I work for a company with a workforce in excess of 160,000. Everyone has an inbox on one of many Exchange servers. The total allowed storage on the Exchange server was 10MB when I joined the company and has recently been raised to 15MB. This space includes all components of the standard Exchange mail account including deleted items and the calendar (actually the calendar can be a major source of hidden usage if people attached large documents to meeting requests). Each user also has 500MB of personal space outside the Exchange in which they can archive or create personal folders. As you can imagine "Inbox full" messages are not that hard to come by.
Boeing (Renton) complete final assembly of a 737 in about 12 days on a production line that is constantly in motion. The line spits out in the order of 25 new aircraft a month.
You have to love market-speak. They probably justify the "main-stream" claim on the basis that:
They will be the first to document the process in Australian English
They will be the only geothermal power provider in South Australia and therefore must be the "main-stream"
They will dig three wells and designate one of them "main-stream"
As usual, technology on (or in) the ground trumps marketing hype everytime. Others have pointed out the relevant "prior art" making a mockery of this hype. The problem in Australia is a government that believes the marketing techo-hype and funds on that basis.
Many have scoffed that this individual paid good money for nothing tangible, and then sold it on to others who also got nothing tangible. This is neither innovative nor new. The currency or futures/options trading markets have been doing this for years. The stock exchange companies even make a cut of each trade---a profit from the intangible profits made from trading virtual or as-yet-non-existant goods.
Once you come to the realisation that all larger corporations (Microsoft, Sony, Boeing etc.) are sociopaths this sort of behaviour no longer comes as a surprise. There is no sense of fair play, no altruism, no community spirit, no ethics that are not overridden by the almighty {insert favourite currency here}... nothing.
I think the biggest single failing in the implementation of this rollover is the absence of change management: training, information etc, for the user population. That the new system doesn't accept utter garbage in is a Good Thing(tm) but only if users and thirdy-party tool vendors have the time and information to adjust. I'll bet that there was adequate time for transition built into the original plan but, as the technical programme slipped to the right the cut-over deadline didn't (political reasons?). The first casualties in this situation are testing, documentation, training, and change management.
The surface temperature and luminosity of the star can be determined spectroscopically. Given the radius of the planet's orbit (calculated), and the measurable stellar properties, one can estimate the energy incident on the planet (per sq. metre). The amount of incident energy will determine whether a gaseous planet, or terrestrial atmosphere, can exist. Too much heating and the average energy of atmospheric molecules exceeds the escape velocity (which is calculable from mass) of the planet. This is possibly the method used to determine that the mass must be rock rather than gas.
Having determined a rocky nature, the next step is to assume Earth-like composition and average density...this gives a radius.
It's also possible that tidal gravitational effects of the star at that distance preclude stability of a gaseous body of the calculated mass. Look up Roche limit.
An estimate, yes. A purely headline grabbing guess, probably not.
> using inelegant but practical solutions like kerosene rocket fuel.
Yeah, really inelegant in Apollo too! The first stage engines burned liquid oxygen and RP-1 (kerosene).
The Soviets tended to use hypergolic fuels, in which two components were mixed and would spontaneously combust. This reduced the need for complex ignition systems and makes for lighter engines. The Apollo lunar module also made use of hypergolic propellants.
Today Microsoft is pleased to announce the addition of two new products to our Windows stable:
Windows Loghorn [sic], with patented new Reduced BSOD features. Increase your total return per BSOD with Windows Loghorn today.
Windows Longorn [sic] sports additional ROSD [sic] (red screen of death) Transposition Engines (pat. pending.) With the expansion of auto-correct functionality to system critical events the TCO is even lower. Upgrade your Windows today.
Seriously though guys. How hard is it to spend 30 seconds reading your own typing?!
Actually, long-haul point to point does make sense if you have a range of smaller aircraft with long legs. This is precisely the model that Boeing has adopted with the 777-200LR and upcoming 787-8, or -9 (8300nm range) aircraft. You can fill one 550 seat aircraft every second day (e.g. A380) or run a daily 777-200LR (301 pax) or 787-8 (226 pax) service. The passengers on more frequent, smaller aircraft can get point to point service while the passengers on the A380 service must fly to a major hub (LHR, SYD, LAX, etc.) then connect to where they really wanted to be (which incidently negates the seat-mile costing benefit of the A380).
QANTAS, an A380 buyer, is commencing Brisbane-LA direct services later this year. Seems inconsistent with the hub-and-spoke mentality of the A380.
We lucky inhabitants of the Australian continent have an effective nationwide monopoly on local-loop copper service (Telstra). We'd need to leave the country to escape;)
What were the students actually asked? Were they asked, "What rights does the first amendment guarantee?" or "What is your opinion of the First amendment?" The first is asking for a literal interpretation, and the second is asking for an opinion (i.e. asking them to exercise their right to free speech).
The survey reads:
"The First Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution more than 200 years ago. This is what it says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Based on your own feelings about the First Amendment, please tell me whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees."
If the former question was asked then I'd be gravely concerned about the level of English comprehension displayed by the sample audience. However, the statement posed is asking for an opinion on the amendment. Consequently, what we see here is the result of the granted freedoms. Students have an opinion and have a right to express it. Rather than seeing a problem, I see the system working.
Standards are required at the right parts in the process.
Yes:
What the OSC is talking about is process standards for those companies wishing to sell product based on open source offerings. Whether free software purists like it or not, buy/don't buy decision often consider the presence of a standards badge collection. If I am paying, for example, RedHat for a Linux distribution I would want reasonable assurance that any two boxes labelled RH9 are, in fact, the same in form, fit, and function. I would also like to be reassured that some level of testing of fitness for purpose has been done and that some level of support process exists. Without some form of quality system RedHat cannot guarantee this is the case. Debian's policy of package selection based on proven stability is an example of a quality-driving policy that already exists. Quality systems do not need to adhere to ISO9001, or any other international standard, but the benefits of doing so come because the customer can rely on an ISO9001 quality improvement process being in place without having to get into the specifics of each supplier's case. The customer is trusting the ISO9001 third-party auditing process to ensure the producer is adhering to their stated policy.
No:
Many of the posts in this discussion have focussed on what developers like to focus on---lines of code in flavour-of-the-month-language X. This focus misses the point of what OSC is addressing, but nonetheless makes valid points. To try and impose a full-blown international standard at this low coding level would, IMHO, be exceptionally unpopular. Developers typically only tolerate these things if they are being paid to. Given the distributed nature of this type of effort in the free software community, coding standards can be hard to enforce. Nevertheless, most large free software project do enforce a modicum of fairly unobjectionable code quality standards and accept/reject criterion. Such processes and policies would form a very small portion of an ISO9001 accreditation suite of policy and procedure.
Actually the odds are smaller than that because it is the battery, not the phone, that's the problem. Of those 170 million phones some will have had two or maybe three batteries in their life. Some carry a spare battery because they cannot bear to be without the irradiation of their brain for a few hours, while others have simply replaced batteries that died of old age.
I am a long time Gentoo user. I can safely say I have never seen the behaviour you describe. Services that won't start get [!!] rather than [OK] and it just trundles on. Like any other Linux/UNIX/BSD the init process it will try to complete if it can.
"Matters are made worse by the fact that, unlike Americans, Australians are not protected by 'fair use' provisions."
IANAL:) This response is based on the publically available information at http://www.copyright.org.au/, which is referenced from one of the copyright fee collector's at http://www.copyright.com.au and partly govt. funded (so it probably has some credence).
The Copyright Act specifically provides the fair-use provisions that our US brethren seem to think we don't have. See information sheet G79. It's not written into our constitution arguably making it easier for a Government to change, but that is unlikely given the public benefit these provisions carry.
Conversely, the production of mod-chips and other such devices and circumventions is already cause for legal action under the Act. (Info Sheet G10)
Net change...probably very little.
Patent law on the other hand, will be used in an attempt to cripple the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) by blocking generic drug manufacturers with frivolous patent claims and FUD. The opposition parties want the offending clauses removed and the government is sticking to their U.S. buddies (a depressingly common occurrence). IMHO the govt. is holding out precisely _because_ it knows the intended purpose of the clause and left it there as a concession to U.S. drug companies for leaving the PBS more-or-less alone.
I might be paranoid, but that doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get me. I'm simply adhering to Rule #1: the U.S. government _never_ does anything that is not in its own interest.
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Intel Pentium Forever?
I work for a company with a workforce in excess of 160,000. Everyone has an inbox on one of many Exchange servers. The total allowed storage on the Exchange server was 10MB when I joined the company and has recently been raised to 15MB. This space includes all components of the standard Exchange mail account including deleted items and the calendar (actually the calendar can be a major source of hidden usage if people attached large documents to meeting requests). Each user also has 500MB of personal space outside the Exchange in which they can archive or create personal folders. As you can imagine "Inbox full" messages are not that hard to come by.
Boeing (Renton) complete final assembly of a 737 in about 12 days on a production line that is constantly in motion. The line spits out in the order of 25 new aircraft a month.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/223741_air
You can tell for yourself... have any of your blocks suddenly become invisible?
You have to love market-speak. They probably justify the "main-stream" claim on the basis that:
As usual, technology on (or in) the ground trumps marketing hype everytime. Others have pointed out the relevant "prior art" making a mockery of this hype. The problem in Australia is a government that believes the marketing techo-hype and funds on that basis.
Many have scoffed that this individual paid good money for nothing tangible, and then sold it on to others who also got nothing tangible. This is neither innovative nor new. The currency or futures/options trading markets have been doing this for years. The stock exchange companies even make a cut of each trade---a profit from the intangible profits made from trading virtual or as-yet-non-existant goods.
Once you come to the realisation that all larger corporations (Microsoft, Sony, Boeing etc.) are sociopaths this sort of behaviour no longer comes as a surprise. There is no sense of fair play, no altruism, no community spirit, no ethics that are not overridden by the almighty {insert favourite currency here} ... nothing.
...and, unlike our Moon, Mars has suffcient mass to retain a tenuous atmosphere that can support dust for extended periods.
Daylight savings changes in the UK DO NOT affect GMT (GMT is a dated term, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time)
If daylight saving were still in effect it would be 04:25 British Summer Time (BST).
I think the biggest single failing in the implementation of this rollover is the absence of change management: training, information etc, for the user population. That the new system doesn't accept utter garbage in is a Good Thing(tm) but only if users and thirdy-party tool vendors have the time and information to adjust. I'll bet that there was adequate time for transition built into the original plan but, as the technical programme slipped to the right the cut-over deadline didn't (political reasons?). The first casualties in this situation are testing, documentation, training, and change management.
Amen brother... I spent ten years in the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) but Royal Australian Acronym Factory is far more appropriate.
Will they release Vista on September 19 (any year) ?
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
I have no access to the original article (yet).
The surface temperature and luminosity of the star can be determined spectroscopically. Given the radius of the planet's orbit (calculated), and the measurable stellar properties, one can estimate the energy incident on the planet (per sq. metre). The amount of incident energy will determine whether a gaseous planet, or terrestrial atmosphere, can exist. Too much heating and the average energy of atmospheric molecules exceeds the escape velocity (which is calculable from mass) of the planet. This is possibly the method used to determine that the mass must be rock rather than gas.
Having determined a rocky nature, the next step is to assume Earth-like composition and average density...this gives a radius.
It's also possible that tidal gravitational effects of the star at that distance preclude stability of a gaseous body of the calculated mass. Look up Roche limit.
An estimate, yes. A purely headline grabbing guess, probably not.
> using inelegant but practical solutions like kerosene rocket fuel.
Yeah, really inelegant in Apollo too! The first stage engines burned liquid oxygen and RP-1 (kerosene).
The Soviets tended to use hypergolic fuels, in which two components were mixed and would spontaneously combust. This reduced the need for complex ignition systems and makes for lighter engines. The Apollo lunar module also made use of hypergolic propellants.
Today Microsoft is pleased to announce the addition of two new products to our Windows stable:
Windows Loghorn [sic], with patented new Reduced BSOD features. Increase your total return per BSOD with Windows Loghorn today.
Windows Longorn [sic] sports additional ROSD [sic] (red screen of death) Transposition Engines (pat. pending.) With the expansion of auto-correct functionality to system critical events the TCO is even lower. Upgrade your Windows today.
Seriously though guys. How hard is it to spend 30 seconds reading your own typing?!
Actually, long-haul point to point does make sense if you have a range of smaller aircraft with long legs. This is precisely the model that Boeing has adopted with the 777-200LR and upcoming 787-8, or -9 (8300nm range) aircraft. You can fill one 550 seat aircraft every second day (e.g. A380) or run a daily 777-200LR (301 pax) or 787-8 (226 pax) service. The passengers on more frequent, smaller aircraft can get point to point service while the passengers on the A380 service must fly to a major hub (LHR, SYD, LAX, etc.) then connect to where they really wanted to be (which incidently negates the seat-mile costing benefit of the A380).
QANTAS, an A380 buyer, is commencing Brisbane-LA direct services later this year. Seems inconsistent with the hub-and-spoke mentality of the A380.
Intel could follow the lead of the chemistry's heavy element naming system:
Extreme Edition 840 processor
becomes
Octquadnilium
We lucky inhabitants of the Australian continent have an effective nationwide monopoly on local-loop copper service (Telstra). We'd need to leave the country to escape ;)
The survey reads:
"The First Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution more than 200 years ago. This is what it says:
Based on your own feelings about the First Amendment, please tell me whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees."
If the former question was asked then I'd be gravely concerned about the level of English comprehension displayed by the sample audience. However, the statement posed is asking for an opinion on the amendment. Consequently, what we see here is the result of the granted freedoms. Students have an opinion and have a right to express it. Rather than seeing a problem, I see the system working.
Standards are required at the right parts in the process.
Yes:
What the OSC is talking about is process standards for those companies wishing to sell product based on open source offerings. Whether free software purists like it or not, buy/don't buy decision often consider the presence of a standards badge collection. If I am paying, for example, RedHat for a Linux distribution I would want reasonable assurance that any two boxes labelled RH9 are, in fact, the same in form, fit, and function. I would also like to be reassured that some level of testing of fitness for purpose has been done and that some level of support process exists. Without some form of quality system RedHat cannot guarantee this is the case. Debian's policy of package selection based on proven stability is an example of a quality-driving policy that already exists. Quality systems do not need to adhere to ISO9001, or any other international standard, but the benefits of doing so come because the customer can rely on an ISO9001 quality improvement process being in place without having to get into the specifics of each supplier's case. The customer is trusting the ISO9001 third-party auditing process to ensure the producer is adhering to their stated policy.
No:
Many of the posts in this discussion have focussed on what developers like to focus on---lines of code in flavour-of-the-month-language X. This focus misses the point of what OSC is addressing, but nonetheless makes valid points. To try and impose a full-blown international standard at this low coding level would, IMHO, be exceptionally unpopular. Developers typically only tolerate these things if they are being paid to. Given the distributed nature of this type of effort in the free software community, coding standards can be hard to enforce. Nevertheless, most large free software project do enforce a modicum of fairly unobjectionable code quality standards and accept/reject criterion. Such processes and policies would form a very small portion of an ISO9001 accreditation suite of policy and procedure.
Actually the odds are smaller than that because it is the battery, not the phone, that's the problem. Of those 170 million phones some will have had two or maybe three batteries in their life. Some carry a spare battery because they cannot bear to be without the irradiation of their brain for a few hours, while others have simply replaced batteries that died of old age.
I am a long time Gentoo user. I can safely say I have never seen the behaviour you describe. Services that won't start get [!!] rather than [OK] and it just trundles on. Like any other Linux/UNIX/BSD the init process it will try to complete if it can.
...but it is illegal to export arms from the US without appropriate permits. Either way, the seller is fighting a legal battle. :(
It's the Australian Labor Party you insensitive clod!
"Matters are made worse by the fact that, unlike Americans, Australians are not protected by 'fair use' provisions."
:) This response is based on the publically available information at http://www.copyright.org.au/, which is referenced from one of the copyright fee collector's at http://www.copyright.com.au and partly govt. funded (so it probably has some credence).
IANAL
The Copyright Act specifically provides the fair-use provisions that our US brethren seem to think we don't have. See information sheet G79. It's not written into our constitution arguably making it easier for a Government to change, but that is unlikely given the public benefit these provisions carry.
Conversely, the production of mod-chips and other such devices and circumventions is already cause for legal action under the Act. (Info Sheet G10)
Net change...probably very little.
Patent law on the other hand, will be used in an attempt to cripple the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) by blocking generic drug manufacturers with frivolous patent claims and FUD. The opposition parties want the offending clauses removed and the government is sticking to their U.S. buddies (a depressingly common occurrence). IMHO the govt. is holding out precisely _because_ it knows the intended purpose of the clause and left it there as a concession to U.S. drug companies for leaving the PBS more-or-less alone.
I might be paranoid, but that doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get me. I'm simply adhering to Rule #1: the U.S. government _never_ does anything that is not in its own interest.