I dunno, it's gonna be hard to be more real than a guy falling into a vat of acid, having plastic surgery done to make himself look like clown and then defacing an art museum while dancing around to Prince music....
And that was the best scene from any of the batflicks so far!
Yes, I think the requirement should be simply that VOIP providers must allow users to register a "home" address, and calling 911 from that phone dials local 911 as if from that home address.
Let's not get all crazy and impractical with GPS locators etc, trying to cover every wierd case. I'm willing to bet the portability feature of VOIP isn't used very often. In truly mobile settings I think most people use mobile phones.
A very successful loan broker once said there are those who constantly hunt around for the cheapest rates and they play multiple agents to get the best rates.
I can't tell whether you are arguing for or against buying an Apple. My job as a consumer is not to make brokers and other commission-based salespeople "successful." It is to get the best deal for myself.
I have found that the quality of the candidates that reach me (after our recruiters have filtered resumes!) for phone screens tends to be pretty pathetic.... This has nothing to do with salary because we can't even get to the phase where we'd tell them how much they'd get paid.
If your salary range is good, you should be using it to attract good candidates. If it's bad, you can't blame highly qualified candidates for presuming as much when you're not up front about pay. I know you can't make a firm offer to strangers, but the best people make the most money, and they will not assume you're in that market unless you say so.
To me this is the crux of the issue. "There aren't enough good candidates" is synonymous with "I don't want to pay for good candidates."
So Gates doesn't think there are enough US candidates, at prices he wants to pay. I'd like to hear his theory on why fewer and fewer US college students are entering the field? Smart, ambitious people only go into fields that are promising. At the moment, Microsoft has more power than anybody else on earth to make the field promising.
All those people going into the Apple store are immediately going to see Jobs' picture on the front and think he's a con artist.
There would be no story if Apple had simply decided not to carry this title. But banning the publisher entirely is a bit wierd. Wiley is pretty big though, so it's an open question whether Apple's move will hurt Wiley or Apple more.
Can you imagine how little money we'd actually have to tax if they had to submit an itemized checklist to us every year as to what we actually would be willing to pay for?
I dunno about that. Our biggest expense is social security, medicare, and medicaid, and they're so popular that changing them is almost impossible.
Then there's military. I seem to recall Zell Miller getting quite a bit of applause in the Republican primary by accusing Kerry of trying to cut funding for the B1 and B2 bombers, leaving us to fight terrorism with "spitballs". Personally I don't think a $1 billion (per copy) bomber is the right way to defend against a $2 box cutter but Miller's comments obviously didn't hurt his party too much.
In short, I think our taxes are largely consistent with taxpayer wishes.
How about people stop using RBLs if it bothers them that certain ISPs get blocked?
Who is an RBL's "user?" Most of the senders whose legitimate mail gets blocked are in no way connected to the RBL.
On the receiving side, how are you to know you should complain to your ISP about their crappy RBL (assuming you somehow know what they are) when the problem is you didn't get the message in the first place?
Even if you're an ISP mail administrator, who do you know the RBL did something stupid like this until the angry phone calls start coming in?
What you are missing is that if it does converge at this minimum, then the overall network will have higher throughput than if everyone were only optimizing for the average case. So the average trip time with the system is less than if there were no system, and the system is not pointless. Do you get it now?
No, I said on the average, there are no faster than average routes. In other words, if one route from downtown to the airport is faster than another all day every day, then it will be exploited.
The problem is that in fact conditions change, not only hour by hour but from day to day. At any given moment, a route that's normally slower might be the best.
Most places, there are enough people driving the roads regularly to ensure that on the average, there are no faster than average routes. The problem is that without timely information, drivers can only optimize for the average conditions.
With real-time feedback drivers can optimize for current conditions, increasing the throughput of the whole system. This increase in efficiency means everybody's average drive time, and the variance, can decrease at once.
BUT, if you're doing 150 on the highway, do you seriously think that as long as you don't get caught by a cop, that you shouldn't face the consequence for knowingly breaking the law?
It depends. There are some roads here in the southwest US that are straight and flat for miles, and uncrowded. I don't believe there should be any speed limit unless there are other cars within a half mile or so.
No, I think what he is describing is a feedback loop leading to oscillations in the system. The computer advertises road A as better than road B, so everybody flocks to A. Ten minutes later A is a parking lot and B is underutilized. Then the system shows B as preferrable and the cycle repeats itself... if this happens you never achieve full utilization of all links at once. This is a real problem, and routing protocols must be carefully designed to avoid it (check out figures 6 and 7). In the case of automobiles there is no central control so it is especially interesting.
Being hooked up to a gigabit network doesn't mean you get it all to yourself. I can't imagine there is really 1 gigabit of dedicated bandwidth for each individual customer.
Anyways, it would be interesting if this gave rise to a *true* "network PC," where the local PC is just a high-res television with a keyboard and mouse. You could even play 3d games without a special graphics adapter if the rendering were done remotely. Now that would eat up some bandwidth!
I think not. Are you under the impression that Nikon's white balance format is actually property under US law, and that implementing a reader for it would legally be stealing?
I'd say that's probably false, because the DMCA specifically allows reverse engineering for interoperability.
Adobe is playing it safe because they don't see much benefit in taking even a slight chance, but the fact is there has been no ruling on it. It certainly isn't a cut and dried case as you assume. In fact, the whole thing stretches the notion of "property" pretty thin.
I can still see the appeal of building security into the thumbdrive though. Any software or drivers required are just bound to cause problems when you want to access with a different OS, or if you don't have permission to install software on the machine in question, or if you try to install the encryption software and it bombs out with some obscure error.
What I don't see though is how security on the drive would work; wouldn't it need a keypad or something?
I had a heck of a time buying a car last week without giving up my SSN - even though it was a cash deal for the seller (because I was financing through my Credit Union).
What was worse, they said they needed the SSN due to a provision of the Patriot Act. And what's even worse than that, this practice must be widespread, becasue my Credit Union warned me in advance about this Patriot Act scam.
And mind you, this car dealership was a very big one near Denver with hundreds of cars in stock - just the kind of place that legally pulls credit and background checks on many, many people each day.
Moonlighting is one thing, this is double dipping which is outright wrong. The cops in question should not act as agents of the state when they are actually the hire of a private organization. The application of justice shouldn't be swayed by money. I know that in fact it is, but turning a blind eye will make it worse, while punishing these cops will help.
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Let's not get all crazy and impractical with GPS locators etc, trying to cover every wierd case. I'm willing to bet the portability feature of VOIP isn't used very often. In truly mobile settings I think most people use mobile phones.
Maybe they count benefits differently?
If they're that hard to aim, wouldn't even a strong breeze deflect them enough to wreck reception?
Then there's military. I seem to recall Zell Miller getting quite a bit of applause in the Republican primary by accusing Kerry of trying to cut funding for the B1 and B2 bombers, leaving us to fight terrorism with "spitballs". Personally I don't think a $1 billion (per copy) bomber is the right way to defend against a $2 box cutter but Miller's comments obviously didn't hurt his party too much.
In short, I think our taxes are largely consistent with taxpayer wishes.
On the receiving side, how are you to know you should complain to your ISP about their crappy RBL (assuming you somehow know what they are) when the problem is you didn't get the message in the first place?
Even if you're an ISP mail administrator, who do you know the RBL did something stupid like this until the angry phone calls start coming in?
What you are missing is that if it does converge at this minimum, then the overall network will have higher throughput than if everyone were only optimizing for the average case. So the average trip time with the system is less than if there were no system, and the system is not pointless. Do you get it now?
The problem is that in fact conditions change, not only hour by hour but from day to day. At any given moment, a route that's normally slower might be the best.
With real-time feedback drivers can optimize for current conditions, increasing the throughput of the whole system. This increase in efficiency means everybody's average drive time, and the variance, can decrease at once.
No, I think what he is describing is a feedback loop leading to oscillations in the system. The computer advertises road A as better than road B, so everybody flocks to A. Ten minutes later A is a parking lot and B is underutilized. Then the system shows B as preferrable and the cycle repeats itself... if this happens you never achieve full utilization of all links at once. This is a real problem, and routing protocols must be carefully designed to avoid it (check out figures 6 and 7). In the case of automobiles there is no central control so it is especially interesting.
Anyways, it would be interesting if this gave rise to a *true* "network PC," where the local PC is just a high-res television with a keyboard and mouse. You could even play 3d games without a special graphics adapter if the rendering were done remotely. Now that would eat up some bandwidth!
The only reason the Internet looks so different from television today is because it lacks bandwidth.
I'd say that's probably false, because the DMCA specifically allows reverse engineering for interoperability.
Adobe is playing it safe because they don't see much benefit in taking even a slight chance, but the fact is there has been no ruling on it. It certainly isn't a cut and dried case as you assume. In fact, the whole thing stretches the notion of "property" pretty thin.
What I don't see though is how security on the drive would work; wouldn't it need a keypad or something?
The only price that means anything on ebay is the final selling price. That auction still has 1 1/2 days left.
If you can find a link for your article maybe we can figure this out.
What was worse, they said they needed the SSN due to a provision of the Patriot Act. And what's even worse than that, this practice must be widespread, becasue my Credit Union warned me in advance about this Patriot Act scam.
And mind you, this car dealership was a very big one near Denver with hundreds of cars in stock - just the kind of place that legally pulls credit and background checks on many, many people each day.
Moonlighting is one thing, this is double dipping which is outright wrong. The cops in question should not act as agents of the state when they are actually the hire of a private organization. The application of justice shouldn't be swayed by money. I know that in fact it is, but turning a blind eye will make it worse, while punishing these cops will help.