This is an insightful comment modded down by people who know nothing about Wimax. In EU/US licenses for Wimax are for 3.5-7Mhz usually. In Korea they allowed usage of huge chunks of the spectrum for this, and that's why they got that impressive bandwidth.
It would be nice for us to have the same, but the fight for spectrum is harder here than there.
This looks way too much as a chemical experiment. I was not very good in chemistry, but putting some special "rocks" and wood and adding water over the rocks.. probably there was some reaction between them that ignited the wood. If I remember corectly, phosphorus put in water and then took back to the air ignites, or maybe something similar...?
May be this will finally replace the old method of spit and rinse, because all those special glasses on the scuba masks had no effect until now.
For those who don't know, if you want your scuba mask to be perfectly clean of fog, you have to spit inside it when it is dry, then rinse very fast with sea water (just to make the glass clear enough but probably without rinsing all the substances in the saliva from the glass) then put it on the face and dive immediately. For those who forgot doing this, even the best tempered glass became foggy in a few minutes in cold water.
The Open Media Commons is about royalty-free open standards for digital content, not only for digital rights management.
Coming back to DRM, i fail to see how an open DRM is possible? If it is open, I can modify its implementation on my system, and avoid the restrictions, so I don't think it will be accepted by the ones that want to guard their content. Until now, even closed DRM implementations were circumvented easily enough.
Mini computers, with nice looks existed for a long time. But at least from my point of view, the coolness factor of the MiniMac is exactly this: it is a Mac - a cheap Apple computer, similar enough with its bigger brothers that I am not so interested to buy. A normal Apple computer although is very nice, is not useful enough for me to buy it at its price. But a MiniMac toy seems interesting enough at a right price.
On the other side.. I don't want a small PC. I want a big PC, with enough free slots for the cards that I want to use.
A compact PC card (like all those 5.25" and 3.5" motherboards with mobile processors) is very nice to use with a flash card as hard disk in various appliances - but a shiny tiny pc sits just in the middle. It is not flexible enough - no space for addon cards. It is not rugged enough (still a pc, with hard disk, not a compact computer designed to work in extreme conditions). It is not even a cheap solution because the PC market is very cheap already and I guess this mini pc will not be 50$ to mantain the price proportions of the normal Apple versus MiniMac.
What I don't understand is how can be illegal to commit suicide? How will they punish you after? Well, if you fail, you are in their hands, but in this case, you are even more motivated not to fail your suicide.
You are just wrong.. if there is something that you really know, probably you will be able to configure that operating system to be more secure than a default-secure operating system that you have no knowledge about. So his choice for what he knew is the best, not the security advertising about openbsd.
I forgot to tell you that the best example of really insecure systems running with years of uptime are the voice switches of the world. A lot of them are running some Unix (there are even some with Windows NT 4, and some with Linux on them) on their console or core CPU, but they are not connected directly to the internet, and they do fine.
If this software is some expensive corporate software and you are paying big licensing money for it, you should just request an update from Agilent.
If this is not an option, just isolate the systems running this software from the net, in a secured area. A lot of systems in the world are unpatched and old for various reasons, but they do their job without being breaked, just because they are isolated well enough. If you require internet access, just put a second PC on your desk, with SP2 and no Agilent.
I don't know about you, but I feel that a diamond for which people died has some more value than a diamond made in a factory by some american workers.
Exactly that adventure that took the diamond to the surface of earth and in the hands of men make it precious. The thing that people would die (and some really died) for it means something. Not the translucid carbon.. If i would want it just for the look, i would buy glass.. it looks the same.
I want the diamond exactly for what it is, something that required death to obtain.
Your "insightfull" comment shows only that you did not read the article; the page explains that you require a hardware device from Quicknet in order to use the G.723.1 audio codec. The card has only linux drivers, so you lost your bet.
This is just plain stupid. Why aren't you just compiling gnome or whatever window manager you want directly on your sun box, and then configure the login window to have it as an environment option? I don't see anything smart in running only remote linux applications on a sun. If you do this, then what is the benefit of using a sun workstation?
Or may be we will just start to consider the South to be the top of the world, instead of North, so we will keep Europe and North America on top as it is meant to be..;-)
Yes, it should have been better to send a human (or even better, a criminal) instead of an animal for that flight, for a lot of reasons: we have enough of them to spare, they will at least know what will happen to them and they are able to speak, informing the scientists what is happening to them.
May be this is just my opinion, but i am not willing to have a computer as a digital replacement for a TV. Yes, I like to have a TV tunner to watch or record something from time to time, but I am not such a huge TV fan.. there are days where I even don't look at the TV at all. I dislike all this trends to transform the computer in a multimedia black box. I want my computer to code, to write some documents, browse the net, even play games.. but I want it to have the feel of a computer, not of a tv or stereo. I enjoy the power to do whatever I want with my PC; if I want multimedia, I know what hardware and software to buy and use for this, but I would not buy a box that is limited to multimedia only and is sold as a "family device" to be placed under the TV.
This is the same story with the Xbox - I understand it is a cheaper PC, but I love too much my opened case computer, in which i can fit whatever card I want, to switch to that black box, even if it has cool games or can run linux.
I wonder if anybody else feels this entertainment devices as castrated computers, that lost all the fun.
Scroll Lock means that on a text console (long before the Word you mentioned) the display was not scrolling when reaching the last row of the screen (24th or 25th row, i don't remember). So the RedHat behaviour is correct, when you reach the end of the screen, it is not scrolling up one row, but rather stays locked. I don't remember what was the way to switch to the next page, but anyway, i think you got the picture.
You know, Oracle runs on various Unix system also, including Linux. I would rather suspect hardware problems or scalability problems in Windows, Oracle runs just fine on each of my installations.
In these days, the main power of the proprietary Unix operating systems (like HP/UX, Irix, Tru64 AIX, and so on) is that they are highly optimized for the hardware they run on. Although you probably can run *BSD or Linux on most of these platforms, they are still inferior products. On the other hand, those operating systems (and the only exception is Solaris) are old dinosaurs, with ugly configurations so different from one vendor to the other, bad C compilers, strange filesystem layout. From the productivity's point of view, running only one operating system on all platforms, if possible, is the best thing you can do. And when you know that your great vendor might let you unpatched for months and not even telling you, this is the best reason to abandon those operating systems in favour of *BSD or Linux. Sad is that it might happen to exist some closed-source application that can only run on that Unix and not on your favourite free operating system, but for many other environments, HP just pushed all away from their operating systems. I wonder if this is their official policy from now on, or it is just related to Tru64 to make all switch to HP/UX where they might still let you find and publish vulnerabilities?
Considering the speed of light, the argument that "the fighter plane will not remain stationary in the air while it fires the laser beam" can be ignored. It will reflect back before the plane moves enough.
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This is an insightful comment modded down by people who know nothing about Wimax. In EU/US licenses for Wimax are for 3.5-7Mhz usually. In Korea they allowed usage of huge chunks of the spectrum for this, and that's why they got that impressive bandwidth. It would be nice for us to have the same, but the fight for spectrum is harder here than there.
But are you sure you want those specific bacteria inside your body?
This looks way too much as a chemical experiment. I was not very good in chemistry, but putting some special "rocks" and wood and adding water over the rocks.. probably there was some reaction between them that ignited the wood. If I remember corectly, phosphorus put in water and then took back to the air ignites, or maybe something similar...?
I don't see this as a good thing. There are already too many signalling protocols for voip. Another protocol just makes everything more messy.
May be this will finally replace the old method of spit and rinse, because all those special glasses on the scuba masks had no effect until now. For those who don't know, if you want your scuba mask to be perfectly clean of fog, you have to spit inside it when it is dry, then rinse very fast with sea water (just to make the glass clear enough but probably without rinsing all the substances in the saliva from the glass) then put it on the face and dive immediately. For those who forgot doing this, even the best tempered glass became foggy in a few minutes in cold water.
The Open Media Commons is about royalty-free open standards for digital content, not only for digital rights management. Coming back to DRM, i fail to see how an open DRM is possible? If it is open, I can modify its implementation on my system, and avoid the restrictions, so I don't think it will be accepted by the ones that want to guard their content. Until now, even closed DRM implementations were circumvented easily enough.
Mini computers, with nice looks existed for a long time. But at least from my point of view, the coolness factor of the MiniMac is exactly this: it is a Mac - a cheap Apple computer, similar enough with its bigger brothers that I am not so interested to buy. A normal Apple computer although is very nice, is not useful enough for me to buy it at its price. But a MiniMac toy seems interesting enough at a right price. On the other side.. I don't want a small PC. I want a big PC, with enough free slots for the cards that I want to use. A compact PC card (like all those 5.25" and 3.5" motherboards with mobile processors) is very nice to use with a flash card as hard disk in various appliances - but a shiny tiny pc sits just in the middle. It is not flexible enough - no space for addon cards. It is not rugged enough (still a pc, with hard disk, not a compact computer designed to work in extreme conditions). It is not even a cheap solution because the PC market is very cheap already and I guess this mini pc will not be 50$ to mantain the price proportions of the normal Apple versus MiniMac.
What I don't understand is how can be illegal to commit suicide? How will they punish you after? Well, if you fail, you are in their hands, but in this case, you are even more motivated not to fail your suicide.
You are just wrong.. if there is something that you really know, probably you will be able to configure that operating system to be more secure than a default-secure operating system that you have no knowledge about. So his choice for what he knew is the best, not the security advertising about openbsd.
I forgot to tell you that the best example of really insecure systems running with years of uptime are the voice switches of the world. A lot of them are running some Unix (there are even some with Windows NT 4, and some with Linux on them) on their console or core CPU, but they are not connected directly to the internet, and they do fine.
If this software is some expensive corporate software and you are paying big licensing money for it, you should just request an update from Agilent. If this is not an option, just isolate the systems running this software from the net, in a secured area. A lot of systems in the world are unpatched and old for various reasons, but they do their job without being breaked, just because they are isolated well enough. If you require internet access, just put a second PC on your desk, with SP2 and no Agilent.
I don't know about you, but I feel that a diamond for which people died has some more value than a diamond made in a factory by some american workers. Exactly that adventure that took the diamond to the surface of earth and in the hands of men make it precious. The thing that people would die (and some really died) for it means something. Not the translucid carbon.. If i would want it just for the look, i would buy glass .. it looks the same.
I want the diamond exactly for what it is, something that required death to obtain.
Your "insightfull" comment shows only that you did not read the article; the page explains that you require a hardware device from Quicknet in order to use the G.723.1 audio codec. The card has only linux drivers, so you lost your bet.
This is just plain stupid. Why aren't you just compiling gnome or whatever window manager you want directly on your sun box, and then configure the login window to have it as an environment option? I don't see anything smart in running only remote linux applications on a sun. If you do this, then what is the benefit of using a sun workstation?
Or may be we will just start to consider the South to be the top of the world, instead of North, so we will keep Europe and North America on top as it is meant to be.. ;-)
And then, somebody will invent the tubeless keyboard.. which works without the wave guide.
Yes, it should have been better to send a human (or even better, a criminal) instead of an animal for that flight, for a lot of reasons: we have enough of them to spare, they will at least know what will happen to them and they are able to speak, informing the scientists what is happening to them.
May be this is just my opinion, but i am not willing to have a computer as a digital replacement for a TV. Yes, I like to have a TV tunner to watch or record something from time to time, but I am not such a huge TV fan.. there are days where I even don't look at the TV at all. I dislike all this trends to transform the computer in a multimedia black box. I want my computer to code, to write some documents, browse the net, even play games.. but I want it to have the feel of a computer, not of a tv or stereo. I enjoy the power to do whatever I want with my PC; if I want multimedia, I know what hardware and software to buy and use for this, but I would not buy a box that is limited to multimedia only and is sold as a "family device" to be placed under the TV. This is the same story with the Xbox - I understand it is a cheaper PC, but I love too much my opened case computer, in which i can fit whatever card I want, to switch to that black box, even if it has cool games or can run linux. I wonder if anybody else feels this entertainment devices as castrated computers, that lost all the fun.
My math says seven years..
Scroll Lock means that on a text console (long before the Word you mentioned) the display was not scrolling when reaching the last row of the screen (24th or 25th row, i don't remember). So the RedHat behaviour is correct, when you reach the end of the screen, it is not scrolling up one row, but rather stays locked. I don't remember what was the way to switch to the next page, but anyway, i think you got the picture.
You know, Oracle runs on various Unix system also, including Linux. I would rather suspect hardware problems or scalability problems in Windows, Oracle runs just fine on each of my installations.
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Bridge Builder 1 and 2 (from Pontifex)
Other great games are:
Blockout
Sokoban
UGH!
At least, these are the only games which I am still not bored.
Your plan is so very old.. they are paying for this from the first day they obtained Internet conectivity from their uplinks.
In these days, the main power of the proprietary Unix operating systems (like HP/UX, Irix, Tru64 AIX, and so on) is that they are highly optimized for the hardware they run on. Although you probably can run *BSD or Linux on most of these platforms, they are still inferior products. On the other hand, those operating systems (and the only exception is Solaris) are old dinosaurs, with ugly configurations so different from one vendor to the other, bad C compilers, strange filesystem layout. From the productivity's point of view, running only one operating system on all platforms, if possible, is the best thing you can do. And when you know that your great vendor might let you unpatched for months and not even telling you, this is the best reason to abandon those operating systems in favour of *BSD or Linux. Sad is that it might happen to exist some closed-source application that can only run on that Unix and not on your favourite free operating system, but for many other environments, HP just pushed all away from their operating systems.
I wonder if this is their official policy from now on, or it is just related to Tru64 to make all switch to HP/UX where they might still let you find and publish vulnerabilities?
Considering the speed of light, the argument that "the fighter plane will not remain stationary in the air while it fires the laser beam" can be ignored. It will reflect back before the plane moves enough.