kensington has US$79 for 5.7" diagonal screen; 320 X 240 resolution and US$149 for 7.4" diagonal screen, 640 X 480 resolution.
It says they're out of stock though, so I don't know if this deal is still available.
So is SNO