Enterprise does not need deep-pocketed donors to be a success. It needed more viewers. UPN/Paramount will not run a "subsidized" show not only because of the myriad rights issues, but because they can put something that could be more successful in the timeslot. They ALREADY KNOW Enterprise cannot draw an audience.
The show needed more viewers, yes. The major problem with this is that if you want to have more viewers watching the show, then don't randomly take it off the air for 2 months, then return it to the air on a different night and not tell anyone.
We all know what happened when they started doing that with TOS...The show got cancelled. Sure you're audience is going to go down, when the people that would watch it have no idea when the hell it actually comes on.
Of course, this is just my two cents..
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The book is extremely ambiguous, not very helpful, and basically words things most people already know in ways that make it seem like it's new and insightful.
Strange... sounds alot like/. to me, yet we're all still here...hmmm must be something to it.
Well, according to the theory presented in the parent post about the possibility of travelling to any time in which the maching had actually been turned on, one could in-fact travel farther into the past if there were a naturally occuring event that produces the same results, yet has been around for significantly longer. That being the case, then you could theoretically travel backwards from now using one of those naturally occuring corridors.
About causality, it's generally thought that no, you can't change your own past. The whole point of H.G. Well's book was that he couldn't change the past, because it was the past that caused him to create the time machine. Now if we throw into the equation the possiblity of a multiverse, then we have a whole new way of looking at the problem. Sure, time travel is possible, but it wouldn't be time travel per-se, it would be multiverse travel. Since the multiverse that you travelled to, never intersects the multiverse you came from, then you wouldn't have any fear of screwing up past events, because anything that you did would only affect the future of that multiverse, and not the multiverse that you originated from. The problem with that is, in order for you to be able to return to your proper time, you would have to locate exactly which multiverse that you came from, and follow the progress of that multiverse foward the amount of time you had been gone.. with billions of possiblities, then you're pretty well screwed because in those billions of possiblities, you will have only actually returned in one.
Actually, smoothwall does handle DMZ, Dynamic DNS, DMZ pinholes, etc. You can set it up with a 3 nic configuration, and allow one of the nics to be your DMZ. For the convenience of the end users, the network zones are labeled Red(External Internet), Green(Internal Network), Orange (DMZ Network).
I've been using version 1.0 of their firewall for just over a year now, and I have to admit that it is a rather good firewall. I was able to load it on a p100 box with only a 540MB hard drive. Granted with a hard drive that small, my firewall doesn't do alot as far as web cache is concerned, but otherwise it operates great. The patches are easy enough to install, all you have to do is download the gzip from the patches page built into the firewall web client. Upload the gzip's and they're installed.
Managing the firewall is exceptionally easy as well. You can setup port forwarding to internal computers in under 30 seconds. All-in all the firewall takes the major annoyances out of running a firewall. I highly recommend it for anyone who's got an old system lying around, and doesn't have the time to bother with setting up a firewall.
My thought is that Microsoft would do better to be a little more proactive in their approach. Antivirus software for the platform is capable of downloading and applying updates to itself, and it wouldn't be a bad idea for Microsoft to take a page out of their book.
They have. There is a great tool for sysadmins in a windows 2000 network. It's called Software Update Services. This is a tool that automatically downloads every patch available from Microsoft and then gives you the ability to mass deploy the patches that you deem necessary for you client computers. We use it at the company I work for and two days after the patch that prevents the Blaster worm from working, all the computers in our corporate network were patched.
The software forces each of the client machines to download the updates and install them at a time you specify, ie. 3:00AM. Any reboots that are necessary after said patches occur then and the end-users have no interaction with the process. Seems like it can't get a whole lot easier than that.
While their intentions are noble,(Read: It's about time someone went after the RIAA)I don't think that they'll have the money available to pull off an anti-trust lawsuit against the RIAA. The RIAA could probably throw enough money into the lawsuit to keep it in courts for ages. These independant webcasters are going to need some help if they have any chance of pulling this off. I may sound negative, but it's the truth.
Amazing how people will hold onto the old & known, despite better options being available
Well, not too amazing. We've run into some issues with the people at my company. One of our receptionists for example: She acquired a LCD monitor to fit on the new receptionist desk that was purchased for her. The reasononing behind the LCD purchase was due to space reasons. ie. there wasn't enough room on the desk for a CRT. In any case, we put the display in, and within minutes she was complaining because she couldn't read it. The standard, nice and crisp, 1024x768 resolution on the monitor was too small for her to read. Our solution. Bump the resolution back to 800x600. On an LCD display this creates problems as the letters get all blocky, and it becomes rather difficult to read. The thing is, since the display looked like crap at 800x600, she complained about it more than being unable to read it. In the end, we had no choice but to leave it at 800x600 so she could at least see the words. I think that's one of the major reasons people stick with CRT's. Despite the resolution on a CRT, all the text is nice and clear.
Submit the same Tshirt design once, wait a couple of hours, submit it again, then wait a few more hours and submit it a third time. They'll forget it was you....
What if there were damage to the plane,(ie. being shot at etc.)and the pilot had to compensate for the loss of control by banking the plane to the right to maintain a level flight path. Let's say he's flying towards a city, and the computer starts fighting with him because the plane knows he should't be banking to the right, as it will directly line the plane up with the city. But meanwhile back in reality, the pilot is fighting with the plane to keep it from veering off badly and missing the airport entirely. Hey, it could happen.
Going back to the days when in Driver's Education, they teach that while driving you should keep your hands on the wheel at the 10 and 2 o'clock positions. While you may move your hands about the vehicle to perform certain tasks as changing the radio station etc. using hand gestures to control things within the car gives us the same problem that we have now. This problem is that people are using the hands that they should be driving with to do various other things within their vehicles. A voice command system would be much more valuable within a car as it would preclude the need to remove your hands from the steering wheel. Their argument in the article about voice recognition has holes in it. They say that cars are too noisy. If you've taken a ride in one of the newer cars with the windows up, and the radio off, it's rather quiet inside the car. Perhaps I just don't understand, but I still think that this would just be asking for trouble.
If this is the case, could a perpetual motion machine be made harnessing the power of reflecting light?
Well in this particular example, using the sun's energy to create a perpetual motion machine, really doesn't work out. IANAP, but, If I recall correctly, a perpetual motion machine is based on the idea that once the machine is started, it would be able to operate as desired indefinately, since the energy that is used to work the machine would be supplied by the working of the machine. Invariably the sun isn't exactly an inexhaustable source of energy. Stars die everyday. So while it may work for a considerable length of time, it would not be considered a perpetual motion machine in the traditional sense of the term.
I could loose some mod points for this, but hey, this is just my opinion.
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Wonder how many workers there have considered investing in This.
Seriously, people are so concerned about health risks in EVERYTHING... nanoparticles are everywhere, all around us.. constantly.. why are we caring about them NOW.. we survived for thousands of years. What ever happened to natural selection? Oh that's right.. we put warning labels on everything in existance because some moron doesn't know that PreparationH is external only. Geez.. just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem work itself out.
Since most CPUs internally multiply their clock (you don't feed a 3.0 GHz P4 a 3.0 GHz clock, you feed it a much slower clock and it multiplies it up), why then don't manufacturer's just use an embedded clock and do away with all this?
Yet another reason they don't do this is because they tend to use the exact same die for variants on the processor speed. If an embedded clock was introduced here, then they'd have to use different dies for each of the different speeds. Basically the only difference between a 2.5ghz P4 and a 2.2Ghz P4 is the fact that the 2.2 didn't pass as many tests as the 2.5 did, therefore it got a lower Mhz rating.
They're not really "behind" anyway (exception: Daikatana) because not everyone has the very latest hardware.
I agree completely. The point is that game companies have to cater to two enterely different types of game players. On one hand you have the "Power Gamer" who always has to have the biggest, baddest machine they can get their hands on and plows through games like it's their job. Then you have the "Casual Gamer", who doesn't have the most up-to-date hardware, and manages to get by with a little gaming here and there periodically through the week.
The sad part about the whole thing is that it's these "Power Gamers" who drive the whole industry in the first place. Which is why you have speed battles with Video Card manufacturers and CPU manufacturers. The reason behind this is because the industry knows that the power gamers will buy the newest best stuff around so that they can play their games at a blazingly fast framerate, and can brag about it to their friends.
While there are significantly more casual gamers out there than there are power gamers, the software and hardware companies have to get the power gamers interested because they're the ones who push the casual gamers to use specific hardware, and buy specific hardware.
After all this rambling I do have a point. If it weren't for the "Power Gamers" of the world, there really wouldn't be a driving force in this industry. People would release mediocre games, and mediocre hardware.
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Enterprise does not need deep-pocketed donors to be a success. It needed more viewers. UPN/Paramount will not run a "subsidized" show not only because of the myriad rights issues, but because they can put something that could be more successful in the timeslot. They ALREADY KNOW Enterprise cannot draw an audience.
The show needed more viewers, yes. The major problem with this is that if you want to have more viewers watching the show, then don't randomly take it off the air for 2 months, then return it to the air on a different night and not tell anyone.
We all know what happened when they started doing that with TOS...The show got cancelled. Sure you're audience is going to go down, when the people that would watch it have no idea when the hell it actually comes on.
Of course, this is just my two cents..
The book is extremely ambiguous, not very helpful, and basically words things most people already know in ways that make it seem like it's new and insightful.
/. to me, yet we're all still here...hmmm must be something to it.
Strange... sounds alot like
Maybe their webserver will have a second life online after the slashdotting it's receiving right now.
Bah, who needs an airship when I've got my trusty chocobo here.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
Well, according to the theory presented in the parent post about the possibility of travelling to any time in which the maching had actually been turned on, one could in-fact travel farther into the past if there were a naturally occuring event that produces the same results, yet has been around for significantly longer. That being the case, then you could theoretically travel backwards from now using one of those naturally occuring corridors.
About causality, it's generally thought that no, you can't change your own past. The whole point of H.G. Well's book was that he couldn't change the past, because it was the past that caused him to create the time machine. Now if we throw into the equation the possiblity of a multiverse, then we have a whole new way of looking at the problem. Sure, time travel is possible, but it wouldn't be time travel per-se, it would be multiverse travel. Since the multiverse that you travelled to, never intersects the multiverse you came from, then you wouldn't have any fear of screwing up past events, because anything that you did would only affect the future of that multiverse, and not the multiverse that you originated from. The problem with that is, in order for you to be able to return to your proper time, you would have to locate exactly which multiverse that you came from, and follow the progress of that multiverse foward the amount of time you had been gone.. with billions of possiblities, then you're pretty well screwed because in those billions of possiblities, you will have only actually returned in one.
Okay, now my head hurts...
Actually, smoothwall does handle DMZ, Dynamic DNS, DMZ pinholes, etc. You can set it up with a 3 nic configuration, and allow one of the nics to be your DMZ. For the convenience of the end users, the network zones are labeled Red(External Internet), Green(Internal Network), Orange (DMZ Network).
I've been using version 1.0 of their firewall for just over a year now, and I have to admit that it is a rather good firewall. I was able to load it on a p100 box with only a 540MB hard drive. Granted with a hard drive that small, my firewall doesn't do alot as far as web cache is concerned, but otherwise it operates great. The patches are easy enough to install, all you have to do is download the gzip from the patches page built into the firewall web client. Upload the gzip's and they're installed.
Managing the firewall is exceptionally easy as well. You can setup port forwarding to internal computers in under 30 seconds. All-in all the firewall takes the major annoyances out of running a firewall. I highly recommend it for anyone who's got an old system lying around, and doesn't have the time to bother with setting up a firewall.
They have. There is a great tool for sysadmins in a windows 2000 network. It's called Software Update Services. This is a tool that automatically downloads every patch available from Microsoft and then gives you the ability to mass deploy the patches that you deem necessary for you client computers. We use it at the company I work for and two days after the patch that prevents the Blaster worm from working, all the computers in our corporate network were patched.
The software forces each of the client machines to download the updates and install them at a time you specify, ie. 3:00AM. Any reboots that are necessary after said patches occur then and the end-users have no interaction with the process. Seems like it can't get a whole lot easier than that.
While their intentions are noble,(Read: It's about time someone went after the RIAA)I don't think that they'll have the money available to pull off an anti-trust lawsuit against the RIAA. The RIAA could probably throw enough money into the lawsuit to keep it in courts for ages. These independant webcasters are going to need some help if they have any chance of pulling this off. I may sound negative, but it's the truth.
That's fair... We all know the CowboyNeal option would win.
Well, not too amazing. We've run into some issues with the people at my company. One of our receptionists for example: She acquired a LCD monitor to fit on the new receptionist desk that was purchased for her. The reasononing behind the LCD purchase was due to space reasons. ie. there wasn't enough room on the desk for a CRT. In any case, we put the display in, and within minutes she was complaining because she couldn't read it. The standard, nice and crisp, 1024x768 resolution on the monitor was too small for her to read. Our solution. Bump the resolution back to 800x600. On an LCD display this creates problems as the letters get all blocky, and it becomes rather difficult to read. The thing is, since the display looked like crap at 800x600, she complained about it more than being unable to read it. In the end, we had no choice but to leave it at 800x600 so she could at least see the words. I think that's one of the major reasons people stick with CRT's. Despite the resolution on a CRT, all the text is nice and clear.
This is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Submit the same Tshirt design once, wait a couple of hours, submit it again, then wait a few more hours and submit it a third time. They'll forget it was you....
go ahead... mod me down.. you know you want to.
What if there were damage to the plane,(ie. being shot at etc.)and the pilot had to compensate for the loss of control by banking the plane to the right to maintain a level flight path. Let's say he's flying towards a city, and the computer starts fighting with him because the plane knows he should't be banking to the right, as it will directly line the plane up with the city. But meanwhile back in reality, the pilot is fighting with the plane to keep it from veering off badly and missing the airport entirely. Hey, it could happen.
Going back to the days when in Driver's Education, they teach that while driving you should keep your hands on the wheel at the 10 and 2 o'clock positions. While you may move your hands about the vehicle to perform certain tasks as changing the radio station etc. using hand gestures to control things within the car gives us the same problem that we have now. This problem is that people are using the hands that they should be driving with to do various other things within their vehicles. A voice command system would be much more valuable within a car as it would preclude the need to remove your hands from the steering wheel. Their argument in the article about voice recognition has holes in it. They say that cars are too noisy. If you've taken a ride in one of the newer cars with the windows up, and the radio off, it's rather quiet inside the car. Perhaps I just don't understand, but I still think that this would just be asking for trouble.
Wonder how many workers there have considered investing in This.
Seriously, people are so concerned about health risks in EVERYTHING... nanoparticles are everywhere, all around us.. constantly.. why are we caring about them NOW.. we survived for thousands of years. What ever happened to natural selection? Oh that's right.. we put warning labels on everything in existance because some moron doesn't know that PreparationH is external only. Geez.. just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem work itself out.
just my 2 cents.
yeah, that's what they said about gas prices per gallon too.. and look at 'em now..
First you expect us to RTFA then post intelligently about it... You must be new here.
Pardon my moment of mental absence...
organisation
is spelled that way in the UK... *sigh* language barriers.. why can't we all just get along.
The sad part about the whole thing is that it's these "Power Gamers" who drive the whole industry in the first place. Which is why you have speed battles with Video Card manufacturers and CPU manufacturers. The reason behind this is because the industry knows that the power gamers will buy the newest best stuff around so that they can play their games at a blazingly fast framerate, and can brag about it to their friends.
While there are significantly more casual gamers out there than there are power gamers, the software and hardware companies have to get the power gamers interested because they're the ones who push the casual gamers to use specific hardware, and buy specific hardware.
After all this rambling I do have a point. If it weren't for the "Power Gamers" of the world, there really wouldn't be a driving force in this industry. People would release mediocre games, and mediocre hardware.