I am just glad they found a cause better than education to give money to. I was affraid my kids might get an educaion. Everyone knows we cant have that.
Unfortunately an election in the modern terms was not a possibility back when the constitution was written. I do not think the founding fathers thought that there would be a day when information could travel from all cities in the country to a single location over the course of a few minutes, let alone a single day. The thought of popluar voting elections thus would not have been considered.
Unfortunately this would be highly waistful. The
OS is what takes care of memory management and processor scheduling. If you have each app boot it's own os, then programmers are going to have to proverbially reinvent the wheel each and every time they write a program. And on top of that the wheel would have to be diferent each time, due to copywrites on many efficient algorithms. Then comes the worst part, your because of memory management and processor scheduling, you are enabled to run multiple processes "simultaneously". If each program has it's own kernel then you would have to dedicate the entire machine to one task at a time.
I believe the reason this does not have a dip switch is that it is a wireless solution, and is usually accessable to the public. And any Jow Schmo could walk up to the device and give himself access using the physical method of resetting the password. They are also used in inaccessable places (ie telephone poles, roofs, anyother place you can think of that will give the highest yeild of accessable air volume for connectivity).
I wonder if this would create a new venue for DRM on software. Software producers could exclude assigning a CD key until the very last minute... and make that key specific to the copy of their distribution being burned. It's something to think about.
Then again it could also allow for massive quantities of disk images to be stored in a single location, and if these machines were ever to become compromized... I will leave that one open ended.
I was wondering what/.ers have to think about MS pulling its product line out of the EU. I am not sure what their return on investment is in the proprietary market of EU, but if they were to pull their product from preinstallations, this would probably apease the courts, and allow them to have a market. This being an alternative to opening their source (something I think they would never do). And they could still make some revenue from internet sales on machines with windows preinstallations and they might be able to sneak a copy of the OS into the packaging of new machines. I am sure they will at least run the numbers on scenarios such as this to see if it will more cost effective than having a reacuring 1-3 billion dollar fine.
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I am just glad they found a cause better than education to give money to. I was affraid my kids might get an educaion. Everyone knows we cant have that.
A "large surveying network" would be set up to monitor water reserves, forests, farmland, city construction and "various activities of society,"
Or is it a very eloquent way of saying... The most technologically advanced game of Civilization EVER!!
So the American solution is to DO NOTHING. Oh wait... what... it isn't that we are doing nothing.
Sorry I was mistaken we are "Researching" it. We will have a solution in 10 or 15 years.
Unfortunately an election in the modern terms was not a possibility back when the constitution was written. I do not think the founding fathers thought that there would be a day when information could travel from all cities in the country to a single location over the course of a few minutes, let alone a single day. The thought of popluar voting elections thus would not have been considered.
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Unfortunately this would be highly waistful. The OS is what takes care of memory management and processor scheduling. If you have each app boot it's own os, then programmers are going to have to proverbially reinvent the wheel each and every time they write a program. And on top of that the wheel would have to be diferent each time, due to copywrites on many efficient algorithms. Then comes the worst part, your because of memory management and processor scheduling, you are enabled to run multiple processes "simultaneously". If each program has it's own kernel then you would have to dedicate the entire machine to one task at a time.
500 ml = 16.9070113 US fluid ounces
and 16.9070113 = 499 ml
So you are saying that even though we may /. this site, it has the potential to /. back?
Think about it!
So, who do you think will be the first to overclock one of these. I can see it now:
Yeah my heart runs at 100 RPMs, but you see this button. If i'm ever in danger I just push this button, and wham up to 7200 for 20 seconds.
... to run all of their DRM software.
I believe the reason this does not have a dip switch is that it is a wireless solution, and is usually accessable to the public. And any Jow Schmo could walk up to the device and give himself access using the physical method of resetting the password. They are also used in inaccessable places (ie telephone poles, roofs, anyother place you can think of that will give the highest yeild of accessable air volume for connectivity).
I wonder if this would create a new venue for DRM on software. Software producers could exclude assigning a CD key until the very last minute... and make that key specific to the copy of their distribution being burned. It's something to think about. Then again it could also allow for massive quantities of disk images to be stored in a single location, and if these machines were ever to become compromized... I will leave that one open ended.
Anybody consider that the launch is the real joke?
I was wondering what /.ers have to think about MS pulling its product line out of the EU. I am not sure what their return on investment is in the proprietary market of EU, but if they were to pull their product from preinstallations, this would probably apease the courts, and allow them to have a market. This being an alternative to opening their source (something I think they would never do). And they could still make some revenue from internet sales on machines with windows preinstallations and they might be able to sneak a copy of the OS into the packaging of new machines. I am sure they will at least run the numbers on scenarios such as this to see if it will more cost effective than having a reacuring 1-3 billion dollar fine.
On the other hand Michael can now add... "Featured on Tom's Hardware" ... to his credentials