He meant the government system would crash. If the Bush administration released any data.
By the way, take a look at Bush's interview with an Irish journalist. A real journalist, not one that has to submit questions three days ahead of time.
I know, I know, the 1970s called and they want their application back, but really-- if you want to work with fast, fast, FAST plain text files, and then get typesetting-quality out, LaTeX can't be beat.
You don't need ``loads of cash'' to switch to a Mac-- check out the sub-$1000 eMac. Yes, it's more expensive than a Mom-and-Pop thrown-together PC, but it's not outrageous when you consider what you're getting.
I looked at the link, and I don't think Apple is offering to license the iTunes Music Store catalog, just the application.
Which seems weird since it is free to download anyhow. Maybe so that a university can include iTunes on a CD that it gives students to set up their computers to use their network, I suppose.
This article at Apple might help. The reason why they need the 600 PowerMacs is for cleaning up the film. To remove dust and scratches on a frame, you compare it with (frame-1) and (frame+1) to see what is data, and what is noise.
It takes me about 20 minutes to ``spot'' a 3200 dpi 35mm black and white frame by hand. I can see how it would take a lot of power to do an entire film in a reasonable amount of time.
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At the end of the call, it clicks you over to a phone bank at the contracting company (Dell or whatever). "On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being abysmal and 5 being great, please rate your experience with this call." Beep! "Thank you. Your rating has been recorded." Along with the time of the call, and the call center employee number.
The computer at the phone bank records the time of the call and the rating, and using some formula specified in the contract, the amount paid to the contractor is calculated.
This is a classic example of the above principle. It will never stand a challenge in court; it is diametrically opposed to centuries of Anglo-Saxon common law.
That's because the photographer owns the copyright to the image. Reprinting would be a cause for a civil suit. Reproduction of US documents is counterfeiting, a federal crime. Two different animals.
Paper works in Germany, with 82 million people. You vote by putting an X next to your candidate, it's counted, the result gets called in, final results by 10 pm.
Maybe it wouldn't work in the U.S. because party partianship outweighs people's sense of fair play, and every single vote would be debated like in Florida in 2000.
I still think the best way to make strong passwords is to use the first letters from a favorite song. Like this system, it used a mnemonic, but a song title is more portable than a set of inkblots.
For example, waliaYs1: "We all live in a yellow submarine". Add in a number or two, capitalize something you emphasize when you say it anyhow, and presto! Strong password.
So you're saying it's kinda like high school? I have to admit, I didn't have any fun being laughed at, made fun of, turned down by every girl, etc., until I became the suave and successful guy that I am today.
Keep in mind that the customers of this system are the same pilots who have been fighting tooth-and-nail to be allowed to have pistols in the cockpit. (Many pilots in the U.S. are ex-military, where they learned to fly, and may be predisposed to a certain mindset.) If you tell them that any of their control in the cockpit will be taken away by an automated system, they will cry bl**dy murder!
The technique is scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), used by Eigler and Schwiezer to position individual xenon atoms on a nickel crystal, as shown here.
The original reference is: A D.M. Eigler, E.K. Schweizer. Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope. Nature 344, 524-526 (1990).
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Funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in weeks. And painfully accurate, too.
"We can can do this because we're a pure GPL'd application" (my italics).
By the way, take a look at Bush's interview with an Irish journalist. A real journalist, not one that has to submit questions three days ahead of time.
I know, I know, the 1970s called and they want their application back, but really-- if you want to work with fast, fast, FAST plain text files, and then get typesetting-quality out, LaTeX can't be beat.
You don't need ``loads of cash'' to switch to a Mac-- check out the sub-$1000 eMac. Yes, it's more expensive than a Mom-and-Pop thrown-together PC, but it's not outrageous when you consider what you're getting.
Which seems weird since it is free to download anyhow. Maybe so that a university can include iTunes on a CD that it gives students to set up their computers to use their network, I suppose.
It takes me about 20 minutes to ``spot'' a 3200 dpi 35mm black and white frame by hand. I can see how it would take a lot of power to do an entire film in a reasonable amount of time.
At the end of the call, it clicks you over to a phone bank at the contracting company (Dell or whatever). "On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being abysmal and 5 being great, please rate your experience with this call." Beep! "Thank you. Your rating has been recorded." Along with the time of the call, and the call center employee number. The computer at the phone bank records the time of the call and the rating, and using some formula specified in the contract, the amount paid to the contractor is calculated.
This is a classic example of the above principle. It will never stand a challenge in court; it is diametrically opposed to centuries of Anglo-Saxon common law.
I know who it was...
That's because the photographer owns the copyright to the image. Reprinting would be a cause for a civil suit. Reproduction of US documents is counterfeiting, a federal crime. Two different animals.
Paper works in Germany, with 82 million people. You vote by putting an X next to your candidate, it's counted, the result gets called in, final results by 10 pm. Maybe it wouldn't work in the U.S. because party partianship outweighs people's sense of fair play, and every single vote would be debated like in Florida in 2000.
I know if you think about it, that Macs are PCs too, but I think Joe Public hears "PC", and they think Wintel.
Take the Compassionate Conservative approach: use the money to buy them bus tickets out of town!
Well said.
Didn't get that, must be a bad connection.
Why are they concerned about a royalty-free video compression scheme when it will be used mainly for pirated movies?
For example, waliaYs1: "We all live in a yellow submarine". Add in a number or two, capitalize something you emphasize when you say it anyhow, and presto! Strong password.
Come on, "Troll"? That was a back-handed compliment! It really *was* a good article!
...a well written, thoughtful investigative article. Without a single mention of NASCAR or your Traveller's forecast. Wow.
So you're saying it's kinda like high school? I have to admit, I didn't have any fun being laughed at, made fun of, turned down by every girl, etc., until I became the suave and successful guy that I am today.
Keep in mind that the customers of this system are the same pilots who have been fighting tooth-and-nail to be allowed to have pistols in the cockpit. (Many pilots in the U.S. are ex-military, where they learned to fly, and may be predisposed to a certain mindset.) If you tell them that any of their control in the cockpit will be taken away by an automated system, they will cry bl**dy murder!
Good idea, but too strong a lobby against it.
The original reference is: A D.M. Eigler, E.K. Schweizer. Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope. Nature 344, 524-526 (1990).
The Register just copies and pastes this phrase into every virus article they write, which appears to be every week or so.