The shuttle is NOT a reusable vehicle in any but the most technical
sense of the word: it requires constant skilled redesign and intelligent
(rather than scripted) maintenance, and the engines have to be overhauled
after every flight.
and don't forget, much like the rockets that came before it, most of what gets the shuttle into orbit (the external tank) gets dumped...in this case into the Indian Ocean...
It was a box I had around for just that purpose, playing with...and XP ran fine on it, as long as I didn't install the SP. As for drivers, no, the NICs and drive interfaces in this Dell are the same as in workstations (3Com and Adaptec in this case)
sorry, I should have added "IMO" to that comment. I played with 2000 beta and the RC's. I had some problems, but it never broke anything. I installed XP on a server and it ran fine, right up until I installed SP1 at which point it tanked...2003 beta worked great though.
Lucky you..when I installed SP1 on a Dell server it wouldn't bring the OS back up. This is after having had NT4 SP6 boxes running for more than a year with no problems. And by stung I meant all the press coverage, including here on Slashdot, over Microsoft admitting to some 60K bugs in the release.
Consider the delays in 2003 though. It was delayed repeatedly because, they said, they were getting as many bugs out as possible. I think they were stung pretty bad after the release of XP which was worse than previous Microsoft OS's beta versions. Maybe, for once, they are just trying to do it right. It's not like a Linux disro where they can release version.0001b7 and then update it every month as they get the code finished.
No. Most emphatically, no. There are a lot of science fiction writers who manage to write books that are based in hard science. Writers like Niven, Brin, and Bear, not to mention many, many others, all write engaging stories using extrapolations of real science. What this website, and people who understand even the basics of science, are complaining about is blatently bad science. Ignoring things like basic laws of physics or biology.
You can stick within the guidlines established by reality and still have incredible stories. If you don't believe me, just look at the world around you. It follows these rules and is full of wonderous variety.
At the end of Red Planet, Val Kilmer's character is in the zero G section of the ship and the computer suggests the doctor should stand him up!!
UP??? It's zero friggin G!! What the fuck is UP??
Just to be a pedant:
The true gravity of the situation is much less benign.
This means it's worse than it seems, kind of like a double negative. Less benign = more malignant...
But view of Mars really is cool right now, I've been shooting it with a friends 8" telescope and getting some great photos.
After all, the human brain is a "computer" that allows its user to "securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents".
I think I have a data leak, I keep losing my information.
If you really want to get your anger around something, read Diane Ravitch's The Language Police. It's an in-depth look at what words (and therefore, ideas) are banned and the rationale behind doing so. Not recommended for people with a tendency toward hypertension, you may have a stroke.
Yes, I've seen these before. I believe something like this is currently being used for power at Los Alamos. The difference is scale. The power generators being proposed by Energy Innovations are much smaller, only generating a proposed 250 watts (vs 50,000). They expect to be able to market this for only $250 per unit though, so it will be feasible to string 4-6 across your home's roof and get off of the grid (as long as there is sunlight)... I don't know if they have made provisions for power storage in case of inclement weather, but I do know that some power companies work on a "credit" type of scheme. If you pump more power up the grid than you are using you get credit for it and can draw power back down for free later.
Conversions of solar power to electricity through photovoltaic cells is quite expensive.
One company, Energy Innovations, has an interesting new approach using a Stirling engine and solar mirrors. This could prove to be a cheap way to bring solar energy directly to your home. As long as certain engineers don't start getting mysteriously shot in the head that is.
So? It only cost about $2 to make the pizza I ate last night, but I paid $14.
Belkin can charge more for their cables because you can be sure that they work, and if they don't, they give you another one. Price is based on what the market will bear.
If you don't want to pay $20 for a Belkin printer cable, go buy one at Wal-Mart for $5, but don't whine when you get I/O errors.
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I've also found the Compaq SAN equipment to be reliable. I recently built an ESA12000, with two HSG80's and two SANSwitch 16's. It was really quite easy to set it up right out of the box and they have support for several different systems. For 1.7TB, it ain't bad.
The SciFi channel (the Dune site is at Scifi.com/Dune) says they will be releasing the series on VHS on January 23rd, if I am not mistaken. They have already released the "behind-the-scenes" on DVD, so I am hoping they will also release the mini-series.
This is the direction that we have headed for years. Channels have been formed to have disputed domain names handled by organizations like WIPO. What, at this stage, can be done? In other industries you can challenge decisions in court, or boycott, or take problems to oversight committees if you don't agree with the decisions made by those in charge. Who do you go to if you disagree with a domain dispute decision, like in the case of guiness-sucks.com? The governments of the world have shown they lack the understanding of the basic concepts that underlie these problems. The technical community, in general, has no voice, so organizations are set up to deal with the disputes. But where do you go when you disagree with those very organizations?
So, by the late 80s, calling a kernel plus a shell an "operating system" was anachronistic; today it is prehistoric. It would be like calling a motor, transmission and a suspension a car; there's a lot more to making a car (or an operating system) nowadays.
In the early 1900's cars were essentially buggies with an engine strapped on and were very difficult and dangerous to operate. Today cars have crumple zones, A/C, airbags, and all sorts of other nice goodies. But that doesn't make a Model "A" not a car.
Having all the niceties that have been added to modern OS's makes them much easier to use, but it doesn't mean that UNIX is now no longer an OS, simply because it doesn't have those niceties.
ah, yes, I was ignoring the thumbs in favor of 8 bits. But, if you start with your right thumb as "1" then is "16" your left thumb? Just curious...although it is a usable way of counting...now if I can just use it for basic math
How would you count? With "1" being the first finger on the left hand or the last on the right (both being index fingers if your hands are facing yourself but pinkies if facing away...)
But lets say that you count with your hands facing you and start on the right side as 00000001 equals "1" and 10000000 equals "128"
So "1" would be represented like this:
oooo ooo|
(sorry about the crude ascii - the | is an extended finger and the o is folded)
I have seen something like this elsewhere, TipTheHat.com. They haven't done much yet, but it seems to be the same idea. You can tip artists that post their work through the site, and you can tip other artists if you download their song off of whatever Napster clone you are using.
Japan's amazing economic success? Is this the same Japan that plunged into deep recession last year? Of course, they say that Netscape is a success, so go figure...
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and don't forget, much like the rockets that came before it, most of what gets the shuttle into orbit (the external tank) gets dumped...in this case into the Indian Ocean...
It was a box I had around for just that purpose, playing with...and XP ran fine on it, as long as I didn't install the SP. As for drivers, no, the NICs and drive interfaces in this Dell are the same as in workstations (3Com and Adaptec in this case)
sorry, I should have added "IMO" to that comment. I played with 2000 beta and the RC's. I had some problems, but it never broke anything. I installed XP on a server and it ran fine, right up until I installed SP1 at which point it tanked...2003 beta worked great though.
Lucky you..when I installed SP1 on a Dell server it wouldn't bring the OS back up. This is after having had NT4 SP6 boxes running for more than a year with no problems. And by stung I meant all the press coverage, including here on Slashdot, over Microsoft admitting to some 60K bugs in the release.
Consider the delays in 2003 though. It was delayed repeatedly because, they said, they were getting as many bugs out as possible. I think they were stung pretty bad after the release of XP which was worse than previous Microsoft OS's beta versions. Maybe, for once, they are just trying to do it right. It's not like a Linux disro where they can release version .0001b7 and then update it every month as they get the code finished.
No. Most emphatically, no. There are a lot of science fiction writers who manage to write books that are based in hard science. Writers like Niven, Brin, and Bear, not to mention many, many others, all write engaging stories using extrapolations of real science. What this website, and people who understand even the basics of science, are complaining about is blatently bad science. Ignoring things like basic laws of physics or biology.
You can stick within the guidlines established by reality and still have incredible stories. If you don't believe me, just look at the world around you. It follows these rules and is full of wonderous variety.
At the end of Red Planet, Val Kilmer's character is in the zero G section of the ship and the computer suggests the doctor should stand him up!!
UP??? It's zero friggin G!! What the fuck is UP??
Just to be a pedant:
The true gravity of the situation is much less benign.
This means it's worse than it seems, kind of like a double negative. Less benign = more malignant...
But view of Mars really is cool right now, I've been shooting it with a friends 8" telescope and getting some great photos.
After all, the human brain is a "computer" that allows its user to "securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents".
I think I have a data leak, I keep losing my information.
If you really want to get your anger around something, read Diane Ravitch's The Language Police. It's an in-depth look at what words (and therefore, ideas) are banned and the rationale behind doing so. Not recommended for people with a tendency toward hypertension, you may have a stroke.
Yes, I've seen these before. I believe something like this is currently being used for power at Los Alamos. The difference is scale. The power generators being proposed by Energy Innovations are much smaller, only generating a proposed 250 watts (vs 50,000). They expect to be able to market this for only $250 per unit though, so it will be feasible to string 4-6 across your home's roof and get off of the grid (as long as there is sunlight)... I don't know if they have made provisions for power storage in case of inclement weather, but I do know that some power companies work on a "credit" type of scheme. If you pump more power up the grid than you are using you get credit for it and can draw power back down for free later.
Conversions of solar power to electricity through photovoltaic cells is quite expensive.
One company, Energy Innovations, has an interesting new approach using a Stirling engine and solar mirrors. This could prove to be a cheap way to bring solar energy directly to your home. As long as certain engineers don't start getting mysteriously shot in the head that is.
Wouldn't it be a violation of SCO's view of copyright for us to copy your statement? Now that's delicious irony, I'm on my way to the CIO!
No, that is their strategy. They are setting up an insanity defense now to avoid getting stomped in the pending lawsuits.
So if I download the .ico for Redhat for free, I am in compliance with the license, but if I buy it in a store I'm not?
No. It definitely cost more than that, unless it was some truly crappy pizza
Actually I know someone who works for the chain (and it is a major one) and the numbers are correct.
Belkin can charge more for their cables because you can be sure that they work, and if they don't, they give you another one. Price is based on what the market will bear.
If you don't want to pay $20 for a Belkin printer cable, go buy one at Wal-Mart for $5, but don't whine when you get I/O errors.
I've also found the Compaq SAN equipment to be reliable. I recently built an ESA12000, with two HSG80's and two SANSwitch 16's. It was really quite easy to set it up right out of the box and they have support for several different systems. For 1.7TB, it ain't bad.
The SciFi channel (the Dune site is at Scifi.com/Dune) says they will be releasing the series on VHS on January 23rd, if I am not mistaken. They have already released the "behind-the-scenes" on DVD, so I am hoping they will also release the mini-series.
This is the direction that we have headed for years. Channels have been formed to have disputed domain names handled by organizations like WIPO. What, at this stage, can be done? In other industries you can challenge decisions in court, or boycott, or take problems to oversight committees if you don't agree with the decisions made by those in charge. Who do you go to if you disagree with a domain dispute decision, like in the case of guiness-sucks.com? The governments of the world have shown they lack the understanding of the basic concepts that underlie these problems. The technical community, in general, has no voice, so organizations are set up to deal with the disputes. But where do you go when you disagree with those very organizations?
In the early 1900's cars were essentially buggies with an engine strapped on and were very difficult and dangerous to operate. Today cars have crumple zones, A/C, airbags, and all sorts of other nice goodies. But that doesn't make a Model "A" not a car.
Having all the niceties that have been added to modern OS's makes them much easier to use, but it doesn't mean that UNIX is now no longer an OS, simply because it doesn't have those niceties.
ah, yes, I was ignoring the thumbs in favor of 8 bits. But, if you start with your right thumb as "1" then is "16" your left thumb? Just curious...although it is a usable way of counting...now if I can just use it for basic math
So "1" would be represented like this:
oooo ooo|
(sorry about the crude ascii - the | is an extended finger and the o is folded)
So wouldn't that be 2 that was banned?
oooo oo|o
and 66 would be:
o|oo oo|o
Joseph
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I have seen something like this elsewhere, TipTheHat.com. They haven't done much yet, but it seems to be the same idea. You can tip artists that post their work through the site, and you can tip other artists if you download their song off of whatever Napster clone you are using.
Japan's amazing economic success? Is this the same Japan that plunged into deep recession last year? Of course, they say that Netscape is a success, so go figure...