Come to think of it, why not build a wifi network based on a statistical sampling of cars in traffic that have wireless repeaters in them. After all they're out there, have excellent street coverage, and there's all those antennae sticking up already. How difficult would it be to design a network with such a dynamic flux of repeaters? How would such a thing be packaged?
...If you look at the way expensive dimentional Oracle products they make SQL servers look like a sick joke. The problem is so few can afford Oracle's best stuffs.
Of course, then you're dealing with Oracle, compared with whom Microsoft is a 70th level cleric. Oracle is well-known for opaque proprietary packages and fairly toxic sales practices, predatory acquisitions (remember Digital's RDB anyone? Hey, Peoplesoft?). The technology is good, but whether it's better than SQL Server is fairly moot. TPCC histories show Oracle and SQL server often trading places in the performance sweepstakes. Both have the best developers they can buy. If the fundamentals are sound (features, index structures, page algorithms etc) then performance is a matter of enough memory and clock speed, not dogma.
A better question, what do people even run on a Windows server?
SQL Server, lots of them. A good, fast (check the TPCC ratings) and reliable database with lots of features. OLAP cubes. Applications servers. Scalable n-tier applications architectures. SAP. Peoplesoft. Siebel. File and print services. SOE roaming profiles. Business Objects. Reconciliation systems. Document archiving and control systems for whole governments. Entire financial systems infrastructures. Enterprise messaging and groupware, all flavours. Enterprise directories. Risk management systems. Workflow and document routing engines. EIA busses. HR systems. Project management systems. Name it, it probably runs on a Windows server just as effectively as it does on Unix servers. In the name of the immortal John Von Neumann, I command you to Grow Up!
...and the new-age type who will believe anything just so long as the government denies or refuses to comment on it.
Hang on here, what's wrong with believing things the government denies, or refuses to comment on?
What about illegal detention of refugees, financial links to political support groups, etc.? Pretty far reaching characterisation, mate.
Um, since I've got your attention, which type of metal foil is best to protect against anti-Aquarian mind waves? Is there a type that's comfortable when worn in sensitive areas?
Yes... really sad. Cultural stereotyping in old media is part of our history, too -- without it we couldn't track the progress from character compartmentalisation to today's relative enlightenment.
A few dills will still laugh for the wrong reasons, but it would be a true horror if people couldn't watch "Dumbo" because of the scat singing crows at the end. There's a danger that the perception of racism in such material would block an example of what was, in it's day, Harlem musical culture at its height. Are people so sensitive nowdays that we have to be quite that politically correct?
GPS isn't the only positioning system in existence -- GPS plus intertial navigation could do it. Inav sums micro changes in direction along a path to give you a resultant vector.
I do not wish to offend, but I think there may be a logic error there. One could deliver the source without the back doors to the University professors and come up with a functionally equivalent O/S but without the back doors. If you built something from that source that would be safe, but it's hard to conclude that the commercial release doesn't have back doors from that point -- you would have a version in the field without back doors, and a commercial version that did have them.
I think an electrostatic potential could be used to break up the near-surface boundary layer of heated air on a heat sink fin instead of a fan, couldn't it? You'd have to worry a bit on how to remove the static charge (ZAP goes the chipset) but your convective heat dissipation would be more efficient, maybe enough to get rid of the fan.
Sorry, can't verify this principle... old magazine article read a few decades ago.
I would be comforted by the thought that the Australian Attorney General is actually given the link to this Slashdot article, and can read the responses. Is this happening?
Has anyone considered or measured the difference between petrol-electric and petrol-compressed air? I.e. where the engine drives a compressor, rather than a dynamo. I would think air tanks -- even very thick-walled air tanks -- would weigh less than a battery of - well, batteries. Besides, you would have a lot more flexibility in packaging, I'd think. Have an air turbine motor at each wheel, less unsprung weight than an electric motor. Regenerative braking would be easy too.
Yes. Wear some insulated gloves, wrap a hessian (or other highly porous cloth) bag around the nozzle of a CO2 cylinder and crack the valve. You will get a bag full of dry ice.
Disclaimer: Wear protective gear and be careful. If you aren't prepared to take responsibility for your own acts though, don't do it.
How the hell can you calculate risk if your only input is the chronological age of a software system?
Ancient development meme referred to as "the rule of bit decay". This means that any piece of software, if left to itself, will eventually fail to work. Implied was the idea that the software doesn't change, but the surrounding factors do; e.g. a tape-based system works fine until someone replaces the tape drive with a slightly different model, forcing idiosyncratic code to fail where it depended upon idiosyncratic features of the hardware that were factored out in the next engineering change.
People try to avoid this with software change, but it rarely works -- hard to motivate people to check old code exhaustively.
Why even go to files, everything should be kept in one large file
Works for search, not quite so well for concurrent updates, and the security controls would sort of suck.
You'd be loading all the locks back into the applications layer. Google model works fairly well for lookup, distributed db leafs across multiple (many tuples) systems. However I suspect the lock mechanism behind the search, the population of the database, would be fairly arcane, and not general-purpose at all.
Sorry, that's horseshit. Most of the hippie culture was initiated by educated people who wanted something different from what they had, which was a regimented culture veering toward suppression of individuality. The counterculture wasn't all drugs, wasn't all "protest" but was simply stuff that was different. There weren't a lot of anchors to hold on to (the culture we were attempting to escape was pretty hollow) but a few luminaries managed to publish things to fill the cultural vacuum of the times -- things like the Whole Earth Catalog, whose motto was "Access to Tools", not "We Protest".
The cover was planet Earth, shown from orbit. It contained technology -- beautiful stuff, from hand-held power plows to the first PC's to cheap land cruisers. I submit that the WEC was more symbolic of the counterculture than the Time magazine articles that formed the basis of much of the public perception of the movement.
A lot of software developers started then, when - again - the rules were being challenged, and the people vacuum in the industry became attractive; few colleges knew what a CS degree should even look like, but the counterculture also espoused "Look, you can do it, give it a try" and encouraged people to step out of the ego-crushing conformity pressed on the public via wide dissemination of corporate advertising memes, e.g. the barely-subliminal messages coming out of GM advertisements (Longer! Lower! Wider!).
As a result, people were encouraged to think out of the box for the first time in a long time, a necessary breakout from the corporate-government-proprietary wartime morality that lasted well into the 50's.
The world around us was pretty grey -- McCarthy was in power. Down at the bottom there were people saying I can have power too, I can be empowered, I'll be a computer programmer and it doesn't require me to compete at the beach to be important. That's what drove the counterculture into adopting the PC as a causus belli. Sorry about the stereotype, but the geek cliche came from that.
Interesting point. If there is an electron discharge at the end, won't the cable erode at that point?
Can the passage of this current-bearing cable through such a rich source of charge as the ionosphere, tap enough current to power the elevator? Isn't an electric generator just this sort of field cutter? I can imagine some interesting interactions could occur between the cable's current flow characteristics and a (presumably) eddy-current motor propelling the elevator tram itself. We'll need a whole new set of visualisation tools to map it.
More to the point, people need to put some value into their comments. "i++" commented as "increment i" is worthless; commented as "set foo pointer for next bar compare" might have some value.
I'll hold out for the dilithium batttery before I get one. The one that gives you enough power to zap aliens when they ask you the time in the middle of a song intro.
Urr had a bad thought... just like the movies, I can forsee free music downloads but you have to listen to an advert first. Bad 'Wheel. Bad!
Isn't this about pre-existing legislation already in place, that prohibits people from predatory practices? One case that comes to mind is Jim Fisk buying out the Red Line tram system in Los Angeles in the 20's and selling off the right of way piecemeal so it would never be in a position to infringe the revenue stream of Fisk Tires Corp. Use of purchasing power to deny access to competitors is a time-honoured practice of robber barons. IBM did it in the 70's and sent Memorex to the wall (bought out supply of a key component the competition needed). Or today with the RIAA -- using it's legal purchasing power to deny access to people with legitimate claims for use. Go figure.
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Come to think of it, why not build a wifi network based on a statistical sampling of cars in traffic that have wireless repeaters in them. After all they're out there, have excellent street coverage, and there's all those antennae sticking up already. How difficult would it be to design a network with such a dynamic flux of repeaters? How would such a thing be packaged?
Of course, then you're dealing with Oracle, compared with whom Microsoft is a 70th level cleric. Oracle is well-known for opaque proprietary packages and fairly toxic sales practices, predatory acquisitions (remember Digital's RDB anyone? Hey, Peoplesoft?). The technology is good, but whether it's better than SQL Server is fairly moot. TPCC histories show Oracle and SQL server often trading places in the performance sweepstakes. Both have the best developers they can buy. If the fundamentals are sound (features, index structures, page algorithms etc) then performance is a matter of enough memory and clock speed, not dogma.
SQL Server, lots of them. A good, fast (check the TPCC ratings) and reliable database with lots of features. OLAP cubes. Applications servers. Scalable n-tier applications architectures. SAP. Peoplesoft. Siebel. File and print services. SOE roaming profiles. Business Objects. Reconciliation systems. Document archiving and control systems for whole governments. Entire financial systems infrastructures. Enterprise messaging and groupware, all flavours. Enterprise directories. Risk management systems. Workflow and document routing engines. EIA busses. HR systems. Project management systems. Name it, it probably runs on a Windows server just as effectively as it does on Unix servers. In the name of the immortal John Von Neumann, I command you to Grow Up!
Hang on here, what's wrong with believing things the government denies, or refuses to comment on?
What about illegal detention of refugees, financial links to political support groups, etc.? Pretty far reaching characterisation, mate.
Um, since I've got your attention, which type of metal foil is best to protect against anti-Aquarian mind waves? Is there a type that's comfortable when worn in sensitive areas?
A few dills will still laugh for the wrong reasons, but it would be a true horror if people couldn't watch "Dumbo" because of the scat singing crows at the end. There's a danger that the perception of racism in such material would block an example of what was, in it's day, Harlem musical culture at its height. Are people so sensitive nowdays that we have to be quite that politically correct?
GPS isn't the only positioning system in existence -- GPS plus intertial navigation could do it. Inav sums micro changes in direction along a path to give you a resultant vector.
I hate to say it, but the real authority here may be the history majors...
I do not wish to offend, but I think there may be a logic error there. One could deliver the source without the back doors to the University professors and come up with a functionally equivalent O/S but without the back doors. If you built something from that source that would be safe, but it's hard to conclude that the commercial release doesn't have back doors from that point -- you would have a version in the field without back doors, and a commercial version that did have them.
Sorry, can't verify this principle ... old magazine article read a few decades ago.
I would be comforted by the thought that the Australian Attorney General is actually given the link to this Slashdot article, and can read the responses. Is this happening?
Has anyone considered or measured the difference between petrol-electric and petrol-compressed air? I.e. where the engine drives a compressor, rather than a dynamo. I would think air tanks -- even very thick-walled air tanks -- would weigh less than a battery of - well, batteries. Besides, you would have a lot more flexibility in packaging, I'd think. Have an air turbine motor at each wheel, less unsprung weight than an electric motor. Regenerative braking would be easy too.
Disclaimer: Wear protective gear and be careful. If you aren't prepared to take responsibility for your own acts though, don't do it.
Yes. Big Ironic.
Ancient development meme referred to as "the rule of bit decay". This means that any piece of software, if left to itself, will eventually fail to work. Implied was the idea that the software doesn't change, but the surrounding factors do; e.g. a tape-based system works fine until someone replaces the tape drive with a slightly different model, forcing idiosyncratic code to fail where it depended upon idiosyncratic features of the hardware that were factored out in the next engineering change.
People try to avoid this with software change, but it rarely works -- hard to motivate people to check old code exhaustively.
Works for search, not quite so well for concurrent updates, and the security controls would sort of suck.
You'd be loading all the locks back into the applications layer. Google model works fairly well for lookup, distributed db leafs across multiple (many tuples) systems. However I suspect the lock mechanism behind the search, the population of the database, would be fairly arcane, and not general-purpose at all.
The cover was planet Earth, shown from orbit. It contained technology -- beautiful stuff, from hand-held power plows to the first PC's to cheap land cruisers. I submit that the WEC was more symbolic of the counterculture than the Time magazine articles that formed the basis of much of the public perception of the movement.
A lot of software developers started then, when - again - the rules were being challenged, and the people vacuum in the industry became attractive; few colleges knew what a CS degree should even look like, but the counterculture also espoused "Look, you can do it, give it a try" and encouraged people to step out of the ego-crushing conformity pressed on the public via wide dissemination of corporate advertising memes, e.g. the barely-subliminal messages coming out of GM advertisements (Longer! Lower! Wider!).
As a result, people were encouraged to think out of the box for the first time in a long time, a necessary breakout from the corporate-government-proprietary wartime morality that lasted well into the 50's.
The world around us was pretty grey -- McCarthy was in power. Down at the bottom there were people saying I can have power too, I can be empowered, I'll be a computer programmer and it doesn't require me to compete at the beach to be important. That's what drove the counterculture into adopting the PC as a causus belli. Sorry about the stereotype, but the geek cliche came from that.
Nullus stercus, ipi eram.
Can the passage of this current-bearing cable through such a rich source of charge as the ionosphere, tap enough current to power the elevator? Isn't an electric generator just this sort of field cutter? I can imagine some interesting interactions could occur between the cable's current flow characteristics and a (presumably) eddy-current motor propelling the elevator tram itself. We'll need a whole new set of visualisation tools to map it.
Windows 2095 - Who do you want to infect today?
More to the point, people need to put some value into their comments. "i++" commented as "increment i" is worthless; commented as "set foo pointer for next bar compare" might have some value.
Urr had a bad thought ... just like the movies, I can forsee free music downloads but you have to listen to an advert first. Bad 'Wheel. Bad!
It can't be like that!
... 'nuff said.
Isn't this about pre-existing legislation already in place, that prohibits people from predatory practices? One case that comes to mind is Jim Fisk buying out the Red Line tram system in Los Angeles in the 20's and selling off the right of way piecemeal so it would never be in a position to infringe the revenue stream of Fisk Tires Corp. Use of purchasing power to deny access to competitors is a time-honoured practice of robber barons. IBM did it in the 70's and sent Memorex to the wall (bought out supply of a key component the competition needed). Or today with the RIAA -- using it's legal purchasing power to deny access to people with legitimate claims for use. Go figure.
When will they learn that one does not cut off the water supply to keep people from drowning in the river?
Sorry, being lunar today.