the chunnel is certainly undergound and that is one of the best known undersea tunnels, dropping in sections seems like a recipie for trouble to me compared to tunneling deep underground below a cap of impermeable rock (though this probablly does depend on the local geology).
According to wikipedia the southern USA changed to standard gauge in two days! With the USA china and europe on standard gauge maybe it would make sense for russia to make the change.
RTFA its a rail tunnel not a road tunnel (a road tunnel of this length would be very hard due to air quality issues, trains can be powered by electricity which is clean at the point of use) and they mention rail links at both ends.
I would imagine they'd run truck carriers through as well though just like they do through the chunnel. It might raise some sticky poloution issues though having trucks with tanks full of russian deisel driving into north american cities.
Now, when governments begin to create super-cool gadgets that actively save lives, it is something worth. Better body armor, a force shield, not getting involved with foreign countries for fun and profit, etc. And by "actively", I mean something different than saving lives by getting enemies to be identified and "neutralized" before they can act. Because, as most occupations in the past and present centuries shows, sometimes the simpler and less detectable device (be it a grenade bobby trap in the jungle or a roadside bomb on Iraq) can be the deadliest. simple weapons tend to be deadly but indiscriminate. The roadside bombs in iraq tend to kill more iraqi civilians than they kill US soldiors. carpet bombing destroys whole cities civilian residents included.
smart munitions are primerally about reducing the number of people killed to acheive a military objective whatever that objective may be. Don't you consider that saving lives?
Each of those packages has the Ubuntu team's fingerprints on it remember though those "fingerprints" may be as small as adding a patch for integration with thier propietry launchpad system (and so not much use for anyone else) or other little ubuntu specific tweaks that are of no use to upstream.
1.5 and 1.6 are still the version numbers used intenally afaict. java 5 and java 6 seem to be no less marketing names than java 2 (though it is a bit strange that they never used the names java 3 and java 4 but stick to java 2 for a few versions).
That was one of the most annoying, dumbest, biggest debacles I can remember. For those that do not recall the Cue Cat was a bar cade reader in the form of a cat, that clever marketeers thought consumers would use by scanning barcodes on print ads in magazines and newspapers. unfortunately i broke the one someone gave me (damaged the cable then lost the lens while working on fixing it and i never got arround to buying another one on ebay or similar (i'm in the uk so i don't think they were ever officially availble.
ok so it wasn't the worlds most robust barcode reader and you needed special software to decode the encrypted data stream and get you a usable barcode number but given that they were availible free or very cheap thats forgivable.
they could read at least some generic barcode types (e.g. code 3 of 9) as well as quite a few specific purpose ones such as UPC EAN ISBN and various others.
afaict the reason europe was/is considered a seperate continenent at least by those who don't use specific definitions that suit thier field is becase europeans were the ones who explored the world and settled or ruled much of it during the era when a world map became something that actually existed.
i'd say there is probablly a lot more people who can't/won't use firefox (draconion internal restrctions, lack of trust, lack of knowlage how to install stuff) than you can't/won't use IE. I bet most firefox users either have or can find a windows box and if the choice is between getting what you want with IE and not getting it at all many many of them will fire up IE. This is especially true with the likes of banks and ecommerce sites who you are already trusting rather a lot.
if they want a name to match a specific product that they know they are going to release then they can damn well pay for a year in advance like mere mortals do. They'll probablly wan't to keep it for a few years anyway.
imo 5 days is not enough to build significant new users for a domain so the only use of theese "trials" is to assess how much holdover traffic there is from the sites created by previous owners of the domain.
sorry i meant.cx not.cz and what it was hijacked for was a shock sites craze started by goatse.cx (though when they shut down the original goatse.cx domaim that seemed to stop)
MS certainly advertise on some of thier own sites and apps but i don't think they are in the advertising space resale buisness like google and doubleclick are.
imho there is a major difference between being a producer of advertising space and a reseller of it just like there is between being a farmer and being a food wholesaler.
basic honey here in the uk always seems to be labeled as "a blend of ec and non-ec honeys" so its hard to tell how much of it is imported
if local honey is more expensive then that indicates there is demand from people who specifically want local honey, this could be a good thing for the local honey farmers depending on how much of that demand thier is.
If you want reliability and future commitment, perhaps you should pay for it? perhaps but it is important realise that by buying propietry software licenses you are not buying that. If a competitor decides they want to squash your suppliers product by buying them out and all you have are licenses there isn't anything much you can do.
you may be able to get a contract that gaurantees reliability and future commitment but that contract would have to be very carefully worded and it still doesn't really help you if the company dissapears without trace.
with foss if worst comes to worst you at least have the source in your possetion and the option to fork legally and to collaborate on that fork with other users . You can probablly get some form of escrow and/or source immediately with propietry software if you are prepared to pay enough but there will almost certainly be strings attatched that may make cooperating with other users to maintain a fork difficult or impossible.
P.S. taking an oss project propietry is usually on dodgy ground unless its a one person effort or great care was taken to ensure that the contributers all new and understood that they were signing all rights to their code over to you.
For those not familiar with MAC, it's a concept popularized by the US military but widely used in any secure environment. The idea is that the controls prohibit a user from copying to a location with weaker controls. fine, now you want to give people copies they can test on thier own hardware find problems with etc. How do you propose to do this while at the same time keeping those copies within your access control enforcing system?
All other units of those 10 models would continue to work fine. if you've extracted the key from one player you can probablly do it to another one of the same model and publish your results so others can copy it.
hence they will either have to revoke the whole player line or deal with a stream of keys coming from many players of the same model.
it still serves the purpose of a license plate which is to identify the car.
regular or special license plates makes little difference, the goverment agency that operates the cameras (i don't know if said agency is a branch of the police in the USA) will almost certainly be able to tell if a car is a cop car and if it is which cop had it booked out and other relavent details.
the real question as you have mentioned is how much slack should cops be given in breaking traffic laws. At one end of the scale you have a situation where every breach must be pre-approved at the other end you have a situation where cops can do what they like neither is really desiable.
I can enter the response in www.nigerianscam.biz, and still be safe. can't they request the challange from the real site, give it to you, get your response and then feed your response back to the real site?
yeah that is a good idea if you run on identical hardware and have a good reason to use a custom kernel.
but why worry about supporting a custom kernel when you don't have to? are marginal performance gains really worth the hassle of maintaining one or more custom kernels for the boxes you administer?
if the third party packages install anything in/usr/X11R6 you should certainly remove them before upgrading (it should be safe to install them again afterwards)
otherwise they can probablly stay without causing any problems unless they are deeply integrated into the system or very badly packaged.
the tools will normally only remove packages if there is an explicit conflict or versioned dependency that makes them do it. of course if there is a more recent version of the same package in the repositry the package manager will upgrade to that
btw it is strongly advised to ALWAYS read the release notes BEFORE upgrading, there is usually a bit of handholding required for an upgrade as big as going from one stable release to the next.
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the chunnel is certainly undergound and that is one of the best known undersea tunnels, dropping in sections seems like a recipie for trouble to me compared to tunneling deep underground below a cap of impermeable rock (though this probablly does depend on the local geology).
hmm 1520mm russian gauge vs 1435mm standard gauge
According to wikipedia the southern USA changed to standard gauge in two days! With the USA china and europe on standard gauge maybe it would make sense for russia to make the change.
sorry i misread, the article claims it will carry a highway which i find mighty strange.
RTFA its a rail tunnel not a road tunnel (a road tunnel of this length would be very hard due to air quality issues, trains can be powered by electricity which is clean at the point of use) and they mention rail links at both ends.
I would imagine they'd run truck carriers through as well though just like they do through the chunnel. It might raise some sticky poloution issues though having trucks with tanks full of russian deisel driving into north american cities.
Now, when governments begin to create super-cool gadgets that actively save lives, it is something worth. Better body armor, a force shield, not getting involved with foreign countries for fun and profit, etc. And by "actively", I mean something different than saving lives by getting enemies to be identified and "neutralized" before they can act. Because, as most occupations in the past and present centuries shows, sometimes the simpler and less detectable device (be it a grenade bobby trap in the jungle or a roadside bomb on Iraq) can be the deadliest.
simple weapons tend to be deadly but indiscriminate. The roadside bombs in iraq tend to kill more iraqi civilians than they kill US soldiors. carpet bombing destroys whole cities civilian residents included.
smart munitions are primerally about reducing the number of people killed to acheive a military objective whatever that objective may be. Don't you consider that saving lives?
Each of those packages has the Ubuntu team's fingerprints on it
remember though those "fingerprints" may be as small as adding a patch for integration with thier propietry launchpad system (and so not much use for anyone else) or other little ubuntu specific tweaks that are of no use to upstream.
1.5 and 1.6 are still the version numbers used intenally afaict. java 5 and java 6 seem to be no less marketing names than java 2 (though it is a bit strange that they never used the names java 3 and java 4 but stick to java 2 for a few versions).
That was one of the most annoying, dumbest, biggest debacles I can remember. For those that do not recall the Cue Cat was a bar cade reader in the form of a cat, that clever marketeers thought consumers would use by scanning barcodes on print ads in magazines and newspapers.
unfortunately i broke the one someone gave me (damaged the cable then lost the lens while working on fixing it and i never got arround to buying another one on ebay or similar (i'm in the uk so i don't think they were ever officially availble.
ok so it wasn't the worlds most robust barcode reader and you needed special software to decode the encrypted data stream and get you a usable barcode number but given that they were availible free or very cheap thats forgivable.
they could read at least some generic barcode types (e.g. code 3 of 9) as well as quite a few specific purpose ones such as UPC EAN ISBN and various others.
afaict the reason europe was/is considered a seperate continenent at least by those who don't use specific definitions that suit thier field is becase europeans were the ones who explored the world and settled or ruled much of it during the era when a world map became something that actually existed.
i'd say there is probablly a lot more people who can't/won't use firefox (draconion internal restrctions, lack of trust, lack of knowlage how to install stuff) than you can't/won't use IE. I bet most firefox users either have or can find a windows box and if the choice is between getting what you want with IE and not getting it at all many many of them will fire up IE. This is especially true with the likes of banks and ecommerce sites who you are already trusting rather a lot.
if they want a name to match a specific product that they know they are going to release then they can damn well pay for a year in advance like mere mortals do. They'll probablly wan't to keep it for a few years anyway.
imo 5 days is not enough to build significant new users for a domain so the only use of theese "trials" is to assess how much holdover traffic there is from the sites created by previous owners of the domain.
sorry i meant .cx not .cz and what it was hijacked for was a shock sites craze started by goatse.cx (though when they shut down the original goatse.cx domaim that seemed to stop)
right you are, i'm just saying that getting a new party to an election victory is MUCH MUCH harder than swinging an election between the majors.
It can be done but it is very difficult to get people to look past thier "vote for the less bad major candidate" thinking.
i thought the reason iommus were becoming more common was that the physical address space of a modern pc is larger than the pci address space.
MS certainly advertise on some of thier own sites and apps but i don't think they are in the advertising space resale buisness like google and doubleclick are.
imho there is a major difference between being a producer of advertising space and a reseller of it just like there is between being a farmer and being a food wholesaler.
basic honey here in the uk always seems to be labeled as "a blend of ec and non-ec honeys" so its hard to tell how much of it is imported
if local honey is more expensive then that indicates there is demand from people who specifically want local honey, this could be a good thing for the local honey farmers depending on how much of that demand thier is.
If you want reliability and future commitment, perhaps you should pay for it?
perhaps but it is important realise that by buying propietry software licenses you are not buying that. If a competitor decides they want to squash your suppliers product by buying them out and all you have are licenses there isn't anything much you can do.
you may be able to get a contract that gaurantees reliability and future commitment but that contract would have to be very carefully worded and it still doesn't really help you if the company dissapears without trace.
with foss if worst comes to worst you at least have the source in your possetion and the option to fork legally and to collaborate on that fork with other users . You can probablly get some form of escrow and/or source immediately with propietry software if you are prepared to pay enough but there will almost certainly be strings attatched that may make cooperating with other users to maintain a fork difficult or impossible.
P.S. taking an oss project propietry is usually on dodgy ground unless its a one person effort or great care was taken to ensure that the contributers all new and understood that they were signing all rights to their code over to you.
it doesn't take a very large group of extreemly motivitated people to swing an election from one major party to another.
but if all the major parties are in bed with the copyright cartel swinging the election away from said cartel will be much harder.
For those not familiar with MAC, it's a concept popularized by the US military but widely used in any secure environment. The idea is that the controls prohibit a user from copying to a location with weaker controls.
fine, now you want to give people copies they can test on thier own hardware find problems with etc. How do you propose to do this while at the same time keeping those copies within your access control enforcing system?
All other units of those 10 models would continue to work fine.
if you've extracted the key from one player you can probablly do it to another one of the same model and publish your results so others can copy it.
hence they will either have to revoke the whole player line or deal with a stream of keys coming from many players of the same model.
it still serves the purpose of a license plate which is to identify the car.
regular or special license plates makes little difference, the goverment agency that operates the cameras (i don't know if said agency is a branch of the police in the USA) will almost certainly be able to tell if a car is a cop car and if it is which cop had it booked out and other relavent details.
the real question as you have mentioned is how much slack should cops be given in breaking traffic laws. At one end of the scale you have a situation where every breach must be pre-approved at the other end you have a situation where cops can do what they like neither is really desiable.
I can enter the response in www.nigerianscam.biz, and still be safe.
can't they request the challange from the real site, give it to you, get your response and then feed your response back to the real site?
and more recently .tv and .fm and .cz
yeah that is a good idea if you run on identical hardware and have a good reason to use a custom kernel.
but why worry about supporting a custom kernel when you don't have to? are marginal performance gains really worth the hassle of maintaining one or more custom kernels for the boxes you administer?
that depends on the package,
/usr/X11R6 you should certainly remove them before upgrading (it should be safe to install them again afterwards)
if the third party packages install anything in
otherwise they can probablly stay without causing any problems unless they are deeply integrated into the system or very badly packaged.
the tools will normally only remove packages if there is an explicit conflict or versioned dependency that makes them do it. of course if there is a more recent version of the same package in the repositry the package manager will upgrade to that
btw it is strongly advised to ALWAYS read the release notes BEFORE upgrading, there is usually a bit of handholding required for an upgrade as big as going from one stable release to the next.