99cent isn't asking too much for a good song without limitations.
Yes it is.
In the open market, music is much cheaper than that. Many talented bands are giving their music away because they can't get distribution, while record companies charge that flat 99c per track for their overmarketed hype-driven pop. Meanwhile, pirates are setting a zero price point for the pop as well.
What's needed is an open market where music producers and music consumers can reach a negotiated price, the same way any other commodity is sold. DRM might have been a part of that had the music industry been prepared to play fair. They haven't, so there's still huge niche in there for someone who can come up with the right answer.
Maybe I missed it, but is no one else struck by the hypocrisy of Microsoft criticizing someone else's security measures.
It's becoming very clear the current US administration is unlikely to win the next election.
Microsoft needs the US government to protect it from standards, open document formats, antitrust prosecutions and any other similar inconveniences.
Expect Microsoft to continue distancing itself from the Bush administration. They need plausible deniability so they can cosy back up with Bush's successors.
The really interesting thing about having Linux per-installed is that they can't include binary-blobs that link to the kernel (e.g. ATi and nVidia drivers).
I was given an HP laptop (NC6400) with SLED 10 preinstalled, and it had the free ATI driver by default. One of the config options was to switch on 3D acceleration, and that ran a script to change to the binary driver.
The questions are: how much? how will it be dealt with?
Again, I suggest you look at the Geodynamics site, and use your favorite search engine for "Kalina Cycle".
It's a refrigerative and power generating process that exploits phase change. In other applications, it's used to scavenge waste heat to avoid the very situation the GPP is referring to.
Then again, having not read the article, I suppose this could be describing injection into dry rock
It includes injection, but the key part is drilling into hot parts of the earth's crust, fracturing the rock, then injecting water into the fractured rock and harvesting the steam.
Both the summary and TFA are a little misleading. HDR is being tested in many parts of the world, including Japan, France, Australia and the US. The Australian site is here; http://www.geodynamics.com.au/IRM/content/home.htm l.
It's a promising approach to clean power generation, but it won't work everywhere. HDR relies on a steeper than normal thermal gradient. Temperature rises with depth at a rate of about 20c/km on average, so hole depths without the steep gradient are too great for power generation to be economically feasible.
Give people the chance to fix themselves before alerting their supervisors.
It's not an oppositional situation.
The trial was run in very close consultation with the employees. They, and their supervisors understand that the fatigue or impairment the machines are measuring is a hazard to be managed carefully, not a reason for disciplinary action.
The data collected by the system is also useful in planning things like break times and alertness aids like spot quizzes. This is the system, if you're interested; http://www.optalert.com/johns_drowsiness_scale.htm l
You'll get my manually-driven car when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
As a volunteer ambulance driver I've performed that service for many people.
Sadly, not all of them were the ones who were taking the risk of driving drunk or fatigued. They just got in the way of someone who'd made that choice.
We've been trialling a system which uses special glasses to monitor the eye movements of dump truck drivers in open cut mining. The goal is to identify impairment - not just drugs and alcohol, but fatigue, illness or anything which might affect the operator's ability to control the vehicle.
In the system we use, the monitoring computer has a three-stage alarm, first notifying the driver and their supervisor of the potential for impairment, second stage suggesting that the operator park up at first opportunity, and in the third stage, loud alarms in both the truck and control room. Third stage also throttles back the truck.
Fully loaded, these trucks mass in excess of 400 tonnes, so any accident is going to be significant. How valuable it will be to transfer the technology to cars is uncertain, but I'd say there are plenty of circumstances where the consequences outweigh the costs, even for small vehicles.
I have to conclude that building a voting machine that is verifiable by the owners of the machines ("The People") is not possible, thus those machines are not TRUSTWORTHY by definition.
How would you respond to this article then?
The star of the international e-voting scene is arguably Australia, which is e-voting on machines that are based on Linux, using specs set by independent election officials that were posted on the Internet for one and all to vet -- an open-source approach for which U.S. activists clamor.
"From what I have read, the U.S. systems are primitive compared [with those of] Australia," said Tom Worthington, a visiting fellow at the department of computer science at Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, and an expert on e-voting technology, in an e-mail exchange with eWEEK.
If/when they became the only game in down, what's their incentive to maintain the networks?
If/when they became the only garbage collector in town, what's their incentive to maintain the waste disposal trucks?
If/when they became the only road repairer in town, what's their incentive to maintain roads?
If/when they became the only etc, etc,etc...
here in the US you have the lemon law that allows usually three days to return a car if it's a "lemon".
That wouldn't be far wrong with a Wirraway. They were a locally built copy of the North American NA-16 Texan trainer, and were fitted with two Vickers machine guns more as an act of desperation than hope.
RAAF guys flying 8 of them took on more than 100 Japanese aircraft during a raid on Rabaul. The results were pretty much what you'd expect.
It seems to me that had "real UNIX" been available for low-end systems in the early 90s
Amiga Unix was available in 1990, a time when Amigas were still selling well. Despite being one of the better Unixes of the time, it didn't set the marketplace alight.
If syslog can write to a remote machine, then a compromised syslog can overwrite a file on a remote machine.
Not if you're using some sort of data escrow service like OpenAccess
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Another question: what's the likelihood of such an organization switching to Open Office without destroying a lot of data?
Why on earth would you need to destroy data?
One of my clients did this recently. We mirrored all of our MS format data to an archive volume, then used OOo's built-in batch converter to convert everything to ODF. We set it going on a Friday afternoon, and it turned out to be pretty seamless - not much hand-holding at all. When staff came in on Monday, they had a new office tool, and all their documents were in the new format. We had the archive volume ready so if there were any corrupted documents, we could retrieve them in the original MS formats, but we haven't needed it yet.
For us it wasn't specifically about OOo anyway, though it's a decent enough tool. What we wanted was to be able to automate a lot of document creation, including machine produced data (loggers on locomotive engines), and with ODF that's an order of magnitude easier than with MS's proprietary formats.
Perhaps, but since Mr Derrida has failed to expose binary oppositions within the post and was therefore unable to demonstrate that it's oppositions are culturally and historically defined, even reliant upon one another, he has also failed to suggest that the text's opposed concepts are ambiguous, making the meaning fluid as well.
As a result, Mr Derrida has not been true to himself, and it could be argued that this act of self-denial is in itself trollish, and therefore deserving of the moderation.
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Yes it is.
In the open market, music is much cheaper than that. Many talented bands are giving their music away because they can't get distribution, while record companies charge that flat 99c per track for their overmarketed hype-driven pop. Meanwhile, pirates are setting a zero price point for the pop as well.
What's needed is an open market where music producers and music consumers can reach a negotiated price, the same way any other commodity is sold. DRM might have been a part of that had the music industry been prepared to play fair. They haven't, so there's still huge niche in there for someone who can come up with the right answer.
It's becoming very clear the current US administration is unlikely to win the next election.
Microsoft needs the US government to protect it from standards, open document formats, antitrust prosecutions and any other similar inconveniences.
Expect Microsoft to continue distancing itself from the Bush administration. They need plausible deniability so they can cosy back up with Bush's successors.
I was given an HP laptop (NC6400) with SLED 10 preinstalled, and it had the free ATI driver by default. One of the config options was to switch on 3D acceleration, and that ran a script to change to the binary driver.
Again, I suggest you look at the Geodynamics site, and use your favorite search engine for "Kalina Cycle".
It's a refrigerative and power generating process that exploits phase change. In other applications, it's used to scavenge waste heat to avoid the very situation the GPP is referring to.
Um no. Thanks for the patronising suggestion, but I'm already familiar with the Carnot cycle.
I'd suggest you look up the Kalina cycle, since it's the one that's relevant here.
Perhaps, but;
- The Geodynamics project is in the middle of a desert in South Australia. The nearest river is hundreds of kilometres away.
- That heat is energy. The HDR system uses that energy to turn turbines, and recycles the water back down the bore. There is no excess.
Excess heat is as relevant to a HDR generator as CO emissions are to an electric motor.It includes injection, but the key part is drilling into hot parts of the earth's crust, fracturing the rock, then injecting water into the fractured rock and harvesting the steam.
Both the summary and TFA are a little misleading. HDR is being tested in many parts of the world, including Japan, France, Australia and the US. The Australian site is here; http://www.geodynamics.com.au/IRM/content/home.htm l.
It's a promising approach to clean power generation, but it won't work everywhere. HDR relies on a steeper than normal thermal gradient. Temperature rises with depth at a rate of about 20c/km on average, so hole depths without the steep gradient are too great for power generation to be economically feasible.
It's not an oppositional situation.
The trial was run in very close consultation with the employees. They, and their supervisors understand that the fatigue or impairment the machines are measuring is a hazard to be managed carefully, not a reason for disciplinary action.
The data collected by the system is also useful in planning things like break times and alertness aids like spot quizzes. This is the system, if you're interested;m l
http://www.optalert.com/johns_drowsiness_scale.ht
As a volunteer ambulance driver I've performed that service for many people.
Sadly, not all of them were the ones who were taking the risk of driving drunk or fatigued. They just got in the way of someone who'd made that choice.
Companies.
We've been trialling a system which uses special glasses to monitor the eye movements of dump truck drivers in open cut mining. The goal is to identify impairment - not just drugs and alcohol, but fatigue, illness or anything which might affect the operator's ability to control the vehicle.
In the system we use, the monitoring computer has a three-stage alarm, first notifying the driver and their supervisor of the potential for impairment, second stage suggesting that the operator park up at first opportunity, and in the third stage, loud alarms in both the truck and control room. Third stage also throttles back the truck.
Fully loaded, these trucks mass in excess of 400 tonnes, so any accident is going to be significant. How valuable it will be to transfer the technology to cars is uncertain, but I'd say there are plenty of circumstances where the consequences outweigh the costs, even for small vehicles.
How would you respond to this article then?
The star of the international e-voting scene is arguably Australia, which is e-voting on machines that are based on Linux, using specs set by independent election officials that were posted on the Internet for one and all to vet -- an open-source approach for which U.S. activists clamor."From what I have read, the U.S. systems are primitive compared [with those of] Australia," said Tom Worthington, a visiting fellow at the department of computer science at Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, and an expert on e-voting technology, in an e-mail exchange with eWEEK.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2164264,00.aIf/when they became the only garbage collector in town, what's their incentive to maintain the waste disposal trucks?
If/when they became the only road repairer in town, what's their incentive to maintain roads?
If/when they became the only etc, etc,etc...
That wouldn't be far wrong with a Wirraway. They were a locally built copy of the North American NA-16 Texan trainer, and were fitted with two Vickers machine guns more as an act of desperation than hope.
RAAF guys flying 8 of them took on more than 100 Japanese aircraft during a raid on Rabaul. The results were pretty much what you'd expect.
Amiga Unix was available in 1990, a time when Amigas were still selling well. Despite being one of the better Unixes of the time, it didn't set the marketplace alight.
Now that HAS to be a Micro-soft project...
MS isn't out of the equation at all. The whole point of TFA is about switching AWAY from Vista.
That's a clever observation. You must be very smart.
What about this: http://www.americasarmy.com/
It has a focus on terrorism, realistic weaponry, combat and team tactics. Shouldn't it be first up against the wall?
Not if you're using some sort of data escrow service like OpenAccess
Why on earth would you need to destroy data?
One of my clients did this recently. We mirrored all of our MS format data to an archive volume, then used OOo's built-in batch converter to convert everything to ODF. We set it going on a Friday afternoon, and it turned out to be pretty seamless - not much hand-holding at all. When staff came in on Monday, they had a new office tool, and all their documents were in the new format. We had the archive volume ready so if there were any corrupted documents, we could retrieve them in the original MS formats, but we haven't needed it yet.
For us it wasn't specifically about OOo anyway, though it's a decent enough tool. What we wanted was to be able to automate a lot of document creation, including machine produced data (loggers on locomotive engines), and with ODF that's an order of magnitude easier than with MS's proprietary formats.
What else do you think Product Activation is for?
You do know that Wine is often faster than native Windows, don't you? http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5
Perhaps, but since Mr Derrida has failed to expose binary oppositions within the post and was therefore unable to demonstrate that it's oppositions are culturally and historically defined, even reliant upon one another, he has also failed to suggest that the text's opposed concepts are ambiguous, making the meaning fluid as well.
As a result, Mr Derrida has not been true to himself, and it could be argued that this act of self-denial is in itself trollish, and therefore deserving of the moderation.
Nice troll, but Wine aims for compatibility with Win32 code, not some specific version of the OS. It already supports more than 90% of the API.
It's under Data Series/Statistics. There's a selection of bars and indicators.