Will those DRM enabled reader communicate with any computer transfering data on any direction without requiring administrative access for installing weard drivers? And will they work on Linux, BSD, and etc?
There is a lot you lose by having the option of accessing DRMed media, take you head out of the sand.
Is there any candidate composition for it already? I mean, Jupter is slightly more dense than water. I don't know what to make from that description of a brain, it could have all the way from the density of a nebula to a rock. But from power generation/dissipation requirements, I guess it would be composed by rotating layers of satelites. At that format, it would tend to be rocky dense, not gas dense (and cilindrical, instead of spherical).
The amount of planets similar to Earth is not subject to philosophical reasoning. Either they are out there, or they aren't, principles won't make any difference.
Clock distribution may be must easier when you don't have to be concerned about changing layers and not crossing other wires while keeping the wire length under control. Anyway, that is just the tip of the iceberg...
I agree that a healthy market needs money in the masses (just never saw a stable market, mind you;) ), that is why I said that it was close to the mark.
Offshoring may just be the last straw, or may just be an anonimous straw. I don't have statistics on how big it was (in part because I couldn't think yet on a way to measure that), but I have a guess that it isn't the main factor. Anyway, watever importance it has, it definitively isn't the only factor, but certanly helped to make things worse. I'm still searching for candidate causes.
I've made a one day free course on Microsoft licensing (from their oficial represntatives here at Brazil - free for some customers). It does clarify a lot, but I still have lots of surprizes whith it. Your experience may vary (even more because that course you are talking about is probably from Microsoft itself).
Yes, that is possible. We could require it after we require ISPs to support IPv6, and require that it is turned on on comercial OSs.
Since there is a tragedy of the commons here, why didn't government(s) step on the problem? Yeah, I know the answer, ICANN and everything, it is just that such kind of task is a classical government excuse to exist.
Yet I can't let my work computer on overnight, since it would be unusable the other day.
Anyway, are you braging about 18 days?!? I take care of turning my home cumputer off at night, to save noise and power, but often have an uptime biger than that.
They talk about oportunity costs. That means that (on average) every company could be (nearly) 10% more productive if IT didn't fail, or they could lose 10% of everything they make due to IT failure, or anything in between.
Hum... MS SQL server costs as much as a just-not-top-of-line server. Or maybe more now, since the crisis pushed hardware costs down (someday I'll look into buying both again, or just the server if I get luck).
Anyway, at the same price you contract the useless Microsoft support you can hire some quite usefull Linux support. Unless you simply doesn't use support and can live with the tickets MS throws at you when buying (ok, nobody really uses MS support, but what is the point then?), the only difference in pricing is on the license.
First, we can't get electric current from a constant magnetic field, only from the changes. Earth's magnetic field doesn't change fast, in fact, somebody already posted the figure of 19cm each minute, over some 64000km* radius that is quite a low frequency. Then, Earth's magnetic field is quite weak to begin with. Even if it was rotating at a hight frequency, it wouldn't carry a lot of energy.
Now, you are right that the field comes from an electric current. It is a strong current, but it flows in a huge amount of conductor so is very weak at any reasonable volume of Earth's core you choose. Anyway, to directly gather that current (without induction), one'd need to probe the Earth's core (on at least two places), what is quite a task.
* At that latitude, it is less than 64000km. I didn't make the calculations, but it is less than 1 turn every year. That is already too low on any practical sense.
"There is a world of difference between Law which affects every person in a country, or potentially in the world, without choice and an operating system that a customer chooses to use."
Thanks, nobody seems to notice that nowadays. I'll cite one of those differences, you (in the 'everybody' meaning) are oblied to know and understand every aspect of the law*. Nobody is oblied to understand an operating system.
* At least the people that live on countries with European colonisation, that inherited at least in part the Roman law. That is, all of America, Africa, Europe - obviously, most of Oceania and a bit of Asia.
The GP looks like a great advice*. I couldn't have such a good idea before reading it, and strongly sugest following that advice. You call bullshit that they would play other people by the same rules that they are being played now? That doesn't make a lot of sense.
* Moral will take a hit, but that is inevitable. Even if everybody backtracks, and no uniform is used, moral will still take a hit.
He (his company, anyway) is a platinun buyer of Microsoft. That gives him access to some (large volume) discounts and gives him support tickets on every aquisition, that he hardly spend at all*, so he always have some to spare.
It is no wonder that you can't find platinun contracts on the internet, Microsoft makes sure it is nearly impossible to any buyer to discover what are the licensing options, so they can price target everybody.
* They won't work, so why subjecting yourself to the hassle of calling Microsoft support?
That is quite close to the mark, but you still missed it. US per capta worker earning* was alread trending down at the end of the 70's and begining of the 80's, before offshoring become usual. Offshoring surely had a contribution, but it probably smaler than you think. At the same time, there was an "invisible" structural change** that caused money to accumulate at the top earners of your country, and that seems to be the main culpit here.
* At the same time, productivity was increasing. Only on late 90's it started decreasing.
** My bet is on corruption, toghether with an increase on government size. It always seem to pave the way to money concentration.
Ok, sorry by the delay, I still didn't get used to the new presentarion of comments...
That energy figure is on TFA as the amount of energy an eruption would release. Anyway, I didn't meant to say that one'd need to let all out, even less that one should let all out on a short time, like an eruption. The poit is that there is way more energy than any man made equipment has ever dealed with, and it does need to be released, somehow, into something. Even if you have to vent just a "small" 1% of it, it is still more than a few thousand years of our current consuption, and you can't release it through thousands of years. If we discover that this beast is going to blow, our only hope is if we need to vend just some 0.0001% (that's 10e-6) of the energy, even then, we'll need a huge share of mankind's GNP just for that.
About ground stability, as I said, I can say that there is a risk, but I don't know if somebody knows how big it is, or how to minimize it. I guess that if we discover that it is going to blow, that won't be relevant, but while we don't know, we must research both possibilities.
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Will those DRM enabled reader communicate with any computer transfering data on any direction without requiring administrative access for installing weard drivers? And will they work on Linux, BSD, and etc?
There is a lot you lose by having the option of accessing DRMed media, take you head out of the sand.
Yep, but factoration also isn't O(a^n) where a is constant. It is more like O(a^(n/b)) where b is quite bigger than 1.
Is there any candidate composition for it already? I mean, Jupter is slightly more dense than water. I don't know what to make from that description of a brain, it could have all the way from the density of a nebula to a rock. But from power generation/dissipation requirements, I guess it would be composed by rotating layers of satelites. At that format, it would tend to be rocky dense, not gas dense (and cilindrical, instead of spherical).
Ehh, it seems you didn't ready the summary. Nobody is arguing if he shared or not musics, the argument is about the amount of the fines.
The amount of planets similar to Earth is not subject to philosophical reasoning. Either they are out there, or they aren't, principles won't make any difference.
Clock distribution may be must easier when you don't have to be concerned about changing layers and not crossing other wires while keeping the wire length under control. Anyway, that is just the tip of the iceberg...
I agree that a healthy market needs money in the masses (just never saw a stable market, mind you ;) ), that is why I said that it was close to the mark.
Offshoring may just be the last straw, or may just be an anonimous straw. I don't have statistics on how big it was (in part because I couldn't think yet on a way to measure that), but I have a guess that it isn't the main factor. Anyway, watever importance it has, it definitively isn't the only factor, but certanly helped to make things worse. I'm still searching for candidate causes.
I've made a one day free course on Microsoft licensing (from their oficial represntatives here at Brazil - free for some customers). It does clarify a lot, but I still have lots of surprizes whith it. Your experience may vary (even more because that course you are talking about is probably from Microsoft itself).
The problems with induction are on the first paragraph.
Yes, that is possible. We could require it after we require ISPs to support IPv6, and require that it is turned on on comercial OSs.
Since there is a tragedy of the commons here, why didn't government(s) step on the problem? Yeah, I know the answer, ICANN and everything, it is just that such kind of task is a classical government excuse to exist.
Nobody did. If we could just make a bot to check if the sumary matches TFA...
Yet I can't let my work computer on overnight, since it would be unusable the other day.
Anyway, are you braging about 18 days?!? I take care of turning my home cumputer off at night, to save noise and power, but often have an uptime biger than that.
They talk about oportunity costs. That means that (on average) every company could be (nearly) 10% more productive if IT didn't fail, or they could lose 10% of everything they make due to IT failure, or anything in between.
Hum... MS SQL server costs as much as a just-not-top-of-line server. Or maybe more now, since the crisis pushed hardware costs down (someday I'll look into buying both again, or just the server if I get luck).
Anyway, at the same price you contract the useless Microsoft support you can hire some quite usefull Linux support. Unless you simply doesn't use support and can live with the tickets MS throws at you when buying (ok, nobody really uses MS support, but what is the point then?), the only difference in pricing is on the license.
Is Wine available for Windows? Dosemu is quite sucessfull on that ninche...
Ok...
First, we can't get electric current from a constant magnetic field, only from the changes. Earth's magnetic field doesn't change fast, in fact, somebody already posted the figure of 19cm each minute, over some 64000km* radius that is quite a low frequency. Then, Earth's magnetic field is quite weak to begin with. Even if it was rotating at a hight frequency, it wouldn't carry a lot of energy.
Now, you are right that the field comes from an electric current. It is a strong current, but it flows in a huge amount of conductor so is very weak at any reasonable volume of Earth's core you choose. Anyway, to directly gather that current (without induction), one'd need to probe the Earth's core (on at least two places), what is quite a task.
* At that latitude, it is less than 64000km. I didn't make the calculations, but it is less than 1 turn every year. That is already too low on any practical sense.
Thanks, nobody seems to notice that nowadays. I'll cite one of those differences, you (in the 'everybody' meaning) are oblied to know and understand every aspect of the law*. Nobody is oblied to understand an operating system.
* At least the people that live on countries with European colonisation, that inherited at least in part the Roman law. That is, all of America, Africa, Europe - obviously, most of Oceania and a bit of Asia.
Dress codes take some tension out of the work place. It is important to have a rule, whatever it is.
Of course, on small places, the tension is so small to be irrelevant, so no dress code there.
The GP looks like a great advice*. I couldn't have such a good idea before reading it, and strongly sugest following that advice. You call bullshit that they would play other people by the same rules that they are being played now? That doesn't make a lot of sense.
* Moral will take a hit, but that is inevitable. Even if everybody backtracks, and no uniform is used, moral will still take a hit.
He did learn quite well. He said yes, and is looking for another job. When things get this bad, that is the best way to say "no".
He (his company, anyway) is a platinun buyer of Microsoft. That gives him access to some (large volume) discounts and gives him support tickets on every aquisition, that he hardly spend at all*, so he always have some to spare.
It is no wonder that you can't find platinun contracts on the internet, Microsoft makes sure it is nearly impossible to any buyer to discover what are the licensing options, so they can price target everybody.
* They won't work, so why subjecting yourself to the hassle of calling Microsoft support?
They are quite consistent. They support Free Software when they talk, and atack it when they act.
Nothing different from what you should expect, since FOSS is competition and have quite a powerfull "PR department".
That is quite close to the mark, but you still missed it. US per capta worker earning* was alread trending down at the end of the 70's and begining of the 80's, before offshoring become usual. Offshoring surely had a contribution, but it probably smaler than you think. At the same time, there was an "invisible" structural change** that caused money to accumulate at the top earners of your country, and that seems to be the main culpit here.
* At the same time, productivity was increasing. Only on late 90's it started decreasing.
** My bet is on corruption, toghether with an increase on government size. It always seem to pave the way to money concentration.
Probably, with enough confidence astronomers will start talking about neutralino clouds, or something like that.
Ok, sorry by the delay, I still didn't get used to the new presentarion of comments...
That energy figure is on TFA as the amount of energy an eruption would release. Anyway, I didn't meant to say that one'd need to let all out, even less that one should let all out on a short time, like an eruption. The poit is that there is way more energy than any man made equipment has ever dealed with, and it does need to be released, somehow, into something. Even if you have to vent just a "small" 1% of it, it is still more than a few thousand years of our current consuption, and you can't release it through thousands of years. If we discover that this beast is going to blow, our only hope is if we need to vend just some 0.0001% (that's 10e-6) of the energy, even then, we'll need a huge share of mankind's GNP just for that.
About ground stability, as I said, I can say that there is a risk, but I don't know if somebody knows how big it is, or how to minimize it. I guess that if we discover that it is going to blow, that won't be relevant, but while we don't know, we must research both possibilities.