[Quote] Every morning (er, afternoon) when I came into work, I'd cvs up while I read the morning mail. In the evening, I'd cvs commit and then update my laptop for the trip home. When I got home, I'd sync up again, dive right back into whatever I'd been doing at work and keep on rolling until late at night--when I committed, went to bed and began the cycle all over again. [/Quote]
Somebody desperately needs a girlfriend...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
...would be that this makes it easy for rednecks and CEOs to hand over their PINs to the GOP, then blacks and union members can give theirs to the DNC, while the pock-faced greenpeacer at the health food store sends it to the Green party. Weeks before the election we will already know who wins based on who has the largest collection of proxy votes in hand.
That's the way proxy votes come out in business, there is rarely any suspense about how it will come out because everyone knows before hand who has the blocks of proxy votes needed. Also, you would expect a new PIN for each election, but if you signed up for the right program, each of your PINs could be delivered straight to the party headquarters of your choice.
Many states with lotteries already do something like this. Sign up and have your same favorite numbers played every week and charged against your credit card. Voluntary taxation made easy.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
"Particularly shocking is the line: `If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.'"
Baloney! That's just a joke and an old populist sig line, and not the least bit shocking. Treating it as though it was a serious policy statement from the CEO is absurd! I'm not impressed with Diebold's stance on open voting platforms, but a credible attack on THAT position will only be hurt by silly lines like the quoted one above.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not yet suficiently advanced.
I am not a developer, so please help me out. I am interested in this from an interoperability angle: XML was to bring open standards support to M$ documents. But, I read on/., XML is only a framework that allows proprietary schema to be used, so there is really no progress there. Now we are talking about XAML. Is this just a name for one of those proprietary schema in XML, or is it a new proprientary markup type trying to score off XML's name, or...?
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
Thanks for the link to the cooker list, I'll take advantage of that. As for irritating people with bad press, I don't think I was in any danger of that since by the time we were looking for info on our dead drives, the Mandrake was all over it on their sites. I agree with the premise though, if it was news of an unkown problem then the developers deserve first shot at it before being slammed in the forums. They could be raked over the coals publicly later if their responce is slow or weak.
I submitted an article about this after I fried THREE CD-ROMs in about 2 hours installing 9.2 on a rack of 5 machines. In the article I submitted were the exact model numbers of the dead puppies. All that remains of the article now is:
When I get back to work Monday I'll post that info (and the firmware versions, if I can get them) to the Mandrake Club Install forum. Of course, that's where I should have posted it in the first place. I'll know better next time, but I tried to warn 'ya!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuficiently advanced.
That's not the intention at all, at least for now. They are just demonstrating a technology and debugging it. Usefull applications are just speculation at this point, and don't have to involve that kind of altitude. For example, instead of erecting an atenna or camera tower, one could put them in orbit around an equipent truck at just a hundred feet altitude. How well this compares with just hanging the stuff from a tethered balloon, I'm not sure.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced
From the article: "We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options." or, "All night lawyer party at the home of the VP for marketing!" Techs and engineers will not be invited.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
I hate getting this kind of thing from network news sites. So I tend to not read them and just look for the link to the horse's mouth. I didn't see a link to the NASA site that might carry this graphic and their own interpretation of it. Does anyone have a link at nasa.gov?
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While looking for the above link, I made the terrible mistake of trying nasa.org, which turns out to be a blatantly commercial site with horridly multiplying pop-ups to boot. How did these bums get a.org registry?!
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
By definition 50% of their users are using "more than the average user", and 50% are using less. In addition, as pointed out in another post, the more they throttle the users, the lower the average gets, and they STILL have 50% using "more than the average user!"
Reminds me of government work... "more with less"... "more with less." Eventually, you must do everything with nothing!
For those of you with a Democrat's (or Liberal's, or Socialist's, depending on what part of the world you're in) bent, this is a great opportunity for new regulation! Think of all the auto accidents to be prevented by limiting how this technology can be used. No full motion video, no updates faster than one frame per minute, etc.
Rejoice, ye lovers of Government!
I've spent at least five minutes listening to news about it, and another five minutes thinking about it. I'm still confused. Please Govern me, so I don't have to think any more!
"A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte, would be more lucrative than trying to extract 60 million dollars from a music obsessed, file sharing, thirteen year-old."
That's about $7 per CD-R, and $40 per DVD-R?!!! BOVINE SCAT!!!
It is an accepted assumption in/. posts that the end of this will be the dissolution of SCO. Either by punishing loss of credibility and business, or sell-out and bail-out by SCO officers and technical personnel.
As hurricane Isabel bears down on my lab, I'm glad I read/., 'cause now I know not to store backups in the cabinet next to the servers...(I put them under the sofa in my trailer).
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MRAM in 2004?
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Here's a better link for more info on MRAM. Pretty graphic of an MRAM cell.
"The electrons were transported to the nearby electrode, called the anode, and driven around an external circuit to the other electrode, the cathode: electrical power."
Excuse me? The electrons travel from anode to cathode?
"The prototype made by Lovley and Chaudhuri cranks out only a tiny amount of current -- enough to run a calculator or Christmas tree lights."
Christmas tree lights don't draw as much current as a hair dryer, but a couple orders of magnitude more than a calculator!
"In addition, the bacterium is rugged and stable, able to grow at temperatures ranging from four to 30 C (39.2 to 86 F), with 25 C (77 F) the optimum."
A high-end operating temp of 86F makes it useless all summer in my local climate, or any day it gets left in the car and the sun is shinning. Still I agree with the line: "But as a proof of concept it is remarkable." Also, with so much of the discussion of a hydrogen economy being complete Bovine Scat, ignoring the cost/energy required to produce it, this should be tied in to efforts at bio-generation of free (as in loose) hydrogen.
M$ is not my fovorite bunch, but this seems like a good thing. A few of the posts have hit on the real problem, though. Installing a fancy IT lab is one thing, maintaining it over time is different and very expensive thing. The money for install and maintenance often comes from different budgets, complicating the picture.
The political cynicism is appropriate too. In VA, the lottery was voted in on the promise that the proceeds would support schools, and the majority of the profits do go to schools. But it is so easy for the politicians to see $100M from the lottery as money they don't have to provide to schools from general funds. The school winds up with no more funding than they had before, and the other money can go to pet porcine projects.
"I always expect the worst from SCO, that way I am never disappointed."
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[Quote] Every morning (er, afternoon) when I came into work, I'd cvs up while I read the morning mail. In the evening, I'd cvs commit and then update my laptop for the trip home. When I got home, I'd sync up again, dive right back into whatever I'd been doing at work and keep on rolling until late at night--when I committed, went to bed and began the cycle all over again. [/Quote]
Somebody desperately needs a girlfriend...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
That's the way proxy votes come out in business, there is rarely any suspense about how it will come out because everyone knows before hand who has the blocks of proxy votes needed. Also, you would expect a new PIN for each election, but if you signed up for the right program, each of your PINs could be delivered straight to the party headquarters of your choice.
Many states with lotteries already do something like this. Sign up and have your same favorite numbers played every week and charged against your credit card. Voluntary taxation made easy.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
...now when I blow a whistle into the phone I can shatter their ear drums AND their wrists!!!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
...the temprature at which boob tube glass melts...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
"Particularly shocking is the line: `If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.'"
Baloney! That's just a joke and an old populist sig line, and not the least bit shocking. Treating it as though it was a serious policy statement from the CEO is absurd! I'm not impressed with Diebold's stance on open voting platforms, but a credible attack on THAT position will only be hurt by silly lines like the quoted one above.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not yet suficiently advanced.
I am not a developer, so please help me out. I am interested in this from an interoperability angle: XML was to bring open standards support to M$ documents. But, I read on /., XML is only a framework that allows proprietary schema to be used, so there is really no progress there. Now we are talking about XAML. Is this just a name for one of those proprietary schema in XML, or is it a new proprientary markup type trying to score off XML's name, or...?
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
Thanks for the link to the cooker list, I'll take advantage of that. As for irritating people with bad press, I don't think I was in any danger of that since by the time we were looking for info on our dead drives, the Mandrake was all over it on their sites. I agree with the premise though, if it was news of an unkown problem then the developers deserve first shot at it before being slammed in the forums. They could be raked over the coals publicly later if their responce is slow or weak.
I submitted an article about this after I fried THREE CD-ROMs in about 2 hours installing 9.2 on a rack of 5 machines. In the article I submitted were the exact model numbers of the dead puppies. All that remains of the article now is:
- 2003-10-23 20:40:24 Mandrake 9.2 Eats CD-ROM Drives On Install (articles,mandrake) (rejected)
When I get back to work Monday I'll post that info (and the firmware versions, if I can get them) to the Mandrake Club Install forum. Of course, that's where I should have posted it in the first place. I'll know better next time, but I tried to warn 'ya!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuficiently advanced.
Tartar Sauce technology is just not keeping up! I'm going to sponsor open sauce recipies at SauceForge.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not suficiently advanced.
That's not the intention at all, at least for now. They are just demonstrating a technology and debugging it. Usefull applications are just speculation at this point, and don't have to involve that kind of altitude. For example, instead of erecting an atenna or camera tower, one could put them in orbit around an equipent truck at just a hundred feet altitude. How well this compares with just hanging the stuff from a tethered balloon, I'm not sure.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced
Now I can listen to my... Hey! What's a GPF? Blue screen of who? Where'd my music go?!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
From the article: "We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options." or, "All night lawyer party at the home of the VP for marketing!" Techs and engineers will not be invited.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
I hate getting this kind of thing from network news sites. So I tend to not read them and just look for the link to the horse's mouth. I didn't see a link to the NASA site that might carry this graphic and their own interpretation of it. Does anyone have a link at nasa.gov?
.org registry?!
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While looking for the above link, I made the terrible mistake of trying nasa.org, which turns out to be a blatantly commercial site with horridly multiplying pop-ups to boot. How did these bums get a
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
If anybody needed a "Queer Eye for the Geek Guy" make over, it Doc Who!
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
"...what's that PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector doing there?"
What looks like a PS/2 connector is wedged between a composite video connector (yellow) and the 15-pin VGA (blue) couldn't that be S-VHS instead?
Tell your dogma to leave my catatonia alone!
By definition 50% of their users are using "more than the average user", and 50% are using less. In addition, as pointed out in another post, the more they throttle the users, the lower the average gets, and they STILL have 50% using "more than the average user!"
Reminds me of government work... "more with less"... "more with less." Eventually, you must do everything with nothing!
For those of you with a Democrat's (or Liberal's, or Socialist's, depending on what part of the world you're in) bent, this is a great opportunity for new regulation! Think of all the auto accidents to be prevented by limiting how this technology can be used. No full motion video, no updates faster than one frame per minute, etc.
Rejoice, ye lovers of Government!
I've spent at least five minutes listening to news about it, and another five minutes thinking about it. I'm still confused. Please Govern me, so I don't have to think any more!
I remember that class! ...oh, wait..., um... I'm sure that's been changed by now... :-(
"A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte, would be more lucrative than trying to extract 60 million dollars from a music obsessed, file sharing, thirteen year-old."
That's about $7 per CD-R, and $40 per DVD-R?!!! BOVINE SCAT!!!
...Then we killed SCO.
/. posts that the end of this will be the dissolution of SCO. Either by punishing loss of credibility and business, or sell-out and bail-out by SCO officers and technical personnel.
/., 'cause now I know not to store backups in the cabinet next to the servers...(I put them under the sofa in my trailer).
It is an accepted assumption in
As hurricane Isabel bears down on my lab, I'm glad I read
Here's a better link for more info on MRAM. Pretty graphic of an MRAM cell.
"The electrons were transported to the nearby electrode, called the anode, and driven around an external circuit to the other electrode, the cathode: electrical power."
Excuse me? The electrons travel from anode to cathode?
"The prototype made by Lovley and Chaudhuri cranks out only a tiny amount of current -- enough to run a calculator or Christmas tree lights."
Christmas tree lights don't draw as much current as a hair dryer, but a couple orders of magnitude more than a calculator!
"In addition, the bacterium is rugged and stable, able to grow at temperatures ranging from four to 30 C (39.2 to 86 F), with 25 C (77 F) the optimum."
A high-end operating temp of 86F makes it useless all summer in my local climate, or any day it gets left in the car and the sun is shinning. Still I agree with the line: "But as a proof of concept it is remarkable." Also, with so much of the discussion of a hydrogen economy being complete Bovine Scat, ignoring the cost/energy required to produce it, this should be tied in to efforts at bio-generation of free (as in loose) hydrogen.
I would love [Drool] an NVRAM-based iPod, about the size of a smallish cell phone, with no HDD, about 1GB and bluetooth.... [/Drool].
Seriously, isn't the HDD-based player just waiting to die when enough solid state space is available?
"You owe me $666!" "Why?" "Because I said SCO!"
M$ is not my fovorite bunch, but this seems like a good thing. A few of the posts have hit on the real problem, though. Installing a fancy IT lab is one thing, maintaining it over time is different and very expensive thing. The money for install and maintenance often comes from different budgets, complicating the picture.
The political cynicism is appropriate too. In VA, the lottery was voted in on the promise that the proceeds would support schools, and the majority of the profits do go to schools. But it is so easy for the politicians to see $100M from the lottery as money they don't have to provide to schools from general funds. The school winds up with no more funding than they had before, and the other money can go to pet porcine projects.
"I always expect the worst from SCO, that way I am never disappointed."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1781
"...our universe is just one possibility among many, with respect to various physical parameters."
I'd like to think there's at least ONE universe out there where I'm skinny and good look'n!
"No pain, no... pain." Why don't we just leave it at that?