1. I don't live in Mass. I did, but haven't in 13 years.
2. The cleanup has absolutely started, but like the project itself it will take time. Maybe more than it should, but that's the way it is. Sometimes, areas must be left to stand in place for up to a year before new construction can happen. When they build new over passes, have noticed they pile up the dirt and then do nothing for a long time? That's part of the project. The engineers haven't found any more cost effective way to compact that much soil. I don't know if that's what is going on in Mass, but it could be.
3. Massachusetts has excellent mass transit now. If you live in or even near the city, you don't need a car 99% of the time. Many people don't own them, but rent when they go out of town.
I'm sure you have the answers to all big city problems right there behind your keyboard, but the rest of the world just has to muddle through while you keep the secret.
Keyboards seem to be like Tequilla. They make little men feel big, and big men look small.
As Yoda might have said, "Break me a fscking give!" --
The big dig constitutes several of the most ambitious and complex infrastructure projects imaginable. They had to freeze the ground in the back bay by piping supercooled fluid through it while digging in that part. They have completely re-routed one of the largest transportation networks in the world without closing the old one (other than a few hours at a time at night or weekends). As the last phases are completed -- the cleanup of the old site -- Boston becomes one of the most beautiful cities in the world. What used to be a hideous elevated six lane highway becomes a walking park with small shops, museums, and playgrounds that connects the entire downtown area from Haymarket and Fanuel Hall past the New England Aquarium, all the way to South Station.
It was typically corrupt on a scale only an eastern (or European) city could manage, it was over budget and time on an epic scale -- but did anyone really expect otherwise? Someone really screwed up on these bolts. They'll get fixed, the lawsuits will settle, and in the meant time this project will be the pride of Boston for many years to come.
..and have been on design review teams and other sorts of preview programs for the "Hannover" release which is the thing that generated the work itself. This isn't Hannover (which is Notes/Domino v8) but it stems from that work.
What most people don't know is that Notes was always built to be ported. It is MOSTLY portable code. Only the user interface calls themselves -- which have always been kept apart from the rest of the code -- is platform specific. This concept of a "Separation Layer" has been in the server and client since the earliest days of the product back in the early 90's. The UI port to run within the Eclipse framework (which IBM has been a huge part of) was much easier than anyone expected.
The best news -- for those who run the product anyway -- is that this isn't a "Port" or a "reworking" of the code. This is the same secure, stable, code. It's not just "compatible" its the actual code so there won't be problems of compatibility between versions running on different operating systems. The only potential issue will be that locally stored applications will be case sensitive on Linux but not on other platforms. Sloppy programming practices then will be highlighted if users run local applications that haven't been tested on a case sensitive operating system. This has long been true on the server side.
You may or may not like the product -- that has no value in this discussion. About 120 million people use it every day, and for those people one major barrier to moving toward a linux workstation has been lifted.
Is it the EU so it can further subsidize Airbus as they create another stupid idea of a flying penis instead of an airplane anyone would want to fly one -- and then fail to deliver it? Will it be used to subsidize economies which are crumbling under the weight of their social programs and dozens of paid days off? Should we just write a check to a few key Italian politicians for their share?
I'm not a fan of Microsoft's predatory practices -- but the idea of a giant fine that does nothing to fix the problem sticks in my craw just a bit.
...The original (not the abomination of a remake that had no soul, no purpose, & no message) "Rollerball". I own the DVD for this and it comes with a fantastic commentary track, including all kinds of depth. I'd always loved the movie, and I found that what I loved about it dovetailed nicely with what the director had been trying to do.
Look at the vast geography and the disparity between different groups of people here. You're more likely to understand the USA if you don't consider it in the same light as a single European country -- most of which are the size of one of our states.
In a day, I can travel by car across most of western Europe, through vastly different populations and beliefs. Here, it can take me that long to traverse Texas. Driving 24 hours on, 8 hours off, it took me 3 and half days to drive from Phoenix to Boston. Where would that take you in Europe?
Where I live in Maine, I find great similarities to the Bavarian countryside. You surely couldn't say that about the desert southwest in the USA.
A certain Austrian, having been elected leader of Germany some years back assumed that our differences would prevent us ever even agreeing with each other enough to be a serious player on the world scene -- let alone threaten his plans for world domination. That was as big a mistake as his election in the first place.
Our states and our divergent people are like a big Italian family. There are always some who don't speak to others, big traumatic fights, and long held grudges -- but when faced with a threat from outside, nearly instant, unified, reactionary, over response is close at hand to deal with that threat.
...the virtual hardware drivers. The driver software which is part of the vm management software is by definition standardized and thus a prime target for attack. It also operates below most antivirus software so if an exploit can be found in the virtual hardware, it concievable could leap from the virtual machine into the host operating system. At least that's the way I understand the process.
Powerline transmission in the US covers vastly more distance per end user than in most of the world. At the same time, the pace of change and growth in virtually every town in city in the country is so very rapid that underground placement would require much more frequent changes and retrenching. Above ground transmission is better suited to this environment.
As a firefighter, I have had on many occasions to stand by near broken transmission lines or transformers to wait for power company repair trucks. While it seems to the person sitting at home to take a very long time, let me assure you it seems longer for the poor bastard standing in the rain or snow waiting. That said, when there is a problem that is isolated they usually show up within minutes. During a storm, they make every effort to prioritize based first on danger, second on the number of outages that can be fixed in a single repair, and dead last based on cost. When we have a reported fire, they drop everything to get to where we are as quickly as possible to disconnect service to the location -- so that we can be able to do our work more safely.
I've never met a single careless or lazy power company lineman. I suppose any that start out as such are soon quit or dead.
..level computer technicians. I'm sure they give them some training and look for people with A-BEST or Devry or whatever "certifications" but lets face it, this is a low end "entry level" computer job. Some people will get helped, others will get minimal help. If you want real help it costs more than the PC is worth. I'm more than $180 an hour -- and if I have to travel at all, its a four hour minimum time. Obviously I don't do pc repair any more. It would be cheaper to buy a new PC. That's the problem. For highly skilled people, you have to pay highly skilled rates.
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...is this/. news? Does anything that happens with firefox by definition make it news? A VoIP client is just a SIP or perhaps an IAX2 stack with a text interface. There are many libraries for doing this now. A java sip library and a few minutes of ui code can build a SIP client. What value is there in having it part of firefox and not a standalone bit of java that runs in your KDE or Windoze desktop? Is there a reason you'd only want to make or receive calls when firefox is loaded?
Who is going to own one of these, and what does it really teach us any more. We can simulate aerodynamics, and can create several kinds of cumbustion, electric, and hybrid engines. We've got compressed air powered cars from France, etc.
The only people I'm really excited but in that field right now are Audi -- http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/03/audi_diese l_win.html who just won the "Twelve Hours of Sebring" endurance race with a diesel that was clean, didn't smell bad, was quiet enough to pass neighborhood noise rules, fast enough to take the poll position, and reliable.
Hmmmmm..... They're not saying much about mileage yet, but one quote compared it to production diesel cars -- which for a racing engine would be insanely better results. This thing was 650 horse power over 12 hours in hot temperatures under racing conditions, got mileage consistant with production cars, and was quiet -- almost silent compared to the other cars.
I've always wondered why someone couldn't team an ECVT transmission with a highly optimized diesel to produce a fantastic drive train for an automobile. A diesel at low RPM's produces massive torque on a fairly narrow rpm range. A strong ecvt transmission would keep that engine at a constant optimized RPM for producing the best torque/mileage compromise and convert it into an always perfect gear ratio. Seems like a no brainer to me. It must be a materials science problem with the ECVT parts.
At least not until you get into wave or string theory stuff and that's based on the very thing you're trying to look at so not exactly going back to basics.
They're shorter. If you are talking about speeds measured at this kind of scale, the length of travel is a significant part of that speed gain. If you make the little electrons run further, they take longer to get here. The little bastards fairly sprint through the nanowires though.
-- that's exactly the point. at $100 it has potential use to a non-professional. At 20k, its effecively out of reach as a part of the toolkit you can think of using to try to improve your connection.
I am a firefighter. Actually, I'm a Lt. on an Engine company -- one of the volunteer firefighters who protect about 40% of the US population (most people don't realize how much of the US is protected by volunteer firefighters).
We train using fog machines frequently, because if something goes wrong you can remove your SCBA and breath normally.
In a training event for "Explorers" not too long ago, we used this fake smoke on a hot day. We had to cancel the use of it because several of the kids has asthma attacks. After investigating, the only explanation we could find, was that the appearance of smoke creates the expectation that it will be difficult to breathe. That expectation can be self fulfilling -- especially in young people who have had bad reactions to actual smoke in the past.
Of course they can. Carbon Nanotubes can apparently do everything else, so of course they can do it. They'll be used to bring us free fusion (the engery of the future, and always will be) and we can just fly our car down to fusion-r-us and plug one of these little antimatter watchamacallits in and charge it up like cheap cell phone. Badabing, all set.
This, like every single other solution I've seen and heard about based on this magic carbon nanotubes is challenge of scale. This article points out the change which hasn't been overcome for this either.
So some nanotubes in a lab can do cool things. We're a long way from carpet sized rolls of this stuff running from textile plants in Drexel, North Carolina and being shipped Home Depot for do it yourself carbon nanotube projects.
With all the talk of membranes for filtering based on these, we're talking cups of water so far, not city sized desalinzation plants until some undefined magic production solution comes along. For the talk of space elevators on cables of monofilament carbon nanotubes, nobody has really made a winch yet I can go to Pep Boys and buy.
How long before certain other bundles of nerves attract their attention. Imagine the potential market here. I can see crowds of people hanging around auto wrecking yards and major power distribution lines like so many extras from the set of Dawn of the Dead.
the 'ultimate' SOP could be the equivalent of a complete PC. This single "package" could be processor, video, ram, drive, bios, firmware etc. It would have enough pins for communicating with i/o devices (a screen or output of some kind, a keyboard or some buttons).
So, I could buy one of these SOP generic PC's, run the latest Linux kernel, and make it do just about anything a current technology PC could do. And, if I read correctly, this SOP would be maybe 4 square inches. It begs the questions of power and heat, plus the I/O ports would probably by larger than the device, but it makes for an interesting opportunity to build little blue boxes.
There's no blanket statement here. I'd imagine Microsoft would want it to be 1 license per VM. VM's can be configured to emulate single or multi-processor hardware, so I'd imagine the licenses would go with how that is set. If you have a vm, that is a license instance to most companies, and single or multi-processor rules apply.
Of course, you'd be doing this with linux anyway, right?
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1. I don't live in Mass. I did, but haven't in 13 years.
2. The cleanup has absolutely started, but like the project itself it will take time. Maybe more than it should, but that's the way it is. Sometimes, areas must be left to stand in place for up to a year before new construction can happen. When they build new over passes, have noticed they pile up the dirt and then do nothing for a long time? That's part of the project. The engineers haven't found any more cost effective way to compact that much soil. I don't know if that's what is going on in Mass, but it could be.
3. Massachusetts has excellent mass transit now. If you live in or even near the city, you don't need a car 99% of the time. Many people don't own them, but rent when they go out of town.
I'm sure you have the answers to all big city problems right there behind your keyboard, but the rest of the world just has to muddle through while you keep the secret.
Keyboards seem to be like Tequilla. They make little men feel big, and big men look small.
As Yoda might have said, "Break me a fscking give!" --
The big dig constitutes several of the most ambitious and complex infrastructure projects imaginable. They had to freeze the ground in the back bay by piping supercooled fluid through it while digging in that part. They have completely re-routed one of the largest transportation networks in the world without closing the old one (other than a few hours at a time at night or weekends). As the last phases are completed -- the cleanup of the old site -- Boston becomes one of the most beautiful cities in the world. What used to be a hideous elevated six lane highway becomes a walking park with small shops, museums, and playgrounds that connects the entire downtown area from Haymarket and Fanuel Hall past the New England Aquarium, all the way to South Station.
It was typically corrupt on a scale only an eastern (or European) city could manage, it was over budget and time on an epic scale -- but did anyone really expect otherwise? Someone really screwed up on these bolts. They'll get fixed, the lawsuits will settle, and in the meant time this project will be the pride of Boston for many years to come.
..and have been on design review teams and other sorts of preview programs for the "Hannover" release which is the thing that generated the work itself. This isn't Hannover (which is Notes/Domino v8) but it stems from that work.
What most people don't know is that Notes was always built to be ported. It is MOSTLY portable code. Only the user interface calls themselves -- which have always been kept apart from the rest of the code -- is platform specific. This concept of a "Separation Layer" has been in the server and client since the earliest days of the product back in the early 90's. The UI port to run within the Eclipse framework (which IBM has been a huge part of) was much easier than anyone expected.
The best news -- for those who run the product anyway -- is that this isn't a "Port" or a "reworking" of the code. This is the same secure, stable, code. It's not just "compatible" its the actual code so there won't be problems of compatibility between versions running on different operating systems. The only potential issue will be that locally stored applications will be case sensitive on Linux but not on other platforms. Sloppy programming practices then will be highlighted if users run local applications that haven't been tested on a case sensitive operating system. This has long been true on the server side.
You may or may not like the product -- that has no value in this discussion. About 120 million people use it every day, and for those people one major barrier to moving toward a linux workstation has been lifted.
Is it the EU so it can further subsidize Airbus as they create another stupid idea of a flying penis instead of an airplane anyone would want to fly one -- and then fail to deliver it? Will it be used to subsidize economies which are crumbling under the weight of their social programs and dozens of paid days off? Should we just write a check to a few key Italian politicians for their share?
I'm not a fan of Microsoft's predatory practices -- but the idea of a giant fine that does nothing to fix the problem sticks in my craw just a bit.
...The original (not the abomination of a remake that had no soul, no purpose, & no message) "Rollerball". I own the DVD for this and it comes with a fantastic commentary track, including all kinds of depth. I'd always loved the movie, and I found that what I loved about it dovetailed nicely with what the director had been trying to do.
...they could see through your Blackman Windows. :-) Just a little signal processing humor. I kill me.
Look at the vast geography and the disparity between different groups of people here. You're more likely to understand the USA if you don't consider it in the same light as a single European country -- most of which are the size of one of our states.
In a day, I can travel by car across most of western Europe, through vastly different populations and beliefs. Here, it can take me that long to traverse Texas. Driving 24 hours on, 8 hours off, it took me 3 and half days to drive from Phoenix to Boston. Where would that take you in Europe?
Where I live in Maine, I find great similarities to the Bavarian countryside. You surely couldn't say that about the desert southwest in the USA.
A certain Austrian, having been elected leader of Germany some years back assumed that our differences would prevent us ever even agreeing with each other enough to be a serious player on the world scene -- let alone threaten his plans for world domination. That was as big a mistake as his election in the first place.
Our states and our divergent people are like a big Italian family. There are always some who don't speak to others, big traumatic fights, and long held grudges -- but when faced with a threat from outside, nearly instant, unified, reactionary, over response is close at hand to deal with that threat.
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...the virtual hardware drivers. The driver software which is part of the vm management software is by definition standardized and thus a prime target for attack. It also operates below most antivirus software so if an exploit can be found in the virtual hardware, it concievable could leap from the virtual machine into the host operating system. At least that's the way I understand the process.
Powerline transmission in the US covers vastly more distance per end user than in most of the world. At the same time, the pace of change and growth in virtually every town in city in the country is so very rapid that underground placement would require much more frequent changes and retrenching. Above ground transmission is better suited to this environment.
As a firefighter, I have had on many occasions to stand by near broken transmission lines or transformers to wait for power company repair trucks. While it seems to the person sitting at home to take a very long time, let me assure you it seems longer for the poor bastard standing in the rain or snow waiting. That said, when there is a problem that is isolated they usually show up within minutes. During a storm, they make every effort to prioritize based first on danger, second on the number of outages that can be fixed in a single repair, and dead last based on cost. When we have a reported fire, they drop everything to get to where we are as quickly as possible to disconnect service to the location -- so that we can be able to do our work more safely.
I've never met a single careless or lazy power company lineman. I suppose any that start out as such are soon quit or dead.
..level computer technicians. I'm sure they give them some training and look for people with A-BEST or Devry or whatever "certifications" but lets face it, this is a low end "entry level" computer job. Some people will get helped, others will get minimal help. If you want real help it costs more than the PC is worth. I'm more than $180 an hour -- and if I have to travel at all, its a four hour minimum time. Obviously I don't do pc repair any more. It would be cheaper to buy a new PC. That's the problem. For highly skilled people, you have to pay highly skilled rates.
...is this /. news? Does anything that happens with firefox by definition make it news? A VoIP client is just a SIP or perhaps an IAX2 stack with a text interface. There are many libraries for doing this now. A java sip library and a few minutes of ui code can build a SIP client. What value is there in having it part of firefox and not a standalone bit of java that runs in your KDE or Windoze desktop? Is there a reason you'd only want to make or receive calls when firefox is loaded?
Who is going to own one of these, and what does it really teach us any more. We can simulate aerodynamics, and can create several kinds of cumbustion, electric, and hybrid engines. We've got compressed air powered cars from France, etc.
e l_win.html who just won the "Twelve Hours of Sebring" endurance race with a diesel that was clean, didn't smell bad, was quiet enough to pass neighborhood noise rules, fast enough to take the poll position, and reliable.
The only people I'm really excited but in that field right now are Audi -- http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/03/audi_dies
Hmmmmm..... They're not saying much about mileage yet, but one quote compared it to production diesel cars -- which for a racing engine would be insanely better results. This thing was 650 horse power over 12 hours in hot temperatures under racing conditions, got mileage consistant with production cars, and was quiet -- almost silent compared to the other cars.
I've always wondered why someone couldn't team an ECVT transmission with a highly optimized diesel to produce a fantastic drive train for an automobile. A diesel at low RPM's produces massive torque on a fairly narrow rpm range. A strong ecvt transmission would keep that engine at a constant optimized RPM for producing the best torque/mileage compromise and convert it into an always perfect gear ratio. Seems like a no brainer to me. It must be a materials science problem with the ECVT parts.
and the rest of us are forced to watch GOLF on TV.
At least not until you get into wave or string theory stuff and that's based on the very thing you're trying to look at so not exactly going back to basics.
They're shorter. If you are talking about speeds measured at this kind of scale, the length of travel is a significant part of that speed gain. If you make the little electrons run further, they take longer to get here. The little bastards fairly sprint through the nanowires though.
-- that's exactly the point. at $100 it has potential use to a non-professional. At 20k, its effecively out of reach as a part of the toolkit you can think of using to try to improve your connection.
I am a firefighter. Actually, I'm a Lt. on an Engine company -- one of the volunteer firefighters who protect about 40% of the US population (most people don't realize how much of the US is protected by volunteer firefighters).
We train using fog machines frequently, because if something goes wrong you can remove your SCBA and breath normally.
In a training event for "Explorers" not too long ago, we used this fake smoke on a hot day. We had to cancel the use of it because several of the kids has asthma attacks. After investigating, the only explanation we could find, was that the appearance of smoke creates the expectation that it will be difficult to breathe. That expectation can be self fulfilling -- especially in young people who have had bad reactions to actual smoke in the past.
Oh well.
Audit can only be done after the fact, but is a necessary evil. The idea of "Walk softly, but carry a big stick" isn't a bad one to apply here.
Of course they can. Carbon Nanotubes can apparently do everything else, so of course they can do it. They'll be used to bring us free fusion (the engery of the future, and always will be) and we can just fly our car down to fusion-r-us and plug one of these little antimatter watchamacallits in and charge it up like cheap cell phone. Badabing, all set.
This, like every single other solution I've seen and heard about based on this magic carbon nanotubes is challenge of scale. This article points out the change which hasn't been overcome for this either.
So some nanotubes in a lab can do cool things. We're a long way from carpet sized rolls of this stuff running from textile plants in Drexel, North Carolina and being shipped Home Depot for do it yourself carbon nanotube projects.
With all the talk of membranes for filtering based on these, we're talking cups of water so far, not city sized desalinzation plants until some undefined magic production solution comes along. For the talk of space elevators on cables of monofilament carbon nanotubes, nobody has really made a winch yet I can go to Pep Boys and buy.
How long before certain other bundles of nerves attract their attention. Imagine the potential market here. I can see crowds of people hanging around auto wrecking yards and major power distribution lines like so many extras from the set of Dawn of the Dead.
....a failing $80M PC business by buying Compaq. What a bad move for HP that was.
I could finally have my FLYING CAR? :-)
the 'ultimate' SOP could be the equivalent of a complete PC. This single "package" could be processor, video, ram, drive, bios, firmware etc. It would have enough pins for communicating with i/o devices (a screen or output of some kind, a keyboard or some buttons).
So, I could buy one of these SOP generic PC's, run the latest Linux kernel, and make it do just about anything a current technology PC could do. And, if I read correctly, this SOP would be maybe 4 square inches. It begs the questions of power and heat, plus the I/O ports would probably by larger than the device, but it makes for an interesting opportunity to build little blue boxes.
There's no blanket statement here. I'd imagine Microsoft would want it to be 1 license per VM. VM's can be configured to emulate single or multi-processor hardware, so I'd imagine the licenses would go with how that is set. If you have a vm, that is a license instance to most companies, and single or multi-processor rules apply.
Of course, you'd be doing this with linux anyway, right?