Yeah, no kidding. I've been a sysadmin of mostly MS networks and haven't seen a Windows box blue screen on my network in over 5 years
Blue screen... probably, my 2k machine at home used to bluescreen and reboot instantly when I switched video input sources but one of the last updates seems to have fixed that somewhat. What I havent seen yet in this thread is the number of reboots from non-crashes. Im talking about the manditory reboots from windoze updates. You know, those periodic updates that if you dont apply them, you run the risk of becmoing the newest member of a botnet. So far in my work as a Sysadmin, the only Linux reboots I have had to do were on one Dell 2650 server that had a Perc 3Di Raid controller. The Perc had known issues with Linux that would cause it to lose its filesystem after a month or 6 of uptime, usually during high-IO, and basically refuse to run anything that attempted to do file operations once tickled (but strangely enough apache would continue hapily serving CGIs that talked to a database server on another machine). After 3 powercycle/reboots due to this hardware crash (and no other reboots), we got the updated BIOS from Dell and updated the kernel to one with a fixed driver for the controler, and its been up for almost a year now. This includes multiple software updates, none of which required a reboot. During that same time period, my desktop windoze box has been rebooted by Windows Update at least 5 times that I remember, and my PowerBook has been rebooted twice for security updates (it stays on 24/7, I just close the lid and let it sleep).
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For the most part, the general attitiude is that SCSI, while much more expensive than IDE or SATA, is also more reliable with a larger MTBF
While this used to be true, modern drives are the same between IDE/SATA/SCSI except for the control board the drive is strapped to. The reason SCSI is still preferred over IDE/SATA in most cases is from this old belief, most devices for enterprise level storage are still built mainly around it, SCSI still offers more devices per controller (14 per cable, rather than 2 of IDE/SATA), and SCSI is alot more hot-swap friendly. The company I work with has several storage solutions for different needs, the central and main storage is a large Fiberchannel system (3Par InServ), but our backup systems are SATA based (Nexsan SATABeast). All of them use some variant of RAID5, the 3par going so far as allowing raided volume provisioning across the array. As for enterprise level IDE/SATA, the SATABeast, and SATABoy are definately worth at least a peek.
...general attitude that more spindles means more throughput and more reliability if in a proper RAID configuration
More throughput, maybe, if setup in a RAID that allows that. Reliability, maybe as in the array as a whole, but more spindles=more parts to fail, and with more spindles, more drives WILL fail. The up side is that when a drive fails, it doesnt take as large a chunk of the redundancy with it. With the 3Par, (iirc) a whole shelf of drives (40drives) can fail or be taken offline without losing operation of the array if setup correctly, where in a 4drive RAID5 setup (3 active, 1 hot spare), one drive failure requires rebuilding the failed drive on the hot spare. Losing another requires immediate replacement of hardware. For home or small office, that might be acceptable. But for large enterprise solutions, its not. You simply cannot afford to be running around hoping drives wont fail (they will), with a rack full of these 4drive units. If 2 drives go bad in the same unit at the same time, you just lost data.
Simple solution to both: send a carbon nanotube superconductor into geo-sync orbit. When its on the night side of earth, connect the earth end to a heat-reservoir (salt bath, etc), connect the orbiting end to a radiator to vent the heat into space. Once it re-enters daytime, disconnect the radiator so it doesnt pipe heat back down to earth, and continue pumping heat into the reservoir for the next night of venting. Heck, you could even put a sterling engine somewhere in there to get more energy out before dumping the waste into space.
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ps: they already using something like this with amonia and a solar collector and automotive parts (just not the venting to space part), saw it on make or some other website (/.?).
I've found that I use the escape key an average of 2983742 times per day. Now, that inch-and-a-half may not seem like much, but do some conversion: that's around seventy extra miles I'm moving my arm per day.
Lets do some math together....
2983742 times in 24 hours, or 124322.6 times an hour, or 2072 per minute, or about 34.5 per second. Now, Given your estimate of 1.5" to the key, and another 1.5" back, or 3" of total travel, being traversed 34.5 times every second yields about 103.6"/s, or roughly 8.5 feet per second. This of course assumes you are solely focused on this activity 24hours a day nonstop. Take out 5hours for sleep (yes, even codermonkeys get sleep sometime, and we are going off averages here), another 2 for restroom breaks, coffee intake/refilling and food, and another hour for pr0n (though the velocity and reps might still be obtained over a similar distance, that is a different discussion outside the scope here...), we get only 16 hours for typing. This bumps the speed up to about 13 feet per second, at 52 presses per second. Taking into account that the esc key has to be at most half of the keypresses to allow for the full travel to it and from it such that a letter key is getting pressed at least as fast and often as the esc key, this also means your average typing wpm is (using the avg of 5char/word) is about 620.
As long as one browser has such an overwhelming amount of marketshare, there will always be the temptation for the developers of that browser to do things differently than anybody else, and developers will neglect standards in order to make their site look a little better / flashier / faster than the competition, when viewed on that browser, by (ab)using its idiosyncrasies.
As long as the browser is installed by default on the majority desktop OS used by a majority of people that have no clue what difference it makes, or even no clue that an alternative exists, this will unfortunately be the case. The fact that MS had to de-integrate IE from the Windows core as a result of the Netscape lawsuit years ago did not do much to change their ways, as it still comes pre-installed on all windoze PC's. Given the hardware requirements of Vista, I foresee the problems caused by IE6 to stick around for many years to come, as people will be much more reluctant to upgrade to it (and thus to IE7). XP users will probably be upgrade automagically, but older systems will be out of luck since MS is not supporting them, and thus they are stuck with IE6.
As mentioned in the summary, this is a federal case. That being said, I would assume it would be applicable everywhere these types of lawsuits are being thrown by the RIAA. That is why the ACLU, EFF, AALL and the others are all putting in to assist this one: they want the message to get out and set precidence.
I would imagine if a quick side by side, or semi-transparent overlay, or flipping between the two to compare original to edited didn't turn up noticable differences, it could be assumed the content was not altered significantly enough to cause concern. The only work left for the recipient of the photos to do would be to re-crop/resize the original (if the final was done so) and run a diff filter on the two. The result should be a mostly monotone canvas. Any significant differences would stand out glaringly. Macro recording would take too much time/money of both the photographer and recipient, as it would require the recipient to sit through the entire playback, which could include many many trial+errors on the edits, and require the photographer to remember to record the macro (and Im not sure photoshop's capabilities in that, let alone any other photo software the photographer might use), and then attempt to get it right in the fewest steps possible. It would also cause restrictions on software packages the photographer would be allowed to use, since it would be unrealistic for the recipient to have to buy more software to run macros for that specific application. The Diff could be done regardless of what editor was used.
Will you also require a wide-shot exposed at the same instant as the framed close-up? From multiple angles? Over time?
No.My response was regarding the use of DRM signed photos, signed by the camera. If the photographer takes one and edits it, he should send the original with the original signature from the camera itself as proof that the edits did not compromise the content and were merely to enhance color/contrast/etc (granted, DRM will probably be circumventable...). If the photographer takes a wide shot and a closeup, and edits those, the originals of those shots would be required as well. If you want a way to validate photos, thats about the only way to go. This does not make a way to discern the photographer's agenda if he/she happens to get selective shots at certain times that enforce that agenda and only offer those, that is well out of scope of this whole article. My suggestion is only a simple way to check for the digital manipulation of original shots. To monitor for such "agendas" would deffinately require going to muliple sources on the same subject, including different photographers and news outlets, and is more an excercize for the end reader as always (there is no unbiased news agency).
Quick solution to all the manipulation that needs to occur: require a digitally signed orignal submitted with the altered final. That way the end user (the paper/editor in this case) can look at the two and accurately judge if the manipulations altered the actual content or were done to simply enhance color/lighting/tint or crop/resize etc.
It always amazes me how often people (and even Sports memorabilia manufacturers!!) append University to colleges that don't include it in their name.
You dont call Boston College, Boston College University or MIT Michigan Institute of Technology University do you?
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Will the gun have bluetooth to match bullets to guns? Could I then fire my gun from my cellphone? Or will I need a USB cable to connect my gun to my computer to program it? Being radio frequency, what happens in a high-RF environment, does the gun start shooting on its own or does it get "jammed" (or is the casing enough to shield it from outside RF)? And if I carry/own a gun for protection, how long would it take me to recognize the need to draw my weapon, enter the password correctly, then aim and shoot? Long enough for the target to stab me multiple times with a spoon?
Before I wtfv (watched...vid) thats the first image that poped into my head, Microsofts' BOB desktop. The more "realistic" look of a real office/desk to work on etc, etc. Though after wtfv, I realized this is not even in the same league as that steaming pile of DOS based poo. Its definately interesting, and the eye-candy factor is really high, which is enough for alot of people to pick it up at least for a try. The whole piles thing reminds me of the gui to the mainframe in "Hackers" to an extent. While Im not sure it would be the best desktop to use, I could definately see it used for a file manager with a few alterations: add boxes for directories, each box acts like another document, but can be opened and the pile of files/directories inside examined like all the others, and add a live preview or some other way to distinguish the files (like they did with the pictures) to the icons.
Looking at all the rants and crap below on how horrible this bill is blah blah blah.... did anyone take the time to actually RTFA and then RTFB (read...bill) to see what is actually going on here? This is a prime example of dis-information created by poorly (or cleverly, depending on who wrote it and what their actual motives are) written articles. The summary above, taken directly from the blog entry (what a reputible source of news blogs always are!), only strengthens the misinformation spread by the blog entry itself. Take time and read the actual proposed bill, or the commentary on the bill posted on the copyright.gov web page Here and learn to think for yourself. The blog author saw a bill that didnt get much publicity and involved copyrights, and immediately took to bashing it while getting alot of the "facts" incorrect. Now, Im not saying run out and support this bill either, it needs more investigation and debate. All Im saying is know what you are flaming before lighting the napalm. Specifically, the blogger AND the summary state the bill would require lisences for EVERY copy including incidental and temporary coppies necessary for fair-use, whereas the bill seems to state the EXACT OPPOSITE:
A stream does not, however, constitute a "distribution," the object of which is to deliver a usable copy of the work to the recipient; the buffer and other intermediate copies or portions of copies that may temporarily exist on a recipient's computer to facilitate the stream and are for all practical purposes useless (apart from their role in facilitating the single performance) and most likely unknown to the recipient simply do not qualify.
Apart from that, this bill only appears to apply to music servers, even more specifically, streaming services. It is simply the creation of a new lisencing mechanism whereby services can blanketly lisence the music they provide. It even claims to specifically NOT attempt to fix other lisencing issues such as requiring online music distributors to obtain lisences for both storing the music and distributing it, while again stating explicitly it eliminates the attempts to charge lisences for intermediate coppies:
Additionally, we note that the SIRA resolves complaints by online music services about what they characterize as "double-dipping" in one context, providing for a royalty-free license for intermediate copies in the context of noninteractive streaming, but does not resolve other situations involving arguably duplicative payments demanded by copyright holders' representatives for both the performance as well as the reproduction and distribution rights when a musical work is delivered by a mechanism which is not clearly solely a distribution or a performance. Although these other situations involve important issues, it is not necessary to resolve them at this time to make the SIRA an effective piece of legislation. Its absence from the SIRA may even prompt the interested parties to resolve it on their own. In fact, because the resolution of that issue is so difficult due to the positions taken by music publishers and performing rights organizations, it is actually a virtue of the SIRA that it defers resolution of that intractable issue to another day.
Please read into something before calling all the reps of the senate to complain about something incorrectly and make yourself and your cause look like a bunch of asshats. Trusting a blog entry at face value is about as dumb as believing your friend who tells you that "all stop signs that have a white border around them are optional".
Again, Im not expressing support for or against this bill, only trying (hopelessly, this IS slashdot afterall, Ill probably be flamed to -10) to get people to think for themselves and read deeper into news flashes before reacting so you know not to flame the wrong people, it only makes you look dumb.
Same here, except its not paper work issues. SOX itself is so vague on some of its requirements that companies tend to overreact in some situations. Take the stuff I write for example. I write and maintain operations software for the company I work for. SOX compliance come around, and instantly the software becomes a liability because it was developed in-house, neglecting the fact that authentication, logging, documentation, workflow and process requirements are already in place and probably SOX compliant or easily changed to be such. The higher-ups decide that most of what the software does should be in the company's central OSS system (the reason I wrote it in the first place was because our IS department refused to do so to begin with). To solve the problem, they decide to add a button in the OSS that simply makes a call to my software (still residing on my server). This, according to them, "wraps everything in controls and makes it SOX compliant." What a joke, it wastes my time because now I have to hold meetings with the IS group to explain how it works, what they need to do to make it run, make changes so their button will work, etc. when nothing changes other than where the request to the software initiated from. Other similar situations have cropped up as well, such as the attempt to "replace" all the systems I wrote with a framework to make it SOX compliant, and make it more managable and to avoid a "hit by a buss" scenario (perl vs the framework from a 3rd party vendor using a custom development platform based in java/jsp/xml/xslt and a few other languages/buzzwords all mangled together). And of course, this was all decided and set in motion without consulting me or anyone that actually works in or on the software. SOX is just another buzz word that gets execs excited and causes them to throw money at anything that promises to make it go away.
It reminded me alot of the end of Kubrick's 2001. Alot of weird cutscenes and other stuff that didnt flow much with the rest of the series, other than Shinji's constant whining about his meaningless life. The only thing the final episode seemed to accomplish was his breakthrough in finding meaning and definition for his life, which was completely distracted from the main plot (destroying the Angels with the Eva's). I heard that the Evangelion movie (possibly more than 1?) that he made after the end of the series cleared up alot more, but I have yet to see it/them. My brother had the whole series 5+ years ago, and I was supprised to see it just now aired on Cartoon network.
The major advantage of this over a wheelchair is conformity to the normal human shape.
Me thinks someone did not RTFA or look at the pic... This thing makes the user conform more to a normal human shape than someone in a wheelchair like an aircraft carrier conforms to my rowboat.
Please at least have an idea of what you attempt to flame before lighting yourself on fire...
My '97 Volvo 850-R (yes, came that way from the factory) can do 0-60 in just over 6secs without mods, and I have no plans to install any. It also comes with most of the same features you find in Jags: leather seats w/warmers, dual zone climate control, traction control (though not the version as mentioned in this article), power everything including sunroof, more airbags than most cars have standard today, and Volvo's (before being bought by Ford) excellent safety track record, but lacks the Jaguar brand tax. In fact, the 850-R has been used as project cars for several tuning groups, and they have reported that the R version of the 850 comes close to its max potential as setup from the factory. An ECU reprogram is about all that is necessary to get it to peak performance: See Here
...you seem to have failed to RTFA about the film or even payed any attention to what they were talking about during it (if you even watched it), but your post is the exact reason for them having done it in the first place: to prove that the speed limit and laws surrounding it are logically flawed.
This is nothing new, this kind of thing has been underdevelopment since late in the Cold War.
Remember??? They had this secret base under a drive-in movie theater, where the movie screens turned into giant laser-charging thingies that would send their laser pulse to a satalite to bounce around and hit a target. Only problem was that they missed the russian Nuke they had a couple of spies reprogram and fire at the US as a test. Luckily the spies reprogrammed it in flight and caused it to change course and detonate away from everyone! Then they all played risk...
In Georgia, you would get shot for doing such a thing... see this video, shot here by GSU students. Abiding by the speed limit is one thing, but holding up traffic while trying to correct everyone else is not a good idea. The left lane is the "fast lane" in the sense that you are moving "Faster" than those in the lanes to your right. Here, we have signs stating that specifically: "Slower traffic keep right". Meaning if you are not passing, move into the right lane. In Germany and other countries you will be arrested if you are found driving in the left lane and not passing, the left lane is strictly for passing there.
I think it is AT&T just trying to Scam Us, and stop using faster Internet in which VoIP is clearer.
Uhh.. 1.5mb/s is plenty fast for VoIP to run cleanly, up to about 15 lines of it at a relatively low compression setting. How do I know? The company I work for does this specifically, over T1's to buisness class customers. A T1 is 1.5mbs by design (both directions), and we use all 28 timeslots for data with voice traffic sent as VoIP (T1's are also used for POTs lines by the ILECs, each timeslot (DS0) is one voice line carying PCM style voice data, its what they were originally designed for). We can successfully transmit 15 lines of VoIP and maintain some internet bandwidth (though we recommend upgrading to a second T1 at 12 lines). Not saying I agree with AT&T's comment (The backbone better be faster than 6mbs, not to mention allowing an easier upgrade path without the copper to deal with), just that your VoIP logic doesnt work here.
If its anything like the one in the Ga House, they go up to a giant light board with the Rep's name, where it turns on either a Red or Green light next to the name, and tallys all the lights of the same color to give a play-by-play of the votes. If the tally is incorrect, its plainly visible. Im sure a rep would complain if their vote shows up incorrectly on the big board with their name next to it...
Actually... more and more landfills are installing methane wells to collect and re-sell the gas. Partly because it can make them money, partly because its environmentally friendly, and mainly because the EPA/EPD says so with hefty fines for those that just burn it/vent it/do nothing.
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Nah, if it were Real, they would just buffer it
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Blue screen... probably, my 2k machine at home used to bluescreen and reboot instantly when I switched video input sources but one of the last updates seems to have fixed that somewhat. What I havent seen yet in this thread is the number of reboots from non-crashes. Im talking about the manditory reboots from windoze updates. You know, those periodic updates that if you dont apply them, you run the risk of becmoing the newest member of a botnet. So far in my work as a Sysadmin, the only Linux reboots I have had to do were on one Dell 2650 server that had a Perc 3Di Raid controller. The Perc had known issues with Linux that would cause it to lose its filesystem after a month or 6 of uptime, usually during high-IO, and basically refuse to run anything that attempted to do file operations once tickled (but strangely enough apache would continue hapily serving CGIs that talked to a database server on another machine). After 3 powercycle/reboots due to this hardware crash (and no other reboots), we got the updated BIOS from Dell and updated the kernel to one with a fixed driver for the controler, and its been up for almost a year now. This includes multiple software updates, none of which required a reboot. During that same time period, my desktop windoze box has been rebooted by Windows Update at least 5 times that I remember, and my PowerBook has been rebooted twice for security updates (it stays on 24/7, I just close the lid and let it sleep).
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While this used to be true, modern drives are the same between IDE/SATA/SCSI except for the control board the drive is strapped to. The reason SCSI is still preferred over IDE/SATA in most cases is from this old belief, most devices for enterprise level storage are still built mainly around it, SCSI still offers more devices per controller (14 per cable, rather than 2 of IDE/SATA), and SCSI is alot more hot-swap friendly. The company I work with has several storage solutions for different needs, the central and main storage is a large Fiberchannel system (3Par InServ), but our backup systems are SATA based (Nexsan SATABeast). All of them use some variant of RAID5, the 3par going so far as allowing raided volume provisioning across the array. As for enterprise level IDE/SATA, the SATABeast, and SATABoy are definately worth at least a peek.
More throughput, maybe, if setup in a RAID that allows that. Reliability, maybe as in the array as a whole, but more spindles=more parts to fail, and with more spindles, more drives WILL fail. The up side is that when a drive fails, it doesnt take as large a chunk of the redundancy with it. With the 3Par, (iirc) a whole shelf of drives (40drives) can fail or be taken offline without losing operation of the array if setup correctly, where in a 4drive RAID5 setup (3 active, 1 hot spare), one drive failure requires rebuilding the failed drive on the hot spare. Losing another requires immediate replacement of hardware. For home or small office, that might be acceptable. But for large enterprise solutions, its not. You simply cannot afford to be running around hoping drives wont fail (they will), with a rack full of these 4drive units. If 2 drives go bad in the same unit at the same time, you just lost data.
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ps: they already using something like this with amonia and a solar collector and automotive parts (just not the venting to space part), saw it on make or some other website (/.?).
Lets do some math together....
2983742 times in 24 hours, or 124322.6 times an hour, or 2072 per minute, or about 34.5 per second. Now, Given your estimate of 1.5" to the key, and another 1.5" back, or 3" of total travel, being traversed 34.5 times every second yields about 103.6"/s, or roughly 8.5 feet per second. This of course assumes you are solely focused on this activity 24hours a day nonstop. Take out 5hours for sleep (yes, even codermonkeys get sleep sometime, and we are going off averages here), another 2 for restroom breaks, coffee intake/refilling and food, and another hour for pr0n (though the velocity and reps might still be obtained over a similar distance, that is a different discussion outside the scope here...), we get only 16 hours for typing. This bumps the speed up to about 13 feet per second, at 52 presses per second. Taking into account that the esc key has to be at most half of the keypresses to allow for the full travel to it and from it such that a letter key is getting pressed at least as fast and often as the esc key, this also means your average typing wpm is (using the avg of 5char/word) is about 620.
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As long as the browser is installed by default on the majority desktop OS used by a majority of people that have no clue what difference it makes, or even no clue that an alternative exists, this will unfortunately be the case. The fact that MS had to de-integrate IE from the Windows core as a result of the Netscape lawsuit years ago did not do much to change their ways, as it still comes pre-installed on all windoze PC's. Given the hardware requirements of Vista, I foresee the problems caused by IE6 to stick around for many years to come, as people will be much more reluctant to upgrade to it (and thus to IE7). XP users will probably be upgrade automagically, but older systems will be out of luck since MS is not supporting them, and thus they are stuck with IE6.
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No.My response was regarding the use of DRM signed photos, signed by the camera. If the photographer takes one and edits it, he should send the original with the original signature from the camera itself as proof that the edits did not compromise the content and were merely to enhance color/contrast/etc (granted, DRM will probably be circumventable...). If the photographer takes a wide shot and a closeup, and edits those, the originals of those shots would be required as well. If you want a way to validate photos, thats about the only way to go. This does not make a way to discern the photographer's agenda if he/she happens to get selective shots at certain times that enforce that agenda and only offer those, that is well out of scope of this whole article. My suggestion is only a simple way to check for the digital manipulation of original shots. To monitor for such "agendas" would deffinately require going to muliple sources on the same subject, including different photographers and news outlets, and is more an excercize for the end reader as always (there is no unbiased news agency).
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Not that the proper full name is on the website you say you looked at, or in its logo, or anywhere else</offtopic>
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Apart from that, this bill only appears to apply to music servers, even more specifically, streaming services. It is simply the creation of a new lisencing mechanism whereby services can blanketly lisence the music they provide. It even claims to specifically NOT attempt to fix other lisencing issues such as requiring online music distributors to obtain lisences for both storing the music and distributing it, while again stating explicitly it eliminates the attempts to charge lisences for intermediate coppies:
Please read into something before calling all the reps of the senate to complain about something incorrectly and make yourself and your cause look like a bunch of asshats. Trusting a blog entry at face value is about as dumb as believing your friend who tells you that "all stop signs that have a white border around them are optional".
Again, Im not expressing support for or against this bill, only trying (hopelessly, this IS slashdot afterall, Ill probably be flamed to -10) to get people to think for themselves and read deeper into news flashes before reacting so you know not to flame the wrong people, it only makes you look dumb.
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Same here, except its not paper work issues. SOX itself is so vague on some of its requirements that companies tend to overreact in some situations. Take the stuff I write for example. I write and maintain operations software for the company I work for. SOX compliance come around, and instantly the software becomes a liability because it was developed in-house, neglecting the fact that authentication, logging, documentation, workflow and process requirements are already in place and probably SOX compliant or easily changed to be such. The higher-ups decide that most of what the software does should be in the company's central OSS system (the reason I wrote it in the first place was because our IS department refused to do so to begin with). To solve the problem, they decide to add a button in the OSS that simply makes a call to my software (still residing on my server). This, according to them, "wraps everything in controls and makes it SOX compliant." What a joke, it wastes my time because now I have to hold meetings with the IS group to explain how it works, what they need to do to make it run, make changes so their button will work, etc. when nothing changes other than where the request to the software initiated from. Other similar situations have cropped up as well, such as the attempt to "replace" all the systems I wrote with a framework to make it SOX compliant, and make it more managable and to avoid a "hit by a buss" scenario (perl vs the framework from a 3rd party vendor using a custom development platform based in java/jsp/xml/xslt and a few other languages/buzzwords all mangled together). And of course, this was all decided and set in motion without consulting me or anyone that actually works in or on the software. SOX is just another buzz word that gets execs excited and causes them to throw money at anything that promises to make it go away.
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Me thinks someone did not RTFA or look at the pic... This thing makes the user conform more to a normal human shape than someone in a wheelchair like an aircraft carrier conforms to my rowboat.
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My '97 Volvo 850-R (yes, came that way from the factory) can do 0-60 in just over 6secs without mods, and I have no plans to install any. It also comes with most of the same features you find in Jags: leather seats w/warmers, dual zone climate control, traction control (though not the version as mentioned in this article), power everything including sunroof, more airbags than most cars have standard today, and Volvo's (before being bought by Ford) excellent safety track record, but lacks the Jaguar brand tax. In fact, the 850-R has been used as project cars for several tuning groups, and they have reported that the R version of the 850 comes close to its max potential as setup from the factory. An ECU reprogram is about all that is necessary to get it to peak performance: See Here
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Remember??? They had this secret base under a drive-in movie theater, where the movie screens turned into giant laser-charging thingies that would send their laser pulse to a satalite to bounce around and hit a target. Only problem was that they missed the russian Nuke they had a couple of spies reprogram and fire at the US as a test. Luckily the spies reprogrammed it in flight and caused it to change course and detonate away from everyone! Then they all played risk...
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Uhh.. 1.5mb/s is plenty fast for VoIP to run cleanly, up to about 15 lines of it at a relatively low compression setting. How do I know? The company I work for does this specifically, over T1's to buisness class customers. A T1 is 1.5mbs by design (both directions), and we use all 28 timeslots for data with voice traffic sent as VoIP (T1's are also used for POTs lines by the ILECs, each timeslot (DS0) is one voice line carying PCM style voice data, its what they were originally designed for). We can successfully transmit 15 lines of VoIP and maintain some internet bandwidth (though we recommend upgrading to a second T1 at 12 lines). Not saying I agree with AT&T's comment (The backbone better be faster than 6mbs, not to mention allowing an easier upgrade path without the copper to deal with), just that your VoIP logic doesnt work here.
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If its anything like the one in the Ga House, they go up to a giant light board with the Rep's name, where it turns on either a Red or Green light next to the name, and tallys all the lights of the same color to give a play-by-play of the votes. If the tally is incorrect, its plainly visible. Im sure a rep would complain if their vote shows up incorrectly on the big board with their name next to it...
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Actually... more and more landfills are installing methane wells to collect and re-sell the gas. Partly because it can make them money, partly because its environmentally friendly, and mainly because the EPA/EPD says so with hefty fines for those that just burn it/vent it/do nothing.
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