The other hurdle is that some studios are skeptical that users will accept all the ads that need to accompany a feature film in order to make it profitable.
Do they mean equivalent to the enforced advertising already present in a regular movie theater? -- one Coke short filmvertisement -- one long length car commercial -- 4 movie trailers -- a long format Coke advertisement -- a hip clothing advertisement -- a charitable organization fund drive appeal -- 4 more movie trailers
If MGM attempts to recreate the movie theater captive audience advertising innundation effect, this will fail miserably.
I was just looking at 16kW natural gas powered generators for the home in Home Depot -- $5000. Add $1000 for installation from an electrician. A few hundred for the gas line if you dig the trench yourself. Depending on the type/height of the concrete slab you install the generator on, this might be the most effective backup power for the pumps.
Al Gore says the earth is getting warmer; this won't be an isolated incident!
We shot homemade hail iceball out of a painball gun at our panels...
That sounds like too much fun to get paid...
Did you happen to increase the mass of the projectile till you actually broke a tube? One time, a less than competent machinist rammed a large machine tool into a very large material chuck spinning at 5000 RPM. A 15lb steel clamp block ejected thru the "safety glass" window, thru the false ceiling, and thru the roof to land on the building next door. Would your tubes have survived such an industrial mishap? (just curious)
The majority of the comments are focusing on the "book" part; and mostly ignoring the "net" part. Current wifi, proprietary cellular, or true-high speed wired network are not pervasive or interoperable enough to provide effectively for the "net" part.
Because they have all forgotten what government service really means: the government is here to server the people. Politicians only see the people are here to serve the government.
The problem with that is a lot of people don't have/don't use printers.
Spoken like a true geek who uses hard copy printouts as little as possible; and does not support people who can only think with a piece of paper in their hands. Paper printouts are the predominant technology; and more people understand paper technology. Non-technology people will spend more time and effort ensuring the paper printout is perfect than maintaining the system which creates the paper printout. And they will expend lots of effort and money to protect that piece of paper; and disregard the systems which made creating the printout.
And if you still think a lot of people don't use printers, stand outside an office supply store for a couple of hours and count the number of printers going out the door. Those places don't make profit on selling just pens and paper.
Sure, the OCR part is easy. Teaching people to right and spel correctly -- still haven't implemented that effectively after hundreds of years of trying.
Are you saying illiterates will all have their votes disqualified? But they have their high school diploma which states they gradiated from a government approved learning facility. The idiots can't be disqualified; that would be unfair.
Sun may prefer Solaris for their servers...but may sometimes have to accept Windows or Linux (commodity solutions).
Correct. Commodity solutions are how most people are introduced to technology: the rotary dial phone, the serial port non-acoustic modem, the Model T car, etc. But robust, highly reliable technology is usually not a commodity.
Sun had a good run trying to convince the computing community Solaris was the commodity OS everyone needed to use. But commodity means you have to appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator; or create multiple products based on a single solution. Sun as a company is not humble enough to accept either of these options. Solaris will disappear into the technology background like any other automated control system.
Or take pictures of catering/physical plant/administrative assistants stacking chairs/tables/posters or other crap against the equipment in the telecom/video projector closets. Using the camera on my phone was the only way I convinced various department heads that no one else should have access to the equipment rooms.
And coincidentally I have fewer inexplicable random equipment failures.
Gaming can be fun and educational and provide a service to the student community in many aspects. Industry is exploring methods to make business more engaging, fulfilling, and innovative using gaming methods and game theory. So a custom MMOG, with or without role-playing, could provide a useful service for all types of students: software developers, philosophy, management types, game theorists, literature types to write dialogue, etc.
Software licenses aren't ready for thin clients either in a lot of software. In a computing environment where most of the software is expensive non-office type applications, thin clients will never be deployed widely or effectively.
As more large financial firms and non-technology companies fail for financial reasons, the small and medium companies will dominate what type of computer systems are required. Most of these companies cannot afford the infrastructure requirements of thin clients.
This solution only makes sense to a bureaucrat. This is not accountability; this is just another set of hurdles. 1)How will the laptop be returned? Who will pay the shipping charges? 2)Will the government pay for damage during confiscation and/or return shipping? 3)What kind of receipt? Will I have to hand over personal information to identify myself -- which is put in a database and probably not encrypted? What data retention rules will be applied to that database? 4)Complaints -- another black hole into which citizens communicate and no response is ever received. I suggest the bill require the DHS to pay all damage/theft claims first; then try to obtain a refund if the claim is found false. 5)Report to Congress? What a waste of time. I want all that information on a GAO audited web page: how many items confiscated, how many were actually forensically investigated, how many returned to the owners, process time from confiscation to return, how many damage claims and how much it cost, how many arrests as a result of confiscation.
And while they are creating the web page, I want that receipt to provide access to a web page where I and my companies lawyers can track the process of my confiscated equipment. When the item is returned, it will link to the UPS/FedEx tracking number so I can track the return of my item.
Set up an application server for a social group of people with whom you have a common interest; and with no connection to your employer. Don't spend an extra-ordinary amount of time on this outside project. This will teach you:
1) time management -- managing technology is 90% about managing time and non-technical people's expectations. People in social groups tend to understand this server is not a priority. Business users of business systems tend to be more demanding. Learning what is important is key.
2) communication skills -- when people's primary income is not dependent upon you providing a technical service, the users will often be more forthcoming in helping you maintain the server by being more communicative.
3) mentoring -- you will learn your technology much faster when you have to teach another. Working on an application server a couple nights a month in a relaxed social situation often provides insights the pressured environment of the workplace cannot provide.
Al Capone was prosecuted and imprisoned because he failed to pay his taxes. Use the same tactic on spammers. Subpoena the customer list of these registrars under conspiracy to avoid taxation. Then audit the taxes of all the domain owners.
These types of registrars and domain owners will no longer have a viable business if the expense of avoiding the government is too high. This would also be a useful method of giving lawyers something to do and stop bothering us normal people (with NewYorkCountryLawyer as an exception of course).
Can you recommend a bank in the Netherlands where people in the USA can open an account? Do the protections of direct debit in the Netherlands extend to the USA? Will banks in the Netherlands pay American bills in US dollars? As noted in other comments, we don't trust our banks nor the companies which generate the bills.
This could be an example of how the Internet could force business in one area of the world to become more competitive because the customers are using a service in a completely different jurisdiction with more consumer oriented services.
From a perusal of the Linux Foundation website, I will address an aspect I believe you have not emphasized adequately: Linux in Education. University faculty do not have time to develop coursework or supplemental materials for a single software platform -- be it Linux, Oracle, Visual C#, etc. Much of the software used in education has been specifically created with the educational market in mind. Googling for relevant Linux material is not the answer either.
If you are serious about being helpful, the Linux Foundation website needs an entire section directly devoted to helping teachers, faculty, and educational staff.
ZFS does have issues with NFS though. In particular NFS writes can lock up the client.
Long term, I'd rather see the best technologies of Linux and Solaris merge...
I prefer to keep the server space and the user space seperate. Solaris with ZFS on the storage providing iSCSI targets; Linux systems for user space using storage provided by the iSCSI connections. Linux NFS client connections to other Linux systems if required. Best of both worlds.
To which I will add Sun salesmen -- a bunch of slick-tongued, overpaid, schemers who are only interested in their bonus and not what is best for the customer. Sun's line of x86 servers are quite good; but pricing and purchasing are a nightmare. The web store prices are at least 30% too high; and negotiating with the salesmen makes me feel unclean.
The only problem with VMWare is that they don't support any 64bit Host OS
The documentation states otherwise and you will notice the release date for VMware workstation 5.5.2 -- with 64bit Host support -- was May 2006. I have used a 64bit Host OS for VMware workstation for nearly that long.
If you are stating the free ESX Server does not support 64bit Host OS, the GSX documentation from December 2005 specifically states Windows Server 2003 x64 can be used as the host OS.
Why are these introduced in a bail hearing? Is he going to sell them to buy a plane ticket to a non-extradition country? Could he use a network access password to arrange travel as a third party and avoid prosecution?
These login/passwords were found on his office computer. How the hell do you think he is going to access this computer even if he is free on bail? Something tells me he will have a very hard time obtaining this data.
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Do they mean equivalent to the enforced advertising already present in a regular movie theater?
-- one Coke short filmvertisement
-- one long length car commercial
-- 4 movie trailers
-- a long format Coke advertisement
-- a hip clothing advertisement
-- a charitable organization fund drive appeal
-- 4 more movie trailers
If MGM attempts to recreate the movie theater captive audience advertising innundation effect, this will fail miserably.
I was just looking at 16kW natural gas powered generators for the home in Home Depot -- $5000. Add $1000 for installation from an electrician. A few hundred for the gas line if you dig the trench yourself. Depending on the type/height of the concrete slab you install the generator on, this might be the most effective backup power for the pumps.
Al Gore says the earth is getting warmer; this won't be an isolated incident!
Does that mean your server now runs a LAPP stack? (someone please insert a Hooters joke)
That sounds like too much fun to get paid...
Did you happen to increase the mass of the projectile till you actually broke a tube? One time, a less than competent machinist rammed a large machine tool into a very large material chuck spinning at 5000 RPM. A 15lb steel clamp block ejected thru the "safety glass" window, thru the false ceiling, and thru the roof to land on the building next door. Would your tubes have survived such an industrial mishap? (just curious)
IS HRHILF like ROFLMAOWANW (...With A Naked Woman)?
The majority of the comments are focusing on the "book" part; and mostly ignoring the "net" part. Current wifi, proprietary cellular, or true-high speed wired network are not pervasive or interoperable enough to provide effectively for the "net" part.
The "netbook" is just smoke so far. No real fire.
Because they have all forgotten what government service really means: the government is here to server the people. Politicians only see the people are here to serve the government.
Spoken like a true geek who uses hard copy printouts as little as possible; and does not support people who can only think with a piece of paper in their hands. Paper printouts are the predominant technology; and more people understand paper technology. Non-technology people will spend more time and effort ensuring the paper printout is perfect than maintaining the system which creates the paper printout. And they will expend lots of effort and money to protect that piece of paper; and disregard the systems which made creating the printout.
And if you still think a lot of people don't use printers, stand outside an office supply store for a couple of hours and count the number of printers going out the door. Those places don't make profit on selling just pens and paper.
Sure, the OCR part is easy. Teaching people to right and spel correctly -- still haven't implemented that effectively after hundreds of years of trying.
Are you saying illiterates will all have their votes disqualified? But they have their high school diploma which states they gradiated from a government approved learning facility. The idiots can't be disqualified; that would be unfair.
The camera resolution is not high enough to discern items that small. Your vote has been disqualified.
Correct. Commodity solutions are how most people are introduced to technology: the rotary dial phone, the serial port non-acoustic modem, the Model T car, etc. But robust, highly reliable technology is usually not a commodity.
Sun had a good run trying to convince the computing community Solaris was the commodity OS everyone needed to use. But commodity means you have to appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator; or create multiple products based on a single solution. Sun as a company is not humble enough to accept either of these options. Solaris will disappear into the technology background like any other automated control system.
Or take pictures of catering/physical plant/administrative assistants stacking chairs/tables/posters or other crap against the equipment in the telecom/video projector closets. Using the camera on my phone was the only way I convinced various department heads that no one else should have access to the equipment rooms.
And coincidentally I have fewer inexplicable random equipment failures.
Gaming can be fun and educational and provide a service to the student community in many aspects. Industry is exploring methods to make business more engaging, fulfilling, and innovative using gaming methods and game theory. So a custom MMOG, with or without role-playing, could provide a useful service for all types of students: software developers, philosophy, management types, game theorists, literature types to write dialogue, etc.
Software licenses aren't ready for thin clients either in a lot of software. In a computing environment where most of the software is expensive non-office type applications, thin clients will never be deployed widely or effectively.
As more large financial firms and non-technology companies fail for financial reasons, the small and medium companies will dominate what type of computer systems are required. Most of these companies cannot afford the infrastructure requirements of thin clients.
This solution only makes sense to a bureaucrat. This is not accountability; this is just another set of hurdles.
1)How will the laptop be returned? Who will pay the shipping charges?
2)Will the government pay for damage during confiscation and/or return shipping?
3)What kind of receipt? Will I have to hand over personal information to identify myself -- which is put in a database and probably not encrypted? What data retention rules will be applied to that database?
4)Complaints -- another black hole into which citizens communicate and no response is ever received. I suggest the bill require the DHS to pay all damage/theft claims first; then try to obtain a refund if the claim is found false.
5)Report to Congress? What a waste of time. I want all that information on a GAO audited web page: how many items confiscated, how many were actually forensically investigated, how many returned to the owners, process time from confiscation to return, how many damage claims and how much it cost, how many arrests as a result of confiscation.
And while they are creating the web page, I want that receipt to provide access to a web page where I and my companies lawyers can track the process of my confiscated equipment. When the item is returned, it will link to the UPS/FedEx tracking number so I can track the return of my item.
Set up an application server for a social group of people with whom you have a common interest; and with no connection to your employer. Don't spend an extra-ordinary amount of time on this outside project. This will teach you:
1) time management -- managing technology is 90% about managing time and non-technical people's expectations. People in social groups tend to understand this server is not a priority. Business users of business systems tend to be more demanding. Learning what is important is key.
2) communication skills -- when people's primary income is not dependent upon you providing a technical service, the users will often be more forthcoming in helping you maintain the server by being more communicative.
3) mentoring -- you will learn your technology much faster when you have to teach another. Working on an application server a couple nights a month in a relaxed social situation often provides insights the pressured environment of the workplace cannot provide.
You just inspired my new sig.....
Al Capone was prosecuted and imprisoned because he failed to pay his taxes. Use the same tactic on spammers. Subpoena the customer list of these registrars under conspiracy to avoid taxation. Then audit the taxes of all the domain owners.
These types of registrars and domain owners will no longer have a viable business if the expense of avoiding the government is too high. This would also be a useful method of giving lawyers something to do and stop bothering us normal people (with NewYorkCountryLawyer as an exception of course).
Can you recommend a bank in the Netherlands where people in the USA can open an account? Do the protections of direct debit in the Netherlands extend to the USA? Will banks in the Netherlands pay American bills in US dollars? As noted in other comments, we don't trust our banks nor the companies which generate the bills.
This could be an example of how the Internet could force business in one area of the world to become more competitive because the customers are using a service in a completely different jurisdiction with more consumer oriented services.
Do you consider political rhetoric dynamic? It's definitely scripted; but I don't know if it has enough structure to provide consistent results.
From a perusal of the Linux Foundation website, I will address an aspect I believe you have not emphasized adequately: Linux in Education. University faculty do not have time to develop coursework or supplemental materials for a single software platform -- be it Linux, Oracle, Visual C#, etc. Much of the software used in education has been specifically created with the educational market in mind. Googling for relevant Linux material is not the answer either.
If you are serious about being helpful, the Linux Foundation website needs an entire section directly devoted to helping teachers, faculty, and educational staff.
I prefer to keep the server space and the user space seperate. Solaris with ZFS on the storage providing iSCSI targets; Linux systems for user space using storage provided by the iSCSI connections. Linux NFS client connections to other Linux systems if required. Best of both worlds.
To which I will add Sun salesmen -- a bunch of slick-tongued, overpaid, schemers who are only interested in their bonus and not what is best for the customer. Sun's line of x86 servers are quite good; but pricing and purchasing are a nightmare. The web store prices are at least 30% too high; and negotiating with the salesmen makes me feel unclean.
The documentation states otherwise and you will notice the release date for VMware workstation 5.5.2 -- with 64bit Host support -- was May 2006. I have used a 64bit Host OS for VMware workstation for nearly that long.
If you are stating the free ESX Server does not support 64bit Host OS, the GSX documentation from December 2005 specifically states Windows Server 2003 x64 can be used as the host OS.
Have you tried looking at VMware lately?
Why are these introduced in a bail hearing? Is he going to sell them to buy a plane ticket to a non-extradition country? Could he use a network access password to arrange travel as a third party and avoid prosecution?
These login/passwords were found on his office computer. How the hell do you think he is going to access this computer even if he is free on bail? Something tells me he will have a very hard time obtaining this data.