Most small airplanes such as cessnas are still running engine designs from the 50's. Fuel injection, to my knowledge, is not available on certified aircraft - only in experimental planes. The are almost all air cooled. They require specialized mechanic checkups at least yearly (I haven't had a checkup on a car in at least 10 years).
So yes there are things that can make it work, but getting it certified, in production and rolling out the door will likely not happen in the next 10 years. Also planes are already crazy expensive - this thing will easily cost 1M. For a crappy airplane/car.
I think that most of the people who don't know Linux aren't really aware of what Windows is either You are right... but wrong. They may not know what Windows is, but they do know that they use it at work, their current computer, and they know that "windows is on everything" and "windows just works".
Yes they may not understand what an OS is, but they know Windows and they know where the start menu is and where hearts and solitare is. They also know that Windows is the old fogey next to the cool Mac guy.
However there are many computer friendly people that have no idea what Linux is. It could be anything to them. Go around the office and ask your accountants and marketing people if they know what Linux is. Now do you think that your accountents and marketing folks are just the stupid users you make "non-linux knowers" out to be? Probably not. In fact, they may be the "computer nerd" in their little circle of the world.
I am not speaking of banning IPs and blocking the gov't from a technical perspective. I mean more theoretically, should the government (or any single individual acting on their behalf) be changing the information that the people of the state have created?
I don't think blocking the gov't is an option... I just want to know if we think they should be on wikipedia changing what millions of people read? We must remember the government is supposed to work for us, not against us. The gov't, its entities, agencies, and those that work for it (when acting for it) do not have the same rights as the people of the state. And what rights they do have, should not conflict with the rights of the people.
Spam and internet crimes are just that, crimes. Trying to hold ICANN accountable for the registrars, who have to police who they sell to is ridiculous.
I bet they use Dell servers to send out the spam, should we require Dell to ensure that all sales are for legit reasons? What about Western Digital and Best Buy that sell all those hard drives to pedos?
It's a nice thought, but probably impossible, and definately illogical.
I thought squatting was a little more long term than that. Surely someone has come up with a clever name for it by now... but it certainly isn't squatting.
Wait a minute... to buy a dual core, 4 dimm (assuming at least 2gb), with integrated RAID, and a dvd burner, YOU HAVE TO BUY USED! What a load. No wonder I don't own a mac - I obviously don't need or want to pay for what they must have out there now.
Yep. they tried to please all, and will likely sell next to none of these. the only thing I can think of is in a industrial setting. But there are already a few strong contenders in this market (little pc, for one). And it is a small market.
A wise CIO, in my view, would take advantage of this opportunity by moving to a more heterogeneous computing environment. Re-introducing platform competition in the corporate computing space is the only way for IT departments to regain pricing leverage with Microsoft. Do you know how much switching from one OS to another costs? What about the sys admin and others that have been with your for 10 years and know only MS? Do you hire new people, fire the old? Do you retrain? What about the end users? What about a project manager to make this transisiton?
There is much more to costs than what the actual product costs. $650 for server 2003 is a drop in the bucket, if that. All the licensing and blah blah is tiny compared to the cost of hiring a Unix/Mac admin that can actually run a decent network of 500 computers.
Agreeing with the AC...
We have Exchange 2003 running on 5 year old hardware, with about 200 mailboxes. I have seen SBS with almost 100 mailboxes and everything else on that server. I have no doubt that a brand new server, maybe with a SAN or something, could handle 2000 mailboxes with no problem. And since I know for a fact it does serve many more than that, I just don't know where the GP gets the idea Exchange isn't for a mid-large sized biz.
because there are socio-economic externalities that can explain your (alarmingly incorrect) statement. If they can be explained, why are they alarmingly incorrect? Dumbass AC.
The big difference between seeing high percentages in prison and in the playing field is that all sports teams care about is winning. They are mostly owned by white people, yet blacks tend to dominate football and basketball (especially when counting the potential players from the population). Sports teams will hire the best player. period. There is little disrimination against a great black player in sports. If he wins championships, he get the job and gets paid.
You are right... I might have been off about the exact numbers. But it is still disproportionate.
And yes I was speaking of sports that include tons of physical activity. Baseball doesn't really count... you spend most of the time just standing there. If you take away linemen, I'll bet the numbers for the NFL grow in my favor. I wasn't too far off on bball.
Winter sports are often "white", and there are probably quite a few reasons for that. Culture and locale are probably the biggest.
Soccer wasn't even in my head. I know gloabally it is big, but here in the US most of us don't care about it.
So yes, you can tear apart my non-googling comment for slight inaccuracies, but I stand by my point that was blacks seem to be better athletes and there is nothing wrong with that.
Dude if you had to reinstall XP every 6 months, you were doing something wrong. We have XP installs still running from 2003. Desktops and laptops that have been traded to new users, no less. So if they can't manage to screw it up in 5 years, I have no idea how you did it every 6 months.
Exactly. I fail to see what is lacking in XP... at least for the majority of office users.
Relaibility is certainly good enough. I loved 2000, but XP is more stable. Office 2003 does what we need and works great on XP. Hardware is rarely an issue and I don't see it becoming one very soon. Plus all this will run happily on a p4 with 512 ram.
Selling a computer with XP past the Microsoft cutoff date is pretty irresponsible. At least Ubuntu has community support, whereas XP will have no support? Is it really Dell's place to oversee microsoft's business decisions? Why, because that is what the customer wants? We have already moved our purchasing to used retailers in expectance of this day. We have no plans on installing Vista, and as much as I would love it, Linux is not a viable option at this time.
I applaude this decision and will do my best to support them if they continue selling XP.
Why would that be flamebait? It is merely a statement of facts. Blacks make up 12-15 percent of the population, but 90+ percent of professional athelets.
It pisses me off to no end that we can't conlude that one race may be better at things than another (due to P.C.).
Droughts: Have happend forever, and will continue. Texas/Mexico is in one right now. Last year we were soaked with the most rain in years.
Famine: Blame that on political issues. It has little to do with the climate.
Floods: TX had tremendous rain last year... no major floods. Storms don't count. The unusual hurricane season was just that, unusual. The next year was back to normal.
Rising Water: You can't even come up with a BS answer for this?
The GP was asking why haven't we seen any real changes yet. You didn't answer but were miraculously modded up.
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Didn't you see the EOM?
Wrong crowd to chastise for sitting at home playing games and such. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Most small airplanes such as cessnas are still running engine designs from the 50's. Fuel injection, to my knowledge, is not available on certified aircraft - only in experimental planes. The are almost all air cooled. They require specialized mechanic checkups at least yearly (I haven't had a checkup on a car in at least 10 years).
So yes there are things that can make it work, but getting it certified, in production and rolling out the door will likely not happen in the next 10 years. Also planes are already crazy expensive - this thing will easily cost 1M. For a crappy airplane/car.
Yes they may not understand what an OS is, but they know Windows and they know where the start menu is and where hearts and solitare is. They also know that Windows is the old fogey next to the cool Mac guy.
However there are many computer friendly people that have no idea what Linux is. It could be anything to them. Go around the office and ask your accountants and marketing people if they know what Linux is. Now do you think that your accountents and marketing folks are just the stupid users you make "non-linux knowers" out to be? Probably not. In fact, they may be the "computer nerd" in their little circle of the world.
I am not speaking of banning IPs and blocking the gov't from a technical perspective. I mean more theoretically, should the government (or any single individual acting on their behalf) be changing the information that the people of the state have created?
I don't think blocking the gov't is an option... I just want to know if we think they should be on wikipedia changing what millions of people read? We must remember the government is supposed to work for us, not against us. The gov't, its entities, agencies, and those that work for it (when acting for it) do not have the same rights as the people of the state. And what rights they do have, should not conflict with the rights of the people.
Should the government have the right to even be on Wikipedia making edits? Isn't that similar to them controling any other media outlet?
Or does the 'openness' of wiki mean that the government is justified in making changes to whatever articles they want?
I personally don't want them even touching it, or influencing any media outlet.
Thanks for explaining it for me! Seriously.
Spam and internet crimes are just that, crimes. Trying to hold ICANN accountable for the registrars, who have to police who they sell to is ridiculous.
I bet they use Dell servers to send out the spam, should we require Dell to ensure that all sales are for legit reasons? What about Western Digital and Best Buy that sell all those hard drives to pedos?
It's a nice thought, but probably impossible, and definately illogical.
I thought squatting was a little more long term than that. Surely someone has come up with a clever name for it by now... but it certainly isn't squatting.
Thought you could sneak it by at 5 o'clock, but I caught ya...
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I for one welcome our baseless inflammatory accusing...
Wait, we elected that guy 8 years ago!
Wait a minute... to buy a dual core, 4 dimm (assuming at least 2gb), with integrated RAID, and a dvd burner, YOU HAVE TO BUY USED! What a load. No wonder I don't own a mac - I obviously don't need or want to pay for what they must have out there now.
Yep. they tried to please all, and will likely sell next to none of these. the only thing I can think of is in a industrial setting. But there are already a few strong contenders in this market (little pc, for one). And it is a small market.
Right, just what I want... a data center full of laptop hard drives running at 5400 RPM.
I wouldn't even want that bottleneck at home.
There is much more to costs than what the actual product costs. $650 for server 2003 is a drop in the bucket, if that. All the licensing and blah blah is tiny compared to the cost of hiring a Unix/Mac admin that can actually run a decent network of 500 computers.
Agreeing with the AC...
We have Exchange 2003 running on 5 year old hardware, with about 200 mailboxes. I have seen SBS with almost 100 mailboxes and everything else on that server. I have no doubt that a brand new server, maybe with a SAN or something, could handle 2000 mailboxes with no problem. And since I know for a fact it does serve many more than that, I just don't know where the GP gets the idea Exchange isn't for a mid-large sized biz.
The big difference between seeing high percentages in prison and in the playing field is that all sports teams care about is winning. They are mostly owned by white people, yet blacks tend to dominate football and basketball (especially when counting the potential players from the population). Sports teams will hire the best player. period. There is little disrimination against a great black player in sports. If he wins championships, he get the job and gets paid.
So to try to link these two is not even close.
You are right... I might have been off about the exact numbers. But it is still disproportionate.
And yes I was speaking of sports that include tons of physical activity. Baseball doesn't really count... you spend most of the time just standing there. If you take away linemen, I'll bet the numbers for the NFL grow in my favor. I wasn't too far off on bball.
Winter sports are often "white", and there are probably quite a few reasons for that. Culture and locale are probably the biggest.
Soccer wasn't even in my head. I know gloabally it is big, but here in the US most of us don't care about it.
So yes, you can tear apart my non-googling comment for slight inaccuracies, but I stand by my point that was blacks seem to be better athletes and there is nothing wrong with that.
Dude if you had to reinstall XP every 6 months, you were doing something wrong. We have XP installs still running from 2003. Desktops and laptops that have been traded to new users, no less. So if they can't manage to screw it up in 5 years, I have no idea how you did it every 6 months.
Exactly. I fail to see what is lacking in XP... at least for the majority of office users.
Relaibility is certainly good enough. I loved 2000, but XP is more stable. Office 2003 does what we need and works great on XP. Hardware is rarely an issue and I don't see it becoming one very soon. Plus all this will run happily on a p4 with 512 ram.
I applaude this decision and will do my best to support them if they continue selling XP.
Wimbledon, as with all tennis, requires gravity.
Why would that be flamebait? It is merely a statement of facts. Blacks make up 12-15 percent of the population, but 90+ percent of professional athelets.
It pisses me off to no end that we can't conlude that one race may be better at things than another (due to P.C.).
Droughts: Have happend forever, and will continue. Texas/Mexico is in one right now. Last year we were soaked with the most rain in years.
Famine: Blame that on political issues. It has little to do with the climate.
Floods: TX had tremendous rain last year... no major floods. Storms don't count. The unusual hurricane season was just that, unusual. The next year was back to normal.
Rising Water: You can't even come up with a BS answer for this?
The GP was asking why haven't we seen any real changes yet. You didn't answer but were miraculously modded up.