I thought communications by soldiers deployed in war zones were censored. By every country that has been in a war since The Art of War was written. The chain of command might not look too favourably on soldiers using non-official channels, even to say "Hi mom, I miss you".
That's close to what I was going to say (but simpler). You beat me to it; That'll teach me to wander off and actually do work.
Unfortunately, taxing by mile does not take into acount that some vehicles inherently put more wear on the road than others. It'd be quite unfair to assign the same road maintenance cost/mile to a user of a Honda Nighthawk or Geo Metro as a Ford Super Duty.
In a hybridless all fossil-fuel powered economy, fuel consumption is an acceptable proxy for road wear. Unfortunately, this goes out the window when hybrid and non-fossil fuel powered vehicles are introduced. One way to get around this might be to scale the mileage tax by the mass of the vehicle. Unfortunately this doesn't distinguish between those who use their Ford Super Duty to commute and those who use it to haul rocks around. Both pay the same amount for "road wear" despite the fact that the rock hauler is doing a lot more wear than the commuter.
Then again, it may serve as a dis-encentive to using a vehicle like the Super Duty to commute, which would be a good thing.
It also doesn't distinguish between mileage used in the taxable jurisdiction, and that used in other jurisdictions.... long-haul truckers are unfairly punished.
Not only is IPSec an option, it's a really good idea if you don't your call to be listened in on by anyone at a router between you and whoever you're calling. For example, if you're a doctor or lawyer talking to your patient/client, or if you're a politician discussing an upcoming campaign.
Have you ever programmed for a stream processor? I haven't. I suspect neither have most game developers (although the few who have written shaders have a leg up). Writing for a stream processor is very different from writing for a general purpose CPU. I suspect few games will use it at first.
Looking at the 5 day graph [1], it looks like someone took a large short position on SCOX yesterday, and bought the shares back in 2 chunks just before and after 11am today.
Many Canadian charities havce stopped accepting tsunami relief donations. The Canadian Red Cross claims to have enough money to sustain their activities in the region for ten years.
They're not defensive weapons unless they can be delivered against their adversary's homeland. You don't nuke your own country as a defensive measure against invading forces. Well you can, but that's like chopping off your leg..
You can, however, nuke a carrier battle group and a few nearby (but hostile to you) airfields, thus preventing your distant neighbours from moving forces into a position to invade, and destroying or cutting off any that are already there..
There's a reason why small yeild atomic bombs are called tactical nuclear weapons.
Most of the people in my office don't have that problem; they don't have admin rights on their machine... I on the other hand have admin rights on all 10 machines:(
NetBSD's big claim to fame is portability.... It takes a while to fully test a large package on that many architectures and implementations (Chances are it takes a really long time to compile on a VAX 11/780, for example).
It implements the 6th revision of the 11th X-windowing system specification. Hence it's X11R6, but Version 11 of the X-Windowing system is the one that's a standard, so they can drop the 11. The result: revision 6. The 8.2 is the implementation version.
Because X.org comes from the X organization and if they just called it X, people might confuse it with other implementations of the X11R6 specification.
A natural monopoly is an industry where the most efficient production is through a monopoly. This means Municipal water supply, electricity distribution, local telephone service, public postal services, etc.
Microsoft's monopoly came about mostly by their exclusive contracts with hardware vendors, agressive bundling, and buying up competitors. This is the antithesis of a natural monopoly.
All this hype about the Cell processor keeps talking about it being distributable. This is a mater for the OS, not the architecture. The Cell processor sounds like a cool chip (especially with it's stream processors), but a new architecture is neither nescesary nor sufficient to do distributed computing.
I think if MS wants to do per-CPU licensing, customers are going to be displeased when multi-core chips come on the market or more manufacturers start making systems with multiple moderate power CPUs. Distributed load-sharing will make it even worse.
Per-concurrent-user licensing the market may accept, but per-CPU would be hard to sell in a market where "CPU" is ill defined or blurred.
s/shareholders/board members & institutional investors/ . They're publicly traded; individual shareholders have little to no power or share of the profits.
Gimp is one of the applications discussed in both articles
seriosuely, the interface is not that wild and hard to use.
if you cannot figure it out in 5 seconds, stop using a computer. you are basically an idiot.
Yes, it is hard to use. Figuring it out is not the problem. The biggest problem for me is that I like to edit the images maximized. All those tool windows and dialogs disappear the instant you click on the image, or you can set them always on top and they get in the way of your image. Also, the icons are fixed-size and low contrast (dark grey on light grey). On a high resolution monitor, they're REALLY hard to see.
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I thought communications by soldiers deployed in war zones were censored. By every country that has been in a war since The Art of War was written. The chain of command might not look too favourably on soldiers using non-official channels, even to say "Hi mom, I miss you".
That's close to what I was going to say (but simpler). You beat me to it; That'll teach me to wander off and actually do work.
Unfortunately, taxing by mile does not take into acount that some vehicles inherently put more wear on the road than others. It'd be quite unfair to assign the same road maintenance cost/mile to a user of a Honda Nighthawk or Geo Metro as a Ford Super Duty.
In a hybridless all fossil-fuel powered economy, fuel consumption is an acceptable proxy for road wear. Unfortunately, this goes out the window when hybrid and non-fossil fuel powered vehicles are introduced. One way to get around this might be to scale the mileage tax by the mass of the vehicle. Unfortunately this doesn't distinguish between those who use their Ford Super Duty to commute and those who use it to haul rocks around. Both pay the same amount for "road wear" despite the fact that the rock hauler is doing a lot more wear than the commuter.
Then again, it may serve as a dis-encentive to using a vehicle like the Super Duty to commute, which would be a good thing.
It also doesn't distinguish between mileage used in the taxable jurisdiction, and that used in other jurisdictions.... long-haul truckers are unfairly punished.
Not only is IPSec an option, it's a really good idea if you don't your call to be listened in on by anyone at a router between you and whoever you're calling. For example, if you're a doctor or lawyer talking to your patient/client, or if you're a politician discussing an upcoming campaign.
Have you ever programmed for a stream processor? I haven't. I suspect neither have most game developers (although the few who have written shaders have a leg up). Writing for a stream processor is very different from writing for a general purpose CPU. I suspect few games will use it at first.
Pretty funny 404 messages though.
Looking at the 5 day graph [1], it looks like someone took a large short position on SCOX yesterday, and bought the shares back in 2 chunks just before and after 11am today.
It's a military PR server. I expect their critical systems are still humming along.
Many Canadian charities havce stopped accepting tsunami relief donations. The Canadian Red Cross claims to have enough money to sustain their activities in the region for ten years.
POWER5 is not the same as PowerPC 970 (G5). POWER5 is a really really expensive high performance mainframe chip. G5 is a server/desktop chip.
Ummm... Hiroshima was rebuilt by 1949, and has a population of over 1 million today.
You can, however, nuke a carrier battle group and a few nearby (but hostile to you) airfields, thus preventing your distant neighbours from moving forces into a position to invade, and destroying or cutting off any that are already there..
There's a reason why small yeild atomic bombs are called tactical nuclear weapons.
Plus, U238 is lying around all over the place in Iraq and Kosovo.
And a hell of a lot easier for unauthorized people to steal records of en-mass than paper records.
Most of the people in my office don't have that problem; they don't have admin rights on their machine... I on the other hand have admin rights on all 10 machines :(
If you stole the DVD, you don't own it.
NetBSD's big claim to fame is portability.... It takes a while to fully test a large package on that many architectures and implementations (Chances are it takes a really long time to compile on a VAX 11/780, for example).
It implements the 6th revision of the 11th X-windowing system specification. Hence it's X11R6, but Version 11 of the X-Windowing system is the one that's a standard, so they can drop the 11. The result: revision 6. The 8.2 is the implementation version.
Because X.org comes from the X organization and if they just called it X, people might confuse it with other implementations of the X11R6 specification.
A natural monopoly is an industry where the most efficient production is through a monopoly. This means Municipal water supply, electricity distribution, local telephone service, public postal services, etc.
Microsoft's monopoly came about mostly by their exclusive contracts with hardware vendors, agressive bundling, and buying up competitors. This is the antithesis of a natural monopoly.
All this hype about the Cell processor keeps talking about it being distributable. This is a mater for the OS, not the architecture. The Cell processor sounds like a cool chip (especially with it's stream processors), but a new architecture is neither nescesary nor sufficient to do distributed computing.
I think if MS wants to do per-CPU licensing, customers are going to be displeased when multi-core chips come on the market or more manufacturers start making systems with multiple moderate power CPUs. Distributed load-sharing will make it even worse.
Per-concurrent-user licensing the market may accept, but per-CPU would be hard to sell in a market where "CPU" is ill defined or blurred.
s/shareholders/board members & institutional investors/ . They're publicly traded; individual shareholders have little to no power or share of the profits.
Or how about the Gimp designers who decided to put the image in a seperate window from all of the tools and pallettes?
Gimp is one of the applications discussed in both articles
Yes, it is hard to use. Figuring it out is not the problem. The biggest problem for me is that I like to edit the images maximized. All those tool windows and dialogs disappear the instant you click on the image, or you can set them always on top and they get in the way of your image. Also, the icons are fixed-size and low contrast (dark grey on light grey). On a high resolution monitor, they're REALLY hard to see.
Somehow I don't think whether or not it's a FSF project will be a concern for the interviewee.