That sounds weird every time I see it. It puts a lot of the company's security interests (their internal servers) in the hands of a third party (whomever is the "default DNS" for the client). It should check the VPN's DNS first, which perhaps could be an abbreviated "local only" DNS, and only when that fails should it fall over to the "default DNS."
Or better yet, important servers should be in the hosts file on the client's machine, so that there never is an issue of whether a third party DNS would get checked.
Or something less brain-dead than hoping that a third party won't mess with your clients' lookups for fun and profit. Relying on a failure and fail-over seems like poor design to me.
When I was little, we had "internet addiction camp" too. We called it, "Camp." There were all kinds of activities from learning about native american myths, to swimming, sailing, ropes courses, firearms, hikes...
So many things to pique your interest in activity. How could anyone want to waste a lot of time in "second" life when they could be living real life?
There is some semantics, but the essence is that the services that word processors provided and the service that Word provides do intersect, quite a bit, in fact, but word's focus is mostly outside that regime. For instance, word processors cared more about word count than word placement. And would have functions to facility the entry of markup and such.
The modern software which most approximates the functionality of a word processor would probably be vi or pico (emacs is neither a document tool, nor a word processing tool. it's more of an embarrassment). I think we can all agree that there are things which vi and word both do, but there are a field of things that each does that the other doesn't, or doesn't do well. That's the difference between a word processor and a layout engine.
Some of us have reversed modifiers (half the time flamebait really isn't, so it gets +5 for me. My subscriber bonus? -1.) A natural five overcomes that if the negative bonuses aren't too high.
Except Word isn't a word processor. It's a document layout program. It does limited word processing as part of that, but it does less than it used to do in that area, far less competently. And it never matched say, wordperfect, in grammar correction. As far as document and page layout however, it's markedly improved over the years.
Uh.. at the intersections, you obey the traffic control devices. If you have to have an extra light for the bicycle lane because it's actually getting used, then so be it. Cyclists don't get an exemption from traffic laws just because their engine runs on hamburgers.
Well the real issue is poor urban planning. There should be grade separated lanes for pedestrians, human powered vehicles, and motorized vehicles. You can't ride a bicycle on a busy street OR the sidewalk next to it safely (and possibly legally), but that's a piss poor reason to have to drive to work if you're within biking distance.
No, if OrCAD is what he needs, he should pay for it. Or rather, the department should pay for it to be put on all or some department- or university-owned machines that the students have access to. The students have no real need to be able to do the work in the comfort of their own dorm rooms, although there is a convenience factor there which suggests using a package which also has an affordable student version.
But the reason students pay those high tuition rates is precisely so that the university will be able to afford the professional versions of tools (including software tools) that they will be using in their careers.
That said, the people who make OrCad would be pretty stupid to charge full price to a teaching institution. Not so much because of any ethical reasons (a university can probably afford full price. Their margins are high, and they bill on both sides of the equation: professors who also do research get soaked.), but because it is an excellent opportunity for indoctrination.
If the goal is to keep people from loitering so that new business can get into the stores, then the stores should pay for it.
It's convenient for me to park somewhere for as long as I damn well please. I understand that that is sub-optimal for others, but I find it kind of rude to demand I not linger and pay for the privilege. Why should I have to pay for something that benefits others at my expense?
Now, if the goal is revenue, then be honest about it, and leave out the time limit. I'm sure there are dozens of schemes which generate more revenue than the typical meter pricing and time limits schemes. Again, technology has made some things cheap that wouldn't even have been thought of as options just a few decades ago. It's important to constantly evaluate goals and assess whether the current system is just carrying on on inertia or really is the best we can do at the moment (which I define as maximizing whatever the goal is while minimizing the liberty sacrificed.)
Nothing. The 3/5ths clause only mentions native americans by race, and "non-free persons" by social position.
And it was a progressive measure. It was designed to reduce the representation that slave states would get in congress if they counted people who within their states have no representation, and indeed are treated as property.
You could argue that 3/5ths didn't go far enough, but it would be silly to argue that slave states should get extra representation on the basis of people they aren't treating as people.
I'm trying to figure out how the jammer costs $5k in the first place. It's not exactly difficult to design a white noise generator in the 1900 mhz band. $5k sounds more like the cost of a basic version of what you're talking about.
First, decide what your goals are. If it's just to keep people from staying in a space too long, there's no need to charge, just have a timer hooked up to a proximity sensor of some kind (maybe like the ones at traffic lights), which activates a camera. If the car is over the limit, snap pictures every so often and send a fine. Call a tow if it's way too long.
If the goal is to make money, then there's no need for time limits. Just have something people can swipe their credit cards or a token card, or an account based on registration number (easily read with a curb-side camera as the previous example) and bill based on availability and time of day. (but don't change the price while people are away from the meter.)
There are small tyrannies everywhere. Sometimes we put up with them to get something we want or need, but we need to evaluate periodically to make sure we aren't just inconveniencing and oppressing people because "that's the way it's always been done." Technology changes, and things that wouldn't be possible (or thought of) just a few years ago are inexpensive now.
And yes, I realize that there are more important things to bitch about, but there are also thousands of these little things that added up really rob you of a substantial portion of your life.
I don't know why the wii won consumers, but a critical factor in its overall success is that the consoles themselves were also profitable.
If you're not taking a loss on the hardware sales, you're not going to start making inane statements like "no new hardware" when your production costs finally come down enough that you aren't selling the units at a loss (on a marginal cost basis) any more.
Nintendo is going to update their hardware. It's just a matter of time really, since the wii was designed for that limited window where everyone didn't have HD sets yet. And whatever they design, it will be superior in every way to current offerings, by virtue of the steady improvements in electronics, and likely be profitable per-unit as well. All they really need to do is maintain goodwill on the wii, by not introducing new hardware "too soon." Failing any new offerings from upstarts or the existing competition, they just need to wait until enough people have HD sets and get tired of not having full-res games, such that they inevitably demand the wii's replacement or update.
Anyway, on that date or near it, does anyone really believe that Sony and MS aren't going to respond with new units as well?
If you can make a computer that is good enough to tell a blind person what to do to drive safely in an environment with other cars, pedestrians, unexpected potholes, etc., why not cut the person out of the control loop altogether and just connect that computer directly to the drive system and make a self-driving car for everybody?
I have a sprint phone. If I want to skip the instructions, I just hit 1. (actually, I hit 1,1, because I also don't care what the caller's number was unless I don't recognize the voice)
That's not "mandatory." That's just "sensible default." You don't know the rules? just listen. You do know them? just barge through.
If you hate them, you should sell your collection. That way someone who might have bought new will instead buy your pre-owned copies and they'll miss out on the revenue.
Every melt down isn't a Chernobyl. Some are just Three Mile Islands. And if you think TMI is an argument against nuclear power's safety, you really need to do more reading and less watching of movies titled, "the china syndrome."
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That sounds weird every time I see it. It puts a lot of the company's security interests (their internal servers) in the hands of a third party (whomever is the "default DNS" for the client). It should check the VPN's DNS first, which perhaps could be an abbreviated "local only" DNS, and only when that fails should it fall over to the "default DNS."
Or better yet, important servers should be in the hosts file on the client's machine, so that there never is an issue of whether a third party DNS would get checked.
Or something less brain-dead than hoping that a third party won't mess with your clients' lookups for fun and profit. Relying on a failure and fail-over seems like poor design to me.
Which is stupid, because the company doesn't see a dime of those investments unless they issue new shares. The CEO however....
When I was little, we had "internet addiction camp" too. We called it, "Camp." There were all kinds of activities from learning about native american myths, to swimming, sailing, ropes courses, firearms, hikes...
So many things to pique your interest in activity. How could anyone want to waste a lot of time in "second" life when they could be living real life?
Page layout program.
There is some semantics, but the essence is that the services that word processors provided and the service that Word provides do intersect, quite a bit, in fact, but word's focus is mostly outside that regime. For instance, word processors cared more about word count than word placement. And would have functions to facility the entry of markup and such.
The modern software which most approximates the functionality of a word processor would probably be vi or pico (emacs is neither a document tool, nor a word processing tool. it's more of an embarrassment). I think we can all agree that there are things which vi and word both do, but there are a field of things that each does that the other doesn't, or doesn't do well. That's the difference between a word processor and a layout engine.
Some of us have reversed modifiers (half the time flamebait really isn't, so it gets +5 for me. My subscriber bonus? -1.) A natural five overcomes that if the negative bonuses aren't too high.
Actually, the president can also not sign bills. One thing that our previous president didn't do nearly as often as he ought to have.
Except Word isn't a word processor. It's a document layout program. It does limited word processing as part of that, but it does less than it used to do in that area, far less competently. And it never matched say, wordperfect, in grammar correction. As far as document and page layout however, it's markedly improved over the years.
Oh, come off it. Real geeks use a line editor like lp - <<ENDOFDOCUMENT Because we never make mistakes and only ever need one hard copy of anything.
Uh.. at the intersections, you obey the traffic control devices. If you have to have an extra light for the bicycle lane because it's actually getting used, then so be it. Cyclists don't get an exemption from traffic laws just because their engine runs on hamburgers.
Well the real issue is poor urban planning. There should be grade separated lanes for pedestrians, human powered vehicles, and motorized vehicles. You can't ride a bicycle on a busy street OR the sidewalk next to it safely (and possibly legally), but that's a piss poor reason to have to drive to work if you're within biking distance.
No, if OrCAD is what he needs, he should pay for it. Or rather, the department should pay for it to be put on all or some department- or university-owned machines that the students have access to. The students have no real need to be able to do the work in the comfort of their own dorm rooms, although there is a convenience factor there which suggests using a package which also has an affordable student version.
But the reason students pay those high tuition rates is precisely so that the university will be able to afford the professional versions of tools (including software tools) that they will be using in their careers.
That said, the people who make OrCad would be pretty stupid to charge full price to a teaching institution. Not so much because of any ethical reasons (a university can probably afford full price. Their margins are high, and they bill on both sides of the equation: professors who also do research get soaked.), but because it is an excellent opportunity for indoctrination.
If the goal is to keep people from loitering so that new business can get into the stores, then the stores should pay for it.
It's convenient for me to park somewhere for as long as I damn well please. I understand that that is sub-optimal for others, but I find it kind of rude to demand I not linger and pay for the privilege. Why should I have to pay for something that benefits others at my expense?
Now, if the goal is revenue, then be honest about it, and leave out the time limit. I'm sure there are dozens of schemes which generate more revenue than the typical meter pricing and time limits schemes. Again, technology has made some things cheap that wouldn't even have been thought of as options just a few decades ago. It's important to constantly evaluate goals and assess whether the current system is just carrying on on inertia or really is the best we can do at the moment (which I define as maximizing whatever the goal is while minimizing the liberty sacrificed.)
Nothing. The 3/5ths clause only mentions native americans by race, and "non-free persons" by social position.
And it was a progressive measure. It was designed to reduce the representation that slave states would get in congress if they counted people who within their states have no representation, and indeed are treated as property.
You could argue that 3/5ths didn't go far enough, but it would be silly to argue that slave states should get extra representation on the basis of people they aren't treating as people.
I'm trying to figure out how the jammer costs $5k in the first place. It's not exactly difficult to design a white noise generator in the 1900 mhz band. $5k sounds more like the cost of a basic version of what you're talking about.
It's possible to design materials that are opaque to cell phones but transparent to typical municipal radio systems (150, 400 mhz being fairly common)
First, decide what your goals are. If it's just to keep people from staying in a space too long, there's no need to charge, just have a timer hooked up to a proximity sensor of some kind (maybe like the ones at traffic lights), which activates a camera. If the car is over the limit, snap pictures every so often and send a fine. Call a tow if it's way too long.
If the goal is to make money, then there's no need for time limits. Just have something people can swipe their credit cards or a token card, or an account based on registration number (easily read with a curb-side camera as the previous example) and bill based on availability and time of day. (but don't change the price while people are away from the meter.)
There are small tyrannies everywhere. Sometimes we put up with them to get something we want or need, but we need to evaluate periodically to make sure we aren't just inconveniencing and oppressing people because "that's the way it's always been done." Technology changes, and things that wouldn't be possible (or thought of) just a few years ago are inexpensive now.
And yes, I realize that there are more important things to bitch about, but there are also thousands of these little things that added up really rob you of a substantial portion of your life.
I don't know why the wii won consumers, but a critical factor in its overall success is that the consoles themselves were also profitable.
If you're not taking a loss on the hardware sales, you're not going to start making inane statements like "no new hardware" when your production costs finally come down enough that you aren't selling the units at a loss (on a marginal cost basis) any more.
Nintendo is going to update their hardware. It's just a matter of time really, since the wii was designed for that limited window where everyone didn't have HD sets yet. And whatever they design, it will be superior in every way to current offerings, by virtue of the steady improvements in electronics, and likely be profitable per-unit as well. All they really need to do is maintain goodwill on the wii, by not introducing new hardware "too soon." Failing any new offerings from upstarts or the existing competition, they just need to wait until enough people have HD sets and get tired of not having full-res games, such that they inevitably demand the wii's replacement or update.
Anyway, on that date or near it, does anyone really believe that Sony and MS aren't going to respond with new units as well?
That's a ripoff site of the original....
If you can make a computer that is good enough to tell a blind person what to do to drive safely in an environment with other cars, pedestrians, unexpected potholes, etc., why not cut the person out of the control loop altogether and just connect that computer directly to the drive system and make a self-driving car for everybody?
How do you know?
I have a sprint phone. If I want to skip the instructions, I just hit 1. (actually, I hit 1,1, because I also don't care what the caller's number was unless I don't recognize the voice)
That's not "mandatory." That's just "sensible default." You don't know the rules? just listen. You do know them? just barge through.
If you hate them, you should sell your collection. That way someone who might have bought new will instead buy your pre-owned copies and they'll miss out on the revenue.
How much does a billboard cost these days, anyway? or a radio ad? Do you really need to sign your life away to get these things?
Because it seems to me that all the labels really provide is the initial financing for advertising and studio time at usury rates.
Don't eat mushrooms then. They're not only made in cow dung, they're basically made entirely from cow dung.
Every melt down isn't a Chernobyl. Some are just Three Mile Islands. And if you think TMI is an argument against nuclear power's safety, you really need to do more reading and less watching of movies titled, "the china syndrome."