What a concept, someone having a prototype of a product others is already shipping, built in a process which both they and others are shipping product from.
If this is news it's only because of plain pathetic performance of Intel in the wlan segment so far.
All books have had 13-digit EAN codes, rather than 12-digit UPC codes (which are backwards compatible, if decoded as EAN they look like the leading digit 0, which is considered the country prefix for the United States.)
This is because the bar code on a book is the ISBN code with a 978 "country" prefix, rather than maintaining multiple systems in parallel.
Credit card companies typically uses the ANI, not the Caller ID. ANI is what the phone companies use to determine who to bill, and thus can't be blocked, and it much harder to spoof. On the other hand, you can't get it to point to a specific extension inside a PBX typically.
For people interested in this topic I highly recommend comp.dcom.telecom.
One of the first "real" adoptions of Linux (like 1993-1994) on a corporate scale was a company that makes elevator controllers. Their motivation was quite simple: they need to be able to serve the elevator controller, in situ, *in 50 years*. They can't trust any company to do it for them, so they stashed away all the source code, all the tools, *AND* several computers on which the tools can be built.
Given that the contract explicitly specifies just how fast Baystar is allowed to dump their stock (max 10% of the average volume on the NASDAQ) I expect that they will dump the stock over roughly a three-week period.
The really amazing thing is that people actually thought Gropenführer were any other kind of political beast than the money trail clearly showed him to be.
Correct (the port is 587.) It's a really nice thing to have on the road - set it up on your home server to *only* accept TLS+SMTP AUTH, and you don't have to deal with blocking.
Well, that's where the IETF comes in. Most Internet standards (or other standards for that matter) have been proposed by companies; that doesn't make them bad.
Note that the IPR filed by Yahoo is the clean kind: it says "we might have a patent on this, go ahead and use it for free as long as you don't sue us."
This pretty much translates to "keep some S.O.B. from trying to running this past the patent office's feeble checking and suing everyone."
They also state that the cause of the accident had nothing to do with the state of Soviet technology "because the reactor was brand new."
That is such total bullshit that it's not even funny (and the political comments in the article makes it pretty likely the author isn't the kind of peg flaws on the Soviet system, if you know what I mean.)
It's not that the Soviets couldn't have built a safe reactor, it's because they chose not to do so. The reactor was most definitely technologically faulty - it failed some of the most basic safety requirements. It was a human error only in that the Soviet authorities ever allowed this reactor design to be built and fuelled.
So what was this technological flaw? The graphite-moderated reactor has a so-called positive void coefficient, which means that a overheating reactor will speed up the reaction in the core. Western - and some Soviet - reactors have a negative void coefficient, in which an overheating reactor will slow itself down and reach equilibrium.
That difference, combined with a solid containment, was the chief difference between the Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl accidents. Both were major disasters, but the former was confined to the plant and had economic consequences; the latter spread radioactivity over large parts of Europe and had yet-untold consequences in terms of both human life and environmental destruction.
A nuclear reactor should not depend on humans doing the right thing for its safe operation, and in the event of a disaster, its safe shutdown. Any reactor that does so is dangerously flawed and technically unfit for operation.
Unfortunately there is in Sweden a sizable group who has as their political agenda to close down domestic nuclear power, whereas what probably would make more sense is to take the money that would cost and pay for the Russians and Lithuanians to built new plants and shut down the currently operating RBMK (Chernobyl-type) reactors on the Baltic coast.
Most gas stations I've seen advertise something like $2.299 (I live in the Bay Area:) where the final 9 is in a smaller type (so it's easier to overlook and doesn't make the number look bigger.) On the actual pump the digits say 2.299 without any funnies.
If you're formatting electronic documentation (e.g. PDFs), it's useful to use the so-called PA4 format, 210 x 279 mm, mentioned in a note in the article.
PA4 PDFs print correctly on both A4 paper (with extra tall margins) and letter paper (with extra wide margins.)
The U.S. has had metrification as its official policy since 1863 (yes, as in one hundred forty-one years ago), when the inch was redefined in terms of the meter (1/39.37 m at that time, it was changed in the 1960's to 25.4 mm) to ease the transition, and it's always been about "10 years into the future."
Unfortunately it seems like something that can be easily appealed to for kneejerk conservatism and xenophobia, and thus noone actually has the guts to make it happen.
Remember, Baystar basically bought a lawsuit. They did that on behalf of Microsoft, who is their client either formally or informally - we don't know for sure which way.
SCO's public behaviour is increasingly becoming an embarassment for them both in the courtroom and as far as the credibility of their FUD. That means Baystar/Microsoft is no longer getting what they paid for, so they're rattling SCO's chain.
It won't cause a problem if the cell phone is working properly. The thing people are worried about (for valid or invalid reasons) are what happens if the cell phone is broken and starts transmitting (or have subcarriers or harmonics) on air traffic control or guidance frequencies. The likelihood is small, but it's likely to happen in the most critical moments of flight.
Note that the subcarriers/harmonics problems isn't limited to intentional radiators (transmitters.)
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What a concept, someone having a prototype of a product others is already shipping, built in a process which both they and others are shipping product from.
If this is news it's only because of plain pathetic performance of Intel in the wlan segment so far.
All books have had 13-digit EAN codes, rather than 12-digit UPC codes (which are backwards compatible, if decoded as EAN they look like the leading digit 0, which is considered the country prefix for the United States.)
This is because the bar code on a book is the ISBN code with a 978 "country" prefix, rather than maintaining multiple systems in parallel.
Credit card companies typically uses the ANI, not the Caller ID. ANI is what the phone companies use to determine who to bill, and thus can't be blocked, and it much harder to spoof. On the other hand, you can't get it to point to a specific extension inside a PBX typically.
For people interested in this topic I highly recommend comp.dcom.telecom.
The first thing the name "Sempron" reminded of was the fact that Semper is a Swedish brand of baby formula.
One of the first "real" adoptions of Linux (like 1993-1994) on a corporate scale was a company that makes elevator controllers. Their motivation was quite simple: they need to be able to serve the elevator controller, in situ, *in 50 years*. They can't trust any company to do it for them, so they stashed away all the source code, all the tools, *AND* several computers on which the tools can be built.
He's not an idiot, he's a paid stooge.
Given that the contract explicitly specifies just how fast Baystar is allowed to dump their stock (max 10% of the average volume on the NASDAQ) I expect that they will dump the stock over roughly a three-week period.
The really amazing thing is that people actually thought Gropenführer were any other kind of political beast than the money trail clearly showed him to be.
"Affiliate programs" seem to be a common ways for companies to launch spam/spyware/etc without dirtying their own hands these days...
"Software is like sex - it's better when it's free."
- Linus Torvalds
Microsoft lies again in an attempt to protect their monopoly and resulting profit stream.
Film at 11.
Correct (the port is 587.) It's a really nice thing to have on the road - set it up on your home server to *only* accept TLS+SMTP AUTH, and you don't have to deal with blocking.
No argument that RAND is a Very Bad Thing. It is. The Yahoo IPR is, however, a Royalty-Free (RF) IPR, which doesn't have that problem.
Well, that's where the IETF comes in. Most Internet standards (or other standards for that matter) have been proposed by companies; that doesn't make them bad.
Note that the IPR filed by Yahoo is the clean kind: it says "we might have a patent on this, go ahead and use it for free as long as you don't sue us."
This pretty much translates to "keep some S.O.B. from trying to running this past the patent office's feeble checking and suing everyone."
Well, depending on who you ask, it's either 50, 100 or 200 km (31, 62 or 124 miles.)
I suspect the 100 km figure is the point at which the concept of national airspace cease to apply, kind of like the 12 nm limit at sea.
That is such total bullshit that it's not even funny (and the political comments in the article makes it pretty likely the author isn't the kind of peg flaws on the Soviet system, if you know what I mean.)
It's not that the Soviets couldn't have built a safe reactor, it's because they chose not to do so. The reactor was most definitely technologically faulty - it failed some of the most basic safety requirements. It was a human error only in that the Soviet authorities ever allowed this reactor design to be built and fuelled.
So what was this technological flaw? The graphite-moderated reactor has a so-called positive void coefficient, which means that a overheating reactor will speed up the reaction in the core. Western - and some Soviet - reactors have a negative void coefficient, in which an overheating reactor will slow itself down and reach equilibrium.
That difference, combined with a solid containment, was the chief difference between the Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl accidents. Both were major disasters, but the former was confined to the plant and had economic consequences; the latter spread radioactivity over large parts of Europe and had yet-untold consequences in terms of both human life and environmental destruction.
A nuclear reactor should not depend on humans doing the right thing for its safe operation, and in the event of a disaster, its safe shutdown. Any reactor that does so is dangerously flawed and technically unfit for operation.
Unfortunately there is in Sweden a sizable group who has as their political agenda to close down domestic nuclear power, whereas what probably would make more sense is to take the money that would cost and pay for the Russians and Lithuanians to built new plants and shut down the currently operating RBMK (Chernobyl-type) reactors on the Baltic coast.
Try reducing a 11x17 drawing only a letter-sized sheet and you'll find out.
Err?
:) where the final 9 is in a smaller type (so it's easier to overlook and doesn't make the number look bigger.) On the actual pump the digits say 2.299 without any funnies.
Most gas stations I've seen advertise something like $2.299 (I live in the Bay Area
A4 is 210 x 297 mm. US-Letter is 216 x 279 mm.
If you're formatting electronic documentation (e.g. PDFs), it's useful to use the so-called PA4 format, 210 x 279 mm, mentioned in a note in the article.
PA4 PDFs print correctly on both A4 paper (with extra tall margins) and letter paper (with extra wide margins.)
It's worse than that.
The U.S. has had metrification as its official policy since 1863 (yes, as in one hundred forty-one years ago), when the inch was redefined in terms of the meter (1/39.37 m at that time, it was changed in the 1960's to 25.4 mm) to ease the transition, and it's always been about "10 years into the future."
Unfortunately it seems like something that can be easily appealed to for kneejerk conservatism and xenophobia, and thus noone actually has the guts to make it happen.
A0 paper is one square meter.
A4 paper is 2^-4 = 1/16 square meter.
Or, actually, on Sluggy... the Smegway!
Remember, Baystar basically bought a lawsuit. They did that on behalf of Microsoft, who is their client either formally or informally - we don't know for sure which way.
SCO's public behaviour is increasingly becoming an embarassment for them both in the courtroom and as far as the credibility of their FUD. That means Baystar/Microsoft is no longer getting what they paid for, so they're rattling SCO's chain.
It won't cause a problem if the cell phone is working properly. The thing people are worried about (for valid or invalid reasons) are what happens if the cell phone is broken and starts transmitting (or have subcarriers or harmonics) on air traffic control or guidance frequencies. The likelihood is small, but it's likely to happen in the most critical moments of flight.
Note that the subcarriers/harmonics problems isn't limited to intentional radiators (transmitters.)
It is a super-neat idea: it has, in fact, been a common style of motor for over 20 years.