Remember that EMR travels both as waves and particles, just NOT electrons, neutrons and protons. So while there is very little in EMR there is still some mass to EMR.
Light is just microwave radiation we can see and has been proved to be distorted by gravity.
I'm really sorry to break it to all the geeks here BUT you do actually need to act to do Radio plays. It can be much harder to convey feeling when all you have is a voice.
People who can act have a skill, just like coders. And lets face it...
No one has ever said that communication is the strongest skill that a geek ever had.
You work for a company that is doing a lot of work in a paticular location and have to fly their quite often. I've been on flights with 10 block booked tickets for the project team, then various "suspicious" different routes for the people at the weekend (going to different places to spend the weekend), before "suspiciously" meeting up again and then heading off on mass on the same route.
The US Goverment was told by the French goverment about several of the Sept 11th nut cases, but did nothing. Please tell me how profiling will make that situation better ? They'll trust a Database query over an intelligence agency ?
You mean like Ada used to be, Java is etc etc etc..
How is this getting modded up in a place where Java is constantly criticised for being closed source. If a company creates a document it owns the copyright on that document, if it trademarks a name it owns that name. If you create a language that has the same syntax with the same meaning then you are breaking those "rights".
UNLESS you can create a Clean Room implementation ala the original IBM Bios clones. And who would want to do that for a language.
Well just look at this Google v NSA how do we know that in fact Google isn't PART of the NSA! Oh yes its true, the voices tell me so. They patent the technology, they have key employees already there. Its like the Special Services, you know those people who are ex-Marines but now aren't "officially" part of the US military because its secret.
Oh yes, Google is the Special Ops division of the NSA. Its true I tell you its true.
Brought to you by the same people who saw Black UN Helicopters after the Oklahoma bombing.
The answer is simple... what represents the goverment mindset of the day will be chosen to represent that mindset in the future. Cynical ? Of course not, why would they be even handed ? Will they store what Al Jazeera (sp?) says rather than what the Washington Post says, why would the views of Palestine be represented over the views of Israel.
Or of course they will stear clear of politics and pick only science and absolute news, thus making it pointless for future historians.
Saving what is said OVER what is already saved is an interesting idea, but will this be targeted beyond those people who already retain everything (like CNN and the BBC) or will it include them ? The BBC store everything, "Just in case", will this money record that information yet again, or will it concentrate on other fields after ensuring that the BBC information is already available?
Historians of the future will have more information than historians of any other generation. Their problem will be that the miriad of views reflected via this information doesn't mean an increase in the spectrum of political opinion, but the ability of everyone to be opinionated.
Their worst problem is that the leaders of the day (Bush, Blair et al ) don't stand out like the leaders of previous years. Will anyone rate the speach of Powell or Bush against, Churchill or Kennedy ? Nope. So how to judge politics of today, how to judge what should be stored, we have no leaders of merit, we have only retoric. So choose what to store, and realise that history will judge as much what you choose to save, as what you saved. This is a different problem to that which has faced historians up till now.
Symbian, aim is to enable the partners (major phone manufacturers) to gain the sort of dominance on Phones and SmartPhones that MS have on the desktop.
Linux, free, very little support in the mobile market.
Its 1980 and you've been asked to join the board of Microsoft or the board of Commodore, who do you choose ?
Now I know its not cool on Slashdot to mentioned products based on Symbian rather than uber-trendy linux. But how is this impressive when both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have launched products, and will continue to launch products that are PDAs/Phones/Cameras etc etc and include bluetooth, IR etc etc.
Okay, I know that Motorola are a US company and there for its much more impressive when they are only 12 months behind the crowd, but having something like this in Asia NOW is about 18+ months behind. The reason Motorola use Linux here is because they don't want to use Symbian, why I have no idea. And before someone says "cost" please get a clue about corporations and the actual cost of OSes.
Why not support a solid, reliable, proven OS that is making it nearly impossible for MS to get inroads rather than raving about yet another "linux on a X" product.
Or of course you could move away from the idea that XML is "interactive" and look at MHP which covers alot more than this lot and has many more senior players.
Oh and of course... IS ALREADY RUNNING IN EUROPE.
That last being the reason why these people have come up with a braindead standard of their own. OpenCable in the US is based on MHP, and is supported by most of the cable companies. This is another wonderful case of the US deciding on 25 different standards while the rest of the world picks one.
For your next task please explain how limitations can be placed on an ongoing offence. If I STARTED blackmailing you 20 years ago and have continued till the present day I can't claim "But that was over 20 years ago".
Its not like XP was released with these issues then 2 months later MS went to open formats and stopped bundling software.
1) It will be _possible_ for MS to cope with the changes, but difficult to change all the apps that are currently using SOAP in literal format (Outlook, Exchange etc etc)
2) Everyone else plumped for RPC as literal isn't as nice a way to do things, so everyone else is just deleting code, not worrying about re-deploying services.
"Did you read an article that encouraged you to mine asteroids in your own home? Did you drag an asteroid out of orbit, or drive to a place in order to catch one, did this vapourise you, your loved ones and most of the state ? Here a Sue, Grabbit and Runne Associates we specialise in extra orbital and terrestrial accidents. Last year we helped Bob who strapped himself to 10,000 fireworks to get into space, Bob sadly died but were helped his widow sue Nasa for 100,000,000 dollars. Phone us now and we'll help you get over your stupidity"
The SOAP RPC encoding IS the only one going forwards. The problem is that most.NET apps by default are literal, which will no longer be supported. Hence this is a big issue as they need to go around and change all those WSDLs, re-deploy the services and change the defaults from the application.
This is an issue for Microsoft and it is something that from my involvement in this area that I know more about it that I would wish to. Yes you can write custom encoders, but the issue here is with the current MS implementation, most other vendors only support literal because of MS, and their default is RPC.
It won't kill them of course, but it is alot of effort from where they went for the wrong one of two options.
The issue is the OLD services out there that will have to be redeployed. RPC services will not have to be redeployed.
And read this book To Kill a Mockingbird, its a classic. The quote actually appeals to the highest principles that a man can hold. Namely peace in the face of aggression.
And the kicker is that Atticus Finch is the best shot in the whole town... go figure.
I'm assuming here that you follow the legal issues that interest you outside of the US. Which country's laws do you wish applied in the US ? It has been said that the US has the appearance of the 1st ammendment with none of its actual manifestations (similar comments have been made about egalite, liberte, fraternite in france), do you agree ?
And pushing my luck... why is a company able to claim rights assigned to individuals ?
To break Microsoft... actually this is EXACTLY what the next spec does. Microsoft were the only people who went for literal encoding, which is a bit naff. The next SOAP spec does away with literal and enforces the use of RPC encoding.
So actually this standards adherence stuff is already biting MS. But to compete in the enterprise space they have to adhere. Mono however is screwed.
Is the issue here about what type of security used ? Goverment to Goverment secure lines tend to use one time pads, so the key book is the weakness, but if that remains secure (i.e. in hardware) then everything is safe.
Maybe its this key book that is so vital as its shared across the shuttles.
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One thing that suprised me was how FEW detectors there appeared to be on the shuttle. You'd have thought that it would be mostly wiring and lots of redundancy and measuring every millisecond, but it appeared to be much coarser and less often. Surely in 1980 they had small electronic detectors so as to enable more accurate reporting ?
Who are these things going to be used to protect the US against ? When was the last major sea battle the US was involved in.
These are classic cold war elements, saying that you HAVE to have X when you aren't saying why is just stupid. The US has the largest of everything, why continue with these convential programmes over intelligence funding. The US is building an armed force to fight the USSR. Sadam is NOT going to come CLOSE to stretching this technology.
So bollocks that this stuff is "required" its subsidising the defence contractors who support Bush....
Oh but then increasing funding to NASA would also go mainly to the companies mentioned above.
This is the argument AGAINST open source. I'm a company that relies on software to work, that means I want a company that provides effective support. The actual COST of the software is of secondary importance to the cost of support and the quality of that support. This is why IBM doing Linux is a good thing as they book massive revenues offering that support.
THAT is what MS are worried about, not Joe Schmo installing a free copy of Red Hat. Its IBM charging zip for the software and loads for the maintainance.
Before the muppets start talking about products can't compete with free, remember support costs, staff costs etc etc.
One element on margin is that it is estimated that Microsoft work around the 30% mark, while IBM work around 7% and are booking multi-millions in association with Linux. So this means that Microsoft will be reducing their margin, not becoming unprofitable.
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Remember that EMR travels both as waves and particles, just NOT electrons, neutrons and protons. So while there is very little in EMR there is still some mass to EMR.
Light is just microwave radiation we can see and has been proved to be distorted by gravity.
I'm really sorry to break it to all the geeks here BUT you do actually need to act to do Radio plays. It can be much harder to convey feeling when all you have is a voice.
People who can act have a skill, just like coders. And lets face it...
No one has ever said that communication is the strongest skill that a geek ever had.
You work for a company that is doing a lot of work in a paticular location and have to fly their quite often. I've been on flights with 10 block booked tickets for the project team, then various "suspicious" different routes for the people at the weekend (going to different places to spend the weekend), before "suspiciously" meeting up again and then heading off on mass on the same route.
The US Goverment was told by the French goverment about several of the Sept 11th nut cases, but did nothing. Please tell me how profiling will make that situation better ? They'll trust a Database query over an intelligence agency ?
You mean like Ada used to be, Java is etc etc etc..
How is this getting modded up in a place where Java is constantly criticised for being closed source. If a company creates a document it owns the copyright on that document, if it trademarks a name it owns that name. If you create a language that has the same syntax with the same meaning then you are breaking those "rights".
UNLESS you can create a Clean Room implementation ala the original IBM Bios clones. And who would want to do that for a language.
Well just look at this Google v NSA how do we know that in fact Google isn't PART of the NSA! Oh yes its true, the voices tell me so. They patent the technology, they have key employees already there. Its like the Special Services, you know those people who are ex-Marines but now aren't "officially" part of the US military because its secret.
Oh yes, Google is the Special Ops division of the NSA. Its true I tell you its true.
Brought to you by the same people who saw Black UN Helicopters after the Oklahoma bombing.
The answer is simple... what represents the goverment mindset of the day will be chosen to represent that mindset in the future. Cynical ? Of course not, why would they be even handed ? Will they store what Al Jazeera (sp?) says rather than what the Washington Post says, why would the views of Palestine be represented over the views of Israel.
Or of course they will stear clear of politics and pick only science and absolute news, thus making it pointless for future historians.
Saving what is said OVER what is already saved is an interesting idea, but will this be targeted beyond those people who already retain everything (like CNN and the BBC) or will it include them ? The BBC store everything, "Just in case", will this money record that information yet again, or will it concentrate on other fields after ensuring that the BBC information is already available?
Historians of the future will have more information than historians of any other generation. Their problem will be that the miriad of views reflected via this information doesn't mean an increase in the spectrum of political opinion, but the ability of everyone to be opinionated.
Their worst problem is that the leaders of the day (Bush, Blair et al ) don't stand out like the leaders of previous years. Will anyone rate the speach of Powell or Bush against, Churchill or Kennedy ? Nope. So how to judge politics of today, how to judge what should be stored, we have no leaders of merit, we have only retoric. So choose what to store, and realise that history will judge as much what you choose to save, as what you saved. This is a different problem to that which has faced historians up till now.
So lets compare....
Symbian, aim is to enable the partners (major phone manufacturers) to gain the sort of dominance on Phones and SmartPhones that MS have on the desktop.
Linux, free, very little support in the mobile market.
Its 1980 and you've been asked to join the board of Microsoft or the board of Commodore, who do you choose ?
Now I know its not cool on Slashdot to mentioned products based on Symbian rather than uber-trendy linux. But how is this impressive when both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have launched products, and will continue to launch products that are PDAs/Phones/Cameras etc etc and include bluetooth, IR etc etc.
Okay, I know that Motorola are a US company and there for its much more impressive when they are only 12 months behind the crowd, but having something like this in Asia NOW is about 18+ months behind. The reason Motorola use Linux here is because they don't want to use Symbian, why I have no idea. And before someone says "cost" please get a clue about corporations and the actual cost of OSes.
Why not support a solid, reliable, proven OS that is making it nearly impossible for MS to get inroads rather than raving about yet another "linux on a X" product.
Or of course you could move away from the idea that XML is "interactive" and look at MHP which covers alot more than this lot and has many more senior players.
Oh and of course... IS ALREADY RUNNING IN EUROPE.
That last being the reason why these people have come up with a braindead standard of their own. OpenCable in the US is based on MHP, and is supported by most of the cable companies. This is another wonderful case of the US deciding on 25 different standards while the rest of the world picks one.
For your next task please explain how limitations can be placed on an ongoing offence. If I STARTED blackmailing you 20 years ago and have continued till the present day I can't claim "But that was over 20 years ago".
Its not like XP was released with these issues then 2 months later MS went to open formats and stopped bundling software.
Its a prediction that has held pretty true. Its a good benchmark but is not a true Law.
And every 6 months its either a) dead or b) to continue for ever c) dead real soon. Most often its all three every week.
No
1) It will be _possible_ for MS to cope with the changes, but difficult to change all the apps that are currently using SOAP in literal format (Outlook, Exchange etc etc)
2) Everyone else plumped for RPC as literal isn't as nice a way to do things, so everyone else is just deleting code, not worrying about re-deploying services.
I can just see the adverts now
"Did you read an article that encouraged you to mine asteroids in your own home? Did you drag an asteroid out of orbit, or drive to a place in order to catch one, did this vapourise you, your loved ones and most of the state ? Here a Sue, Grabbit and Runne Associates we specialise in extra orbital and terrestrial accidents. Last year we helped Bob who strapped himself to 10,000 fireworks to get into space, Bob sadly died but were helped his widow sue Nasa for 100,000,000 dollars. Phone us now and we'll help you get over your stupidity"
(quick voice over)
"ActualAmountMayNotBeAsAdvertisedHereLevel
Your just building yourself a litigation hell Slashdot.
Or actually how much I understand it.
.NET apps by default are literal, which will no longer be supported. Hence this is a big issue as they need to go around and change all those WSDLs, re-deploy the services and change the defaults from the application.
The SOAP RPC encoding IS the only one going forwards. The problem is that most
This is an issue for Microsoft and it is something that from my involvement in this area that I know more about it that I would wish to. Yes you can write custom encoders, but the issue here is with the current MS implementation, most other vendors only support literal because of MS, and their default is RPC.
It won't kill them of course, but it is alot of effort from where they went for the wrong one of two options.
The issue is the OLD services out there that will have to be redeployed. RPC services will not have to be redeployed.
And read this book To Kill a Mockingbird, its a classic. The quote actually appeals to the highest principles that a man can hold. Namely peace in the face of aggression.
And the kicker is that Atticus Finch is the best shot in the whole town... go figure.
I'm assuming here that you follow the legal issues that interest you outside of the US. Which country's laws do you wish applied in the US ? It has been said that the US has the appearance of the 1st ammendment with none of its actual manifestations (similar comments have been made about egalite, liberte, fraternite in france), do you agree ?
And pushing my luck... why is a company able to claim rights assigned to individuals ?
To break Microsoft... actually this is EXACTLY what the next spec does. Microsoft were the only people who went for literal encoding, which is a bit naff. The next SOAP spec does away with literal and enforces the use of RPC encoding.
So actually this standards adherence stuff is already biting MS. But to compete in the enterprise space they have to adhere. Mono however is screwed.
Is the issue here about what type of security used ? Goverment to Goverment secure lines tend to use one time pads, so the key book is the weakness, but if that remains secure (i.e. in hardware) then everything is safe.
Maybe its this key book that is so vital as its shared across the shuttles.
One thing that suprised me was how FEW detectors there appeared to be on the shuttle. You'd have thought that it would be mostly wiring and lots of redundancy and measuring every millisecond, but it appeared to be much coarser and less often. Surely in 1980 they had small electronic detectors so as to enable more accurate reporting ?
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Makes sense I think, don't you ?
Who are these things going to be used to protect the US against ? When was the last major sea battle the US was involved in.
These are classic cold war elements, saying that you HAVE to have X when you aren't saying why is just stupid. The US has the largest of everything, why continue with these convential programmes over intelligence funding. The US is building an armed force to fight the USSR. Sadam is NOT going to come CLOSE to stretching this technology.
So bollocks that this stuff is "required" its subsidising the defence contractors who support Bush....
Oh but then increasing funding to NASA would also go mainly to the companies mentioned above.
Oi Muppet, 2003 - 1939 100.
Are you studing for an Arts major ?
100 Years ago Computers were the work of fiction. So were robots.
Now if you had said 40 or 50 years ago you might have not sounded so silly.
This is the argument AGAINST open source. I'm a company that relies on software to work, that means I want a company that provides effective support. The actual COST of the software is of secondary importance to the cost of support and the quality of that support. This is why IBM doing Linux is a good thing as they book massive revenues offering that support.
THAT is what MS are worried about, not Joe Schmo installing a free copy of Red Hat. Its IBM charging zip for the software and loads for the maintainance.
Before the muppets start talking about products can't compete with free, remember support costs, staff costs etc etc.
One element on margin is that it is estimated that Microsoft work around the 30% mark, while IBM work around 7% and are booking multi-millions in association with Linux. So this means that Microsoft will be reducing their margin, not becoming unprofitable.