nd it would also be an idea to give a refrigerator a chimney of its own, so as to dispose of the hot air it produces directly rather than relying on your home's aircon to shift it. Why not just put the coils outside?
The question you should be asking is "Is upgrading to SP2 safer than continuing to run SP1?" The people I've asked answer this with a qualified "yes." Personally, I'd try it on one machine, make sure it doesn't break any of your existing apps on that machine, and then phase it in on all your other boxes later.
their sample is biased towards people that don't have anything better to do with their time! That eliminates most working people or people with children. Personally, I consider my time to be worth at least $60/hour, so if you want me to spend 10 minutes answering questions, you'd better pay me $10 -- otherwise I'll use that time to play with my 3-year old kid instead!
Intel has a "don't cheat" mentality for precisely this reason - getting caught misrepresenting a demo would seriously damage their credibility. Intel also has a lot of stuff available in-house that is several years away from production. So I don't think an engineer would lie about this, even though Intel marketing does lie every time they claim the latest Pentium will make the Internet much faster...
The opposite side of the debate is, of course, if we remove the means, then we disable the criminal.Right, which is why I support mandatory castration of all males to cut down on rape!
709 hours / 24 hours per day = 29.5 days straight of recording time. Basically, you can take a month-long vacation, come back, and catch up on all your favorite programs. If course, what it doesn't say is whether or not you can record two different channels simultaneously.
I think building artificial "planets" will happen a lot sooner than finding another inhabitable planet. If you've got a Sun and an asteroid belt to mine for materials, what more do you need? Build a solid ring of space stations at close to earth's orbit, and it would support several thousand times the carrying capacity of the Earth. Plus, you get built-in redundancy; sort of hard to wipe them all out with anything short of a supernova. In the meantime, yes, storing DNA repositories at the center of some of the moons out there might be a good idea... if we can afford it.
"...how you'd protect the DNA from radiation." Uh, try putting it in the moon instead of on the moon. Bury it deep enough, and it should also solve the problem of being hit by space debris.
So as to not keep you guessing, I suspect your private school was both better funded and had a larger percentage of middle to high income kids. Having attended a parochial school myself (even though I'm not Catholic), I'd say you suspect wrong. Most private schools spend less than half as much money per student than public schools! Most of our teachers were Nuns, Jesuits, or lay teachers that worked for little more than room and board. The janitorial work was all done by the students themselves, so we had only a single maintenance person for the whole school. I don't think its money per se that makes the difference!
One advantage that every private school has over any public school is selectivity. Quite simply, if any student is disruptive, they are out of there, and fast! This leaves only the students that are there to learn, and they are a lot easier to teach.
One more thing - the Jesuits always impressed me because they teach ethics without a Catholic bias; instead of trying to fill heads with dogma, they seem genuinely interested at looking at other beleifs and in teaching students how to think, not what to think.
If the stupid driver of the car wants to get drunk and drive backwards 100mph down the freeway with no lights on, do we blame the automobile manufacturer? Yes we should blame the manufacturer, if the vehicle is configure by default to drive 100mph in reverse with the lights off, and it actually requires a more sophisticated user to reconfigure it to go forward more slowly with the lights on...
A more appropriate analogy would be if a car manufacturer made a car with a big, shiny hood ornament, but when anybody pressed on it, it would pop the hood open. Sure, it makes it easier for mechanics to access the engine... but it also make it easier for miscreants to steal your battery!
even cellphones via BlueTooth. Uh, those cellphones wouldn't by any chance happen to be running Windows CE, would they? (Actually, the problem is that the OBEX protocol allows anyone to send a business card to your PDA/cellphone without asking your permission first. How those business cards then become executables or alter existing files is beyond me.)
"it's more of a 10-year timeline... but my stock options will be fully vested in 5 years, so I'll be long gone before the shit hits the fan on security still not being fixed!"
I don't believe in video iPod as it would be simply not feasible. More like already been done Maybe not sellable, but that's a different issue. Here's a hint: video out is pretty cheap and easy to implement, so that 3-inch screen is NOT a limitation. Look at how many people are buying DVD players for their cars. Look at the cars that are already iPod ready. Now put 2 and 2 together!
Just look at how well the 486 add-on card and SoftPC for the Mac did on the market! Look how many people bought the Chameleon with it's dual x86/z80 architecture! Unfortunately, non-backwards compatible architectures just don't sell.
Good point. 100 Gigabytes is less than 20,000 songs using the variable bitrate/100% quality that all my CDs are ripped at. To put 250,000 songs in that much space, you would have to compress all of them until they sounded like crap. I guess these people were into quantity, not quality. Also, if we're talking about that much data, aren't most of these just different copies of the same song? Like most P2P networks, every user must be redistributing every song they ever downloaded.
They should have compared the cost of Linux running on a mainframe to Windows running on a mainframe... what's that? Windows doesn't run on a mainframe? Oh... so sorry!
IIRC, it's called a "strip club". Yeah, my wife won't let me go there anymore either. For some reason she doesn't like me spending money on women other than her - go figure! I suspect she wouldn't be too happy about me spending money on virtual girlfriends either...
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nd it would also be an idea to give a refrigerator a chimney of its own, so as to dispose of the hot air it produces directly rather than relying on your home's aircon to shift it. Why not just put the coils outside?
The question you should be asking is "Is upgrading to SP2 safer than continuing to run SP1?" The people I've asked answer this with a qualified "yes." Personally, I'd try it on one machine, make sure it doesn't break any of your existing apps on that machine, and then phase it in on all your other boxes later.
their sample is biased towards people that don't have anything better to do with their time! That eliminates most working people or people with children. Personally, I consider my time to be worth at least $60/hour, so if you want me to spend 10 minutes answering questions, you'd better pay me $10 -- otherwise I'll use that time to play with my 3-year old kid instead!
Intel has a "don't cheat" mentality for precisely this reason - getting caught misrepresenting a demo would seriously damage their credibility. Intel also has a lot of stuff available in-house that is several years away from production. So I don't think an engineer would lie about this, even though Intel marketing does lie every time they claim the latest Pentium will make the Internet much faster...
Yeah, but where do I find an oven that's calibrated in degrees Kelvin?
The opposite side of the debate is, of course, if we remove the means, then we disable the criminal.Right, which is why I support mandatory castration of all males to cut down on rape!
So what's to stop them from pointing this fancy new camera back at the Earth? Perhaps it is not extra-solar objects that they are interested in...
Actually, that's less than 160 KBytes/second, which would be 1.28 Mbits/second... still, that seems pretty lossy for video.
709 hours / 24 hours per day = 29.5 days straight of recording time. Basically, you can take a month-long vacation, come back, and catch up on all your favorite programs. If course, what it doesn't say is whether or not you can record two different channels simultaneously.
I think building artificial "planets" will happen a lot sooner than finding another inhabitable planet. If you've got a Sun and an asteroid belt to mine for materials, what more do you need? Build a solid ring of space stations at close to earth's orbit, and it would support several thousand times the carrying capacity of the Earth. Plus, you get built-in redundancy; sort of hard to wipe them all out with anything short of a supernova. In the meantime, yes, storing DNA repositories at the center of some of the moons out there might be a good idea... if we can afford it.
"...how you'd protect the DNA from radiation." Uh, try putting it in the moon instead of on the moon. Bury it deep enough, and it should also solve the problem of being hit by space debris.
One advantage that every private school has over any public school is selectivity. Quite simply, if any student is disruptive, they are out of there, and fast! This leaves only the students that are there to learn, and they are a lot easier to teach.
One more thing - the Jesuits always impressed me because they teach ethics without a Catholic bias; instead of trying to fill heads with dogma, they seem genuinely interested at looking at other beleifs and in teaching students how to think, not what to think.
Right... and it's not like they'd be bringing any air into space with them otherwise!
Hmm... apparently my SSN is a valid telephone number in Italy!
A more appropriate analogy would be if a car manufacturer made a car with a big, shiny hood ornament, but when anybody pressed on it, it would pop the hood open. Sure, it makes it easier for mechanics to access the engine... but it also make it easier for miscreants to steal your battery!
even cellphones via BlueTooth. Uh, those cellphones wouldn't by any chance happen to be running Windows CE, would they? (Actually, the problem is that the OBEX protocol allows anyone to send a business card to your PDA/cellphone without asking your permission first. How those business cards then become executables or alter existing files is beyond me.)
"it's more of a 10-year timeline... but my stock options will be fully vested in 5 years, so I'll be long gone before the shit hits the fan on security still not being fixed!"
I don't believe in video iPod as it would be simply not feasible. More like already been done Maybe not sellable, but that's a different issue. Here's a hint: video out is pretty cheap and easy to implement, so that 3-inch screen is NOT a limitation. Look at how many people are buying DVD players for their cars. Look at the cars that are already iPod ready. Now put 2 and 2 together!
What tasks do you need a 10GHz processor for that couldn't be done just as well with 10 1GHz processors?
Just look at how well the 486 add-on card and SoftPC for the Mac did on the market! Look how many people bought the Chameleon with it's dual x86/z80 architecture! Unfortunately, non-backwards compatible architectures just don't sell.
$22.95/month is definately NOT cheaper than you can get elsewhere.
Good point. 100 Gigabytes is less than 20,000 songs using the variable bitrate/100% quality that all my CDs are ripped at. To put 250,000 songs in that much space, you would have to compress all of them until they sounded like crap. I guess these people were into quantity, not quality. Also, if we're talking about that much data, aren't most of these just different copies of the same song? Like most P2P networks, every user must be redistributing every song they ever downloaded.
Uh, it can't be Krypton. Krypton has already been destroyed. Still, it would be interesting to know what the core of the planet is made of!
They should have compared the cost of Linux running on a mainframe to Windows running on a mainframe... what's that? Windows doesn't run on a mainframe? Oh... so sorry!
IIRC, it's called a "strip club". Yeah, my wife won't let me go there anymore either. For some reason she doesn't like me spending money on women other than her - go figure! I suspect she wouldn't be too happy about me spending money on virtual girlfriends either...