Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone could blow up tomorrow, or it could blow up in 17,000 years. All we know is that it will blow up again someday.
Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone may never blow again. Just because it looks like it will doesn't mean it will.
He says that we will "probably" be able to prove it. So it's not in the pile of things that definitely can't be proven, or in the pile that definitely can be proven. It's in the third pile - todo. The comparison was with religion which is squarely in the first pile.
Non-biased science will be used to prove what the Holy Bible states; it seems Hawking is getting closer to the truth since only a miracle could spontaneously create new matter/energy out of nothing thereby violating *our* rules regarding thermodynamics. As long as a scientist says a ball of matter exploded to create the universe we have to ask what created the ball of matter until we hit upon a solution that is not relative (as in an absolute answer) to the existence of this universe. Also, just because you don't believe in ducks and when you see one (or evidence of it) you deny it and say it is not a duck doesn't change the fact that the duck still exists. Denying the obvious is what puts you in the pile of the "wackjobs" (as non-religious zealots like to call to the believers).
And the problem with the Jaguar was not the price (it was released at $250 if I recall correctly) but the games. Both the availability and the quality of the games sucked. I loved Tempest 2000 and Iron Soldier but their 2D figher game (can't remember the name) sucked. Their racing games weren't that good either (there were 2 if I recall correctly). The system was cartridge-based and a separate CD add-on unit cost a good chunk of money as well. THe packaged game Cybermorph held my attention for maybe an hour. Super Mario Brothers 1 was a lot better. Moral of the story: even when the price is right, the games still have to deliver.
With Windows, you have (well, you did, pre-Vista) Home, and Professional, and you can charge extra for installing Professional. With Linux, you have Ubuntu, Novell, Fedora, and god knows what else, and you really can't charge extra for installing one or the other without alienating users.
Have you seen how many OS options are available when you configure a server on their site? They let you choose between multiple variations on a VMWare installation. Those weren't always there and sure, they are only the servers and not PCs but it just goes to show you that they can add more options for an OS when the market is there for it (they also have multiple variations of Linux for the servers including both Red Hat and SUSE). They seem capable of testing multiple operating system installations.
Right, because when I think of cutting edge technology I think of Alabama!
That is exactly the point. The gov't doesn't want to advertise sites like these. Sure, the more famous ones everyone will know about (Fort Knox), the locals will know about the facility, and there may even be a website (now or in the future) that tells you where the facility is located but I'm sure they chose Alabama for multiple reasons (Huntsville is booming) and one of those was probably because it isn't a location where you would normally look for a facility like that. They will also probably build it so that it doesn't look like anything special with no huge signs advertising its existence. It's for security. Other locations around the U.S. are treated the same way for the same reason.
Holy fsck! A full year from now? In a year computers will have changed enough to cause this to falter badly from the start! It will take only one worm of the right design, one change to hard drive technology, one of any number of things to change the virtual face of computer forensics. That change could happen next week. This taking over a year to put in production doesn't sound even close to flexible enough to accomplish the stated goals!
Yeah, having to actually construct a building which provides the infrastructure is so annoying. Why don't they just skip all that so they can get to the actual teaching? Idiot. You do realize that it doesn't matter when they open because there will always be the possibility of a revolution in computer attacks? Considering what is out there now, an additional year won't matter too much to those who will be the first trainees. Yeah they should have had this 20 years ago but they didn't so what more do you want? They have to have a construction phase just like anything else. We aren't yet to the year 3000 where a building full of infrastructure comes in a 3x3 box with a button that when pressed makes the box explode into a building ready for use.
May I suggest the first step? Tell the people advocating humans are the cause of global warming to shutup. Their self-fulfilling prophecy won't come true then.
If we get renewable energy sources cranked up within our own countries, that chunk that we can keep in-house will add considerably to that GDP.
Wishful thinking. You make it sound like the perfect solution until it is implemented. After initial implementation the companies involved will eventually start finding ways to cut costs and then jobs get outsourced just like they are today throughout the various industries, all in the name of cutting costs to look better for the shareholders. Oh, and a burgeoning industry like renewable energy is ripe for pulling in illegal immigrants for the primary/initial source of employees. That will be the first step in trying to reduce costs so that those energy sources catch on faster. Then when they do, someone will investigate and find out the companies hired illegal immigrants which would normally cause a scandal to be covered on all the news stations. But in this case a large group of people (those calling for a solution to the global warming crisis) would say that the companies are only doing what is right by giving jobs to poor homeless immigrants, nevermind the fact that that is all good except when they are ILLEGAL. And because of that the story won't get the news coverage it should because the news stations don't want anything to happen to the illegal immigrants (they make companies money while being paid under the table). That's my prophecy.
To MS's credit, they have to plan ahead just like any other company to determine what will and what will not make it into their next product version. As we saw, they kept dropping items from Vista to make their deadlines. Some of those may be scheduled for future Service Packs or they may not. Any bugs they knew about that weren't serious enough to be fixed before the final Vista release would be pushed off to a Service Pack and of course any bugs they didn't/don't know about will be pushed to SP1 as well. Their lead time for planning Servic Packs is just the nature of the software business, just like lead time for a magazine can be up to 3 months or more. Halfway through SP1 development they may end up starting to plan SP2. Also, the lead time for Vista's SP1 is about the same amount of time as SP1 for XP and we all know how well XP compared to previous Windows versions (most people believe XP to be pretty stable) so the fact they have a codename for Vista SP1 isn't a bad thing. It also isn't indicative of bad testing based on the 2 scenarios I mentioned above (non-serious bugs that could wait while more serious ones were addressed to meet the initial release deadline as well as bugs they knew were there but didn't flush out in time). You can never claim to fix all bugs because you can't prove there isn't just one more. But you can plan for them to be surfaced and fixed. This can also be viewed as a good thing. They are being proactive about fixing stuff. Who says they have to give you a SP as soon as possible or at all for that matter? Would you prefer to never get one? We would all prefer to not NEED them but that isn't going to happen; even OSX and Linux go through minor versions to fix things.
The voltage does not matter. It's not what is coursing through your body. The voltage is only the differential, not the actual electricity. Tazers use about 20,000 but the amperage is only a milliamp or so (more than 3 going thru the heart will kill you). Multiply those together to get the power output. High voltage transportation lines can have 100k or more volts but they also have a lot of amperage too. Anytime anyone says anything related to the amount of voltage and the fact that it would hurt you doesn't know what they are talking about. You can have a million volts but if you reduce the amperage the total power is hardly anything and with the low current it wouldn't be lethal or paralyzing.
10 employees who get paid 100K each is 3 million dollars over 3 years.
Plus air travel and other crap. Government spends a million just wiping its butt, thats just what happens with large entities that have no direct income for their actions.
Maybe they should get a raise for those on slashdot who think that 3 million isn't a large enough fine?
A better system would give students time each day, or at least a few days a week, in supervised study hall.
Given time during the school day when there is no teacher talking for a full class period most students will not take advantage of it to do their homework (most treat it as a calmer version of recess). If the supervisor allows them to most will just talk with their friends. Those who do their homework are the same ones who would have done their work anyway at home but do it early because they know they won't have time later on. I had a study hall "class" my senior year of high school and that is basically how it went. Sometimes I did my homework if I had any to do. If I remember correctly I spent most of those study hall periods just talking with people but I still did my homework, I just did it at home instead.
Why does it seem that the USA is progressively skimping on education?
It all goes back to trying to be politically correct. PC is affecting many things in the US at the present time. The rule is we shouldn't offend anyone unless they are members of the Christian faith and if that is the case you can do anything you want to them and if they fight back you get to cry "assault!". If they don't fight back you can keep offending them because they are the exception. Everyone else falls under the PC umbrella: allowing illegal aliens to remain illegal in the US, Muslims beings the main terrorist threat but no racial profiling, kids being "burnt out" on homework so no more homework, kids being left out during recess games so no more recess, etc.
Except that MS already has a hotfix for the DST patch. That's info is from one of the administrators telling me about it at work a couple days ago but I didn't ask if the hotfix was for XP or Win Server 2003 or both (those are the only ones we use at work from Microsoft).
Kerberos auth has problems if the clocks are > 300 sec out of sync. It's not that you couldn't do it manually, you just run the risk of a "hickup", like no one in the domain is allowed to log in.
I'm not saying the script idea would work after taking into account what I'm about to say but it is something to consider. Using Group Policy in Active Directory allows you to modify the default setting of 5 min for your Kerberos clock skew threshold. In fact, its the default Domain Policy that sets the 5 min threshold to begin with. The Domain Policy could be modified to make the script work better at the expense of reducing Kerberos security a little. All workstations in the domain get their time from the domain controllers anyway so w/o delving into the problem too far, I would think that as long as you can keep the domain controllers at the right time and have a startup (not logon script, those are for users) script for all workstations to force sync'ing with the authenticating domain controller it would probably work. While the machine is on they will sync every so often as well using the Windows Time service (NTP).
The wise thing to do in my opinion is provide some sort of email service (outsourced is fine) for the small percent of students who actually use it, and allow student's to submit their own email addresses to the campus database.......which would then get loaded into the 'official' campus address book for use by faculty and other students.......
That isn't the wisest thing to do though. I would want to use my personal account for receiving e-mail from professors or the school administration personnel but I wouldn't necessarily want everyone to know my personal e-mail address by having it published. If I choose to e-mail a professor using the personal account that is another story (I did that a lot before I graduated last year). The best way to solve that is to have a system (outsourced or not) that allows students to submit their personal e-mail address as a forwarding address for their school account. People needing to send e-mail to students wouldn't have to worry about the infinite number of e-mail address formats that students may have because they would all have the standard username format and school's domain name but students wouldn't have to check the specific school's e-mail system for their mail.
Perhaps there are other compelling reasons why he might want to stay. For example, he has a girlfriend there; he has a good relationship with a certain professor who is willing to help his career path; he might lose transfer credits in the process; etc etc etc.
So you mean only source of heat and energy for the planet is responisble for it's weather and tempreture? Wow. I bet these guys went to post-graduate school to figure that one out.
You should know full well that isn't the conclusion that should be reached. Obviously you never made it past the 3rd grade since you can't spell 'temperature' correctly which explains your skills at drawing the correct conclusion. The conlusion drawn is that the *changes* we see on Earth regarding increasing global average temperatures are from Sol changes, not from us throwing CO2 into the atmosphere. It's about time scientists finally saw the light and realized that, as you say, the only source of heat and energy for this planet and the other 7 might actually be causing these changes considering that same star has dramatic effects on our weather throughout the year. This also means we have no control over it and although there may be cause for alarm there is no use in trying to convince your neighbor to buy a hybrid (other than increasing gas prices again, what's up with that?) since it won't make a difference.
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So you are immune to bullets?
Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone could blow up tomorrow, or it could blow up in 17,000 years. All we know is that it will blow up again someday.
Really? Know that for a fact do you? Yellowstone may never blow again. Just because it looks like it will doesn't mean it will.
He says that we will "probably" be able to prove it. So it's not in the pile of things that definitely can't be proven, or in the pile that definitely can be proven. It's in the third pile - todo. The comparison was with religion which is squarely in the first pile.
Non-biased science will be used to prove what the Holy Bible states; it seems Hawking is getting closer to the truth since only a miracle could spontaneously create new matter/energy out of nothing thereby violating *our* rules regarding thermodynamics. As long as a scientist says a ball of matter exploded to create the universe we have to ask what created the ball of matter until we hit upon a solution that is not relative (as in an absolute answer) to the existence of this universe. Also, just because you don't believe in ducks and when you see one (or evidence of it) you deny it and say it is not a duck doesn't change the fact that the duck still exists. Denying the obvious is what puts you in the pile of the "wackjobs" (as non-religious zealots like to call to the believers).
And the problem with the Jaguar was not the price (it was released at $250 if I recall correctly) but the games. Both the availability and the quality of the games sucked. I loved Tempest 2000 and Iron Soldier but their 2D figher game (can't remember the name) sucked. Their racing games weren't that good either (there were 2 if I recall correctly). The system was cartridge-based and a separate CD add-on unit cost a good chunk of money as well. THe packaged game Cybermorph held my attention for maybe an hour. Super Mario Brothers 1 was a lot better. Moral of the story: even when the price is right, the games still have to deliver.
With Windows, you have (well, you did, pre-Vista) Home, and Professional, and you can charge extra for installing Professional. With Linux, you have Ubuntu, Novell, Fedora, and god knows what else, and you really can't charge extra for installing one or the other without alienating users.
Have you seen how many OS options are available when you configure a server on their site? They let you choose between multiple variations on a VMWare installation. Those weren't always there and sure, they are only the servers and not PCs but it just goes to show you that they can add more options for an OS when the market is there for it (they also have multiple variations of Linux for the servers including both Red Hat and SUSE). They seem capable of testing multiple operating system installations.
Right, because when I think of cutting edge technology I think of Alabama!
That is exactly the point. The gov't doesn't want to advertise sites like these. Sure, the more famous ones everyone will know about (Fort Knox), the locals will know about the facility, and there may even be a website (now or in the future) that tells you where the facility is located but I'm sure they chose Alabama for multiple reasons (Huntsville is booming) and one of those was probably because it isn't a location where you would normally look for a facility like that. They will also probably build it so that it doesn't look like anything special with no huge signs advertising its existence. It's for security. Other locations around the U.S. are treated the same way for the same reason.
Holy fsck! A full year from now? In a year computers will have changed enough to cause this to falter badly from the start! It will take only one worm of the right design, one change to hard drive technology, one of any number of things to change the virtual face of computer forensics. That change could happen next week. This taking over a year to put in production doesn't sound even close to flexible enough to accomplish the stated goals!
Yeah, having to actually construct a building which provides the infrastructure is so annoying. Why don't they just skip all that so they can get to the actual teaching? Idiot. You do realize that it doesn't matter when they open because there will always be the possibility of a revolution in computer attacks? Considering what is out there now, an additional year won't matter too much to those who will be the first trainees. Yeah they should have had this 20 years ago but they didn't so what more do you want? They have to have a construction phase just like anything else. We aren't yet to the year 3000 where a building full of infrastructure comes in a 3x3 box with a button that when pressed makes the box explode into a building ready for use.
Talk about influence!
And don't forget the double standard.
I didn't know telecopes were that old. Is this a typo, and didn't they mean decades instead? If not, what did ancient telescopes do?
I hope you are kidding but if not, what do you think Galileo used to observe the rings of Saturn?
We have to find a way to sequester this CO2.
May I suggest the first step? Tell the people advocating humans are the cause of global warming to shutup. Their self-fulfilling prophecy won't come true then.
If we get renewable energy sources cranked up within our own countries, that chunk that we can keep in-house will add considerably to that GDP.
Wishful thinking. You make it sound like the perfect solution until it is implemented. After initial implementation the companies involved will eventually start finding ways to cut costs and then jobs get outsourced just like they are today throughout the various industries, all in the name of cutting costs to look better for the shareholders. Oh, and a burgeoning industry like renewable energy is ripe for pulling in illegal immigrants for the primary/initial source of employees. That will be the first step in trying to reduce costs so that those energy sources catch on faster. Then when they do, someone will investigate and find out the companies hired illegal immigrants which would normally cause a scandal to be covered on all the news stations. But in this case a large group of people (those calling for a solution to the global warming crisis) would say that the companies are only doing what is right by giving jobs to poor homeless immigrants, nevermind the fact that that is all good except when they are ILLEGAL. And because of that the story won't get the news coverage it should because the news stations don't want anything to happen to the illegal immigrants (they make companies money while being paid under the table). That's my prophecy.
To MS's credit, they have to plan ahead just like any other company to determine what will and what will not make it into their next product version. As we saw, they kept dropping items from Vista to make their deadlines. Some of those may be scheduled for future Service Packs or they may not. Any bugs they knew about that weren't serious enough to be fixed before the final Vista release would be pushed off to a Service Pack and of course any bugs they didn't/don't know about will be pushed to SP1 as well. Their lead time for planning Servic Packs is just the nature of the software business, just like lead time for a magazine can be up to 3 months or more. Halfway through SP1 development they may end up starting to plan SP2. Also, the lead time for Vista's SP1 is about the same amount of time as SP1 for XP and we all know how well XP compared to previous Windows versions (most people believe XP to be pretty stable) so the fact they have a codename for Vista SP1 isn't a bad thing. It also isn't indicative of bad testing based on the 2 scenarios I mentioned above (non-serious bugs that could wait while more serious ones were addressed to meet the initial release deadline as well as bugs they knew were there but didn't flush out in time). You can never claim to fix all bugs because you can't prove there isn't just one more. But you can plan for them to be surfaced and fixed. This can also be viewed as a good thing. They are being proactive about fixing stuff. Who says they have to give you a SP as soon as possible or at all for that matter? Would you prefer to never get one? We would all prefer to not NEED them but that isn't going to happen; even OSX and Linux go through minor versions to fix things.
I just don't get what makes you lot tick.
We can't tell you because it is illegal in 48 states (but the norm in Holland).
The voltage does not matter. It's not what is coursing through your body. The voltage is only the differential, not the actual electricity. Tazers use about 20,000 but the amperage is only a milliamp or so (more than 3 going thru the heart will kill you). Multiply those together to get the power output. High voltage transportation lines can have 100k or more volts but they also have a lot of amperage too. Anytime anyone says anything related to the amount of voltage and the fact that it would hurt you doesn't know what they are talking about. You can have a million volts but if you reduce the amperage the total power is hardly anything and with the low current it wouldn't be lethal or paralyzing.
The GPL is much more understandable than any Microsoft EULA
Is that why we have a ton of postings on here all trying to describe their poster's interpretation of the GPL?
Yes... 3 year investigation.
10 employees who get paid 100K each is 3 million dollars over 3 years.
Plus air travel and other crap. Government spends a million just wiping its butt, thats just what happens with large entities that have no direct income for their actions.
Maybe they should get a raise for those on slashdot who think that 3 million isn't a large enough fine?
It seems as though the school has outsourced reading, handwriting, math, and spelling to mom and dad. What exactly are they doing all day in school?
I don't know about elementary school but this is what those kids have to look forward to when they get to college.
A better system would give students time each day, or at least a few days a week, in supervised study hall.
Given time during the school day when there is no teacher talking for a full class period most students will not take advantage of it to do their homework (most treat it as a calmer version of recess). If the supervisor allows them to most will just talk with their friends. Those who do their homework are the same ones who would have done their work anyway at home but do it early because they know they won't have time later on. I had a study hall "class" my senior year of high school and that is basically how it went. Sometimes I did my homework if I had any to do. If I remember correctly I spent most of those study hall periods just talking with people but I still did my homework, I just did it at home instead.
Why does it seem that the USA is progressively skimping on education?
It all goes back to trying to be politically correct. PC is affecting many things in the US at the present time. The rule is we shouldn't offend anyone unless they are members of the Christian faith and if that is the case you can do anything you want to them and if they fight back you get to cry "assault!". If they don't fight back you can keep offending them because they are the exception. Everyone else falls under the PC umbrella: allowing illegal aliens to remain illegal in the US, Muslims beings the main terrorist threat but no racial profiling, kids being "burnt out" on homework so no more homework, kids being left out during recess games so no more recess, etc.
It's silly to spend cash on a book if you're not certain it's the right one...
I know how you feel. I use the same philosophy with my women.
XP and stuff for it shouldn't be a problem.
Except that MS already has a hotfix for the DST patch. That's info is from one of the administrators telling me about it at work a couple days ago but I didn't ask if the hotfix was for XP or Win Server 2003 or both (those are the only ones we use at work from Microsoft).
Kerberos auth has problems if the clocks are > 300 sec out of sync. It's not that you couldn't do it manually, you just run the risk of a "hickup", like no one in the domain is allowed to log in.
I'm not saying the script idea would work after taking into account what I'm about to say but it is something to consider. Using Group Policy in Active Directory allows you to modify the default setting of 5 min for your Kerberos clock skew threshold. In fact, its the default Domain Policy that sets the 5 min threshold to begin with. The Domain Policy could be modified to make the script work better at the expense of reducing Kerberos security a little. All workstations in the domain get their time from the domain controllers anyway so w/o delving into the problem too far, I would think that as long as you can keep the domain controllers at the right time and have a startup (not logon script, those are for users) script for all workstations to force sync'ing with the authenticating domain controller it would probably work. While the machine is on they will sync every so often as well using the Windows Time service (NTP).
The wise thing to do in my opinion is provide some sort of email service (outsourced is fine) for the small percent of students who actually use it, and allow student's to submit their own email addresses to the campus database.......which would then get loaded into the 'official' campus address book for use by faculty and other students.......
That isn't the wisest thing to do though. I would want to use my personal account for receiving e-mail from professors or the school administration personnel but I wouldn't necessarily want everyone to know my personal e-mail address by having it published. If I choose to e-mail a professor using the personal account that is another story (I did that a lot before I graduated last year). The best way to solve that is to have a system (outsourced or not) that allows students to submit their personal e-mail address as a forwarding address for their school account. People needing to send e-mail to students wouldn't have to worry about the infinite number of e-mail address formats that students may have because they would all have the standard username format and school's domain name but students wouldn't have to check the specific school's e-mail system for their mail.
Perhaps there are other compelling reasons why he might want to stay. For example, he has a girlfriend there; he has a good relationship with a certain professor who is willing to help his career path; he might lose transfer credits in the process; etc etc etc.
I believe reasons 1 and 2 are the same thing.
So you mean only source of heat and energy for the planet is responisble for it's weather and tempreture? Wow. I bet these guys went to post-graduate school to figure that one out.
You should know full well that isn't the conclusion that should be reached. Obviously you never made it past the 3rd grade since you can't spell 'temperature' correctly which explains your skills at drawing the correct conclusion. The conlusion drawn is that the *changes* we see on Earth regarding increasing global average temperatures are from Sol changes, not from us throwing CO2 into the atmosphere. It's about time scientists finally saw the light and realized that, as you say, the only source of heat and energy for this planet and the other 7 might actually be causing these changes considering that same star has dramatic effects on our weather throughout the year. This also means we have no control over it and although there may be cause for alarm there is no use in trying to convince your neighbor to buy a hybrid (other than increasing gas prices again, what's up with that?) since it won't make a difference.