600,000 bats.... That's roughly one colony the size of the IH-35 McNeil overpass in Round Rock, Texas. Spread out over a whole year, and a lot more land mass than even the entire state of Texas.
Ok, the major "workstation" & server distro's patched. How about the embedded distro's? OpenWRT? DD-WRT? Do you run OpenVPN on your router? Does it even depend on GNUtls?
How about the hundreds of other embedded distro's? Bank ATMs?
Yea, we'll get used to having beurecrats make decisions regarding our famililies heathcare. I mean, having the IRS target the businesses of political opponents is nothing compared to denying Grandma her hip replacement because you voted for the wrong candidate.
Conveniently after the mid-term elections, where frustration with this trainwreck might reflect badly on those in power... One Turkish professor said "He talks like the president of the ACLU, and governs like Dick Cheney."
How does this help? On all systems you can connect to the IPMI if you have root on the box. Then some have a built in telnet/ssh client. So not so hard to get into another IPMI instance on another box.
On shared chassis servers (blades, etc...) you may have common I2C sensor busses, and IPMB... This often includes the ability to send commands to the other blades in the chassis. You can do this even if there's no management networking configured.
Again, you must be running with a different crowd than I am. Even my technically-minded friends, while not incensed when discussing this subject, don't feel it's a big problem. They usually want the faster processor or better graphics in a few years anyway. I do have a couple of friends who like to make their tech buys last as long as possible, and it's that type of personality that cares about this, by and large. It's been my experience that the general population gets it, but has bigger things to worry about.
Those of us with mortgages & kids have to keep budgets, etc... Apple maintains a 5 year cycle on supporting products. Let's put a figure on it:
Apple laptop $1500 Apple Desktop $1200 iPad $600 iPhone $130 (contract) *2 (3yr cycle)
I freely admit I pulled these numbers out of my head. The desktop & laptops figures are amalgams of the product lines, and the iPad & iPhone include some accessories you ALWAYS end up walking out of the store with. Screen protectors, cases, etc...
Total: $3560 / 5 years... $712/yr to live the Apple life. Those 5 year update/support cycles and the corresponding lack of freedom they include become remarkably sharply defined after you've lived thru a few of them. My wife and I love Apple products, and they do tend to last, but we're getting ready to leave the orchard, at least for desktop/laptops. The coupling between expensive closed phones/tablets and "partially closed and getting worse rapidly" desktops/laptops is simply too expensive. I can sync my phone/pad to Windows running in a VBox VM on Linux.
Cluster munitions are remarkably effective against small wooden and fiberglass boats, as are 20mm CWIS / F-18 gun rounds. But as someone mentioned... the USS Stark provides a pretty good look at the survivability of the US Navy's smaller ships. The bigger ones are even more formidable. You're not going to put a hole in a cruiser or capital ship with something carried by a Donzi. You need a 500lb shaped warhead just to scratch the paint, and then all you're going to do is make the crew really really mad.
The Apollo J-2 was designed to restarted way back in 1967, as was the Aerojet AJ-10 from the late 1950's.
AJ-10 variants were used for both the Apollo SM engine, and the Shuttle OMS pods. They were designed to remain fueled for long periods of time and be re-ignightable. This is a solvable problem.
Salvage 1 was actually a TV series... I remember its cancellation being one of my first introductions to the stupid inner workings of network TV as a pre-teen... The funny thing is... Completely out of the blue, I remembered that show today, but I was trying to remember it's name, and here you brought it up of Slashdot... Thanks!
It doesn't seem to be available on Hulu or Netflix, so I can't go back and see how corny it probably was...
I got the opportunity to buy one back in the 80's, and couldn't pass it up. But I hate to disappoint you, it was just a linear power supply and a Q-bus backplane kit. The PDP-11/03 board, memory card, and serial interface were all straight from the DEC plant.
That said... It ate TRS-80 model 1's for breakfast!:)
It sounds like they are assuming that they just happened to grab one of the oldest pieces of rock on the moon, or that the moon solidified all at once and there were never any later events (volcanoes, large body collisions). If you happened to grab the wrong piece of rock on Earth, say from a recently-erupted volcano, you would determine that the earth was only about a week old...
True. The problem is actually a bit more complex. The system needs to remain "closed". Each radiometric dating method has a different set of circumstances under which it will remain "closed. K-Ar begins getting reset by heating to temp achievable in your kitchen. Rb/Sr requires a much more substantial heating event. The minerals in a single specimen can yield different dates. This can happen when for example a zircon in a granite gets "recycled" via subduction and re-erupted.
Earth is rife with examples. Kistler found that Lamoille canyon region of the Ruby Mts. had been partially "reset" by a post formation heating event, with K/Ar and Nd/Sm and Rb/Sr yielding different dates. Fleck examined some Siderites from the Idaho region that yielded Rb/Sr dates several multiples of the age of the universe. They had been "washed" by hydrothermal fluids, profoundly altering the ratio. In each case the geochronologist used the geologic principals to reconstruct the history and deduce the correct age, and appropriateness of the method to the sample.
On the Moon, we lack such history. With only one exception, the astronauts were not geologists. They did not have the time to explore in enough detail to gather the needed info. They mostly wandered around and collected stuff on the surface. These samples could have been ejecta from a late arriving meteorite, or partially reset by some similar means.
Does anyone have a problem with governments spending money trying to model ways to "nudge" our personal behavior? I'm all for sound city planning, etc... But this seems to dive headlong in to limiting freedoms. I'm not comfortable with any government getting this up close and personal with me. I already have a wife that nags me about exercise...
I have an open mind, show me a body of work with even 10% of the depth, breadth, and diversity, and I will gladly concede that there is good reason the worlds experts on the topics (many topics) touched by this issue.
The body of work has some holes in it. The debate is far from over, as this paper demonstrates.... But... The real problem is the proposed solutions. The proposals create a global framework that is so strict and so rigid that it requires the creation of a global government to enforce it. In order to be effective, such a government would require teeth. No regional or national government is willing to place themselves under such a regime, and individual people are often horrified at the thought of having yet another government they can run afoul of. One that is completely antagonistic, necessarily undemocratic, and unresponsive to their wishes.
Which is why nothing is going to get done about it. Learn to swim.
Well, currently the diesel price is close to a dollar more per gallon than regular gasoline. There are regular gas cars that get roughly the same mileage as this chevy claims to get so I doubt it will sell well.
At the moment, diesel and regular unleaded is about the same in central Texas. Your state may have a different tax rate on diesel.
If Oracle own the copyright, which I believe they now do, they don't have to release any future versions under the GPL. Obviously if you can find an existing GPL copy, you can continue to use it, and you can fork it, but you can't rely on Oracle to support it or update it in the future.
But if that's the case.... Can you link it to the GPL Linux kernel?
If all the homes for sale are HOA and the people actually want non-HOA houses, the first developer to offer a non-HOA house will make huge bucks. Developers aren't going to leave money on the table like that. You have a problem that you cannot believe others have a different preference than yours -- that people like HOAs (the majority of them, not the vocal minority) and will actually pay more for a house governed by an HOA.
The only illusion here is yours -- thinking that you know better than everyone else what they actually want. I hope that no one takes that attitude with you and what you want (although it would be sort of ironically just).
You're leaving out an interested third party. The local government. The HOA is the vehicle for the local government to enact regulations they could not muster the political will for, or are otherwise prohibited from enacting. So they use the development & planning commission to collude with the developers and enact regulations with zero-democratic input. That's how you get "no flag pole", and "vegetables are unsuitable" regulations past the court system. For the homebuyer, it's an agreed to private contract, all dressed up as a feature (which you've bought into apparently). But the fact is, the city/county wouldn't allow the developer to build without them.
What does free speech and liberals have to do with any of my posts? I never said I was for liberals, or against. And I never said I was against free speech. I said specifically I'm against the Tea Party, and that specific type of conservatism, because they are destructive to the nation itself.
In all fairness... I was pointing out the amusing positions taken by others elsewhere. However, I can't say I've reviewed every post you've made here. You're quite prolific... So much so, that it might be amusing to screen scrape this discussion and do a post / word count frequency analysis and figure out how fast you type. I mean... If the numbers are too high, you'd be exposed as an organized multi-person astroturf effort... I suspect in the end it would show just 1 guy working his shift...
You certainly got your message out... "The Tea Party is extreme!!! Be Afraid!!!!" I feel all put upon... But hey... I live in Texas. You know, that Tea Party stronghold that's home to 1 in 12 Americans, and sizable fraction of the jobs created since the '08 election... That's certainly destructive to... Hmmm.... Your political goals maybe?
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Who would mod this nonsense up? Inflation was 1.8% or so in 2013.
Where have you been? Food prices are up more than 10% since January...
600,000 bats.... That's roughly one colony the size of the IH-35 McNeil overpass in Round Rock, Texas. Spread out over a whole year, and a lot more land mass than even the entire state of Texas.
Ok, the major "workstation" & server distro's patched. How about the embedded distro's? OpenWRT? DD-WRT? Do you run OpenVPN on your router? Does it even depend on GNUtls?
How about the hundreds of other embedded distro's? Bank ATMs?
Apple just like Microsoft is out to make a profit. Hate Microsoft all you like but they had a clear road map for expiration of support.
If Apple was really out to profit from OS X, they'd sell it for use on non-Apple hardware.
News for Nerds? Really?
Yea, we'll get used to having beurecrats make decisions regarding our famililies heathcare. I mean, having the IRS target the businesses of political opponents is nothing compared to denying Grandma her hip replacement because you voted for the wrong candidate.
Conveniently after the mid-term elections, where frustration with this trainwreck might reflect badly on those in power... One Turkish professor said "He talks like the president of the ACLU, and governs like Dick Cheney."
How does this help? On all systems you can connect to the IPMI if you have root on the box. Then some have a built in telnet/ssh client. So not so hard to get into another IPMI instance on another box.
On shared chassis servers (blades, etc...) you may have common I2C sensor busses, and IPMB... This often includes the ability to send commands to the other blades in the chassis. You can do this even if there's no management networking configured.
Again, you must be running with a different crowd than I am. Even my technically-minded friends, while not incensed when discussing this subject, don't feel it's a big problem. They usually want the faster processor or better graphics in a few years anyway. I do have a couple of friends who like to make their tech buys last as long as possible, and it's that type of personality that cares about this, by and large. It's been my experience that the general population gets it, but has bigger things to worry about.
Those of us with mortgages & kids have to keep budgets, etc... Apple maintains a 5 year cycle on supporting products. Let's put a figure on it:
Apple laptop $1500
Apple Desktop $1200
iPad $600
iPhone $130 (contract) *2 (3yr cycle)
I freely admit I pulled these numbers out of my head. The desktop & laptops figures are amalgams of the product lines, and the iPad & iPhone include some accessories you ALWAYS end up walking out of the store with. Screen protectors, cases, etc...
Total: $3560 / 5 years... $712/yr to live the Apple life. Those 5 year update/support cycles and the corresponding lack of freedom they include become remarkably sharply defined after you've lived thru a few of them. My wife and I love Apple products, and they do tend to last, but we're getting ready to leave the orchard, at least for desktop/laptops. The coupling between expensive closed phones/tablets and "partially closed and getting worse rapidly" desktops/laptops is simply too expensive. I can sync my phone/pad to Windows running in a VBox VM on Linux.
Cluster munitions are remarkably effective against small wooden and fiberglass boats, as are 20mm CWIS / F-18 gun rounds. But as someone mentioned... the USS Stark provides a pretty good look at the survivability of the US Navy's smaller ships. The bigger ones are even more formidable. You're not going to put a hole in a cruiser or capital ship with something carried by a Donzi. You need a 500lb shaped warhead just to scratch the paint, and then all you're going to do is make the crew really really mad.
Another vote for Linode. I've been with them for years. Highly recommended.
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The Apollo J-2 was designed to restarted way back in 1967, as was the Aerojet AJ-10 from the late 1950's.
AJ-10 variants were used for both the Apollo SM engine, and the Shuttle OMS pods. They were designed to remain fueled for long periods of time and be re-ignightable. This is a solvable problem.
Sure, try to download from ther SVN.
More than 20Gbytes, their server has a _crappy_ connection, it could last weeks...
So you're saying their QoS really works? :)
Salvage 1 was actually a TV series... I remember its cancellation being one of my first introductions to the stupid inner workings of network TV as a pre-teen... The funny thing is... Completely out of the blue, I remembered that show today, but I was trying to remember it's name, and here you brought it up of Slashdot... Thanks!
It doesn't seem to be available on Hulu or Netflix, so I can't go back and see how corny it probably was...
Which is why I don't buy games that use Steam...
I got the opportunity to buy one back in the 80's, and couldn't pass it up. But I hate to disappoint you, it was just a linear power supply and a Q-bus backplane kit. The PDP-11/03 board, memory card, and serial interface were all straight from the DEC plant.
That said... It ate TRS-80 model 1's for breakfast! :)
It sounds like they are assuming that they just happened to grab one of the oldest pieces of rock on the moon, or that the moon solidified all at once and there were never any later events (volcanoes, large body collisions). If you happened to grab the wrong piece of rock on Earth, say from a recently-erupted volcano, you would determine that the earth was only about a week old...
True. The problem is actually a bit more complex. The system needs to remain "closed". Each radiometric dating method has a different set of circumstances under which it will remain "closed. K-Ar begins getting reset by heating to temp achievable in your kitchen. Rb/Sr requires a much more substantial heating event. The minerals in a single specimen can yield different dates. This can happen when for example a zircon in a granite gets "recycled" via subduction and re-erupted.
Earth is rife with examples. Kistler found that Lamoille canyon region of the Ruby Mts. had been partially "reset" by a post formation heating event, with K/Ar and Nd/Sm and Rb/Sr yielding different dates. Fleck examined some Siderites from the Idaho region that yielded Rb/Sr dates several multiples of the age of the universe. They had been "washed" by hydrothermal fluids, profoundly altering the ratio. In each case the geochronologist used the geologic principals to reconstruct the history and deduce the correct age, and appropriateness of the method to the sample.
On the Moon, we lack such history. With only one exception, the astronauts were not geologists. They did not have the time to explore in enough detail to gather the needed info. They mostly wandered around and collected stuff on the surface. These samples could have been ejecta from a late arriving meteorite, or partially reset by some similar means.
Has to run as a privileged user... That's the show stopper for me. Clearly, someone hasn't done their homework. So I'm afraid I will not be joining.
Does anyone have a problem with governments spending money trying to model ways to "nudge" our personal behavior? I'm all for sound city planning, etc... But this seems to dive headlong in to limiting freedoms. I'm not comfortable with any government getting this up close and personal with me. I already have a wife that nags me about exercise...
I have an open mind, show me a body of work with even 10% of the depth, breadth, and diversity, and I will gladly concede that there is good reason the worlds experts on the topics (many topics) touched by this issue.
The body of work has some holes in it. The debate is far from over, as this paper demonstrates.... But... The real problem is the proposed solutions. The proposals create a global framework that is so strict and so rigid that it requires the creation of a global government to enforce it. In order to be effective, such a government would require teeth. No regional or national government is willing to place themselves under such a regime, and individual people are often horrified at the thought of having yet another government they can run afoul of. One that is completely antagonistic, necessarily undemocratic, and unresponsive to their wishes.
Which is why nothing is going to get done about it. Learn to swim.
Well, currently the diesel price is close to a dollar more per gallon than regular gasoline. There are regular gas cars that get roughly the same mileage as this chevy claims to get so I doubt it will sell well.
At the moment, diesel and regular unleaded is about the same in central Texas. Your state may have a different tax rate on diesel.
If Oracle own the copyright, which I believe they now do, they don't have to release any future versions under the GPL. Obviously if you can find an existing GPL copy, you can continue to use it, and you can fork it, but you can't rely on Oracle to support it or update it in the future.
But if that's the case.... Can you link it to the GPL Linux kernel?
Tempest in a teapot...
If all the homes for sale are HOA and the people actually want non-HOA houses, the first developer to offer a non-HOA house will make huge bucks. Developers aren't going to leave money on the table like that. You have a problem that you cannot believe others have a different preference than yours -- that people like HOAs (the majority of them, not the vocal minority) and will actually pay more for a house governed by an HOA.
The only illusion here is yours -- thinking that you know better than everyone else what they actually want. I hope that no one takes that attitude with you and what you want (although it would be sort of ironically just).
You're leaving out an interested third party. The local government. The HOA is the vehicle for the local government to enact regulations they could not muster the political will for, or are otherwise prohibited from enacting. So they use the development & planning commission to collude with the developers and enact regulations with zero-democratic input. That's how you get "no flag pole", and "vegetables are unsuitable" regulations past the court system. For the homebuyer, it's an agreed to private contract, all dressed up as a feature (which you've bought into apparently). But the fact is, the city/county wouldn't allow the developer to build without them.
Job theft, a Texas pastime.
At least we pay federal taxes... Unlike when jobs are off-shored.
What does free speech and liberals have to do with any of my posts? I never said I was for liberals, or against. And I never said I was against free speech. I said specifically I'm against the Tea Party, and that specific type of conservatism, because they are destructive to the nation itself.
In all fairness... I was pointing out the amusing positions taken by others elsewhere. However, I can't say I've reviewed every post you've made here. You're quite prolific... So much so, that it might be amusing to screen scrape this discussion and do a post / word count frequency analysis and figure out how fast you type. I mean... If the numbers are too high, you'd be exposed as an organized multi-person astroturf effort... I suspect in the end it would show just 1 guy working his shift...
You certainly got your message out... "The Tea Party is extreme!!! Be Afraid!!!!" I feel all put upon... But hey... I live in Texas. You know, that Tea Party stronghold that's home to 1 in 12 Americans, and sizable fraction of the jobs created since the '08 election... That's certainly destructive to... Hmmm.... Your political goals maybe?