I'm pretty sure that the "underlying" technology of Blu-Ray is the Rijndael cipher, which I'm pretty sure would be really big news if/when it's eventually "compromised."
What kind of information do they need? It only seems to happen in the wee hours of the morning, so I don't even know it happened unless I try to call someone, at which point all I can do is check the cable company's router's log to guess when the outage actually started.
I have cable phone service here, FiOS isn't slated to reach my area for at least three years, but the IP phone is kind of "meh." When it works, it works fine, but it silently fails due to network outage during the night every couple of months or so, and if my peek at the logs is correct, it can be for 6-8 hours at a time.
Which in terms of percentage uptime isn't too bad (two 9s isn't great, but it could be worse), I guess, but it would really suck to need to call emergency services and have to wait for that to come on-line. Or worse, an alarm system without backup cellular hooked into something like that.
What guarantee does Verizon have that their VOIP is going to be more reliable than the cable company's VOIP?
I don't think the media industry can possibly be sufficiently significant donors to get this kind of thing. The US recording industry's total gross revenues in 2008 were smaller than Microsoft's net profit in that same year.
I think they're donating something other than campaign funds. I think they're donating association. Stroking the egos of politicos by hanging out with them once in a while.
The fact that word is a crappy page layout engine, and not really suited to the task does not change the fact that it is, primarily, a page layout engine.
Notepad is text only. Wordpad can be text only. Word can export to text, but really isn't "text only" in any sense of the word. Even the text export will be wonky, depending on how it decides to interpret the layout decisions you made.
side note: If wordperfect for dos is what you're looking for, I'd recommend one of the incarnations of Vim or Emacs that works on your system. (but I'm a vim zealot, so bleh on the emacs.)
Anyway, the point is that Word is a page layout program, especially when compared to "text editor + [La]TeX." but it's a terrible at page layout. It's both overkill and insufficient to most of the tasks it's allegedly suited for.*
*there is one arena where it's "good enough." And that's for short papers that need some page-layout, but are short enough that they don't need consistent structure. i.e. eigth-grade term papers. Unfortunately, eighth grade seems to be where people cement their idea of what a good tool for producing stuff with words is.
Uh.. yes, that's what LaTeX is. You edit in any text editor of your choosing, and then run the marked-up, but otherwise completely bog-standard text file through the typesetting engine to produce something you can print, whether that's a PDF, postscript, DVI, or whatever. You can even output HTML if you need to.
Word is the thing that's overkill: it's page layout software. There are too many knobs for general text, and although it includes tools that could make it nearly as useful as text editor + typesetter (e.g. styles) they go unused. It's a hybrid, whose lowest common usage forces people into the least efficient scenario.
I was commenting on a general tone which seems to follow failures, not-quite-meets expectations's, and the weird notion that initial expectations of early prototypes is somehow too low.
See past projects plagued with criticism in the way-early stages that was really uncalled-for (and had the potential to stall the project, becoming self-fufilling). For example, the V-22 Osprey, and missile defense systems.
Typesetting software is precisely the appropriate level of software for a document whose final form should be pdf. Page Layout software however really is overkill for a document over one page indented to convey information primarily through the actual text.
But when the first printing sells out, the publisher is only going to print more. Clearly this is a scam to funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of this "former officer", paying a hefty fee to the publisher to launder the dough.
Of course I'd also pay more for a bulb that didn't contain any regulated heavy metals so I could just throw it in the trash like an incandescent.
Halogens. Not quite as efficient as CFLs, but quite a bit better than "standard" incandescents. Better color temperature than either.
I'd also suggest HID, although the color temperature is a little too sunny with those most of the time, and I don't think you can get one that will fit in a normal lamp. And they're expensive. And the bulbs don't last long...
With CFL's, I've found that of the remaining 90%, a cheap box will have more'n half of 'em with bad ballasts and produce a loud hum while in operation. I'm sure this results in shorter lifespan, but not short enough for you to be forced to replace right away like the duds.
It used to be that you could find non-cheap CFL's, but all the brands I used to use have outsourced to the same crappy chinese factory, and now I have no idea where to find good ones. I guess I'm just going to have to start making my own lime lamps if I want a quality light.
To be fair, you should've said "gross revenue." The way you wrote it has two interpretations, one of which makes you look stupid, therefore the AC chose to believe that's the one you meant.
The GE bulbs would be 50% more than the Chinese bulbs or 1+1/2, or 3/2. But that means that the chinese bulbs would be 2/3 the cost of the GE bulbs. 33% less.
But.. that's the manufacturing cost, and doesn't necessarily reflect the retail price - even with the same per-unit profit, that would not require the product to sell in *stores* for 50% more than the chinese bulbs.
Further, CFL's are pretty cheap. I'd pay 50% more for one made in the US. I'd like to have had the option.
Heck, I pay 100% more to get stuff from the local Farmer's Market instead of who-knows where. I don't do that because it's got an "organic" sticker on it, either. I do it because I like the idea of locally supplied foods and products.
There's a limit, of course, but I weight my buying decisions such that I'm willing to pay a bit more for things depending on who made it. I think a lot of people do that.
They're not fecking stocks, ruled by brownian motion and the machinations of a shadowy, powerful group of elite monkeys.
The diseases they prevent aren't gone, merely suppressed. If you stop suppressing them, they'll come right back to the levels they had before.
And the only way in which the vaccines are different is that about 30 years ago, they removed the junk in them that the hysterical antivaccinites were claiming causes autism, with no effect on the actual autism rates...
Both are just a license. You don't get to keep the bread. You return it to the bread company's designated processor roughly 16 hours after using it, and no more than a week or two after buying it.
If your Social Security Number is your "true name" then you told this preacher the most powerful part, quite casually.
The first three digits are location. Anyone doing a tiny bit of research can find that out about you, and the next two digits are "lot number." This can be guessed pretty accurately by knowing the time of birth. If you can bracket the birth date with others' whose lot numbers you know, you can determine it as well.
That leaves four digits to uniquely and "secretly" identify you. Of which you gave up three without any prodding....
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Students can't afford the 2-year lock-in data plan upgrade. At least, not if they want to be responsible.
And come to think about it, they can't afford it if they want to be irresponsible either....
It would be interesting to see whether they're buying them in greater or lesser percentages than their professors anyway.
Maybe he just thought he could sell the fusion research for a lot *more* cash...
I'm pretty sure that the "underlying" technology of Blu-Ray is the Rijndael cipher, which I'm pretty sure would be really big news if/when it's eventually "compromised."
Ok, but the downside would be..?
It's the first one.
What kind of information do they need? It only seems to happen in the wee hours of the morning, so I don't even know it happened unless I try to call someone, at which point all I can do is check the cable company's router's log to guess when the outage actually started.
I have cable phone service here, FiOS isn't slated to reach my area for at least three years, but the IP phone is kind of "meh." When it works, it works fine, but it silently fails due to network outage during the night every couple of months or so, and if my peek at the logs is correct, it can be for 6-8 hours at a time.
Which in terms of percentage uptime isn't too bad (two 9s isn't great, but it could be worse), I guess, but it would really suck to need to call emergency services and have to wait for that to come on-line. Or worse, an alarm system without backup cellular hooked into something like that.
What guarantee does Verizon have that their VOIP is going to be more reliable than the cable company's VOIP?
I don't think the media industry can possibly be sufficiently significant donors to get this kind of thing. The US recording industry's total gross revenues in 2008 were smaller than Microsoft's net profit in that same year.
I think they're donating something other than campaign funds. I think they're donating association. Stroking the egos of politicos by hanging out with them once in a while.
If blank pages are allowed, why would you use 21 newlines, when a single page break would suffice?
The fact that word is a crappy page layout engine, and not really suited to the task does not change the fact that it is, primarily, a page layout engine.
Notepad is text only. Wordpad can be text only. Word can export to text, but really isn't "text only" in any sense of the word. Even the text export will be wonky, depending on how it decides to interpret the layout decisions you made.
side note: If wordperfect for dos is what you're looking for, I'd recommend one of the incarnations of Vim or Emacs that works on your system. (but I'm a vim zealot, so bleh on the emacs.)
Anyway, the point is that Word is a page layout program, especially when compared to "text editor + [La]TeX." but it's a terrible at page layout. It's both overkill and insufficient to most of the tasks it's allegedly suited for.*
*there is one arena where it's "good enough." And that's for short papers that need some page-layout, but are short enough that they don't need consistent structure. i.e. eigth-grade term papers. Unfortunately, eighth grade seems to be where people cement their idea of what a good tool for producing stuff with words is.
I think you will find that the term offers an interpretation under which it is not only common, but exclusive!
Uh.. yes, that's what LaTeX is. You edit in any text editor of your choosing, and then run the marked-up, but otherwise completely bog-standard text file through the typesetting engine to produce something you can print, whether that's a PDF, postscript, DVI, or whatever. You can even output HTML if you need to.
Word is the thing that's overkill: it's page layout software. There are too many knobs for general text, and although it includes tools that could make it nearly as useful as text editor + typesetter (e.g. styles) they go unused. It's a hybrid, whose lowest common usage forces people into the least efficient scenario.
I was commenting on a general tone which seems to follow failures, not-quite-meets expectations's, and the weird notion that initial expectations of early prototypes is somehow too low.
See past projects plagued with criticism in the way-early stages that was really uncalled-for (and had the potential to stall the project, becoming self-fufilling). For example, the V-22 Osprey, and missile defense systems.
Can you even *have* a 2k page Word document without tremendous compute resources?
Typesetting software is precisely the appropriate level of software for a document whose final form should be pdf. Page Layout software however really is overkill for a document over one page indented to convey information primarily through the actual text.
Therefore we shouldn't develop this weapon any more. After all, one failure means the whole project will never produce a useful tool, ever.
But when the first printing sells out, the publisher is only going to print more. Clearly this is a scam to funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of this "former officer", paying a hefty fee to the publisher to launder the dough.
Of course I'd also pay more for a bulb that didn't contain any regulated heavy metals so I could just throw it in the trash like an incandescent.
Halogens. Not quite as efficient as CFLs, but quite a bit better than "standard" incandescents. Better color temperature than either.
I'd also suggest HID, although the color temperature is a little too sunny with those most of the time, and I don't think you can get one that will fit in a normal lamp. And they're expensive. And the bulbs don't last long...
With CFL's, I've found that of the remaining 90%, a cheap box will have more'n half of 'em with bad ballasts and produce a loud hum while in operation. I'm sure this results in shorter lifespan, but not short enough for you to be forced to replace right away like the duds.
It used to be that you could find non-cheap CFL's, but all the brands I used to use have outsourced to the same crappy chinese factory, and now I have no idea where to find good ones. I guess I'm just going to have to start making my own lime lamps if I want a quality light.
like scantily clad women as much as the next guy, but ...
I submit that you do not.
To be fair, you should've said "gross revenue." The way you wrote it has two interpretations, one of which makes you look stupid, therefore the AC chose to believe that's the one you meant.
So, what we need is for everyone else to be at war again, and we can sell them second-rate weapons and supplies?
That really sheds new light on our current foreign policy....
33% less.
The GE bulbs would be 50% more than the Chinese bulbs or 1+1/2, or 3/2. But that means that the chinese bulbs would be 2/3 the cost of the GE bulbs. 33% less.
But.. that's the manufacturing cost, and doesn't necessarily reflect the retail price - even with the same per-unit profit, that would not require the product to sell in *stores* for 50% more than the chinese bulbs.
Further, CFL's are pretty cheap. I'd pay 50% more for one made in the US. I'd like to have had the option.
Heck, I pay 100% more to get stuff from the local Farmer's Market instead of who-knows where. I don't do that because it's got an "organic" sticker on it, either. I do it because I like the idea of locally supplied foods and products.
There's a limit, of course, but I weight my buying decisions such that I'm willing to pay a bit more for things depending on who made it. I think a lot of people do that.
They're not fecking stocks, ruled by brownian motion and the machinations of a shadowy, powerful group of elite monkeys.
The diseases they prevent aren't gone, merely suppressed. If you stop suppressing them, they'll come right back to the levels they had before.
And the only way in which the vaccines are different is that about 30 years ago, they removed the junk in them that the hysterical antivaccinites were claiming causes autism, with no effect on the actual autism rates...
As a taxpayer, I feel like I should've been notified of my right to face my accuser. Who can I sue over this?
Both are just a license. You don't get to keep the bread. You return it to the bread company's designated processor roughly 16 hours after using it, and no more than a week or two after buying it.
If your Social Security Number is your "true name" then you told this preacher the most powerful part, quite casually.
The first three digits are location. Anyone doing a tiny bit of research can find that out about you, and the next two digits are "lot number." This can be guessed pretty accurately by knowing the time of birth. If you can bracket the birth date with others' whose lot numbers you know, you can determine it as well.
That leaves four digits to uniquely and "secretly" identify you. Of which you gave up three without any prodding....