Even better, Microsoft should continually issue and make available for download updated installation CDs with all patches included.
Another, more bandwidth saving aproach would be to make it dead simple to burn a new updated installation CDs using an original disc and a bunch of patches.
Just the other day I was reading that Microsoft is readying new technology to stop web popup's in their browser - this sort of fast paced innovation is what we can expect from leaders within an industry.
I just wish I could find the person who inovated and made those those popups possible in the fist place....
> However... if you look at the materials patented, all refer to long file name support.
Interesting, that means Microsoft is out fishing regarding the license for preloading a FAT filesystem on removable media.
Since the removable media isn't the one manipulating the long filenames I think it's a pretty long stretch to find them infringing.
I can understand a license fee on the devices that does the actual readaing/writing of long filenames on FAT formatted media.
But I guess Microsoft will say to flash manufacturers: We have the patent, feel free to prove us wrong. Btw, how much are lawyers billing an hour nowdays? *Evil laughter*
What's often forgotten is that the Kuomintang party (of which Chiang Kai-Shek was leader 1925-1975) was actually founded on democratic principles and the party was elected to power in China.
Elections were also held while Kuomintang was in power on the mainland.
It wasn't untill civil war started and they got chucked out by the communists that things degraded to a good old 1 party dictatorship on Taiwan.
(I'm ofcourse painting things a bit rosy but the democracy in China was above average measured by the political standards of 1910-1920.)
> Quite frankly, the rock itself is an ablative heat shield, all you need is some way to control descent velocity, much cheaper than getting stuff into orbit from the bottom of a gravity well.
Letting the rock be it's own heat shield will mean it'll partially burn on it's way down.
Not all psychopaths are murderers, it's actually quite common that people who repeatedly commit whitecollar crimes (even after they are busted) are psychopats.
Even if McBride knows that he is wrong it doesn't mean he's a psycho, even normal people can lie and cheat from time to time. One have to look at his whole life from his teens and onward to se if he follows a consistent pattern.
But if he has it, checking him in on therapy won't help. What usually happens is that psychopaths just see theraphy as a nice way to learn new things, like how normal people think and new ways to manipulate them.
The key thing here is that psychopats do not think and reason like normal people, they are aware of this difference and it makes them feel like a superior beeing. This superiority is what gives them the "right" to take what they want from anyone, using any method.
They are also aware that sometimes you need to fit-in to more easily get what you want./greger
P.S. Sociopath and psychopath are synonyms, the socio prefix is more common in the US and psycho is the word of choice in Europe. But psychologists using either word are reffering to the same disorder.
At our university we simply let our ~300 student lab PCs transmogrify into a big honkin linux cluster during nights. Just que up your work and pick up the results the next day.
OK, so we don't have fancy schmancy myrinet and gigs of ram in each node but it's perfect for student work, and research too.
Several of our researchers have been able move all their simulations to the cluster and others have done extensive prepareations and testruns before they bought expensive time on the "real" supercomputers at the university next door.
If we would have recyled old computers from the labs two things would happen, we'd get a much slower cluster and we'd waste even more electricity then we do today...
Well, the "engine" isn't an engine any more than a regular windmill is. It converts the motion of gas or fluid into rotation.
I may be able to convert 10 hp per pound but you'll still need a big honkin steam boiler attached and that wonderful weight/power ratio goes straight out the window.
Burning gasoline or propane and feeding the hot gases through the thing directly might be workable but probably isn't that fuel efficient. Or we'd have a Tesla engine in every car today since it's more or less vibration free compared to a regular piston engine.
Well, they are building and showing off working examples.
I've seen and tried out the printer over a year and a half ago, and I know they went to Cebit and made a splash last year.
But ofcourse, mass production will certainly be handled by some big operation like Logitech. Their scanning pen thingy for example was developed by another Swedish startup, www.anoto.se.
I've actually played with one of these printers at an exhibition in Sweden over a year and a half ago.
You could swipe it around in about the same speed as you would an ordinary mouse. To fast and the output got lighter bacause of increased distance between the dots (it was possible to go back and "fill in" color to get dark output again).
The quality of the output was somewhere bewteen a matrix printer and an inkjet.
It was also a tad large, maby 3 times the volume of a regular mouse.
Ofcourse I expect them to have improved it since then, and if thay arn't going to introduce it on the market untill 2005 I guess it comes with a built in coffe machine by then...
The public key architecture involves writing a private key and a digital certificate into each game console during manufacturing. ...
Whenever a game console goes online for registration, a certificate chain verification process along with proof of knowledge of the private key stored on the game console are used to authenticate the console as genuine.
Uhh, duh! Since the private key is in there, your modded x-box can use it to sign whatever it wants... No protection here.
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Please enlighten me, why do they insist on calling it Mac OS X if it doesn't even include a X server...
/greger
Even better, Microsoft should continually issue and make available for download updated installation CDs with all patches included.
Another, more bandwidth saving aproach would be to make it dead simple to burn a new updated installation CDs using an original disc and a bunch of patches.
No, I'm not holding my breath.
/greger
/greger
I just wish I could find the person who inovated and made those those popups possible in the fist place....
...and hang him high.
/greger
Yes, yes, but where did he store them?
/greger
Interesting, that means Microsoft is out fishing regarding the license for preloading a FAT filesystem on removable media.
Since the removable media isn't the one manipulating the long filenames I think it's a pretty long stretch to find them infringing.
I can understand a license fee on the devices that does the actual readaing/writing of long filenames on FAT formatted media.
But I guess Microsoft will say to flash manufacturers: We have the patent, feel free to prove us wrong. Btw, how much are lawyers billing an hour nowdays? *Evil laughter*
/greger
I just gotta know. How long did it take to get that internet conection installed and running?
/greger
> After a while, I wouldn't see the need for a PSTN, anymore.
Yes, but you still need cables to each home transporting that internet traffic.
And it's the cables that are the natural monopoly, not the fact that they used to be used for phonecalls.
So while PSTN might be dying, sooner or later broadband internet connections will end up regulated for the same reasons as PSTN was.
/greger
What's often forgotten is that the Kuomintang party (of which Chiang Kai-Shek was leader 1925-1975) was actually founded on democratic principles and the party was elected to power in China.
Elections were also held while Kuomintang was in power on the mainland.
It wasn't untill civil war started and they got chucked out by the communists that things degraded to a good old 1 party dictatorship on Taiwan.
(I'm ofcourse painting things a bit rosy but the democracy in China was above average measured by the political standards of 1910-1920.)
It's the satellites themselves that transmit their position to the handset.
/greger
Nope, the page says 4 pairs of fibre delivering 16 wavelengths each.
Ofcourse $1,440,000,000 / 4 = $360,000,000 is still heck of a lot of money.
Letting the rock be it's own heat shield will mean it'll partially burn on it's way down.
A great way to create even more pollution, dude!
/greger
Not all psychopaths are murderers, it's actually quite common that people who repeatedly commit whitecollar crimes (even after they are busted) are psychopats.
/greger
Even if McBride knows that he is wrong it doesn't mean he's a psycho, even normal people can lie and cheat from time to time. One have to look at his whole life from his teens and onward to se if he follows a consistent pattern.
But if he has it, checking him in on therapy won't help. What usually happens is that psychopaths just see theraphy as a nice way to learn new things, like how normal people think and new ways to manipulate them.
The key thing here is that psychopats do not think and reason like normal people, they are aware of this difference and it makes them feel like a superior beeing. This superiority is what gives them the "right" to take what they want from anyone, using any method.
They are also aware that sometimes you need to fit-in to more easily get what you want.
P.S.
Sociopath and psychopath are synonyms, the socio prefix is more common in the US and psycho is the word of choice in Europe. But psychologists using either word are reffering to the same disorder.
So how do they know the software wasn't stolen?
The best thing about software, when someone copies it, you still get to keep it...
So why not use the Dells?
At our university we simply let our ~300 student lab PCs transmogrify into a big honkin linux cluster during nights. Just que up your work and pick up the results the next day.
OK, so we don't have fancy schmancy myrinet and gigs of ram in each node but it's perfect for student work, and research too.
Several of our researchers have been able move all their simulations to the cluster and others have done extensive prepareations and testruns before they bought expensive time on the "real" supercomputers at the university next door.
If we would have recyled old computers from the labs two things would happen, we'd get a much slower cluster and we'd waste even more electricity then we do today...
OK,so what prevents me putting a PC on the desk? Let me guess, it comes with an EULA!
Well, the "engine" isn't an engine any more than a regular windmill is. It converts the motion of gas or fluid into rotation.
I may be able to convert 10 hp per pound but you'll still need a big honkin steam boiler attached and that wonderful weight/power ratio goes straight out the window.
Burning gasoline or propane and feeding the hot gases through the thing directly might be workable but probably isn't that fuel efficient. Or we'd have a Tesla engine in every car today since it's more or less vibration free compared to a regular piston engine.
But considering the quality around here I wouldn't be suprised if they used different fonts for "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters".... :)
Go read http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html and try yourself.
Judging from the "a" I'd say it's Helvetica.
Oh, I'm sure PZF and JLQ are both free. Now lets just find three maketing speak words that fits...
Well, they are building and showing off working examples.
I've seen and tried out the printer over a year and a half ago, and I know they went to Cebit and made a splash last year.
But ofcourse, mass production will certainly be handled by some big operation like Logitech. Their scanning pen thingy for example was developed by another Swedish startup, www.anoto.se.
I've actually played with one of these printers at an exhibition in Sweden over a year and a half ago.
You could swipe it around in about the same speed as you would an ordinary mouse. To fast and the output got lighter bacause of increased distance between the dots (it was possible to go back and "fill in" color to get dark output again).
The quality of the output was somewhere bewteen a matrix printer and an inkjet.
It was also a tad large, maby 3 times the volume of a regular mouse.
Ofcourse I expect them to have improved it since then, and if thay arn't going to introduce it on the market untill 2005 I guess it comes with a built in coffe machine by then...
My God! 3 hours.... With the amount of comercial breaks the have in the states it'll take the whole weekend to air it...
The public key architecture involves writing a private key and a digital certificate into each game console during manufacturing.
...
Whenever a game console goes online for registration, a certificate chain verification process along with proof of knowledge of the private key stored on the game console are used to authenticate the console as genuine.
Uhh, duh! Since the private key is in there, your modded x-box can use it to sign whatever it wants... No protection here.