From the article: the envelope rests in a freezer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, awaiting a battery of tests.
Yes, after lying in a library book for 115 years I can see why is important that it be frozen now.
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Even when the product is as good as AbiWord, open source is not a viable business model.
Abiword was OK, it was not great. They went to a 1.0 release with functionality as basic as tables missing. That was something even Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS from eons ago had. It did at best a mediocre job of importing most word documents. Given that there are tons of other wordprocessors out there, including Staroffice I can't imagine why anyone would think Abiword was a viable product?
I can't imagine any business model where you enter a market heavily crowded with mostly superior products and succeed.
They would still need foam.... you only want the skin temperature to be raised. If there were no insulation you would basically be boiling the liquid oxygen inside the tank.... obviously a Bad Idea.
The mechanism for recalculation of timeslices in previous Linux kernel's was very simple. When every process had its timeslice completely depleted (they were all 0) the kernel would simply go through every process and recalculate its timeslice and start execution again at the highest priority runnable process. While this is the most obvious solution it is also very inefficient, executing in O(n) time.
Ok, its easy to see why this is O(n).
This still look like O(1) (i>amortized to me... or amy I missing something?
Assuming it does clear congestion and delays, 6 miles at 60mph = 6 minutes. I think you can survive six minutes without using your cellphone. I presume there will be emergency phones periodically inside the tunnel.
Apology accepted. Glad to see you're not just one of those anti-anti-RIAA trolls.
I too am often amused by the lame excuses people make to keep downloading MP3s while convincing themselves that they're doing nothing wrong. They claim that music produced by RIAA labels is crappy and worthless, yet somehow they want to fill gigs of hard drive space downloading as much of this "crap" as they can.
Many of us have gotten selfish in the Internet age of "I want it now, I get it now" media rips and P2P downloads. I'm guessing the only software service the OP would tolerate would involve no DRM, uncompressed.WAV downloads, and no songs from any RIAA label.
Stop putting words in my mouth. Just where did I say anything about non-RIAA lables or.WAVs?
Number of times "RIAA" appears in my post: 0 Number of times "RIAA" appears in my post: 8
I don't have anything fundamentally against the RIAA. If they were to start offering PLAIN mp3s, i.e. no DRM for a reasonable price* that would end my beef with them. Who said anything about me violating copyrights? What makes you think I have MP3s of music I didn't purchase?
Oh Apple's proprietary software is such a non-issue to you, do enlighten me on how I can utilise their service. I use Debian. If they offered plain MP3s for download I can clearly see how I could use it.
So stop shouting yourself into an apoplexy and actually read posts before responding to them.
*Before you claim that I said that only $0.000000001 is a reasonable price for a song.... I think iTunes' $1 is perfectly reasonable.
Thats an interesting point. Guess its a sign of the times that corporations feel they must be anal and treat their customers like criminals in order to make money. Guess more people need to discover #6 on googles list of "top 10 things we've found to be true"--- Its possible to make money without doing evil.
I'd gladly have bought several songs from them if it was DRM-free. I want the freedom to use it on whatever device I want, with whatever software I choose.
I propose creating a +1 whore moderation that allows posts like copying out articles to come to the front (hey they are useful) without giving the whores easy karma. In the mean while we can mod all such articles +1 funny.
Sure, but so is everything else. I think when you're talking about Small Form Factor, knowing the form factor is important enough to be on the main page!
How hard is it to hide an RFID detector in a doorframe? Or a newspaper stand on a street corner or under the sidewalk for that matter. To me the key concerns are that
a) Unlike UPC codes, RFID tags will identify a specific instance of an item. Its not just a copy of "Applied Cryptography" but the specific copy of Applied Cryptography that I bought.
b) RFID tags will probably be built into the manufacturing process and hard or impossible to remove or disable.
Imagine the invasive marketting that will be possible! Imagine the excesses that overzealous law enforcement will be capable of.
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Oh thanks for putting that image in my head. Now I need to go change my tshirt and get a new keyboard.
From the article:
the envelope rests in a freezer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, awaiting a battery of tests.
Yes, after lying in a library book for 115 years I can see why is important that it be frozen now.
Even when the product is as good as AbiWord, open source is not a viable business model.
Abiword was OK, it was not great. They went to a 1.0 release with functionality as basic as tables missing. That was something even Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS from eons ago had. It did at best a mediocre job of importing most word documents. Given that there are tons of other wordprocessors out there, including Staroffice I can't imagine why anyone would think Abiword was a viable product?
I can't imagine any business model where you enter a market heavily crowded with mostly superior products and succeed.
They would still need foam.... you only want the skin temperature to be raised. If there were no insulation you would basically be boiling the liquid oxygen inside the tank.... obviously a Bad Idea.
The mechanism for recalculation of timeslices in previous Linux kernel's was very simple. When every process had its timeslice completely depleted (they were all 0) the kernel would simply go through every process and recalculate its timeslice and start execution again at the highest priority runnable process. While this is the most obvious solution it is also very inefficient, executing in O(n) time.
Ok, its easy to see why this is O(n).
This still look like O(1) (i>amortized to me... or amy I missing something?
Assuming it does clear congestion and delays, 6 miles at 60mph = 6 minutes. I think you can survive six minutes without using your cellphone. I presume there will be emergency phones periodically inside the tunnel.
# Agricultural Surplus,
In the desert? Good luck.
Yeah, well most of us actually WORK when we are being paid $x/hr, and download stuff at home when we're busy making $0/hr
Guess its official now. This guy definitely suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder.
Apology accepted. Glad to see you're not just one of those anti-anti-RIAA trolls.
I too am often amused by the lame excuses people make to keep downloading MP3s while convincing themselves that they're doing nothing wrong. They claim that music produced by RIAA labels is crappy and worthless, yet somehow they want to fill gigs of hard drive space downloading as much of this "crap" as they can.
Not too busy to post on slashdot though, I see ;)
Guess some things ARE worth spending time on.
Many of us have gotten selfish in the Internet age of "I want it now, I get it now" media rips and P2P downloads. I'm guessing the only software service the OP would tolerate would involve no DRM, uncompressed .WAV downloads, and no songs from any RIAA label.
.WAVs?
Stop putting words in my mouth. Just where did I say anything about non-RIAA lables or
Number of times "RIAA" appears in my post: 0
Number of times "RIAA" appears in my post: 8
I don't have anything fundamentally against the RIAA. If they were to start offering PLAIN mp3s, i.e. no DRM for a reasonable price* that would end my beef with them. Who said anything about me violating copyrights? What makes you think I have MP3s of music I didn't purchase?
Oh Apple's proprietary software is such a non-issue to you, do enlighten me on how I can utilise their service. I use Debian. If they offered plain MP3s for download I can clearly see how I could use it.
So stop shouting yourself into an apoplexy and actually read posts before responding to them.
*Before you claim that I said that only $0.000000001 is a reasonable price for a song.... I think iTunes' $1 is perfectly reasonable.
Thats an interesting point. Guess its a sign of the times that corporations feel they must be anal and treat their customers like criminals in order to make money. Guess more people need to discover #6 on googles list of "top 10 things we've found to be true"--- Its possible to make money without doing evil.
Do you have to check with apple ever few months to ensure that you can still use your CDs?
I'd gladly have bought several songs from them if it was DRM-free. I want the freedom to use it on whatever device I want, with whatever software I choose.
Makes for a pretty good dog-n-pony show, and proves useful too!
Don't forget the chance to come up with NOC NOC jokes
I propose creating a +1 whore moderation that allows posts like copying out articles to come to the front (hey they are useful) without giving the whores easy karma. In the mean while we can mod all such articles +1 funny.
He already has made LOTS of posts at +2, so obviously DOES have excellent karma already. Nice try, but sorry.
Anyone have any solid ideas why they'd choose a 40km route over a ~13km one?
Then they would be only the third longest tunnel. Whats the fun in that?
Sure, but so is everything else. I think when you're talking about Small Form Factor, knowing the form factor is important enough to be on the main page!
Many airports near urban areas have rules regarding times when flights are allowed to takeoff or land. Search Google for "airport curfew"
Several people have suggested that microwaving RFID tags can cause them to burst into flames
pulling in $4,000 in a good week, $2,000 in a slow week.
Hell yeah. Meager living. I'll bet she's having trouble putting food on the table.
"It's easy to rip people off you have never even seen," Fox says.
You mean just like its easy to steal bandwidth and send annoying or inapporopriate material to people you've never met, bitch?
How hard is it to hide an RFID detector in a doorframe? Or a newspaper stand on a street corner or under the sidewalk for that matter. To me the key concerns are that
a) Unlike UPC codes, RFID tags will identify a specific instance of an item. Its not just a copy of "Applied Cryptography" but the specific copy of Applied Cryptography that I bought.
b) RFID tags will probably be built into the manufacturing process and hard or impossible to remove or disable.
Imagine the invasive marketting that will be possible! Imagine the excesses that overzealous law enforcement will be capable of.