If operational safety was the only concern we could nationalize the nuc power industry and let the Navy run it. Their safety record is unmatched, If they also control design, simple solution.
Unfortunately that is not the only problem. Until someone come up with a real solution to nuc waste, as opposed to burying it in the desert, I will not be comfortable with the system. That stuff is as deadly as it gets and we need a viable soution to the problem. Right now there is none.
Every engine in the saturn 5 stack was fired at The NASA test facility on the Las Cruces side of the Organ Mts. on a test stand before the first 1B or stage was ever assembled. From prototypes to the production versions. All AAM and SAM have been tested and are still tested at White Sands. Thats why they keep so many drones for targets there. It is still the birthplace of our space program like it or not.
The answer is control. Thet have regulated Nevada to the point that the Mafia (who built Las Vegas) has almost no influence there and the games are honest, which means that the law of averages says the house wins most of the time. Internet gambling has no controls and could be used to finance organized crime or terrorists.
I grew up in Las Cruces. On the other side of the mountain is White Sands Missle Range, the place where space flight started in this country. Werner von Braun and his group of scientists were taken there after WWII to start their research in this country. Every rocket this country has had flew there first(except Saturn 5 and shuttle). The lake bed at Northrup strip is where all shuttle pilots practised there landings for 10 years, and where one shuttle landed when Edwards was flooded. That place is the history of space and weapons reseach and innovation.
These kinds of trees are very valuable to woodworkers for furniture making and even flooring. Any hardwoods they find are old slow growth trees that are taller and larger in diameter than todays. The slow growth means tighter grain, and the size means wider boards. Norm Abram has talked about this on New Yankee Workshop. The people who recover them charge a premium for cutting and drying after recovery, but it can be worth it.
Years ago I learned word processing on Wordperfect 5.1 for Dos and spreadsheets were Lotus 123 version 2.3 for Dos. I switched to Win 3.0(big mistake), then to 3.1(improvement, on to 3.11(not bad). Along the way (2years) I got Lotus Smartsuite R4 and had everything I needed at 1/3 the price and disk space of office. I have used Lotus R9 and now OO 1.1. Last fall I put together a business plan on OO 1.0 and had no trouble at all, that was in RH9. I still use Win xp for games but serious work is Linux and OO. Who needs a bloated virus trap with lots of fluff, but no useful, different features?
Java was conceived as platform independant, and it still is. All you need is the runtime environment and it will run on any OS. That runtime environment is the only thing that really needs to be open source. Then it will get fine tuned.
Absolutely, all the filler courses are even percolating down to community college level. The psyc, sociology, and other meaning less liberal crap. I took a philosophy class once and it was ok. Did it make me think like Aristotle? No. Does anyone get hired with a Liberal Arts degree? I mean to do real work, of course not because they know some neat stuff, but nothing useful. In the job world: A bachelors degree today is the equivilent of a High School Diploma in the 50's. It will get you in the door, maybe, but that is all. In truth it just means your trainable to any tech company.
That is a real good explanation and pretty much describes what I said in the original post. The two desktops are suited for different tasks, and each is very good at it's strength. If the combined desktop can add to Gnome without subtracting too much from KDE, we might have a winner.
The last attempt at something similar gave us bluecurve, in which the sum is less than the parts. I use KDE for everyday(localuser) and Gnome for root, I can't explain why except that the feel of each is right for those purposes, to me. If it doesn't work, I'll just continue to use both.
Who would trust M$ with that kind of info? With there history of a complete lack of security in any form, it's amazing anyone even registers anymore. I wouldn't let them have a credit card number if Gate paid the bill!
Not even close. Try a nuc powered aircraft carrier. With more plumbing per square yard than anything, counting fuel, lube oil, hydraulics, steam, water, waste, firefighting......... Largest and most comples by far.
I grew up in Las Cruces and my Dad was a professor at NMSU. We lived about half a mile from Dr. Tombaugh and when I was a teen he invited me to come see this telescope. We looked at mars and venus that night. Really impressive. He was also a good teacher and nice guy.Later he lectured a 101 level astronomy class on the discovery of pluto, that my wife took.
Ahh somebody else trying to muddy the waters and make a buck. This is almost as annoying as ads in the Sunday funnies, no business doing that will ever get a penny from me. Same for these clowns.
Vote with your wallet on any business's way of doing things. We do have the freedom 'not' to buy from someone.
The driving force in the PC industry today is games. There is no reason to have a 3Ghz processor and a $400 video card to do business applications. Games and their ever increasing requirements are what drives all performance oriented development. In workstations the driving force is graphics work and CAD. Those are really the only things requireing the kind of power available today.
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If operational safety was the only concern we could nationalize the nuc power industry and let the Navy run it. Their safety record is unmatched, If they also control design, simple solution.
Unfortunately that is not the only problem. Until someone come up with a real solution to nuc waste, as opposed to burying it in the desert, I will not be comfortable with the system. That stuff is as deadly as it gets and we need a viable soution to the problem. Right now there is none.
Von Braun would disagree.
Every engine in the saturn 5 stack was fired at The NASA test facility on the Las Cruces side of the Organ Mts. on a test stand before the first 1B or stage was ever assembled. From prototypes to the production versions. All AAM and SAM have been tested and are still tested at White Sands. Thats why they keep so many drones for targets there. It is still the birthplace of our space program like it or not.
Thats why everything launched at White Sands land in Utah, Nevada or the Pacific. Including every air to air and surface to air wepon in history.
The answer is control. Thet have regulated Nevada to the point that the Mafia (who built Las Vegas) has almost no influence there and the games are honest, which means that the law of averages says the house wins most of the time. Internet gambling has no controls and could be used to finance organized crime or terrorists.
Ban the damn things. Or get a few hacks out so we can alter what they send. That could be fun. How about a jammer that covers that frequency range?
I grew up in Las Cruces. On the other side of the mountain is White Sands Missle Range, the place where space flight started in this country. Werner von Braun and his group of scientists were taken there after WWII to start their research in this country. Every rocket this country has had flew there first(except Saturn 5 and shuttle). The lake bed at Northrup strip is where all shuttle pilots practised there landings for 10 years, and where one shuttle landed when Edwards was flooded. That place is the history of space and weapons reseach and innovation.
These kinds of trees are very valuable to woodworkers for furniture making and even flooring. Any hardwoods they find are old slow growth trees that are taller and larger in diameter than todays. The slow growth means tighter grain, and the size means wider boards. Norm Abram has talked about this on New Yankee Workshop. The people who recover them charge a premium for cutting and drying after recovery, but it can be worth it.
Years ago I learned word processing on Wordperfect 5.1 for Dos and spreadsheets were Lotus 123 version 2.3 for Dos. I switched to Win 3.0(big mistake), then to 3.1(improvement, on to 3.11(not bad). Along the way (2years) I got Lotus Smartsuite R4 and had everything I needed at 1/3 the price and disk space of office. I have used Lotus R9 and now OO 1.1. Last fall I put together a business plan on OO 1.0 and had no trouble at all, that was in RH9. I still use Win xp for games but serious work is Linux and OO.
Who needs a bloated virus trap with lots of fluff, but no useful, different features?
They have done it before and will get away with it again.
Reliability. They are also faster than x86, especially in read/write to the HDD. Stripped arrays are fast.
Java was conceived as platform independant, and it still is. All you need is the runtime environment and it will run on any OS. That runtime environment is the only thing that really needs to be open source. Then it will get fine tuned.
Absolutely, all the filler courses are even percolating down to community college level. The psyc, sociology, and other meaning less liberal crap. I took a philosophy class once and it was ok. Did it make me think like Aristotle? No. Does anyone get hired with a Liberal Arts degree? I mean to do real work, of course not because they know some neat stuff, but nothing useful.
In the job world:
A bachelors degree today is the equivilent of a High School Diploma in the 50's. It will get you in the door, maybe, but that is all. In truth it just means your trainable to any tech company.
Are you saying Linux isn't based on Unix?
Gee why are all the command line commands interchangeable?
Novell is still the best backbone around. Secure and easy to admin. Redhat abandoned the desktop. /.?
Do you ever read any article on
That is a real good explanation and pretty much describes what I said in the original post. The two desktops are suited for different tasks, and each is very good at it's strength. If the combined desktop can add to Gnome without subtracting too much from KDE, we might have a winner.
The last attempt at something similar gave us bluecurve, in which the sum is less than the parts. I use KDE for everyday(localuser) and Gnome for root, I can't explain why except that the feel of each is right for those purposes, to me. If it doesn't work, I'll just continue to use both.
After all I thought Linux was about choice!
Who would trust M$ with that kind of info? With there history of a complete lack of security in any form, it's amazing anyone even registers anymore. I wouldn't let them have a credit card number if Gate paid the bill!
Not even close. Try a nuc powered aircraft carrier. With more plumbing per square yard than anything, counting fuel, lube oil, hydraulics, steam, water, waste, firefighting......... Largest and most comples by far.
I wish I'd been there to see it, I would probably have joined him.
It's enough to make you wish that Gates proctologist has very large fingers.
I like Novell. In fact the rights and permissions are just like Unix or Linux: You have nothing until someone gives it to you.
Isn't M$ major flaw in that area? You have everything until someone takes it away.
A secure system or network is based on a sound philosophy. Notice the difference!
You might want to check your facts. I was taught that Australia was a continent in the 60's. I don't believe it's been reclassified.
I grew up in Las Cruces and my Dad was a professor at NMSU. We lived about half a mile from Dr. Tombaugh and when I was a teen he invited me to come see this telescope. We looked at mars and venus that night. Really impressive.
He was also a good teacher and nice guy.Later he lectured a 101 level astronomy class on the discovery of pluto, that my wife took.
Ahh somebody else trying to muddy the waters and make a buck. This is almost as annoying as ads in the Sunday funnies, no business doing that will ever get a penny from me. Same for these clowns.
Vote with your wallet on any business's way of doing things. We do have the freedom 'not' to buy from someone.
Power and performance?
The driving force in the PC industry today is games. There is no reason to have a 3Ghz processor and a $400 video card to do business applications. Games and their ever increasing requirements are what drives all performance oriented development. In workstations the driving force is graphics work and CAD. Those are really the only things requireing the kind of power available today.