I'm not a MS fanboy but I do have XP on one system. I don't remember re-installing it since I've set it up on that PC (at least one year ago). And yes, it gets updates, gets played on and all that stuff. I think MS would like to know what you do to your XP system to kill it every 6 weeks.
I think background radiation will be one of its main reasons it will fail for a CPU and RAM. With a structure 1 atom thick there is no room for failure. Either an atom exists or it doesn't. Knock an atom out of place then it fails. With a conventional transistor as its bulk material all that happens is it degrades its performance but it can take it (most of the time).
Think how much redundancy you can build into devices of that size. You can have thousands of quantum based CPU's each of them redundant and part of an array for less than the size of current devices. Decisions could be consensus based thus eliminating rogue CPUs for example.
You mean I could order it with Linux (free), then format the HD and install a pirated version of Windows? Wow, sounds like a great deal to me too. I see the ghost of the Genuine Advantage programme coming back to life.
It means that they will likely sell the marketing rights to other companies for sales outside Italy. The bet is they will make loads of cash with that innovation which will help fund the next world cup champions.
Agreed. Almost everything produced by industry will end up in landfills eventually. The solution is to eliminate landfills period. No landfills, no waste. Who said all that stuff equates to a better quality of life? That being said, you can stop entropy...
Here up north we have Inuksuks (Inuit stone structure). They may not yet be as glamourous as Stonehenge but they're quite interesting. Some even point to the North Star to help predict the coming of Spring. I can even build one myself and I don't have to be a Druid.
Maybe the druids passed on that stone structure tradition to modern Inuits?
Personally, I never base my purchasing decisions on announcements but rather on my current needs. If I need a laptop, I'll buy whatever's available now which would meet my needs and try to get it at the best possible price. Otherwise, I'll never but anything 'cause by the time that new technology is available commercially, something better is announced.
Actually this is an opportunity to enable fast-than-light travel... instead of speeding up the ship, slow-down c. If we can slow it down enough, I could race light and win!
In an article from a local newspaper there was a mention of individuals who were recently caught replacing the pin-pads with modified pin-pads rigged to send the pin "somewhere" on the Internet (the article did not specify where exactly on the Internet or how it managed to do it).
To get their modded pin pad in the store, they basically distracted the clerk, replaced the pin pad with their modified version and went away. They returned later to replace the pin pad back with the original.
Using this scheme, these individuals could have managed to capture a great deal of data but thank fully got caught before doing so. This store had a policy to ensure the serial numbers of their pin pads are the correct ones, they noticed the scheme and alerted the authorities.
This seems to me like a major security flaw even if these individuals managed to get caught but apparently, Interac Association will be switching to encrypted pin-pads to help mitigate the risk.
COBOL is such a deceiving language. When I was young, and this is a true story, I went to libraries as I was very interested in computers (early 70s). I pulled out this illustrated book on computers where they showed bits of code here and there. I saw this wonderful line:
MOVE INVENTORY-IN TO INVENTORY-OUT.
WOW! I say to myself... robotics! COBOL is able to control robots by moving inventory. I signed-up for three years of Data Processing only to find out that it in fact only moved data from one part of memory to another... I was very very disappointed.
I bet you that's why COBOL is so popular. By being so verbose, it attracted massed of kids on false promises of what appeared to be the ability to control robots. That would never happen in C or Java.
Stop the FUD, nature is already eliminating embryos who have DNA incompatible with life through miscarriages.
Also, the article states that the 1 million $ grant was to develop "safety tags" which would be like entering a comment in computer code to identify it's version. This would tag the DNA sequence to identify it from forensic samples. Nothing that makes me panic here either.
It could be based on a percentage of gross profits but with a preset minimum. Heck, this money could be used to fund the space program and help emerging artists.
The code is not the problem. Maybe the MPAA was requested to provide the MD5SUM of all the material they object to be published. I suppose they haven't completed this. So it's not necessarily YouTube's fault.;-)
10 YouTube exec: So what clips exactly do you want us to remove? 20 MPAA: well all those which we don't want you to publish. 30 YouTube exec: Ok, which clips exactly do you object to. 40 MPAA: all those we don't want you to publish. 50 GOTO 10
Translated, Drinkwater - Boisleau, in French or Bevilaqua, in Italian - are actually fairly common last names. Nonetheless, it's quite the appropriate name in this case.
Sharepoint is pretty cool I admit but there are a number of other open source tools out there, such as http://dev.alfresco.com/; which are free, and don't require a license for Windows 2003 server or SQL Server. Alfresco also supports CIFS (Common Internet File System) to "emulate" Microsoft Shared File System.
We are a huge government department and our group supports an enterprise system based on Hummingbird DM http://www.hummingbird.com/. We started using the product for all documentation, revision requests, specs, etc. Works well for us as its API allows us to integrate it with pretty much anything out there (including MS office suite and more). Probably overkill for a small workgroup. This product is also very popular with law firms.
From what I gather, twiki is ubercool but you have to work within it. Hummingbird DM adapts Windows and standard OA tools to work with it (i.e. practically no learning curve).
Aerogel has a density of 3 kgm^-3 where water's is 1000. So the aerogel would most likely float and be innefective. Unless it's coating something heavier.
I also use magma.ca and you're right, without those filters, I would have more spam than Bill Gates himself.
I also don't think there is anything wrong with email today. Sure spam is a pain but with good filtering it's no more a problem than the junk-mail I get in my physical mail box. The good thing with spam is that it's odourless.
Healthy paranoia or y2k-like panic? Personally, from all the attention these warnings have generated, I was expecting mayham; instead, we get "no reports of Kama Sutra explosions."
Maybe this was the reaction intended by the author of the worm - to prepare the real next BIG attack when no one pays attention to warnings anymore.
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I'm not a MS fanboy but I do have XP on one system. I don't remember re-installing it since I've set it up on that PC (at least one year ago). And yes, it gets updates, gets played on and all that stuff. I think MS would like to know what you do to your XP system to kill it every 6 weeks.
Think how much redundancy you can build into devices of that size. You can have thousands of quantum based CPU's each of them redundant and part of an array for less than the size of current devices. Decisions could be consensus based thus eliminating rogue CPUs for example.
Sounds like a case when the making of will be more interesting than the actual movie.
You mean I could order it with Linux (free), then format the HD and install a pirated version of Windows? Wow, sounds like a great deal to me too. I see the ghost of the Genuine Advantage programme coming back to life.
Being a non-aborted Canadian, I resent your statement. We have a conservative government now, hey!
It means that they will likely sell the marketing rights to other companies for sales outside Italy. The bet is they will make loads of cash with that innovation which will help fund the next world cup champions.
Agreed. Almost everything produced by industry will end up in landfills eventually. The solution is to eliminate landfills period. No landfills, no waste. Who said all that stuff equates to a better quality of life? That being said, you can stop entropy...
Here up north we have Inuksuks (Inuit stone structure). They may not yet be as glamourous as Stonehenge but they're quite interesting. Some even point to the North Star to help predict the coming of Spring. I can even build one myself and I don't have to be a Druid.
Maybe the druids passed on that stone structure tradition to modern Inuits?
Personally, I never base my purchasing decisions on announcements but rather on my current needs. If I need a laptop, I'll buy whatever's available now which would meet my needs and try to get it at the best possible price. Otherwise, I'll never but anything 'cause by the time that new technology is available commercially, something better is announced.
Squirting doesn't translate well either...
What's next? Zunes to support only one earphone so you can't share the other with you pal? I hope I'm not giving anyone any ideas.
Actually this is an opportunity to enable fast-than-light travel... instead of speeding up the ship, slow-down c. If we can slow it down enough, I could race light and win!
Yeah, you would think that Blue movies, a 70' euphemism for pr0n, would use Blue-ray... odd.
In an article from a local newspaper there was a mention of individuals who were recently caught replacing the pin-pads with modified pin-pads rigged to send the pin "somewhere" on the Internet (the article did not specify where exactly on the Internet or how it managed to do it).
- fraudes.html
To get their modded pin pad in the store, they basically distracted the clerk, replaced the pin pad with their modified version and went away. They returned later to replace the pin pad back with the original.
Using this scheme, these individuals could have managed to capture a great deal of data but thank fully got caught before doing so. This store had a policy to ensure the serial numbers of their pin pads are the correct ones, they noticed the scheme and alerted the authorities.
This seems to me like a major security flaw even if these individuals managed to get caught but apparently, Interac Association will be switching to encrypted pin-pads to help mitigate the risk.
Here is the article (in French) http://www.info07.com/article-62081-Attention-aux
COBOL is such a deceiving language. When I was young, and this is a true story, I went to libraries as I was very interested in computers (early 70s). I pulled out this illustrated book on computers where they showed bits of code here and there. I saw this wonderful line:
MOVE INVENTORY-IN TO INVENTORY-OUT.
WOW! I say to myself... robotics! COBOL is able to control robots by moving inventory. I signed-up for three years of Data Processing only to find out that it in fact only moved data from one part of memory to another... I was very very disappointed.
I bet you that's why COBOL is so popular. By being so verbose, it attracted massed of kids on false promises of what appeared to be the ability to control robots. That would never happen in C or Java.
Stop the FUD, nature is already eliminating embryos who have DNA incompatible with life through miscarriages.
Also, the article states that the 1 million $ grant was to develop "safety tags" which would be like entering a comment in computer code to identify it's version. This would tag the DNA sequence to identify it from forensic samples. Nothing that makes me panic here either.
Why not impose a reasonable content tax to all those services (youtube, etc.) which offer "non public domain materials." A similar system is used elsewhere in the world on things such as blank media, yes apparently also in the US on some media http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/u sc_sec_17_00001004----000-.html.
It could be based on a percentage of gross profits but with a preset minimum. Heck, this money could be used to fund the space program and help emerging artists.
The code is not the problem. Maybe the MPAA was requested to provide the MD5SUM of all the material they object to be published. I suppose they haven't completed this. So it's not necessarily YouTube's fault. ;-)
10 YouTube exec: So what clips exactly do you want us to remove?
20 MPAA: well all those which we don't want you to publish.
30 YouTube exec: Ok, which clips exactly do you object to.
40 MPAA: all those we don't want you to publish.
50 GOTO 10
The deficit and the national debt should also be kept secret for national security concerns.
Translated, Drinkwater - Boisleau, in French or Bevilaqua, in Italian - are actually fairly common last names. Nonetheless, it's quite the appropriate name in this case.
Sharepoint is pretty cool I admit but there are a number of other open source tools out there, such as http://dev.alfresco.com/; which are free, and don't require a license for Windows 2003 server or SQL Server. Alfresco also supports CIFS (Common Internet File System) to "emulate" Microsoft Shared File System.
We are a huge government department and our group supports an enterprise system based on Hummingbird DM http://www.hummingbird.com/. We started using the product for all documentation, revision requests, specs, etc. Works well for us as its API allows us to integrate it with pretty much anything out there (including MS office suite and more). Probably overkill for a small workgroup. This product is also very popular with law firms.
From what I gather, twiki is ubercool but you have to work within it. Hummingbird DM adapts Windows and standard OA tools to work with it (i.e. practically no learning curve).
There is also MyDMS http://dms.markuswestphal.de/about.html which is purely web based but open-source.
Aerogel has a density of 3 kgm^-3 where water's is 1000. So the aerogel would most likely float and be innefective. Unless it's coating something heavier.
That's an awesome soundtrack. Is it original?
I also use magma.ca and you're right, without those filters, I would have more spam than Bill Gates himself.
I also don't think there is anything wrong with email today. Sure spam is a pain but with good filtering it's no more a problem than the junk-mail I get in my physical mail box. The good thing with spam is that it's odourless.
Healthy paranoia or y2k-like panic? Personally, from all the attention these warnings have generated, I was expecting mayham; instead, we get "no reports of Kama Sutra explosions."
Maybe this was the reaction intended by the author of the worm - to prepare the real next BIG attack when no one pays attention to warnings anymore.