If you leave a car open here and someone else drives away with it, then you are guilty of a "misdemeanor" over here (de). Of course it still is not legal to take the car.
A similar rule should apply with regard to networks that are supposed to be secure but in fact are open (at least to a certain degree, to be defined).
This in cases as described by you would balance the situation (OTOH, if one considers the average knowledge of local judges on IT matters - alas - some have a hard time to send an e-mail).
There is a caveat in the ranking of Linux vendors: Novell is No.2 if you don't count IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which probably sell most of the Linux software going into the enterprise market.
loc. cit.: "If Linux is free, why's it so expensive?"
Good point. Think about it. Think if the system as it works really is a s free as intended.
Back to the early experiments for a moment of humor. You may have seen a
picture from the late 50's, early 60's of a zero G experiment involving a
cat floating in air in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, with the oxygen
masked pilot looking on. The one in my science book as a kid showed the
cat twisting in mid air, front paws and rear heading in different
directions as it tried to cope with simulated Zero G. Looks pretty cool,
and I'm sure it made it into more than one textbook dealing with
spaceflight because of it and been widely viewed. The untold story as I
heard it was that the cat, which had travelled up to the test altitude in
a mini cat carrier to the side of the pilot, shortly thereafter drifted
in free fall to the point where he came in range of the pilots face. Very
soon afterwards the pilot had a yowling, angry, cat fastened to his
helmet and facemask with no intention of letting go. Of course he
couldn't see. So he apparently beat at the cat with his free hand till it
finally let go and disappeared someplace into the bowels of the aircraft
for the rest of the flight. The pilot was *not* amused and let the folks
in the ground who thought up the experiment know that upon his return.
The cat apparently departed the aircraft at warp speed once it was shut
down and left open for a bit. Science at it's finest.:-)
That's funny, usually I don't even know what I want to watch. If I feel like watching something, I like to flip open the DVD binder and start browsing.
This does not necessarily imply a contradiction. Picture something along the following lines: The 'environmental AI' monitors your behaviour and infers your mental state (think dogs who by how you smell may infer a lot but imagine a much larger attribute space) thus being capable of predicting your preferences.
If memory serves me right, you may encounter a corresponding scenario in P.K.Dicks UBIK.
IBM is about services, not hardware or software...
IBM is also about control and hyperintelligent camouflage.
On the monopoly side IBM passes rather unnoticed; no one seems to care that almost all financial data (banks, insurances,...) is stored and processed with the help of IBM.
So, for IBM every dollar invested in OSS is worth a 2$ bill:
$1 for reputation and image with regard to future markets (China; also, some of the geeks will end up in the decision making business)
$1 for the know-how to be exploited for free.
Oddly enough, I somehow admire 'them' ever since 'they' supported me with a wealth of materials on "How to become a Programmer" back when the first System/360 shipped;)
ZERO GRAVITY TOILET
PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE
1. The toilet is of the standard zero-gravity type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used, details of which are clearly marked in the toilet compartment. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron eliminator will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock.
2. The toilet is now ready for use. The Sonovac cleanser is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial-condition, so that the two orange line meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron eliminator in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button.
3. The controls for System B are located on te opposite wall. The red release switch places the uroliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the uroliminator to its storage position.
4. You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door. If the red light is illuminated, one of the lavatory facilities is not properly secured. Press the "Stewardess" call button on the right of the door. She will secure all facilities from her controll panel outside. When gren exit light goes on you may open the door and leave. Please close the door behind you.
5. To use the Sonoshower, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob select the desired setting. Now depress the Sonovac activation lever. Bathe normally.
6. The Sonovac will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" over-ride switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container.
7. If the red light above this panel is on, the toilet is in use. When the green light is illuminated you may enter. However, you must carefully follow all instructions when using the facilities during coasting (Zero G) flight. Inside there are three facilities: (1) the Sonowasher, (2) the Sonoshower, (3) the toilet. All three are designed to be used under weightless conditions. Please observe the sequence of operations for each individual facility.
8. Two modes for Sonowashing your face and hands are available, the "moist-towel" mode and the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaner mode. You may select either mode by moving the appropriate lever to the "Activate" position.
If you choose the "moist-towel" mode, depress the indicated yellow button and withdraw item. When you have finished, discard the towel in the vacuum dispenser, holding the indicated lever in the "active" position until the green light goes on...showing that the rollers have passed the towel completely into the dispenser. If you desire an additional towel, press the yellow button and repeat the cycle.
9. If you prefer the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaning mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. For cleaning the hands, use in this position. Set the timer to positions 10, 20, 30 or 40...indicative of the number of seconds required. The
Magnetic tape was first used to record data in 1951 on the Mauchly-Eckert UNIVAC I. The recording medium was a thin band of solid steel. Recording density was 128 characters per inch at a linear speed of 100 ips, yielding a data rate of 12800 characters per second.
... that there are no useful reasons to use animations in a presentation, unless you're desperate to distract people from concentrating on what you're saying, in which case you shouldn't be giving a presentation in the first place.
Thinking that some if not many presentations give an overall impression of an animation what do we infer?
Alternatively one might consider that many Open Source developers are not paid - so it is all consistent.
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Broadband -A type of transmission that shares the bandwidth of a medium--such as copper or fiber optic cable--to carry more than one signal. Broadband facilities have a bandwidth (capacity) greater than a voice grade line of 3 kHz. Such a broadband facility--typically coaxial cable--may carry numerous voice, video and data channels simultaneously. Each "channel" will take up a different frequency on the cable. "Guardbands" (empty spaces) exist between the channels to make sure that each channel does not interfere with its neighbor. A coaxial CATV cable is the "classic" broadband channel. Simultaneously it carries many TV channels. Broadband cables are used in some office LANs. But more common are the baseband variety, which have the capacity for one channel only. Everything on that cable to be transmitted or received must use that one channel. That one channel is very fast, so each device needs only to use that high speed channel for only a little of the time
A.E. van Vogt, Computerworld, 1983 (... the story of our world under the cold and emotionless eye of the almighty computers...(not brilliant, but rather anticipatory and fits in here))
Ursula K leGuin; The Dispossessed, 1974 (In The Dispossessed the values of an anarchist world, Anarres, are contrasted with those of primarily capitalist. Anarres is a barren, small moon, from which the hero, an Anarresti physicist Shevek, starts his journey to Urras, the mother planet. Shevek's tries to develop a general theory of Time, which would re-unite the estranged societies. Shevek is not completely at home in either society. He finds that the culture of Urras is more alienating than on his home world. After finishing his work he returns to Anarres, seeing that its era of cultural isolation is coming to end.)
Paul van Herck, Where Were You Last Pluterday?, 1968 (A story of a guy who saved some 10^k years on his time account)
In another ten years, some of these will be standard on all cars, and what's top-of-the-line will be something that seems obscene and unnecessary to us right now.
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If you leave a car open here and someone else drives away with it, then you are guilty of a "misdemeanor" over here (de). Of course it still is not legal to take the car.
A similar rule should apply with regard to networks that are supposed to be secure but in fact are open (at least to a certain degree, to be defined).
This in cases as described by you would balance the situation (OTOH, if one considers the average knowledge of local judges on IT matters - alas - some have a hard time to send an e-mail).
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re-packaged with silicone enhancemets did catch my eye
Please explain !
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There is a caveat in the ranking of Linux vendors: Novell is No.2 if you don't count IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which probably sell most of the Linux software going into the enterprise market.
loc. cit.: "If Linux is free, why's it so expensive?"
Good point. Think about it. Think if the system as it works really is a s free as intended.
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Hmm, all done ->
:-)
Back to the early experiments for a moment of humor. You may have seen a picture from the late 50's, early 60's of a zero G experiment involving a cat floating in air in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, with the oxygen masked pilot looking on. The one in my science book as a kid showed the cat twisting in mid air, front paws and rear heading in different directions as it tried to cope with simulated Zero G. Looks pretty cool, and I'm sure it made it into more than one textbook dealing with spaceflight because of it and been widely viewed. The untold story as I heard it was that the cat, which had travelled up to the test altitude in a mini cat carrier to the side of the pilot, shortly thereafter drifted in free fall to the point where he came in range of the pilots face. Very soon afterwards the pilot had a yowling, angry, cat fastened to his helmet and facemask with no intention of letting go. Of course he couldn't see. So he apparently beat at the cat with his free hand till it finally let go and disappeared someplace into the bowels of the aircraft for the rest of the flight. The pilot was *not* amused and let the folks in the ground who thought up the experiment know that upon his return. The cat apparently departed the aircraft at warp speed once it was shut down and left open for a bit. Science at it's finest.
loc. cit.
But the real things looks cool too.
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That's funny, usually I don't even know what I want to watch. If I feel like watching something, I like to flip open the DVD binder and start browsing.
This does not necessarily imply a contradiction. Picture something along the following lines: The 'environmental AI' monitors your behaviour and infers your mental state (think dogs who by how you smell may infer a lot but imagine a much larger attribute space) thus being capable of predicting your preferences.
If memory serves me right, you may encounter a corresponding scenario in P.K.Dicks UBIK.
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A Brief History of The Utah Teapot.
With dataset.
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Now, why do you find this strange ?
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Presumably you better stop waiting ...
... since, as you know, this is not the only case.
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Going after the money trail is cleaner than going after proper procedures.
common && !commonsense
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Comment on Roland's Weblog:
Get ready for Jailtime guys ROFL.
DGSE 7/12/04; 4:49:16 PM
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Jackito???
(cond ((semblance-p 'jackoo 'jackito) (unprettyprint 'foul-egg)))
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IBM is also about control and hyperintelligent camouflage.
On the monopoly side IBM passes rather unnoticed; no one seems to care that almost all financial data (banks, insurances,
So, for IBM every dollar invested in OSS is worth a 2$ bill:
Oddly enough, I somehow admire 'them' ever since 'they' supported me with a wealth of materials on "How to become a Programmer" back when the first System/360 shipped
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What is there to do in space?
...
Study relevant instructions
ZERO GRAVITY TOILET PASSENGERS ARE ADVISED TO READ INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE
1. The toilet is of the standard zero-gravity type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used, details of which are clearly marked in the toilet compartment. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron eliminator will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock.
2. The toilet is now ready for use. The Sonovac cleanser is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial-condition, so that the two orange line meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron eliminator in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button.
3. The controls for System B are located on te opposite wall. The red release switch places the uroliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the uroliminator to its storage position.
4. You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door. If the red light is illuminated, one of the lavatory facilities is not properly secured. Press the "Stewardess" call button on the right of the door. She will secure all facilities from her controll panel outside. When gren exit light goes on you may open the door and leave. Please close the door behind you.
5. To use the Sonoshower, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob select the desired setting. Now depress the Sonovac activation lever. Bathe normally.
6. The Sonovac will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" over-ride switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container.
7. If the red light above this panel is on, the toilet is in use. When the green light is illuminated you may enter. However, you must carefully follow all instructions when using the facilities during coasting (Zero G) flight. Inside there are three facilities: (1) the Sonowasher, (2) the Sonoshower, (3) the toilet. All three are designed to be used under weightless conditions. Please observe the sequence of operations for each individual facility.
8. Two modes for Sonowashing your face and hands are available, the "moist-towel" mode and the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaner mode. You may select either mode by moving the appropriate lever to the "Activate" position.
If you choose the "moist-towel" mode, depress the indicated yellow button and withdraw item. When you have finished, discard the towel in the vacuum dispenser, holding the indicated lever in the "active" position until the green light goes on...showing that the rollers have passed the towel completely into the dispenser. If you desire an additional towel, press the yellow button and repeat the cycle.
9. If you prefer the "Sonovac" ultrasonic cleaning mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. For cleaning the hands, use in this position. Set the timer to positions 10, 20, 30 or 40...indicative of the number of seconds required. The
I fail to see how this is a bad thing...
So do I, and on top of it, how is the situation different today ?
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Charles Walton, the Father of RFID might be of interest.
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20 years ?
Wikipedia says...
Magnetic tape was first used to record data in 1951 on the Mauchly-Eckert UNIVAC I. The recording medium was a thin band of solid steel. Recording density was 128 characters per inch at a linear speed of 100 ips, yielding a data rate of 12800 characters per second.
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... that there are no useful reasons to use animations in a presentation, unless you're desperate to distract people from concentrating on what you're saying, in which case you shouldn't be giving a presentation in the first place.
Thinking that some if not many presentations give an overall impression of an animation what do we infer?
See also this (Tufte).
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The editors here are getting paid right?
One would tend to answer no, right?
Alternatively one might consider that many Open Source developers are not paid - so it is all consistent.
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Broadband -A type of transmission that shares the bandwidth of a medium--such as copper or fiber optic cable--to carry more than one signal. Broadband facilities have a bandwidth (capacity) greater than a voice grade line of 3 kHz. Such a broadband facility--typically coaxial cable--may carry numerous voice, video and data channels simultaneously. Each "channel" will take up a different frequency on the cable. "Guardbands" (empty spaces) exist between the channels to make sure that each channel does not interfere with its neighbor. A coaxial CATV cable is the "classic" broadband channel. Simultaneously it carries many TV channels. Broadband cables are used in some office LANs. But more common are the baseband variety, which have the capacity for one channel only. Everything on that cable to be transmitted or received must use that one channel. That one channel is very fast, so each device needs only to use that high speed channel for only a little of the time
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A.E. van Vogt, Computerworld, 1983 (... the story of our world under the cold and emotionless eye of the almighty computers ...(not brilliant, but rather anticipatory and fits in here))
... I better stop here :)
Ursula K leGuin; The Dispossessed, 1974 (In The Dispossessed the values of an anarchist world, Anarres, are contrasted with those of primarily capitalist. Anarres is a barren, small moon, from which the hero, an Anarresti physicist Shevek, starts his journey to Urras, the mother planet. Shevek's tries to develop a general theory of Time, which would re-unite the estranged societies. Shevek is not completely at home in either society. He finds that the culture of Urras is more alienating than on his home world. After finishing his work he returns to Anarres, seeing that its era of cultural isolation is coming to end.)
Paul van Herck, Where Were You Last Pluterday?, 1968 (A story of a guy who saved some 10^k years on his time account)
Anything of Stanislaw Lem, B&A Strugatsky
Well, and perhaps Ringworld & Co by Niven (also "The Mote in God's Eye" with Pournelle ).
&&
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The cans do not even look like coke bottles.
:)
This emphasizes how insidious the plot is
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In another ten years, some of these will be standard on all cars, and what's top-of-the-line will be something that seems obscene and unnecessary to us right now.
It is all there.
This one - Euro 500.000+ is obscene. IMHO.
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vir viri m. [a man , male person]; esp. [a grown man; a husband; a man of character or courage, 'he-man']; milit. [a soldier, esp. an infantryman; a single man, individual].
virus -i n. [slimy liquid , slime; poison, esp. of snakes, venom; any harsh taste or smell].
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sic !
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demographically based sociological analysis of "internet thought"
This for sure is a typo and should read 'biased' instead of 'based'. Well.
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Not really yet ready though.
Generating Word documents using XSLT
Thinking XML
Opening Open Formats with XSLT
Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas Overview
Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org
Why not complicate a complicated world a little more. Each standard unit of complication renders X standard monetary units in someones pockets.
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