You disproved your own argument. You say at first that humanity has this grand power to burn all this carbon, but then point out that it would only be about 1.8 cubic kilometers if it were the density of water. Is that a typo? Frankly, it's a very SMALL number, which would indicate that humanity has a very small impact.
To give you some idea - the volume of the earth's oceans has been computed to be 1.37 BILLION CUBIC KILOMETERS. (See here.) So that carbon, if it were in the density of water, would be 1 billionth of the size of the oceans.
Now, as it relates to carbon, imagine that the earth itself is practically made of the stuff, as is most life!
Don't let them. Ask them for a warrant. They still need one in this country. Until people stop asking, that is, and just accepting that the cops "can" search your bag.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The first step was cameras. Sure, they could say "Well, these are just substitutes for police eyes". Since I can't reasonably expect to be private from police eyes, this one slides.
However, now we are subject to "random searches" of backpacks and other large items. This is clearly not constitutional! The cameras were a first step. Now they can randomly search anyone. Soon, it will be that you'll have to be willing to stop at the checkpoint and prove who you say you are.
It's what's known as a "slippery slope". Once you start down it, you end up at the bottom, where the end result is a police state. We've installed the Big Brother cameras, and now we have the Big Brother random searches. Soon it will be Big Brother checkpoints.
CommuniGate is an excellent piece of software. I've used it, and I would recommend it, too, if I could...
The only problem with Communigate Pro is that it is *****EXPENSIVE*****. For a small hosting company with 1000 email boxes, they wanted *****THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS*****. That's *****THIRTY TWO DOLLARS PER MAILBOX*****. That's insane. Even Microsoft doesn't charge anywhere near that much, and I think MS's products are way overpriced.
In case I haven't made my point, it's ridiculously expensive. It's not geared to any business that isn't already an ISP. (I know, because I used to work at a small ISP, and they used it, but still had serious reservations about the price.)
There's also SurgeMail, which is very similar to CommuniGate, but isn't nearly as expensive.
I'm only 30, so I don't consider myself old just yet, but I must say that I found the game "Flat Out" to be just totally unnecessary. While racing games are good fun, I just can't how an obstacle course where the object is to fling the driver through the windshield could be anything but disturbing. What is up with people these days? Are they so desensitized that the only way to entice them to play a video game is with things like this?
As someone who used BeOS quite a bit, there are several really important things that the reviewer misses:
BeFS. While he touches on the subject of attributes, he missed the most important part of the BeFS. It was *searchable*. On *everything*. It was really handy for emails, because you could use the attributes to get through tons of email, even if you were the most unorganised person ever. The technology in things like Apple's Spotlight are only now just getting the same capabilities that BeFS had in 1998.
Mutli-Processor. The BeOS took advantage of dual processors. The apps were all mutlithreaded. And it was *fast* because of this. This reviewer did not run a version of Zeta on a dual-processor box, and so can't say whether or not this still holds true.
Multimedia. He does go into this, but not very well - the graphics on the original BeOS were crisp and clean, and looked spectacular with just about every monitor and video card, *automatically*. This was at a time when I was still looking up Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates to put into an X config on RedHat 5.2, and that didn't even work well. Sound was amazing and took advantage of just about every sound card feature. Furthermore, it took advantage of the full power of the speakers, too. I'll never forget the first time I booted into BeOS after rebooting from my Windows partition - I nearly blew out the speakers!
In all, I think it would have been better had someone who was a Be afficianado actually write the review. It's a good review, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't tell me how the new Zeta *feels* when compared to the BeOS.
Am I the only one who thinks it's going to take longer? Given the number of parties/factions involved (FSF, EFF, RedHat, Linus, ESR, etc.), I think it may take longer. I know that not all those people have to have the new GPL "cleared" with them, but I'm sure they'll all want to weigh in on the process, which will likely lengthen it.
...and told us that it will be the year we all live in from now on.
Regardless of what you think about Lynn's tactics, or Cisco's, or ISS's, or Blackhat's, the bottom line is that the FBI is now investigating. The government is going after a private citizen for releasing information about routers, because it's "critical to the national ingfrastructure". How long before pinging a router is an "investigable offence" for causing a drop in router resources?
RTFWP. They figured out what it costs Australia, and they have numbers from Microsoft saying that Australia is 2% of MS's income.
They extrapolate, based on their figure of $200 million in savings, which is 2% of $10 billion.
In reality, in any given year, Microsoft makes $40 billion. Does it really seem ridiculous that 10 of that might be from their monopoly? It seems sensible to me. The WP points out that in buying a computer, that it used to be (ala early - mid 90s) that the hardware was about 85% of the cost, and the software 15%. Now, hardware costs have plummeted, whereas software prices have gone up. Now when you buy a computer, about 65% of the price is hardware, and 35% is software. Good points, if you ask me.
Thanks for: Being Scotty, and being cheerful about it. Your efforts at Normandy in World War II, which almost cost you your life, and did cost you a finger.
Actually, yes. The moon is *closer* which means that more of the subtle things are based on it.
Sure, the sun is responsible for energy and day/night, and the year. Those are all big things.
Let's talk about day/night.
Without the moon, one half of the planet would be *pitch black* all the time. There'd be no moon phases with no moon, and so there'd be no reflected light.
What effect do you think that would have on nocturnal creatures? Would they have evolved eyes? Would there be as many? I'd say that right there, though the sun is obviously a contributing factor, the presence of the moon plays a much larger role.
Let's look at language and culture. The concept of lunacy, derived from the same base as lunar, is the idea that people are affected by the moon, and they are.
The moon may even reduce crime! Any 'good' burglar waits until as close to a new moon as possible before committing crimes. While mooonlight can be helpful to people at night, it's a hindrance to criminals as well, since it makes them more likely to be spotted.
It's helpful to drivers at night. Can you imagine if it were always pitch black at night?
What would JFK and the US have done in the 60s with nothing to race to? Where would Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin be today?
How would the green cheese industry be faring with no moon?;)
Actually, for as much of our culture that's dictated by the sun, a *lot* of it is dictated by the moon. Our calender is based first on the moon (months, a word that may have derived from moonths?), women's cycles are typically ~28 days (the length of the lunar cycle), tides are more heavily influenced by the moon than the sun, and a number of other things I can't think of right now. I'm not denying the sun's influence by any means - obviously, without it's warmth and light there'd be just about nothing on this planet. But don't understimate the moon, which is as important, if not moreso.
With Spider-Man 3 (May 2007) and the Transformers (July 2007) coming out in the same summer, it looks like I'll be spending a lot of time in the theatre in 2007!
It will be handier and handier to have virtual keyboards, and in fact, they obviously already exist.
However, soon enough, as with other inventions, it just may be that we get a glass panel in front of us, and the display/input conforms to the user and his/her function, instead of the other way around.;)
Yeah, but it only makes it illegal or legal *after* it's been used on someone, or another crime has been committed. The police can't pick you up for having a knife; they can only pick you up for threatening someone with it or using it on someone or something. The intent only factors in *after* another type of crime has been committed, and one which relies on physical usage or action.
That is, of course, unless you're trying to board an airplane, in which case usage is automatically assumed and intent is inferred as a result.
Is there a law against running a bulletin board for dealers and their available drugs? I'm sorry, but in order to be guilty, there has to be a law to be broken. When last I checked, there were no laws against listing information in any country. Of course, now it seems that Australia may be the first, and we've all just gone a little further down the Orwellian slippery slope.
Intent is only used to measure the degree of a crime, not the crime itself. In order for linking to have been illegal itself, there has to have been a law on the books that says (or was interpreted to say) that linking to other people providing music is illegal. Anyone can 'intend' to commit a crime; they are guilty of nothing unless their physical actions pursue that end, and when that occurs, the intent becomes a factor. But I don't think Australia had laws on the books that prevent hyperlinking.
If your "intent" argument were to be true, and that boosting traffic on an ISP by linking to popular sites were a crime itself, there'd be a lot of sites (Google, C|Net, Microsoft) that would be in a lot of trouble - and that's to say nothing of worm creators and spyware pushers.
Publishing information should never be a crime. Acts committed using information may be crimes, but when you go after the information, instead of the criminal acts, we all lose yet a little more of our freedom. If there's a crime in providing copyrighted music, go after those sites - not the sites that link to them!
Slashdot Mirror
...with "Instant On" technology. Of course, so far everything is vapour-ware, but here's the site:
http://www.go-l.com/home/index.htm
I wish I'd had mod points - very funny. :-)
...welcome our seven year old overlords.
;-)
By ten, I predict that we're calling it the "GoogleNet" instead of the "Internet".
...doesn't mean that everyone's bandwidth is going to be less. What's with linking a video in the story? Sadism? ;)
...this company.
Disclaimer: I don't work there, but I did interview there.
You disproved your own argument. You say at first that humanity has this grand power to burn all this carbon, but then point out that it would only be about 1.8 cubic kilometers if it were the density of water. Is that a typo? Frankly, it's a very SMALL number, which would indicate that humanity has a very small impact.
To give you some idea - the volume of the earth's oceans has been computed to be 1.37 BILLION CUBIC KILOMETERS. (See here.) So that carbon, if it were in the density of water, would be 1 billionth of the size of the oceans.
Now, as it relates to carbon, imagine that the earth itself is practically made of the stuff, as is most life!
The difference is that a sporting event is a *private event*. *Public* transportation is just that, and paid for with my tax dollars.
Don't let them. Ask them for a warrant. They still need one in this country. Until people stop asking, that is, and just accepting that the cops "can" search your bag.
What privacy do I have on a subway?
United States Constitution, Amendment IV:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The first step was cameras. Sure, they could say "Well, these are just substitutes for police eyes". Since I can't reasonably expect to be private from police eyes, this one slides.
However, now we are subject to "random searches" of backpacks and other large items. This is clearly not constitutional! The cameras were a first step. Now they can randomly search anyone. Soon, it will be that you'll have to be willing to stop at the checkpoint and prove who you say you are.
It's what's known as a "slippery slope". Once you start down it, you end up at the bottom, where the end result is a police state. We've installed the Big Brother cameras, and now we have the Big Brother random searches. Soon it will be Big Brother checkpoints.
Hey, thanks for your comment. I didn't know Broadvoice existed. Looks like they'll be getting a new customer soon!
They should have an affiliate program... I'd sign up under your affiliate ID.
CommuniGate is an excellent piece of software. I've used it, and I would recommend it, too, if I could...
The only problem with Communigate Pro is that it is *****EXPENSIVE*****. For a small hosting company with 1000 email boxes, they wanted *****THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS*****. That's *****THIRTY TWO DOLLARS PER MAILBOX*****. That's insane. Even Microsoft doesn't charge anywhere near that much, and I think MS's products are way overpriced.
In case I haven't made my point, it's ridiculously expensive. It's not geared to any business that isn't already an ISP. (I know, because I used to work at a small ISP, and they used it, but still had serious reservations about the price.)
There's also SurgeMail, which is very similar to CommuniGate, but isn't nearly as expensive.
I'm only 30, so I don't consider myself old just yet, but I must say that I found the game "Flat Out" to be just totally unnecessary. While racing games are good fun, I just can't how an obstacle course where the object is to fling the driver through the windshield could be anything but disturbing. What is up with people these days? Are they so desensitized that the only way to entice them to play a video game is with things like this?
As someone who used BeOS quite a bit, there are several really important things that the reviewer misses:
BeFS. While he touches on the subject of attributes, he missed the most important part of the BeFS. It was *searchable*. On *everything*. It was really handy for emails, because you could use the attributes to get through tons of email, even if you were the most unorganised person ever. The technology in things like Apple's Spotlight are only now just getting the same capabilities that BeFS had in 1998.
Mutli-Processor. The BeOS took advantage of dual processors. The apps were all mutlithreaded. And it was *fast* because of this. This reviewer did not run a version of Zeta on a dual-processor box, and so can't say whether or not this still holds true.
Multimedia. He does go into this, but not very well - the graphics on the original BeOS were crisp and clean, and looked spectacular with just about every monitor and video card, *automatically*. This was at a time when I was still looking up Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates to put into an X config on RedHat 5.2, and that didn't even work well. Sound was amazing and took advantage of just about every sound card feature. Furthermore, it took advantage of the full power of the speakers, too. I'll never forget the first time I booted into BeOS after rebooting from my Windows partition - I nearly blew out the speakers!
In all, I think it would have been better had someone who was a Be afficianado actually write the review. It's a good review, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't tell me how the new Zeta *feels* when compared to the BeOS.
Am I the only one who thinks it's going to take longer? Given the number of parties/factions involved (FSF, EFF, RedHat, Linus, ESR, etc.), I think it may take longer. I know that not all those people have to have the new GPL "cleared" with them, but I'm sure they'll all want to weigh in on the process, which will likely lengthen it.
...and told us that it will be the year we all live in from now on.
Regardless of what you think about Lynn's tactics, or Cisco's, or ISS's, or Blackhat's, the bottom line is that the FBI is now investigating. The government is going after a private citizen for releasing information about routers, because it's "critical to the national ingfrastructure". How long before pinging a router is an "investigable offence" for causing a drop in router resources?
RTFWP. They figured out what it costs Australia, and they have numbers from Microsoft saying that Australia is 2% of MS's income.
They extrapolate, based on their figure of $200 million in savings, which is 2% of $10 billion.
In reality, in any given year, Microsoft makes $40 billion. Does it really seem ridiculous that 10 of that might be from their monopoly? It seems sensible to me. The WP points out that in buying a computer, that it used to be (ala early - mid 90s) that the hardware was about 85% of the cost, and the software 15%. Now, hardware costs have plummeted, whereas software prices have gone up. Now when you buy a computer, about 65% of the price is hardware, and 35% is software. Good points, if you ask me.
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Thanks for:
Being Scotty, and being cheerful about it.
Your efforts at Normandy in World War II, which almost cost you your life, and did cost you a finger.
You will be missed!
Actually, yes. The moon is *closer* which means that more of the subtle things are based on it.
;)
Sure, the sun is responsible for energy and day/night, and the year. Those are all big things.
Let's talk about day/night.
Without the moon, one half of the planet would be *pitch black* all the time. There'd be no moon phases with no moon, and so there'd be no reflected light.
What effect do you think that would have on nocturnal creatures? Would they have evolved eyes? Would there be as many? I'd say that right there, though the sun is obviously a contributing factor, the presence of the moon plays a much larger role.
Let's look at language and culture. The concept of lunacy, derived from the same base as lunar, is the idea that people are affected by the moon, and they are.
The moon may even reduce crime! Any 'good' burglar waits until as close to a new moon as possible before committing crimes. While mooonlight can be helpful to people at night, it's a hindrance to criminals as well, since it makes them more likely to be spotted.
It's helpful to drivers at night. Can you imagine if it were always pitch black at night?
What would JFK and the US have done in the 60s with nothing to race to? Where would Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin be today?
How would the green cheese industry be faring with no moon?
Actually, for as much of our culture that's dictated by the sun, a *lot* of it is dictated by the moon. Our calender is based first on the moon (months, a word that may have derived from moonths?), women's cycles are typically ~28 days (the length of the lunar cycle), tides are more heavily influenced by the moon than the sun, and a number of other things I can't think of right now. I'm not denying the sun's influence by any means - obviously, without it's warmth and light there'd be just about nothing on this planet. But don't understimate the moon, which is as important, if not moreso.
For those who are curious about what "live" action might look like for a robot movie, start here with an intro to the Citroen commercial, and then get the commercial here.
With Spider-Man 3 (May 2007) and the Transformers (July 2007) coming out in the same summer, it looks like I'll be spending a lot of time in the theatre in 2007!
It will be handier and handier to have virtual keyboards, and in fact, they obviously already exist.
;)
However, soon enough, as with other inventions, it just may be that we get a glass panel in front of us, and the display/input conforms to the user and his/her function, instead of the other way around.
Yeah, but it only makes it illegal or legal *after* it's been used on someone, or another crime has been committed. The police can't pick you up for having a knife; they can only pick you up for threatening someone with it or using it on someone or something. The intent only factors in *after* another type of crime has been committed, and one which relies on physical usage or action.
That is, of course, unless you're trying to board an airplane, in which case usage is automatically assumed and intent is inferred as a result.
Is there a law against running a bulletin board for dealers and their available drugs? I'm sorry, but in order to be guilty, there has to be a law to be broken. When last I checked, there were no laws against listing information in any country. Of course, now it seems that Australia may be the first, and we've all just gone a little further down the Orwellian slippery slope.
Intent is only used to measure the degree of a crime, not the crime itself. In order for linking to have been illegal itself, there has to have been a law on the books that says (or was interpreted to say) that linking to other people providing music is illegal. Anyone can 'intend' to commit a crime; they are guilty of nothing unless their physical actions pursue that end, and when that occurs, the intent becomes a factor. But I don't think Australia had laws on the books that prevent hyperlinking.
If your "intent" argument were to be true, and that boosting traffic on an ISP by linking to popular sites were a crime itself, there'd be a lot of sites (Google, C|Net, Microsoft) that would be in a lot of trouble - and that's to say nothing of worm creators and spyware pushers.
Publishing information should never be a crime. Acts committed using information may be crimes, but when you go after the information, instead of the criminal acts, we all lose yet a little more of our freedom. If there's a crime in providing copyrighted music, go after those sites - not the sites that link to them!
...and I got really scared there for a second. ;)
It could, of course, be a good thing, if they can buy the company, and use their software for something other than spyware and popups!
No, I didn't realise that. Now I do. I'll not use that in the future. Thanks. ;)