Really, and exactly how many of them have we gassed??? Ok, I know...you must be thinking about firing squads... No... Ok, I know...they must be burning them alive... Not that either...
Well, sounds to me like I need some more facts...exactly what executions are you talking about???
Not really...most albums are only ~35 minutes in length.
It's a simple breakdown...most songs are only about 3 minutes and some odd seconds long...lets say 3:45...
Most albums only have ~10 songs on them...
So, our 3:45 song on each track comes out to ~35 minutes. This leaves more than enough room for extra copies of the songs, music videos, etc...as a matter of fact, the band Offspring has a tendency to include music videos from the previous album in this extra space. It's actually very kewl when a specific artist/band that you like does this. It gives diehard fans high quality copies of videos...some they may have never seen...and as for casual listeners, it gives them a taste of the previous album, which can create new sales for old albums...
The ultimate reason why the 3 minute song is still used is because it makes the song easy to play on the radio...this is the reason that you don't hear Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven on the radio very often...As for the 10 songs on an album, this comes from the old LP days...at the time, you could fit ~35 minutes on a single LP...
As for why they never increased the number of songs, it's because it would take even longer to make a new album and the result would ultimately cost more...so they've kept their old ~10 song limit...
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if the rover rolls off the platform and becomes stuck in this "Mud"?
I'm guessing that it may be possible that there is thermal activity just under the surface of the landing site which is keeping the surface warm enough to have "mud" and possibly some sort of underground water deposit that is seeping through the ground in this area...
But I guess the NASA scientists are better at this than my arm-chair quarterback approach...
Then again, I can just see the press conference..."We found water on Mars"..."The rover got stuck in the mud"...
Ever heard of Progeny??? They make their money off of selling 3rd party support for older OSes that RedHat no longer supports...fairly good pricing too...$5/mo per machine or $2500/mo for an unlimited number of machines...
They actually have some really good pricing for companies that want to stay with old versions of RedHat.
Not really. Some license plates have bar codes on them already...and it's farily trivial to incorporate optical character recognition software to automatically read the numbers from the plate...
Then again, what makes you think that they couldn't recognize your vehicle by your inspection sticker (bar codes on some of those)...
If RFID were really useful in this fashion, I'ld expect for states/localities to require RFID chips in the inspection stickers...these are installed by certified personel and could be tested after installation...
But that's the problem. It makes enforcement a PITA. For instance, I wonder how many employees have gotten locked inside of that "airlock" because their badge was damaged and didn't read properly...or what about bad badge readers...most places don't enforce the badge policy that much...they simply use it like a replacement for a bunch of keys and not a method of controlling employees...
Yes, that's true...I know a good bit of RFID tags use radio waves to operate, but if I remember correctly some of these actually power themselves...
Anyhow exactly does my boss know it's MY underware? For instance, if you use a badge reader, what keeps me from going in behind a co-worker? What about the tire thing...it would be much easier to simply track you with a <gasp> license plate...
The truth is, you can already be tracked, it's just that most of us are so boring it isn't worth the effort.
I still don't get it...Why all the concern about RFID?
These aren't much useful after you purchase the product...
You can be certain that if anyone has something to hide they will either find a way to disable the chip or simply buy products that don't contain an RFID chip...
The batteries don't last forever either...
So, I have to ask, why the concern? A specific person can be tracked much easier by the location of their cell phone, on-star equiped car, bank/credit card purchases, etc than by tracking the location of a pair of shoes they bought.
Not only that, most of the products with RFID tags will only have them in the packaging...once you take it out and throw away the packing material, it no longer provides any useful information.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see the need for concern...
What are the odds that this is related to the gain in popularity of Linux and OpenOffice.org as well as a revival of the Mac in the form of OS X???
I'm almost certain that M$ would rather lose a little cash than see users start jumping ship. What M$ is starting to realize is that when your customers are forced to upgrade, they can still choose your competitor's product.
But then again, any free version of Linux will be upgradable to another free version of Linux. So, it kind of makes 8 years of support unnecessary in most cases.
Well, lets see...if they REALLY are their chips and the RFID really was bad, then all they would have to do is crack open the chips (I'm sure they will have a method for doing this) and confirm that the number on the RFID circutry matches a chip that has not been accounted for and they would give you the money...
If the RFID is really bad, they wouldn't be able to use that specific chip anymore...So, obviously a chip that is owned by the casino could be essentially destroyed to confirm authenticity, if on the other hand, you were trying to pull a fast one, it's still no loss to them.
But you must add that this ONLY works IF you live in California...I don't actually know if it would work for a business that has a branch in California, or if it would work if you are no longer a resident of California...
But it's safe to say that if you can't rightfully claim a direct connection to California (which is most ppl on the east coast) then filing a claim would likely give M$ the ability to sue you for filing a false claim...
Problem is, many applications can be termed as servers...some OSes run web servers without the users knowledge...others run web servers on non-standard ports...even others (like games) are not so obviously servers...even some standard services could be termed as servers (DCOM, Ping, Inetd, NetBios, etc)...not to mention that most virus infected machine will run a mail server...
When they start enforcing the whole server thing they'll have to enforce it for everyone, or they will be subjected to law suits...
Of course, it's only a matter of time until they send one of these letters to someone with some real clout...
If they really want to limit usage, they should simply state limits in their terms of service...
That's my point...if you don't have to itemize, it won't matter who does your taxes...there are a lot of ppl here that will be in that boat...I would venture to say that most ppl here are under say 35 and rent and are either single or married with no children...
The thing that most ppl forget is that if you make a deduction, you have to keep your records for at least 5 years. Meaning that if you bought a bunch of books and deducted them as a business expense, you have to keep reciepts for 5 years (or longer)...if you are audited, these kinds of deductions are ran through with a fine toothed comb and if you don't have real and immediate proof, your are liable for that and may face a fine as well...
It's not worth it to try and get out of paying the gov't...it will come back on you 10 fold...and that's why they make it that way...
BTW, this is not to be taken as tax advice. (for those that don't know, you can be held liable if you give any tax advice)
My first computer was a C= 64...I had tons of games for the thing...made me pretty popular when the rest of the kids only had an Atari at home...
Actually, it was the family computer...my first "sits in my room, taken to college" computer was a C= Amiga 2000 (no hard drive, just dual-floppies)...
I think it's worth mentioning that the C= 64 was my first REAL introduction to computers...the fact that the only storage I had was a Datasette and an almost endless supply of Computes Gazette and Ahoy magazines (the ones with the programs in the back) was what started me on programming...
Their movies are kind of thrown together...mostly stuff that wouldn't even make a TeeVee movie here...
The truth is, if any of their movies were half-way decent, we would be seeing Dubs and Subs of them available in stores, like we do with Chinese and Japanese films...
There are CeeDees with the old kernels on them...I'm sure someone has one of them somewhere (Walnut Creek used to include the ancient sources in their box sets)...even if they did, they wouldn't have changed them until after the whole SCO thing...so one of the box sets from a few years ago should be sufficient...
I think we've clearly determined that SCO's claims (at least up till now) are completely baseless to the point of laughability. The problem here is that by Linus and various other open source figures discussing this, it almost gives credibility to their claims.
I think it's time that this nonsense stop...by all means, Linus should talk with the IBM and Novell legal team if he is so inclined, but this is only giving SCO publicity...SCO knows that if they can get their name in the news (even in a negative light), it's still better than fading away...
If news sites refuse to carry SCO's press releases, the whole thing would be moot...
What really need to happen is the courts need to put a gag order on everyone involved with the case...IBM knows where to go if they need more information, but keeping SCO from making any more claims regarding Linux would stop this whole thing in its tracks...I'm not even talking about the validity of their accusations, just that they shouldn't be allowed to keep attacking IBM and the Linux community until they win their case in court...
This is still in the Northrop Grumman dry dock in New Orleans...
If anyone's at fault for the open relay, it's probably Northrop Grumman, but I'ld say it's just someone with a Linux box in the ship yard (I'm not gonna scan a.mil address to find out):)
Anyhow, this is likely a non-issue, as the.mil will probably install their own systems once Northrop Grumman is done with it...the only thing that is likely to be left over in the end is their ship control systems (no need for a mail server there)...
This is probably just a workstation on someone's desk at the docks...but the post makes it sound like it's an actively commissioned ship...
The most likely evolution of broadband is cellular broadband being implimented on a wide scale once the majority of the UHF spectrum goes back to the FCC (currently sometime in 2007...I think)...
The cellular companies will get a huge chunk of the old UHF spectrum, and most likely they will start going into the broadband ISP business. It only makes sense.
As mobile technology becomes the norm (more and more ppl are using laptops) they will demand wireless connectivity. This has the 2-fold benefit of bringing affordable broadband to rural areas (99% of rural areas have cellular coverage...your little handheld phone might not get a signal, but a stationary antenna would)...as well as always-connect broadband for mobile computing...
There's a new group of consumers that are just around the corner...these are the young kids (just getting into Jr. High right now) that have grown up with the internet and have never known a world without a computer with a global network connection. They are a lot like "geeks/nerds" in the way that they CRAVE information...they want to be connected 24/7 and they want it now!!! This isn't something that's going away and as soon as these kids start getting paychecks they're going to be driving the technology industry into new directions...
You don't have to ask what the greats would be doing...you only have to look at what everyone else is doing. It's likely he would eventually go the way everyone else HAS to go...
Photography is changing forever. With fewer ppl needing to have film developed, the cost of devloping chemicals will begin to increase. As the consumer market begins to switch to digital, the cost of all film photography will go up. Therefore, one of the reasons why 35mm is so popular dissappears...it's used for EVERYTHING from disposable cameras to professional SLR cameras. So, what do you have, there's fewer stores devoted to film developing and those that CAN develop film spend most of their time making prints from digital images.
Consumer digital cameras are already capable of 35mm quality. Professional digital cameras are capable of Medium format quality. You are seeing some 35mm owners switching to digital now. The backyard photographer is switching to digital. Once resolution (for large format cameras) and the last few remaining issues with digital are ironed out, professional photographers will either switch to digital or be defined by the fact that they haven't.
Here's a link to a discussion where the poster states that Access is not good for large installations...
You might check with IBM (DB2), Oracle, MySQL, or Postgres for help as well...I'm sure they'ld be more than happy to help.
Cross platform compatability. Students with Windoze, Linux, or Macs can run most SQL servers...not so with Access...
And then there's the corporate settings...most companies are using DB2, Oracle, MySql, or something that is ANSI-SQL compatible...not M$ SQL...
You also have more utilities and help available for SQL than Access...
There's GUI tools, schema browsers, etc all available for SQL...
If your school runs its website on a *NIX server, you could up-play the compatibility angle...you know, senior projects and such...
One major advantage of SQL is that all of the companies/organizations that I mentioned are free or have a free educational version...I doubt M$ does...
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Really, and exactly how many of them have we gassed??? Ok, I know...you must be thinking about firing squads... No... Ok, I know...they must be burning them alive... Not that either...
Well, sounds to me like I need some more facts...exactly what executions are you talking about???
Not really...most albums are only ~35 minutes in length.
It's a simple breakdown...most songs are only about 3 minutes and some odd seconds long...lets say 3:45...
Most albums only have ~10 songs on them...
So, our 3:45 song on each track comes out to ~35 minutes. This leaves more than enough room for extra copies of the songs, music videos, etc...as a matter of fact, the band Offspring has a tendency to include music videos from the previous album in this extra space. It's actually very kewl when a specific artist/band that you like does this. It gives diehard fans high quality copies of videos...some they may have never seen...and as for casual listeners, it gives them a taste of the previous album, which can create new sales for old albums...
The ultimate reason why the 3 minute song is still used is because it makes the song easy to play on the radio...this is the reason that you don't hear Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven on the radio very often...As for the 10 songs on an album, this comes from the old LP days...at the time, you could fit ~35 minutes on a single LP...
As for why they never increased the number of songs, it's because it would take even longer to make a new album and the result would ultimately cost more...so they've kept their old ~10 song limit...
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if the rover rolls off the platform and becomes stuck in this "Mud"?
I'm guessing that it may be possible that there is thermal activity just under the surface of the landing site which is keeping the surface warm enough to have "mud" and possibly some sort of underground water deposit that is seeping through the ground in this area...
But I guess the NASA scientists are better at this than my arm-chair quarterback approach...
Then again, I can just see the press conference..."We found water on Mars"..."The rover got stuck in the mud"...
Ever heard of Progeny??? They make their money off of selling 3rd party support for older OSes that RedHat no longer supports...fairly good pricing too...$5/mo per machine or $2500/mo for an unlimited number of machines...
They actually have some really good pricing for companies that want to stay with old versions of RedHat.
Not really. Some license plates have bar codes on them already...and it's farily trivial to incorporate optical character recognition software to automatically read the numbers from the plate...
Then again, what makes you think that they couldn't recognize your vehicle by your inspection sticker (bar codes on some of those)...
If RFID were really useful in this fashion, I'ld expect for states/localities to require RFID chips in the inspection stickers...these are installed by certified personel and could be tested after installation...
But that's the problem. It makes enforcement a PITA. For instance, I wonder how many employees have gotten locked inside of that "airlock" because their badge was damaged and didn't read properly...or what about bad badge readers...most places don't enforce the badge policy that much...they simply use it like a replacement for a bunch of keys and not a method of controlling employees...
Yes, that's true...I know a good bit of RFID tags use radio waves to operate, but if I remember correctly some of these actually power themselves...
Anyhow exactly does my boss know it's MY underware? For instance, if you use a badge reader, what keeps me from going in behind a co-worker? What about the tire thing...it would be much easier to simply track you with a <gasp> license plate...
The truth is, you can already be tracked, it's just that most of us are so boring it isn't worth the effort.
I still don't get it...Why all the concern about RFID?
These aren't much useful after you purchase the product...
You can be certain that if anyone has something to hide they will either find a way to disable the chip or simply buy products that don't contain an RFID chip...
The batteries don't last forever either...
So, I have to ask, why the concern? A specific person can be tracked much easier by the location of their cell phone, on-star equiped car, bank/credit card purchases, etc than by tracking the location of a pair of shoes they bought.
Not only that, most of the products with RFID tags will only have them in the packaging...once you take it out and throw away the packing material, it no longer provides any useful information.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see the need for concern...
What are the odds that this is related to the gain in popularity of Linux and OpenOffice.org as well as a revival of the Mac in the form of OS X???
I'm almost certain that M$ would rather lose a little cash than see users start jumping ship. What M$ is starting to realize is that when your customers are forced to upgrade, they can still choose your competitor's product.
Debian.
But then again, any free version of Linux will be upgradable to another free version of Linux. So, it kind of makes 8 years of support unnecessary in most cases.
Well, lets see...if they REALLY are their chips and the RFID really was bad, then all they would have to do is crack open the chips (I'm sure they will have a method for doing this) and confirm that the number on the RFID circutry matches a chip that has not been accounted for and they would give you the money...
If the RFID is really bad, they wouldn't be able to use that specific chip anymore...So, obviously a chip that is owned by the casino could be essentially destroyed to confirm authenticity, if on the other hand, you were trying to pull a fast one, it's still no loss to them.
But you must add that this ONLY works IF you live in California...I don't actually know if it would work for a business that has a branch in California, or if it would work if you are no longer a resident of California...
But it's safe to say that if you can't rightfully claim a direct connection to California (which is most ppl on the east coast) then filing a claim would likely give M$ the ability to sue you for filing a false claim...
Try Here, this is a wrapper that uses the windoze drivers...I've used it on a Broadcom A/G card and it works like a charm.
If you are waiting for REAL, native support, try This project.
Problem is, many applications can be termed as servers...some OSes run web servers without the users knowledge...others run web servers on non-standard ports...even others (like games) are not so obviously servers...even some standard services could be termed as servers (DCOM, Ping, Inetd, NetBios, etc)...not to mention that most virus infected machine will run a mail server...
When they start enforcing the whole server thing they'll have to enforce it for everyone, or they will be subjected to law suits...
Of course, it's only a matter of time until they send one of these letters to someone with some real clout...
If they really want to limit usage, they should simply state limits in their terms of service...
That's my point...if you don't have to itemize, it won't matter who does your taxes...there are a lot of ppl here that will be in that boat...I would venture to say that most ppl here are under say 35 and rent and are either single or married with no children...
The thing that most ppl forget is that if you make a deduction, you have to keep your records for at least 5 years. Meaning that if you bought a bunch of books and deducted them as a business expense, you have to keep reciepts for 5 years (or longer)...if you are audited, these kinds of deductions are ran through with a fine toothed comb and if you don't have real and immediate proof, your are liable for that and may face a fine as well...
It's not worth it to try and get out of paying the gov't...it will come back on you 10 fold...and that's why they make it that way...
BTW, this is not to be taken as tax advice. (for those that don't know, you can be held liable if you give any tax advice)
Only if you have deductions...unless you have a house, family, investments, etc you won't find a professional any better...
As a general rule, if you qualify for the 1040-EZ, you won't get any real advantage from a professional accountant...
My first computer was a C= 64...I had tons of games for the thing...made me pretty popular when the rest of the kids only had an Atari at home...
Actually, it was the family computer...my first "sits in my room, taken to college" computer was a C= Amiga 2000 (no hard drive, just dual-floppies)...
I think it's worth mentioning that the C= 64 was my first REAL introduction to computers...the fact that the only storage I had was a Datasette and an almost endless supply of Computes Gazette and Ahoy magazines (the ones with the programs in the back) was what started me on programming...
Nothing...
Their movies are kind of thrown together...mostly stuff that wouldn't even make a TeeVee movie here...
The truth is, if any of their movies were half-way decent, we would be seeing Dubs and Subs of them available in stores, like we do with Chinese and Japanese films...
Not really, these studios don't make anything that even touches Hollywood in terms of Plot/Acting/etc...
Lets just say that if a producer in the US has a movie to make, India is probably the LAST place he's going to look to shoot it...
There are CeeDees with the old kernels on them...I'm sure someone has one of them somewhere (Walnut Creek used to include the ancient sources in their box sets)...even if they did, they wouldn't have changed them until after the whole SCO thing...so one of the box sets from a few years ago should be sufficient...
I think we've clearly determined that SCO's claims (at least up till now) are completely baseless to the point of laughability. The problem here is that by Linus and various other open source figures discussing this, it almost gives credibility to their claims.
I think it's time that this nonsense stop...by all means, Linus should talk with the IBM and Novell legal team if he is so inclined, but this is only giving SCO publicity...SCO knows that if they can get their name in the news (even in a negative light), it's still better than fading away...
If news sites refuse to carry SCO's press releases, the whole thing would be moot...
What really need to happen is the courts need to put a gag order on everyone involved with the case...IBM knows where to go if they need more information, but keeping SCO from making any more claims regarding Linux would stop this whole thing in its tracks...I'm not even talking about the validity of their accusations, just that they shouldn't be allowed to keep attacking IBM and the Linux community until they win their case in court...
This is still in the Northrop Grumman dry dock in New Orleans...
.mil address to find out) :)
.mil will probably install their own systems once Northrop Grumman is done with it...the only thing that is likely to be left over in the end is their ship control systems (no need for a mail server there)...
If anyone's at fault for the open relay, it's probably Northrop Grumman, but I'ld say it's just someone with a Linux box in the ship yard (I'm not gonna scan a
Anyhow, this is likely a non-issue, as the
This is probably just a workstation on someone's desk at the docks...but the post makes it sound like it's an actively commissioned ship...
The most likely evolution of broadband is cellular broadband being implimented on a wide scale once the majority of the UHF spectrum goes back to the FCC (currently sometime in 2007...I think)...
The cellular companies will get a huge chunk of the old UHF spectrum, and most likely they will start going into the broadband ISP business. It only makes sense.
As mobile technology becomes the norm (more and more ppl are using laptops) they will demand wireless connectivity. This has the 2-fold benefit of bringing affordable broadband to rural areas (99% of rural areas have cellular coverage...your little handheld phone might not get a signal, but a stationary antenna would)...as well as always-connect broadband for mobile computing...
There's a new group of consumers that are just around the corner...these are the young kids (just getting into Jr. High right now) that have grown up with the internet and have never known a world without a computer with a global network connection. They are a lot like "geeks/nerds" in the way that they CRAVE information...they want to be connected 24/7 and they want it now!!! This isn't something that's going away and as soon as these kids start getting paychecks they're going to be driving the technology industry into new directions...
You don't have to ask what the greats would be doing...you only have to look at what everyone else is doing. It's likely he would eventually go the way everyone else HAS to go...
Photography is changing forever. With fewer ppl needing to have film developed, the cost of devloping chemicals will begin to increase. As the consumer market begins to switch to digital, the cost of all film photography will go up. Therefore, one of the reasons why 35mm is so popular dissappears...it's used for EVERYTHING from disposable cameras to professional SLR cameras. So, what do you have, there's fewer stores devoted to film developing and those that CAN develop film spend most of their time making prints from digital images.
Consumer digital cameras are already capable of 35mm quality. Professional digital cameras are capable of Medium format quality. You are seeing some 35mm owners switching to digital now. The backyard photographer is switching to digital. Once resolution (for large format cameras) and the last few remaining issues with digital are ironed out, professional photographers will either switch to digital or be defined by the fact that they haven't.
Access has the most overhead according to this.
Here's a link to a discussion where the poster states that Access is not good for large installations...
You might check with IBM (DB2), Oracle, MySQL, or Postgres for help as well...I'm sure they'ld be more than happy to help.
Cross platform compatability. Students with Windoze, Linux, or Macs can run most SQL servers...not so with Access...
And then there's the corporate settings...most companies are using DB2, Oracle, MySql, or something that is ANSI-SQL compatible...not M$ SQL...
You also have more utilities and help available for SQL than Access...
There's GUI tools, schema browsers, etc all available for SQL...
If your school runs its website on a *NIX server, you could up-play the compatibility angle...you know, senior projects and such...
One major advantage of SQL is that all of the companies/organizations that I mentioned are free or have a free educational version...I doubt M$ does...