There is a major difference between the computer industry and the fast food.
The computer industry heavily relies on patents for enforcement. The fast food industry has no such leverage.
There was a competitor from China to Intel and AMD already. U5 wiped the floor in the SX 486 segment and had most of the features which provided AMD with the winning hand against Pentium more then 5 years later. First, it was a superscalar CPU. The x86 instruction set was emulated and translated into a risc-like internal architecture. IIRC it had only one pipeline, but multiple pipelines were in the coming later E5 which also had a floating point unit that was supposed to outperform Pentium 133 by a large margin while running 2x33 MHz. It also had a fraction of the 486 family power consumption.
I had one running OS2 for quite a while and it rocked. It had the speed of a Pentium 90 at a fraction of the price while running at 33 MHz (that was circa 1996).
So, let's see what happens when a superior competitor appears on the market?
It took Intel less then a few weeks to get an injunction prohibiting any US sales. European injunctions followed. It also managed to get Microsoft to provide a "patch" in Windows 98 to cripple the performance on any U5 CPUs still out there just in case so you were stuck with OS2 or early 95 without fixes if you wanted to have a useable machine (Linux did not get support for it until late nineties, dunno why).
Fair competition - yeah, we heard about it. If it existed we would have had superscalar CPUs long before the Athlon.
1.The UN convention allows 200 miles EEZ. You are allowed to use some measures to enforce your rights within that if you have claimed that you will enforce the EEZ anyway. That is different from territorial waters.
2. Planning an attack on a coastal target by a vessel that is not registered to a country with which you are in a state of war can be easily fit into the definition of piracy without stretching it. That is sufficient grounds for any navy ship to request a stop and search of any civilian vessel regardless of either ship country of registration and the civilian vessel must comply even if outside territorial waters. Basically a suspected pirate (not a suspected terrorist) is a fair game anywhere anytime. The legal basis for this predates the UN (it goes back into the 19th century).
3. If they only follow the traffic they can put it even in international waters. In fact it becomes illegal only if it is in another country EEZ.
4. This is the first sane thing the US has done to do something about its own security. It is infinitely easier to put a Grad (or higher class) launcher on a ship and level a significant portion of Manhattan compared to hijacking a plane, doing a dirty bomb or any other lunatic plot.
The ridiculous aspect of the story is due to censorship.
The only way to pick up a laser pointed in an aircraft from the ground is if the aircraft has a missile warning system installed. Most of these have a component which picks up illumination by laser distance/speed measurement equipment.
Officially no US airline carries such thing (Israeli do, British Airways is considering it for some flights). Unofficially - the appearance of the article means that quite a few have it already or plan to do so and are testing equipment. They just do not want to shout about it.
1. Charade is now usually named Cuore or Mira for the Japanese market. Search for those. It is rental class A. Four adults and some luggage. The Sirion and the Passo are rental class B. 4+1 adults and reasonable luggage. Ignore the external dimensions. That is what Daihatsu makes their living off. They are the world leader in getting the most car into the smallest external space.
2. You can see specs for all cars on http://www.daihatsu.co.uk and http://www.daihatsu.com or the Toyota japanese site.
3. The not funny comment. Toyota managed to get a special exemption in the testing procedures for UK emissions and VED. Basically they managed to get themselves exempt from the highway part of the testing and report results based on combined. Hence the stellar MPG and AA class emissions. Otherwise it would have scored tax band B which is what it is. As far as I am concerned this is cheating.
1. I saw the tables for the VED/emissions in a newspaper black on white compiled based on DTI most recent published data. I have yet to see someone on the web do this which is a bummer. There are tables in a few places, but none of them covers all models currently on the market.
2. All the cars except the Charade referred to by me are roughly rental class B. Smaller external dimensions then the Prius. Internal dimensions and boot space are comparable or slightly smaller.
3. I suspect you have mixed UK and US gallons somewhere. Civic 2004 UK spec (just pulled it off the Honda web site) is 65.7 mpg highway (I mentioned highway and I meant highway). Toyota Prius does not list a highway spec because it is in the not-funny category. Every test I have seen has put it around 42-46. That is worse then my spare car which is 12+ years old Renault with worn out valves and a misfiring cylinder. Examples: http://www.channel4.com/4car/road-tests/4Car-fleet/toyota-prius/report03-3.html
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/road_tests/index.htm?i d=147
. As a matter of difference the Civic actually delivers the 65+ MPG. So does my primary car which is a Daihatsu.
1. There is a general uneasiness in some parts of the scientific community about him not giving sufficient credit to Poincare. OK, that is an understatement, some people quite openly consider that he nicked most of Poincare's work. I have never read both in original so I would not venture any guesses. Ask someone who had (there are not many as Poincare papers have not been reprinted since WWI).
2. There is a general uneasiness in some parts of the engineering community regarding the striking similarities between a number of patents filed by Einstein and a large number of patent applications slaughtered by him during his tenure as a patent examiner after university. These mostly revolve around the concept of absorbtion refrigeration (the compressorless fridges that were quite popular in Europe 20+ years ago).
Unfortunately the discussion of both of these subjects tends to degenerate into a shouting match where anyone doubting Einstein moral faculties and scientific abilities is immediately branded as an antisemitic arsehole. Such branding is dangerous to your career in many places nowdays so many people who have doubts prefer to stay silent.
I multitask only if I do stupid operational/mundane stuff like going through the list of issues, tickets, complains, tasks, etc and dealing with all the day-to-day stuff.
The moment I have to do some "proper" work that requires concentration means that I put on the isolating headphones, minimise all annoyances like mail, IM, slashdot, news and do not look at them until I take a break. My phone has the ringer turned off anyway. The few that manage to get through are told to send an email so I can get back to them. If they do not - not my problem. So on so fourth.
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Let's look at your examples:
Taking notes for a person who is in the custom of taking them can be a nearly automatic activity. It is not as such a demanding task in most cases. Half of the girls in my class in the university could do something else while taking perfectly annotated and readable notes. Some guys could do that as well, but I as most of them preferred to photocopy some of the stellar work done by the ladies:-)
Answering to a teacher question. Well... What question? When a lame teacher tries to use a question to catch a student that he/she is not paying attention that question is usually about some factlet which has been presented in the last 5 minutes. Recalling this is easy. Ask any husband with more then 5 years of marital experience. Or wife for that matter.
Writing fiction stories - dunno. Depends what fiction. But let's say that this is the primary task as far as your friend is concerned.
So overall - one primary, one secondary and good responce in handling interruptions. Sounds like the description of 75% of good students (at least in Europe) to me. Most people tend to lose it after leaving the Uni, but it is not something that requires an superbrain.
As a comparison I will give you another example - I do not know a single person who is capable of simultaneously doing the mathematical models of two fundamentally different problems in different subject matter fields at the same time (and I know some very good mathematicians). Same for similar activities in physics, same for high efficiency algorithms and other high level (non-mundane) programming, so on so fourth. I do not think that it is possible to train in this. There are tasks where the human brain works at the limit of its capacity and there is no way anyone in his sane mind can multitask while doing them.
Whose "10 greenest cars".No, not the Guardian. I am referring to the much less publicised emission, efficiency and tax band rankings (UK, DE, a few others). Prius is B. Charade, Sirion and Passo are A or AA. The Guardian list is journalism, not specs.
What the heck is "the last generation of Petrol"? . Triple spark Honda small engine platform (Jazz) or Daihatsu Low Temperature Catalyst (Toyota Passo/Daihatsu Sirion MkII 1.0). Both deliver lower emissions and are considerably lighter and more compact compared to the Prius engine train.
Are you using the 2004/2005 Prius. Yes. Double check the latest Civic specs. Honda has also updated the Civic engine train with the improvements that will go into the Hybrid Accord. It is just no as loud as Toyota about it. It now delivers 67+ mpg highway which is clearly better then the Toyota. In fact it is the only hybrid that approaches diesel as far as highway MPG are concerned.
You have a point to some extent. But you should also make your research properly. It is not uninterrupted contiguous barrier. It has everything from shallow banks to deep gorges that go all the way to the shore. While the banks will protect the shore, the average depth is deep enough for the wave to reach the shore in plenty of places and actually get focused by the gorges in others to way above the 10m average.
1. It happens to be Spanish. It also happens to be an independent country at the moment. 2. So what happens if we miss? If it all goes off at once? Do you see any of the currently elected mindless twats on either side of the pond accepting the responsibility?
Russians have had 100M bombs for 30+ years. These 8+ ton monsters did not fit in any of their bombers at the time without completely blowing the aerodynamics to hell. So noone really understood why they have them. That is until someone thought of what exactly will happen if a sub drops a few of these at even intervals off the coast of NY outside the US territorial waters timed to blow up at the same time. Dunno if Jirik was just raving the way he usually does or referring to this.
Thank you. I was going to reply with the same example, but did not remember the place and time and did not have time to do digging.
Disclaimer: IANAG and IANAV. (Geologist and Vulcanologist respetively).
From what I know, the way a landslide commences is largely dependant on how steep the slope is. The steeper the slope, the higher the likelyhood of it all going in one go.
And this is the exact reason why everyone is scared shitless of La Palma. I may be wrong, but off the top of my head I cannot think of a single place on the planet to have the same steepness of the slope with the same or higher height if we count from the ocean floor. It is 6km+ (2.5 above, 3.5+ under) with an angle which on the average exceeds 45 degrees. And it is a very active volcano on top of that.
In btw, I perfectly understand the parent poster. I would have been saying the same thing if I did not see it for myself several times. The place is crazy. If you see the slopes there you start believing in it going downhill in one go. In fact you start wandering why the hell it is still there.
I have been on that island (it is worth visiting while it lasts). Nearly killed myself aquaplaning in a tropical rainstorm on a road with 400+ meter cliff going into the sea on the right and 400+ cliff going up towards the volcano in question on the left.
Anyway, on subject:
It has a US Geological Survey run GPS station network every several hundred meters or so in some places do detect any movement and try to predict the next eruption. There will be a fair warning on this one. It is a question if anyone will dare to use that warning wisely which I doubt.
That is the good bit.
The bad bit is that compared to a worst case La Palma scenario the tsunami from 2004 Christmas earthquake will be a child's game in a puddle. The predicted worst case tsunami for La Palma is 800m at the start, 100+m at Marroco and Capo Verde, 30+m at Lisbon, Rio and the Caribean, 10+ m along the entire East Coast of the US including New York and Ireland and 5+ at the South coast of the UK. The death toll if there will be no evacuation will be in the tens of millions if not hundreds. That is the worst case scenario which is if it slides the same way it slid 1+ million years ago when the current north caldera has formed (it is the largest volcanic caldera formed by a landslide on the planet - 30km+ diameter). Even if it is a fraction of that it is still really scary.
Just to make things worse is that current models are that a landslide is likely to follow one of the next 3-5 eruptions and it erupts every 20 years on average.
And worst part is that it has not erupted for nearly 33 years now so the next eruption is likely to be bigger then usual.
The reality is that it does not even make the 10 greenest cars list and the 10 cars with the lowest emissions list for EU/UK. Nearly every small family diesel beats it in terms of fuel consumption and emissions. In fact even some large executive class diesel cars have lower emissions.
It is also worse then what the last generation of Petrol gets as well. In fact the same Toyota group that makes the Prius has 3 petrol cars that beat it by a large margin in terms of fuel efficiency and emissions. These are: Daihatsu Charade, Daihatsu Sirion and Toyota Passo. That is without counting Japanese-only models.
To add to that it is slower and worse performing then other hybrids. Honda Insight does 130mph with ease and Honda Civic Hybrid has better fuel consumption and better dynamic characteristics (and is manual on top of that). Simply noone has bothered entering them into any sort of contests because they have never been designed for that.
1. The poster is right. I am following it closely and plenty of things do not work yet. Most importantly - at least as of last month there was no event organizer/owner/user capability even if reading from a server. This makes it completely useless for anything but personal calendaring. In fact if you look at the roadmap this feature is not due in 6 months so there is no way it will be there in 6 months.
2. Even if it did not have the features it would have been useable if it did not screw every single other implementation that has. The biggest falling of Sunbird is that it wipes out all fields it does not understand when processing a calendar record. As a result you cannot use it in groupware mode as anything but a read only client (as of last month).
In fact even korganizer is a few years ahead of Sunbird.
No, to the tens of thousands tons of asbestous and toxic chemicals that got out from the deliberately bombed Serbian factories.
In the summer of the Kosovo bombing all trees on the Western facing slopes in western Bulgaria and South-Western Romania lost their leaves in August. 20-30% of conifers died over the next 3 years. And a two years later people started to die. And continue to do so.
From the shots that got out I can see one really important piece of "real estate" missing. It is called waistline. She is built like a concrete column and does not need any additional grits or petrification.
It is not as bad as Demi Moore in Striptease, but quite close to it
While on the subject, there is something wrong with this Christmas. Things come true which I would have never dreamed of to become true so soon :
Blunket had to quit on abuse of power
The russian government stuck to its guns and made the lawsuit against Yukos stick. For the ones reading only UK and US media Yukos and its main shareholder besides being the 5th largest petrol company in the world were also the largest illegal arms trader and embargo buster. Minor problem - they forgot to pay the taxes on that.
The EU made the sanctions against MSFT stick
Now if only someone could put Blair on the Nurnmberg bench for the hundreds of thousands dieing from cancer caused by the bombings on the Balkans and in the Gulf... Yeah I know, I am dreaming...
The problem in the UK is that it has contracted the American disease of national political sclerosis. It is that peculiar state of national memory when people forget everything related to politics and economics in 6-12 months.
It looks like you have forgotten where did Blair present his two recent election manifestos. Answer - a well known building in Reading.
It looks like you have forgotten whom did Blair make a honorary knight of the British Empire (OK, Queen signs it off, but he suggests). One well known character from Redmond, WA.
Note that I do not recommend Adaptec. NCR/LSI as they are used by Sun and they have mileage on them. I fully agree with your point that the most common "best of breed" hardware Intel+Serverworks+Adaptec is not supported properly.
While I have no problems using NCR/LSI when I can get my hands on it (I prefer it to Adaptec on Linux and BSD) most IT departments consider Adaptec to be synonimous with SCSI on Intel.
Which means that Sol x86 will have tough time where it is most likely to be adopted - in large corporates.
Excuse for being an idiot, but where do the games like Shrek 2 and movies like Tits & Guns AKA Lara Croft classify themselves?
That is without even mentioning the Star Wars frachise which collected a tidy 6 digit sum out of X Wing, Tie Fighter, Rebellion, Tie Fighter vs X Wing, Jedi Knights and the extension packs for all of them.
These two industries are nowdays ONE industry. Every decent movie has a lame game tucked on it and vice versa. Doom the movie... Yuck...
Funnily enough it is not a bad idea for one application - brute forcing AES.
You can get as much as 10 CPUs per U in a standard 9" rack using bog standard VIA motherboards. Their AES performance is about 4 times higher then the best P4 or Opteron around due to the hardware acceleration.
So if you have a hard "nut" to crack it may be a good idea because cipher cracking is very easy to parallelise.
I have been forced to run the damn thing and it has always sucked rotten eggz.
1. Multicast broken on 60+ percent of the network drivers. Linux over the years has had a chance to accumulate workarounds for broken cards. Solaris has never had the mileage to do so and as a result even trivial cards like ne2k, rtl and even eepro100 and 1000 are broken. In some cases it simply does not work. In other your entire machine goes south the moment someone tries to use it.
2. DMA is broken and does not work or has corruption problems on many chipsets. As a result if you want to get anywhere you need to shell out money for SCSI.
3. Numerous small niggles all over the place. Video, IO devices, power management (or to be more exact lack of), ad naseum.
It may be better the moment they release 10, because sun has used the cheasiest and shittiest PC chipsets like ALI15xx in their servers so they have "appropriate experience" now. But it will still be a very mixed journey. I will recommend it only to someone who has a PC which has the same collection of hardware garbage as in a modern Sun: broadcom ethernet, ALI or Silicon Image IDE or an NCR/LSI SCSI. If you have classic "good" PC hardware like Serverworks + Intel you will be going up shit creek without a paddle all the way (possibly under water as well).
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There is a major difference between the computer industry and the fast food.
The computer industry heavily relies on patents for enforcement. The fast food industry has no such leverage.
There was a competitor from China to Intel and AMD already. U5 wiped the floor in the SX 486 segment and had most of the features which provided AMD with the winning hand against Pentium more then 5 years later. First, it was a superscalar CPU. The x86 instruction set was emulated and translated into a risc-like internal architecture. IIRC it had only one pipeline, but multiple pipelines were in the coming later E5 which also had a floating point unit that was supposed to outperform Pentium 133 by a large margin while running 2x33 MHz. It also had a fraction of the 486 family power consumption.
I had one running OS2 for quite a while and it rocked. It had the speed of a Pentium 90 at a fraction of the price while running at 33 MHz (that was circa 1996).
So, let's see what happens when a superior competitor appears on the market?
It took Intel less then a few weeks to get an injunction prohibiting any US sales. European injunctions followed. It also managed to get Microsoft to provide a "patch" in Windows 98 to cripple the performance on any U5 CPUs still out there just in case so you were stuck with OS2 or early 95 without fixes if you wanted to have a useable machine (Linux did not get support for it until late nineties, dunno why).
Fair competition - yeah, we heard about it. If it existed we would have had superscalar CPUs long before the Athlon.
If you accommodate them at the same relative level of discomfort you can fit 6000+ in the QM or only 100-150 in the Boeing.
1.The UN convention allows 200 miles EEZ. You are allowed to use some measures to enforce your rights within that if you have claimed that you will enforce the EEZ anyway. That is different from territorial waters.
2. Planning an attack on a coastal target by a vessel that is not registered to a country with which you are in a state of war can be easily fit into the definition of piracy without stretching it. That is sufficient grounds for any navy ship to request a stop and search of any civilian vessel regardless of either ship country of registration and the civilian vessel must comply even if outside territorial waters. Basically a suspected pirate (not a suspected terrorist) is a fair game anywhere anytime. The legal basis for this predates the UN (it goes back into the 19th century).
3. If they only follow the traffic they can put it even in international waters. In fact it becomes illegal only if it is in another country EEZ.
4. This is the first sane thing the US has done to do something about its own security. It is infinitely easier to put a Grad (or higher class) launcher on a ship and level a significant portion of Manhattan compared to hijacking a plane, doing a dirty bomb or any other lunatic plot.
The ridiculous aspect of the story is due to censorship.
The only way to pick up a laser pointed in an aircraft from the ground is if the aircraft has a missile warning system installed. Most of these have a component which picks up illumination by laser distance/speed measurement equipment.
Officially no US airline carries such thing (Israeli do, British Airways is considering it for some flights). Unofficially - the appearance of the article means that quite a few have it already or plan to do so and are testing equipment. They just do not want to shout about it.
1. Charade is now usually named Cuore or Mira for the Japanese market. Search for those. It is rental class A. Four adults and some luggage. The Sirion and the Passo are rental class B. 4+1 adults and reasonable luggage. Ignore the external dimensions. That is what Daihatsu makes their living off. They are the world leader in getting the most car into the smallest external space.
2. You can see specs for all cars on http://www.daihatsu.co.uk and http://www.daihatsu.com or the Toyota japanese site.
3. The not funny comment. Toyota managed to get a special exemption in the testing procedures for UK emissions and VED. Basically they managed to get themselves exempt from the highway part of the testing and report results based on combined. Hence the stellar MPG and AA class emissions. Otherwise it would have scored tax band B which is what it is. As far as I am concerned this is cheating.
1. I saw the tables for the VED/emissions in a newspaper black on white compiled based on DTI most recent published data. I have yet to see someone on the web do this which is a bummer. There are tables in a few places, but none of them covers all models currently on the market. 2. All the cars except the Charade referred to by me are roughly rental class B. Smaller external dimensions then the Prius. Internal dimensions and boot space are comparable or slightly smaller. 3. I suspect you have mixed UK and US gallons somewhere. Civic 2004 UK spec (just pulled it off the Honda web site) is 65.7 mpg highway (I mentioned highway and I meant highway). Toyota Prius does not list a highway spec because it is in the not-funny category. Every test I have seen has put it around 42-46. That is worse then my spare car which is 12+ years old Renault with worn out valves and a misfiring cylinder. Examples: http://www.channel4.com/4car/road-tests/4Car-fleet /toyota-prius/report03-3.html
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/road_tests/index.htm?i d=147
. As a matter of difference the Civic actually delivers the 65+ MPG. So does my primary car which is a Daihatsu.
1. There is a general uneasiness in some parts of the scientific community about him not giving sufficient credit to Poincare. OK, that is an understatement, some people quite openly consider that he nicked most of Poincare's work. I have never read both in original so I would not venture any guesses. Ask someone who had (there are not many as Poincare papers have not been reprinted since WWI).
2. There is a general uneasiness in some parts of the engineering community regarding the striking similarities between a number of patents filed by Einstein and a large number of patent applications slaughtered by him during his tenure as a patent examiner after university. These mostly revolve around the concept of absorbtion refrigeration (the compressorless fridges that were quite popular in Europe 20+ years ago).
Unfortunately the discussion of both of these subjects tends to degenerate into a shouting match where anyone doubting Einstein moral faculties and scientific abilities is immediately branded as an antisemitic arsehole. Such branding is dangerous to your career in many places nowdays so many people who have doubts prefer to stay silent.
Absolutely agree.
I multitask only if I do stupid operational/mundane stuff like going through the list of issues, tickets, complains, tasks, etc and dealing with all the day-to-day stuff.
The moment I have to do some "proper" work that requires concentration means that I put on the isolating headphones, minimise all annoyances like mail, IM, slashdot, news and do not look at them until I take a break. My phone has the ringer turned off anyway. The few that manage to get through are told to send an email so I can get back to them. If they do not - not my problem. So on so fourth.
As a comparison I will give you another example - I do not know a single person who is capable of simultaneously doing the mathematical models of two fundamentally different problems in different subject matter fields at the same time (and I know some very good mathematicians). Same for similar activities in physics, same for high efficiency algorithms and other high level (non-mundane) programming, so on so fourth. I do not think that it is possible to train in this. There are tasks where the human brain works at the limit of its capacity and there is no way anyone in his sane mind can multitask while doing them.
Whose "10 greenest cars".No, not the Guardian. I am referring to the much less publicised emission, efficiency and tax band rankings (UK, DE, a few others). Prius is B. Charade, Sirion and Passo are A or AA. The Guardian list is journalism, not specs.
What the heck is "the last generation of Petrol"? . Triple spark Honda small engine platform (Jazz) or Daihatsu Low Temperature Catalyst (Toyota Passo/Daihatsu Sirion MkII 1.0). Both deliver lower emissions and are considerably lighter and more compact compared to the Prius engine train.
Are you using the 2004/2005 Prius. Yes. Double check the latest Civic specs. Honda has also updated the Civic engine train with the improvements that will go into the Hybrid Accord. It is just no as loud as Toyota about it. It now delivers 67+ mpg highway which is clearly better then the Toyota. In fact it is the only hybrid that approaches diesel as far as highway MPG are concerned.
You have a point to some extent. But you should also make your research properly. It is not uninterrupted contiguous barrier. It has everything from shallow banks to deep gorges that go all the way to the shore. While the banks will protect the shore, the average depth is deep enough for the wave to reach the shore in plenty of places and actually get focused by the gorges in others to way above the 10m average.
1. It happens to be Spanish. It also happens to be an independent country at the moment.
2. So what happens if we miss? If it all goes off at once? Do you see any of the currently elected mindless twats on either side of the pond accepting the responsibility?
Russians have had 100M bombs for 30+ years. These 8+ ton monsters did not fit in any of their bombers at the time without completely blowing the aerodynamics to hell. So noone really understood why they have them. That is until someone thought of what exactly will happen if a sub drops a few of these at even intervals off the coast of NY outside the US territorial waters timed to blow up at the same time.
Dunno if Jirik was just raving the way he usually does or referring to this.
Thank you. I was going to reply with the same example, but did not remember the place and time and did not have time to do digging.
Disclaimer: IANAG and IANAV. (Geologist and Vulcanologist respetively).
From what I know, the way a landslide commences is largely dependant on how steep the slope is. The steeper the slope, the higher the likelyhood of it all going in one go.
And this is the exact reason why everyone is scared shitless of La Palma. I may be wrong, but off the top of my head I cannot think of a single place on the planet to have the same steepness of the slope with the same or higher height if we count from the ocean floor. It is 6km+ (2.5 above, 3.5+ under) with an angle which on the average exceeds 45 degrees. And it is a very active volcano on top of that.
In btw, I perfectly understand the parent poster. I would have been saying the same thing if I did not see it for myself several times. The place is crazy. If you see the slopes there you start believing in it going downhill in one go. In fact you start wandering why the hell it is still there.
Fsck, here went my moderation.
I have been on that island (it is worth visiting while it lasts). Nearly killed myself aquaplaning in a tropical rainstorm on a road with 400+ meter cliff going into the sea on the right and 400+ cliff going up towards the volcano in question on the left.
Anyway, on subject:
It has a US Geological Survey run GPS station network every several hundred meters or so in some places do detect any movement and try to predict the next eruption. There will be a fair warning on this one. It is a question if anyone will dare to use that warning wisely which I doubt.
That is the good bit.
The bad bit is that compared to a worst case La Palma scenario the tsunami from 2004 Christmas earthquake will be a child's game in a puddle. The predicted worst case tsunami for La Palma is 800m at the start, 100+m at Marroco and Capo Verde, 30+m at Lisbon, Rio and the Caribean, 10+ m along the entire East Coast of the US including New York and Ireland and 5+ at the South coast of the UK. The death toll if there will be no evacuation will be in the tens of millions if not hundreds. That is the worst case scenario which is if it slides the same way it slid 1+ million years ago when the current north caldera has formed (it is the largest volcanic caldera formed by a landslide on the planet - 30km+ diameter). Even if it is a fraction of that it is still really scary.
Just to make things worse is that current models are that a landslide is likely to follow one of the next 3-5 eruptions and it erupts every 20 years on average.
And worst part is that it has not erupted for nearly 33 years now so the next eruption is likely to be bigger then usual.
Ahem.
The reality is that it does not even make the 10 greenest cars list and the 10 cars with the lowest emissions list for EU/UK. Nearly every small family diesel beats it in terms of fuel consumption and emissions. In fact even some large executive class diesel cars have lower emissions.
It is also worse then what the last generation of Petrol gets as well. In fact the same Toyota group that makes the Prius has 3 petrol cars that beat it by a large margin in terms of fuel efficiency and emissions. These are: Daihatsu Charade, Daihatsu Sirion and Toyota Passo. That is without counting Japanese-only models.
To add to that it is slower and worse performing then other hybrids. Honda Insight does 130mph with ease and Honda Civic Hybrid has better fuel consumption and better dynamic characteristics (and is manual on top of that). Simply noone has bothered entering them into any sort of contests because they have never been designed for that.
Not if Atkins is to be believed on the merits of healthy and balanced diet of lard and lard.
1. The poster is right. I am following it closely and plenty of things do not work yet. Most importantly - at least as of last month there was no event organizer/owner/user capability even if reading from a server. This makes it completely useless for anything but personal calendaring. In fact if you look at the roadmap this feature is not due in 6 months so there is no way it will be there in 6 months.
2. Even if it did not have the features it would have been useable if it did not screw every single other implementation that has. The biggest falling of Sunbird is that it wipes out all fields it does not understand when processing a calendar record. As a result you cannot use it in groupware mode as anything but a read only client (as of last month).
In fact even korganizer is a few years ahead of Sunbird.
No, to the tens of thousands tons of asbestous and toxic chemicals that got out from the deliberately bombed Serbian factories.
In the summer of the Kosovo bombing all trees on the Western facing slopes in western Bulgaria and South-Western Romania lost their leaves in August. 20-30% of conifers died over the next 3 years. And a two years later people started to die. And continue to do so.
From the shots that got out I can see one really important piece of "real estate" missing. It is called waistline. She is built like a concrete column and does not need any additional grits or petrification.
See for yourself:http://www.othercrap.com/images/nat3.jpg
It is not as bad as Demi Moore in Striptease, but quite close to it
While on the subject, there is something wrong with this Christmas. Things come true which I would have never dreamed of to become true so soon :
Blunket had to quit on abuse of power
The russian government stuck to its guns and made the lawsuit against Yukos stick. For the ones reading only UK and US media Yukos and its main shareholder besides being the 5th largest petrol company in the world were also the largest illegal arms trader and embargo buster. Minor problem - they forgot to pay the taxes on that.
The EU made the sanctions against MSFT stick
Now if only someone could put Blair on the Nurnmberg bench for the hundreds of thousands dieing from cancer caused by the bombings on the Balkans and in the Gulf... Yeah I know, I am dreaming...
The problem in the UK is that it has contracted the American disease of national political sclerosis. It is that peculiar state of national memory when people forget everything related to politics and economics in 6-12 months.
It looks like you have forgotten where did Blair present his two recent election manifestos. Answer - a well known building in Reading.
It looks like you have forgotten whom did Blair make a honorary knight of the British Empire (OK, Queen signs it off, but he suggests). One well known character from Redmond, WA.
It looks like you have forgotten...
So on so fourth...
Note that I do not recommend Adaptec. NCR/LSI as they are used by Sun and they have mileage on them. I fully agree with your point that the most common "best of breed" hardware Intel+Serverworks+Adaptec is not supported properly.
While I have no problems using NCR/LSI when I can get my hands on it (I prefer it to Adaptec on Linux and BSD) most IT departments consider Adaptec to be synonimous with SCSI on Intel.
Which means that Sol x86 will have tough time where it is most likely to be adopted - in large corporates.
Excuse for being an idiot, but where do the games like Shrek 2 and movies like Tits & Guns AKA Lara Croft classify themselves?
That is without even mentioning the Star Wars frachise which collected a tidy 6 digit sum out of X Wing, Tie Fighter, Rebellion, Tie Fighter vs X Wing, Jedi Knights and the extension packs for all of them.
These two industries are nowdays ONE industry. Every decent movie has a lame game tucked on it and vice versa. Doom the movie... Yuck...
Funnily enough it is not a bad idea for one application - brute forcing AES.
You can get as much as 10 CPUs per U in a standard 9" rack using bog standard VIA motherboards. Their AES performance is about 4 times higher then the best P4 or Opteron around due to the hardware acceleration.
So if you have a hard "nut" to crack it may be a good idea because cipher cracking is very easy to parallelise.
It is a joke. It was a joke. I shall be a joke.
I have been forced to run the damn thing and it has always sucked rotten eggz.
1. Multicast broken on 60+ percent of the network drivers. Linux over the years has had a chance to accumulate workarounds for broken cards. Solaris has never had the mileage to do so and as a result even trivial cards like ne2k, rtl and even eepro100 and 1000 are broken. In some cases it simply does not work. In other your entire machine goes south the moment someone tries to use it.
2. DMA is broken and does not work or has corruption problems on many chipsets. As a result if you want to get anywhere you need to shell out money for SCSI.
3. Numerous small niggles all over the place. Video, IO devices, power management (or to be more exact lack of), ad naseum.
It may be better the moment they release 10, because sun has used the cheasiest and shittiest PC chipsets like ALI15xx in their servers so they have "appropriate experience" now. But it will still be a very mixed journey. I will recommend it only to someone who has a PC which has the same collection of hardware garbage as in a modern Sun: broadcom ethernet, ALI or Silicon Image IDE or an NCR/LSI SCSI. If you have classic "good" PC hardware like Serverworks + Intel you will be going up shit creek without a paddle all the way (possibly under water as well).