Many people have an option to select who they purchase their electricity from and there are generally green options. The green option for me is only 2% more. If everyone consciously chose this instead of what's most profitable for their utility, I'm sure it would make a big difference.
Check out https://power2switch.com/ if you are in Texas, New Jersey or Illinois.
Why not take two up and bring both crews back on one leaving the other stocked with survival supplies in orbit. We always talk about the fact that there is no viable lifeboat in the event a spacecraft becomes damaged.
I'm sure there are a bunch of technical challenges, but if there were food, water, oxygen, etc. in orbit that could be a mission and lifesaver for the ISA and future programs.
Maybe the orbiter could even be remotely operated to salvage, deorbit or even repair damaged satellites.
Its a shame that so many people don't understand what the word science means. From Dictionary.com: a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. Fact Free Science is NONSENSE. I wish people would stop trying to lend credibility to their cause by misusing the word science.
Most brute force attacks are from a manageble number of addresses and/or subnets. Firewalls are a convenient place to ignore traffic from specific addresses. Obviously if you are dealing with highly distributed attacks, this won't entirely help and you're probably screwed no matter what. Having to configure many servers to ignore attacks from specific addresses is time consuming and difficult.
You should always select a firewall that can handle as much traffic as your internet connection. Only ancient firewalls are a lot slower than typical internet connections.
Finally, firewalls are really routers. The internet is made out of routers. Should we eliminate routers and therefore the internet?
I say this is misleading nonsense, and I would be embarassed if someone from my company betrayed their ignorance this way.
If brakes slow cars down, should we get rid of brakes?
Without good tools great software and content will be long in coming.
Developing with Visual Studio is like driving a fine sports car - Windows score. iOS development with Objective C is pretty nice too and the tools are basically free with a Mac - Apple score.
Development tools for Android - ick - what a pain. Hardware abstration with Android? Who knows what my code will run on properly... I'm not suggesting it can't be made to work, but Android dev tools are primitive by comparison. Android no score.
If everybody is always on the Internet, web based development with server side code would be a good choice except there is absolutely no standard for secure hardware interfaces and anything beyond basic printer support is almost non-existent.
The most authoritative articles I read always seem to include things like: "Scientists not involved in the work said the plans appear feasible but that they would require more-advanced substances than currently exist."
Maybe someday, but these guys are grossly overly optimistic on our ability to make materials that have these characteristics. These ideas are in the realm of transporters and faster than light travel - maybe in theory possible undewr very restrictive circumstances, but so far from practical application that it's kind laughable.
Acording to the article, "The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the blah, blah, blah"
In other words the creation of a material that doesn't (or cannot in our universe) exist.
IMHO, a work of science fiction expressed in the language of mathematics.
If anybody reads TFA, it would have been better if the health care people had used the electroninc medical records.
It wasn't the data model that almost killed the guy, it was the fact that nobody read his EMR.
Nobody should think that EMR is a cure-all, but that's no reason to not use it. It will save a tremendous amount of our money and be a major health benefit once implemented in a "good-enough" way.
In IT we discredit the serurity by obscurity model, and that's exactly the kind of privacy/security we have with paper records.
The government can't and shouldn't guarantee privacy, but they can sure as hell make people or companies pay dearly for their privacy crimes regardless of how they stole or used the information.
We should be talking about privacy laws and standards, not nonsense about meaningless what-ifs and paranoid hysteria about misuse.
Although I'd rather see an automatic compatibility mode for programs instead of a separate virtual OS instance, this may be an acceptable bridge for some people.
Funny, thing... We could do this with Vista today.
Now lets get ready to hear the complaints about all the extra memory and disk space this will take.
While it doesn't exactly qualify at coding, I was working on an intricate Photoshop file using the trackpad on my laptop on the airplane foldout table with a 4 year old bouncing in the chair in fromt of me the whole flight.
It was surprizingly satifying to actually accomplish my goal under this challenging condition.
If IBM were to have bought Sun, Oracle's preferred hardware and development language (java) platform would be in the hands of a major competitor.
Oracle being able to market hardware helps it compete with IBM.
Oracle owning the caretakers of Java gives it an upper hand against IBM who relies heavily on Java.
By buying Sun, Oracle now has a good anchor in the open source camp to use as it sees fit.
Not only does this make good business sense, its a great strategic fit for Oracle. Everyone else including customers may be potential losers.
It's a shame that Sun is likely to go the way of Digital; another great brand swallowed and digested by a larger fish...
Currently there is a hard distinction between web based applications and locally executed "windows" binary apps. The biggest distinction between the two is (except for maybe active-x) web apps cannot have local hardware interaction. This needs to be addressed securely.
If web browsers supported some kind of access to local devices (storage, i/o ports, etc.) through some kind of secure api, the next stage of distributed computing could take place.
Another critical component to the next evolutionary stage is a dramatic improvement to JavaScript executable performance. Perhaps optimized javascript p-code or intermediate standard binary executable language would do the trick. Tie these programs to a Profesional Programmer Certification license to promote trusted computing and a code quality ranking system (kinda like eBay's seller rating) and we'd have the foundation for a new wave in software development.
Most of the existing corporations successful in today's computing paradigm would want this because it will obsolete existing revenue streams. Microsoft has much to lose and not much to replace it with. Ultimately, the network interface and web browser will be a component of computer firmaware (BIOS) with the majority of the OS being a web based application living on remote server computers.
Windows 7 needs to build a bridge to this inevitable evolutionary step.
Please don't ignore printing!
Lack of strong page layout control limits how capable web applications can become.
Pagination and good control over printing will make web based office automation applications much more attractive. All we have now is a barely working page-break-before-always css capability. We need the ability to control whether spans are kept together on the same page, control over H&J, page numbering and the linking of div boxes to allow overflow to flow from one box to another.
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Many people have an option to select who they purchase their electricity from and there are generally green options. The green option for me is only 2% more. If everyone consciously chose this instead of what's most profitable for their utility, I'm sure it would make a big difference. Check out https://power2switch.com/ if you are in Texas, New Jersey or Illinois.
Why not take two up and bring both crews back on one leaving the other stocked with survival supplies in orbit. We always talk about the fact that there is no viable lifeboat in the event a spacecraft becomes damaged. I'm sure there are a bunch of technical challenges, but if there were food, water, oxygen, etc. in orbit that could be a mission and lifesaver for the ISA and future programs. Maybe the orbiter could even be remotely operated to salvage, deorbit or even repair damaged satellites.
Uhm... Gravity is basic property of space-time and is an axiom. There are of course theories that explain what it is and how it works.
Its a shame that so many people don't understand what the word science means. From Dictionary.com: a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. Fact Free Science is NONSENSE. I wish people would stop trying to lend credibility to their cause by misusing the word science.
Most brute force attacks are from a manageble number of addresses and/or subnets. Firewalls are a convenient place to ignore traffic from specific addresses. Obviously if you are dealing with highly distributed attacks, this won't entirely help and you're probably screwed no matter what. Having to configure many servers to ignore attacks from specific addresses is time consuming and difficult. You should always select a firewall that can handle as much traffic as your internet connection. Only ancient firewalls are a lot slower than typical internet connections. Finally, firewalls are really routers. The internet is made out of routers. Should we eliminate routers and therefore the internet? I say this is misleading nonsense, and I would be embarassed if someone from my company betrayed their ignorance this way. If brakes slow cars down, should we get rid of brakes?
Without good tools great software and content will be long in coming. Developing with Visual Studio is like driving a fine sports car - Windows score. iOS development with Objective C is pretty nice too and the tools are basically free with a Mac - Apple score. Development tools for Android - ick - what a pain. Hardware abstration with Android? Who knows what my code will run on properly... I'm not suggesting it can't be made to work, but Android dev tools are primitive by comparison. Android no score. If everybody is always on the Internet, web based development with server side code would be a good choice except there is absolutely no standard for secure hardware interfaces and anything beyond basic printer support is almost non-existent.
But I cannot jump into a pool with a PC in my pocket. Turnover on phones will always be high because they are far more prone to physical abuse.
The most authoritative articles I read always seem to include things like: "Scientists not involved in the work said the plans appear feasible but that they would require more-advanced substances than currently exist." Maybe someday, but these guys are grossly overly optimistic on our ability to make materials that have these characteristics. These ideas are in the realm of transporters and faster than light travel - maybe in theory possible undewr very restrictive circumstances, but so far from practical application that it's kind laughable.
Amazingly, they all survive eating one half of a pair of socks.
Acording to the article, "The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the blah, blah, blah" In other words the creation of a material that doesn't (or cannot in our universe) exist. IMHO, a work of science fiction expressed in the language of mathematics.
If anybody reads TFA, it would have been better if the health care people had used the electroninc medical records. It wasn't the data model that almost killed the guy, it was the fact that nobody read his EMR.
Nobody should think that EMR is a cure-all, but that's no reason to not use it. It will save a tremendous amount of our money and be a major health benefit once implemented in a "good-enough" way. In IT we discredit the serurity by obscurity model, and that's exactly the kind of privacy/security we have with paper records. The government can't and shouldn't guarantee privacy, but they can sure as hell make people or companies pay dearly for their privacy crimes regardless of how they stole or used the information. We should be talking about privacy laws and standards, not nonsense about meaningless what-ifs and paranoid hysteria about misuse.
Although I'd rather see an automatic compatibility mode for programs instead of a separate virtual OS instance, this may be an acceptable bridge for some people. Funny, thing... We could do this with Vista today. Now lets get ready to hear the complaints about all the extra memory and disk space this will take.
While it doesn't exactly qualify at coding, I was working on an intricate Photoshop file using the trackpad on my laptop on the airplane foldout table with a 4 year old bouncing in the chair in fromt of me the whole flight. It was surprizingly satifying to actually accomplish my goal under this challenging condition.
If IBM were to have bought Sun, Oracle's preferred hardware and development language (java) platform would be in the hands of a major competitor. Oracle being able to market hardware helps it compete with IBM. Oracle owning the caretakers of Java gives it an upper hand against IBM who relies heavily on Java. By buying Sun, Oracle now has a good anchor in the open source camp to use as it sees fit. Not only does this make good business sense, its a great strategic fit for Oracle. Everyone else including customers may be potential losers. It's a shame that Sun is likely to go the way of Digital; another great brand swallowed and digested by a larger fish...
I know I look old, but we must think of our duty to evolution. Just think of the mutant offspring we could make together.
Currently there is a hard distinction between web based applications and locally executed "windows" binary apps. The biggest distinction between the two is (except for maybe active-x) web apps cannot have local hardware interaction. This needs to be addressed securely. If web browsers supported some kind of access to local devices (storage, i/o ports, etc.) through some kind of secure api, the next stage of distributed computing could take place. Another critical component to the next evolutionary stage is a dramatic improvement to JavaScript executable performance. Perhaps optimized javascript p-code or intermediate standard binary executable language would do the trick. Tie these programs to a Profesional Programmer Certification license to promote trusted computing and a code quality ranking system (kinda like eBay's seller rating) and we'd have the foundation for a new wave in software development. Most of the existing corporations successful in today's computing paradigm would want this because it will obsolete existing revenue streams. Microsoft has much to lose and not much to replace it with. Ultimately, the network interface and web browser will be a component of computer firmaware (BIOS) with the majority of the OS being a web based application living on remote server computers. Windows 7 needs to build a bridge to this inevitable evolutionary step.
Please don't ignore printing! Lack of strong page layout control limits how capable web applications can become. Pagination and good control over printing will make web based office automation applications much more attractive. All we have now is a barely working page-break-before-always css capability. We need the ability to control whether spans are kept together on the same page, control over H&J, page numbering and the linking of div boxes to allow overflow to flow from one box to another.
There are many single sign on systems out there. Why do we need another new one that nobody uses???
Wow - this adds whole new meaning to "I have gas!"