I've never been sent a single spam from the NYT. The reason they want this is for demograpics. A) it tells them who their web readers are, and B) it tells their advertizers who their web readers are. And it also allows them to show ads for products people would be most intrested in.
The reason they are going to electronic voting is to save money. What would be the point in making things secure if you miss out on the whole 'cheap' thing in the process?
They were centrifuge parts, in particular they were a motor powerful enough to run 1 centrifuge which could separate u235 from u238. All they would need after that was the rest of the parts for the centrifuge, and then to take all that stuff and multiply it by 100, and you'd be able to get enough u235 to build in a nuke in, oh, 10 years or so. Hardly an immediate threat.
Also, everyone already knew about the centrifuge anyway. It was hardly a secret. And it had been buried for 12 years. It was no more a risk today then it was. Claming that they were 'nuke parts' is like claming a screw driver is a 'car part'. Having a screwdriver does not mean you'll ever have a whole car.
He is, in fact, a centrist dem and not a far left evangelist.
Yeah, thats why, and I suspect many other people actualy like dean. I never thought of him as a kenuchick syle left-wing whacko, but rather a resonable pragmatist intrested in doing the best, rational thing. Who would claim that 'ballanced budgets' and 'fiscal responsibility' were left-wing issues?
Imbedded Tiny Basic into MS DOS - removing all language competitors
And to this day not a single soul codes in anything other then QBasic right?
Included primitive Games with windows
So thats why PC games never took off!
Included Disk Compression, virtually putting Stacker out of business.
You mean stole Stacker's product outright...
Gave away the browser, causing serious financial strain to Netscape
Netscape screwed themselves by putting out a shitty product. No one switched untill IE was 'better' then netscape. And It didn't take much to be 'better' then netscape 4.
Bought Hotmail (free email), and gave away browser-based email.
Hotmail was already #1 by a far margin, and already free. And still there are lots of large free email sites out there. What's your point?
Okay, this is a stupid analysis. Why? Because the 'owner' can't take away your land?
First of all we need to define what we mean when we say 'land'. It's obvious that the author means 'marketshare'. But this is a strange observation. People don't own market share at all. Could you imagine if they did? How would you, as a consumer, feel being someone's 'property' to be bought and sold? (actually people do buy and sell customers, for ISPs for example, or web traffic. But the people selling them don't 'own' them, they just sort of 'have' them.)
No one owns marketshare, and no one should. Sure some people might have better access too it, by integration but that's beside the point. IE never had any market share over Netscape until they were feature by feature competitive. In fact The reason Netscape really lost their market share to IE4 was because IE 4 was simply better. it didn't crash, it's CSS engine wasn't fucked to hell and back. It loaded quickly. If Netscape's programmers had been on their toes, and management let them do what they needed to do, they could have maintained their dominant position.
The apple situation is a bit different, because people who use apple products are obsessed with the company, and use anything made by them.
and in OSS the grasp on market share is even more tenuous, because of the lack of IP ownership. If I write a great browser on Windows and keep it closed source, Microsoft has to spend the time and money to write something that's as good. OTOH, if I write a great GPL'd browser for Linux and redhat decides to compete with me, all they have to do is take my source code, change a few icons and strings and sell it again.
Really, this metaphor is almost totally worthless and insulting.
If anything, it's more like playing against someone on their 'home field'. They might have an advantage if they decide to play against you. But if they don't, and their field is bigger then... well... honestly the analogy pretty much breaks down. Which is why I really hate arguments from analogy and metaphor in the first place. Just because you can make an analogy doesn't mean that it's proof of anything.
I seriously doubt most people who code on windows are in danger of Microsoft moving in on their turf and kicking their asses. Which is the only thing that actually matters here.
If this is an elastic collision, and the sail gains energy, then the photon must lose some energy. Where do you propose this energy comes from? Clearly, the photon's velocity can't decrease. Hence the redshift
Well, clearly the photon's speed can't change, but velocity is a vector, not a scalor. Sheesh, you learn that in the first week of physics. When the direction of the photon changes, so does it's velocity.
If you read the article, you should have read the part that said solar pressure has already been established and mesured. It's not a theory, it's a fact. There's no need to do an expirement to disprove gold's paper.
Havn't you ever noticed the 'class B computing device' sticker on lots of hardware? It means that the device doesn't give off too much radiation. And you are allowed to broadcast on the FM band as long as it's low power enough. I doubt your wireless mic would have any effect more then a couple meters away.
And not only that, but to jam a satalite dish, you need to have a directional antenna and a lot of power...
Why would the iranians use a satalite dish for their own local channel? NITV is broadcast from LA by expat iranians and calls for the destruction of the current government.
It seems more likely that jamming an Iranian satellite signal would come from the American dishes at the Guantanamo installation than from Cubans.
That's like saying that OK city bombing was done by the US military rather then Tim McVeigh because the military has better access to bombs. According to the article, jamming a sat isn't that hard. I'm sure someone in cuba is smart enough to do it, and if not, I'm certan that there are people in iran who could, and it would not be hard to ship those people to Cuba to do it.
But the question is, where is he cumming from? Perhaps a place where people cut'n'paste multiple pages from the article into the comments to reap twice the karma!
I don't say this but the company where I'm currently working (a very large bank) has published an internal strategy document. Essentially they see the future being split between Linux and Windows.
Which is why sun will ship you one of their boxes with Linux/Sparc installed. They are hedging their bets. If I were in sun's place I wouldn't get rid of Solaris either, since most people seem to think it's better. Rather I'd work on making Solaris and Linux more compatable/interchangeable/etc.
You don't make hardware and software purchase decisions based on politics or your personal feelings. You buy the best for the job at hand at a certain budget. If Solaris on Sparc makes the most sense for the task, then that's what you buy...Good administrators and managers leave their personal feelings and pet causes at the door when they come to work. They bring in Linux because it makes sense for what they're doing, not because its cool have open source in the shop and they want to stick it to SCO/Sun/MS/Whoever
Right, and good oilmen should buy their oil from whatever country makes it cheaper. Who cares if all the money goes to fund terrorists?
Seriously though, the reason to avoid purchasing stuff from 'bully' companies is because once they get control, they keep it, and then your fucked. If people had held off buying Microsoft code due to their monopolistic practices, windows would never have had the penetration it did, and your company wouldn't have had to hemorrhage cash supporting windows 3.1 and 95 when they could have used OS/2 or whatever instead.
It would cost the company a lot more money in the end if this thing kills Linux.
Sun made this deal before SCO whent nuts. Maybe sun knew about the plans, maybe they didn't. Maybe the deal gave the SCO guys the idea, who knows.
Then again, if SCO does manage to win, it will be a huge boon for Solaris, as it will be the only unix available that dosn't suck. OTOH, it will severly limit their options in the future, and the computer industry in general.
Actualy they were just covering their ass from a legal standpoint. I doubt they would have needed to 'pull' anything from anywhere. Solaris could probably have been rejiggered to compile on intel pretty easily, assuming it's well written, which it probably is.
Otoh, they were probably worried that SCO might try to sue them or whatever if they ported without paying them. Given their antics today, it's not unresonable
How about this, a solid matrix of silicon memory units with transmiters attached. As soon as the truck goes through the transmiter, all of the units transmit using a tiny cap for power. So much energy is released that the entire matrix evaporates instantly, thus resolving us of the need to dispose of it.
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I've never been sent a single spam from the NYT. The reason they want this is for demograpics. A) it tells them who their web readers are, and B) it tells their advertizers who their web readers are. And it also allows them to show ads for products people would be most intrested in.
The reason they are going to electronic voting is to save money. What would be the point in making things secure if you miss out on the whole 'cheap' thing in the process?
They were centrifuge parts, in particular they were a motor powerful enough to run 1 centrifuge which could separate u235 from u238. All they would need after that was the rest of the parts for the centrifuge, and then to take all that stuff and multiply it by 100, and you'd be able to get enough u235 to build in a nuke in, oh, 10 years or so. Hardly an immediate threat.
Also, everyone already knew about the centrifuge anyway. It was hardly a secret. And it had been buried for 12 years. It was no more a risk today then it was. Claming that they were 'nuke parts' is like claming a screw driver is a 'car part'. Having a screwdriver does not mean you'll ever have a whole car.
He is, in fact, a centrist dem and not a far left evangelist.
Yeah, thats why, and I suspect many other people actualy like dean. I never thought of him as a kenuchick syle left-wing whacko, but rather a resonable pragmatist intrested in doing the best, rational thing. Who would claim that 'ballanced budgets' and 'fiscal responsibility' were left-wing issues?
Imbedded Tiny Basic into MS DOS - removing all language competitors
And to this day not a single soul codes in anything other then QBasic right?
Included primitive Games with windows
So thats why PC games never took off!
Included Disk Compression, virtually putting Stacker out of business.
You mean stole Stacker's product outright...
Gave away the browser, causing serious financial strain to Netscape
Netscape screwed themselves by putting out a shitty product. No one switched untill IE was 'better' then netscape. And It didn't take much to be 'better' then netscape 4.
Bought Hotmail (free email), and gave away browser-based email.
Hotmail was already #1 by a far margin, and already free. And still there are lots of large free email sites out there. What's your point?
Okay, this is a stupid analysis. Why? Because the 'owner' can't take away your land?
First of all we need to define what we mean when we say 'land'. It's obvious that the author means 'marketshare'. But this is a strange observation. People don't own market share at all. Could you imagine if they did? How would you, as a consumer, feel being someone's 'property' to be bought and sold? (actually people do buy and sell customers, for ISPs for example, or web traffic. But the people selling them don't 'own' them, they just sort of 'have' them.)
No one owns marketshare, and no one should. Sure some people might have better access too it, by integration but that's beside the point. IE never had any market share over Netscape until they were feature by feature competitive. In fact The reason Netscape really lost their market share to IE4 was because IE 4 was simply better. it didn't crash, it's CSS engine wasn't fucked to hell and back. It loaded quickly. If Netscape's programmers had been on their toes, and management let them do what they needed to do, they could have maintained their dominant position.
The apple situation is a bit different, because people who use apple products are obsessed with the company, and use anything made by them.
and in OSS the grasp on market share is even more tenuous, because of the lack of IP ownership. If I write a great browser on Windows and keep it closed source, Microsoft has to spend the time and money to write something that's as good. OTOH, if I write a great GPL'd browser for Linux and redhat decides to compete with me, all they have to do is take my source code, change a few icons and strings and sell it again.
Really, this metaphor is almost totally worthless and insulting.
If anything, it's more like playing against someone on their 'home field'. They might have an advantage if they decide to play against you. But if they don't, and their field is bigger then... well... honestly the analogy pretty much breaks down. Which is why I really hate arguments from analogy and metaphor in the first place. Just because you can make an analogy doesn't mean that it's proof of anything.
I seriously doubt most people who code on windows are in danger of Microsoft moving in on their turf and kicking their asses. Which is the only thing that actually matters here.
If this is an elastic collision, and the sail gains energy, then the photon must lose some energy. Where do you propose this energy comes from? Clearly, the photon's velocity can't decrease. Hence the redshift
Well, clearly the photon's speed can't change, but velocity is a vector, not a scalor. Sheesh, you learn that in the first week of physics. When the direction of the photon changes, so does it's velocity.
If you read the article, you should have read the part that said solar pressure has already been established and mesured. It's not a theory, it's a fact. There's no need to do an expirement to disprove gold's paper.
A post filled with paranoid ahistorical, anti-liberal, boring retoric. And it gets' a 4.
Havn't you ever noticed the 'class B computing device' sticker on lots of hardware? It means that the device doesn't give off too much radiation. And you are allowed to broadcast on the FM band as long as it's low power enough. I doubt your wireless mic would have any effect more then a couple meters away.
And not only that, but to jam a satalite dish, you need to have a directional antenna and a lot of power...
Why would the iranians use a satalite dish for their own local channel? NITV is broadcast from LA by expat iranians and calls for the destruction of the current government.
It seems more likely that jamming an Iranian satellite signal would come from the American dishes at the Guantanamo installation than from Cubans.
That's like saying that OK city bombing was done by the US military rather then Tim McVeigh because the military has better access to bombs. According to the article, jamming a sat isn't that hard. I'm sure someone in cuba is smart enough to do it, and if not, I'm certan that there are people in iran who could, and it would not be hard to ship those people to Cuba to do it.
Is page 6 of the PDF, the bullet point says "Remove embarasments" :P
How can I get me one of those numberals?
/adds another joke to the heap. Get it? heap?
:P
seriously though, this thread is like some sort of nerd version of fark.com
All that stuff is just a biological imparative to impress chicks and get you laid. Once you have kids, it dosn't matter anymore.
But the question is, where is he cumming from? Perhaps a place where people cut'n'paste multiple pages from the article into the comments to reap twice the karma!
Who on earth would contribute toe something called E-BLA.
Don't sign it. Obviously these big stars arn't going to sign over any more rights to the record companies that they don't think they need or whatever.
But it would be too bad to see some young bands sign this without knowing what it means, though.
I don't say this but the company where I'm currently working (a very large bank) has published an internal strategy document. Essentially they see the future being split between Linux and Windows.
Which is why sun will ship you one of their boxes with Linux/Sparc installed. They are hedging their bets. If I were in sun's place I wouldn't get rid of Solaris either, since most people seem to think it's better. Rather I'd work on making Solaris and Linux more compatable/interchangeable/etc.
You don't make hardware and software purchase decisions based on politics or your personal feelings. You buy the best for the job at hand at a certain budget. If Solaris on Sparc makes the most sense for the task, then that's what you buy...Good administrators and managers leave their personal feelings and pet causes at the door when they come to work. They bring in Linux because it makes sense for what they're doing, not because its cool have open source in the shop and they want to stick it to SCO/Sun/MS/Whoever
Right, and good oilmen should buy their oil from whatever country makes it cheaper. Who cares if all the money goes to fund terrorists?
Seriously though, the reason to avoid purchasing stuff from 'bully' companies is because once they get control, they keep it, and then your fucked. If people had held off buying Microsoft code due to their monopolistic practices, windows would never have had the penetration it did, and your company wouldn't have had to hemorrhage cash supporting windows 3.1 and 95 when they could have used OS/2 or whatever instead.
It would cost the company a lot more money in the end if this thing kills Linux.
If I own some code, I can GPL it, but you can't. Not that these people arn't full of shit on the details, mind you.
Sun made this deal before SCO whent nuts. Maybe sun knew about the plans, maybe they didn't. Maybe the deal gave the SCO guys the idea, who knows.
Then again, if SCO does manage to win, it will be a huge boon for Solaris, as it will be the only unix available that dosn't suck. OTOH, it will severly limit their options in the future, and the computer industry in general.
Actualy they were just covering their ass from a legal standpoint. I doubt they would have needed to 'pull' anything from anywhere. Solaris could probably have been rejiggered to compile on intel pretty easily, assuming it's well written, which it probably is.
Otoh, they were probably worried that SCO might try to sue them or whatever if they ported without paying them. Given their antics today, it's not unresonable
How about this, a solid matrix of silicon memory units with transmiters attached. As soon as the truck goes through the transmiter, all of the units transmit using a tiny cap for power. So much energy is released that the entire matrix evaporates instantly, thus resolving us of the need to dispose of it.
Well, the practical speed limit would be the speed at which the tension in the tape from centerfugial force would rip the stuff apart.
Anyway, I still think it would be cheaper to run fiber and use DWDM tech to cram terabits/sec over it.