Not to mention that you can include the new tab widget in the Firefox toolbar. I have mine in the top left corner of my bookmark ber, just above where it's located in Mozilla. Just earlier today I posted in the oldest file thread that I have a 10 year old inbox file that has been the default location for my mail for all of that time. Communicator/Mozilla has made that possible, to say I am disapointed to hear this news would be a vast understatement.
Let me give you a big hint, the best vacation I ever took was one with ZERO tech involved. I went to a ranch where my cellphone didn't work, I stayed in a cabin where the only electricity was for the wall clock and a single bulb, and there was no phone in my cabin. It was the best week of my life. I rose when I wanted, communed with nature, and left being the most relaxed I have been since childhood. Getting away from technology for a while was truely refreshing. Then again the same argument for integration would have worked VERY well when I was traveling around the country for IBM, having just one device instead of a bag full would have been quite nice =)
Actually with a multisession disk you CAN get back the previous version of the file as all it takes is using the previous version of the TOC. The fact that the TOC is rewritten every time you close a session makes multisession inefficient, that's why packet writing ala UDF was invented, but for versioning it's GREAT =) Btw, you wouldn't have to use RW disks with this kind of a distro, in fact the linked article specifically mentions the author discouraging their use.
EVERY single adapter in the review was a true hardware RAID array controller. They all have at least four ports and can all do RAID5. Please read the fine article before spouting off about unrelated cheap schleck.
Yes, because there were SO many existing ways to keep a glider from going over MACH before Rutan built his craft. NOT. Rutan researched and designed a novel way to accomplish his goal and did so with a budget of only $20 million to research, design, test, and launch his craft three times. I'd say that's pretty damn good use of money and he even managed to do some R&D along the way =)
They were thinking that the post Regan era slashing to their budget means that it's awfully hard to complete all of their mandates: scientific satelites, unmanned missions, manned mission using current (expensive to maintain) equipment, and designing and testing next generation equipment. Today the US uses the smallest percentage of their wealth for exploration of any large world power in history, heck even at the height of our spending on the Apollo program we barely matched what the Spanish did with Columbus. I think that NASA needs to do some overhauling to their PR machine if they aren't able to convince the public that they are worth more money then is currently being spent on them.
Hehe, so he's saying that Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to WinNuke? Wow, MS patched that for Windows 95 pretty quickly, only took them a month or two. Before the patch came out we had all sorts of fun with people. One kid in our dorm was so hated that multiple people had scripts running on regular intervals to nuke his PC. Needless to say he had to go to residence services to get a new IP address which he failed to share =)
Uh, no Windows XP Embedded is EXACTLY the same code base as Windows XP. It's basically a componentized version of Windows PE, much along the lines of what the community did with Bart's PE. Now if they were using Windows CE.net THEN it would be a different code base, but many DCOM components for CE.net share source code with their windows counterparts so running on x86 hardware means that many of the same exploits may exist. Now if Wells Fargo knows what they are doing there won't be any unnecessary services installed, but the way the component selection engine for XP Embedded works means that things like the IE engine get dragged into almost any usefull selection, meaning that all sorts of vulnarabilies exist.
Yes, they may. But if the journalist is ordered to produce their source and they refuse then they can be jailed on contempt of court charges until the court is satisfied that their conviction is absolute or some reasonableness threshold is reached. Freedom comes at a cost!
You misplaced a zero, 100amp service is 12KW not 120KW. At the prices the OP quoted it would be $5,000 for 100amps max worth of panels, of course you still need an inverter and if you want power at night either batteries or some way to hook to both the grid and the panels, but those might raise the cost of the system by around $1k.
I use voice dial all the time. It's much better if I can keep my eyes on the traffic ahead if I need to use my cellphone while driving (about twice a month). That and my phone has slow arse menus and I have a ton of numbers stored so for frequently dialed numbers it's faster to use voicedial then find someone in say the S's.
Nah, facial recongition is in the high 90's (97-99) percent accurate. The problem is that for things where it's actually needed (picking a face out of a crowd in realtime) the accuracy plummets. In the Massport expirement using software that was NOT designed to perform in the roll it was used in they achieved a 62% positive ID rate (not sure what the false positive rate was as it wasn't released AFAIK) under suboptimal conditions (one to many captures and differing angles and lighting). If you are only capturing an image of a single subject from a limited number of possible angles it should be possible to obtain a high rate of recognition, especially if you are willing to allow for a fairly high false positive rate. Of course even then I have to ask what the utility is over a PIN, if keeping the numbers in your phone secure is really that important then you probably shouldn't be storing them at all =)
If you're smart and somewhat personable you'll get a lot more than just icecream free today. Go to a couple bars. Buy a drink or two. Talk to the bartender, and after a while mention it's your 21st. Chances are you will get a free drink or two at each place =)
Hmm, if only I didn't live in an area with the least sunlight in all of the US. I'm looking at a natural gas backup generator. A whole house unit which can supply 100amp service costs around $4,100 installed with an automatic transfer switch. This is a unit that is uneconomical to run as a primary power source. At those costs you could outfit a house with enough cells to produce the same amount of power for around $5,000 and derive almost all of your power from them! Of course you might still want to have a backup generator since conditions which lead to blackouts often mean the sun isn't shining either (at least around here).
So, setup a dial on demand modem connection and set it to a lower priority on your monitoring box. Or if you have a truely large network get dual independant links from different services and fail between them with clustered gateway boxes. Even with the latter setup I would still have the dial-on-demand backup, but I'm paranoid like that =)
Not sure about Chicago but I can tell you that Cleveland has a central steam generating facility that provides heat to most of the downtown area. Hell, you aren't allowed by fire code to use inductive electric heaters. The steam distribution system can be seen by driving around on a cold damp day, quite a few manhole covers will be billowing steam.
Any study which shows that solar cells take more energy to produce than they make in their lifetime must have been written in the 1960's because solar cells have been net efficient for a LONG time. The problem has been that they weren't COST efficient. With rising fuel prices and increased efficiency we have known for some time that the balance would tip in favor of solar. The problem is that solar has to be significantly CHEAPER than the utilities on a per unit basis because you have to make back both the cost of electricity AND the oportunity cost on capital. Btw central NJ is barely cold in the dead of winter, try Northern Ohio, Minnesota, or parts of Canada for cold. I'm not saying passive solar heating is bad, it's very good, but it won't supply enough BTU's for heating even a moderate sized home in colder climates.
That's why the atrocious upload most US connections are saddled with is so nausiating. I have 300Kbps upload and I think that's the bare minimum for something to be called broadband. This gives 30ms latency for large packets, or an extra 15ms average for VoIP traffic, generally acceptable. It also allows enough response traffic to keep the pipe full at 3Mbps down even with chattier protocols. I would love to have 768+Kbps but my cable ISP doesn't offer it even on the "delux" level package which costs twice as much per month.
Paying fines isn't the issue. The issue is that once your are found to be violating someone elses patent they can ask for, and recieve, injunctive relief up to and including a total ban on your product. It's not likely to happen as that would cost tons of money and a long time, but Sony may use it as leverage in the marketplace to convince people that HD-DVD is not the way to go. Pure FUD but potentially effective FUD nonetheless. Besides PC users should be happy since Blue-Ray gives us more real storage capacity.
No, the insurance institutes stated (and I believe real) goal was to help auto manufacturers improve car designs so that there would be less injuries and deaths. Car crashes cost a LOT of money, and not a whole lot of it is in the cost of replacing the automobile. People cost a lot more than some metal to fix and ongoing problems have to be treated, a car can be scrapped. Sure they need data, but most of that can be had from actuarial reports of real world accidents, a standardized test with published results is more likely to lead to better designs.
Well, according to the EULA Microsoft is under no obligation to provide updates to ANY user:
8. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE/SERVICES. This EULA applies to updates, supplements, add-on components,
or Internet-based services components, of the Software that Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you
after the date you obtain your initial copy of the Software, unless they are accompanied by separate terms. Microsoft
reserves the right to discontinue Internet-based services provided to you or made available to you through the use of the
Software.
The insurance institute for highway safety's head on crash test is a 40% offset crash into a deformable barrier, much more realistic than the governments hit a brick wall test. Their side impact test is a weighted sled moving at a specific speed into the side of the vehicle. These both more accuratly model real impact conditions, and why shouldn't they, the insurance industry's goal was to reduce fatalaties and severe injury (costs). Once again capatalism works better than government mandate =)
They don't have to be done with flash, in fact I have flashblock installed in Firefox and still get these ads. From what I understand they can use CSS elements to make the fram and use traditional animated images to hold the content. Turning off javascript, ideally on a per site basis, seems to be the answer. Oh yeah and if you are using a Gecko based browser go to about:config and change image.animation_mode to once, it makes animated banners MUCH less annoying.
Five star crash test rating mean that there is a less than N percentage chance of a serious injury in an accident. This is a standardized goverment rating. In addition I check out the raw data from the NIHS crash test and look at the data and ranking from the insurance institute for highway safety. Sure Honda having plants in North America (specifically the US) is partially marketing, but the people with good paying jobs and the community with a nice tax base don't care, and since it's a positive behaviour I don't mind encouraging it. As far as the minimum quality thing, what I meant is that I won't buy cheap bleck just because it is cheap, it has to be servicable (or tasty and not loaded with fillers in the case of food) and not likely to fall apart in a couple months, which can apply just as much to the expensive crap from places like Abercrombe as the generic stuff from the no name clothes outlet.
No, it's EVERYONE's risk. Because if fraud increases they just jack up the percentage they charge merchants and all goods which are typically bought through credit cards (most consumer goods) get some stealth inflation. When 90+% of retail transactions go though four networks (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AMEX) those networks have very little incentive to increase security and every incentive to increase their share of the transaction pie to 99+%.
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Not to mention that you can include the new tab widget in the Firefox toolbar. I have mine in the top left corner of my bookmark ber, just above where it's located in Mozilla. Just earlier today I posted in the oldest file thread that I have a 10 year old inbox file that has been the default location for my mail for all of that time. Communicator/Mozilla has made that possible, to say I am disapointed to hear this news would be a vast understatement.
Let me give you a big hint, the best vacation I ever took was one with ZERO tech involved. I went to a ranch where my cellphone didn't work, I stayed in a cabin where the only electricity was for the wall clock and a single bulb, and there was no phone in my cabin. It was the best week of my life. I rose when I wanted, communed with nature, and left being the most relaxed I have been since childhood. Getting away from technology for a while was truely refreshing. Then again the same argument for integration would have worked VERY well when I was traveling around the country for IBM, having just one device instead of a bag full would have been quite nice =)
Actually with a multisession disk you CAN get back the previous version of the file as all it takes is using the previous version of the TOC. The fact that the TOC is rewritten every time you close a session makes multisession inefficient, that's why packet writing ala UDF was invented, but for versioning it's GREAT =) Btw, you wouldn't have to use RW disks with this kind of a distro, in fact the linked article specifically mentions the author discouraging their use.
EVERY single adapter in the review was a true hardware RAID array controller. They all have at least four ports and can all do RAID5. Please read the fine article before spouting off about unrelated cheap schleck.
Yes, because there were SO many existing ways to keep a glider from going over MACH before Rutan built his craft. NOT. Rutan researched and designed a novel way to accomplish his goal and did so with a budget of only $20 million to research, design, test, and launch his craft three times. I'd say that's pretty damn good use of money and he even managed to do some R&D along the way =)
They were thinking that the post Regan era slashing to their budget means that it's awfully hard to complete all of their mandates: scientific satelites, unmanned missions, manned mission using current (expensive to maintain) equipment, and designing and testing next generation equipment. Today the US uses the smallest percentage of their wealth for exploration of any large world power in history, heck even at the height of our spending on the Apollo program we barely matched what the Spanish did with Columbus. I think that NASA needs to do some overhauling to their PR machine if they aren't able to convince the public that they are worth more money then is currently being spent on them.
Hehe, so he's saying that Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to WinNuke? Wow, MS patched that for Windows 95 pretty quickly, only took them a month or two. Before the patch came out we had all sorts of fun with people. One kid in our dorm was so hated that multiple people had scripts running on regular intervals to nuke his PC. Needless to say he had to go to residence services to get a new IP address which he failed to share =)
Uh, no Windows XP Embedded is EXACTLY the same code base as Windows XP. It's basically a componentized version of Windows PE, much along the lines of what the community did with Bart's PE. Now if they were using Windows CE.net THEN it would be a different code base, but many DCOM components for CE.net share source code with their windows counterparts so running on x86 hardware means that many of the same exploits may exist. Now if Wells Fargo knows what they are doing there won't be any unnecessary services installed, but the way the component selection engine for XP Embedded works means that things like the IE engine get dragged into almost any usefull selection, meaning that all sorts of vulnarabilies exist.
Yes, they may. But if the journalist is ordered to produce their source and they refuse then they can be jailed on contempt of court charges until the court is satisfied that their conviction is absolute or some reasonableness threshold is reached. Freedom comes at a cost!
You misplaced a zero, 100amp service is 12KW not 120KW. At the prices the OP quoted it would be $5,000 for 100amps max worth of panels, of course you still need an inverter and if you want power at night either batteries or some way to hook to both the grid and the panels, but those might raise the cost of the system by around $1k.
I use voice dial all the time. It's much better if I can keep my eyes on the traffic ahead if I need to use my cellphone while driving (about twice a month). That and my phone has slow arse menus and I have a ton of numbers stored so for frequently dialed numbers it's faster to use voicedial then find someone in say the S's.
Nah, facial recongition is in the high 90's (97-99) percent accurate. The problem is that for things where it's actually needed (picking a face out of a crowd in realtime) the accuracy plummets. In the Massport expirement using software that was NOT designed to perform in the roll it was used in they achieved a 62% positive ID rate (not sure what the false positive rate was as it wasn't released AFAIK) under suboptimal conditions (one to many captures and differing angles and lighting). If you are only capturing an image of a single subject from a limited number of possible angles it should be possible to obtain a high rate of recognition, especially if you are willing to allow for a fairly high false positive rate. Of course even then I have to ask what the utility is over a PIN, if keeping the numbers in your phone secure is really that important then you probably shouldn't be storing them at all =)
If you're smart and somewhat personable you'll get a lot more than just icecream free today. Go to a couple bars. Buy a drink or two. Talk to the bartender, and after a while mention it's your 21st. Chances are you will get a free drink or two at each place =)
Hmm, if only I didn't live in an area with the least sunlight in all of the US. I'm looking at a natural gas backup generator. A whole house unit which can supply 100amp service costs around $4,100 installed with an automatic transfer switch. This is a unit that is uneconomical to run as a primary power source. At those costs you could outfit a house with enough cells to produce the same amount of power for around $5,000 and derive almost all of your power from them! Of course you might still want to have a backup generator since conditions which lead to blackouts often mean the sun isn't shining either (at least around here).
So, setup a dial on demand modem connection and set it to a lower priority on your monitoring box. Or if you have a truely large network get dual independant links from different services and fail between them with clustered gateway boxes. Even with the latter setup I would still have the dial-on-demand backup, but I'm paranoid like that =)
Not sure about Chicago but I can tell you that Cleveland has a central steam generating facility that provides heat to most of the downtown area. Hell, you aren't allowed by fire code to use inductive electric heaters. The steam distribution system can be seen by driving around on a cold damp day, quite a few manhole covers will be billowing steam.
Any study which shows that solar cells take more energy to produce than they make in their lifetime must have been written in the 1960's because solar cells have been net efficient for a LONG time. The problem has been that they weren't COST efficient. With rising fuel prices and increased efficiency we have known for some time that the balance would tip in favor of solar. The problem is that solar has to be significantly CHEAPER than the utilities on a per unit basis because you have to make back both the cost of electricity AND the oportunity cost on capital. Btw central NJ is barely cold in the dead of winter, try Northern Ohio, Minnesota, or parts of Canada for cold. I'm not saying passive solar heating is bad, it's very good, but it won't supply enough BTU's for heating even a moderate sized home in colder climates.
That's why the atrocious upload most US connections are saddled with is so nausiating. I have 300Kbps upload and I think that's the bare minimum for something to be called broadband. This gives 30ms latency for large packets, or an extra 15ms average for VoIP traffic, generally acceptable. It also allows enough response traffic to keep the pipe full at 3Mbps down even with chattier protocols. I would love to have 768+Kbps but my cable ISP doesn't offer it even on the "delux" level package which costs twice as much per month.
Paying fines isn't the issue. The issue is that once your are found to be violating someone elses patent they can ask for, and recieve, injunctive relief up to and including a total ban on your product. It's not likely to happen as that would cost tons of money and a long time, but Sony may use it as leverage in the marketplace to convince people that HD-DVD is not the way to go. Pure FUD but potentially effective FUD nonetheless. Besides PC users should be happy since Blue-Ray gives us more real storage capacity.
No, the insurance institutes stated (and I believe real) goal was to help auto manufacturers improve car designs so that there would be less injuries and deaths. Car crashes cost a LOT of money, and not a whole lot of it is in the cost of replacing the automobile. People cost a lot more than some metal to fix and ongoing problems have to be treated, a car can be scrapped. Sure they need data, but most of that can be had from actuarial reports of real world accidents, a standardized test with published results is more likely to lead to better designs.
Well, according to the EULA Microsoft is under no obligation to provide updates to ANY user:
8. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE/SERVICES. This EULA applies to updates, supplements, add-on components, or Internet-based services components, of the Software that Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you after the date you obtain your initial copy of the Software, unless they are accompanied by separate terms. Microsoft reserves the right to discontinue Internet-based services provided to you or made available to you through the use of the Software.
The insurance institute for highway safety's head on crash test is a 40% offset crash into a deformable barrier, much more realistic than the governments hit a brick wall test. Their side impact test is a weighted sled moving at a specific speed into the side of the vehicle. These both more accuratly model real impact conditions, and why shouldn't they, the insurance industry's goal was to reduce fatalaties and severe injury (costs). Once again capatalism works better than government mandate =)
They don't have to be done with flash, in fact I have flashblock installed in Firefox and still get these ads. From what I understand they can use CSS elements to make the fram and use traditional animated images to hold the content. Turning off javascript, ideally on a per site basis, seems to be the answer. Oh yeah and if you are using a Gecko based browser go to about:config and change image.animation_mode to once, it makes animated banners MUCH less annoying.
Five star crash test rating mean that there is a less than N percentage chance of a serious injury in an accident. This is a standardized goverment rating. In addition I check out the raw data from the NIHS crash test and look at the data and ranking from the insurance institute for highway safety. Sure Honda having plants in North America (specifically the US) is partially marketing, but the people with good paying jobs and the community with a nice tax base don't care, and since it's a positive behaviour I don't mind encouraging it. As far as the minimum quality thing, what I meant is that I won't buy cheap bleck just because it is cheap, it has to be servicable (or tasty and not loaded with fillers in the case of food) and not likely to fall apart in a couple months, which can apply just as much to the expensive crap from places like Abercrombe as the generic stuff from the no name clothes outlet.
No, it's EVERYONE's risk. Because if fraud increases they just jack up the percentage they charge merchants and all goods which are typically bought through credit cards (most consumer goods) get some stealth inflation. When 90+% of retail transactions go though four networks (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AMEX) those networks have very little incentive to increase security and every incentive to increase their share of the transaction pie to 99+%.