There is no justifiable reason whatsoever for copyright to last a second past the creator's death. The copyright for years after the death of the author was intended to be a pension for the authors widow.
What you have found is that 8 to 5 culture has changed in your area and quite a few people can shift up to an hour. In some places the corporate culture is so strong that 8 to 8:30 is about as flexible as they get. It would be interesting to see how your commute works at 7am. I expect it will only be slightly better than at 9am.
One of the 4 major issues of traffic congestion is that when you widen a major road, many more people will use the new lane as soon as its finished so they can shift their schedule back closer to the 8 to 5.
I've always wondered why the '8 to 5' work schedule is called '9 to 5' is it that people in advertising and tv don't work as many hours as the rest of the world?
Is this the county where Master Card's headquarters are? If so I wonder if they aren't behind it mostly to find out if it can be effective. I know its very common to use wireless access points when testing out stolen or guessed card numbers these days.
In case you haven't looked closely, that filament just happens to be an inductor. Its the inductive inrush of current that kills light bulbs. The bright flash that you see when a bulb dies is when the inrush of current burns the filament but the gas around the break ends up carrying the current. The result is a very bright bulb until the fuse in the bulb overheats. The fuse can be found in the glass pedestal and its good for something like 10 to 100 amps.
Dimmers protect bulbs because they clamp the transit voltage spikes and the wild currents they case.
I found a record dating back to 1970. I wonder how much older info is in there. Also a mortgage that was discharged may have info from I'm guessing as far back as about 1958. The one document I found was for a mortgage that was paid off before 1975 but was show as discharged in 1995.
Does Negroponte need to be specific when the whole systems fat? If you go back to his example of a fat person, do you say "they have fat arms and fat legs and..." All main stream Linux distros are fat, the kernel headed that way long before 2.2 and most coders today have no idea why this is so wrong. When a modern system gets into DLL-hell with its modules, you know there is something wrong at the core. Also its not just Linux, it applies to Solaris as well.
The sendmail config has been considered a binary, machine readable only file for those that know sendmail since the introduction of the m4 preprocessor. Its a binary file that you can use a text editor on if you have a real need.
I've messed with over 100 email packages in my life and I still use sendmail. Its sill flexible, and you can still add stuff to it for experiments and they still fix bugs no matter how obscure and unlikely they are. Like the recent one which effects nearly every unix bit of code that uses alarm, signal and setjmp.
You don't have any idea what bad is until you look at any one of the many X.400 email packages.
The CERN server was huge and slow and used a huge amount of resources to run. All the new cool stuff was done on on the NCSA server so it developed faster.
Microsoft makes lots of money selling those boxes. Their business model is tied to those boxes just as much as the big record companies business model is to moving their little bits of plastic. The data bits on the bits of plastic aren't nearly as important to the business plan as moving the bits of plastic.
This whole thing with Vista reads like a chapter on "Error, Distance and Camouflage" as described by Livingston in his book "The new Plague" back in 1985. This is going to get very interesting when it gets to the "End of Project Mismatch Discovery" stage.
Don't people know the phone number of the local fire, ambulance and police departments anymore? If you can't remember it, then maybe have it written down or entered in the cell phone.
There are licensed brothels in Victoria Australia. The license fees are like $384.60 per room plus $3,588.90 for the whole place and there are council permits and planning permits and medical fees and all sorts of paper work. A DJ I know comes from a family that has been running brothels every since one of her ancestors got kicked out of England for being a mistress that fell out of favor and was convicted on petty charges and sent away.
The license fees a gaming establishment are higher than the licenses for a brothel which is more expensive than getting a carrier license for an ISP. The ISP will be cheaper.
Any of the three would require mountain of paperwork and I would hate to think how bad it would to combine all three.
Isn't easier to write a EFI boatable program that loaded one of the open source bios and then trashed everything setup by the EFI boot loader and called the reset vector of the old style bios?
Where did the "no repeat character" thing in passwords come from? The 1st I saw it was on an IBM 3081. It seems stupid to me since its the only thing that makes shoulder surfing slightly more difficult. It seems to me that it would be more secure to require at least one character in a password to be a duplicate than it is to insist that no character can be duplicated.
He's confusing an IT janitor with a real IT department. The IT Janitors need to respond directly to the manager of the group they work with while the central IT department makes blanket decisions about what kind of hardware they company will support and company wide things like comms infrastructure and essential services like accounting. The central IT people should only deal directly with the machines that need to live in the data center and the real nasty poblems. Most everything else in the day to day baby sitting of the workstations belongs in the realm of the IT janitor.
The trick is to try "0000" on everyones card today, and "0001" tomorrow and so on. No one will notice one bad guess and with thousands of customers and only 10,000 PINs it doesn't take long to start getting some useful data pairs. The math behind the guess is the same as the Birthday Paradox
The real issue is that if you have to get permission for every song and every idea and every character name, someone is going to object to the way your putting it all together. When Disney Studios was new, they used an extensive collection of ideas from public domain stories with music that they didn't have to pay for. Even into the 1980's movies and TV shows didn't pay for music except for custom into music and that didn't pay very well.
Your right about C. It comes after they know assembler. When I talk about assembler, I mean real assembler like 6502, Z80 or 6809 not this compiled assembly like stuff for the x86.
Once you understand what the computer is doing on the inside, then you can move to the tools that help you use that knowledge. No high level language should ever be taught until the student understands that all the computer is doing is moving a whole bunch of numbers around with the occasional add, multiply or compare.
A couple of years ago I ran into a traveler that had come from Japan and he had a docomo phone in Perth. I rigged up something to recharge it so he could get some numbers out of it and we decided to make a call since it was showing that it was getting a signal. After entering the number, we got a message in Japanese saying that the service wasn't connected or some such thing. I figure that someone was running a docomo micro-cell as a demo or that the message was recored on the phone. Does anyone else have any ideas what was going on?
Those heated toilet seats are a great christmas present for the elderly ladies in your family and the Japanese 110V stuff works just fine in the US. Too bad you can't get just the heated seat versions anymore.
Every 9 months? I've got an 8310 which I think is the smallest phone Nokia ever made that has number buttons and its worked fine for years. I'll replace it when they have something smaller but they seem to have given up on smaller and only are worried about being more trendy.
Why doesn't the Europe Space Agency just save some of their taxpayer's money and ask NASA how they accomplished this AMAZING FEAT back in the 1980's?
Maybe NASA won't tell them? A while ago a friend told me that the tech behind the US space suits was still classified. Apparently it was classified because it was assumed that the Russians hadn't figured out how to use Peltier Effect devices in a space suit and used normal compressors to cooling. He claimed that there had been an active misinformation campaign at NASA to help hide this fact that included bad technical drawings of suits using larger cooling systems and even fake suits built for traveling museums. He learned from one of the Russian space suit designers the reason they didn't use the Peltier Effect devices is that they thought their compressor systems were more reliable and didn't have as high of a thermal stress risk.
As far as Apollo 1 was concerned... the same guy was part of the team that had done the fire risk analysis for earlier spacecraft and somewhere along the line the details got lost when it came to Apollo. I know many of the engineers that were involved at the Cape when that happened went to their graves with a nagging feeling that it was their fault the problem hadn't been caught before the disaster.
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There is the matter of a lunch hour which doesn't seem to count towards those 8 hours.
There is no justifiable reason whatsoever for copyright to last a second past the creator's death.
The copyright for years after the death of the author was intended to be a pension for the authors widow.
What you have found is that 8 to 5 culture has changed in your area and quite a few people can shift up to an hour. In some places the corporate culture is so strong that 8 to 8:30 is about as flexible as they get. It would be interesting to see how your commute works at 7am. I expect it will only be slightly better than at 9am.
One of the 4 major issues of traffic congestion is that when you widen a major road, many more people will use the new lane as soon as its finished so they can shift their schedule back closer to the 8 to 5.
I've always wondered why the '8 to 5' work schedule is called '9 to 5' is it that people in advertising and tv don't work as many hours as the rest of the world?
Is this the county where Master Card's headquarters are? If so I wonder if they aren't behind it mostly to find out if it can be effective. I know its very common to use wireless access points when testing out stolen or guessed card numbers these days.
In case you haven't looked closely, that filament just happens to be an inductor. Its the inductive inrush of current that kills light bulbs. The bright flash that you see when a bulb dies is when the inrush of current burns the filament but the gas around the break ends up carrying the current. The result is a very bright bulb until the fuse in the bulb overheats. The fuse can be found in the glass pedestal and its good for something like 10 to 100 amps.
Dimmers protect bulbs because they clamp the transit voltage spikes and the wild currents they case.
I found a record dating back to 1970. I wonder how much older info is in there. Also a mortgage that was discharged may have info from I'm guessing as far back as about 1958. The one document I found was for a mortgage that was paid off before 1975 but was show as discharged in 1995.
Does Negroponte need to be specific when the whole systems fat? If you go back to his example of a fat person, do you say "they have fat arms and fat legs and ..."
All main stream Linux distros are fat, the kernel headed that way long before 2.2 and most coders today have no idea why this is so wrong.
When a modern system gets into DLL-hell with its modules, you know there is something wrong at the core. Also its not just Linux, it applies to Solaris as well.
The sendmail config has been considered a binary, machine readable only file for those that know sendmail since the introduction of the m4 preprocessor. Its a binary file that you can use a text editor on if you have a real need.
I've messed with over 100 email packages in my life and I still use sendmail. Its sill flexible, and you can still add stuff to it for experiments and they still fix bugs no matter how obscure and unlikely they are. Like the recent one which effects nearly every unix bit of code that uses alarm, signal and setjmp.
You don't have any idea what bad is until you look at any one of the many X.400 email packages.
The CERN server was huge and slow and used a huge amount of resources to run. All the new cool stuff was done on on the NCSA server so it developed faster.
Microsoft makes lots of money selling those boxes. Their business model is tied to those boxes just as much as the big record companies business model is to moving their little bits of plastic. The data bits on the bits of plastic aren't nearly as important to the business plan as moving the bits of plastic.
This whole thing with Vista reads like a chapter on "Error, Distance and Camouflage" as described by Livingston in his book "The new Plague" back in 1985. This is going to get very interesting when it gets to the "End of Project Mismatch Discovery" stage.
Don't people know the phone number of the local fire, ambulance and police departments anymore? If you can't remember it, then maybe have it written down or entered in the cell phone.
There are licensed brothels in Victoria Australia. The license fees are like $384.60 per room plus $3,588.90 for the whole place and there are council permits and planning permits and medical fees and all sorts of
paper work. A DJ I know comes from a family that has been running brothels every since one of her ancestors got kicked out of England for being a mistress that fell out of favor and was convicted on petty charges and sent away.
The license fees a gaming establishment are higher than the licenses for a brothel which is more expensive than getting a carrier license for an ISP. The ISP will be cheaper.
Any of the three would require mountain of paperwork and I would hate to think how bad it would to combine all three.
Some people want to run XP on the hardware so they can get their workplace to buy them a nice new shiny toy.
Isn't easier to write a EFI boatable program that loaded one of the open source bios and then trashed everything setup by the EFI boot loader and called the reset vector of the old style bios?
Where did the "no repeat character" thing in passwords come from? The 1st I saw it was on an IBM 3081. It seems stupid to me since its the only thing that makes shoulder surfing slightly more difficult. It seems to me that it would be more secure to require at least one character in a password to be a duplicate than it is to insist that no character can be duplicated.
He's confusing an IT janitor with a real IT department. The IT Janitors need to respond directly to the manager of the group they work with while the central IT department makes blanket decisions about what kind of hardware they company will support and company wide things like comms infrastructure and essential services like accounting. The central IT people should only deal directly with the machines that need to live in the data center and the real nasty poblems. Most everything else in the day to day baby sitting of the workstations belongs in the realm of the IT janitor.
The trick is to try "0000" on everyones card today, and "0001" tomorrow and so on. No one will notice one bad guess and with thousands of customers and only 10,000 PINs it doesn't take long to start getting some useful data pairs. The math behind the guess is the same as the Birthday Paradox
The real issue is that if you have to get permission for every song and every idea and every character name, someone is going to object to the way your putting it all together. When Disney Studios was new, they used an extensive collection of ideas from public domain stories with music that they didn't have to pay for. Even into the 1980's movies and TV shows didn't pay for music except for custom into music and that didn't pay very well.
Your right about C. It comes after they know assembler. When I talk about assembler, I mean real assembler like 6502, Z80 or 6809 not this compiled assembly like stuff for the x86.
Once you understand what the computer is doing on the inside, then you can move to the tools that help you use that knowledge. No high level language should ever be taught until the student understands that all the computer is doing is moving a whole bunch of numbers around with the occasional add, multiply or compare.
8310: Weight: 84 g Dimensions: 97 x 43 x 17-19 mm
8210: Weight: 79 g Dimensions: 101.5 x 44.5 x 17.4 mm, 66 cc
A couple of years ago I ran into a traveler that had come from Japan and he had a docomo phone in Perth. I rigged up something to recharge it so he could get some numbers out of it and we decided to make a call since it was showing that it was getting a signal. After entering the number, we got a message in Japanese saying that the service wasn't connected or some such thing. I figure that someone was running a docomo micro-cell as a demo or that the message was recored on the phone. Does anyone else have any ideas what was going on?
Those heated toilet seats are a great christmas present for the elderly ladies in your family and the Japanese 110V stuff works just fine in the US. Too bad you can't get just the heated seat versions anymore.
Every 9 months? I've got an 8310 which I think is the smallest phone Nokia ever made that has number buttons and its worked fine for years. I'll replace it when they have something smaller but they seem to have given up on smaller and only are worried about being more trendy.
Why doesn't the Europe Space Agency just save some of their taxpayer's money and ask NASA how they accomplished this AMAZING FEAT back in the 1980's?
Maybe NASA won't tell them? A while ago a friend told me that the tech behind the US space suits was still classified. Apparently it was classified because it was assumed that the Russians hadn't figured out how to use Peltier Effect devices in a space suit and used normal compressors to cooling. He claimed that there had been an active misinformation campaign at NASA to help hide this fact that included bad technical drawings of suits using larger cooling systems and even fake suits built for traveling museums. He learned from one of the Russian space suit designers the reason they didn't use the Peltier Effect devices is that they thought their compressor systems were more reliable and didn't have as high of a thermal stress risk.
As far as Apollo 1 was concerned... the same guy was part of the team that had done the fire risk analysis for earlier spacecraft and somewhere along the line the details got lost when it came to Apollo. I know many of the engineers that were involved at the Cape when that happened went to their graves with a nagging feeling that it was their fault the problem hadn't been caught before the disaster.