I don 't know the man, but he appears to have behaved like a raging asshole since the start of this. Whatever his skill or lack thereof as a network administrator, he has totally failed as a member of the team running the City's network. For all of you bewailing the fact that this all seems to be politics, I can only say, "Duh!" Everyplace you work has politics. Childs seems to have decided that his way of winning at office politics is to commit public, career seppuku on top of a hill no one cares about. He has demonstrated for all to see that he lacks judgment and a sense of proportion. Good luck with your career in fast food retailing, dude.
> it could travel 2500AU, far enough to explore the Oort Cloud... sending the sail roughly 1 million kilometers off course by the time it reaches the Oort Cloud
How could you possibly miss the Oort Cloud, a spherical region, when you start inside it. Considering that we don't know jack, or even 10% of jack, about the Oort Cloud, what the hell are we aiming at? Fling the sucker out there at random and see what we find. The unaimed arrow never misses.
I forsee Witricity adapters and a slew of 3rd party knock-off components for home and travel that allow us to bathe ourselves in a continuous blanket of electromagnetic radiation 24 hours a day.
Sorry to tell you, but that's already happening from sources such as:
AM radio
FM radio
Television
That large nearby star
The electric power grid
Your computer
RADAR in the black helicopter that's following you around.
>Anyone have any TIPS where one could invest in something safe? You know, protected against inflation, perhaps something insured by the treasury.
Closest thing to meeting your requirements currently is US Treasury Bills. Of course, you have to get out to at least 7 years to get over 3% interest. The real trick is to beat inflation, which is currently very low, but may not stay that way.
Additional research by Apple Labs has shown that unlocked iPhones cause erectile dysfunction, global warming, birth defects, and leprosy. Protect yourself by purchasing a new, locked iPhone with a five year contract extension. It's the only way to be safe.
>4. That's more of a HR issue than anything else. My guess is it wouldn't be that big of an issue. How many super duper Level 5 trained people want to move out to some little island in the middle of the fucking Pacific ocean?
So if, theoretically, I'd have a bunch of vacuum tubes running at about 10GHz and hooked them up to 1TB of magnetic core memory, it'd perform better than current generation PC hardware?
Well, even if it didn't, you would have a really big house and it would be nice and warm in winter. Electric bill might be a bit of a shocker though.
When I was doing university physics with a slide rule, three significant figures ( 74.2 ± 3.6 (km/s)/Mpc) was good enough for anything. Is our next probe going to miss M31? Oh yeah, get off my lawn too.:-)
I don't think we're using the right term to describe Cheney's secret hideout. While "Bunker" does have a nicely Hitlerian ring to it, I think either "Lair" or "Crypt" are more in tune with Cheyney. Perhaps if it needs a name, R'lyeh will do.
It has, perhaps, been some time since the reviewer read Nineteen Eighty-Four. In my mind, and that of many others, the salient feature of Big Brother was that he was watching you. Everywhere. The telescreen panel in your apartment is two-way. You have no privacy. Citizens of Oceania fear that some innocent action could be misconstrued resulting in a one-way trip to the Ministry of Love for a bit of Q&A with the Thought Police. Whether Big Brother actually existed was immaterial. Someone was watching you; always. To use Big Brother as a metaphor for omnipresent surveillance is both appropriate and suitably cautionary.
The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account.
The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account. It's the same reason that internet access costs you $10.00 per day in a $250.. a night hotel and is free at the $50.00 a night place.
Two very popular Borland products back in the day were the Quattro Pro spreadsheet and the Paradox relational database. Quattro Pro had WYSIWYG and three dimensional features running on DOS way before Lotus. Paradox was a huge advance over dBase III in ease of use and report writing.
If you had 2 MB of system RAM, they could both exist in system memory at the same time and swap back and forth. Not quite multitasking, but innovative at the time. Using DR DOS made the memory tricks easier. Ah... memories.
If it would get Ann Coulter to STFU, it might have some merit. On the other hand, it is such an obvious castration of the First Amendment that even Scalia would have to shoot it down.
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Yeah... and institute mandatory daily Two-Minute Hate sessions while we are on it.
Fox News is already on 24/7.
I don 't know the man, but he appears to have behaved like a raging asshole since the start of this. Whatever his skill or lack thereof as a network administrator, he has totally failed as a member of the team running the City's network. For all of you bewailing the fact that this all seems to be politics, I can only say, "Duh!" Everyplace you work has politics. Childs seems to have decided that his way of winning at office politics is to commit public, career seppuku on top of a hill no one cares about. He has demonstrated for all to see that he lacks judgment and a sense of proportion. Good luck with your career in fast food retailing, dude.
> it could travel 2500AU, far enough to explore the Oort Cloud... sending the sail roughly 1 million kilometers off course by the time it reaches the Oort Cloud
How could you possibly miss the Oort Cloud, a spherical region, when you start inside it. Considering that we don't know jack, or even 10% of jack, about the Oort Cloud, what the hell are we aiming at? Fling the sucker out there at random and see what we find. The unaimed arrow never misses.
....or have slashdot never been wrong?
We have never been wrong. It's just that some of our post refer to conditions in alternate universes. It's a geek thing.
I forsee Witricity adapters and a slew of 3rd party knock-off components for home and travel that allow us to bathe ourselves in a continuous blanket of electromagnetic radiation 24 hours a day.
Sorry to tell you, but that's already happening from sources such as:
>It all happens via a chip that resides in a camera that plugs into the set-top box.
That's where I habitually set my large mug of very hot coffee.
SN != AL It's not tinfoil, it's aluminum foil. You'd think that the flock of nerds here would have that figured by now.
Genuine article available here.
>Anyone have any TIPS where one could invest in something safe? You know, protected against inflation, perhaps something insured by the treasury.
Closest thing to meeting your requirements currently is US Treasury Bills. Of course, you have to get out to at least 7 years to get over 3% interest. The real trick is to beat inflation, which is currently very low, but may not stay that way.
Additional research by Apple Labs has shown that unlocked iPhones cause erectile dysfunction, global warming, birth defects, and leprosy. Protect yourself by purchasing a new, locked iPhone with a five year contract extension. It's the only way to be safe.
>4. That's more of a HR issue than anything else. My guess is it wouldn't be that big of an issue. How many super duper Level 5 trained people want to move out to some little island in the middle of the fucking Pacific ocean?
Substantially more than want to move to Kansas?
The little island off the NY coast is a -good- place.
Maybe so, if you ignore the fact that it's next door to the largest population center in North America.
However, the prevailing winds blow offshore. I think Ireland is downwind. I do realize that winds blow from all directions occasionally.
now he is simply a slimy scammer trading in stolen goods. The man is a disgrace.
Or possibly an MP.
>The main campaigns of the period were to France but there were others to ... Scotland
Sorry, but my ancestors were on the other side. Damn English. Well, they were good at raising cattle to steal.
Pizza Hut also used OpenServer.
Now they're a SUSE shop! :)
no, they're still a pizza shop
But only for certain extremely broad definitions of "pizza."
If you are Vista and you want to have sex with Linux, does that make you gay?
No, it means that Linux is into bestiality or possibly necrophilia.
So if, theoretically, I'd have a bunch of vacuum tubes running at about 10GHz and hooked them up to 1TB of magnetic core memory, it'd perform better than current generation PC hardware?
Well, even if it didn't, you would have a really big house and it would be nice and warm in winter. Electric bill might be a bit of a shocker though.
When I was doing university physics with a slide rule, three significant figures ( 74.2 ± 3.6 (km/s)/Mpc) was good enough for anything. Is our next probe going to miss M31? Oh yeah, get off my lawn too. :-)
I don't think we're using the right term to describe Cheney's secret hideout. While "Bunker" does have a nicely Hitlerian ring to it, I think either "Lair" or "Crypt" are more in tune with Cheyney. Perhaps if it needs a name, R'lyeh will do.
It has, perhaps, been some time since the reviewer read Nineteen Eighty-Four. In my mind, and that of many others, the salient feature of Big Brother was that he was watching you. Everywhere. The telescreen panel in your apartment is two-way. You have no privacy. Citizens of Oceania fear that some innocent action could be misconstrued resulting in a one-way trip to the Ministry of Love for a bit of Q&A with the Thought Police. Whether Big Brother actually existed was immaterial. Someone was watching you; always. To use Big Brother as a metaphor for omnipresent surveillance is both appropriate and suitably cautionary.
[citation needed]
OK
The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account. It's the same reason that internet access costs you $10.00 per day in a $250.. a night hotel and is free at the $50.00 a night place.
It's more business/academic oriented
But that just narrows the market size by 90%, which doesn't seem very bright.
Targeting smart people with money doesn't seem a bad business model.
Two very popular Borland products back in the day were the Quattro Pro spreadsheet and the Paradox relational database. Quattro Pro had WYSIWYG and three dimensional features running on DOS way before Lotus. Paradox was a huge advance over dBase III in ease of use and report writing.
If you had 2 MB of system RAM, they could both exist in system memory at the same time and swap back and forth. Not quite multitasking, but innovative at the time. Using DR DOS made the memory tricks easier. Ah... memories.
>Their lawyers? Chief Officers?
Perhaps they blend.
If it would get Ann Coulter to STFU, it might have some merit. On the other hand, it is such an obvious castration of the First Amendment that even Scalia would have to shoot it down.