You could consider it, but you would then need more fuel or lighter payloads. Launches get more efficient the closer you get to the equator since the Earth is spinning (which is why the shuttle always goes east). AZ, NM, and NV are all farther north.
This is also why Boeing built SeaLaunch for satellite launches: they can drag the launch vehicle out to the equator to get as much momentum as possible out of the Earth's rotation.
The REAL trick is to comment your code so that 8 years from now when your company is still running that "temporary" hack you threw together you will STILL understand how to fix it...... but the poor chump that inherits your code will have to hire you back at ridiculous consultant rates.
Did you use the technique mentioned in the article for seeing the dots?
The dots' minuscule size, covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their color combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says. One way to determine if your color laser is applying this tracking process is to shine a blue LED light--say, from a keychain laser flashlight--on your page and use a magnifier.
That's what was so surprising about the change in laws regarding pornography. The change in law correlated STRONGLY with the decline in violence against women.
It could be that there was a confounder, but it seems quite likely that allowing a venue for individuals to vent aggressions that you don't want them expressing in real life is a valid and workable tactic.
So you may have it backward: the presence of videogames MIGHT be helping to REDUCE violent crime.
This reminds me of a situation I read about in Europe where one country (Denmark? The Netherlands?) legalized most forms of pornography including very graphic violent material. They began to see an immediate and dramatic DECREASE in crimes against women. The widely floated explanation for this was that people likely to comment those times of crimes were finding an outlet for their fantasies through porn.
I'm sorry I don't remember which country did this, but I suspect one of our many European Slashdotters will enlighten us.
You misunderstand the use of the word "dark". The "dark side of the moon" referred to the "side of the moon about which we knew nothing". This was the same as the old expression "deepest, darkest Africa", which meant the inner regions of the continent about which we knew very little.
The use of the word "dark" to mean "unknown" is now generally antiquated, thus the confusion about the "dark side of the moon".
That's stupid. There is nothing like "PAM killer" on the horizont in next 1-2 years!
No, it's NOT stupid. The grandparent poster is right. I'm a network admin for a research center of about 300 people. We have servers running software that is 10 years old. We have servers that came online Friday. I'm trying to move the oldest software to retirement, but the user accounts and access rights are murder to migrate to anything new because those systems were never built to be modular.
Remember Y2K? Two digits for years were plenty when the software was written, and everyone just assumed that all that software would have long since been retired by the time it became an issue. When Y2K rolled around the world didn't end, but IT units worldwide spent a small fortune fixing bugs because 15 year-old software was still in use.
If you think you only need to look towards what might happen in the next 1-2 years you are mistaken. It's a nice thought, but the reality is that you need to be ready for changes that may come about in the 5-10 year timeframe. Since you cannot predict what those changes may be, it is best to make any system you work with as modular as possible.
Umm... this article is about software patents, not copyright battles and file-sharing.
This has more to do with the ability of Open Source projects to develop software without having to pay licensing fees for doing something someone else has done (but with their own code, of course, not stolen code).
You might want to RTFM and even look into the background of the issue a bit more.
Again, that's an easy fix for parents if they take responsibility for themselves: set a BIOS password on the computer so that it doesn't get used without supervision. No need to make ISP's be censors. Make concerned parents do their own parenting.
I guess we *could* expect concerned parents to provide guidance and supervision for their children rather than making corporations stand-in parents......Nah, what am I thinking? That's just plain silly! Who would go for that?!?!
Computer Name, User Name, Time Zone, Partitioning Options, Internationalization, Admin password, User name (but you have to add the password via the control panels later)
Oh, and a 25 character alphanumeric product key. Do you still have to register it as well? I don't know since I'm under a site license.
The point, however, is that there really are a lot more questions to answer than the three inputs you mention.
During the Linux installation you will also be given prompts for installing your bootloader. Of coarse, it's quick and easy since Linux will readily share the drive with Windows. I'd say it's cheating if you don't count configuration of a bootloader as part of a Windows setup just because no one tries to do it that way due to its difficulty.
Finally, you'll also want to load the basic toolset that completes a decent operating system: a good FTP client, SSH client, web-browser without root access to the file system, etc. which the Linux installation already did for you. Oh, plus an up-to-date anti-virus system for Windows along with your tools of choice for managing spyware.
Where I live in the U.S. (North Carolina) most technical folks land in the 28% federal income tax bracket -- a good deal less than your 39%.
HOWEVER, I also pay 8% (I think) to Social Security, plus NC State income tax, plus a 7.5% sales tax on everything but food plus about $2/sq ft in taxes on my house, plus car taxes, plus...
It tends to eat up a great deal of your income -- it's just mostly hidden due to the huge number of taxes we pay and the unbelievably complex rules for calculating all of it.
You *could* screw up a *nix system with a bad installer, but it is harder to do for a couple of reasons:
1 -- you usually only need to run the installer as root if you are doing a system-wide installation. If it is just for you it is easier just to install it in your home folder. Personally, I do that fairly often. I have an updated version of whatever I was installing in my space and can fall back on the system-wide version if I foobar it somehow.
2 -- *nix apps are generally more self-contained than Windows apps. The fact that much of the configuration information for Windows programs resides in the registry is just asking for problems. For example:
If program A uses protocol X and program B does so also, installing B may change registry entries concerning protocol X so that they match its needs. Program A stops working with protocol X.
The *nix tradition of self-contained configuration files avoids the collisions that can arise in the registry.
So again, YES, it is possible for an installer to completely wreck a *nix box BUT it is much less likely.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on this. There are quite a few people concerned that members of the U.S. government really are doing what the grandparent comment suggested: laying the foundations of a much more totalitarian state.
The grandparent didn't say that the U.S. *is* a totalitarian state -- just that we are creating the right laws and mindset to become one.
Someone over in our Comp Sci department did that a few years ago. It looked okay, though, so it went back on the shelf.
Next time they ran a restore from the tape it destroyed the DLT drive. Unfortunately, they thought the drive was the problem, not the tape, so they stuck the tape in a backup drive... oops.
The example you gave also has a couple of others problems:
1 - No matter what media you use you NEVER rely on one copy as the only copy of your data. If you do, it is NOT a BACKUP.
2 - A DVD out of it's case is easy to scratch up. Of course, magnetic tape has a pretty short lifespan out of its case as well -- the difference is only that the tape goes into the drive CASE AND ALL. When you put your backup tape in a case you are really putting your tape + case into a second protective case. I've actually seen drives that do the same thing for optical disks. It's not a bad idea for critical backups.
The difference is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Article Four says:
Article IV
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited.
When you agree to a treaty wherein you promise not to militarize a specific place, efforts to later break that treaty are generally considered to be in poor taste (putting in very mildly)...
I have to agree with you. My home system is a 1.0 GHz PowerBook from 2 1/2 years ago. I'm not a big games player. I surf the web, email, and use SSH to get in to the Linux servers I admin at work.
The system is fast, smooth, and rock-solid. The fan is tiny, the system is silent and power consumption is LOW.
Sometimes it's simply a matter of realizing what the right tool is for the job. I don't need a high-end data cruncher at home -- I do enough of that at work.
Back in 90's Microsoft became very concerned that Netscape's web browser could end up being the PLATFORM for which software would be written. If you wrote your software to run in a browswer window the underlying OS was no longer important. Microsoft needed to push Netscape over a cliff.
To do so, Microsoft introduced IE which they began shipping free of charge with every copy of Windows (and just about every other piece of software). Netscape felt they were abusing their monopoly position by doing this and therefore sued. The courts agreed and decreed: "Microsoft may not bundle IE with Windows".
Well Microsoft has never been one to let a legal ruling stop them. They went back to the developers mandated that IE be INTEGRATED with Windows Explorer. By making it a PORTION OF THE OS, they were no longer bundling. Suddenly they were legal again, but could keep behaving the same way.
So, there is no good technical reason for integrating your file system browser with your web browser (and plenty of reason not do), but there is every reason to do so from a "crush the competition" perspective.
The article basically says as much. The whole point was "Intel shipped first, but AMD has the better tech.".
In fact, the SECOND PARAGRAPH of the article says:
Although Intel may have won the race-to-the-launch game, they still lurk behind AMD in majority of the performance tests conducted by various media outlets.
It depends on what the network was like BEFORE the switch to wireless. If the buildings were all wired with Cat-3 cable to the wall port, why rewire with Cat-5 and then do it again in a very few years when you need fiber or some new Cat-X cable?
Maybe wireless isn't as good as wired yet, but it isn't that bad either. The overall savings they may realize by no longer having to run new cables to every friggin wall port should more than make up for any cost now. When wifi improves, just swap out the access points.
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You could consider it, but you would then need more fuel or lighter payloads. Launches get more efficient the closer you get to the equator since the Earth is spinning (which is why the shuttle always goes east). AZ, NM, and NV are all farther north.
This is also why Boeing built SeaLaunch for satellite launches: they can drag the launch vehicle out to the equator to get as much momentum as possible out of the Earth's rotation.
The REAL trick is to comment your code so that 8 years from now when your company is still running that "temporary" hack you threw together you will STILL understand how to fix it... ... but the poor chump that inherits your code will have to hire you back at ridiculous consultant rates.
Did you use the technique mentioned in the article for seeing the dots?
The dots' minuscule size, covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their color combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says. One way to determine if your color laser is applying this tracking process is to shine a blue LED light--say, from a keychain laser flashlight--on your page and use a magnifier.
At which time the government asks Staples for the security tape from the day you bought the printer to get a mug shot of you carrying the printer out.
Obviously, that's a lot of effort, so you'd really have to do something major to warrant that much work.
That's what was so surprising about the change in laws regarding pornography. The change in law correlated STRONGLY with the decline in violence against women.
It could be that there was a confounder, but it seems quite likely that allowing a venue for individuals to vent aggressions that you don't want them expressing in real life is a valid and workable tactic.
So you may have it backward: the presence of videogames MIGHT be helping to REDUCE violent crime.
This reminds me of a situation I read about in Europe where one country (Denmark? The Netherlands?) legalized most forms of pornography including very graphic violent material. They began to see an immediate and dramatic DECREASE in crimes against women. The widely floated explanation for this was that people likely to comment those times of crimes were finding an outlet for their fantasies through porn.
I'm sorry I don't remember which country did this, but I suspect one of our many European Slashdotters will enlighten us.
You misunderstand the use of the word "dark". The "dark side of the moon" referred to the "side of the moon about which we knew nothing". This was the same as the old expression "deepest, darkest Africa", which meant the inner regions of the continent about which we knew very little.
The use of the word "dark" to mean "unknown" is now generally antiquated, thus the confusion about the "dark side of the moon".
Your thoughts are running along the same vein as mine, namely:
Who would watch ANYTHING on a 12-inch screen with only 320x240 resolution three feet away.
Sounds like an awful user experience to me.
That's stupid. There is nothing like "PAM killer" on the horizont in next 1-2 years!
No, it's NOT stupid. The grandparent poster is right. I'm a network admin for a research center of about 300 people. We have servers running software that is 10 years old. We have servers that came online Friday. I'm trying to move the oldest software to retirement, but the user accounts and access rights are murder to migrate to anything new because those systems were never built to be modular.
Remember Y2K? Two digits for years were plenty when the software was written, and everyone just assumed that all that software would have long since been retired by the time it became an issue. When Y2K rolled around the world didn't end, but IT units worldwide spent a small fortune fixing bugs because 15 year-old software was still in use.
If you think you only need to look towards what might happen in the next 1-2 years you are mistaken. It's a nice thought, but the reality is that you need to be ready for changes that may come about in the 5-10 year timeframe. Since you cannot predict what those changes may be, it is best to make any system you work with as modular as possible.
Umm... this article is about software patents, not copyright battles and file-sharing.
This has more to do with the ability of Open Source projects to develop software without having to pay licensing fees for doing something someone else has done (but with their own code, of course, not stolen code).
You might want to RTFM and even look into the background of the issue a bit more.
Again, that's an easy fix for parents if they take responsibility for themselves: set a BIOS password on the computer so that it doesn't get used without supervision. No need to make ISP's be censors. Make concerned parents do their own parenting.
I guess we *could* expect concerned parents to provide guidance and supervision for their children rather than making corporations stand-in parents... ...Nah, what am I thinking? That's just plain silly! Who would go for that?!?!
Computer Name, User Name, Time Zone, Partitioning Options, Internationalization, Admin password, User name (but you have to add the password via the control panels later)
Oh, and a 25 character alphanumeric product key. Do you still have to register it as well? I don't know since I'm under a site license.
The point, however, is that there really are a lot more questions to answer than the three inputs you mention.
During the Linux installation you will also be given prompts for installing your bootloader. Of coarse, it's quick and easy since Linux will readily share the drive with Windows. I'd say it's cheating if you don't count configuration of a bootloader as part of a Windows setup just because no one tries to do it that way due to its difficulty.
Finally, you'll also want to load the basic toolset that completes a decent operating system: a good FTP client, SSH client, web-browser without root access to the file system, etc. which the Linux installation already did for you. Oh, plus an up-to-date anti-virus system for Windows along with your tools of choice for managing spyware.
Depends on how the taxation is done.
Where I live in the U.S. (North Carolina) most technical folks land in the 28% federal income tax bracket -- a good deal less than your 39%.
HOWEVER, I also pay 8% (I think) to Social Security, plus NC State income tax, plus a 7.5% sales tax on everything but food plus about $2/sq ft in taxes on my house, plus car taxes, plus...
It tends to eat up a great deal of your income -- it's just mostly hidden due to the huge number of taxes we pay and the unbelievably complex rules for calculating all of it.
You *could* screw up a *nix system with a bad installer, but it is harder to do for a couple of reasons:
1 -- you usually only need to run the installer as root if you are doing a system-wide installation. If it is just for you it is easier just to install it in your home folder. Personally, I do that fairly often. I have an updated version of whatever I was installing in my space and can fall back on the system-wide version if I foobar it somehow.
2 -- *nix apps are generally more self-contained than Windows apps. The fact that much of the configuration information for Windows programs resides in the registry is just asking for problems. For example:
If program A uses protocol X and program B does so also, installing B may change registry entries concerning protocol X so that they match its needs. Program A stops working with protocol X.
The *nix tradition of self-contained configuration files avoids the collisions that can arise in the registry.
So again, YES, it is possible for an installer to completely wreck a *nix box BUT it is much less likely.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on this. There are quite a few people concerned that members of the U.S. government really are doing what the grandparent comment suggested: laying the foundations of a much more totalitarian state.
The grandparent didn't say that the U.S. *is* a totalitarian state -- just that we are creating the right laws and mindset to become one.
And a single break in a 100m tape will also make the tape completely unreadable.
Of course, a scratched optical disk usually won't eat your drive, while a broken tape can do so in a heartbeat.
Keep optical disks in good cases and make redundant backups and you actually have a pretty robust backup system.
Have you ever dropped a DLT?
Someone over in our Comp Sci department did that a few years ago. It looked okay, though, so it went back on the shelf.
Next time they ran a restore from the tape it destroyed the DLT drive. Unfortunately, they thought the drive was the problem, not the tape, so they stuck the tape in a backup drive... oops.
The example you gave also has a couple of others problems:
1 - No matter what media you use you NEVER rely on one copy as the only copy of your data. If you do, it is NOT a BACKUP.
2 - A DVD out of it's case is easy to scratch up. Of course, magnetic tape has a pretty short lifespan out of its case as well -- the difference is only that the tape goes into the drive CASE AND ALL. When you put your backup tape in a case you are really putting your tape + case into a second protective case. I've actually seen drives that do the same thing for optical disks. It's not a bad idea for critical backups.
The difference is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Article Four says:
Article IV
States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.
The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited.
When you agree to a treaty wherein you promise not to militarize a specific place, efforts to later break that treaty are generally considered to be in poor taste (putting in very mildly)...
More info is here.
You are recalling the wrong case. The case to which I'm referring predates the more recent anti-trust case.
I have to agree with you. My home system is a 1.0 GHz PowerBook from 2 1/2 years ago. I'm not a big games player. I surf the web, email, and use SSH to get in to the Linux servers I admin at work.
The system is fast, smooth, and rock-solid. The fan is tiny, the system is silent and power consumption is LOW.
Sometimes it's simply a matter of realizing what the right tool is for the job. I don't need a high-end data cruncher at home -- I do enough of that at work.
If a boss mismanages resources that badly he might be hiring now... ...but I wouldn't count on long-term employment with that company.
Why are OE and IE integrated?
Back in 90's Microsoft became very concerned that Netscape's web browser could end up being the PLATFORM for which software would be written. If you wrote your software to run in a browswer window the underlying OS was no longer important. Microsoft needed to push Netscape over a cliff.
To do so, Microsoft introduced IE which they began shipping free of charge with every copy of Windows (and just about every other piece of software). Netscape felt they were abusing their monopoly position by doing this and therefore sued. The courts agreed and decreed: "Microsoft may not bundle IE with Windows".
Well Microsoft has never been one to let a legal ruling stop them. They went back to the developers mandated that IE be INTEGRATED with Windows Explorer. By making it a PORTION OF THE OS, they were no longer bundling. Suddenly they were legal again, but could keep behaving the same way.
So, there is no good technical reason for integrating your file system browser with your web browser (and plenty of reason not do), but there is every reason to do so from a "crush the competition" perspective.
The article basically says as much. The whole point was "Intel shipped first, but AMD has the better tech.".
In fact, the SECOND PARAGRAPH of the article says:
Although Intel may have won the race-to-the-launch game, they still lurk behind AMD in majority of the performance tests conducted by various media outlets.
It depends on what the network was like BEFORE the switch to wireless. If the buildings were all wired with Cat-3 cable to the wall port, why rewire with Cat-5 and then do it again in a very few years when you need fiber or some new Cat-X cable?
Maybe wireless isn't as good as wired yet, but it isn't that bad either. The overall savings they may realize by no longer having to run new cables to every friggin wall port should more than make up for any cost now. When wifi improves, just swap out the access points.