RDS is designed to be super-imposed on an existing broadcast signal (double sideband suppressed sub carrier blah blah.) It is applicable to broadcasters that have a loud signal covering a wide area.
Allow me to save many readers the 10 seconds it would take to discover what RDS TP/TA means: TP (Traffic Program flag) is a part of the RDS signal that indicates that a particular RDS broadcaster provides "traffic announcements" a some unspecified time. TA (Traffic Announcement flag) is another flag that indicates when an "traffic announcement" is being broadcast.
If you want to use RDS (via existing broadcasters) to send a signal to a specific vehicle to prevent a collision, you have to multiplex the data gathered by a large number of sites into a single RDS stream, broadcast it, and then find a way for all the receivers to filter out irrelevant RDS data (thousands of other cars not about to collide.) Or you might scale down RDS to deal with things like individual intersections, but you would then need a reserved spectrum...which is exactly what the FCC just approved.
A network of transceivers designed to monitor, signal and possibly control traffic has a number of obvious technical constraints that have probably never been considered by RDS. Off the top of my head I think of; latency guarantees, non-interference in confined areas, an elaborate definition of codes necessary to impart traffic relevant information in real-time, priorities, etc. RDS doesn't do all this.
...which has been used in Europe for what, almost a decade now...
RDS is widely available in the US. I have it and I didn't even know it until my Bose started displaying song titles broadcast by local stations. It probably implements TP/TA for all I know. I've never bothered to look.
Over here we note that for the "Industry" category TV/Movies/Music, campaign donations to Dems vs Repubs in 2002 break out as 78%/22%.
Keep believing those Dems. They tell you what to believe and you soak it right up. You'll have an DRM protected remote to control your DRM protected player to drive your DRM protected speakers while all your activity is recorded via a DRM monitor protocol and you'll still be blaming Republicans.
Does anyone know of any organizations that actually use SCO Unix?
Which SCO Unix? There are basically two, UnixWare being the subject of the post. The other is left as an exercise for the reader.
I know of a injection molding facility that monitors about 50 multi-million dollar presses 24x7 with UnixWare. It runs a vertical app that does alerting (voice announcement, paging, calls) and gathers stats.
UnixWare was an early (first?) commercial implementation of UNIX on i386 hardware. A lot of geeks were pretty excited by it long ago. This mattered because it meant that you could deploy UNIX apps cheaply. So, a lot of vertical apps were ported and UnixWare became pretty widespread. It was a fairly plain-jane port of UNIX with credible-enough vendor support to make it possible to sell products based on it without having customers retch on your shoes. It was an easy port from other UNIX platforms, and this was probably it's main claim to fame. The other being almost-workable integration with Netware fileservers (after Novell acquired it.) I am amused when I remember how it seemed pretty obvious to me that whoever was responsible for that Novell integration piece was learning UNIX in the process.
Just because SCO owns UnixWare doesn't make UnixWare bad. It's largely obsolete now, but 10 years ago if you wanted to run UNIX on i386 hardware, UnixWare (or whatever it might have been called in late 1993) was a good choice. There are products running happily on UnixWare today, their users utterly unaware of the legal hoopla.
While I see that Cerritos benefits somewhat from the deal...
Indeed, Cerritos does benefit, and not just somewhat. Cerritos will have ubiquitous, inexpensive, mobile broadband. I can only dream that one day such a thing might be available to me!
...it still seems as though Aiirnet benefits significantly more...
God forbid Aiirnet does well while the municipal government is left with only; compulsory property taxes, compulsory sales taxes, sundry fees, state and federal subsidies and legal dominion.
...than the city, and the city should receive some share of the revenue or something.
For what? The cities contribution to this has been to allow someone else to pay for the buildout. Wow! Allow me to just fall over dead in admiration.
Face it; you put 2.5 seconds into reading what this might be about, allowed a lifetime of anti-business inculcation to take effect and promptly jerked your knee high enough to lick. At this point you should consider the argument lost, chalk it up and a mistake and, perhaps, allow this to be a reason to reconsider some of your assumptions.
The Ariinet network is being built by Ariinet, not the city. The accounts will be paid for by the subscribers, not the city. Therefore, no city funds will serve to subsidize porn.
It happens that the city will also obtain 60 accounts. Naturally, use of those accounts will be subject to the same rules as any other municipal network resource. Ostensibly that would exclude porn.
The city government has decided to allow a vendor to distribute a service in the cities geographic area. This should sound familiar because it's the same arrangement they already have with whomever provides cable. Said cable service being another likely source of porn...
So... Cerritos is paying Aiirnet to set up Wi-Fi transmitters all over the city and Aiirnet will keep all the profits.
You are confused. The Cerritos city government is paying for 60 accounts. Ariinet is paying for the network.
What's in it for Cerritos?
I'm certain Cerritos will be very pleased with broadband becoming available locally. The citizens of Cerritos, that is. For whom the city government of Cerritos is employed...
Perhaps you meant "what's in it for the municipal government of Cerritos?" Several things;
1.) 60 inexpensive, mobile broadband accounts 2.) A healthy number of pleased voters 3.) Zero capital outlay to provide the above
You're desire to discover some iniquity on the part of Aiirnet is misplaced. Please resume whining about Ashcroft or some other equally meaningless activity.
The X server itself may not be bloated, but the XFree86 source distribution certainly is.
It's worse than that. I've ranted about this before. X applications are build on a lot of different toolkits. GTK and QT being only the most popular. So, anytime you start an X app that's based on a unique toolkit you hoist a pile of compiled binaries into RAM. Now you have more pages to shuffle, more code to thrash the cache, etc. This is compounded by the fact that because runtime libs are often not trusted by vendors the apps are built static.
Win32 GDI apps suffer the same problem but to a far smaller degree. Most Windows apps are up to date with the contemporary Windows control libraries so they cause the least possible memory usage for GUI purposes. Few GDI based apps are shipped as static builds.
How many X toolkits are in common usage anyhow? I mentioned GTK and QT (several versions of each, btw.) Athena, motif (several versions, many static builds, acrobat, et al), Xforms, Xaw, wxWin, etc., etc.
Did you know that in the 50's the Army almost decided not to use helicopters at all after about a hundred soldiers were killed during trials of the Piasecki helicopters? There were people in the Army who were screaming that it was criminal to keep putting men into helicopters.
It doesn't seem to have gotten much better. There is a reason the A-10 is in the US inventory; helicopters are flaky. Their slow at low altitude, big and soft. Rifle bullets will break things and make a mission very unpleasant.
A more pressing problem that receives far too little attention is the issue of overpopulation. The ecological, economic, and social problems that will be caused by the uncontrolled growth of the human population have the potential to make global warming look like a walk in the park.
Exactly. Your prior scree about oil companies can be forgiven since you point this out. Population must stop growing so quickly. Everything else is a distant second. You can rape the first world of all it's wealth, stop all waste, eliminate all contaminants and none of it will matter, because when we make 20 billion of ourselves we're screwed.
The activists will go on whining about SUV's and western per capita energy consumption because it's a lot more fun to point the finger at wealthy people than it is to accuse the third world of overpopulation. The fact is that one of the few segments of the human race that isn't growing exponentially is wealthy westerners. For all their so-called evils, they've managed to figure out how to exist without having litters.
Census.gov projects a zero-immigration population growth from 2004-2100 of about 98 million. That's 35% over 96 years. Meanwhile, over here ones learns about the UN projecting a 300% increase in global population during the same period; about 15 gigapeople by 2100. That's if the average life expectancy doesn't go exponential...
Start talking about population first and I might be willing to listen when you want to talk about the mileage my car gets. Till then, fuck off.
I'm fed up with Sun. This company appears to be run by manic depressive children. In my opinion, the long term behavior of Sun can be paraphrased as "unprofessional and stupid." These people are consistently misdirecting themselves and others with their half-assed behavior.
On Java; How many more decades will Sun need before they figure out that attempting to collect license fees from Microsoft for Java is not a viable business model. Computer languages are not profitable because the market generally knows better than to invest in proprietary languages. Java should have been submitted to a public standards process long, long ago. Whatever technical justification that may have existed for not doing so is now moot. The market won't allow Sun to diverge Java significantly and, indeed, is already well ahead of Sun on many fronts (but limited by Suns ignorant selfishness, as if there might still be a big pot of gold out there, somewhere...)
On Linux; The on-again off-again love/hate nonsense with Linux is now simply understood. We take it for granted that Sun is ambiguous at best, and hostile at worst, towards Linux. Why? What is so special about Sun that this silly shit is tolerated?
And now, on Eclipse; Just another example of how not to behave. Why do they do this? Eclipse doesn't need Sun. If they don't know what their direction should be why do their open their mouths? Who or what is running the show at Sun? Why do they even care about Eclipse? They can't sell it! An inspired thinker might have realized that there is a vigorous and growing market for Eclipse plug-ins that Sun could sell (J2EE etc.,) but it's clear to me that this sort of adaptation and inspiration is well beyond anything you might accuse of Sun.
Die, Sun, die. Your hardware, software and business model are all obsolete outside shrinking niche markets. You have no clue about how to fix the problem and, in the meantime, you mess things up trying to beat a golden egg out of other people's gooses. Just another legacy UNIX vendor that is taking longer to die than most because they started later.
"Because thats exactly the kind of attitude toward the rest of the world that makes people like Osama Bin Laden fly planes into skyscrapers? People out there hate America and its policies toward foreigners. This sort of action is not going to win people over."
What would?
Between the trade deficit and foriegn aid the "rest of the world" already enjoys huge piles of US money. We're no longer expansionist (same 50 states most of last century with no prospects on the horizon.) What, exactly, could the US do to score happy points with Osama? Hell, we "made" the guy in Afghanistan, but lacked a reason to support his fanaticism to it's ultimate conclusion. Shame on us? Strong people have enemies. Metaphysical certainty.
It's really easy to understand this Euro-GPS thing; If that system provides an adversary with accurate navigation, it's dead. We'll kill it right off. In a war time posture we could rig up the necessary space artillery in short order (on the order or weeks) and remove those satellites. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that among our skunk-work assets is a shiny little high altitude launched satellite smasher. Reagan had it tested. So if Europe wants some assurance that's not going to happen, Europe had best cooperate, and they have.
Don't like it? Invade. Best just to get over it and chalk it up to the fact that the US makes the rules in western military matters. That policy has kept the western world at peace for two thirds of a century.
We've always been told that pirate games push prices up
A bunch of thieves (pirates) being lied to by a bunch of liars (publishers.) What's this "we" white man? I was never naive enough to believe what I have been "told" on this subject. What is said to discourage theft and what is done to sell products are two distinct matters.
but doesn't this news suggest that piracy in China has in fact pushed prices down?
This so called "news" suggests a lot of things, one of which is that publishers are attempting to establish themselves is a market on the hope that one day in the not too distant future that market will grow up and be worthwhile. It also suggests that, like the drug industry, there is a massive price differential between the US and everyone else. Of course, Chinese street vendors probably do not sell shelf space by the square centimeter, either. Much is suggested by this, and attributing all of it to the minor matter of thwarting piracy is either naive or dishonest.
I'm using 2.1.x daily and it's great. Part of the greatness is that it's stable. I see a number of features in 3.0 that look useful. Are the M4-5 releases stable enough for general development use? I'll take a chance based on a credible answer, but otherwise I don't have the time to experiment and loose.
If you've ever seen two native Chinese or Japanese speakers talk to each other they frequently will "write" kanji in the air or on the palm of the other person's hand with their fingers because their spoken language is imprecise.
If this actually goes on, doesn't it behoove the victims to fix their language? What good does it do to have a language that can't be properly spoken? How does purely audio, such as radio (!), communication function? For better or worse, English essentially won the language war. It will take another century or so for that to set in fully, but it's a done deal. Just watch some si-fi; even the aliens have English nailed.
Indeed, they were refugees. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union and got pushed back by the Red Army, for some reason civilians felt the need to flee. Thus, they became "refugees." I'll bet the Russians had another name for them...
The 1,000 jobs created by this plant are a far cry from the 100,000 that were killed on Feb 13-15, 1945.
100,000 is on the high side and likely to be exaggeration. 1000 is on the low side. That's just the number of people directly employed by AMD.
The city of Dresden was basically annihilated by American and British allied forces in 3 days by 1250 sorties.
A few things could have been done to prevent the annihilation of Dresden (Hamburg suffered a similar fate.) Below I offer a few guidelines you may use:
1.) Don't invade France and other European countries. 2.) Don't invade the Soviet Union. 3.) Don't sink American supply ships. 4.) Don't bomb London.
If you follow my guidelines I can assure you that Dresden will go un-firebombed for the foreseeable future.
Fewer than 20 cases have been reported since 1919.
I'll bet you this "syndrome" gets popular. 20 cases in 80 years. You'll probably meet someone who claims to have it by 2006. We'll have FAS support groups and docu-dramas. Eventually some sort of new drug treatment will appear...
Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have computers in their rooms...
There is no way to prevent the access. There is no way to prevent desire. Acknowledge this and adapt. Teach ethics, treat people (including your kids) with respect, and behave honorably. Simple.
Yes, it does. You wouldn't have had to ask if you had to intellect necessary to consider the topic of my post. If I want political spin of any stripe I have limitless, and far better, options other than Slashdot. I'd prefer to find "news for nerds" at this particular venue and what Gore Vidal knows about electronic voting is likely less than what the typical nerd knows about hot women.
are you unable to think for yourself?
I've forgotten more original thoughts than you'll ever have.
if you don't like it, don't visit.
I'm not welcome to criticize? How open minded of you. I prefer to counter this nonsense in the hope that I can help keep a lid on it.
Please attempt to calculate the value-add of a product such as Eclipse. IBM handed that to the world for free. They did this because IBM is a smart, well run company that knows how to make itself valuable in the marketplace. Eventually they'll save a big wad of cash when they stop paying inflated prices for proprietary PBX hardware and maintenance, and in a small way that will eventually contribute to the next moral equivalent of Eclipse.
Linux advocacy, giving AMD Opteron a huge credibility boost, one of the best JVM implementations, a world class IDE for free... You geeks need to show IBM some love. They are one of the good guys.
As more and more of our traditional communications mediums move onto IP, won't it be easier for crackers to compromise these things?
At the scale IBM is talking about here; 900 PBXs worldwide, don't you think it's already closely mated to their IP network? How do you suppose they manage all those phones and voicemail? Who makes those PBXs and how well are they maintained? 10 year old firmware revisions and crappy 4 character universal passwords remotely accessible through unencrypted terminal emulation, probably. Half a dozen different vendors involved too, most likely.
Odds are the system is already vulnerable to anyone with marginal PBX technical expertise. At least now they'll have a very contemporary platform that is up-to-date and easy to keep that way.
Look, PBXs are the ultimate evolution of manual switchboards. It's legacy stuff and it needs to die. Moving low quality noise around does not justify proprietary hardware.
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...like the RDS TP/TA system...
...which has been used in Europe for what, almost a decade now...
RDS is designed to be super-imposed on an existing broadcast signal (double sideband suppressed sub carrier blah blah.) It is applicable to broadcasters that have a loud signal covering a wide area.
Allow me to save many readers the 10 seconds it would take to discover what RDS TP/TA means: TP (Traffic Program flag) is a part of the RDS signal that indicates that a particular RDS broadcaster provides "traffic announcements" a some unspecified time. TA (Traffic Announcement flag) is another flag that indicates when an "traffic announcement" is being broadcast.
If you want to use RDS (via existing broadcasters) to send a signal to a specific vehicle to prevent a collision, you have to multiplex the data gathered by a large number of sites into a single RDS stream, broadcast it, and then find a way for all the receivers to filter out irrelevant RDS data (thousands of other cars not about to collide.) Or you might scale down RDS to deal with things like individual intersections, but you would then need a reserved spectrum...which is exactly what the FCC just approved.
A network of transceivers designed to monitor, signal and possibly control traffic has a number of obvious technical constraints that have probably never been considered by RDS. Off the top of my head I think of; latency guarantees, non-interference in confined areas, an elaborate definition of codes necessary to impart traffic relevant information in real-time, priorities, etc. RDS doesn't do all this.
RDS is widely available in the US. I have it and I didn't even know it until my Bose started displaying song titles broadcast by local stations. It probably implements TP/TA for all I know. I've never bothered to look.
...and Republicans...
Over here we note that for the "Industry" category TV/Movies/Music, campaign donations to Dems vs Repubs in 2002 break out as 78%/22%.
Keep believing those Dems. They tell you what to believe and you soak it right up. You'll have an DRM protected remote to control your DRM protected player to drive your DRM protected speakers while all your activity is recorded via a DRM monitor protocol and you'll still be blaming Republicans.
Enjoy.
Does anyone know of any organizations that actually use SCO Unix?
Which SCO Unix? There are basically two, UnixWare being the subject of the post. The other is left as an exercise for the reader.
I know of a injection molding facility that monitors about 50 multi-million dollar presses 24x7 with UnixWare. It runs a vertical app that does alerting (voice announcement, paging, calls) and gathers stats.
UnixWare was an early (first?) commercial implementation of UNIX on i386 hardware. A lot of geeks were pretty excited by it long ago. This mattered because it meant that you could deploy UNIX apps cheaply. So, a lot of vertical apps were ported and UnixWare became pretty widespread. It was a fairly plain-jane port of UNIX with credible-enough vendor support to make it possible to sell products based on it without having customers retch on your shoes. It was an easy port from other UNIX platforms, and this was probably it's main claim to fame. The other being almost-workable integration with Netware fileservers (after Novell acquired it.) I am amused when I remember how it seemed pretty obvious to me that whoever was responsible for that Novell integration piece was learning UNIX in the process.
Just because SCO owns UnixWare doesn't make UnixWare bad. It's largely obsolete now, but 10 years ago if you wanted to run UNIX on i386 hardware, UnixWare (or whatever it might have been called in late 1993) was a good choice. There are products running happily on UnixWare today, their users utterly unaware of the legal hoopla.
While I see that Cerritos benefits somewhat from the deal...
...it still seems as though Aiirnet benefits significantly more...
...than the city, and the city should receive some share of the revenue or something.
Indeed, Cerritos does benefit, and not just somewhat. Cerritos will have ubiquitous, inexpensive, mobile broadband. I can only dream that one day such a thing might be available to me!
God forbid Aiirnet does well while the municipal government is left with only; compulsory property taxes, compulsory sales taxes, sundry fees, state and federal subsidies and legal dominion.
For what? The cities contribution to this has been to allow someone else to pay for the buildout. Wow! Allow me to just fall over dead in admiration.
Face it; you put 2.5 seconds into reading what this might be about, allowed a lifetime of anti-business inculcation to take effect and promptly jerked your knee high enough to lick. At this point you should consider the argument lost, chalk it up and a mistake and, perhaps, allow this to be a reason to reconsider some of your assumptions.
City funds (your taxes) subsidising porn?
...and it's "subsidizing"
More confusion.
The Ariinet network is being built by Ariinet, not the city. The accounts will be paid for by the subscribers, not the city. Therefore, no city funds will serve to subsidize porn.
It happens that the city will also obtain 60 accounts. Naturally, use of those accounts will be subject to the same rules as any other municipal network resource. Ostensibly that would exclude porn.
The city government has decided to allow a vendor to distribute a service in the cities geographic area. This should sound familiar because it's the same arrangement they already have with whomever provides cable. Said cable service being another likely source of porn...
So... Cerritos is paying Aiirnet to set up Wi-Fi transmitters all over the city and Aiirnet will keep all the profits.
You are confused. The Cerritos city government is paying for 60 accounts. Ariinet is paying for the network.
What's in it for Cerritos?
I'm certain Cerritos will be very pleased with broadband becoming available locally. The citizens of Cerritos, that is. For whom the city government of Cerritos is employed...
Perhaps you meant "what's in it for the municipal government of Cerritos?" Several things;
1.) 60 inexpensive, mobile broadband accounts
2.) A healthy number of pleased voters
3.) Zero capital outlay to provide the above
You're desire to discover some iniquity on the part of Aiirnet is misplaced. Please resume whining about Ashcroft or some other equally meaningless activity.
Thanks.
The X server itself may not be bloated, but the XFree86 source distribution certainly is.
It's worse than that. I've ranted about this before. X applications are build on a lot of different toolkits. GTK and QT being only the most popular. So, anytime you start an X app that's based on a unique toolkit you hoist a pile of compiled binaries into RAM. Now you have more pages to shuffle, more code to thrash the cache, etc. This is compounded by the fact that because runtime libs are often not trusted by vendors the apps are built static.
Win32 GDI apps suffer the same problem but to a far smaller degree. Most Windows apps are up to date with the contemporary Windows control libraries so they cause the least possible memory usage for GUI purposes. Few GDI based apps are shipped as static builds.
How many X toolkits are in common usage anyhow? I mentioned GTK and QT (several versions of each, btw.) Athena, motif (several versions, many static builds, acrobat, et al), Xforms, Xaw, wxWin, etc., etc.
Did you know that in the 50's the Army almost decided not to use helicopters at all after about a hundred soldiers were killed during trials of the Piasecki helicopters? There were people in the Army who were screaming that it was criminal to keep putting men into helicopters.
It doesn't seem to have gotten much better. There is a reason the A-10 is in the US inventory; helicopters are flaky. Their slow at low altitude, big and soft. Rifle bullets will break things and make a mission very unpleasant.
After completing load testing of the rotor, the CRW will be ready for first flight, which is expected to occur by the end of 2002.
...wish'em luck!
The second link points to the above qoute. Page is out of date by almost a year.
Hmmm...
A more pressing problem that receives far too little attention is the issue of overpopulation. The ecological, economic, and social problems that will be caused by the uncontrolled growth of the human population have the potential to make global warming look like a walk in the park.
Exactly. Your prior scree about oil companies can be forgiven since you point this out. Population must stop growing so quickly. Everything else is a distant second. You can rape the first world of all it's wealth, stop all waste, eliminate all contaminants and none of it will matter, because when we make 20 billion of ourselves we're screwed.
The activists will go on whining about SUV's and western per capita energy consumption because it's a lot more fun to point the finger at wealthy people than it is to accuse the third world of overpopulation. The fact is that one of the few segments of the human race that isn't growing exponentially is wealthy westerners. For all their so-called evils, they've managed to figure out how to exist without having litters.
Census.gov projects a zero-immigration population growth from 2004-2100 of about 98 million. That's 35% over 96 years. Meanwhile, over here ones learns about the UN projecting a 300% increase in global population during the same period; about 15 gigapeople by 2100. That's if the average life expectancy doesn't go exponential...
Start talking about population first and I might be willing to listen when you want to talk about the mileage my car gets. Till then, fuck off.
I'm fed up with Sun. This company appears to be run by manic depressive children. In my opinion, the long term behavior of Sun can be paraphrased as "unprofessional and stupid." These people are consistently misdirecting themselves and others with their half-assed behavior.
On Java; How many more decades will Sun need before they figure out that attempting to collect license fees from Microsoft for Java is not a viable business model. Computer languages are not profitable because the market generally knows better than to invest in proprietary languages. Java should have been submitted to a public standards process long, long ago. Whatever technical justification that may have existed for not doing so is now moot. The market won't allow Sun to diverge Java significantly and, indeed, is already well ahead of Sun on many fronts (but limited by Suns ignorant selfishness, as if there might still be a big pot of gold out there, somewhere...)
On Linux; The on-again off-again love/hate nonsense with Linux is now simply understood. We take it for granted that Sun is ambiguous at best, and hostile at worst, towards Linux. Why? What is so special about Sun that this silly shit is tolerated?
And now, on Eclipse; Just another example of how not to behave. Why do they do this? Eclipse doesn't need Sun. If they don't know what their direction should be why do their open their mouths? Who or what is running the show at Sun? Why do they even care about Eclipse? They can't sell it! An inspired thinker might have realized that there is a vigorous and growing market for Eclipse plug-ins that Sun could sell (J2EE etc.,) but it's clear to me that this sort of adaptation and inspiration is well beyond anything you might accuse of Sun.
Die, Sun, die. Your hardware, software and business model are all obsolete outside shrinking niche markets. You have no clue about how to fix the problem and, in the meantime, you mess things up trying to beat a golden egg out of other people's gooses. Just another legacy UNIX vendor that is taking longer to die than most because they started later.
"Because thats exactly the kind of attitude toward the rest of the world that makes people like Osama Bin Laden fly planes into skyscrapers? People out there hate America and its policies toward foreigners. This sort of action is not going to win people over."
What would?
Between the trade deficit and foriegn aid the "rest of the world" already enjoys huge piles of US money. We're no longer expansionist (same 50 states most of last century with no prospects on the horizon.) What, exactly, could the US do to score happy points with Osama? Hell, we "made" the guy in Afghanistan, but lacked a reason to support his fanaticism to it's ultimate conclusion. Shame on us? Strong people have enemies. Metaphysical certainty.
It's really easy to understand this Euro-GPS thing; If that system provides an adversary with accurate navigation, it's dead. We'll kill it right off. In a war time posture we could rig up the necessary space artillery in short order (on the order or weeks) and remove those satellites. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that among our skunk-work assets is a shiny little high altitude launched satellite smasher. Reagan had it tested. So if Europe wants some assurance that's not going to happen, Europe had best cooperate, and they have.
Don't like it? Invade. Best just to get over it and chalk it up to the fact that the US makes the rules in western military matters. That policy has kept the western world at peace for two thirds of a century.
We've always been told that pirate games push prices up
A bunch of thieves (pirates) being lied to by a bunch of liars (publishers.) What's this "we" white man? I was never naive enough to believe what I have been "told" on this subject. What is said to discourage theft and what is done to sell products are two distinct matters.
but doesn't this news suggest that piracy in China has in fact pushed prices down?
This so called "news" suggests a lot of things, one of which is that publishers are attempting to establish themselves is a market on the hope that one day in the not too distant future that market will grow up and be worthwhile. It also suggests that, like the drug industry, there is a massive price differential between the US and everyone else. Of course, Chinese street vendors probably do not sell shelf space by the square centimeter, either. Much is suggested by this, and attributing all of it to the minor matter of thwarting piracy is either naive or dishonest.
The answer is: No. Michael's trollish editorializing is unnecessary.
Thanks for playing.
I'm using 2.1.x daily and it's great. Part of the greatness is that it's stable. I see a number of features in 3.0 that look useful. Are the M4-5 releases stable enough for general development use? I'll take a chance based on a credible answer, but otherwise I don't have the time to experiment and loose.
Thanks.
If you've ever seen two native Chinese or Japanese speakers talk to each other they frequently will "write" kanji in the air or on the palm of the other person's hand with their fingers because their spoken language is imprecise.
If this actually goes on, doesn't it behoove the victims to fix their language? What good does it do to have a language that can't be properly spoken? How does purely audio, such as radio (!), communication function? For better or worse, English essentially won the language war. It will take another century or so for that to set in fully, but it's a done deal. Just watch some si-fi; even the aliens have English nailed.
These were refugees
Indeed, they were refugees. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union and got pushed back by the Red Army, for some reason civilians felt the need to flee. Thus, they became "refugees." I'll bet the Russians had another name for them...
The 1,000 jobs created by this plant are a far cry from the 100,000 that were killed on Feb 13-15, 1945.
100,000 is on the high side and likely to be exaggeration. 1000 is on the low side. That's just the number of people directly employed by AMD.
The city of Dresden was basically annihilated by American and British allied forces in 3 days by 1250 sorties.
A few things could have been done to prevent the annihilation of Dresden (Hamburg suffered a similar fate.) Below I offer a few guidelines you may use:
1.) Don't invade France and other European countries.
2.) Don't invade the Soviet Union.
3.) Don't sink American supply ships.
4.) Don't bomb London.
If you follow my guidelines I can assure you that Dresden will go un-firebombed for the foreseeable future.
Thanks!
Fewer than 20 cases have been reported since 1919.
I'll bet you this "syndrome" gets popular. 20 cases in 80 years. You'll probably meet someone who claims to have it by 2006. We'll have FAS support groups and docu-dramas. Eventually some sort of new drug treatment will appear...
(without using Cywin)?
??
What's wrong with Cygwin. Not on the "approved" list? Unless that's the problem I wouldn't hesitate to use it; it's pretty darn solid today.
Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have computers in their rooms...
There is no way to prevent the access. There is no way to prevent desire. Acknowledge this and adapt. Teach ethics, treat people (including your kids) with respect, and behave honorably. Simple.
The alternatives suck.
does that bother you even if it was true?
Yes, it does. You wouldn't have had to ask if you had to intellect necessary to consider the topic of my post. If I want political spin of any stripe I have limitless, and far better, options other than Slashdot. I'd prefer to find "news for nerds" at this particular venue and what Gore Vidal knows about electronic voting is likely less than what the typical nerd knows about hot women.
are you unable to think for yourself?
I've forgotten more original thoughts than you'll ever have.
if you don't like it, don't visit.
I'm not welcome to criticize? How open minded of you. I prefer to counter this nonsense in the hope that I can help keep a lid on it.
PS. you're a fuckwit. Obviously.
Ouch. That hurt.
Slashdot hasn't been producing enough subtle leftist spin while michael has been out. Guess CT is trying to make up for it...
economy will not gain any boost
Please attempt to calculate the value-add of a product such as Eclipse. IBM handed that to the world for free. They did this because IBM is a smart, well run company that knows how to make itself valuable in the marketplace. Eventually they'll save a big wad of cash when they stop paying inflated prices for proprietary PBX hardware and maintenance, and in a small way that will eventually contribute to the next moral equivalent of Eclipse.
Linux advocacy, giving AMD Opteron a huge credibility boost, one of the best JVM implementations, a world class IDE for free... You geeks need to show IBM some love. They are one of the good guys.
As more and more of our traditional communications mediums move onto IP, won't it be easier for crackers to compromise these things?
At the scale IBM is talking about here; 900 PBXs worldwide, don't you think it's already closely mated to their IP network? How do you suppose they manage all those phones and voicemail? Who makes those PBXs and how well are they maintained? 10 year old firmware revisions and crappy 4 character universal passwords remotely accessible through unencrypted terminal emulation, probably. Half a dozen different vendors involved too, most likely.
Odds are the system is already vulnerable to anyone with marginal PBX technical expertise. At least now they'll have a very contemporary platform that is up-to-date and easy to keep that way.
Look, PBXs are the ultimate evolution of manual switchboards. It's legacy stuff and it needs to die. Moving low quality noise around does not justify proprietary hardware.
GCC will issue a warning for that one
The perpetrator knew this and enclosed the assignment with extra (). GCC would have said nothing.