1) I am sure US totally wants to steal information on any stealth fighter developing in China. They want to know what they are making. And I am sure there are many efforts in progress to gain as much information as possible.
2) "Free" vs "Un-Free" is not the determining factor is innovation and scientific achievements now or into the future. You should be more worried about spending on education, society's attitude to science and bans on things like stem cell research. In the spending on education and society attitude to science the US is lagging many other nations.
First of all which large corporation changes software this quickly? "Ooo Vista's out we gota upgrade!" Doesn't happen that way. Large corps will takes years before they upgrade to Vista only when the cost is right. By then a lot of the so called compatibility problems with Vista will be long gone or Vista versions of applications would be out.
Where I used to work, large Telco, they finished upgrading everyone to windows XP middle of 2004. That's for an OS that was released in 2001. For Vista expect something similar or for it to take even longer. Most likely they'll do it around 2010-2011. Switching from office 97 (oh yes, that right) to 2003 took till end of 2005. There's not that much improvements to Vista that makes it more desirable for corporations to roll over to it quickly. Only with Microsoft stopping support of an OS or new applications no longer supporting the existing OS would corporations move to a new one.
Now as for when the large corps do go and put XP out to pasture I still don't think they'd switch to the Mac. There are lots of reasons but price is the big reason. I don't think you can really say macs are competitive price wise with PC. People get promotions from saving relatively small amounts of money for the company. Writing up a request to get Macs for more money then PCs just don't make much sense. In addition you still cannot count of application support.
Almost entirely true but actually if you have met politicians, in a non political setting, a lot of times they aren't that bright. I know someone who worked as an aid to a politician and was told they have to be watched all the time cause otherwise they'll say things that can really hurt them. In another time we happened to sat down at a restaurant next to a politician and his friend and over heard him talking, clearly audible, about how he "hates fags" but he has to be nice to them cause that's his riding.
The real issue with this "democratic" political system is as you say with the people themselves. No one really cares to find out about what's really going on. Most people have enough on their plate with their daily lives that they can't be f-ed to read up on the issues at hand. Just watch what passes for live televised debates you might as well just watch commercials. Nothing can be done about it they can't put real meat in their arguments cause that just bored people.
You can't really inflate demand in the way he talked about. What he means is since they are the only ones doing the distributing they can inflate the prices. That's price fixing now inflating demand the demand's the same.
Oh brother. The whole idea that it's Muslim against the west is complete bullocks. Look at Hamas and Fatah having a go at each other no need for America or Israel there. Oh and by the by King Hussein of Jordan was attacked by the Palestinian with Syrian support, apparently it's not important where their new homeland gets carved out of. His ass got saved when Israel sent some phantom jets to convince the Syrian tanks to turn around. Saddam attacked Kuwait and threatened the house of Saud. Interesting note that Bin Laden offered to go fight Saddam for Saudi Arabia. Too bad they didn't let him have a crack would have save the world a lot of trouble if Saddam mustard gassed him and his friends and Bush wouldn't have been able to say Iraq was aiding Bin Laden.
The thing is Iran's scaring these middle eastern states more then it's scaring America. Unlike the rest of the world Iran already used WMD against Iraq, and vice versa, in the Iran Iraq war. So clearly they are more willing to use WMD then other countries. After all in their fanatical war against the infidels innocent dead are just martyrs. They are scary scary people and their neighbors are scared.
Now if only there isn't this would thing about Nostradamus predicting WW3 starts in the middle east and kills everyone...
Me. Canada and free health care means you can get a yearly physical, which I do go get. So they do some blood tests and your doctor tells you which things they want you to keep an eye out for. So for men between 20 and 35 it's testicular cancer so he has me checking my balls every month.
How's this different from leaving your garage door remote in your car along with your insurance papers that shows your address? Theives get into your car take your remote and find your address. He/she knows you are out goes to your house and gets in and take everything or worse yet steals your identity and rack up some credit rating damage.
Everyone gets worked up for no reason. This doesn't change a thing. People who wanted to get around the firewall's been doing it for ages using VPN or SSL enabled proxy webpages.
Further more the way the great firewall works makes a lot of sense. Can you imagin the amount of hardware they need to do stateful inspection? You are talking about a country with a lot of internet users.
The whole point of this wall isn't to provide 100% control. It's there to provide some control and to maintain the facade to dumb country fokes. The middle class and others with money don't really care that the country's ran by communists (in name only) nor do they care too much about poor people suffering. So the government don't really care about the middle class finding out stuff. Rather it's the poor people in the country side they are worried about, some of whom still think Mao's alive.
Now with all this BS about the chinese firewall where's the nose and farts about countries who's only export in petrolium? Saudia Arabia is a lot worse then China. You can't even use most IM clients and the connection you do get is dead slow. All being said you don't get your personal stuff searched at customs when entering China. Where as in Saudia Arabia (that if you get a visa) they'll search everthing. Including turning on your laptop to see if you have porn on it and taking your Maxim mag and using a large black marker to color out the skimply dressed women.
I did my high school in Hong Kong in a International school following the British system.
If the regulators in the US of A hears about the stuff we did in a-level chemistry they would freak.
Once we made chlorine gas and stopper some into test tubes. One of my idiot partners took the stopper off one tube and stuff it into someone's nose. Smart.
Same group in a lab a week later someone overheats a reduction agent in a test tube. It went off like a mortor and the content shot out the window. There were people playing volleyball below. Good thing nothing ended up on anyone.
Another person took a whole roll of magnesium metal and dumped it into a beaker of 3 mole HCL. Made a fizzy cloud over the beaker.
A physics teacher teaching a younger class on basic chemistry spilt bromide solution. Sends the class away and tries to clean it himself and passed out from the fumes.
Chem teacher with a PhD showed us Potassium tri oxide which he said is explosive but ah well lets take some risks right?
All in all it was a lot of fun. And it continued at University where some dudes made a tank to generate hydrogen and hydrogen. They'd fill up those watercooler water bottles with the gas and set them off. Blew out some windows at the house.
Quantum? Huh? Where where you during chemistry lessons? Conventional chemistry don't study reaction of chemicals in huge chunks. When you mix two chemicals together and they react they are doing their thing at atomic or molecular levels. That's a lot smaller then these nano stuff you are talking about.
Have you ever seen how much a good infrastructure costs? You have your lowly frontend webserver that are cheap. But in the backend you usually have some real big iron like SAN, backup systems, SAN switches and some expensive database servers.
Back when I was doing IT work my company budgeted 5 million per year to maintain and upgrade our infrastructure. That's where money can go really quickly.
That's hardly the reason to pick one product over another because that company's nicer. Also one can argue that one company over charge you so they can over pay their staff while the other is working to improve the lot of developing country engineers.
Telecoms used to use DC equipment for cellular equipment. They want clean power to make sure all the RF stuff doesn't have issue with power supply noise. You just end up with a very real electrocution risk instead. At the datacenter/switch office I worked at there are still some old equipment that needs DC power (hint hint: that new stuff all runs on AC). Where as your typical AC power cord is relatively thin the DC power supplies has huge metal bars. Low voltage but high power demands means that was the only way. The result is everything has to be shielded inside a plastic case. Anyhow it cost much less to just run everything off AC. You might think that using DC means you can make the UPS system more efficient and simple. However, serious UPS systems uses batteries only for the gap between power failing and generators coming online and the generators outputs AC.
Why must people here be so clearly kids, or stupid?
The biggest cost for a company isn't getting those new OSs. They get them for cheap when they buy large bulk licence packs. The biggest cost is support. Average IT person cost 40k a year plus associated health etc costs in Toronto. You put anyting out there that increases your support load and suddently you need to hire more support staff. At the large telecom I worked at before a manager finding savings of 100k gots bonuses and promotions. Who'd be the idiot to suggest Linux or anything else?
This report is absolute crap. You aren't flying in space you don't die instantly if cabin pressure fails. It has happened before in one case a large part of the roof came off http://www.disastercity.com/flt243/ yes they landed safely and the only fatality was a stewardess that got sucked out. It happens and it's not nice or safe but you don't die everytime.
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1) I am sure US totally wants to steal information on any stealth fighter developing in China. They want to know what they are making. And I am sure there are many efforts in progress to gain as much information as possible.
2) "Free" vs "Un-Free" is not the determining factor is innovation and scientific achievements now or into the future. You should be more worried about spending on education, society's attitude to science and bans on things like stem cell research. In the spending on education and society attitude to science the US is lagging many other nations.
Easy as pie isn't it with the TN visas.
Does your school have engineering students? Cause you might want to consider those guys. Many of our apps are windows only.
First of all which large corporation changes software this quickly? "Ooo Vista's out we gota upgrade!" Doesn't happen that way. Large corps will takes years before they upgrade to Vista only when the cost is right. By then a lot of the so called compatibility problems with Vista will be long gone or Vista versions of applications would be out.
Where I used to work, large Telco, they finished upgrading everyone to windows XP middle of 2004. That's for an OS that was released in 2001. For Vista expect something similar or for it to take even longer. Most likely they'll do it around 2010-2011. Switching from office 97 (oh yes, that right) to 2003 took till end of 2005. There's not that much improvements to Vista that makes it more desirable for corporations to roll over to it quickly. Only with Microsoft stopping support of an OS or new applications no longer supporting the existing OS would corporations move to a new one.
Now as for when the large corps do go and put XP out to pasture I still don't think they'd switch to the Mac. There are lots of reasons but price is the big reason. I don't think you can really say macs are competitive price wise with PC. People get promotions from saving relatively small amounts of money for the company. Writing up a request to get Macs for more money then PCs just don't make much sense. In addition you still cannot count of application support.
Almost entirely true but actually if you have met politicians, in a non political setting, a lot of times they aren't that bright. I know someone who worked as an aid to a politician and was told they have to be watched all the time cause otherwise they'll say things that can really hurt them. In another time we happened to sat down at a restaurant next to a politician and his friend and over heard him talking, clearly audible, about how he "hates fags" but he has to be nice to them cause that's his riding.
The real issue with this "democratic" political system is as you say with the people themselves. No one really cares to find out about what's really going on. Most people have enough on their plate with their daily lives that they can't be f-ed to read up on the issues at hand. Just watch what passes for live televised debates you might as well just watch commercials. Nothing can be done about it they can't put real meat in their arguments cause that just bored people.
You can't really inflate demand in the way he talked about. What he means is since they are the only ones doing the distributing they can inflate the prices. That's price fixing now inflating demand the demand's the same.
Oh brother. The whole idea that it's Muslim against the west is complete bullocks. Look at Hamas and Fatah having a go at each other no need for America or Israel there. Oh and by the by King Hussein of Jordan was attacked by the Palestinian with Syrian support, apparently it's not important where their new homeland gets carved out of. His ass got saved when Israel sent some phantom jets to convince the Syrian tanks to turn around. Saddam attacked Kuwait and threatened the house of Saud. Interesting note that Bin Laden offered to go fight Saddam for Saudi Arabia. Too bad they didn't let him have a crack would have save the world a lot of trouble if Saddam mustard gassed him and his friends and Bush wouldn't have been able to say Iraq was aiding Bin Laden.
The thing is Iran's scaring these middle eastern states more then it's scaring America. Unlike the rest of the world Iran already used WMD against Iraq, and vice versa, in the Iran Iraq war. So clearly they are more willing to use WMD then other countries. After all in their fanatical war against the infidels innocent dead are just martyrs. They are scary scary people and their neighbors are scared.
Now if only there isn't this would thing about Nostradamus predicting WW3 starts in the middle east and kills everyone...
Me. Canada and free health care means you can get a yearly physical, which I do go get. So they do some blood tests and your doctor tells you which things they want you to keep an eye out for. So for men between 20 and 35 it's testicular cancer so he has me checking my balls every month.
They couldn't have gotten a larger helicopter or sling load it below the chopper? Geez they aren't very bright are they these sciencetist?
How's this different from leaving your garage door remote in your car along with your insurance papers that shows your address? Theives get into your car take your remote and find your address. He/she knows you are out goes to your house and gets in and take everything or worse yet steals your identity and rack up some credit rating damage.
Everyone gets worked up for no reason. This doesn't change a thing. People who wanted to get around the firewall's been doing it for ages using VPN or SSL enabled proxy webpages.
Further more the way the great firewall works makes a lot of sense. Can you imagin the amount of hardware they need to do stateful inspection? You are talking about a country with a lot of internet users.
The whole point of this wall isn't to provide 100% control. It's there to provide some control and to maintain the facade to dumb country fokes. The middle class and others with money don't really care that the country's ran by communists (in name only) nor do they care too much about poor people suffering. So the government don't really care about the middle class finding out stuff. Rather it's the poor people in the country side they are worried about, some of whom still think Mao's alive.
Now with all this BS about the chinese firewall where's the nose and farts about countries who's only export in petrolium? Saudia Arabia is a lot worse then China. You can't even use most IM clients and the connection you do get is dead slow. All being said you don't get your personal stuff searched at customs when entering China. Where as in Saudia Arabia (that if you get a visa) they'll search everthing. Including turning on your laptop to see if you have porn on it and taking your Maxim mag and using a large black marker to color out the skimply dressed women.
I did my high school in Hong Kong in a International school following the British system.
If the regulators in the US of A hears about the stuff we did in a-level chemistry they would freak.
Once we made chlorine gas and stopper some into test tubes. One of my idiot partners took the stopper off one tube and stuff it into someone's nose. Smart.
Same group in a lab a week later someone overheats a reduction agent in a test tube. It went off like a mortor and the content shot out the window. There were people playing volleyball below. Good thing nothing ended up on anyone.
Another person took a whole roll of magnesium metal and dumped it into a beaker of 3 mole HCL. Made a fizzy cloud over the beaker.
A physics teacher teaching a younger class on basic chemistry spilt bromide solution. Sends the class away and tries to clean it himself and passed out from the fumes.
Chem teacher with a PhD showed us Potassium tri oxide which he said is explosive but ah well lets take some risks right?
All in all it was a lot of fun. And it continued at University where some dudes made a tank to generate hydrogen and hydrogen. They'd fill up those watercooler water bottles with the gas and set them off. Blew out some windows at the house.
Yep chemistry's too much fun for Bush.
Quantum? Huh? Where where you during chemistry lessons? Conventional chemistry don't study reaction of chemicals in huge chunks. When you mix two chemicals together and they react they are doing their thing at atomic or molecular levels. That's a lot smaller then these nano stuff you are talking about.
Have you ever seen how much a good infrastructure costs? You have your lowly frontend webserver that are cheap. But in the backend you usually have some real big iron like SAN, backup systems, SAN switches and some expensive database servers.
Back when I was doing IT work my company budgeted 5 million per year to maintain and upgrade our infrastructure. That's where money can go really quickly.
That's hardly the reason to pick one product over another because that company's nicer. Also one can argue that one company over charge you so they can over pay their staff while the other is working to improve the lot of developing country engineers.
Telecoms used to use DC equipment for cellular equipment. They want clean power to make sure all the RF stuff doesn't have issue with power supply noise. You just end up with a very real electrocution risk instead. At the datacenter/switch office I worked at there are still some old equipment that needs DC power (hint hint: that new stuff all runs on AC). Where as your typical AC power cord is relatively thin the DC power supplies has huge metal bars. Low voltage but high power demands means that was the only way. The result is everything has to be shielded inside a plastic case. Anyhow it cost much less to just run everything off AC. You might think that using DC means you can make the UPS system more efficient and simple. However, serious UPS systems uses batteries only for the gap between power failing and generators coming online and the generators outputs AC.
One more thing. They are saying they will show this thing at cebit.
Wee lets all look at the link on yahoo news. How come on one thought of going to the manufacturer's website?
http://www.antig.com/english/mediabay.html
It used cartridges. There you go your refill.
It's just a diesel car. There are many out there already.
Why must people here be so clearly kids, or stupid?
The biggest cost for a company isn't getting those new OSs. They get them for cheap when they buy large bulk licence packs. The biggest cost is support. Average IT person cost 40k a year plus associated health etc costs in Toronto. You put anyting out there that increases your support load and suddently you need to hire more support staff. At the large telecom I worked at before a manager finding savings of 100k gots bonuses and promotions. Who'd be the idiot to suggest Linux or anything else?
Damn I would like a copy of that game. Hook me up yo!?
I would suggest you look up the life write/erase cycles for flash memories before you try something like that.
WTF? Get a life and learn to make sense. Why is this idiot "informative" this piece is the definition of inane.
Or Google, Ebay and yahoo could decide not to service bell south's customers. That should give them an idea who wears the pants.
This report is absolute crap. You aren't flying in space you don't die instantly if cabin pressure fails. It has happened before in one case a large part of the roof came off http://www.disastercity.com/flt243/ yes they landed safely and the only fatality was a stewardess that got sucked out. It happens and it's not nice or safe but you don't die everytime.