9-11 has cost many billion dollars to someone (insurance companies and their shareholders, airline companies, etc). There is a need for the government to show everyone it is doing its best to improve drastically security. It must prove a second 9-11, if not impossible, will be much more difficult than the original one. It must restore trustworthy in the country economy.
Why Oklahoma city has not the same effect? Because, perception is this kind of terrorism is much more easy to handle with and prevent. So, there was not the same kind of effect on investors and citizen.
a 100 000 km cable made with a yet to invent material, with a yet to invent manufacturing process, with yet to invent deployement mecanism, with a yet to invent protection measures and with a yet to estimate electricity bill (since the vehicles will climb up and down using electricity converted from a laser beam they will received from earth)?
The estimate of 7 billions $ seems very, very, underestimated.
And I suppose all known NASA locations are not consider as potential site to build this escalator, most of them are much more to near regions where tropical storms are likely to happen. Because, what would happen to a nice 1 meter large, paper thin, 100 000 km long light weight ribbon under a tropical storm? For sure, it will be hard to align the laser beam on the vehicles.
Absolutely, that's pure graphics using some kind of data (filesystems, filetree, directories) to generates it.
It will be really valuable when 3D graphics will be used to convey meaning for the user.
A poster is having a web page about 3D UI and filesystems. I have not yet review all of them, however, for know, that's only nice pictures, nices interfaces, but nothing really useful.
The purpose of scientific graphics is to exploit graphics to ease data interpretation and extract meaning from it. I am still amazed this project has won the first prize...
"Joseph Dvorak, a researcher at Motorola US, predicts the computers and technology we wear in four or five years time will not draw attention to ourselves."
He may be good at technology integration, however, he doesn't understand anything about fashion...
The more noticable, the better. However, it needs to be still comfortable and wearable. There is a difference between his picture and mine. When will we get solar-cell fabrics?
Almost two years ago, IBM was shipping Thinkpad with Linux Caldera (kuff, kuff...) pre-loaded. I don't know why they no longer sell them, but maybe support costs were too high, demand too low, too early in the market or all these answers...
Management costs for dedicated servers which are almost idle, but still required as dedicated servers for many reasons are high. Also, reliability is an issue when you suddenly multiply low cost servers, which in turn reflects on the management costs, hardware cost and downtime cost.
I think you have absolutely no idea of what kind of cluster you can build with such a solution. Just think about the channel transfer rate on a mainframe and imagine you can virtualize the network and benefit from this transfer rate.
since I am helding a patent on these techniques of extortion and they are not licensed to use them, they need to cease immediately any use of them or I will be in the obligation to sue them for patent, IP and copyright violation.
Well, I think these face recognition techniques relies on too much standardization to be very effective at this spy game.
However, it may be useful while using it with a passport picture. In fact, last week, canadian government advise passeport requesters they will be refused if the picture doesn't conform to a new requirement. It is strictly forbidden to smile on your passeport picture. I don't know the name of the faces recognition software they use, but it is likely it may be completely by pass by too much happiness!
Is a kamikaze-terrorist's smiling before pushing the little red button?
And I was expecting RedHat to be compared to a red beer, like Rickard's Red and the likes.
And shouldn't be Corona instead of Budweiser. Because, I'm very sorry for those guys brewering the Budweiser, but they are just most selling beer in the USA, not around the world. Corona, the mexican beer, is the most selling beer around the world.
All this to notice Australia is not having a much great choice of beers...
Excuse-me, aren't you confusing a little bit the customer and the vendor?
Vendors don't like to let customers make choices, because customers facing choices need to think about it. And vendors don't like to see thinking customers leaving there business place. They interpret this as a lost sale. And, sometimes, it is.
On the other side, customers sometimes are asking for advise, so, they do not expect to deal with 100 possibilities, they asked someone else to skim this confusing situation for them and came back with a short list or a single choice.
So, Linux distros vendors are acting like advisors for the customers. But, the problem is not resolved at all, which distro should I pick?
You may choose a distro which let you make many choices or a distro which will make them for you. Something like: Default, Custom, Expert Install for Windows.
But, anyway, all this has nothing to do with the Open Source movement and rather than with trying to force people to adopt your stuff and buy it.
I still think variety is not a problem nor a issue. After all, cars are coming in a large variety of colors, size, form, performance, etc. And you are even allowed to modify it if you wish and respect legal issues.
Thanks guys, I was aware of the fact they were passive devices and they need to be triggered by some external RF source. However, there is such sources in a airplane. So, there underlying question was about the potential for those sources to trigger the tags and given the number of tags that maybe present in a small location, would RFs adds to make some significant noise?
From another comment, I understand the triggering source needs to be strong. But what is the frequency of this source? And what is strong?
Anyway, since my week is at its end, I may manage to find some time to do my own research on the subject. I was just looking for a quick answer.
Keep in mind there is a great risk to invest money in a country which cannot guarantee politic and social stability. So, for now some companies are trying and investing, however, in return, these countries will be required to evolve if they want to keep the investments they grabbed.
That's the beautiful part of the story, at my sense.
On our side, there is a shift in the economy and as it happens for all shifts, there is a crisis. The real challenge, is to manage the crisis without disrupting the community. After all, that's nice to have cheap products, but you need also customers...
Very odd thing, but down to earth one. This how almost consulting firms works. They need to show the lowest price to win the contract. So, the do it Q&D and almost working properly. Then, as bugs and problems arise, the customer has very few choices than paying them again to fix it and do it right.
And if the customer is not happy, just let him know he is the very first person responsible for all this fiasco (for him).
This is very frustrating for those of us who like to do a good job and do things right. But be realistic, nobody is willing to pay for something he doesn't see an immediate advantage for. So, even customers want Q&D jobs rather than right and clean ones if it doesn't fit the bill (lowest price).
at IBM, people involved in open source projects just don't have access to any IBM code.
Even the developpers of the IBM journalled filesytem (JFS) don't have access at all to the AIX version of the same filesystem. So, I think SCO is just shooting itself in the foot.
In fact, they just try to delay customers' acceptance of Linux and try to find someone to pay for there lack of business intelligence.
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9-11 has cost many billion dollars to someone (insurance companies and their shareholders, airline companies, etc). There is a need for the government to show everyone it is doing its best to improve drastically security. It must prove a second 9-11, if not impossible, will be much more difficult than the original one. It must restore trustworthy in the country economy.
Why Oklahoma city has not the same effect? Because, perception is this kind of terrorism is much more easy to handle with and prevent. So, there was not the same kind of effect on investors and citizen.
The estimate of 7 billions $ seems very, very, underestimated.
And I suppose all known NASA locations are not consider as potential site to build this escalator, most of them are much more to near regions where tropical storms are likely to happen. Because, what would happen to a nice 1 meter large, paper thin, 100 000 km long light weight ribbon under a tropical storm? For sure, it will be hard to align the laser beam on the vehicles.
It will be really valuable when 3D graphics will be used to convey meaning for the user.
A poster is having a web page about 3D UI and filesystems. I have not yet review all of them, however, for know, that's only nice pictures, nices interfaces, but nothing really useful.
The purpose of scientific graphics is to exploit graphics to ease data interpretation and extract meaning from it. I am still amazed this project has won the first prize...
He may be good at technology integration, however, he doesn't understand anything about fashion...
The more noticable, the better. However, it needs to be still comfortable and wearable. There is a difference between his picture and mine. When will we get solar-cell fabrics?
Files are objects that can support any kind of datastructure you wish them to support if you write the appropriate interfaces.
So, at my sense, it's not files vs soup (or any other kind of structure). It's: Hey, here is another datastructure, do you find it useful?
Management costs for dedicated servers which are almost idle, but still required as dedicated servers for many reasons are high. Also, reliability is an issue when you suddenly multiply low cost servers, which in turn reflects on the management costs, hardware cost and downtime cost.
And that's just part of the story...
However, it may be useful while using it with a passport picture. In fact, last week, canadian government advise passeport requesters they will be refused if the picture doesn't conform to a new requirement. It is strictly forbidden to smile on your passeport picture. I don't know the name of the faces recognition software they use, but it is likely it may be completely by pass by too much happiness!
Is a kamikaze-terrorist's smiling before pushing the little red button?
And I was expecting RedHat to be compared to a red beer, like Rickard's Red and the likes.
And shouldn't be Corona instead of Budweiser. Because, I'm very sorry for those guys brewering the Budweiser, but they are just most selling beer in the USA, not around the world. Corona, the mexican beer, is the most selling beer around the world.
All this to notice Australia is not having a much great choice of beers...
And they should open much more their market!
Vendors don't like to let customers make choices, because customers facing choices need to think about it. And vendors don't like to see thinking customers leaving there business place. They interpret this as a lost sale. And, sometimes, it is.
On the other side, customers sometimes are asking for advise, so, they do not expect to deal with 100 possibilities, they asked someone else to skim this confusing situation for them and came back with a short list or a single choice.
So, Linux distros vendors are acting like advisors for the customers. But, the problem is not resolved at all, which distro should I pick?
You may choose a distro which let you make many choices or a distro which will make them for you. Something like: Default, Custom, Expert Install for Windows.
But, anyway, all this has nothing to do with the Open Source movement and rather than with trying to force people to adopt your stuff and buy it.
I still think variety is not a problem nor a issue. After all, cars are coming in a large variety of colors, size, form, performance, etc. And you are even allowed to modify it if you wish and respect legal issues.
Homer Simpson is alive and active at a real Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio. Only the name of the city has been changed to preserve it's identity...
Silly me, I was thinking the whole Simpson's drama was just a fiction...
From another comment, I understand the triggering source needs to be strong. But what is the frequency of this source? And what is strong?
Anyway, since my week is at its end, I may manage to find some time to do my own research on the subject. I was just looking for a quick answer.
Thanks all!
And a little bit lazy, I must admit, to search the web for technical info on RFID tags, frequencies, modes of operation, range, etc...
So, if someone else and knowledgeable can answer it, I will be glad.
Keep in mind there is a great risk to invest money in a country which cannot guarantee politic and social stability. So, for now some companies are trying and investing, however, in return, these countries will be required to evolve if they want to keep the investments they grabbed.
That's the beautiful part of the story, at my sense.
On our side, there is a shift in the economy and as it happens for all shifts, there is a crisis. The real challenge, is to manage the crisis without disrupting the community. After all, that's nice to have cheap products, but you need also customers...
Maybe you just reach the upper-bound limit of your own brain-CPU dedicated to imagination?
Very odd thing, but down to earth one. This how almost consulting firms works. They need to show the lowest price to win the contract. So, the do it Q&D and almost working properly. Then, as bugs and problems arise, the customer has very few choices than paying them again to fix it and do it right.
And if the customer is not happy, just let him know he is the very first person responsible for all this fiasco (for him).
This is very frustrating for those of us who like to do a good job and do things right. But be realistic, nobody is willing to pay for something he doesn't see an immediate advantage for. So, even customers want Q&D jobs rather than right and clean ones if it doesn't fit the bill (lowest price).
Even the developpers of the IBM journalled filesytem (JFS) don't have access at all to the AIX version of the same filesystem. So, I think SCO is just shooting itself in the foot.
In fact, they just try to delay customers' acceptance of Linux and try to find someone to pay for there lack of business intelligence.