Last time I checked in it was built on.NET. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, but if it is, some serious revisions must be made before it's truly cross platform.
With the abuse of the civil court system by less than intelligent people, one almost has to take such extreme measures. Remember the lady who scalded herself by holding some hot McDonalds coffee between her legs while driving? Or the other one who sued for them making her fat? Nobody expects a cup of ice coffee, and noone held a gun to her head and made her supersize her second dinner, but the courts say that a company must underestimate the intelligence of their customers. Anyone can be sued (not just a company) for letting a guest drive home durring a tornado watch. A store can actually post guards to keep anyone from leaving in a severe weather situation. People have been sued because a guest was hurt on the ride home.
Laws can be made by courts, not just congress. If the courts say that a company needs to protect idiot customers from themselves, then they have to. It may not be right, but that's the way it is. One person can ruin it for the rest of us.
Depending on what you're doing, messing around with a cars engine management computer can be very dangerous. Let's say that for the same price as a barebones gaming PC you could buy a few choice engine parts and raise your red line by about 3000-5000 RPM. Your EMC will still cut off fuel at the factory limit. Depanding on your locality, toying with that governor will probably make your vehicle not street legal, and could land you some hefty fines. Imagine being on the highway and the car next to you has been tweeked like this. At 13,000 RPM the smallest peice of metal thrown from a seized engine can be instantly lethal. Just like the XBox there are legit and illegal uses.
Bush doesn't need any help to look like a babbling idiot. The man would be lost if he didn't surround himself with Bush Sr. and Regan staff members.
The man is the personification of the ignorance and absolute misunderstanding the sheltered upper class has of the plight of minorities, poor, homeless, and other unrepresented groups. Not that the democrats are much better. They usually go to the other extreme by doing to much and smothering people with useless provisions that look good on paper but are impractical.
Fox News isn't biased towards the left or right. It's biased towards yellow rag journalism and alarmist reations towards exagerated events. The best news agency I've run across is the BBC. The days of the so called free press in AMerica are gone. It's hard to call it free when the same few people and multinational conglomerates own and operate over 90% of Americas news media. Ever wonder why every outlet is reporting the same story with the same spin?
Since when has MS or IE ben concerned with web standards?
Re:Although there are no hard numbers
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I guess it all boils down to what Linus thinks. If he feel's it's better, and helpes increase his production, then that's all that matters. Something as complex as this will prove very difficult to make hard numbers with because of the large number of uncontrolable variables.
Who is the person that decides if a worm/virus is serious? I'm just curious because I could imagine MS being the type that could say "We don't owe you any money because we don't consider this a serious problem."
Enough said. Now the patent is over-priced rectum cleaning material.
What the hell is the point of paying for a patent when the circumvetion techniques outdate the technology itself?
It's another type nuclear bomb. It's capable of storing/releasing large ammounts of energy, so there must be a more reasonable use for it besides a bomb. We've got more nukes then we know how to deal with anyway.
If they were really concerned about their stockholders they would not have been shady about the FTC-Patent mess in the first place. They were trying to rig the game from the get go and now scream bloody murder when it blows up in their face. Whatever harm comes to the stockholders was caused by the senior staff and legal department at Rambus and by no one else. Half the reason they failed was because the market said the performance is acceptable, but the price is unreasonable. The only way this story could be any crazier is if they sued people who chose a (DDR) DRAM motherboard over their much more expensive product.
Every venture is a risk; they lost and need to accept it. Even if by some miracle they win, the market will not support them unless they come out with some amazingly fast and financially competitive technology.
I know Real isn't exactly a major player in the online media arena any more, but when I remember the Apple of a decade ago I couldn't imagine such a superiority complex. Granted the iPod and iTunes is amazingly popular, but it isn't the saving grace for the company when they break even most of the time. It's things like this that show the only difference between Microsoft and Apple is market share.
When your business plan involves running a monopoly on the home desktop market you should be held to a different standard. You can't expect millions of computer novices to be knowledgeable or even aware of exploits or updates like the administer of a HPC pruning a UNIX based OS. The Internet is a community almost like any other. I don't need to list the advantages of having so many people wired, especially within such a short amount of time; but you can't expect the rapid influx of unsuspecting users to know every way to protect themselves.
It's much likehow the tobacco industry operates. Get as many people as you can to start using your product, then rake in the revenues from here on out. Except that the wave of suits over the last decade has shown that corporations can be held liable for their irresponsibility for exploiting the ignorant. (Note: The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that an ignorant person just hasn't been told yet.)
Silly, trusting, human user. Unchecking the "Install GAIN" button just makes it report how many users would not install it provided they have the choice... That is, once it installs itself anyway.
Such rapid transport is most useful for large distances and usually covers large bodies of water (ie. distances you couldn't or wouldn't ride a horse). The generation or two before the average slahsdotter saw the first automobiles; a couple generations before that saw the rise of the steam engine. Before steam power, transportation had remained largly unchanged since the evolution of sail millenia ago. In about 3 centuries we've gone from days, even weeks, to cross the Atlantic to a record of 108.273
minutes.
The average trans-Atlantic trip via Concorde was 3.5 and probably will remain the fastest publicly available trasport record for some time to come; but we may be aproaching the day when flying from Los Angles to Tokyo could be faster by traveling East just to have enough time to comfortably get up to speed/elevation and slow down again.
You're assuming the only use for DVDs is copying media. What about the ease of carrying aroun on DVD instead of 5 CDs? You also have musicians and artists who can archive tehir work, data backup/storage, and many other uses. I don't know a single person who bought a DVD burner with the sole intent of copying DVDs, although it works out to be a nice fringe benifit. Basically, find a distributor who will replace my damaged discs for minimal charge (S&H) and I will respect your argument.
Ned Flanders? It that you? Since when do you use sarcasim? Anyway, I couldn't imagine anyone better to cast the first stone than the one person on Earth who has never done anything remotely illegal.
The day I stop making copies of rented and borrowed games is the day I see an executive take a pay cut, instead of firing underlings, to help balance lost income. Keep in mind these corporations are the same ones buying politicians and rewriting the law in their favor. I may not have the billions it takes to fight the system, but I sure as hell can avoind buying their products so they can't screw me with my own money.
Not to mention the quality of most games today is garbage. If I don't beat it in under a week odds are I'll probably be bored with it just as soon. Besides, I haven't had to copy any games since the corner rental store introduced week long rentals. I wonder when they are going to get sued, or have a corporate tool write an angry un-research paper about their contribution to the downfall of the industry.
Given the rate of advancement at the research and development levels in fields like architecture, fabrication, and construction there are many ideas which are inching closer to reality from science fiction.
If nanotech pans out they way researchers are theorizing, new levels of ingenuity will be open for a new generation of dreamers. Imagine the space elevator idea that's gotten more buzz over the last several years. Combine that with a reentry vehicle equipped with thrusters and a traditional jet engine; a pulse jet may even be enough.
Take a lift out of the atmosphere and board a waiting shuttle. Since the cable, counter weight, and terminal are all spinning at the constant proper velocity, all you have to do is detach and use thrusters to navigate away. The globe could be circled in about 90 minutes. At the right point, just drop back in. They should only need to start the jets if you need to maneuver or hold a pattern.
SCRAM jets could be used for flight at the edge of the atmosphere. At that altitude the ground effect from the shock wave would not be like the ones most people are familiar with. They may even be tolerable if noticed at all. That is the single largest drawback from previous SST's. By using hydrogen as the primary fuel you also take care of the concerns for efficiency, cost, and the environment.
I'm not even going to begin about the rapid advancement of tunnel building, maglev, and even talk of vacuum transit tunnels. Just imagine a long distance tunnel where the only limit is how quickly you can comfortably change velocity.
All in all I think that by the time I'm an old man my back in my day stories will put my grandparents' to shame.
Very simple... you can't make a probe a hero. Nobody cares about the first device to break the sound barrier, but they do remember the furst human to do it. It's just not as real unless you put a man in control.
Re:Still not a justification for ISS
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Testing Relativity
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The real question is: "What is the justification for any of mans (mis)adventures?"
Pick one of the two:
( )Because it's there.
( )Because we can.
If it wasn't for other explorers stepping outside the fuzzy warmth of their known reality you might very well be sitting in the temple of one of your dozens of deities praising how a blood letting ritual purged one of your wives of evil spirits, and you can't wait until the sun finishes its' revolution of the Earth so you can talk to her when she wakes up.
We constantly make every attempt to expand our horizons in order to gain more (or better) knowledge. Our knowledge defines our reality. I for one praise every failed adventurer and inventor because they are just as important as the ones who 'made it'.
And for those who complain about how these 'unnecessary' ventures take money away from needed social programs...
The poor, the malnourished, and the young don't vote. Can anyone recall the last time a politician had a surplus of money and opted to 'help' society? And no, bribing taxpayers with a return check is not providing for the well-being of humanity. If ISS had not been built I'm sure politicians would have found another less creative way of squandering the money.
It's rather simple. The responsible people will use active antivirus programs with auto update features and hope they can rapidly post new defs. Firewalls will also help limit spread in the time it take for new defs.BR
Others will know it's comming, others will, naturally, be apathetic. Either way they will get infected and generate more coverage, which in turn will inspire new variants... and will once again appear in another slashdot post.
Slashdot Mirror
figure out what percentage is spam, and sue spammers to recover damages for lost resources.
Last time I checked in it was built on .NET. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, but if it is, some serious revisions must be made before it's truly cross platform.
With the abuse of the civil court system by less than intelligent people, one almost has to take such extreme measures. Remember the lady who scalded herself by holding some hot McDonalds coffee between her legs while driving? Or the other one who sued for them making her fat? Nobody expects a cup of ice coffee, and noone held a gun to her head and made her supersize her second dinner, but the courts say that a company must underestimate the intelligence of their customers.
Anyone can be sued (not just a company) for letting a guest drive home durring a tornado watch. A store can actually post guards to keep anyone from leaving in a severe weather situation. People have been sued because a guest was hurt on the ride home.
Laws can be made by courts, not just congress. If the courts say that a company needs to protect idiot customers from themselves, then they have to. It may not be right, but that's the way it is. One person can ruin it for the rest of us.
Depending on what you're doing, messing around with a cars engine management computer can be very dangerous. Let's say that for the same price as a barebones gaming PC you could buy a few choice engine parts and raise your red line by about 3000-5000 RPM. Your EMC will still cut off fuel at the factory limit. Depanding on your locality, toying with that governor will probably make your vehicle not street legal, and could land you some hefty fines. Imagine being on the highway and the car next to you has been tweeked like this. At 13,000 RPM the smallest peice of metal thrown from a seized engine can be instantly lethal. Just like the XBox there are legit and illegal uses.
Bush doesn't need any help to look like a babbling idiot. The man would be lost if he didn't surround himself with Bush Sr. and Regan staff members.
The man is the personification of the ignorance and absolute misunderstanding the sheltered upper class has of the plight of minorities, poor, homeless, and other unrepresented groups. Not that the democrats are much better. They usually go to the other extreme by doing to much and smothering people with useless provisions that look good on paper but are impractical.
Fox News isn't biased towards the left or right. It's biased towards yellow rag journalism and alarmist reations towards exagerated events. The best news agency I've run across is the BBC. The days of the so called free press in AMerica are gone. It's hard to call it free when the same few people and multinational conglomerates own and operate over 90% of Americas news media. Ever wonder why every outlet is reporting the same story with the same spin?
Since when has MS or IE ben concerned with web standards?
I guess it all boils down to what Linus thinks. If he feel's it's better, and helpes increase his production, then that's all that matters. Something as complex as this will prove very difficult to make hard numbers with because of the large number of uncontrolable variables.
Who is the person that decides if a worm/virus is serious? I'm just curious because I could imagine MS being the type that could say "We don't owe you any money because we don't consider this a serious problem."
Enough said.
Now the patent is over-priced rectum cleaning material.
What the hell is the point of paying for a patent when the circumvetion techniques outdate the technology itself?
It's another type nuclear bomb. It's capable of storing/releasing large ammounts of energy, so there must be a more reasonable use for it besides a bomb. We've got more nukes then we know how to deal with anyway.
If they were really concerned about their stockholders they would not have been shady about the FTC-Patent mess in the first place. They were trying to rig the game from the get go and now scream bloody murder when it blows up in their face. Whatever harm comes to the stockholders was caused by the senior staff and legal department at Rambus and by no one else. Half the reason they failed was because the market said the performance is acceptable, but the price is unreasonable. The only way this story could be any crazier is if they sued people who chose a (DDR) DRAM motherboard over their much more expensive product.
Every venture is a risk; they lost and need to accept it. Even if by some miracle they win, the market will not support them unless they come out with some amazingly fast and financially competitive technology.
I know Real isn't exactly a major player in the online media arena any more, but when I remember the Apple of a decade ago I couldn't imagine such a superiority complex. Granted the iPod and iTunes is amazingly popular, but it isn't the saving grace for the company when they break even most of the time. It's things like this that show the only difference between Microsoft and Apple is market share.
You know not of the backward state known as Indiana. Around here daylight savings time is a communist tool of the devil and is not tolerated.
You forgot the part where most of its time is cut into by a pro sports game. That's what killed Futurama to begin with.
When your business plan involves running a monopoly on the home desktop market you should be held to a different standard. You can't expect millions of computer novices to be knowledgeable or even aware of exploits or updates like the administer of a HPC pruning a UNIX based OS. The Internet is a community almost like any other. I don't need to list the advantages of having so many people wired, especially within such a short amount of time; but you can't expect the rapid influx of unsuspecting users to know every way to protect themselves.
It's much likehow the tobacco industry operates. Get as many people as you can to start using your product, then rake in the revenues from here on out. Except that the wave of suits over the last decade has shown that corporations can be held liable for their irresponsibility for exploiting the ignorant. (Note: The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that an ignorant person just hasn't been told yet.)
That's the American way. If it can turn a dollar without adversly affecting me , then sign me up.
Silly, trusting, human user. Unchecking the "Install GAIN" button just makes it report how many users would not install it provided they have the choice...
That is, once it installs itself anyway.
Such rapid transport is most useful for large distances and usually covers large bodies of water (ie. distances you couldn't or wouldn't ride a horse). The generation or two before the average slahsdotter saw the first automobiles; a couple generations before that saw the rise of the steam engine. Before steam power, transportation had remained largly unchanged since the evolution of sail millenia ago. In about 3 centuries we've gone from days, even weeks, to cross the Atlantic to a record of 108.273 minutes.
The average trans-Atlantic trip via Concorde was 3.5 and probably will remain the fastest publicly available trasport record for some time to come; but we may be aproaching the day when flying from Los Angles to Tokyo could be faster by traveling East just to have enough time to comfortably get up to speed/elevation and slow down again.
You're assuming the only use for DVDs is copying media. What about the ease of carrying aroun on DVD instead of 5 CDs? You also have musicians and artists who can archive tehir work, data backup/storage, and many other uses. I don't know a single person who bought a DVD burner with the sole intent of copying DVDs, although it works out to be a nice fringe benifit. Basically, find a distributor who will replace my damaged discs for minimal charge (S&H) and I will respect your argument.
Ned Flanders? It that you? Since when do you use sarcasim? Anyway, I couldn't imagine anyone better to cast the first stone than the one person on Earth who has never done anything remotely illegal.
The day I stop making copies of rented and borrowed games is the day I see an executive take a pay cut, instead of firing underlings, to help balance lost income. Keep in mind these corporations are the same ones buying politicians and rewriting the law in their favor. I may not have the billions it takes to fight the system, but I sure as hell can avoind buying their products so they can't screw me with my own money.
Not to mention the quality of most games today is garbage. If I don't beat it in under a week odds are I'll probably be bored with it just as soon. Besides, I haven't had to copy any games since the corner rental store introduced week long rentals. I wonder when they are going to get sued, or have a corporate tool write an angry un-research paper about their contribution to the downfall of the industry.
Given the rate of advancement at the research and development levels in fields like architecture, fabrication, and construction there are many ideas which are inching closer to reality from science fiction.
If nanotech pans out they way researchers are theorizing, new levels of ingenuity will be open for a new generation of dreamers. Imagine the space elevator idea that's gotten more buzz over the last several years. Combine that with a reentry vehicle equipped with thrusters and a traditional jet engine; a pulse jet may even be enough.
Take a lift out of the atmosphere and board a waiting shuttle. Since the cable, counter weight, and terminal are all spinning at the constant proper velocity, all you have to do is detach and use thrusters to navigate away. The globe could be circled in about 90 minutes. At the right point, just drop back in. They should only need to start the jets if you need to maneuver or hold a pattern.
SCRAM jets could be used for flight at the edge of the atmosphere. At that altitude the ground effect from the shock wave would not be like the ones most people are familiar with. They may even be tolerable if noticed at all. That is the single largest drawback from previous SST's. By using hydrogen as the primary fuel you also take care of the concerns for efficiency, cost, and the environment.
I'm not even going to begin about the rapid advancement of tunnel building, maglev, and even talk of vacuum transit tunnels. Just imagine a long distance tunnel where the only limit is how quickly you can comfortably change velocity.
All in all I think that by the time I'm an old man my back in my day stories will put my grandparents' to shame.
Very simple... you can't make a probe a hero. Nobody cares about the first device to break the sound barrier, but they do remember the furst human to do it. It's just not as real unless you put a man in control.
The real question is: "What is the justification for any of mans (mis)adventures?"
Pick one of the two:
( )Because it's there.
( )Because we can.
If it wasn't for other explorers stepping outside the fuzzy warmth of their known reality you might very well be sitting in the temple of one of your dozens of deities praising how a blood letting ritual purged one of your wives of evil spirits, and you can't wait until the sun finishes its' revolution of the Earth so you can talk to her when she wakes up.
We constantly make every attempt to expand our horizons in order to gain more (or better) knowledge. Our knowledge defines our reality. I for one praise every failed adventurer and inventor because they are just as important as the ones who 'made it'.
And for those who complain about how these 'unnecessary' ventures take money away from needed social programs...
The poor, the malnourished, and the young don't vote. Can anyone recall the last time a politician had a surplus of money and opted to 'help' society? And no, bribing taxpayers with a return check is not providing for the well-being of humanity. If ISS had not been built I'm sure politicians would have found another less creative way of squandering the money.
It's rather simple. The responsible people will use active antivirus programs with auto update features and hope they can rapidly post new defs. Firewalls will also help limit spread in the time it take for new defs.BR Others will know it's comming, others will, naturally, be apathetic. Either way they will get infected and generate more coverage, which in turn will inspire new variants... and will once again appear in another slashdot post.