See: Biodome. The failed movie or the failed experiment.
Biodome was a different kind of experiment. There, they were trying to create a self-sustaining Martian colony. The Russians are conducting a much simpler experiment...stick a bunch of people into a metal tube for year and a half and see if they go looney or not. From the article, it doesn't mention if the mission has to live on the same water or not, or a slowly dwindling food supply. But, that is probably secondary to the just-as-dangerous mental effects isolation being targeted for study.
If you work on PCs even infrequently this is a must have tool. Yea a multimeter is great but a) you need to know how to use it and b) you can push the probe into the wrong place and make a mess of things.
With hardware its usually bad psu, then bad memory, then bad caps.
Add in bad thermal to that mix. A suspect fan and too much heat can cause a lot of transient to Really Bad (tm) problems.
Grows anywhere? Doesn't need to be watered or fertilized? Sounds like a possible biomass for electricity production to me, and a cheap one. Maybe this plant could also be used to hinder desertification.
Not exactly. IE6 is part of Windows XP. If XP is supported, so is IE6. That's basically what TFA says.
And yeah, i really wish XP will have dignified death, not like NT4 - which is still around:(
What's wrong with NT4? By the time of SP6a, it was a mature, stable OS. The only reason my former company moved away from NT was due to lack of drivers for newer PCs. The OS was stable and the number of system crashes per month for 250 system was less than 5. We kept track to remind people of how bad the Macs were that we replaced, which was a MUCH higher number. This was back in the late 1990's.
And now, XP is a mature, stable OS worth keeping around. It will run on tiny video cards, relatively slow processors and enjoys a level of driver support that surpasses NT4 by a wide margin.
Vista is heralded as the next great OS, and turned out to be ME with an new interface.
Windows 7 is just a redress of the Vista kernal and with a few new tricks added.
I will stick with XP for another few years, thank you very much. I prefer stable and predictable over cutting-edge. Call it an economically-wise business decision...uptime = people working.
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Actually, you don't have to factor in battery replacements because GM is supplying the Volt with a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the Li batteries.
Doesn't this just shift the burden of pollution and disposal to a different party? The net effect is unchanged. Li-Ion batteries use a lot things that aren't good for the environment and a lot of energy to do so. Someone else is using more energy so you can use less. Net of zero.
Give me a TDI motor any day over this hybrid stuff.
So, instead of optimizing the vehicle to be just a launch system, they are creating additional revenue by adding in a passenger compartment. "Only $1,000 will get you a window seat where you can watch rich people fly into space!"
That panel of "scientists" is all about pushing the global conspiracy of man-made global warming, instead of acknowledging the solar activity cycle that has already been shown to follow the ups and downs of Earth's temp. Global Warming is a socialist conspiracy to thwart industry and send us back into the dark ages.
Mars is suffering global warming, too. Gee...I wonder why? And Pluto. Seems every planet in the Sol System is warming up. What is the one thing they all have in common? Al Gore invented them. No, wait, could it be the solar activity cycle?
Imagine the benefits to the environment if we could just figure out a way to melt the ice caps completely. Our greenhouse emissions would plummet!
Of course they would. Melt the ice caps, flood the most populated areas of the planet, and bingo - mankind's greenhouse gas emissions drop dramatically!
The arctic ice cap has ALREADY displaced the amount of water it currently contains. Melting it would have no additional effect on sea level. I, for one, welcome the removal of that troublesome ice sheet up north. For too long, the Suez and Panama Canals have stifled global competition. Just think of the fuel savings!
no offense, but someone like a surveyor needs to keep those sorts of notes as well. kind of hard to bring a printer and laptop into a swamp. Then theres rain, snow.. paper is still very useful!
Sometimes the ignorance of others professions on slashdot is mind blowing.
It's called a PDA. Many are very durable and some models can even resist being dropped in swamp water or the belly of an alligator. Larger versions are called ToughBooks, made by Panasonic, and can survive water, dropping, being run over, etc.
There is a computer size for every need. This is not say that I believe hand-writing is unimportant, as I doodle my ideas in a notebook by hand on a daily basis, but DEATH TO CURSIVE. Talk about a lazy form of handwriting! Carelessly swooping from letter to the next without regard to legibility. I write in print. I can write print as fast as many people can slop their cursive. And with more legible results.
The ignorance of some as to what technology can solve is mind-blowing.
The goal is not to create perfection, but gracefully recover from imperfection as if nothing happened. I see no problem with bolting on such features to the world's most common processing platform. We can all use such graceful recovery features, not just servers and "high-end" applications. Will the average use need an 8-core CPU? Probably not, but it certainly wouldn't hurt them, either. Intel then can trickle this down to the average user and help all of us support folks to have a nicer day.
Short of getting rid of users, let's at least minimize the problems they will suffer. When they have a good day, they leave ME alone to my machinations.
Those games you mentioned didn't utilize any 3D acceleration.
And here I thought Descent and Descent II was doing some actual 3D stuff. Their 2D stuff really fooled me, then. A testament to the quality of the game.
I remember the days of my trusty Matrox card playing Descent and Duke Nukem. Anything that ran on DOS seemed fast.
For shear enjoyment, Rise of the Triad and all of its 2D-ness still gets my vote for all-time game. Who can forget such classic weapons like the Drunk Missile and the Fire Wall? Just pray you don't cross into a hallway that someone had targeted with the firewall at the wrong time.
When we upgraded all of the computers up to XP (95, 98, NT and a couple of 2k systems), it involved the user getting a whole new PC, with a standard image built from scratch with a clean load of the OS and all apps and updates installed fresh. You only need to do the work ONCE. You clone it. Then roll the image onto each new PC.
For my company, we won't be upgrading to Vista or Win7. There simply is ZERO business case to do so at this time, and certainly no budget to afford the PCs required to run Vista or Win7.
Never accept shares. Not in today's market. The company can appreciate you more with greater pay, which you can then place into more secure investments like gold or the money market.
No, really, why? Windows already runs poorly with its default windowing interface. Why would I want to use up even more memory for a second windowing interface? No application is worth this layer of added complexity.
You must be new here.
Rule #2 of Slashdot posts is that they must be posted from the perspective of yourself being the center of the computer world. Otherwise, all of this is just mental masturbation.
Okay, the responses to inquiry have given some intriguing reasons. But, if I kill explorer.exe to just run KDE, then I can only run KDE apps. Are there enough KDE apps available to replace the Windows GUI full-time? If so, this becomes a very weird hybrid of Microsoft's kernal and FOSS that Microsoft never pondered...or feared.
But, then I would have to ask, why run Windows at all if you are going to be running all of these Linux apps? Wouldn't you get better performance and security by just using Linux as the base OS? And then use WINE for one or two Windows apps you just gotta have? Or VMplayer it?
No, really, why? Windows already runs poorly with its default windowing interface. Why would I want to use up even more memory for a second windowing interface? No application is worth this layer of added complexity.
By forcing people to switch now, it will force people to start purchasing.
You are aware that the American people have known about this switch for nearly two years now, right? I got my coupons and bought two boxes. Voila. Done. Back in January of 2008. And I have satellite TV! I was helping out family with multiple TVs.
But at the end of the day, Microsoft's PRODUCTS still aren't compelling -- Windows 7 main selling point is that it just doesn't work like shit -- and that appears to be good enough.
What they like in compel, they make up for in current dominance. If you require CAD/CAM software, you are stuck with Windows. Solid Edge, Microstation and AutoCAD will probably never have linux versions.
Though, I wonder if Sun has the clout and money to sponsor Solaris versions?
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See: Biodome. The failed movie or the failed experiment.
Biodome was a different kind of experiment. There, they were trying to create a self-sustaining Martian colony. The Russians are conducting a much simpler experiment...stick a bunch of people into a metal tube for year and a half and see if they go looney or not. From the article, it doesn't mention if the mission has to live on the same water or not, or a slowly dwindling food supply. But, that is probably secondary to the just-as-dangerous mental effects isolation being targeted for study.
If you work on PCs even infrequently this is a must have tool. Yea a multimeter is great but a) you need to know how to use it and b) you can push the probe into the wrong place and make a mess of things.
With hardware its usually bad psu, then bad memory, then bad caps.
Add in bad thermal to that mix. A suspect fan and too much heat can cause a lot of transient to Really Bad (tm) problems.
Grows anywhere? Doesn't need to be watered or fertilized? Sounds like a possible biomass for electricity production to me, and a cheap one. Maybe this plant could also be used to hinder desertification.
The main concern is carbon emissions, specifically carbon dioxide.
Repeat after me: CO2 is not pollution. You appear to have drank the global warming kool-aid.
Not exactly. IE6 is part of Windows XP. If XP is supported, so is IE6. That's basically what TFA says.
And yeah, i really wish XP will have dignified death, not like NT4 - which is still around :(
What's wrong with NT4? By the time of SP6a, it was a mature, stable OS. The only reason my former company moved away from NT was due to lack of drivers for newer PCs. The OS was stable and the number of system crashes per month for 250 system was less than 5. We kept track to remind people of how bad the Macs were that we replaced, which was a MUCH higher number. This was back in the late 1990's.
And now, XP is a mature, stable OS worth keeping around. It will run on tiny video cards, relatively slow processors and enjoys a level of driver support that surpasses NT4 by a wide margin.
Vista is heralded as the next great OS, and turned out to be ME with an new interface.
Windows 7 is just a redress of the Vista kernal and with a few new tricks added.
I will stick with XP for another few years, thank you very much. I prefer stable and predictable over cutting-edge. Call it an economically-wise business decision...uptime = people working.
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Actually, you don't have to factor in battery replacements because GM is supplying the Volt with a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the Li batteries.
Doesn't this just shift the burden of pollution and disposal to a different party? The net effect is unchanged. Li-Ion batteries use a lot things that aren't good for the environment and a lot of energy to do so. Someone else is using more energy so you can use less. Net of zero.
Give me a TDI motor any day over this hybrid stuff.
Now we're going to end up with Pepsi ads in orbit and hotels on the moon.
And this would be bad...how? Let the rich pay the way to future space colonization by the masses.
So, instead of optimizing the vehicle to be just a launch system, they are creating additional revenue by adding in a passenger compartment. "Only $1,000 will get you a window seat where you can watch rich people fly into space!"
The OP of the message I replied to made no reference to the ice sheets on land.
Next time, when you think you are about to be witty. Stop. Because you aren't.
That panel of "scientists" is all about pushing the global conspiracy of man-made global warming, instead of acknowledging the solar activity cycle that has already been shown to follow the ups and downs of Earth's temp. Global Warming is a socialist conspiracy to thwart industry and send us back into the dark ages.
Mars is suffering global warming, too. Gee...I wonder why? And Pluto. Seems every planet in the Sol System is warming up. What is the one thing they all have in common? Al Gore invented them. No, wait, could it be the solar activity cycle?
Imagine the benefits to the environment if we could just figure out a way to melt the ice caps completely. Our greenhouse emissions would plummet!
Of course they would. Melt the ice caps, flood the most populated areas of the planet, and bingo - mankind's greenhouse gas emissions drop dramatically!
The arctic ice cap has ALREADY displaced the amount of water it currently contains. Melting it would have no additional effect on sea level. I, for one, welcome the removal of that troublesome ice sheet up north. For too long, the Suez and Panama Canals have stifled global competition. Just think of the fuel savings!
no offense, but someone like a surveyor needs to keep those sorts of notes as well. kind of hard to bring a printer and laptop into a swamp. Then theres rain, snow.. paper is still very useful!
Sometimes the ignorance of others professions on slashdot is mind blowing.
It's called a PDA. Many are very durable and some models can even resist being dropped in swamp water or the belly of an alligator. Larger versions are called ToughBooks, made by Panasonic, and can survive water, dropping, being run over, etc.
There is a computer size for every need. This is not say that I believe hand-writing is unimportant, as I doodle my ideas in a notebook by hand on a daily basis, but DEATH TO CURSIVE. Talk about a lazy form of handwriting! Carelessly swooping from letter to the next without regard to legibility. I write in print. I can write print as fast as many people can slop their cursive. And with more legible results.
The ignorance of some as to what technology can solve is mind-blowing.
Which is more valuable to my company...
1) Telling someone to reboot yet again, maybe reimaging their system?
2) Plotting out the next roll-out of upgraded software, conference room technologies and responding to real emergencies, like malware issues?
Any monkey can reboot a computer. They don't pay me to be just any monkey, but a super monkey.
High-end, low-end, middle, um...end...whatever.
The goal is not to create perfection, but gracefully recover from imperfection as if nothing happened. I see no problem with bolting on such features to the world's most common processing platform. We can all use such graceful recovery features, not just servers and "high-end" applications. Will the average use need an 8-core CPU? Probably not, but it certainly wouldn't hurt them, either. Intel then can trickle this down to the average user and help all of us support folks to have a nicer day.
Short of getting rid of users, let's at least minimize the problems they will suffer. When they have a good day, they leave ME alone to my machinations.
Those games you mentioned didn't utilize any 3D acceleration.
And here I thought Descent and Descent II was doing some actual 3D stuff. Their 2D stuff really fooled me, then. A testament to the quality of the game.
I remember the days of my trusty Matrox card playing Descent and Duke Nukem. Anything that ran on DOS seemed fast.
For shear enjoyment, Rise of the Triad and all of its 2D-ness still gets my vote for all-time game. Who can forget such classic weapons like the Drunk Missile and the Fire Wall? Just pray you don't cross into a hallway that someone had targeted with the firewall at the wrong time.
Good times.
At least, mine doesn't.
When we upgraded all of the computers up to XP (95, 98, NT and a couple of 2k systems), it involved the user getting a whole new PC, with a standard image built from scratch with a clean load of the OS and all apps and updates installed fresh. You only need to do the work ONCE. You clone it. Then roll the image onto each new PC.
For my company, we won't be upgrading to Vista or Win7. There simply is ZERO business case to do so at this time, and certainly no budget to afford the PCs required to run Vista or Win7.
Never accept shares. Not in today's market. The company can appreciate you more with greater pay, which you can then place into more secure investments like gold or the money market.
No, really, why? Windows already runs poorly with its default windowing interface. Why would I want to use up even more memory for a second windowing interface? No application is worth this layer of added complexity.
You must be new here.
Rule #2 of Slashdot posts is that they must be posted from the perspective of yourself being the center of the computer world. Otherwise, all of this is just mental masturbation.
You should buy (2) 15-disk arrays. One for active use, the second for backups. At 15 disks, how quickly could one fill 28TB of space?
Okay, the responses to inquiry have given some intriguing reasons. But, if I kill explorer.exe to just run KDE, then I can only run KDE apps. Are there enough KDE apps available to replace the Windows GUI full-time? If so, this becomes a very weird hybrid of Microsoft's kernal and FOSS that Microsoft never pondered...or feared.
But, then I would have to ask, why run Windows at all if you are going to be running all of these Linux apps? Wouldn't you get better performance and security by just using Linux as the base OS? And then use WINE for one or two Windows apps you just gotta have? Or VMplayer it?
No, really, why? Windows already runs poorly with its default windowing interface. Why would I want to use up even more memory for a second windowing interface? No application is worth this layer of added complexity.
By forcing people to switch now, it will force people to start purchasing.
You are aware that the American people have known about this switch for nearly two years now, right? I got my coupons and bought two boxes. Voila. Done. Back in January of 2008. And I have satellite TV! I was helping out family with multiple TVs.
Slackers deserve to be left behind.
Thirdly, Obama has already made it clear that this White House is going to be much more transparant.
Your faith in a politician's ability to follow through with things they say is...naive, at best.
But at the end of the day, Microsoft's PRODUCTS still aren't compelling -- Windows 7 main selling point is that it just doesn't work like shit -- and that appears to be good enough.
What they like in compel, they make up for in current dominance. If you require CAD/CAM software, you are stuck with Windows. Solid Edge, Microstation and AutoCAD will probably never have linux versions.
Though, I wonder if Sun has the clout and money to sponsor Solaris versions?