The solar wind output from the sun is anisotropic, and can certainly account for variations in a space probe's velocity. I'm wondering if that was taken into account in their calculations.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: ActiveSync is an essential ingredient for the success of any smartphone device in the Enterprise market (and will eventually be the death knell for RIM). Even Palm has realized this with the addition of ActiveSync support in the Treo 650 and later. ActiveSync support is even more crucial now since Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) is not included in Exchange 2007. Nay-say MS all you want, but Enterprise customers live or die by groupware connectivity, and Exchange is the king of the hill right now.
Lack of Office isn't what will keep the iPhone from appealing to corporate customers. It is the lack of ActiveSync support. If it had ActiveSync (which is available on Palm Treo 650 phones or better in addition to Windows Mobile devices), I would be all over it. Exchange connectivity via ActiveSync is essetial in the Enterprise market.
You make many valid points, but the original BSG did not suffer due to lack of resources. At the time it was made, it was the most expensive TV series ever made, costing ~$1M per episode. It went downhill after the first handfull of episodes due to poor writing.
A collegue of mine posted some ASP.NET code on SourceForge back in July for providing Exchange mailbox data (Not just Calendar items -- Inbox, Calendar, Tasks, everything) via RSS feed:
If Intelligent Design is to be given equal time in biology classes (even though it does not even qualify as a scientific theory), then I demand that the Flying Spaghetti Monster get equal time as well...
But seriously folks, evolution is an observable fact. Darwinian Evolution is on of several theories regarding the mechanisms by which evolution works. As for the "it is only a theory" arguement, remember that gravity is only a theory as well.
It is amazing how non-scientists completely misunderstand the meaning of the word theory. A theory is a model for explaining phenomena. A theory is supported by physical evidence and observation. A theory can be used to make predictions about the phenomena in question. A theory is falsifiable (meaning that, if wrong, it can be disproven by experiment or observation). Various theories of evolution meet these criteria. Intelligent Design does not.
Huh? I think there's a big difference between an inert blob that the air mostly just flows around (with some turbulence and loss of energy), and a windmill carefully impedance matched to the wind to extract the maximum possible energy from it.
I think you may be underestimating how much energy transfer takes place when wind strikes a tree. Of course it will vary wildly depending upon the species of tree, as well as its size and age, but it takes quite a bit of energy to get all of those branches swaying. Just try pushing a large branch around on a calm day and keep it going. See how long it takes you to get tired. Then extrapolate that effort to all of the branches on the tree...
Also, it's not at all clear to me that changing weather patterns is a good thing globally just because it helps locally.
I don't disagree. Predicting the impact of manmade structures is a non-trivial feat. Just take a look at the plethora of journal articles studying the impact of suburban sprawl on temperatures with its huge expanses of concrete and asphalt. I'm simply arguing that the impact of a windmill on wind patterns would be no greater than that of a tree. In fact, I would expect that trees should have a greater impact due to the cooling effects they provice.
Of course, these are all simply educated guesses on my part, as I am not a climate researcher (my science background is primarily in solid state physics). I could easily be mistaken.
What are the implications or potential problems from removing energy from Earth's weather systems? Is the energy we're removing negligible enough to be ignored? Could it potentially change weather patterns by blocking/slowing wind?
It should have no more effect than a tree does, and in windy areas where wind power is a viable source (my old stomping grounds in West Texas spring to mind), having windbreaks is generally a good thing in terms of reducing erosion.
Of course, there has been a lot of chatter in the media lately about birds getting killed by windmill farms. Wildlife impact is a definite consideration in the design and placement of the things...
Not only is the article light on content, but it is rather meaningless to argue that LDAP is better than Active Directory, since AD is an implementation of LDAP (featuring Kerberos authentication and the LDAP data stored in a multimaster replicated database).
Of course, it has taken MS a while to catch up with the features Novell's NDIS directory offerings, but they are finally getting it right with 2003, and it is arguably the easiest to manage enterprise-scale LDAP implementation around. It isn't perfect mind you (we dig up plenty of bugs), but does seem to be the best thing going. Furthermore, Group Policy Objects are a seriously kick-butt feature. Besides, nothing else can properly issue authorization tokens (SID keychains) for Windows clients.
Now if only they would fix the huge heaping piles of Exchange integration bugs in Entourage...
(No, I'm not a MS apologist. They piss me off on a regular basis, both in terms of product quality, or lack thereof in many cases, and in terms of business practices; however, folks are barking up the wrong tree where these criticisms of AD are concerned. In a short time it has matured into a quality product.)
Even if Apple does a spreadsheet, that's not going to be enough. The major deployment for Office in small to medium businesses is with MS Access and a bunch of Visual BASIC/VBScript glue to turn it into vertical market custom software.
RealBASIC can import Visual Basic source code pretty painlessly. Now we just need a VBscript to shell script interpreter (something apart from the VBA engine built into MS Office) and a good user-friendly front-end for mySQL or PostgreSQL to supplant Access.
There are plenty of 3rd party Mac alternatives to Visio available.
That pretty much leaves an Outlook replacement lacking, as Outlook:mac is a dead product and Entourage integration with Exchange is severely buggy and lacking key features, and Exchange integration for Mail.app is minimal at best (IMAP access while providing hyperlinks to OWA for Calendaring items).
I recently purchased Carrara 3D Basics 2 and Hexagon from Eovia and have been quite pleased. The combination provides quite a bit of bang for the buck. 3D Toolkit 2.5 from DVgarage provides a low-cost version of Electric Image Universe, also a solid package.
Love the power of Blender. A shame that it has such an awful interface...
So, I'm curious -- upon what factual basis do you conclude that "Mitnick never broke
into a VAX?" I base my statement that he did upon the fact that, as his co-defendant,
I saw the evidence as well as experienced some of it first-hand. You're not one of
those people who just repeats hearsay as if it were fact, are you?
First of all, I never said that Mitnick never broke into a VAX. I said he never broke into a VMS system (some VAXen run Unix). Secondly, I based my statement upon Mitnick's testimony that indicated that he had been unable to break into a VMS system (this according to analyst Terry Shannon). Yes, he was able to ACCESS VMS systems (including one holding VMS source code), but every instance of this of which I have heard involved "social engineering" to steal passwords, not a technical hack. If you have information to the contrary, I would love to hear more about it.
You've obviously never had Kevin Mitnick on your OpenVMS system... or attracted the attention
of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), whose members at one point (in the old days) targeted
VAX/VMS systems. Nor have you had Neill Clift go through the OpenVMS source code and
discover "bugs".
Don't take it for granted -- just because the O/S is (for all intents and purposes) obscure
now doesn't mean its "secure" now
Mitnick never broke into a VMS system. He did steal VMS source code, but that was by social engineering.
OpenVMS is one of the most secure operating systems around, and not just due to obscurity.
nteresting. I still think the key to running NT code on Alphas is the kernel itself, amd the ease of porting it to Alphas was its source in old DEC technologies from Cutler's merry band of pirates. I can certainly believe that DEC wrote an emulater toolset for the NT/Alpha compatibility that was faster than normal NT performance, and that saved Microsoft a lot of work in their settlement with DEC that guaranteed NT would run on Alphas.
The NT kernel itself WAS fully ported. The FX32! emulator was for running x86 application binaries on NT/Alpha. Of course, the availability of this emulator was used by ISVs as an excuse to not produce native Alpha apps, just as the Windows compatability library gave ISVs an excuse for not producing native OS/2 apps...
I think you've misunderstood what the parent poster was referring to. It was a reference to the FX32! emulator which allowed NT Alpha to run x86 code (with performance that got better the more the code ran). FX32! was based upon VEST, which allows OpenVMS Alpha to translate and run VAX/VMS code. The same technology is currently being carried along to allow OpenVMS-IPS (running on IA64/Itanium) to run OpenVMS Alpha binaries (even if those binaries were VAX binaries VESTed to run on Alpha). Anyway, the upshot is that such an emulator/translator was not made available for the PowerPC or MIPS versions of NT.
But the underlying point stands: Windows NT was easily portable to the Alpha because it was based heavily on code originally written specifically for Alphas by Cutler and his pirates.
Er, no. Cutler never wrote VMS code for Alpha. He was out of the VMS group before the Alpha porting effort started. He only wrote portions of VMS for VAX back in its earliest versions.
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I have no idea if there is any connection, though.....
And here as well: http://www.scientificblogging.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/plot_week_news_cp_violation
For those not feeling brave enough to wade through the arXiv preprint: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-physics-claim-from-d0.html
I created Sudo for Windows (sudowin) in 2005. It is a free, open source project available at http://sudowin.sf.net/.
Ya beat to mentioning it, Andrew... *grin*
Bzzz! Photons are spin 1 vector bosons. They have no mass, although they do possess momentum.
The solar wind output from the sun is anisotropic, and can certainly account for variations in a space probe's velocity. I'm wondering if that was taken into account in their calculations.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: ActiveSync is an essential ingredient for the success of any smartphone device in the Enterprise market (and will eventually be the death knell for RIM). Even Palm has realized this with the addition of ActiveSync support in the Treo 650 and later. ActiveSync support is even more crucial now since Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) is not included in Exchange 2007. Nay-say MS all you want, but Enterprise customers live or die by groupware connectivity, and Exchange is the king of the hill right now.
Lack of Office isn't what will keep the iPhone from appealing to corporate customers. It is the lack of ActiveSync support. If it had ActiveSync (which is available on Palm Treo 650 phones or better in addition to Windows Mobile devices), I would be all over it. Exchange connectivity via ActiveSync is essetial in the Enterprise market.
You make many valid points, but the original BSG did not suffer due to lack of resources. At the time it was made, it was the most expensive TV series ever made, costing ~$1M per episode. It went downhill after the first handfull of episodes due to poor writing.
And apples.
A collegue of mine posted some ASP.NET code on SourceForge back in July for providing Exchange mailbox data (Not just Calendar items -- Inbox, Calendar, Tasks, everything) via RSS feed:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/exrss/
If Intelligent Design is to be given equal time in biology classes (even though it does not even qualify as a scientific theory), then I demand that the Flying Spaghetti Monster get equal time as well...
But seriously folks, evolution is an observable fact. Darwinian Evolution is on of several theories regarding the mechanisms by which evolution works. As for the "it is only a theory" arguement, remember that gravity is only a theory as well.
It is amazing how non-scientists completely misunderstand the meaning of the word theory. A theory is a model for explaining phenomena. A theory is supported by physical evidence and observation. A theory can be used to make predictions about the phenomena in question. A theory is falsifiable (meaning that, if wrong, it can be disproven by experiment or observation). Various theories of evolution meet these criteria. Intelligent Design does not.
Take a gander at TalkOrigins.
Of course, these are all simply educated guesses on my part, as I am not a climate researcher (my science background is primarily in solid state physics). I could easily be mistaken.
Of course, there has been a lot of chatter in the media lately about birds getting killed by windmill farms. Wildlife impact is a definite consideration in the design and placement of the things...
Not only is the article light on content, but it is rather meaningless to argue that LDAP is better than Active Directory, since AD is an implementation of LDAP (featuring Kerberos authentication and the LDAP data stored in a multimaster replicated database).
Of course, it has taken MS a while to catch up with the features Novell's NDIS directory offerings, but they are finally getting it right with 2003, and it is arguably the easiest to manage enterprise-scale LDAP implementation around. It isn't perfect mind you (we dig up plenty of bugs), but does seem to be the best thing going. Furthermore, Group Policy Objects are a seriously kick-butt feature. Besides, nothing else can properly issue authorization tokens (SID keychains) for Windows clients.
Now if only they would fix the huge heaping piles of Exchange integration bugs in Entourage...
(No, I'm not a MS apologist. They piss me off on a regular basis, both in terms of product quality, or lack thereof in many cases, and in terms of business practices; however, folks are barking up the wrong tree where these criticisms of AD are concerned. In a short time it has matured into a quality product.)
RealBASIC can import Visual Basic source code pretty painlessly. Now we just need a VBscript to shell script interpreter (something apart from the VBA engine built into MS Office) and a good user-friendly front-end for mySQL or PostgreSQL to supplant Access.
There are plenty of 3rd party Mac alternatives to Visio available.
That pretty much leaves an Outlook replacement lacking, as Outlook:mac is a dead product and Entourage integration with Exchange is severely buggy and lacking key features, and Exchange integration for Mail.app is minimal at best (IMAP access while providing hyperlinks to OWA for Calendaring items).
I recently purchased Carrara 3D Basics 2 and Hexagon from Eovia and have been quite pleased. The combination provides quite a bit of bang for the buck. 3D Toolkit 2.5 from DVgarage provides a low-cost version of Electric Image Universe, also a solid package.
Love the power of Blender. A shame that it has such an awful interface...
Er, they are already available. I know someone who has one....
OpenVMS is one of the most secure operating systems around, and not just due to obscurity.
The NT kernel itself WAS fully ported. The FX32! emulator was for running x86 application binaries on NT/Alpha. Of course, the availability of this emulator was used by ISVs as an excuse to not produce native Alpha apps, just as the Windows compatability library gave ISVs an excuse for not producing native OS/2 apps...