Cingular now has nearly 50 million customers. If they start running ads saying "Your prepay phone is going to be useless unless you call your senator" things will change real fast when the congressional phoneline lights up like a christmas tree.
This may just effect enough people to cause some patent reform in the US.
I wonder if a properly worded chain letter might have the same effect.
Now Cisco has new products that can cope with IPv6 on the lower end, its time to sell everyone new hardware.
The real reason we are out of IPv4 address is because Cisco routers were too stupid to efficiently treat the entire net as 16 million class C addresses and deal with that problem so their solution to reduce the memory requirements (of Just Cisco routers, no one else had the problem) was to consolidate routes and not allocate anything smaller than a/22 then/21. This mean that many people have far more addresses than they need.
The reality is that real routing in the IPv6 land is just as bad as routing in the old class C world and you have the added benefit of needing far more memory to do the job.
This still doesn't fix the real problem which is that many small companies need dual homed/24 or smaller networks.
The solution now should be that no new address space is handed out unless its issued to two different ISPs that agree to allocated it to dual homed customers. That would means the next block allocated to MCI is also allocated to Quest so that they can hand it out to customers that are hooked to both. It will be a huge mess for the ISPs and an absolute nightmare for their marketing people but it would do great things for the reliability of the net for smaller users.
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IBM has a traveling museum exhibit of models of Leonardo daVinci's work. Its worth seeing if you get the chance.
Your argument is that we can't tell if a development wouldn't happen without NASA's funding. While its impossible to prove a "what if" history has plenty of examples of what happens when the big R&D funds dry up. In some cases (such as Roman Empire and Ancient Egypt) very little progress was made when their major projects ended and in some cases a few decades of major development were followed by centuries of very few new ideas. History can prove that new developments do come from R&D money and the more generous that is, the more development occurs. Modern history shows that Edison's use of feeding profits back into R&D and AT&T's internal tax feeding Bell Labs had a major impact on their ability to invent new things.
Want an example involving NASA? Take Mylar as an example. DuPont had made some of the stuff and it looked like it had useful properties but no one had the millions of dollars to build the equipment so they could make it in bulk until NASA came around with a great big check a decade after material was first developed. None of the 1st uses for the material could justify the development costs except for weather balloons and most of its other useful properties were found out after NASA had bought large amounts of the material.
If you study engineering history you will see many examples of technology that stagnate until someone with lots of cash comes around and says "here's some cash, try and fix it". There are examples in industry sectors such as railroads, mining, trucking, naval and aviation but you want to discount the space industry.
Ada didn't exist before 1977 and C was taking shape in 1972 and in use in 73. Ada's specs were 1st published in June of 79 and the C Programming Language book was published in 78.
Jobs has the contacts in the big bands to do it as well. He also has enough cash to pull off the gig.
There also is a wild card involving some of Job's good friends and the guys who are bailing out Michael Jackson. Someone soon is going to end up with huge catalog of some of the best selling songs of all time or at least some redistribution rights.
There are may be secret deals between Apple Records and Apple Computers that may come to light in the near future as well. While the pair have been in court over issues of their agreement, I don't think anyone on the outside knows exactly what is going on.
Pulling the plug on apple might just be the lsat stupid thing the RIAA and their cronies ever do.
Are desktops upgradeable? I haven't found that to be the case. Lets say I want to increase the memory on a 5 yr old machine... opps I can't buy that anymore so I need a new motherboard/cpu/memory. Now the video card won't work so I need a new one of those too and of course the power supply needs swapped too. About the only cards that still work are the ethernet and USB cards and all the new motherboards have that built in. About the only upgrade I can see for desktops is its easy to add a second hard disk.
How does the PCR test work? You take a DNA sample and you use PCR to get it to duplicated its self billions of times and then you take the gunk and put it in a centrifuge to spin it for a while (which sorts it based on chromosomes) and then use some paper that absorbs the stuff. The result is you get different bands higher up on the paper based on their weight and separated for each chromosome.
The one in a billion figure that is often quoted comes from early studies when they had only done less than a few thousand of these types of tests. At least for other animals the results of the simple tests are not one in a billion.
You hit an important issue. Most DNA tests these days only weigh the different chromosomes. These tests have been done on such a small number of people that no one knows how good the results are but if each of your chromosomes weigh the same as someone else who committed a crime, you will end up in jail with this system unless they already have the other guy in jail. At least with fingerprints when the computer says there is a match, a person tends to look at both.
That price used to be $9.99 and I would buy several hundred a year then. This year I haven't bought one CD from a major label and at least 10 CDs at live music gigs.
Bronfman isn't just greedy, he is stupid and greedy.
I have my grandfathers drivers license. It was one of the 1st issued in Kansas and all they were after was the money and when it was issued, it was transferable and non-cancelable.
One thing that causes fear in traffic safety circles is what happens when a judge rules that driving is a right and not a privilege. There are plenty of ways to argue that in a court and judges and juries have been swayed by far weaker arguments.
I don't know about you, but my pupils are happy to dilate based on IR light and I get a "warm sunshine" feeling when hit by strong IR light sources such as IR camera illuminators and IR lasers commonly used along highways. The other interesting thing is strong IR light wipes out my night vision for about the same amount of time as a visible light of the same intensity would.
Australia has a loser pays system and its common for large companies to ask that the action be stopped because its clear that the small guy couldn't afford the legal fees if they lose. Another trick is to make the poor guy put up a bond to cover legal fees.
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The 94 Saab 900 had three (ABS, engine and other) but the radio got a speed signal which originated with the speed sensors which I assumed would be hooked to the ABS bus. The misc bus also knew about stuff like brake lights being out so it has to know when the brakes are pressed.
The real reason Intel was picked was because Jobs and Paul Otellini decided to do the deal over a golf game and then came up with reasons to support the deal after the fact. So far the people running OS X on Intel hardware haven't had such impressive benchmark results and a very high end Intel gaming system is only about 25% faster than the 1st gen minimac and Apple isn't using any current generation G4 processor in any of its lineup.
Silicon in large volumes is sold by the square mm + pins. The PPC is smaller for equivalent processing so it will always cost less in volume than the Intel processor.
Gotta wonder if this is just bad science, or if someone is promoting an agenda. That is the core of the problem... Previous generations of doctors were trained as scientist 1st and then went to medical school. When modern doctors are trained in sciences they are trained the the results of science but not scientific principals.
In '83 or so my High School had use of a Cyber for the FORTRAN class. We got 1 minute of run time and 3 minutes on the printer. A runway job could produce a box of paper in 3 minutes. That printer was feed by roll of paper using a fork lift and it could also drill and wrap the output.
Lots of things should be dead and buried (like:wq in your sig, where did that come from? there are very few people who were using ex in the days before:x of ZZ). However sendmail isn't one of them. Just because there was an issue with m4 (also something that should be gone) doesn't mean the core app is broken. M4 use started over a decade ago when even awk wasn't consistent on all unix systems.
On one setup that has both sendmail and postfix, I know postfix loses far more mail than sendmail (which has lost none).
I use sendmail because I can make it do everything I want it to and sometimes I have to have an MTA that does odd or unusual things. I've spent time and learned how to make it do very unusual things (at the.cf macro level) and it is very powerful since it has a full programming language built in. I've used it in very large instilaions and it works and it keeps on working. It hasn't ever let me down. I can't say that for the other MTAs.
Also a complete rewrite of sendmail is being done right now. Too bad its taking away all the cool low level macros but I expect most people will find that an advantage.
One key thing to look at is how many race conditions and operating system bugs does your MTA work around? Sendmail has many, many patches to fix other broken systems. At least one other MTAs claim its "an OS problem" and don't even try to fix it.
Current mailserver system I designed and built is hosting 80,000 email accounts, and will scale out to a million quite cheaply by just adding more machines. 80,000 is trivial. I was running a 12 node system with 87,000 users 12 years ago on hardware that was slower than a play station.
The complexity of going from 100,000 to 1,000,000 isn't just 10 times harder, you start to get into that area where sigma 4 system works with few problems with 100k but dies horribly with 1000k users. There is a line where instead of one machine being broken is unusual, you get this situation where at least one machine is always broken and it will often be broken in a way that is hard to diagnose.
That would be an absolute nightmare. Postfix is just as functional and orders of magnitude easier to administer.
If its a million seats, its not going to be easy to admin at all. It will require several people that know MTAs inside and out and sendmail has a track record in very large systems.
Remember that in this case, the job will be 100% running an email system so the best tool for the job should be used, not the best tool for the admin.
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Cingular now has nearly 50 million customers. If they start running ads saying "Your prepay phone is going to be useless unless you call your senator" things will change real fast when the congressional phoneline lights up like a christmas tree.
This may just effect enough people to cause some patent reform in the US.
I wonder if a properly worded chain letter might have the same effect.
Now Cisco has new products that can cope with IPv6 on the lower end, its time to sell everyone new hardware.
/22 then /21. This mean that many people have far more addresses than they need.
/24 or smaller networks.
The real reason we are out of IPv4 address is because Cisco routers were too stupid to efficiently treat the entire net as 16 million class C addresses and deal with that problem so their solution to reduce the memory requirements (of Just Cisco routers, no one else had the problem) was to consolidate routes and not allocate anything smaller than a
The reality is that real routing in the IPv6 land is just as bad as routing in the old class C world and you have the added benefit of needing far more memory to do the job.
This still doesn't fix the real problem which is that many small companies need dual homed
The solution now should be that no new address space is handed out unless its issued to two different ISPs that agree to allocated it to dual homed customers. That would means the next block allocated to MCI is also allocated to Quest so that they can hand it out to customers that are hooked to both. It will be a huge mess for the ISPs and an absolute nightmare for their marketing people but it would do great things for the reliability of the net for smaller users.
IBM has a traveling museum exhibit of models of Leonardo daVinci's work. Its worth seeing if you get the chance.
Your argument is that we can't tell if a development wouldn't happen without NASA's funding. While its impossible to prove a "what if" history has plenty of examples of what happens when the big R&D funds dry up. In some cases (such as Roman Empire and Ancient Egypt) very little progress was made when their major projects ended and in some cases a few decades of major development were followed by centuries of very few new ideas. History can prove that new developments do come from R&D money and the more generous that is, the more development occurs. Modern history shows that Edison's use of feeding profits back into R&D and AT&T's internal tax feeding Bell Labs had a major impact on their ability to invent new things.
Want an example involving NASA? Take Mylar as an example. DuPont had made some of the stuff and it looked like it had useful properties but no one had the millions of dollars to build the equipment so they could make it in bulk until NASA came around with a great big check a decade after material was first developed. None of the 1st uses for the material could justify the development costs except for weather balloons and most of its other useful properties were found out after NASA had bought large amounts of the material.
If you study engineering history you will see many examples of technology that stagnate until someone with lots of cash comes around and says "here's some cash, try and fix it". There are examples in industry sectors such as railroads, mining, trucking, naval and aviation but you want to discount the space industry.
Ada didn't exist before 1977 and C was taking shape in 1972 and in use in 73. Ada's specs were 1st published in June of 79 and the C Programming Language book was published in 78.
Jobs has the contacts in the big bands to do it as well. He also has enough cash to pull off the gig.
There also is a wild card involving some of Job's good friends and the guys who are bailing out Michael Jackson. Someone soon is going to end up with huge catalog of some of the best selling songs of all time or at least some redistribution rights.
There are may be secret deals between Apple Records and Apple Computers that may come to light in the near future as well. While the pair have been in court over issues of their agreement, I don't think anyone on the outside knows exactly what is going on.
Pulling the plug on apple might just be the lsat stupid thing the RIAA and their cronies ever do.
Are desktops upgradeable? I haven't found that to be the case. Lets say I want to increase the memory on a 5 yr old machine... opps I can't buy that anymore so I need a new motherboard/cpu/memory. Now the video card won't work so I need a new one of those too and of course the power supply needs swapped too. About the only cards that still work are the ethernet and USB cards and all the new motherboards have that built in. About the only upgrade I can see for desktops is its easy to add a second hard disk.
Why is this rated +5? is there a now +5 clueless?
Where the heck are the editors?
How does the PCR test work? You take a DNA sample and you use PCR to get it to duplicated its self billions of times and then you take the gunk and put it in a centrifuge to spin it for a while (which sorts it based on chromosomes) and then use some paper that absorbs the stuff. The result is you get different bands higher up on the paper based on their weight and separated for each chromosome.
The one in a billion figure that is often quoted comes from early studies when they had only done less than a few thousand of these types of tests. At least for other animals the results of the simple tests are not one in a billion.
You hit an important issue.
Most DNA tests these days only weigh the different chromosomes. These tests have been done on such a small number of people that no one knows how good the results are but if each of your chromosomes weigh the same as someone else who committed a crime, you will end up in jail with this system unless they already have the other guy in jail.
At least with fingerprints when the computer says there is a match, a person tends to look at both.
That price used to be $9.99 and I would buy several hundred a year then. This year I haven't bought one CD from a major label and at least 10 CDs at live music gigs.
Bronfman isn't just greedy, he is stupid and greedy.
I have my grandfathers drivers license. It was one of the 1st issued in Kansas and all they were after was the money and when it was issued, it was transferable and non-cancelable.
One thing that causes fear in traffic safety circles is what happens when a judge rules that driving is a right and not a privilege. There are plenty of ways to argue that in a court and judges and juries have been swayed by far weaker arguments.
No its the latest in 1970's tech with the latest in 1960's configurations.
The Sat V launch was one heck of a show and I miss real rockets.
I don't know about you, but my pupils are happy to dilate based on IR light and I get a "warm sunshine" feeling when hit by strong IR light sources such as IR camera illuminators and IR lasers commonly used along highways.
The other interesting thing is strong IR light wipes out my night vision for about the same amount of time as a visible light of the same intensity would.
Australia has a loser pays system and its common for large companies to ask that the action be stopped because its clear that the small guy couldn't afford the legal fees if they lose. Another trick is to make the poor guy put up a bond to cover legal fees.
The 94 Saab 900 had three (ABS, engine and other) but the radio got a speed signal which originated with the speed sensors which I assumed would be hooked to the ABS bus. The misc bus also knew about stuff like brake lights being out so it has to know when the brakes are pressed.
The real reason Intel was picked was because Jobs and Paul Otellini decided to do the deal over a golf game and then came up with reasons to support the deal after the fact. So far the people running OS X on Intel hardware haven't had such impressive benchmark results and a very high end Intel gaming system is only about 25% faster than the 1st gen minimac and Apple isn't using any current generation G4 processor in any of its lineup.
Silicon in large volumes is sold by the square mm + pins. The PPC is smaller for equivalent processing so it will always cost less in volume than the Intel processor.
Gotta wonder if this is just bad science, or if someone is promoting an agenda.
That is the core of the problem...
Previous generations of doctors were trained as scientist 1st and then went to medical school. When modern doctors are trained in sciences they are trained the the results of science but not scientific principals.
In '83 or so my High School had use of a Cyber for the FORTRAN class. We got 1 minute of run time and 3 minutes on the printer. A runway job could produce a box of paper in 3 minutes. That printer was feed by roll of paper using a fork lift and it could also drill and wrap the output.
Lots of things should be dead and buried (like :wq in your sig, where did that come from? there are very few people who were using ex in the days before :x of ZZ).
.cf macro level) and it is very powerful since it has a full programming language built in. I've used it in very large instilaions and it works and it keeps on working. It hasn't ever let me down. I can't say that for the other MTAs.
However sendmail isn't one of them. Just because there was an issue with m4 (also something that should be gone) doesn't mean the core app is broken. M4 use started over a decade ago when even awk wasn't consistent on all unix systems.
On one setup that has both sendmail and postfix, I know postfix loses far more mail than sendmail (which has lost none).
I use sendmail because I can make it do everything I want it to and sometimes I have to have an MTA that does odd or unusual things. I've spent time and learned how to make it do very unusual things (at the
Also a complete rewrite of sendmail is being done right now. Too bad its taking away all the cool low level macros but I expect most people will find that an advantage.
One key thing to look at is how many race conditions and operating system bugs does your MTA work around? Sendmail has many, many patches to fix other broken systems. At least one other MTAs claim its "an OS problem" and don't even try to fix it.
Current mailserver system I designed and built is hosting 80,000 email accounts, and will scale out to a million quite cheaply by just adding more machines.
80,000 is trivial. I was running a 12 node system with 87,000 users 12 years ago on hardware that was slower than a play station.
The complexity of going from 100,000 to 1,000,000 isn't just 10 times harder, you start to get into that area where sigma 4 system works with few problems with 100k but dies horribly with 1000k users. There is a line where instead of one machine being broken is unusual, you get this situation where at least one machine is always broken and it will often be broken in a way that is hard to diagnose.
All of these systems will be running sendmail.
That would be an absolute nightmare. Postfix is just as functional and orders of magnitude easier to administer.
If its a million seats, its not going to be easy to admin at all. It will require several people that know MTAs inside and out and sendmail has a track record in very large systems.
Remember that in this case, the job will be 100% running an email system so the best tool for the job should be used, not the best tool for the admin.