...and we only had one before it over how many years? that brought on the PATRIOT ACT. How come the PATRIOT ACT wasn't put into place after the Oklahoma City Fed Building bombing? Yes, a couple of things brought some more increased passive security measures into place to mitigate the risk of another rental truck filled with a couple of tons of ANFO (as well as making it very hard to get straight ammonium nitrate unless you've been farming with it) going off near a building near you. But I can still rent a cargo van without giving my whole physical identity (DNA, fingerprints) away.
We in the US react strongly to things that have already happened (which is good on its own to fix things that were broken, but we Americans tend to WAY overreact, because we collectively suck at risk assessment), but seem to do little to think through what the next risk might be. But now I'm just aping Bruce Schneier...
or a double mortgage... 80% is main mortgage, and the rest covered by a 2nd, all to avoid paying a little bit of PMI. The interest on the 2nd is gonna be a couple percentage points higher, at least, compared to the primary mortgage...
I work for a loan servicing company that is owned by one of the major NY brokerage/investment banks. As such, part of working for an SEC-regulated company means getting an official fingerprint card made with your fingerprints on it, per SEC regulations...
So, is the SEC regulating mortgage originators? Hmm... might as well, as mortgages are still being packaged up into financial securities...
SQL Server started as a fork of Sybase 4.2 or something like that. Sybase wanted penetration onto Windows NT (for whatever reason, probably because Oracle was killing them in the Unix market), and MS wanted its own RDBMS. So Microsoft worked out a "deal" with Sybase.
It took about 3 versions for Microsoft to get rid of Sybase' code (7.0, IIRC), replace CT-LIB/DB-LIB, etc.
What sucks is working in a Windows shop and everyone calling it "SQL".
Someone please put me back in Green Bay Packer fanland, I'll put up with "Or-ee-gone" instead.
Well, I think by doing this, then Charter should have to waive its own protections as a "common carrier". They would also be interfering with data streamed by someone else. It will be the advertisers on websites and/or the websites themselves (Google) that will throw Charter around for doing this, much like that french equivalent of the AP sued Google for doing a couple of years ago for Google suckings its news articles into GoogleNews.
On the other hand, cable companies have been injecting local TV ads over national/network advertisements for quite some time. I would like to think that when company X bought their ad time on the network or cable channel in question, that there is some sort of flag sent down the pipe as to whether the cable company can overlay local ads over the network-fed ads. this way, the people paying for the advertisement could get a slightly reduced ad space in exchange for their otherwise national or regional ad from showing up in some markets.
Would ClearChannel (take the FCC out for this argument) be too keen if people were setting up transmitters in areas to blast local advertisements out, overriding whatever ads the station was blasting out (unless it was ClearChannel doing it)? I'm thinking for areas far away from clear channel stations (like up here in Portland over KGO 810 AM) at night having an advertisement company with their own hilltop transmitter spewing out PDX-relevant adverts on 810AM at night... Yes, the FCC would use their Difi equipment and call in a Predator to drop a Hellfire missile onto their pirate transmitter (unless it was a Halliburton or Blackwater subsidiary doing it...).
BTW, this is exactly what the USAF's "Command Solo" aircraft does...
No, ADO has database connection pooling, which is probably what most people in ASP world would use to connect to database... The connection pool is a black box to ASP and IIS (and the developer...).
Hmm... that facts about his ex-friend (you know, the one she was probably banging...) and his past history being disallowed didn't help things out, either.
It's not a dig at the Democrats, because it's historically accurate.
The Republicans lost their external enemy in the 90's (USSR) and cause d'etre, and the neocons have replaced it with another Them, except it is us, just that they've used the Raghead stereotype to justify it all and paint a user-friendly picture on it.
It's a total double-speak reversal of ideologies...
Some of that power may be sold and distributed to places besides California. Think: Midwest and East Coast. Why there? Well, something about having 75 deg temps + 90% relative humidity at 4am in Houston, Chicago, Washington DC that makes people keep their ACs humming all night long. At least in most of California during the summer, it tends to cool off in the evenings.
Then there is some of the electrical demands placed by some users that do not necessarily depend on human peak usage times (i.e., agriculture to pump water and operate irrigation equipment).
The US still needs more power transportation and switching capacity.
California is just preparing for powering the canal or pipeline that will eventually get built at The Dalles, OR, in order to pump water from the Columbia River down to LA.
pressure waves...acoustic waves... Hmm... I'm having a hard time seeing the difference. I think they use "acoustic" because of their frequency is probably between 20Hz-20KHz... otherwise known as "acoustic".
I'm wondering if the waves are just something related to how the energy goes out at such high pressures and it being a bit opposite in how the soda bottle "vortex generators" work. Pressure is high enough so that all the fluid flows out axially instead of rotating around the axis to some degree, but these rotating acoustic waves are just a form of conservation of (angular) momentum in the fluid flow that under less pressured circumstances would want to make a vortex?
Plus, a GSM pico cell on planes might work fine in the US also, but we also have CDMA carriers (SprintNexTel, Verizon). So...what then? Probably lucrative to US airlines to do "exclusive" deals with AT&T, most likely...
Hmm... Well, I work at a rather large Fortune 500 company, and our entire enterprise e-mail (Exchange, feh) infrastructure is outsourced to HP, and we're definitely not the only F500 company doing so...
Most larger companies DO outsource some core IT functionality to 3rd-party companies...
Gotta remember: most CEO, COO and CFO types view IT as a necessary, non-profit-generating, evil. Sure, most of us know that IT tends to be a profit enabler, but the PTM (Powers That Matter) see it only as an expensive function, even if their entire business model is wrapped around and 100% dependent on it. They're more than happy to give up a little bit of "3am control" to get a lot of control on expenses, especially if they can reduce IT headcount.
Yes. the linked article shows photomicrographs of quantum dots made on graphene surface that are set up via doping and can act as gates. I'm going to guess that perhaps a resistive base will be used, photolithographed, and via some magic process the graphene "wires" will be deposited onto the base into the channels or, perhaps pressed onto the ridges, before being doped further.
/So, first of all, what you're describing is illegal as well./
So, how exactly does Carl Icahn and his ilk make money?
Hmm... buy large blocks of stock. Start rattling board of directors that management sucks or that the company is holding too much cash that should go to shareholders. The board can ignore Icahn for only so long before its involved in a proxy fight, which usually results in Icahn getting a couple of board members placed, or Icahn figures out some other way to rock the company so that it acquiesces.
Icahn gets his extortion money either way, and the rest of the shareholders with their hands tied to the oars (i.e., execs, ESOP) or other owners might get a bump in dividends once, but long-term the company has had a major blood-letting, and they get to watch as Icahn's blocks of shares sell, but they can't get rid of their much larger shares...
Granted, not quite insider trading until he gets his puppets onto the board, but just as manipulative and damaging.
Well, it's entirely possible for an insider to dump the stock based on yet-to-be-disclosed information as part of shorting the company's stock... maybe the insider doesn't directly benefit, but his friends and colleagues might. Just ask Martha Stewart how much fun that was for her.
'cept with X, one never had to stray too far from the deep end (i.e., CLI), and nothing that needs to be done on a Unix box has to be done in X (or even Emacs), unlike Windows.
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Well, they probably do, but not for penny transactions...
No, it'll probably be one of those huge Hubbard squashes that make the news late summer/fall, you know, the ones that weigh about 1500 lbs.
well...there's a difference between dirt and soil. Dirt = finely ground rock particles of various sizes, from "sand" to "clay".
Soil = Dirt + organic material.
Pure dirt would be roughly [sic] equivalent to regolith.
$50US for UltraEdit is expensive? Uhhh...ok.
UltraEdit is cool for "column edit" mode. RegExps only go so far.
But, other than that, I use SciTE. UltraEdit these days is getting too bloated...
...and we only had one before it over how many years? that brought on the PATRIOT ACT. How come the PATRIOT ACT wasn't put into place after the Oklahoma City Fed Building bombing? Yes, a couple of things brought some more increased passive security measures into place to mitigate the risk of another rental truck filled with a couple of tons of ANFO (as well as making it very hard to get straight ammonium nitrate unless you've been farming with it) going off near a building near you. But I can still rent a cargo van without giving my whole physical identity (DNA, fingerprints) away.
We in the US react strongly to things that have already happened (which is good on its own to fix things that were broken, but we Americans tend to WAY overreact, because we collectively suck at risk assessment), but seem to do little to think through what the next risk might be. But now I'm just aping Bruce Schneier...
or a double mortgage... 80% is main mortgage, and the rest covered by a 2nd, all to avoid paying a little bit of PMI. The interest on the 2nd is gonna be a couple percentage points higher, at least, compared to the primary mortgage...
Stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime...
I work for a loan servicing company that is owned by one of the major NY brokerage/investment banks. As such, part of working for an SEC-regulated company means getting an official fingerprint card made with your fingerprints on it, per SEC regulations...
So, is the SEC regulating mortgage originators? Hmm... might as well, as mortgages are still being packaged up into financial securities...
SQL Server started as a fork of Sybase 4.2 or something like that. Sybase wanted penetration onto Windows NT (for whatever reason, probably because Oracle was killing them in the Unix market), and MS wanted its own RDBMS. So Microsoft worked out a "deal" with Sybase.
It took about 3 versions for Microsoft to get rid of Sybase' code (7.0, IIRC), replace CT-LIB/DB-LIB, etc.
What sucks is working in a Windows shop and everyone calling it "SQL".
Someone please put me back in Green Bay Packer fanland, I'll put up with "Or-ee-gone" instead.
Hmm... they probably just want to hit it with their mad Access skilz...
Well, I think by doing this, then Charter should have to waive its own protections as a "common carrier". They would also be interfering with data streamed by someone else. It will be the advertisers on websites and/or the websites themselves (Google) that will throw Charter around for doing this, much like that french equivalent of the AP sued Google for doing a couple of years ago for Google suckings its news articles into GoogleNews.
On the other hand, cable companies have been injecting local TV ads over national/network advertisements for quite some time. I would like to think that when company X bought their ad time on the network or cable channel in question, that there is some sort of flag sent down the pipe as to whether the cable company can overlay local ads over the network-fed ads. this way, the people paying for the advertisement could get a slightly reduced ad space in exchange for their otherwise national or regional ad from showing up in some markets.
Would ClearChannel (take the FCC out for this argument) be too keen if people were setting up transmitters in areas to blast local advertisements out, overriding whatever ads the station was blasting out (unless it was ClearChannel doing it)? I'm thinking for areas far away from clear channel stations (like up here in Portland over KGO 810 AM) at night having an advertisement company with their own hilltop transmitter spewing out PDX-relevant adverts on 810AM at night... Yes, the FCC would use their Difi equipment and call in a Predator to drop a Hellfire missile onto their pirate transmitter (unless it was a Halliburton or Blackwater subsidiary doing it...).
BTW, this is exactly what the USAF's "Command Solo" aircraft does...
No, ADO has database connection pooling, which is probably what most people in ASP world would use to connect to database... The connection pool is a black box to ASP and IIS (and the developer...).
rolling brown outs/black outs?
Well, Saddam Hussein billed executionee's families for bullets used to put them down...
Hmm... that facts about his ex-friend (you know, the one she was probably banging...) and his past history being disallowed didn't help things out, either.
It's not a dig at the Democrats, because it's historically accurate.
The Republicans lost their external enemy in the 90's (USSR) and cause d'etre, and the neocons have replaced it with another Them, except it is us, just that they've used the Raghead stereotype to justify it all and paint a user-friendly picture on it.
It's a total double-speak reversal of ideologies...
Yes, but...
Some of that power may be sold and distributed to places besides California. Think: Midwest and East Coast. Why there? Well, something about having 75 deg temps + 90% relative humidity at 4am in Houston, Chicago, Washington DC that makes people keep their ACs humming all night long. At least in most of California during the summer, it tends to cool off in the evenings.
Then there is some of the electrical demands placed by some users that do not necessarily depend on human peak usage times (i.e., agriculture to pump water and operate irrigation equipment).
The US still needs more power transportation and switching capacity.
California is just preparing for powering the canal or pipeline that will eventually get built at The Dalles, OR, in order to pump water from the Columbia River down to LA.
pressure waves...acoustic waves... Hmm... I'm having a hard time seeing the difference. I think they use "acoustic" because of their frequency is probably between 20Hz-20KHz... otherwise known as "acoustic".
I'm wondering if the waves are just something related to how the energy goes out at such high pressures and it being a bit opposite in how the soda bottle "vortex generators" work. Pressure is high enough so that all the fluid flows out axially instead of rotating around the axis to some degree, but these rotating acoustic waves are just a form of conservation of (angular) momentum in the fluid flow that under less pressured circumstances would want to make a vortex?
Plus, a GSM pico cell on planes might work fine in the US also, but we also have CDMA carriers (SprintNexTel, Verizon). So...what then? Probably lucrative to US airlines to do "exclusive" deals with AT&T, most likely...
No, no, no... "To Serve Man". That's the title...
One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.
Hmm... Well, I work at a rather large Fortune 500 company, and our entire enterprise e-mail (Exchange, feh) infrastructure is outsourced to HP, and we're definitely not the only F500 company doing so...
Most larger companies DO outsource some core IT functionality to 3rd-party companies...
Gotta remember: most CEO, COO and CFO types view IT as a necessary, non-profit-generating, evil. Sure, most of us know that IT tends to be a profit enabler, but the PTM (Powers That Matter) see it only as an expensive function, even if their entire business model is wrapped around and 100% dependent on it. They're more than happy to give up a little bit of "3am control" to get a lot of control on expenses, especially if they can reduce IT headcount.
Yes. the linked article shows photomicrographs of quantum dots made on graphene surface that are set up via doping and can act as gates. I'm going to guess that perhaps a resistive base will be used, photolithographed, and via some magic process the graphene "wires" will be deposited onto the base into the channels or, perhaps pressed onto the ridges, before being doped further.
/So, first of all, what you're describing is illegal as well./
So, how exactly does Carl Icahn and his ilk make money?
Hmm... buy large blocks of stock. Start rattling board of directors that management sucks or that the company is holding too much cash that should go to shareholders. The board can ignore Icahn for only so long before its involved in a proxy fight, which usually results in Icahn getting a couple of board members placed, or Icahn figures out some other way to rock the company so that it acquiesces.
Icahn gets his extortion money either way, and the rest of the shareholders with their hands tied to the oars (i.e., execs, ESOP) or other owners might get a bump in dividends once, but long-term the company has had a major blood-letting, and they get to watch as Icahn's blocks of shares sell, but they can't get rid of their much larger shares...
Granted, not quite insider trading until he gets his puppets onto the board, but just as manipulative and damaging.
Well, it's entirely possible for an insider to dump the stock based on yet-to-be-disclosed information as part of shorting the company's stock... maybe the insider doesn't directly benefit, but his friends and colleagues might. Just ask Martha Stewart how much fun that was for her.
Yeah, until someone walks by and says, "FORMAT SEE COLON, YES, ENTER" on you while you're on the phone...
'cept with X, one never had to stray too far from the deep end (i.e., CLI), and nothing that needs to be done on a Unix box has to be done in X (or even Emacs), unlike Windows.