Even if you purchase a home sufficiently above sea level you may not necessarily have access to said home if you're neighbors are all under water and you're the only home left standing.
This is crazy. It's like picking a lock without damaging it and then stealing jewlery out of a sock drawer and then being forced by the court to buy the victim a fence, guard dog, improved lock and safe to keep their jewelry in to prevent future crimes.
The one exception to this analogy would be if the hacker published the security holes. In which case you could argue it's like stealing a key and giving away copies--in which case he could reasonably be forced to pay for re-keying the locks he 'broke'.
Done 'more with free software'? It's original code.
If you want to license the algorithms you can contact UW and they'll happily come up with an arrangement for you.
I don't see what bearing Microsoft has or does not have with this project except licensing some of their older technology for Photosynth. Most of the tech used in this project which UW isn't trying to license is open source.
Are you kidding? Still images are ridiculously easy to standardize the encoding of. And even then once you get slightly more complicated such as PSD the standard and the implementation becomes more and more difficult.
On the video front you have 'standards' such as OMF or AAF that rarely actually work perfectly.
In 3D we have Collada and FBX. Neither of which adequately describe a full 3D scene completely yet.
A text document is a very complicated file with the potential for an enormous amount of bizzare formatting and embedded data. None of the XML based standards are simple or small. They're just varying levels of complex. I would say a document standard is representing far more complex data than video but less complex than 3D scenes.
There is no such endgame. Hydroponics and indoor growing can raise enough food for anyone with sufficient means.
Then again perhaps eventually even that would be disrupted when the starving poor decide their governments are doing nothing beneficial for them and anarchy breaks out. In which case we would expect the US to see a sudden uptake in defense spending.
While the 'global warming implications' that would be inaccurately applied to this paper are unfortunate his statement isn't scientifically inaccurate:
Armed, combat trained and battle tested right wing leaning organization = Patriotic citizens!! Left leaning college students delivering food to seniors and reading to school kids = Paramilitary revolutionary force!!! OH NOEZ!
If your bike is stolen in Seattle they'll not only happily fill out a form they'll even send a squad car to bring the form to you if need be. How's that for service?
But aren't we just seeing this process dramatized before us.
Microsoft: "Here you go. Hyper-V Code." Kernel Maintainer: "Wait. There are some problems with it that you need to deal with or we aren't going to include it in the kernel." [Slashdot story] Microsoft: "Oh we'll look into that."
If Microsoft cares enough about getting it into the Kernel they'll fix it. Otherwise they wont... problem solved.
The two methods most commonly proposed that I'm aware of currently to do this are through pebble bed reactors which keep all the radioactive material inside insoluble carbon shells and glassification which embeds the material in insoluble silica for relatively safe disposal.
Just a couple other areas of research for those interested.
I've pretty much given up any hope of being anonymous. It's just going to get exponentially more difficult as time goes on.
I had my credit card stolen once. It was stolen from the CC company. How is a business supposed to entrust me with thousands of dollars in credit if they don't know who I am? How is a credit card company supposed to function without a worldwide network which authorizes transactions.
If someone wants to find me they'll find me.
If someone wants to use my identity to frame me for a crime then they're just going to encounter a mountain of evidence from numerous sources which contradict their fabrication.
"My G1 was on a Starbucks Wifi at the time of the crime. I used my CC to purchase the drink. I received a text from a nearby tower. I posted a comment on breaking news story that is written in my style of writing. I was seen on 8 security cameras walking to the starbucks from my car. I used an automatic toll card 5 miles away from the coffee shop...." Good luck coming up with a large mountain of evidence to put me somewhere else.
There's a great quote that I can't find from a crewman on a ship stuck in the Arctic ice. They're almost out of food. People are sick and dieing. Nobody knows if it's even possible to get through. They've been at sea for over a year and still the crew was afraid of being stigmatized as mutineers if they returned early.
Wait I'm on a one way trip to Mars and you expect me to wear clothes until I die? You can keep your silly earth conventions. If you have to wear clothes what's the point?
Chief Powers expressed his absolute confidence that they will save the Observatory. He said that while it may have appeared over the last day or so that the Observatory was being neglected, that they never lost sight of the importance of Mount Wilson's preservation and it is now their highest priority.
Google predicts that normal service will be resumed in 1.5 hours. If you are in need of email immediately I can get you limited access in about 10 minutes. [ed note: pop 3 and imap is still available so you could setup an outlook account or other pop3 system very quickly]
I'm the guy...... Ah I'm glad you understand. You have a nice evening too.
We've had longer outages locally... but we're a small company so when the exchange went out it took everything out with it: exchange, domain and by extension of domain--file servers.
While we may have had 3-4 hours or so of domain related outages this year they were times when we couldn't do anything anyway. We've never had JUST our exchange go out since it's on the same system as our domain.
If Gmail goes out for 2 hours and we have 4 hours of general down time per year then the Gmail (despite being more reliable) actually increased our email down time by 50% over hosting locally.
In Photoshop if I need to stitch a panorama I just launch the tool from the file menu.
If I want an OSS solution I spend an hour looking for a good one online, 30 minutes tracking down all the libraries and packages I need to make it work.
Now that I have it, trying to get it to work as well as the one in Photoshop takes another hour and all told I've charged the client more than double the cost of a Photoshop CS4 upgrade. Rinse and repeat for every "nice to have" feature of Photoshop and you've payed off the whole creative suite in a day or two of screwing around on Sourceforge.
A Photoshop upgrade costs about an hour or two of billable work... that's not terribly difficult to justify every 24 months. It only has to save you about 15 seconds per day to pay itself off.
If an OSS solution only saves 14.9 seconds every day over a previous version of Photoshop then it's costing me money.
If the government is already spending $10k per unit of road and this company thinks it's possible to deliver a product which will already be purchased by my tax dollars (road) but have added benefits then I think it's worth a little feasibility study.
This is: Space already being used. Money that's already being spent. and delivers Electricty Infrastructure (Grid, Data etc) and Improved safety.
If it worked then there would be little down side except increased up front costs.
Do you want the government trying to get the most bang for your buck or just sticking to the tried and true without an eye for innovation?
Slashdot Mirror
There's also the question of islands.
Even if you purchase a home sufficiently above sea level you may not necessarily have access to said home if you're neighbors are all under water and you're the only home left standing.
I'm reminded of this before/after photo here (#2):
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/one_year_after_hurricane_ike.html
How much are we willing to spend on bridges and elevated roadways to access suddenly isolated townships?
What do you mean? The ZuneHD is amazing. And with a ZunePass the experience is incomparable.
I thought the tabletPC was Microsoft's take on the tablet.
This is crazy. It's like picking a lock without damaging it and then stealing jewlery out of a sock drawer and then being forced by the court to buy the victim a fence, guard dog, improved lock and safe to keep their jewelry in to prevent future crimes.
The one exception to this analogy would be if the hacker published the security holes. In which case you could argue it's like stealing a key and giving away copies--in which case he could reasonably be forced to pay for re-keying the locks he 'broke'.
Done 'more with free software'? It's original code.
If you want to license the algorithms you can contact UW and they'll happily come up with an arrangement for you.
I don't see what bearing Microsoft has or does not have with this project except licensing some of their older technology for Photosynth. Most of the tech used in this project which UW isn't trying to license is open source.
Are you kidding? Still images are ridiculously easy to standardize the encoding of. And even then once you get slightly more complicated such as PSD the standard and the implementation becomes more and more difficult.
On the video front you have 'standards' such as OMF or AAF that rarely actually work perfectly.
In 3D we have Collada and FBX. Neither of which adequately describe a full 3D scene completely yet.
A text document is a very complicated file with the potential for an enormous amount of bizzare formatting and embedded data. None of the XML based standards are simple or small. They're just varying levels of complex. I would say a document standard is representing far more complex data than video but less complex than 3D scenes.
There is no such endgame. Hydroponics and indoor growing can raise enough food for anyone with sufficient means.
Then again perhaps eventually even that would be disrupted when the starving poor decide their governments are doing nothing beneficial for them and anarchy breaks out. In which case we would expect the US to see a sudden uptake in defense spending.
The Rich and the Envious?
Those are the two classes on earth? lol. No wonder we have trouble combating poverty.
And here I thought it was about access to education, food, housing, etc. When all along it's just the Rich and the Envious.
We should do this to the healthcare debate. "The insured and the envious". Hahaha. Or even better "The healthy and the envious."
While the 'global warming implications' that would be inaccurately applied to this paper are unfortunate his statement isn't scientifically inaccurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosphere
Armed, combat trained and battle tested right wing leaning organization = Patriotic citizens!!
Left leaning college students delivering food to seniors and reading to school kids = Paramilitary revolutionary force!!! OH NOEZ!
If your bike is stolen in Seattle they'll not only happily fill out a form they'll even send a squad car to bring the form to you if need be. How's that for service?
But aren't we just seeing this process dramatized before us.
Microsoft: "Here you go. Hyper-V Code."
Kernel Maintainer: "Wait. There are some problems with it that you need to deal with or we aren't going to include it in the kernel."
[Slashdot story]
Microsoft: "Oh we'll look into that."
If Microsoft cares enough about getting it into the Kernel they'll fix it. Otherwise they wont... problem solved.
Sure you can send more packets but you're still getting a 7200000ms ping.
Good luck finding a Quake server which won't kick you.
The two methods most commonly proposed that I'm aware of currently to do this are through pebble bed reactors which keep all the radioactive material inside insoluble carbon shells and glassification which embeds the material in insoluble silica for relatively safe disposal.
Just a couple other areas of research for those interested.
Shock and amaze the AMERICAN page for Hubble uses units most familiar to American readers.
If you would prefer you could read its companion page the EUROPEAN page for hubble:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
I've pretty much given up any hope of being anonymous. It's just going to get exponentially more difficult as time goes on.
I had my credit card stolen once. It was stolen from the CC company. How is a business supposed to entrust me with thousands of dollars in credit if they don't know who I am? How is a credit card company supposed to function without a worldwide network which authorizes transactions.
If someone wants to find me they'll find me.
If someone wants to use my identity to frame me for a crime then they're just going to encounter a mountain of evidence from numerous sources which contradict their fabrication.
"My G1 was on a Starbucks Wifi at the time of the crime. I used my CC to purchase the drink. I received a text from a nearby tower. I posted a comment on breaking news story that is written in my style of writing. I was seen on 8 security cameras walking to the starbucks from my car. I used an automatic toll card 5 miles away from the coffee shop...." Good luck coming up with a large mountain of evidence to put me somewhere else.
There's a great quote that I can't find from a crewman on a ship stuck in the Arctic ice. They're almost out of food. People are sick and dieing. Nobody knows if it's even possible to get through. They've been at sea for over a year and still the crew was afraid of being stigmatized as mutineers if they returned early.
Wait I'm on a one way trip to Mars and you expect me to wear clothes until I die? You can keep your silly earth conventions. If you have to wear clothes what's the point?
There is a link to a blog on the Webcam page:
http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php
Chief Powers expressed his absolute confidence that they will save the Observatory. He said that while it may have appeared over the last day or so that the Observatory was being neglected, that they never lost sight of the importance of Mount Wilson's preservation and it is now their highest priority.
You can even do one better.
Hi Boss -
Google predicts that normal service will be resumed in 1.5 hours. If you are in need of email immediately I can get you limited access in about 10 minutes. [ed note: pop 3 and imap is still available so you could setup an outlook account or other pop3 system very quickly]
I'm the guy... ... Ah I'm glad you understand. You have a nice evening too.
There's the trouble of overlap however:
We've had longer outages locally... but we're a small company so when the exchange went out it took everything out with it: exchange, domain and by extension of domain--file servers.
While we may have had 3-4 hours or so of domain related outages this year they were times when we couldn't do anything anyway. We've never had JUST our exchange go out since it's on the same system as our domain.
If Gmail goes out for 2 hours and we have 4 hours of general down time per year then the Gmail (despite being more reliable) actually increased our email down time by 50% over hosting locally.
Just finding an app is time consuming.
In Photoshop if I need to stitch a panorama I just launch the tool from the file menu.
If I want an OSS solution I spend an hour looking for a good one online, 30 minutes tracking down all the libraries and packages I need to make it work.
Now that I have it, trying to get it to work as well as the one in Photoshop takes another hour and all told I've charged the client more than double the cost of a Photoshop CS4 upgrade. Rinse and repeat for every "nice to have" feature of Photoshop and you've payed off the whole creative suite in a day or two of screwing around on Sourceforge.
A Photoshop upgrade costs about an hour or two of billable work... that's not terribly difficult to justify every 24 months. It only has to save you about 15 seconds per day to pay itself off.
If an OSS solution only saves 14.9 seconds every day over a previous version of Photoshop then it's costing me money.
If the government is already spending $10k per unit of road and this company thinks it's possible to deliver a product which will already be purchased by my tax dollars (road) but have added benefits then I think it's worth a little feasibility study.
This is:
Space already being used.
Money that's already being spent.
and delivers
Electricty
Infrastructure (Grid, Data etc)
and
Improved safety.
If it worked then there would be little down side except increased up front costs.
Do you want the government trying to get the most bang for your buck or just sticking to the tried and true without an eye for innovation?
Yeah because Minnesota was the first place that came to mind when I was thinking of good places to install these... not Las Vegas or LA.
It's even more bullshity than normal since he's also evidently predicting the end of Moore's law. CPUs only improving by 3x in 6 years?!
6 years/1.5 years = 4 Cycles of Moore's law.
2^4 = 16x performance increase.
So I guess Moore's law in the next year is going to go from a doubling every 18 months to a doubling every 4-5 years? When did that happen?