Add some sort of payment to the mix, and it might work. You get CCredits for doing computations and pay C(ompute)Credits to get something computed. Projects have to acquire CCredits for their computations by some kind of authority, commercial ones for real money, good cause / scientific ones for free. Clients can then use their CCredits for their own projects (a la your "submit a task"), or (if coming from a commercial project) cash them in or donate them to a good cause. At some kind of exchange the clients can "buy" packets to compute, and get the CCredits on completion. Better yet, make that two kinds of CCredits, one for cash projects (CCC), one for the free projects (FCC) - now auction off CCC-paying packets to the one paying the most FCCs. That way there'll be more incentive to also do "community work" for those who just join to make money.
"We know this method works! On 19 October 1997 at 1325 UTC, we found the correct solution for RSA Labs' 56-bit secret-key challenge. (That's RC5-32/12/7 56-bit for you stats junkies.) The key was 0x532B744CC20999, and it took us 250 days to locate."
IOW d-net started more than a year before SETI@HOME.
$120 for a notebook battery? That's cheap, why are you complaining? That Apple doesn't give you a free replacement after the warranty expired? Many computer companies won't replace batteries for free during warranty, because they are "expendable" parts.
Which investment? There was only a plan to develop a (large) oil-field, and some deals under the food-for-oil program (the money going via the UN). Haliburton (a rather small company compared to Total) made deals over several hundreds of million USD with Iraq. How come they are also the biggest contractor in the reconstruction of Iraq (and is fucking the US tax payers in the process)?
Hrrm, maybe this whole war started because the US corps didn' get those big contracts? We already know it was neither WMDs nor Al Qaida links. Silly Saddam, it could have been so easy.
If you think that France and Germany were operating on a purely moral plain, your'e missing the fact that they had the largest financial stakes in Saddams Iraq.
I didn't know that Halliburton was French or German. Good thing that they still have a large financial stake in Bush's Iraq.
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I've seen a Readers Digest from the 60s that said something like "The ice age isn't coming. Scientists say the climate gets warmer."
In 1982, East Anglia confirmed that the cooling that began in the 1940s had turned around by the early 1970s. 1981 was the warmest year in a record that stretched back a century. (34*) Returning to old records, in 1986 the group produced the first truly solid and comprehensive global analysis of average surface temperatures (including the vast ocean regions, which had been neglected by most earlier studies). They found considerable warming from the late 19th century up to 1940, followed by some regional cooling in the Northern Hemisphere but roughly level conditions overall to the mid-1970s. Then the warming had resumed with a vengeance. The warmest three years in the entire 134-year record had all occurred in the 1980s.
And that wasn't the first mention of global warming, it was the death knell for the global cooling theory. Which came about "in January 1961, on a snowy and unusually cold day in New York City, J. Murray Mitchell, Jr. of the U.S. Weather Bureau's Office of Climatology told a meeting of meteorologists that the world's temperature was falling." Ooops, sorry, not the 50s, it was the 60s. But certainly not the eighties.
In case you missed it, the Wright plane replica didn't fly. So lighter engines is obviously not the panacea here, but good aerodynamics may well be.
Of course, that steam engine was used (or not) in the flight that supposedly took place 4 years before the Wright's first flight. The much better documented flights 2 years later "were made by Whitehead in a monoplane powered with a kerosene burning engine.", using something like this three-cylinder, 18 horsepower, four-cycle motor constructed by Whitehead, approximately 1901. But actually "(Number 22) is run by a 40-horsepower kerosene motor of my own design, especially constructed for strength, power and lightness, weighing but 120 pounds complete... Ignition is accomplished by its own heat and compression; it runs about 800 revolutions per minute, has five cylinders and no fly-wheel is used. It requires a space 16 inches wide, 4 feet long and 16 inches high...".
All in all, this story shows how some things change (the way the patent office hands out patents), and soma things don't (like how theWrights use the same tactics as Microsoft when dealing with "partners"). Wait, strike that - what better way to show that an invention doesn't "contravene the known laws of science" than to have prior art? So nothing really changed.
Yeah, why does Apple use open standards, when everybody knows they are not secure. In case you've missed the point of the article, it was "DHCP is known to be insecure".
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Dive into the titles, then click on "box office & business" under "Other Info". Hey, even Anastasia made money.
You didn't see "it took us 250 days to locate". 250 days before Oct 19 1997 sure is more than a year before June 1998.
Add some sort of payment to the mix, and it might work. You get CCredits for doing computations and pay C(ompute)Credits to get something computed. Projects have to acquire CCredits for their computations by some kind of authority, commercial ones for real money, good cause / scientific ones for free. Clients can then use their CCredits for their own projects (a la your "submit a task"), or (if coming from a commercial project) cash them in or donate them to a good cause. At some kind of exchange the clients can "buy" packets to compute, and get the CCredits on completion. Better yet, make that two kinds of CCredits, one for cash projects (CCC), one for the free projects (FCC) - now auction off CCC-paying packets to the one paying the most FCCs. That way there'll be more incentive to also do "community work" for those who just join to make money.
IOW d-net started more than a year before SETI@HOME.
Urmm yeah, from Sony. For $75 . Sure.
Remember kids: anecdotal evidence can only be used against Apple.
And that's why it's the best selling MP3 player.
A "well designed" product meaning a much larger product. And the battery is not irreplaceable, else it couldn't be replaced.
Well, then you should have bought a DELL - Ooops, same thing.
$120 for a notebook battery? That's cheap, why are you complaining? That Apple doesn't give you a free replacement after the warranty expired? Many computer companies won't replace batteries for free during warranty, because they are "expendable" parts.
I'm too poor not to.
PPPPS. Anecdotal evidence doesn't bother the people whose batteries have NOT failed.
Are you by chance American? Because nothing you say has anything to do with what I said.
Hrrm, maybe this whole war started because the US corps didn' get those big contracts? We already know it was neither WMDs nor Al Qaida links. Silly Saddam, it could have been so easy.
And exactly how would they do that? Or is that a quote from an American delegate?
What does the South African Revenue Service have to do with global cooling?
Yes, it is a demo, but only because it won't generate power on a regular basis.
Why, the US isn't even considered for the reactor site?
So you were talking about the US.
So how does that prove it's not childish behaviour on the part of the US?
Did you RTF(AP)A? Once the reactor is running, it should generate some 20 times the energy required to get it started.
I didn't know that Halliburton was French or German. Good thing that they still have a large financial stake in Bush's Iraq.
There are actually about 10,700 hits for "Global Cooling", but about 1,640,000 hits for "Global Warming".
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And that wasn't the first mention of global warming, it was the death knell for the global cooling theory. Which came about "in January 1961, on a snowy and unusually cold day in New York City, J. Murray Mitchell, Jr. of the U.S. Weather Bureau's Office of Climatology told a meeting of meteorologists that the world's temperature was falling." Ooops, sorry, not the 50s, it was the 60s. But certainly not the eighties.Of course, that steam engine was used (or not) in the flight that supposedly took place 4 years before the Wright's first flight. The much better documented flights 2 years later "were made by Whitehead in a monoplane powered with a kerosene burning engine.", using something like this three-cylinder, 18 horsepower, four-cycle motor constructed by Whitehead, approximately 1901. But actually "(Number 22) is run by a 40-horsepower kerosene motor of my own design, especially constructed for strength, power and lightness, weighing but 120 pounds complete... Ignition is accomplished by its own heat and compression; it runs about 800 revolutions per minute, has five cylinders and no fly-wheel is used. It requires a space 16 inches wide, 4 feet long and 16 inches high...".
All in all, this story shows how some things change (the way the patent office hands out patents), and soma things don't (like how theWrights use the same tactics as Microsoft when dealing with "partners"). Wait, strike that - what better way to show that an invention doesn't "contravene the known laws of science" than to have prior art? So nothing really changed.
Yeah, why does Apple use open standards, when everybody knows they are not secure. In case you've missed the point of the article, it was "DHCP is known to be insecure".