Australian law explicitly allows and defends parallel imports. That seems to work ok in some areas, but there are still some limited markets where retailers are too scared of pissing off the major importer to go around them. (e.g. musical instruments & accessories - digitech GNX4 costs twice as much here as in USA).
I remember the days when antivirus software implemented default-deny, and didn't use virus signatures. It could have been argued that having to know and register legitimate programs was a big task compared to having a list of known viruses, but I'd say the viruses have caught up. For most people it'd make more sense to subscribe to an "allow" list. If you never upgrade any software you won't even need a subscription! Add that Windows now recognises certain methods of signing software.. ACLs usually support "deny" entries, but if default is "allow" you're really not securing much..
Um, perhaps that's part of it, but aren't they also putting 3G into the 850 band? Telstra (Australia) are about to launch 3G at 850MHz on the premise that someone else in the world (Cingular) is already going there so we know handsets will be available..
There's no point shocking the scientists over it. A few politicians (not to mention a lot of regular folk) could use a bit of zapping to get their attention..
Don't know if people realised, but 120V actually is low voltage, at least according to Australian standards and the International ones they're derived from. LV = up to 1000V AC or 1500V DC Extra Low Voltage = up to 46.4V AC or 60V DC Telecommunications Network Voltage can be higher than ELV but must be current-limited to minimise danger.
AS/ACIF S008 and S009 are legislated standards in Australia, regulating who can do what with cable installations.
As Joel pointed out ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLet terV.html ) you want your product's companion-products to be commodities. People can buy your thing knowing they can get the rest of the kit cheaply from various other places - then you compete just in terms of your own product, not in terms of other stuff you have no control over.
.. but I don't think there's been a year yet when I haven't experienced separate power, telephone, and ISP outages either. Except for those years before I had an ISP.
if they're used outside datacenters at all, maybe sometime around 2010-2.
HDs will be used for a while yet. Someone will find a reason. In the early 1990's when "FeRRAM" was announced (well, when I saw someone looking for funding on it) I remember postulating with a colleague about the possibilities: Operating Systems that can suspend instantly, applications that don't have a separate "install" and "run" - you just load them and they're there - probably more like "mounting" the app, laptops that run a long time on battery. What's happened since then? Palm pretty much did that with Static RAM as the chips got cheaper. Desktop PCs went from 16MHz, 2M RAM and 40M HD to at least 1000x on all three counts. Yet I'm still mostly using email, web, word proc and spreadsheet, which worked ok back then too..
broadband over every goddamn media we can think of
Spot on. The trend started with trying to deliver broadband without adding excessive new infrastructure. ADSL solved it for most of the world. Until then, Broadband over Power Lines looked interesting though not without problems. Now that ADSL 2+ has such range and there are small-scale DSLAMs that can be installed in pits, it'd be easier and cheaper to finish that job than to fit out power substations to pass data. The small number of folk who have grid-supplied power but cannot get a phone line nor mobile/wireless data can use satellite.
Anyone deploying new gas lines could offer to run fibre optics along the same paths, if they really want to help..
it's only a step away from the animal who wants to be eaten.
What would PETA make of that?!
age isn't much of the question. Is it you?
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Different people's brains are wired differently. It shows up in personalities. It shows up in ability to solve complex problems. Some people are just good at manipulating a heap of related details to understand them and reach a solution. Others just aren't as suited to handling complexity (but might multitask better, or be easier to get on with, or whatever:-) My high school results were good enough to get in to medicine, but I'm lousy at biology (and never liked it) and my hands aren't steady enough to do surgery.
The problem is self-assessment. We've all seen far too many people consider themselves "gurus" that don't have a clue. Typically you can only assess those close to or beneath you in a given area, as you can't estimate what you don't understand. Do you have evidence that you handle complexity well? Do you know anyone really credible who can comment on your technical aptitude? (and how do you know they're credible?)
Try stretching your skills even without more college, and see if you can find someone credible to comment on your progress. Or take a subject or a short course and hope the presenter is good enough to give the right feedback.
Well, if the universe has a size, that means it originated from a white hole, not a big bang. ("Big bang" means it happened everywhere at once, that's why it's called "big"). So, if it has a size, it started small somewhere. All that matter together means very high gravity. Gravity slows time. The first few lumps to blow out could travel for millions or billions of years while the stuff still in the dense centre only experiences a few seconds, if that. It means some parts of the universe can be heaps "older" than other parts, even if they came from the same place.
Why are mod points only allocated when I don't want them? The "I don't want someone censoring my movies" rants that completely miss the point are getting rated 5:Insightful, while anyone with a sensible response is stuck around 2.
I agree the judge was probably technically right, but this ruling doesn't help the industry. Pity it's only scene cutting. I'd like to see a few movies have less profanities, but that's hard to change after the fact without ruining continuity. Would be much easier when the script is written. I know other people don't mind the language, but it's rarely necessary.
Yup, it's all about beating the people who don't know how to decide and bid their maximum straight up.
The downsides of sniping are: - really annoying when you get sniped, discouraging you on your next effort - it's harder for people to get an idea of what the market value of an item is. You could call that a competitive advantage once you do know, but the thing that makes ebay great is it's supposed to be easy for anyone.
If I were selling on ebay, I'd favour a policy of extending any sniped auction by 2 hours automatically.
Fair enough, and there certainly are differences between now and then. One of those differences is that some antivirus solutions then didn't actually scan for known viruses at all. They scanned for new or altered executables and prevented them from launching prior to approval. Doesn't help in the case of a trojan where the user says "yes this is ok", but the theme seems to have been picked up again by MS (in a half-hearted way through execution restrictions and warnings when launching downloaded content), and more so by Winternals Protection Manager. That's the point I wanted to make - the change to scanning for specific threats seemed more about marketing ("we recognise 2341325 viruses!") and selling renewals. Work on preventing program misbehaviour got low priority, hence the range of antispyware that was achieving what antivirus software already should have handled.
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And what does Zip have to do with TIFF or JPEG?
That's the way I saw it, but it would have been clearer to say the CIGS factory produces y MW of generation capacity each year.
.. it's renamed OGPITA
well, the /. summary said something about him launching a web site.. Perhaps it should now be jettisoned..
Australian law explicitly allows and defends parallel imports. That seems to work ok in some areas, but there are still some limited markets where retailers are too scared of pissing off the major importer to go around them. (e.g. musical instruments & accessories - digitech GNX4 costs twice as much here as in USA).
I remember the days when antivirus software implemented default-deny, and didn't use virus signatures. It could have been argued that having to know and register legitimate programs was a big task compared to having a list of known viruses, but I'd say the viruses have caught up. For most people it'd make more sense to subscribe to an "allow" list. If you never upgrade any software you won't even need a subscription! Add that Windows now recognises certain methods of signing software..
ACLs usually support "deny" entries, but if default is "allow" you're really not securing much..
a rotary-dial mobile phone! Sure, Maxwell Smart had one, but I haven't seen any others since :-)
Um, perhaps that's part of it, but aren't they also putting 3G into the 850 band? Telstra (Australia) are about to launch 3G at 850MHz on the premise that someone else in the world (Cingular) is already going there so we know handsets will be available..
There's no point shocking the scientists over it. A few politicians (not to mention a lot of regular folk) could use a bit of zapping to get their attention..
Don't know if people realised, but 120V actually is low voltage, at least according to Australian standards and the International ones they're derived from.
LV = up to 1000V AC or 1500V DC
Extra Low Voltage = up to 46.4V AC or 60V DC
Telecommunications Network Voltage can be higher than ELV but must be current-limited to minimise danger.
AS/ACIF S008 and S009 are legislated standards in Australia, regulating who can do what with cable installations.
As Joel pointed out ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLet terV.html ) you want your product's companion-products to be commodities. People can buy your thing knowing they can get the rest of the kit cheaply from various other places - then you compete just in terms of your own product, not in terms of other stuff you have no control over.
.. but I don't think there's been a year yet when I haven't experienced separate power, telephone, and ISP outages either. Except for those years before I had an ISP.
HDs will be used for a while yet. Someone will find a reason. In the early 1990's when "FeRRAM" was announced (well, when I saw someone looking for funding on it) I remember postulating with a colleague about the possibilities: Operating Systems that can suspend instantly, applications that don't have a separate "install" and "run" - you just load them and they're there - probably more like "mounting" the app, laptops that run a long time on battery. What's happened since then? Palm pretty much did that with Static RAM as the chips got cheaper. Desktop PCs went from 16MHz, 2M RAM and 40M HD to at least 1000x on all three counts. Yet I'm still mostly using email, web, word proc and spreadsheet, which worked ok back then too..
Spot on. The trend started with trying to deliver broadband without adding excessive new infrastructure. ADSL solved it for most of the world. Until then, Broadband over Power Lines looked interesting though not without problems. Now that ADSL 2+ has such range and there are small-scale DSLAMs that can be installed in pits, it'd be easier and cheaper to finish that job than to fit out power substations to pass data. The small number of folk who have grid-supplied power but cannot get a phone line nor mobile/wireless data can use satellite.
Anyone deploying new gas lines could offer to run fibre optics along the same paths, if they really want to help..
The same place my parents would put it. They have an ordinary modem. Same with my in-laws, except they couldn't have Cable or DSL if they wanted it.
it's only a step away from the animal who wants to be eaten.
What would PETA make of that?!
Different people's brains are wired differently. It shows up in personalities. It shows up in ability to solve complex problems. Some people are just good at manipulating a heap of related details to understand them and reach a solution. Others just aren't as suited to handling complexity (but might multitask better, or be easier to get on with, or whatever :-) My high school results were good enough to get in to medicine, but I'm lousy at biology (and never liked it) and my hands aren't steady enough to do surgery.
The problem is self-assessment. We've all seen far too many people consider themselves "gurus" that don't have a clue. Typically you can only assess those close to or beneath you in a given area, as you can't estimate what you don't understand. Do you have evidence that you handle complexity well? Do you know anyone really credible who can comment on your technical aptitude? (and how do you know they're credible?)
Try stretching your skills even without more college, and see if you can find someone credible to comment on your progress. Or take a subject or a short course and hope the presenter is good enough to give the right feedback.
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the sweetest-smelling army in the world.
Great Britain recognized the island state of Singapore.
How do you recognize an island? Do you go, exc-- Hey, wait. No, don't tell me.
Wait, wait. Didn't we meet last year at the Feinman bar mitzvah? You look a lot like Hawaii. Didn't we meet last year at the Peninsula Club? No.
Well, if the universe has a size, that means it originated from a white hole, not a big bang. ("Big bang" means it happened everywhere at once, that's why it's called "big").
So, if it has a size, it started small somewhere. All that matter together means very high gravity. Gravity slows time. The first few lumps to blow out could travel for millions or billions of years while the stuff still in the dense centre only experiences a few seconds, if that. It means some parts of the universe can be heaps "older" than other parts, even if they came from the same place.
Why are mod points only allocated when I don't want them?
The "I don't want someone censoring my movies" rants that completely miss the point are getting rated 5:Insightful, while anyone with a sensible response is stuck around 2.
I agree the judge was probably technically right, but this ruling doesn't help the industry. Pity it's only scene cutting. I'd like to see a few movies have less profanities, but that's hard to change after the fact without ruining continuity. Would be much easier when the script is written.
I know other people don't mind the language, but it's rarely necessary.
.. chalk instead of leaflets
Yup, it's all about beating the people who don't know how to decide and bid their maximum straight up.
The downsides of sniping are:
- really annoying when you get sniped, discouraging you on your next effort
- it's harder for people to get an idea of what the market value of an item is. You could call that a competitive advantage once you do know, but the thing that makes ebay great is it's supposed to be easy for anyone.
If I were selling on ebay, I'd favour a policy of extending any sniped auction by 2 hours automatically.
It's part of the closing scenes in the table tennis game I just saw advertised at the top of this page.
.. they stole the technology that was meant for dogs.
Fair enough, and there certainly are differences between now and then.
One of those differences is that some antivirus solutions then didn't actually scan for known viruses at all. They scanned for new or altered executables and prevented them from launching prior to approval. Doesn't help in the case of a trojan where the user says "yes this is ok", but the theme seems to have been picked up again by MS (in a half-hearted way through execution restrictions and warnings when launching downloaded content), and more so by Winternals Protection Manager. That's the point I wanted to make - the change to scanning for specific threats seemed more about marketing ("we recognise 2341325 viruses!") and selling renewals. Work on preventing program misbehaviour got low priority, hence the range of antispyware that was achieving what antivirus software already should have handled.