You have to hate them. The only way I have found to deal with them is asking for managers. As far as better suggestions, I'm sorry, I haven't found any.
Actually it was 3001 which came out later then Kim Stanley Robinsons' Green Mars which was published 3 years earlier. But I would not be surprised if there isn't previous examples.
And honestly, space elevators are not as far fetched an idea as they sounded when I first read about them in Kim Stanley Robinsons' Mars series. What it would return when we work out the tech is a solar system of resources at or disposal. With the price of bringing up and down cargo going to dollars a pound, the potential is breathtaking. There are worse pipe dreams to invest in.
ts the more diffuse light which causes a slowdown in the plant respiration, which causes a drop of co2 going into the air, and the measured result is less overall co2 in the air.
Please explain to me how that works. maybe I am dim, but your sentence seems to contradict itself. plants do _not_ produce carbon dioxide as a by product of photosynthesis, in fact it is used as a resource. How can a reduction in this rate of the production cause less of the input material.
I actually used rambus when it was "technically" better. I voted for it then. Of course it lost its edge it did have (which was marginal and corner case as it stood) and then started using DDR, which while cheaper was more importantly better.
So I sue a set of companies who did not want to use a proprietary licensed technology over a open spec. I wonder if SCO's being giving them stupidity lessons.
even that were so this study shows that the volcanic eruption will cause plants on earth to remove MORE co2 that was put up by the volcano and hence has a net negative effect on the ammountn of co2 in the atmosphere.
So I am to believe that "manmade" CO2 is different than Volcanic "natural" CO2. Interesting... incomprehensible but interesting.
Any discussion of global warming as a climatic cycle needs to extend in a timespan of tens of thousands of years to look at a single cycle. The problem with the "global warming" as being a man-made effect is the localization of the time period were talking about. Most of the data being used to "prove" the theory are on the order of a decades and at best centuries. From a historical perspective we are in a regular warming trend that is situated inside of the end of an ice age. To this end it is highly likely that it will continue to get hotter regardless of human activity. This is factual based on data from hundreds of thousands of years. As the gp has said, while human efforts do have an effect on this pattern, to what degree is unknown. Anything contrary to this has to date has not modeled the climate to any appreciable margin of error. The problem lies in the complex interaction of a very large system. The simplifications assumed to actually compute projections cause unacceptable margins of error in a short future window.
Altrix is NOT a cluster. It has a single OS footprint for all processors (though I would bet that they could be subdivided like an IBM 445). Clusters CAN make a supercomputer, in fact ALL top 5 supercomputers are indeed cluseters. There are NO sparc supercomputers in the top 5 and doesn't even make an appearance until 151st place. A altrix (linux/commoditty processor) appears in the 41st place.
SMP scalabilty has NOTHING to do with the type of kernel (monolithic/micro) but has more to do with how it handles said SMP. Solaris is nothing special here. Solaris does not appear in the top 5, while linux does.
Schwartz is wrong in every sense of his statement. Their is a lot more work going on for the linux kernel than solaris. The resources being thrown at each kernel is decidedly in linuxes favor.
SQWUAK... I don't have missing options from my packages.
Honestly, I have used gentoo and I have to say they have one of the best user communities I have seen for a distro. But barring that I think it was always just to easy to break.
"We don't believe that one hammer is good for all nails. For jobs that work on a one-way Opteron server Linux would be better. There's a role for that class of system." from this interview with John Schwartz.
I may be no lover of Sun, but I have no intention of making there odd statements out to be anything more than what it is.
Now for the big Iron, the altrix is exactly what you are talking about. SGI has been selling linux systems with thousands of processors. That is more than big enough to be considered big iron and it doesn't have crappy sparcs in it to boot.
While the gnome atk library was nice it also had a business reason. That doesn't make the contribution any less useful, just less idealistic. Everything else are assorted java tools that have marginal benefit to foss.
Sun's biggest problem is there constant inane chatter about their solaris product being the only thing worth putting on anything with more then one processor. It comes off a little insane.
More to that end, I find using windows (after cutting the cord a few years back) to be completely unusable. Why on earth should I care about people who prefer the security seive that is windows+IE. I think that there is a lot more exciting stuff going on in the FOSS world than Microsofts XUL reimplementation.
Your responce is not elitist. It's simple pragmatic. You can not expect people who LIKE the way they do things in linux to pander to the elusive Joe Sixpack who will never install an OS. IBM, Novell and Sun can work on that, but leave the rest of us who appreciate the way it is alone.
Better than apple. Those folks think it hasn't been done before until Steve Jobs release his newest "innovation". Microsoft has something else. It's called installed base. That will always beat out good advertising. But I have to agree that MS marketing machine puts Suns to shame.
How do you respond to this? I'll avoid anything confrontational, so...
reading a file is ALWAYS faster then running a database query. That is not databases are designed for anyway, so it is a non-issue. I would be happy to discuss implementation and specifications so that you could design around that inherent difference.
Well, to see the new file selector in most apps you need to upgrade them as well. They did not break API compatibility with the old selector as it was highly abused.
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We have had to move on from dell as far as servers due to pricing and quality. It is said to see such a former glory disapear.
You have to hate them. The only way I have found to deal with them is asking for managers. As far as better suggestions, I'm sorry, I haven't found any.
I am convinced that he has an axe to grind against linux gazette.
I knew somebody had previous examples! thanks.
Actually it was 3001 which came out later then Kim Stanley Robinsons' Green Mars which was published 3 years earlier. But I would not be surprised if there isn't previous examples.
And honestly, space elevators are not as far fetched an idea as they sounded when I first read about them in Kim Stanley Robinsons' Mars series. What it would return when we work out the tech is a solar system of resources at or disposal. With the price of bringing up and down cargo going to dollars a pound, the potential is breathtaking. There are worse pipe dreams to invest in.
But then who is it to determine what a legitimate reason is for wanting the information?
apparently the FBI.
ts the more diffuse light which causes a slowdown in the plant respiration, which causes a drop of co2 going into the air, and the measured result is less overall co2 in the air.
Please explain to me how that works. maybe I am dim, but your sentence seems to contradict itself. plants do _not_ produce carbon dioxide as a by product of photosynthesis, in fact it is used as a resource. How can a reduction in this rate of the production cause less of the input material.
I actually used rambus when it was "technically" better. I voted for it then. Of course it lost its edge it did have (which was marginal and corner case as it stood) and then started using DDR, which while cheaper was more importantly better.
So I sue a set of companies who did not want to use a proprietary licensed technology over a open spec. I wonder if SCO's being giving them stupidity lessons.
even that were so this study shows that the volcanic eruption will cause plants on earth to remove MORE co2 that was put up by the volcano and hence has a net negative effect on the ammountn of co2 in the atmosphere.
So I am to believe that "manmade" CO2 is different than Volcanic "natural" CO2. Interesting... incomprehensible but interesting.
Ice cores
Any discussion of global warming as a climatic cycle needs to extend in a timespan of tens of thousands of years to look at a single cycle. The problem with the "global warming" as being a man-made effect is the localization of the time period were talking about. Most of the data being used to "prove" the theory are on the order of a decades and at best centuries. From a historical perspective we are in a regular warming trend that is situated inside of the end of an ice age. To this end it is highly likely that it will continue to get hotter regardless of human activity. This is factual based on data from hundreds of thousands of years. As the gp has said, while human efforts do have an effect on this pattern, to what degree is unknown. Anything contrary to this has to date has not modeled the climate to any appreciable margin of error. The problem lies in the complex interaction of a very large system. The simplifications assumed to actually compute projections cause unacceptable margins of error in a short future window.
Altrix is NOT a cluster. It has a single OS footprint for all processors (though I would bet that they could be subdivided like an IBM 445). Clusters CAN make a supercomputer, in fact ALL top 5 supercomputers are indeed cluseters. There are NO sparc supercomputers in the top 5 and doesn't even make an appearance until 151st place. A altrix (linux/commoditty processor) appears in the 41st place.
SMP scalabilty has NOTHING to do with the type of kernel (monolithic/micro) but has more to do with how it handles said SMP. Solaris is nothing special here. Solaris does not appear in the top 5, while linux does.
Schwartz is wrong in every sense of his statement. Their is a lot more work going on for the linux kernel than solaris. The resources being thrown at each kernel is decidedly in linuxes favor.
ew, ew let me try...
.0002 times faster.
SQWUAK... it runs ls
SQWUAK... I compile while I sleep.
SQWUAK... I don't have missing options from my packages.
Honestly, I have used gentoo and I have to say they have one of the best user communities I have seen for a distro. But barring that I think it was always just to easy to break.
"We don't believe that one hammer is good for all nails. For jobs that work on a one-way Opteron server Linux would be better. There's a role for that class of system." from this interview with John Schwartz.
I may be no lover of Sun, but I have no intention of making there odd statements out to be anything more than what it is.
Now for the big Iron, the altrix is exactly what you are talking about. SGI has been selling linux systems with thousands of processors. That is more than big enough to be considered big iron and it doesn't have crappy sparcs in it to boot.
Interesting thought...
a) GPL argument ensues
b) watch monkeyboys dance
c) figure out why monkeyboys dance
d) decide
JDS is under reported for the same reason ximian desktop is under reported. who blinken cares. It is a non-product that makes them money.
If the orginal author only cared about selling his app why would he release it GPL?
While the gnome atk library was nice it also had a business reason. That doesn't make the contribution any less useful, just less idealistic. Everything else are assorted java tools that have marginal benefit to foss.
Sun's biggest problem is there constant inane chatter about their solaris product being the only thing worth putting on anything with more then one processor. It comes off a little insane.
Software is a political issue on several fronts. And many of us here do care. But otherwise nice comparison to the Flooble/Tire.
More to that end, I find using windows (after cutting the cord a few years back) to be completely unusable. Why on earth should I care about people who prefer the security seive that is windows+IE. I think that there is a lot more exciting stuff going on in the FOSS world than Microsofts XUL reimplementation.
Your responce is not elitist. It's simple pragmatic. You can not expect people who LIKE the way they do things in linux to pander to the elusive Joe Sixpack who will never install an OS. IBM, Novell and Sun can work on that, but leave the rest of us who appreciate the way it is alone.
Better than apple. Those folks think it hasn't been done before until Steve Jobs release his newest "innovation". Microsoft has something else. It's called installed base. That will always beat out good advertising. But I have to agree that MS marketing machine puts Suns to shame.
don't give anyone a new idea for goatse links
How do you respond to this? I'll avoid anything confrontational, so...
reading a file is ALWAYS faster then running a database query. That is not databases are designed for anyway, so it is a non-issue. I would be happy to discuss implementation and specifications so that you could design around that inherent difference.
Well, to see the new file selector in most apps you need to upgrade them as well. They did not break API compatibility with the old selector as it was highly abused.