Lets get really pedantic here. Of course the rocket engine is generating horsepower. Horsepower is not work (which is force over distance). Horsepower is a measure of energy expended over a unit of time. Energy was expended (quite a bit actually) over a period of time (10 seconds). So yes, 30,000 horsepower is an accurate number even in a static test.
I am surprised that nobody has asked the question of what happens if the media records the police. Can the news not record the police? Wouldn't that go against freedom of the press? If it does, how are the media any different than a normal citizen. Any citizen can report news.
Do these laws then interfere with freedom of the press? Do these laws interfere with my ability to petition the government for redress of grievances? This seems to go against the grain of the first amendment.
In my experience, many companies in the US have certain HR mandated salary schedules. These salary schedules *require* that a PhD is payed more. In most cases the PhD is not needed for the position and you will not be hired due to the higher salary requirements. It doesn't even matter that you would take a lower salary. A PhD will go a long way towards a research position though.
So, stupid is as stupid does. Microsoft's bottom line is still unaffected. The fact that there is a start button to cover up means they sold a license of windows.
Why is covering up the start button a bad thing? If there is a start button to cover up, haven't they sold a license of windows? How does that impact their sales?
The original argument holds. They are not managing their bandwidth properly. I am paying (according to my provider) for a 256kb full time connection. If that's not what they wanted, the agreement should have been different. If they want me to be able to do 256kb for only 8 hours of the day they should use some sort of aggregate rate shaper to prevent me from exceeding a daily bandwidth allocation. Otherwise, I should get a business account for a 24/7 connection. It still boils down to poor business management on the providers side.
I can still set up a NAT box of my own behind their "authorized NAT (or CAT or whatever)". I can feed disinformation to their hardware. I don't see how this prevents me from doing what they are trying to prevent me from doing. I can make a box look like one box to them.
Even if you are cutting and pasting code, quality shouldn't go down if the code was written well in the first place. If you had made a proper middleware for each of the various languages you use for your web development, all the time you spent would be with custom content and not cutting and pasting code. Productivity would go up, quality would go up, and time and cost would go down. You would also have more time to spend on the "cool" stuff.
that it sucks to work for Iomega. I live in the Salt Lake area and even interviewed once with them. The weren't a very attractive company to work with so I didn't entertain the notion of working with them any further. I have also had many ex-employees tell me to never work there. Of course you might expect to hear those sort of comments from an ex-employee. But the percentage of ex-employees I have heard make that comment would steer me away from working for them.
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As has been pointed out, a child is unable to make the decision to voluntarily commit their information for tracking. It is a hard thing to police, but there is a difference between arbitrary ad clicks and clicking an ad that has been targeted at a child.
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Here is the problem though. Once that information is sold and given to agencies that want to advertise (so they can pinpoint where they should advertise), the ad agencies can now track those children through banner clicks and put together more detailed information on individuals.
I am voting neither republican or democrat, but the character assassination peace seems to be somewhat trite, one sided, and paranoid. I would have expected a more objective article. In my experience the media tends to favor democrats anyhow.
The main problem I have with genomics is that we only have the most basic understanding of how the biology of a human cell works, let alone a whole persons biology. If we start engineering people to certain standards, we take away the natural diversity of the species. As a species, we have no idea on the long term effects of genomics and the path it will take our species down; we could engineer our species into a dead end road. Without proper natural diversity we won't have the ability to maneuver ourselves out of a genetic dead end. We think we know so much, but we know so little.
This notice is standard DOD procedure. In fact any DOD organization that does not post this during login or on a visible portion of a computer is subject to disciplinary action. I know you said you are in the DOE, but I'm sure that notice should have been there before the incident. The wording is almost the exact same one I had to display at login on DOD boxes. I'm not sure of the legality side of this, but they do own the machines, and if you are doing your job on that machine (instead of personal stuff), you don't have any privacy issue to worry about, because whatever you do is what they are paying you for.
The demands for video editing have always been high. And seeing as the software is GPL, performance can be improved where improvements are able to be done.
These checksum algorithms are public knowledge. There are several examples on the internet, you just need to look for them. I've used them several times in back end web development just to do a preliminary check on wether a number submitted can even be a credit card number.
All a hacker would have to do, Hopcroft said, is set up an account with an Internet service provider hosting a company's Web site, "go into that server and root around looking for the keys of other companies. With [the key] there is no way for me to be distinguished from a legitimate business owner."
OK, that's funny. I hope that any ISP that leaves secret keys around w/ out proper permissions (ones denying Joe-Other-User from my critical information) and w/out a properly long passphrase (in the case of SSL certificates) would not even be in business. Private Keys are something that you keep properly protected. And if someone gains root access you are screwed. They will find the key, not because of the randomness, but because they now have complete control of the system. Once someone gains root access, there is not much you CAN do to prevent them from getting the key.
If it is as good as citrix, then it will run over about 20kbit of bandwidth just fine. In fact, I've been amazed at how well citrix runs over a 28.8 modem. And to answer your question about many instances of an app ( again from a citrix point of view because at one point I administered a farm of Metaframe boxes ), we were able to support 100 users running office apps very well on a compaq 1850 dual-proc pII-450 w/ 1/2Gb of ram. The architecture takes advantage of the fact that you only need to load excel/word/whatever_app into memory once, and it is just the user data that needs to exist in a protected memory space. Then your memory isn't getting eaten up by apps, but what it was supposed to be used for, data. And not to step on anyones toes, but the machines stayed up for about 60 days at a time. I know NT isn't everyones favorite OS in these parts. And because they were in a farm, when a machine went down, yes some users would get kicked off and lose some work, but they could immediately reconnect to the "Application" they were running, and one of the servers in the farm would serve the request. And to answer your comment on running win32 apps on linux, the programs will still crash on linux if they crash on a win32 architecture. Bugs are still bugs. They may not bring your machine down, but they will still crash on linux if the crash on win. Anyhow, that's enough from me.
but in the immortal words of one of the 'Angry Beavers', "Die you stupid thing DIE". Honestly, I have had my hopes dashed way to many times to get excited about this.
What does this prove. That in the future, humans can be filed away into little cubbies and be forgotten. The implications are a little to Orwellian for me. I would go nuts. I play racquetball all the time, I backpack all the time, and I go to the movies a lot. The backpacking is what rejuvenates me every year and prevents me from going postal. The racquetball playing keeps me from getting fat. The movies are a nice form of escapism. Yes, I know, you can watch videos/dvd's, but its never usually the same as going to a cinema. There's just so much stuff this guy may not be thinking of that he takes for granted.
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Lets get really pedantic here. Of course the rocket engine is generating horsepower. Horsepower is not work (which is force over distance). Horsepower is a measure of energy expended over a unit of time. Energy was expended (quite a bit actually) over a period of time (10 seconds). So yes, 30,000 horsepower is an accurate number even in a static test.
I am surprised that nobody has asked the question of what happens if the media records the police. Can the news not record the police? Wouldn't that go against freedom of the press? If it does, how are the media any different than a normal citizen. Any citizen can report news.
Do these laws then interfere with freedom of the press? Do these laws interfere with my ability to petition the government for redress of grievances? This seems to go against the grain of the first amendment.
Now on an N-way system I can do things slowly*N :-)
In my experience, many companies in the US have certain HR mandated salary schedules. These salary schedules *require* that a PhD is payed more. In most cases the PhD is not needed for the position and you will not be hired due to the higher salary requirements. It doesn't even matter that you would take a lower salary. A PhD will go a long way towards a research position though.
Sure, now it won't be a national trauma. It will be a trauma to humanity. Oh the humanity.
So, stupid is as stupid does. Microsoft's bottom line is still unaffected. The fact that there is a start button to cover up means they sold a license of windows.
Why is covering up the start button a bad thing? If there is a start button to cover up, haven't they sold a license of windows? How does that impact their sales?
The original argument holds. They are not managing their bandwidth properly. I am paying (according to my provider) for a 256kb full time connection. If that's not what they wanted, the agreement should have been different. If they want me to be able to do 256kb for only 8 hours of the day they should use some sort of aggregate rate shaper to prevent me from exceeding a daily bandwidth allocation. Otherwise, I should get a business account for a 24/7 connection. It still boils down to poor business management on the providers side.
I can still set up a NAT box of my own behind their "authorized NAT (or CAT or whatever)". I can feed disinformation to their hardware. I don't see how this prevents me from doing what they are trying to prevent me from doing. I can make a box look like one box to them.
Even if you are cutting and pasting code, quality shouldn't go down if the code was written well in the first place. If you had made a proper middleware for each of the various languages you use for your web development, all the time you spent would be with custom content and not cutting and pasting code. Productivity would go up, quality would go up, and time and cost would go down. You would also have more time to spend on the "cool" stuff.
that it sucks to work for Iomega. I live in the Salt Lake area and even interviewed once with them. The weren't a very attractive company to work with so I didn't entertain the notion of working with them any further. I have also had many ex-employees tell me to never work there. Of course you might expect to hear those sort of comments from an ex-employee. But the percentage of ex-employees I have heard make that comment would steer me away from working for them.
As has been pointed out, a child is unable to make the decision to voluntarily commit their information for tracking. It is a hard thing to police, but there is a difference between arbitrary ad clicks and clicking an ad that has been targeted at a child.
Here is the problem though. Once that information is sold and given to agencies that want to advertise (so they can pinpoint where they should advertise), the ad agencies can now track those children through banner clicks and put together more detailed information on individuals.
I am voting neither republican or democrat, but the character assassination peace seems to be somewhat trite, one sided, and paranoid. I would have expected a more objective article. In my experience the media tends to favor democrats anyhow.
The main problem I have with genomics is that we only have the most basic understanding of how the biology of a human cell works, let alone a whole persons biology. If we start engineering people to certain standards, we take away the natural diversity of the species. As a species, we have no idea on the long term effects of genomics and the path it will take our species down; we could engineer our species into a dead end road. Without proper natural diversity we won't have the ability to maneuver ourselves out of a genetic dead end. We think we know so much, but we know so little.
This notice is standard DOD procedure. In fact any DOD organization that does not post this during login or on a visible portion of a computer is subject to disciplinary action. I know you said you are in the DOE, but I'm sure that notice should have been there before the incident. The wording is almost the exact same one I had to display at login on DOD boxes. I'm not sure of the legality side of this, but they do own the machines, and if you are doing your job on that machine (instead of personal stuff), you don't have any privacy issue to worry about, because whatever you do is what they are paying you for.
The demands for video editing have always been high. And seeing as the software is GPL, performance can be improved where improvements are able to be done.
These checksum algorithms are public knowledge. There are several examples on the internet, you just need to look for them. I've used them several times in back end web development just to do a preliminary check on wether a number submitted can even be a credit card number.
All a hacker would have to do, Hopcroft said, is set up an account with an Internet service provider hosting a company's Web site, "go into that server and root around looking for the keys of other companies. With [the key] there is no way for me to be distinguished from a legitimate business owner."
OK, that's funny. I hope that any ISP that leaves secret keys around w/ out proper permissions (ones denying Joe-Other-User from my critical information) and w/out a properly long passphrase (in the case of SSL certificates) would not even be in business. Private Keys are something that you keep properly protected. And if someone gains root access you are screwed. They will find the key, not because of the randomness, but because they now have complete control of the system. Once someone gains root access, there is not much you CAN do to prevent them from getting the key.
nevermind, I'm wrong. They just used to peddle a lot of IBM stuff to the government (both software and hardware).
Just so everyone knows, GTSI is IBM's government services division.
If it is as good as citrix, then it will run over about 20kbit of bandwidth just fine. In fact, I've been amazed at how well citrix runs over a 28.8 modem. And to answer your question about many instances of an app ( again from a citrix point of view because at one point I administered a farm of Metaframe boxes ), we were able to support 100 users running office apps very well on a compaq 1850 dual-proc pII-450 w/ 1/2Gb of ram. The architecture takes advantage of the fact that you only need to load excel/word/whatever_app into memory once, and it is just the user data that needs to exist in a protected memory space. Then your memory isn't getting eaten up by apps, but what it was supposed to be used for, data. And not to step on anyones toes, but the machines stayed up for about 60 days at a time. I know NT isn't everyones favorite OS in these parts. And because they were in a farm, when a machine went down, yes some users would get kicked off and lose some work, but they could immediately reconnect to the "Application" they were running, and one of the servers in the farm would serve the request. And to answer your comment on running win32 apps on linux, the programs will still crash on linux if they crash on a win32 architecture. Bugs are still bugs. They may not bring your machine down, but they will still crash on linux if the crash on win. Anyhow, that's enough from me.
but in the immortal words of one of the 'Angry Beavers', "Die you stupid thing DIE". Honestly, I have had my hopes dashed way to many times to get excited about this.
Have you thought of moving to a more enlightened state (pun intended) such as California (things like cheap broadband, and more peers)?
What does this prove. That in the future, humans can be filed away into little cubbies and be forgotten. The implications are a little to Orwellian for me. I would go nuts. I play racquetball all the time, I backpack all the time, and I go to the movies a lot. The backpacking is what rejuvenates me every year and prevents me from going postal. The racquetball playing keeps me from getting fat. The movies are a nice form of escapism. Yes, I know, you can watch videos/dvd's, but its never usually the same as going to a cinema. There's just so much stuff this guy may not be thinking of that he takes for granted.