Jacobsen is a smart man from my university, but he doesn't come off well on paper and the lawyers just seem to be fighting eachother the whole time.
I personally think that since P2P only uploads a chunk of a file to someone, you technically didn't give them anything really useable- but that's just me.
that- or they stick you with an 80's heap that guzzles down gas like beer and gets about 4MPG when you're making 3, 100 mile roundtrips (200 miles total per trip). My gas bill was terrible. In their defense, they did refund me most of the rental after showing my gas bills, but it still was not a pleasurable experience.
I got my revenge on moving day a few years later- I was renting a 26 foot monster and despite them promising me an automatic, I got a manual (never drive one). Being studious, I understand the mechanics of a manual and figured a few minutes in the parking lot (or perhaps an hour) and I'd have it down. I didn't know of course that when you start the thing, there's no park and they often leave it in gear to keep it from rolling in the lot- so when I tried to start it up to do a pre-trip (I leaned in from the side), as the engine started cranking, it shot back into the truck behind. It did minimal damage, so they let it go and sent me out of there with an automatic, albeit smaller. Things went well from there, but the bigger truck would have been helpful. Anyway, the point is, they pulled the same trick on me and it caused an accident.
Nothing like multi-million dollar carbon-fiber splinters and shrapnel to turn you into a pincushion. Man that stuff is a biatch to get out- you do NOT want carbon fiber splinters! (I had a friend give me a tour of the ISU solar-car shop and explained just how bad it is)
I always thought they should just airlock the data center and leave it with little to no air (pump the least amount of air out to keep fires from starting) and just require breathing apparatus- but insurance and whatnot would never tolerate that in an environment where clients come in- though perhaps for in-house (google, etc) that may be OK.. still, I think it's a law that you have to have training/certification on respirators.
A full space suit approach would be higly expensive, and lots of sharp edges on servers sounds like a bad idea. Plus its hard enough to unscrew things with ungloved hands.
The better way is indeed to just keep it at low enough pressure to prevent fires, but not so low that you couldn't go without a pressure suit (embolism, etc). Is it possible to have air pressure low enough not to cause fires but high enough to only need a respirator?
by high speed reversal, I mean putting it in reverse (from a stop) and accelerating quickly while turning the wheel for a more or less in-place u-turn- police use this when they're facing the wrong way when you blow by them;)
Plus, you do too many burnouts or 'high-speed' reversals, you wear out your tires, possibly hurt your suspension and/or loosen up the steering unless your car was designed/reinforced for heavier driving (police package cars). Your first big bill for repairs usually teaches the lesson.
funny joke aside- when you're not typing and someone talks to you, do you accidentally type what you're saying/thinking? That's not to say we don't accidentally type things we're saying if we're already typing-- but I think the way this works is, it would be a separate 'extension' of ourselves- just like we 'think' about moving our fingers to type- this would be thinking the letters into the computer.
perhaps- but I'd at least consider moving to Blu Ray now that they can be ripped- I currently enjoy moving my movies to my TiVo / desktop for TiVoToGo. I don't even have an HD-TV, but someday I will and if I can rip them and play them via my TiVo or burn to a re-writeable DVD for my DVD player, I'd really consider buying blu ray drive (especially since the discs are bigger and better for back up). In other words, I'd buy a blu ray drive, but not a player and utilize the rippability to make the movies play on the formats I currently own and stop buying lower quality DVDs that I may some day want in higher def.
If you have a Blu Ray player, why buy a DVD unless thats the only way to put it on the iPod/TiVo/whatever. The availability of rippers for blu ray means that you can extract from the medium and don't have to buy two copies or only buy DVD.
Perhaps cracked is more of an operating word than meant- I have to wonder if increased sales are in any way related to the cracking of the format (people not feeling so locked-in- so they can put the dvd on their ipod, etc).
Some folks run themselves to exhaustion- especially with the kick at the end of a long race. It just seems like brain cells -must- be dying when you run so hard you fall flat on your face- so does this regrowth offset that? How much?
the solution has always seemed to me to do it at the controller level - encrypt everything but commands and require the OS to supply the password at some interval to a write-only memory.
The drive unlocks parts of the drive for bootup and there's a master password--- this sounds like there are exploits that need to be discovered, but will be.
You're missing the point- I neglected to mention I don't care about that box, but the point was that usually the posts where people say you should switch to or from MS revolve around one machine somewhere misbehaving, regardless of the circumstance.
I was flabberghasted when my microwave ran properly too- I just assumed it would try and make up for the hour it was missing and run 60 times more power.
My Vista and XP boxes all switched over without fanfare- I assume their more endowed sister MS Server will do the same. My Solaris 10 box did, all my Fedora Core 6 boxes did, my older SuSe box did not and no official patch (for 9.1). So, by that line of thinking then, everyone should switch to Windows since one linux box somewhere didn't update.
Didn't we already do this once? I recall in the last 90's a bunch of stations had internet streams and then the RIAA/etc started pulling rank and they all vanished. Only now are they coming back, won't this just make them disappear again?
Forgive me if I missed something, I'm just an average consumer and that was my perception.
If you've ever seen Executive Decision as a source of ideas, you then know its a simple matter of scrambling and docking a stealth fighter to the bottom of the aircraft and doing an insertion at 30,000 ft and then taking back the plane by force.
I suppose I should have added my main point- if you give drivers more information- even perhaps generally unnecessary (modern technology abstraction and what-not), you're involving the driver more in what the car is doing. I'm not saying put so much stuff there that you confuse the driver, but put enough stuff there that they understand the mechanics of what is going on better and are more heavily rooted in the driving process (watching gauges and observing the space around the vehicle) and less rooted in comfort and music.
drive-by-wire. I think steering wheels are unnecessary as are gas/brake pedals. Why can't they make a car with a single joystick that has force feedback? Push forward to accelerate, back to break, centered (Y axis only) to coast perhaps with a switch that changes the behavior to pushing forward increments the desired speed, backward lowers it and centered leaves it alone (akin to cruise control).
Sure, these things need to be redundant, but it could be done, couldn't it?
Not only would I feel much more at home in this environment (fwiw, I am not a gamer), but it would be a boon to handicapped individuals that pay a fortune for these things to be hacked on to their cars where it would cost significantly less to do this from the start.
I'm of the opinion that cars need to be more technical- when you hop into the cockpit of an aircraft, you know what you're there to do, but when you hop into a car, it seems you're merely a passenger or perhaps even there to relax. Some cars do not even have a tachometer and merely have speed, fuel and perhaps temp. I think that much could be done to make cars more fun to drive while simultaneously making them safer and excluding people who feel the need to do unreasonable things at the same time or who don't have the intelligence to drive safely. Although the geek in me would love to have my car look like the inside of a F-18 Hornet or something, I just think if the environment was more driving oriented, drivers would drive better.
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forgive me for my ignorance- what is the chinese room thought experiment?
Guys glasses would all be the same color all the time then, what fun is that?
The deposition gets funny around page 24/25.
Jacobsen is a smart man from my university, but he doesn't come off well on paper and the lawyers just seem to be fighting eachother the whole time.
I personally think that since P2P only uploads a chunk of a file to someone, you technically didn't give them anything really useable- but that's just me.
that- or they stick you with an 80's heap that guzzles down gas like beer and gets about 4MPG when you're making 3, 100 mile roundtrips (200 miles total per trip). My gas bill was terrible. In their defense, they did refund me most of the rental after showing my gas bills, but it still was not a pleasurable experience.
I got my revenge on moving day a few years later- I was renting a 26 foot monster and despite them promising me an automatic, I got a manual (never drive one). Being studious, I understand the mechanics of a manual and figured a few minutes in the parking lot (or perhaps an hour) and I'd have it down. I didn't know of course that when you start the thing, there's no park and they often leave it in gear to keep it from rolling in the lot- so when I tried to start it up to do a pre-trip (I leaned in from the side), as the engine started cranking, it shot back into the truck behind. It did minimal damage, so they let it go and sent me out of there with an automatic, albeit smaller. Things went well from there, but the bigger truck would have been helpful. Anyway, the point is, they pulled the same trick on me and it caused an accident.
Nothing like multi-million dollar carbon-fiber splinters and shrapnel to turn you into a pincushion. Man that stuff is a biatch to get out- you do NOT want carbon fiber splinters! (I had a friend give me a tour of the ISU solar-car shop and explained just how bad it is)
I always thought they should just airlock the data center and leave it with little to no air (pump the least amount of air out to keep fires from starting) and just require breathing apparatus- but insurance and whatnot would never tolerate that in an environment where clients come in- though perhaps for in-house (google, etc) that may be OK.. still, I think it's a law that you have to have training/certification on respirators.
A full space suit approach would be higly expensive, and lots of sharp edges on servers sounds like a bad idea. Plus its hard enough to unscrew things with ungloved hands.
The better way is indeed to just keep it at low enough pressure to prevent fires, but not so low that you couldn't go without a pressure suit (embolism, etc). Is it possible to have air pressure low enough not to cause fires but high enough to only need a respirator?
by high speed reversal, I mean putting it in reverse (from a stop) and accelerating quickly while turning the wheel for a more or less in-place u-turn- police use this when they're facing the wrong way when you blow by them ;)
Plus, you do too many burnouts or 'high-speed' reversals, you wear out your tires, possibly hurt your suspension and/or loosen up the steering unless your car was designed/reinforced for heavier driving (police package cars). Your first big bill for repairs usually teaches the lesson.
funny joke aside- when you're not typing and someone talks to you, do you accidentally type what you're saying/thinking? That's not to say we don't accidentally type things we're saying if we're already typing-- but I think the way this works is, it would be a separate 'extension' of ourselves- just like we 'think' about moving our fingers to type- this would be thinking the letters into the computer.
perhaps- but I'd at least consider moving to Blu Ray now that they can be ripped- I currently enjoy moving my movies to my TiVo / desktop for TiVoToGo. I don't even have an HD-TV, but someday I will and if I can rip them and play them via my TiVo or burn to a re-writeable DVD for my DVD player, I'd really consider buying blu ray drive (especially since the discs are bigger and better for back up). In other words, I'd buy a blu ray drive, but not a player and utilize the rippability to make the movies play on the formats I currently own and stop buying lower quality DVDs that I may some day want in higher def.
If you have a Blu Ray player, why buy a DVD unless thats the only way to put it on the iPod/TiVo/whatever. The availability of rippers for blu ray means that you can extract from the medium and don't have to buy two copies or only buy DVD.
Perhaps cracked is more of an operating word than meant- I have to wonder if increased sales are in any way related to the cracking of the format (people not feeling so locked-in- so they can put the dvd on their ipod, etc).
Some folks run themselves to exhaustion- especially with the kick at the end of a long race. It just seems like brain cells -must- be dying when you run so hard you fall flat on your face- so does this regrowth offset that? How much?
you know, unionized looks like un-ionized.. I read that totally wrong at first...
the solution has always seemed to me to do it at the controller level - encrypt everything but commands and require the OS to supply the password at some interval to a write-only memory.
The drive unlocks parts of the drive for bootup and there's a master password--- this sounds like there are exploits that need to be discovered, but will be.
I wonder what sector corruption does in CBC mode then? Lose more of the drive? Or have the used some overhead for extra forward error correction?
You're missing the point- I neglected to mention I don't care about that box, but the point was that usually the posts where people say you should switch to or from MS revolve around one machine somewhere misbehaving, regardless of the circumstance.
Interesting it didn't work out to the 15th of March- beware the Ides of March!.
I wonder if you chose more precise (or less precise) numbers it would work out?
I was flabberghasted when my microwave ran properly too- I just assumed it would try and make up for the hour it was missing and run 60 times more power.
My Vista and XP boxes all switched over without fanfare- I assume their more endowed sister MS Server will do the same.
My Solaris 10 box did, all my Fedora Core 6 boxes did, my older SuSe box did not and no official patch (for 9.1).
So, by that line of thinking then, everyone should switch to Windows since one linux box somewhere didn't update.
Didn't we already do this once? I recall in the last 90's a bunch of stations had internet streams and then the RIAA/etc started pulling rank and they all vanished. Only now are they coming back, won't this just make them disappear again?
Forgive me if I missed something, I'm just an average consumer and that was my perception.
I have a Ph. D. in electrical engineering from South Hampton Institute of Technology, doesn't that count?
If you've ever seen Executive Decision as a source of ideas, you then know its a simple matter of scrambling and docking a stealth fighter to the bottom of the aircraft and doing an insertion at 30,000 ft and then taking back the plane by force.
I suppose I should have added my main point- if you give drivers more information- even perhaps generally unnecessary (modern technology abstraction and what-not), you're involving the driver more in what the car is doing. I'm not saying put so much stuff there that you confuse the driver, but put enough stuff there that they understand the mechanics of what is going on better and are more heavily rooted in the driving process (watching gauges and observing the space around the vehicle) and less rooted in comfort and music.
drive-by-wire. I think steering wheels are unnecessary as are gas/brake pedals. Why can't they make a car with a single joystick that has force feedback? Push forward to accelerate, back to break, centered (Y axis only) to coast perhaps with a switch that changes the behavior to pushing forward increments the desired speed, backward lowers it and centered leaves it alone (akin to cruise control).
Sure, these things need to be redundant, but it could be done, couldn't it?
Not only would I feel much more at home in this environment (fwiw, I am not a gamer), but it would be a boon to handicapped individuals that pay a fortune for these things to be hacked on to their cars where it would cost significantly less to do this from the start.
I'm of the opinion that cars need to be more technical- when you hop into the cockpit of an aircraft, you know what you're there to do, but when you hop into a car, it seems you're merely a passenger or perhaps even there to relax. Some cars do not even have a tachometer and merely have speed, fuel and perhaps temp. I think that much could be done to make cars more fun to drive while simultaneously making them safer and excluding people who feel the need to do unreasonable things at the same time or who don't have the intelligence to drive safely. Although the geek in me would love to have my car look like the inside of a F-18 Hornet or something, I just think if the environment was more driving oriented, drivers would drive better.