They get scared when a proposal for nuclear power comes to town. Never mind that coal, oil and natural gas power facilities have killed 10 to 100 times the people that nuclear power plants would ever kill. People don't protest coal plants the same way, they don't know the 'coal' symbol like they know the nuclear fallout symbol.
One of the bigger ironies is that radiation exposure from living near a coal plant is about 400 times greater than from a local nuclear plant. Unless of course it melts down. That is why I'm all for the regulation of nuclear plants until we come up with safer designs or figure out what to do with all of that spent fuel.
It is basically the same thing. Many of the DoD's purchases only have one supplier since the parts must conform to the published specifications (MIL-SPEC).
Don't you get tired of lugging the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae book around? Or maybe you find it easier to memorize thousands of integrals. For those of us that use math for something other than calc 1 and 21, the HP-48/49 series are extremely useful. The only thing I've seen that rivals it is Mathematica, and that's only due to the speed gains.
I am getting tired of seeing this communist/socialist crap. Replace "corporation" with "people" in your argument and everything will still be true. The media hasn't covered this because the only things that can be proved so far are that a lot of suspicious things have been done by a company which supports the Republicans. I'd rather the media waits on this so that when there is good evidence the public sees it instead of ignoring it as shaky conspiracy theories.
Even if the grid wasn't near capacity, they would have to drop the power output of other plants to keep everything in phase. Assuming the other plants were coal fired, they would be able to burn less coal.
Problems with these dimensions are unlikely.
Just about everything these days is done by automated machines, which could care less about decimals. You would run into problems if you had to drill a hole or tap threads of odd sizes. Odd size milling and tap bits require custom tool orders and custom screws to fit.
I ride a bike or walk to work every day. A bike may not be possible for those of you who demand to live in the suburbs just so you can have some grass you never use. Have fun in 30 years explaining to your kids how your gluttony depleted the world's oil reserves. I'm sure they'll understand when you tell them you *needed* that extra 5 foot of cargo space that you never use.
A lot of software has started to use port 80. I went through a bit of trouble to get my gateway to detect Kazaa vs. web on port 80 so it could prioritize traffic appropriately. I can't see implementing this for a whole ISP quite yet, snort takes way too much cpu.
Any programmer who "randomly" uses a port 1024 is an idiot. I hope your shared directory tree wasn't anything confidential, since you were transmitting files in cleartext across a public network. I have no problems forcing people to use a VPN for file sharing. ISPs should block all incoming connection attempts to privileged ports except for a few required for VPN or tunneling. I'm shouldn't have to deal with network slowdowns and clogged snort logs every month or two just so a small minority of people can insecurely share files.
People have been predicting that robots will take over every task for at least 50 years now. A lot of people invested in robots in the 80's and their businesses failed. Robots are just too expensive or complex to program for a lot of uses.
As far as manufacturing is concerned, we've basically gotten about as efficient as we can get with robots. Fully automated manufacturing cells are extremely expensive, not fault tolerant, can't respond to changes quickly, and still require maintenance and operators. An ASRS (Automated Storage/Retrieval System) is about as cheap as it's going to get. They require a lot of raw materials to make.
As far as retail stores are concerned, we will most likely see them disappear before we see them become entirely automated. They are an extremely inefficient extra step.
I doubt robots will *ever* catch on for burger flipping. A $400,000 robot will definitely require more than a full year's salary of minimum wage to maintain. Just like the ultra cheap and simple automats couldn't compete with human order takers.
Unintelligent robots will be incapable of handling basic tasks in hotels, amusement parks, and airlines. They may be capable of handling construction work, but better economies of scale would be achieved by prefabricating larger units as has been the trend.
I spent 8 months programming half million dollar robotic measurement machines, and based on that I don't think anything robotic will be cost effective or intelligent enough for these tasks for at least 30 years or so.
In the 1950's they thought we'd have robotic maids by 1980. I'm still waiting. Some vacuum cleaner that can't even recharge on its own doesn't count.
Hardware dongles don't always work for the people that buy them. Any software requiring a hardware dongle is usually cracked within several weeks of release. All they really do is make life harder for the people that pay for the software. While treating customers as adversaries may work for RIAA, it's a lot tougher for small software companies to get by with that philosophy.
If they had decided that it was more cost effective to run all of their workflow on windows they would have done it. Linux is the best of the money according to them so they use it.
Not only did they use it, they will contribute their updates back to wine. Afaik, GPL requires only that you contribute source modifications back if you distribute the binary. If this is true then they are going beyond what is required.
I know it's tough for some people to understand, but there are a lot of good people in big businesses. Just because you disagree with the actions of one of their business units doesn't mean that the entire company is evil.
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While we're at it, why not PGP sign with the server as well? Signed mail from allowed server or recipient could pass through the spam filters while everything else could be sent through much more stringent filters. This way all of your family using hotmail could still reach you, which mail with spoofed hotmail source addresses could not. If nobody is willing to host the key servers, each mail server could provide its public key with an incoming connection. Also, clients sending mail should do so via an extension to POP3 or IMAP to end the nightmare of auth/relay configuration and clean things up further.
Whatever is implemented must be allowed to work with the current SMTP during a transition phase and must prioritize itself in some way (otherwise the spammers will just keep using SMTP).
Weeks? That sounds like an improvement to me. I've had to wait nearly 2 months to get a line from Ameritech. Who cares if they are nationally owned or not? Most telcos are monopolies that only make changes when they are fined massive amounts of money by utility boards.
I mean really, why hasn't the RIAA sued MS et al for making software that enables such piracy..
MS has the money to win the court battle which would most likely put all future court battles in danger. Once a precedence had been set that MS is not responsible it would be very hard to make future charges stick.
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Without the GPL, everyone would have implemented everyone-but-SCO licenses, which would most likely kill SCO.
They get scared when a proposal for nuclear power comes to town. Never mind that coal, oil and natural gas power facilities have killed 10 to 100 times the people that nuclear power plants would ever kill. People don't protest coal plants the same way, they don't know the 'coal' symbol like they know the nuclear fallout symbol. One of the bigger ironies is that radiation exposure from living near a coal plant is about 400 times greater than from a local nuclear plant. Unless of course it melts down. That is why I'm all for the regulation of nuclear plants until we come up with safer designs or figure out what to do with all of that spent fuel.
It is basically the same thing. Many of the DoD's purchases only have one supplier since the parts must conform to the published specifications (MIL-SPEC).
Don't you get tired of lugging the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae book around? Or maybe you find it easier to memorize thousands of integrals. For those of us that use math for something other than calc 1 and 21, the HP-48/49 series are extremely useful. The only thing I've seen that rivals it is Mathematica, and that's only due to the speed gains.
I am getting tired of seeing this communist/socialist crap. Replace "corporation" with "people" in your argument and everything will still be true. The media hasn't covered this because the only things that can be proved so far are that a lot of suspicious things have been done by a company which supports the Republicans. I'd rather the media waits on this so that when there is good evidence the public sees it instead of ignoring it as shaky conspiracy theories.
What really sucks is the 497.1 day uptime rollover bug. Apparently it has been fixed, but that doesn't help us who booted before it.
Even if the grid wasn't near capacity, they would have to drop the power output of other plants to keep everything in phase. Assuming the other plants were coal fired, they would be able to burn less coal.
Problems with these dimensions are unlikely.
Just about everything these days is done by automated machines, which could care less about decimals. You would run into problems if you had to drill a hole or tap threads of odd sizes. Odd size milling and tap bits require custom tool orders and custom screws to fit.
Cable is such a waste of money anyways.
I ride a bike or walk to work every day. A bike may not be possible for those of you who demand to live in the suburbs just so you can have some grass you never use. Have fun in 30 years explaining to your kids how your gluttony depleted the world's oil reserves. I'm sure they'll understand when you tell them you *needed* that extra 5 foot of cargo space that you never use.
A lot of software has started to use port 80. I went through a bit of trouble to get my gateway to detect Kazaa vs. web on port 80 so it could prioritize traffic appropriately. I can't see implementing this for a whole ISP quite yet, snort takes way too much cpu.
Any programmer who "randomly" uses a port 1024 is an idiot. I hope your shared directory tree wasn't anything confidential, since you were transmitting files in cleartext across a public network. I have no problems forcing people to use a VPN for file sharing. ISPs should block all incoming connection attempts to privileged ports except for a few required for VPN or tunneling. I'm shouldn't have to deal with network slowdowns and clogged snort logs every month or two just so a small minority of people can insecurely share files.
People have been predicting that robots will take over every task for at least 50 years now. A lot of people invested in robots in the 80's and their businesses failed. Robots are just too expensive or complex to program for a lot of uses. As far as manufacturing is concerned, we've basically gotten about as efficient as we can get with robots. Fully automated manufacturing cells are extremely expensive, not fault tolerant, can't respond to changes quickly, and still require maintenance and operators. An ASRS (Automated Storage/Retrieval System) is about as cheap as it's going to get. They require a lot of raw materials to make. As far as retail stores are concerned, we will most likely see them disappear before we see them become entirely automated. They are an extremely inefficient extra step. I doubt robots will *ever* catch on for burger flipping. A $400,000 robot will definitely require more than a full year's salary of minimum wage to maintain. Just like the ultra cheap and simple automats couldn't compete with human order takers. Unintelligent robots will be incapable of handling basic tasks in hotels, amusement parks, and airlines. They may be capable of handling construction work, but better economies of scale would be achieved by prefabricating larger units as has been the trend. I spent 8 months programming half million dollar robotic measurement machines, and based on that I don't think anything robotic will be cost effective or intelligent enough for these tasks for at least 30 years or so. In the 1950's they thought we'd have robotic maids by 1980. I'm still waiting. Some vacuum cleaner that can't even recharge on its own doesn't count.
You're obviously connected to the internet with any sort of firewall. This is a stupid idea on any platform.
Hardware dongles don't always work for the people that buy them. Any software requiring a hardware dongle is usually cracked within several weeks of release. All they really do is make life harder for the people that pay for the software. While treating customers as adversaries may work for RIAA, it's a lot tougher for small software companies to get by with that philosophy.
What's next, bottled tap water?
If they had decided that it was more cost effective to run all of their workflow on windows they would have done it. Linux is the best of the money according to them so they use it. Not only did they use it, they will contribute their updates back to wine. Afaik, GPL requires only that you contribute source modifications back if you distribute the binary. If this is true then they are going beyond what is required. I know it's tough for some people to understand, but there are a lot of good people in big businesses. Just because you disagree with the actions of one of their business units doesn't mean that the entire company is evil.
While we're at it, why not PGP sign with the server as well? Signed mail from allowed server or recipient could pass through the spam filters while everything else could be sent through much more stringent filters. This way all of your family using hotmail could still reach you, which mail with spoofed hotmail source addresses could not. If nobody is willing to host the key servers, each mail server could provide its public key with an incoming connection. Also, clients sending mail should do so via an extension to POP3 or IMAP to end the nightmare of auth/relay configuration and clean things up further.
Whatever is implemented must be allowed to work with the current SMTP during a transition phase and must prioritize itself in some way (otherwise the spammers will just keep using SMTP).
They have supported symbolic integration since the release of the 48G or earlier.
There is also the problem that Fluorinert costs $400 per gallon.
Magnesium and titanium are also flammable.
Apparently it's not quite that simple:
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Amazon sues Sony for violating its patent on a device that shocks people when the telephone rings.
Weeks? That sounds like an improvement to me. I've had to wait nearly 2 months to get a line from Ameritech. Who cares if they are nationally owned or not? Most telcos are monopolies that only make changes when they are fined massive amounts of money by utility boards.
I mean really, why hasn't the RIAA sued MS et al for making software that enables such piracy..
MS has the money to win the court battle which would most likely put all future court battles in danger. Once a precedence had been set that MS is not responsible it would be very hard to make future charges stick.