We're obviously just as interested as the next school in saving money, but there's an obvious need for us to provide resources that the students wouldn't otherwise be able to afford. we're currently implementing a desktop virtualization strategy using VMWare's VDI solution in order to drive down our hardware costs. the current plan is to run the existing desktops into the ground, and replace them with thin clients as they expire. the extra flexibility this affords us is really compelling.
obviously, I wasn't present for the discussions at UVa, but this does strike me as being rather ill considered. As expensive as tuition is at large, prestigious places like that, passing a (possibly enormous) extra cost directly on to the students like that seems more than a little petty.
yes, it is more than possible. My brother, who was living in Houston at the time, was on his way to visit our parents in Birmingham, AL. He used his phone repeatedly on the trip, down along the Louisiana coast, and received a ~$500 bill because of "international roaming;" his phone had attached to towers in the Gulf. Mother was a Bellsouth employee at the time and had contacts in billing, so she was able to get the charges reversed, but it can happen, and did, at least once.
err, the S-1C was a Kerosene/LOX burner, and the upper stages were hydrogen/LOX. The Titan, which was obviously not part of Apollo, used some really toxic hypergolic fuels, but Apollo was relatively clean. I'm sure the spacecraft itself had plenty of toxic crap in it, but the booster was relatively safe.
Not a double standard at all. No one was arguing that mitnick wasn't a criminal, they were just upset with the way his rights were trampled on by the FBI and JD.
IIRCC, they shipped GWBASIC (Gee Whiz BASIC I believe) until MS-DOS 5.0. Seems like that was also the first version of DOS available as a standalone product. 4.11 was the last version I ran that shipped with GW vs. Q.
more likely the air force; the navy has mostly transitioned to F-16s for dissimilar aircraft training. the airforce agressor camo looks a lot like the aircraft in the pic, though.
they discuss the mounted cannon at the end of the article.
Generally accepted to be a Nudelmann 23MM AA gun.
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Nope, the drive in "Angel's Pencil" doubled as a comm laser. The story is "The Warriors," and it was most recently collected in Man-Kzin Wars I. The parent post has the quote essentially correct.
H-Bombs are most certainly not constructed using plain vanilla hydrogen. Tritium and deuterium are both used, and in early Soviet devices, a solid, Lithium Deuteride, was used.
We don't have many, if any, proper firewalls here at UA for political reasons. Maintaining and open network and all that.
The network nazis from our central computing office use the snmp monitoring on our switches to keep track of traffic. if somone crosses a threshold, BANG, their port is cut off until the "problem," be it Kazaa or pwnage, is fixed.
Yes, I am aware that asimov has published under every dewey decimal category. I have read a lot of both asimov and heinlein, and I think asimov put out a lot more _crap_ than heinlein did. the foundation trilogy was entertaining, the robot novels were (mostly) entertaining, but everything post 1980 was garbage. I'd rather read post-stroke heinlein. or even some of the garbage that king cranked out during the 80's.
I'd much rather read _any_ Heinlein than half the crap that he called fiction. Not to say that asimov didn't write some good stuff too, but anybody who cranks out the volume he did is gonna generate more than his fair share of turds.
you're forgetting FAA type certification. type certification is required before you can charge the public for rides, or for anything other than an extremely narrowly defined "experimental" aircraft. This certification raises the cost of designing a new aircraft by an order of magnitude or so.
Quite a bit of radiation around jupiter actually. It cranks out a whole lot of RF noise, mostly from static discharges between Jove and Io. NASA's got it pretty well documented, and Arthur Clarke used it as a plot device in 2010.
While it is refreshing to see that there are some respectable journalists in the world, I just don't think this model is necessarily applicable to all topics. It makes sense for Jane's to come someplace like this for an article on network security (what it cyber-terrorism, really, but exploitation of bad security), but in the hard sciences for example, the opinions of the rabble, myself included, are hardly important. It's a step in the right direction, for sure, but let's not read more into it than is there.
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We're obviously just as interested as the next school in saving money, but there's an obvious need for us to provide resources that the students wouldn't otherwise be able to afford. we're currently implementing a desktop virtualization strategy using VMWare's VDI solution in order to drive down our hardware costs. the current plan is to run the existing desktops into the ground, and replace them with thin clients as they expire. the extra flexibility this affords us is really compelling.
obviously, I wasn't present for the discussions at UVa, but this does strike me as being rather ill considered. As expensive as tuition is at large, prestigious places like that, passing a (possibly enormous) extra cost directly on to the students like that seems more than a little petty.
yes, it is more than possible. My brother, who was living in Houston at the time, was on his way to visit our parents in Birmingham, AL. He used his phone repeatedly on the trip, down along the Louisiana coast, and received a ~$500 bill because of "international roaming;" his phone had attached to towers in the Gulf. Mother was a Bellsouth employee at the time and had contacts in billing, so she was able to get the charges reversed, but it can happen, and did, at least once.
err, the S-1C was a Kerosene/LOX burner, and the upper stages were hydrogen/LOX. The Titan, which was obviously not part of Apollo, used some really toxic hypergolic fuels, but Apollo was relatively clean. I'm sure the spacecraft itself had plenty of toxic crap in it, but the booster was relatively safe.
It's a holdover from NextStep/OpenStep.
the powerbook name predates the apple move to powerpc, "dipshit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbook
Or that little wiggly controller on IBM thinkpads, the mousenipple or whatever it is called...
We always called those clit-mice.
F12.
Not a double standard at all. No one was arguing that mitnick wasn't a criminal, they were just upset with the way his rights were trampled on by the FBI and JD.
IIRCC, they shipped GWBASIC (Gee Whiz BASIC I believe) until MS-DOS 5.0. Seems like that was also the first version of DOS available as a standalone product. 4.11 was the last version I ran that shipped with GW vs. Q.
YHBT.
more likely the air force; the navy has mostly transitioned to F-16s for dissimilar aircraft training. the airforce agressor camo looks a lot like the aircraft in the pic, though.
it's an f-5, just like the one in the middle.
personally, I preferred the david lynch movie to the miniseries. costuming, casting, and screenwriting were all much better.
http://astronautix.com/articles/almpart1.htm
they discuss the mounted cannon at the end of the article.
Generally accepted to be a Nudelmann 23MM AA gun.
Nope, the drive in "Angel's Pencil" doubled as a comm laser. The story is "The Warriors," and it was most recently collected in Man-Kzin Wars I. The parent post has the quote essentially correct.
H-Bombs are most certainly not constructed using plain vanilla hydrogen. Tritium and deuterium are both used, and in early Soviet devices, a solid, Lithium Deuteride, was used.
buy (or build) a crossover cable. the mac has an autosensing capability, and does it itself, when necessary.
"I think George Lucas is gonna sue somebody."
We don't have many, if any, proper firewalls here at UA for political reasons. Maintaining and open network and all that.
The network nazis from our central computing office use the snmp monitoring on our switches to keep track of traffic. if somone crosses a threshold, BANG, their port is cut off until the "problem," be it Kazaa or pwnage, is fixed.
Yes, I am aware that asimov has published under every dewey decimal category. I have read a lot of both asimov and heinlein, and I think asimov put out a lot more _crap_ than heinlein did. the foundation trilogy was entertaining, the robot novels were (mostly) entertaining, but everything post 1980 was garbage. I'd rather read post-stroke heinlein. or even some of the garbage that king cranked out during the 80's.
I'd much rather read _any_ Heinlein than half the crap that he called fiction. Not to say that asimov didn't write some good stuff too, but anybody who cranks out the volume he did is gonna generate more than his fair share of turds.
you're forgetting FAA type certification. type certification is required before you can charge the public for rides, or for anything other than an extremely narrowly defined "experimental" aircraft. This certification raises the cost of designing a new aircraft by an order of magnitude or so.
Quite a bit of radiation around jupiter actually. It cranks out a whole lot of RF noise, mostly from static discharges between Jove and Io. NASA's got it pretty well documented, and Arthur Clarke used it as a plot device in 2010.
Actually, seems like this would be perfect for MD's. use it to store a text only version of the PDR, with a rudimentary search feature... hmm...
While it is refreshing to see that there are some respectable journalists in the world, I just don't think this model is necessarily applicable to all topics. It makes sense for Jane's to come someplace like this for an article on network security (what it cyber-terrorism, really, but exploitation of bad security), but in the hard sciences for example, the opinions of the rabble, myself included, are hardly important. It's a step in the right direction, for sure, but let's not read more into it than is there.
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