I don't see any real inovation coming from this. All it will do is increase the flood of generic and hobbiest apps in the Marketplace. The best I think we can hope for from this is that it gets more people interested in software development and the inovation spurred later by them.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and have used it solely for over 4 years now, but why? Most big names offer online versions of their software. With an application that can easily be developed for the net, why create it for the Linux Desktop?
however once it's paid off, maintenance should be funded just like every other roadway.
A toll road is a privatly owned road. Think of it as a business, if you were Mr. Gates would you have stopped charging for Windows after your production costs were met? Would you want to turn your business over to the government after you broke even?
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I have been using GNOME for the last 2 years (with ubuntu). Before that it was all KDE. Initially, I though GNOME was a little unrefined, however, month-by-month I am seeing really great inovations taking place with the GNOME desktop project. The nice thing is it seems GNOME has a goal in mind and is headed right for it.
I agree, it is the students paying for a service (education). If the university has to dosomething to preserve their image they should either kick these students out, administer random drug tests, restrict access to these sites on their networks, or just not enroll the types of people that like to drink and party and embarass them (oh wait, thats about all 18-22 year olds (at least engineers!)).
Obviosly this is counter-intellegence being used by M$ instead of the Gov't! Just like when US military intellegence released fake photos of the stealth bomber and fighter in the mid to late 80s to counter a real intellegence movement that was going on! This is great for M$, they genereate buzz without comprimising their new design.
Luke must get it from his dad. Teen Anakin is probably worse though. I think its time to switch to the dark side... no whining there... just a**-kickin'!
Basically, everyone grew up and had kids and decided that the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later Han was too violent to show their kids. So now we have to endure a kinder-gentler space smuggler.
Microsoft is filing all these patents recently is that they see themselves losing market share to Linux. They want to keep their profitability (stock) high by licensing/litigation revenue. I see it as a sign of *cough* (the year of Linux on the desktop) *cough*! Maybe that is a little ambitious, but I think MS is affraid!
What needs to happen is we need to develop an open Sender-ID format. Of course this would have to be different enough to sneak by the patent office but maybe we can sneak in interoperatability???
So out of the 20M lets say 10M people get this spam, and out of that opinion is raised by 1% (a little high I think) of those people. That is 100,000 people positively effected by this campaign. That seems pretty impressive. Think of how many people you normally see at a political rally.
I hate spam as much as the next guy but it would be interesting to see how the numbers in the polls turn out!
... for simplicity. It is nice to have one "large" drive (in windows) instead of spreading all of my files across smaller drives. Useless, it is not! Is it really very practical? I don't think so. I havent had a disk fail yet, but when it does I will be glad I have backups!
yes it is a really cool inovation but really what does it do? Personnaly I have never broke a CPU, and I doubt many others have. The only real benefit I see is for the producer, being able to sell flawed chips that still work. People will end up paying more to ensure their eFuses are not blown on their chips much like buying an LCD with guaranteed no dead pixels.
Not that slaping together server hardware is that dificult (and I really don't know much about hardware design) but, wouldn't you want boards that are optimized for use with either Xeon OR Itanium? Wouldn't creating compatability on this hardware reduce its performance? Or is this a non-issue?
Correct! Color x-ray images are not possible. Although for a bomb techs purpose it is very handy. The images on most x-ray machines is a PNG and is then sent to some crappy propritary program that can add color based on shade of grey. This is handy because it colors items of similar density the same. It is especially useful in picking out wires, containers of liquid and etc...
The "water bullet" that you are refering to is actually a water jet.
There is a growing number of IED disruption tools out there. From the old and faithful Mk 2 all the way up to the Mk 40 Standoff dearmer. The Mk series designation is not-sequential by the way.
In disruption tools there are many types of ammunition and techniques that are applied to achieve a desired effect on a specific package. There are slugs (2 1/2" x 1" steel cylinders) fired by.50 cal blank ammunition in a specialized barrel (Mk 2). There is also a PAN (percussion actuated neutrilizer) that is used with various 12 ga. rounds. Most commonly it is used with a blank (popper) round and a barrel full of water... to achieve a high velocity water jet that will knock out a specific component, like a battery. If you would some limited information on EOD related items my unofficial web page for my shop has a little. I would love to add more, but the military likes to classify a lot of information! For good reasons though, I don't want a terrorist to know the details about how I am going to disarm his IED!!!
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I don't see any real inovation coming from this. All it will do is increase the flood of generic and hobbiest apps in the Marketplace. The best I think we can hope for from this is that it gets more people interested in software development and the inovation spurred later by them.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and have used it solely for over 4 years now, but why? Most big names offer online versions of their software. With an application that can easily be developed for the net, why create it for the Linux Desktop?
I have been using GNOME for the last 2 years (with ubuntu). Before that it was all KDE. Initially, I though GNOME was a little unrefined, however, month-by-month I am seeing really great inovations taking place with the GNOME desktop project. The nice thing is it seems GNOME has a goal in mind and is headed right for it.
I agree, it is the students paying for a service (education). If the university has to dosomething to preserve their image they should either kick these students out, administer random drug tests, restrict access to these sites on their networks, or just not enroll the types of people that like to drink and party and embarass them (oh wait, thats about all 18-22 year olds (at least engineers!)).
Obviosly this is counter-intellegence being used by M$ instead of the Gov't! Just like when US military intellegence released fake photos of the stealth bomber and fighter in the mid to late 80s to counter a real intellegence movement that was going on! This is great for M$, they genereate buzz without comprimising their new design.
Luke must get it from his dad. Teen Anakin is probably worse though. I think its time to switch to the dark side... no whining there... just a**-kickin'!
Basically, everyone grew up and had kids and decided that the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later Han was too violent to show their kids. So now we have to endure a kinder-gentler space smuggler.
Alright, when can we disconnect ourselves from the matrix?
Microsoft is filing all these patents recently is that they see themselves losing market share to Linux. They want to keep their profitability (stock) high by licensing/litigation revenue. I see it as a sign of *cough* (the year of Linux on the desktop) *cough*! Maybe that is a little ambitious, but I think MS is affraid!
What needs to happen is we need to develop an open Sender-ID format. Of course this would have to be different enough to sneak by the patent office but maybe we can sneak in interoperatability???
I see a lot more OSS rejecting sender-id like Debian and Apache!
So out of the 20M lets say 10M people get this spam, and out of that opinion is raised by 1% (a little high I think) of those people. That is 100,000 people positively effected by this campaign. That seems pretty impressive. Think of how many people you normally see at a political rally.
I hate spam as much as the next guy but it would be interesting to see how the numbers in the polls turn out!
...why must we feed off the table scraps of George Lucas?! WHY?!!!!
I'll tell you! Because we all want a lightsaber and an X-Wing!
... for simplicity. It is nice to have one "large" drive (in windows) instead of spreading all of my files across smaller drives. Useless, it is not! Is it really very practical? I don't think so. I havent had a disk fail yet, but when it does I will be glad I have backups!
yes it is a really cool inovation but really what does it do? Personnaly I have never broke a CPU, and I doubt many others have. The only real benefit I see is for the producer, being able to sell flawed chips that still work. People will end up paying more to ensure their eFuses are not blown on their chips much like buying an LCD with guaranteed no dead pixels.
Not that slaping together server hardware is that dificult (and I really don't know much about hardware design) but, wouldn't you want boards that are optimized for use with either Xeon OR Itanium? Wouldn't creating compatability on this hardware reduce its performance? Or is this a non-issue?
WOW 82 miles.... where did I put that 1500 mW transmitter?
What ever happend to the no-case approach? I think... whoops just spilled coffee on my power sup... zzzzz crack!
...cars in the future will fly, and we won't need roads, just plenty of JP-8 and a GPS!
Correct! Color x-ray images are not possible. Although for a bomb techs purpose it is very handy. The images on most x-ray machines is a PNG and is then sent to some crappy propritary program that can add color based on shade of grey. This is handy because it colors items of similar density the same. It is especially useful in picking out wires, containers of liquid and etc...
The "water bullet" that you are refering to is actually a water jet.
.50 cal blank ammunition in a specialized barrel (Mk 2). There is also a PAN (percussion actuated neutrilizer) that is used with various 12 ga. rounds. Most commonly it is used with a blank (popper) round and a barrel full of water... to achieve a high velocity water jet that will knock out a specific component, like a battery. If you would some limited information on EOD related items my unofficial web page for my shop has a little. I would love to add more, but the military likes to classify a lot of information! For good reasons though, I don't want a terrorist to know the details about how I am going to disarm his IED!!!
There is a growing number of IED disruption tools out there. From the old and faithful Mk 2 all the way up to the Mk 40 Standoff dearmer. The Mk series designation is not-sequential by the way.
In disruption tools there are many types of ammunition and techniques that are applied to achieve a desired effect on a specific package. There are slugs (2 1/2" x 1" steel cylinders) fired by