Why should I have to fulfill some idiot proof barrier to satisfy some low level beurocrat? Unless the information is sensitive in nature then it should be free by default. For instance while house shopping I used several counties GIS databases to check out various homes that were advertised. If the home was in a flood plain I automatically scratched it off my list. This searching took me a matter of minutes per home, if I had to submit a request for the info including some "proof" that I wasn't doing anything nefarious to each communities engineering office it would have literally taken hours and hours of my time. The spirit of the FOIA is that all government records which are not sensitive are open by default, this is very good public policy. Another good example is public servant salaries, the Ohio society of journalists did a survey earlier this year where they asked for the salary of the superintendant of schools for every community in the state, less than 50% of requests were fullfilled in a timely manner and more than 20% were illegally denied. What if you were a researcher trying to pull various factors like executive salery together to figure out how to improve school performance, why should there be barriers to you obtaining that information?
Even if it were in Greenwich (it's not) it would be moot. The airspace over the base isn't restricted and there is no no-satelite coverage zone over that area. So you can get near realtime info from commercial satelites. Historic GIS data (probably from arial photos several years old at the newest) would be nearly useless since everything non-fixed would have changed and fixed assets locations could be asertained from numerous other sources including terraserve.
At 45C it's going to be more than a bit uncomfortable to be on your skin so I doubt either of those will be likely applications. If it turns opaque when it goes solid (assuming it's mostly transparant when liquid) then it might have possible use as a thermally sensitive solar regulator.
Depends on the band. I went to a Primus concert where people in the crowd had some pretty amazing equipment. One guy had an ~8' high boom with dual condenser mic's at the top. He was recording a true stereo mix to both a laptop and DAT desk (so that he could be sure one device going down didn't leave him without a recording). He emailed me a link to the files a couple days later and they sounding freaking incredible. I know most bands wouldn't let you take that kind of stuff into the concert but it's possible to do with bands with a liberal live recording policy. Btw there are bands like Blues Travelers where their live performance bears almost no resembelance to their recorded material, sure they cover their hits but in a very different way then the recorded version. Then add all the covers and fun stuff they do and the live performance is very different from the albums and I would say much better.
It's not like the Beeb doesn't have a bias, it most certainly does. It's just that it's bias doesn't happen to include cowtowing to the political interests in the US, just some of them in the UK. One of the most enlightening classes I ever took was an Advanced Placement (honors) US History class in high school. We used three different college textbooks as the reading material for the year, on our final a major portion of it was an essay comparing and contrasting the biases of the different authors and how those biases colored the way that they reported different aspects of US history.
Look up the cost of the 4 way Opteron processors, then check the cost of the Itanium 2 with the lower cache amount. Opteron 848 is ~$1200, the Itanium 2 1.4Ghz 1.5MB cache is about ~$1400. The difference is price between those two units is only about 15%, not very much at all. Performance wise those two chips are pretty close on SpecfpBase_2000 and SpecintBase_2000. Sure there are cheaper x86-64 chips but not ones that compete well with the Itanium 2. This announcement has to do with the "workstation" market which is a market which has essentially evaporated, these days there is little distinction between a well equiped desktop pc with a workstation class card and a workstation so there are not the huge margins there used to be. Few companies can justify spending $5-$10K per seat for glorified PC's when they can put that money into PC's and a couple clustered servers to do the computational heavy lifting.
Because you couldn't make a compiler for IE-64 without Intel's permission because everything was copyrighted and patented, you also couldn't make a compatible chip for the same reason. On the other hand AMD published all of their spec's for x86-64 and allowed anyone who wanted to produce a compatible chip. Don't kid yourself Intel would have loved to have had everyone move over to IA-64 based systems so that they could have been done with the AMD/Cyrix/Transmetta/etc competition forever. I'm sure if IA-64 would have taken off at all they would have made the equivilant of a Celeron with reduced cache siza and functional units.
I've played a D&D top down game on my QVGA phone, pretty fun when sitting on the pot. Better battery would be nice since my phone only lasts a couple days if I do too much Java or other advanced stuff on it, better camera's are possible but only so far, how good of an image do you think you will get with a small fixed lense? Finally there are already several phones out there with MMC slots for storage.
With current hardware that display would only need a dual headed card with two dual-link DVI interfaces. I believe the G5 has one as an option to support the big apple Cinema display =)
Uh, the vast majority of highly compensated CEO's did not start their company. In fact I would bet that most CEO's who are the origional founders are near the bottom of the compensation scale (with exceptions like Gates and Ellison possibly bringing things back to average). Fact is CEO's are more richly compensated right now then they have been at any time in history (measured in either inflation adjusted dollars or multiples of the average workers salery). This in a time where the average business is not exactly growing like gangbusters.
The potential problem is an AGP all in one card. Some (most) AGP implementations have horrific bandwidth from the card to the host so getting a reliable moderate speed connection over AGP might be a problem. Of course even 32bit-33MHz PCI is orders of magnitude faster than compressed HDTV as are modern HDD's.
1)Old Cisco routers don't have fast path hardware for IPv6, all current enterprise class hardware does.
2)Bullshit, how many people are there on earth again? How sparse is the IPv4 address space again? Thought so. Btw NAT stands for Network Address Translation.
3)Actually due to much more intelligent route agregation IPv6 route tables are SMALLER.
4)Average headers are roughly the same size, 20 bytes is the minimum but average is considerably larger. Also real world MTU's are bigger than 536 bytes except on ATM transported networks so the impact is even smaller.
How about give the info to the PUC which has the ability to levy fines and pull licenses. If they aren't providing emergency power to their CO then they are endangering lives, the regulations are there for a reason.
Actually I DON'T want the great unwashed masses putting a bunch more unsecured unpatched devices unprotected onto the internet. I LIKE NAT enabled routers, and broadband ISP's are starting to agree with me. They have gone from saying that they would charge extra and not support NAT'ing routers to suggesting them to their userbase and offering config support. The fact is only those services which actually need to be exposed should be, unfortunatly the vast majority of devices do not default to secure configurations, instead trading convenience for security.
Well I wouldn't say we get raped, for $39/month I get 1,000 anytime national minutes, unlimited mobile to mobile with anyone on my providers network, and unlimited nights and weekends. Even with a 2.5 hour support call I only used about 3/4 of my anytime minutes last month. I have email, SMS, web browser with full HTML support, MIDP JAVA, Voice Dial, etc. There are slightly better phones available right now (3D support,MIDP 2.0, and Blue Tooth) but this one was free. Oh yeah and if you have a GSM provider just go online an order whatever phone you want since you can just insert your SIM and have it work as long as it supports your providers band =)
Well depending on your app you can achieve fairly good transitions by giving a higher value to the interface on the cellular card and a lower value to the WiFi card. This way any new communication will use the lower cost connection if it is available but you won't lose a connection mid stream.
Actually it sounds like a common event caused both outages as POTS carriers are REQUIRED to have backup power for their equipment to supply phone service even if the power goes out. My guess is a pole or two were brought down by something and it took out power and phone service at the same time.
nope, more like mercedes NEAR classic NEAR model. If you did a google search on the three terms you might find tons of irrelevant links where the three words are used on the same page but not to describe a single object and searching for them as a phrase will exclude too many relevant links.
Uh, poker is played against other players not the dealer. The house makes money off of velocity and volume. That is, the number of hands played in a given period of time and the size of the average pot. Bots probably negativly effect velocity by reducing the number of players willing to play and likely have no effect on average pot size. Of course if the players using bots are playing sufficiently high numbers of hands with large enough pots the casinos won't necessarily lose money, but that is doubtfull.
Yeah the education bait, that was a good one. The gambling industry used it to get otherwise conservative voters to aprove a gambling measure in their state. In reality gambling creates zero additional wealth so no extra dollars are going to education. In Ohio for example several years after the state lotto was aproved over the objections of the governor the state legislature passed a measure which automatically deducted an amount from the general funds portion of the education budget equal to the revenue provided by the lottery! So the only winners that I can see are the gas stations that sell additional items to addicts coming to get their fix and some state level beurocrats who got jobs administering the service, aka a drain on public well being. Not only that but it encourages a generally destructive lifestyle. I personally don't care what consenting adults do with their money but I don't think that the government should be advertising and encouriging something that nearly every study has shown is harmefull.
Google still needs the NEAR keyword, or something of similar functionality. This little gem allows you to search for a set of common words that are not necessarily a phrase but where the returned resultset should prioritize those entries where the words occour in close proximity to each other. It's the one feature I REALLY wish Google had.
One little trick I use which is often helpfull for eliminating the online retailers that have google bombed is to use -shipping at the end of my search. This will generally eliminate sites wishing to sell me the product and leave legit sites with info about the product alone.
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Why should I have to fulfill some idiot proof barrier to satisfy some low level beurocrat? Unless the information is sensitive in nature then it should be free by default. For instance while house shopping I used several counties GIS databases to check out various homes that were advertised. If the home was in a flood plain I automatically scratched it off my list. This searching took me a matter of minutes per home, if I had to submit a request for the info including some "proof" that I wasn't doing anything nefarious to each communities engineering office it would have literally taken hours and hours of my time. The spirit of the FOIA is that all government records which are not sensitive are open by default, this is very good public policy. Another good example is public servant salaries, the Ohio society of journalists did a survey earlier this year where they asked for the salary of the superintendant of schools for every community in the state, less than 50% of requests were fullfilled in a timely manner and more than 20% were illegally denied. What if you were a researcher trying to pull various factors like executive salery together to figure out how to improve school performance, why should there be barriers to you obtaining that information?
Even if it were in Greenwich (it's not) it would be moot. The airspace over the base isn't restricted and there is no no-satelite coverage zone over that area. So you can get near realtime info from commercial satelites. Historic GIS data (probably from arial photos several years old at the newest) would be nearly useless since everything non-fixed would have changed and fixed assets locations could be asertained from numerous other sources including terraserve.
At 45C it's going to be more than a bit uncomfortable to be on your skin so I doubt either of those will be likely applications. If it turns opaque when it goes solid (assuming it's mostly transparant when liquid) then it might have possible use as a thermally sensitive solar regulator.
Failed freshmen chem did we?
Depends on the band. I went to a Primus concert where people in the crowd had some pretty amazing equipment. One guy had an ~8' high boom with dual condenser mic's at the top. He was recording a true stereo mix to both a laptop and DAT desk (so that he could be sure one device going down didn't leave him without a recording). He emailed me a link to the files a couple days later and they sounding freaking incredible. I know most bands wouldn't let you take that kind of stuff into the concert but it's possible to do with bands with a liberal live recording policy. Btw there are bands like Blues Travelers where their live performance bears almost no resembelance to their recorded material, sure they cover their hits but in a very different way then the recorded version. Then add all the covers and fun stuff they do and the live performance is very different from the albums and I would say much better.
It's not like the Beeb doesn't have a bias, it most certainly does. It's just that it's bias doesn't happen to include cowtowing to the political interests in the US, just some of them in the UK. One of the most enlightening classes I ever took was an Advanced Placement (honors) US History class in high school. We used three different college textbooks as the reading material for the year, on our final a major portion of it was an essay comparing and contrasting the biases of the different authors and how those biases colored the way that they reported different aspects of US history.
Look up the cost of the 4 way Opteron processors, then check the cost of the Itanium 2 with the lower cache amount. Opteron 848 is ~$1200, the Itanium 2 1.4Ghz 1.5MB cache is about ~$1400. The difference is price between those two units is only about 15%, not very much at all. Performance wise those two chips are pretty close on SpecfpBase_2000 and SpecintBase_2000. Sure there are cheaper x86-64 chips but not ones that compete well with the Itanium 2. This announcement has to do with the "workstation" market which is a market which has essentially evaporated, these days there is little distinction between a well equiped desktop pc with a workstation class card and a workstation so there are not the huge margins there used to be. Few companies can justify spending $5-$10K per seat for glorified PC's when they can put that money into PC's and a couple clustered servers to do the computational heavy lifting.
Because you couldn't make a compiler for IE-64 without Intel's permission because everything was copyrighted and patented, you also couldn't make a compatible chip for the same reason. On the other hand AMD published all of their spec's for x86-64 and allowed anyone who wanted to produce a compatible chip. Don't kid yourself Intel would have loved to have had everyone move over to IA-64 based systems so that they could have been done with the AMD/Cyrix/Transmetta/etc competition forever. I'm sure if IA-64 would have taken off at all they would have made the equivilant of a Celeron with reduced cache siza and functional units.
I've played a D&D top down game on my QVGA phone, pretty fun when sitting on the pot. Better battery would be nice since my phone only lasts a couple days if I do too much Java or other advanced stuff on it, better camera's are possible but only so far, how good of an image do you think you will get with a small fixed lense? Finally there are already several phones out there with MMC slots for storage.
With current hardware that display would only need a dual headed card with two dual-link DVI interfaces. I believe the G5 has one as an option to support the big apple Cinema display =)
Uh, the vast majority of highly compensated CEO's did not start their company. In fact I would bet that most CEO's who are the origional founders are near the bottom of the compensation scale (with exceptions like Gates and Ellison possibly bringing things back to average). Fact is CEO's are more richly compensated right now then they have been at any time in history (measured in either inflation adjusted dollars or multiples of the average workers salery). This in a time where the average business is not exactly growing like gangbusters.
The potential problem is an AGP all in one card. Some (most) AGP implementations have horrific bandwidth from the card to the host so getting a reliable moderate speed connection over AGP might be a problem. Of course even 32bit-33MHz PCI is orders of magnitude faster than compressed HDTV as are modern HDD's.
1)Old Cisco routers don't have fast path hardware for IPv6, all current enterprise class hardware does.
2)Bullshit, how many people are there on earth again? How sparse is the IPv4 address space again? Thought so. Btw NAT stands for Network Address Translation.
3)Actually due to much more intelligent route agregation IPv6 route tables are SMALLER.
4)Average headers are roughly the same size, 20 bytes is the minimum but average is considerably larger. Also real world MTU's are bigger than 536 bytes except on ATM transported networks so the impact is even smaller.
How about give the info to the PUC which has the ability to levy fines and pull licenses. If they aren't providing emergency power to their CO then they are endangering lives, the regulations are there for a reason.
NAT stops worms dead. If more people had NAT'ing routers then worm's would be a dead end solution.
Actually I DON'T want the great unwashed masses putting a bunch more unsecured unpatched devices unprotected onto the internet. I LIKE NAT enabled routers, and broadband ISP's are starting to agree with me. They have gone from saying that they would charge extra and not support NAT'ing routers to suggesting them to their userbase and offering config support. The fact is only those services which actually need to be exposed should be, unfortunatly the vast majority of devices do not default to secure configurations, instead trading convenience for security.
Well I wouldn't say we get raped, for $39/month I get 1,000 anytime national minutes, unlimited mobile to mobile with anyone on my providers network, and unlimited nights and weekends. Even with a 2.5 hour support call I only used about 3/4 of my anytime minutes last month. I have email, SMS, web browser with full HTML support, MIDP JAVA, Voice Dial, etc. There are slightly better phones available right now (3D support,MIDP 2.0, and Blue Tooth) but this one was free. Oh yeah and if you have a GSM provider just go online an order whatever phone you want since you can just insert your SIM and have it work as long as it supports your providers band =)
Well depending on your app you can achieve fairly good transitions by giving a higher value to the interface on the cellular card and a lower value to the WiFi card. This way any new communication will use the lower cost connection if it is available but you won't lose a connection mid stream.
I wouldn't say they are terribly Pro-Linux since their advanced call manager "CommPilot Call Manager" requires ActiveX to function...
Actually it sounds like a common event caused both outages as POTS carriers are REQUIRED to have backup power for their equipment to supply phone service even if the power goes out. My guess is a pole or two were brought down by something and it took out power and phone service at the same time.
nope, more like mercedes NEAR classic NEAR model. If you did a google search on the three terms you might find tons of irrelevant links where the three words are used on the same page but not to describe a single object and searching for them as a phrase will exclude too many relevant links.
Uh, poker is played against other players not the dealer. The house makes money off of velocity and volume. That is, the number of hands played in a given period of time and the size of the average pot. Bots probably negativly effect velocity by reducing the number of players willing to play and likely have no effect on average pot size. Of course if the players using bots are playing sufficiently high numbers of hands with large enough pots the casinos won't necessarily lose money, but that is doubtfull.
Yeah the education bait, that was a good one. The gambling industry used it to get otherwise conservative voters to aprove a gambling measure in their state. In reality gambling creates zero additional wealth so no extra dollars are going to education. In Ohio for example several years after the state lotto was aproved over the objections of the governor the state legislature passed a measure which automatically deducted an amount from the general funds portion of the education budget equal to the revenue provided by the lottery! So the only winners that I can see are the gas stations that sell additional items to addicts coming to get their fix and some state level beurocrats who got jobs administering the service, aka a drain on public well being. Not only that but it encourages a generally destructive lifestyle. I personally don't care what consenting adults do with their money but I don't think that the government should be advertising and encouriging something that nearly every study has shown is harmefull.
Google still needs the NEAR keyword, or something of similar functionality. This little gem allows you to search for a set of common words that are not necessarily a phrase but where the returned resultset should prioritize those entries where the words occour in close proximity to each other. It's the one feature I REALLY wish Google had.
One little trick I use which is often helpfull for eliminating the online retailers that have google bombed is to use -shipping at the end of my search. This will generally eliminate sites wishing to sell me the product and leave legit sites with info about the product alone.