OTOH, I'd be surprised to see if you made less errors when writing Dutch than I do when writing English:)
(Is there a grammatical error in that sentence? It doesn't feel right, but I don't know how to correct)
This is all SO very misleading... I won't fall for it, and I know you won't fall for it, but it just outrages me.
These are supposedly reasons to switch to the MSN service, implying you can't get it if you don't:
Instant messaging from MSN Messenger Service: bullshit, everyone on the Internet can use it
Catch up on the latest news from MSNBC: are they really trying to say MSNBC is only available to MSN users? Besides, maybe it would be better if it was.
Send instant messages: didn't they already mention that one?
... and so on and so on...
As for the POP3-restrictions, it's completely outrageous. I guess it can't be difficult for open source mail clients to disguise themselves as Outlook Express or one of its cousins, but how much MSN subscribers will know about that? Just one more attempt of MS to de-commoditize a protocol (anyone remember the Halloween Documents?
We can generate energy when heat flows from a heat source to a heat sink, that's true.
But cooling is something different: we _add_ energy in the process to _increase_ the flow of heat from the heat source to the sink.
Heat is somewhat abstract, so I like the water analogy to explain these things.
Using a turbine, we can generate electricity when water flows from a high reservoir to a lower reservoir.
But, if the high reservoir is constantly refilled at a high rate, it's possible that the natural flow from high to low is not enough, and we need a pump to make the water flow more rapidly. That's cooling. Adding a turbine to that would slow the flow of water, and the generated electricity would not be enough to power the extra pump capacity needed to overcome that (if all energy conversions would be 100% efficient, it would be just enough).
The basic idea behind it was that a thermoacoustic engine could be made to take the heat from the processor and convert it into sound
I just read the webpage you referred to, and I think your description of the thermoacoustic cooler is not correct. It doesn't convert heat into sound (besides, converting heat into sound into electricity violates the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and would enable you to build a perpetuum mobile). The sound is generated by a speaker (getting its energy from the power supply). The way I understand it is that the whole setup has the same functionality as e.g. a Peltier element, but more efficient.
Think about it: as a small business owner with 3 employees, none of whom are very technical, which solution would you buy? A solution that requires you to keep a UNIX sysadmin at least part-time, or a system that allows your secretary to set up distribution lists in her spare time by going to a website?
You have a very valid point, but at the same time I'm inclined to say that exactly this attitude and this 'ease of administration' was a major cause of the vast proliferation of the recent Nimda, CodeRed et al attacks.
There is no way that this secretary is also going to keep an eye on the security bulletins and to keep the software up to date, whereas the UNIX sysadmin (if it's a good one) knows his stuff, and always keeps an eye out for security.
it chills the public domain requirement for copyrighted materials (i.e. that they must ultimately be copyable)
Hm... let's look at this from another point of view. If something, say incopyable CD's, is not copyable, does copyright law even apply?
IANAL but I guess it still does somehow. This is just something that popped into my mind; I don't know what the consequences would be. Anybody care to comment?
Where I live this doesn't happen nearly as often, but when it happens it is said (and I believe it) to be calls from potential burglars trying to find out if anyone is at home.
Actually it is 72420 meters, but that's assuming the distance is 45.000 miles. If the distance is said to be 45 miles, it means there is an absolute error of 0.5 miles, or a relative error of 1%. After conversion, the relative error is still 1%, which corresponds to an absolute error of 0.7 km. As a consequence, it is misleading to give any digits after the decimal point (when expressed in km).
I should even have said 72 km instead of 72.4, but saying 72.420 km or 72420 m is implying a much better precision than we really have.
To express it in meters, we have to use scientific notation: 72E3 m.
Or we can state the error explicitly: (72000 +/- 700) m
I just downloaded the 2.77 to check out their 'shuffle morph rate'. To soon to say anything about how random it is, but from the description it's indeed not entirely clear how random it is. It just seems to have to do with more or less variations of subsequent traversals of the playlist. We'll see.
That's not the impression I get. My impression is that Winamp's random number generator sucks badly (talking about the 2.xx versions, not 3.xx). Mostly I put a whole directory tree filled with mp3's and ogg's in Winamp, and play it with shuffle and repeat set. I have noticed more than anecdotically that the same set of songs is played over and over, and that other songs are never played. I've always wanted to take a look at the source code to see how it was done and to fix it, but alas, Winamp is closed source.
I still like it more than Sonique for example, tgough: Sonique looks better, has a better shuffle function, but is not stable.
Does anybody know if this is solved in the upcoming 3.xx Winamp versions?
I was in the hope that, given HP's support for open source, they would release it under an open source license. But no such luck apparently, so I'll have to agree with you.
Yes, they are discontinuining it, but they are supporting it for at least 5 more years and I wouldn't be surprised if they would open source it at the end of the ride.
I've heard about Interix before, and I've even visited its website. But what the website doesn't say and what I want to know is: how does it compare to Cygwin?
HP's OpenMail can replace an Exchange server. It allows Outlook as a client and supports calendaring. I don't know what other clients it supports, or whether other clients can use the calendaring features.
This is something I see as one of the biggest obstacles for large scale acceptance of Linux/FreeBSD/... in business environments. Suits like it a lot, it seems they can't live without it. A viable alternative should be high on the priority list!
Now is the time for one thing and one thing only: The defense of the American democratic ideal. Any and all who disagree with this directive, or who have different ideas about how it should be accomplished, should learn to shut their mouths.
Funny. I always thought paramount to the American democratic ideal (or any democracy, for that matter) was freedom of speech and freedom of thought. I Must be wrong then.
The title of the Onion article sums it all up quite well:
My ISP is Telenet/Pandora in Belgium. In primetime, net use seems to be slower compared to less busy times, but the bottle neck doesn't seem to be on the ISP's cable network. Downloads from the ISP's mirrors are always fast, even in primetime.
I'm sorry, no, it doesn't. It proofs he sympathises with whoever has done it (which we knew already). We know he's an agitator. Reacting this way helps hem convince even more muslims the the west is the enemy.
Just out of curiosity, how many jumbo jets have to fly into skyscrapers before you think it's time to act?
It's not that much a matter of acting or not; it's a matter of doing the right thing to do, and only that. I stand by my point that it's better to wait and do nothing unless you are certain you are going to do the right thing.
Because, if you act out of blind anger, people who want to hurt you have more excuses to do so and will find more people willing to fight for their cause. That's not what you want.
There is _no_ evidence of who was behind the attacks. Everyone told you it was Bin Laden, but saying something very often doesn't make it anymore true (otherwise you could as well start to believe all MS FUD).
Can you say, with 100% certainty, who the barbarians are?
No, you can't.
So, if you destroy someone, it may very well be that you are killing innocent people, which makes you barbarian too, IMNSHO.
Really, I can understand that you want to do something, but I think emotions should not get in the way here, and if something is to be done, it better be something that doesn't make situation even worse.
This is so f*cking stupid (excuse me lame language, but that's just how I feel about it). If I understand it correctly, the code that is responsible for executing the macros can find them, but the code that it is responsible for finding them (in order to be able to ignore them), cannot find them.
I could rant on and on, but I'm not going to because, in fact, there just are no words to say how braindead this is.
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OTOH, I'd be surprised to see if you made less errors when writing Dutch than I do when writing English :)
(Is there a grammatical error in that sentence? It doesn't feel right, but I don't know how to correct)
These are supposedly reasons to switch to the MSN service, implying you can't get it if you don't:
- Instant messaging from MSN Messenger Service: bullshit, everyone on the Internet can use it
- Catch up on the latest news from MSNBC: are they really trying to say MSNBC is only available to MSN users? Besides, maybe it would be better if it was.
- Send instant messages: didn't they already mention that one?
- ... and so on and so on
...
As for the POP3-restrictions, it's completely outrageous. I guess it can't be difficult for open source mail clients to disguise themselves as Outlook Express or one of its cousins, but how much MSN subscribers will know about that? Just one more attempt of MS to de-commoditize a protocol (anyone remember the Halloween Documents?But cooling is something different: we _add_ energy in the process to _increase_ the flow of heat from the heat source to the sink.
Heat is somewhat abstract, so I like the water analogy to explain these things.
Using a turbine, we can generate electricity when water flows from a high reservoir to a lower reservoir.
But, if the high reservoir is constantly refilled at a high rate, it's possible that the natural flow from high to low is not enough, and we need a pump to make the water flow more rapidly. That's cooling. Adding a turbine to that would slow the flow of water, and the generated electricity would not be enough to power the extra pump capacity needed to overcome that (if all energy conversions would be 100% efficient, it would be just enough).
I just read the webpage you referred to, and I think your description of the thermoacoustic cooler is not correct. It doesn't convert heat into sound (besides, converting heat into sound into electricity violates the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and would enable you to build a perpetuum mobile). The sound is generated by a speaker (getting its energy from the power supply). The way I understand it is that the whole setup has the same functionality as e.g. a Peltier element, but more efficient.
Not much, perhaps, but looking at CodeRed etc., I have to conclude lots of people just don't do it.
You have a very valid point, but at the same time I'm inclined to say that exactly this attitude and this 'ease of administration' was a major cause of the vast proliferation of the recent Nimda, CodeRed et al attacks.
There is no way that this secretary is also going to keep an eye on the security bulletins and to keep the software up to date, whereas the UNIX sysadmin (if it's a good one) knows his stuff, and always keeps an eye out for security.
Hm... let's look at this from another point of view. If something, say incopyable CD's, is not copyable, does copyright law even apply?
IANAL but I guess it still does somehow. This is just something that popped into my mind; I don't know what the consequences would be. Anybody care to comment?
Where I live this doesn't happen nearly as often, but when it happens it is said (and I believe it) to be calls from potential burglars trying to find out if anyone is at home.
Actually it is 72420 meters, but that's assuming the distance is 45.000 miles. If the distance is said to be 45 miles, it means there is an absolute error of 0.5 miles, or a relative error of 1%. After conversion, the relative error is still 1%, which corresponds to an absolute error of 0.7 km. As a consequence, it is misleading to give any digits after the decimal point (when expressed in km).
I should even have said 72 km instead of 72.4, but saying 72.420 km or 72420 m is implying a much better precision than we really have.
To express it in meters, we have to use scientific notation: 72E3 m.
Or we can state the error explicitly: (72000 +/- 700) m
Yes, I know: it's 72.4 km
I just downloaded the 2.77 to check out their 'shuffle morph rate'. To soon to say anything about how random it is, but from the description it's indeed not entirely clear how random it is. It just seems to have to do with more or less variations of subsequent traversals of the playlist. We'll see.
I still like it more than Sonique for example, tgough: Sonique looks better, has a better shuffle function, but is not stable.
Does anybody know if this is solved in the upcoming 3.xx Winamp versions?
I was in the hope that, given HP's support for open source, they would release it under an open source license. But no such luck apparently, so I'll have to agree with you.
Yes, they are discontinuining it, but they are supporting it for at least 5 more years and I wouldn't be surprised if they would open source it at the end of the ride.
I've heard about Interix before, and I've even visited its website. But what the website doesn't say and what I want to know is: how does it compare to Cygwin?
HP's OpenMail can replace an Exchange server. It allows Outlook as a client and supports calendaring. I don't know what other clients it supports, or whether other clients can use the calendaring features.
This is something I see as one of the biggest obstacles for large scale acceptance of Linux/FreeBSD/... in business environments. Suits like it a lot, it seems they can't live without it. A viable alternative should be high on the priority list!
The title of the Onion article sums it all up quite well:
Is BG old enough to be LT's grandfather?
My ISP is Telenet/Pandora in Belgium. In primetime, net use seems to be slower compared to less busy times, but the bottle neck doesn't seem to be on the ISP's cable network. Downloads from the ISP's mirrors are always fast, even in primetime.
I'm sorry, no, it doesn't. It proofs he sympathises with whoever has done it (which we knew already). We know he's an agitator. Reacting this way helps hem convince even more muslims the the west is the enemy.
But perhaps one could pump warm blood in it for 24 hours, and then chill for another 6 hours?
It's not that much a matter of acting or not; it's a matter of doing the right thing to do, and only that. I stand by my point that it's better to wait and do nothing unless you are certain you are going to do the right thing.
Because, if you act out of blind anger, people who want to hurt you have more excuses to do so and will find more people willing to fight for their cause. That's not what you want.
There is _no_ evidence of who was behind the attacks. Everyone told you it was Bin Laden, but saying something very often doesn't make it anymore true (otherwise you could as well start to believe all MS FUD).
Can you say, with 100% certainty, who the barbarians are?
No, you can't.
So, if you destroy someone, it may very well be that you are killing innocent people, which makes you barbarian too, IMNSHO.
Really, I can understand that you want to do something, but I think emotions should not get in the way here, and if something is to be done, it better be something that doesn't make situation even worse.
I could rant on and on, but I'm not going to because, in fact, there just are no words to say how braindead this is.