I can imagine in 200 years from now people are saying "gee, I'm glad we didn't move low-quality service sector jobs overseas as I'd have no industry to work in" just like we now say "man, am I glad we didn't move agricultural production and heavy industry overseas as my children wouldn't have the choice of making low quality garments, being a farm labourer or working in a smelt".
You are forgetting 3. Management tells programmers what they want and programmers um and ah, say they will need twice the reasonable amount of time and deliver it late and buggy (and gain overtime in the process). The IT industry attracted a lot of people to it before and around the time of the IT boom because there was a lack of people for jobs, many people saw a well paying industry and wanted to ride that wave, rather than excell in their own right. There are too many mediocre programmers the minds of management have been bent and programmers are given a bad name!!!
Number portability is about moving the same number across different mobile networks, which we have been able to do at least since 2000 (when I did it).
It is not about starting mobile numbers with 07 etc (IIRC, all mobile numbers in HK have to begin with a 9 or a 6 and all fixed lines, residential or sommercial start with 2 or 3 or only have 7 digits.).
AVI is not a codec, it is just a wrapper for and audio and video component. The audio has a codec (AC3, MP3, etc) and the video has a codec (DivX version whatever, XviD, etc). But AVI is not a codec and its quality is dependent upon whatever it wraps.
The economic observation comes down to 'technical analysis' - in this case fitting an ARIMA process over GDP. Each recession can be justified theoritically over what has happened over the past 10 years but why it is always 10 is a strange thing. Other economies (although being influenced by the US - the saying is "if America sneezes Europe [UK] catches a cold" via US demand for products/services in general) do not necessarily follow this cycle (the UK skipped the recession the US suffered shortly after the turn of the millenium but Japan has been in recession for some time).
Why are sun spots every 11 years? Is their a buildup of critical pressure on an 11 year cycle? Is the cycle fixed or can it be broken?
Electric utilities in Minnesota and across the country are preparing for potential disruptions in electric supplies this afternoon, when a strong geomagnetic solar storm is expected to hit Earth.
The storm was expected to be most severe Friday, though experts said they didn't anticipate problems with communication networks.
``This is not a super solar storm,'' said Larry Combs, a space weather forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder.
So far, the storm has interfered with airline communications and radio communications for teams on Mount Everest, Combs said. But problems were not widespread. Sun as seen from space
The storm, called a ``coronal mass ejection,'' is a mass of solar gas that swept toward Earth at 2 million mph. The usual cycle for such a storm is every 11 years; this one was expected to hit three years ago.
``It is kind of like a snowstorm in June in Colorado,'' Combs said.
Combs said power companies, which are among the center's best customers, have been notified and were taking precautions to avoid voltage problems and blackouts.
Xcel Energy spokesman Paul Adelmann said the company is monitoring the situation, with help from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NAERC).
"Our service area is not susceptible to the effects of solar flares in part because of our geology and research done in conjunction with the (University of Minnesota)," Adelmann said. Xcel does not anticipate any problems, he said, but will continue to monitor the situation for potential repercussions of any neighboring outages.
Satellites also are at risk during such storms but cell phones aren't likely to be affected unless they rely on satellites, Combs said.
``Satellites are built to live out there, but an accumulation of hits can cause problems,'' he said.
Operators can shut them down and put them in what is called a stow position until storms pass. They may need to be boosted back up to their correct altitudes after the storm.
Much like predicting a hurricane, forecasting the impact of a geomagnetic storm is difficult.
``It could just strike a glancing blow or hit head on,'' Combs said.
Bil MacLeslie, general manager for VISI.com, a Minneapolis-based Internet service provider, said the vast majority of customers will see no ill effects from the storm.
"We rely solely on land-based (wired) communications and expect little effect from the storm, but do expect customers to have issues with wireless computer networks, cellular messaging and paging services with content that originates from the Internet," said MacLeslie.
He said customers which use such transmissions may expect to see some degradation in their service.
Concern about the storm was triggered after one of the largest sunspot clusters in years developed over the past three days and produced a coronal mass ejection, similar to a solar flare, at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Lou Leffler, manager for NAERC's critical infrastructure protection , based in New Jersey, said NOAA upgraded the storm to a K7 late this morning.
"The level of intensity is based on a ranking from K1-K9. We normally don't track anything below K5," he said.
NAERC provides updates on such geomagnetic disturbances to utilities throughout the Canada and the continental U.S.
"At this level, some utilities, primarily in the northern hemisphere, may have to take action to reduce the amount of loading to the system," said Leffler. That can include reducing transfers, taking equipment offline and using generators to back up equipment.
John Kappenman, division manager for Metatech Corp. in Duluth, has been studying space weather for 27 years.
"The indicators we're seeing make this a moderate storm, which is not terribly exciting," Kappenman said. "We don't anticipate any disr
You only get 1 spam a week? Great! I get a lot more on some of these addresses and as soon as I detect one address getting proportionally many the filter has already kicked in.
Still... I spend a few minutes a week looking at what the spam filter got, some are amusing.
...a new feature of Office2003 and onward looks set to be the ability for emails to 'auto-destruct' (I suppose it would have something set on the server and would only work with MS Exchange etc).
Details are here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3205080.stm
Now, given the stresses banks and governments can have in court trials with incriminating emails popping up this could be something corporates would be happy to pay 10-40 percent more for.
Surely Charlton Heston promoting gun rallies post-Columbine is more of a disgraceful breach of good manners and fair play. And yes ihe did it very near and very soon after Columbine.
Yet for anyone who has actually seen the film and doesn't spout opinions about it on the basis of others' opinions, the film is not anti guns. It recognises the incidence of death from gun law in Canada is very low despite Canada having similar gun laws. It recognises most gun owners are not psychopaths and many gun owners own them for responsible reasons.
The film puzzles but the only thing it blames the most is fear - people kill from fear, they are afraid of those around them and hold guns for the wrong reasons - that despite falling crime rates fear of crime grows. Why? Because it is good business for TV networks.
I am not a great fan of MM, but that is why MM is demonised more than he deserves - the single thing he identifies as having some possible impact on causing gun crime is TV networks portrayal of crime, so they wish to dilute his image rather than rectfy themselves (and why should they as they are in competition to carry the best gun-chase, the best murder investigation, the most grusome mass-murcer exposure).
That is the literal 'wat-happened-in-the-film' but, like most works of art, was not the point.
Nor was Animal Farm a story for children about animals, nor were most other great pieces of modern literature or film what they appeared on the surface.
28 days later is about an infection that destroys society... when society tries to battle it they fight amongst themselves and although they were resistant against infection when united they turned to self nterest and destroyed themselves... only acting as a grou did they succeed.
Do not be spoonfed as Hollywood would like you to be... sure special effects are fun but please use your brain and at least try to interpret something when you pay to see it and not sit there like a vegetable who walks out and says 'that kicks ass'.
Aside from the fact no biological weapons have been discovered in any mass scale, and none at all that were at the end of their use date (i.e., Iraq had produced no WMDs in years - why invade now?). I favour regime change, just mythical reasons should not be used to justify it.
Also, 28 days later was not a film about bio weapons, it was an analogy for society as it exists now. The 'virus' transferred was called 'rage' in the film... one was infected by another inflicting it upon them... it was created in the first place by overexposure to violence... it is an analogy to the society we live in where we are over exposed to biolence, where we take it for granted and wher we don't realise it exiss already [in the film the army regiment were afflicted by a form of rage, though different from the all-out virus, their 'infection' was the one society now has - try to battle an enemy but become absorbed by hate - the virus only absorbed them when they had already destroyed themselves].
IIRC, the time Guinness was first brewed Ireland was part of the UK - and the British Isles within that... doesn't that make it British from the Irish province?
Also, I must say Oz rocks for bost booze and babes - that Fosters slop is only served here... VB is OZ's Carling [i.e., domestic shite lager] and still knocks any lager outside the German brewing law.
That is pointless... if it has not already been patented it cannot be because of prior existence... not patenting (useful or other) variations on a theme is another matter!
OK, so I have a personal interest in the world of IT and technology... and I like to know how my technology is doing what it is (infact I like to know how all I interact with works - I like to learn and increase my knowledge). I also have a CFA and MBA, as well as an undergrad in economics (I like to know how economies work too).
MBA is used as a negative reference when it shouldn't be, a good MBA graduate should be a good manager - a good manager should be interested and should want to learn about whatever they encounter, and should defer specialist knowledge to the specialist (well, this should be specialists as a range of views should be sought) to inform. A decision based like this should be clearly justified and acceptable to all that are without prejudice as they will see the rationalisation.
ALl I can see around here is BAD MBAs being commented about... now/. is a little prejudice (most seek to justify their own existence) but please do not refer to all MBAs in a negative light... please specify BAD MBA as the fact they are incompetant to what they claim to be should be prioritised.
BTW I work as a fund manager and love, really love, ripping up many managers of IT firms when they come to meet me as they often are really clueless and only ride as an intermediary between the techie and the financier.
SCO may be annihilated but that doesn't matter too much... venture capitalists are also known as vulture capitalists... a wise VC firm would buy a stock cheap prior to its collapse and use its expertise to sell the constitunt parts for more then their as-a-whole sum. VSs sometimes break forms to build them, it is not a straight-forward business.
Remember SCO has some assets outside the UNIX claims, includingan installed userbase of 2 million.
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I can imagine in 200 years from now people are saying "gee, I'm glad we didn't move low-quality service sector jobs overseas as I'd have no industry to work in" just like we now say "man, am I glad we didn't move agricultural production and heavy industry overseas as my children wouldn't have the choice of making low quality garments, being a farm labourer or working in a smelt".
You made a good time about time difference but then spoiled it with "If you were a hotdog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?"
What does that have to do with cheese?
You are forgetting 3. Management tells programmers what they want and programmers um and ah, say they will need twice the reasonable amount of time and deliver it late and buggy (and gain overtime in the process). The IT industry attracted a lot of people to it before and around the time of the IT boom because there was a lack of people for jobs, many people saw a well paying industry and wanted to ride that wave, rather than excell in their own right. There are too many mediocre programmers the minds of management have been bent and programmers are given a bad name!!!
Number portability is about moving the same number across different mobile networks, which we have been able to do at least since 2000 (when I did it).
It is not about starting mobile numbers with 07 etc (IIRC, all mobile numbers in HK have to begin with a 9 or a 6 and all fixed lines, residential or sommercial start with 2 or 3 or only have 7 digits.).
AVI is not a codec, it is just a wrapper for and audio and video component. The audio has a codec (AC3, MP3, etc) and the video has a codec (DivX version whatever, XviD, etc). But AVI is not a codec and its quality is dependent upon whatever it wraps.
If he's working for them, he's not giving them much time on your methodology given:
1 Health Professionals $89,500
2 Electric Utilities $59,283
3 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $39,000
4 Oil & Gas $22,530
5 Retail Sales $19,500
6 Telecom Services & Equipment $13,500
7 Securities & Investment $11,500
8 TV/Movies/Music $10,500
His funding bias has shifted from TV//Movies/Music in 2000 far in favour to utilities/health/pharma (in 2002 also)... which is interesting.
In Soviet Russia our '200Km/h in the wrong lane' Beowolf cluster of Tatu overlords 0wnz0rs you.
I'd also be sceptical about such a relationship.
The economic observation comes down to 'technical analysis' - in this case fitting an ARIMA process over GDP. Each recession can be justified theoritically over what has happened over the past 10 years but why it is always 10 is a strange thing. Other economies (although being influenced by the US - the saying is "if America sneezes Europe [UK] catches a cold" via US demand for products/services in general) do not necessarily follow this cycle (the UK skipped the recession the US suffered shortly after the turn of the millenium but Japan has been in recession for some time).
Why are sun spots every 11 years? Is their a buildup of critical pressure on an 11 year cycle? Is the cycle fixed or can it be broken?
Here you go:
Electric utilities in Minnesota and across the country are preparing for potential disruptions in electric supplies this afternoon, when a strong geomagnetic solar storm is expected to hit Earth.
The storm was expected to be most severe Friday, though experts said they didn't anticipate problems with communication networks.
``This is not a super solar storm,'' said Larry Combs, a space weather forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder.
So far, the storm has interfered with airline communications and radio communications for teams on Mount Everest, Combs said. But problems were not widespread.
Sun as seen from space
The storm, called a ``coronal mass ejection,'' is a mass of solar gas that swept toward Earth at 2 million mph. The usual cycle for such a storm is every 11 years; this one was expected to hit three years ago.
``It is kind of like a snowstorm in June in Colorado,'' Combs said.
Combs said power companies, which are among the center's best customers, have been notified and were taking precautions to avoid voltage problems and blackouts.
Xcel Energy spokesman Paul Adelmann said the company is monitoring the situation, with help from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NAERC).
"Our service area is not susceptible to the effects of solar flares in part because of our geology and research done in conjunction with the (University of Minnesota)," Adelmann said. Xcel does not anticipate any problems, he said, but will continue to monitor the situation for potential repercussions of any neighboring outages.
Satellites also are at risk during such storms but cell phones aren't likely to be affected unless they rely on satellites, Combs said.
``Satellites are built to live out there, but an accumulation of hits can cause problems,'' he said.
Operators can shut them down and put them in what is called a stow position until storms pass. They may need to be boosted back up to their correct altitudes after the storm.
Much like predicting a hurricane, forecasting the impact of a geomagnetic storm is difficult.
``It could just strike a glancing blow or hit head on,'' Combs said.
Bil MacLeslie, general manager for VISI.com, a Minneapolis-based Internet service provider, said the vast majority of customers will see no ill effects from the storm.
"We rely solely on land-based (wired) communications and expect little effect from the storm, but do expect customers to have issues with wireless computer networks, cellular messaging and paging services with content that originates from the Internet," said MacLeslie.
He said customers which use such transmissions may expect to see some degradation in their service.
Concern about the storm was triggered after one of the largest sunspot clusters in years developed over the past three days and produced a coronal mass ejection, similar to a solar flare, at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Lou Leffler, manager for NAERC's critical infrastructure protection , based in New Jersey, said NOAA upgraded the storm to a K7 late this morning.
"The level of intensity is based on a ranking from K1-K9. We normally don't track anything below K5," he said.
NAERC provides updates on such geomagnetic disturbances to utilities throughout the Canada and the continental U.S.
"At this level, some utilities, primarily in the northern hemisphere, may have to take action to reduce the amount of loading to the system," said Leffler. That can include reducing transfers, taking equipment offline and using generators to back up equipment.
John Kappenman, division manager for Metatech Corp. in Duluth, has been studying space weather for 27 years.
"The indicators we're seeing make this a moderate storm, which is not terribly exciting," Kappenman said. "We don't anticipate any disr
Most US recessions of the last 200 years have started in the first 2 years of their decade.
Do sun spots also follow a 10 year cycle?
[Not that I necessarily justify economic technical analysis... it just seems to purvey].
> Remember Skylab? It was a victim of premature entry just because of higher than expected solar activity.
Is that the end of Terminator 4? I thought Skylab had no root physical location, but existed across a network...
I do absolutely the same.
You only get 1 spam a week? Great! I get a lot more on some of these addresses and as soon as I detect one address getting proportionally many the filter has already kicked in.
Still... I spend a few minutes a week looking at what the spam filter got, some are amusing.
Would it be possible to dictionary attack a book, parse the words and come up with a plain text version of the book?
That would be very seriously impressive!
I agree. Only have 5 domains but they run smooth, free email forwarding and web forwarding and free DNS for $15/year.
...a new feature of Office2003 and onward looks set to be the ability for emails to 'auto-destruct' (I suppose it would have something set on the server and would only work with MS Exchange etc).
Details are here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3205080.stm
Now, given the stresses banks and governments can have in court trials with incriminating emails popping up this could be something corporates would be happy to pay 10-40 percent more for.
Surely Charlton Heston promoting gun rallies post-Columbine is more of a disgraceful breach of good manners and fair play. And yes ihe did it very near and very soon after Columbine.
Yet for anyone who has actually seen the film and doesn't spout opinions about it on the basis of others' opinions, the film is not anti guns. It recognises the incidence of death from gun law in Canada is very low despite Canada having similar gun laws. It recognises most gun owners are not psychopaths and many gun owners own them for responsible reasons.
The film puzzles but the only thing it blames the most is fear - people kill from fear, they are afraid of those around them and hold guns for the wrong reasons - that despite falling crime rates fear of crime grows. Why? Because it is good business for TV networks.
I am not a great fan of MM, but that is why MM is demonised more than he deserves - the single thing he identifies as having some possible impact on causing gun crime is TV networks portrayal of crime, so they wish to dilute his image rather than rectfy themselves (and why should they as they are in competition to carry the best gun-chase, the best murder investigation, the most grusome mass-murcer exposure).
That is the literal 'wat-happened-in-the-film' but, like most works of art, was not the point.
Nor was Animal Farm a story for children about animals, nor were most other great pieces of modern literature or film what they appeared on the surface.
28 days later is about an infection that destroys society... when society tries to battle it they fight amongst themselves and although they were resistant against infection when united they turned to self nterest and destroyed themselves... only acting as a grou did they succeed.
Do not be spoonfed as Hollywood would like you to be... sure special effects are fun but please use your brain and at least try to interpret something when you pay to see it and not sit there like a vegetable who walks out and says 'that kicks ass'.
Nice troll.
Aside from the fact no biological weapons have been discovered in any mass scale, and none at all that were at the end of their use date (i.e., Iraq had produced no WMDs in years - why invade now?). I favour regime change, just mythical reasons should not be used to justify it.
Also, 28 days later was not a film about bio weapons, it was an analogy for society as it exists now. The 'virus' transferred was called 'rage' in the film... one was infected by another inflicting it upon them... it was created in the first place by overexposure to violence... it is an analogy to the society we live in where we are over exposed to biolence, where we take it for granted and wher we don't realise it exiss already [in the film the army regiment were afflicted by a form of rage, though different from the all-out virus, their 'infection' was the one society now has - try to battle an enemy but become absorbed by hate - the virus only absorbed them when they had already destroyed themselves].
...but what do i know? i blasted a way to a PB in UT yesterday, just saw today Kill Bill and want to frag some plebs with my sword.
IIRC, the time Guinness was first brewed Ireland was part of the UK - and the British Isles within that... doesn't that make it British from the Irish province?
Also, I must say Oz rocks for bost booze and babes - that Fosters slop is only served here... VB is OZ's Carling [i.e., domestic shite lager] and still knocks any lager outside the German brewing law.
Ha ha that is quite funny.
Despite using Mozilla I was redirected to MSN Search to search for 'Gaotse'.
3 of the 4 results were for Slashdot which surely means slashdotters are 75% of the poor spelling Goatse manics on the web.
I use KAzAA Lite and my Creative MUVO. No DRM in that combo!
That is pointless... if it has not already been patented it cannot be because of prior existence... not patenting (useful or other) variations on a theme is another matter!
OK, so I have a personal interest in the world of IT and technology... and I like to know how my technology is doing what it is (infact I like to know how all I interact with works - I like to learn and increase my knowledge). I also have a CFA and MBA, as well as an undergrad in economics (I like to know how economies work too).
/. is a little prejudice (most seek to justify their own existence) but please do not refer to all MBAs in a negative light... please specify BAD MBA as the fact they are incompetant to what they claim to be should be prioritised.
MBA is used as a negative reference when it shouldn't be, a good MBA graduate should be a good manager - a good manager should be interested and should want to learn about whatever they encounter, and should defer specialist knowledge to the specialist (well, this should be specialists as a range of views should be sought) to inform. A decision based like this should be clearly justified and acceptable to all that are without prejudice as they will see the rationalisation.
ALl I can see around here is BAD MBAs being commented about... now
BTW I work as a fund manager and love, really love, ripping up many managers of IT firms when they come to meet me as they often are really clueless and only ride as an intermediary between the techie and the financier.
SCO may be annihilated but that doesn't matter too much... venture capitalists are also known as vulture capitalists... a wise VC firm would buy a stock cheap prior to its collapse and use its expertise to sell the constitunt parts for more then their as-a-whole sum. VSs sometimes break forms to build them, it is not a straight-forward business.
Remember SCO has some assets outside the UNIX claims, includingan installed userbase of 2 million.