The F-15 with good pilots would probably still do well against those threats...
A long time ago a mate of mine worked for Northrop in the marketing wing. I asked him why they were selling so many F5Es' to the middle easterners. His reply was rather lengthy, involved attitude oriented toward the "princely son of sheiks" that characterised the selection of many potential pilots, the fact that they didn't relate to taking instructions from their natural inferiors terribly well. "Consequently," he said, "they prang up rather a lot of jets".
are youo sure about that, because I bet he just filled the power steering fluid. That could cause vibration and stiff steering but No low brake fluid will not cause your steering to tighten up.
Correct. I suspect this is the case. If you needed brake fluid to be topped off, you have bigger problems to worry about, involving - well, brakes. And if the mechanic told you he was topping off the brake fluid to fix your wheel vibration, his next job would probably be to re-align your rear wheel muffler bearings. Ask for a discount if he does.
Computers are far more complex than any car. Cars motorcycles and engines are incredibly simple compared to a computer.
Not entirely sure I agree with you. Certainly the fine structure of a computer is complex, but most garden variety PC's are a lot easier to repair (hardware, anyway) than (say) the valve train on a desmodromic Ducati engine. I will also suggest that PC parts are easier to get than motorcycle parts (Example, common meme: Did you know how AIDS will finally be conquered? They'll give it a Suzuki part number. Then nobody can get it.)
Yes, the F22 is a marvellous aircraft. But you can't afford it, people. You may have to do the best you can with second best. A good, reliable steady supply of good aircraft may be what you need right now. You do not currently seem to have an administration that presses all the buttons that accelerate international tensions. Back down a bit and be watchful, don't give competitors the idea that you're working toward first strike capability. As long as you can deal with existing belligerants that's all you need, isn't it?
Trying to be the voice of moderation here. And you need moderation, in big doses. You out-spent USSR during the Regan era, and you won that battle. But don't try to out-spend yourself, that's like engaging in a bidding war with a parrot.
Power supplies are a problem. Far too many companies use power bricks that plug directly into the socket, and block everything else. For such foolish designes, one-foot power extenders are very useful. Short extenders also useful for USB devices that are supposed to fit directly into the slot, but block other devices. (Wireless USB devices are particularly bad about this.)
I've had good luck with the folks from Amtex . They make a range of modular power supplies. Australian firm, but they can do 100VAC@60 inputs if you need them. If your phone chargers etc. are mostly the same power in / similar power out, a modular power supply with multiple output leads would be safer than a rank of bricks on a power strip. In one contract I worked we experienced some issues with individual power bricks at a large grocery chain. The bricks can be a problem at the retail lane where space is crowded and occupational safety is a concern.
Oh, and all the grocers use velcro ties at the POS too. They're magic. Use cable ties inside a box when you're manufacturing a consumer gizmo, but velcro if you ever intend to move things around. Spiral nylon cable organisers are good, reusable ways to gather cables in groups too.
I think the security threats are exaggerated. Highly radioactive materials are mostly dangerous to whomever possesses them...
I do not. If people are willing to use themselves as the fuse for a C4 vest in the name of some driving principle we don't fully understand, there will be people willing to take hot metals out of their lead containers and run away with them. Yes, they'll die. But they may be able to make it back to their revolutionary cell and dump the stuff into that box made out of old car battery lead. You will be able to get people willing to try to slam two chunks of radioactives together with their hands or old car springs, whatever, in an attempt to achieve critical mass. It likely wouldn't work, but you'd end up with a hell of a mess at best.
The lack of safety in handling fissile materials does not guarantee their security. It would certainly stop you or me, I'm sure, but that presumes you're not a culturally repressed unstable person who considers themselves a martyr in training. That's what scares the pasta out of me.
It's strange how systemic fraud like this is allowed.
I think it's not so much a case of "allowed" as "they are able to pay for more lawyers". When the number of bad guys outnumber the number of good guys, you lose. I wish the law were the great equaliser we all want it to be, but the fact is you can be often be overwhelmed by sheer number of people who are permitted to weigh into an argument at the bench.
It's like everybody walks into the courtroom carrying a bucket of laws, of precedents, and no two buckets are the same. Some poor sod wearing a black robe on a high bench has to sort them out. The guys with the most buckets tend to win.
The older people as a general rule do not know about downloading
You could have made a valid and cogent argument if it weren't for that bit of age discrimination. The age demographic has nothing to do with it. And if you continue on this path, I will fold, spindle and mutilate the punch cards I use to download your responses.
Why has Sun Microsystems not done particularly well in the last few years
Um, just as a guess, because they didn't invest in hardware research and gave away all their software? "Services are where it's at" say companies who can no longer compete technologically. Weren't the Sun E-series supers acquired from Cray Research?
Note to all in this business: if you decide against investing in R&D, don't be surprised if you're left with nothing but "services" in your portfolio and diminishing margins. Someone I respect called this "the race to the bottom". Use your brains and compete!
Said in a crude way; but to the OP: This guy is right
Agree with S77IM in whole. I've put together several Wikis for corporate use. URL's are magic. Aggregators aren't quite that simple, and the ones we tend to see from casual Google searches are almost universally held in contempt. Don't go there.
The company I work for settled on Confluence because we insisted on attribution and integration with our global AD (by "Global" I mean "about 40 countries"). It isn't all that bad. Stylistically and for tracking I prefer Wikimedia, but in an engineering and SI firm the forced attribution has been a contributor to what seems to be a competitive spirit to improve the quality, which all seem to regard as a good thing. And the number of articles keeps going up.
That is a very interesting article. I applaud (a) the analysis, (b) the presentation of the numbers, and (c) the quote "you poured water on us, we're melting!"
And the article was written in 2002. Have we really been tracking this issue for that long? Time flies.
Herein lies the issue. If they go with the artist numbers, then revenues might be small. Punitive and compensatory damages will likely be small as a result. However, if they want to claim higher numbers, then the artists will turn around and sue them for the stolen revenue. They're caught between a rock and a hard place, and that's good...
You could expand that as well. If there is a *cough* significant difference between the two numbers, the disclosure could open the RIAA companies to accusations of conspiracy to defraud on a grand scale. Passing the hot potato between holding companies until fees eat up the value that would otherwise be distributed as profit is an old trick. A very old trick, and one that wouldn't be treated sympathetically by a court that enforced visibility of the transactions as a group. The term, I think, is "forensic accounting" and firms like KPMG (disclosure: once was employee, long ago) have practice groups that are used by prosecutors for just this purpose.
I don't think it would be the first time that the discovery part of a lawsuit triggered new proceedings. Sort of like "Well, I was just on my way to a burglary when the guy ran into me..."
It's nothing really new, though. My father once saw a guy crash his bicycle into a car because he was reading a comic book while he was pedaling. That was a very long time ago.
Ethical to sue? Hang on, how many lawyers have you met?
I've a-heard of silver dollars, an someone I knew had a gold double-eagle oncet. So there's all kinds a dollars. But what kind a dollar is a "trillian" ?
I seriously don't get that. Why do people think it's okay to download stuff without paying for it?
The thing is, that's only a tiny part of the real issue, and only acts to camouflage the real threat.
The real threat is that the government will lose its initial sense of trepidation over filtering content it doesn't like and start applying it wherever it finds an advantage to do so. It only takes a little bit of time for a bureaucrat to become comfortable with previously unpalatable acts.
Laws like the Three Strikes rules can be used to enforce an autocracy. If you can keep any particular group of people from communicating, you've nullified their impact on society. It starts with good reasons, good intentions, then progresses from there to "is it convenient".
Pretty soon you're seeing calls for increased monitoring to enforce compliance, then you have statistical modelling on top of that, then profiling, then... pretty soon you can't talk to your friends or share photos without a license. And how is this different from all previous evil governments throughout history, all of whom started with good intentions?
I'm glad IE6 is being phased out. But I still need at least IE7 because much of my work involves online research, and quite a number of sites are based on.aspx. I'm not a great fan of.aspx either, but some of the content I need pretty much does require IE to render the stuff. Chrome sort of chokes and retreats into its shell when presented with some of these.
But it's kind of a crock to need several browsers like I do today. A Joomla! site I built, for example, all open source as it is, takes forever to render in Chrome, and shows CSS overlap errors in Firefox. IE 7 renders it perfectly.
So I'm kind of stuck with a number of browsers. I use Firefox for Slashdot, Chrome for search & favorites, and IE for the content I put together for my paying customers. Kind of sucks, but I guess divergence will happen whether I want it to or not.
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The F-15 with good pilots would probably still do well against those threats...
A long time ago a mate of mine worked for Northrop in the marketing wing. I asked him why they were selling so many F5Es' to the middle easterners. His reply was rather lengthy, involved attitude oriented toward the "princely son of sheiks" that characterised the selection of many potential pilots, the fact that they didn't relate to taking instructions from their natural inferiors terribly well. "Consequently," he said, "they prang up rather a lot of jets".
are youo sure about that, because I bet he just filled the power steering fluid. That could cause vibration and stiff steering but No low brake fluid will not cause your steering to tighten up.
Correct. I suspect this is the case. If you needed brake fluid to be topped off, you have bigger problems to worry about, involving - well, brakes. And if the mechanic told you he was topping off the brake fluid to fix your wheel vibration, his next job would probably be to re-align your rear wheel muffler bearings. Ask for a discount if he does.
Computers are far more complex than any car. Cars motorcycles and engines are incredibly simple compared to a computer.
Not entirely sure I agree with you. Certainly the fine structure of a computer is complex, but most garden variety PC's are a lot easier to repair (hardware, anyway) than (say) the valve train on a desmodromic Ducati engine. I will also suggest that PC parts are easier to get than motorcycle parts (Example, common meme: Did you know how AIDS will finally be conquered? They'll give it a Suzuki part number. Then nobody can get it.)
Trying to be the voice of moderation here. And you need moderation, in big doses. You out-spent USSR during the Regan era, and you won that battle. But don't try to out-spend yourself, that's like engaging in a bidding war with a parrot.
Power supplies are a problem. Far too many companies use power bricks that plug directly into the socket, and block everything else. For such foolish designes, one-foot power extenders are very useful. Short extenders also useful for USB devices that are supposed to fit directly into the slot, but block other devices. (Wireless USB devices are particularly bad about this.)
I've had good luck with the folks from Amtex . They make a range of modular power supplies. Australian firm, but they can do 100VAC@60 inputs if you need them. If your phone chargers etc. are mostly the same power in / similar power out, a modular power supply with multiple output leads would be safer than a rank of bricks on a power strip. In one contract I worked we experienced some issues with individual power bricks at a large grocery chain. The bricks can be a problem at the retail lane where space is crowded and occupational safety is a concern.
Oh, and all the grocers use velcro ties at the POS too. They're magic. Use cable ties inside a box when you're manufacturing a consumer gizmo, but velcro if you ever intend to move things around. Spiral nylon cable organisers are good, reusable ways to gather cables in groups too.
But uncovering the conspiracy could catapult you into stardom!
I think the security threats are exaggerated. Highly radioactive materials are mostly dangerous to whomever possesses them...
I do not. If people are willing to use themselves as the fuse for a C4 vest in the name of some driving principle we don't fully understand, there will be people willing to take hot metals out of their lead containers and run away with them. Yes, they'll die. But they may be able to make it back to their revolutionary cell and dump the stuff into that box made out of old car battery lead. You will be able to get people willing to try to slam two chunks of radioactives together with their hands or old car springs, whatever, in an attempt to achieve critical mass. It likely wouldn't work, but you'd end up with a hell of a mess at best.
The lack of safety in handling fissile materials does not guarantee their security. It would certainly stop you or me, I'm sure, but that presumes you're not a culturally repressed unstable person who considers themselves a martyr in training. That's what scares the pasta out of me.
It's strange how systemic fraud like this is allowed.
I think it's not so much a case of "allowed" as "they are able to pay for more lawyers". When the number of bad guys outnumber the number of good guys, you lose. I wish the law were the great equaliser we all want it to be, but the fact is you can be often be overwhelmed by sheer number of people who are permitted to weigh into an argument at the bench.
It's like everybody walks into the courtroom carrying a bucket of laws, of precedents, and no two buckets are the same. Some poor sod wearing a black robe on a high bench has to sort them out. The guys with the most buckets tend to win.
Those who warship the FSM refer to themselves as Pastafarians fer crepes sake.
FTFY =)
Sorry, amendment to what? We don't have that fancy-schmansy Bill of Rights you yanks have, we go back to the Magna Carta, mate.
Oh, wait...
The older people as a general rule do not know about downloading
You could have made a valid and cogent argument if it weren't for that bit of age discrimination. The age demographic has nothing to do with it. And if you continue on this path, I will fold, spindle and mutilate the punch cards I use to download your responses.
Why has Sun Microsystems not done particularly well in the last few years
Um, just as a guess, because they didn't invest in hardware research and gave away all their software? "Services are where it's at" say companies who can no longer compete technologically. Weren't the Sun E-series supers acquired from Cray Research?
Note to all in this business: if you decide against investing in R&D, don't be surprised if you're left with nothing but "services" in your portfolio and diminishing margins. Someone I respect called this "the race to the bottom". Use your brains and compete!
Said in a crude way; but to the OP: This guy is right
Agree with S77IM in whole. I've put together several Wikis for corporate use. URL's are magic. Aggregators aren't quite that simple, and the ones we tend to see from casual Google searches are almost universally held in contempt. Don't go there.
The company I work for settled on Confluence because we insisted on attribution and integration with our global AD (by "Global" I mean "about 40 countries"). It isn't all that bad. Stylistically and for tracking I prefer Wikimedia, but in an engineering and SI firm the forced attribution has been a contributor to what seems to be a competitive spirit to improve the quality, which all seem to regard as a good thing. And the number of articles keeps going up.
Is this what you're referring to?
That is a very interesting article. I applaud (a) the analysis, (b) the presentation of the numbers, and (c) the quote "you poured water on us, we're melting!"
And the article was written in 2002. Have we really been tracking this issue for that long? Time flies.
While decreasing CD sales are being caused by increasing digital sales, overall cash is going down.
Which gap they're trying to make up for in litigation.
Didn't work for SCO, did it?
Herein lies the issue. If they go with the artist numbers, then revenues might be small. Punitive and compensatory damages will likely be small as a result. However, if they want to claim higher numbers, then the artists will turn around and sue them for the stolen revenue. They're caught between a rock and a hard place, and that's good...
You could expand that as well. If there is a *cough* significant difference between the two numbers, the disclosure could open the RIAA companies to accusations of conspiracy to defraud on a grand scale. Passing the hot potato between holding companies until fees eat up the value that would otherwise be distributed as profit is an old trick. A very old trick, and one that wouldn't be treated sympathetically by a court that enforced visibility of the transactions as a group. The term, I think, is "forensic accounting" and firms like KPMG (disclosure: once was employee, long ago) have practice groups that are used by prosecutors for just this purpose.
I don't think it would be the first time that the discovery part of a lawsuit triggered new proceedings. Sort of like "Well, I was just on my way to a burglary when the guy ran into me..."
Only MC Double Def DP can save us now from those downloading with Hitler!
"Hah!" (pulls "Godwin Safe" card from hand, lays on table with a flourish) "Let the discussion continue!"
Despite the Sturm und Drang about copyright and filesharing here on Slashdot, most people really don't care one way or the other
[Citation needed]
Well, I tried. That would have distracted me!
Ethical to sue? Hang on, how many lawyers have you met?
I've a-heard of silver dollars, an someone I knew had a gold double-eagle oncet. So there's all kinds a dollars. But what kind a dollar is a "trillian" ?
It is 100% your fault if you chose a template that is crap.
Ok, nail me for ignorance, I'll wear it. But it was bog-standard Joomla running on XAMPP and the template was the supplied ja_purity.
I seriously don't get that. Why do people think it's okay to download stuff without paying for it?
The thing is, that's only a tiny part of the real issue, and only acts to camouflage the real threat.
The real threat is that the government will lose its initial sense of trepidation over filtering content it doesn't like and start applying it wherever it finds an advantage to do so. It only takes a little bit of time for a bureaucrat to become comfortable with previously unpalatable acts.
Laws like the Three Strikes rules can be used to enforce an autocracy. If you can keep any particular group of people from communicating, you've nullified their impact on society. It starts with good reasons, good intentions, then progresses from there to "is it convenient".
Pretty soon you're seeing calls for increased monitoring to enforce compliance, then you have statistical modelling on top of that, then profiling, then ... pretty soon you can't talk to your friends or share photos without a license. And how is this different from all previous evil governments throughout history, all of whom started with good intentions?
Is that what we want?
liitle boxes full of tickey-tackey
I applaud you in the name of the memory of Malvina Reynolds.
I'm glad IE6 is being phased out. But I still need at least IE7 because much of my work involves online research, and quite a number of sites are based on .aspx. I'm not a great fan of .aspx either, but some of the content I need pretty much does require IE to render the stuff. Chrome sort of chokes and retreats into its shell when presented with some of these.
But it's kind of a crock to need several browsers like I do today. A Joomla! site I built, for example, all open source as it is, takes forever to render in Chrome, and shows CSS overlap errors in Firefox. IE 7 renders it perfectly.
So I'm kind of stuck with a number of browsers. I use Firefox for Slashdot, Chrome for search & favorites, and IE for the content I put together for my paying customers. Kind of sucks, but I guess divergence will happen whether I want it to or not.