Because the South Korean government has repeatadly propped up a dying company that dumps product onto the market below cost? This is generally considered a bad thing and if we can get rid of the last vestiges of this type of protectionism (all countries are guilty of it to some degree, the Americans subsidize their farmers as do the French, etc) then maybe free trade might eventually become a reality, but as long as one country is proping up some sectors and allowing them to undercut the rest of the market free trade without sanctions is kind of a pipe dream.
Although this will result in somewhat higher prices in the short term it should result in the long term viability of the market. Hynix has been illegally propped up by their government many times and their ability to sell products below cost just weakens the entire sector. Add to that the fact that the union blackmailed the company into not accepting a takeover bid from a company that might have actually turned em around and I doubt that the WTO will do much to the Americans.
No you can't label it as Firewire800 compatible and if people would use the correct terms it would be even less abiguous (IEEE1394(a) vs IEEE1394b S800). Also IEEE1394b controllers are not required to talk to down level devices, they can have all "Beta" ports which are native S800 or S1600 only.
By definition if the Toshiba laptops have a USB 1.1 chipset they are NOT USB 2.0 Hi-Speed and so should NOT be labeled USB 2.0, to do otherwise is dishonest.
Actually the same bio-chemical factors that cause the brain to be flighty and over-excitable in ADHD sufferers also lead to greater creativity. Creative people who do not suffer from ADHD still exhibit many of the same different biochemical and neuro-electic characteristics that are commonly used as identifiers for ADHD types. I guess the break between simple creativity and diminishing disorder is probably very fine, and unfortunatly we don't know enough about the brain to be able to reign it in just enough to help the individual without changing the person they are. Maybe one day something much better than Ritlin or Welbutrin will be discovered that will allow ADHD sufferers to function more normally without altering them so much.
Yeah but the non-pro driver is read only just like the Linux driver (well you can technically do writes with the Linux driver but it is not recommended and not enabled by default for good reason). Because MS has not documented things you can not safely write to NTFS at this time without using MS code, maybe someone will eventually do enough work to figure out all the magic behind safe writes but it hasn't happened in almost a decade so I won't be holding my breath =)
The sysinternals driver is NOT a reverse engineering, it is basically a DOS mode interface to the windows system dll's. When you use the NTFSDOS disk you have to run it under the version of windows for which you will be accessing the NTFS partition, it then snarfs up the system dll's and puts them on the disk. Then when you load up the disk you run ntfsdos.exe which is basically a wrapper around that code. This could probably be done for linux but it would probably not be redistributable for fear of legal reprecussions from MS (how sysinternals gets away with it I do not know, maybe they have an agreement with MS, or maybe they are just too small of fish and too usefull for MS to swat them)
Actually since it's just a metadata database index to the unerlying NTFS filesystem MS is kind of me-tooing, there have been linux implementation of this scheme using MySQL for ages.
Even better store it where it belongs, in the metadata portion of the file. JPEG file format has comment fields for just about everything you could possibly want including an unlimited size comment field. This way anything you do to the file will still maintain the metadata (well other than manipulating it with a program that doesn't understand the format correctly).
Yep, diagnosed ADD/ADHD since 4th grade. Got some service to help like extended test time (rarely needed it except for boring subjects where my mind would wander off to other places instead of focusing on taking the test, my hard subjects that were actually challenging and interesting would keep my focus and as a consequence I was usually one of the first ones done) and help learning how to focus and study for those subjects that would not hold my interest on their own. Btw I almost assaulted the second doc that tried to put me back on Ritlin, I had tried it for a couple of doses under a previous doctor and I absolutly positivly HATED the person that I was when under the influence of that shit. I guess it works for some people but I couldn't imagine being in that state for any extended period of time.
Linux can not safely write to NTFS, not even NTFSv1.2 even though it has been around since 1994. The lack of documentation makes it so that some aspects of updating the metadata and indexes cannot be done safely in all situations.
The funny thing is I test higher on the liberal arts stuff and generally did better at it in high school, but going to a tech school the liberal arts was so insanely boring that even "normal" students were bored stiff and the few people who came for a mixed education (RIT has some liberal arts people due to the printing and photo stuff from being linked to Eastman Kodak) were absolutly made sick by the intro general liberal arts courses. Since leaving school I've gone the route of getting industry certifications but now I find myself wishing to go back and get a degree part time, I think I might be able to handle the boring class if I only have to focus on them one or at most two at a time.
I have found that ADHD makes me more creative than most people but that it also makes me a much poorer student, I had a half ride scholarship to one of the top comp sci schools in the country and was placed on academic probation in under a year despite having a 3.8 in my major, I found I just wasn't able to study for the classes that didn't hold my interest. The great thing is that my job really does hold my interest and so I am able to focus my manic energy towards getting stuff done, but the sepurfelous things like paperwork and stuff tend to fall by the wayside until my boss gets on me to get em done. As for coping with it I mostly have tried a balanced diet rich in dark vegtables and have tried to wein myself off of caffeine (I used to drink a 2 liter of Mt. Dew during an 8 hour shift).
Cisco is 28% of wireless lan revenue since they own Linsys now =) I find it interesting what this says about the overall market, Cisco/Aironet which is the large enterprise leader slipped behind Linksys in revenue even though the typical Cisco/Aironet product costs ~8X what the typical Linksys product does, so small companies and consumers must be outbuying enterprises by around 8X =)
I don't there is a browser in existance that is 100% HTML4 compliant with full CSS2 fully implemented. If you know of one please point it out but none of the major browsers are Gecko, IE6, KHTML, or Opera.
I think you are looking at things backwards, losing developers is almost always a bad idea and in the web content creation space I would bet that mac users are a fairly significant chunk, almost assuradly much more than the 3% of general pc users that apple users represent. In other words the impact of pulling a developers tool (like a functioning browser) from the mac will be felt way out of proportion with the impact that one would expect given the overall penetration of the mac.
Actually todays energy usage in the US could be supplied by 1,000sq miles of modern multilayer high yield photovoltaic cells in Nevada, excluding transmission losses. That's only 100 miles X 10 miles, hardly the whole desert! Of course the amount of materials and nasty chemicals needed to make all those cells would be pretty darn high but hey there is no such thing as polution free energy. The closest thing would be microwaved solar from space but even that has some problems with ionization of the atmosphere along the transmission path.
Well since the energy for the hydrogen economy has to come from somewhere the net pollutants could conceivably actually increase. In the U.S. the energy for hydrogen production would largely come from coal, whether centralized prdouction of electricity from coal+transmission losses+hydrogen production and loss would be less than the current polution from internal combustion engines would probably only be determined through lots of analysis of long term data long after the hydrogen economy takes off (assuming it ever does).
I can't believe any ISP can offer that kind of DSL without bandwidth limits, it's about 1/4th the cost of a T-1 with about 5.5X the DL bandwdith and 3/4 the UL bandwidth. Also at 12K feet you should be able to get at least 768/128 service although you would need a clean pair.
Funny enough I have now had 4 ICQ #'s, the first one was 7468 and was lost when mirabelis lost the database that contained all UIN's 10K, my second was 204073 which was lost to a russian hacker exploiting flaws in the security model, my third was around 3.5 million which is still active today and in use with longtime friends, and my forth is around 340 million which I use with Trillian for public interaction with the community of a game I play. It's amazing to me how much the networking effect exploded the number of users on the network and how Mirabelis/AOL's shitty customer service has contributed to number bloat by making numbers almost impossible to retrieve once lost, it would be nice if a write-on-create hint could have been implemented so that you could retrieve your account if it was misapropriated or you forgot your password and no longer had access to the associated email account.
Unless your business is directly producing I.T. services then chances are that I.T. is a cost center and not a profit center so expensive things in it will always need to be justified, but many businesses are so reliant on their infrastructure that they cannot function without it. If that is the case then the numbers should be aparant and the business case should be easy to make if you have taken any business classes. If you haven't then there is probably a reason that you are not an I.T. manager.
1)Absolutely, and I would go even farther, in prep for Y2K a friend of mines father had a worst case cenario drill during off hours, they disconnected all incoming WAN links simulating all other datacenters or the telco failing to catch a critical error resulting in total loss of conectivity, some of his collegues found out that their systems had interdependencies that they had not accounted for that could have resulted in problems had there been an actual disruption. 1a)or if you can afford it have offsite backups AND offsite replication 1b)You may not need to have them already purchased there are companies like on of my former employers (then G.E. Capital I.T. Solutions now just G.E. I.T.S) that will sign contracts to have a certain number of each of your machine types available along with either space or mobile trailers to house them. 2)Duh =) 3) Ummm, whatever 4) again duh =) 4a) already standard practice most places unfortunatly 4b) I leave civil defense to the goverment, it's one of the few things they should do. 4c) I forsee this as being a bad thing the next time layoffs happen.
IBM in the 80's was held with a similar amount of disdain, as are most telco companies. None of them are going out of business any time soon. Large piles of cash and assets will last for a hell of a long time and assuming the company is not completely mismanaged it will come back. Now if you are never able to shake such an image you may have a problem as the folks who sign contracts are afterall human beings and their biases will show through but it would take a large amount of negative bias for it to become a significant barrier to doing business. Then again I think a lot of linux wins over the last couple of years are won precisly because people are tired of doing business with a vendor who they dislike so it may already be affecting Microsoft in a material way, though obviously not in a dire economic one.
And THAT is why I will never own a Tivo or other device like it, I can never be sure that a week after I buy it all the things that made me buy the device will not be removed. With a normal consumer device it has a set featureset, I guess if I want a PVR it will have to be a home rolled one based on open data. Yes I realize how great things like season pass are but I have no assurance that they will be there after I purchase it.
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Because the South Korean government has repeatadly propped up a dying company that dumps product onto the market below cost? This is generally considered a bad thing and if we can get rid of the last vestiges of this type of protectionism (all countries are guilty of it to some degree, the Americans subsidize their farmers as do the French, etc) then maybe free trade might eventually become a reality, but as long as one country is proping up some sectors and allowing them to undercut the rest of the market free trade without sanctions is kind of a pipe dream.
Although this will result in somewhat higher prices in the short term it should result in the long term viability of the market. Hynix has been illegally propped up by their government many times and their ability to sell products below cost just weakens the entire sector. Add to that the fact that the union blackmailed the company into not accepting a takeover bid from a company that might have actually turned em around and I doubt that the WTO will do much to the Americans.
No you can't label it as Firewire800 compatible and if people would use the correct terms it would be even less abiguous (IEEE1394(a) vs IEEE1394b S800). Also IEEE1394b controllers are not required to talk to down level devices, they can have all "Beta" ports which are native S800 or S1600 only.
By definition if the Toshiba laptops have a USB 1.1 chipset they are NOT USB 2.0 Hi-Speed and so should NOT be labeled USB 2.0, to do otherwise is dishonest.
Actually the same bio-chemical factors that cause the brain to be flighty and over-excitable in ADHD sufferers also lead to greater creativity. Creative people who do not suffer from ADHD still exhibit many of the same different biochemical and neuro-electic characteristics that are commonly used as identifiers for ADHD types. I guess the break between simple creativity and diminishing disorder is probably very fine, and unfortunatly we don't know enough about the brain to be able to reign it in just enough to help the individual without changing the person they are. Maybe one day something much better than Ritlin or Welbutrin will be discovered that will allow ADHD sufferers to function more normally without altering them so much.
Yeah but the non-pro driver is read only just like the Linux driver (well you can technically do writes with the Linux driver but it is not recommended and not enabled by default for good reason). Because MS has not documented things you can not safely write to NTFS at this time without using MS code, maybe someone will eventually do enough work to figure out all the magic behind safe writes but it hasn't happened in almost a decade so I won't be holding my breath =)
The sysinternals driver is NOT a reverse engineering, it is basically a DOS mode interface to the windows system dll's. When you use the NTFSDOS disk you have to run it under the version of windows for which you will be accessing the NTFS partition, it then snarfs up the system dll's and puts them on the disk. Then when you load up the disk you run ntfsdos.exe which is basically a wrapper around that code. This could probably be done for linux but it would probably not be redistributable for fear of legal reprecussions from MS (how sysinternals gets away with it I do not know, maybe they have an agreement with MS, or maybe they are just too small of fish and too usefull for MS to swat them)
Actually since it's just a metadata database index to the unerlying NTFS filesystem MS is kind of me-tooing, there have been linux implementation of this scheme using MySQL for ages.
Even better store it where it belongs, in the metadata portion of the file. JPEG file format has comment fields for just about everything you could possibly want including an unlimited size comment field. This way anything you do to the file will still maintain the metadata (well other than manipulating it with a program that doesn't understand the format correctly).
Yep, diagnosed ADD/ADHD since 4th grade. Got some service to help like extended test time (rarely needed it except for boring subjects where my mind would wander off to other places instead of focusing on taking the test, my hard subjects that were actually challenging and interesting would keep my focus and as a consequence I was usually one of the first ones done) and help learning how to focus and study for those subjects that would not hold my interest on their own. Btw I almost assaulted the second doc that tried to put me back on Ritlin, I had tried it for a couple of doses under a previous doctor and I absolutly positivly HATED the person that I was when under the influence of that shit. I guess it works for some people but I couldn't imagine being in that state for any extended period of time.
Linux can not safely write to NTFS, not even NTFSv1.2 even though it has been around since 1994. The lack of documentation makes it so that some aspects of updating the metadata and indexes cannot be done safely in all situations.
The funny thing is I test higher on the liberal arts stuff and generally did better at it in high school, but going to a tech school the liberal arts was so insanely boring that even "normal" students were bored stiff and the few people who came for a mixed education (RIT has some liberal arts people due to the printing and photo stuff from being linked to Eastman Kodak) were absolutly made sick by the intro general liberal arts courses. Since leaving school I've gone the route of getting industry certifications but now I find myself wishing to go back and get a degree part time, I think I might be able to handle the boring class if I only have to focus on them one or at most two at a time.
I have found that ADHD makes me more creative than most people but that it also makes me a much poorer student, I had a half ride scholarship to one of the top comp sci schools in the country and was placed on academic probation in under a year despite having a 3.8 in my major, I found I just wasn't able to study for the classes that didn't hold my interest. The great thing is that my job really does hold my interest and so I am able to focus my manic energy towards getting stuff done, but the sepurfelous things like paperwork and stuff tend to fall by the wayside until my boss gets on me to get em done. As for coping with it I mostly have tried a balanced diet rich in dark vegtables and have tried to wein myself off of caffeine (I used to drink a 2 liter of Mt. Dew during an 8 hour shift).
Cisco is 28% of wireless lan revenue since they own Linsys now =) I find it interesting what this says about the overall market, Cisco/Aironet which is the large enterprise leader slipped behind Linksys in revenue even though the typical Cisco/Aironet product costs ~8X what the typical Linksys product does, so small companies and consumers must be outbuying enterprises by around 8X =)
I don't there is a browser in existance that is 100% HTML4 compliant with full CSS2 fully implemented. If you know of one please point it out but none of the major browsers are Gecko, IE6, KHTML, or Opera.
I think you are looking at things backwards, losing developers is almost always a bad idea and in the web content creation space I would bet that mac users are a fairly significant chunk, almost assuradly much more than the 3% of general pc users that apple users represent. In other words the impact of pulling a developers tool (like a functioning browser) from the mac will be felt way out of proportion with the impact that one would expect given the overall penetration of the mac.
Actually todays energy usage in the US could be supplied by 1,000sq miles of modern multilayer high yield photovoltaic cells in Nevada, excluding transmission losses. That's only 100 miles X 10 miles, hardly the whole desert! Of course the amount of materials and nasty chemicals needed to make all those cells would be pretty darn high but hey there is no such thing as polution free energy. The closest thing would be microwaved solar from space but even that has some problems with ionization of the atmosphere along the transmission path.
Well since the energy for the hydrogen economy has to come from somewhere the net pollutants could conceivably actually increase. In the U.S. the energy for hydrogen production would largely come from coal, whether centralized prdouction of electricity from coal+transmission losses+hydrogen production and loss would be less than the current polution from internal combustion engines would probably only be determined through lots of analysis of long term data long after the hydrogen economy takes off (assuming it ever does).
I can't believe any ISP can offer that kind of DSL without bandwidth limits, it's about 1/4th the cost of a T-1 with about 5.5X the DL bandwdith and 3/4 the UL bandwidth. Also at 12K feet you should be able to get at least 768/128 service although you would need a clean pair.
Funny enough I have now had 4 ICQ #'s, the first one was 7468 and was lost when mirabelis lost the database that contained all UIN's 10K, my second was 204073 which was lost to a russian hacker exploiting flaws in the security model, my third was around 3.5 million which is still active today and in use with longtime friends, and my forth is around 340 million which I use with Trillian for public interaction with the community of a game I play. It's amazing to me how much the networking effect exploded the number of users on the network and how Mirabelis/AOL's shitty customer service has contributed to number bloat by making numbers almost impossible to retrieve once lost, it would be nice if a write-on-create hint could have been implemented so that you could retrieve your account if it was misapropriated or you forgot your password and no longer had access to the associated email account.
Because bittorrent works better on one large file then on a crudload of smaller files?
Unless your business is directly producing I.T. services then chances are that I.T. is a cost center and not a profit center so expensive things in it will always need to be justified, but many businesses are so reliant on their infrastructure that they cannot function without it. If that is the case then the numbers should be aparant and the business case should be easy to make if you have taken any business classes. If you haven't then there is probably a reason that you are not an I.T. manager.
1)Absolutely, and I would go even farther, in prep for Y2K a friend of mines father had a worst case cenario drill during off hours, they disconnected all incoming WAN links simulating all other datacenters or the telco failing to catch a critical error resulting in total loss of conectivity, some of his collegues found out that their systems had interdependencies that they had not accounted for that could have resulted in problems had there been an actual disruption.
1a)or if you can afford it have offsite backups AND offsite replication
1b)You may not need to have them already purchased there are companies like on of my former employers (then G.E. Capital I.T. Solutions now just G.E. I.T.S) that will sign contracts to have a certain number of each of your machine types available along with either space or mobile trailers to house them.
2)Duh =)
3) Ummm, whatever
4) again duh =)
4a) already standard practice most places unfortunatly
4b) I leave civil defense to the goverment, it's one of the few things they should do.
4c) I forsee this as being a bad thing the next time layoffs happen.
IBM in the 80's was held with a similar amount of disdain, as are most telco companies. None of them are going out of business any time soon. Large piles of cash and assets will last for a hell of a long time and assuming the company is not completely mismanaged it will come back. Now if you are never able to shake such an image you may have a problem as the folks who sign contracts are afterall human beings and their biases will show through but it would take a large amount of negative bias for it to become a significant barrier to doing business. Then again I think a lot of linux wins over the last couple of years are won precisly because people are tired of doing business with a vendor who they dislike so it may already be affecting Microsoft in a material way, though obviously not in a dire economic one.
And THAT is why I will never own a Tivo or other device like it, I can never be sure that a week after I buy it all the things that made me buy the device will not be removed. With a normal consumer device it has a set featureset, I guess if I want a PVR it will have to be a home rolled one based on open data. Yes I realize how great things like season pass are but I have no assurance that they will be there after I purchase it.