I completely disagree with the no TPM no digital offerings statement. There will be digital offerings without TPM, these content companies cannot survive if they do not offer digital content in the future. What will be interesting is the digital DRM fragmentation that will come about with HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and China-DVD, will that equal zero sales?
Consider the numbers, from the movie the Reavers started out at about 3 Million people about 5-6 years from the point in history where we see Serenity. Even if they do not reproduce it would take a long time for them to die out.
The choice between fault tolerants systems is decided on the interval your company can sustain an outage. A cluster can take 1-2 min to move applications from a dead node to another working one. If you applications require sustained 100% connectivity you need to go fault tolerant. Usually its for Realtime monitoring software like the computers used to monitor telephone exchanges. For databases and NFS services clusters work better as you can take a 1-2 minute hit in the response when a node fails. Software licenses do not come into it with active-active nodes where you pay for all the CPU's you are running on there. With active-passive failover, only 1 instance of your licensed software is running on your 2 systems. If your software vendor insists on your paying a license for both nodes then I would opt for a active-active node instead of an active-passive one.
I question the statistics, who did they poll? The people who went to those movies? Critics ratings? Give me a break, the movie studios have more to fear from the moviegoer texting his frieds that a movie sucks from inside a theather than movie critics. I frequent slashdot and half a dozen boards, every one of them has topics on the latest favorite/hot movie or they pan a bad movie. From what I see the boards are more likely to influence a moviegoer than any critic.
Its more probably that your father did not close the session on the DVD when he recorded it. Prior to closing the DVD's generally will not play on any other player.
I work as a sysadmin with about 1000+ real hardware platforms running linux and solaris with a handful of windows boxes. Every 2-3 weeks I have to power cycle a windows box because it has crashed. On the other end I had one unix machine I was told to wipe and upgrade. I wanted to wait 5 more days it had been running for 995 days and I wanted it to hit 1000. That more than anything Linux advocates or Microsoft says convinces me what should be running on my servers.
I think this Google trying to buy some of NASA's launch facilites and technology for the Google Moonbase. Did everyone here forget that Google was hiring for positions on their Moonbase a while ago?:)
I like the list, have not got any call except from my phone service provider, who seems to have stopped doing so ever since I told them I would stop using their service if they persisted in calling me. Before that I basically took my phone offline in the evenings, literally disconnected the phone cord from the phones every night. Before that I had let my answering machine take all calls and screened them, but I got tired of that and disconnecting my phone was a lot less effort. If it starts up again, I will go back to leaving my phone service disconnected unless I want to make a phone call.
Reading that I doubt that student has what it takes to become an engineer. It takes more than smarts, you do not just get well defined problem in real life. On the job, you get to work with incomplete data, unclear instructions, changing goals, incompetent managers, out of control bureaucracy, insufficient budgets and a host of other complications.
SONY lost the betamax vs VHS wars because the pr0n industry went with VHS. I think they learnt their lesson. One of the biggest sellers in the UMX format for the PSP is, pr0n! So I am pretty sure that SONY is going after the pr0n industry pretty heavilly for Blu-Ray as well.
Actually there is a project to use large balloons as heavy slow lifters. 1st stage balloon lifts the orbit balloon which uses an ion engine to get into orbit. It will take weeks to lift anything into space but it would be cheap and repeatable.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/
The orbital spikes are guided munitions, they are not aimed from the launch platform, its a chunk of metal with fins and a guidance system. As accurate as the laser guided bombs. I read that it would be easier/cheaper to use sub orbital munitions, ie launch a cluster high up and then guide them down on targets. Sub orbitals have a big political problem with being possibly mistaken for a nuke. I think the CIA would prefer orbital kinetic strike weapons since they do not require military assets deployed close to a target.
No clue, I stopped listening to music a few years ago. Used to buy 1 or 2 CD's a week, then the music went to crap, none of the artists I liked were coming out with new titles. I got acustomed to silence and now prefer silence over hearing music. So I do rarely even listen to the CD's I have let alone buy new ones. The new music is crap, spend your $$$ on a good book and read in silence.
This is just posturing by California politicians to prove that they are doing something about violence. Better to spend their time doing something real about curbing domestic violence, rapes and murder.
It all depends on the missile fired at the warship. The US already has a anti air craft missile that will take this down easilly. Its a missle with basically a chain wrapped around an explosive, on detonation near the target the chain unwinds at extremely high speeds, kind of a flying buzz saw, a very large one. One of those would poke a really big hole in the warship.
Too many good scientists unfortunately usually only expect people to report facts and truths. Thereby getting conned by the likes of Uri Gellar etc.. Look at the CIA and "remote viewing". Real science requires Falsification which is why Evolution is a real scientific theory and ID/Creationism is not. When the President considers that ID is to be given equal grounds then FSM'ism and every other non-scientific theory out there requires the same treatment and have to be taught in our schools too. That is why religion should be kept out of our schools or else every crackpot that comes up with their own religion will have to allowed in the schools too. I can just imagine a friend of mine who is legally filed as a minister of the Church of the Everlasting Martini preaching in our high schools if religion is allowed into schools.
The old macintosh programming model and OS made virus writing for a Mac extremely easy. Tack on an extra resource and alter the execution path. OS-X and its underlying unix security makes it orders of magnitude harder to code a virus on a Mac.
Hmm, even if laptops are not prohibited, my u750p handheld PC would probably be prohibited. Tablets are specifically prohibited so those tablet PC's will probably fall into that group.
I had planed to purchase a new computer system a couple of months ago, US$7.5K for computer $3K for apple 30" monitor. However since I first read about this I have put my plans on hold.
How are they going to handle encryption over these "backdoored" networks? Guess they will have to pass a law that says civilians are not allowed to use encryption.
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Would it not be simpler to pass a law mandating open document format compatiblity?
I completely disagree with the no TPM no digital offerings statement. There will be digital offerings without TPM, these content companies cannot survive if they do not offer digital content in the future. What will be interesting is the digital DRM fragmentation that will come about with HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and China-DVD, will that equal zero sales?
Big greedy company stops talking to even bigger greedier companies over bilking customer base. So what's new?
Consider the numbers, from the movie the Reavers started out at about 3 Million people about 5-6 years from the point in history where we see Serenity. Even if they do not reproduce it would take a long time for them to die out.
The choice between fault tolerants systems is decided on the interval your company can sustain an outage. A cluster can take 1-2 min to move applications from a dead node to another working one. If you applications require sustained 100% connectivity you need to go fault tolerant. Usually its for Realtime monitoring software like the computers used to monitor telephone exchanges. For databases and NFS services clusters work better as you can take a 1-2 minute hit in the response when a node fails. Software licenses do not come into it with active-active nodes where you pay for all the CPU's you are running on there. With active-passive failover, only 1 instance of your licensed software is running on your 2 systems. If your software vendor insists on your paying a license for both nodes then I would opt for a active-active node instead of an active-passive one.
I question the statistics, who did they poll? The people who went to those movies? Critics ratings? Give me a break, the movie studios have more to fear from the moviegoer texting his frieds that a movie sucks from inside a theather than movie critics. I frequent slashdot and half a dozen boards, every one of them has topics on the latest favorite/hot movie or they pan a bad movie. From what I see the boards are more likely to influence a moviegoer than any critic.
Its more probably that your father did not close the session on the DVD when he recorded it. Prior to closing the DVD's generally will not play on any other player.
I work as a sysadmin with about 1000+ real hardware platforms running linux and solaris with a handful of windows boxes. Every 2-3 weeks I have to power cycle a windows box because it has crashed. On the other end I had one unix machine I was told to wipe and upgrade. I wanted to wait 5 more days it had been running for 995 days and I wanted it to hit 1000. That more than anything Linux advocates or Microsoft says convinces me what should be running on my servers.
I think this Google trying to buy some of NASA's launch facilites and technology for the Google Moonbase. Did everyone here forget that Google was hiring for positions on their Moonbase a while ago? :)
I like the list, have not got any call except from my phone service provider, who seems to have stopped doing so ever since I told them I would stop using their service if they persisted in calling me. Before that I basically took my phone offline in the evenings, literally disconnected the phone cord from the phones every night. Before that I had let my answering machine take all calls and screened them, but I got tired of that and disconnecting my phone was a lot less effort. If it starts up again, I will go back to leaving my phone service disconnected unless I want to make a phone call.
Reading that I doubt that student has what it takes to become an engineer. It takes more than smarts, you do not just get well defined problem in real life. On the job, you get to work with incomplete data, unclear instructions, changing goals, incompetent managers, out of control bureaucracy, insufficient budgets and a host of other complications.
SONY lost the betamax vs VHS wars because the pr0n industry went with VHS. I think they learnt their lesson. One of the biggest sellers in the UMX format for the PSP is, pr0n! So I am pretty sure that SONY is going after the pr0n industry pretty heavilly for Blu-Ray as well.
Actually there is a project to use large balloons as heavy slow lifters. 1st stage balloon lifts the orbit balloon which uses an ion engine to get into orbit. It will take weeks to lift anything into space but it would be cheap and repeatable. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/
The orbital spikes are guided munitions, they are not aimed from the launch platform, its a chunk of metal with fins and a guidance system. As accurate as the laser guided bombs. I read that it would be easier/cheaper to use sub orbital munitions, ie launch a cluster high up and then guide them down on targets. Sub orbitals have a big political problem with being possibly mistaken for a nuke. I think the CIA would prefer orbital kinetic strike weapons since they do not require military assets deployed close to a target.
No clue, I stopped listening to music a few years ago. Used to buy 1 or 2 CD's a week, then the music went to crap, none of the artists I liked were coming out with new titles. I got acustomed to silence and now prefer silence over hearing music. So I do rarely even listen to the CD's I have let alone buy new ones. The new music is crap, spend your $$$ on a good book and read in silence.
This is just posturing by California politicians to prove that they are doing something about violence. Better to spend their time doing something real about curbing domestic violence, rapes and murder.
The only hard drives that I have got rid of have had a nail driven thru all the platters after a full reformat.
It all depends on the missile fired at the warship. The US already has a anti air craft missile that will take this down easilly. Its a missle with basically a chain wrapped around an explosive, on detonation near the target the chain unwinds at extremely high speeds, kind of a flying buzz saw, a very large one. One of those would poke a really big hole in the warship.
Too many good scientists unfortunately usually only expect people to report facts and truths. Thereby getting conned by the likes of Uri Gellar etc.. Look at the CIA and "remote viewing". Real science requires Falsification which is why Evolution is a real scientific theory and ID/Creationism is not. When the President considers that ID is to be given equal grounds then FSM'ism and every other non-scientific theory out there requires the same treatment and have to be taught in our schools too. That is why religion should be kept out of our schools or else every crackpot that comes up with their own religion will have to allowed in the schools too. I can just imagine a friend of mine who is legally filed as a minister of the Church of the Everlasting Martini preaching in our high schools if religion is allowed into schools.
The old macintosh programming model and OS made virus writing for a Mac extremely easy. Tack on an extra resource and alter the execution path. OS-X and its underlying unix security makes it orders of magnitude harder to code a virus on a Mac.
Every PS3 will come with one of these, and you get to pay extra for SONY being able to kill your box.
Hmm, even if laptops are not prohibited, my u750p handheld PC would probably be prohibited. Tablets are specifically prohibited so those tablet PC's will probably fall into that group.
I had planed to purchase a new computer system a couple of months ago, US$7.5K for computer $3K for apple 30" monitor. However since I first read about this I have put my plans on hold.
How soon before political vultures hear about this and start yelling about giving modders tools to create "Hot Coffee" type games.
How are they going to handle encryption over these "backdoored" networks? Guess they will have to pass a law that says civilians are not allowed to use encryption.