Interestingly, I noted a significant decrease (75 percent, roughly) in SPAM for a week or so after the series of hurricanes disrupted power et al in Florida. What's that stat, something like 90 percent of spam sources from one or two people in Florida?
Ain't gonna happen. John Q computer user is too naive to even know the problems exist, let alone be concerned about them. The only people who are getting "fed up" are geeks like us--and who listens to us, eh?
Comments like this make me embarrassed to be a geek (albeit an old one).
Not everyone has the luxury of "hiding" their email address. For many of us, our work *requires* making our email address public--even to the point of posting it on a website. In my case, it also appears in a magazine each month.
So, get off your high horse and take a peek at the real world. You will see things that utterly amaze.
What was that (animated head on a video monitor) about, anyway. I WTFV (twice) and still don't get it. AI/voice recognition having conversations with attendees, perhaps?
The reason Linux flounders like a wounded turkey instead of soaring like an eagle is LACK of standardization. Too many distros built according to the developers' particular prejudices. IBM created a standard and PCs took off. Standardize Linux and watch it grow.
Please do not label this FLAMEBAIT, because that is not the intent.
Decades ago, the native African population existed in a state of equilibrium with nature. Part of that equilibrium entailed each woman (polygamy was--and actually is--common) birthing up to 9 infants in order to ensure at least one surviving to adulthood.
Then comes the Western do-gooder, apalled at the poverty, infant mortality, disease, non-existent medical care, and food shortage. Aid from Western countries poured in. Now the indigenous population had means to thrive and grow. Problem was (and is), women continued to birth up to 9 infants--but most if not all survived. The population exploded then spiked--then came another form of AID, nature's way of restoring equilibrium in an environment taxed beyond carrying capacity.
The spread of AIDs will never stop in backward African countries so long as the population remains ignorant. Promotion of condom use? "Don't you know the mzungu (white man) puts the AIDs in the condoms?" Abstinence? What a joke.
The only "cure" for AIDs (for now, at leaset) is education. Problem is, the educatee must want to be educated. It is hard to battle against several millenia of tradition and superstition.
One factor affecting speed of logic devices is propagation delay.
For argument's sake, let's assume we have a hypodermic syringe filled with fluid attached to a lo-ong needle (100 miles) or other tube. The needle/tube is already filled with fluid.
Parallel to it, we have a wire or other conductor.
If we plunge the syringe and simultaneously inject a current into the wire, at the other end, which occurs first: movement of the fluid, or electron flow?
Assuming the fluid is water, I seem to recall that you cannot compress water, ergo no loss to compression, hence no propagation delay. Would not the hydraulic model then react faster?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I fought in the Brain Wars with management 30 years ago, and it was the same thing. The Powers wanted X, but system capabilities were Y. They did not want the issue confused with facts, they just wanted wehat they wanted, and wanted it yesterday. My peers and I coded it as close as we could, implemented it, and crossed our fingers. We kept the app running for about a week (with frequent bailing wire and BandAide patches), but the system eventually melted down due to data overload (fancy-speak for filled up the disk).
Management skated, two programmers fired.
That's why I raise cattle and write hunting articles these days.
In Texas, "shitload" is an official unit of measurement. I suspect this technology will yield energy on a scale several orders of shitload greater than any other to date this side of the sun.
Assuming RIAA et al base their accusations on declining sales, is it possible that people are not buying CDs because they are not interested in the music any more?
Depending on what genre you prefer, when was the last time an artist or group produced something you liked well enough that you were willing to pay $15 for the CD--especially if you were interested in only ONE of the songs on the entire CD?
Personally, I like country and classical. No royalties on classical (public domain), so no "poor, beleaguered artist" claims. (You pay only the production/distribution costs plus a profit margin.) None of the "modern" country artists produce anything I like. Ergo, I buy/listen to only classical and "classic" country--most artists of the latter already dead. All of which translates that that I do not buy CDs very often.
I remember when reading "The Soul Of A New Machine" by Tracy Kidder (about the development of the Eclipse 8000 32-bit minicomputer, I seem to recall; won a Pulitzer for non-fiction, I think), there was a passage quoting one of the DG honchos that went something like: "Some companies woo their customers; we litigate 'em."
There was another section that alluded to rumors a DG executive burned down a DEC plant that manufactured VAX components.
"The market wanted personal computers, with an operating system that was readily available and ran on commodity hardware. He provided half of that equation."
Other than some sort of sweetheart deal, I never understood why IBM chose MSDOS over CPM/86. CPM was far more versatile and powerful than MSDOS. Example: You could do a true wildcard search (*file*name.*) with CPM, but not with MSDOS.
I guess Digital Research didn't know how to grease skids or who to blow.
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Interestingly, I noted a significant decrease (75 percent, roughly) in SPAM for a week or so after the series of hurricanes disrupted power et al in Florida. What's that stat, something like 90 percent of spam sources from one or two people in Florida?
If a hurricane can do it, so can a jail cell.
"...file-sharing programs that can be used to download music and movies illegally."
Sharing files is officially illegal.
Ain't gonna happen. John Q computer user is too naive to even know the problems exist, let alone be concerned about them. The only people who are getting "fed up" are geeks like us--and who listens to us, eh?
Comments like this make me embarrassed to be a geek (albeit an old one).
Not everyone has the luxury of "hiding" their email address. For many of us, our work *requires* making our email address public--even to the point of posting it on a website. In my case, it also appears in a magazine each month.
So, get off your high horse and take a peek at the real world. You will see things that utterly amaze.
What was that (animated head on a video monitor) about, anyway. I WTFV (twice) and still don't get it. AI/voice recognition having conversations with attendees, perhaps?
"Well they use pmos and nmos gates in series between ground and the rails (the voltage/power source) it all the logic stages."
That's called a "totem pole" arrangement of a complimentary transistor pair.
High volume of improper bounces like this is reason for blacklisting by many of the BL maintainers. (SpamCop, et al.)
My beard is not greasy, you insensitive clod!
Furthermore, it is not a beard. I didn't grow a beard. I just quit shaving.
You stole my thunder, you insensitive clod!
*I* wanted mod points for pointing out the irony of "nothing is going to change" despite Microsoft's copious "investment" in IE security.
I hope all your babies are born naked.
...there was some way to trade Wal-Mart on Napster--the ORIGINAL Napster.
The reason Linux flounders like a wounded turkey instead of soaring like an eagle is LACK of standardization. Too many distros built according to the developers' particular prejudices. IBM created a standard and PCs took off. Standardize Linux and watch it grow.
Please do not label this FLAMEBAIT, because that is not the intent.
Decades ago, the native African population existed in a state of equilibrium with nature. Part of that equilibrium entailed each woman (polygamy was--and actually is--common) birthing up to 9 infants in order to ensure at least one surviving to adulthood.
Then comes the Western do-gooder, apalled at the poverty, infant mortality, disease, non-existent medical care, and food shortage. Aid from Western countries poured in. Now the indigenous population had means to thrive and grow. Problem was (and is), women continued to birth up to 9 infants--but most if not all survived. The population exploded then spiked--then came another form of AID, nature's way of restoring equilibrium in an environment taxed beyond carrying capacity.
The spread of AIDs will never stop in backward African countries so long as the population remains ignorant. Promotion of condom use? "Don't you know the mzungu (white man) puts the AIDs in the condoms?" Abstinence? What a joke.
The only "cure" for AIDs (for now, at leaset) is education. Problem is, the educatee must want to be educated. It is hard to battle against several millenia of tradition and superstition.
One factor affecting speed of logic devices is propagation delay.
For argument's sake, let's assume we have a hypodermic syringe filled with fluid attached to a lo-ong needle (100 miles) or other tube. The needle/tube is already filled with fluid.
Parallel to it, we have a wire or other conductor.
If we plunge the syringe and simultaneously inject a current into the wire, at the other end, which occurs first: movement of the fluid, or electron flow?
Assuming the fluid is water, I seem to recall that you cannot compress water, ergo no loss to compression, hence no propagation delay. Would not the hydraulic model then react faster?
My fingers started doing that when I quit wearing the foil hat.
What more proof do you need?
Wikipedia has the Hubble specs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescop e
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I fought in the Brain Wars with management 30 years ago, and it was the same thing. The Powers wanted X, but system capabilities were Y. They did not want the issue confused with facts, they just wanted wehat they wanted, and wanted it yesterday. My peers and I coded it as close as we could, implemented it, and crossed our fingers. We kept the app running for about a week (with frequent bailing wire and BandAide patches), but the system eventually melted down due to data overload (fancy-speak for filled up the disk).
Management skated, two programmers fired.
That's why I raise cattle and write hunting articles these days.
"This level of detail is equivalent to picking out a small building on the surface of the Moon!"
Somehow, that doesn't seem too impressive. I would have expected the Hubble to pick out a baseball-size object on the moon, but what do I know.
Point conceded.
In Texas, "shitload" is an official unit of measurement. I suspect this technology will yield energy on a scale several orders of shitload greater than any other to date this side of the sun.
Assuming RIAA et al base their accusations on declining sales, is it possible that people are not buying CDs because they are not interested in the music any more?
Depending on what genre you prefer, when was the last time an artist or group produced something you liked well enough that you were willing to pay $15 for the CD--especially if you were interested in only ONE of the songs on the entire CD?
Personally, I like country and classical. No royalties on classical (public domain), so no "poor, beleaguered artist" claims. (You pay only the production/distribution costs plus a profit margin.) None of the "modern" country artists produce anything I like. Ergo, I buy/listen to only classical and "classic" country--most artists of the latter already dead. All of which translates that that I do not buy CDs very often.
How pervasive is this scenario?
"Putting the data in the system's hardware makes it more difficult for hackers to access, according to National Semiconductor."
If the system software can access it, so can a hacker.
Back in the 80s, Data General thought it was.
I remember when reading "The Soul Of A New Machine" by Tracy Kidder (about the development of the Eclipse 8000 32-bit minicomputer, I seem to recall; won a Pulitzer for non-fiction, I think), there was a passage quoting one of the DG honchos that went something like: "Some companies woo their customers; we litigate 'em."
There was another section that alluded to rumors a DG executive burned down a DEC plant that manufactured VAX components.
Ah, the good old days!
"The market wanted personal computers, with an operating system that was readily available and ran on commodity hardware. He provided half of that equation." Other than some sort of sweetheart deal, I never understood why IBM chose MSDOS over CPM/86. CPM was far more versatile and powerful than MSDOS. Example: You could do a true wildcard search (*file*name.*) with CPM, but not with MSDOS. I guess Digital Research didn't know how to grease skids or who to blow.
...simply butter the toast on the wrong side.
8. Whether any of the proposed authentication standards are proprietary and/or patented.