Yes, because I'm sure that the same people who wrote those applications would have done wonders with C, Python and Perl. After all, we all know it's the language, not the developer.
Yes, because I'm sure that the people who wrote those applications would have done wonders with a mature operating system like Unix. Instead, they were forced to code for the [at the time] immature DOS/Windows operating system.
Afterall, we all know it's the marketing of the system, not the quality.
from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure
Firefox isn't marketing to the "average Windows XP [SP2] user". The vast majority of Windows users don't run XP (SP2). Firefox can run on many versions of Windows (and all the other [prominent] non-MS operating systems).
As such, I don't think it's going to be harder to market FireFox. I just wanted to point that out. I do think FF has lost a selling _point_ to that market segment, but there's plenty of users that can still benefit from FF.
why does everyone think it'll become an OS? Seriously.
Because it wouldn't be terribly difficult to do. Now, I'm not saying I could do it singlehandedly, however, considering technologies like eCos and that FireFox is open-source, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to bootstrap directly into Firefox. Obviously, a kernel of some sort would be a necessary abstraction layer to the hardware. With hardware quickly becoming a disposable commodity, this doesn't seem nearly far fetched.
Well, you can never have 100% "maintenance-free" secure system.
You can, however, mitigate the risk. In this case I'll take an acceptable risk and amount of potential error versus a catastrophic one like we're faced with here in the US this coming November.
Unless it's Arlington National, I can't seem to think of one that might draw more than 25 people. However, I'm assuming that it's a daily or hourly frequency.
Based on this research, it could easily be conjectured that the effect of global warming (which is causing the Polar Ice caps to melt) is also causing Volcanic activity.
As the Polar Ice caps melt, they add significant volume to [the] Earth(s) Ocean(s). The weight produced by this puts downward force on the tectonic plates. This downward force puts increased pressure on the magma beneath them, and the result is: Earthquakes _AND_ Volcanic activity (ala Mount St. Helens).
Sea water weighs about 60lbs. per cubic foot or so, right?
Considering that the Ocean is a few miles deep, that's obviously a lot of weight to shift around on top of the tectonic plates (which I assume are responsible for Earthquakes).
For example, "The Keyed Chain" was invented about 15 years ago here in the US. I know because I had one in my parents home when I grew up (they still have it). You reach your arm in the door with the key and unlock (and release) the chain.
I'm not trying to be cynical here, I'm just pointing it out.
I'd be willing to bet cash money that Karl Rove was behind the "Bush Miliary Memo with the wrong font" (the one that Dan Rather and 60 minutes got in hot water over) and the "Republican Campaign Headquarters Laptop Theft".
Agreed. I thought he was going to be pushing his new book, but instead he used that precious time to highlight the sad state of affairs in this country [US].
Even though he didn't get to push his book, I'm going to seek it out and buy it; partly because I liked hearing him blast Tucker Carlson (bowtie).
I guess it all depends on your environment and the availability you want to provide. There are reasons that servers have redundant "everything". The primary reason, is for availability. If you work in an environment that can easily deal with a few hours of downtime at ANY given time, then I guess you may be able to pull this off.
If you work at google.com, or some other high-availability company, please resign ASAP.
Seriously - it depends on your budget. If your budget is _that_ shoestring, you should probably be looking for another job. Because the only thing executives like to cut before operating expenses (ie, software and hardware), is salaries.
If you're young and new to the industry, take this advice: the big-wigs won't be as impressed by saving $200 on a server as they would by a $400 MORE EXPENSIVE server staying alive for ONLY 1 HOUR longer. When you're young $200 might seem like a lot of money, however; keep in mind that in a company environment, that amount of money is pennies. A corporate environment probably loses TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars for every hour their servers are down. Obviously, there are a ton of variables (your industry, etc); however, for the most part I'm completely correct. Ask your office manager, department head, or some other significant person how much money they lose every hour their network is down. Be careful, however, not to ask it in a way that makes you sound "opportunistic" - because that's the fastest way to 100% downtime (unemployment).
Post more details about your environment, and maybe we can help you come up with better solutions.
When I was in school (FSU) I began to build a significant client base doing most of the same things that you're doing now (except it was back in the 90's in my case). I moved to Atlanta to take a "real" job, and 99% of the client-base that I had built up over time disappeared overnight.
I don't regret moving to a big city (Tallahassee is a FUN FUN town though!); however, keep in mind that where you start your practice is going to be your home for a looong time if you want to be successful and build a significant income from it.
Please keep in mind, that things like rent-a-coder.com, etc didn't exist back when I was consulting. I could only work locally (I had clients all the way up in Thomasville, GA though).
Also, treat every client/contract as if it's the most important one. You _never_ know who they know and word-of-mouth was the way I found most of my clients.
Good luck!
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Don't trees (and [ugh] mosquitos) produce valuable oxygen as a by-product of carbon dioxide consumption?
Ok, so I have a theory that this could become the anti-big bang. The antimatter and matter collision causes an instability in the universe and rather than it contract back into itself, the antimatter instability would create a "chase" big-bang.
Consider this: the universe is growing at an infinite rate; we know this. An antimatter Big Bang originating on Earth would most likely be offset from the origin point of the original Big Bang. Thus, eventually at some point (assuming it grows in a circular fashion) the two points would intersect. My prediction is that this intersection causes the Anti-matter and true matter to scatter all over the place and a new Big Bang begins - ad infinitum (or ad nauseam depending on your state of mind).
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When I read "Phone box", I pictured the big type of "phone box" that I used to hook my beige box up to before blue boxing.
I'm in the states and here we call it a Phone 'Booth'. A phone box here is a junction box outside of a building (or better yet, a neighborhood).
Fun times... but damn, I think I'm getting old.
Yes, because I'm sure that the same people who wrote those applications would have done wonders with C, Python and Perl. After all, we all know it's the language, not the developer.
Yes, because I'm sure that the people who wrote those applications would have done wonders with a mature operating system like Unix. Instead, they were forced to code for the [at the time] immature DOS/Windows operating system.
Afterall, we all know it's the marketing of the system, not the quality.
from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure
Firefox isn't marketing to the "average Windows XP [SP2] user". The vast majority of Windows users don't run XP (SP2). Firefox can run on many versions of Windows (and all the other [prominent] non-MS operating systems).
As such, I don't think it's going to be harder to market FireFox. I just wanted to point that out. I do think FF has lost a selling _point_ to that market segment, but there's plenty of users that can still benefit from FF.
why does everyone think it'll become an OS? Seriously.
Because it wouldn't be terribly difficult to do. Now, I'm not saying I could do it singlehandedly, however, considering technologies like eCos and that FireFox is open-source, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to bootstrap directly into Firefox. Obviously, a kernel of some sort would be a necessary abstraction layer to the hardware. With hardware quickly becoming a disposable commodity, this doesn't seem nearly far fetched.
Well, you can never have 100% "maintenance-free" secure system.
You can, however, mitigate the risk. In this case I'll take an acceptable risk and amount of potential error versus a catastrophic one like we're faced with here in the US this coming November.
md5sum or gpg signatures on the binaries.
So we can (perhaps should?) expect a major terrorist attack on the US before the election then?
Would an attack on the US just before the election help Bush or hurt him?
Who modded this as informative? Using an Inverter is a HIGHLY inefficient power source!
The parent should use a higher efficiency well-coupled power supply and power draw device(s).
Unless it's Arlington National, I can't seem to think of one that might draw more than 25 people. However, I'm assuming that it's a daily or hourly frequency.
Check out the Griffin Powermate ("the coolest volume knob your computer has ever seen")
I have one, and I must concur - it is pretty damn cool.
Based on this research, it could easily be conjectured that the effect of global warming (which is causing the Polar Ice caps to melt) is also causing Volcanic activity.
As the Polar Ice caps melt, they add significant volume to [the] Earth(s) Ocean(s). The weight produced by this puts downward force on the tectonic plates. This downward force puts increased pressure on the magma beneath them, and the result is: Earthquakes _AND_ Volcanic activity (ala Mount St. Helens).
I think it's because it's a model airplane, not a real lawnmower. Albeit, a very odd shaped model airplane.
As for the fluid mechanics, I'm with you - quite baffled. One wouldn't think it would be capable of flying.
Sea water weighs about 60lbs. per cubic foot or so, right?
Considering that the Ocean is a few miles deep, that's obviously a lot of weight to shift around on top of the tectonic plates (which I assume are responsible for Earthquakes).
For example, "The Keyed Chain" was invented about 15 years ago here in the US. I know because I had one in my parents home when I grew up (they still have it). You reach your arm in the door with the key and unlock (and release) the chain.
I'm not trying to be cynical here, I'm just pointing it out.
I'd be willing to bet cash money that Karl Rove was behind the "Bush Miliary Memo with the wrong font" (the one that Dan Rather and 60 minutes got in hot water over) and the "Republican Campaign Headquarters Laptop Theft".
What a slimy bastard.
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Agreed. I thought he was going to be pushing his new book, but instead he used that precious time to highlight the sad state of affairs in this country [US].
Even though he didn't get to push his book, I'm going to seek it out and buy it; partly because I liked hearing him blast Tucker Carlson (bowtie).
Oh wait, they have to find some "October surprise" dirt on the challenger before the November election!
Now it makes sense.
What was the syntax error? Maybe starting the sentence with a preposition? Doh!
Evolution.
Each of these respective 'regions' are adapting. It's Darwinism (mother nature, whatever) at it's finest.
Mutations are probably more likely to occur in the impoverished regions. It's just a hunch, but I bet I'm right.
Actually, you can't get to the site due to the NO2 effect; not the slashdot (/.) effect.
I guess it all depends on your environment and the availability you want to provide. There are reasons that servers have redundant "everything". The primary reason, is for availability. If you work in an environment that can easily deal with a few hours of downtime at ANY given time, then I guess you may be able to pull this off.
If you work at google.com, or some other high-availability company, please resign ASAP.
Seriously - it depends on your budget. If your budget is _that_ shoestring, you should probably be looking for another job. Because the only thing executives like to cut before operating expenses (ie, software and hardware), is salaries.
If you're young and new to the industry, take this advice: the big-wigs won't be as impressed by saving $200 on a server as they would by a $400 MORE EXPENSIVE server staying alive for ONLY 1 HOUR longer. When you're young $200 might seem like a lot of money, however; keep in mind that in a company environment, that amount of money is pennies. A corporate environment probably loses TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars for every hour their servers are down. Obviously, there are a ton of variables (your industry, etc); however, for the most part I'm completely correct. Ask your office manager, department head, or some other significant person how much money they lose every hour their network is down. Be careful, however, not to ask it in a way that makes you sound "opportunistic" - because that's the fastest way to 100% downtime (unemployment).
Post more details about your environment, and maybe we can help you come up with better solutions.
When I was in school (FSU) I began to build a significant client base doing most of the same things that you're doing now (except it was back in the 90's in my case). I moved to Atlanta to take a "real" job, and 99% of the client-base that I had built up over time disappeared overnight.
I don't regret moving to a big city (Tallahassee is a FUN FUN town though!); however, keep in mind that where you start your practice is going to be your home for a looong time if you want to be successful and build a significant income from it.
Please keep in mind, that things like rent-a-coder.com, etc didn't exist back when I was consulting. I could only work locally (I had clients all the way up in Thomasville, GA though).
Also, treat every client/contract as if it's the most important one. You _never_ know who they know and word-of-mouth was the way I found most of my clients.
Good luck!
Don't trees (and [ugh] mosquitos) produce valuable oxygen as a by-product of carbon dioxide consumption?
Let grow mosquito's (and a few more trees)!!!
Ok, so I have a theory that this could become the anti-big bang. The antimatter and matter collision causes an instability in the universe and rather than it contract back into itself, the antimatter instability would create a "chase" big-bang.
Consider this: the universe is growing at an infinite rate; we know this. An antimatter Big Bang originating on Earth would most likely be offset from the origin point of the original Big Bang. Thus, eventually at some point (assuming it grows in a circular fashion) the two points would intersect. My prediction is that this intersection causes the Anti-matter and true matter to scatter all over the place and a new Big Bang begins - ad infinitum (or ad nauseam depending on your state of mind).