What is really interesting about the religious fundamentalists is that they want to wind the clock back to sometime around 2 BCE.
Of course there was illicit sex going on back then, but because the printing press hadn't yet been invented it was a real bitch to to flip book style porn on stone tablets.
From what I can tell, the only real differences between Enterprise and Community is support. We run community version for major production databases with no issues whatsoever.
And we're not the only ones doing so. MySQL had really better re-think the whole thing, whats the point of offering Enterprise when 90% of shops are going to go with the free product.
The difference between WW I and WW II come down to that little thing called post-invasion planning. The Marshall plan was phenomenal, it got people working again, kept the power on, water running, etc.
The Bush Administration feels that no such thing is necessary, which is why you have a massive insurgency in Iraq. If we kept the power on for more than 6 hours a day, gave the military that we fired new jobs, etc. we wouldn't be having the problems that we're having now. Of course the hubris of the neo-cons said that the State Department plan was dreck, but that plan advocated the very things I'm talking about.
Regards nuking Japan, I'm ambivalent about the act. Partly because the evidence is now saying it was a political move more than an expedient move. Sure, losses would have been much higher if we had to island hop, but as others have pointed out we were ready for that.
Could someone explain why the pilot is even necessary anymore? Just pay a sky jockey to sit and babysit a computer and let that fly the aircraft. Hell, we do it with prostate surgery now, why not a jet aircraft.
The only caveat is that the system for flying the aircraft not use Windows in any way, shape or form.
The U.S. is on top because of all the spambots ever since we let the unwashed come and play on the net. I can't tell you how many people I come across that have broadband connections and NO firewall or AV software whatsoever. They're all aghast when I explain what can happen when they don't have those things.
Whats really scary is that companies like Verizon and Cox send out wireless gear UNSECURED and with no instructions, or at least clear instructions on how to secure the network.
But in the case of China, it's government sponsored. So there is a big difference. In every case that I've gotten Chinese spam it's from one of the ISP's mail servers there.
Put it this way, the rovers are now several times older than what they were designed for. Originally they were designed for 90 sols, they've now been in action for 1248 sols for Spirit, and 1228 sols for Opportunity.
It'd be sad to see them go offline but they've served their purpose more than once over. In reality it's almost 14 times the intended lifespan.
Business and government are staying FAR away from Vista for the exact reasons enumerated in the article. At our office we just ordered PC's from HP. HP will sell us the Vista license but install XP on the machine instead. We've done the same with Dell too.
I've heard that Vista breaks a lot of higher end apps, like CAD programs, etc. We'll see.
DB function failed with error number 1194
Table 'mos_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=SELECT session_id FROM mos_session WHERE session_id=MD5('c24915053b9c853fc1772dd0c1366e02')
SQL =
SELECT session_id FROM mos_session WHERE session_id=MD5('c24915053b9c853fc1772dd0c1366e02')
And I know how to fix the above. It's a bad index and all they need to do is a
REPAIR TABLE mos_session;
By the time you buy the new firewall sofware, Opus et al you'll have spent the equivalent of buying a Vista Ultimate license and just sitting on it until at least SP2.
We tried to avoid Vista in our office but we just got word today that ten new PC's with Vista are coming in. Then that was updated to "They have XP on them but they do have Vista licenses."
I've made this exact point. They should have adopted the tactic that Apple is using. Just do incremental upgrades and charge $59 or $79 for each update.
The pricing for me to upgrade to Vista is ridiculous. XP is pretty stable for me so why the hell would I move away from it? My office and home machines all run fully patched XP Professional installs.
More to the point the SO uses AutoDesktop and AutoCAD. They WILL NOT RUN on Vista.
Oh I'm familiar with Heisenberg. Granted, we can't know the states precisely but we can assign probabilities to them. It'll be an interesting world and I wouldn't want to be the first to go through said teleporter.
There are some other benefits to building such a huge network of high powered computers. And it's not the teleportation you thought, it's more copying of metadata and re-creating the original.
Think about it, the only thing stopping us is the ability to store and transfer large amounts of data necessary to describe the precise makeup of a human being. I have a feeling this project will branch off into that area.
They device manufacturers create their own stacks and then don't test them? Are we just asking for a nuclear accident, or does this strike anyone else as stupidity?
At least it wasn't connected to the public internet. Can you imagine the havoc THAT would create. But I wonder why they're treating this as a criminal thing. Did someone modify a device?
Modern trauma medicine is quite amazing. We can literally snatch people back from the jaws of death where even a decade ago they would have died.
Think about it for a moment. I'll use my city as an example. All rescue vehicles are MICU's or Mobile Intensive Care Units and they are staffed by fully trained paramedics. And average response times are 2 minutes or so in this city.
Then of course you have medicine itself. We've learned a hell of a lot from the war injured. It's the perfect testing ground for innovative procedures developed to save lives. And once it's tested and verified, it becomes practice in hospital trauma centers.
Had we not fought in WW II, Korea and Vietnam we probably wouldn't have the trauma medicine we have today. Not that I'm a war hawk or anything, but we do see benefits from it in the long run.
The universe of computers out there is far higher than 40 million. So how are they arriving at that number? I'll explain it for you.
It's all OEM licensing on new machines. But people like me who purchased within the last year or so aren't upgrading. In fact I know too many people that have recently bought machines with XP as opposed to Vista because some of the apps they use WILL NOT work with Vista. AutoCAD and AutoDesktop are two such products that are very OS specific. I actually know of a few people who received Vista desktops and laptops and Dell or HP sent them the XP install disks when they complained about Vista.
I think we're starting to see the end of Microsoft and management there knows about it. A co-worker and I were talking about it just today. XP wasn't bad and they could have gone forward on that. Similar to how Apple does it with OS-X, charge $30 here, $70 there for incremental upgrades. But Microsoft wants to do it whole hog.
Are pacemakers part 15 devices? If so they have to accept the interference.
RF shielding is a big deal. Just look at the nice Faraday cages used to enclosed MRI scanners. It has to be RF quiet because that is the actual imaging part of the system. The magnets just make things jump to higher energy levels. When they fall down they emit a signal detected with an RF scanner.
I would imagine there should be some form of RF/EM shielding on something so critical as a pacemaker.
In our computer room the big red button is at about 50" from the floor. It's under a plexiglass cover that has to be lifted, and then the button pushed.
That big red button cuts power to the entire computer room. Everything from phones to networking gear, and servers. The only thing that stays on is the overhead lights and the air conditioners, because they're wired to different circuits.
The big red button is the cutoff for the APC Symmetra that everything hangs off of. In case of sprinkler activation we're supposed to hit that button. I argued that all they really needed to do is put a flow sensor on the sprinkler lines to the computer room. That got shot down when they explained that sometimes there might be flow when the sprinklers don't activate. Doh!
The breadth and reach of U.S. Copyright law is astounding. There really needs to be a line drawn because the RIAA and MPAA are getting a bit too big for their britches.
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What is really interesting about the religious fundamentalists is that they want to wind the clock back to sometime around 2 BCE.
Of course there was illicit sex going on back then, but because the printing press hadn't yet been invented it was a real bitch to to flip book style porn on stone tablets.
From what I can tell, the only real differences between Enterprise and Community is support. We run community version for major production databases with no issues whatsoever.
And we're not the only ones doing so. MySQL had really better re-think the whole thing, whats the point of offering Enterprise when 90% of shops are going to go with the free product.
The difference between WW I and WW II come down to that little thing called post-invasion planning. The Marshall plan was phenomenal, it got people working again, kept the power on, water running, etc.
The Bush Administration feels that no such thing is necessary, which is why you have a massive insurgency in Iraq. If we kept the power on for more than 6 hours a day, gave the military that we fired new jobs, etc. we wouldn't be having the problems that we're having now. Of course the hubris of the neo-cons said that the State Department plan was dreck, but that plan advocated the very things I'm talking about.
Regards nuking Japan, I'm ambivalent about the act. Partly because the evidence is now saying it was a political move more than an expedient move. Sure, losses would have been much higher if we had to island hop, but as others have pointed out we were ready for that.
Could someone explain why the pilot is even necessary anymore? Just pay a sky jockey to sit and babysit a computer and let that fly the aircraft. Hell, we do it with prostate surgery now, why not a jet aircraft.
The only caveat is that the system for flying the aircraft not use Windows in any way, shape or form.
The U.S. is on top because of all the spambots ever since we let the unwashed come and play on the net. I can't tell you how many people I come across that have broadband connections and NO firewall or AV software whatsoever. They're all aghast when I explain what can happen when they don't have those things.
Whats really scary is that companies like Verizon and Cox send out wireless gear UNSECURED and with no instructions, or at least clear instructions on how to secure the network.
But in the case of China, it's government sponsored. So there is a big difference. In every case that I've gotten Chinese spam it's from one of the ISP's mail servers there.
I guess being in first class isn't that much more advantageous.
Put it this way, the rovers are now several times older than what they were designed for. Originally they were designed for 90 sols, they've now been in action for 1248 sols for Spirit, and 1228 sols for Opportunity.
It'd be sad to see them go offline but they've served their purpose more than once over. In reality it's almost 14 times the intended lifespan.
I'd call that a true engineering success story.
The Outside Plant guys at Verizon will tell you that Verizon is trying to get rid of the copper infrastructure. But so far there aren't any buyers.
If they do get rid of it all those OSP guys go with it. I don't think they realize that.
Business and government are staying FAR away from Vista for the exact reasons enumerated in the article. At our office we just ordered PC's from HP. HP will sell us the Vista license but install XP on the machine instead. We've done the same with Dell too.
I've heard that Vista breaks a lot of higher end apps, like CAD programs, etc. We'll see.
Unless they've never heard of Murphy's Law. Then they'd have an excuse.
DB function failed with error number 1194 Table 'mos_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=SELECT session_id FROM mos_session WHERE session_id=MD5('c24915053b9c853fc1772dd0c1366e02')
SQL =
SELECT session_id FROM mos_session WHERE session_id=MD5('c24915053b9c853fc1772dd0c1366e02')
And I know how to fix the above. It's a bad index and all they need to do is a
REPAIR TABLE mos_session;
By the time you buy the new firewall sofware, Opus et al you'll have spent the equivalent of buying a Vista Ultimate license and just sitting on it until at least SP2.
Nah, the O2K7 licenses are full on, not upgrades, not OEM.
Interestingly we have two Mac users in the IT division. I don't know what they expect to happen with them.
We tried to avoid Vista in our office but we just got word today that ten new PC's with Vista are coming in. Then that was updated to "They have XP on them but they do have Vista licenses."
And ten copies of Office 2007. What fun!
I've made this exact point. They should have adopted the tactic that Apple is using. Just do incremental upgrades and charge $59 or $79 for each update.
The pricing for me to upgrade to Vista is ridiculous. XP is pretty stable for me so why the hell would I move away from it? My office and home machines all run fully patched XP Professional installs.
More to the point the SO uses AutoDesktop and AutoCAD. They WILL NOT RUN on Vista.
Hell, if you're an IT person you'll pretty much be accused of cheating.
Some of the items on that little list are ridiculous.
Oh I'm familiar with Heisenberg. Granted, we can't know the states precisely but we can assign probabilities to them. It'll be an interesting world and I wouldn't want to be the first to go through said teleporter.
There are some other benefits to building such a huge network of high powered computers. And it's not the teleportation you thought, it's more copying of metadata and re-creating the original.
Think about it, the only thing stopping us is the ability to store and transfer large amounts of data necessary to describe the precise makeup of a human being. I have a feeling this project will branch off into that area.
They device manufacturers create their own stacks and then don't test them? Are we just asking for a nuclear accident, or does this strike anyone else as stupidity?
At least it wasn't connected to the public internet. Can you imagine the havoc THAT would create. But I wonder why they're treating this as a criminal thing. Did someone modify a device?
Modern trauma medicine is quite amazing. We can literally snatch people back from the jaws of death where even a decade ago they would have died.
Think about it for a moment. I'll use my city as an example. All rescue vehicles are MICU's or Mobile Intensive Care Units and they are staffed by fully trained paramedics. And average response times are 2 minutes or so in this city.
Then of course you have medicine itself. We've learned a hell of a lot from the war injured. It's the perfect testing ground for innovative procedures developed to save lives. And once it's tested and verified, it becomes practice in hospital trauma centers.
Had we not fought in WW II, Korea and Vietnam we probably wouldn't have the trauma medicine we have today. Not that I'm a war hawk or anything, but we do see benefits from it in the long run.
The universe of computers out there is far higher than 40 million. So how are they arriving at that number? I'll explain it for you.
It's all OEM licensing on new machines. But people like me who purchased within the last year or so aren't upgrading. In fact I know too many people that have recently bought machines with XP as opposed to Vista because some of the apps they use WILL NOT work with Vista. AutoCAD and AutoDesktop are two such products that are very OS specific. I actually know of a few people who received Vista desktops and laptops and Dell or HP sent them the XP install disks when they complained about Vista.
I think we're starting to see the end of Microsoft and management there knows about it. A co-worker and I were talking about it just today. XP wasn't bad and they could have gone forward on that. Similar to how Apple does it with OS-X, charge $30 here, $70 there for incremental upgrades. But Microsoft wants to do it whole hog.
Are pacemakers part 15 devices? If so they have to accept the interference.
RF shielding is a big deal. Just look at the nice Faraday cages used to enclosed MRI scanners. It has to be RF quiet because that is the actual imaging part of the system. The magnets just make things jump to higher energy levels. When they fall down they emit a signal detected with an RF scanner.
I would imagine there should be some form of RF/EM shielding on something so critical as a pacemaker.
In our computer room the big red button is at about 50" from the floor. It's under a plexiglass cover that has to be lifted, and then the button pushed.
That big red button cuts power to the entire computer room. Everything from phones to networking gear, and servers. The only thing that stays on is the overhead lights and the air conditioners, because they're wired to different circuits.
The big red button is the cutoff for the APC Symmetra that everything hangs off of. In case of sprinkler activation we're supposed to hit that button. I argued that all they really needed to do is put a flow sensor on the sprinkler lines to the computer room. That got shot down when they explained that sometimes there might be flow when the sprinklers don't activate. Doh!
And we don't allow kids in the computer room.
Ah Golgafrinch I miss you! And how about hair stylists, nail manicurists, etc.
The breadth and reach of U.S. Copyright law is astounding. There really needs to be a line drawn because the RIAA and MPAA are getting a bit too big for their britches.