Well, I do mind paying taxes on the full price, especially if I'm buying a car (in Aus that attracts both GST and state Stamp Duty as % of purchase price). Not that I buy my cars new or from dealerships, but it strikes me as an obvious downside to "factory cashbacks"
I'd like to see what proportion of all domains are within.com Given the way it's used for almost anything and everything, internationally (as it's cheaper than some.com.mycountry domains), I wouldn't be surprised if.com comprised more than 50% of all registrations. In which case, the.com servers are doing near as much work as the root servers, within an order of magnitude. If there is a good case for a hierarchical domain, then it should be strictly enforced i.e. to have.com.somecountry you should have a nationally recognised business registration with that name.
Countries should be forbidden from abusing their convenient names (.to comes to mind)
To have.com without any country, you should satisfy some criteria that establish you are a truly multinational commercial entity (business registrations on more than 1 continent, perhaps? not just international shipping)
If all that seems unreasonable, then I say stuff.com as it's meaningless. Does someone out there have the numbers on the various TLDs?
.. IT workers are found to be among the most frequent teleworkers.
Who cares what I wear when I'm working from home. Except when having videoconf meetings of course. (Anyone got a copy of that Sony Vaio where the teleworker's wife comes home while he's on video hookup?)
Many years back, my manager defended my not wearing a tie due to the hazards of leaning over a line printer in operation.. not that I ever worked on the line printers myself..
Very early in the article, the distance travelled is recognised as a key component in calculations. Then it's assumed to be 1500m/month. That's it. The rest of the discussion and pretty graphs ignore this one factor. I thought it was obvious when talking higher fixed costs for lower running costs, mention distance in the final analysis. Unless you KNOW your audience have very consistent travel patterns (perhaps some corporate fleets), or, the break-even point is something ridiculous like 1000 miles per day.
I remember the reaction from 1st year of high school. We didn't power a car with it, but with careful juggling of a test tube with a side-arm over a bunsen, water in the bottom and magnesium in the arm, you could ignite the H2 coming out of the side-arm for a mini blowtorch.
But yes, the net energy source is oxidising the metal, and many have commented on the value of this approach here..
I'll confirm that Lotus Notes/Domino certifications (which have really long names) are not easy to get. You can't pass the exam just from doing the course - they're designed to see if you have some experience as well.
That's not to say someone with a great memory couldn't do it from books and practice exams, but if their memory is that good then they might remember the same detail while doing their work.
Caching - then you wouldn't need its battery backup, so a volatile ram-based disk card would be sufficient.
Hybernation - why bother? The battery consumption could have been put into the main memory to just keep it alive. Hang on, that's called suspending, and many computers already do it (though only laptops have a battery to survive brief blackouts).
Reminds me of a game from uni. All players would give the game controller a photocopy of their ID card, and receive someone else's. Your aim is to locate the person and their movements, advise the controller how and when you plan to "kill" them (e.g. water pistol on exit from class in room X at time Y), and collect whatever cards they're holding. Mark their card to show they're out. Winner holds all cards in the end.
It was co-ordinated using (pre-Internet) email, but these days the options are more flexible.
Of course the university's administration tried to ban the game.
I didn't know that one, but do know laptops don't attract Fringe Benefit Tax.
(FBT is applied where an employee gets something other than cash as part of his salary, such as private use of company car, or computer. With a desktop, you have to apportion the private vs work use and pay tax on private part of the value). Laptops are exempt.
Larry Tesler decided that the Newton would retain its large format. The engineers of the project, led by Steve Capps (former Macintosh developer) and marketing director Michael Tchao wanted a smaller, more affordable device that would fit in the palm of the hand..... Larry Tesler relented, and started the Junior project, the project that would eventually yield the MessagePad.
Palm came out with something still cheaper and small enough to carry in a shirt pocket. IMO that was the "biggest" problem.
Otherwise, Newton was a great platform. It was very memory-efficient in both coding and data storage.
Reading the article, it's mostly in response to items being advertised for a fixed ("buy it now") price excluding GST, then charging the GST. In Australia, all quotes and advertised prices must include GST where it applies, so people know what they're going to pay.
Granted, that makes it more complex for international buyers who don't have to pay GST on Australian exports. If eBay can tell what country and currency you want, and they support ebay shops, then perhaps they can add tax rule support?
Other way around for "brain-type" - levels of testosterone are known to affect the structural development of the brain pre-birth (esp how rapidly each half develops. If they're not similar, then one half reaching out to the other will find fewer places to connect so it'll link back to itself, making the person less able to multitask, less socially capable, but able to solve more complex technical problems.
Step back pre-conception, and radiation will kill off more male sperm than female. I've spoken to military comms guys who say there's a very strong trend here - all the guys they know who worked on high-power transmitters have daughters but no sons.
If you disable peer traffic, (ie all traffic must be to or from the router or a local server) then the local traffic won't blow out and infection won't be as rapid. Then you'll have a containable mess.
I don't know what peer requirements / preferences there would be, but it should be possible to handle most real requirements while still sensibly filtering.
From what I've heard, the old-Aramaic (or old Hebrew?) text of Genesis doesn't really translate as "there was evening, and there was morning, the Nth day", but "there was chaos, and there was order,..." Hence we can say the 6 days may not have been 24 hours.
On the age of the universe, it's a question of an assumption. Does the universe have a size? There's a collection of theory and mathematics and scientific observation etc that boils down to this question. If the universe is infinite (but is expanding while infinite) then it appears to have originated in a "big bang" - which happened everywhere at once. Ask people to describe the "big bang" and they mostly describe an explosion from a small place to blow out to a big universe - that's not a big bang, it's a white hole. It's supported by all the same observations, maths, etc; the difference being that the universe has a size.
Now, if the universe has a size, and originated as a white hole, then gravity was immense in the middle regions while the whole was blowing out. Knowing how gravity alters time, that makes it possible for the extremes of the universe to be many orders of magnitude older than the near-middle regions.
The age of the universe is used to validate claims of the age of the earth (which doesn't hold for the white-hole case), which is used to support arguments of the age of fossils - which are otherwise "measured" (estimated and calculated by extrapolation and assumption).
---------------- Back on topic, sure, teach evolution, and call it a theory as any scientist should. Even call it a well-supported theory. But don't call it fact. that's a fundamental part of teaching science - distinguishing between fact, observation, theory.
Yes, it's only about creating a controlled stream of neutrons, with a device the size of a toaster. It's a good step forward for that though.
aparatus for identifying unknown substances non-invasively can now be made cheaper and more portable.
Make it smaller still, and perhaps you could swallow a radiation source to treat bowell cancer on the way through, instead of irradiating your whole body from the outside.
The article mentions replacing neon signs, thereby avoiding the associated fire risk. Cable installers would appreciate that too, as mandatory separation between Extra Low Voltage (e.g. ethernet, phones) and High Voltage (such as neons) is a much bigger deal than separating ELV and LV (such as 110V / 240V)
A couple of variations: Some recommend you multiply 2 or 3 factors to give a score, e.g. ease of exploitation x impact of possible exploitation.
You could go one further and do the equivalent of a "safety risk score calculator" (from OHS practices) where you look at: - extent of what could happen - how likely it is - cost of alteration - extent after alteration - likelihood after alteration
Of course we're talking about highly inter-related aspects of security which get more complex, but feel free to group a bunch of things together (e.g. all items that relate to fingerprinting but aren't actually exploitable holes)
Time consuming, but you don't need to complete the calculation on items that are near zero risk to start with.
... depending whether your gas is piped or bottled, and again depending whether you can get a heat-bank running on off-peak electricity.
Note that with heating, you attain very high efficiency. (Gas->heat good, fuel->electricity poor, electricity->heat good). Converting fuel or electricity into motion, or into light, it's not near so good.
You'd use gas for heat, but probablyly not for lights these days, nor for the TV
Yes, it's more economical to generate centrally. Otherwise we'd all have private petrol-run generators to power our homes.
Even better if you can get permission to use "off peak" (if they have that in your part of the world).
Starting up and shutting down coal-fired generators is quite expensive/uneconomical, so to reduce starts and stops you can have hot water, and perhaps heat banks, running "off peak"; the electric company can turn it on when it suits them to manage their load.
Further, some hydro schemes generate in peak times and pump the water back again off-peak; the losses involved are less than the cost of firing the coal plants up and down.
If you're going to carry power in batteries, you may as well plug them in when you can.
How exactly? Badly I'd say. I expect I'd soon run into something like MDAC becoming incompatible with VB6, but a heap of other things requiring the newest MDAC, until you can't patch Windows or IE, or 3rd party database drivers, without breaking it.
Time to port a few internal apps to Notes - where compatibility is planned as far ahead as R9, effective as far back as R3..
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Well, I do mind paying taxes on the full price, especially if I'm buying a car (in Aus that attracts both GST and state Stamp Duty as % of purchase price).
Not that I buy my cars new or from dealerships, but it strikes me as an obvious downside to "factory cashbacks"
I'd like to see what proportion of all domains are within .com .com.mycountry domains), I wouldn't be surprised if .com comprised more than 50% of all registrations. In which case, the .com servers are doing near as much work as the root servers, within an order of magnitude. If there is a good case for a hierarchical domain, then it should be strictly enforced .com.somecountry you should have a nationally recognised business registration with that name.
.com without any country, you should satisfy some criteria that establish you are a truly multinational commercial entity (business registrations on more than 1 continent, perhaps? not just international shipping)
.com as it's meaningless.
Given the way it's used for almost anything and everything, internationally (as it's cheaper than some
i.e.
to have
Countries should be forbidden from abusing their convenient names (.to comes to mind)
To have
If all that seems unreasonable, then I say stuff
Does someone out there have the numbers on the various TLDs?
.. IT workers are found to be among the most frequent teleworkers.
Who cares what I wear when I'm working from home. Except when having videoconf meetings of course. (Anyone got a copy of that Sony Vaio where the teleworker's wife comes home while he's on video hookup?)
Many years back, my manager defended my not wearing a tie due to the hazards of leaning over a line printer in operation.. not that I ever worked on the line printers myself..
Very early in the article, the distance travelled is recognised as a key component in calculations. Then it's assumed to be 1500m/month. That's it.
The rest of the discussion and pretty graphs ignore this one factor. I thought it was obvious when talking higher fixed costs for lower running costs, mention distance in the final analysis. Unless you KNOW your audience have very consistent travel patterns (perhaps some corporate fleets), or, the break-even point is something ridiculous like 1000 miles per day.
I remember the reaction from 1st year of high school. We didn't power a car with it, but with careful juggling of a test tube with a side-arm over a bunsen, water in the bottom and magnesium in the arm, you could ignite the H2 coming out of the side-arm for a mini blowtorch.
But yes, the net energy source is oxidising the metal, and many have commented on the value of this approach here..
I'll confirm that Lotus Notes/Domino certifications (which have really long names) are not easy to get. You can't pass the exam just from doing the course - they're designed to see if you have some experience as well.
That's not to say someone with a great memory couldn't do it from books and practice exams, but if their memory is that good then they might remember the same detail while doing their work.
Caching - then you wouldn't need its battery backup, so a volatile ram-based disk card would be sufficient.
Hybernation - why bother? The battery consumption could have been put into the main memory to just keep it alive. Hang on, that's called suspending, and many computers already do it (though only laptops have a battery to survive brief blackouts).
Australia had DST variations up to and including 2000 (for the Olympics in that instance).
Lotus Domino has a setting called "DSTlaw" where you can put custom start and ends.
Windows will need some kind of patch or update but that's not hard to do - we've had them in the past.
Given that 2000 was a one-off and we'd be changing back the following year, some computers ended up with an additional timezone "Sydney (2000)".
Don't know about other systems...
Reminds me of a game from uni. All players would give the game controller a photocopy of their ID card, and receive someone else's. Your aim is to locate the person and their movements, advise the controller how and when you plan to "kill" them (e.g. water pistol on exit from class in room X at time Y), and collect whatever cards they're holding. Mark their card to show they're out.
Winner holds all cards in the end.
It was co-ordinated using (pre-Internet) email, but these days the options are more flexible.
Of course the university's administration tried to ban the game.
I didn't know that one, but do know laptops don't attract Fringe Benefit Tax.
(FBT is applied where an employee gets something other than cash as part of his salary, such as private use of company car, or computer. With a desktop, you have to apportion the private vs work use and pay tax on private part of the value). Laptops are exempt.
Palm came out with something still cheaper and small enough to carry in a shirt pocket. IMO that was the "biggest" problem.
Otherwise, Newton was a great platform. It was very memory-efficient in both coding and data storage.
Reading the article, it's mostly in response to items being advertised for a fixed ("buy it now") price excluding GST, then charging the GST. In Australia, all quotes and advertised prices must include GST where it applies, so people know what they're going to pay.
Granted, that makes it more complex for international buyers who don't have to pay GST on Australian exports. If eBay can tell what country and currency you want, and they support ebay shops, then perhaps they can add tax rule support?
+1 funny/sarcasm point to whoever called that "informative"
Other way around for "brain-type" - levels of testosterone are known to affect the structural development of the brain pre-birth (esp how rapidly each half develops. If they're not similar, then one half reaching out to the other will find fewer places to connect so it'll link back to itself, making the person less able to multitask, less socially capable, but able to solve more complex technical problems.
Step back pre-conception, and radiation will kill off more male sperm than female. I've spoken to military comms guys who say there's a very strong trend here - all the guys they know who worked on high-power transmitters have daughters but no sons.
If you disable peer traffic, (ie all traffic must be to or from the router or a local server) then the local traffic won't blow out and infection won't be as rapid. Then you'll have a containable mess.
I don't know what peer requirements / preferences there would be, but it should be possible to handle most real requirements while still sensibly filtering.
From what I've heard, the old-Aramaic (or old Hebrew?) text of Genesis doesn't really translate as "there was evening, and there was morning, the Nth day", but "there was chaos, and there was order, ..."
Hence we can say the 6 days may not have been 24 hours.
On the age of the universe, it's a question of an assumption. Does the universe have a size? There's a collection of theory and mathematics and scientific observation etc that boils down to this question. If the universe is infinite (but is expanding while infinite) then it appears to have originated in a "big bang" - which happened everywhere at once. Ask people to describe the "big bang" and they mostly describe an explosion from a small place to blow out to a big universe - that's not a big bang, it's a white hole. It's supported by all the same observations, maths, etc; the difference being that the universe has a size.
Now, if the universe has a size, and originated as a white hole, then gravity was immense in the middle regions while the whole was blowing out. Knowing how gravity alters time, that makes it possible for the extremes of the universe to be many orders of magnitude older than the near-middle regions.
The age of the universe is used to validate claims of the age of the earth (which doesn't hold for the white-hole case), which is used to support arguments of the age of fossils - which are otherwise "measured" (estimated and calculated by extrapolation and assumption).
----------------
Back on topic, sure, teach evolution, and call it a theory as any scientist should. Even call it a well-supported theory. But don't call it fact. that's a fundamental part of teaching science - distinguishing between fact, observation, theory.
Yes, it's only about creating a controlled stream of neutrons, with a device the size of a toaster. It's a good step forward for that though.
aparatus for identifying unknown substances non-invasively can now be made cheaper and more portable.
Make it smaller still, and perhaps you could swallow a radiation source to treat bowell cancer on the way through, instead of irradiating your whole body from the outside.
I have a program that announces incoming emails and IM with text-to-speech. It told me
"Microsoft: let the 64 bit error begin"
Oh, I mis-heard. It said era, not error, but it gave me a good laugh.
The article mentions replacing neon signs, thereby avoiding the associated fire risk.
Cable installers would appreciate that too, as mandatory separation between Extra Low Voltage (e.g. ethernet, phones) and High Voltage (such as neons) is a much bigger deal than separating ELV and LV (such as 110V / 240V)
A couple of variations:
Some recommend you multiply 2 or 3 factors to give a score, e.g. ease of exploitation x impact of possible exploitation.
You could go one further and do the equivalent of a "safety risk score calculator" (from OHS practices) where you look at:
- extent of what could happen
- how likely it is
- cost of alteration
- extent after alteration
- likelihood after alteration
Of course we're talking about highly inter-related aspects of security which get more complex, but feel free to group a bunch of things together (e.g. all items that relate to fingerprinting but aren't actually exploitable holes)
Time consuming, but you don't need to complete the calculation on items that are near zero risk to start with.
... depending whether your gas is piped or bottled, and again depending whether you can get a heat-bank running on off-peak electricity.
Note that with heating, you attain very high efficiency. (Gas->heat good, fuel->electricity poor, electricity->heat good).
Converting fuel or electricity into motion, or into light, it's not near so good.
You'd use gas for heat, but probablyly not for lights these days, nor for the TV
Yes, it's more economical to generate centrally. Otherwise we'd all have private petrol-run generators to power our homes.
Even better if you can get permission to use "off peak" (if they have that in your part of the world).
Starting up and shutting down coal-fired generators is quite expensive/uneconomical, so to reduce starts and stops you can have hot water, and perhaps heat banks, running "off peak"; the electric company can turn it on when it suits them to manage their load.
Further, some hydro schemes generate in peak times and pump the water back again off-peak; the losses involved are less than the cost of firing the coal plants up and down.
If you're going to carry power in batteries, you may as well plug them in when you can.
We all know expansion doesn't require a cosmological consultant, don't we?
oh, it was "constant". Sorry.
How exactly? Badly I'd say. I expect I'd soon run into something like MDAC becoming incompatible with VB6, but a heap of other things requiring the newest MDAC, until you can't patch Windows or IE, or 3rd party database drivers, without breaking it.
Time to port a few internal apps to Notes - where compatibility is planned as far ahead as R9, effective as far back as R3..