Re:Now -this- is the stuff of nightmares.
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HP Buys Compaq
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They already spun off their test equipment to Agilent. If they end up spinning off the printers and pulling a Lexmark, they're in big trouble - Printer consumables make up 60-65 percent of HP's revenue stream. They'd end up pulling a Lucent if they sold off printers: Just a shell of the former company with nothing left to actually make money. Bye-Bye HP and Compaq, leavin the Commercial Unix market for IBM and Sun to squabble over. Meanwhile, IBM mops the floor with their services business. As for the PC market, neither HP nor Compaq are serious players anymore. Dell pretty much owns everybody's ass in that field.
I remember at the peak of the last solar cycle, back in the 80's, there was a radiation storm that knocked out a good chunk of the power grid in Quebec. During that storm, I was receiving FM broadcasts from Germany and the UK. It churned up some pretty kickass Aurora Borealis too.
"Does anyone realized that almost every Helium US airship crashed and killed their crews?"
3 experimental navy airships != 'almost every US Helium Airship'. The US Navy ran several airships quite successfully for years as a surveillance platform (until they became obsolete in the 60's), and Good Year has built and flown several hundred of them without incident for the better the last 75 years (and still operate a fleet of 3). When was the last time YOU heard of a blimp crashing?
"Blimps are such a dumbfuck idea as to be almost beyond comprehension. The weather has to be great you can't land or take off in high wind"
By that reasoning, aviation as a whole is a 'dumbfuck idea'.
You can't take off or land anything in high wind. Such is the nature of flying machines. There's a reason flight operations aren't carried out in gale-force winds. Even hurricane hunters usually take off and land in good weather, and THEN go find their storms, and that in a very rugged aircraft.
If you're going to make argumentative statements in a discussion, they should at least be intelligent.
Oh, wait, this is slashdot.
Re:As if you had to ask...
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Triana Mothballed
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Sounds typically short-sighted. At least we *know* the carrier fleets are an effective defense mechanism and an even better lever for US Foreign policy.
As a side note, Greg Bear is also scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker at this year's LISA conference in San Diego. The speech is titled "Slime vs. Silicon--Life's a Bitch, But Would You Want to Be a Computer?" -- sounds like great fun:)
>Wouldn't surprise me to find a digitized photo and possibly your social security number
I suspect the 2D barcode on the back of my CO license is simply the data from the photo - the US Military IDs are the same way, so you get a good way of verifying that the photo is genuine (and a small copy of the photo under the birthdate makes it easier to spot alterations). The magstripe contains your DL# and expiration and probably your name. It's not like you can hold a whole lot of data on a magstripe. Slide yours through a reader sometime and see what comes up. The only place I've seen in CO that actually uses the magstripe is Safeway when you write a check.
As for your SSN, they CO DMV doesn't have that unless you give it to them, and they can't legally require you to. It's quite frightening the number of people that blindly give out their SSN to anyone who asks - I usually throw people for a loop when they ask me for my SSN, by asking them for a disclosure of what the intended usage is.
Not exactly a radical new concept, as many of you are suggesting. Such systems have been around for the better part of the 20th century - Look at railway locomotives and non-nuclear submarines.
Heck, watching coffee crops on earth still has extraterrestrial implications - Watching vegetation for subtle changes has applications in watching for any kind of vegetation on a distant planet. It's one of the biggest uses of remote sensing technology today.
Re:Hmmmm, where does he park it?
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Hi-Tech Repo Man
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That would be kind of hard - since he *owns it outright*. Grand Theft Auto doesn't tend to look good on a resume.
But the question is, is he peeing on a Peace Love & Linux graffito?
Re:I don't believe this is copyright infringement.
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Ring-Tone Royalties
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I also seem to recall seeing somewhere that if you do your own arrangement of a particular tune, you're not infringing, since it's not technically the same piece of music anymore. If you use the original lyrics, you're still required to pay the lyricist, though. This is why you constantly hear popular tunes done instrumentally and cheesily on Muzak - they don't have to pay any royalties on that particular arrangement.
One of the people involved with JXTA is Gene Kan, who was involved with Gnutella from very early on. Sun acquired Infrasearch about a month or so ago, which was Kan's project to develop a search engine based on Gnutella concepts. Naturally, Sun saw something of interest.
Hardly. Production aircraft have no problem beating Mach 2.1. The F-16 and F-15 are both mid-Mach 2 capable, the F-111 can easily tickle the bottom side of Mach 3, and the SR-71's official speed is over Mach 3 (with unofficial speed being probably closer to Mach 4)
Anybody who didn't see northpoint going under 3 months ago and take appropriate action deserves what they got. Jato suffered the same fate. It was pretty clear several months out that they were becoming a FC.
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and fuck you assholes for censoring my sig.
They already spun off their test equipment to Agilent. If they end up spinning off the printers and pulling a Lexmark, they're in big trouble - Printer consumables make up 60-65 percent of HP's revenue stream. They'd end up pulling a Lucent if they sold off printers: Just a shell of the former company with nothing left to actually make money. Bye-Bye HP and Compaq, leavin the Commercial Unix market for IBM and Sun to squabble over. Meanwhile, IBM mops the floor with their services business. As for the PC market, neither HP nor Compaq are serious players anymore. Dell pretty much owns everybody's ass in that field.
I remember at the peak of the last solar cycle, back in the 80's, there was a radiation storm that knocked out a good chunk of the power grid in Quebec. During that storm, I was receiving FM broadcasts from Germany and the UK. It churned up some pretty kickass Aurora Borealis too.
This is slashdot, familiarity with big gasbags is a certainty - just look at Jon Katz and half the posters.
"Does anyone realized that almost every Helium US airship crashed and killed their crews?"
3 experimental navy airships != 'almost every US Helium Airship'. The US Navy ran several airships quite successfully for years as a surveillance platform (until they became obsolete in the 60's), and Good Year has built and flown several hundred of them without incident for the better the last 75 years (and still operate a fleet of 3). When was the last time YOU heard of a blimp crashing?
"Blimps are such a dumbfuck idea as to be almost beyond comprehension. The weather has to be great you can't land or take off in high wind"
By that reasoning, aviation as a whole is a 'dumbfuck idea'.
You can't take off or land anything in high wind. Such is the nature of flying machines. There's a reason flight operations aren't carried out in gale-force winds. Even hurricane hunters usually take off and land in good weather, and THEN go find their storms, and that in a very rugged aircraft.
If you're going to make argumentative statements in a discussion, they should at least be intelligent.
Oh, wait, this is slashdot.
Sounds typically short-sighted. At least we *know* the carrier fleets are an effective defense mechanism and an even better lever for US Foreign policy.
As a side note, Greg Bear is also scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker at this year's LISA conference in San Diego. The speech is titled "Slime vs. Silicon--Life's a Bitch, But Would You Want to Be a Computer?" -- sounds like great fun :)
'How much disk space should you allocate for the /proc filesystem?'
He said he was shocked at the number of candidates that couldn't get that one right.
Well, who do you think is padding their campaign coffers?
This is the exact same experience I've had.
>Wouldn't surprise me to find a digitized photo and possibly your social security number
I suspect the 2D barcode on the back of my CO license is simply the data from the photo - the US Military IDs are the same way, so you get a good way of verifying that the photo is genuine (and a small copy of the photo under the birthdate makes it easier to spot alterations). The magstripe contains your DL# and expiration and probably your name. It's not like you can hold a whole lot of data on a magstripe. Slide yours through a reader sometime and see what comes up. The only place I've seen in CO that actually uses the magstripe is Safeway when you write a check.
As for your SSN, they CO DMV doesn't have that unless you give it to them, and they can't legally require you to. It's quite frightening the number of people that blindly give out their SSN to anyone who asks - I usually throw people for a loop when they ask me for my SSN, by asking them for a disclosure of what the intended usage is.
Not exactly a radical new concept, as many of you are suggesting. Such systems have been around for the better part of the 20th century - Look at railway locomotives and non-nuclear submarines.
That's basically what biodiesel is. Using biosdiesel works best with a diesel engine, oddly enough.
Your comment is outdated by about 20 years. The new diesel engines coming out of europe are at least as clean as their gasoline counterparts.
I don't know what rock you live under, but here in the US, diesel fuel is plenty widespread at almost any fueling station. Canada is similar.
Heck, watching coffee crops on earth still has extraterrestrial implications - Watching vegetation for subtle changes has applications in watching for any kind of vegetation on a distant planet. It's one of the biggest uses of remote sensing technology today.
That would be kind of hard - since he *owns it outright*. Grand Theft Auto doesn't tend to look good on a resume.
It's just an extension of the dotcom craze - borrowing and spending huge amounts of money you don't have, nor have a hope of ever having.
But the question is, is he peeing on a Peace Love & Linux graffito?
I also seem to recall seeing somewhere that if you do your own arrangement of a particular tune, you're not infringing, since it's not technically the same piece of music anymore. If you use the original lyrics, you're still required to pay the lyricist, though. This is why you constantly hear popular tunes done instrumentally and cheesily on Muzak - they don't have to pay any royalties on that particular arrangement.
One of the people involved with JXTA is Gene Kan, who was involved with Gnutella from very early on. Sun acquired Infrasearch about a month or so ago, which was Kan's project to develop a search engine based on Gnutella concepts. Naturally, Sun saw something of interest.
Is Robert Selander. Chances are pretty good that robert.selander@mastercard.com is a valid address. Tell him how you feel.
Hardly. Production aircraft have no problem beating Mach 2.1. The F-16 and F-15 are both mid-Mach 2 capable, the F-111 can easily tickle the bottom side of Mach 3, and the SR-71's official speed is over Mach 3 (with unofficial speed being probably closer to Mach 4)
Come on, people, the M&A jokes just don't work. An announcement on a sunday? get real. Besides, the joke is at least a few years old.
Anybody who didn't see northpoint going under 3 months ago and take appropriate action deserves what they got. Jato suffered the same fate. It was pretty clear several months out that they were becoming a FC.