Recycle bins or trash icons just don't compare for many reasons. One reason is that almost all files that are deleted with a program other than the windows exploer are really deleted and not sent to the recycle bin. You just can't rely on it. Plus least under windows, the recycle bin requires constant user interaction. My laptop often gives me a 'disk space low' balloon next to the clock and then I have to click click click and give the thing attention for 5 minutes so that it can delete the recycle bin and 'temporary internet files', or whatever...
With files in the recycle bin, the amount free diskspace that is reported by the OS does not account for the space that can be freed in the recycle bin. With novell it does.
When you do a 'delete' in the windows command line (cmd.exe), files are deleted, not sent to the recycle bin.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the compression in Novell. That is a nice feature too, but the Linux e2compress patches combined with a little perl script in the crontab can achieve the same on Linux, so it's not unique. I Didn't know about the tape jukebox. Thats seems like a realy nice feature, but the price per gigabyte of tape jukeboxes and the license cost for slots in them just make them a really expensive storage medium.
This may be 'old stuff', becuase the last time I've used novell was years ago in the 3.x and 4.x days... But there is one thing I've never seen since.
Novell has the filesystem with the best undelete I've ever seen. When a file is deleted, it's really just marked 'ready for deletion when necessary' and becomes invisible (sort of hidden), and it's diskspace is marked 'free/unused'.
With a special undelete tool, a user can later undelete any of his files, as long as they haven't been overwritten. And the OS minimizes that. The lower the diskspace utilization, the longer that is. In practice, it's easily more than a couple of days, often weeks.
I think JVC used to have a VCR that had a mode at which it did the video playback at a higher speed and that played the audio by cutting out the silences.
"and just let the radio stations decide what they want to play"
Oh, sure, ClearChannel would like that very much, so they can become even more powerful.
"Clear Channel operates approximately 1,225 radio and 37 television stations in the United States and has equity interests in over 240 radio stations internationally."
Apparantly, that is big enough to own you own two-letter dot com domain.
Cutting out the middlemen will give 'smaller artists', you know the ones that will sell less than 10k albums a chance. Result will be a lot more choice for listeners. For some reason, I have a very good memory for music, and I like dont like the monotonous repeating of exactly the same recording over and over again (aka radio/cd). That is nice the first few times, but it soon becomes predictable and boring. And I'm sure there are a lot of people like me, if not the majority.
You know, in history, music was made and sung by the people, in the streets, in the halls. Some people still remember living music instead of manufactured music.
"A number of years ago, when R.E.M. was still selling in the millions and its contract with Warner Bros. was expiring, the band apparently contemplated the same thing that Buffett did. Warner countered with a staggering sum of money, as much as $80 million, if reports at the time are to be believed. It was the corporate world's version of hush money"
Wow, that gives a whole new spin to the lyrics of 'losing my religion': "That's me in the corner... That's me in the spot-light, losing my religion"... "And I don't know if I can do it, Oh no I've said too much... I haven't said enough."... "It was just a dream, just a dream"...
"Record companies see it as mutiny. Musicians call it an overdue rebellion. Either way, the artists' rights movement has set the stage for combat that could revolutionize the music industry."
Just like napster did?
All we (artists and music lovers) need to do now is find each other, and direct sales will cut out the middlemen.
"Ready to launch ship B, the planet is doomed" said the scientists and engineers to the middlemen...
It will be the rebirth of the pentium-clones from IDT, Nvidia, Natsemi. Maybe a bit slower, but not locked up...
Plus it will herald a whole new age of open source hardware.
Who needs a gazillion teraherz locked down web browser advertising game box when you can get a perfectly fine one gigaherz opensource chip for $10 at the hamfest?
"We (America) has arguably more oil than the Arab world."
Not so according to the Department of Energy fact of the week. It's only 2% of the world oil reserves. The cartel has 79%...
Note that the worldwide total billions barrels of oil equivalent for coal reserves is almost three times that of oil. And the natural gas reserve including hydrates is again three times the coal reserve. Plus, there is enough capturable wind energy in a few windy central-american states to supply all of the US with electricity. Additionally, hydrogen can be directly harvested from natural renewable sources such as sugar.
Oil is 'big' now, mainly because of transportation needs with internal combustion engines. Hydrogen engines will help change that.
"most oil in the US is not used in cars, its used for consumer/industrial goods and power generation."
Not so. The paper version of the sciam article mentions that two-thirds of the US oil consumption goes to transportation.
As found on this government site, Oil use for electrical power generation is last after coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro energy, and even less than renewables : During the first 3 months of the year, total U.S. net generation of electricity was 900 billion kilowatthours, 3 percent lower than in 2001. Fifty percent of the generation was produced by coal-fired plants. This was followed by 22 percent from nuclear, 16 percent from gas, 7 percent from hydro, 2 percent from petroleum, and 3 percent from renewables.
"I'd be willing to bet money that Dodge will eventually disappear also"
But what is going to replace perfect names such as "Dodge RAM" as a list of choices of what to do when this truck is moving towards you at high velocity.
We need more car brands with verbs as name. Rename 'cadillac' to 'sleep', etc.
"Chrysler faced this fact by shutting down Plymouth, and no doubt they will eventually terminate other brands as well."
Plymouth never sold outside of the US.
Perhaps Chrysler is the small brand in DaimlerChrysler. The Mercedes is amazingly popular in Germany, and barely any Chryslers sell at all in Europe.
They will keep at least Chrysler and Mercedes, maybe just with geographical separation, but maybe also with quality separation due to market differences between the continents.
Speed of light... Not just a good idea. It's the solution to the monetary cost of justice.
Wow that is a revolutionary concept. A law that simply can not be broken. No need to enforce it, because nobody will ever be breaking it, because that is impossible. No need to reserve space in the jails, no sherrifs, lawyers or courts. No system of enforcement? Hmm, then why have the law at all? I hereby declare the limit to the speed of light obsolete.
Btw, who is going to inform Washington? We need more laws of nature.
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"mysteriously develops a perfect blind-spot to whatever they're doing."
Sounds like a genuine SEP-field (Somebody Else's Problem). Cloaking for the regular people...
Recycle bins or trash icons just don't compare for many reasons. One reason is that almost all files that are deleted with a program other than the windows exploer are really deleted and not sent to the recycle bin. You just can't rely on it. Plus least under windows, the recycle bin requires constant user interaction. My laptop often gives me a 'disk space low' balloon next to the clock and then I have to click click click and give the thing attention for 5 minutes so that it can delete the recycle bin and 'temporary internet files', or whatever...
With files in the recycle bin, the amount free diskspace that is reported by the OS does not account for the space that can be freed in the recycle bin. With novell it does.
When you do a 'delete' in the windows command line (cmd.exe), files are deleted, not sent to the recycle bin.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the compression in Novell. That is a nice feature too, but the Linux e2compress patches combined with a little perl script in the crontab can achieve the same on Linux, so it's not unique. I Didn't know about the tape jukebox. Thats seems like a realy nice feature, but the price per gigabyte of tape jukeboxes and the license cost for slots in them just make them a really expensive storage medium.
This may be 'old stuff', becuase the last time I've used novell was years ago in the 3.x and 4.x days... But there is one thing I've never seen since.
Novell has the filesystem with the best undelete I've ever seen. When a file is deleted, it's really just marked 'ready for deletion when necessary' and becomes invisible (sort of hidden), and it's diskspace is marked 'free/unused'.
With a special undelete tool, a user can later undelete any of his files, as long as they haven't been overwritten. And the OS minimizes that. The lower the diskspace utilization, the longer that is. In practice, it's easily more than a couple of days, often weeks.
In the executive summary:
Disk Drives 976 18.2-GB 15K
Disk Drives 16 18.2-GB 10K
Total Storage 18054 GB
Tape Drives 1 12/24-Gigabyte DAT
Huh? How many tapes for a full backup?
And uh, 976*18.2+16*18.2=18054.4.
No RAID either?
How do transaction processing people protect their data?
At all?
"Using Linux as the server OS is not about getting the OS for free--as you observe, the cost of the OS is pretty much lost in the noise."
Percentage-wise, you may say so, but I'll take the $152,549 difference anyday (=$4767.15 per CPU at 32 CPUs...)
With the current prices, that difference in money will buy you 200 brand new desktops for your office workers...
I think JVC used to have a VCR that had a mode at which it did the video playback at a higher speed and that played the audio by cutting out the silences.
That should definitely help on soaps...
Yeah, tape that stuff until retirement...
Water is not elastic, pressure does not change its volume. Physics 101...
"You're using mass to define a unit of pressure and pressure to define a unit of mass. Try again."
I defined mass as a function of distance and a body of water in a previous posting. Go to sleep.
Pressure is just Force per Area. Area is directly related to the distance, and force can be defined by weight and distance...
I got this reply for a definition of temperature.
Now all we need is one equation that binds all this to electromagnetic fields and we've beaten Einstein and Hawking...
Oh, sure, ClearChannel would like that very much, so they can become even more powerful.
"Clear Channel operates approximately 1,225 radio and 37 television stations in the United States and has equity interests in over 240 radio stations internationally."
Apparantly, that is big enough to own you own two-letter dot com domain.
... That market has it's own monopoly... There is even a community site or two about that...
Cutting out the middlemen will give 'smaller artists', you know the ones that will sell less than 10k albums a chance. Result will be a lot more choice for listeners. For some reason, I have a very good memory for music, and I like dont like the monotonous repeating of exactly the same recording over and over again (aka radio/cd). That is nice the first few times, but it soon becomes predictable and boring. And I'm sure there are a lot of people like me, if not the majority.
You know, in history, music was made and sung by the people, in the streets, in the halls. Some people still remember living music instead of manufactured music.
"A number of years ago, when R.E.M. was still selling in the millions and its contract with Warner Bros. was expiring, the band apparently contemplated the same thing that Buffett did. Warner countered with a staggering sum of money, as much as $80 million, if reports at the time are to be believed. It was the corporate world's version of hush money"
... "And I don't know if I can do it, Oh no I've said too much... I haven't said enough." ... "It was just a dream, just a dream"...
Wow, that gives a whole new spin to the lyrics of 'losing my religion': "That's me in the corner... That's me in the spot-light, losing my religion"
"Record companies see it as mutiny. Musicians call it an overdue rebellion. Either way, the artists' rights movement has set the stage for combat that could revolutionize the music industry."
Just like napster did?
All we (artists and music lovers) need to do now is find each other, and direct sales will cut out the middlemen.
"Ready to launch ship B, the planet is doomed" said the scientists and engineers to the middlemen...
But you can save a lot using it...
And that's why IBM made a lot of money selling Linux. They got a lot of consulting projects because their Linux solution is usually cheaper.
Linux is a tool, not a product.
"This will be total digital lockdown"
It will be the rebirth of the pentium-clones from IDT, Nvidia, Natsemi. Maybe a bit slower, but not locked up...
Plus it will herald a whole new age of open source hardware.
Who needs a gazillion teraherz locked down web browser advertising game box when you can get a perfectly fine one gigaherz opensource chip for $10 at the hamfest?
"We (America) has arguably more oil than the Arab world."
Not so according to the Department of Energy fact of the week. It's only 2% of the world oil reserves. The cartel has 79%...
Note that the worldwide total billions barrels of oil equivalent for coal reserves is almost three times that of oil. And the natural gas reserve including hydrates is again three times the coal reserve. Plus, there is enough capturable wind energy in a few windy central-american states to supply all of the US with electricity. Additionally, hydrogen can be directly harvested from natural renewable sources such as sugar.
Oil is 'big' now, mainly because of transportation needs with internal combustion engines. Hydrogen engines will help change that.
"most oil in the US is not used in cars, its used for consumer/industrial goods and power generation."
Not so. The paper version of the sciam article mentions that two-thirds of the US oil consumption goes to transportation.
As found on this government site, Oil use for electrical power generation is last after coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro energy, and even less than renewables : During the first 3 months of the year, total U.S. net generation of electricity was 900 billion kilowatthours, 3 percent lower than in 2001. Fifty percent of the generation was produced by coal-fired plants. This was followed by 22 percent from nuclear, 16 percent from gas, 7 percent from hydro, 2 percent from petroleum, and 3 percent from renewables.
"I'd be willing to bet money that Dodge will eventually disappear also"
But what is going to replace perfect names such as "Dodge RAM" as a list of choices of what to do when this truck is moving towards you at high velocity.
We need more car brands with verbs as name. Rename 'cadillac' to 'sleep', etc.
"Chrysler faced this fact by shutting down Plymouth, and no doubt they will eventually terminate other brands as well."
Plymouth never sold outside of the US.
Perhaps Chrysler is the small brand in DaimlerChrysler. The Mercedes is amazingly popular in Germany, and barely any Chryslers sell at all in Europe.
They will keep at least Chrysler and Mercedes, maybe just with geographical separation, but maybe also with quality separation due to market differences between the continents.
"obviously by 2005, GM will be producing SUVs which *can* fit entire farms in the passenger compartment :-)"
It will be so large, that life itself will form as part of its operational matrix.
Multiple entire farms will fit easily in the back seat after activating the Dr Who(tm) space transformer.
"c ~ 1802617528320.3 furlongs/fortnight"
That's it. That will be 50 years of force-feeding the metric system for you buddy.
Once you have time and distance defined, then a kilogram weight can be defined like '10cmx10cmx10cm of H2O at 20 degrees celcius'.
Now find a way to define temperature and you're done.
"it's not just a good idea, it's the law!"
Speed of light... Not just a good idea. It's the solution to the monetary cost of justice.
Wow that is a revolutionary concept. A law that simply can not be broken. No need to enforce it, because nobody will ever be breaking it, because that is impossible. No need to reserve space in the jails, no sherrifs, lawyers or courts. No system of enforcement? Hmm, then why have the law at all? I hereby declare the limit to the speed of light obsolete.
Btw, who is going to inform Washington? We need more laws of nature.