Tell us what is wrong with his assumptions - Almost any Linux distribution has web server, mail server, firewall, spam filter, database serving, storage serving, print serving, you name it right out of the box. Please tell us what features Microsoft Home Server has that are not available for free and already in widespread use on the net under Linux.
What idiot posts a leak and used his/her real name? And how stupid is Microsoft for punishing everyone named Richard when it could have been a Joe, Mary, Ted, or whoever that actually did the posting?
Maybe there is no "Anonymous Coward" option.
Microsoft is such a stupid company. (Well, stupid in how they treat people - like their customers - not in how they gouge for money.) I enjoy every news story about this or that company/country switching to Linux. And I love how Linux is a real challenge to Microsoft. And I hope Linux buries Microsoft.
Don't think it can happen? How many people said Linux would never be user friendly or have a decent GUI interface? It's happened and it's now. And you can also run many of the considered "essential" Microsoft apps in Linux without a bit of Windows thanks to apps like Crossover Office. About the only thing Linux is missing is really good support for the Windows-based games. Give that time too.
Microsoft is a sinking ship. Slowly, but the leaks are there and the pumps are failing.
Secrecy is a bad thing. Secrecy is how the unscroupulous commit crimes, fraud, manipulate the system to advantage, etc.
Who give a flying flip how many computers Google uses? The secret is in how they are run. A law that hides power use is a setup for the Oklahoma government to attract a big business to the state while having ratepayers subsidize Google. It's essentially a tax.
I guarantee the other half of this story is how big of a discount Google will get for electricity.
But if I leave my computer unsecured and someone else uses it to cause harm to third parties, I'm in the clear.
You would think the legal case could also be made to hold Microsoft liable for stolen personal information, illegal charges to credit cards, raided bank accounts, etc., when known but unpatched (i.e. no patch available) exploits to their software allow people's computers to be compromised.
I learned to do assembly programming a long time ago and it has been paying me back ever since. Knowing at least a little about what a program really does on the inside give you a huge advantage when it comes to debugging, trying to write tight code, and especially when working in the embedded world. Actually, in the embedded world, knowing electronics and how things like analog-to-digital converters work also pays off big time. Having insight into the guts of what is really going on can't be overstated as how valuable it is and the only way people will appreciate that is when they themselves see how valuable it is for them.
That you can see from all the people posting that say the same thing.
You are the one that doesn't understand. There is no "wind" in space to carry away the earth's heat. Your analogy is utter doggy poo. You should try learning about things before you make a fool of yourself.
Is the scientific basis for saying it should be happening.
The simple fact is that carbon dioxide has an extremely strong infrared absorbance and will act like the glass panes of a greenhouse. Very effectively.
It's about the same as knowing there is gravity so you can predict an apple will fall when released.
Couple that with knowing humans are spewing billions of tons of it into the atmosphere - with rates of release increasing every day - and you have a very solid basis to say that the effects of global warming will get stronger. Period.
You can argue all you want that the weather conditions people are seeing now are not global warming. And maybe they aren't. But global warming is happening and the trends will be for stronger effects.
How strong those effects are and will be can be debated, but the fact that they are coming cannot.
Didn't read the original post well, did you? I said if the CD is good enough I will buy it. I am not going to go pay ten times what an iTunes song costs if all I want is just one song. You may want to do that and if that works for you, great. But I don't.
So I buy singles, burn, and rip. Oh my God! As another poster said that makes me a "traitor"?
A thief and a traitor? You aren't taking your medication, are you?
I do run Linux. I also run OSX and Windows. I also have an MP3 player - that is not an iPod. It doesn't play the native iTunes format. So I buy single songs on my Mac, burn them to CD, and then rip them so I can play them on my MP3 player.
Oh God! That makes me a thief and a traitor? Get a life.
iTunes is extremely convenient. If I want just a song off of an album, I'll pick it up from Apple. But I also burn all the songs to a CD and then rip them back at high quality into mp3's.
Yeah - I know there is a slight loss in quality from ripping directly from the CD but for the cost savings, I can deal. And by ripping at high bit rates, you don't get near as much of the artifacts.
If an album is good enough I'll buy it and rip that. But for a song or two, it's iTunes, burn, and rip. Works great.
And I couldn't be happier. It beats the heck out of the AppleWorks package that came with it and keeps me fully compatible with OpenOffice on my Linux boxes.
The growth and milk production hormones in milk and milk products have been linked to earlier menstruation and earlier breast development in girls. Growth hormones in milk and meat have been linked to obesity in the people that consume them.
There is a reason people are turning away from hormone-pumped animal products - it's because they are bad for you.
Uh, by responding to their fat-grabbing siren call to bulk up and make milk. There is a reason little girls menstruate and develop breasts earlier than they used to.
There has been a lot of backlash over the growth hormones in meat and milk. It's why so many "organic" products are hitting the shelves. It does make a difference.
I just don't buy it that people's genetic makeup has changed that much in just a few decades that we are now turning out little fat farm children. It's too convenient of an excuse. Exercise and diet are two big factors that also govern obesity. As others pointed out, sedentary sweet-eating children become sedentary sweet-eating and fat teenagers and adults.
But a factor not so many know about are all the hormones injected into animals and added to their food so they get nice, fat, and juicy faster and on less food. Humans also respond to a lot of those hormones. Just the way the animals do.
Try enabling the mingle function on your Miis and have your friends do the same. If their Wii codes are in properly you'll start seeing their Miis show up in the Mii channel and they will see yours.
Didn't seem to change much that you noticed, that is. Microsoft has been gradually adding DRM and anti-piracy tidbits which all slow down the system and tend to phone home.
I've seen it a number of times - many system admins recommend wiping and reinstalling Windows on a yearly basis as it clogs up with various installers, viruses, adware, spyware, basic junk, etc.
Microsoft heralded Vista as a "new" OS but the word out these days is it's just a flashier XP with more nag dialogs, etc. Maybe it won't be as likely to benefit from yearly fresh installs, but if it does, anyone doing the "upgrade" version will be forced to slog through two installs instead of just one and entering a previous authorization code.
Full installations also require reinstalling all of your applications. Not on the first but definitely on the second for Vista. So be prepared for reinstalling all of your applications and two operating systems yearly. Not my idea of an easy to maintain OS.
Maybe Norton will be able to Ghost a full backup so the pain only happens once, but do people really want to buy and sequester another hard drive just to store a backup image? And go through keeping track of and applying all the interim patches to make the sequestered image up to date? I know you might also be able to partition but that puts the backup at risk running on the same computer and doesn't address the patches issue.
Anyone who thought Linux was hard to administer might want to look again now that Microsoft has decided to come out with their own version of "New Coke".
Somebody made a conscious decision to do it this way. You have to wonder what they were thinking.
"We're Microsoft and we can do as we damn well please because few of our customers know they have options?"
I do wish that more people would move to Linux and/or that Apple would port their OSX to PCs. (which I believe Apple has expressed no or little interest) If Microsoft had more real competition, they wouldn't be so smug and willing to hang their own customers by the short and curlies.
But the ISS is metal which will do a lot of shielding of little high-speed electrons and such.
The Rutan craft are composite. They will shield some of the radiation but not nearly as much as the ISS shell.
The earth's magnetic field redirects a lot of particles and basically concentrates them at the magnetic poles. The aurora is just the electrons coming down guided by the magnetic lines of force and smashing into atmospheric atoms/molecues and exciting them to give off light.
But that's the rub - there are a whole lot more of them at lower altitudes at the aurora than say, at the equator.
I would want to run a bunch of dosimeters for different kinds of radiation of different energies up on a flight into the aurora before I took people up. I don't trust a composite shell to block as much.
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Tell us what is wrong with his assumptions - Almost any Linux distribution has web server, mail server, firewall, spam filter, database serving, storage serving, print serving, you name it right out of the box. Please tell us what features Microsoft Home Server has that are not available for free and already in widespread use on the net under Linux.
Come on. You know you can't.
What idiot posts a leak and used his/her real name? And how stupid is Microsoft for punishing everyone named Richard when it could have been a Joe, Mary, Ted, or whoever that actually did the posting?
Maybe there is no "Anonymous Coward" option.
Microsoft is such a stupid company. (Well, stupid in how they treat people - like their customers - not in how they gouge for money.) I enjoy every news story about this or that company/country switching to Linux. And I love how Linux is a real challenge to Microsoft. And I hope Linux buries Microsoft.
Don't think it can happen? How many people said Linux would never be user friendly or have a decent GUI interface? It's happened and it's now. And you can also run many of the considered "essential" Microsoft apps in Linux without a bit of Windows thanks to apps like Crossover Office. About the only thing Linux is missing is really good support for the Windows-based games. Give that time too.
Microsoft is a sinking ship. Slowly, but the leaks are there and the pumps are failing.
I bet everyone is breathing easier now, huh?
Secrecy is a bad thing. Secrecy is how the unscroupulous commit crimes, fraud, manipulate the system to advantage, etc.
Who give a flying flip how many computers Google uses? The secret is in how they are run. A law that hides power use is a setup for the Oklahoma government to attract a big business to the state while having ratepayers subsidize Google. It's essentially a tax.
I guarantee the other half of this story is how big of a discount Google will get for electricity.
But thinking that evolution isn't supported by evidence, or isn't widely accepted by scientists, is just plain ignorance.
Not it's not. It's just plain stupidity.
I am very afraid for this country. This is like the Dark Ages Part II.
But if I leave my computer unsecured and someone else uses it to cause harm to third parties, I'm in the clear.
You would think the legal case could also be made to hold Microsoft liable for stolen personal information, illegal charges to credit cards, raided bank accounts, etc., when known but unpatched (i.e. no patch available) exploits to their software allow people's computers to be compromised.
Welcome our new botnet overlords...
I learned to do assembly programming a long time ago and it has been paying me back ever since. Knowing at least a little about what a program really does on the inside give you a huge advantage when it comes to debugging, trying to write tight code, and especially when working in the embedded world. Actually, in the embedded world, knowing electronics and how things like analog-to-digital converters work also pays off big time. Having insight into the guts of what is really going on can't be overstated as how valuable it is and the only way people will appreciate that is when they themselves see how valuable it is for them.
That you can see from all the people posting that say the same thing.
You are the one that doesn't understand. There is no "wind" in space to carry away the earth's heat. Your analogy is utter doggy poo. You should try learning about things before you make a fool of yourself.
Is the scientific basis for saying it should be happening.
The simple fact is that carbon dioxide has an extremely strong infrared absorbance and will act like the glass panes of a greenhouse. Very effectively.
It's about the same as knowing there is gravity so you can predict an apple will fall when released.
Couple that with knowing humans are spewing billions of tons of it into the atmosphere - with rates of release increasing every day - and you have a very solid basis to say that the effects of global warming will get stronger. Period.
You can argue all you want that the weather conditions people are seeing now are not global warming. And maybe they aren't. But global warming is happening and the trends will be for stronger effects.
How strong those effects are and will be can be debated, but the fact that they are coming cannot.
Didn't read the original post well, did you? I said if the CD is good enough I will buy it. I am not going to go pay ten times what an iTunes song costs if all I want is just one song. You may want to do that and if that works for you, great. But I don't.
So I buy singles, burn, and rip. Oh my God! As another poster said that makes me a "traitor"?
You people need to lighten up.
A thief and a traitor? You aren't taking your medication, are you?
I do run Linux. I also run OSX and Windows. I also have an MP3 player - that is not an iPod. It doesn't play the native iTunes format. So I buy single songs on my Mac, burn them to CD, and then rip them so I can play them on my MP3 player.
Oh God! That makes me a thief and a traitor? Get a life.
Certainly - I would like for iTunes to deliver un-DRM'ed music as MP3's.
But they don't. So I just do what I said I do. It isn't hard and it works.
iTunes is extremely convenient. If I want just a song off of an album, I'll pick it up from Apple. But I also burn all the songs to a CD and then rip them back at high quality into mp3's.
Yeah - I know there is a slight loss in quality from ripping directly from the CD but for the cost savings, I can deal. And by ripping at high bit rates, you don't get near as much of the artifacts.
If an album is good enough I'll buy it and rip that. But for a song or two, it's iTunes, burn, and rip. Works great.
And I couldn't be happier. It beats the heck out of the AppleWorks package that came with it and keeps me fully compatible with OpenOffice on my Linux boxes.
Thanks, OpenOffice!
The growth and milk production hormones in milk and milk products have been linked to earlier menstruation and earlier breast development in girls. Growth hormones in milk and meat have been linked to obesity in the people that consume them.
There is a reason people are turning away from hormone-pumped animal products - it's because they are bad for you.
Uh, by responding to their fat-grabbing siren call to bulk up and make milk. There is a reason little girls menstruate and develop breasts earlier than they used to.
And don't forget an olde English favorite - the donut toss... ;-)
There has been a lot of backlash over the growth hormones in meat and milk. It's why so many "organic" products are hitting the shelves. It does make a difference.
I just don't buy it that people's genetic makeup has changed that much in just a few decades that we are now turning out little fat farm children. It's too convenient of an excuse. Exercise and diet are two big factors that also govern obesity. As others pointed out, sedentary sweet-eating children become sedentary sweet-eating and fat teenagers and adults.
But a factor not so many know about are all the hormones injected into animals and added to their food so they get nice, fat, and juicy faster and on less food. Humans also respond to a lot of those hormones. Just the way the animals do.
Try enabling the mingle function on your Miis and have your friends do the same. If their Wii codes are in properly you'll start seeing their Miis show up in the Mii channel and they will see yours.
Didn't seem to change much that you noticed, that is. Microsoft has been gradually adding DRM and anti-piracy tidbits which all slow down the system and tend to phone home.
Our new lateral line-using fish overlords.
I've seen it a number of times - many system admins recommend wiping and reinstalling Windows on a yearly basis as it clogs up with various installers, viruses, adware, spyware, basic junk, etc.
Microsoft heralded Vista as a "new" OS but the word out these days is it's just a flashier XP with more nag dialogs, etc. Maybe it won't be as likely to benefit from yearly fresh installs, but if it does, anyone doing the "upgrade" version will be forced to slog through two installs instead of just one and entering a previous authorization code.
Full installations also require reinstalling all of your applications. Not on the first but definitely on the second for Vista. So be prepared for reinstalling all of your applications and two operating systems yearly. Not my idea of an easy to maintain OS.
Maybe Norton will be able to Ghost a full backup so the pain only happens once, but do people really want to buy and sequester another hard drive just to store a backup image? And go through keeping track of and applying all the interim patches to make the sequestered image up to date? I know you might also be able to partition but that puts the backup at risk running on the same computer and doesn't address the patches issue.
Anyone who thought Linux was hard to administer might want to look again now that Microsoft has decided to come out with their own version of "New Coke".
Somebody made a conscious decision to do it this way. You have to wonder what they were thinking.
"We're Microsoft and we can do as we damn well please because few of our customers know they have options?"
I do wish that more people would move to Linux and/or that Apple would port their OSX to PCs. (which I believe Apple has expressed no or little interest) If Microsoft had more real competition, they wouldn't be so smug and willing to hang their own customers by the short and curlies.
But the ISS is metal which will do a lot of shielding of little high-speed electrons and such.
The Rutan craft are composite. They will shield some of the radiation but not nearly as much as the ISS shell.
The earth's magnetic field redirects a lot of particles and basically concentrates them at the magnetic poles. The aurora is just the electrons coming down guided by the magnetic lines of force and smashing into atmospheric atoms/molecues and exciting them to give off light.
But that's the rub - there are a whole lot more of them at lower altitudes at the aurora than say, at the equator.
I would want to run a bunch of dosimeters for different kinds of radiation of different energies up on a flight into the aurora before I took people up. I don't trust a composite shell to block as much.