The lease was the killer. When I lived in Kali, I had a 30 mile commute in each direction, and my office had several charging stations. I wanted one, but I NEVER lease cars. So I sat and waited for them to start actually selling them. They never did.:-(
So I have a 4 ton SUV that gets 18.5 mpg, and runs at least once in a while on converted vegetable oil. !!?!$! GM....
Texas has some interesting statutes. The late night flash mobs they do at "Evil CEO's" homes out in California would be considered "criminal mischief" and can be grounds for use of deadly force at night... But you'd end up in court for sure. How things progressed from there would depend on which county you were in. In Travis, they'd probably throw away the key. In Loving county, as acting DA, you'd decide not to prosecute yourself...
And certainly even that must be very short. Debconf actually asks you at install time if you want just one config file or a miriad.
Yep. Like 10 minutes... Followed by... Nope, don't feel like learning another MTA today. [Postfix,Sendmail, JES MS] works just fine... Which is part of the reason so many sites have stuck with Sendmail far longer that they should have. Once you understand it, it's relatively straight forward to setup. There's really only two problems with Sendmail: 1. It's generally insecure. 2. It's dog slow compared to JES MS' threaded MTA, Postfix, and (so I'm told) Exim.
Well see... Now a 12+ year sysadmin can learn a new thing now and then, even on Slashdot. My only experience with Exim is on Debian, and the "lots of little files" config just sent me off looking for my old sysadmin version of Doom(tm) where the monsters had pid numbers that got sent SIGKILL when killed... That was so much fun back in the day... Now we have all these ACL's and system logging. But I digress...
Don't forget UC Santa Cruz! We're closer to Silicon Valley than Berkeley.
A highschool friend of mine went there back in the 80's, and I used to drive down on the weekends to party with him.... Which is probably why I forgot UCSC...:-)
Ssssshhhhhh!!!! What do you want 'em all moving here!?!?!:-)
I've seen cyclists on loop 360, but they're nuts! For the non-Texans, you can see what we're talking about HERE
As for the weather... I saw much higher temps at my house in Livermore, CA. I'm sure Texas will make me eat those words eventually, but the last 2 years have been pretty nice.
Besides, the weather isn't the big demerit. That would be the allergies.;)
I keep waiting for mine to develop. I grew up in the east SF Bay. I moved over the hills in Dublin/Livermore, and I ended up almost trapped in my house for 6 weeks of the year. The grass pollen would give me asthma.
Having lived/worked in both, Austin seems to have some of the pieces. Throw in a bit of rich wildcatter oilman mentallity, and you're almost there. Sadly, The difference seems to be in the colleges. In the SF Bay area, you have Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara U., SJ State, Hayward state, SF state, and if you stretch a bit UC Davis and Sonoma state. Round this out with a first rate community college system, and it's a nerd factory. In Austin, UT is a good anchor, but it almost stands alone. St. Edwards, San Marcos state, and ACC don't fill the gaps anywhere near like the second/third string colleges in the SF Bay.
Oh... and the weather in Austin is just terrible. Riding your bike on loop 360 is just tortures the eyes and the body. Anyone that told you that Austin has a lake kind of like lake Shasta 20 minutes from downtown is just lying to you. Trust me... Y'all would just hate it.
Fact is, if that company WAS out of compliance, they'd be better served to get someone from MS in there to determine if they were or not because that's who is going to sue 'em.
Actually... Some would say that's why Microsoft should be the last choice. If they're going to spend $$ investigating, they're going to do everything they can to recover the cost of the investigation at the very least.
You can simulate it. There's a couple PDP-11 simulators that you can run on Linux that will actually boot V7 Unix images. I had it running back in 1996 or so... Always amusing to tie it to port 23 and leave it on the net for the script kiddies to play with....
True! A 300 baud acoustic modem is a must. In the late 70's and early 80's, these were just barely legal. You leased you phone from "ma bell", and were not supposed to attach unapproved devices to "their wiring". The acoustic coupler skirted these rules quite effectively.
I don't know if the PDP-8 and 11 qualify as microcomputers; I always thought they were minis, but they sure were great boxes.
I have a Heathkit badged PDP-11/03 sitting at my parents house. It's no bigger than the original IBM PC, though I admit, I don't have a 8-inch dual disk unit that is supposed to be paired with it. The bigger Unibus machines were mini's. I'd consider the Q-Bus systems to be micros.
The Heathkit version is rather rare, I wonder if I need to find a collection to donate it to...
But... Any technological advancement applies to FWD as well. It's sort of like the old serial vs. parallel debate. I.e. "anything you can do with a serial bitstream, I can do n times faster in parallel". (from a day when men were men, and signal voltages were 5 volts... None of this fragile 1.7 volt stuff... but I digress...) Generating your mechanical energy at one end of the car, and moving it to the other end for application to the road surface is going to carry a weight penalty.
What you really want is a mid-engine car, like a early-80's MR2. How that little gem ever made it off the drawing board and into production is anyone's guess. We won't mention it's GM ripoff/clone... LOL!
Sorry to hear about your west Texas experience. The golfball sized stuff is uncommon. I've been here two years, and I've only seen it twice. But the problem is, you can't really predict it. We got a storm in the Austin area a few days ago that coughed up some 5 inch (yes, 12+ cm!) skull crackers. They'll go right thru your windshield. I would not want to be on a moped or motorcycle in a Texas hailstorm.
RWD adds too much weight. Go down to a junk yard, and find the main drive shaft, and rear axle housing (stripped, less the diff, axles, brake plates, etc...) of a compact pickup truck like a Ford Ranger, Mazda B2000, or a Chevy S10. That's weight that simply doesn't exist in a FWD car.
You don't live in a city where it snows in winter, do you. Bikes and snow do not mix, but once you get three or four wheels for stability, it's another matter entirely.
I was just thinking about the softball sized hail we got the other day... It doesn't really snow in my part of Texas, but we can get some serious life threataning hail.
I believe its enforced under contract law. Basicly, you agreed to the contract when you purchase the property.
I am highly critical of HOA's and CC&R's. I have no need of another unaccountable layer of government. As a Ham Radio operator, the antenna restrictions alone drive me away from new housing. But most HOA's I've seen also take an interest in all kinds of mundane activities, right down to how tall the lawn is in millimeters. I have no interest in owning a piece of land with these kind of restrictions. But this is all they build now days.
I'm not sure why he's singling out Sun here. I bet he hasn't sent Sun a donation for continued NFS development. In case he hasn't noticed Scott McNealy isn't swimming in a vault like Scrooge McDuck these days. Sun is loosing money. It has been loosing money for years. If an employee asks a 1st level manager at Sun to pony up some travel money, the answer is "no". According to insiders I know, it's been that way for years. They're in business to make money, and they're aggressively managing their expenses. If you ask an upper level manager for some travel money, and then publicly kick them in the balls... I'm guessing even tactless Theo can guess what the answer is!!
Theo's personallity defects are coming home to roost... His project is having financial problems because he doesn't have the people skills to succeed. It should serve as a lesson to other coders. Coding skill only gets you so far. Spend some time at a Toastmaster's. Learn to analyze the motivations of others without tainting them with your own desires/wishes/motivations. Sadly... This is where most coders fail.
Uhh... No. One of the nice things about hot fusion is you can pull the energy straight out of the plasma. No tea kettle... no turbines... just one hell of a mad beer keg, and a bunch of wire.
California is simply a mess. I am so glad I moved out of there.
Same here. Non-sensical stuff like this happens far too often in California. 5 generations was enough... I decided I didn't want to raise my kids there.
Or, in short, while you avoid the messy step of a reactor - you still have a large and difficult (and messy) industrial process. (I.E. nation state level, not terrorist groups.)
Which is bad enough. The question is, does this take it from being a nation state level threat confined to a dozen powerful players, down to a nation state threat within reach of nearly every nation harboring the desire?
You're also assuming that some kind of bomb device is the end goal. This doesn't need to be the case. You can neutron activate many common materials. I used U->Pu as an example because it has the most obvious use. But dirty weapons could be made from almost anything.
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The lease was the killer. When I lived in Kali, I had a 30 mile commute in each direction, and my office had several charging stations. I wanted one, but I NEVER lease cars. So I sat and waited for them to start actually selling them. They never did.
So I have a 4 ton SUV that gets 18.5 mpg, and runs at least once in a while on converted vegetable oil. !!?!$! GM....
Texas has some interesting statutes. The late night flash mobs they do at "Evil CEO's" homes out in California would be considered "criminal mischief" and can be grounds for use of deadly force at night... But you'd end up in court for sure. How things progressed from there would depend on which county you were in. In Travis, they'd probably throw away the key. In Loving county, as acting DA, you'd decide not to prosecute yourself...
And certainly even that must be very short. Debconf actually asks you at install time if you want just one config file or a miriad.
Yep. Like 10 minutes... Followed by... Nope, don't feel like learning another MTA today. [Postfix,Sendmail, JES MS] works just fine... Which is part of the reason so many sites have stuck with Sendmail far longer that they should have. Once you understand it, it's relatively straight forward to setup. There's really only two problems with Sendmail: 1. It's generally insecure. 2. It's dog slow compared to JES MS' threaded MTA, Postfix, and (so I'm told) Exim.
Well see... Now a 12+ year sysadmin can learn a new thing now and then, even on Slashdot. My only experience with Exim is on Debian, and the "lots of little files" config just sent me off looking for my old sysadmin version of Doom(tm) where the monsters had pid numbers that got sent SIGKILL when killed... That was so much fun back in the day... Now we have all these ACL's and system logging. But I digress...
Bleh.... That's supposed to be easier to configure?
Don't forget UC Santa Cruz! We're closer to Silicon Valley than Berkeley.
A highschool friend of mine went there back in the 80's, and I used to drive down on the weekends to party with him.... Which is probably why I forgot UCSC...
Ssssshhhhhh!!!! What do you want 'em all moving here!?!?! :-)
I've seen cyclists on loop 360, but they're nuts! For the non-Texans, you can see what we're talking about HERE
As for the weather... I saw much higher temps at my house in Livermore, CA. I'm sure Texas will make me eat those words eventually, but the last 2 years have been pretty nice.
Besides, the weather isn't the big demerit. That would be the allergies. ;)
I keep waiting for mine to develop. I grew up in the east SF Bay. I moved over the hills in Dublin/Livermore, and I ended up almost trapped in my house for 6 weeks of the year. The grass pollen would give me asthma.
Here in Texas, I have almost no allergies at all.
Yet!!!
Having lived/worked in both, Austin seems to have some of the pieces. Throw in a bit of rich wildcatter oilman mentallity, and you're almost there. Sadly, The difference seems to be in the colleges. In the SF Bay area, you have Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara U., SJ State, Hayward state, SF state, and if you stretch a bit UC Davis and Sonoma state. Round this out with a first rate community college system, and it's a nerd factory. In Austin, UT is a good anchor, but it almost stands alone. St. Edwards, San Marcos state, and ACC don't fill the gaps anywhere near like the second/third string colleges in the SF Bay.
Oh... and the weather in Austin is just terrible. Riding your bike on loop 360 is just tortures the eyes and the body. Anyone that told you that Austin has a lake kind of like lake Shasta 20 minutes from downtown is just lying to you. Trust me... Y'all would just hate it.
Do a quick survey of major world power/cultures that will be extinct in 100 years. Large swaths of Europe, and Japan will urecognizable.
Wow! Do you really think your union brothers are going to approve of your giving away your labor for free!?!?! Ha!
Fact is, if that company WAS out of compliance, they'd be better served to get someone from MS in there to determine if they were or not because that's who is going to sue 'em.
Actually... Some would say that's why Microsoft should be the last choice. If they're going to spend $$ investigating, they're going to do everything they can to recover the cost of the investigation at the very least.
If it were me, I'd prefer a neutral third party.
You can simulate it. There's a couple PDP-11 simulators that you can run on Linux that will actually boot V7 Unix images. I had it running back in 1996 or so... Always amusing to tie it to port 23 and leave it on the net for the script kiddies to play with....
True! A 300 baud acoustic modem is a must. In the late 70's and early 80's, these were just barely legal. You leased you phone from "ma bell", and were not supposed to attach unapproved devices to "their wiring". The acoustic coupler skirted these rules quite effectively.
I don't know if the PDP-8 and 11 qualify as microcomputers; I always thought they were minis, but they sure were great boxes.
I have a Heathkit badged PDP-11/03 sitting at my parents house. It's no bigger than the original IBM PC, though I admit, I don't have a 8-inch dual disk unit that is supposed to be paired with it. The bigger Unibus machines were mini's. I'd consider the Q-Bus systems to be micros.
The Heathkit version is rather rare, I wonder if I need to find a collection to donate it to...
But... Any technological advancement applies to FWD as well. It's sort of like the old serial vs. parallel debate. I.e. "anything you can do with a serial bitstream, I can do n times faster in parallel". (from a day when men were men, and signal voltages were 5 volts... None of this fragile 1.7 volt stuff... but I digress...) Generating your mechanical energy at one end of the car, and moving it to the other end for application to the road surface is going to carry a weight penalty.
What you really want is a mid-engine car, like a early-80's MR2. How that little gem ever made it off the drawing board and into production is anyone's guess. We won't mention it's GM ripoff/clone... LOL!
Sorry to hear about your west Texas experience. The golfball sized stuff is uncommon. I've been here two years, and I've only seen it twice. But the problem is, you can't really predict it. We got a storm in the Austin area a few days ago that coughed up some 5 inch (yes, 12+ cm!) skull crackers. They'll go right thru your windshield. I would not want to be on a moped or motorcycle in a Texas hailstorm.
RWD adds too much weight. Go down to a junk yard, and find the main drive shaft, and rear axle housing (stripped, less the diff, axles, brake plates, etc...) of a compact pickup truck like a Ford Ranger, Mazda B2000, or a Chevy S10. That's weight that simply doesn't exist in a FWD car.
You don't live in a city where it snows in winter, do you. Bikes and snow do not mix, but once you get three or four wheels for stability, it's another matter entirely.
I was just thinking about the softball sized hail we got the other day... It doesn't really snow in my part of Texas, but we can get some serious life threataning hail.
I'm somewhat disappointed in Linus' tone. Having said that... This just begs a response from Theo...
Time to go make some popcorn.
I believe its enforced under contract law. Basicly, you agreed to the contract when you purchase the property.
I am highly critical of HOA's and CC&R's. I have no need of another unaccountable layer of government. As a Ham Radio operator, the antenna restrictions alone drive me away from new housing. But most HOA's I've seen also take an interest in all kinds of mundane activities, right down to how tall the lawn is in millimeters. I have no interest in owning a piece of land with these kind of restrictions. But this is all they build now days.
I'm not sure why he's singling out Sun here. I bet he hasn't sent Sun a donation for continued NFS development. In case he hasn't noticed Scott McNealy isn't swimming in a vault like Scrooge McDuck these days. Sun is loosing money. It has been loosing money for years. If an employee asks a 1st level manager at Sun to pony up some travel money, the answer is "no". According to insiders I know, it's been that way for years. They're in business to make money, and they're aggressively managing their expenses. If you ask an upper level manager for some travel money, and then publicly kick them in the balls... I'm guessing even tactless Theo can guess what the answer is!!
Theo's personallity defects are coming home to roost... His project is having financial problems because he doesn't have the people skills to succeed. It should serve as a lesson to other coders. Coding skill only gets you so far. Spend some time at a Toastmaster's. Learn to analyze the motivations of others without tainting them with your own desires/wishes/motivations. Sadly... This is where most coders fail.
Uhh... No. One of the nice things about hot fusion is you can pull the energy straight out of the plasma. No tea kettle... no turbines... just one hell of a mad beer keg, and a bunch of wire.
California is simply a mess. I am so glad I moved out of there.
Same here. Non-sensical stuff like this happens far too often in California. 5 generations was enough... I decided I didn't want to raise my kids there.
Or, in short, while you avoid the messy step of a reactor - you still have a large and difficult (and messy) industrial process. (I.E. nation state level, not terrorist groups.)
Which is bad enough. The question is, does this take it from being a nation state level threat confined to a dozen powerful players, down to a nation state threat within reach of nearly every nation harboring the desire?
You're also assuming that some kind of bomb device is the end goal. This doesn't need to be the case. You can neutron activate many common materials. I used U->Pu as an example because it has the most obvious use. But dirty weapons could be made from almost anything.