You do realize that the "Japanese" cars found in America are not the same cars as people drive in Japan, right? Indeed most "foreign" cars in the US are made by us factories, with the visual design chosen by US citizens. The only thing "foreign" about them is that the important parts such as the base chassis, transmission, engine, etc were designed by foreign engineers.
Your comment character is a single quote? The only language that I am aware of off the top of my head that uses a single quote as a comment character is Visual Basic and derivatives (VB.net, etc)
Holding the root zone key is by definition part of the function of the IANA (one of Jon Postel's many jobs back in the day.) The IANA is the organization that manages the root zone. It has always been that way.
Since ICANN (or rather one internal division of ICANN) is currently the IANA, they would control the keys.
If a new IANA is appointed (and approved by the Internet Architeture board (who must approve any IANA appointment, since the maintains the registry of Names and Numbers assigned in the RFCs on behalf of the IETF)), this new IANA would be in charge of the Root Zone, and therefore be in charge of Root Keys.
Jon Postel would probably want it this way, although not knowing the guy personally, I can't be sure of that.
This demonstrates why you should actually verify information in WikiPedia instead of quoting it blindly.
Perhaps you should understand that the patent is for a multi-channel drive design which was an essential component to DVRs back then. They operated using laserdisc technology, so the drives spun at exactly the correct speed for reading or writing, but no faster, so multiple heads were required to read and write simultaneously. Honeywell apparently did not feel the need to patent the system as a whole, since the first patent was essential to the system, so patenting the system as a whole would just be a waste of patenting fees.
They do (or at least did not to long ago) have this information. The feature name was guide-plus. some televisions were able to decode this information, I owned one, but very few. I believe the system used though may be patented with an unreasonable patent license fee which is why very few devices support it.
You'd be trading false negatives for false positives. Based on TV programmes where they trace people's ancestry, It's hard to tell what language most cursive writing is supposed to be in, let alone read it.
Then again, my handwriting is so bad I've seen people turn it the other way up.
Wow! I thought my handwriting was bad, considering that I have been known to have trouble reading it myself, but nobody has ever turned mine upside-down before.
How, when, and by whom is this decision to turn on --with-wide-unicode (UCS-4) made for each platform? What Google keywords should I have used?
Well that obviously varies by the platform. Under Debian GNU/Linux the decision would be made by the maintainer of the python package. But does it really matter? On what platform are you forced to use the python provided by the system vendor, rather than your own package?
I think I remember it getting discussed on Slashdot back then too. I did not find such an article with a quick search, and don't feel like digging through the archives for all articles from around that time, so if somebody happens to have a link to that old article if it exists, posting it would be nice.
Very odd. The recovery CD is worthless for re-installation, but is available for free download. It is worth having the recovery environment in some form just in case you lose the ability to boot into Vista. It should be possible to install it into a partition yourself, but if you don't have a spare partition that won''t work. It might be possible to install it alongside Vista in the same partition in the same way that the XP recovery console could be, but I don't have the details on it.
Any which way, without a Dell Factory Image or a real Vista Install CD, you are absolutely correct that you would be hosed if you needed to re-install Vista for any reason.
But Dell definitely should have had the Vista Recovery Environment pre-installed along with the dell factory image. Hmm quite odd that they didn't. I have no idea why.
Atr you sure about that? The recovery partition is normally available on OEM's as part of the Windows Recover Environment.
Windows Recovery Environment is a Windows PE based system that supports "recovery" (replacing many windows core files with known good versions, which is believed to fix many issues), rolling back to a previous System Restore point, or restoring a full disk backup. In addition to these features, when installed to a partition, it is trivial for an OEM to add an additional option to the list, that restores the primary partition to factory condition. IIRC this feature uses a WIM file created by the manufacturer as the disk image. This system is really nice, because the interface is identical across all OEMs, and the less intrusive options are right there for you to try first.
Windows Recovery Environment can be run in one of four ways. It can be run from a Vista Setup CD, or it can be run from from the Windows vista recovery disc (a stripped down version of the Windows Vista Install CD, which actually still claims to be the install CD, but is missing some files actually needed to install vista, microsoft has a free download which can be used to create your own Windows Vista Recovery Disc, or it can be installed into a partition.)
The last option is the best option, because the environment can then be automatically booted if Windows failed to start. It is also the only version to support the Restore to manufacturer default option. When it is available it shows up in the boot.ini menu or perhaps the F8 menu (like you use to enter safe mode), I forget which. You can access the boot.ini menu from the f8 menu if your computer is configured not to show it.
I would be very surprised if a Dell Vista laptop lacked the Windows Recovery Environment Partition.
The system described cannot throttle. It by definition cannot have any impact at all except when one of the oversold pipes is being utilized at 100% of its real capacity.
The bar of a court is the set of all people authorized to present argument to the court on behalf of another person. Members of the bar of a court are known as barristers. (In the United States, there is generally no distinction between barristers and solicitors, both jobs are combined into one, known only as lawyers. In the UK both are separate although both a considered Lawyers, they are just different specializations.) All of this so far has been generally true. The rest of this post will be largely US specific.
There is also a separate concept of a Bar Association, which is an origination of barristers (lawyers). In most states, there is an official bar association that lawyers are required to be a member of. The level of integration with the court system varies, as does the responsibilities of the organization, so I will describe features found in several official bar associations.
The bar association is usually involved with the process of licensing lawyers. The association is often involved in the creation and administration of the Bar Exam (the test lawyers must pass to become licensed to practice). The association also usually creates a code of ethics, which its members must follow. The bar association is also often responsible for the lawyer disciplinary proceedings for ethics violations.
A bar association is not mandatory though. A legal code of ethics could be enshrined in law, and have lawyer disciplinary hearings simply be a function of the court.
Even when there is an official mandatory bar association, it would be a mistake to conflate this with the bar of a court. Being a member of the bar is a requirement to be a licensed lawyer in the state. However courts can and do admit people who are not licensed in the state to the bar of the court, at least temporarily. They usually require that the lawyer be a member of the bar of the court in his/her place of residence, and if applicable have a law license for that area.
I really don't see the problem, as long one is made aware of this fact, and realize that they are buying oversubscribed bandwidth. But please realize that the internet backbones are oversubscribed, so there is no way to truly get bandwidth that is not oversubscribed at some level. This packet prioritizing scheme is entirely reasonable, and similar systems are in place on the internet backbones, and other high level routers. Comcast's real problem is the transfer cap, which is completely absurd.
Fuck comcast. Every 15 minutes its going to check to see who is using the bandwidth and then limit that person? What if no one else is using that bandwidth? Can that person who is using it without being limited?
Yes. The limits only apply when congestion occursm which is to say the port in comcast's router reaches 100 percent, requiring at least some of the packets received to be delayed. This is in no way throttling, as the impact is based on total network utilization. In non-peak hours, this policy has EXACTLY ZERO IMPACT.
If you had read the other messages you would find out that this has absolutely no impact to any user except when the comcast router port (sevicing ~250 modems) reaches 100% utilization. When that happens some of somebody's packets must be delayed (or if the router runs out of memory dropped).
Those who have been using a sustained (average) of over 75% of their advertised peak bandwidth for the 15 minute window get lower priority, meaning the other packets get routed first. This means your latency increases, although your bandwidth does not necessarily decrease unless the router runs out of memory and starts dropping packets, or the delays cause your packets to time-out. In any event, this is just applying a well known process scheduling technique to packet scheduling.
This is in fact a far more fair system than having no such system, because the least number of people are affected when congestion occurs, unless the non-flagged uses combined bandwidth exceeds the total node bandwidth. In that case, the flagged users might be starved for bandwidth (depending on the system used, Comcast is not clear about that), and the non-flagged users would begin to have increased latency. Comcast's analysis of bandwidth utilization show that that scenario virtually never occurs in reality.
When it is not congested (congested means 100% utilization, so some packets from somebody must get dropped or delayed) the QOS system has no impact, all your packets are routed the moment they are received, regardless of your QOS low-priority flag.
I'm pretty sure the QOS low priorty flag lasts only for the 15 minute interval, unless you stay above the thresh-hold and the port stays at near-congestion level, in which case the flag is extended for the next 15 minutes.
Well, it is bundled in the full version of the software, which is in fact included on all the vista DVDs. The fact that most people chose to use a crippled version of Windows Vista is their choice. There are enough important features in Vista Ultimate (the few ultimate extras, SUA, fax support, remote desktop server, IIS, full bitlocker, free Microsoft Virtual PC [though this one technically works in Home premium, it is officially unsuported], etc. ) that I would always have upgraded my copies of Vista if I used it.
The only way that is possible is not a US-school, a private school, or one of the very few selective public high-schools that actually work, and have not yet be sued out of existence. I do note all but invariably. There are a few large non-private non-hyper-selective high schools, but there are only a few.
Granted, that a small size does not gaurentee anything either, but they have a better shot of avoiding a school board full of MBA drop-outs, who could not manage a shoebox, much less a school district. Smaller schools have a better chance of attracting good teachers too. The average large school is not a desirable workplace.
VHF TV uses more-or less the same frequency band as FM radio.
55-72 VHF TV channels 2 and 3
72â"76 MHz Special purposes, includes model aircraft RC frequencies and also air navigation beacons
77-88 MHz TV VHF channels 4-6
88â"108 MHz FM radio
TV VHF channels 6-13 use a noticeably higher frequency, but still well within the range of a simple stick antenna. The stick antenna used by your TV is all but identical to those found on boom-boxes. Not surprising. What you might find interesting is that the reason your little TV most-likely also features an FM radio tuner (most of the Walkman TV's do) is that TV audio, is nothing but regular FM radio. And you have the benefit that the regular FM radio channels are in the frequencies right next to the low-end TV frequencies. Some of the Walkman TV's even feature a TV-audio only mode (tune the audio without the video) because it was so easy to implement.
But all of this changes for UHF which is the frequency range used by DTV. You can't use a simple bar antenna for UHF. basically, those portable TV's are not terribly feasible under DTV.
Vista comes with SUA on the DVD, which is what Interix now is, although SUA requires Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise. It also lacks some server components from the older SFU.
2-tests per class is commmon in humanities classes at most universities even at the undergrad level, while real classes (like sciences, engineering, and mathematics) almost always have three tests (the final included, may be spaced as thirds, or as midterm, pre-final covering only new material and comprehensive final) or more.
At all decent high schools, 4 tests are a mandated minimum, and 6 or more are common. However, any high school with over 300 kids per grade-level, or part of a district with more than 12 total schools (of all types) are all but incapable of being decent schools. (That means that any city public schools automatically suck, and any suburb public schools suck if the suburb is too large, or if the suburb school is run by the city district)
However, the school I attended, while a small public school, had virtually no incompetent teachers, and was well run. It had a graduating class of 120 or so, with a graduation rate of around 97%. The downside? The school offers a whopping 3 AP courses (and no IB or any other system courses), namely AP Calc AB, and 2 AP Englishes.
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You do realize that the "Japanese" cars found in America are not the same cars as people drive in Japan, right? Indeed most "foreign" cars in the US are made by us factories, with the visual design chosen by US citizens. The only thing "foreign" about them is that the important parts such as the base chassis, transmission, engine, etc were designed by foreign engineers.
Your comment character is a single quote? The only language that I am aware of off the top of my head that uses a single quote as a comment character is Visual Basic and derivatives (VB.net, etc)
Holding the root zone key is by definition part of the function of the IANA (one of Jon Postel's many jobs back in the day.) The IANA is the organization that manages the root zone. It has always been that way.
Since ICANN (or rather one internal division of ICANN) is currently the IANA, they would control the keys.
If a new IANA is appointed (and approved by the Internet Architeture board (who must approve any IANA appointment, since the maintains the registry of Names and Numbers assigned in the RFCs on behalf of the IETF)), this new IANA would be in charge of the Root Zone, and therefore be in charge of Root Keys.
Jon Postel would probably want it this way, although not knowing the guy personally, I can't be sure of that.
This demonstrates why you should actually verify information in WikiPedia instead of quoting it blindly.
Perhaps you should understand that the patent is for a multi-channel drive design which was an essential component to DVRs back then. They operated using laserdisc technology, so the drives spun at exactly the correct speed for reading or writing, but no faster, so multiple heads were required to read and write simultaneously.
Honeywell apparently did not feel the need to patent the system as a whole, since the first patent was essential to the system, so patenting the system as a whole would just be a waste of patenting fees.
They do (or at least did not to long ago) have this information. The feature name was guide-plus. some televisions were able to decode this information, I owned one, but very few. I believe the system used though may be patented with an unreasonable patent license fee which is why very few devices support it.
You'd be trading false negatives for false positives. Based on TV programmes where they trace people's ancestry, It's hard to tell what language most cursive writing is supposed to be in, let alone read it.
Then again, my handwriting is so bad I've seen people turn it the other way up.
Wow! I thought my handwriting was bad, considering that I have been known to have trouble reading it myself, but nobody has ever turned mine upside-down before.
Quite true, but relatively few people regular people (as opposed to Slashdot readers) watch movies on their computer.
My best guess here is SDIO will be the new expansion mechanism.
How, when, and by whom is this decision to turn on --with-wide-unicode (UCS-4) made for each platform? What Google keywords should I have used?
Well that obviously varies by the platform. Under Debian GNU/Linux the decision would be made by the maintainer of the python package. But does it really matter? On what platform are you forced to use the python provided by the system vendor, rather than your own package?
Your post just confirms that this is the same court decision that groklaw posted back on august 13 at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200808131321242
I think I remember it getting discussed on Slashdot back then too. I did not find such an article with a quick search, and don't feel like digging through the archives for all articles from around that time, so if somebody happens to have a link to that old article if it exists, posting it would be nice.
Very odd. The recovery CD is worthless for re-installation, but is available for free download. It is worth having the recovery environment in some form just in case you lose the ability to boot into Vista. It should be possible to install it into a partition yourself, but if you don't have a spare partition that won''t work. It might be possible to install it alongside Vista in the same partition in the same way that the XP recovery console could be, but I don't have the details on it.
Any which way, without a Dell Factory Image or a real Vista Install CD, you are absolutely correct that you would be hosed if you needed to re-install Vista for any reason.
But Dell definitely should have had the Vista Recovery Environment pre-installed along with the dell factory image. Hmm quite odd that they didn't. I have no idea why.
Excel 2003:
A1: 1
A2: 2
A3: xyzzy
A4: 4
A5: 5
A6: =SUM(A1:A5)
The value displayed in A6 is twelve.
It remains the same even if we change cell A3 like so:
A3: ="xyzzy"
So he is not making stuff up.
I will grant that
A7: =7+"foobar"
does result in an error.
Atr you sure about that? The recovery partition is normally available on OEM's as part of the Windows Recover Environment.
Windows Recovery Environment is a Windows PE based system that supports "recovery" (replacing many windows core files with known good versions, which is believed to fix many issues), rolling back to a previous System Restore point, or restoring a full disk backup. In addition to these features, when installed to a partition, it is trivial for an OEM to add an additional option to the list, that restores the primary partition to factory condition. IIRC this feature uses a WIM file created by the manufacturer as the disk image. This system is really nice, because the interface is identical across all OEMs, and the less intrusive options are right there for you to try first.
Windows Recovery Environment can be run in one of four ways. It can be run from a Vista Setup CD, or it can be run from from the Windows vista recovery disc (a stripped down version of the Windows Vista Install CD, which actually still claims to be the install CD, but is missing some files actually needed to install vista, microsoft has a free download which can be used to create your own Windows Vista Recovery Disc, or it can be installed into a partition.)
The last option is the best option, because the environment can then be automatically booted if Windows failed to start. It is also the only version to support the Restore to manufacturer default option. When it is available it shows up in the boot.ini menu or perhaps the F8 menu (like you use to enter safe mode), I forget which. You can access the boot.ini menu from the f8 menu if your computer is configured not to show it.
I would be very surprised if a Dell Vista laptop lacked the Windows Recovery Environment Partition.
The system described cannot throttle. It by definition cannot have any impact at all except when one of the oversold pipes is being utilized at 100% of its real capacity.
The bar of a court is the set of all people authorized to present argument to the court on behalf of another person. Members of the bar of a court are known as barristers. (In the United States, there is generally no distinction between barristers and solicitors, both jobs are combined into one, known only as lawyers. In the UK both are separate although both a considered Lawyers, they are just different specializations.) All of this so far has been generally true. The rest of this post will be largely US specific.
There is also a separate concept of a Bar Association, which is an origination of barristers (lawyers). In most states, there is an official bar association that lawyers are required to be a member of. The level of integration with the court system varies, as does the responsibilities of the organization, so I will describe features found in several official bar associations.
The bar association is usually involved with the process of licensing lawyers. The association is often involved in the creation and administration of the Bar Exam (the test lawyers must pass to become licensed to practice). The association also usually creates a code of ethics, which its members must follow. The bar association is also often responsible for the lawyer disciplinary proceedings for ethics violations.
A bar association is not mandatory though. A legal code of ethics could be enshrined in law, and have lawyer disciplinary hearings simply be a function of the court.
Even when there is an official mandatory bar association, it would be a mistake to conflate this with the bar of a court. Being a member of the bar is a requirement to be a licensed lawyer in the state. However courts can and do admit people who are not licensed in the state to the bar of the court, at least temporarily. They usually require that the lawyer be a member of the bar of the court in his/her place of residence, and if applicable have a law license for that area.
I really don't see the problem, as long one is made aware of this fact, and realize that they are buying oversubscribed bandwidth. But please realize that the internet backbones are oversubscribed, so there is no way to truly get bandwidth that is not oversubscribed at some level. This packet prioritizing scheme is entirely reasonable, and similar systems are in place on the internet backbones, and other high level routers. Comcast's real problem is the transfer cap, which is completely absurd.
Fuck comcast. Every 15 minutes its going to check to see who is using the bandwidth and then limit that person? What if no one else is using that bandwidth? Can that person who is using it without being limited?
Yes. The limits only apply when congestion occursm which is to say the port in comcast's router reaches 100 percent, requiring at least some of the packets received to be delayed. This is in no way throttling, as the impact is based on total network utilization. In non-peak hours, this policy has EXACTLY ZERO IMPACT.
If you had read the other messages you would find out that this has absolutely no impact to any user except when the comcast router port (sevicing ~250 modems) reaches 100% utilization. When that happens some of somebody's packets must be delayed (or if the router runs out of memory dropped).
Those who have been using a sustained (average) of over 75% of their advertised peak bandwidth for the 15 minute window get lower priority, meaning the other packets get routed first. This means your latency increases, although your bandwidth does not necessarily decrease unless the router runs out of memory and starts dropping packets, or the delays cause your packets to time-out. In any event, this is just applying a well known process scheduling technique to packet scheduling.
This is in fact a far more fair system than having no such system, because the least number of people are affected when congestion occurs, unless the non-flagged uses combined bandwidth exceeds the total node bandwidth. In that case, the flagged users might be starved for bandwidth (depending on the system used, Comcast is not clear about that), and the non-flagged users would begin to have increased latency. Comcast's analysis of bandwidth utilization show that that scenario virtually never occurs in reality.
When it is not congested (congested means 100% utilization, so some packets from somebody must get dropped or delayed) the QOS system has no impact, all your packets are routed the moment they are received, regardless of your QOS low-priority flag.
I'm pretty sure the QOS low priorty flag lasts only for the 15 minute interval, unless you stay above the thresh-hold and the port stays at near-congestion level, in which case the flag is extended for the next 15 minutes.
Well, it is bundled in the full version of the software, which is in fact included on all the vista DVDs. The fact that most people chose to use a crippled version of Windows Vista is their choice. There are enough important features in Vista Ultimate (the few ultimate extras, SUA, fax support, remote desktop server, IIS, full bitlocker, free Microsoft Virtual PC [though this one technically works in Home premium, it is officially unsuported], etc. ) that I would always have upgraded my copies of Vista if I used it.
The only way that is possible is not a US-school, a private school, or one of the very few selective public high-schools that actually work, and have not yet be sued out of existence. I do note all but invariably. There are a few large non-private non-hyper-selective high schools, but there are only a few.
Granted, that a small size does not gaurentee anything either, but they have a better shot of avoiding a school board full of MBA drop-outs, who could not manage a shoebox, much less a school district. Smaller schools have a better chance of attracting good teachers too. The average large school is not a desirable workplace.
VHF TV uses more-or less the same frequency band as FM radio.
TV VHF channels 6-13 use a noticeably higher frequency, but still well within the range of a simple stick antenna. The stick antenna used by your TV is all but identical to those found on boom-boxes. Not surprising. What you might find interesting is that the reason your little TV most-likely also features an FM radio tuner (most of the Walkman TV's do) is that TV audio, is nothing but regular FM radio. And you have the benefit that the regular FM radio channels are in the frequencies right next to the low-end TV frequencies. Some of the Walkman TV's even feature a TV-audio only mode (tune the audio without the video) because it was so easy to implement.
But all of this changes for UHF which is the frequency range used by DTV. You can't use a simple bar antenna for UHF. basically, those portable TV's are not terribly feasible under DTV.
Vista comes with SUA on the DVD, which is what Interix now is, although SUA requires Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise. It also lacks some server components from the older SFU.
2-tests per class is commmon in humanities classes at most universities even at the undergrad level, while real classes (like sciences, engineering, and mathematics) almost always have three tests (the final included, may be spaced as thirds, or as midterm, pre-final covering only new material and comprehensive final) or more.
At all decent high schools, 4 tests are a mandated minimum, and 6 or more are common. However, any high school with over 300 kids per grade-level, or part of a district with more than 12 total schools (of all types) are all but incapable of being decent schools. (That means that any city public schools automatically suck, and any suburb public schools suck if the suburb is too large, or if the suburb school is run by the city district)
However, the school I attended, while a small public school, had virtually no incompetent teachers, and was well run. It had a graduating class of 120 or so, with a graduation rate of around 97%. The downside? The school offers a whopping 3 AP courses (and no IB or any other system courses), namely AP Calc AB, and 2 AP Englishes.
Funny that you should claim EEE, when Adobe not only created PDF, but are the maintainers of the format.