This isnt so much about the internet, but more about the trust, or lack of, that parents have for children. Its common for parents to take the line of: Look, be open with me and trust me to monitor what you are doing, and I will be fair about it what happens.
This line of thought jsut dosent work. The problem with it is that it assumes that the child cannot gauge for themself what they are looking-at/doing, when almost for all cases they can. Why would they hide a screen when you walk past, if they havent already come to a conclusion that they need to hide it? (Either because the material is something they feel you will find inappropriate, regardless of werther it really is or not, or simply because they dislike the fact you aren't trusting them.)
Once a child (nay, person) has already hade up their mind that: 1. they are being monitored or watched, and 2. they arent being trusted to make up their own mind, then your have already lost the game. Subsequently asking them to be completely open and transparent with what they are doing is not just insulting their intelligence, but asking them to incriminate themselves. And parents still make the mistake that they think the idea works.
Once you violate the trust you have for a person by asking them to possibly incriminate themselves volentarily, you can hardly expect any trust back in return. How you then solve the problem of internet access is up to you, but coming from a technical background I can think of at least one way. Monitoring proxy logs after-the-fact, at least gives the children the idea that you trust them to at least some extent, and that gives at least a little incentive to do the right thing.
Still, coming down on them like a ton-of-bricks at the end of the week when you go through the logs, isnt going to help your cause for the week after.
No serious systems administrator running a public or private access unix system with user accounts allows such valuable user information out onto the net. Anyone who does (maybe the same idiots who run IRC servers that require ident?) deserve to have their user accounts 0wned. Everyone I know makes sure ident is at least faked, but usually plain dropped silently.
There is NO good reason for crappy old fake-able, spoof-able, deny-able ident to be a requirement anymore. Certain IRC admins just need to get their heads out of their asses.
As usual, Microsoft finds it more important to get all the eye-candy implemented, before getting the important backend (productivity?) improvements in place. (If any.)
Why cant we have had a second edition of XP where they implement the database-driven FS and and other code improvements, before they kick the marketing machine into overdrive with "Check out our new pretty sidebar eyecandy! Even more My Monopolyware bogosities! Even uglier default theme OOTB!" Sheesh, the next real version might have less fatal bugs if they did SE-like updates in between real releases. (And didnt charge a fortune for such odd-release updates.)
People have already mentioned its a bad idea. You may take them at their word, it is.
But that said, why even buy a system if it limits you before you have even opened the box? Ram is so cheap nowdays you have to be really stingy to not meet your base requirements, even if that includes a ton of Photoshop work, or most any other ram-intensive app. (Server stuff not withstanding.)
If possible, buy your Dell with minimum RAM posible, and buy 3rd party ram new to replace it, the largest size you can buy on a DIMM. That will give you 2x the maximum. If that isnt enough though, DONT BUY THAT SYSTEM! As for using the old ram, that will only slow your system down anyway. Deal with obsolescence and either reuse it in another system, sell it for a token sum, or give it away to someone who can use it. I tend to pass old hardware I have no need of anymore to friends or family.
IMO the key to making money in the Linux Market is a really killer app.
Marketing dosent work on tech-savvy customers I think, if someone is savvy enough to choose Linux as their desktop OS (with all the advantages and liabilities that brings) then you cant sell them a reinvented wheel.
I know there is 2 pieces of software i'd love to see for Linux desktops: First, a replacement or api-level emulator for XFree86 that had some speed and got rid of some bloat. Second would be an extensible and configurable file-manager utility with some truly advanced features (no just rehashing crappy Windows concepts) that wasnt irretrievably tied into some huge WM I dont want to run. I'd pay money for *good* software like that on Linux.
All IMO of course.
This assumes that you arent breaking contract law by renting/hiring/loaning a copyrighted work, that the owner hasnt allowed such use for.
This in turn assumes that the work has a notice on the original media that explains the restriction of rights, and that such a contract holds water. I personally wouldnt want to be paying for a court to decide against the RIAA's opinion though.
Personally, I consider any contract null and void unless I physically signed a full and actual contract. The whole click-through/shrink-wrap contract concept is bogus IMO. What I also think is bogus is FBI/US-Fed-Law warnings on video that also make fair-use statements illegal when they are not. It would be nice if for example if FBI warnings (being an apparent govt. notice) were regulated so that companies cant lie in the fine print about the illegality of actions which would come under fair-use. (Eg: The idea of the parent might come under fair-use, but the RIAA would have you in court, for a new interpretation, so quickly your head would spin.)
In the long term, the most that you can say about the proposed bill, and research into protecting p2p, is that it will simply turn into a technological arms-race.
That will continue indefinetly, the real answer is not to allow such a blatantly stupid and damaging bill to be passed, and if it is passed, to get it struck down as soon as possible.
Passing the technological edge back and forward in a war between the media monopolies and their p2p opponents, might sound fun to some, but its not the real answer.
1. Would all the people bashing this guy for wanting to work on YAIM, do so if it was free/open? Nobody seems to complain as much about reinventing the wheel, when the wheel is free, no matter how useless it is.
2. Would all the people bashing this guy for asking about software models under Linux please realise that the IM thing, though pertinent to the submitter, probably isnt to others who might find discussion on the Linux software market informative. Thats what a forum is for.
Sheesh. I guess its worth losing a bit of karma to point out hipocracy.
If you must go for a model where your software needs to help pay for itself, there are a number of incentives you can try. In the windows world, try-ware and shareware are very common and businesses run successfully on that model. (Eg: JASC, ACD Systems.)
Linux is going to be a tougher nut to crack, even just on licence-religion egangelism alone. That said, a product should sell itself once a user gets to try it and likes it enough. That means you should find a way that lets the user try it for free. Trialware would be an interesting concept under Linux, both socially and on a technical level. (There is no safedisc2 or Nullsoft install wrappers to make life for pirates a bit more difficult, assuming you think protection is worth such effort.)
And for once, this isnt a half-bad Ask Slashdot, in that it exposes liabilities in the Linux marketplace that deserve some attention. Free/Open evangelists on a religious crusade to free all software IMO need to learn tolerance for other models of software creation and dissemination.
No misinformation. You're just making assumptions about law.
First, I am Australian. The DMCA dosent apply to me when I am at home, regardless of wether I imported or bought an R1 disc home with me.
When I am in the USA, according to your theory it is perfectly acceptable for me to play an R1 disc in my laptop, while I am in the United States.
If I region-hack my dvd player in Australia, I havent broken US law. If I play US discs in the USA, I havent broken any law or agreement, and if I play a R1 disc at home, I havent broken any Australian law, and it is a big leap of faith to assume the shrinkwrap contract applies at all. And if my player just happens to adhere to RPC1 instead of RPC2 when I travel to the USA, that is a simple technicality. (I dont think DVD bogo-licences yet state that PRC1 players break the licence, do they?) As to how well the shrinkwrap "We just assume our bogo-licence applies everywhere" restrictions apply, that is for courts to decide.
Its people like you who simply assume that onerous shrinkwrap licencing should apply as law, globally, without it being tested by a court, that ruin it for the rest of us by giving mass support to the corporations who want to take away our rights.
RPC encoding has *Nothing* to do with piracy. Its about enforcing market manipulation and price-fixing.
Disabling RPC is all about being able to play a disc you bought legally in a different region, on your own player. Such as me being able to visit the US and play a new R1 DVD I have bought, on my laptop, on the way home. Which according to the movie mafia, should only play R4 discs.
Anyone with a brain knows that a home-made pirated disc (as opposed to a lot of the mass-pirated stamped discs out of asia) wont even have a region code on it, and the region lock wont matter a bit. As for the mass-pirates in asia, I dont want that crap. I am paying store prices, so I demand the genuine article. Most mass-pirated discs arent dual-layer anyway, AFAIK.
But then again they might be a mature adult that just has a big issues about control and organisation.
Some people never ever outgrow the control-freak stage, and must have everything perfectly organised into the bargain. I know a person rather like this; they once asked me how I deal with fingerprints on the upper (label) side of CDRs? (My answer by the way, was that I don't care about fingerprints, unless they are on the data side.)
Some people do really truly get anxious and even stressed by being forced to perform actions that are inherently unorganised and perhaps have elements that are out of their control. We all have our issues, wether control freaks and obsessive-compulsives need professional help though should be determined on the merits of each case.
I have a GSM Tri-band phone. (900, 1800, and 1900MHz) and it works on all GSM networks.
I found I could roam all over the US using my Australian (Optus) SIM card, it just got billed to my account, and the rates were not unreasonable. (I was pleasantly suprised.) Europe and Asia are not a (technical) problem either. Receiving calls is more difficult, a pre-paid local SIM will help there. (My Ericsson "T28 World" phone dosent do AMPS, but I dont need it.)
Just make sure that if you pick up a GSM phone, it does Tri-band, and you are covered. If you can find one that does AMPS too, all the better.
Like what you are looking for are probably beyond your expertise.
Note that the high-density connector on the back of the Inspiron is not something you can solder onto a piece of single-sided veroboard from Radio Shack, and expect to be able to put PCI slots on it. And for less complicated applications, using something like the USB or Parallel port is a better idea.
If you *must* have better expansion on your I8K than what the (cheap, but spartan) Inspiron port replicator provides, there have been reports of people connecting Cdocks (for Latitudes) onto their I8k's and flashing their system BIOS with a Latitude image. But you apparently lose some Inspiron-specific functionality and its unsupported.
For more info, which is what I suspect this Ask Slashdot is actually asking about, try google. Some good I8K hacking resources are http://home.attbi.com/~stonent/ and all the good stuff linked off there, and the I8200 FAQ at http://www.geocities.com/thebithead/I8200FAQ.htm and Dell's own website has quite good docs and infor for messing around inside your I8k. As for hacking inside the I8k, I think you'd be suprised about what you can do, see Dell's I8k forums about what is possible.
As for making your own replicator, forget it unless you have access to sophisticated routing and simulation software, and access to manufacturing things like 4-layer PCBs and such. If you must hack, buying an I8k replicator is a good start, and they arent expensive unless you have unreasonable expectations.
There are two extremes to shareholders. Some want to
play fair and simply have a stable investment that pays some dividends regularly.
Then there are the buy-sell-buy-sell-buy-sell idiots who just want to Make Money Fast and try to get rich quick.
For real sense to prevail (LA's assets are, uh, liquefied:) another type of investor needs to prevail. One that realises they are a Fucked Company, and that the shareholders are better off getting their money back. (Even if it means they need to then start the investment procedure over again with their regained capital.) Unfortunatly, investors in general arent the best at educating themselves about the tech stocks they own, as history has shown.
Like as if schools have enough money already, now kids will expect expensive robotics materials given to them.
And yeah, its not like knowing how to figure out percentages or long division is going to help prepare kids for life more than knowing how to smash amateur contraptions together. Yeah right.
Had to use it on 2 customers sites running Lotus Domino and IIS. IIS reaults were barely reasonable, however if you have a Domino site, avoid Webtrends like the plague.
A year after implementation, and we STILL cant get reports out of it. I think the biggest problem so far is that Webtrends dosent use MIME-types for determining the file type, it uses the.ext filenmae extension. This is really lame, and a fatal flaw for Lotus Notes based content as notes databases can contain anything. Needless to say, its also standards non-compliant.
As the poor tech who had to live with this crud, I advise you to please staythe hell away. Atlease if youre in a Notes/Domino environment.
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Will already beat DVD media by an order of magnitude approximately.
Holographic 3d optical storage has been being promised as a future tech for a decade at least.
For now, what i'd rather is a new optical format that stored 50-100GB on a polycarbonate disc, writeable in 1-2 hours or less. The technology is there already, just got to get standards people to agree to the little details.
As displeasing as it might be to the faithfull, it dosent make much sense bottom-line to invest a lot of money in this area. It dosent nessesarily mean that Thinkpads will become horrors of proprietory that will become useless for Linux, it just means spending less money supporting a free OS that honestly manages to support itself well enough anyway. (The Linux work isnt adding value to IBM laptops for the average punter, to the point where they will decide on a Thinkpad over an Inspiron.)
Then there is the fact that IBM may cash-cow their x86 laptop business anyway in preparation to sell it off, rather like their hard disk business.
Yeah, there was some quite cringeworthy bits in it.
(But hey, isnt that what SF cinema is about?:)
The fireplace scene was ugh! But then, the acting of Anakin was stilted and forced IMO. That said, I think a better actor would have made the whole movie that much better, but what we got is okay if it dosent get on your nerves particularly.
As for Parsecs, thats why Star Trek has its own bogolingo to describe things. I'd prefer the use of "parsec" in a flawed manner, than saying "Tatooine seems to be within the 10 megapascalcomfrobulator range my powerconduitquadlithiummidichlorean com badge can transethermit.":)
As for accuracy, well, the whole series suffers from plot holes. I had a debate about the old line from Ep4 from Obi Wan "I thought I could teach your father as well as Yoda taught me. I was wrong." Now, a friend argued with me that maybe Yoda took over Obi Wan's training and completed it, between 1 and 2. But no, I think Obi became a Jedi at the end of 1 when he took Anankin as his apprentice. Therefore Yoda was never involved, and there is an inconsistency.
Now everyone can start on all the inconsistencies Ep2 bring in. But I still mostly enjoyed it.
Just finished seeing it here in Australia.
I liked it. Better than Episode 1, but dosent dethrone Empire, to be sure.
If you liked the good bits of Ep1, go see you and you should quite like it. If all you could do is MST the entire film of Ep1, dont go see it, and spare the rest of us about how much you think it sucks.
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The DSD was spying on the Tampa, a Norwegian vessel that invaded Australian waters illegally. The vessel was boarded by SAS, and as part of that operation intelligence gathering was involved. I'd say it makes perfect sense, especially if it prevents bad decisions to be made. Say, like executing all the refugees maybe?
And spying did not cause the cold war. Read some history sometime please, the cold war was the most dangerous product of what was an ideological and arms race between communist bloc and the west. (Embodied in NATO.) The intelligence and counter intelligence is just one good reason it never went further than it did.
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This isnt so much about the internet, but more about the trust, or lack of, that parents have for children. Its common for parents to take the line of: Look, be open with me and trust me to monitor what you are doing, and I will be fair about it what happens.
This line of thought jsut dosent work. The problem with it is that it assumes that the child cannot gauge for themself what they are looking-at/doing, when almost for all cases they can. Why would they hide a screen when you walk past, if they havent already come to a conclusion that they need to hide it? (Either because the material is something they feel you will find inappropriate, regardless of werther it really is or not, or simply because they dislike the fact you aren't trusting them.)
Once a child (nay, person) has already hade up their mind that: 1. they are being monitored or watched, and 2. they arent being trusted to make up their own mind, then your have already lost the game. Subsequently asking them to be completely open and transparent with what they are doing is not just insulting their intelligence, but asking them to incriminate themselves. And parents still make the mistake that they think the idea works.
Once you violate the trust you have for a person by asking them to possibly incriminate themselves volentarily, you can hardly expect any trust back in return. How you then solve the problem of internet access is up to you, but coming from a technical background I can think of at least one way. Monitoring proxy logs after-the-fact, at least gives the children the idea that you trust them to at least some extent, and that gives at least a little incentive to do the right thing.
Still, coming down on them like a ton-of-bricks at the end of the week when you go through the logs, isnt going to help your cause for the week after.
Nefarious uses aside (despite the fact that a major portion of hte internet is used for pron distribution) there is major privacy issues here.
I'd suggest there would be a lot of voiciferous groups bigger than slashdot up in arms about location tagging. Even before they have read the details.
No serious systems administrator running a public or private access unix system with user accounts allows such valuable user information out onto the net. Anyone who does (maybe the same idiots who run IRC servers that require ident?) deserve to have their user accounts 0wned. Everyone I know makes sure ident is at least faked, but usually plain dropped silently.
There is NO good reason for crappy old fake-able, spoof-able, deny-able ident to be a requirement anymore. Certain IRC admins just need to get their heads out of their asses.
As usual, Microsoft finds it more important to get all the eye-candy implemented, before getting the important backend (productivity?) improvements in place. (If any.)
Why cant we have had a second edition of XP where they implement the database-driven FS and and other code improvements, before they kick the marketing machine into overdrive with "Check out our new pretty sidebar eyecandy! Even more My Monopolyware bogosities! Even uglier default theme OOTB!" Sheesh, the next real version might have less fatal bugs if they did SE-like updates in between real releases. (And didnt charge a fortune for such odd-release updates.)
People have already mentioned its a bad idea. You may take them at their word, it is.
But that said, why even buy a system if it limits you before you have even opened the box? Ram is so cheap nowdays you have to be really stingy to not meet your base requirements, even if that includes a ton of Photoshop work, or most any other ram-intensive app. (Server stuff not withstanding.)
If possible, buy your Dell with minimum RAM posible, and buy 3rd party ram new to replace it, the largest size you can buy on a DIMM. That will give you 2x the maximum. If that isnt enough though, DONT BUY THAT SYSTEM! As for using the old ram, that will only slow your system down anyway. Deal with obsolescence and either reuse it in another system, sell it for a token sum, or give it away to someone who can use it. I tend to pass old hardware I have no need of anymore to friends or family.
IMO the key to making money in the Linux Market is a really killer app.
Marketing dosent work on tech-savvy customers I think, if someone is savvy enough to choose Linux as their desktop OS (with all the advantages and liabilities that brings) then you cant sell them a reinvented wheel.
I know there is 2 pieces of software i'd love to see for Linux desktops: First, a replacement or api-level emulator for XFree86 that had some speed and got rid of some bloat. Second would be an extensible and configurable file-manager utility with some truly advanced features (no just rehashing crappy Windows concepts) that wasnt irretrievably tied into some huge WM I dont want to run. I'd pay money for *good* software like that on Linux. All IMO of course.
This assumes that you arent breaking contract law by renting/hiring/loaning a copyrighted work, that the owner hasnt allowed such use for. This in turn assumes that the work has a notice on the original media that explains the restriction of rights, and that such a contract holds water. I personally wouldnt want to be paying for a court to decide against the RIAA's opinion though.
Personally, I consider any contract null and void unless I physically signed a full and actual contract. The whole click-through/shrink-wrap contract concept is bogus IMO. What I also think is bogus is FBI/US-Fed-Law warnings on video that also make fair-use statements illegal when they are not. It would be nice if for example if FBI warnings (being an apparent govt. notice) were regulated so that companies cant lie in the fine print about the illegality of actions which would come under fair-use. (Eg: The idea of the parent might come under fair-use, but the RIAA would have you in court, for a new interpretation, so quickly your head would spin.)
In the long term, the most that you can say about the proposed bill, and research into protecting p2p, is that it will simply turn into a technological arms-race.
That will continue indefinetly, the real answer is not to allow such a blatantly stupid and damaging bill to be passed, and if it is passed, to get it struck down as soon as possible. Passing the technological edge back and forward in a war between the media monopolies and their p2p opponents, might sound fun to some, but its not the real answer.
1. Would all the people bashing this guy for wanting to work on YAIM, do so if it was free/open? Nobody seems to complain as much about reinventing the wheel, when the wheel is free, no matter how useless it is.
2. Would all the people bashing this guy for asking about software models under Linux please realise that the IM thing, though pertinent to the submitter, probably isnt to others who might find discussion on the Linux software market informative. Thats what a forum is for.
Sheesh. I guess its worth losing a bit of karma to point out hipocracy.
If you must go for a model where your software needs to help pay for itself, there are a number of incentives you can try. In the windows world, try-ware and shareware are very common and businesses run successfully on that model. (Eg: JASC, ACD Systems.)
Linux is going to be a tougher nut to crack, even just on licence-religion egangelism alone. That said, a product should sell itself once a user gets to try it and likes it enough. That means you should find a way that lets the user try it for free. Trialware would be an interesting concept under Linux, both socially and on a technical level. (There is no safedisc2 or Nullsoft install wrappers to make life for pirates a bit more difficult, assuming you think protection is worth such effort.)
And for once, this isnt a half-bad Ask Slashdot, in that it exposes liabilities in the Linux marketplace that deserve some attention. Free/Open evangelists on a religious crusade to free all software IMO need to learn tolerance for other models of software creation and dissemination.
No misinformation. You're just making assumptions about law.
First, I am Australian. The DMCA dosent apply to me when I am at home, regardless of wether I imported or bought an R1 disc home with me. When I am in the USA, according to your theory it is perfectly acceptable for me to play an R1 disc in my laptop, while I am in the United States.
If I region-hack my dvd player in Australia, I havent broken US law. If I play US discs in the USA, I havent broken any law or agreement, and if I play a R1 disc at home, I havent broken any Australian law, and it is a big leap of faith to assume the shrinkwrap contract applies at all. And if my player just happens to adhere to RPC1 instead of RPC2 when I travel to the USA, that is a simple technicality. (I dont think DVD bogo-licences yet state that PRC1 players break the licence, do they?) As to how well the shrinkwrap "We just assume our bogo-licence applies everywhere" restrictions apply, that is for courts to decide.
Its people like you who simply assume that onerous shrinkwrap licencing should apply as law, globally, without it being tested by a court, that ruin it for the rest of us by giving mass support to the corporations who want to take away our rights.
RPC encoding has *Nothing* to do with piracy. Its about enforcing market manipulation and price-fixing.
Disabling RPC is all about being able to play a disc you bought legally in a different region, on your own player. Such as me being able to visit the US and play a new R1 DVD I have bought, on my laptop, on the way home. Which according to the movie mafia, should only play R4 discs.
Anyone with a brain knows that a home-made pirated disc (as opposed to a lot of the mass-pirated stamped discs out of asia) wont even have a region code on it, and the region lock wont matter a bit. As for the mass-pirates in asia, I dont want that crap. I am paying store prices, so I demand the genuine article. Most mass-pirated discs arent dual-layer anyway, AFAIK.
But then again they might be a mature adult that just has a big issues about control and organisation.
Some people never ever outgrow the control-freak stage, and must have everything perfectly organised into the bargain. I know a person rather like this; they once asked me how I deal with fingerprints on the upper (label) side of CDRs? (My answer by the way, was that I don't care about fingerprints, unless they are on the data side.)
Some people do really truly get anxious and even stressed by being forced to perform actions that are inherently unorganised and perhaps have elements that are out of their control. We all have our issues, wether control freaks and obsessive-compulsives need professional help though should be determined on the merits of each case.
Yamaha DiscT@2 is at least a rather new creative example of a media (CD dye) getting an artistic application.
I have a GSM Tri-band phone. (900, 1800, and 1900MHz) and it works on all GSM networks.
I found I could roam all over the US using my Australian (Optus) SIM card, it just got billed to my account, and the rates were not unreasonable. (I was pleasantly suprised.) Europe and Asia are not a (technical) problem either. Receiving calls is more difficult, a pre-paid local SIM will help there. (My Ericsson "T28 World" phone dosent do AMPS, but I dont need it.)
Just make sure that if you pick up a GSM phone, it does Tri-band, and you are covered. If you can find one that does AMPS too, all the better.
Like what you are looking for are probably beyond your expertise.
Note that the high-density connector on the back of the Inspiron is not something you can solder onto a piece of single-sided veroboard from Radio Shack, and expect to be able to put PCI slots on it. And for less complicated applications, using something like the USB or Parallel port is a better idea.
If you *must* have better expansion on your I8K than what the (cheap, but spartan) Inspiron port replicator provides, there have been reports of people connecting Cdocks (for Latitudes) onto their I8k's and flashing their system BIOS with a Latitude image. But you apparently lose some Inspiron-specific functionality and its unsupported.
For more info, which is what I suspect this Ask Slashdot is actually asking about, try google. Some good I8K hacking resources are http://home.attbi.com/~stonent/ and all the good stuff linked off there, and the I8200 FAQ at http://www.geocities.com/thebithead/I8200FAQ.htm and Dell's own website has quite good docs and infor for messing around inside your I8k. As for hacking inside the I8k, I think you'd be suprised about what you can do, see Dell's I8k forums about what is possible.
As for making your own replicator, forget it unless you have access to sophisticated routing and simulation software, and access to manufacturing things like 4-layer PCBs and such. If you must hack, buying an I8k replicator is a good start, and they arent expensive unless you have unreasonable expectations.
There are two extremes to shareholders. Some want to play fair and simply have a stable investment that pays some dividends regularly.
:) another type of investor needs to prevail. One that realises they are a Fucked Company, and that the shareholders are better off getting their money back. (Even if it means they need to then start the investment procedure over again with their regained capital.) Unfortunatly, investors in general arent the best at educating themselves about the tech stocks they own, as history has shown.
Then there are the buy-sell-buy-sell-buy-sell idiots who just want to Make Money Fast and try to get rich quick.
For real sense to prevail (LA's assets are, uh, liquefied
..looks more and more like a good idea.
Like as if schools have enough money already, now kids will expect expensive robotics materials given to them.
And yeah, its not like knowing how to figure out percentages or long division is going to help prepare kids for life more than knowing how to smash amateur contraptions together. Yeah right.
Had to use it on 2 customers sites running Lotus Domino and IIS. IIS reaults were barely reasonable, however if you have a Domino site, avoid Webtrends like the plague.
.ext filenmae extension. This is really lame, and a fatal flaw for Lotus Notes based content as notes databases can contain anything. Needless to say, its also standards non-compliant.
A year after implementation, and we STILL cant get reports out of it. I think the biggest problem so far is that Webtrends dosent use MIME-types for determining the file type, it uses the
As the poor tech who had to live with this crud, I advise you to please staythe hell away. Atlease if youre in a Notes/Domino environment.
Turd.
Pretty much describes ICANN, in my opinion.
Will already beat DVD media by an order of magnitude approximately.
Holographic 3d optical storage has been being promised as a future tech for a decade at least.
For now, what i'd rather is a new optical format that stored 50-100GB on a polycarbonate disc, writeable in 1-2 hours or less. The technology is there already, just got to get standards people to agree to the little details.
Good business sense, at that.
As displeasing as it might be to the faithfull, it dosent make much sense bottom-line to invest a lot of money in this area. It dosent nessesarily mean that Thinkpads will become horrors of proprietory that will become useless for Linux, it just means spending less money supporting a free OS that honestly manages to support itself well enough anyway. (The Linux work isnt adding value to IBM laptops for the average punter, to the point where they will decide on a Thinkpad over an Inspiron.)
Then there is the fact that IBM may cash-cow their x86 laptop business anyway in preparation to sell it off, rather like their hard disk business.
Yeah, there was some quite cringeworthy bits in it. (But hey, isnt that what SF cinema is about? :)
:)
The fireplace scene was ugh! But then, the acting of Anakin was stilted and forced IMO. That said, I think a better actor would have made the whole movie that much better, but what we got is okay if it dosent get on your nerves particularly.
As for Parsecs, thats why Star Trek has its own bogolingo to describe things. I'd prefer the use of "parsec" in a flawed manner, than saying "Tatooine seems to be within the 10 megapascalcomfrobulator range my powerconduitquadlithiummidichlorean com badge can transethermit."
As for accuracy, well, the whole series suffers from plot holes. I had a debate about the old line from Ep4 from Obi Wan "I thought I could teach your father as well as Yoda taught me. I was wrong." Now, a friend argued with me that maybe Yoda took over Obi Wan's training and completed it, between 1 and 2. But no, I think Obi became a Jedi at the end of 1 when he took Anankin as his apprentice. Therefore Yoda was never involved, and there is an inconsistency.
Now everyone can start on all the inconsistencies Ep2 bring in. But I still mostly enjoyed it.
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Just finished seeing it here in Australia. I liked it. Better than Episode 1, but dosent dethrone Empire, to be sure. If you liked the good bits of Ep1, go see you and you should quite like it. If all you could do is MST the entire film of Ep1, dont go see it, and spare the rest of us about how much you think it sucks. AT..
No bigotted at all.
The DSD was spying on the Tampa, a Norwegian vessel that invaded Australian waters illegally. The vessel was boarded by SAS, and as part of that operation intelligence gathering was involved. I'd say it makes perfect sense, especially if it prevents bad decisions to be made. Say, like executing all the refugees maybe?
And spying did not cause the cold war. Read some history sometime please, the cold war was the most dangerous product of what was an ideological and arms race between communist bloc and the west. (Embodied in NATO.) The intelligence and counter intelligence is just one good reason it never went further than it did.