But the good news on this, is that it could create a true space race amongst the wealthy who will fund this. Combine this with Bigelows annoncement of going to the moon and it looks like we will be on the moon by 2015 with BASES.
...and with his kind of money, all of our BASES will belong to Bill.;-)
Ubuntu makes very good sense for Dell to distribute, especially since they've licensed Click'n'Run from Linspire. Should make the average user's life easier when they want to listen to/watch their media files, besides Ubuntu being a great desktop distro.
Kudos to Dell - let's hope they're willing and able to do this right.
What that means is he hasn't used any other packaging formats. Common mistake that people think RPM is somehow "best" because it's used by a few distros. Do some searches for "circular dependency RPM" to see why that's just not true.
The vast majority of people who aren't Linux geeks, or rely on a commercially supported distro get RedHat or Suse. Guess what package format they use?
I agree that RPM isn't the best, but in an enterprise setting it's what you get. I'm hoping Canonical can make inroads to that market with Ubuntu supplemented by Click'n'run, myself. If that proves commercially strong, the others just might follow suit and use the.DEB format in order to access C'n'R.
If you want to know why this article is so alarmist about the un-fettered access that we admins have, do a Google search on Cyber-Ark, and then Cyber-Ark Calum Macleod. Interesting.
My guess is that Cyber-Ark needs more customers, and so have found a way into the offices above ours with this little diatribe.
Probably you'll first see "cosmetic" fluid dynamics, which don't affect gameplay, but still look pretty cool
Oh. I'd say that more realistically rendered fluid dynamics applied to, um, certain feminine features of a certain games heroine, would greatly enhance gameplay, especially visually.
The short-lived triplane dinosaurs couldn't get off the ground.
I thought it was their bright red plumage that screwed up any camouflage they might have. Or the bi-winged dinosaur named Snoopy that kept shooting them down...
I disagree. If you ponder the vast majority of 'content' delivered by the major networks to screens everywhere these days, Shit Emitting Diode is actually rather apropos.
So you're going to generate electricity and clean water out of think air.
Hmmm... think air...think air... *SNAP* Hey, Al gore invented the Internet and is all about green energy, maybe I should think like him. Here goes:
With Global Warming, we've got a lot of extra heat in the air - meaning that the atmosphere is both warmer and wetter than would be before we stared using energy stored in hydrocarbons to power our economy and release all the trapped CO2 back into the air. On first glance the method in the article looks to be at least a plausible way to recover some of that excess latent heat, with the side effect of removing water vapour from the cooled air as well. The benefit to the Dwelling heat system is that it puts the excess heat back underground from whence it came - like an oil well - and provides long term storage in a safe and relatively cheap manner. If they can work out all the problems sufficiently this just may work in a way beneficial to us economically and environmentally.
So, yeah - electricity and water from the think air. Thanks Al Gore!
Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this? Don't give me that shit about it being a good life experience for children to realize not everything is true. You can find a million other examples to show them, without perpetrating a huge falsehood on your own. It's wrong, you know it's wrong, and you will still try to justify it. Because you enjoy, in a sadistic way, the total power you exert over your children. You love playing the propaganda machine and dictator, and threatening them with retribution from a farce you concocted, and watching them squirm. Yet ten years later, you'll be so fucking ignorant as to why your children never listen to you, or trust that what you have to say might be good advice. Well...they may be right.
Have issues with our parents, do we? I haven't heard such vitriol in quite some time. Power? Sadism? Please put down the broad brush you're painting with. It's filled with venom.
It's not a lie - it's a fantasy. It's an opportunity to experience innocence before it is too quickly gone. I didn't lie to my kids - they knew early on that Santa wasn't a real person, but even after they knew, they still played along because it was fun. Fun for them, fun for us. How am I being a dictator doing that?
I hope you can let go of some of your anger before you have your own kids, friend, lest they be immune to the spirit that St. Nick is supposed to represent - giving, sharing and caring for our fellow humans.
It does not seem fair. Those who sacrifice, save and work hard should be rewarded. Those who do not, should not.
I agree - hard work should be rewarded. I have no problem with people who start a company with a great idea and become very wealthy - I'm very glad for them when it happens. What irks me is that some horde their wealth and effectively take it out of circulation. The only reason anyone would want to hold on to over $1Billion (US) is for POWER, not living well.
On a global scale, often, when I see the struggling indigenous people of wherever, they have placed restraints on their economy or their economy is a structured (ie planned) economy that has inefficiencies in it. These types of economies look like the economies proposed by those seeking "Social Justice".
Oft times those restraints are a wealthy few who wish to keep the wealth and therefore power. Currency has to be in circulation in order for others to earn it. To me, "Social Justice" means that some reasonable limits should be placed on the accumulation of wealth, otherwise you end up with an Aristocracy. As I said, it's not the money the wealthy control that I'm against, it's the undue influence over their fellow citizens because of their un-necessary hording.
SCO has just over US$60 million in resources to sustain it while it fights IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM in what clearly is one of the most volatile wars in the history of technology. What has been very interesting is that SCO publicly has been given almost no chance of winning, while privately the company has convinced several folks, including me, that it has a strong chance.
Enjoy your crow dinner, Rob. For desert is Humble Pie.
What happened to personal freedom? There's nanny-bots for people who want it, do we really need the ISPs/Governments deciding what's best for everyone? The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be.
Hang on a second. You're talking about child pornography here. The sexual abuse of innocents for the profit or pleasure of people who (IMO) are sick, dangerous, sociopathic amd should be isolated from the rest of society. This is not a "Nanny" issue, it is the Canadian Government and these ISPs trying to end an easy means of importing illegal material into the country. It is not censorship, it is upholding our laws.
As for this disgusting material finding other ways in to Canada - fine. The "OMG, dunno how that got there" 'defense' will be quite a bit harder to use.
I don't like censorship, but there are those who abuse thier Freedom, so it becomes a distasteful necessity. I'm all for personal freedom too, as long as no one else gets hurt in any way.
Personal freedom - sheesh. I have the personal freedom to grab my 6ft bamboo LART and beat some sense into alarmists like you, but I don't because of certain laws. See the parallel?
- All hardware should be identical in every conceiveable respect using standard, off the shelf parts. No custom ASICs allowed. - Any ROMs, PROMs as well as the OS and vote tallying software should be distribuited on a pressed CD, not a burned CD. The MD5 sums of each software package on the manufactured CD should be clearly lablelled on the front, as well as on Diebolds website, along with the MD5 of the CD image. - The votes taken should be recorded as a plaintext log with appropriate timestamps, not just totals. The log should be sent, along with it's MD5 sum, to each of the candidates after the poll closes, besides the appropriate election officials. - The machine should print out a paper or mylar result of each voters ballot in a format readable by both humans and machines, with the log entry number and timestamp printed on the completed ballot. This allows the voter to check that the machine recorded thier vote correctly and creates a useful audit trail which can be used in case of disputes easily by being read into another machine to verify the totals, or even hand verifying each ballot against the log from the machine.
One of the things I have come to realize is in modern society the ability to organize is far more valued then raw intelligents.
I'm not a pedant when it comes to spelling, but PLEASE, PLEASE show some intelligence when posting aboutintelligence - it makes you look less than intelligent when you don't. Spelling the word intelligence incorrectly in an otherwise insightful/interesting post about intelligence tends to cause the irony meter to chime rather loudly.
OK, have I given you more intelligence now that I've pointed out your unfortunate mistake by using the word intelligence far too many times - with annoying emphasis - in this post or have I insulted your intelligence?
The "black" part of the art: the inability of managers to adequately know everything they need to know about the projects for which they are responsible.
Sure about that? My boss answered your post with "Maybe I'm not the greatest technical mind, but I know what I need to - to trust in the people I hired to do these IT projects, that they'll make sure there's enough return on each dollar spent. Pretty simple."
That's because you measured them. It's also possible your mind is in a indeterminate quantum state - I'd be able to tell for sure, but I'd have to measure it...
Hubble telescope pictures consist of photographing waves travelling at 100% of the speed of light in vacuum by definition!
Wrong - the Hubbel uses waves travelling at c to record the electro magnetic emissions of distant bodies in our universe, it does not photograph the waves themselves. To match what was done in TFA, you'd have to photograph, er, photons. Not the same thing at all.
Again - you'd have to photograph photons themselves to match the experiment, regardless of the RI of the medium they're travelling in.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they could hit Halley's comet in 1986.
If they do try they've failed already. We just don't know how they screwed it up yet.
Soko
But the good news on this, is that it could create a true space race amongst the wealthy who will fund this. Combine this with Bigelows annoncement of going to the moon and it looks like we will be on the moon by 2015 with BASES.
...and with his kind of money, all of our BASES will belong to Bill. ;-)
Soko
Or "democracy" but some how I have lost faith in it.
Then you have lost faith in yourself. I think that's what they're after.
Always remeber faith and religion are not the same thing.
Soko
I was also afraid.
I really don't want to see a PC naked. Nor a Mac, for that matter. Bleah.
*Breaks out the mind bleach
Soko
Ubuntu makes very good sense for Dell to distribute, especially since they've licensed Click'n'Run from Linspire. Should make the average user's life easier when they want to listen to /watch their media files, besides Ubuntu being a great desktop distro.
Kudos to Dell - let's hope they're willing and able to do this right.
Soko
What that means is he hasn't used any other packaging formats. Common mistake that people think RPM is somehow "best" because it's used by a few distros. Do some searches for "circular dependency RPM" to see why that's just not true.
.DEB format in order to access C'n'R.
The vast majority of people who aren't Linux geeks, or rely on a commercially supported distro get RedHat or Suse. Guess what package format they use?
I agree that RPM isn't the best, but in an enterprise setting it's what you get. I'm hoping Canonical can make inroads to that market with Ubuntu supplemented by Click'n'run, myself. If that proves commercially strong, the others just might follow suit and use the
Soko
Save that. Legal precedent, for all to use. You'd make a good lawyer.
Soko
If you want to know why this article is so alarmist about the un-fettered access that we admins have, do a Google search on Cyber-Ark, and then Cyber-Ark Calum Macleod. Interesting.
My guess is that Cyber-Ark needs more customers, and so have found a way into the offices above ours with this little diatribe.
Soko
Probably you'll first see "cosmetic" fluid dynamics, which don't affect gameplay, but still look pretty cool
Oh. I'd say that more realistically rendered fluid dynamics applied to, um, certain feminine features of a certain games heroine, would greatly enhance gameplay, especially visually.
Soko
The short-lived triplane dinosaurs couldn't get off the ground.
I thought it was their bright red plumage that screwed up any camouflage they might have. Or the bi-winged dinosaur named Snoopy that kept shooting them down...
Soko
It's better than shit emitting diodes.
I disagree. If you ponder the vast majority of 'content' delivered by the major networks to screens everywhere these days, Shit Emitting Diode is actually rather apropos.
Soko
So you're going to generate electricity and clean water out of think air.
Hmmm... think air...think air... *SNAP* Hey, Al gore invented the Internet and is all about green energy, maybe I should think like him. Here goes:
With Global Warming, we've got a lot of extra heat in the air - meaning that the atmosphere is both warmer and wetter than would be before we stared using energy stored in hydrocarbons to power our economy and release all the trapped CO2 back into the air. On first glance the method in the article looks to be at least a plausible way to recover some of that excess latent heat, with the side effect of removing water vapour from the cooled air as well. The benefit to the Dwelling heat system is that it puts the excess heat back underground from whence it came - like an oil well - and provides long term storage in a safe and relatively cheap manner. If they can work out all the problems sufficiently this just may work in a way beneficial to us economically and environmentally.
So, yeah - electricity and water from the think air. Thanks Al Gore!
Soko
And you can still attach a metric value to specific peers when distributing the routes to your whatever you are running internally (IS-IS, OSPF, etc).
IS-IS? OSPF? Bleah.
That's like taking the girl your mom told you to ask to the prom to the prom and fucking her afterwards. *shudder*
Soko
*Note to self: Don't post, er THINK, any more about "routing" protocols when 1/2 the bottle of rye is gone...
Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this? Don't give me that shit about it being a good life experience for children to realize not everything is true. You can find a million other examples to show them, without perpetrating a huge falsehood on your own. It's wrong, you know it's wrong, and you will still try to justify it. Because you enjoy, in a sadistic way, the total power you exert over your children. You love playing the propaganda machine and dictator, and threatening them with retribution from a farce you concocted, and watching them squirm. Yet ten years later, you'll be so fucking ignorant as to why your children never listen to you, or trust that what you have to say might be good advice. Well...they may be right.
Have issues with our parents, do we? I haven't heard such vitriol in quite some time. Power? Sadism? Please put down the broad brush you're painting with. It's filled with venom.
It's not a lie - it's a fantasy. It's an opportunity to experience innocence before it is too quickly gone. I didn't lie to my kids - they knew early on that Santa wasn't a real person, but even after they knew, they still played along because it was fun. Fun for them, fun for us. How am I being a dictator doing that?
I hope you can let go of some of your anger before you have your own kids, friend, lest they be immune to the spirit that St. Nick is supposed to represent - giving, sharing and caring for our fellow humans.
Soko
It does not seem fair. Those who sacrifice, save and work hard should be rewarded. Those who do not, should not.
I agree - hard work should be rewarded. I have no problem with people who start a company with a great idea and become very wealthy - I'm very glad for them when it happens. What irks me is that some horde their wealth and effectively take it out of circulation. The only reason anyone would want to hold on to over $1Billion (US) is for POWER, not living well.
On a global scale, often, when I see the struggling indigenous people of wherever, they have placed restraints on their economy or their economy is a structured (ie planned) economy that has inefficiencies in it. These types of economies look like the economies proposed by those seeking "Social Justice".
Oft times those restraints are a wealthy few who wish to keep the wealth and therefore power. Currency has to be in circulation in order for others to earn it. To me, "Social Justice" means that some reasonable limits should be placed on the accumulation of wealth, otherwise you end up with an Aristocracy. As I said, it's not the money the wealthy control that I'm against, it's the undue influence over their fellow citizens because of their un-necessary hording.
Soko
You assume Verizon reps are "aware". Please revise your question.
(Yea, even though I am Canadian, I have ventured through the valley of Verizon tech support. Thy LART and thy Ether killer, they comfort me...)
Soko
Wonder if Rob Enderle has, too.
h tml:
From http://www.technewsworld.com/story/opinion/33529.
SCO has just over US$60 million in resources to sustain it while it fights IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM in what clearly is one of the most volatile wars in the history of technology. What has been very interesting is that SCO publicly has been given almost no chance of winning, while privately the company has convinced several folks, including me, that it has a strong chance.
Enjoy your crow dinner, Rob. For desert is Humble Pie.
Soko
What happened to personal freedom? There's nanny-bots for people who want it, do we really need the ISPs/Governments deciding what's best for everyone? The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be.
Hang on a second. You're talking about child pornography here. The sexual abuse of innocents for the profit or pleasure of people who (IMO) are sick, dangerous, sociopathic amd should be isolated from the rest of society. This is not a "Nanny" issue, it is the Canadian Government and these ISPs trying to end an easy means of importing illegal material into the country. It is not censorship, it is upholding our laws.
As for this disgusting material finding other ways in to Canada - fine. The "OMG, dunno how that got there" 'defense' will be quite a bit harder to use.
I don't like censorship, but there are those who abuse thier Freedom, so it becomes a distasteful necessity. I'm all for personal freedom too, as long as no one else gets hurt in any way.
Personal freedom - sheesh. I have the personal freedom to grab my 6ft bamboo LART and beat some sense into alarmists like you, but I don't because of certain laws. See the parallel?
Soko
Click it and if you are we lose Detroit.
Ummm... can you explain the downside?
Soko
Dr. Robert W. Bussard
Is this the same dude of Bussard Collector fame? Sweet.
I can now officially have fantasies of being on a space faring hotel, with women wearing skin tight costumes...
Soko
Good. How about a few more?
- All hardware should be identical in every conceiveable respect using standard, off the shelf parts. No custom ASICs allowed.
- Any ROMs, PROMs as well as the OS and vote tallying software should be distribuited on a pressed CD, not a burned CD. The MD5 sums of each software package on the manufactured CD should be clearly lablelled on the front, as well as on Diebolds website, along with the MD5 of the CD image.
- The votes taken should be recorded as a plaintext log with appropriate timestamps, not just totals. The log should be sent, along with it's MD5 sum, to each of the candidates after the poll closes, besides the appropriate election officials.
- The machine should print out a paper or mylar result of each voters ballot in a format readable by both humans and machines, with the log entry number and timestamp printed on the completed ballot. This allows the voter to check that the machine recorded thier vote correctly and creates a useful audit trail which can be used in case of disputes easily by being read into another machine to verify the totals, or even hand verifying each ballot against the log from the machine.
I think I could trust that system.
Soko
One of the things I have come to realize is in modern society the ability to organize is far more valued then raw intelligents.
I'm not a pedant when it comes to spelling, but PLEASE, PLEASE show some intelligence when posting about intelligence - it makes you look less than intelligent when you don't. Spelling the word intelligence incorrectly in an otherwise insightful/interesting post about intelligence tends to cause the irony meter to chime rather loudly.
OK, have I given you more intelligence now that I've pointed out your unfortunate mistake by using the word intelligence far too many times - with annoying emphasis - in this post or have I insulted your intelligence?
Soko
*Triple checks spelling
The "black" part of the art: the inability of managers to adequately know everything they need to know about the projects for which they are responsible.
Sure about that? My boss answered your post with "Maybe I'm not the greatest technical mind, but I know what I need to - to trust in the people I hired to do these IT projects, that they'll make sure there's enough return on each dollar spent. Pretty simple."
One of the reasons I work here.
Soko
That's because you measured them. It's also possible your mind is in a indeterminate quantum state - I'd be able to tell for sure, but I'd have to measure it ...
Soko
Hubble telescope pictures consist of photographing waves travelling at 100% of the speed of light in vacuum by definition!
Wrong - the Hubbel uses waves travelling at c to record the electro magnetic emissions of distant bodies in our universe, it does not photograph the waves themselves. To match what was done in TFA, you'd have to photograph, er, photons. Not the same thing at all.
Again - you'd have to photograph photons themselves to match the experiment, regardless of the RI of the medium they're travelling in.
Hows that for pedantry?
Soko