There are not many AC comments that make me want to reply but this is one of them.
Well for starters, moving 4 million people around in the United States is an impressive exercise but not overly complex. There is an excellent infrastructure in place to handle large movements of people when required. You also have vast geographic areas to move the displaced people to. Florida has a population density of roughly 114 people per square kilometer compared to South Korea's 494 people per square kilometer. Simpling finding space to move the evacuees to will be much more difficult in South Korea.
The other thing to consider, South Korea is, for the purpose of this discussion, essentially an island. There is no place to move people to outside of the country unless by sea or air. This greatly complicates the evacuation scenario. Assuming you could cram 10,000 people on to a large cruise ship, you would need 1,100 of them or 22,000 747's each carrying 500 people.
The third item to take into account is stealth. Given the paranoia gripping the government of North Korea, I believe it would be quite impossible to displace 11 million people in the South without the North knowing about it rather short order. What possible conclusion could be drawn by the North when 20 per cent of the population decides to move somewhere virtually at the same time, other than military action is imminent. At that time, the North's only possible response would be to attack so as to inflict the most possible damage in a pre-emptive strike. When this happens, the evacutaion will not be complete and civilians will suffer huge casualities. Compounding this, the invasion force (most likely U.S. lead) will not yet be in a strategic or tactical position of advantage.
In other words any evacuation plan for South Korea will have only a very minimal chance for success.
Suspend-to-ram is much faster than booting. For that matter, suspend-to-disk is even faster than booting. Unfortunately, nethier of these are very helpfull when you have to reboot the system.
Depending on the operating system and the user's requirements, rebooting may be frequently required.
Technically, there's no such thing as an 'intranet' in my book. The 'intranet' word is a non word dreamed up by some tosser in marketing.
While I would agree that technically there is no such thing as an intranet, practically, there is.
Fortunately, language allows for change. The world of technology advances first, then language catches up with new terms or new definitions for existing terms. The debate over internet/intranet should not be purely technical. Intranet conveys the concept of internal/members only access to resources (applications/data/printers - whatever). This is simply the addition of a well used/well know prefix to a word with new meaning.
I know this is/. so the following may be new to many so please bear with me. Many of us remember grade school and high school. Both of these fine institutions offered, at least in my day, both INTRAMURAL and INTERMURAL athletics. Intermural athletics involved competition with the "enemy" (other schools). On the hand, intramural athletics involved competition between groups within the school.
It really should not be a leap-of-faith to see how those terms migrated into the lexicon of computers and networks.
3. By far the best feature, as mentioned before, is the smartcard. We exclusively use SunRays at work, and I can go over to another person's desk and plug in my card to show them what I'm doing, etc. A user could move about the library and not have to keep their jacket on a chair to call dibs for a computer. This makes more terminals available at any given time.
I am not trying to be a smartass (for a change) but I really do not understand the hoopla surrounding smartcards in this type of environment. It is my understanding, and PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, that Sun Rays require a smartcard for use. If this is correct, a couple of questions leap to mind:
1) How will the smartcards be distributed? Will I pick one up when I walk in or will there be a standard "guest" type card in the machine?
2) In any high-traffic, public use area, hardware will take a beating. It would be my guess that the smartcards will be the first things hit. Any ideas on the expected life span of the cards and what the replacement costs will be over the next year, three years and five years?
Buddy, when I started working we used to do this on a daily basis to get data off of damaged magenetic tapes for input to a billing system. There was a product called "Visimag" or something similar. Essentially, it was the same sutff as you used in your physics lab, iron powder suspension in some type of alcohol.
For those who are old enough to remember such things, the tapes were 100bpi/7 track used on a Univac III. And this was the upgrade from 4 inch wide punched paper tape.
Sorry, I miss read that original post. Yes, the original poster is quite correct that the vast majority of Canada has a population density less than one person per square kilometer.
For those that don't know, most of Canada has average population density of less than 1 person per sq. km.
Although the rest of your post is interesting, you are quite wrong with the population density number.
As per The Atlas of Canada, the population of Canada is 30,750,100 and the size of the country is 9,984,670. This results in an average density of 3.08 people per square kilometer or for the metrically challenged, 7.98 people per square mile.
An example of one extreme is, Nunavut has a population of 26,000 and covers an area of 2,000,000 square kilometers. Nunavut, therefore, has a density of 0.013 people per square kilometer. Or 76.9 square kilometers per person.
If corporations paid 5% of their revenue in taxes, that would be a very high number since net margins are typically 10%; you non-Math majors, that means the income tax rate would be 5%/10%=50%, a very high number.
Speaking from first hand knowledge, 50% is not out of line when compared to individuals. Let's take a look at some REAL numbers (Canadian dollars and tax rates but concept should translate).
I pay $1400 per month for rent. I buy groceries, $400 per month. I pay electric, water, cable, telephone, internet access, $350 per month. I have a car, lease payments $450 per month,maintence and gas add another $250. Household, car and life insurance adds another $250 and clothing, another $150. Let's add another $150 per month for entertainment. So basic expenses total are approximately $3400 per month or $40800 per year.
I earn approximately $92,000, taxed at a rate 48% or $44160. Using your formula for corporations, I am really paying 86.25% in taxes (taxes paid / gross income - expenses or 44160 / 92000 - 408000).
So now the question is, who should change the way taxes are calculated?
Finally, when trading I look for gains considerably above your figures of 0.5-1% per day. When I can't get those returns with a high degree of confidence, I don't trade.
I must offer my congratulations! $20,000 earning 0.5% per day will have a future value of $123,493.06 at the end of one year. On the other hand, the same $20,000 earning 1% per day will result in $755,668.69. So assuming "considerably above" is around 2% to 2.5% per day, you would have an annual income between $27,548,165.84 and $164,149,991.15 (less the original 20K).
Just set up a VPN and start patching. It's a more realitic approach than all the other singing and dancing.
Is it really? This idea of "I have a firewall and I am OK" is very problematic. There are several layers of defense that must be employed to provide a reasonable amount of protection. Simply relying one firewall with somewhat limited capablities is folly.
I don't mean to sound like a prick, but could you please explain this to me? You are writing over the entire PHYSICAL disk, not a single partition or file. If the journal is located on a different physical device, you could shred/dd the partition/file that contained the journal.
As a Canadian of a certain age, I have gone through the grand metric flip. When I was but a child (most would say that hasn't chnaged), I learned the Imperial system in school (160 ounces in a gallon versus 132).
Around about the time I was 13 years old, the metric came into play. Temperature was now reported in something called Celcius and milk was purchased in litres rather than quarts or gallons. Guess what, everyone, including my grandparents soon learned that 32C was hot not freezing, 16C was comfortable, 15cm of snow was not really worth getting excited about and a 5kg bag of potatoes had a few more potatoes than a 10 pound bag.
The only thing that I still find VERY confusing is the way fuel consumption is reported. Gone is the familiar Miles/Gallon where bigger is better only to be replaced by Liters/100Km where smaller is better!
I am sure there is a conspiracy or two lurking there somewhere.
They were two totally different products. The Mac version was far ahead of the DOS/Windows version. Word 2.0 was the first release for Windows. This was followed by Word 6.0. The versioning jump was a result of Word 5.x being available for the Mac and MS wanting to consolidate marketing initiatives.
As for Excel, this lived in the DOS world as Multiplan prior to the Windows rename. Again this was to present a unified product front by consolidating the Mac and DOS/Windows product lines.
Sorry but I am not familiar enough with the game console market to comment.
Word and Excel were written by MS to sell Windows. At the time of their release there were NO other competing products that were native Windows applications. When Windows 3.0 was released, WordPerfect and Lotus both were DOS applications that ran in a DOS box and lacked the Windows eye candy.
At the time of its release, Windows 3.0 was not the hot seller that MS had predicted (remember, DOS was required, Windows was an add-on). By producing a slick looking word precessor and spread sheet application, MS hoped to boost slow Windows sales. It worked.
Your Cisco comment makes little sense. Cisco and Microsoft compete in two totally different arenas. While IOS is a pretty good router OS, it most likely will not appear on many x86 desktops. Nor will it become the de-rigeur (sp?) server OS. On the other hand, I really don't see a Lognhorn version for a 12K on the horizon.
MS's leaving the WiFi market is simple. They realized other solutions are far too entrenched in the corporate world. The home targeted WiFi products that MS sold were most likely a trial balloon floated to determine the viablity of an assault on network infrastructure products. It didn't work so they pulled the product. All other things aside, Microsoft understands PROFIT.
If I correctly remember high-school physics (30 years ago), Energy = Voltage * Current and Power = Energy / Time. I cannot remember what Voltage * Current * Time is.
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Personally, my prefered method of birth control is 69.
Please feel free to redistribute your wealth to whomever you see fit. I would appreciate a simlar courtesy.
Elitist, DEFINITELY NOT.
Pompous and bombastic, ABSOLUTELY but definitely not elitist!
My God man, this is Slash Dot!
We just cannot allow you to read the article, understand it AND post an eloquent, on-topic response. Please stop this nonsense!
In all seriousness sir/madam, GREAT response!
There are not many AC comments that make me want to reply but this is one of them.
Well for starters, moving 4 million people around in the United States is an impressive exercise but not overly complex. There is an excellent infrastructure in place to handle large movements of people when required. You also have vast geographic areas to move the displaced people to. Florida has a population density of roughly 114 people per square kilometer compared to South Korea's 494 people per square kilometer. Simpling finding space to move the evacuees to will be much more difficult in South Korea.
The other thing to consider, South Korea is, for the purpose of this discussion, essentially an island. There is no place to move people to outside of the country unless by sea or air. This greatly complicates the evacuation scenario. Assuming you could cram 10,000 people on to a large cruise ship, you would need 1,100 of them or 22,000 747's each carrying 500 people.
The third item to take into account is stealth. Given the paranoia gripping the government of North Korea, I believe it would be quite impossible to displace 11 million people in the South without the North knowing about it rather short order. What possible conclusion could be drawn by the North when 20 per cent of the population decides to move somewhere virtually at the same time, other than military action is imminent. At that time, the North's only possible response would be to attack so as to inflict the most possible damage in a pre-emptive strike. When this happens, the evacutaion will not be complete and civilians will suffer huge casualities. Compounding this, the invasion force (most likely U.S. lead) will not yet be in a strategic or tactical position of advantage.
In other words any evacuation plan for South Korea will have only a very minimal chance for success.
Suspend-to-ram is much faster than booting. For that matter, suspend-to-disk is even faster than booting. Unfortunately, nethier of these are very helpfull when you have to reboot the system.
Depending on the operating system and the user's requirements, rebooting may be frequently required.
Technically, there's no such thing as an 'intranet' in my book. The 'intranet' word is a non word dreamed up by some tosser in marketing.
/. so the following may be new to many so please bear with me. Many of us remember grade school and high school. Both of these fine institutions offered, at least in my day, both INTRAMURAL and INTERMURAL athletics. Intermural athletics involved competition with the "enemy" (other schools). On the hand, intramural athletics involved competition between groups within the school.
While I would agree that technically there is no such thing as an intranet, practically, there is.
Fortunately, language allows for change. The world of technology advances first, then language catches up with new terms or new definitions for existing terms. The debate over internet/intranet should not be purely technical. Intranet conveys the concept of internal/members only access to resources (applications/data/printers - whatever). This is simply the addition of a well used/well know prefix to a word with new meaning.
I know this is
It really should not be a leap-of-faith to see how those terms migrated into the lexicon of computers and networks.
3. By far the best feature, as mentioned before, is the smartcard. We exclusively use SunRays at work, and I can go over to another person's desk and plug in my card to show them what I'm doing, etc. A user could move about the library and not have to keep their jacket on a chair to call dibs for a computer. This makes more terminals available at any given time.
I am not trying to be a smartass (for a change) but I really do not understand the hoopla surrounding smartcards in this type of environment. It is my understanding, and PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, that Sun Rays require a smartcard for use. If this is correct, a couple of questions leap to mind:
1) How will the smartcards be distributed? Will I pick one up when I walk in or will there be a standard "guest" type card in the machine?
2) In any high-traffic, public use area, hardware will take a beating. It would be my guess that the smartcards will be the first things hit. Any ideas on the expected life span of the cards and what the replacement costs will be over the next year, three years and five years?
Any insight will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Buddy, when I started working we used to do this on a daily basis to get data off of damaged magenetic tapes for input to a billing system. There was a product called "Visimag" or something similar. Essentially, it was the same sutff as you used in your physics lab, iron powder suspension in some type of alcohol.
For those who are old enough to remember such things, the tapes were 100bpi/7 track used on a Univac III. And this was the upgrade from 4 inch wide punched paper tape.
Funny but I don't remember having to surrender my sense of humour to be able to moderate. Is this a new requirement?
Sorry, I miss read that original post. Yes, the original poster is quite correct that the vast majority of Canada has a population density less than one person per square kilometer.
Thank you for pointing that out.
For those that don't know, most of Canada has average population density of less than 1 person per sq. km.
Although the rest of your post is interesting, you are quite wrong with the population density number.
As per The Atlas of Canada, the population of Canada is 30,750,100 and the size of the country is 9,984,670. This results in an average density of 3.08 people per square kilometer or for the metrically challenged, 7.98 people per square mile.
An example of one extreme is, Nunavut has a population of 26,000 and covers an area of 2,000,000 square kilometers. Nunavut, therefore, has a density of 0.013 people per square kilometer. Or 76.9 square kilometers per person.
If corporations paid 5% of their revenue in taxes, that would be a very high number since net margins are typically 10%; you non-Math majors, that means the income tax rate would be 5%/10%=50%, a very high number.
Speaking from first hand knowledge, 50% is not out of line when compared to individuals. Let's take a look at some REAL numbers (Canadian dollars and tax rates but concept should translate).
I pay $1400 per month for rent. I buy groceries, $400 per month. I pay electric, water, cable, telephone, internet access, $350 per month. I have a car, lease payments $450 per month,maintence and gas add another $250. Household, car and life insurance adds another $250 and clothing, another $150. Let's add another $150 per month for entertainment. So basic expenses total are approximately $3400 per month or $40800 per year.
I earn approximately $92,000, taxed at a rate 48% or $44160. Using your formula for corporations, I am really paying 86.25% in taxes (taxes paid / gross income - expenses or 44160 / 92000 - 408000).
So now the question is, who should change the way taxes are calculated?
Since liquid water is less dense than ice,
And that my friends, is why ice cubes sink to the bottom of the glass.
Finally, when trading I look for gains considerably above your figures of 0.5-1% per day. When I can't get those returns with a high degree of confidence, I don't trade.
I must offer my congratulations! $20,000 earning 0.5% per day will have a future value of $123,493.06 at the end of one year. On the other hand, the same $20,000 earning 1% per day will result in $755,668.69. So assuming "considerably above" is around 2% to 2.5% per day, you would have an annual income between $27,548,165.84 and $164,149,991.15 (less the original 20K).
U DA MAN!
The likelihood of getting nailed behind a Linksys while you're patching the system is pretty slim.
I would respectfully disagree with this statement. Please see this article regarding Linksys routers or this article concerning Netgear routers.
Just set up a VPN and start patching. It's a more realitic approach than all the other singing and dancing.
Is it really? This idea of "I have a firewall and I am OK" is very problematic. There are several layers of defense that must be employed to provide a reasonable amount of protection. Simply relying one firewall with somewhat limited capablities is folly.
I know it's not good form to reply to your own posts, but I must appologize. I reread the post and the parent is quite correct. Mea culpa.
Before you shoot you mouth off, make sure your brains are loaded!
I don't mean to sound like a prick, but could you please explain this to me? You are writing over the entire PHYSICAL disk, not a single partition or file. If the journal is located on a different physical device, you could shred/dd the partition/file that contained the journal.
Sadly, Frasier has left the building.
As a Canadian of a certain age, I have gone through the grand metric flip. When I was but a child (most would say that hasn't chnaged), I learned the Imperial system in school (160 ounces in a gallon versus 132).
Around about the time I was 13 years old, the metric came into play. Temperature was now reported in something called Celcius and milk was purchased in litres rather than quarts or gallons. Guess what, everyone, including my grandparents soon learned that 32C was hot not freezing, 16C was comfortable, 15cm of snow was not really worth getting excited about and a 5kg bag of potatoes had a few more potatoes than a 10 pound bag.
The only thing that I still find VERY confusing is the way fuel consumption is reported. Gone is the familiar Miles/Gallon where bigger is better only to be replaced by Liters/100Km where smaller is better!
I am sure there is a conspiracy or two lurking there somewhere.
They were two totally different products. The Mac version was far ahead of the DOS/Windows version. Word 2.0 was the first release for Windows. This was followed by Word 6.0. The versioning jump was a result of Word 5.x being available for the Mac and MS wanting to consolidate marketing initiatives.
As for Excel, this lived in the DOS world as Multiplan prior to the Windows rename. Again this was to present a unified product front by consolidating the Mac and DOS/Windows product lines.
Sorry but I am not familiar enough with the game console market to comment.
Word and Excel were written by MS to sell Windows. At the time of their release there were NO other competing products that were native Windows applications. When Windows 3.0 was released, WordPerfect and Lotus both were DOS applications that ran in a DOS box and lacked the Windows eye candy.
At the time of its release, Windows 3.0 was not the hot seller that MS had predicted (remember, DOS was required, Windows was an add-on). By producing a slick looking word precessor and spread sheet application, MS hoped to boost slow Windows sales. It worked.
Your Cisco comment makes little sense. Cisco and Microsoft compete in two totally different arenas. While IOS is a pretty good router OS, it most likely will not appear on many x86 desktops. Nor will it become the de-rigeur (sp?) server OS. On the other hand, I really don't see a Lognhorn version for a 12K on the horizon.
MS's leaving the WiFi market is simple. They realized other solutions are far too entrenched in the corporate world. The home targeted WiFi products that MS sold were most likely a trial balloon floated to determine the viablity of an assault on network infrastructure products. It didn't work so they pulled the product. All other things aside, Microsoft understands PROFIT.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
GO LEAFS GO!!!!
If I correctly remember high-school physics (30 years ago), Energy = Voltage * Current and Power = Energy / Time. I cannot remember what Voltage * Current * Time is.
You Sir/Madam are truly brilliant. If I had mod points, they ALL be used on this one post!