what kind of video gets streamed from a natural history museum to a hospital? More seriously, here in Denmark, the electricity companies want to get in on the game, but nobady really knows where all that fiber got dumped during the bubble. One company ordered fiber along a road, and then found out there was already dark fiber: the company they asked to dig the trenches had also dug the previous ones. If it was me, I would have kept my mouth shut, but then again...
If you merge, the biggest thing you buy is the other guys customers. If Oracle hangs you out to dry, you can just as well move to SAP. That would be money straight out of the window for Oracle. So expect a super soft and cuddely migration, spread over several years...
Imagine that your WEP gets encrypted with a key dependent on your location. A large company could enable campus-wide WIFI, but you would only be able to get on the network if you are inside one of the buildings. Not the ultimate protection, but one extra barrier.
Systems check: go Fuel check: go Ignition: GO! fffffffwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiwwwwwrrrrrrroooOOOOOOOAAAAA AAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!! Please type Ctl Alt Del or insert your smartcard.
(At least we won't be able to hear this annoying sound when windws boots.)
...includes an updated network stack... In other news, Microsoft has declared they have just improved the network-stack of Windows XP, making it more robust under heavy loads....
The only usefull TLD's will be those with a strongly restricted membership. Say.bank where the registrars verify that only real banks can get to it. This could help to prevent phishing scams.
If you ever have to export floats to ASCII, please please keep the Europeans in mind. Excel expects comma's over here, and completely fucks up if it gets periods. If you export to a file which will not be opened in a text editor but in Excel, Access or any other program which will interpret the number, use a format like "0000000E00". The number 123.4 then becomes 1234E-1. This is the only way of writing a float which will succesfully import/paste into every copy of Excel on this globe.
aaah, UEA, the memories.... It had 20% foreign students when I was there. The delicious smell of chicken & rice when my Nepalese neighbour was coocking breakfast... And after X-mas, all students returned with their local booze. I have NEVER been so sick as after combining swedish vodka, Gammel Dansk, austrian schnaps, belgian beer and Murphys. Do they still have that DISGUSTING hamburger van showing up after disco-night? I remember only the British could actually eat that without instant food poisoning.
On a trip to Mars, astronauts will have to drink recycled "grey" water (washing, dishes,...) and recycled "black" water (you guessed it). Recycling will most likely be biological where the organic content is consumed by algae under strong UV illumination. The algae then become part of the food again....
Are these guys out of their mind? Voting systems have to be used by the greatest common denominator. The only thing you can expect is that people have a minimum of reading skills. There can not be a user error because you can not expect the user to know anything. Last elections in Belgium, the voting machines were available weeks on beforehand, filled up with soccer teams and their players instead of parties/candidates. In this way the public could excercise using them with help from town hall staff. Special sessions were organised for seniors etc. Why not put a dummy machine half way the waiting queue so people can try it out?
The current systems work by a hack: impersonating base-stations and working like a kind of firewall. Why don't manufacturers get together and define a standard? A localised radio signal (bluetooth?) saying "silent please" (Concert) or "turn off" (intensive care). The telephone could simply switch to silent mode or switch itself off. When you leave the cinema, it comes on again by itself. I wouldn't mind paying extra for avoiding the embarrasment of my phone going off in the wrong place.
Take a standard globus of +/- 30 cm wide. Your X-prize winner can carry you 2 millimeters over the surface. It is not even high enough to see 50% of the earth surface, you can see "only" a couple of thousand km. Right now it is a very expensive theme-park ride. But given enough rich playboys willing to pay for this ride, there will come an impulse to make it better, higher etc. It is not a bad start.
Over the past year and a half, the camera and spacecraft teams for Mars Global Surveyor have worked together to develop a technique that allows us to roll the entire spacecraft so that the camera can be scanned in a way that sees details at three times higher resolution than we normally get," said Dr. Ken Edgett, staff scientist for Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif., which built and operates the Mars Orbiter Camera. The technique adjusts the rotation rate of the spacecraft to match the ground speed under the camera.
It is a line camera, X resolution is set by number of pixels, Y resolution by mars rotation speed and number of scans per second. If the satelite rolls opposite to mars rotation, it is as if mars rotates more slowly, therefore higher Y resolution. Price to pay is you end up rotating out of view, so smaller pictures, but more detailed ones.
So few people are prepared to pay for software OEM's will seriously consider selling PC's WITHOUT OS to cut cost. In this way, MS can collect a (reduced) MS-tax, and what the heck if 99% of the customers overwrite their HD immediately...
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what kind of video gets streamed from a natural history museum to a hospital? More seriously, here in Denmark, the electricity companies want to get in on the game, but nobady really knows where all that fiber got dumped during the bubble. One company ordered fiber along a road, and then found out there was already dark fiber: the company they asked to dig the trenches had also dug the previous ones. If it was me, I would have kept my mouth shut, but then again...
If you merge, the biggest thing you buy is the other guys customers. If Oracle hangs you out to dry, you can just as well move to SAP. That would be money straight out of the window for Oracle. So expect a super soft and cuddely migration, spread over several years...
Imagine that your WEP gets encrypted with a key dependent on your location. A large company could enable campus-wide WIFI, but you would only be able to get on the network if you are inside one of the buildings. Not the ultimate protection, but one extra barrier.
+ doom fps
+ Gentoo compile time
+ Overclocking possibilities
+ Case mods, preferably with blue neon lights
I would accept this accept/except confusion on Slashdot, but not on CNN!
Systems check: goA AAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!
Fuel check: go
Ignition: GO!
fffffffwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiwwwwwrrrrrrroooOOOOOOOAAAA
Please type Ctl Alt Del or insert your smartcard.
(At least we won't be able to hear this annoying sound when windws boots.)
Is this the beginning of the end? Can ADSL/Cable companies compete with this stuff?
...includes an updated network stack ...
In other news, Microsoft has declared they have just improved the network-stack of Windows XP, making it more robust under heavy loads....
where do the friggin sharks come in the picture?
The only usefull TLD's will be those with a strongly restricted membership. Say .bank where the registrars verify that only real banks can get to it. This could help to prevent phishing scams.
If you ever have to export floats to ASCII, please please keep the Europeans in mind. Excel expects comma's over here, and completely fucks up if it gets periods. If you export to a file which will not be opened in a text editor but in Excel, Access or any other program which will interpret the number, use a format like "0000000E00". The number 123.4 then becomes 1234E-1. This is the only way of writing a float which will succesfully import/paste into every copy of Excel on this globe.
OIL??, send in the troops! I'm sure they have WMD's!! The bastards!
aaah, UEA, the memories.... It had 20% foreign students when I was there. The delicious smell of chicken & rice when my Nepalese neighbour was coocking breakfast... And after X-mas, all students returned with their local booze. I have NEVER been so sick as after combining swedish vodka, Gammel Dansk, austrian schnaps, belgian beer and Murphys. Do they still have that DISGUSTING hamburger van showing up after disco-night? I remember only the British could actually eat that without instant food poisoning.
On a trip to Mars, astronauts will have to drink recycled "grey" water (washing, dishes,...) and recycled "black" water (you guessed it). Recycling will most likely be biological where the organic content is consumed by algae under strong UV illumination. The algae then become part of the food again....
simulate fighting republicans and democrats after their voting- supercomputer goes tits up on election day?
Airborn protein is likely to cause allergy (pollen, flour...) but this is pretty much inorganic. Nobady ever became allergic to sand either...
Got myself a big rabbit and built a cage with no floor. Haven't touched the lawnmower since.
Are these guys out of their mind? Voting systems have to be used by the greatest common denominator. The only thing you can expect is that people have a minimum of reading skills. There can not be a user error because you can not expect the user to know anything. Last elections in Belgium, the voting machines were available weeks on beforehand, filled up with soccer teams and their players instead of parties/candidates. In this way the public could excercise using them with help from town hall staff. Special sessions were organised for seniors etc. Why not put a dummy machine half way the waiting queue so people can try it out?
Why a new VM? Jython showed it is possible to "recycle" the java VM. Can anybody explain why this is better?
The current systems work by a hack: impersonating base-stations and working like a kind of firewall. Why don't manufacturers get together and define a standard? A localised radio signal (bluetooth?) saying "silent please" (Concert) or "turn off" (intensive care). The telephone could simply switch to silent mode or switch itself off. When you leave the cinema, it comes on again by itself. I wouldn't mind paying extra for avoiding the embarrasment of my phone going off in the wrong place.
Take a standard globus of +/- 30 cm wide. Your X-prize winner can carry you 2 millimeters over the surface. It is not even high enough to see 50% of the earth surface, you can see "only" a couple of thousand km. Right now it is a very expensive theme-park ride. But given enough rich playboys willing to pay for this ride, there will come an impulse to make it better, higher etc. It is not a bad start.
Do you think I could get a grant?
It is a line camera, X resolution is set by number of pixels, Y resolution by mars rotation speed and number of scans per second. If the satelite rolls opposite to mars rotation, it is as if mars rotates more slowly, therefore higher Y resolution. Price to pay is you end up rotating out of view, so smaller pictures, but more detailed ones.
So few people are prepared to pay for software OEM's will seriously consider selling PC's WITHOUT OS to cut cost. In this way, MS can collect a (reduced) MS-tax, and what the heck if 99% of the customers overwrite their HD immediately...
Hey, they even managed to make vCard unsafe at one point, and that is a fucking TEXT file!!!