Cheap DRAM in your PC = Relatively cheap. Rad-tolerant (it's not really Rad-Hard. Flash sucks for Rad-Hard) memory = not so cheap. I'm sure the engeineers who designed the thing would have loved to have more memory. You can bet 256 Mb was not an arbitrary decision.
All that and he didn't mention the ommission of my favorate minor character: Radagast the Brown.
Your favorite? He just screwed stuff up. I mean he was innocent enough about it, and he didn't do anything on purpose, but honestly, what else do you expect from a simple-minded fool of a bird tamer?
If he should focus on being all business now at that age, he might grow to regret it later in his life.
Yeah, if he's not careful, he could end up like those college drop-out losers Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell. [Remove tongue from cheeck]
Just for the record and humor-impaired, I am aware that those guys are huge exceptions and fully believe in the value of a college education (I have one myself).
Has Apple yet announced any plans to pursue legal action against the clearly trademark-infringing "iLug" name? How can one make donations to your legal defense?
If you compare clock cycles in the brain to a computer, the computer is faster.
Actually, the truly amazing thing about the brain, and one of the things that fundamentally sets it apart from computers as we know them, is that it does not have a clock. Figure out how to make a computer do that, and you're well on your way to artificial intelligence.
Also among his famous quotes, "I'm telling you, I saw a piece of foam hit that edge, and that sucker is just waiting to turn into a flaming comet of death on re-entry!" They told him next time he complains, he'd be summarily dismissed.
I get just as much of a thrill out plucky, clever little robots exploring Mars as I would from some rock jawed test pilot.
That's just because you know you'll never get to be the test pilot. If you were Mister Rock Jaw Himself, you'd give half of your supermodel girlfriends to be the one on that rocket.
I know Coldfusion is a bit of a pipe dream but if we got it going then we would be setup and the need to butch the planet or other planets in the future would not be needed. The main point is that why spend all that money getting shit from other planets when it could be better spent here, now.
And when I just get the wrikles ironed out of this darned perpetual motion machine, we'll be set forever. My favorite thing about hippies is how they utterly lack a grasp of reality. "Hey, look at me! I drive an electric car! I'm a good Citizen of Earth because I don't use fossil fuels to get around!" (Apparently, these hippies extract their energy from the air). The same is true of your solar cells. They require mining of something to produce. That means punching holes in the earth. They require lots of nasty chemicals to produce. That means pollution. They require factories. More pollution. The fact that something gives you a Hippie-good feeling doesn't mean that it is actually benefitting the Earth. Don't believe me? Ask the hippies who were so opposed to Bush's proposal allowing commercial tree-thinning in California. They said that it was really just Big-Business-friendly Republicans trying to hand their Big Business buddies a kickback, and that preventing wildfires was just a ridiculous cover story. I think we've all seen that they were full of crap. If you want to be a friend to the Earth, extremism is the wrong way to do it. Support exploration of reasonable alternatives so that once one proves to be truly plausible, we can go with it.
...are stranded on a desert island with only a can of Pork and Beans between them. They're really hungry, so the physicist proposes a method of overheating the can on a fire, causing the contents to expand and burst the can. The engineer thinks this is silly, as it will make a mess and they may lose some of the beans, and starts deriving a complex contraption using ropes made from bark, bent palm trees and sharp rocks. The mathematician watches them for a few minutes, chuckles, and says, "You two are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. There's a very simple solution to this problem. First, assume a can opener..."
Brigham Young University has a giant pendulum swinging in the middle of the ground floor of the science building that says "WARNING: 10,000 ohms Resistance" in big, somber letters around the perimeter of the circle that encloses the pendulum. I got a kick out of that.
The cheap electronics you buy at Radio Shack are delicate. Instruments used in space applications are not delicate. Much of what it can survive would kill you.
You're right that air blast is the most effective delivery. Even "hard target" kills don't necessarily detonate in the ground. In almost every case, if an RV hits the ground, it's because something went wrong. Impact fuzing is usually a last-ditch effort to get some value out of an RV that failed to fuze correctly. However, the power of MIRVs is not that they detonate in the air (a single RV can do that). It's that several of them detonate in the air in quick succession, which means it sucks to be you if you're anywhere nearby. The real testament to their effectiveness is the fact that they are now banned by treaty, and our Peacekeepers, which carry 10 RVs each, are to be dismantled by 2006.
What's next, corporate CEO's getting 100 million for playing golf and attending some meetings?
I know, honestly, like any self-respecting CEO would accept such a paltry sum for playing golf and attending meetings. If I remember correctly, the CEO of GE got something like $800 million for retiring.
We're not a Microsoft shop, but I do know of certain insurance packages available for data integrity. Whether they are actually based by Microsoft or implementation houses, they exist.
Then why not use those to refute assertions that Microsoft doesn't have real support instead of invoking Sun and Oracle?
He was comparing his Gateway support, and that's ok, but I can't compare Sun to open source? Riight. If you are going to be an open source zealot, you have to take into account that Microsoft is not the only providor of proprietary systems.
Hmmm, here I was just being snide and I stirred up a whole big debate. That's enough to make my day!
By the way, I am not an open-source zealot. I think that OSS is the answer for some things, and not the answer for other things. I'm not about to give up Matlab for Octave, and I'm not about to give up OrCad for writing my own net lists in raw Berkley Spice, but open source does have a place (for example, as snazzy as OrCad's user interface is, the modeling engine is basically just Spice, which is licensed BSD style). If I need a critical Enterprise Database, I'm not going to use MySql, but if I need a web server, Apache is as good as anything. I like Solaris, but it is much, much better with the GNU utilities. All said, there are a lot of good OSS apps, and there are a lot of apps that are not OSS that beat the pants off of the OSS wannabes. However, I honestly cannot think of a Microsoft program that I really, really like except maybe Visio. Some of their stuff is okay, but when the other guy said that Microsoft support is not what Ballmer made it out to be, and you responded with examples of Oracle and Sun, I had to say something.
Go look at some Oracle assurances. If you lose data at the fault of Oracle, you get assurances for free retrieval, as well as different packages to get paid for data loss. Lets see Postgres offer that.
Dang, Microsoft bought Oracle now too? Or did you not notice that he was saying Microsoft doesn't give you the assurances they seem to imply?
Lets see some open source clusters, then. True enterprise level clusters, like what Sun provides.
First Oracle, now Sun too? This must have been a busy week. That's too bad because Sun had some really good products, but now that MS bought them out, I guess they'll just be selling slapped together Wintel servers with no guarantees on reliability.
Man, you are so 31337! Those stupid Ph.D.'s at NASA need to start consulting with you before they come up with these hare-brained ideas. You could clue them in on so much stuff that never occurred to them.
save all the 'you should vote' comments. i'm too lazy to even read them.
On the contrary, I'm glad you don't vote. If you're too lazy to tear your butt away from your computer monitor and actaully (*GASP*) make some marks on a paper card that doesn't make any beepy beepy noises, and if you're too lazy to so much as hit the key to capitalize you're sentences, you're probably too lazy to get informed about your decision. Indeed, I thank you for keeping your piss out of the pool. Perhaps others should follow your lead.
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I hereby promote Carly Fiorina to "Evil Incarnate -- The Devil's Personal Ho." Now, I know some people may object to promoting her over Bill Gates, but follow my reasoning here: Yes, Microsoft is evil, but Microsoft has always been evil. We expect evil from Redmond. Now, take Carly. She takes a perfectly respectable company like HP, spins off the business where they have a true reputation for excellence (instrumentation), SHUTS DOWN THE AUSTRALIAN CALCULATOR DIVISION [not that I'm angry about that or anything], and turns HP into just another manufacturer of mediocre PCs. Then to add insult to injury, she BUYS FRIGGIN' COMPAQ!!! The result is that a once respectable, quality company has turned into a Dell wannabe. Now, can anybody honestly tell me she isn't sleeping with the devil?
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Cheap DRAM in your PC = Relatively cheap. Rad-tolerant (it's not really Rad-Hard. Flash sucks for Rad-Hard) memory = not so cheap. I'm sure the engeineers who designed the thing would have loved to have more memory. You can bet 256 Mb was not an arbitrary decision.
Just for the record and humor-impaired, I am aware that those guys are huge exceptions and fully believe in the value of a college education (I have one myself).
Has Apple yet announced any plans to pursue legal action against the clearly trademark-infringing "iLug" name? How can one make donations to your legal defense?
Also among his famous quotes, "I'm telling you, I saw a piece of foam hit that edge, and that sucker is just waiting to turn into a flaming comet of death on re-entry!" They told him next time he complains, he'd be summarily dismissed.
...are stranded on a desert island with only a can of Pork and Beans between them. They're really hungry, so the physicist proposes a method of overheating the can on a fire, causing the contents to expand and burst the can. The engineer thinks this is silly, as it will make a mess and they may lose some of the beans, and starts deriving a complex contraption using ropes made from bark, bent palm trees and sharp rocks. The mathematician watches them for a few minutes, chuckles, and says, "You two are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. There's a very simple solution to this problem. First, assume a can opener..."
Brigham Young University has a giant pendulum swinging in the middle of the ground floor of the science building that says "WARNING: 10,000 ohms Resistance" in big, somber letters around the perimeter of the circle that encloses the pendulum. I got a kick out of that.
You're right that air blast is the most effective delivery. Even "hard target" kills don't necessarily detonate in the ground. In almost every case, if an RV hits the ground, it's because something went wrong. Impact fuzing is usually a last-ditch effort to get some value out of an RV that failed to fuze correctly. However, the power of MIRVs is not that they detonate in the air (a single RV can do that). It's that several of them detonate in the air in quick succession, which means it sucks to be you if you're anywhere nearby. The real testament to their effectiveness is the fact that they are now banned by treaty, and our Peacekeepers, which carry 10 RVs each, are to be dismantled by 2006.
Two words: Dick Clark.
I know, honestly, like any self-respecting CEO would accept such a paltry sum for playing golf and attending meetings. If I remember correctly, the CEO of GE got something like $800 million for retiring.
By the way, I am not an open-source zealot. I think that OSS is the answer for some things, and not the answer for other things. I'm not about to give up Matlab for Octave, and I'm not about to give up OrCad for writing my own net lists in raw Berkley Spice, but open source does have a place (for example, as snazzy as OrCad's user interface is, the modeling engine is basically just Spice, which is licensed BSD style). If I need a critical Enterprise Database, I'm not going to use MySql, but if I need a web server, Apache is as good as anything. I like Solaris, but it is much, much better with the GNU utilities. All said, there are a lot of good OSS apps, and there are a lot of apps that are not OSS that beat the pants off of the OSS wannabes. However, I honestly cannot think of a Microsoft program that I really, really like except maybe Visio. Some of their stuff is okay, but when the other guy said that Microsoft support is not what Ballmer made it out to be, and you responded with examples of Oracle and Sun, I had to say something.
Man, you are so 31337! Those stupid Ph.D.'s at NASA need to start consulting with you before they come up with these hare-brained ideas. You could clue them in on so much stuff that never occurred to them.
And besides, that, Linus isn't a citizen of the United States, and certainly wasn't born one.
I hereby promote Carly Fiorina to "Evil Incarnate -- The Devil's Personal Ho." Now, I know some people may object to promoting her over Bill Gates, but follow my reasoning here: Yes, Microsoft is evil, but Microsoft has always been evil. We expect evil from Redmond. Now, take Carly. She takes a perfectly respectable company like HP, spins off the business where they have a true reputation for excellence (instrumentation), SHUTS DOWN THE AUSTRALIAN CALCULATOR DIVISION [not that I'm angry about that or anything], and turns HP into just another manufacturer of mediocre PCs. Then to add insult to injury, she BUYS FRIGGIN' COMPAQ!!! The result is that a once respectable, quality company has turned into a Dell wannabe. Now, can anybody honestly tell me she isn't sleeping with the devil?
Actually, they thought it was April 10(base 2). As usual, they were late to the game.