Your are correct but its pretty tough though I think possible to get enough energy for transportation out of storage. In general, and this has been known for a long long time, so I am not sure why this is news compressed gas is a poor energy store. I am referring to compressed gas where the recovered energy will be from allowing it to expand not from a fuel gas like liquidated natural gas or something.
Because solar is only so productive if its going to be the input energy for transportation than the storage medium can't be very lossy. It appears at this time that photo-eclectic where the electric of that transaction is either stored in a battery or converted to its final mechanical use immediately via the motor powering your vehicle are likely to be the most practical options.
Enterprise clients is exactly how they are planning to get in the door. COM integration says it all. Microsoft is really competing with their own technology as a first step, Adobe is down the road. They need to get silver light on the corporate desktops first. That way people can use it watch football highlights and clips of the Olympics on their lunch break; its after that they decide they want it at home and take the time to install it.
Microsoft has push a great deal of their tech out the door that way. Fat clients are out of vogue these days and usually banned by some nearsighted corporate policy; so everyone writes web apps now which are really fat clients doing most of the work on the client side. Its hardly removed from the client sever model at all, but because it has web browser window decorations around it the policy folks don't notice.
Now we can talk about the security problems and piles of bugs in COM all day long; but its one of the really useful things Microsoft has put into Windows, and it really is better than any of its competitors. Yes its being slowly replaced with some more modern alternatives in the.net framework but there are allot of com objects out there in the corporate world.
If Microsoft wants those developers using silverlight than they have to have easy access to COM otherwise those "web" applications are being done as a good old fashion mess of activeX. If that happens there is really no reason to get silverlight installed on the PCs; which means Flash will be.
The same Army Core of Engineers recommended for years the levies be reinforced. There is no reason to think doing so would not have avoided the flooding problems. The people there failed to make the investment. Its the local government there that is responsible and nobody else.
What we have here is a professional organization said the situation was unsafe and recommended a fix. The customer did not elect to implement the fix. Then when things went wrong the customer is trying to blame that organization for not having recommended something else.
Heavy wool or leather, sometimes was arguably a component of mail armor. It protected the wearer from the chafing effects of the mail and provided some protection from bruising due to the force of impact from weapons however blunted by the mail.
Provide you don't need a specific bread cats don't cost much. Now the trick is getting all those cats to sit still and not fight with each other. I am imagining a Beowulf cluster of cats.
That is why you would get busted. The most frequently counter fitted bills are the smaller denominations ones, fives, and tens. The reason people don't subject them to nearly the scrutiny. All and all there is not that much counterfeiting going on, and chances are if you accept a small bill there is very little change tendered so you are only out the inventory. If you accept a large bill like a 50 or a 100 you stand to loose quite a bit; you probably give not only your inventory but tender real currency as change; so even though those are fakes less often they get looked at more.
I always thought that zero-day referred to the time between when an exploit was being used in the wild and the amount of time admins/endusers had to patch there systems.
In the case of an exploit floating about in the wild where there has been no patch made available is a zero day because I have had zero days to patch my systems before the potential for easy exploitation.
Perhaps government has a little more common sense there; I don't know. Here in the states now you have to show ID to buy cold medication and decongestants most places and even if you are plainly sick as dog they won't sell you more than one box.
Why because someone might use it to cook methadone.. Trust me the parent poster is correct. In the USA if universal health care passes we are only a decade or so from having health id cards with our last know BMI listed on them. When we hit the grocery check out belt with bacon and a carton of eggs it absolutely will be "Papers please." and very likely "oh sorry we have a problem here your listed at 22 and we can only sell you 1/3lb every quarter you're past quota I am sorry sir."
You are kidding right? I love Coke, I mean I love it. If it was the only liquid on earth I would be perfectly content. Diet Code is bad, Coke Zero is OK not great, but the people who worked on Caffeine-free Coke belong in a special hell. Its awful! I would rather have a nice tall frosty glass of 120 weight gear oil.
Its not remotely the same. The gun maker is not responsible because there are legal uses for the gun and he has no idea it will be eventually used in crime.
If he did say sell you a gun after you showed up at the factory outlet store and said, "hey I need something to kill my wife and knock over the bank afterward can you recommend something?" that would be another matter, they would be complicit in the crimes.
You're sysadmin example is pretty much the same thing. Lets pretend the server was a proliant, HP is certainly not culpable; you are if you *know* or reasonably should *know* the server is being used for crime and you are enabling it to operate.
I guess the real question is our government going to bother pursuing a white collar criminal to Somalia. When said criminal is in hiding and recovery would require a kidnapping operation where agents certainly could get hurt or killed executing.
My guess is no they wont do that not for just securities fraud any way. Arrange for running an airliner into a office complex or something and that puts you in another sort of league where the public would demand justice despite the additional cost beyond that of your original crime. I think most people government included would say enjoy your voluntary exile to the war torn disease ridden paradise that is Somalia, when you get tired of it just book a flight home or to any other NATO country for that matter and we will be happy to toss you in the clink upon arrival with a few extra years for obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, and failure to comply with a lawful warrant.
Exactly the real crime is that Louisiana is the only state in the union that has the death penalty for rape of a child, and I am not even certain they still do.
He should have been kept in that psych ward under guard until the trial if convicted taken directly to prison to prison and placed on death row, than executed the day after he exhausted his final appeals. We screwed up by letting him go walking about. He was obviously a menace and a flight risk the people handling the case especially the judge could have and should have seen that.
The goal is wrong. As a general rule rehabilitation does not work; incapacitation does. Here in the states the crime rate really started to rise quickly in the sixties and seventies, when we started reducing sentences and emphasizing rehabilitation over the incapacitation model we had in the fifties and prior.
I don't know about Germany but here in the states if you want to reduce violent crime and serious property crime there are three things that need to happen. We need to decriminalize very minor crimes like drug possession and distribution, to free space in our prisons. We need to criminalize drug use destroying the demand side of the market. We need to make sentencing for all types of crime far more severe; lock up the dangerous folks especially and lose the keys.
Within a very short time frame, businesses would be built up around every institution making sure that they never come close to that and risk being taken over.
Which ultimately defeats the entire effort. If you have a bunch of small institutions that don't really act independently because they are all under the control of the people, you don't really have a bunch of small institutions. Image if we had Goldman Investment Advisers, Goldman Savings and Loan, Goldman Broker Dealer, Goldman Investment Insurance Corp, Goldman Funds, etc etc. Now imaging all these companies are strategic partners utilize each others services almost exclusively for their needs in those respective areas and pretty much have the same people serving on each companies' board of directors. I suspect you would pretty much have the same GS you have today. What we need to do is boil the taxes code down to something very simple, like a pure sales taxes with perhaps some exemptions for food, residential logging, and basic transportation. These exemptions would only be applicable when a purchaser is a private individual not acting as a corporate agent. I suppose we might want to make these exceptions for charities as well. I know there are some hardliners out there who say no exceptions but I think a totally non progressive tax policy would place to much burden on the bottom rungs.
Once you have a tax policy that is pretty narrow in scope and pretty well void of nuance; you can eliminate cheating though enforcement. It would actually be possible to catch and identify cheaters and prosecute them quickly and easily. You can than impose an other tax on top of the sales tax, a total CONTROLLED assets tax. This would only kick in at an inflation level that is generally considered to-big-to-fail. This tax penalty would be massive, and provide a slow and controlled bleed these institutions until they were no longer subject and therefore not to-big-to-fail.
This I think is fair because the public gets to benefit from the profits of the increased risk associate with such an organization existing.
unless all demand for oil suddenly and miraculously goes away.
That has basically happen before. Consider whale oil. It went from being about a sixth of our GDP to virtually nothing. That was not because whale was banned suddenly either, it was because the black stuff was found bubbling up from the ground in PA and people figured out how to use it for almost everything they were doing with the whale stuff and lots more. It was way easier to get at too.
Sitting on lots of oil could well be an economic mistake, all it would is for someone to find a cheap way to synthesize the stuff from something otherwise abundant or the discovery of another good substitute and all the worlds oil might be virtually worthless.
Personally I am not really worried. Investing in oil (profitably) is pretty difficult unless you are willing to keep your capital tied up so long you could get better returns elsewhere or you're an insider. You can make some money gambling though I suppose. I suspect the industrialized world will find solutions to oil getting expensive and scarce, its the OPEC crew that should be worried because I don't know what they are going to trade with once the oil is gone.
SQL and the RDBMS is an great tool for most jobs; similar to the way a pair of pliers can be very versicle. It does not mean its the only tool for every job. I have seen in IT and application development a trend over the past few years to cram everything into a database that would have been stuff in a flat file before. I am not always convinced this is actually a good choice.
There are also task for with table oriented relational structures actually don't fit well. GIS is probably the best example. You don't really want in a ideal world to be using rasterized information which is pretty much what an underlying relational data model will always force you into. Its also not good for asking questions like find me all the bodies of water within 50miles of the treatment facility at point x. I am not saying this can't be done, or that its not done millions of times everyday even on the web. I am saying that it can't be done with a purely relational model without also making some compromises in the form of assumptions, limitations in granularity, and efficiency.
I am also inclined to agree with the parent posters that where the NOSQL people are spending a great deal of time is on tasks that really can be done with RDB technology quite well and probably don't fully understand some of the problems they are attempting to solve.
Um warrants are specific but you certainly can be prosecuted based on evidence discovered pursuant to an otherwise legal search on an unrelated matter. So hypothetically lets say the police suspect you of dealing in child porn (sense you used that example) and get a warrant to search your computer of electronic mails relating to that activity.
If They then open your mail program and the first 10 message subjects displayed are all "hey man its your bookie where is my money for the CAVs game yesterday" they would have probably cause to suspect you of another crime open those mails and investigate. You then could certainly be brought up on gambling charges as well. Now if the warrant mentioned nothing about searching the fridge and the police decided to open it up and found the coke(caine) you keep in there you might have an argument; a court might find it was unreasonable to search the fridge for additional evidence of child porn while executing a warrant to search a computer and remove any shoe boxes of photos from the clothests.
IANAL but its never to your interest to be searched by the police; evidence is only tainted if its discovered during an illegal search. If you let them in and say "sure take a look around" and they find anything you can be on the hook.
Right, its not a big deal and anyone who has been making purchase decisions in IT long enough to know what MARS does knows you don't EVER EVER consider a Cisco solution unless:
They are giving you a sweat heart deal to run some other vendor off, so you don't care about scrapping it later.
They have been selling the product for at least two years, otherwise it has a 50pct change of just disappearing
Their offering still has the features that you are primarily interested in after they have existed in the product for two years, otherwise said product is likely to morph into something completely different in operational characteristics.
The solution to controlling costs is to ban price discrimination by providers. Tell them they need to post a public price book for their services and everybody pays the same; regardless of if they are individual, HMO, or insurer.
As to what individuals pay the HMO or insurance detectable thats between those entities not the heal care provider. This way the providers have no incentive to try and pass costs onto to individuals and let the big providers off the hook. If they let the providers negotiate a price below cost, it could not be recouped by gouging the independent payers, charge to much over cost and you lose the business.
I suppose we could could allow them to discount payments in cash, up to 2% because that is cheaper to accept than credit cards and checks and it usually works out to about 2%.
This is will also result in the death of most HMO type organizations as they can only *Add* cost to the whole operation, by creating additional administrative overhead. Insurance would then be insurance! I broke my leg, got diagnosed with a serious illness etc etc. It would not cover general care, and minor sick calls, I suspect most polices would require you to do preventative care to keep the policy enforce.
Still this would make heal care cost effective and accessible to everyone in an equal way; rather than the situation we have today where as you describe were the two ends of the spectrum pay the most. The super rich who self insure, and the very poor who don't get a medical with their employment.
A bird in had is worth two in the bush This is something Steve seems to understand but you can't. He has actually in nominal terms done a pretty good job. Microsoft might not have grown much with respect to its peers over the past decade; but he has held his ground virtually all of it. When Bill was in charge Microsoft's competition in microcomputer and office automation space (where their real business is) was nascent. The big players in the computer industry were database specialists or still mostly stuck in the mainframe era. Despite lots and lots players trying to get in the space since that time Microsoft in comparative terms with its peers has remained as powerful in terms of financial strength, industry influence, and market penetration as it was when its peers didn't exist.
yea because the missile counter measures failed to fire because the system was doing its scheduled reboot is so much better than the missile counter measures failed to fire because of timer precision
There is no reason to make most of South East Asia and China 2nd-rate citizens on the internet.
Sure there is a reason. The internet is most likely the most influential media outlet in existence today. It can do more to spread culture and ideas than any other tools we have. I for one enjoy living in the dominate culture where global communication and commerce are concerned. As an American I very much want American hegemony CONTINUED! I also understand not cooperating with other cultures at all will lead them to form their own little clubs which exclude us; and if that happens and enough of them get together than we would find ourselves on the outside.
I am not totally against letting them have their funny little characters in URLs for stuff only they care about anyway. I just hope its part of a larger plan to keep them on our network doing things for the most part on our terms. I am all for marginalizing other cultures and making them feel good about it at the same time if we can get away with it.
I can image clearview being able to fix some of those problems.
Oh the "stacks been smashed" -> let me I usually see a code that looks like a pointer dereference called and then a fetch of between 5 and 67 bytes ->This time it was 643 bytes! ->I will just stick a jump in there and save off the stack and write some code to copy not more than 67 bytes which from past experience is safe from location A to location B and then put the stack back and set the program counter to the address after the jump I inserted.
Now this certainly may change the actually function of the application but possibly not in a way the users will notice or care about!
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Your are correct but its pretty tough though I think possible to get enough energy for transportation out of storage. In general, and this has been known for a long long time, so I am not sure why this is news compressed gas is a poor energy store. I am referring to compressed gas where the recovered energy will be from allowing it to expand not from a fuel gas like liquidated natural gas or something.
Because solar is only so productive if its going to be the input energy for transportation than the storage medium can't be very lossy. It appears at this time that photo-eclectic where the electric of that transaction is either stored in a battery or converted to its final mechanical use immediately via the motor powering your vehicle are likely to be the most practical options.
Enterprise clients is exactly how they are planning to get in the door. COM integration says it all. Microsoft is really competing with their own technology as a first step, Adobe is down the road. They need to get silver light on the corporate desktops first. That way people can use it watch football highlights and clips of the Olympics on their lunch break; its after that they decide they want it at home and take the time to install it.
Microsoft has push a great deal of their tech out the door that way. Fat clients are out of vogue these days and usually banned by some nearsighted corporate policy; so everyone writes web apps now which are really fat clients doing most of the work on the client side. Its hardly removed from the client sever model at all, but because it has web browser window decorations around it the policy folks don't notice.
Now we can talk about the security problems and piles of bugs in COM all day long; but its one of the really useful things Microsoft has put into Windows, and it really is better than any of its competitors. Yes its being slowly replaced with some more modern alternatives in the .net framework but there are allot of com objects out there in the corporate world.
If Microsoft wants those developers using silverlight than they have to have easy access to COM otherwise those "web" applications are being done as a good old fashion mess of activeX. If that happens there is really no reason to get silverlight installed on the PCs; which means Flash will be.
The same Army Core of Engineers recommended for years the levies be reinforced. There is no reason to think doing so would not have avoided the flooding problems. The people there failed to make the investment. Its the local government there that is responsible and nobody else.
What we have here is a professional organization said the situation was unsafe and recommended a fix. The customer did not elect to implement the fix. Then when things went wrong the customer is trying to blame that organization for not having recommended something else.
Its total crap.
Heavy wool or leather, sometimes was arguably a component of mail armor. It protected the wearer from the chafing effects of the mail and provided some protection from bruising due to the force of impact from weapons however blunted by the mail.
Provide you don't need a specific bread cats don't cost much. Now the trick is getting all those cats to sit still and not fight with each other. I am imagining a Beowulf cluster of cats.
That is why you would get busted. The most frequently counter fitted bills are the smaller denominations ones, fives, and tens. The reason people don't subject them to nearly the scrutiny. All and all there is not that much counterfeiting going on, and chances are if you accept a small bill there is very little change tendered so you are only out the inventory. If you accept a large bill like a 50 or a 100 you stand to loose quite a bit; you probably give not only your inventory but tender real currency as change; so even though those are fakes less often they get looked at more.
Yes now that Obama is president the US. Government published most of the material that portrays Americans negatively
I always thought that zero-day referred to the time between when an exploit was being used in the wild and the amount of time admins/endusers had to patch there systems.
In the case of an exploit floating about in the wild where there has been no patch made available is a zero day because I have had zero days to patch my systems before the potential for easy exploitation.
Perhaps government has a little more common sense there; I don't know. Here in the states now you have to show ID to buy cold medication and decongestants most places and even if you are plainly sick as dog they won't sell you more than one box.
Why because someone might use it to cook methadone.. Trust me the parent poster is correct. In the USA if universal health care passes we are only a decade or so from having health id cards with our last know BMI listed on them. When we hit the grocery check out belt with bacon and a carton of eggs it absolutely will be "Papers please." and very likely "oh sorry we have a problem here your listed at 22 and we can only sell you 1/3lb every quarter you're past quota I am sorry sir."
You are kidding right? I love Coke, I mean I love it. If it was the only liquid on earth I would be perfectly content. Diet Code is bad, Coke Zero is OK not great, but the people who worked on Caffeine-free Coke belong in a special hell. Its awful! I would rather have a nice tall frosty glass of 120 weight gear oil.
Its not remotely the same. The gun maker is not responsible because there are legal uses for the gun and he has no idea it will be eventually used in crime.
If he did say sell you a gun after you showed up at the factory outlet store and said, "hey I need something to kill my wife and knock over the bank afterward can you recommend something?" that would be another matter, they would be complicit in the crimes.
You're sysadmin example is pretty much the same thing. Lets pretend the server was a proliant, HP is certainly not culpable; you are if you *know* or reasonably should *know* the server is being used for crime and you are enabling it to operate.
I guess the real question is our government going to bother pursuing a white collar criminal to Somalia. When said criminal is in hiding and recovery would require a kidnapping operation where agents certainly could get hurt or killed executing.
My guess is no they wont do that not for just securities fraud any way. Arrange for running an airliner into a office complex or something and that puts you in another sort of league where the public would demand justice despite the additional cost beyond that of your original crime.
I think most people government included would say enjoy your voluntary exile to the war torn disease ridden paradise that is Somalia, when you get tired of it just book a flight home or to any other NATO country for that matter and we will be happy to toss you in the clink upon arrival with a few extra years for obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, and failure to comply with a lawful warrant.
Exactly the real crime is that Louisiana is the only state in the union that has the death penalty for rape of a child, and I am not even certain they still do.
He should have been kept in that psych ward under guard until the trial if convicted taken directly to prison to prison and placed on death row, than executed the day after he exhausted his final appeals. We screwed up by letting him go walking about. He was obviously a menace and a flight risk the people handling the case especially the judge could have and should have seen that.
The goal is wrong. As a general rule rehabilitation does not work; incapacitation does. Here in the states the crime rate really started to rise quickly in the sixties and seventies, when we started reducing sentences and emphasizing rehabilitation over the incapacitation model we had in the fifties and prior.
I don't know about Germany but here in the states if you want to reduce violent crime and serious property crime there are three things that need to happen. We need to decriminalize very minor crimes like drug possession and distribution, to free space in our prisons. We need to criminalize drug use destroying the demand side of the market. We need to make sentencing for all types of crime far more severe; lock up the dangerous folks especially and lose the keys.
Within a very short time frame, businesses would be built up around every institution making sure that they never come close to that and risk being taken over.
Which ultimately defeats the entire effort. If you have a bunch of small institutions that don't really act independently because they are all under the control of the people, you don't really have a bunch of small institutions. Image if we had Goldman Investment Advisers, Goldman Savings and Loan, Goldman Broker Dealer, Goldman Investment Insurance Corp, Goldman Funds, etc etc. Now imaging all these companies are strategic partners utilize each others services almost exclusively for their needs in those respective areas and pretty much have the same people serving on each companies' board of directors. I suspect you would pretty much have the same GS you have today.
What we need to do is boil the taxes code down to something very simple, like a pure sales taxes with perhaps some exemptions for food, residential logging, and basic transportation. These exemptions would only be applicable when a purchaser is a private individual not acting as a corporate agent. I suppose we might want to make these exceptions for charities as well. I know there are some hardliners out there who say no exceptions but I think a totally non progressive tax policy would place to much burden on the bottom rungs.
Once you have a tax policy that is pretty narrow in scope and pretty well void of nuance; you can eliminate cheating though enforcement. It would actually be possible to catch and identify cheaters and prosecute them quickly and easily. You can than impose an other tax on top of the sales tax, a total CONTROLLED assets tax. This would only kick in at an inflation level that is generally considered to-big-to-fail. This tax penalty would be massive, and provide a slow and controlled bleed these institutions until they were no longer subject and therefore not to-big-to-fail.
This I think is fair because the public gets to benefit from the profits of the increased risk associate with such an organization existing.
unless all demand for oil suddenly and miraculously goes away.
That has basically happen before. Consider whale oil. It went from being about a sixth of our GDP to virtually nothing. That was not because whale was banned suddenly either, it was because the black stuff was found bubbling up from the ground in PA and people figured out how to use it for almost everything they were doing with the whale stuff and lots more. It was way easier to get at too.
Sitting on lots of oil could well be an economic mistake, all it would is for someone to find a cheap way to synthesize the stuff from something otherwise abundant or the discovery of another good substitute and all the worlds oil might be virtually worthless.
Personally I am not really worried. Investing in oil (profitably) is pretty difficult unless you are willing to keep your capital tied up so long you could get better returns elsewhere or you're an insider. You can make some money gambling though I suppose. I suspect the industrialized world will find solutions to oil getting expensive and scarce, its the OPEC crew that should be worried because I don't know what they are going to trade with once the oil is gone.
SQL and the RDBMS is an great tool for most jobs; similar to the way a pair of pliers can be very versicle. It does not mean its the only tool for every job. I have seen in IT and application development a trend over the past few years to cram everything into a database that would have been stuff in a flat file before. I am not always convinced this is actually a good choice.
There are also task for with table oriented relational structures actually don't fit well. GIS is probably the best example. You don't really want in a ideal world to be using rasterized information which is pretty much what an underlying relational data model will always force you into. Its also not good for asking questions like find me all the bodies of water within 50miles of the treatment facility at point x. I am not saying this can't be done, or that its not done millions of times everyday even on the web. I am saying that it can't be done with a purely relational model without also making some compromises in the form of assumptions, limitations in granularity, and efficiency.
I am also inclined to agree with the parent posters that where the NOSQL people are spending a great deal of time is on tasks that really can be done with RDB technology quite well and probably don't fully understand some of the problems they are attempting to solve.
Um warrants are specific but you certainly can be prosecuted based on evidence discovered pursuant to an otherwise legal search on an unrelated matter. So hypothetically lets say the police suspect you of dealing in child porn (sense you used that example) and get a warrant to search your computer of electronic mails relating to that activity.
If They then open your mail program and the first 10 message subjects displayed are all "hey man its your bookie where is my money for the CAVs game yesterday" they would have probably cause to suspect you of another crime open those mails and investigate. You then could certainly be brought up on gambling charges as well. Now if the warrant mentioned nothing about searching the fridge and the police decided to open it up and found the coke(caine) you keep in there you might have an argument; a court might find it was unreasonable to search the fridge for additional evidence of child porn while executing a warrant to search a computer and remove any shoe boxes of photos from the clothests.
IANAL but its never to your interest to be searched by the police; evidence is only tainted if its discovered during an illegal search. If you let them in and say "sure take a look around" and they find anything you can be on the hook.
Right, its not a big deal and anyone who has been making purchase decisions in IT long enough to know what MARS does knows you don't EVER EVER consider a Cisco solution unless:
They are giving you a sweat heart deal to run some other vendor off, so you don't care about scrapping it later.
They have been selling the product for at least two years, otherwise it has a 50pct change of just disappearing
Their offering still has the features that you are primarily interested in after they have existed in the product for two years, otherwise said product is likely to morph into something completely different in operational characteristics.
What we really need to know is the rough rate of acceleration on the car. The higher the rate of change in v, the lower the v.max must necessarily be.
The solution to controlling costs is to ban price discrimination by providers. Tell them they need to post a public price book for their services and everybody pays the same; regardless of if they are individual, HMO, or insurer.
As to what individuals pay the HMO or insurance detectable thats between those entities not the heal care provider. This way the providers have no incentive to try and pass costs onto to individuals and let the big providers off the hook. If they let the providers negotiate a price below cost, it could not be recouped by gouging the independent payers, charge to much over cost and you lose the business.
I suppose we could could allow them to discount payments in cash, up to 2% because that is cheaper to accept than credit cards and checks and it usually works out to about 2%.
This is will also result in the death of most HMO type organizations as they can only *Add* cost to the whole operation, by creating additional administrative overhead. Insurance would then be insurance! I broke my leg, got diagnosed with a serious illness etc etc. It would not cover general care, and minor sick calls, I suspect most polices would require you to do preventative care to keep the policy enforce.
Still this would make heal care cost effective and accessible to everyone in an equal way; rather than the situation we have today where as you describe were the two ends of the spectrum pay the most. The super rich who self insure, and the very poor who don't get a medical with their employment.
A bird in had is worth two in the bush
This is something Steve seems to understand but you can't. He has actually in nominal terms done a pretty good job. Microsoft might not have grown much with respect to its peers over the past decade; but he has held his ground virtually all of it. When Bill was in charge Microsoft's competition in microcomputer and office automation space (where their real business is) was nascent. The big players in the computer industry were database specialists or still mostly stuck in the mainframe era.
Despite lots and lots players trying to get in the space since that time Microsoft in comparative terms with its peers has remained as powerful in terms of financial strength, industry influence, and market penetration as it was when its peers didn't exist.
yea because the missile counter measures failed to fire because the system was doing its scheduled reboot is so much better than the missile counter measures failed to fire because of timer precision
There is no reason to make most of South East Asia and China 2nd-rate citizens on the internet.
Sure there is a reason. The internet is most likely the most influential media outlet in existence today. It can do more to spread culture and ideas than any other tools we have. I for one enjoy living in the dominate culture where global communication and commerce are concerned. As an American I very much want American hegemony CONTINUED! I also understand not cooperating with other cultures at all will lead them to form their own little clubs which exclude us; and if that happens and enough of them get together than we would find ourselves on the outside.
I am not totally against letting them have their funny little characters in URLs for stuff only they care about anyway. I just hope its part of a larger plan to keep them on our network doing things for the most part on our terms. I am all for marginalizing other cultures and making them feel good about it at the same time if we can get away with it.
I can image clearview being able to fix some of those problems.
Oh the "stacks been smashed" -> let me I usually see a code that looks like a pointer dereference called and then a fetch of between 5 and 67 bytes
->This time it was 643 bytes!
->I will just stick a jump in there and save off the stack and write some code to copy not more than 67 bytes which from past experience is safe from location A to location B and then put the stack back and set the program counter to the address after the jump I inserted.
Now this certainly may change the actually function of the application but possibly not in a way the users will notice or care about!