All go straight to my spam assassin auto-learn.
On my homepage I have a link to "jsmith@etoyoc.com". John Smith doesn't exist on my system. He, and his home page, are just a honeypot for email spiders.
When is the last time you saw a new species of organism spontaneously burst out from a garage?
Evolution has to work with available materials. The most satisfying human endeavors are those for which there was not precident. While the occasional mutation does happen, they have to be distributed throughout a population before they can do any good.
Part of the reason the human body is such a mess is that at some point we had to bounce back from extinction with a very small gene pool. Along the road to recovery we lost the ability to manufacture a whole host of amino acids and protiens that we now have to obtain from our food and/or suppliment with vitamins.
We are only one of a few mammals that doesn't produce it's own Vitamin C.
The irony is, an American name "Demming" invented the whole buisness improvement through quality control mantra. When he couldn't get an audience here, he taught the Japanese.
In the original theatrical release of Das Boot, you never saw outside the craft. You lived the clasterphobic terror of WWII submarine warfare.
(Of course the director's cut went off and added a whole bunch of cheasy plastic model in a green tank of water shots. Bastards.)
Frankly, you don't really need to see the face of your enemy in a space battle. They are a blinking set of lights a few kilometers away. It's just a question of turning that blinking set of lights into a fireball before they turn you into one.
If I had to beat on a horserace between Sony and Microsoft, I would go for the company who invented the Walkman, and who actually has a history manufacturing successful lines of home electronics as well as computers. Microsoft is known for 2 products: Office and Windows, with the X-Box running a distant 3rd.
3 Products, versus a company that is practically and industry unto itself. Sony designs it's own damn microprocessors!
Magnetic feilds are generated by the movement of electrical current. When current moves along a wire, a magnetic field is generated perpendicular to that wire. When you make a tube of wire, the normals overlap in a away that produced a magnetic field of a specific direction, and only if you use alternating current.
It's the winds in the wire, and the changes in the direction of the current, that produce a magnetic field, not the distance.
What a superconductor buys you is the ability to reflect magnetic fields.
I prefer the idea of making a fleet of massive spacecraft out of asteroid material, and then setting off to explore the rest of the Universe, albeit slowly.
You don't really mind the journey to another solar system taking 40,000 years if you bring the rest of your civilization with you.
Space is a giant vacuum. Material sucked up into space and carried away at speeds approaching that of the light tend to "disappear." It didn't really disappear, of course. It's either joined the mishmash of matter between solar systems, or has slowed down and joined the orbit of another.
How can Microsoft optimize it's business process. Well, they do manufacture a whole lot of... oh wait, they just make software (and Co-Brand or outsource hardware.)
Well they could stop trying to be evil, and pull an Apple. Adopt a BSD/Linux/Unix core and build a candy interface around. Spend your R&D where it counts: where your customer sees the result.
Technolgy has matured to the point that we don't really need an "Insanely GREAT!" improvement every 3 years. In fact, the upgrade cycles sucks the life out of any return on investment computers are supposed to bring about.
Pestilance retired after WWII, muttering something about "penicillin". He has since been replaced by Pollution. Famine's latest endeavor is diet fads. You can starve to death at a table full of low-carb, sugar-free, no-calorie goodness.
Geez. I would have figured that Dell would've shipped them with slackware. After having to play with their stone-age RAID management software, I figured they went with the most primative things possible.
They have to pull the information from somewhere, a file server, a database, a website. Each of those systems will happily log who took what from where, when, how, and how much.
Most administrators don't use said logging facilities, but they are available if you know how to configure your servers properly.
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All go straight to my spam assassin auto-learn. On my homepage I have a link to "jsmith@etoyoc.com". John Smith doesn't exist on my system. He, and his home page, are just a honeypot for email spiders.
Considering they are lobbing weapons back and forth with multi-megaton yields, do you really want to be 6k away?
Evolution has to work with available materials. The most satisfying human endeavors are those for which there was not precident. While the occasional mutation does happen, they have to be distributed throughout a population before they can do any good.
Part of the reason the human body is such a mess is that at some point we had to bounce back from extinction with a very small gene pool. Along the road to recovery we lost the ability to manufacture a whole host of amino acids and protiens that we now have to obtain from our food and/or suppliment with vitamins.
We are only one of a few mammals that doesn't produce it's own Vitamin C.
The irony is, an American name "Demming" invented the whole buisness improvement through quality control mantra. When he couldn't get an audience here, he taught the Japanese.
(Of course the director's cut went off and added a whole bunch of cheasy plastic model in a green tank of water shots. Bastards.)
Frankly, you don't really need to see the face of your enemy in a space battle. They are a blinking set of lights a few kilometers away. It's just a question of turning that blinking set of lights into a fireball before they turn you into one.
3 Products, versus a company that is practically and industry unto itself. Sony designs it's own damn microprocessors!
Magnetic feilds are generated by the movement of electrical current. When current moves along a wire, a magnetic field is generated perpendicular to that wire. When you make a tube of wire, the normals overlap in a away that produced a magnetic field of a specific direction, and only if you use alternating current.
It's the winds in the wire, and the changes in the direction of the current, that produce a magnetic field, not the distance.
What a superconductor buys you is the ability to reflect magnetic fields.
Let settle for 200 million years and serve...
You don't really mind the journey to another solar system taking 40,000 years if you bring the rest of your civilization with you.
Space is a giant vacuum. Material sucked up into space and carried away at speeds approaching that of the light tend to "disappear." It didn't really disappear, of course. It's either joined the mishmash of matter between solar systems, or has slowed down and joined the orbit of another.
I think you have been observing Uranus for too long.
That said, we did nickname our daughter space baby. Little did I know...
Well if she grows up to be some sort of supergenious I'll blame it on my genes anyway.
Well X-Box is a start. They are getting market penetration 2 years too late, and Sony is starting to whet the public's apetite for the PS3.
Money shifts like sand.
You see, you add up this column, and then reduce by this column and we go from making an ASSLOAD of money, to makeing a HEAPING assload of money.
And Odds are there is going to be a major bugfix for Excel out in the next few weeks...
Those days of double digit growth are over unless you start marketing for the third world.
Unless of course they are top-heavy in the VP of VP department. Overlycompensated execs do tend to skew stats.
Well they could stop trying to be evil, and pull an Apple. Adopt a BSD/Linux/Unix core and build a candy interface around. Spend your R&D where it counts: where your customer sees the result.
Technolgy has matured to the point that we don't really need an "Insanely GREAT!" improvement every 3 years. In fact, the upgrade cycles sucks the life out of any return on investment computers are supposed to bring about.
Pestilance retired after WWII, muttering something about "penicillin". He has since been replaced by Pollution. Famine's latest endeavor is diet fads. You can starve to death at a table full of low-carb, sugar-free, no-calorie goodness.
I wonder what their market is?
Geez. I would have figured that Dell would've shipped them with slackware. After having to play with their stone-age RAID management software, I figured they went with the most primative things possible.
The article I read inquirer.net didn't say if the machine was for whoreporate or home use.
It would have been, but they unmasked a new release of GLIBC and QT...
Most administrators don't use said logging facilities, but they are available if you know how to configure your servers properly.