From the article:
"When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report."
FTA " It doesn't take much to eventually kill the bees accord to Lu, who said an incredibly small amount (20 parts per billion) of imidacloprid was enough to lead to Colony Collapse Disorder within 6 months. "
20 parts per billion?!? Maybe Homeopathy isn't a myth?
From the article:
He was reluctant to guess when a space elevator could actually begin to be built. "We try not to be narrow-minded and say it won't happen for 150 years. Breakthroughs in technology innovation occur on a daily basis," he said.
It's just speculation that HP will ship WebOS on top of Windows. Maybe, what will really happen is that HP will provide a dual boot solution (think bootcamp) for customers so that they can boot WebOS as the primary operating system.
Given that the Internet was designed in large part by DARPA to be cheap and scalable.
And indeed, the Internet is just a bunch of wires and switches. And given that even if
every user pays just 1$/month, where the hell is all the money going? Very simple answer from the article:
"Traffic on our backbone is growing 60 percent per year, but our revenue is not,"
Everyone is talking about the open access rules regarding Verizon's spectrum, but it is interesting to point out that AT&T does not have to deal with any restrictions on its 700mhz spectrum.
AT&T's 700mhz coverage includes the spectrum acquired from Aloha Partners combined with the B block from the auction (totals 95% of the USA). This means that AT&T can still deploy a completely locked down network if they choose.
After reading the article, it was clear that Nomad Wireless never broke even and had very little chance of turning a profit. Why should we care about this article? Nomad only has about 100 customers.
From the terminal application: [Substitute '12345' for whatever port you run BitTorrent on]
sudo ipfw add 00300 drop tcp from any to any dst-port 12345 in tcpflags rst
The whole purpose of the project is to research new ideas which make their way into production operating systems.
"Slowly, ideas from Plan 9 are being adopted by other systems. Plan 9 was the first operating system with complete support for the UTF-8 Unicode character set encoding. The dump file system has been mimicked in Athena's OldFiles directories or Network Appliance's.snapshot directories. The flexible rfork(2) system call, the basis of lightweight threads, was adopted as is by the various BSD derivatives and reincarnated on Linux as clone(2). The simple file protocol 9P has been implemented on early versions of FreeBSD and current versions of Linux."
At my school they would just block any IPs from machines that looked infected. The students would then have to call up techical services to get the block removed.
Why bother with it?
You can get a programmable air to fuel controller with a display for $200.
The most common is the Apexi S-AFC. You put your car on a dyno and and adjust the a/f at each 500 rpm increment for optimum power.
If you turned your car into an eight stroke engine you would LOSE power. Less power strokes = less power. (Compare 2 stroke vs 4 stroke motors)
for optimum power you want the ignition advanced as much as possible without risking detonation. Most ECU's will advance/retard timing automatically based on sensor readings from the intake tempatures/airflow.
Also, this has nothing to do with ECU's that shut down cylinders completely in order to save gas.
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From the article: "When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report."
FTA " It doesn't take much to eventually kill the bees accord to Lu, who said an incredibly small amount (20 parts per billion) of imidacloprid was enough to lead to Colony Collapse Disorder within 6 months. " 20 parts per billion?!? Maybe Homeopathy isn't a myth?
From the article: He was reluctant to guess when a space elevator could actually begin to be built. "We try not to be narrow-minded and say it won't happen for 150 years. Breakthroughs in technology innovation occur on a daily basis," he said.
It's just speculation that HP will ship WebOS on top of Windows. Maybe, what will really happen is that HP will provide a dual boot solution (think bootcamp) for customers so that they can boot WebOS as the primary operating system.
Time for ZFS
The widespread loss of television service could be a blessing in disguise. People might actually start to read books or interact with family members.
That kinda scared me a little.....
Apparently Hans Reiser is now posting as AC.Everyone is talking about the open access rules regarding Verizon's spectrum, but it is interesting to point out that AT&T does not have to deal with any restrictions on its 700mhz spectrum. AT&T's 700mhz coverage includes the spectrum acquired from Aloha Partners combined with the B block from the auction (totals 95% of the USA). This means that AT&T can still deploy a completely locked down network if they choose.
Firefox 3 nightly beta gets 67/100
After reading the article, it was clear that Nomad Wireless never broke even and had very little chance of turning a profit. Why should we care about this article? Nomad only has about 100 customers.
From the terminal application: [Substitute '12345' for whatever port you run BitTorrent on] sudo ipfw add 00300 drop tcp from any to any dst-port 12345 in tcpflags rst
Could someone please explain what the above command does, and how to revert back if there is a problem?
I've always wanted to see tentacles in high definition...
I am typing this from an iphone on a train and it works great!
The whole purpose of the project is to research new ideas which make their way into production operating systems. "Slowly, ideas from Plan 9 are being adopted by other systems. Plan 9 was the first operating system with complete support for the UTF-8 Unicode character set encoding. The dump file system has been mimicked in Athena's OldFiles directories or Network Appliance's .snapshot directories. The flexible rfork(2) system call, the basis of lightweight threads, was adopted as is by the various BSD derivatives and reincarnated on Linux as clone(2). The simple file protocol 9P has been implemented on early versions of FreeBSD and current versions of Linux."
So basically IBM is evil again and Sun is the new FOSS poster child.
Sounds like even more incentive to use a good object to relational framework like Toplink or Hibernate.
Quake/Doom , Unreal Tournament, etc... use OpenGL. Many workstation apps use it too.
Sorry, but DTrace is a really great feature regardless of what your political OSS views are. Porting it to BSD only makes it that much cooler.
8 general purpose core each capable of executing 4 threads beats cell hands down. I'd take a Niagra server over one of these anyday.
Can anyone explain to me the exact difference between HT and CMT ? I'm wondering if these same issues would plague Sun's new Niagra prcessor.
At my school they would just block any IPs from machines that looked infected. The students would then have to call up techical services to get the block removed.
Why bother with it? You can get a programmable air to fuel controller with a display for $200. The most common is the Apexi S-AFC. You put your car on a dyno and and adjust the a/f at each 500 rpm increment for optimum power.
If you turned your car into an eight stroke engine you would LOSE power. Less power strokes = less power. (Compare 2 stroke vs 4 stroke motors) for optimum power you want the ignition advanced as much as possible without risking detonation. Most ECU's will advance/retard timing automatically based on sensor readings from the intake tempatures/airflow. Also, this has nothing to do with ECU's that shut down cylinders completely in order to save gas.