and expiration (as you cannot sell cigarettes to someone with an expired license).
I've never understood this. The point of checking ID is to verify that you're above the legal smoking age, right? The point of the ID expiring is to make sure the info stays current, but your DOB isn't gonna change. So, if the only reason to check ID is to verify DOB, then why isn't an expired ID sufficient verification of your DOB?
Honestly the only way we're going anywhere but down the drain is if people can someday stand up and vote for some candidates who will actually reduce the size of government and bring some efficiency to the table. I may sound a little too idealist, but there are alternatives to democrats and republicans out there.
Tip: the phrase "reduce the size of government" doesn't actually mean anything to most people, except that it makes you sound like a hardcore Libertarian screwball or an anarchist. If you want to convince people who aren't already Libertarians or anarchists, don't use that phrase.
The tax structure is perfectly workable, it's the property tax cap that's unworkable. It all goes back to Measure 5. Thank God the governor and state legislature are finally starting to figure this out.
Admins trying to install the best software for the job isn't the problem - the problem is non-technical department heads choosing the software with the best-sounding sales pitch, and then hiring admins who can install that.
The bill would mean that instead of just buying MS Office, they'd have to look at StarOffice and decide which would be better. Then they can still go ahead and buy MS Office anyway, if that's really what they need.
Or alternatively, change the number of oscilations of Cesium 133?
The rotation of the earth is slowing down; you'd have to constantly change the number to adjust for it. Might as well keep the number constant and just adjust by a full second at a time as needed.
That's the reason of the problem! All other time constants are based on our astronomy, but the value of the second on Cesium. Even worth: about 9.19 billion times. "About"!
I only said "about" because I was too lazy to get the exact number; there is an exact number.
Certainly, the only way to solve the problem is to redefine the value of seconds. It must be based on the same astronomical measurements as other time values. Specifically, it must be 1/86400 of the day.
We can't accurately measure 1/86400 of a day with microsecond precision; we can measure cesium. If you can explain how to figure out exactly what time it is right now without measuring anything but the earth, please do so.
And in a digital era you don'thave to measure oscilation of any freaking Cesioum: use NTP instead!
How the hell do you think the NTP servers know what time it is? At the top level of the NTP hierarchy, they use cesium! Everything else synchs to that.
One year = the time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. One day = the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis.
The problem is, there are really about 365-1/4 days in a year - it doesn't work out evenly to 365 days. So, every four years we add an extra day (Feb. 29), and then it all averages out. Otherwise, if we only had 365 days in a year, over many years seasons would start getting earlier and earlier on the calendar.
One day = the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis One second = the time it takes for Cesium 133 to oscilate about 9.19 billion times (because it's something constant we can measure)
The problem, again, is that there aren't exactly 86400* seconds in a day. So, we add leap seconds periodically to account for it. As I understand it, this isn't necessarily done at fixed intervals, but rather whenever it's decided that it needs to be done. The Network Time Protocol used to synchronize clocks over the Internet supports leap seconds; they can be announced over NTP in advance, so everybody adds them at the correct moment.
Why is it important? It's not important to most people, but computers like things to be precise and accurate for various reasons, and that means we have to agree on exactly what time it is.
* BIND now lets you write "1d" in a zone file, but how many of you still have this number memorized?;-)
His company used to get their phone service from the normal big bad evil Baby Bell phone company (ILEC). Then they switched to a smaller local carrier (CLEC) that was able to give them cheaper phone service, and stopped dealing with the ILEC (the CLEC still has to deal with the ILEC because the ILEC owns the phone lines, unless the CLEC can get permission from the city to dig up the streets and run their own lines, or whatever, but that's really expensive).
However, MCI's phone number database (LIDB) didn't have the correct information for the CLEC, so people that were using MCI as their long distance provider (IXC) couldn't call them. Calling from his company to the other people worked fine, since that doesn't rely on MCI's LIDB.
As CG in games progresses, software and hardware will need to be increasingly effient (i.e. fast). This almost requires that game engines be written in fairly low level programming languages, ruling out heavy OO design...
I disagree. You're saying game engines will have to be written in a low-level language because high-level languages don't run fast enough? Nonsense. Low-level languages only run faster on the same hardware. Well-written OOP on a 2GHz Athlon will be faster than assembly on a 1GHz Athlon. Gamers won't be buying 2GHz Athlons in 5 years.
Mac OS X Server's strength is its proprietary GUI administration tools, which are not available on other platforms. You can also use it mostly like FreeBSD, for anything Apple doesn't include.
What's different between FreeBSD and RedHat, that you think might be the same between FreeBSD and Mac OS X Server?
Funny, Slackware doesn't alias it, nor do most other UNIX flavors as far as I know. If you get used to relying on "rm" being aliased to "rm -i", you may find yourself in trouble if you switch to a non-RedHat system.
Maybe it's just me, but although RedHat looks like a pretty nice desktop OS for newbies, I wouldn't put it on a server.
The book is for administrators with Unix servers. OSX even though apple sells Xserve boxes is really a client or workstation OS.
Mac OS X Server is a server OS, not a desktop OS. Of course, you can run it on your desktop, and the regular client/workstation version of Mac OS X comes with Apache and Sendmail and Samba pre-installed.
However, I agree that not very many people use Mac OS X Server yet, compared to other UNIX flavors, and the point of OSX Server is really the proprietary GUI stuff on top, which is unique to OSX Server.
Somebody who used to work at Marvel said (on a previous Slashdot article) that they take the hyphen very seriously - for an employee to call it "Spiderman" is a terminable offense. Dilution of trademark.
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Did it occur to you that maybe it didn't take 46,000 complaints, but rather that it took a certain amount of time to prepare their case, and during that time they received 46,000 complaints? I don't think they were sitting around waiting for the total to reach 46,000 before taking action.
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Perhaps... But 90% of the shit these guys peddle is hardly legitimate.
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If they offered some incentive to install the toolbar, google could just beat them at this game.
Does being a kick-ass tool (for those unfortunate enough to be using Internet Explorer) count as incentive?
and expiration (as you cannot sell cigarettes to someone with an expired license).
I've never understood this. The point of checking ID is to verify that you're above the legal smoking age, right? The point of the ID expiring is to make sure the info stays current, but your DOB isn't gonna change. So, if the only reason to check ID is to verify DOB, then why isn't an expired ID sufficient verification of your DOB?
Somebody suggested that Safari should have been named iBrowse.
I suppose anyone who programmed on their calculator during math class can answer this too.
I wrote a two-player Chess game for my TI-82 (mostly) during math class. After awhile, you kinda get used to the buttons.
Hmm, I had three of them... I wonder where they are? :-\
Don't forget that they sell DirecTV and Dish Network dishes, in addition to Compaqs and cell phones.
Honestly the only way we're going anywhere but down the drain is if people can someday stand up and vote for some candidates who will actually reduce the size of government and bring some efficiency to the table. I may sound a little too idealist, but there are alternatives to democrats and republicans out there.
Tip: the phrase "reduce the size of government" doesn't actually mean anything to most people, except that it makes you sound like a hardcore Libertarian screwball or an anarchist. If you want to convince people who aren't already Libertarians or anarchists, don't use that phrase.
You're right, though.
The consideration for open source should already be included...
;-)
Should be. Wish it worked that way.
The tax structure is perfectly workable, it's the property tax cap that's unworkable. It all goes back to Measure 5. Thank God the governor and state legislature are finally starting to figure this out.
Admins trying to install the best software for the job isn't the problem - the problem is non-technical department heads choosing the software with the best-sounding sales pitch, and then hiring admins who can install that.
The bill would mean that instead of just buying MS Office, they'd have to look at StarOffice and decide which would be better. Then they can still go ahead and buy MS Office anyway, if that's really what they need.
ILEC is Incumbant Local Exchange Carrier, the same thing as an RBOC. CLEC is Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, which competes with the ILEC/RBOC.
Covad is an example of a CLEC that offers DSL service.
Or alternatively, change the number of oscilations of Cesium 133?
The rotation of the earth is slowing down; you'd have to constantly change the number to adjust for it. Might as well keep the number constant and just adjust by a full second at a time as needed.
That's the reason of the problem! All other time constants are based on our astronomy, but the value of the second on Cesium. Even worth: about 9.19 billion times. "About"!
I only said "about" because I was too lazy to get the exact number; there is an exact number.
Certainly, the only way to solve the problem is to redefine the value of seconds. It must be based on the same astronomical measurements as other time values. Specifically, it must be 1/86400 of the day.
We can't accurately measure 1/86400 of a day with microsecond precision; we can measure cesium. If you can explain how to figure out exactly what time it is right now without measuring anything but the earth, please do so.
And in a digital era you don'thave to measure oscilation of any freaking Cesioum: use NTP instead!
How the hell do you think the NTP servers know what time it is? At the top level of the NTP hierarchy, they use cesium! Everything else synchs to that.
Leap years work like this:
;-)
One year = the time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
One day = the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis.
The problem is, there are really about 365-1/4 days in a year - it doesn't work out evenly to 365 days. So, every four years we add an extra day (Feb. 29), and then it all averages out. Otherwise, if we only had 365 days in a year, over many years seasons would start getting earlier and earlier on the calendar.
One day = the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis
One second = the time it takes for Cesium 133 to oscilate about 9.19 billion times (because it's something constant we can measure)
The problem, again, is that there aren't exactly 86400* seconds in a day. So, we add leap seconds periodically to account for it. As I understand it, this isn't necessarily done at fixed intervals, but rather whenever it's decided that it needs to be done. The Network Time Protocol used to synchronize clocks over the Internet supports leap seconds; they can be announced over NTP in advance, so everybody adds them at the correct moment.
Why is it important? It's not important to most people, but computers like things to be precise and accurate for various reasons, and that means we have to agree on exactly what time it is.
* BIND now lets you write "1d" in a zone file, but how many of you still have this number memorized?
For those of you who don't like acronyms:
His company used to get their phone service from the normal big bad evil Baby Bell phone company (ILEC). Then they switched to a smaller local carrier (CLEC) that was able to give them cheaper phone service, and stopped dealing with the ILEC (the CLEC still has to deal with the ILEC because the ILEC owns the phone lines, unless the CLEC can get permission from the city to dig up the streets and run their own lines, or whatever, but that's really expensive).
However, MCI's phone number database (LIDB) didn't have the correct information for the CLEC, so people that were using MCI as their long distance provider (IXC) couldn't call them. Calling from his company to the other people worked fine, since that doesn't rely on MCI's LIDB.
They print out separate "rebate receipts" and rebate forms at the cash register.
Fry's has started doing this too.
You didn't answer my question. ;-)
As CG in games progresses, software and hardware will need to be increasingly effient (i.e. fast). This almost requires that game engines be written in fairly low level programming languages, ruling out heavy OO design...
I disagree. You're saying game engines will have to be written in a low-level language because high-level languages don't run fast enough? Nonsense. Low-level languages only run faster on the same hardware. Well-written OOP on a 2GHz Athlon will be faster than assembly on a 1GHz Athlon. Gamers won't be buying 2GHz Athlons in 5 years.
You're looking for Uru.
As far as I am concerned, a working MTA is an essential part of any self-respecting Unix system.
Wow, no kidding. I don't want port 25 open, but if cron tries to send mail to root and it doesn't forward to me, that's a problem.
Mac OS X Server's strength is its proprietary GUI administration tools, which are not available on other platforms. You can also use it mostly like FreeBSD, for anything Apple doesn't include.
What's different between FreeBSD and RedHat, that you think might be the same between FreeBSD and Mac OS X Server?
Funny, Slackware doesn't alias it, nor do most other UNIX flavors as far as I know. If you get used to relying on "rm" being aliased to "rm -i", you may find yourself in trouble if you switch to a non-RedHat system.
Maybe it's just me, but although RedHat looks like a pretty nice desktop OS for newbies, I wouldn't put it on a server.
The book is for administrators with Unix servers. OSX even though apple sells Xserve boxes is really a client or workstation OS.
Mac OS X Server is a server OS, not a desktop OS. Of course, you can run it on your desktop, and the regular client/workstation version of Mac OS X comes with Apache and Sendmail and Samba pre-installed.
However, I agree that not very many people use Mac OS X Server yet, compared to other UNIX flavors, and the point of OSX Server is really the proprietary GUI stuff on top, which is unique to OSX Server.
It's actually "Spider-Man", not "Spiderman".
Somebody who used to work at Marvel said (on a previous Slashdot article) that they take the hyphen very seriously - for an employee to call it "Spiderman" is a terminable offense. Dilution of trademark.
Did it occur to you that maybe it didn't take 46,000 complaints, but rather that it took a certain amount of time to prepare their case, and during that time they received 46,000 complaints? I don't think they were sitting around waiting for the total to reach 46,000 before taking action.
Perhaps... But 90% of the shit these guys peddle is hardly legitimate.
One step at a time.