The diamonds we value here on Earth are often cut and heated to remove impurities.
I believe this method of producing diamonds is sometimes used to create cheap industrial quality diamonds for drills. The diamonds produced usually are not large enough to be of much interest for jewlery though.
This has been theorized since the early '90's when the Voyager 2 passed by Neptune. Arther C Clark used this concept in his book 2061.
Not news.
Creating diamonds with pressurized methane is not a new idea either? Industrial quality diamonds may be produced with a pressure tank full of methane and a plasma torch. This has been known now for some time now.
300 years? I saw a PBS special some time ago that suggested the brain, with average deteriation would function normally for 120 years. After that the reserve of fresh brain cells becomes noticably low and senility starts to take hold.
Of course the environment is a factor. Some people go senile long before their brain reaches 120 years of age due to environmental factors which reduce the amount of viable brain cells in their head. No I don't mean alcohol either.
Just my $.02 worth.
Are we talking the same SCO?
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As I recall SCO needed to be rebooted every 30 days to prevent counter overflow. SCO rock solid? Crash frequencies were better than MS Windows, but they paled in comparision to Linux's track record.
Maybe UnixWare is better, but as I recall SCO Unix was nothing special.
It's a shame that few of our politicians are interested in exploring new frontiers these days. What's worse is with goverment regulations I doubt it is possible for a publicly owned space agency to make it based in the US. Or so the National Space Society has always lead me to believe.
At least this will give the Democrats more money to spend on social programs. That will make them happy.
Why don't we have a political party that is friendly to Space exploration? A lot of Republicans think it is a waste while most Democrats would rather take the money and stuff it into tree saving programs. No trees in space so it isn't worth the money I guess.
I'm depressed.
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In smileyy's defense when applying for a job over the internet the perspective employer should indicate what format the resume should be sent in. If an employer is asking for Word Perfect skills and does not specify resume format, I'm going to send them a Word Perfect file. It makes sense.
I believe it has been demonstrated to run on one of the Mercid simulators on HP. I'm sure the Mercid port will be available and more stable before Monterey takes off. Lets just home the IA64 chip sets will be cost effective or the who platform will die.
Does any one else find it ironic that one of the adverts above and below the article is for Windows Beta 3? If you are interested in a Linux thin client you certainly are not looking for an unfinished bloatware desktop which you get to pay to find bugs in.
I wish people would quit posting links to these logon news services. There is no way in Hell am I going to fill out their demographics survey so they can target me with more advertising.
Wait a minute. What do they mean similar materials? I've been working in MN for four years now and never heard of this before. Does anyone know exactly what the rules are these other states are following?
This might explain why I keep on getting junk mail from banks wanting to sell me a mortgage on my house while I still live in an apartment.
Although I will agree there may be a bug in Apache, there definately is a bug in OS X. A user app should not take down an OS.
Earlier Mac OS's didn't have proper memory protection, so I'm sure a lot of old Mac users will be blaming the app when ever their computer crashes. That is a habit they will just have to break. OS X has a BSD kernel at its core. You are in Unix land baby! Unix systems do not crash when a user process misbehaves.
OS X is young still, I'm sure 1.1 release will plug many of its holes. It will take some time for OS X to mature enough to be stable enough to be used as an Enterprise solution, and Mac users will just have to be patient.
The German news company was a little harsh though. "Useless" in the first sentance is down right cruel if not exageration.
I don't know about anyone else but I would like NASA to plan a return mission to the moon. I mean the last mission was in 1972 for God's sake. How many of us are actually old enough to remember it. If we send a mission to the ice caps, we could probably actually do some practical experiments to prove/disprove the feasability of a Lunar colony.
One thing you have to say about the cold war with the USSR. We at least tried to keep up with the Joneses.
Maybe someone could organize a petition for a client port. I work in a shop that uses (or at least tries to use) notes and domino. I kind of feel silly having a bit expensive NT box sitting in the corner doing nothing but running the mail client while I do my real work on little PC running Linux.
For a lot of us programming is a love more than an occupation. If you don't have the projects at work you really want to be coding, what else do you do but join the Open Source movement?
And if you don't love to code, chances are you are not a talented programmer.
San was one of Corel Computer Corporation's engineers. I've met him a couple times at Linux Expo's. He's a really cool guy. He was responsible for a lot of work with the Netwinder, firmware and I believe hardware too. It seems to me that since CCC was bought by Canadian Hardware Solutions the Netwinder has sort of stagnated. After all I was excitedly awaiting the unvailing of the Zaphod which was San's baby at the Atlanta Linux Show Case and that never became a product.
The Zaphod was to be a 10 NW Beowulf system in its own case. Would have made a hell of a good ERP hardware platform with the numeric processing and network throughput. The redundancy it would have offered would have been grand too. Never really happened though.
One of my primary goals when writing something is to use as little source code as possible. Otherwise you risk creating bloatware which is a Microsoft crime.
Oh great. And I was quite happy with the astrophysics society not having to be politcally correct.
If humans were to ever set up a colony in another "planatary system" and used solar panels, whould we have to change the name to stellar panels instead? Or maybe Proximus Centari panels?
Please mention Sys V IPC tuning too if you could. I'm working on a project now which would require a bit of IPC tuning in the kernel and for me it is a sinch, but for others that will evetually have to install the system themselves, this would be a stumbling block. Many newbies do not yet understand the art of recompiling their kernel, and don't unless they absolutely have to. Even some seasoned Unix users shiver when you tell them to recompile their kernel. It's sights like this which I think will help people adjust to the administrative culture shock.
I agree we need a Linux tuning resource, but I think that is a little outside of/.'s bearing. I'm just a lurker who occasionally posts, but I agree a Web sight with a full time maintainer would be a good thing.
Anyone been dying to set up a Linux web sight? I'm sure if the person who sets it up makes themself available for email suggestions and has a web based message board, they could collect most of their needed information rather effortlessly. Either that or Caldera or Red Hat need to set up a web sight.
This might also make a good topic of an O'Reilly book. It could have a song bird on the front.
Any way, my $.02 minus sales tax. I hate Apr 15th.
I've had pretty good luck with Festival for Text to Speech. I think I had to hack an include file here and there to get it to compile on SuSE, but I was able to get it to compile none the less. I have it read a fortune from my fortune file when ever I open a shell or log in. It sounds a little like an altra advanced Speak and Spell with a slight Scottish lint. Loads of fun.
One of these days I'm going to see if I can get it to work from my Netwinder.
Micro$oft has not broken up. I would expect by changing their internal organization they have made it look like they have beat the DOJ to the punch. I would guess this is just a ploy to make it look like MS is taking actions to make themselves a kinder gentler company. Niether is true.
Companies reorganize all the time. I have worked for two seperate companies that have reorged. The difference with Micro$oft is that they have made a big deal about it.
If nothing else, MS might be organizing themself in such a matter to make a breakup harder to do.
I don't think the DOJ will blink at this activity, but the media probably will eat it up.
It might have something to do with AMD's continued success insures we have a choice in x86 PC's in the future.
Everyone likes a choice. I personally sort of like Intel with all the help it has offered the Open Source movement lately. However, I also dread the prospect of going to a Best Buy and finding only Intel based PC's available to choose from.
The TRS-80's had a Zilogic Z80 CPU which was a simi clone (a superset to be more acurate) of the Intel 8080 CPU. TRS-80's were little more than fancy Altairs.
If I remember correctly, the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer refered to usually as a CoCo had a Motorola M6800 CPU in it. Or at least a chip from that generation of CPU. This is not to be confused with the M68000 series of chips which were entirely diferenct, thus the extra zero. 8-)
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There is a slight difference between the two. E-Commerce is doing sales over the Internet. E-business is managing your business through a web browser.
I wouldn't be surprised that open source e-Commerce solutions come out while the e-Business take a few years. You know, ERP through a Web interface.
Hate to nitpick, but I don't want the issue to get blurred.
The diamonds we value here on Earth are often cut and heated to remove impurities.
I believe this method of producing diamonds is sometimes used to create cheap industrial quality diamonds for drills. The diamonds produced usually are not large enough to be of much interest for jewlery though.
This has been theorized since the early '90's when the Voyager 2 passed by Neptune. Arther C Clark used this concept in his book 2061.
Not news.
Creating diamonds with pressurized methane is not a new idea either? Industrial quality diamonds may be produced with a pressure tank full of methane and a plasma torch. This has been known now for some time now.
300 years? I saw a PBS special some time ago that suggested the brain, with average deteriation would function normally for 120 years. After that the reserve of fresh brain cells becomes noticably low and senility starts to take hold.
Of course the environment is a factor. Some people go senile long before their brain reaches 120 years of age due to environmental factors which reduce the amount of viable brain cells in their head. No I don't mean alcohol either.
Just my $.02 worth.
As I recall SCO needed to be rebooted every 30 days to prevent counter overflow. SCO rock solid? Crash frequencies were better than MS Windows, but they paled in comparision to Linux's track record.
Maybe UnixWare is better, but as I recall SCO Unix was nothing special.
It's a shame that few of our politicians are interested in exploring new frontiers these days. What's worse is with goverment regulations I doubt it is possible for a publicly owned space agency to make it based in the US. Or so the National Space Society has always lead me to believe.
At least this will give the Democrats more money to spend on social programs. That will make them happy.
Why don't we have a political party that is friendly to Space exploration? A lot of Republicans think it is a waste while most Democrats would rather take the money and stuff it into tree saving programs. No trees in space so it isn't worth the money I guess.
I'm depressed.
In smileyy's defense when applying for a job over the internet the perspective employer should indicate what format the resume should be sent in. If an employer is asking for Word Perfect skills and does not specify resume format, I'm going to send them a Word Perfect file. It makes sense.
I believe it has been demonstrated to run on one of the Mercid simulators on HP. I'm sure the Mercid port will be available and more stable before Monterey takes off. Lets just home the IA64 chip sets will be cost effective or the who platform will die.
Does any one else find it ironic that one of the adverts above and below the article is for Windows Beta 3? If you are interested in a Linux thin client you certainly are not looking for an unfinished bloatware desktop which you get to pay to find bugs in.
Well I thought it was ironic.
I wish people would quit posting links to these logon news services. There is no way in Hell am I going to fill out their demographics survey so they can target me with more advertising.
Wait a minute. What do they mean similar materials? I've been working in MN for four years now and never heard of this before. Does anyone know exactly what the rules are these other states are following?
This might explain why I keep on getting junk mail from banks wanting to sell me a mortgage on my house while I still live in an apartment.
Stay clear of MN. This state sucks.
Although I will agree there may be a bug in Apache, there definately is a bug in OS X. A user app should not take down an OS.
Earlier Mac OS's didn't have proper memory protection, so I'm sure a lot of old Mac users will be blaming the app when ever their computer crashes. That is a habit they will just have to break. OS X has a BSD kernel at its core. You are in Unix land baby! Unix systems do not crash when a user process misbehaves.
OS X is young still, I'm sure 1.1 release will plug many of its holes. It will take some time for OS X to mature enough to be stable enough to be used as an Enterprise solution, and Mac users will just have to be patient.
The German news company was a little harsh though. "Useless" in the first sentance is down right cruel if not exageration.
I don't know about anyone else but I would like NASA to plan a return mission to the moon. I mean the last mission was in 1972 for God's sake. How many of us are actually old enough to remember it. If we send a mission to the ice caps, we could probably actually do some practical experiments to prove/disprove the feasability of a Lunar colony.
One thing you have to say about the cold war with the USSR. We at least tried to keep up with the Joneses.
That's fine.
When we all move off this rock we can leave you and your progeny behind.
If the human race does not further explore the realms of the Universe, you have to wonder why we are here. It would be an awfully big waste of space.
Maybe someone could organize a petition for a client port. I work in a shop that uses (or at least tries to use) notes and domino. I kind of feel silly having a bit expensive NT box sitting in the corner doing nothing but running the mail client while I do my real work on little PC running Linux.
Oh well.
For a lot of us programming is a love more than an occupation. If you don't have the projects at work you really want to be coding, what else do you do but join the Open Source movement?
And if you don't love to code, chances are you are not a talented programmer.
San was one of Corel Computer Corporation's engineers. I've met him a couple times at Linux Expo's. He's a really cool guy. He was responsible for a lot of work with the Netwinder, firmware and I believe hardware too. It seems to me that since CCC was bought by Canadian Hardware Solutions the Netwinder has sort of stagnated. After all I was excitedly awaiting the unvailing of the Zaphod which was San's baby at the Atlanta Linux Show Case and that never became a product.
The Zaphod was to be a 10 NW Beowulf system in its own case. Would have made a hell of a good ERP hardware platform with the numeric processing and network throughput. The redundancy it would have offered would have been grand too. Never really happened though.
I'll be flying my NW at half mast today.
But I'm sure San will be happy at VA.
One of my primary goals when writing something is to use as little source code as possible. Otherwise you risk creating bloatware which is a Microsoft crime.
Oh great. And I was quite happy with the astrophysics society not having to be politcally correct.
If humans were to ever set up a colony in another "planatary system" and used solar panels, whould we have to change the name to stellar panels instead? Or maybe Proximus Centari panels?
Solar system sounds good to me.
Way to go.
Please mention Sys V IPC tuning too if you could. I'm working on a project now which would require a bit of IPC tuning in the kernel and for me it is a sinch, but for others that will evetually have to install the system themselves, this would be a stumbling block. Many newbies do not yet understand the art of recompiling their kernel, and don't unless they absolutely have to. Even some seasoned Unix users shiver when you tell them to recompile their kernel. It's sights like this which I think will help people adjust to the administrative culture shock.
I agree we need a Linux tuning resource, but I think that is a little outside of /.'s bearing. I'm just a lurker who occasionally posts, but I agree a Web sight with a full time maintainer would be a good thing.
Anyone been dying to set up a Linux web sight? I'm sure if the person who sets it up makes themself available for email suggestions and has a web based message board, they could collect most of their needed information rather effortlessly. Either that or Caldera or Red Hat need to set up a web sight.
This might also make a good topic of an O'Reilly book. It could have a song bird on the front.
Any way, my $.02 minus sales tax. I hate Apr 15th.
I've had pretty good luck with Festival for Text to Speech. I think I had to hack an include file here and there to get it to compile on SuSE, but I was able to get it to compile none the less. I have it read a fortune from my fortune file when ever I open a shell or log in. It sounds a little like an altra advanced Speak and Spell with a slight Scottish lint. Loads of fun.
One of these days I'm going to see if I can get it to work from my Netwinder.
Micro$oft has not broken up. I would expect by changing their internal organization they have made it look like they have beat the DOJ to the punch. I would guess this is just a ploy to make it look like MS is taking actions to make themselves a kinder gentler company. Niether is true.
Companies reorganize all the time. I have worked for two seperate companies that have reorged. The difference with Micro$oft is that they have made a big deal about it.
If nothing else, MS might be organizing themself in such a matter to make a breakup harder to do.
I don't think the DOJ will blink at this activity, but the media probably will eat it up.
It might have something to do with AMD's continued success insures we have a choice in x86 PC's in the future.
Everyone likes a choice. I personally sort of like Intel with all the help it has offered the Open Source movement lately. However, I also dread the prospect of going to a Best Buy and finding only Intel based PC's available to choose from.
Choice = good.
No choice = communism.
Get the picture.
The TRS-80's had a Zilogic Z80 CPU which was a simi clone (a superset to be more acurate) of the Intel 8080 CPU. TRS-80's were little more than fancy Altairs.
If I remember correctly, the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer refered to usually as a CoCo had a Motorola M6800 CPU in it. Or at least a chip from that generation of CPU. This is not to be confused with the M68000 series of chips which were entirely diferenct, thus the extra zero. 8-)