Outsourcing is ok as long as, as a country, you can afford to pay people overseas for something you can do yourself. Hopefully you will do this by offering something more substantial than the ever decreasing US$. - if everything is outsourced, how will you pay for it?
yes, everyone has the right to make a mess of their own lives, its jsut that some people seem to attempt to make allot of money making a mess of other peoples lives also
a fresh firefox with 10 tabs opened 137mb used - given the speed the tabs loaded, all of them have _way_ less than 1mb worth of text/images on them
(2 slashdot windows, a couple of forums, gmail, and http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/)
so at this rate (10mb per tab) you could open a hundred thousand tabs (assuming memory consumption is directly proportional to the number of tabs open)
atleast until the people with the hundred million$ plans, and the billion $ chip plant spend a few hundred thousand on analyzing the plans to find the few transistors that do this and take them out, making pre-unlocked chips. - if a bunch of random hackers can do over current DRM, there's not much chance that this would last.
thermal heating from microwaves does not directly cause cancer - cell damage due to localized boiling might - microwaves have a frequency of 1Ghz, - and this device would be varying the force applied in the kilohertz range at most (no idea as to the actual specs though) - at this frequency the energy smaller than the energy range associated with any molecular interactions, resulting in it having no effect on them. (not even heating)
The only reported effects of these sorts of fields are at powers much greater than what this device can create, and over longer time periods (days) than this device would be in continuous use for.
Yeah, but this way is free*.
* minimum deposit $10,000. Cash handling fee of 5%. penalty for rapid closure $500. manual transaction fee 2% of transfer. large cash deposit fee $500. account opening fee $5. Teller socializing fee - 12 years school tuition for the child.
Revoke microsoft copyright of affected products (win xp, older office) might be one way to go, given how poorly vista and office 2007 are being received this would cut more revenue than the fine would, and would set an interesting precedent...
yes, but you can't use "intent to commit copyright violation" as evidence that actual copyright violation is happening - where as intent to distribute is in itself something criminal, separate from actually dealing.
you mis-understood the gp "They just won't be burning $9000 of fuel per second on training missions for awhile" which appears to be totally correct - that is: they won't be burning $9000/second until a combination of peak oil and hyper inflation in the US raise the cost of fuel to $50
just a generalization and an emphasis on a qualified subset (assuming that all DHS agents are thieves). On the other hand if they regularly acted as thieves there could be minor legal problems, so the assumption that all DHS agents always act as thieves is most probably false, hence the need for both to be listed.
sorry for the bad formating above (accidentally hit submit rather than preview)
it is quite trivial to turn a biased rng into an unbiased one. 1) generate pairs of 1's,0's (assume 80% are ones) (assume there is no correlation between the two numbers generated) 2) within the number stream every time 01 occurs, output 0, every time 10 occurs output 1, 11 and 00 output nothing
01 occurs.2*.8 (16%) of the time, 10 occurs.8*.2 (16%) of the time, 11 occurs 64% of the time, 00 occurs 4% of the time
therefore the number of 1's and 0's output by step 2 is the same, at the cost of 84% of the generating capacity (with an unbiased generator all 4 of the numbers above are 25%, and this scheme results in the loss of 75% of generating capacity)
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"So does this mean next time someone pulls into my driveway to turn around I can sue the pants off of them"
apparently only if they "violate your privacy" and cause you "mental anguish".
Otherwise it's simply trespass.
Outsourcing is ok as long as, as a country, you can afford to pay people overseas for something you can do yourself. Hopefully you will do this by offering something more substantial than the ever decreasing US$. - if everything is outsourced, how will you pay for it?
yes, everyone has the right to make a mess of their own lives, its jsut that some people seem to attempt to make allot of money making a mess of other peoples lives also
a fresh firefox with 10 tabs opened 137mb used - given the speed the tabs loaded, all of them have _way_ less than 1mb worth of text/images on them (2 slashdot windows, a couple of forums, gmail, and http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/) so at this rate (10mb per tab) you could open a hundred thousand tabs (assuming memory consumption is directly proportional to the number of tabs open)
+1 "pedantic", or -1 "being scientifically accurate on /." - any bets which way the mods will go?
atleast until the people with the hundred million$ plans, and the billion $ chip plant spend a few hundred thousand on analyzing the plans to find the few transistors that do this and take them out, making pre-unlocked chips. - if a bunch of random hackers can do over current DRM, there's not much chance that this would last.
but that 1 upload would count for a 33% drop in profits (ever)...
thermal heating from microwaves does not directly cause cancer - cell damage due to localized boiling might - microwaves have a frequency of 1Ghz, - and this device would be varying the force applied in the kilohertz range at most (no idea as to the actual specs though) - at this frequency the energy smaller than the energy range associated with any molecular interactions, resulting in it having no effect on them. (not even heating)
The only reported effects of these sorts of fields are at powers much greater than what this device can create, and over longer time periods (days) than this device would be in continuous use for.
People not getting to bed early enough; film at 11, ending at 2:30am, with an alarm set for 7:20 the next day.
don't you mean "I don't get it. Finally we have a computer Microsoft can Trust, and you are still whining!"
Yeah, but this way is free*. * minimum deposit $10,000. Cash handling fee of 5%. penalty for rapid closure $500. manual transaction fee 2% of transfer. large cash deposit fee $500. account opening fee $5. Teller socializing fee - 12 years school tuition for the child.
shouldn't the title read "NASA plans to *deliberately* crash a probe into the moon" ?
Revoke microsoft copyright of affected products (win xp, older office) might be one way to go, given how poorly vista and office 2007 are being received this would cut more revenue than the fine would, and would set an interesting precedent ...
"nuclear power plant operation isn't rocket science"
- and that's why we don't have regular interplanetary space flight
yes, but you can't use "intent to commit copyright violation" as evidence that actual copyright violation is happening - where as intent to distribute is in itself something criminal, separate from actually dealing.
you mis-understood the gp
"They just won't be burning $9000 of fuel per second on training missions for awhile"
which appears to be totally correct - that is: they won't be burning $9000/second until a combination of peak oil and hyper inflation in the US raise the cost of fuel to $50
WTB : pc with "230942903409234902340923409239042309429304920349023509092340923904230942093" external ports
just a generalization and an emphasis on a qualified subset (assuming that all DHS agents are thieves). On the other hand if they regularly acted as thieves there could be minor legal problems, so the assumption that all DHS agents always act as thieves is most probably false, hence the need for both to be listed.
Microsofts cash pool of just over 21 billion may appear limitless, but when you put forward 1/2 of a 44 billion deal in cash, that pool disappears quite quickly.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-panics-overpays-for-yahoo.html for slightly more technical analysis of the deal. (i am not related to that website in any way)
by coldcell on Tuesday January 01, @10:07AM
:)
You haven't started New Year's drinking already have you?
the GP's already had quite a few hours to be drinking in the new year by my clock
actually, the deficit is only a few hundred billion per year, about 9 trillion is indeed the debt.
actually the primary source for oil was plankton and algae, not land based animal life.
of course, all you need is skype and a video camera
People who sensibly spend mod points have already modded up / corrected mis-mods on posts higher up?
sorry for the bad formating above (accidentally hit submit rather than preview)
.2*.8 (16%) of the time, 10 occurs .8*.2 (16%) of the time, 11 occurs 64% of the time, 00 occurs 4% of the time
it is quite trivial to turn a biased rng into an unbiased one.
1) generate pairs of 1's,0's (assume 80% are ones) (assume there is no correlation between the two numbers generated)
2) within the number stream every time 01 occurs, output 0, every time 10 occurs output 1, 11 and 00 output nothing
01 occurs
therefore the number of 1's and 0's output by step 2 is the same, at the cost of 84% of the generating capacity (with an unbiased generator all 4 of the numbers above are 25%, and this scheme results in the loss of 75% of generating capacity)