The Kessel run isn't a set distance, but a set time. How far do you go in 5 hours? 12 parsecs! Of course, you would be bragging in that case that you did the Kessel run in more than 12 parsecs. So here we go: in the Kessel run, you enter a field that propels you very strongly in a particular direction for a set amount of time. Your goal is to propel yourself in the opposite direction. Because the Kessel field is very strong, everyone ends up "behind the starting line" at the end of the run. The less far behind, the faster your ship. So the Millenium Falcon in this case managed to loose only 12 parsecs in the Kessel run.
Alternately, the Kessel run could be both a distance and a time. It is set up that the distance is very far in relation to the amount of time, so that nobody ever reaches the finish line in the time alloted. The closer you are to the finish line at the end of the run, the faster you went. So that the Millenium Falcon finished only 12 parsecs away from the finish
This sounds like a good idea, but I don't think it would work very well in real life. As you noted, a central repository would have some major concerns. If the information is stored in different systems then it could be difficult figuring out who to contact to inform that x information should be tiered up. Also, what limit would you have in being able to move things into more sensitive areas? I'm sure that there are privacy advocates who, under this system, would want ALL their information "red" "I want my name, address, phone number, description, everything to be accessible by subpoena only." That's going to make things very difficult.
If that issue could be taken care of, auditing has another problem. If your engaged in a criminal activity, and the tracking system automatically sends you an email showing that your "red" information has been accessed by the police, you know to start destroying evidence. There are cases when the police rely on the ability to surprise a suspect about the investigation in order for the evidence to still exist when they search for it. At the same time, since the "red" information is so confidential, you would want to be notified if someone had accessed it, so you can check to make sure it's being used properly.
How long is a minute squared? I guess it would still be 60 seconds. Or maybe by square they mean dull, as in the ol' "L7" In that case, Ebert is saying that Episode III has more action in its dull scenes than the previous 5 movies combined. Wow!
I admit not knowing much about Lithium-Ion Polymer batteries. If this is the case, you might want to bring it to the attention of the author. The story was submited as an AC, but there's an email address on the website, spamproofed:
silasb_at_earthlink.net
Unless you enjoy knowing that people have caught on fire from their own ignorance, it would be a good idea to write an email explaining the problem and why.
Okay, I'm willing to admit that something is possibly terribly awry. I'll do a clean install on a fresh drive some point this week to test whether or not I am a moron.
I must be doing something incredibly wrong then, because every time I've installed XP Pro with standard options, it took at least 4.5GB without Office or any other software
The second thing I wanted to mention, and this is IMPORTANT, these cells don't have a current regulator on them. So when you recharge them, do not use the Mac's power cord. Instead use a power supply which has a current limiting knob on it so that you can keep the current low whilst charging the batteries. Don't blame me if you plug in your Mac's power cable and it fries your power supply.
and:
TODO:
Include a current regulator so that the battery can be charged from the power cable.
My experience with UPS is that they are usually a good deal larger than a MacMini and most are also going to have several unneeded outlets if your using it as a headless server.
Also, if its use includes being moved about every so often, then this way it can stay up during transport. Or maybe its purpose is to act as a server for only short periods of time such as a LAN party or a lecture. Although, for either of those uses, it would be better if the batteries held up a bit better than that, but for a first try, not bad.
true, so long as you are "tethered" to the internet. It's a big difference to my laptop when it's sitting in the passenger seat of my car while I drive down the interstate.
I thought subscription based services like Rhapsody and Yahoo were just streaming. If you want to acutally download the song and listen to it from somewhere else than your internet-connected computer, you had to pay an additional fee ($.79/song in Yahoo's case) I mean, if I could actually DOWNLOAD an unlimited amount of music and listen to it on all my PCs, on an mp3 player, and burn it to CD to listen in a car, for $5/month or even $20/month I'd jump at the chance. But I'm not going to pay $5/month for the privelege of listening to music and the ability to pay more to buy it.
From reading Freenet's FAQ, I get the impression that it was designed for child porn.
I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do?
The true test of someone who claims to believe in Freedom of Speech is whether they tolerate speech which they disagree with, or even find disgusting. If this is not acceptable to you, you should not run a Freenet node.
Somehow, Microsoft replaced Apple as the education platform at a time when all education software was geared towards Apple. If schools could switch platforms then, why is it so hard to do so now?
Because:
1)At that point, computers weren't as fully ingrained in the educational setting as they are now, less reliancy means greater flexibility.
2)It happened at a time when Apple was getting less proactive about the education market and Microsoft was getting more proactive about it. He who wants it the most (and has the resources to back it up) usually wins. As others have pointed out, Microsoft really doesn't make any money on software sold to schools. What they get is a user-base.
Until then, we are stuck with Windows unless Wine makes more progress.
Give me a break. Reallocate funds saved on Windows licensing. Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones you currently use.
Public school are exactly that, public institutions. You can only spend funds on what you said you were going to spend them on in the budget proposal that the township voted on. The GP said that he was the sole tech for a 14 school district (An aside, this person deserves a medal. We have one tech for our 4 school district and he gets run ragged), so the voters are not likely to approve the hiring of programers even if the net budget is smaller.
You state several times the lack of available software solutions for the linux platform forcing your school's decision to stick with Windows, and that is certainly an issue... And it will be for a LONG time if schools such as yours don't step up and find alternative solutions for these problems.
One suite of programs for math is required by the state.
Raise your voice. Make a complaint. What software suite is it, exactly? Make a large dent in the company's profits and they'll consider porting their software. Guaranteed.
The Department of Education is as much a bureacracy as anywhere else. The only way they will change a mandate is with another mandate. That means, in order for DoE to give an option on something like this software, there needs to be an option. When the DoE picked that particular suite, it was analyzed in side-by-side comparisons with every other comparable product they could find. It was reviewed, it was debated. A sales rep from that company (and from the other companies) came out to do a demonstration. Finally, they picked the best of the bunch and mandated that all schools in the state use in order to equalize opporunities between districts. And of course, as you point out, companies don't write programs for a market that doesn't exist. It's a chicken and egg thing. Unfortunately, companies rarely do port their software, even under pressure.
The biggest difference is that, IIRC, in the old browser wars, Microsoft was updating IE relatively quickly in reponse to Netscapes updates, keeping them relatively neck-and-neck for a while. IMO MS's victory had as much to do with how horrible bloated POS Netscape 6 as with MS bundling IE with Windows.
Forefox was been competeing a well-funded competitor who hasn't been doing at that much competing.
I think Firefox will always be winning converts from IE, but I agree it will happen more slowly when IE7 is released. Tabbed browsing in IE will give fewer people an incentive to make the switch, but increased security will keep people switching over. Of course, not only will IE7 be integrated into new Windows media, but will probably be made a requirement to install Office or someother Microsoft app to ensure its on 99.9% of the Windows boxes, but short of IE moving ahead of FireFox, I doubt anyone that isn't already using IE will use it when 7 comes out. That said, it's not impossible for IE to manage that. I originally switched to IE from Netscape years ago because IE had a print preview option and netscape didn't.
No, but if the US Supreme Court decided that Congress should jump off a bridge, Congress would.
The Supreme Court's decisions have the weight of the Constitution. If Congress doesn't like something the Supreme Court decides, the Constitution has to be amended, or wait and hope the Court reverses direction in a future case.
Now in the Grokster case, if the court were to decide to extend Fair Use in a certain manner, any proposed legislation of the broadcast flag would be unconstitutional. If the court were to roll the other way the legislation would be considered timely and expedient in implementing corrollary measures.
No, no, no. Any one can draft legislation. All you need is to know how to write, and a way to write it down. We elect people to sponsor legislation, debate legislation, and vote on legislation. Further, I'd hazzard a bet that there hasn't been a bill on the table in many years that was actually WRITTEN (i.e. drafted) by a Congressperson. Most were written by their staff.
Anyone can write a bill, you don't have to be in congress for that. Private citizens can write a bill on any topic they want. What a private citizen can't do is sponsor legislation. A congressman/senator has to sponsor a bill before it will be "debated" and voted on. I'm not naive enough to think there isn't at least 1 congressman whose campaign wasn't paid for by the MPAA and has a cushy $200,000 job waiting for them after they leave office, which is actual the issue that who are so, rightly, indignat about.
1) I assume that marketshare is important, yes. I also assume that the most insucre feature of any OS isn't the coding, but the user.
2) Fedora & Mandriva are distiributions of Linux. Anyone who wasn't out to be snippy would understand my sentence perfectly.
3)"Virii" isn't technically correct, but since "virus" doesn't technically have a plural, in the sense that Latin scholars are still debating it, I say toma(long a)to, you say toma(short a)to. "They" isn't the correct form for the 3rd person singular personal pronoun, but that doesn't stop many people, myself included. "You" isn't the correct form for the 2nd person singluar personal pronoun, but I can't say I've ever heard anyone use "thou" in normal conversation.
2a/3a) Also in my list of assumptions is that, even after a quick lookover for mistakes, I will make a few grammer, spellings, and perhaps even, factual errors. Unfortunately, I'm only human.
4) Unless you want me to say that MS people are idots. They're not idiots at all IMHO; it was a conscious design decision. Well, all I can say, is read what I actually wrote. I said I didn't think they were idiots but made a decision that, in the long run, was incorrect.
5) I did in fact know that it was Chamberlin. I had a brain fart. My bad. Thanks QCompson for pointing it out civilly.
As a long-time ATi fan, I'm happy that the Xbox 360 uses an ATi GPU, but it looks like its going to shoot them in the foot since apparently console GPUs don't do things in any kind of standard way like PC GPUs do.
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The Kessel run isn't a set distance, but a set time. How far do you go in 5 hours? 12 parsecs! Of course, you would be bragging in that case that you did the Kessel run in more than 12 parsecs. So here we go: in the Kessel run, you enter a field that propels you very strongly in a particular direction for a set amount of time. Your goal is to propel yourself in the opposite direction. Because the Kessel field is very strong, everyone ends up "behind the starting line" at the end of the run. The less far behind, the faster your ship. So the Millenium Falcon in this case managed to loose only 12 parsecs in the Kessel run.
Alternately, the Kessel run could be both a distance and a time. It is set up that the distance is very far in relation to the amount of time, so that nobody ever reaches the finish line in the time alloted. The closer you are to the finish line at the end of the run, the faster you went. So that the Millenium Falcon finished only 12 parsecs away from the finish
If that issue could be taken care of, auditing has another problem. If your engaged in a criminal activity, and the tracking system automatically sends you an email showing that your "red" information has been accessed by the police, you know to start destroying evidence. There are cases when the police rely on the ability to surprise a suspect about the investigation in order for the evidence to still exist when they search for it. At the same time, since the "red" information is so confidential, you would want to be notified if someone had accessed it, so you can check to make sure it's being used properly.
nonono. in standard a square minute is the length of time it takes for the king's penis to go from limp to erect.
How long is a minute squared? I guess it would still be 60 seconds. Or maybe by square they mean dull, as in the ol' "L7" In that case, Ebert is saying that Episode III has more action in its dull scenes than the previous 5 movies combined. Wow!
silasb_at_earthlink.net
Unless you enjoy knowing that people have caught on fire from their own ignorance, it would be a good idea to write an email explaining the problem and why.
Okay, I'm willing to admit that something is possibly terribly awry. I'll do a clean install on a fresh drive some point this week to test whether or not I am a moron.
I must be doing something incredibly wrong then, because every time I've installed XP Pro with standard options, it took at least 4.5GB without Office or any other software
uhh, harddrive!=memory. A standard install of XP won't even fit on a 4GB drive
The second thing I wanted to mention, and this is IMPORTANT, these cells don't have a current regulator on them. So when you recharge them, do not use the Mac's power cord. Instead use a power supply which has a current limiting knob on it so that you can keep the current low whilst charging the batteries. Don't blame me if you plug in your Mac's power cable and it fries your power supply.
and:
TODO:
Include a current regulator so that the battery can be charged from the power cable.
Also, if its use includes being moved about every so often, then this way it can stay up during transport. Or maybe its purpose is to act as a server for only short periods of time such as a LAN party or a lecture. Although, for either of those uses, it would be better if the batteries held up a bit better than that, but for a first try, not bad.
true, so long as you are "tethered" to the internet. It's a big difference to my laptop when it's sitting in the passenger seat of my car while I drive down the interstate.
I thought subscription based services like Rhapsody and Yahoo were just streaming. If you want to acutally download the song and listen to it from somewhere else than your internet-connected computer, you had to pay an additional fee ($.79/song in Yahoo's case) I mean, if I could actually DOWNLOAD an unlimited amount of music and listen to it on all my PCs, on an mp3 player, and burn it to CD to listen in a car, for $5/month or even $20/month I'd jump at the chance. But I'm not going to pay $5/month for the privelege of listening to music and the ability to pay more to buy it.
I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do?
The true test of someone who claims to believe in Freedom of Speech is whether they tolerate speech which they disagree with, or even find disgusting. If this is not acceptable to you, you should not run a Freenet node.
1)At that point, computers weren't as fully ingrained in the educational setting as they are now, less reliancy means greater flexibility.
2)It happened at a time when Apple was getting less proactive about the education market and Microsoft was getting more proactive about it. He who wants it the most (and has the resources to back it up) usually wins. As others have pointed out, Microsoft really doesn't make any money on software sold to schools. What they get is a user-base.
Give me a break. Reallocate funds saved on Windows licensing. Hire programmers to create solutions that are even better adapted than the ones you currently use.
Public school are exactly that, public institutions. You can only spend funds on what you said you were going to spend them on in the budget proposal that the township voted on. The GP said that he was the sole tech for a 14 school district (An aside, this person deserves a medal. We have one tech for our 4 school district and he gets run ragged), so the voters are not likely to approve the hiring of programers even if the net budget is smaller.
You state several times the lack of available software solutions for the linux platform forcing your school's decision to stick with Windows, and that is certainly an issue... And it will be for a LONG time if schools such as yours don't step up and find alternative solutions for these problems.
One suite of programs for math is required by the state.
Raise your voice. Make a complaint. What software suite is it, exactly? Make a large dent in the company's profits and they'll consider porting their software. Guaranteed.
The Department of Education is as much a bureacracy as anywhere else. The only way they will change a mandate is with another mandate. That means, in order for DoE to give an option on something like this software, there needs to be an option. When the DoE picked that particular suite, it was analyzed in side-by-side comparisons with every other comparable product they could find. It was reviewed, it was debated. A sales rep from that company (and from the other companies) came out to do a demonstration. Finally, they picked the best of the bunch and mandated that all schools in the state use in order to equalize opporunities between districts. And of course, as you point out, companies don't write programs for a market that doesn't exist. It's a chicken and egg thing. Unfortunately, companies rarely do port their software, even under pressure.
Forefox was been competeing a well-funded competitor who hasn't been doing at that much competing.
I think Firefox will always be winning converts from IE, but I agree it will happen more slowly when IE7 is released. Tabbed browsing in IE will give fewer people an incentive to make the switch, but increased security will keep people switching over. Of course, not only will IE7 be integrated into new Windows media, but will probably be made a requirement to install Office or someother Microsoft app to ensure its on 99.9% of the Windows boxes, but short of IE moving ahead of FireFox, I doubt anyone that isn't already using IE will use it when 7 comes out. That said, it's not impossible for IE to manage that. I originally switched to IE from Netscape years ago because IE had a print preview option and netscape didn't.
The Supreme Court's decisions have the weight of the Constitution. If Congress doesn't like something the Supreme Court decides, the Constitution has to be amended, or wait and hope the Court reverses direction in a future case.
Now in the Grokster case, if the court were to decide to extend Fair Use in a certain manner, any proposed legislation of the broadcast flag would be unconstitutional. If the court were to roll the other way the legislation would be considered timely and expedient in implementing corrollary measures.
No, no, no. Any one can draft legislation. All you need is to know how to write, and a way to write it down. We elect people to sponsor legislation, debate legislation, and vote on legislation. Further, I'd hazzard a bet that there hasn't been a bill on the table in many years that was actually WRITTEN (i.e. drafted) by a Congressperson. Most were written by their staff.
It was JAG, wasn't it? My mom had me disconnect the phone before it came on and locked her bedroom door so she wouldn't be interrupted
Anyone can write a bill, you don't have to be in congress for that. Private citizens can write a bill on any topic they want. What a private citizen can't do is sponsor legislation. A congressman/senator has to sponsor a bill before it will be "debated" and voted on. I'm not naive enough to think there isn't at least 1 congressman whose campaign wasn't paid for by the MPAA and has a cushy $200,000 job waiting for them after they leave office, which is actual the issue that who are so, rightly, indignat about.
2) Fedora & Mandriva are distiributions of Linux. Anyone who wasn't out to be snippy would understand my sentence perfectly.
3)"Virii" isn't technically correct, but since "virus" doesn't technically have a plural, in the sense that Latin scholars are still debating it, I say toma(long a)to, you say toma(short a)to. "They" isn't the correct form for the 3rd person singular personal pronoun, but that doesn't stop many people, myself included. "You" isn't the correct form for the 2nd person singluar personal pronoun, but I can't say I've ever heard anyone use "thou" in normal conversation.
2a/3a) Also in my list of assumptions is that, even after a quick lookover for mistakes, I will make a few grammer, spellings, and perhaps even, factual errors. Unfortunately, I'm only human.
4) Unless you want me to say that MS people are idots. They're not idiots at all IMHO; it was a conscious design decision. Well, all I can say, is read what I actually wrote. I said I didn't think they were idiots but made a decision that, in the long run, was incorrect.
5) I did in fact know that it was Chamberlin. I had a brain fart. My bad. Thanks QCompson for pointing it out civilly.
As a long-time ATi fan, I'm happy that the Xbox 360 uses an ATi GPU, but it looks like its going to shoot them in the foot since apparently console GPUs don't do things in any kind of standard way like PC GPUs do.
A comapany with its fingers in every pot isn't a monopoly. A company that is the only one with its fingers in a certain pot is a monopoly.
Maybe because nobody writes unix virii?