Is that is may come to the US. One of the rationals for extending US copyright was that we needed to maintain parity with the European Union.
I could see some argument regarding anti-terrorism parity resulting in more surveillance here as well.
I believe the problem with nuclear power has a lot more to do with disposal and storage than with the safety of the reactor. Plus if the CO2 emissions are centralized at power stations rather than spread across the entire country (as is the case with cars) emission reduction techniques will probably be a lot easier.
If I don't want there to be a record then I talk to the person... in person. Anything else, from phone calls, to letters, to "super secure one time read only" e-mails I assume will be kept for future reference somehow.
I think the real point of the article was a few paragraphs in when Murphy said that "You simply don't know what the patches are for. It's virtually impossible to make a determination about a deployment time frame if not deploying a patch has the potential to place you at an additional, unknown risk."
One of my favorite things about open-source systems like Redhat's RHN up2date is that you know exactly what a patch will effect and what code it will be changing. An update to the kernel, or to an individual program, will have a description of what it does, and in may cases a list of files that it will modify/replace.
I can see how microsoft could be more open about what specifically a patch does, but without making the patches open-sourced I don't see how they will ever be able to match Linux's level.
I have recently had a lot of experience trying to install Oracle 9i on linux. The installer is broken in multiple places, and the only way to get it to install is to buy an Oracle support contract (there are specific "coyprighted" scripts that can not be found on the web). Even after you buy the contract, you have to go through several permutations of apply this patch, run this script... to get it to work. Once working the database becomes a resource hog, and seems to break quite often when I am applying system updates. Trying to move database tables from one server to another is also a major pain in the ass (although it could just be that MySQL is very easy)
I can not think of anything short of a gun to the head that could convince me to try installing oracle on linux again.
I believe the reason the pictures are so good is that Mars has a very thin atmosphere compared to places like earth. Therefore there is much less picture distortion due to atmospheric distortion.
Sometimes I would miss a particular episode for some reason. Being able to go online and view that episode, commercial or no commercial, kept me interested in the series since I was never behind on the show's plot.
Novell 6 still runs on top of Dos. Can anyone explain to me why it is only now with Novell 7 that an operating system that was designed to operate in more than 640k of memory is being used?
Personally it is not so much the operating system as the window manager. I use fluxbox becase I like being able to scoll between virtual desktops with my mouse scroll wheel. The advantage of Linux is that you have tons of window managers to choose from, as opposed to Windoze of OSX where you are limited to the one provided.
The only advantage I can see to getting this is that it charges off usb. I hate the fact that my 4th gen iPod will only charge off of a firewire port (although the included wall adapter is a really cool feature). Also, does anyone know if the SONY product can be used as a harddrive? The review said that you had to use their software to transfer songs, but it said nothing about how you could transfer files and things.
Everyone keeps saying the iPOD holds more music, has better battery life. I don't seem them competing. Maybe it's just me. The limitations of satellite radio mean you have to have an antenna and specialized hardware that sucks the juice down. But you get a 2,000,000 song library... I like not having to cue up playlists
I have to take exception here. First, the iPod has a spinning harddrive to power, has to decode mucic files, and then has to store them in ram. All of these actions also require power. Furthermore, you do not get a 2,000,000 song library in the true sense. You get a kind of serial library where you can choose among a few stations that play a particular type of music you are looking for. That is the definition of a playlist. Imho the radio is worse than a playlist because you can not skip a song that you do not like or pause a song that you do like to take a phone call. Also (and I could be wrong on this one) many of the XM stations have commercials, and only a few are commercial free.
Did I mention the talk radio and the ACC/Big 10/Pac-10 games?
And iPod does not? Last I checked iPod has brick, parachute, solitaire, and you can download text games on from the internet.
Finally, to the editors, stop knocking XM an satellite radio. Half the satellite radio stories seem to denounce it somehow. The AP review doesn't really say anything bad about it. Some of you that knock satellite radio need to try it before worshiping your iPOD again.
You just contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. Also, its ok to admit that Apple made a good product. I like Slackeware more than BSD. Just because I think Slackware is a better product does not mean that I "worship" it!
I wonder what kind of restrictions would be put on such a device. I know that you only need a driver's license in the US if your vechicle is motorized and on a public street. A device like this would be powered like a bike and in the air. More importanly though, would the little spawns of satan that live next door to me be able to fly one into my house?
I stopped reading the article after I saw this: That's my classification, but we don't have any other kinds of titles here. On my office door the sign says, "Dr. Bandwidth" - is that a title? I wonder if ignorant people actually address him as such?
The point of this case was the scope of Federal Wiretapping Act applies only to information in transit. A trojan, by sending information over an inter-state network would be subject to federal control. Since, however, the keylogger only recorded information entered at the one terminal, and not communications that traveled over state lines, it is not.
I liked the part in the essay when they say: "We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head" Who says that? I'm no tree hugger, but I have never in my life seen a deer on a webcam, turned to my friend, and commented on how much I'd like to kill it. BTW, before you start screaming at me, realize that I am a due paying member of the NRA.
I was very impressed by the depth of understanding that the AI showed in HALO 2 before reading this article. What I found particularly interesting is the "Uncanny Valley" problem whereby the AI becomes very life like and then, when it does something inhuman, it just becomes creepy. I have never personally experienced the problem, but I have a friend who refuses to play certain games for exactly this reason.
The point wasn't that I didn't get to look at the hardware, but that no one was able to do it. The only reason I said I had been there was to back up my position with actual facts and experience.
And seriously, if you are gonna do a hostile post, at least use your account.
I was down at Virginia Tech last year when I was looking at colleges. They would not let anyone near that computer. Even the guy who was giving the tour was complaining about the limited amount access Tech students were given. The main reason he cited was that the companies developing the supercomputer had technology that they didn't want people who had not signed NDA's to see.
Anyway, the point was that while the computer may be owned by the university, students aren't even allowed to see what $5 million of their tuition bought.
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Is that is may come to the US. One of the rationals for extending US copyright was that we needed to maintain parity with the European Union. I could see some argument regarding anti-terrorism parity resulting in more surveillance here as well.
I believe the problem with nuclear power has a lot more to do with disposal and storage than with the safety of the reactor. Plus if the CO2 emissions are centralized at power stations rather than spread across the entire country (as is the case with cars) emission reduction techniques will probably be a lot easier.
If I don't want there to be a record then I talk to the person... in person. Anything else, from phone calls, to letters, to "super secure one time read only" e-mails I assume will be kept for future reference somehow.
without Aero how will we visualize/optimize our corporate paradigms?
I think the real point of the article was a few paragraphs in when Murphy said that "You simply don't know what the patches are for. It's virtually impossible to make a determination about a deployment time frame if not deploying a patch has the potential to place you at an additional, unknown risk."
One of my favorite things about open-source systems like Redhat's RHN up2date is that you know exactly what a patch will effect and what code it will be changing. An update to the kernel, or to an individual program, will have a description of what it does, and in may cases a list of files that it will modify/replace.
I can see how microsoft could be more open about what specifically a patch does, but without making the patches open-sourced I don't see how they will ever be able to match Linux's level.
I have recently had a lot of experience trying to install Oracle 9i on linux. The installer is broken in multiple places, and the only way to get it to install is to buy an Oracle support contract (there are specific "coyprighted" scripts that can not be found on the web). Even after you buy the contract, you have to go through several permutations of apply this patch, run this script... to get it to work. Once working the database becomes a resource hog, and seems to break quite often when I am applying system updates. Trying to move database tables from one server to another is also a major pain in the ass (although it could just be that MySQL is very easy) I can not think of anything short of a gun to the head that could convince me to try installing oracle on linux again.
I believe the reason the pictures are so good is that Mars has a very thin atmosphere compared to places like earth. Therefore there is much less picture distortion due to atmospheric distortion.
Sometimes I would miss a particular episode for some reason. Being able to go online and view that episode, commercial or no commercial, kept me interested in the series since I was never behind on the show's plot.
Novell 6 still runs on top of Dos. Can anyone explain to me why it is only now with Novell 7 that an operating system that was designed to operate in more than 640k of memory is being used?
Personally it is not so much the operating system as the window manager. I use fluxbox becase I like being able to scoll between virtual desktops with my mouse scroll wheel. The advantage of Linux is that you have tons of window managers to choose from, as opposed to Windoze of OSX where you are limited to the one provided.
Upper management digging through dupsters looking for parts to the design I create.....
The only advantage I can see to getting this is that it charges off usb. I hate the fact that my 4th gen iPod will only charge off of a firewire port (although the included wall adapter is a really cool feature). Also, does anyone know if the SONY product can be used as a harddrive? The review said that you had to use their software to transfer songs, but it said nothing about how you could transfer files and things.
And iPod does not? Last I checked iPod has brick, parachute, solitaire, and you can download text games on from the internet. You just contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. Also, its ok to admit that Apple made a good product. I like Slackeware more than BSD. Just because I think Slackware is a better product does not mean that I "worship" it!
I wonder what kind of restrictions would be put on such a device. I know that you only need a driver's license in the US if your vechicle is motorized and on a public street. A device like this would be powered like a bike and in the air. More importanly though, would the little spawns of satan that live next door to me be able to fly one into my house?
I stopped reading the article after I saw this:
That's my classification, but we don't have any other kinds of titles here. On my office door the sign says, "Dr. Bandwidth" - is that a title?
I wonder if ignorant people actually address him as such?
The point of this case was the scope of Federal Wiretapping Act applies only to information in transit. A trojan, by sending information over an inter-state network would be subject to federal control. Since, however, the keylogger only recorded information entered at the one terminal, and not communications that traveled over state lines, it is not.
I liked the part in the essay when they say:
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head"
Who says that? I'm no tree hugger, but I have never in my life seen a deer on a webcam, turned to my friend, and commented on how much I'd like to kill it. BTW, before you start screaming at me, realize that I am a due paying member of the NRA.
I was very impressed by the depth of understanding that the AI showed in HALO 2 before reading this article. What I found particularly interesting is the "Uncanny Valley" problem whereby the AI becomes very life like and then, when it does something inhuman, it just becomes creepy. I have never personally experienced the problem, but I have a friend who refuses to play certain games for exactly this reason.
Umm, according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh it is a nickname, and I never said it was an acronym.
Cool,
I guess a lot has changed since I was down there last year. Thanks fo the link
Yah its not like Apple dominates the MP3 market or is the most widely-distributed UNIX-based operating system http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/or is reccomended as the safest OS http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/172 2237&tid=172&tid=179&tid=190
Seriously, everyone seems determined to put Apple down when they are in fact producing quality products.
I think you may be mistaken about the viruses
/ 1922237&tid=172&tid=3 trojan and a http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/23/ 0229241&tid=179&tid=172&tid=1 opener malware.
Slashdot has previously covered a http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/08
But you're right, MUCH less than windows. I've been using my MAC for about one year now, and I have gotten 3 people in my lab to switch over.
The point wasn't that I didn't get to look at the hardware, but that no one was able to do it. The only reason I said I had been there was to back up my position with actual facts and experience. And seriously, if you are gonna do a hostile post, at least use your account.
I was down at Virginia Tech last year when I was looking at colleges. They would not let anyone near that computer. Even the guy who was giving the tour was complaining about the limited amount access Tech students were given. The main reason he cited was that the companies developing the supercomputer had technology that they didn't want people who had not signed NDA's to see. Anyway, the point was that while the computer may be owned by the university, students aren't even allowed to see what $5 million of their tuition bought.
But... if you were a slave you wouldn't get paid... therefore it couldn't be a job... right?