I find this theory to be extremely lacking. People don't think this way when it comes to treatments for heart disease, diabetes and things like that. Sure, some people should exercise more and lose weight to address their health issues, but there are some people that live unbelievably healthy lifestyles and still suffer from those type of ailments. Their bodies just don't respond to stimulus the right way.
I do not know why people insist the brain is any different just because we "think" with it. There is no reason to expect that the brain has some special property about it whereby it is incapable of a fundamental structural physiological problem that can manifest itself in negative ways such as depression. Just as someone who is born full blown type 1 diabetic could never produce insulin without some type of surgical intervention, it is logical to expect that there are people born with physical problems with their brain that will prevent them from ever being completely normal regardless of how much of a mental effort they put forth.
Not testing any changes to a production system prior to implementation regardless of platform is unacceptable to every single IT shop I've ever encountered and doing so would be grounds for termination without question.
I'll stick to my land-line in case of emergencies, thank you very much.
I'm curious--what would you do in the event that lightning struck your demarc outside our house and in the process frying all your landlines and catching your house on fire? How about if a tornado ripped up the telephone pole where your copper terminates? Or a burglar cuts your lines hoping to kill your security system?
I never said anything about Microsoft. But since you have, I will throw you a clue stick and let you decide what to do with it.
The Firefox code is open, so security holes can be found faster and potentially fixed faster. Microsoft has been slow to respond to some security holes whereas the Mozilla team has been lightning fast for each one that I have in my memory. In fact, aren't some severe IE holes still unfixed?
Hold Firefox to the same standard? Heh, Microsoft and IE aren't even in the same league, so how can you possibly consider that?
Uhh, show me any news stories about "exploits" in the wild. What you hear are security flaws that have been found due to the source being open and then promptly being fixed.
Using the word exploits seems to indicate that there are malicious websites out there taking advantage of a security hole. There may very well be, I just don't remember hearing about it.
The biggest dangers that ATMs face are people putting external card readers on them so that they can harvest people's information. Since they are primarily closed systems, I doubt knowing a software flaw is going to be of that much benefit to anyone since they would need to be able to crack open the ATM to make use of the information. And again, at this point, the biggest danger is installing card readers.
I don't specifically support them, however AFAIK, that is the only way to get donations to Groklaw. Perhaps I should change my sig to day "Donate via Groklaw's website" or some other such thing.
They got caught with their pants down and now are suing because someone kept the evidence. Boy do I hope this lawsuit meets a swift and decisive end in favor of the Internet Archives.
To be candid, I'm surprised it took this long for someone to sue them.
Not having powerful transmitters is actually the most efficient way to use the spectrum speaking from a data perspective. The absolute best way to use the wireless spectrum in a perfect world would be to have massive fiber trunks running all over the planet with APs (for lack of a better word) that cover huge amounts of spectrum every so 500 to 1000 feet or so.
You would be looking at easily multi-gigabit wireless that wouldn't have too many users per node. The problem of course is that this whole scenario would be crazy expensive and given the current usage of spectrum, it just isn't going to happen.
You can create individual webadmin upload/download pages for each person and redirect them upon logging in to their own page based on their login creditials using PHP.
I've done it before and it works great. Although I've found my implementation craps out with files over an undetermined size. I haven't researched if this is a webadmin issue or some setting I have on the HTTP/SSL server.
The head of a company of a prduct competing with a free version says something negative about the competition and this is a surprise?
I think it would have been downright shocking had he said that he felt Firefox was great and was well poised to take over the market. You only get that level of honesty from someone who doesn't have a stake in the game.
Given that satellite Internet has at a minimum a half a second latency per packet, VoIP communications most likely wouldn't work. Even if they did, it would be miserable in ways that no language is capable of describing. The conversation would be worse than a walkie talkie conversation.
I'm guessing that the call you received wasn't VoIP. Else, it didn't use satellite based Internet service.
For the calculation on the latency of satellite Internet, go here.
I've heard that actual broadband speeds should be possible with latest-generation phones
And just like satellite, you have high latency. Sprint Vision will give you ping times that skip from 400ms to over 1000ms. Currently, there are no providers offering low latency broadband over cellular that I know of. I remember reading about a trial for a very small area that was supposed to begin soon somwhere in North Carolina I think, but as I recall, it would involve a forklift upgrade to get nationwide coverage.
For years to come, broadband over cellular will not be low latency for rural areas. Those are usually the last to get upgraded towers. Naturally, infrastructure upgrades happen where the customers are first.
Please. Just because you have the inability to envision ways of utilizing computers in classrooms doesn't mean it can't, isn't or shouldn't be done. For example, Tablet PCs could one day put all classroom text books into one device. This could help save more money by making textbook replacement easier.
Computers are not a panacea. They can, however, be used to compliment the learning process.
I've administered quite a few AV solutions and I can say without a doubt that the one that has provided the best results with the least amount of pain has been CA eTrust. It just works.
Symantec isn't worth the time it takes to recycle their documentation IMO. Not to mention that their software just can't manage to work with Thunderbird mail files. eTrust has no problem that I've seen. And if you do a competitive upgrade from Symantec, you can get a 3 year antivrus subscription pretty cheap -- between $30 and $50 dollars. I got 7 licenses for about $35 a piece or something like that including shipping.
I've always thought many/most towers could be made to look like a work of art. If the skyline is going to be invaded, might as well make it interesting. Think of creative spires. Probably could even be designed with light materials and retrofitted to many existing towers.
You can easily bump up the performance of MySQL or Oracle using one of these drives for A LOT less
From TFA, "The Hybrid Hard Drive, developed by Samsung and Microsoft, is meant for mobile PCs"
If you are doing anything on a laptop with a database that might require a "performance bump" as you put it, then I would suggest getting at a bare minimum a hefty workstation.
I don't think too many companies would run a production database on a laptop.
Just think if each one of us "geeks" convert one a week. I figure we can convert many millions a year. If we persist, Firefox will hit 10% in a matter of months.
I am a computer consultant. When I fix people's computer, I tell them under no circumstances should they use the blue "E" and to only use Firefox. I tell them "On the rare occasion that your online bank or credit card website doesn't work, go ahead and use it but otherwise DON'T!" Believe it or not, they listen.
I will continue to do that because IE will most likely still be insecure and a security flaw in it will likely mean a rooted system whereas Firefox most likely won't. Possible, but not near as likely.
It could be just coincidence, but Burst.com is also a company held by Baystar Capital. These are the people responsible for $50 million in funding for the SCO legal case against IBM over Linux. But then you would have to believe that when Microsoft helped Baystar and SCO meet was a coincidence. And don't forget when Microsoft bought $12 million in SCO licenses when they didn't need them.
I am not a wireless engineer, so i dont know what frequencies are suitable for for what distances etc, but you should have one range for high-bandwidth medium-long range. (such as the spectrums mentioned here)
To answer your question, the higher you go on the mhz chart, the more data you can push over the spectrum. Conversely, the lower you go on the mhz chart, the better you go through objects.
Of the widely used channels:
900 mhz -- low data, best for non-line of sight 2.4 ghz -- high data, sensitive to objects (water especially) 5.3 ghz -- higher data, very sensitive to objects 5.8 ghz -- even higher data, even more sensitive to objects
WISPS often already do what you suggest by using the 5 ghz spectrum for backhaul and 2.4 (and occasionally 900mhz) for client communications.
2.4ghz is becoming quite crowded. I actually expect it possible 900mhz could see a revival because it is not crowded. The only downside is that it doesn't offer much throughput.
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I am sure someone will mention the Chevy Nova legend, but that's just what it is--a legend.
I find this theory to be extremely lacking. People don't think this way when it comes to treatments for heart disease, diabetes and things like that. Sure, some people should exercise more and lose weight to address their health issues, but there are some people that live unbelievably healthy lifestyles and still suffer from those type of ailments. Their bodies just don't respond to stimulus the right way.
I do not know why people insist the brain is any different just because we "think" with it. There is no reason to expect that the brain has some special property about it whereby it is incapable of a fundamental structural physiological problem that can manifest itself in negative ways such as depression. Just as someone who is born full blown type 1 diabetic could never produce insulin without some type of surgical intervention, it is logical to expect that there are people born with physical problems with their brain that will prevent them from ever being completely normal regardless of how much of a mental effort they put forth.
Just my $0.02.
-modify, recompile and use new object code of any non-kernel module without rebooting
-heck, for that matter rewrite or modify any portion of the kernel and recompile it (although rebooting is needed)
-use any number of filesystem or even write your own
These are just a few. Perhaps if Windows shipped with the source, these would be possible, but something tells me Windows doesn't work that way.
Not testing any changes to a production system prior to implementation regardless of platform is unacceptable to every single IT shop I've ever encountered and doing so would be grounds for termination without question.
I'll stick to my land-line in case of emergencies, thank you very much.
I'm curious--what would you do in the event that lightning struck your demarc outside our house and in the process frying all your landlines and catching your house on fire? How about if a tornado ripped up the telephone pole where your copper terminates? Or a burglar cuts your lines hoping to kill your security system?
I never said anything about Microsoft. But since you have, I will throw you a clue stick and let you decide what to do with it.
The Firefox code is open, so security holes can be found faster and potentially fixed faster. Microsoft has been slow to respond to some security holes whereas the Mozilla team has been lightning fast for each one that I have in my memory. In fact, aren't some severe IE holes still unfixed?
Hold Firefox to the same standard? Heh, Microsoft and IE aren't even in the same league, so how can you possibly consider that?
Uhh, show me any news stories about "exploits" in the wild. What you hear are security flaws that have been found due to the source being open and then promptly being fixed.
Using the word exploits seems to indicate that there are malicious websites out there taking advantage of a security hole. There may very well be, I just don't remember hearing about it.
The biggest dangers that ATMs face are people putting external card readers on them so that they can harvest people's information. Since they are primarily closed systems, I doubt knowing a software flaw is going to be of that much benefit to anyone since they would need to be able to crack open the ATM to make use of the information. And again, at this point, the biggest danger is installing card readers.
I never noticed that before. Hmmm, good. It doesn't matter anyway, I removed it from my sig. No, I'm not shilling for anyone except perhaps Groklaw.
I don't specifically support them, however AFAIK, that is the only way to get donations to Groklaw. Perhaps I should change my sig to day "Donate via Groklaw's website" or some other such thing.
They got caught with their pants down and now are suing because someone kept the evidence. Boy do I hope this lawsuit meets a swift and decisive end in favor of the Internet Archives.
To be candid, I'm surprised it took this long for someone to sue them.
Not having powerful transmitters is actually the most efficient way to use the spectrum speaking from a data perspective. The absolute best way to use the wireless spectrum in a perfect world would be to have massive fiber trunks running all over the planet with APs (for lack of a better word) that cover huge amounts of spectrum every so 500 to 1000 feet or so.
You would be looking at easily multi-gigabit wireless that wouldn't have too many users per node. The problem of course is that this whole scenario would be crazy expensive and given the current usage of spectrum, it just isn't going to happen.
Use SSL to encrypt, a simple web authentication (choose your flavor) and webadmin.
http://wacker-welt.de/webadmin/
You can create individual webadmin upload/download pages for each person and redirect them upon logging in to their own page based on their login creditials using PHP.
I've done it before and it works great. Although I've found my implementation craps out with files over an undetermined size. I haven't researched if this is a webadmin issue or some setting I have on the HTTP/SSL server.
The head of a company of a prduct competing with a free version says something negative about the competition and this is a surprise?
I think it would have been downright shocking had he said that he felt Firefox was great and was well poised to take over the market. You only get that level of honesty from someone who doesn't have a stake in the game.
Given that satellite Internet has at a minimum a half a second latency per packet, VoIP communications most likely wouldn't work. Even if they did, it would be miserable in ways that no language is capable of describing. The conversation would be worse than a walkie talkie conversation.
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I'm guessing that the call you received wasn't VoIP. Else, it didn't use satellite based Internet service.
For the calculation on the latency of satellite Internet, go here
I've heard that actual broadband speeds should be possible with latest-generation phones
And just like satellite, you have high latency. Sprint Vision will give you ping times that skip from 400ms to over 1000ms. Currently, there are no providers offering low latency broadband over cellular that I know of. I remember reading about a trial for a very small area that was supposed to begin soon somwhere in North Carolina I think, but as I recall, it would involve a forklift upgrade to get nationwide coverage.
For years to come, broadband over cellular will not be low latency for rural areas. Those are usually the last to get upgraded towers. Naturally, infrastructure upgrades happen where the customers are first.
Please. Just because you have the inability to envision ways of utilizing computers in classrooms doesn't mean it can't, isn't or shouldn't be done. For example, Tablet PCs could one day put all classroom text books into one device. This could help save more money by making textbook replacement easier.
Computers are not a panacea. They can, however, be used to compliment the learning process.
I've administered quite a few AV solutions and I can say without a doubt that the one that has provided the best results with the least amount of pain has been CA eTrust. It just works.
Symantec isn't worth the time it takes to recycle their documentation IMO. Not to mention that their software just can't manage to work with Thunderbird mail files. eTrust has no problem that I've seen. And if you do a competitive upgrade from Symantec, you can get a 3 year antivrus subscription pretty cheap -- between $30 and $50 dollars. I got 7 licenses for about $35 a piece or something like that including shipping.
I've always thought many/most towers could be made to look like a work of art. If the skyline is going to be invaded, might as well make it interesting. Think of creative spires. Probably could even be designed with light materials and retrofitted to many existing towers.
Heck, maybe somone is already doing it.
Does that mean the government is guilty of entrapment for releasing a PDF with the classified text included?
I'd like to see them try to prosecute this.
You can easily bump up the performance of MySQL or Oracle using one of these drives for A LOT less
From TFA, "The Hybrid Hard Drive, developed by Samsung and Microsoft, is meant for mobile PCs"
If you are doing anything on a laptop with a database that might require a "performance bump" as you put it, then I would suggest getting at a bare minimum a hefty workstation.
I don't think too many companies would run a production database on a laptop.
Just think if each one of us "geeks" convert one a week. I figure we can convert many millions a year. If we persist, Firefox will hit 10% in a matter of months.
I am a computer consultant. When I fix people's computer, I tell them under no circumstances should they use the blue "E" and to only use Firefox. I tell them "On the rare occasion that your online bank or credit card website doesn't work, go ahead and use it but otherwise DON'T!" Believe it or not, they listen.
I will continue to do that because IE will most likely still be insecure and a security flaw in it will likely mean a rooted system whereas Firefox most likely won't. Possible, but not near as likely.
It could be just coincidence, but Burst.com is also a company held by Baystar Capital. These are the people responsible for $50 million in funding for the SCO legal case against IBM over Linux. But then you would have to believe that when Microsoft helped Baystar and SCO meet was a coincidence. And don't forget when Microsoft bought $12 million in SCO licenses when they didn't need them.
And who can forget when Sun bought SCO licenses too and then less than a year later, Microsoft and Sun were best friends and settled their lawsuits with each other.
Maybe some of this stuff is a coincidence and then again maybe none of it is. I find it hard to believe that all of it is a coincidence though.
I am not a wireless engineer, so i dont know what frequencies are suitable for for what distances etc, but you should have one range for high-bandwidth medium-long range. (such as the spectrums mentioned here)
To answer your question, the higher you go on the mhz chart, the more data you can push over the spectrum. Conversely, the lower you go on the mhz chart, the better you go through objects.
Of the widely used channels:
900 mhz -- low data, best for non-line of sight
2.4 ghz -- high data, sensitive to objects (water especially)
5.3 ghz -- higher data, very sensitive to objects
5.8 ghz -- even higher data, even more sensitive to objects
WISPS often already do what you suggest by using the 5 ghz spectrum for backhaul and 2.4 (and occasionally 900mhz) for client communications.
2.4ghz is becoming quite crowded. I actually expect it possible 900mhz could see a revival because it is not crowded. The only downside is that it doesn't offer much throughput.