"Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -Gene Spafford
I think I have heard that the US space program(s) launch near the equator (or as near as they can in the US) to get free energy from the spin of the Earth. I think it is great that Rutan's program uses an aircraft to additionally lift the rocket for the first 50,000 ft or so.
I've looked, but not found the equations - what is the relative advantage of near equator (if any) vs height? Florida is close for the US, but how high would you have to be to make launching off a mountain in Colorado worthwhile? I realize the tallest mountain is only at ~29k feet (8.85km), but even that would have to be a boost out of the gravity well, wouldn't it?
What I really wonder, is why we don't have powered rails launching rockets off the top of mountains - seems like it would be worth the budget - but again, if anyone knows where to find the equations it would be much appreciated.
The rope came undone. What they need is a spacesuit with a magnetic grappling gun built into the arm of the suit to grab things like this before they float too far away. (Yes, like the Samus suit - who would not want to see that in space?)
"Clean" is a whole different issue. I just wonder about it's efficiency. I would like to have fast trains between major cities in either case, but the engineering interests me.
I think someone needs to put together a special day (today would be good) called the Global Tax Anti-Piracy Day!
Tax Piracy is when you have a company in one country, but then setup a sham company in another country so you can avoid paying your fair share of taxes. These Pirate companies plunder the benefits of the real country of origin, taking advantage of all the infrastructure benefits such as schools, roads, and police - but pay for very little or any of what they take by loopholes in their real country's tax system!
Just think of the billions of dollars lost by honest companies, and their lost innovation because of these Tax Pirate Companies. Think of the increased taxes that honest companies must pay. Think of the children who can't go to good schools because Pirate companies plundered the public coffers! This is a threat that must be stopped, and the pirate company's officers punished!
> I agree that Excel isn't enough, but don't dismiss Excel as a tool.
I think it is pretty well documented why Excel should not be used as a serious scientific tool - it will corrupt data, it is incorrect, and inconsistent (pdf) - all bad for science. I am surprised accountants are allowed to use it.
China, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, and Russia all have larger military organizations if you count reserves, and China is close to double the US if you do not. US military might is not based on numbers of personnel.
Speaking of which, did you know the newest versions of both Peachtree and Quickbooks have no method of automated backup? How is that even possible for an accounting system?!? (A user must log into the system to backup it up.) Only in a Microsoft universe is this possible.
You may want to play around in the Display Properties and see if you can reconfigure your laptop to handle that situation correctly. In my experience, there are very few widescreen devices that lack support for 4:3 mode with black bars.
That is fine for you, but try teaching this to a PHB... this is exactly why most of our laptops have xga monitors - it matches our xga projectors - and there is nothing to configure. I have also found the same people have a hard time with powerpoint unless there is perfect fidelity between the design and show phase.
It is supposed to be simple - for people. It's one of the lessons of Unix - treating everything as a file, and most of those as text files, and keeping troubles like little endian vs big endian away by a layer of software abstraction that everything on the system can use.
I can hardly believe it is firefox on Mac - thanks - I am interested in chasing this down further, and I do believe I have access to that combination at a lab.
What piece of shit software are you using that can not handle simple English text and insists on inserting (TM) trademark symbols where I assume you meant single quote mark? And, yes - it is a serious question - I have seen it in other places - just wonder what piece of Software is responsible for such garbage in something so simple as plain text entry.
When will they start cutting off users spewing spam everywhere because their computer is infected with a bunch of Microsoft viruses? That might actually be something useful.
Scientific research and progress is not nothing, but on the other hand, shut down enough fuel consumption by government mandate and see how little science is preformed. Maybe a better idea would be to take all the money the greens want to spend on stopping global warming and giving it instead as grants for University research - in all fields of science.
One major breakthrough could mute all the (possibly ill conceived) concerns with global warming (for just one example, think about the impact on finding high temperature super conductors.) Maybe we could take a fraction of it to start building nuclear power plants too.
I have to say that I tend to agree with Freeman Dyson and Richard Lindzen rather than Al Gore. And I think the majority of the corrupt money is definitely in the Global warming camp.
'We wouldn't term it strong, we would describe this as accommodating a certain element who needs more time.'
Microsoft has learned the lesson of the boiling frog, and this is a really smart move on their part. It's going to take a while for their customers to get used to the shackles of DRM (or Microsoft Genuine Advantage TM) before they stop chafing with all the new checks, slowdowns, monitoring, and restrictions. They wouldn't want to many customers to jump out of the pot while they still can.
The Mail Merge issue is preventing migration from MS Office in several offices that I am aware of. And in a couple they still keep a few old computers running Office 97 for specific Mail Merge jobs for (very expensive) Rena envelope printers because newer versions of Office don't do the job well - so they are actively looking for a replacement. It's a great opportunity for Open Office I hope they take advantage of someday.
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"Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -Gene Spafford
I think I have heard that the US space program(s) launch near the equator (or as near as they can in the US) to get free energy from the spin of the Earth. I think it is great that Rutan's program uses an aircraft to additionally lift the rocket for the first 50,000 ft or so.
I've looked, but not found the equations - what is the relative advantage of near equator (if any) vs height? Florida is close for the US, but how high would you have to be to make launching off a mountain in Colorado worthwhile? I realize the tallest mountain is only at ~29k feet (8.85km), but even that would have to be a boost out of the gravity well, wouldn't it?
What I really wonder, is why we don't have powered rails launching rockets off the top of mountains - seems like it would be worth the budget - but again, if anyone knows where to find the equations it would be much appreciated.
The rope came undone. What they need is a spacesuit with a magnetic grappling gun built into the arm of the suit to grab things like this before they float too far away. (Yes, like the Samus suit - who would not want to see that in space?)
"Clean" is a whole different issue. I just wonder about it's efficiency. I would like to have fast trains between major cities in either case, but the engineering interests me.
Anyone know how the energy usage per passenger compares with a large jet?
As one person put it, Bill Gate's philanthropy is financed by Microsoft's cheating of the American Tax payer.
Stop Tax Piracy!
I think someone needs to put together a special day (today would be good) called the Global Tax Anti-Piracy Day!
Tax Piracy is when you have a company in one country, but then setup a sham company in another country so you can avoid paying your fair share of taxes. These Pirate companies plunder the benefits of the real country of origin, taking advantage of all the infrastructure benefits such as schools, roads, and police - but pay for very little or any of what they take by loopholes in their real country's tax system!
Just think of the billions of dollars lost by honest companies, and their lost innovation because of these Tax Pirate Companies. Think of the increased taxes that honest companies must pay. Think of the children who can't go to good schools because Pirate companies plundered the public coffers! This is a threat that must be stopped, and the pirate company's officers punished!
Why did each user need 1.5 machines for solitaire? Was Windows malware that much of a problem?
> I agree that Excel isn't enough, but don't dismiss Excel as a tool.
I think it is pretty well documented why Excel should not be used as a serious scientific tool - it will corrupt data, it is incorrect, and inconsistent (pdf) - all bad for science. I am surprised accountants are allowed to use it.
And it does not seem to be getting better either. So why should scientists be encouraged to use such an incorrect tool? Because it is easier?!?
> worlds largest military
China, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, and Russia all have larger military organizations if you count reserves, and China is close to double the US if you do not. US military might is not based on numbers of personnel.
Here are some numbers.
They did, Microsoft destroyed it.
Speaking of which, did you know the newest versions of both Peachtree and Quickbooks have no method of automated backup? How is that even possible for an accounting system?!? (A user must log into the system to backup it up.) Only in a Microsoft universe is this possible.
That is fine for you, but try teaching this to a PHB... this is exactly why most of our laptops have xga monitors - it matches our xga projectors - and there is nothing to configure. I have also found the same people have a hard time with powerpoint unless there is perfect fidelity between the design and show phase.
I can do it from my system on Linux also - the character is a fancy single quote - the normal one seems fine: ' vs â(TM)
The new gig is not about me blogging, itâ(TM)s about helping bloggers do what they do best â" shape opinion through the sharing of information â" hand
Sorry - I should have looked more before complaining to you.
It is supposed to be simple - for people. It's one of the lessons of Unix - treating everything as a file, and most of those as text files, and keeping troubles like little endian vs big endian away by a layer of software abstraction that everything on the system can use.
I can hardly believe it is firefox on Mac - thanks - I am interested in chasing this down further, and I do believe I have access to that combination at a lab.
What piece of shit software are you using that can not handle simple English text and insists on inserting (TM) trademark symbols where I assume you meant single quote mark? And, yes - it is a serious question - I have seen it in other places - just wonder what piece of Software is responsible for such garbage in something so simple as plain text entry.
Check out GNU Octave, there are even books on both.
Come on - the awesome bar sounds almost as good as the A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000
A modular OS means that each component is easier to replace
Actually, I think it means that Microsoft has decided to clone GNU Hurd. They probably will be ready for use at about the same time frame too!
I wonder if Steve Jobs told Billy about how great GNU Hurd was, or if the borg has been poisoned by their new opensource lab? ;-)
When will they start cutting off users spewing spam everywhere because their computer is infected with a bunch of Microsoft viruses? That might actually be something useful.
Scientific research and progress is not nothing, but on the other hand, shut down enough fuel consumption by government mandate and see how little science is preformed. Maybe a better idea would be to take all the money the greens want to spend on stopping global warming and giving it instead as grants for University research - in all fields of science.
One major breakthrough could mute all the (possibly ill conceived) concerns with global warming (for just one example, think about the impact on finding high temperature super conductors.) Maybe we could take a fraction of it to start building nuclear power plants too.
I have to say that I tend to agree with Freeman Dyson and Richard Lindzen rather than Al Gore. And I think the majority of the corrupt money is definitely in the Global warming camp.
Microsoft has learned the lesson of the boiling frog, and this is a really smart move on their part. It's going to take a while for their customers to get used to the shackles of DRM (or Microsoft Genuine Advantage TM) before they stop chafing with all the new checks, slowdowns, monitoring, and restrictions. They wouldn't want to many customers to jump out of the pot while they still can.
The Mail Merge issue is preventing migration from MS Office in several offices that I am aware of. And in a couple they still keep a few old computers running Office 97 for specific Mail Merge jobs for (very expensive) Rena envelope printers because newer versions of Office don't do the job well - so they are actively looking for a replacement. It's a great opportunity for Open Office I hope they take advantage of someday.
But just think - there goes 25% of Microsoft's Vista sales in China.