That required time, money, and resources. DLink et al would be much happier just taking your money once and never having to deal with you again. But if they ran a time server, their customers would continue to use it yet they would get nothing* in return.
* - nothing in this case is strictly defined as money. I'm not considering good will, appreciation, or the right thing to do. None of these things apply to a business unfortunately.
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And a computer with a USB port but no Internet access is useful for e-mail how?
Unfortunatly using GMT or UTC for another poster probably doesn't guarantee that the April 1st nonsense ends "early" (check local listings for exact time).
The company I work for recently implemented a new portal for our customers. We had a core group of maybe a dozen people directly attached to the process during some phase. But if you include content providers, those responsible for maintaining the back end database for our catalogs, advertising, graphics for the images, etc, it was a whole company effort.
It would be like asking someone at Amazon how many people work on the website. Maybe only a subset of the entire company actually works directly for the site, but it's a group effort of everyone and everyone makes an impact in some way.
They need to realize that THEIR NETWORKS our on our property and aren't god given rights to rape us financially. If they set this up then they should be able to have businesses lay cable just like they do so we can have alternatives to them.
You do have alternative. Cable, wireless, dial up, other DSL providers, not having internet, etc. The alternatives aren't always acceptable, what you want, or all available in your area. But they are there in some form. If you don't want the telco's to "rape us financially", then let your view know to them and if they start to, take your business elsewhere.
I'm not arguing for the telcos. I think the idea is stupid. I'm just pointing out that it's THEIR network (even though it may cross our property) and they can do with it as they want in this area.
And btw, it's not the consumers that would get raped (at least not directly). It's the providers at the other end. But don't give them ideas.
The autoclosing of tags is more of an annoyance. If you have an existing block of text for instance that you want to make bold, as soon as you type "&", "" also appears. You then have to cut/delete that, go to the end of the block you want to bold, then retype/paste it.
If you are typing everything by hand initially, then it can be handy although I still find it annoying.
Martin also said he supports the right for network operators to differentiate their networks and prioritize traffic on their networks.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. I see that the telcos should be allow to control their networks. If they as an ISP want to slow google videos to a crawl, I guess they have the right to. But they need to inform their customers of the fact and then the customers can decide if they want to take their business elsewhere. If Google doesn't want to pay the "extortion fee", then so be it.
Now if we are talking about the general backbones and toptier providers, then it's a problem.
You get arrested and thrown in jail. The website owner of nowthatsfuckedup.com had a amature porn site that also had photos of military with some graphic shots from Iraq and other places. He once lived in the community in Florida that was pressing the charges, but he no longer lived there. He however was still charged with obscenity charges in that local though. Ultimately when he refused to take down the site he was tossed in jail on contempt charges IIRC. He later settled with the prosecuter, forcing his site to go dark later next month.
The idea is that you have subscribed to Verizon's FiOS TV, so you won't have a cable company hooked up to the coax. It's basically reusing your existing house wiring for data. It's what will allow one DVR to stream video to other DVRs, signal for PPV/VOD, etc.
They also have the advantage of being able to go just about anywhere and have access to a power outlet to recharge them. You can recharge them in hotel rooms, convention centers, office cubicals, etc. The same can't be said about methanol. I can honestly tell you right now that if you had to buy an ounce of methanol, I couldn't tell you where to go to find it.
You forgot to put your name, class, and project number up at the top of the file as comments. You will also lose point for not properly documenting the method's in and out parameters and how they might be modified. Finally, you also did not declare the "Hello World\n" as a constant to ease modification at a later point in time.
...or at least that was the way my first Hello World program was graded (although that was in C++).
Just like regular jobs in the real world, if you don't like the rules, quit (or don't sign up in the first place). Military service isn't required currently in the US.
Glad to see my government has no problems blowing 14 years worth of operating expenses on something that by all appearances will never have a positive outcome, while letting vital programs for all of earth collapse.
The last 3 Star Wars all had over a order of magnitude larger costs the the Ep. IV. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had costs 2.5x the original.
What I'd like see in the future is possibly lower guaranteed salaries for the actors, but higher percentages of the gross revenues from the movie.
Bruce Willis did it for M. Night Shyamalan's Sixth Sense. He slashed is usual fee of $20m+ to a fraction of that, but made out like a bandit after Sixth Sense made nearly $675m worldwide. He was paid around 17% of the gross I beleive. Jack Nicholson made over 50m on Batman off of royalties. Steven Spielburg and Tom Hanks didn't take anything up front for making Saving Private Ryan, but they still made $50m and are still making money off of it today.
It gives incentives to make better movies. Although this doesn't always work. John Travolta still made Battlefield Earth, making nothing in the process because it flopped so badly.
Agreed. When checking a page for use under IE, I often start to go up to the toolbar to use a Web Developer tool, only to be disappointed that it's not there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There is a difference thought between being a Humorless Reposted Joke Nazi and a Grammar Nazi. I used the wrong form of their/there/they're. I stand corrected. Please don't stone me.
I beleive traditional uses is in partical physics and nuclear testing, among other things. Knowing what happens when you slam two particals together, along with the reaction to the surrounding enviroment, takes an extrodinary amount of calculations.
My guess is that it's similar to how garage door openers work these days. There is a predefined algorithm and you essentially seed the opener with the remote when you learn the code. All subsequent codes are based off of that seed. Yes it can be reversed engineered. Just like a combination lock could be brute forced, a tumbler lock can be picked, etc. The only way to guarantee no one gets a lock open is to not have a lock in the first place.
Abhorrent? Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand. If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less. Yes it's a significant chunk of change, but not crippling expensive. Obviously running 95, 98, and XP Home may not be the best solution overall, but it apparently seems to work for the time being.
What you are proposing is installing an operating system that is completely foreign to them. The software that they already own has been untested on it. It may or may not work. The availability of future software titles that run natively is also limited. Neither the kids nor the teachers have any experience with it. And to top it off, you even point out that you can't really support it like you should. Sounds like a great plan!
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That required time, money, and resources. DLink et al would be much happier just taking your money once and never having to deal with you again. But if they ran a time server, their customers would continue to use it yet they would get nothing* in return.
* - nothing in this case is strictly defined as money. I'm not considering good will, appreciation, or the right thing to do. None of these things apply to a business unfortunately.
And a computer with a USB port but no Internet access is useful for e-mail how?
April 1st is over. The joke is old. Like hot grits, Soviet Russia, and beowulf cluster, let it go man.
Unfortunatly using GMT or UTC for another poster probably doesn't guarantee that the April 1st nonsense ends "early" (check local listings for exact time).
Yeah, but we have Hello Kitty as prior art. It's been around for years so the patent has got to have been expired by now, right?
Maybe because it's 3-4 racks in size and weights 1.5 tons, they couldn't move it once they realized it consumed 10kW of juice.
The company I work for recently implemented a new portal for our customers. We had a core group of maybe a dozen people directly attached to the process during some phase. But if you include content providers, those responsible for maintaining the back end database for our catalogs, advertising, graphics for the images, etc, it was a whole company effort.
It would be like asking someone at Amazon how many people work on the website. Maybe only a subset of the entire company actually works directly for the site, but it's a group effort of everyone and everyone makes an impact in some way.
80%? Why so low a percentage?
I'm not arguing for the telcos. I think the idea is stupid. I'm just pointing out that it's THEIR network (even though it may cross our property) and they can do with it as they want in this area.
And btw, it's not the consumers that would get raped (at least not directly). It's the providers at the other end. But don't give them ideas.
The autoclosing of tags is more of an annoyance. If you have an existing block of text for instance that you want to make bold, as soon as you type "&", "" also appears. You then have to cut/delete that, go to the end of the block you want to bold, then retype/paste it.
If you are typing everything by hand initially, then it can be handy although I still find it annoying.
Now if we are talking about the general backbones and toptier providers, then it's a problem.
You get arrested and thrown in jail. The website owner of nowthatsfuckedup.com had a amature porn site that also had photos of military with some graphic shots from Iraq and other places. He once lived in the community in Florida that was pressing the charges, but he no longer lived there. He however was still charged with obscenity charges in that local though. Ultimately when he refused to take down the site he was tossed in jail on contempt charges IIRC. He later settled with the prosecuter, forcing his site to go dark later next month.
The idea is that you have subscribed to Verizon's FiOS TV, so you won't have a cable company hooked up to the coax. It's basically reusing your existing house wiring for data. It's what will allow one DVR to stream video to other DVRs, signal for PPV/VOD, etc.
ZDNet just sensationalized it some.
They also have the advantage of being able to go just about anywhere and have access to a power outlet to recharge them. You can recharge them in hotel rooms, convention centers, office cubicals, etc. The same can't be said about methanol. I can honestly tell you right now that if you had to buy an ounce of methanol, I couldn't tell you where to go to find it.
You forgot to put your name, class, and project number up at the top of the file as comments. You will also lose point for not properly documenting the method's in and out parameters and how they might be modified. Finally, you also did not declare the "Hello World\n" as a constant to ease modification at a later point in time.
...or at least that was the way my first Hello World program was graded (although that was in C++).
Which is why I also put (or don't sign up in the first place). The rules are clear upon signing up. I beleive everyone gets a copy of the UCMJ.
Just like regular jobs in the real world, if you don't like the rules, quit (or don't sign up in the first place). Military service isn't required currently in the US.
Cost of war in Iraq: 245.727 billion
NASA's 2006 Budget: 16.656 billion
Glad to see my government has no problems blowing 14 years worth of operating expenses on something that by all appearances will never have a positive outcome, while letting vital programs for all of earth collapse.
The last 3 Star Wars all had over a order of magnitude larger costs the the Ep. IV. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had costs 2.5x the original.
What I'd like see in the future is possibly lower guaranteed salaries for the actors, but higher percentages of the gross revenues from the movie.
Bruce Willis did it for M. Night Shyamalan's Sixth Sense. He slashed is usual fee of $20m+ to a fraction of that, but made out like a bandit after Sixth Sense made nearly $675m worldwide. He was paid around 17% of the gross I beleive. Jack Nicholson made over 50m on Batman off of royalties. Steven Spielburg and Tom Hanks didn't take anything up front for making Saving Private Ryan, but they still made $50m and are still making money off of it today.
It gives incentives to make better movies. Although this doesn't always work. John Travolta still made Battlefield Earth, making nothing in the process because it flopped so badly.
Agreed. When checking a page for use under IE, I often start to go up to the toolbar to use a Web Developer tool, only to be disappointed that it's not there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There is a difference thought between being a Humorless Reposted Joke Nazi and a Grammar Nazi. I used the wrong form of their/there/they're. I stand corrected. Please don't stone me.
My original point still remains.
You know, these comments were funny. In 1998. 8 years later, their dumb. No. Seriously. No one is laughing.
I beleive traditional uses is in partical physics and nuclear testing, among other things. Knowing what happens when you slam two particals together, along with the reaction to the surrounding enviroment, takes an extrodinary amount of calculations.
My guess is that it's similar to how garage door openers work these days. There is a predefined algorithm and you essentially seed the opener with the remote when you learn the code. All subsequent codes are based off of that seed. Yes it can be reversed engineered. Just like a combination lock could be brute forced, a tumbler lock can be picked, etc. The only way to guarantee no one gets a lock open is to not have a lock in the first place.
Abhorrent? Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand. If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less. Yes it's a significant chunk of change, but not crippling expensive. Obviously running 95, 98, and XP Home may not be the best solution overall, but it apparently seems to work for the time being.
What you are proposing is installing an operating system that is completely foreign to them. The software that they already own has been untested on it. It may or may not work. The availability of future software titles that run natively is also limited. Neither the kids nor the teachers have any experience with it. And to top it off, you even point out that you can't really support it like you should. Sounds like a great plan!