the thing with Y2K was it wasn't one issue but lots of issues along a similar theme that got hyped up together.
Theese could be solved in an isolated manner with little cooperation needed. Some of them were in systems that were virtually unmaintained causing a sudden high demand for programmers in old languages but there was no need for a worldwide coordinated update like there will be with ipv6.
v6 to v4 translation is a possibility but there are undoubtablly issues with that too.
also computer geeks tend to get asked for advice with regards internet service and ISP level nat is something that will seriously put most geeks off.
last i checked the supposed soloution was to have multiple IPs run in paralell and deal with it at the DNS level. That is gonig to require a lot of extra intelligence in applications to work and i bet it will still break sometimes.
I had one that went on the blink after a few years, it stopped appearing in a traceroute (i think it was doing something screwy regarding ICMP but i dunno for sure), some sites were intermittantly unreachable.
It was an amigo device rebranded as dabsvalue, i don't remember the exact model number.
On the other hand, using RFID to track equipment is a very handy use for RFID. There are huge RFID readers that span entire docking bays than can read some kinds of tags and accurately report the contents of dozens of boxes' contents with ease. sure if there are no large ammounts of either metal or water in the boxes.
if the tagged asset is in a bag with loads of other equipment much of which has EMI shielding built in then its not going to get detected reliablly.
At a technical level they ARE in the directory, they just break the normal acyclic nature of the structure. This is true at least for fat and i'm pretty sure its true for ext2.
deleting recursively in dos required a sepeate exe file, it wasn't something the OS did as standard and you wouldn't have been able to rd them because the directory the point at wouldn't meet the criteria for a rd to be allowed (though there may have been a seperate check anyway).
both the reasonablly modern tuner/amplifiers (one technics one sony) my parents have purchased have this feature, its not anything particularlly unusual you just don't see it on low end gear because of the cost.
at least here in the uk it depends on where you live. If its urban or suburban then things are VERY reliable but rural locations are somwhat less so and short power outages (long enough to reset a PC or microwave or similar) are quire common as stuff falls on overhead lines and the like.
also outages outside your installation are far from the only things that will reset your microwave.
Bullshit, the copy protection data is not part of the files. The only way it can be copied directly and put into the right place on a new disk is with proffesional mastering equipment.
If you got a playable copy without using a ripper then the DVD wasn't protected in the first place.
Will this machine be more likely to be usable until she is no longer physically capable of using a computer? That is more likely to be true with Linux than Windows while keeping the OS up-to-date. the thing about windows is that you are not expected to keep the OS up to date. New applications work on older operating systems so provided you are behind a firewall, don't use IE for accessing untrusted sites and keep your exposed applications (web browser, mail client etc) up to date there is not really any pressing requirement to upgrade the OS.
With linux otoh you generally HAVE to upgrade the OS at least every couple of years and take any extra bloat that brings if you want to update the exposed applications without a lot of pain.
Windows 2000 is a hell of a lot better supported now than linux distros of the same era (windows XP has had an unusually long life cycle which complicates comparing it with linux distros but i bet it too will remain well supported for a good number of years).
otoh if you compare the dell windows soloution VS the dell ubuntu soloution then afaict the situation is as follows.
dell windows soloution: ships with a time limited trial version of office to try and railroad you into buying the full thing. Sure you can remove it and install openoffice but they don't do anything to make you aware that you have that option.
afaict very little if any of the software included in a typical linux distro is deliberately crippled and I highly doubt any of it is time limited. I'd imagine most companies wouldn't want to release the source to the crippled versions of thier programs as they would quickly get decripled and ubuntu does not except non OSS software except when its needed for hardware support reasons.
Yeah the default installs of some linux distros are a bit on the bloated side but that software is there for the users benifit not to try and extort more money out of them or gather thier personal data to be sold for profit.
i belive things with intel graphics chipsets have really improved on linux recently. Afaict there are now even opensource drivers with 3D support for at least some of intels graphics chips.
you could always make your own smaller restore partition using your favoirite partition imaging tool after you've stripped the crapware from the windows install.
don't dell supply restore CDs as well as the restore partition anyway?
The thing is its not just photoshop, that just seems to be one of the most commonly brought up examples.
There are a huge number of other industry specific or internal applications that only run on windows (and possiblly mac OS) and while there individual user counts are pretty small taken as a whole they represent a significant mass of apps tying people to windows.
there is a similar upper limit for muzzle velocity per unit of projectile mass. you mean muzzle velocity times projectile mass. A bigger projectile means you have to fire it slower to get a given recoil.
Increasing the mass of the weapons system helps with recoil but that is limited by what a human can carry. So basically there is no way you are going to deal a blow with the momentum to kill someone in an evenly spread out hit with a hand held weapon without killing yourself. If the weapon is ground or vehircle mounted though it may be possible (hell a vehicle could be considered such a weapon in itself)
I personally think we are maybe 10 years away from finding an impenetrable body armor solution. I somewhat doubt it.
on the one hand you have companies developing armor on the other you have companies developing weapons. Armour manufacturers will reasearch what the weapon manufacturers are doing and vice-versa and attempt to counter it and users of the equipment will just adjust what proportion of thier weight or financial budgets they spend on each so that the armour on the battlefield stays balanced with the weapons on the battlefield.
the rods are what see brightness with high resoloution and sensitivity. The reason why you can't see color in dim light is because only the rods are working.
The cones come in three types each with a different frequency response curve, they detect the color of the light.
Color as most humans see it can be represented acceptablly by three values. if we fix apparent brightness we can get that down to two values and we can plot a 2D curve of the effects of different frequencies (known as the pure spectral colors) on our axis and join together the ends. Colors inside the loop can be made by mixing the pure spectal colors. Colors outside it can't exist.
In practice many colors are very rare in the real world and so we can reproduce the colors normally seen with reasonable accuracy using only three primaries.
Someone has to gather together all the drivers that are considered of sufficiant quality and keep them up to date with new kernel versions. Given the instability of linux's module API (not a descision i particularlly agree with but i can see why they made it), the people who develop the kernel are as good a choice as any.
typically drivers are compiled as modules nowadays so they aren't loaded into the running kernel unless the hardware detection system says they should be.
a few people trying to look posh may use the odd diacritic on a loanword or as a heavy metal umulat but really they aren't nessacery for english.
you can get down to 6 bits per character if you are prepared to do away with either most punctuation or mixed case.
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would you want to sue an organisation that routinely blows people up?
i'd think its a bloody smart idea to leave dealing with those guys to those with the protection of governement (cops, armed forces etc) if you value your life.
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the thing with Y2K was it wasn't one issue but lots of issues along a similar theme that got hyped up together.
Theese could be solved in an isolated manner with little cooperation needed. Some of them were in systems that were virtually unmaintained causing a sudden high demand for programmers in old languages but there was no need for a worldwide coordinated update like there will be with ipv6.
v6 to v4 translation is a possibility but there are undoubtablly issues with that too.
also computer geeks tend to get asked for advice with regards internet service and ISP level nat is something that will seriously put most geeks off.
last i checked the supposed soloution was to have multiple IPs run in paralell and deal with it at the DNS level. That is gonig to require a lot of extra intelligence in applications to work and i bet it will still break sometimes.
i'm not postive but i'm pretty sure keep alive is an optional part of the HTTP spec
the thing is to feel cheated you have to be aware that they are doing this on purpose and not just trying to shift some old stock.
I had one that went on the blink after a few years, it stopped appearing in a traceroute (i think it was doing something screwy regarding ICMP but i dunno for sure), some sites were intermittantly unreachable.
It was an amigo device rebranded as dabsvalue, i don't remember the exact model number.
On the other hand, using RFID to track equipment is a very handy use for RFID. There are huge RFID readers that span entire docking bays than can read some kinds of tags and accurately report the contents of dozens of boxes' contents with ease.
sure if there are no large ammounts of either metal or water in the boxes.
if the tagged asset is in a bag with loads of other equipment much of which has EMI shielding built in then its not going to get detected reliablly.
because of the way MS integrated things starting with IE 4's windows desktop update its easy to end up web browsing within the explorer process.
I'd much rather a bug in the IE engine caused a program the engine was running in to crash than allowed the attacker to exectute thier injected code.
At a technical level they ARE in the directory, they just break the normal acyclic nature of the structure. This is true at least for fat and i'm pretty sure its true for ext2.
deleting recursively in dos required a sepeate exe file, it wasn't something the OS did as standard and you wouldn't have been able to rd them because the directory the point at wouldn't meet the criteria for a rd to be allowed (though there may have been a seperate check anyway).
both the reasonablly modern tuner/amplifiers (one technics one sony) my parents have purchased have this feature, its not anything particularlly unusual you just don't see it on low end gear because of the cost.
at least here in the uk it depends on where you live. If its urban or suburban then things are VERY reliable but rural locations are somwhat less so and short power outages (long enough to reset a PC or microwave or similar) are quire common as stuff falls on overhead lines and the like.
also outages outside your installation are far from the only things that will reset your microwave.
erm MS volume license plans include downgrade rights don't they.......
Bullshit, the copy protection data is not part of the files. The only way it can be copied directly and put into the right place on a new disk is with proffesional mastering equipment.
If you got a playable copy without using a ripper then the DVD wasn't protected in the first place.
Will this machine be more likely to be usable until she is no longer physically capable of using a computer? That is more likely to be true with Linux than Windows while keeping the OS up-to-date.
the thing about windows is that you are not expected to keep the OS up to date. New applications work on older operating systems so provided you are behind a firewall, don't use IE for accessing untrusted sites and keep your exposed applications (web browser, mail client etc) up to date there is not really any pressing requirement to upgrade the OS.
With linux otoh you generally HAVE to upgrade the OS at least every couple of years and take any extra bloat that brings if you want to update the exposed applications without a lot of pain.
Windows 2000 is a hell of a lot better supported now than linux distros of the same era (windows XP has had an unusually long life cycle which complicates comparing it with linux distros but i bet it too will remain well supported for a good number of years).
otoh if you compare the dell windows soloution VS the dell ubuntu soloution then afaict the situation is as follows.
dell windows soloution: ships with a time limited trial version of office to try and railroad you into buying the full thing. Sure you can remove it and install openoffice but they don't do anything to make you aware that you have that option.
dell ubuntu soloution: openoffice already installed.
afaict very little if any of the software included in a typical linux distro is deliberately crippled and I highly doubt any of it is time limited. I'd imagine most companies wouldn't want to release the source to the crippled versions of thier programs as they would quickly get decripled and ubuntu does not except non OSS software except when its needed for hardware support reasons.
Yeah the default installs of some linux distros are a bit on the bloated side but that software is there for the users benifit not to try and extort more money out of them or gather thier personal data to be sold for profit.
i belive things with intel graphics chipsets have really improved on linux recently. Afaict there are now even opensource drivers with 3D support for at least some of intels graphics chips.
you could always make your own smaller restore partition using your favoirite partition imaging tool after you've stripped the crapware from the windows install.
don't dell supply restore CDs as well as the restore partition anyway?
The thing is its not just photoshop, that just seems to be one of the most commonly brought up examples.
There are a huge number of other industry specific or internal applications that only run on windows (and possiblly mac OS) and while there individual user counts are pretty small taken as a whole they represent a significant mass of apps tying people to windows.
there is a similar upper limit for muzzle velocity per unit of projectile mass.
you mean muzzle velocity times projectile mass. A bigger projectile means you have to fire it slower to get a given recoil.
Increasing the mass of the weapons system helps with recoil but that is limited by what a human can carry. So basically there is no way you are going to deal a blow with the momentum to kill someone in an evenly spread out hit with a hand held weapon without killing yourself. If the weapon is ground or vehircle mounted though it may be possible (hell a vehicle could be considered such a weapon in itself)
I personally think we are maybe 10 years away from finding an impenetrable body armor solution.
I somewhat doubt it.
on the one hand you have companies developing armor on the other you have companies developing weapons. Armour manufacturers will reasearch what the weapon manufacturers are doing and vice-versa and attempt to counter it and users of the equipment will just adjust what proportion of thier weight or financial budgets they spend on each so that the armour on the battlefield stays balanced with the weapons on the battlefield.
you are wrong in a number of ways.
the rods are what see brightness with high resoloution and sensitivity. The reason why you can't see color in dim light is because only the rods are working.
The cones come in three types each with a different frequency response curve, they detect the color of the light.
Color as most humans see it can be represented acceptablly by three values. if we fix apparent brightness we can get that down to two values and we can plot a 2D curve of the effects of different frequencies (known as the pure spectral colors) on our axis and join together the ends. Colors inside the loop can be made by mixing the pure spectal colors. Colors outside it can't exist.
In practice many colors are very rare in the real world and so we can reproduce the colors normally seen with reasonable accuracy using only three primaries.
Someone has to gather together all the drivers that are considered of sufficiant quality and keep them up to date with new kernel versions. Given the instability of linux's module API (not a descision i particularlly agree with but i can see why they made it), the people who develop the kernel are as good a choice as any.
typically drivers are compiled as modules nowadays so they aren't loaded into the running kernel unless the hardware detection system says they should be.
fpgas are slow ;)
a few people trying to look posh may use the odd diacritic on a loanword or as a heavy metal umulat but really they aren't nessacery for english.
you can get down to 6 bits per character if you are prepared to do away with either most punctuation or mixed case.
would you want to sue an organisation that routinely blows people up?
i'd think its a bloody smart idea to leave dealing with those guys to those with the protection of governement (cops, armed forces etc) if you value your life.