I found this (PDF), doesn't mention current use, though. about their history and actual use (paywall) not recent...
I suggest you talk to your cardiologist. I can't quickly find any doc on this -- even through googling-- , but it may not be publicly available. From the few docs I can find, I think that they have been deemed safe for medical use but with the improvements of li-ion tech, possibly inductive charging, and other technologies, the use of rtg for pacemaker would look less attractive nowadays, not even considering the risks of accidental release of radioactive material (cremation...)... So, ask your specialist, or his professors:-)
Well, as an european, I can give you a few things that make us better off with Europe, the Euro and all that...
We can now live and work in any European country without permit or visa. 30 years ago, trying to do that would have meant months of dealing with the administration of both countries.
We can now enjoy the end of speculative games that broke the weakest currencies of smaller countries every 5 years or so in the 80ies.
We benefit from Europe-wide quality standards in foods, poollution levels, drugs and so on that are better than about anywhere, and enforced efficiently.
We have strong (though not well enforced yet) privacy laws.
We have strong anti-monopolistic laws that succeeded at condemning Microsoft for abusive practices, and Intel recently..
Well, we should be able to do them in for tax evasion, then, shouldn't we?
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I've heard somewhere that it was linked to earth tides . Wikipedia's references here and here (pdf).
They apparently modify the geometry of the ring slightly..
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Honestly, the {{fact}} tag is necessary here. Could you cite any (trustable, informed) source that said people knowledgeable with the bomb actually believed that the athmosphere would ignite?
mod parent up (interesting) because that's the reason many companies and sysadmin give to the entire "unmovable" password or SNMP community strings.
But the truth is, first, routers do have per user access control with centralised databases. Ldap, radius, tacacs can be used for that purpose. And have been for years.
Second, having the same password (for when the centralised user authentication service fails (or the network to get there) on 80000 switches is not so much of an issue if it changes every week or so (and that's easy to script...)
Well, I've been part of a network administration team and in my first months I actually did dream of IP addresses and protocols and stack issues (IBM's Edge load-balancer on Windows had a nasty number of stack problems)... I can tell you, it feels weird!
The whole question is around whether the recording or monitoring is permanent, secret and generalised or instead limited in time and space. Taking snapshots of a landmark (even regularly), filming a protest, covering an event isn't a thread to privacy as it's is within those limitations.
In the case of street photography and taping the police, I wonder what the bias is when reported over YouTube (I expect it is strongly against the police forces)
My personal approach if I was in position to propose laws is to enforce what in Belgium we call 'Droit de réponse' -the right to answer- on these kind of films. The police departments, when filmed, should be (systematically) authorised to ask the publisher (youtube or the editor of the movie) to add a comment at the end or the beginning of the published work if they feel they're not being treated fairly. I understand it isn't that easy to enforce at the current rate of dissemination of the information but still I'd find it a better approach than arresting people.
In that definition everything that's unicast is Peer to Peer. The term is nowadays used for a form of content distribution that's based on using end-user-owned, non-specialised machines working collectively. What you're referring to is a client-server model.. Usually considered as more or less the opposite of a P2P model. I agree that the naming peer to peer is unfortunate, though.
If the telcos were to provision the network for every (or even a significant part of the) consumers to use their maximum bandwidth at the same time (as always-on P2P software does) they wouldn't be able to buy the bandwidth lest the equipment to switch that kind of traffic. In a corporate environment an oversubscribing of 1 for 100 is usual, 1 for 1000 not unheard of in some areas. I wouldn't be surprised if ISP oversubscribed their backbone several thousand times. It's normal (it's actually unavoidable) and in a 'normal' situation doesn't lead to any major congestion issue. What sucks (on a network administrator point of view) with P2P software is that they kill the principles on which networks are build (high capacity backbone with the peerings, medium capacity concentration). The way to live with these would be to multiply peerings and increase the mesh level of their networks. That cost both in bilateral contracts (especially with ISPs of different sizes) and in network links. And complexifies the configurations significantly. They'll come to it, but it will take some time.. I guess.
Mmmm... Is it the president/government/administrations/etc... or more an overall everything-that-doesn't-bring-money-home-directly- is-bad generalized kind of attitude that leads to this kind of situation?
"(...) Microsoft was represented by Sam Ramji, Director of Open Source Technical Strategy,
while Novell was represented by Justin Steinman, Director of Marketing Linux and Open Platforms.(...)
(...) From Microsoft's perspective, the deal it struck with Novell was driven mainly by customer demand. Sam
described how its Interoperability Executive Council, which includes 30 top CIOs demanded
interoperability between Windows and Linux, as both must coexist in the enterprise and neither will
completely displace the other."(...)
(...)
From Novell's perspective, its motivation for the deal was primarily the need to differentiate itself in a
meaningful way to gain share versus Red Hat. As number two in the market, Novell recognized that it
simply could not gain significant share without a "game-changing" event.
(...)"
Check out the "news" page :
http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2
Posted on 17th of August 2006
http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2&id=31
"The winning team will be presented with a cheque for 5000 on the night of the final - March 29th 2006 - by DIT President Professor Brian Norton."
and on the 17th of August 2006
"Congratulations to Blackhawk, winners of the 2006 Steorn/Bolton Trust/DIT Student Enterprise Competition.
17 August 2006"
But from http://www.dit.ie/studententerprise
"Results:
1st Prize: Nighthawk
2nd Prize: Snacks on Tracks"
Just a typo, I suppose
Basically, downloading the VM everytime would be tedious (even with good servers and good bandwidth) and would anyways be unfeasable for mobile users. Citrix has the advantage of thin client but has numerous disadvantages on a user experience point of view (not an individual environment, you have to be online...) Some of the 'physical' problems you'll meet with running VMs will indeed be the lack of support for accelerated graphics, I guess, extra memory needs that usually exeed the initial estimation, exotic drivers and functionalities (laptop 'sleep', wireless cards...) and (perhaps) the time synchronization issue. You'll still have to maintain your host OS for every piece of hardware. And that might be non-trivial even with Linux (again, think of laptops). A great advantage of VMs on the desktop is that you can offer several VMs to your user (different ones for internet access and office work, or a 'personal' workstation and a 'corporate' workstation, or for development folks a 'development' workstation and a 'production' one, you can also say that you have an 'internet-access' workstation that you undo every day and a 'production' one that doesn't have a access to internet at all, possibly on different vlans using dot1q on the host) without having to reinstall/reboot/add machines. Just make sure you negotiate licenses schemes for that kind of set-up. Your 'host' OS should provide a GUI for choosing to either use the currently installed image(s) or to download a 'fresh' one from the server. Integrating that kind of flexibility in AD is not very easy to achieve but with sysprep and some clever scripting can be possible. User data management can also be a problem in 'disposable' VMs. I'd guess that offline folders (or whatever it's called today) can be kind of a solution but you really want to make sure it works as advertised before deploying that in large scale.
Also think of maintaining the software (security updates...) on your VMs. They may be difficult to maintain as you can't control whether they're on or not and even whether they're still existing or not... I think it's feasible (I've actually been using that in my test environment for a while, but it was a very small network with only a dozen users or so and not doing actual business with it) but expect it to be challenging to plan, prepare and roll-out.
Well that's precisely the kind of things you make sure of with your network/power providers. In a project for interconnecting two huge datacenters with lambdas on fiber links we were given the complete map of the fibers between the datacenters (150ish km) for several providers (interesting info for terrorists, by the way..how to disrupt Europe's main fiber links with as few places to sabotage as necessary). The chosen providers's fiber never even crossed each other at any point of the whole journey, we made sure of that (reduced the number of provider greatly, too. You wouldn't believe how few fiber paths are actually used accross a region).
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I found this (PDF), doesn't mention current use, though. :-)
about their history and actual use (paywall)
not recent...
I suggest you talk to your cardiologist. I can't quickly find any doc on this -- even through googling-- , but it may not be publicly available. From the few docs I can find, I think that they have been deemed safe for medical use but with the improvements of li-ion tech, possibly inductive charging, and other technologies, the use of rtg for pacemaker would look less attractive nowadays, not even considering the risks of accidental release of radioactive material (cremation...)...
So, ask your specialist, or his professors
mod parent up!
I've also wondered why the hybrids still had direct heat engine to wheels transmission.
mod parent up
Well, as an european, I can give you a few things that make us better off with Europe, the Euro and all that... We can now live and work in any European country without permit or visa. 30 years ago, trying to do that would have meant months of dealing with the administration of both countries. We can now enjoy the end of speculative games that broke the weakest currencies of smaller countries every 5 years or so in the 80ies. We benefit from Europe-wide quality standards in foods, poollution levels, drugs and so on that are better than about anywhere, and enforced efficiently. We have strong (though not well enforced yet) privacy laws. We have strong anti-monopolistic laws that succeeded at condemning Microsoft for abusive practices, and Intel recently..
Well, we should be able to do them in for tax evasion, then, shouldn't we?
I've heard somewhere that it was linked to earth tides . Wikipedia's references here and here (pdf). They apparently modify the geometry of the ring slightly..
Honestly, the {{fact}} tag is necessary here.
Could you cite any (trustable, informed) source that said people knowledgeable with the bomb actually believed that the athmosphere would ignite?
Mod parent *funny* not bloody insightful! http://xkcd.com/301/
{{fact}}
There. Fixed that for you.
mod parent up (interesting) because that's the reason many companies and sysadmin give to the entire "unmovable" password or SNMP community strings.
But the truth is, first, routers do have per user access control with centralised databases. Ldap, radius, tacacs can be used for that purpose. And have been for years.
Second, having the same password (for when the centralised user authentication service fails (or the network to get there) on 80000 switches is not so much of an issue if it changes every week or so (and that's easy to script...)
Well, I've been part of a network administration team and in my first months I actually did dream of IP addresses and protocols and stack issues (IBM's Edge load-balancer on Windows had a nasty number of stack problems)... I can tell you, it feels weird!
The whole question is around whether the recording or monitoring is permanent, secret and generalised or instead limited in time and space.
Taking snapshots of a landmark (even regularly), filming a protest, covering an event isn't a thread to privacy as it's is within those limitations.
In the case of street photography and taping the police, I wonder what the bias is when reported over YouTube (I expect it is strongly against the police forces)
My personal approach if I was in position to propose laws is to enforce what in Belgium we call 'Droit de réponse' -the right to answer- on these kind of films.
The police departments, when filmed, should be (systematically) authorised to ask the publisher (youtube or the editor of the movie) to add a comment at the end or the beginning of the published work if they feel they're not being treated fairly. I understand it isn't that easy to enforce at the current rate of dissemination of the information but still I'd find it a better approach than arresting people.
In that definition everything that's unicast is Peer to Peer.
The term is nowadays used for a form of content distribution that's based on using end-user-owned, non-specialised machines working collectively.
What you're referring to is a client-server model.. Usually considered as more or less the opposite of a P2P model.
I agree that the naming peer to peer is unfortunate, though.
If the telcos were to provision the network for every (or even a significant part of the) consumers to use their maximum bandwidth at the same time (as always-on P2P software does) they wouldn't be able to buy the bandwidth lest the equipment to switch that kind of traffic.
In a corporate environment an oversubscribing of 1 for 100 is usual, 1 for 1000 not unheard of in some areas. I wouldn't be surprised if ISP oversubscribed their backbone several thousand times. It's normal (it's actually unavoidable) and in a 'normal' situation doesn't lead to any major congestion issue.
What sucks (on a network administrator point of view) with P2P software is that they kill the principles on which networks are build (high capacity backbone with the peerings, medium capacity concentration). The way to live with these would be to multiply peerings and increase the mesh level of their networks. That cost both in bilateral contracts (especially with ISPs of different sizes) and in network links. And complexifies the configurations significantly.
They'll come to it, but it will take some time.. I guess.
Well... Leopard is only due to come out in October... You shouldn't worry too much yet.
Mmmm... Is it the president/government/administrations/etc... or more an overall everything-that-doesn't-bring-money-home-directly- is-bad generalized kind of attitude that leads to this kind of situation?
"(...)
Microsoft was represented by Sam Ramji, Director of Open Source Technical Strategy, while Novell was represented by Justin Steinman, Director of Marketing Linux and Open Platforms.(...)
(...)
From Microsoft's perspective, the deal it struck with Novell was driven mainly by customer demand. Sam described how its Interoperability Executive Council, which includes 30 top CIOs demanded interoperability between Windows and Linux, as both must coexist in the enterprise and neither will completely displace the other."(...)
(...)
From Novell's perspective, its motivation for the deal was primarily the need to differentiate itself in a meaningful way to gain share versus Red Hat. As number two in the market, Novell recognized that it simply could not gain significant share without a "game-changing" event. (...)"
in Mg ? Wouldn't that be only for really massive doses?
Check out the "news" page : http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2 Posted on 17th of August 2006 http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2&id=31 "The winning team will be presented with a cheque for 5000 on the night of the final - March 29th 2006 - by DIT President Professor Brian Norton." and on the 17th of August 2006 "Congratulations to Blackhawk, winners of the 2006 Steorn/Bolton Trust/DIT Student Enterprise Competition. 17 August 2006" But from http://www.dit.ie/studententerprise "Results: 1st Prize: Nighthawk 2nd Prize: Snacks on Tracks" Just a typo, I suppose
Basically, downloading the VM everytime would be tedious (even with good servers and good bandwidth) and would anyways be unfeasable for mobile users.
Citrix has the advantage of thin client but has numerous disadvantages on a user experience point of view (not an individual environment, you have to be online...)
Some of the 'physical' problems you'll meet with running VMs will indeed be the lack of support for accelerated graphics, I guess, extra memory needs that usually exeed the initial estimation, exotic drivers and functionalities (laptop 'sleep', wireless cards...) and (perhaps) the time synchronization issue.
You'll still have to maintain your host OS for every piece of hardware. And that might be non-trivial even with Linux (again, think of laptops).
A great advantage of VMs on the desktop is that you can offer several VMs to your user (different ones for internet access and office work, or a 'personal' workstation and a 'corporate' workstation, or for development folks a 'development' workstation and a 'production' one, you can also say that you have an 'internet-access' workstation that you undo every day and a 'production' one that doesn't have a access to internet at all, possibly on different vlans using dot1q on the host) without having to reinstall/reboot/add machines. Just make sure you negotiate licenses schemes for that kind of set-up.
Your 'host' OS should provide a GUI for choosing to either use the currently installed image(s) or to download a 'fresh' one from the server. Integrating that kind of flexibility in AD is not very easy to achieve but with sysprep and some clever scripting can be possible.
User data management can also be a problem in 'disposable' VMs. I'd guess that offline folders (or whatever it's called today) can be kind of a solution but you really want to make sure it works as advertised before deploying that in large scale.
Also think of maintaining the software (security updates...) on your VMs. They may be difficult to maintain as you can't control whether they're on or not and even whether they're still existing or not...
I think it's feasible (I've actually been using that in my test environment for a while, but it was a very small network with only a dozen users or so and not doing actual business with it) but expect it to be challenging to plan, prepare and roll-out.
just my $.02
Well that's precisely the kind of things you make sure of with your network/power providers.
In a project for interconnecting two huge datacenters with lambdas on fiber links we were given the complete map of the fibers between the datacenters (150ish km) for several providers (interesting info for terrorists, by the way..how to disrupt Europe's main fiber links with as few places to sabotage as necessary).
The chosen providers's fiber never even crossed each other at any point of the whole journey, we made sure of that (reduced the number of provider greatly, too. You wouldn't believe how few fiber paths are actually used accross a region).
Mmm.. Seen that before Ministry of truth. Peace is war.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink