The odds are good that "fossil fuels" don't actually come from fossils, rather they're from hydrocarbons that pre-existed the formation of the earth, which means we're probably not going to run out of them.
Um....if they prexisted the formation of the earth, but they're in the earth now, where would they be coming from that "we're probably not going to run out of them"?? Unless there's some wormhole down there in the bowels of the planet, their origin doesn't affect their finite nature, only the possibility that our estimates of their quantities are wrong.
"The Difference which makes no Difference is no Difference."
There are two points on which Linux "competes" with more traditional Unixes: price and features. Features are trivial to port back to traditional Unix, should one of the vendors decide that API stability is no longer of any interest to customers (hint: this is not yet the case as far as I've seen). That leaves price.
"the harrowing experience lasted 10 minutes" coming as it does AFTER the discussion of the sledgehammer would normally mean either 1) it took 10 minutes for the sledgehammer part of the story to occur or 2) it took 10 minutes for the entire experience. This is based on normal rules of grammar, and there is no reason to presume that it took 10 minutes to attract attention and longer for everything else based on the way this story was written.
"We couldn't breathe because there was no air," he added.
I have not yet met the car that was utterly and completley sealed. And there's a lot of air in the passenger space of even a small sports car, and this was a "luxury car". See below for more reasons why, even if it were completley sealed, this is totally stupid. Even if they mean no air conditioning, I can't imagine in the time this occurred it got so hot they couldn't breathe.
To draw attention, the minister and his driver waved frantically at passers-by. The incident ended only after a nearby security guard smashed the car's windows with a sledgehammer.
Even with the heavy-duty tool, Suchart said it took a long time to break the windows as the "glass proved to be very resistant".
The harrowing experience lasted about 10 minutes, he said.
Let's see "it took a long time.... about 10 minutes". What exactly is wrong with this statement? Certainly 10 minutes is longer than you expect for a sledgehammer to go through glass, but even so, that's NOT really a long time. Certainly not enough time to asphyxiate. Can you say complete panic?
IBM's business model is in a very large part selling services. They could pay customers to run Linux, and they'd make up the difference in services. Unfortunately (or not), Sun is not the 800 lb gorilla, and currently has shown no interest in becoming "everything to all people" in the same way that IBM does through IGS etc.
IBM's business model isn't "share and share alike" it's "the first hit is free (as in beer)".
Why would you want to pay through nose for a proprietary,
I suppose conforming to open API's doesn't count?
no-support,
I daresay Sun's support is broader and better than Red Hat's any day.
closed source *nix
So your real problem is that Sun doesn't give away all of their IP for free then, right? Sorry, but not everyone believes that the communal ideal of share and share alike is a viable business model.
Some of the military IS using Trusted Solaris. Right now, however, it's a seperate Solaris release. In Solaris 10 or whatever the name is going to be, it is supposed to be integrated.
On the net, no one knows you're a dog. Or an American. Just becaues the Dalton McGuinty quote amuses the holy hell out of me, doesn't mean I live there. I absolutely am an American and I vote, and I write my congresscritters.
Been said before, but bears repeating: EVERY time I have written my senator to say "don't do this stupid thing" I get back a form letter saying "this stupid thing is the right thing and I'm glad I stood up for it". Enough of that and you either stop caring or go postal.
Interestingly, PKD was very positive about the screenings he saw of the movie before his death. So faithful adaptation might not even be what the author wanted.
You know, they tried this crap ages ago at Chiat Day. It failed miserably there amongst wildly creative types. They're doing it at Sun, and while they claim it's a success, it mostly seems to succeed in the breach (i.e. people who aren't forced to move from office to office weekly). I will say it works well for people who have to migrate from one geographic office to another for some period of time, but for people who go to the same office for more than a week at a stretch it's a huge pain. People are territorial as well as social, and if you don't give them territories they will create them. Usually in unexpected and counterproductive ways.
Add that to firing people who don't work well in the new system (hm, sounds like an excuse for a targetted RIF if you ask me), and it's an all around lousy way to do business.
What I don't get is why he wasn't charged with indecent conduct, posession of child pornography, and left at that? The theft of communications doesn't seem like it's that significant in the overall scope of this moron's behavior.
Although they may rule the very high-end, Sun/Sparc/Solaris sucks ass at average and low-end.
And that's why the best performance for your dollar in the low end, 100GB and 300GB databases, were a Sun V440 and V250, right? Did you even bother reading what I wrote, or the data available at the TPC site? The V880 was no slouch in price/performance for the Terabyte TPC either.
It's not even good price per unit (Sun wins on the cost per unit in the lower sized tests, 100 GB & 300 GB respectively are $28 & $28 US), this result was nearly $160 US per unit once you do the currency conversion. That puts this result at the 4th most expensive per unit it its class, and smack in between the two most powerful raw solutions in its cost per unit, both of them being Fujitsu Sparc running Solaris, one being $185 US per unit and the other being $141.
Someone remind me why Sun, Sparc, and Solaris are obsolete compared to Linux on Intel?
My favorite one was pumping gas at an Amoco/BP station with the fancy new web enabled pumps. Imagine my suprise when I select my gas type, and have a big java backtrace dump all over the screen. The good news was that the pump had already recognized my selection and I was able to pump my gas. When I was done and "hung up" the handle, the screen reset itself.
I should mention that the harassment described did not come from anyone responsible for pushing the recruits, but rather from his fellow recruits. Aside from that, honestly, I think he would have made a lousy soldier; nonetheless, I don't think allowing fellow recruits to harass and beat on him was appropriate.
Regardless, the Military is a poor comparison point for school. Military does have a legimitate interest in the indoctrination to harsh circumstances. School does not, certainly not when it comes to the harassment and intimidation aspects under discussion.
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Um....if they prexisted the formation of the earth, but they're in the earth now, where would they be coming from that "we're probably not going to run out of them"?? Unless there's some wormhole down there in the bowels of the planet, their origin doesn't affect their finite nature, only the possibility that our estimates of their quantities are wrong.
There are two points on which Linux "competes" with more traditional Unixes: price and features. Features are trivial to port back to traditional Unix, should one of the vendors decide that API stability is no longer of any interest to customers (hint: this is not yet the case as far as I've seen). That leaves price.
Price isn't a technical difference.
And the rest of the point was that 10 minutes is not "a long time".
Yes, I am a grammar nazi, thank you.
"We couldn't breathe because there was no air," he added.
I have not yet met the car that was utterly and completley sealed. And there's a lot of air in the passenger space of even a small sports car, and this was a "luxury car". See below for more reasons why, even if it were completley sealed, this is totally stupid. Even if they mean no air conditioning, I can't imagine in the time this occurred it got so hot they couldn't breathe.
To draw attention, the minister and his driver waved frantically at passers-by. The incident ended only after a nearby security guard smashed the car's windows with a sledgehammer.
Even with the heavy-duty tool, Suchart said it took a long time to break the windows as the "glass proved to be very resistant".
The harrowing experience lasted about 10 minutes, he said.
Let's see "it took a long time.... about 10 minutes". What exactly is wrong with this statement? Certainly 10 minutes is longer than you expect for a sledgehammer to go through glass, but even so, that's NOT really a long time. Certainly not enough time to asphyxiate. Can you say complete panic?
Ok, so it's too tiny to really recognize unless you've already been scarred, but it was still a traumatic flashback.
IBM's business model isn't "share and share alike" it's "the first hit is free (as in beer)".
Oh, but the Barber kicked ass! A-hort.
Why would you want to pay through nose for a proprietary,
I suppose conforming to open API's doesn't count?
no-support,
I daresay Sun's support is broader and better than Red Hat's any day.
closed source *nix
So your real problem is that Sun doesn't give away all of their IP for free then, right? Sorry, but not everyone believes that the communal ideal of share and share alike is a viable business model.
Trusted Solaris is currently a seperate release. It is to be integrated.
Some of the military IS using Trusted Solaris. Right now, however, it's a seperate Solaris release. In Solaris 10 or whatever the name is going to be, it is supposed to be integrated.
On the net, no one knows you're a dog. Or an American. Just becaues the Dalton McGuinty quote amuses the holy hell out of me, doesn't mean I live there. I absolutely am an American and I vote, and I write my congresscritters.
Been said before, but bears repeating: EVERY time I have written my senator to say "don't do this stupid thing" I get back a form letter saying "this stupid thing is the right thing and I'm glad I stood up for it". Enough of that and you either stop caring or go postal.
Interestingly, PKD was very positive about the screenings he saw of the movie before his death. So faithful adaptation might not even be what the author wanted.
Add that to firing people who don't work well in the new system (hm, sounds like an excuse for a targetted RIF if you ask me), and it's an all around lousy way to do business.
Isn't it ironic/appalling that they can't hold him without bail on the Kiddie Porn charges, which are significantly more serious?
What I don't get is why he wasn't charged with indecent conduct, posession of child pornography, and left at that? The theft of communications doesn't seem like it's that significant in the overall scope of this moron's behavior.
And that's why the best performance for your dollar in the low end, 100GB and 300GB databases, were a Sun V440 and V250, right? Did you even bother reading what I wrote, or the data available at the TPC site? The V880 was no slouch in price/performance for the Terabyte TPC either.
Someone remind me why Sun, Sparc, and Solaris are obsolete compared to Linux on Intel?
My favorite one was pumping gas at an Amoco/BP station with the fancy new web enabled pumps. Imagine my suprise when I select my gas type, and have a big java backtrace dump all over the screen. The good news was that the pump had already recognized my selection and I was able to pump my gas. When I was done and "hung up" the handle, the screen reset itself.
Same can be said for IBM, and that hasn't stopped the rabid weasels at SCO....
It's not his website, it's his personal behavior, and things I've seen him write in, for example, Skeptic magazine.
No, as far as I've seen, Penn has a sense of humor.
Regardless, the Military is a poor comparison point for school. Military does have a legimitate interest in the indoctrination to harsh circumstances. School does not, certainly not when it comes to the harassment and intimidation aspects under discussion.