I'd like to believe that. But I have a sneaking suspicion we only found about Haditha and Abu Ghraib was because someone took pictures. What happened at other incidents where there were no cameras? Did the army succeed in covering up like they were trying to with Haditha?
Even on commercial projects, coders are specifically told NOT to check on patents. Knowing infringement is judged more harshly than accidental infringement. Fucked up, but there you go.
Oh yeah, definitely. I appreciate the history and I didn't get into MTAs until later on. But as it stands now, postfix or exim are far easier for me to work with. If I'd been doing email ten years ago, doubtless I would have been using sendmail.
They'll decide to use "Fibre Channel" to connect all thier systems so they can share disk space. They have Windows, Solaris, Linux and Vxworks trying to use it. Sure, it worked with SCSI tape drives.
Now that sounds cool - a SAN composed of tape drives! Transfer rate 1Gb/s, seek time 10 minutes.
I'm not saying recycling is bad, but the allegation that we're chopping down the rain forests is just plain wrong; it's sensationalism.
(Well, not for paper - it's being cut down for agriculture and timber.)
There are more trees today than there has ever been, and the simple reason is because we use a lot of paper.
Not 'ever', just in recent history. Lots of places were forested before humans cut/burnt them down, so there are less trees now than there were in e.g. 10,000 BC.
1. Software is covered perfectly well under copyright law, it doesn't need the status of trade secret.
2. If you are a monopoly, then you will have regulations that other smaller companies don't have. Didn't the US break up oil and telecom companies because they were monopolies?
Fair enough. But a lot of error-correcting schemes become unusable above a certain noise threshold (even TCP sucks on a really lossy network), so I guess the question is, is the line too lossy/noisy for the fax error correction to sort out the transmission in a reasonable length of time?
Most transport streams that deliver audio use UDP - it doesn't matter if you lose a few packets here and there because the human hear hears a reasonably good approximation of the original sound. There's no point trying to redeliver packets that get lost, because they will be late anyway by the time you get them there. This scheme will just plain not work with digital data, fax or whatever, if you're losing bits of it here and there. I suppose you could re-implement a reliable TCP-like protocol on top of the unreliable transport stream, but it would be so much easier to take a scan or a photo and email it.
Except the ones who are communist, marxist, nationalist or just plain crazy e.g. Shining Path, FARC, ETA, LTTE, RUF, etc.
See US State Department list .
Gaah! My eyes! It's like someone wrote a maths paper without using any notation, and then put it into legal jargon.
It basically describes the use of statistics to estimate things about a population, nothing that hasn't been done to death in statistics, machine learning, data mining etc.
Btw, don't feel left out if you're not from the US. That's pretty much true for most of Europe, too. When I look around myself, all I see is fat, lazy and very frightened people.
No fair! You're probably in an office full of computer programmers!
Can't find the source, but it goes something like "Wannabes worry about clock-speed. Real computer companies worry about cooling."
We used to have about 90% load on a 100KVA transformer. The run-time on the UPS was only about 20 minutes, but that wouldn't matter because within 30 minutes the servers would all have burnt out anyway. (Fortunately, that site has since upgraded to diesel generator which also supplies the aircon.)
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I'd like to believe that. But I have a sneaking suspicion we only found about Haditha and Abu Ghraib was because someone took pictures. What happened at other incidents where there were no cameras? Did the army succeed in covering up like they were trying to with Haditha?
Even on commercial projects, coders are specifically told NOT to check on patents. Knowing infringement is judged more harshly than accidental infringement. Fucked up, but there you go.
(Stupid lameness filter is trying to kill my joke.)
Oh yeah, definitely. I appreciate the history and I didn't get into MTAs until later on. But as it stands now, postfix or exim are far easier for me to work with. If I'd been doing email ten years ago, doubtless I would have been using sendmail.
On the other hand, BIND makes the Internet work, where as sendmail is a pain in the arse.
Must be a great doco when one of your sources is considering legal action, and when 37 of the UK's leading climate scientists tell you that you're deliberately misrepresenting data. A formal complaint has been lodged with Ofcom about the programme.
Now that sounds cool - a SAN composed of tape drives! Transfer rate 1Gb/s, seek time 10 minutes.
Are we that bad? Yes.
And I should know, because I am one :)
What was your username again? <clickety-click>
Congratulations! For once Computer Science reality intersects with normal reality :p
Had they run out of backhoes?
All brought to you by the rapidly falling price of crack cocaine.
(Well, not for paper - it's being cut down for agriculture and timber.)
Not 'ever', just in recent history. Lots of places were forested before humans cut/burnt them down, so there are less trees now than there were in e.g. 10,000 BC.
Le Monde is hardly mainstream. I mean, it's not even written in English. :p
online e-telecyberteaching?
Possibly Lyndon Johnson - but I accept your general point.
2. If you are a monopoly, then you will have regulations that other smaller companies don't have. Didn't the US break up oil and telecom companies because they were monopolies?
Well, if it makes you feel better, I didn't check up either and just assumed fax wouldn't correct :)
Fair enough. But a lot of error-correcting schemes become unusable above a certain noise threshold (even TCP sucks on a really lossy network), so I guess the question is, is the line too lossy/noisy for the fax error correction to sort out the transmission in a reasonable length of time?
Most transport streams that deliver audio use UDP - it doesn't matter if you lose a few packets here and there because the human hear hears a reasonably good approximation of the original sound. There's no point trying to redeliver packets that get lost, because they will be late anyway by the time you get them there. This scheme will just plain not work with digital data, fax or whatever, if you're losing bits of it here and there. I suppose you could re-implement a reliable TCP-like protocol on top of the unreliable transport stream, but it would be so much easier to take a scan or a photo and email it.
Except the ones who are communist, marxist, nationalist or just plain crazy e.g. Shining Path, FARC, ETA, LTTE, RUF, etc. See US State Department list .
Who does he think he is? A cyclist?
Gaah! My eyes! It's like someone wrote a maths paper without using any notation, and then put it into legal jargon.
It basically describes the use of statistics to estimate things about a population, nothing that hasn't been done to death in statistics, machine learning, data mining etc.
No fair! You're probably in an office full of computer programmers!
Can't find the source, but it goes something like "Wannabes worry about clock-speed. Real computer companies worry about cooling."
We used to have about 90% load on a 100KVA transformer. The run-time on the UPS was only about 20 minutes, but that wouldn't matter because within 30 minutes the servers would all have burnt out anyway. (Fortunately, that site has since upgraded to diesel generator which also supplies the aircon.)
The stuff that's on my normal telly is also barely watchable.