what is really impressive is the fact that these things have been mobile for this long without *any* physical maintainence millions of miles away! and that they are completely solar powered. impressive when you really think about it. It may not have as much shock value as landing on the moon did, but its an impressive accomplishment.
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blockbuster has really rebounded from their near bankrupt late 90s days... but they're starting to feel like the "best buy" of movie/game rental. maybe its the colors.
Obviously this isn't going to happen-- the "cross" is too widely distributed for anyone to claim a trademark on it-- regardless of color. Also-- hasn't the "red cross" always been a symbol for medical aid, ie) in warfare?
Plenty of Nukes have been set off high in our atmosphere. It is actually more dangerous if the nuke doesn't 'go nuclear' and disintegrates in our atmosphere. I recall a NASA incedent where a radioactive decay powered probe burned up in our atmosphere. Now virtually every living organizsm has a measurable amount of radioactive isotopes in them.
i think you missed my point-- i wasn't advocating a switch to linux, but rather a less homogeneous market. different flavors of unix/linux and windows. that way there is no "main target".
forcing someone that wants documentation to see the sourcecode is great! especially since wanting to read this kind of documentation usually means your a capable programmer.
seriously--- kde was a lot of features that are perfect for desktop users. It is a *very* powerful desktop environment. kparts, widgets, dcop scripting, etc allow programs to work together in ways they simply can't in a gnome/windows/osx environment. konqueror with its kioslaves, allowing you to ftp, sftp, ssh, http, nfs, smb, etc all from one application is a damn powerful application. Its disappointing that dell, and now lenovo are standardizing on a gnome desktop.:(
I guess I'm not surprised they came up with such a huge figure for dollars lost-- I hate to be the person that's just going to get modded down for this-- but maybe if >80% of computer users werent using windows and there was more diversity on the net (client-wise, at least) viruses and, to a lesser extent, malware wouldn't find it so easy to inflict such damage. A monoculture can be brought to its knees by a common vunerability.
With a lot of these massive datacenters residing in sunny california you tihnk they could offset a large chunk of their power needs with solar panels covering the roofs Like the FedEx hub in Oakland.
most likely the reason we haven't seen anyh alien intelligences yet is the cosmological speed limit we know as 'c'. even getting close to it isn't fast enough as the relativistic effects make it impractical.
use a functional programming language. prove mathematically that your functions are correct. and technically, it should be fairly easy to write compilers that automatically thread the program due to the nature functions are written in a functional programming language. i encourage everyone, especially the writer of this article, to read up on it. Haskell (a programming language) is a good place to start.
As someone who had been contracted by Diebold, the machines are running Windows, the software is written in Visual Basic, and the database is Access. And no, this isn't a troll.
I don't think the end users should be the people gettig in trouble. To use a not so uncommon analogy- this is just like raiding the home of and locking up the crack head that has been spending all his money on a hopeless addiction rather than ging after to SOB that is making tens of thousands of dollars a month supporting addicts addictions and making the illegal substance available in the first place. Think about it-- you make something that normally costs $50-$60 available for free after making some simple mods to your game console, of course people are going to want to do this. If the government thinks it is important to put an end to his they need to crack down on the people providing the ISOs-- after all, that is the only illegal activity, right? Oh I forgot-- the DMCA makes it illegal to make modifications to hardware you *own*.
HOW F*CKING HARD is it to make a secure voting machine?!? The thing counts and keeps track of votes! I bet i could write a secure voting machine that could handle state and federal elections securely in a couple of days in any language from assembly to bash!
These lawyers act like they haven't read the damn gplv2 and v3. Its VERY clear that any customer that wants to use the gplv3 license *instead of* the gplv2 has that right-- and it was granted in gplv2.
is this article questioning what is plainly obvious? *My* shows stay on the DVR and hers get deleted. Let me break it down:
modern marvels > dr. 90210
arrested development > love connection
star trek: voyager, tng, enterprise > real world, honey we're killing the kids, little people-big world
more money for MS. Its not like actually creating a copy of vista costs them anything-- but getting someone to spend *any* money on windows in china is good news for MS. I kinda wish they would do a better job at preventing piracy though-- it would give poorer countries a reason to look elsewhere.
mnemonics are fine if you are just trying to get through a math class. Also the use of "made up" words to describe symbols in math _can_ be fine... But thanks to a math teacher in high school a lower case omega is forever "worble" and a lower case zeta is "glarf" or "scribble". Unfortunatly these terms surface at the most embarrassing times now that i'm a computer science/electrical engineering major.
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what is really impressive is the fact that these things have been mobile for this long without *any* physical maintainence millions of miles away! and that they are completely solar powered. impressive when you really think about it. It may not have as much shock value as landing on the moon did, but its an impressive accomplishment.
Well since this story is mostly an advertisement, i'll point out that storage at Dreamhost (See sig) is far cheaper and you get all the perks of a full blwon web hosting service. Starts @ $9.99/mo for around 200GB storage, tons of bandwidth, ftp/sftp/ssh/telnet/etc access, databases, thousands of email accounts, free domain with the ability to host as many as you want, unlimited subdomains, user acount controls, clean server directory structure (ie, /home/username/mydomain.tld), etc, etc, etc..
blockbuster has really rebounded from their near bankrupt late 90s days... but they're starting to feel like the "best buy" of movie/game rental. maybe its the colors.
Obviously this isn't going to happen-- the "cross" is too widely distributed for anyone to claim a trademark on it-- regardless of color. Also-- hasn't the "red cross" always been a symbol for medical aid, ie) in warfare?
They start charging idiots for having children.
Plenty of Nukes have been set off high in our atmosphere. It is actually more dangerous if the nuke doesn't 'go nuclear' and disintegrates in our atmosphere. I recall a NASA incedent where a radioactive decay powered probe burned up in our atmosphere. Now virtually every living organizsm has a measurable amount of radioactive isotopes in them.
kparts, and kioslaves.. definitely not in a sane, consistent way.
i think you missed my point-- i wasn't advocating a switch to linux, but rather a less homogeneous market. different flavors of unix/linux and windows. that way there is no "main target".
cool climate with some sunshine would be best i guess. you could leave the windows open *and* benefit from solar power to help power the servers. :)
forcing someone that wants documentation to see the sourcecode is great! especially since wanting to read this kind of documentation usually means your a capable programmer.
seriously--- kde was a lot of features that are perfect for desktop users. It is a *very* powerful desktop environment. kparts, widgets, dcop scripting, etc allow programs to work together in ways they simply can't in a gnome/windows/osx environment. konqueror with its kioslaves, allowing you to ftp, sftp, ssh, http, nfs, smb, etc all from one application is a damn powerful application. Its disappointing that dell, and now lenovo are standardizing on a gnome desktop. :(
I guess I'm not surprised they came up with such a huge figure for dollars lost-- I hate to be the person that's just going to get modded down for this-- but maybe if >80% of computer users werent using windows and there was more diversity on the net (client-wise, at least) viruses and, to a lesser extent, malware wouldn't find it so easy to inflict such damage. A monoculture can be brought to its knees by a common vunerability.
With a lot of these massive datacenters residing in sunny california you tihnk they could offset a large chunk of their power needs with solar panels covering the roofs Like the FedEx hub in Oakland.
... i may be wrong, but i (think) you are referring to a sitcom.
most likely the reason we haven't seen anyh alien intelligences yet is the cosmological speed limit we know as 'c'. even getting close to it isn't fast enough as the relativistic effects make it impractical.
use a functional programming language. prove mathematically that your functions are correct. and technically, it should be fairly easy to write compilers that automatically thread the program due to the nature functions are written in a functional programming language. i encourage everyone, especially the writer of this article, to read up on it. Haskell (a programming language) is a good place to start.
god help the future of democracy.
i'll use a functional programming language and write proofs for my functions. ... and use spell check.
I don't think the end users should be the people gettig in trouble. To use a not so uncommon analogy- this is just like raiding the home of and locking up the crack head that has been spending all his money on a hopeless addiction rather than ging after to SOB that is making tens of thousands of dollars a month supporting addicts addictions and making the illegal substance available in the first place. Think about it-- you make something that normally costs $50-$60 available for free after making some simple mods to your game console, of course people are going to want to do this. If the government thinks it is important to put an end to his they need to crack down on the people providing the ISOs-- after all, that is the only illegal activity, right? Oh I forgot-- the DMCA makes it illegal to make modifications to hardware you *own*.
HOW F*CKING HARD is it to make a secure voting machine?!? The thing counts and keeps track of votes! I bet i could write a secure voting machine that could handle state and federal elections securely in a couple of days in any language from assembly to bash!
These lawyers act like they haven't read the damn gplv2 and v3. Its VERY clear that any customer that wants to use the gplv3 license *instead of* the gplv2 has that right-- and it was granted in gplv2.
modern marvels > dr. 90210
arrested development > love connection
star trek: voyager, tng, enterprise > real world, honey we're killing the kids, little people-big world
come on!
Now all it needs is a bluetooth external keyboard and i can sysadmin from anywhere! :)
more money for MS. Its not like actually creating a copy of vista costs them anything-- but getting someone to spend *any* money on windows in china is good news for MS. I kinda wish they would do a better job at preventing piracy though-- it would give poorer countries a reason to look elsewhere.
mnemonics are fine if you are just trying to get through a math class. Also the use of "made up" words to describe symbols in math _can_ be fine... But thanks to a math teacher in high school a lower case omega is forever "worble" and a lower case zeta is "glarf" or "scribble". Unfortunatly these terms surface at the most embarrassing times now that i'm a computer science/electrical engineering major.