Red Hat might be the the most popular Linux commercial package, I have serious doubts that Red Hat is the most popular distribution. Just as Dell sells more than one version of Windows to satisfy individual markets, Dell would probably need to tell more than one version of Linux. Perhaps sell an expensive commercial version of Linux for commercial buyers and a lower cost (or free), desktop oriented distribution for home users.
I remember a card for the Apple 2e that had a button that you could push that took a snapshot of memory and allowed you to save it to disk. To start the program, you just loaded the snapshot it back into memory. I seem to remember that it worked pretty well, for a while.
There is plenty of blame to be shared by all. Days before Katrina hit Louisiana it was known that the hurricane was going to be big, it was also known that a big hurricane could cause the New Orleans levee system to catastrophically fail. The blame starts with the people of New Orleans who could evacuate, but didn't. I am not clear whether people who needed transportation were offered evacuation transportation prior to Katrina (and whether the availablity had been communicated). Hospitals and nursing homes had not been evacuated. Hospitals and other essential buildings had their generators located IN THE BASEMENT and were susceptible to flooding. Blame then goes to the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana who thought that using the Superdome as a shelter was a Good Idea and then not equiping and stocking the Superdome as a shelter. Also, the American Red Cross had not certified the Superdome as a public shelter. Then the blame goes to whoever engineered the public safety communications system in New Orleans. Then we get to FEMA, which is the Federal organization responsible for coordinating rescue response efforts. FEMA used to be an independant organization that had shown that it could handle domestic emergencies. FEMA should have been the über organization that coordinated resue efforts after Katrina. Local and state law enforcement took it upon themselves to seal off the state and not allow rescue and medical people in to help, FEMA should . There were many Bona Fide medical organizations who had tried to volunteer personnel and equipment to help, most were turned away, even though the medical assistance was badly needed. FEMA had been put under the Department of Homeland Security and the Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (aka FEMA director) was a Bush political appointee; Google for "Michael Brown"+Katrina for information about why Michael Brown and FEMA was inefective during the first critical days after Katrina hit. There are even more alegations concerning Bush denying that he had been told prior to Katrina hitting that the levees could fail, when there are video tapes of briefing that clearly show that Bush had been told about the possiblity of the levees failing.
I canceled my first and only attempt at placing an order at Newegg because of all of the info that they wanted and their suggestions on how to kiss their ass to get them to accept my credit card. I talked to the teller at the bank that issued my credit card and she said that the phone number on the back of the card is useless to the merchant. The operators verify that they are talking to the card holder (date of birth, mother's maiden name, name of bank branch, etc.). My bank will not release any information to merchants or anybody else, they won't even confirm that a particular card number is for a valid account.
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The good news is that the PET (what water bottles are made from) will degrade from UV exposure. The bad news is that manufacturers add UV stabilizers to containers made from PET in order to protect the contents from UV, the stabilizers also protect the plastic from UV. My questions are: If PET water bottles will eventually degrade from UV exposure, what chemicals do they release and what compounds do they degrade into? Are the decompostion products more or less environmentally desireable than an intact water bottle? Are the UV stabilizers leaching into the product?
I thought that all the time and trouble that was put into LSB (Linux Standard Base) was supposed to basically solve this. At the very least, go with Debian Sarge, since they are totally non-profit...
LSB is for software application compatibility, it isn't intened to address the issues that Dell claims to have. All Dell has to do is pick a distribution; it really doesn't matter which distribution is chosen or the reason that Dell would choose a particular distribution. Debian is not the only non-profit distro and a PC builder such as Dell may decide that it is better to choose a for-profit distro, it really doesn't matter.
According to The National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA is chartered to do science:
Sec. 203. (a) The Administration, in order to carry out the purpose of this Act, shall--...
(2) arrange for participation by the scientific community in planning scientific measurements and observations to be made through use of aeronautical and space vehicles, and conduct or arrange for the conduct of such measurements and observations;...
And when Hollywood does in fact do stories that break a mold, they do it with movies like Brokeback Mountain that they know are going to alienate fans of the genre. Who seriously thinks that that movie won them approval from those who like Westerns? Of all the possible stories, they chose the one break from the norm that in the eyes of most Western fans (I'm generally not one) that shits all over the cultural norm for the genre (gay cowboys). And they wonder why they're alienating their fans and making indie movies more popular.
Brokeback Mountain did pretty well for a movie that you think alienated fans. How do you know that people who like westerns were alienated? What is wrong with shitting "all over the cultural norm for the genre", as long as the movie is good? If Brokeback Mountain alienated it's fans, why did it do well at the box office (with realatively little advertising)?
Some stats from boxofficemojo.com for Brokeback Mountain:
Worldwide gross: $129,906,000 Production Budget: $14 million Box Office rank since 1980 for Western genre: 5 2005 Domestic Gross Rank: 26 (and it was only about 1/2 way through it's run on Dec 31st)
Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, WA is not a power generation facility, it is a government owned nuclear plant, which had been used mostly for nuclear research and fuel reprocessing for use in nuclear weapons. The governement had been notoriously bad at handling nuclear and radioactive waste generated by government facilities. Although the handling of the situation at Hanford Nuclear Site may serve as a warning, I do not think that the Hanford Nuclear Site is an indication of how nuclear waste from power generation plants has been handled. The plant is is a very good example of how the US government operates at it's worst and how careless people were with nuclear materials early in the cold war. The contamination at that plant was caused by cluelessness, misdeeds, and carelessness during the 1940's and 1950's. The DOE and other US government agencies is STILL covering up the extent of the problem and does not seem to care about contamination outside of the reservation. It appears that the government has learned how to better handle nuclear waste and the handling of nuclear waste is considerably better now than it was in the 1940's and 1950's.
The problem right now is even though it seems that the nuclear power plant operators and the government seem to have figured out how to handle spent fuel rods, the nuclear power plants are running out of room to store spent nuclear materials.
I suppose it would come down to whether users universally know how to secure a WiFi connection. From my observation the majority of users don't have the foggiest notion of how to secure anything on their computer. I wonder how many users have their own WiFi connection, but out of ignorance, accident, or screwy client software; are using somebody else's WiFi connection.
The problem is not with people being connected 24x7 to their personal life, the problem is being connected 24x7 with the job. For a great many people, connectivity now means that your boss (or a server) can contact you anywhere, at any time of the day or night, and demand your attention; with career affecting penalties for not responding immediately. It used to be that people took work home with them, now people take their job with them, everywhere. The "off" switch is a myth if you are employed in an exempt job.
"This sounds to me like the RIAA is throwing a tantrum and wielding its legislative power to force Apple to increase prices on iTunes like they've been bitching about for the past year or two. "What? 99 cents a song? That's not enough of a profit margin for us! We want to charge people $2.50 per song!" So they claim "price fixing" and "unfair pricing" so they can have an excuse to sue Apple into allowing them to dictate the sale prices.
The RIAA has no inherent legislative power, it has to buy legislation. The US Justice Department, which has no legislative power, but it can enforce laws, is investigating the record lables for price fixing. Sellers cannot claim illegal "price fixing" and "unfair pricing", only the buyer (Apple in this case) can do that. It is illegal for a group of producers (record lables in this case) to get together for the purpose of setting prices, and this is what the Justice Department is investigating. It is perfectly legal for Apple to refuse to pay the prices that the lables are asking.
Say that you go into a store and find some shirts that you want, and the asking prices are between $15 and $20 for each shirt. You tell the store manager that you want to buy the shirts, but you will only pay him $12 per shirt. The manager can tell you that the prices are fixed, decide to sell you the shirts for $12 each, or he can counter your offer. If the manager will not sell you the shirts at the price you are willing to pay, you are perfectly free to walk to another store. If the store managers were to get together and set the prices that they will sell their shirts for, this is illegal, and this is what the Justice Department is investigating.
Steve Jobs had told the record lables what he was willing to pay per song, which is legal; the record lables allegedly got together and tried to fix their prices, which is illegal. It would not have been illegal for the record lables to individually tell Jobs at what price they would sell their songs. In that case, Jobs could pick and choose which songs he would buy. Jobs had made the decision that he would sell all songs for 99 cents, that pretty much indicated what he was willing to pay the lables per song. The hazard here is that one or more lable could end up pricing itself so high that it would not be sold on iTunes (I understand that at least one lable has refused to sell music to iTunes).
I don't feel that it is a contradiction, just incomplete. Without feedback and do-overs the Internet would be horribly unreliable. Email is unreliable, too many things can happen to it between the sender and the receiver, including being blocked by blocklists. Web pages are magnitudes more reliable because you know whether the operation that you just attempted has worked, and can go back and correct or rtry if it didn't work.
The government doesn't care about the open source version of Snort, it cares about the commercial version, which is what the Government and Industry buys. The government is worried about back doors and other nasties in the binaries.
Snort is dual licensed. There is an open source version and a commercial version. The problem is that the commercial version, which the US government and industry buys, could be diddled with. It is possible to put back doors and other nasties in the commercial version.
I have a huge CRT television/monitor, DVD player, TiVo, CD jukebox, and a 5.1 channel receiver. I have no interest in converging my entertainment center wth my computer. For streaming audio, TiVo has a live365 front end.
Hopefully, the resulting bill (if passed) wouldn't do that. The sort of "tiering" that you are concerned about is not what the proposed bill is trying to address.
Verizon has already laid the FiOS fiber in my area. From what I understand, Verizon will not be providing cable TV service due to regulatory issues, even though the FiOS website shows a channel list for the county that I live in. My Verizon POTS phone line works just like it should. I have Cox cable TV and broadband internet and I have no complaints about Cox (except I think that they are too expensive). The only personal interaction that I have had with either Verizon or Cox within the past 10 years was when Cox went over to fiber; somebody came by to collect the old cable box and a Cox contractor installed the broadband service (in-home installation was free and they even replaced all of the old cable TV wires). I don't see Verizon FiOS being useful to me unless it becomes a competitor to Cox by providing cable TV service.
Maybe it's time to simply tell your subscribers that AOL is blocking your mailing list and that you can no longer jump through AOL's hoops. Your subscribers that use AOL have 2 options, either dump AOL or get an account with an e-mail provider.
A juror can't ignore a law they think is injust. That would cause a mistrial.
The point of jury nullification is not for a juror to ignore a law that they think is injust. As Chief Justice, John Jay, used to tell jurors: "You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts and law]." Meaning that jurors have a right to judge both the law and the justice in their decisions.
Jury nullification doesn't mean a mistrial, in many cases it has resulted in a verdict of "Not Guilty". A mistrial causes the prosecutor to re-weigh the desirability of a retrial, a plea bargain, or even a dismissal of the charges.
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Red Hat might be the the most popular Linux commercial package, I have serious doubts that Red Hat is the most popular distribution. Just as Dell sells more than one version of Windows to satisfy individual markets, Dell would probably need to tell more than one version of Linux. Perhaps sell an expensive commercial version of Linux for commercial buyers and a lower cost (or free), desktop oriented distribution for home users.
I remember a card for the Apple 2e that had a button that you could push that took a snapshot of memory and allowed you to save it to disk. To start the program, you just loaded the snapshot it back into memory. I seem to remember that it worked pretty well, for a while.
There is plenty of blame to be shared by all. Days before Katrina hit Louisiana it was known that the hurricane was going to be big, it was also known that a big hurricane could cause the New Orleans levee system to catastrophically fail. The blame starts with the people of New Orleans who could evacuate, but didn't. I am not clear whether people who needed transportation were offered evacuation transportation prior to Katrina (and whether the availablity had been communicated). Hospitals and nursing homes had not been evacuated. Hospitals and other essential buildings had their generators located IN THE BASEMENT and were susceptible to flooding. Blame then goes to the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana who thought that using the Superdome as a shelter was a Good Idea and then not equiping and stocking the Superdome as a shelter. Also, the American Red Cross had not certified the Superdome as a public shelter. Then the blame goes to whoever engineered the public safety communications system in New Orleans. Then we get to FEMA, which is the Federal organization responsible for coordinating rescue response efforts. FEMA used to be an independant organization that had shown that it could handle domestic emergencies. FEMA should have been the über organization that coordinated resue efforts after Katrina. Local and state law enforcement took it upon themselves to seal off the state and not allow rescue and medical people in to help, FEMA should . There were many Bona Fide medical organizations who had tried to volunteer personnel and equipment to help, most were turned away, even though the medical assistance was badly needed. FEMA had been put under the Department of Homeland Security and the Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (aka FEMA director) was a Bush political appointee; Google for "Michael Brown"+Katrina for information about why Michael Brown and FEMA was inefective during the first critical days after Katrina hit. There are even more alegations concerning Bush denying that he had been told prior to Katrina hitting that the levees could fail, when there are video tapes of briefing that clearly show that Bush had been told about the possiblity of the levees failing.
I canceled my first and only attempt at placing an order at Newegg because of all of the info that they wanted and their suggestions on how to kiss their ass to get them to accept my credit card. I talked to the teller at the bank that issued my credit card and she said that the phone number on the back of the card is useless to the merchant. The operators verify that they are talking to the card holder (date of birth, mother's maiden name, name of bank branch, etc.). My bank will not release any information to merchants or anybody else, they won't even confirm that a particular card number is for a valid account.
The good news is that the PET (what water bottles are made from) will degrade from UV exposure. The bad news is that manufacturers add UV stabilizers to containers made from PET in order to protect the contents from UV, the stabilizers also protect the plastic from UV. My questions are: If PET water bottles will eventually degrade from UV exposure, what chemicals do they release and what compounds do they degrade into? Are the decompostion products more or less environmentally desireable than an intact water bottle? Are the UV stabilizers leaching into the product?
I thought that all the time and trouble that was put into LSB (Linux Standard Base) was supposed to basically solve this. At the very least, go with Debian Sarge, since they are totally non-profit...
LSB is for software application compatibility, it isn't intened to address the issues that Dell claims to have. All Dell has to do is pick a distribution; it really doesn't matter which distribution is chosen or the reason that Dell would choose a particular distribution. Debian is not the only non-profit distro and a PC builder such as Dell may decide that it is better to choose a for-profit distro, it really doesn't matter.
According to The National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA is chartered to do science:
... ...
Sec. 203. (a) The Administration, in order to carry out the purpose of this Act, shall--
(2) arrange for participation by the scientific community in planning scientific measurements and observations to be made through use of aeronautical and space vehicles, and conduct or arrange for the conduct of such measurements and observations;
And when Hollywood does in fact do stories that break a mold, they do it with movies like Brokeback Mountain that they know are going to alienate fans of the genre. Who seriously thinks that that movie won them approval from those who like Westerns? Of all the possible stories, they chose the one break from the norm that in the eyes of most Western fans (I'm generally not one) that shits all over the cultural norm for the genre (gay cowboys). And they wonder why they're alienating their fans and making indie movies more popular.
Brokeback Mountain did pretty well for a movie that you think alienated fans. How do you know that people who like westerns were alienated? What is wrong with shitting "all over the cultural norm for the genre", as long as the movie is good? If Brokeback Mountain alienated it's fans, why did it do well at the box office (with realatively little advertising)?
Some stats from boxofficemojo.com for Brokeback Mountain:
Worldwide gross: $129,906,000
Production Budget: $14 million
Box Office rank since 1980 for Western genre: 5
2005 Domestic Gross Rank: 26 (and it was only about 1/2 way through it's run on Dec 31st)
Not bad for a low budget western.
Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, WA is not a power generation facility, it is a government owned nuclear plant, which had been used mostly for nuclear research and fuel reprocessing for use in nuclear weapons. The governement had been notoriously bad at handling nuclear and radioactive waste generated by government facilities. Although the handling of the situation at Hanford Nuclear Site may serve as a warning, I do not think that the Hanford Nuclear Site is an indication of how nuclear waste from power generation plants has been handled. The plant is is a very good example of how the US government operates at it's worst and how careless people were with nuclear materials early in the cold war. The contamination at that plant was caused by cluelessness, misdeeds, and carelessness during the 1940's and 1950's. The DOE and other US government agencies is STILL covering up the extent of the problem and does not seem to care about contamination outside of the reservation. It appears that the government has learned how to better handle nuclear waste and the handling of nuclear waste is considerably better now than it was in the 1940's and 1950's.
The problem right now is even though it seems that the nuclear power plant operators and the government seem to have figured out how to handle spent fuel rods, the nuclear power plants are running out of room to store spent nuclear materials.
I suppose it would come down to whether users universally know how to secure a WiFi connection. From my observation the majority of users don't have the foggiest notion of how to secure anything on their computer. I wonder how many users have their own WiFi connection, but out of ignorance, accident, or screwy client software; are using somebody else's WiFi connection.
Oh dear, somebody's been watching too much Fox News or Rush Limbaugh
The problem is not with people being connected 24x7 to their personal life, the problem is being connected 24x7 with the job. For a great many people, connectivity now means that your boss (or a server) can contact you anywhere, at any time of the day or night, and demand your attention; with career affecting penalties for not responding immediately. It used to be that people took work home with them, now people take their job with them, everywhere. The "off" switch is a myth if you are employed in an exempt job.
"This sounds to me like the RIAA is throwing a tantrum and wielding its legislative power to force Apple to increase prices on iTunes like they've been bitching about for the past year or two. "What? 99 cents a song? That's not enough of a profit margin for us! We want to charge people $2.50 per song!" So they claim "price fixing" and "unfair pricing" so they can have an excuse to sue Apple into allowing them to dictate the sale prices.
The RIAA has no inherent legislative power, it has to buy legislation. The US Justice Department, which has no legislative power, but it can enforce laws, is investigating the record lables for price fixing. Sellers cannot claim illegal "price fixing" and "unfair pricing", only the buyer (Apple in this case) can do that. It is illegal for a group of producers (record lables in this case) to get together for the purpose of setting prices, and this is what the Justice Department is investigating. It is perfectly legal for Apple to refuse to pay the prices that the lables are asking.
Say that you go into a store and find some shirts that you want, and the asking prices are between $15 and $20 for each shirt. You tell the store manager that you want to buy the shirts, but you will only pay him $12 per shirt. The manager can tell you that the prices are fixed, decide to sell you the shirts for $12 each, or he can counter your offer. If the manager will not sell you the shirts at the price you are willing to pay, you are perfectly free to walk to another store. If the store managers were to get together and set the prices that they will sell their shirts for, this is illegal, and this is what the Justice Department is investigating.
Steve Jobs had told the record lables what he was willing to pay per song, which is legal; the record lables allegedly got together and tried to fix their prices, which is illegal. It would not have been illegal for the record lables to individually tell Jobs at what price they would sell their songs. In that case, Jobs could pick and choose which songs he would buy. Jobs had made the decision that he would sell all songs for 99 cents, that pretty much indicated what he was willing to pay the lables per song. The hazard here is that one or more lable could end up pricing itself so high that it would not be sold on iTunes (I understand that at least one lable has refused to sell music to iTunes).
I don't feel that it is a contradiction, just incomplete. Without feedback and do-overs the Internet would be horribly unreliable. Email is unreliable, too many things can happen to it between the sender and the receiver, including being blocked by blocklists. Web pages are magnitudes more reliable because you know whether the operation that you just attempted has worked, and can go back and correct or rtry if it didn't work.
The government doesn't care about the open source version of Snort, it cares about the commercial version, which is what the Government and Industry buys. The government is worried about back doors and other nasties in the binaries.
Snort is dual licensed. There is an open source version and a commercial version. The problem is that the commercial version, which the US government and industry buys, could be diddled with. It is possible to put back doors and other nasties in the commercial version.
I have a huge CRT television/monitor, DVD player, TiVo, CD jukebox, and a 5.1 channel receiver. I have no interest in converging my entertainment center wth my computer. For streaming audio, TiVo has a live365 front end.
Do you mean the Terk Technology AM-1000 Advantage Passive AM Indoor Antenna? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000069EUW/ Crutchfield is the store actually selling it.
Hopefully, the resulting bill (if passed) wouldn't do that. The sort of "tiering" that you are concerned about is not what the proposed bill is trying to address.
Verizon has already laid the FiOS fiber in my area. From what I understand, Verizon will not be providing cable TV service due to regulatory issues, even though the FiOS website shows a channel list for the county that I live in. My Verizon POTS phone line works just like it should. I have Cox cable TV and broadband internet and I have no complaints about Cox (except I think that they are too expensive). The only personal interaction that I have had with either Verizon or Cox within the past 10 years was when Cox went over to fiber; somebody came by to collect the old cable box and a Cox contractor installed the broadband service (in-home installation was free and they even replaced all of the old cable TV wires). I don't see Verizon FiOS being useful to me unless it becomes a competitor to Cox by providing cable TV service.
59 trillion calculations a second equals exactly 59 teraflops, of which, 57.3 of the 59 teraflops is from a smallish IBM Blue Gene.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an IBM Blue Gene that does 280.6 teraflops or 280.6 trillion calculations a second.
Maybe it's time to simply tell your subscribers that AOL is blocking your mailing list and that you can no longer jump through AOL's hoops. Your subscribers that use AOL have 2 options, either dump AOL or get an account with an e-mail provider.
Don't Business 101 classes still teach that having a your entire business being 100% dependent on a single vendor is a very bad thing?
There is a similar myth with a "NO PLATE" vanity plate.
A juror can't ignore a law they think is injust. That would cause a mistrial.
The point of jury nullification is not for a juror to ignore a law that they think is injust. As Chief Justice, John Jay, used to tell jurors: "You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts and law]." Meaning that jurors have a right to judge both the law and the justice in their decisions.
Jury nullification doesn't mean a mistrial, in many cases it has resulted in a verdict of "Not Guilty". A mistrial causes the prosecutor to re-weigh the desirability of a retrial, a plea bargain, or even a dismissal of the charges.