We need IPV7 that will merge IPV4 and IPV6 in a usable way. Keeping them separate and incompatible is a big mistake. There needs to be a seamless upgrade path from the one to the other, else it will never happen.
And IPv8 will see one of the designers write in his personality into the code in an attempt to become immortal and a god. It might have worked too if the net itself hadn't have become sentient and put an end to it.
I doubt that very much I'm British, she's American.
I already get five weeks paid leave and work 37 hour weeks. From what I understand of the US I'd probably be fired for not being present enough. Here, I just go promoted.
America - you're doing it wrong.
I have European friends (mostly German) and I don't think either are doing it "wrong" there are different ways of doing it. The typical situation I see is that yes, the Europeans get much more time off and work less per week than the Americans. However, when that vacation time is taken, Europeans camp or stay in hostels and otherwise take cheap vacations while Americans stay in the best hotels and money is no object. It's just two different cultures, both with their advantages and disadvantages.
For example, I sometimes head to Leipzig Germany for a music festival. I meet lots of people there. Many of the Germans at the festival camp out and stay in tents, while I (and many of the other Americans that go) end up in the hotel all the bands are staying at. As one conversation went, I was saying that I was only in Germany for less than a week, and was told "you rich Americans that you can fly to Europe for a single weekend." I retorted, "You rich Germans that you can afford to take that much time off from work."
I think you have it backwards. It's not information being given to the cyborg, but information from the cyborg. Then the visual information would normally be beamed to the base or recorded to some sort of black box device. Or, maybe it was just a debugging tool that somebody forgot to turn off.
Not too surprising. Dell changes their models a lot and they all seem to be custom made. I work for a hospital that used to buy lots of Dells along with the extended warrantees. Often, when one dies near the end of warrantee, they can't fix it because they don't sell that model any more and have no spare parts for it. They'll then just swap it out for a brand new unit of a similar current model.
But it's a private website. It is the website's call if they want to ban pirates or ninjas.
It depends on what the political contribution laws are in the said country. Once a company starts allowing some political parties their services for free while banning them to others (like the Pirate Party which is a registered political party in Germany IIRC), that might be seen as an endorsement or contribution and could be in violation of some laws dealing with political contributions.
So then you start electing people who sound intelligent, not people who actually are intelligent. Those two tend to be inversely proportional.
The trouble is that the difference on whether somebody is 'intelligent' or just 'sounds intelligent' is directly proportional to whether they agree with the person making the judgement in most cases. The people you claim are intelligent probably are the ones somebody else will call psuedo-intellectuals and vice versa. So, how do you decide, you either have a democracy or you have some form of authoritative government that is not likely to change. If that latter system puts people into office who make a mistake, then everybody is hosed because even if everybody else sees the ship sinking, there's nothing that can be done because those in charge don't because according to them, they've already made the right choice and that other system probably doesn't allow for a change due to others feelings.
It's not like they can just upgrade the computer. The computer is running software that goes with specialized equipment. They'd have to upgrade everything if they upgraded anything and with that you could easily be talking millions of dollars. That might not be really needed as the machine should run just as well as it did with they bought it if it hasn't broke. If it's a smaller hospital, they might not have the budget to replace non-broken machines that still preform within needed specs, especially in this economic climate. Add in that some of these machines need to be FDA tested and are only supported by the manufactuer and that makes it even more expensive and harder to upgrade. Then, on many of these machines, the users might not even know they're running on NT4 as the software they run takes up the entire screen and they never actually interact with Windows at all.
I work in healthcare and I'm not surprised at all. Within the last year we just got rid of a Win95 system that was still talking over Novell networking, our Vax system, and a bunch of Sun Sparq stations. We still have plenty of Win2k and probably some WinNT4 around. We also have one of the most advanced set ups in the country, but legacy systems still exist for lots of reasons. First off, if it still works, management is not likely to want to get rid of it unless you make a good case for a good ROI. They're all old and aren't used to replacing major hospital systems that aren't broke especially if the new system doesn't offer any advantages. Budgets are always a problem because if the department isn't bringing in enough money to warrant new equipment, they might not get it. Then there are the vendors. perhaps GE, Fuji, or Cerner are happy with their old system or wants to sell you lots of stuff you don't want or need to replace one bit that is still running on old server tech just fine, so you effectively can't upgrade even if you wanted to.
Apple will do cheap if it doesn't cut into their more expensive offerings. Look at the iMac Mini and the iPod Nano. If they determine that breaking into the sub-$100 phone market won't hurt their current iPhone market but rather build more customers, they'll do it. Instead of an iPod Touch, you'd be looking at ta version of an iPod Nano that's a phone. Phone, iPod, a few more apps, and maybe email but no video or browsing perhaps.
I agree with the first part of your post, but ummm what? I'm unethical for buying peoples under-priced stuff and selling it for what it's worth,...?
YES! It's called 'war profiteering'. The Horde and Alliance are at war with each other and you are profiting off the desire by others to bring the war to its rightful conclusion. You are not only not doing your part to support the war but actually hurting it while making money off of it to fuel your own greed. Noobs are priced out of decent gear by people like you and are conistantly getting ganked because of it. Their blood is on your hands!"
So you want some pickles. The only vendor of pickles you can find has decreed that you may have them, but you must also purchase a beef patty, lettuce, tomato, a bun, a side of fries and a soft drink. Yeah, maybe you're in the mood for lunch (and maybe you're not)and while technically you can buy your pickles this isn't really what you're being forced to purchase. He wants a single song at a fair price, not a $25 CD containing that song and others he's never heard of.
So, you're comparing him to the crazy guy who holds up the line at McDonald's screaming about how he just wants to buy a single pickle slice?
Ya, I remembered that after I posted. Still, I don't think ethernet is going to help you much if your OS or hardware is giving you issues, where target disk mode probably can. Once again, the few times I've had to use it those situations makes it more than worth a point. Not to mention transferring accounts, data, and settings from one computer to another.
Giving a "point" to Apple for Firewire seems equally dubious. Most consumers who are choosing between a PC laptop and a Mac likely don't know what FireWire is, and the other laptops all HAVE a FireWire port, just a slower one. FireWire 800 is a "feature" that very few people need.
Giving a point for target disk mode alone seems well worth it to me. If you've ever had to get data off of a dead laptop, move it to your new laptop, or just move lots of it between your laptop and desktop, then firewire and the target disk mode is well worth it. Enough that I won't spend too much time considering the lower end Mac laptops anymore because of it. I spend too much time moving gigs of photos from my laptop which goes with me on shoots and vacations to my desktop where I do most my editing to not have it. Not to mention the time it saved me when my old iBook monitor failed. Perhaps PCs have come out with a USB target disk mode or some other method of sharing data that doesn't require burning media or a third device, but I haven't heard of it.
Not till they come out with a usb target disk mode. If you've ever had to get data off of a dead laptop, upgraged to a new laptop and wanted to move your data, or worked between a laptop and a desktop, you'll really appreciate target disk mode. Well worth getting firewire for in just the few times I've used it in emergencies and the time it saved from moving data from my laptop to my desktop mac.
Here are my answers. Others differ and I hear the final release DVD will have an additional 20 minutes to the last two episodes that might explain some bits they didn't flesh out.
How Gaius and 6 were 150,000 years in the future?
Those are the Seraphs (I prefer the old show term rather than Angels) that looked like Gaius and 6, not the actual people.
What is Kara?
She was Kara, who had transcended and become a Seraph. She went back to show the people the way and once done, rejoined them. Again this is parallel to the old series as there really is no reason to even have Kara disappear in the new series except to mimic the disappearance in the old series. In the old series the Seraphs were people who had transcended or evolved to that form. Starbuck joined them and then sent aid to the fleet to show them where Earth was in the form of a child. In the new series, Starbuck joined the Seraphs and then just went back herself to show them the way and then left to rejoin the Seraphs once her job was done.
Why did they smash their fleet?
Two lines of thought on this besides the short sighted "abandon tech" answer so many people are whining about. First, the fleet was all that much of an advantage. They'd been living on it for four years and steadily losing about 10% of their population each year. Life on the fleet was no fun ride. They had already run out of most supplies like toothpaste and almost starved once. Probably all the ships were damaged near as much as Galactica. They may have taken less damage but they were also built to take less damage. They stripped them and there simply really wasn't anything left of value, especially since most things of value for starting a colony has been used on New Caprica and left there. They were probably even running out of fuel and didn't have the means to mount another successful operation since they couldn't even mine it IIRC. Two, a large fleet in orbit, on the planet or even in the system would have been a large sign to any basestars that came into the system that they were there and defencless. Since the cylons didn't really seem all that intent on killing all life just that of the 12 colonies, chances are that basestars will jump into the system, scan and find no ships, just some primitives, and then jump away if they are looking for the fleet.
Also, as somebody else pointed out, the 12 colonies apparently also destroyed their ships upon founding the twelve colonies after leaving Kobol, so there is a heritage of such.
Why didn't the cylon base get damage from galactica practically jumping partially from inside of it?
I imagine it did along with the initial ramming and the nukes. They were in such an hurry to jump out that I felt everything was in danger of falling into the black hole (which is pretty much only a plot device for stuff to fall into as the rest of the safe jump location stuff could have easily been explained as the asteroid feild to begin with).
While we do hire legal experts for legal advice and mechanics to fix our cars, it is still expected of people to know that stealing is illegal and that their cars need oil and gas to run. We're not asking these people to actually do research, just to know things that should come up or are at least exposed to in their everyday lives. If haven't seen a map of the world and can't figure out that it's somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 covered in water, then they're probably so ignorant or dumb to be having troubles with normal life too. (Just like the people whose engines stop, they can't figure out why, and look at me dumb when I ask if it has oil in it.)
The same behavior has been going on in print magazines and newspapers probably since the they started. Ever notice how whatever band or establishment is reviewed in a magazine also ends up advertising? What they print and what is advertised is often very related. That's how they stay in business. The cover cost of magazines rarely pays for anything besides distribution costs and its the ad revenue that actually lets print happen. Thus, ad dollars often dictate was is or isn't in print. Sometimes the print media is extorting money out of others, and sometimes they're selling out and accepting the money offered to them for services. If they're really lucky, they're being offered money by people they really like and they don't actually have to edit stories. Even newspapers run into this because what news and stories they cover can offend their advertisers so it must be edited. It's the sad truth of print.
The web is just another form of print. Many websites get their money from advertising and so you see the exact same behavior that exists in dead tree media. Difference in media doesn't mean there's going to be any difference in how the operations are run as businesses. An establishment like Yelp might have their reputation matter somewhat, but only the clicks and the dollars will determine if it is enough.
I'm not sure how the US run-off system works, but a problem with having more than one party in a race with a simple first-past-the-post system is that a minority can get their candidate in against a majority.
There is no run off system here in the US. Let me try to explain the differences between the US and British systems as I understand them.
The British have a parliamentary system and your parties actually stand for something. Since your parties are formed around issues, there needs to be a run off system so that the lesser issues also get their say. IIRC, your current government leaders must form a majority of total parties to maintain in power. Gross oversimlification I know.
The American system is a factionalized system and our parties don't stand for anything. They might have issues they believe in right this moment, but they are not beholden to those issues but rather to the voters who want them. There are two parties and they add and drop issues as they get or lose votes. Thus, both parties fight over issues and people to have the majority. This means that the process of forming the majority is done at the party level rather than the government level. This is further complicated because there is no national election except for president that is done by the electoral college who represents their state. So almost all government officials, no matter where they stand in the government, are beholden to people back in their state, not the government or even party as a whole. Since the parties don't stand for anything besides red and blue factions, you can end up with a socialist Republican in one state and a free market capitalist Democrat from another even though such beliefs go against the general trend of their party.
In the American system, any 3rd party, as the lesser parties are known, whose issues gain enough of a following to become a sizable vote, will be absorbed by one or both of the major parties. Either their candidate will join a major party to gain the contacts and influence it gives them, or the major party will adopt their platform planks into their own to gain their voters. Likewise, anybody in the in the major parties whose issues don't get them enough votes and power they want, break away and form a 3rd party. These 3rd parties act as a sounding board and pulpit for new and old ideas for the major parties. To either be picked up as their issues resonate with the larger population or be forgotten as they become radicals that nobody wants.
Apple didn't invent the GUI, but they did invent the desktop metaphor. What they saw at PARC was basically buttons on the desktop that when clicked enacted commands. The idea of the desktop metaphor and diving into the files system with each file or folder being an object on the desktop or in a window was Apple's invention.
3. An external back up HDD or three will fit in a fairly small safety deposit box, so you can recover your data if your house burnsdown or is robbed. A similar number of CDs or even DVDs would require a much larger box to do so and is easier to manage.
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And IPv8 will see one of the designers write in his personality into the code in an attempt to become immortal and a god. It might have worked too if the net itself hadn't have become sentient and put an end to it.
I have European friends (mostly German) and I don't think either are doing it "wrong" there are different ways of doing it. The typical situation I see is that yes, the Europeans get much more time off and work less per week than the Americans. However, when that vacation time is taken, Europeans camp or stay in hostels and otherwise take cheap vacations while Americans stay in the best hotels and money is no object. It's just two different cultures, both with their advantages and disadvantages.
For example, I sometimes head to Leipzig Germany for a music festival. I meet lots of people there. Many of the Germans at the festival camp out and stay in tents, while I (and many of the other Americans that go) end up in the hotel all the bands are staying at. As one conversation went, I was saying that I was only in Germany for less than a week, and was told "you rich Americans that you can fly to Europe for a single weekend." I retorted, "You rich Germans that you can afford to take that much time off from work."
Remember, you haven't lost your girlfriend, just your place in line.
I think you have it backwards. It's not information being given to the cyborg, but information from the cyborg. Then the visual information would normally be beamed to the base or recorded to some sort of black box device. Or, maybe it was just a debugging tool that somebody forgot to turn off.
Not too surprising. Dell changes their models a lot and they all seem to be custom made. I work for a hospital that used to buy lots of Dells along with the extended warrantees. Often, when one dies near the end of warrantee, they can't fix it because they don't sell that model any more and have no spare parts for it. They'll then just swap it out for a brand new unit of a similar current model.
It depends on what the political contribution laws are in the said country. Once a company starts allowing some political parties their services for free while banning them to others (like the Pirate Party which is a registered political party in Germany IIRC), that might be seen as an endorsement or contribution and could be in violation of some laws dealing with political contributions.
The trouble is that the difference on whether somebody is 'intelligent' or just 'sounds intelligent' is directly proportional to whether they agree with the person making the judgement in most cases. The people you claim are intelligent probably are the ones somebody else will call psuedo-intellectuals and vice versa. So, how do you decide, you either have a democracy or you have some form of authoritative government that is not likely to change. If that latter system puts people into office who make a mistake, then everybody is hosed because even if everybody else sees the ship sinking, there's nothing that can be done because those in charge don't because according to them, they've already made the right choice and that other system probably doesn't allow for a change due to others feelings.
It's not like they can just upgrade the computer. The computer is running software that goes with specialized equipment. They'd have to upgrade everything if they upgraded anything and with that you could easily be talking millions of dollars. That might not be really needed as the machine should run just as well as it did with they bought it if it hasn't broke. If it's a smaller hospital, they might not have the budget to replace non-broken machines that still preform within needed specs, especially in this economic climate. Add in that some of these machines need to be FDA tested and are only supported by the manufactuer and that makes it even more expensive and harder to upgrade. Then, on many of these machines, the users might not even know they're running on NT4 as the software they run takes up the entire screen and they never actually interact with Windows at all.
I work in healthcare and I'm not surprised at all. Within the last year we just got rid of a Win95 system that was still talking over Novell networking, our Vax system, and a bunch of Sun Sparq stations. We still have plenty of Win2k and probably some WinNT4 around. We also have one of the most advanced set ups in the country, but legacy systems still exist for lots of reasons. First off, if it still works, management is not likely to want to get rid of it unless you make a good case for a good ROI. They're all old and aren't used to replacing major hospital systems that aren't broke especially if the new system doesn't offer any advantages. Budgets are always a problem because if the department isn't bringing in enough money to warrant new equipment, they might not get it. Then there are the vendors. perhaps GE, Fuji, or Cerner are happy with their old system or wants to sell you lots of stuff you don't want or need to replace one bit that is still running on old server tech just fine, so you effectively can't upgrade even if you wanted to.
I remember this from an earlier slashdot of the same group saying the same thing. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/20/0024248&from=rss
It's the Aporkalypse!
Apple will do cheap if it doesn't cut into their more expensive offerings. Look at the iMac Mini and the iPod Nano. If they determine that breaking into the sub-$100 phone market won't hurt their current iPhone market but rather build more customers, they'll do it. Instead of an iPod Touch, you'd be looking at ta version of an iPod Nano that's a phone. Phone, iPod, a few more apps, and maybe email but no video or browsing perhaps.
YES! It's called 'war profiteering'. The Horde and Alliance are at war with each other and you are profiting off the desire by others to bring the war to its rightful conclusion. You are not only not doing your part to support the war but actually hurting it while making money off of it to fuel your own greed. Noobs are priced out of decent gear by people like you and are conistantly getting ganked because of it. Their blood is on your hands!"
So, you're comparing him to the crazy guy who holds up the line at McDonald's screaming about how he just wants to buy a single pickle slice?
There is still little cooler than a BSA motorcycle.
Ya, I remembered that after I posted. Still, I don't think ethernet is going to help you much if your OS or hardware is giving you issues, where target disk mode probably can. Once again, the few times I've had to use it those situations makes it more than worth a point. Not to mention transferring accounts, data, and settings from one computer to another.
Giving a point for target disk mode alone seems well worth it to me. If you've ever had to get data off of a dead laptop, move it to your new laptop, or just move lots of it between your laptop and desktop, then firewire and the target disk mode is well worth it. Enough that I won't spend too much time considering the lower end Mac laptops anymore because of it. I spend too much time moving gigs of photos from my laptop which goes with me on shoots and vacations to my desktop where I do most my editing to not have it. Not to mention the time it saved me when my old iBook monitor failed. Perhaps PCs have come out with a USB target disk mode or some other method of sharing data that doesn't require burning media or a third device, but I haven't heard of it.
Not till they come out with a usb target disk mode. If you've ever had to get data off of a dead laptop, upgraged to a new laptop and wanted to move your data, or worked between a laptop and a desktop, you'll really appreciate target disk mode. Well worth getting firewire for in just the few times I've used it in emergencies and the time it saved from moving data from my laptop to my desktop mac.
Those are the Seraphs (I prefer the old show term rather than Angels) that looked like Gaius and 6, not the actual people.
She was Kara, who had transcended and become a Seraph. She went back to show the people the way and once done, rejoined them. Again this is parallel to the old series as there really is no reason to even have Kara disappear in the new series except to mimic the disappearance in the old series. In the old series the Seraphs were people who had transcended or evolved to that form. Starbuck joined them and then sent aid to the fleet to show them where Earth was in the form of a child. In the new series, Starbuck joined the Seraphs and then just went back herself to show them the way and then left to rejoin the Seraphs once her job was done.
Two lines of thought on this besides the short sighted "abandon tech" answer so many people are whining about. First, the fleet was all that much of an advantage. They'd been living on it for four years and steadily losing about 10% of their population each year. Life on the fleet was no fun ride. They had already run out of most supplies like toothpaste and almost starved once. Probably all the ships were damaged near as much as Galactica. They may have taken less damage but they were also built to take less damage. They stripped them and there simply really wasn't anything left of value, especially since most things of value for starting a colony has been used on New Caprica and left there. They were probably even running out of fuel and didn't have the means to mount another successful operation since they couldn't even mine it IIRC. Two, a large fleet in orbit, on the planet or even in the system would have been a large sign to any basestars that came into the system that they were there and defencless. Since the cylons didn't really seem all that intent on killing all life just that of the 12 colonies, chances are that basestars will jump into the system, scan and find no ships, just some primitives, and then jump away if they are looking for the fleet.
Also, as somebody else pointed out, the 12 colonies apparently also destroyed their ships upon founding the twelve colonies after leaving Kobol, so there is a heritage of such.
I imagine it did along with the initial ramming and the nukes. They were in such an hurry to jump out that I felt everything was in danger of falling into the black hole (which is pretty much only a plot device for stuff to fall into as the rest of the safe jump location stuff could have easily been explained as the asteroid feild to begin with).
What gives is that the human race is dead (along with the cylons). All the people alive today are human/cylon hybrids.
While we do hire legal experts for legal advice and mechanics to fix our cars, it is still expected of people to know that stealing is illegal and that their cars need oil and gas to run. We're not asking these people to actually do research, just to know things that should come up or are at least exposed to in their everyday lives. If haven't seen a map of the world and can't figure out that it's somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 covered in water, then they're probably so ignorant or dumb to be having troubles with normal life too. (Just like the people whose engines stop, they can't figure out why, and look at me dumb when I ask if it has oil in it.)
Has Netcraft confirmed it?
The same behavior has been going on in print magazines and newspapers probably since the they started. Ever notice how whatever band or establishment is reviewed in a magazine also ends up advertising? What they print and what is advertised is often very related. That's how they stay in business. The cover cost of magazines rarely pays for anything besides distribution costs and its the ad revenue that actually lets print happen. Thus, ad dollars often dictate was is or isn't in print. Sometimes the print media is extorting money out of others, and sometimes they're selling out and accepting the money offered to them for services. If they're really lucky, they're being offered money by people they really like and they don't actually have to edit stories. Even newspapers run into this because what news and stories they cover can offend their advertisers so it must be edited. It's the sad truth of print.
The web is just another form of print. Many websites get their money from advertising and so you see the exact same behavior that exists in dead tree media. Difference in media doesn't mean there's going to be any difference in how the operations are run as businesses. An establishment like Yelp might have their reputation matter somewhat, but only the clicks and the dollars will determine if it is enough.
There is no run off system here in the US. Let me try to explain the differences between the US and British systems as I understand them.
The British have a parliamentary system and your parties actually stand for something. Since your parties are formed around issues, there needs to be a run off system so that the lesser issues also get their say. IIRC, your current government leaders must form a majority of total parties to maintain in power. Gross oversimlification I know.
The American system is a factionalized system and our parties don't stand for anything. They might have issues they believe in right this moment, but they are not beholden to those issues but rather to the voters who want them. There are two parties and they add and drop issues as they get or lose votes. Thus, both parties fight over issues and people to have the majority. This means that the process of forming the majority is done at the party level rather than the government level. This is further complicated because there is no national election except for president that is done by the electoral college who represents their state. So almost all government officials, no matter where they stand in the government, are beholden to people back in their state, not the government or even party as a whole. Since the parties don't stand for anything besides red and blue factions, you can end up with a socialist Republican in one state and a free market capitalist Democrat from another even though such beliefs go against the general trend of their party.
In the American system, any 3rd party, as the lesser parties are known, whose issues gain enough of a following to become a sizable vote, will be absorbed by one or both of the major parties. Either their candidate will join a major party to gain the contacts and influence it gives them, or the major party will adopt their platform planks into their own to gain their voters. Likewise, anybody in the in the major parties whose issues don't get them enough votes and power they want, break away and form a 3rd party. These 3rd parties act as a sounding board and pulpit for new and old ideas for the major parties. To either be picked up as their issues resonate with the larger population or be forgotten as they become radicals that nobody wants.
Apple didn't invent the GUI, but they did invent the desktop metaphor. What they saw at PARC was basically buttons on the desktop that when clicked enacted commands. The idea of the desktop metaphor and diving into the files system with each file or folder being an object on the desktop or in a window was Apple's invention.
3. An external back up HDD or three will fit in a fairly small safety deposit box, so you can recover your data if your house burnsdown or is robbed. A similar number of CDs or even DVDs would require a much larger box to do so and is easier to manage.