I am seeing five to ten ADs per day for the cutover, and I only watch TV about two or three hours per night.
My question: If you don't watch enough TV to know there is going to be NO TV, will you know your TV doesn't work when it stops?
BTW, How many people do not have cable, AND have not used the coupons for (relatively) FREE converters?
"The used superconductors are good well above 4K (although with decreased maximum saturation)."
Well, there's the problem - They should have bought NEW superconductors:^)
"Can we stop saying "virtual telescopes" and start using the proper grown up terms? Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis aren't hard to understand. It's a pet peeve of mine, and slashdotters should be of a level of intelligence that they can understand this stuff."
You're new here, aren't you?
I saw an article a year or so ago where a security consultant developer an RFID "reader / transmitter". He could hit a button, wave it a few inches from your wallet, read the RFID for your building access card, and re-transmit it to the door reader.
BTW, encryption doesn't help - The reader just reads the encrypted data, and faithfully re-sends it to open the door.
I have an Athlon 6K / X2 / X64 with 2GB of high-speed DDR2 - XP PRO X64, and Vista X64 in a dual-boot configuration. As the phrase went, You can get XP Pro out of my cold, dead hands.
The only thing I see is the eye-candy. If you could sell me the candy for thirty bucks or so, why do I need an unstable, ANNOYING operating system that has a lot of driver issues?
P.S., SP1 hasn't FIXED A DAMNED THING!
I'm not sure if this is better than anecdotal evidence... But we had a major system revision last night (This morning?). There were lots of changes going on in the window, being performed by different teams, and each had seperate conference lines up, and were on different IM channels.
The customer contact had three separate IM sessions going on, while we were trying to walk him through MAJOR changes to our equipment, where the hardware interface was also running on his desktop. Every time he would try to do what we needed him to do, he would get at least two IM's that were urgent, and then had no recollection of what we had asked him to do when he had answered the IM requests.
Let's just say if we had access to the customer's system, we would have been focused, and would have finished the work at least two hours earlier.
"I understand the historical reasons behind the illegality of betting over the wire, but given that I can take a $99 flight to Las Vegas or go to Indian casinos across the county, it seems kind of irrelevant, and the US Gov't could still require US based online casinos to adhere to all the regulatory control the current brick-and-mortar ones do."
Ah, yes, but the taxes don't flow from some small country in the Caribbean where the Americans are gambling. Remember, if the FEDs don't get their cut, the activity must be illegal:)
There was an article in Air & Space magazine in the last month or so about runway incursions (being in the wrong taxiway, or worse on the wrong active runway, or crossing when you shouldn't.
It was a pretty scary article, and it discussed the things they are trying to do to make sure the pilots turn when they should, and do not when they shouldn't.
Bottom line, is the FAA has spent a lot of money and time, but hasn't got a good solution yet...
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"This would be GREAT!" It would also make the dog more qualified than my boss.
BTW - It is COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language And BTW, does anyone have stats on how many million lines of COBOL code are running businesses?
So, do they need to run SPYBOT?
Go to the Best Buy around the corner from my house. They have them stacked to the ceiling.
I am seeing five to ten ADs per day for the cutover, and I only watch TV about two or three hours per night. My question: If you don't watch enough TV to know there is going to be NO TV, will you know your TV doesn't work when it stops? BTW, How many people do not have cable, AND have not used the coupons for (relatively) FREE converters?
"Nice college you have here - It would be a shame if something bad should happen here..."
Christ, buy a six pack and get a hooker!
Um, my vocabulary includes FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC. Couldn't you have said "bitch" instead of "jeremiad"?
A decision in favor for those that work for the common good against a single person's greed!
"The used superconductors are good well above 4K (although with decreased maximum saturation)." Well, there's the problem - They should have bought NEW superconductors :^)
"Can we stop saying "virtual telescopes" and start using the proper grown up terms? Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis aren't hard to understand. It's a pet peeve of mine, and slashdotters should be of a level of intelligence that they can understand this stuff." You're new here, aren't you?
I saw an article a year or so ago where a security consultant developer an RFID "reader / transmitter". He could hit a button, wave it a few inches from your wallet, read the RFID for your building access card, and re-transmit it to the door reader. BTW, encryption doesn't help - The reader just reads the encrypted data, and faithfully re-sends it to open the door.
Everyone seems to forget that the number one cause of death is (drum roll) - LIVING!!!
Has anyone given any thought to the fact that it really isn't easy to do this? That's why it is called "Rocket Surgery"!
Do you think Microsoft Office 3008 will be backward compatible with Office 2K3?
I have an Athlon 6K / X2 / X64 with 2GB of high-speed DDR2 - XP PRO X64, and Vista X64 in a dual-boot configuration. As the phrase went, You can get XP Pro out of my cold, dead hands. The only thing I see is the eye-candy. If you could sell me the candy for thirty bucks or so, why do I need an unstable, ANNOYING operating system that has a lot of driver issues? P.S., SP1 hasn't FIXED A DAMNED THING!
I'm not sure if this is better than anecdotal evidence... But we had a major system revision last night (This morning?). There were lots of changes going on in the window, being performed by different teams, and each had seperate conference lines up, and were on different IM channels. The customer contact had three separate IM sessions going on, while we were trying to walk him through MAJOR changes to our equipment, where the hardware interface was also running on his desktop. Every time he would try to do what we needed him to do, he would get at least two IM's that were urgent, and then had no recollection of what we had asked him to do when he had answered the IM requests. Let's just say if we had access to the customer's system, we would have been focused, and would have finished the work at least two hours earlier.
IIRC that lasted FOUR YEARS
Only 37 comments, and the site has already been slashdotted! :)
"I understand the historical reasons behind the illegality of betting over the wire, but given that I can take a $99 flight to Las Vegas or go to Indian casinos across the county, it seems kind of irrelevant, and the US Gov't could still require US based online casinos to adhere to all the regulatory control the current brick-and-mortar ones do." Ah, yes, but the taxes don't flow from some small country in the Caribbean where the Americans are gambling. Remember, if the FEDs don't get their cut, the activity must be illegal :)
You can throw all of those away - with enhanced DRM in the service pack, you won't be able to play them anyway :^)
That's how EVERYONE calculates disk space, including IBM, EMC and HDS. Is everybody going to be sued, too?
There was an article in Air & Space magazine in the last month or so about runway incursions (being in the wrong taxiway, or worse on the wrong active runway, or crossing when you shouldn't. It was a pretty scary article, and it discussed the things they are trying to do to make sure the pilots turn when they should, and do not when they shouldn't. Bottom line, is the FAA has spent a lot of money and time, but hasn't got a good solution yet...
Yo Taco! What's up with you "glamor Shot" photo in CPU Magazine?
Agreed - And the GREED is the issue. Let's all stop buying music at the box stores! There is plenty of free music on the internet. Oh, wait...