Comment Re:Right (Score 1) 653
and don't forget Lucent. She's an idiot peddling for votes. I do however agree with what she's saying on this set of topics however.
and don't forget Lucent. She's an idiot peddling for votes. I do however agree with what she's saying on this set of topics however.
with the 49th worst median income in the US, I doubt anybody in West Virgina will be able to afford a Tesla anyway.
In a state where coal is king, you ban the direct sale of electric cars.
It's called taking pride in what you do and having the passion to do it. When dumb shits in management crack down on these kinds of things it's time to find another company to work for.
why my towns start starving? i keep building farms, gathering and hunting lodges yet starvation. fix that first!
This is the fundamental flaw with bureaucratic thinking. Define metrics, design criteria but let the contractor build it. This is why government projects are so fucking expensive. Rules, Laws, Legislators and stupidity get in the way of innovation.
I don't care how bad or tangled the logic but as long as it's not using Hungarian notation, It's good.
Nostalga. I used to have a beer fridge sitting inside of an old S/370 system cabinet. Sure it took up 20 times the space but it was still cool to look at in the garage.
The 8 was a great system but the 11 was far better.
Just checking ebay, this guy selling the 8E is smoking something. He thinks it's a mainframe.
However this PDP-11 can be had for a reasonable price.
The point being, you can run emulation software on commodity hardware but I guess as the TFA indicates he wanted the nostalgia look. He could have easily just mounted an LEDs behind the panel with small pattern generator circuit instead of using the Pi.
it's problematic, but first you'd have to define the conditions and variables. How much power, how far, resistance. Certainly a technical challenge but it wouldn't be insurmountable.
"Taco Bell, Taco Bell, product placement Taco Bell, Echirito, Macho Burrito" - Master Tang "Kung Pow"
Why is it that we keep getting more product placement "articles" on Slashdot?
ever hear of electric trains such as the TGV or the Acela? Power distribution would still be problematic along long stretches between the usual power distribution points in cities etc.
IMO this is an example of exclusive dealing arrangements and restricting free trade.
Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
From that, $100 mil is a slap on the wrist, wait, a mosquito bite for Apple.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/we...
Exclusive dealing agreements require a retailer or distributor to purchase exclusively from the manufacturer. These arrangements make it difficult for new sellers to enter the market and find prospective buyers, thus depressing competition. However, because companies widely-use requirements contracts, which essentially are exclusive dealing agreements, for purposes that promote competition, exclusive dealing arrangements only face rule of reason scrutiny..
Section 2 makes illegal a firm's refusal to deal with another firm if the refusing firm refuses for the purpose of trying to monopolize the market. Meanwhile, section 1 prohibits a group from refusing to deal with a particular firm. A group refusal to deal is known as a group boycott. Because of seemingly contradictory Supreme Court decisions over the years, the question of whether group boycotts are subject to the rule of reason or a per se rule has been left murky.
Apple with it's walled garden can certainly dictate who's allowed in but I think there could be legal grounds for challenging that in court. Sure Apple can say "we're protecting our customers" but at the same time they're restricting competition and free access to markets, namely the app store.
I have a lot of Internet facing applications and it's becoming more and more apparent that certain nations, China for one, are constantly scanning or trying to break into systems. We've been leveraging mod_geoip/geoip2 etc. for awhile but that's at my point of presence. When are we going to start filtering IP addresses or subnets from nations where this kind of activity is permitted? It's a matter of national security but I don't see much in the way that the Patriot act or any act is really protecting intellectual property and websites from these kinds of coordinated efforts not just spying on citizens? I would much rather see a substantial amount of NSA resources focused on that problem rather than worrying of about who I send e-mails to.
When we all agree to the same rules.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
