Monopoly one, meet monopoly two.
Factually incorrect about the monopoly, at least in Walley-World's case, but evidence that in most cases capitalism works this sort of thing out. The only alternative is paying $300 for CDs that must praise the Peoples Republic of America.
Anybody remember the slogan of the "New NASA" just a few years ago? Faster, Cheaper, Better. Then one faster, cheaper rover was lost, and they more or less scraped it, at least in PR. I think it's still a good idea, but the thing that is really going to drive down costs is private enterprise, not government funding.
A good parallel is Columbus, who had funding issues with his government. He finally secured it, but it wasn't until business figured out ways to make money off of it that trips to the New Land were in reach of the average Joe. (Granted one of those money making schemes was immoral- let's not kidnap Africans to harvest moon rocks this time.)
Point being: it's great that governments kick-start exploration, and even better when they do it on the cheap, but they should do it as a means to an end, promoting commercial exploration.
It should be private. Anybody honest who's dealt with government contracts can tell you it would be overbudget and take twice as long if the government got involved. It's a daunting task, but nothing a (truely) free market couldn't handle. The only trick would be finding a free market.
Unless I'm reading things wrong, this doesn't help run windows binaries on linux. From the site:Operating system call mapping from any Unix/Linux-like operating system or any mainframe operating system to any Unix/Linux-like operating system is supported.
You could do Linux -> Windows w/ cygwin, Linux -> OSX, or Unix -> Unix, but not Windows -> anything. This makes much more sense, but it still smacks of vaporware.
People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world.
Then there are those of us that think the real world really is pretty clearly delineated, only we tend to make things more complex when they need not be.
I registered a domain last week w/ godaddy.com, and was quite suprised when it was available within about 10 minutes. The domain went to the correct host from a variety of ISPs and PCs -meaning it wasn't just my ISP or my PC. Any chance this system could already be in place?
SOA refers to a method of software architecture that is en vouge- not just a sneaky business model as the post suggests. I'm sure some businesses will jump on the SOA bandwagon for the idea of subscriber-based income, but those that do so for that reason alone will fail.
Web Services, WSDL, etc., all parts of implementing SOA, are essentially ways to provide software services via some network transport (typically HTTP). This makes sense for alot of things. For example, integrating inventory systems in real time. In days gone by, Company A would provide some random way for Company B to access it's inventory/price sheet. Text files, spreadsheets, EDI, etc. All SOA does is apply a machine-readable contract to the process. It says "this server will answer requests that look like ABC with data that looks like XYZ." WSDL, Web Services, etc. are all just about defining that "contract" to cover things like security, data types, etc.
Ironically, this allows for more diversity in the actual implementations. It doesn't matter if your service is provided on a $20,000 HP/W2K3 box running IIS or a $200 Linux box running Apache- as long as it provides a description of it's service, others can consume it- again using whatever language they choose. There are already implementations for most of these standards for Java, PHP, Perl,.NET, C++, and many other languages.
So, put up the tin foil, this isn't a massive conspiracy to get you to pay each time you open your "word processor service." It's just a better way to provide data services where they make sense.
A common security system practice, especially in web development, is to use MD5 to hash users' passwords and store them in a database. When the user enters their password for access, it is hashed and checked against the db. This means you can check passwords without having to store it plain-text anywhere.
My understanding is that this problem in MD5 means it is slightly easier to take an MD5 hash (if the database were stolen, for example), and find a password that will generate the same hash, and thus allow access. Is this correct? What are some developers doing out there to address this issue in their security systems? Is it really an issue in this scenario?
When physicists say "teleportation", they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link. Researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Science used an 800m-long optical fibre fed through a public sewer system tunnel to connect labs on opposite sides of the River Danube.
I've actually wondered about this in a few QT articles. The picture I get from reading about it, you could entangle photons across the planet and transfer state between them instantly. In many articles, like the one quoted above, they say in one sentence teleportation transfers states without a physical link, but in the next, describe a physical link used in the expirement. Could some quantumly-entangled slashdotter explain this to us unwashed Newtonian masses? Are the "wires" optional?
I believe there will be a reversal of urbanization if & when fast, efficient long distance trasportation comes to market. Many people- myself included- prefer lots of space, but live in the city or suburban areas because they like being close to things like grocery stores, friends, church, etc. The faster you can get to these places, the further away you can live from them.
May not seem that profound, until you consider things like the last election map. An exodus from the city would no doubt have interesting social consequences.
Ah, vindication. I once had it out with them for trying to charge me a "restocking fee" for a non-functional MP3 CD player. A call to the Better Business Beureau and I got my fee back, but I'm still no fan of the company. Apparently they really were planning on restocking it...
Issue: Error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP. Resolution:
Error message now placed on gradient green screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP.
Mr Tolkien describes a tremendous conflict between good and evil... but his good people are consistently good, his evil figures immovably evil," wrote the Observer's Mr Muir.
I can understand (yet disagree with) most of the criticisms, but if someone pulled out this one today, I'd accuse them of not reading the books. A major - if not THE major - theme is the internal good vs evil conflicts of the characters. The whole point of the ring is that it corrupts even good people. It's something Frodo and even Gandolf struggle with. The reason it's given to a hobbit is because they have the greatest chance of getting rid of it before it corrupts them completely. Then you have Golumn who is completely corrupt, struggling to become good and can't quite do it.
The criticisms were just about the first book, though, so maybe I'd let the old chap Muir off...
This is second hand, but I believe the source. He worked with a company designing some of the first ATMs (not sure which). One day, there was a big demo, with lots of press, etc. on hand to see the new machine in action. As Murphy's Law would have it, the ATM quit working that morning. But the show must go on, so they crammed an engineer in the thing and had him shove bills through on cue.
DVDs rallied to defend their position as leading video media Wednesday, predicting that Gates will be obsolete within 10 years.
"In the near future, we simply will not have a need for Gates," said the flat round storage, " there will be much easier and quicker ways to do the things Gates do."
Of note- just a few years ago, he would have gotten in a lot of trouble for his little radio, especially if it played music or was used by a woman. Hmph. Maybe getting rid of a totalitarian regime can have a positive outcome after all!
I once had a Best Buy manager swearing under his breath because I refused to pay a "restocking fee" for a non-functioning MP3 player I was returning. Isn't it just as much a scam to stock defective merchandise and charge the customer to restock it?
There's a happy ending, though- I called the Better Business Bureau, and Best Buy refunded the fee.
A merger with SAP would be a profound break with previous Microsoft strategy
Not sure how it would have been much different than strategy in other markets, but it should be pointed out they did buy out another large ERP company.
...The new transparent monitor and petabyte storage facilities will require operators using special gestures to retrieve and review suspect information. In addition, the facilities will house four expiremental clairvoyants who have the ability to visualize murders before they occur. Potential murderers will be tried under New York's new precrime laws.
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Monopoly one, meet monopoly two.
Factually incorrect about the monopoly, at least in Walley-World's case, but evidence that in most cases capitalism works this sort of thing out. The only alternative is paying $300 for CDs that must praise the Peoples Republic of America.
Anybody remember the slogan of the "New NASA" just a few years ago? Faster, Cheaper, Better. Then one faster, cheaper rover was lost, and they more or less scraped it, at least in PR. I think it's still a good idea, but the thing that is really going to drive down costs is private enterprise, not government funding.
A good parallel is Columbus, who had funding issues with his government. He finally secured it, but it wasn't until business figured out ways to make money off of it that trips to the New Land were in reach of the average Joe. (Granted one of those money making schemes was immoral- let's not kidnap Africans to harvest moon rocks this time.)
Point being: it's great that governments kick-start exploration, and even better when they do it on the cheap, but they should do it as a means to an end, promoting commercial exploration.
It should be private. Anybody honest who's dealt with government contracts can tell you it would be overbudget and take twice as long if the government got involved. It's a daunting task, but nothing a (truely) free market couldn't handle. The only trick would be finding a free market.
Does this story remind anybody else of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome?
Unless I'm reading things wrong, this doesn't help run windows binaries on linux. From the site:Operating system call mapping from any Unix/Linux-like operating system or any mainframe operating system to any Unix/Linux-like operating system is supported.
You could do Linux -> Windows w/ cygwin, Linux -> OSX, or Unix -> Unix, but not Windows -> anything. This makes much more sense, but it still smacks of vaporware.
People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world.
Then there are those of us that think the real world really is pretty clearly delineated, only we tend to make things more complex when they need not be.
What's in it for Intel is to sell chips to power said 'new internet'. How dare they.
I registered a domain last week w/ godaddy.com, and was quite suprised when it was available within about 10 minutes. The domain went to the correct host from a variety of ISPs and PCs -meaning it wasn't just my ISP or my PC. Any chance this system could already be in place?
SOA refers to a method of software architecture that is en vouge- not just a sneaky business model as the post suggests. I'm sure some businesses will jump on the SOA bandwagon for the idea of subscriber-based income, but those that do so for that reason alone will fail.
.NET, C++, and many other languages.
Web Services, WSDL, etc., all parts of implementing SOA, are essentially ways to provide software services via some network transport (typically HTTP). This makes sense for alot of things. For example, integrating inventory systems in real time. In days gone by, Company A would provide some random way for Company B to access it's inventory/price sheet. Text files, spreadsheets, EDI, etc. All SOA does is apply a machine-readable contract to the process. It says "this server will answer requests that look like ABC with data that looks like XYZ." WSDL, Web Services, etc. are all just about defining that "contract" to cover things like security, data types, etc.
Ironically, this allows for more diversity in the actual implementations. It doesn't matter if your service is provided on a $20,000 HP/W2K3 box running IIS or a $200 Linux box running Apache- as long as it provides a description of it's service, others can consume it- again using whatever language they choose. There are already implementations for most of these standards for Java, PHP, Perl,
So, put up the tin foil, this isn't a massive conspiracy to get you to pay each time you open your "word processor service." It's just a better way to provide data services where they make sense.
A common security system practice, especially in web development, is to use MD5 to hash users' passwords and store them in a database. When the user enters their password for access, it is hashed and checked against the db. This means you can check passwords without having to store it plain-text anywhere.
My understanding is that this problem in MD5 means it is slightly easier to take an MD5 hash (if the database were stolen, for example), and find a password that will generate the same hash, and thus allow access. Is this correct? What are some developers doing out there to address this issue in their security systems? Is it really an issue in this scenario?
When physicists say "teleportation", they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link. Researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Science used an 800m-long optical fibre fed through a public sewer system tunnel to connect labs on opposite sides of the River Danube.
I've actually wondered about this in a few QT articles. The picture I get from reading about it, you could entangle photons across the planet and transfer state between them instantly. In many articles, like the one quoted above, they say in one sentence teleportation transfers states without a physical link, but in the next, describe a physical link used in the expirement. Could some quantumly-entangled slashdotter explain this to us unwashed Newtonian masses? Are the "wires" optional?
I believe there will be a reversal of urbanization if & when fast, efficient long distance trasportation comes to market. Many people- myself included- prefer lots of space, but live in the city or suburban areas because they like being close to things like grocery stores, friends, church, etc. The faster you can get to these places, the further away you can live from them.
May not seem that profound, until you consider things like the last election map. An exodus from the city would no doubt have interesting social consequences.
Ah, vindication. I once had it out with them for trying to charge me a "restocking fee" for a non-functional MP3 CD player. A call to the Better Business Beureau and I got my fee back, but I'm still no fan of the company. Apparently they really were planning on restocking it...
Issue:
Error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP.
Resolution:
Error message now placed on gradient green screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP.
On a napkin at the DNC:
Talking points:
Economic recession *scratch scratch* Jobless recovery *scratch scratch*
Well, there's your precedent for regulating other technology, like say P2P.
Mr Tolkien describes a tremendous conflict between good and evil... but his good people are consistently good, his evil figures immovably evil," wrote the Observer's Mr Muir.
I can understand (yet disagree with) most of the criticisms, but if someone pulled out this one today, I'd accuse them of not reading the books. A major - if not THE major - theme is the internal good vs evil conflicts of the characters. The whole point of the ring is that it corrupts even good people. It's something Frodo and even Gandolf struggle with. The reason it's given to a hobbit is because they have the greatest chance of getting rid of it before it corrupts them completely. Then you have Golumn who is completely corrupt, struggling to become good and can't quite do it.
The criticisms were just about the first book, though, so maybe I'd let the old chap Muir off...
Soma.
This is second hand, but I believe the source. He worked with a company designing some of the first ATMs (not sure which). One day, there was a big demo, with lots of press, etc. on hand to see the new machine in action. As Murphy's Law would have it, the ATM quit working that morning. But the show must go on, so they crammed an engineer in the thing and had him shove bills through on cue.
DVDs Predict Gates Will Be Obsolete In 10 Years
DVDs rallied to defend their position as leading video media Wednesday, predicting that Gates will be obsolete within 10 years.
"In the near future, we simply will not have a need for Gates," said the flat round storage, " there will be much easier and quicker ways to do the things Gates do."
Gates were unavailable for comment.
Point taken. Neither Communism nor Totalitarianism support innovation.
Of note- just a few years ago, he would have gotten in a lot of trouble for his little radio, especially if it played music or was used by a woman. Hmph. Maybe getting rid of a totalitarian regime can have a positive outcome after all!
I once had a Best Buy manager swearing under his breath because I refused to pay a "restocking fee" for a non-functioning MP3 player I was returning. Isn't it just as much a scam to stock defective merchandise and charge the customer to restock it? There's a happy ending, though- I called the Better Business Bureau, and Best Buy refunded the fee.
A merger with SAP would be a profound break with previous Microsoft strategy
Not sure how it would have been much different than strategy in other markets, but it should be pointed out they did buy out another large ERP company.
...The new transparent monitor and petabyte storage facilities will require operators using special gestures to retrieve and review suspect information. In addition, the facilities will house four expiremental clairvoyants who have the ability to visualize murders before they occur. Potential murderers will be tried under New York's new precrime laws.