The alternative is that the government or some other entity steps in and enforces it's version of a compromise. When competition is stifled, innovation is too.
Sounds like 'Rocket Ship Galileo', a Heinlein book from 1945. A group of college kids befriends a professor in an attempt to land on the moon and win an early "X-prize". The nuclear drive boils zinc, which is highly pressurized...the plasma 'steam' is expelled to create thrust. After the kids land on the moon and their ship is blown up by Nazis, they hijack a much more advanced ship to get back to earth, but not before discovering evidence of an advanced moon civilization.
The currency thing is what I don't understand. How can we tolerate such a gross trade imbalance with a country that keeps it's currency artificially cheap?
Windows media and others can now stream data in HTTP instead of directly to a nonstandard port. This is to get around corporate proxies, etc. There's no difference between HTTP traffic that contains encoded bits and plain cleartext bits...except there's a lot more of it. Not the best way, but an easy way around whenever your way is blocked.
Microsoft isn't making anything new, they're going to actively participate in the engineering process (at least more than they did with NVidia and the Nforce-based Xbox 1). When your game machine is marketed to the hardcore gamers, hacking becomes a bigger issue - as stated in the article. DirectX is still going to be basically the same API on PC and Xbox, it's not going anywhere.
I agree that the paperwork _can_ be crippling, but many software packages exist to do this for you. I recommend QuickBooks. It calculates and automatically updates tax tables for you. Quite inexpensive and convenient for small businesses like yours. It sure beats the 'shoebox' paperwork method.
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Imagine an environment where people stop living off the land and get their meat neatly processed and packaged for them. Imagine going home to filtered and dehumidified air. Imagine typing instead of writing your thoughts and sending them into an electronic void instead of talking with your friends over a hearty bowl of homemade chili.
Some technological advancements improve quality of life, some impact it negatively, and still others are somewhere in between. Sometimes we need to take the bad with the good, and educate so the kids don't turn into psychotics.
I guess because if you have technology that prevents you technologically from being irresponsible, you can never learn how to be responsible?
I don't know about you, but my grammar school experience was not a time when I had great expectations and responsibility placed on me. When I graduated to high school, less oversight and more responsibility. Then the big step of moving out and having basically no oversight in college. Then the real world: relying on yourself to get yourself places on time, and even educating yourself (no more professors!)
I rely on technology daily since I'm apparently not responsible enough to remember 3pm conference calls, 9am project meetings, and 15 ongoing projects with varying degrees of involvement. I wouldn't consider that 'absolved'.
One word: JediMud. The economy was barter-based, the world was dynamic and quests were DM'ed by former players. The best part of all was you could only get as high as level 30 (still 40-50 hours of play) before being forced to become immortal or remort. After remorting you got a 1-point bonus to one stat.
That kind of system would really cut down on what I consider the worst aspect of MMORPGs, lifeless nerds playing for 80 hours a week and effectively 'ruining the curve'.
You know, I hate when 'pound-you-in-the-ass' is automatically included in any description of prison - like prisons just decided one day to give up, and now they advertise it as part of the punishment.
I would assume that mission-critical applications like building the world's tallest buildings would rely on their own built-and-proven underlying consistency checker, instead of esoteric physical HD and RAM error checking. AutoCAD doesn't assume that the data is correct just because it comes off of the HD, it runs checksums. If this needs to be done in SW already, why reduce speed by 1-2ns per bit for the sake of unused redundancy?
If money/profit were not an issue there would be no power lines to put underground, no money to do so if you had the desire. You can't pay miners, engineers, and power comapny employees in goodwill to get ore out of the ground - that won't buy them groceries. It's all or nothing. You should read 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' by Cory Doctorow for an intruiging open-source look at the future of society.
It's not the installation or the browsing. The main reason I haven't used Freenet after the initial gee-whiz is that it's broken. It's virtually impossible to find anything of value outside of the three or four index sites. Publishing data requires a series of arcane commands outside of the browser interface. Downloading only the images that made up a single page took hours.
On the bright side, if Freenet were to be embraced by the academic community there might be an actual development cycle.
If they're going to be using Cisco physical phones along with the softphones, it's undoubtedly compatible with most SIP-enabled software. The article is taking marketing copy and making it news.
I always thought that 60Hz was a bad frequency to use in a monitor. So much interference. I wonder if they just use the oscillations straight from the wall and that's why we see subtle variations and flicker.
What do we get? It's like SCO is holding a handgrenade and people are slowly moving away from the madman. Shhh! You are breaking my concentration! I'm trying to shed a bitter tear for them. You mean this whole lawsuit thing is for real?
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The alternative is that the government or some other entity steps in and enforces it's version of a compromise. When competition is stifled, innovation is too.
Rather an elaborate tubgirl link, dontcha think?
I was thinking that it had 'l33t h4X0r' written all over it. Perhaps it was the graphic.
Sounds like 'Rocket Ship Galileo', a Heinlein book from 1945. A group of college kids befriends a professor in an attempt to land on the moon and win an early "X-prize". The nuclear drive boils zinc, which is highly pressurized...the plasma 'steam' is expelled to create thrust. After the kids land on the moon and their ship is blown up by Nazis, they hijack a much more advanced ship to get back to earth, but not before discovering evidence of an advanced moon civilization.
You're thinking non-leap seconds after 1/1/70 00:00:00 GMT - which would be midnight the night before.
The currency thing is what I don't understand. How can we tolerate such a gross trade imbalance with a country that keeps it's currency artificially cheap?
Windows media and others can now stream data in HTTP instead of directly to a nonstandard port. This is to get around corporate proxies, etc. There's no difference between HTTP traffic that contains encoded bits and plain cleartext bits...except there's a lot more of it. Not the best way, but an easy way around whenever your way is blocked.
Microsoft isn't making anything new, they're going to actively participate in the engineering process (at least more than they did with NVidia and the Nforce-based Xbox 1). When your game machine is marketed to the hardcore gamers, hacking becomes a bigger issue - as stated in the article. DirectX is still going to be basically the same API on PC and Xbox, it's not going anywhere.
I agree that the paperwork _can_ be crippling, but many software packages exist to do this for you. I recommend QuickBooks. It calculates and automatically updates tax tables for you. Quite inexpensive and convenient for small businesses like yours. It sure beats the 'shoebox' paperwork method.
Imagine an environment where people stop living off the land and get their meat neatly processed and packaged for them. Imagine going home to filtered and dehumidified air. Imagine typing instead of writing your thoughts and sending them into an electronic void instead of talking with your friends over a hearty bowl of homemade chili.
Some technological advancements improve quality of life, some impact it negatively, and still others are somewhere in between. Sometimes we need to take the bad with the good, and educate so the kids don't turn into psychotics.
I guess because if you have technology that prevents you technologically from being irresponsible, you can never learn how to be responsible?
I don't know about you, but my grammar school experience was not a time when I had great expectations and responsibility placed on me. When I graduated to high school, less oversight and more responsibility. Then the big step of moving out and having basically no oversight in college. Then the real world: relying on yourself to get yourself places on time, and even educating yourself (no more professors!)
I rely on technology daily since I'm apparently not responsible enough to remember 3pm conference calls, 9am project meetings, and 15 ongoing projects with varying degrees of involvement. I wouldn't consider that 'absolved'.
Except in the real world you can give a newb colleague instant level 50.
One word: JediMud. The economy was barter-based, the world was dynamic and quests were DM'ed by former players. The best part of all was you could only get as high as level 30 (still 40-50 hours of play) before being forced to become immortal or remort. After remorting you got a 1-point bonus to one stat. That kind of system would really cut down on what I consider the worst aspect of MMORPGs, lifeless nerds playing for 80 hours a week and effectively 'ruining the curve'.
When I lived in downtown Milwaukee this system was in place, and was very nice. Essentially free heat to the entire downtown area.
You know, I hate when 'pound-you-in-the-ass' is automatically included in any description of prison - like prisons just decided one day to give up, and now they advertise it as part of the punishment.
I would assume that mission-critical applications like building the world's tallest buildings would rely on their own built-and-proven underlying consistency checker, instead of esoteric physical HD and RAM error checking. AutoCAD doesn't assume that the data is correct just because it comes off of the HD, it runs checksums. If this needs to be done in SW already, why reduce speed by 1-2ns per bit for the sake of unused redundancy?
If money/profit were not an issue there would be no power lines to put underground, no money to do so if you had the desire. You can't pay miners, engineers, and power comapny employees in goodwill to get ore out of the ground - that won't buy them groceries. It's all or nothing. You should read 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' by Cory Doctorow for an intruiging open-source look at the future of society.
Perhaps the film is not amazing enough to warrant a double check?
It's not the installation or the browsing. The main reason I haven't used Freenet after the initial gee-whiz is that it's broken. It's virtually impossible to find anything of value outside of the three or four index sites. Publishing data requires a series of arcane commands outside of the browser interface. Downloading only the images that made up a single page took hours.
On the bright side, if Freenet were to be embraced by the academic community there might be an actual development cycle.
I prefer VUH-OY-P, one syllable.
If they're going to be using Cisco physical phones along with the softphones, it's undoubtedly compatible with most SIP-enabled software. The article is taking marketing copy and making it news.
Try that one on for size!
Yes, we do play speed metal while surfing in bike pants. No sunglasses.
I always thought that 60Hz was a bad frequency to use in a monitor. So much interference. I wonder if they just use the oscillations straight from the wall and that's why we see subtle variations and flicker.
What do we get? It's like SCO is holding a handgrenade and people are slowly moving away from the madman. Shhh! You are breaking my concentration! I'm trying to shed a bitter tear for them. You mean this whole lawsuit thing is for real?
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