asbestos manufacturers who made products prior to the research on its link to lung cancer should not have been responsible beyond product recalls. Thalidomide and phen/fen were obviously intended for ingestion and in fact they made it through FDA trials so you can't say the blame lies solely at the feet of their inventors. In the case of Phen/fen it was not the manufacturers fault at all but the physicians who wrote prescriptions for their combined long term use despite the fact that one of the drugs was labeled and tested as a short term solution. For more info see This FDA link.
THANK YOU! When the subject of fantasy books to be made into movies came up I immedietly thought of the Dark is Rising series but searches for six rings (forgot they were signs not rings) brought up no relevant hits in the first couple pages. I thought I would never be able to find this series again.
This is one of the nice things about managed switches. On our network we block everything but the real DHCP servers from responding to DHCP queries so that rogue or misconfigured machines can't f' up the network intentionally or unintentionally. We instituted these rules after a building move resulted in a day of looking for the appliance that was responding to DHCP request with bogus addresses.
Actually if the weapons are really gone then Saddam was not only a petty despot but a stupid one at that. Throwing out the UN inspectors kept the world thinking that he was still in the WMD business. We know as incontravertable truth that he possesed at various points in the past large amounts of both chemical and biological agents (his government even accounted for over 13 tons of mustard gas in the early 90's which suddenly dissapeared without records of its destruction). He also persued a nuclear weapons program which was halted only after the Isreali's blew up his reactor.
And beyond all that stability in the oil rich portion of the middle east is all the justification a non-twofaced politician should need. Oil is THE strategic supply and assuring it's continued safety and accessibility IS a national security issue despite what anyone on either side of the aisle says.
The only problem is that argument doesn't fly. MS alone is bigger than the entire media industry, if they were like the rest of the PC and consumer electronics market they would just ignore the pleas of the media industry for help.
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The only important factor in biological aging is degredation of DNA, or more specifically the loss of DNA Tollemerase. As cells go through more divisions and replications the little pieces that keep the strands of DNA packed start to break down, and when they get unraveled enough the cells own mechanisms realize that they are old and disfunctional and the cell suicides. By capping these Tallemerase sites scientists have been able to make mice that live up to ten times longer than normal!
Cisco 6512's are nearly as deep as any server, much deeper and you wont fit in a standard enclosure. Not only that but they are heavier than even a Sun V1280.
Also, what if you scrap one machine, and re-use its licence on another? That's made a lot harder by things like making the OEMs stick the licence number to the original machine case, and enforced limits on product activation.
Doing any of the above with an OEM liscense is exactly the same as pirating it from a legal standpoint. OEM Windows liscenses are non-transferable and have limits as to what constitutes the origional machine. MS just added a means to enforce the liscense with XP. Technically anything that would cause a reactivation of XP is probably a breach of the liscense. Trust me this is why sucessfully passing an MS audit is virtually impossible.
oh yes and WPA is NOT a long call, last few times I've done it it's taken less than 5 minutes, usually significantly less but I know the tree =)
With 192MB of ram or more Win2k will run fine on a P2-300. I ran it on a desktop with a P2-233 w/ 256MB and a laptop with a P2-266 and 192MB for several years at my last employer. Sure there were times when running the bloated Java frontend to Remedy that I would have liked a little beefier machine, but for 99+% of what I did it was fine.
I would for the sake of stability. Win9x is really, really, really unstable when compared to windows 2000 or XP. In fact with the exception of two pieces of software, a couple bad drivers, and some bad hardware I haven't seen blue screens on 2k kernel OS's, but on windows 98 they were common and I grew to expect them if a machine hadn't been reformated in 6 months or so.
Not only because of the privacy concerns but because the technology SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK! The department of homeland security trialed some of the best available systems and the error rates were WAY too high.
Yeah I was suprised to NOT see Walmart's Teradata installation on the list. Obviously they chose to not be included because their data warehouse was at 23TB in 1998 and they have grown considerably in size since then and been adding data all along.
The reason tape isn't really reasonable is that at a max speed of 30MB/s (uncompressed) per T9940B drive and the largest StorageTek silo holding 80 of those drives you get only 8.6 TB/hr which means the larger databases would take on the order of a half day to recover under ideal circumstances. Now you could go all out and have a dense packed Powderhorn silo cluster and get 103.7 TB/hr which might be acceptable, but it would still be a LOT longer than just failing over to the remote site with an up to date copy of the DB on disk =) Btw no tape tech currently has uncompressed storage space of 320GB, there is SDLT 320 which is 160GB uncompressed, LTO 2 which is 200GB uncompressed, and T9940B which is also 200GB uncompressed. Basically tape is there for worst, worst case scenarios, historical reference, and mostly to satisfy regulatory rules.
Well considering that he knew where the nearest civilization was, and sucessfully landed there with the expectation that he would be able to procure supplies I think he DID have a backup plan. It's like a hiker who runs low on rations while hiking the AT due to inclimate weather and stops at a ranger station asking to purchase some food, it's not completely unreasonable.
You forgot the largest currently run private R&D facility, IBM! You know, the guys who churn out more than a patent a day. MS research has done little with their money, HP unfortunatly is no longer really in the R&D game, Bell Labs is gone, and PARC too is a memory.
The funniest thing is it isn't to corner the CRM market, it's to become the number 2 CRM vendor and make it essentiall a three horse race (SAP, Oracle, Siebel) with salesforce.com and a couple others as dark horses. That's why it's so insane the Ellison would drain all the capital out of Oracle to buy Peoplesoft, it just gains them a bit of marketshare and a customer list that will lose almost half it's value as soon as he gets it.
I think he is talking about the fact that under MS Liscensing 6 that you MUST upgrade certain components every X months or you lose the very expensive support you were paying for. Basically Sun is saying that they are willing to support an older configuration so long as you are willing to pay the bills. With MS that is not an option. In some instances it may be MUCH cheaper to pay a little more for software support than it is to upgrade all the hardware and pay for all of the technicians to do the upgrades. This isn't necessarily the best path all the time but if budgets are going to be lean for a year or two keeping the old systems on life support can often be a wise choice.
I never said it WAS the main cannon, the incident I was refering to was from Gulf War I, and the A-10 in question was in fact outfitted with the Vulcan weapons pod at the center hardpoint. The pilot slowed to near stall speed and hosed down a small handfull of Republican Guard troops headed towards a light armor brigade.
That's funny because NOTHING I do is monitored other than me reporting my work at the end of the day. If everything you do is being watched like that then I truely feel sorry for you. In fact in my last job I never met my boss face to face and in my current job I met him once when I was hired. Guess different people are willing to put up with different things.
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asbestos manufacturers who made products prior to the research on its link to lung cancer should not have been responsible beyond product recalls. Thalidomide and phen/fen were obviously intended for ingestion and in fact they made it through FDA trials so you can't say the blame lies solely at the feet of their inventors. In the case of Phen/fen it was not the manufacturers fault at all but the physicians who wrote prescriptions for their combined long term use despite the fact that one of the drugs was labeled and tested as a short term solution. For more info see This FDA link.
THANK YOU!
When the subject of fantasy books to be made into movies came up I immedietly thought of the Dark is Rising series but searches for six rings (forgot they were signs not rings) brought up no relevant hits in the first couple pages. I thought I would never be able to find this series again.
It was a masterpiece of animation but utterly poor in scriptwriting and direction.
This is one of the nice things about managed switches. On our network we block everything but the real DHCP servers from responding to DHCP queries so that rogue or misconfigured machines can't f' up the network intentionally or unintentionally. We instituted these rules after a building move resulted in a day of looking for the appliance that was responding to DHCP request with bogus addresses.
Actually if the weapons are really gone then Saddam was not only a petty despot but a stupid one at that. Throwing out the UN inspectors kept the world thinking that he was still in the WMD business. We know as incontravertable truth that he possesed at various points in the past large amounts of both chemical and biological agents (his government even accounted for over 13 tons of mustard gas in the early 90's which suddenly dissapeared without records of its destruction). He also persued a nuclear weapons program which was halted only after the Isreali's blew up his reactor. And beyond all that stability in the oil rich portion of the middle east is all the justification a non-twofaced politician should need. Oil is THE strategic supply and assuring it's continued safety and accessibility IS a national security issue despite what anyone on either side of the aisle says.
The only problem is that argument doesn't fly. MS alone is bigger than the entire media industry, if they were like the rest of the PC and consumer electronics market they would just ignore the pleas of the media industry for help.
The only important factor in biological aging is degredation of DNA, or more specifically the loss of DNA Tollemerase. As cells go through more divisions and replications the little pieces that keep the strands of DNA packed start to break down, and when they get unraveled enough the cells own mechanisms realize that they are old and disfunctional and the cell suicides. By capping these Tallemerase sites scientists have been able to make mice that live up to ten times longer than normal!
Actually we ALL pay for it through higher prices of branded products.
Cisco 6512's are nearly as deep as any server, much deeper and you wont fit in a standard enclosure. Not only that but they are heavier than even a Sun V1280.
Also, what if you scrap one machine, and re-use its licence on another? That's made a lot harder by things like making the OEMs stick the licence number to the original machine case, and enforced limits on product activation.
Doing any of the above with an OEM liscense is exactly the same as pirating it from a legal standpoint. OEM Windows liscenses are non-transferable and have limits as to what constitutes the origional machine. MS just added a means to enforce the liscense with XP. Technically anything that would cause a reactivation of XP is probably a breach of the liscense. Trust me this is why sucessfully passing an MS audit is virtually impossible.
oh yes and WPA is NOT a long call, last few times I've done it it's taken less than 5 minutes, usually significantly less but I know the tree =)
With 192MB of ram or more Win2k will run fine on a P2-300. I ran it on a desktop with a P2-233 w/ 256MB and a laptop with a P2-266 and 192MB for several years at my last employer. Sure there were times when running the bloated Java frontend to Remedy that I would have liked a little beefier machine, but for 99+% of what I did it was fine.
I would for the sake of stability. Win9x is really, really, really unstable when compared to windows 2000 or XP. In fact with the exception of two pieces of software, a couple bad drivers, and some bad hardware I haven't seen blue screens on 2k kernel OS's, but on windows 98 they were common and I grew to expect them if a machine hadn't been reformated in 6 months or so.
Not only because of the privacy concerns but because the technology SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK! The department of homeland security trialed some of the best available systems and the error rates were WAY too high.
Yeah I was suprised to NOT see Walmart's Teradata installation on the list. Obviously they chose to not be included because their data warehouse was at 23TB in 1998 and they have grown considerably in size since then and been adding data all along.
The reason tape isn't really reasonable is that at a max speed of 30MB/s (uncompressed) per T9940B drive and the largest StorageTek silo holding 80 of those drives you get only 8.6 TB/hr which means the larger databases would take on the order of a half day to recover under ideal circumstances. Now you could go all out and have a dense packed Powderhorn silo cluster and get 103.7 TB/hr which might be acceptable, but it would still be a LOT longer than just failing over to the remote site with an up to date copy of the DB on disk =) Btw no tape tech currently has uncompressed storage space of 320GB, there is SDLT 320 which is 160GB uncompressed, LTO 2 which is 200GB uncompressed, and T9940B which is also 200GB uncompressed. Basically tape is there for worst, worst case scenarios, historical reference, and mostly to satisfy regulatory rules.
Well considering that he knew where the nearest civilization was, and sucessfully landed there with the expectation that he would be able to procure supplies I think he DID have a backup plan. It's like a hiker who runs low on rations while hiking the AT due to inclimate weather and stops at a ranger station asking to purchase some food, it's not completely unreasonable.
Actually Black Isle Studios published the BG games and funded the early development of NWN which they then sold back the rights to to Bioware.
Wizards of the Coast, the company that made a boatload off Magic: The Gathering and took their earnings and bought up valuable properties like TSR.
about $300 so nothing like the cost of that much storage in rotating media.
You forgot the largest currently run private R&D facility, IBM! You know, the guys who churn out more than a patent a day. MS research has done little with their money, HP unfortunatly is no longer really in the R&D game, Bell Labs is gone, and PARC too is a memory.
The funniest thing is it isn't to corner the CRM market, it's to become the number 2 CRM vendor and make it essentiall a three horse race (SAP, Oracle, Siebel) with salesforce.com and a couple others as dark horses. That's why it's so insane the Ellison would drain all the capital out of Oracle to buy Peoplesoft, it just gains them a bit of marketshare and a customer list that will lose almost half it's value as soon as he gets it.
I think he is talking about the fact that under MS Liscensing 6 that you MUST upgrade certain components every X months or you lose the very expensive support you were paying for. Basically Sun is saying that they are willing to support an older configuration so long as you are willing to pay the bills. With MS that is not an option. In some instances it may be MUCH cheaper to pay a little more for software support than it is to upgrade all the hardware and pay for all of the technicians to do the upgrades. This isn't necessarily the best path all the time but if budgets are going to be lean for a year or two keeping the old systems on life support can often be a wise choice.
Would there even be anything left of personell hit with the Avenger? (I personally doubt it, after seeing what it does to light tanks)
I never said it WAS the main cannon, the incident I was refering to was from Gulf War I, and the A-10 in question was in fact outfitted with the Vulcan weapons pod at the center hardpoint. The pilot slowed to near stall speed and hosed down a small handfull of Republican Guard troops headed towards a light armor brigade.
That's funny because NOTHING I do is monitored other than me reporting my work at the end of the day. If everything you do is being watched like that then I truely feel sorry for you. In fact in my last job I never met my boss face to face and in my current job I met him once when I was hired. Guess different people are willing to put up with different things.