...the fact that they charge $1.99 a song probably didn't help either. It's supply and demand, people. You increase price, demand falls. It's economics 101.
...is seeing how the fuck these accidents actually happen. Both Chernobyl and TMI seem to be based on a ridiculous chain of events fuelled by unfortunate coincidence, fallible mensuration equipment and human idiocy.
For instance, at TMI, there was a massive chain of events going like this (I'm taking this from the Wikipedia article). If any of these steps were omitted an accident never would've happened:
1. "The plant's main feedwater pumps in the secondary non-nuclear cooling system failed at about 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979" 2. "This failure was due to either a mechanical or electrical failure and prevented the steam generators from removing heat." 3. "First the turbine, then the nuclear reactor automatically shut down. Immediately, the pressure in the primary system (the nuclear portion of the plant) began to increase." 4. "to prevent that pressure from becoming excessive, the pressurizer relief valve (a valve located at the top of the pressurizer) opened." 5. "The valve should have closed when the pressure decreased by a certain amount, but it did not. Signals available to the operator failed to show that the valve was still open. As a result, the stuck-open valve caused the pressure to continue to decrease in the system." 6. "Meanwhile, another problem appeared elsewhere in the plant. The emergency feedwater system (backup to main feedwater) was tested 42 hours prior to the accident. As part of the test, a valve is closed and then reopened at the end of the test. But this time, through either an administrative or human error, the valve was not reopened -- preventing the emergency feedwater system from functioning." 7. "As the system pressure in the primary system continued to decrease, voids (areas where no water is present) began to form in portions of the system other than the pressurizer." 8. "Because of these voids, the water in the system was redistributed and the pressurizer became full of water." 9. "The level indicator, which tells the operator the amount of coolant capable of heat removal, incorrectly indicated the system was full of water." 10. "Thus, the operator stopped adding water. He was unaware that, because of the stuck valve, the indicator could, and in this instance did, provide false readings."
And so on and so forth. This is terrific shit. Seeing how many stages the thing went through just makes me glad this happened somewhere other than the decomposing USSR. With better engineering of measurement tools the whole thing would never have happened.
That would make things much worse in the event of a meltdown. The radioactivity has to go somewhere, and instead of being pelted into the air or lingering in and around the reactor it would wind up getting leached into the soil and causing massive contamination of any watercourses within a few kilometres, which would probably be even worse and slow down long-term dispersal of radioactive particles.
Oh, wait, it isn't! You're just rehashing an old Slashdot story which will immediately get modded up by the SCO-bashing and "M$"-bashing sheep which frequent this sordid site! Congratulations on your complete lack of humour!
...merely releasing his article under the GNU FDL is going to make one jot of difference compared to the $80 billion annual marketing budget of M$. Sorry, guys.
Obligatory Star Wars, Obligatory Simpsons, Obligatory Futurama, Obligatory Family Guy and Obligatory bash.org quotes MUST FUCKING DIE. They're not funny anymore. It's an idiotic configuration of three words. Goddammit.
Why don't they just put the list up on the fucking Internet so everyone can use it? Oh, of course, I forgot about the money. Makes me glad I'm in the UK, despite the large number of CCTV cameras we have lying around.
This book is, obviously, by no means perfect. But McVee's enthusiasm is most definitely infectious on the subject and certainly won me over from Scalextric and Tomy electronic trains. The useful tips are really the defining feature of the book, and helped me overcome the slight obstacle of the sets of track having dicky connections due to bad metal foil imprinting on the inner curvatures. Great book for the beginner.
"WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity."
What the hell does this mean? Sounds like a bunch of buzzwords thrown together about a project nobody wants that solves a problem that doesn't exist.
The fact of the matter is that Joe Sixpack will not give a crap what format his music is in, and will mock anybody who tries to explain why he should. As long as it works, that's it. iPods will continue to sell regardless of format because unlike we nerds, normal people only store music on their iPods and listen to it from there. They don't swap their shit around as we would like to. So the iPod Minis will continue to be a raging success.
I can say with a mere skim that this guide just smells like BS from the get-go. The only advantag e that MS Office has over OO.org is loading time. Nothing more. And I think it's more than a bit jammy of Microsoft to publish a "competitive" guide. The hypocrisy of them is fucking unbelievable. I'll be glad when they're gone; they haven't made any useful software since Encarta.
Intrustion cleanup is a real bastard to carry out with any degree of success. There's really no way to prove that there isn't just one more subtle little backdoor hiding in the system, in your repository or in your/home area. This is a case where an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. It's too late, here, unfortunately, so they should probably have rolled back to a backup on another set of boxes. (Just my two cents.) How well would TripWire have worked in this kind of situation? Or is that ineffective against an all-out rooting?
...because we all know that everyone only uses their password hacking knowledge to get back into their own machines after forgetting the password. Feh. This just sounds like "Jackass" with computers.
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...the fact that they charge $1.99 a song probably didn't help either. It's supply and demand, people. You increase price, demand falls. It's economics 101.
On 56k by rolloffle, pwning bare? Could it be?! Taco sucks penis!
...is seeing how the fuck these accidents actually happen. Both Chernobyl and TMI seem to be based on a ridiculous chain of events fuelled by unfortunate coincidence, fallible mensuration equipment and human idiocy.
For instance, at TMI, there was a massive chain of events going like this (I'm taking this from the Wikipedia article). If any of these steps were omitted an accident never would've happened:
1. "The plant's main feedwater pumps in the secondary non-nuclear cooling system failed at about 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979"
2. "This failure was due to either a mechanical or electrical failure and prevented the steam generators from removing heat."
3. "First the turbine, then the nuclear reactor automatically shut down. Immediately, the pressure in the primary system (the nuclear portion of the plant) began to increase."
4. "to prevent that pressure from becoming excessive, the pressurizer relief valve (a valve located at the top of the pressurizer) opened."
5. "The valve should have closed when the pressure decreased by a certain amount, but it did not. Signals available to the operator failed to show that the valve was still open. As a result, the stuck-open valve caused the pressure to continue to decrease in the system."
6. "Meanwhile, another problem appeared elsewhere in the plant. The emergency feedwater system (backup to main feedwater) was tested 42 hours prior to the accident. As part of the test, a valve is closed and then reopened at the end of the test. But this time, through either an administrative or human error, the valve was not reopened -- preventing the emergency feedwater system from functioning."
7. "As the system pressure in the primary system continued to decrease, voids (areas where no water is present) began to form in portions of the system other than the pressurizer."
8. "Because of these voids, the water in the system was redistributed and the pressurizer became full of water."
9. "The level indicator, which tells the operator the amount of coolant capable of heat removal, incorrectly indicated the system was full of water."
10. "Thus, the operator stopped adding water. He was unaware that, because of the stuck valve, the indicator could, and in this instance did, provide false readings."
And so on and so forth. This is terrific shit. Seeing how many stages the thing went through just makes me glad this happened somewhere other than the decomposing USSR. With better engineering of measurement tools the whole thing would never have happened.
That would make things much worse in the event of a meltdown. The radioactivity has to go somewhere, and instead of being pelted into the air or lingering in and around the reactor it would wind up getting leached into the soil and causing massive contamination of any watercourses within a few kilometres, which would probably be even worse and slow down long-term dispersal of radioactive particles.
Posted AC to avoid losing the karma I whored to the deranged Slashbots.
Oh, wait, it isn't! You're just rehashing an old Slashdot story which will immediately get modded up by the SCO-bashing and "M$"-bashing sheep which frequent this sordid site! Congratulations on your complete lack of humour!
...merely releasing his article under the GNU FDL is going to make one jot of difference compared to the $80 billion annual marketing budget of M$. Sorry, guys.
Let's not forget Lovelace, Ritchie, Knuth, von Neumann, Turing...
Guess what - neither did the printing press, the telephone, radio or television.
Obligatory Star Wars, Obligatory Simpsons, Obligatory Futurama, Obligatory Family Guy and Obligatory bash.org quotes MUST FUCKING DIE. They're not funny anymore. It's an idiotic configuration of three words. Goddammit.
On 56k dialup while reading E2! GNAAUK PWNS ALL.
Why don't they just put the list up on the fucking Internet so everyone can use it? Oh, of course, I forgot about the money. Makes me glad I'm in the UK, despite the large number of CCTV cameras we have lying around.
This book is, obviously, by no means perfect. But McVee's enthusiasm is most definitely infectious on the subject and certainly won me over from Scalextric and Tomy electronic trains. The useful tips are really the defining feature of the book, and helped me overcome the slight obstacle of the sets of track having dicky connections due to bad metal foil imprinting on the inner curvatures. Great book for the beginner.
"WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity."
What the hell does this mean? Sounds like a bunch of buzzwords thrown together about a project nobody wants that solves a problem that doesn't exist.
'I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.'
And that is exactly why MSN Search will never be bigger than Google.
BTW, timothy, just so you know - when inserting a clarifying phrase into a quote, one encloses it in square brackets and not normal brackets.
The fact of the matter is that Joe Sixpack will not give a crap what format his music is in, and will mock anybody who tries to explain why he should. As long as it works, that's it. iPods will continue to sell regardless of format because unlike we nerds, normal people only store music on their iPods and listen to it from there. They don't swap their shit around as we would like to. So the iPod Minis will continue to be a raging success.
I can say with a mere skim that this guide just smells like BS from the get-go. The only advantag e that MS Office has over OO.org is loading time. Nothing more. And I think it's more than a bit jammy of Microsoft to publish a "competitive" guide. The hypocrisy of them is fucking unbelievable. I'll be glad when they're gone; they haven't made any useful software since Encarta.
Intrustion cleanup is a real bastard to carry out with any degree of success. There's really no way to prove that there isn't just one more subtle little backdoor hiding in the system, in your repository or in your /home area. This is a case where an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. It's too late, here, unfortunately, so they should probably have rolled back to a backup on another set of boxes. (Just my two cents.) How well would TripWire have worked in this kind of situation? Or is that ineffective against an all-out rooting?
and the GNAA and Red Hat. By rolloffle, bare gets pwnt.
...because we all know that everyone only uses their password hacking knowledge to get back into their own machines after forgetting the password. Feh. This just sounds like "Jackass" with computers.