I'm pointing at you, I'm pointing at you, but I'm not actually addressing you. I'm addressing the one prat in the country who's bothered to get hold of this recording, turn it round and actually work out the rubbish that I'm saying. What a poor sad life he's got!
And lest anyone think that LaForge was an exception to the engineering rule... Chief O'Brien was also mainly interested in fixing things, rather being captain. He was always tinkering with tech. And boy did he get to tinker with the coolest stuff! Even fixed the Defiant.
and has patented technology that puts the device to sleep when the user drops their arm
Erm, also known as a... tilt switch? not enough? try 3 switches, one for each dimension. still wanting? use one for each DOF. no? Measure some arm drops, run them through a an auto-correlating neural net and compare with input data. Seriously, I see no reason to patent this stuff.
I reckon that either they've created something totally ingenious that they can sell the rights to for a whole lot more than they can make out of wrist PCs (unlikely), or they patented something that is bloody obvious already.
You're assuming that they are run by competent people -- and this is a thoroughly false assumption.
Actually, within the topic's context this is a safe assumption.
Those who are incompetent, in their vast majority, do not back up OR pay attention to exploit bulletins. These will either get fired, killed or their companies will fail. Either way, they do not need to be worried because they are hopeless.
Those who are competent already have a backup strategy and won't lose an awful lot of data. It'll just give them and their companies some hassle and earn their keep. As most oracle DBs are behind firewalls the risk to data is especially low. They do not need to be worried because they can easily recover.
First of all, the video is unviewable even with Microsoft Media Player on Mac
It does work. Just wait for it. Mine took two hours of "Buffering". The good news is that it plays in linux+xine if you have the binary codecs installed.
Just because it says "25 year" in the title doesn't mean Metcalfe wrote it. It means the story submitter wrote it and the editors let it though (which is bad enough); but I don't think it was Metcalfe who submitted this story to/. Now, it may be that he did say "25 year", but you better link to a source if you're going to use people's words against them.
As proof, check out the currently (as of Dec 3 2005) disputed articles. The history itself shows a rise in the count.
To me, that is an indication that the problem is being dealt with. If there were few pages disputed, it may serve just as easily to suggest that few people question their neutrality. So the more disputes, the better the system's recognition of problem areas, the more overall neutrality. I'd be very careful when drawing conclusions from such a blunt statistic.
X and Y stand at either end of an electrical circuit. Each controls a switch. The circuit is tested: a current will flow when both switches are closed simultaneously.
For current to flow you'd need a voltage or current source. As soon as you put a source (or sources) anywhere in the circuit, it is possible to intercept the signal between X and Y. Lets say you break the conductors somewhere between X and Y and replace them with a fake circuit. Using arbitrarily small delays, you can read out the state of switches on both sides and forward them correctly to the other side.
RIAA would mostly be concerned about the commercial pirates who set up CD sales on the streets. Not for the small $$$ that those pirates make, but for the culture of copying it supports (though I'm sure that the culture will live on just fine anyway). This pirate trading happens in cities, and mostly in Moscow. And lately, the govt _has_ been cracking down on them. Police raids, higher police bribes and rents. If the Russian govt really wanted to get rid of them, they could do so in a day.
Enforcing restrictions against personal copying would, on the other hand, be impossible. They'd have to put in jail so many people... there would not be enough left to keep things running. Scare tactics such as taking 1000 people to court would not work there; Russians tend to take their losses and get on with it.
SoC, so the idea goes, leads to higher density of functionality for the same space/power. Therefore an equivalent SoC system ought to have more room for things like message queues. So, in theory, SoC the size of your typical motherboard ought to handle a lot more messages than your typical motherboard;)
But, needless to say, there are tradeoffs made in any design.
Thrusting from the bottom is expensive. It requires extra weight to be carried as fuel (or a Big Friggin' Laser). You could instead adjust the counterweight position at the top so that it begins to move away from the Earth by itself. There is some fine-balancing involved, naturally.
"To an extent, Mr. Swartz is correct: As payloads are moved up and down the elevator, the ribbon is distorted, and it would move the counterweight. Nevertheless, looking at the travel time and the relative masses of the climbers, the ribbon, and the counterweight, we find that the distortion is extremely small and would be quickly corrected because of the forces that are felt by the ribbon and the counterweight. The rotating Earth supplies the needed angular momentum through the anchor and the ribbon. The rotation also provides all the restoring forces required--no rockets are needed to move the counterweight. The best way to look at this may be to think of the space elevator as a pendulum. If you pull the ribbon from its normal position--rising straight up from Earth--the forces will always pull it back."
--Brad Edwards
This is all well and good, but how do you deal with situations when all nodes demand power, NOW? Like during winter for heating, or during summer for aircon? Power distribution companies have learned to anticipate demand for things like big sports games (tv) and everyone using their kettles in the morning. Will a p2p network be able to deal with such challenges as well?
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I'm pointing at you, I'm pointing at you, but I'm not actually addressing you. I'm addressing the one prat in the country who's bothered to get hold of this recording, turn it round and actually work out the rubbish that I'm saying. What a poor sad life he's got!
And those discussions may conclude that Landmines are a good idea. Resulting in less tank crews dying, but more people.
...and this is why I charge my laser overnight, when the energy is cheaper.
All it needs is Angelina Jolie lips and everyone will love it!
And lest anyone think that LaForge was an exception to the engineering rule... Chief O'Brien was also mainly interested in fixing things, rather being captain. He was always tinkering with tech. And boy did he get to tinker with the coolest stuff! Even fixed the Defiant.
and has patented technology that puts the device to sleep when the user drops their arm
Erm, also known as a... tilt switch? not enough? try 3 switches, one for each dimension. still wanting? use one for each DOF. no? Measure some arm drops, run them through a an auto-correlating neural net and compare with input data. Seriously, I see no reason to patent this stuff.
I reckon that either they've created something totally ingenious that they can sell the rights to for a whole lot more than they can make out of wrist PCs (unlikely), or they patented something that is bloody obvious already.
Love is a neurochemical suppression of criticism triggered by pattern recognition.
Yeah, they're gonna have trouble with the 'extend' part of embrace and extend. Serious lack of foresight right there.
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Parent> the Fifth Element is from 1997, and it's already a "classic?"
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You're assuming that they are run by competent people -- and this is a thoroughly false assumption.
Actually, within the topic's context this is a safe assumption.
Those who are incompetent, in their vast majority, do not back up OR pay attention to exploit bulletins. These will either get fired, killed or their companies will fail. Either way, they do not need to be worried because they are hopeless.
Those who are competent already have a backup strategy and won't lose an awful lot of data. It'll just give them and their companies some hassle and earn their keep. As most oracle DBs are behind firewalls the risk to data is especially low. They do not need to be worried because they can easily recover.
First of all, the video is unviewable even with Microsoft Media Player on Mac
It does work. Just wait for it. Mine took two hours of "Buffering". The good news is that it plays in linux+xine if you have the binary codecs installed.
Just because it says "25 year" in the title doesn't mean Metcalfe wrote it. It means the story submitter wrote it and the editors let it though (which is bad enough); but I don't think it was Metcalfe who submitted this story to /. Now, it may be that he did say "25 year", but you better link to a source if you're going to use people's words against them.
In Soviet Russia, Linux runs your LILO.
As proof, check out the currently (as of Dec 3 2005) disputed articles. The history itself shows a rise in the count.
To me, that is an indication that the problem is being dealt with. If there were few pages disputed, it may serve just as easily to suggest that few people question their neutrality. So the more disputes, the better the system's recognition of problem areas, the more overall neutrality. I'd be very careful when drawing conclusions from such a blunt statistic.
X and Y stand at either end of an electrical circuit. Each controls a switch. The circuit is tested: a current will flow when both switches are closed simultaneously.
For current to flow you'd need a voltage or current source. As soon as you put a source (or sources) anywhere in the circuit, it is possible to intercept the signal between X and Y. Lets say you break the conductors somewhere between X and Y and replace them with a fake circuit. Using arbitrarily small delays, you can read out the state of switches on both sides and forward them correctly to the other side.
Dude, you don't have to click 'open'. On Bugtraq it has been reported that this thing runs itself quite happily in an IFRAME.
Why not make an "open" API that allows one to move data (of various forms) over the communication channel?
E.g. Google builds a system that works to move data -- and end users make their own voice/text/video adapters?
You forgot to say "Wait a minute..."
RIAA would mostly be concerned about the commercial pirates who set up CD sales on the streets. Not for the small $$$ that those pirates make, but for the culture of copying it supports (though I'm sure that the culture will live on just fine anyway). This pirate trading happens in cities, and mostly in Moscow. And lately, the govt _has_ been cracking down on them. Police raids, higher police bribes and rents. If the Russian govt really wanted to get rid of them, they could do so in a day.
Enforcing restrictions against personal copying would, on the other hand, be impossible. They'd have to put in jail so many people... there would not be enough left to keep things running. Scare tactics such as taking 1000 people to court would not work there; Russians tend to take their losses and get on with it.
SoC, so the idea goes, leads to higher density of functionality for the same space/power. Therefore an equivalent SoC system ought to have more room for things like message queues. So, in theory, SoC the size of your typical motherboard ought to handle a lot more messages than your typical motherboard ;)
But, needless to say, there are tradeoffs made in any design.
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard...
...and there may be many others but they haven't been discovered!
"Enable JavaScript in your Browser to Proceed" What a surprise...
That's RED screening, you insensitive clod!
Thrusting from the bottom is expensive. It requires extra weight to be carried as fuel (or a Big Friggin' Laser). You could instead adjust the counterweight position at the top so that it begins to move away from the Earth by itself. There is some fine-balancing involved, naturally.
"To an extent, Mr. Swartz is correct: As payloads are moved up and down the elevator, the ribbon is distorted, and it would move the counterweight. Nevertheless, looking at the travel time and the relative masses of the climbers, the ribbon, and the counterweight, we find that the distortion is extremely small and would be quickly corrected because of the forces that are felt by the ribbon and the counterweight. The rotating Earth supplies the needed angular momentum through the anchor and the ribbon. The rotation also provides all the restoring forces required--no rockets are needed to move the counterweight. The best way to look at this may be to think of the space elevator as a pendulum. If you pull the ribbon from its normal position--rising straight up from Earth--the forces will always pull it back."
--Brad Edwards
This is all well and good, but how do you deal with situations when all nodes demand power, NOW? Like during winter for heating, or during summer for aircon? Power distribution companies have learned to anticipate demand for things like big sports games (tv) and everyone using their kettles in the morning. Will a p2p network be able to deal with such challenges as well?