Ditto for Pair.com I have been using them for about 5 years.
I used to work for a small ISP so I know the challenges that a small Mom and Pop shop face, and for serious redundancy they have a hard time competing with the big players.
I tried a number of other hosts with various sucess before I settled on Pair.com. They are a little more expensive then the really budget places but you get what you pay for.
As well as backup diesel generators and power systems etc., they have redundant connections to most of the big providers so they never miss a beat. If their oc-12 to AT&T goes down they have other oc-12's to sprint, global crossing, gigE to Savis, etc.
They are very open about the status of their network; you can always check the status of their network connections or any of their servers.
In the last 5 years with them I don't think they have raised my fees once, but the traffic they allow me has increased by an order of magnitude over that time. I can't say enough good about them.
"As of April 19th, 2005, in accordance with the Quicken sunset policy, Online Services1 and Live Technical Support2 will no longer be available for Quicken 2001 and 2002 users. These services include online bill pay; downloading financial data from your bank, credit union, credit card, brokerage, 401(k) or mutual fund accounts; downloading stock quotes, news headlines and other financial information into Quicken; uploading portfolio information from Quicken to Quicken.com; and access to the investing features on Quicken.com including portfolio tracking, any watch lists you have created, One-Click Scorecard(TM), Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator. To continue using these services and maintain access to live technical support from an Intuit representative, you will need to upgrade."
Evidently ICANN made a policy change in November 2004 that was intended to make it easier to transfer domains between registrars, but it turns out to also make it easier to hijack domains. Apparently multiple domains have been hijacked from Dotster.com, (the registrar for panix.com), so I would guess that they have some holes in their procedure for confirming transfers with their customers.
How do you prevent this? Well, when reading the various articles about this, (I know, I'm new here), I ran across the phrase 'locking your domain'. I had never heard of this before, but I checked with my registrar, and sure enough they now have settings for 'normal' and 'high' transfer security. Basically they will not allow any domains that have 'high transfer security' set on to be transferred. Period. Whether they can get in contact with me or not. If I want the domain transferred, I have to log in and reset transfer security to normal, and then a transfer can go ahead. Otherwise it stays with me until it expires. Unfortunately the default setting was normal, but once I knew about it, it only took 30 seconds to set my domains to 'high'.
In theory anyway; panix.com says that their domain was set to 'locked' with dotster, so your mileage may vary. Maybe tucows or someone can randomly test transfer attempts of 'locked' domains and certify registrars that appropriately deny the transfers?
So, check your domains now, set them to locked, or high security, or whatever your registrar calls it. If they don't have such a setting, hey, it ought to be easy to transfer your domain to one that does!
This is the unveiling of the first actual complete plane, not an anouncement of the design plans or some computer generated image.
This is a huge landmark (airmark?) in many ways, not the least of which is that it is now the biggest passenger plane in the world. A week ago, and for at least the 40 years, that title belonged to Boeing and the US.
Actually if you read the auction he's not selling his forehead space, he's selling space on some other guy's forehead, who apparently doen't know about this yet... He who laughs last...
OK, IANAC, but I will take a stab at that in case you're serious.
Yes the O does stand for oxygen, but that doesn't matter. For example, just becuase there is oxygen in carbon dioxide doesn't mean that you can breath pure CO2 and live. Read the link I posted; the chemical reaction with the concrete only happens with CO2, not with pure O2. Concrete does not absorb O2, only CO2.
It wasn't a matter of oxygen being absorbed by concrete, it was a matter of oxygen being consumed by microbes, which gave off carbon dioxide. The researchers couldn't find excess CO2, so they didn't think that the microbes were the culprits behind the missing oxygen. It turned out that the concrete was absorbing the extra CO2 and thus hiding the evidence pointing to the microbes as the true cause of the missing oxygen.
"microbes were using oxygen to metabolize the excess organic matter that had been added to the agricultural, savanna, and rain forest soils to encourage plant growth."
This info comes from the following link that was included at the end of the Wikipedia article:
"The news has put a damper on the release of Alchemy, the company's new processor.".
The author evidently thought this quote meant that AMD was slowing down the release of the processor, instead of realizing that it just means that it dulled some of AMD's excitement over the new product release. The story even states that AMD is already selling "large quantities" of the chipset. Sounds like they are releasing it just fine, no delays.
Spy satellites don't have to put out a regular broadcast telling everyone where they are.
1) They could use laser or microwave or some other tight beam to communicate their data back to friendly earth stations, or even hand it off to other satellites.
2) They don't have to communicate all of the time, they could just wait until over friendly territory and do scrambled high speed bursts of data.
I think if we can make a bomber stealthy, with a few billion here and there we can probably make spy sats that are damn near invisible too.
-you paint the side facing earth black. -use radar absorbing materials and shapes etc. -power it with some atomic plant so it doesn't need solar arrays. -launch it hidden piggybacked on another satellite. -it can listen for commands via radio but have it use encrypted laser to relay data to other sats that are known and can broadcast the data back to us.
Almost nothing in the article summary seems to come from the article source, and most seems to be directly contrary to it. I can find nothing on the foundation's website to indicate that they are interested in asteroid 2004 YD5 or that they are interested in returning any part of an asteroid to earth. This seems to be the author's own harebrained idea, and is the source of most of the derision that people are aiming at the foundation.
To quote from their site:
"Given the implicit structural weakness of asteroids greater than ~200 meters in diameter, we want to make certain that we select one in this class. Clearly the challenge of reorienting and accelerating an asteroid classified as a rubble pile is greater than dealing with a solid object. This is therefore, a key characteristic in choosing our particular NEA."
They want to find an asteroid (they have not chosen one yet!) that is large and not even close to being a threat to earth and alter its orbit in a small but detectable manner.
The statement is NOT making an assumption OR using false math, you just need to read more carefully. If it had said "personally responsible for $200,000 in losses" you would be correct, but the author didn't say that. Read what you excerpted. It says "as much as". If you don't understand the phrase, it means it could be any amount 'UP TO' $200,000. That includes other amounts, like $10.00.
And you were modded insightful!
You mods keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means./Inigo
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"Porewater is the minute water-filled area around and between sand particles."
I had never heard the term before and it doesn't seem to be in the referenced article. I had to Google for 5 minutes before I found a decent definition.
I assume his genesis of the idea led to it being called the Clarke point.
Don't you get that uneasy feeling when you use the word assume?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is acknowledged as the creator of the space elevator concept, in 1895. He even had the concept of a station at geosynchronous orbit on the cable, so Sir Clark can't get credit for coming up with either of those concepts. Sir Clark did come up with the idea of putting a radio satellite in geosynchronous orbit though and it is for this idea that the orbit is called the Clark orbit.
Since Greenland is considered the largest island on this planet, the poster is clearly referring to a small island associated with Greenland, not the island of Greenland itself.
If you care to look at a map you will see that the coast of Greenland is dotted with 'small islands'.
I bet its not even close to enough time. I think that it took Rutan over 4 years to achieve what he did, and a) I don't believe that much of that technology is transferable to this project, b), this is going to be orders of magnitude more difficult, and c) he spent twice what he earned from the prize to get there.
This is more ambitious than what China's manned space program has just achieved, and it took them 11 years and over 2 billion dollars.
This will take: I Large engineering team II Very Deep Pockets to fund the research, construction and testing.
A half billion dollar prize and ten years might get some action, 50 million and 5 years is going to get a lot of pretty drawings and some interesting ideas, which might actually be their goal.
How is this a better idea? Bigelow needs a way to get tourists into orbit to visit his space hotels; his dream. Can you think of a more cost effective why of achieving this goal? A better wind power station would not help one bit.
If you are saying that in general money could be spent on more altruistic goals, then that may be true, but it has no relevance to this conversation. You might as well go bitch at people for spending money on new SUVs instead of funding wind research. It's their money, they can spend it how they wish.
If you truly believe in a prize for wind power then you should found an organization to fund a W-Prize and start stumping for donations, much like the founder of the X-prize did when he wanted to help further space travel. Corporate donations for such a concept might not be that hard to obtain, I can see big oil companies signing up for the good advertising, for example.
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Ditto for Pair.com I have been using them for about 5 years.
I used to work for a small ISP so I know the challenges that a small Mom and Pop shop face, and for serious redundancy they have a hard time competing with the big players.
I tried a number of other hosts with various sucess before I settled on Pair.com. They are a little more expensive then the really budget places but you get what you pay for.
As well as backup diesel generators and power systems etc., they have redundant connections to most of the big providers so they never miss a beat. If their oc-12 to AT&T goes down they have other oc-12's to sprint, global crossing, gigE to Savis, etc.
They are very open about the status of their network; you can always check the status of their network connections or any of their servers.
In the last 5 years with them I don't think they have raised my fees once, but the traffic they allow me has increased by an order of magnitude over that time. I can't say enough good about them.
Did you really not see that it has 3 different segments?
1) Certified by Sun
2) Certified by 3rd party vendors
3) Reported by outsiders
YOU pick the level of certainty that you need.
Link to Sun's description of the 3 types of entries in the Solaris X86 HCL:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/tierHelp.html
How to cover a neighborhood with popcorn:
1) Pile large amount of popcorn in central location.
2) Position a device to deliver the greatest downdraft possible right over it.
3) ????
4) Profit!
The obvious solution is to use caramel corn....
Here is a the link, (from the article quoted in the Michael's story), to the Intuit statement:
http://www.intuit.com/support/quicken/sunset/
where Intuit states (amidst the spin doctoring):
RTFA 100M is somthing imagined as a future goal. They want to start with 2 meters.
Evidently ICANN made a policy change in November 2004 that was intended to make it easier to transfer domains between registrars, but it turns out to also make it easier to hijack domains. Apparently multiple domains have been hijacked from Dotster.com, (the registrar for panix.com), so I would guess that they have some holes in their procedure for confirming transfers with their customers.
How do you prevent this? Well, when reading the various articles about this, (I know, I'm new here), I ran across the phrase 'locking your domain'. I had never heard of this before, but I checked with my registrar, and sure enough they now have settings for 'normal' and 'high' transfer security. Basically they will not allow any domains that have 'high transfer security' set on to be transferred. Period. Whether they can get in contact with me or not. If I want the domain transferred, I have to log in and reset transfer security to normal, and then a transfer can go ahead. Otherwise it stays with me until it expires. Unfortunately the default setting was normal, but once I knew about it, it only took 30 seconds to set my domains to 'high'.
In theory anyway; panix.com says that their domain was set to 'locked' with dotster, so your mileage may vary. Maybe tucows or someone can randomly test transfer attempts of 'locked' domains and certify registrars that appropriately deny the transfers?
So, check your domains now, set them to locked, or high security, or whatever your registrar calls it. If they don't have such a setting, hey, it ought to be easy to transfer your domain to one that does!
Thats cool, I wasn't aware of Boeing's advance until you posted it, so it still achieved it purpose. Thanks!
They're exactly made of iron you know....
This is the unveiling of the first actual complete plane, not an anouncement of the design plans or some computer generated image.
This is a huge landmark (airmark?) in many ways, not the least of which is that it is now the biggest passenger plane in the world. A week ago, and for at least the 40 years, that title belonged to Boeing and the US.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/aerospace/s tory/4440746p-4194580c.html
the url tag is your friend!
RTFA (Read the fucking auction)
:)
It may be a picture of Whag's forehead, but Whag didn't post it, because someone else is selling Whag's forehead space without his knowledge...
Think they have a law on the books to cover that one?
Actually if you read the auction he's not selling his forehead space, he's selling space on some other guy's forehead, who apparently doen't know about this yet... He who laughs last...
OK, IANAC, but I will take a stab at that in case you're serious.
Yes the O does stand for oxygen, but that doesn't matter. For example, just becuase there is oxygen in carbon dioxide doesn't mean that you can breath pure CO2 and live. Read the link I posted; the chemical reaction with the concrete only happens with CO2, not with pure O2. Concrete does not absorb O2, only CO2.
"microbes were using oxygen to metabolize the excess organic matter that had been added to the agricultural, savanna, and rain forest soils to encourage plant growth."
This info comes from the following link that was included at the end of the Wikipedia article:
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay .html?DOC=vc2%2F2my%2Fmy2_biosphere.html
The person was talking about the hypothetical link to release delays, not about the existence of the chipset.
"The news has put a damper on the release of Alchemy, the company's new processor.".
The author evidently thought this quote meant that AMD was slowing down the release of the processor, instead of realizing that it just means that it dulled some of AMD's excitement over the new product release. The story even states that AMD is already selling "large quantities" of the chipset. Sounds like they are releasing it just fine, no delays.
Spy satellites don't have to put out a regular broadcast telling everyone where they are.
1) They could use laser or microwave or some other tight beam to communicate their data back to friendly earth stations, or even hand it off to other satellites.
2) They don't have to communicate all of the time, they could just wait until over friendly territory and do scrambled high speed bursts of data.
I think if we can make a bomber stealthy, with a few billion here and there we can probably make spy sats that are damn near invisible too.
-you paint the side facing earth black.
-use radar absorbing materials and shapes etc.
-power it with some atomic plant so it doesn't need solar arrays.
-launch it hidden piggybacked on another satellite.
-it can listen for commands via radio but have it use encrypted laser to relay data to other sats that are known and can broadcast the data back to us.
Coward. 'Nuff said.
Almost nothing in the article summary seems to come from the article source, and most seems to be directly contrary to it. I can find nothing on the foundation's website to indicate that they are interested in asteroid 2004 YD5 or that they are interested in returning any part of an asteroid to earth. This seems to be the author's own harebrained idea, and is the source of most of the derision that people are aiming at the foundation.
To quote from their site:
"Given the implicit structural weakness of asteroids greater than ~200 meters in diameter, we want to make certain that we select one in this class. Clearly the challenge of reorienting and accelerating an asteroid classified as a rubble pile is greater than dealing with a solid object. This is therefore, a key characteristic in choosing our particular NEA."
They want to find an asteroid (they have not chosen one yet!) that is large and not even close to being a threat to earth and alter its orbit in a small but detectable manner.
No Ebay. No lasers. No 2004 YD5.
The statement is NOT making an assumption OR using false math, you just need to read more carefully. If it had said "personally responsible for $200,000 in losses" you would be correct, but the author didn't say that. Read what you excerpted. It says "as much as". If you don't understand the phrase, it means it could be any amount 'UP TO' $200,000. That includes other amounts, like $10.00.
/Inigo
And you were modded insightful!
You mods keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I had never heard the term before and it doesn't seem to be in the referenced article. I had to Google for 5 minutes before I found a decent definition.
Definition credit goes to Bob Goemans & Sam Gamble http://www.saltcorner.com/sections/guest/goemans&g amble/sandbedspart1.htm
Don't you get that uneasy feeling when you use the word assume?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is acknowledged as the creator of the space elevator concept, in 1895. He even had the concept of a station at geosynchronous orbit on the cable, so Sir Clark can't get credit for coming up with either of those concepts. Sir Clark did come up with the idea of putting a radio satellite in geosynchronous orbit though and it is for this idea that the orbit is called the Clark orbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Histor y
If you care to look at a map you will see that the coast of Greenland is dotted with 'small islands'.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ gl.html
5 years seems a little long?
I bet its not even close to enough time. I think that it took Rutan over 4 years to achieve what he did, and a) I don't believe that much of that technology is transferable to this project, b), this is going to be orders of magnitude more difficult, and c) he spent twice what he earned from the prize to get there.
This is more ambitious than what China's manned space program has just achieved, and it took them 11 years and over 2 billion dollars.
This will take:
I Large engineering team
II Very Deep Pockets to fund the research, construction and testing.
A half billion dollar prize and ten years might get some action, 50 million and 5 years is going to get a lot of pretty drawings and some interesting ideas, which might actually be their goal.
How is this a better idea? Bigelow needs a way to get tourists into orbit to visit his space hotels; his dream. Can you think of a more cost effective why of achieving this goal? A better wind power station would not help one bit.
If you are saying that in general money could be spent on more altruistic goals, then that may be true, but it has no relevance to this conversation. You might as well go bitch at people for spending money on new SUVs instead of funding wind research. It's their money, they can spend it how they wish.
If you truly believe in a prize for wind power then you should found an organization to fund a W-Prize and start stumping for donations, much like the founder of the X-prize did when he wanted to help further space travel. Corporate donations for such a concept might not be that hard to obtain, I can see big oil companies signing up for the good advertising, for example.