I would agree that the round-trip time would probably be the biggest issue, and would kill any time-sensitive stuff. That being said, does it really matter (in most cases) if your e-mail is delayed by 10 to 20 minutes? Surfing the web would be prohibitively slow, but if you created a local cache of "commonly read" websites, you could certainly get some use out of it. AFAIK, the only part of the network stack that would have to be modified is the first two layers (physical and data link). Layer 3 and higher should not need significant changes.
It's also not clear if a "single planet network" is meant to include satellites (natural and man-made). The RTT to the moon would not be too bad (at least in comparison to Mars).
Well, I'm sure that when IPv4 was created, they thought it would have plenty of addresses too. But you're probably right that IPv6 will be good for quite a while.
Given that IP will only be useful for a single planet network...
Why do you say that? (I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm curious about your reasoning.)
Moreover, there are plenty of Li-ion batteries out there that haven't... imploded into naked singularities causing the annihilation of life as we know it.
So far, all of them fall into that category. And I, for one, really hope it stays that way!
Everybody knows that a Rocket must have something to push against to fly. A rocket will never work in space. I know because I read this in the New York Times!
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BTW the New York Times did print a retraction of that statement on July 20th 1969.
I'm sure Neil and Buzz found that reassuring as the were approaching the moon.
Well, if you want to get all technical about it, the earth orbits the sun at a faster rate (approx. 30 km/s) than Mars (approx. 24 km/s). So we need to move to a spot where the sun is not "blocking our view".
Well, I don't know this for certain, but I have been told that David Ritz is president of both companies but he is the only common "employee" between the two companies. What is now RitzCamera.com previously existed as a separate company (I don't recall the name) prior to entering into an agreement with Ritz Camera Stores to be the "official web retailer".
I don't know how much (if any) of each other they might own. (Although I'm told that David Ritz has personal holdings in both companies.)
Who actually owns Target.com? The article states that Amazon runs the site, but does not go into detail about the relationship. If Target.com is not owned (at least in part) by the same corporation that owns the stores, then it seems unreasonable to hold them to the same standards as Target's brick-and-mortar stores just because they have the same name.
I used to work for Ritz Camera, and they made it clear that RitzCamera.com is a completely separate company with their own policies (re: sales tax, returns, etc.) and their own corporate structure. If ADA is only applicable because a company's stores are "places of public accommodation", then retailers just need to "spin off" their online stores as separate companies and they should be exempt.
Well, of course IE7 is the first browser to make use of new features of Vista! They had the opportunity to start developing for Vista before anyone outside of MS got a chance to touch a beta version of it.
Not to mention the fact that they could collaborate with the Vista team.
I shiver to even think that thing might alter (or even de-orbit) Earth.
It's in high orbit (above geosynchronous). It can't just "deorbit" and fall on us; there isn't any atmospheric friction to speak of. It would require enormous energy to alter its orbit to intersect the Earth. You might as well worry about the Moon falling on us.
I'm not certain what the original poster meant by this sentence, but I took it to mean that the space elevator and counterweight would affect earth's orbit around the sun. I doubt that the mass would be enough to make a significant difference, but it would certainly change earth's center of gravity to some degree.
Along this same line of thought, this could have an effect on tidal patterns as well. (The part of earth near the elevator might experience a "permanent high tide".)
When will the people writing the checks to pay for this crap realize that "annoying to the consumer" is not the same as "difficult to circumvent". The two concepts only slightly overlap.
Ideally, a copy-protection scheme should rate low on the "annoying to consumer" scale and high on the "difficult to circumvent" scale.
If e360insight is sending spam to people in UK, and they've admitted it in a U.S. court (though not in those terms), then UK companies should sue them in a UK court for their illegal activities.
If it works one way, it should work the other way too.
In any event, spreading negativity will most likely backfire on you. Upper management will almost always side with the manager versus the employee.
I definitely agree. If the manager is doing a bad job, it reflects on the people who hired / promoted him / her. They'd rather say "We've got a troublemaking employee" than say "We screwed up when we choose that manager".
And when your "bad manager" finally get noticed by upper management, wouldn't you rather be viewed as "doing a good job inspite of bad management" than "someone who undermines his / her superiors". You might get a say in who your new boss is, or possibly the opportunity to be that new boss.
For goodness sake they are a ONLINE BANK and they don't support a browser with 10%+ market share?
I can see that they might have a legitimate reason for this (security, cost vs. market share, etc.), but at the very least, they should inform you of what is and is not supported before you try to log in and start having trouble (e.g. on the "home page").
Ideally, they'd tell you before you signed up for an account. (If they advertise "Online Banking" and don't tell you a major limitation to that, isn't that false advertising?)
Or, when you're ticketed for getting rear-ended by a giant truck, you get to waste half your day sitting in court waiting for them to tell you your case is dismissed because no witnesses showed up.
(I was a bit concerned when the officer showed up, but he didn't actually witness the accident.)
Then you get to wait another six months for the insurance companies to figure out it's not your fault and give you back your deductable.
But I'm not annoyed or anything... (my poor car didn't deserve to end up like that)
Never heard of a Bloomingdales personal shopper eh?
Heard of? Yes... but I don't know anything about them. I don't think I've ever been in a Bloomingdales. (I've heard they have some in the Chicago area, but I have no idea where.)
So let me rephrase... This is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of B&M stores.
I think the "favored position" can be a very difficult thing to put a finger on when we're talking about marketing on the web.
Sites like Amazon keep track of what I've looked at recently and what I've purchased in the past and make an educated guess of what they should put in the "favored position" for me. If their system makes a good guess, it could recommend something that only 1% of the population likes, but it may be just what I want. There is nothing quite like this in B&M stores.
And then it gets more complex... When I load any page, I'm really getting a merging of their "site-wide marketing" (what are the specials this week) and their "targeted marketing" (if you like this product, you might like this other one as well).
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I would agree that the round-trip time would probably be the biggest issue, and would kill any time-sensitive stuff. That being said, does it really matter (in most cases) if your e-mail is delayed by 10 to 20 minutes? Surfing the web would be prohibitively slow, but if you created a local cache of "commonly read" websites, you could certainly get some use out of it. AFAIK, the only part of the network stack that would have to be modified is the first two layers (physical and data link). Layer 3 and higher should not need significant changes.
It's also not clear if a "single planet network" is meant to include satellites (natural and man-made). The RTT to the moon would not be too bad (at least in comparison to Mars).
Well, I'm sure that when IPv4 was created, they thought it would have plenty of addresses too. But you're probably right that IPv6 will be good for quite a while.
Why do you say that? (I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm curious about your reasoning.)
This sounds suspiciously like "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Clearly the sender meant "LOOSE" as in "to let fly a missile (as an arrow) : FIRE"
The real question is, who are we launching these e-mails at?
So far, all of them fall into that category. And I, for one, really hope it stays that way!
Well, if you want to go down that road, walking or riding a bike don't expend any fuel, but it would take quite a long time to go 2821 miles.
It's also quite difficult to cross the ocean that way.
I'm sure Neil and Buzz found that reassuring as the were approaching the moon.
Well, if you want to get all technical about it, the earth orbits the sun at a faster rate (approx. 30 km/s) than Mars (approx. 24 km/s). So we need to move to a spot where the sun is not "blocking our view".
Well, I don't know this for certain, but I have been told that David Ritz is president of both companies but he is the only common "employee" between the two companies. What is now RitzCamera.com previously existed as a separate company (I don't recall the name) prior to entering into an agreement with Ritz Camera Stores to be the "official web retailer".
I don't know how much (if any) of each other they might own. (Although I'm told that David Ritz has personal holdings in both companies.)
Who actually owns Target.com? The article states that Amazon runs the site, but does not go into detail about the relationship. If Target.com is not owned (at least in part) by the same corporation that owns the stores, then it seems unreasonable to hold them to the same standards as Target's brick-and-mortar stores just because they have the same name.
I used to work for Ritz Camera, and they made it clear that RitzCamera.com is a completely separate company with their own policies (re: sales tax, returns, etc.) and their own corporate structure. If ADA is only applicable because a company's stores are "places of public accommodation", then retailers just need to "spin off" their online stores as separate companies and they should be exempt.
So did Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank.
Or was that a "drum machine" that looked just like a powerloader?
Perhaps you missed this article a few days ago:
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Well, of course IE7 is the first browser to make use of new features of Vista! They had the opportunity to start developing for Vista before anyone outside of MS got a chance to touch a beta version of it.
Not to mention the fact that they could collaborate with the Vista team.
I'm not certain what the original poster meant by this sentence, but I took it to mean that the space elevator and counterweight would affect earth's orbit around the sun. I doubt that the mass would be enough to make a significant difference, but it would certainly change earth's center of gravity to some degree.
Along this same line of thought, this could have an effect on tidal patterns as well. (The part of earth near the elevator might experience a "permanent high tide".)
When will the people writing the checks to pay for this crap realize that "annoying to the consumer" is not the same as "difficult to circumvent". The two concepts only slightly overlap.
Ideally, a copy-protection scheme should rate low on the "annoying to consumer" scale and high on the "difficult to circumvent" scale.
Enclose in <blockquote> tags. The CSS for the site makes it display like that.
You can figure out "nifty things" by looking at the source.
If e360insight is sending spam to people in UK, and they've admitted it in a U.S. court (though not in those terms), then UK companies should sue them in a UK court for their illegal activities.
If it works one way, it should work the other way too.
I definitely agree. If the manager is doing a bad job, it reflects on the people who hired / promoted him / her. They'd rather say "We've got a troublemaking employee" than say "We screwed up when we choose that manager".
And when your "bad manager" finally get noticed by upper management, wouldn't you rather be viewed as "doing a good job inspite of bad management" than "someone who undermines his / her superiors". You might get a say in who your new boss is, or possibly the opportunity to be that new boss.
I can see that they might have a legitimate reason for this (security, cost vs. market share, etc.), but at the very least, they should inform you of what is and is not supported before you try to log in and start having trouble (e.g. on the "home page").
Ideally, they'd tell you before you signed up for an account. (If they advertise "Online Banking" and don't tell you a major limitation to that, isn't that false advertising?)
Or, when you're ticketed for getting rear-ended by a giant truck, you get to waste half your day sitting in court waiting for them to tell you your case is dismissed because no witnesses showed up.
(I was a bit concerned when the officer showed up, but he didn't actually witness the accident.)
Then you get to wait another six months for the insurance companies to figure out it's not your fault and give you back your deductable.
But I'm not annoyed or anything... (my poor car didn't deserve to end up like that)
Don't people become geologists (in part) because they don't think our continued existance is as important to worry about as a bunch of rocks?
Heard of? Yes... but I don't know anything about them. I don't think I've ever been in a Bloomingdales. (I've heard they have some in the Chicago area, but I have no idea where.)
So let me rephrase... This is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of B&M stores.
I think the "favored position" can be a very difficult thing to put a finger on when we're talking about marketing on the web.
Sites like Amazon keep track of what I've looked at recently and what I've purchased in the past and make an educated guess of what they should put in the "favored position" for me. If their system makes a good guess, it could recommend something that only 1% of the population likes, but it may be just what I want. There is nothing quite like this in B&M stores.
And then it gets more complex... When I load any page, I'm really getting a merging of their "site-wide marketing" (what are the specials this week) and their "targeted marketing" (if you like this product, you might like this other one as well).
The fact that you had to wait nearly two thousand years to get an x86 processor probably put a damper on it as well.