China != US. The Chinese are willing to make sacrifices to achieve long term goals. Taking an huge economic hit to utterly destroy their largest and most powerful rival is absolutely possible.
I critical Air Force system that I was aware of relies on a roomful of Sun E6x00 servers.
I haven't been working with Sun hardware lately, but if you could point me in the direction of any piece of Sun hardware that contains 100% US made parts.
Ruby on Rails and AJAX makes everything else obsolete. A coworker and I just implemented the J2EE spec in 25 minutes. We're working on the win32 api on monday!
You don't need a license to operate on the band. Your equipment, however, must be certified to comply with the FCC section 15 rules.
Google for "Tragedy of the Commons" if everyone were able to cook up wacky RF-based services, nobody would be able to use the spectrum at all -- its bad enough as it is.
50 years ago, you could hear a 10,000 watt AM station for 1000 miles. Today, you're lucky to get 150.
The Zobtob worm mostly targets IP addresses on the same/16 network as the host. That makes Zotob jump networks slower.
Also, patch management for laptops is hard, and Zotob was nearly a zero-day worm.
I was thinking more in terms of reporters or travelling workers logging in at hotels/starbucks/etc and logging in remotely. I noticed that even locally media outlets and insurance companies (which tend to have alot of desktops) got hit harder.
The other issue here is that the PnP fix was originally evaluated as a "medium" risk patch, not a Critical path. In our organization, critical patches get testing priority over lower risk issues.
Ruby on Rails blows away Perl. I used to code in Perl, but I was working on re-implementing Windows XP as a Firefox extension, and I just wasn't getting the productivity that I wanted out of Perl.
So I switched to Ruby on Rails this morning, and I'm so productive, that its sick. Within 5 hours, I have a Firefox extension running on my AIX workstation that can run most Win32 software... Photoshop, Outlook and Half Life 2 work ok, although I only get 40fps with HL2. (I'm working on that)
After dinner I'm going to reproduce every module in the CPAN library, which I estimate will take approximately 2.25 hours. I can't wait!
Think about the typical document in an office. You have letterheads, standard formats, etc that make it possible to deduce some of the content of encyrpted text.
You're going to end up with a "buggy" house that is unsellable.
Do you really want to be dependent on a server for your thermostats & lights to work properly? Or have to rip out and replace video gear every few years when your OS or applications change?
So you'll shell out thousands on computer & X10 equipment, then when you decide to move, you're left losing gobs of cash unless you find some dork who wants to take on a house full of aging computer & control equipment.
Large domestic cars play with gear ratios to get great highway crusing mileage. I'll concede that 30mpg is a best-case scenario.
I drive a '97 Deville that consistently gets 28 mpg on the highway. I rented an '05 Deville for a long trip (6,000 miles) and got between 26 and 31 mpg.
Crown Vics and Bonnevilles are similar. I was shocked when I sold my college car (a 4-banger '89 Acclaim, 25mpg city or highway) and got a '93 Bonneville, which would get 27 on the highway (but 18 in the city)
I'm not talking about econo boxes, I'm talking about cars vs. trucks.
Even a large car like a Crown Vic or a Caddy will get 30 mpg -- you don't have to settle for a Civic to get reasonable mileage.
As gas goes up, 8mpg monsters will become less popular, and some variation in a large sedan (not an economy car, but 2-3x more efficent than a truck) will become more dominant again.
Honestly, that's the problem with alot of folks like you who care alot about the environment. We don't live in a binary world... the choices aren't SUV vs. Prius. 60,000 people swapping their SUVs for minivans and sedans are an easy way to make a big impact.
That just isn't true. Look at the income figures for white households:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01w.htm l
SUVs are some of the best vehicles out there, and all of them are gas pigs -- even the smaller ones that cost $20-30k.
The top 60-95 percentile of households in the US are making between $55-150k. Sounds like alot, but it really isn't when you consider that those figures include familes with two working adults.
If you live in an average house ($150k in most areas) and drive your average SUV ($26-32k), the impact of higher fuel costs is making an appreciable impact on your disposable income.
Sure, the people driving the $70,000 H2 that gets 8mpg don't give a shit -- but when the poorer people start shifting, the trend will make SUVs less cool again. You'll see rappers driving around in Cadillac Devilles and Lexus GS450's that get about 30mpg highway.
Cars are a cyclical and elastic market. In 1991 only farmers and people with boats were driving Suburbans... the families were driving station wagons. (aka SUVs without heavy 4WD drivetrain)
You're fooling yourself if you believe that they are immune to market forces.
Who are you do deem what is a "legitmate" reason to own anything?
The difference between you and me is that you attach moral righteousness to economic decisions. You're no different than some born again casting a male with an earring as demonic.
Ineffient automobiles are a symptom of broader dysfunctions in our society. Why would you expect a society that perpetuates sprawl to be efficient in other ways?
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Towed-array sonar used in US attack submarines was made by Toshiba of parts made in Taiwan & S. Korea.
There was a bit of a scandal when the Japanese & Koreans sold some of the parts to the Soviets in the 80's.
China != US. The Chinese are willing to make sacrifices to achieve long term goals. Taking an huge economic hit to utterly destroy their largest and most powerful rival is absolutely possible.
You're FOS.
I critical Air Force system that I was aware of relies on a roomful of Sun E6x00 servers.
I haven't been working with Sun hardware lately, but if you could point me in the direction of any piece of Sun hardware that contains 100% US made parts.
The US will be irrelevant. US dominance is based on money, and we are exporting money to the Near and Far East at a record clip.
How long could our high tech army, navy and air force equipment stay operational if the Chinese refused to export any electronics?
If your "Swaziland Linux" product diminished the value of the "Linux" trademark, you could be sued for that.
Just try selling a non-trademarked product called "Coca Cola" or "Websphere" and see how that goes.
Plus, if you can't cough up $200, two guys in a basement have the option of just changing their product's name so that it doesn't claim to be "Linux".
A product called "Two Guys in a Basement OS" or "Two Guys in a Basement OS, Powered by Linux" would not require a trademark license.
The trademark just means that you cannot call yourself "Linux".
If you call your distro "Swaziland Linux", you need to buy a license.
If you call your distro "Swazilandix" or "Swaziland Operating Environment", etc, you don't need any license at all.
If you start selling soda and call it KevinConaway Coke, you need a license from Coca-Cola. If you call it KevinConaway's Cola, you're ok.
Trademarks are different than patents or copyrights. They exist to protect the integrity of a brand -- not the ideas.
Am I the only /. reader left?
Ruby on Rails and AJAX makes everything else obsolete. A coworker and I just implemented the J2EE spec in 25 minutes. We're working on the win32 api on monday!
You don't need a license to operate on the band. Your equipment, however, must be certified to comply with the FCC section 15 rules.
Google for "Tragedy of the Commons" if everyone were able to cook up wacky RF-based services, nobody would be able to use the spectrum at all -- its bad enough as it is.
50 years ago, you could hear a 10,000 watt AM station for 1000 miles. Today, you're lucky to get 150.
The Zobtob worm mostly targets IP addresses on the same /16 network as the host. That makes Zotob jump networks slower.
Also, patch management for laptops is hard, and Zotob was nearly a zero-day worm.
I was thinking more in terms of reporters or travelling workers logging in at hotels/starbucks/etc and logging in remotely. I noticed that even locally media outlets and insurance companies (which tend to have alot of desktops) got hit harder.
The other issue here is that the PnP fix was originally evaluated as a "medium" risk patch, not a Critical path. In our organization, critical patches get testing priority over lower risk issues.
Also consider the number of laptops that media outlets use. That's the primary infection vector for these worms.
My reply is informative
Thanks, that makes sense, I suppose. It is pedantic, but that's how standards are supposed to be I suppose.
What's with all of the "This section is normative", "That section is non-normative", "This section is informative" crap in the document?
Ruby on Rails blows away Perl. I used to code in Perl, but I was working on re-implementing Windows XP as a Firefox extension, and I just wasn't getting the productivity that I wanted out of Perl.
So I switched to Ruby on Rails this morning, and I'm so productive, that its sick. Within 5 hours, I have a Firefox extension running on my AIX workstation that can run most Win32 software... Photoshop, Outlook and Half Life 2 work ok, although I only get 40fps with HL2. (I'm working on that)
After dinner I'm going to reproduce every module in the CPAN library, which I estimate will take approximately 2.25 hours. I can't wait!
Solaris 1.x was a retroactive marketing name. SunOS 4 was what it was really called.
Think about the typical document in an office. You have letterheads, standard formats, etc that make it possible to deduce some of the content of encyrpted text.
You're going to end up with a "buggy" house that is unsellable.
Do you really want to be dependent on a server for your thermostats & lights to work properly? Or have to rip out and replace video gear every few years when your OS or applications change?
So you'll shell out thousands on computer & X10 equipment, then when you decide to move, you're left losing gobs of cash unless you find some dork who wants to take on a house full of aging computer & control equipment.
I won't even get into having a TV in every room.
Large domestic cars play with gear ratios to get great highway crusing mileage. I'll concede that 30mpg is a best-case scenario.
I drive a '97 Deville that consistently gets 28 mpg on the highway. I rented an '05 Deville for a long trip (6,000 miles) and got between 26 and 31 mpg.
Crown Vics and Bonnevilles are similar. I was shocked when I sold my college car (a 4-banger '89 Acclaim, 25mpg city or highway) and got a '93 Bonneville, which would get 27 on the highway (but 18 in the city)
I'm not talking about econo boxes, I'm talking about cars vs. trucks.
Even a large car like a Crown Vic or a Caddy will get 30 mpg -- you don't have to settle for a Civic to get reasonable mileage.
As gas goes up, 8mpg monsters will become less popular, and some variation in a large sedan (not an economy car, but 2-3x more efficent than a truck) will become more dominant again.
Honestly, that's the problem with alot of folks like you who care alot about the environment. We don't live in a binary world... the choices aren't SUV vs. Prius. 60,000 people swapping their SUVs for minivans and sedans are an easy way to make a big impact.
Honda Pilot.
Gets 17-20 in the city, and 24-27 on the highway.
That just isn't true. Look at the income figures for white households:
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http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01w.ht
SUVs are some of the best vehicles out there, and all of them are gas pigs -- even the smaller ones that cost $20-30k.
The top 60-95 percentile of households in the US are making between $55-150k. Sounds like alot, but it really isn't when you consider that those figures include familes with two working adults.
If you live in an average house ($150k in most areas) and drive your average SUV ($26-32k), the impact of higher fuel costs is making an appreciable impact on your disposable income.
Sure, the people driving the $70,000 H2 that gets 8mpg don't give a shit -- but when the poorer people start shifting, the trend will make SUVs less cool again. You'll see rappers driving around in Cadillac Devilles and Lexus GS450's that get about 30mpg highway.
Cars are a cyclical and elastic market. In 1991 only farmers and people with boats were driving Suburbans... the families were driving station wagons. (aka SUVs without heavy 4WD drivetrain)
You're fooling yourself if you believe that they are immune to market forces.
Who are you do deem what is a "legitmate" reason to own anything?
The difference between you and me is that you attach moral righteousness to economic decisions. You're no different than some born again casting a male with an earring as demonic.
Ineffient automobiles are a symptom of broader dysfunctions in our society. Why would you expect a society that perpetuates sprawl to be efficient in other ways?
"Why hasn't the market taken care of any of this?"
It is doing so right now. Gas is going up and the sheep who bought SUVs will be buying econoboxes again in a few years.